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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
01-22-07 - Explosion at TV offices in Gaza A large explosion has caused serious damage to the Gaza City offices of Arabic satellite TV station al-Arabiya, witnesses say.
01-22-07 - Israeli separation barrier is cutting off Palestinians from their livelihood A British government-funded report says the route of Israel's separation barrier is trapping 250,000 Palestinians in enclaves designed to protect Jewish settlers in the occupied territory.
01-22-07 - Rafah border crossing reopened The sources added that the crossing is open only to allow the Palestinians trapped on the Egyptian side of the crossing to enter the Gaza strip.
01-22-07 - Palestinian rival factions to continue talks on unity gov't
01-22-07 - Israel Readies Nuclear Bunker The maze of tunnels and underground rooms is scheduled to be completed in the next year or two as fears of an attack from Iran intensify, the Baltimore Sun reported.
01-22-07 - Dershowitz sees Israel going it alone Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz warned Israel that it could lose the political support of the United States. The cat (truth) is out of the bag.
01-22-07 - Israel: 2007 'decisive' on Iran ** Burns said the United States and Israel have the right to self-defense if Iran presses ahead toward attaining nuclear capability
01-22-07 - Israeli settlers overtake houses in close proximity to Al Aqsa Mosque Due to the proximity of Al Aqsa Mosque the Silwan neighborhood is hot property to the Israeli government in its bid to overtake Jerusalem.
01-22-07 - Father of Dead West Bank Girl Seeks Peace With Israelis A preliminary report of the autopsy conducted by an Israeli government pathologist and one appointed by the Aramin family found that Abir?s head wounds were consistent with the impact of a rubber-coated bullet, though other possibilities could not be ruled out, Mr. Sfard said. But the Israeli police say the autopsy did rule out the possibility of a rubber-coated bullet.
01-22-07 - Fresh controversy erupts over Hebron settlers' treatment of Palestinians Tommy Lapid's remarks came after Mr. Lapid saw footage of a Hebron woman hissing insults at her Palestinian neighbor and settler children lobbing rocks at Arab homes. A brave soul, he is. To read the reports from Hebron by Christian Peacekeepers who are there to protect the Palestinians, click here.
01-22-07 - Saudis Pressing Oil Prices Down ** We believe an Israeli attack is pending. It is just a question of when.
01-22-07 - Israeli PM grants license to build Jewish synagogue at door of Muslim Quarter near Al Aqsa Mosque Olmert has just granted a license to build a Jewish synagogue at the door of the Muslim Quarter in the Old City, 40 meters from Al Aqsa Mosque. The permit went to a Jewish organization, Ateret Kohanim, described locally as extremist, to build a synagogue overlooking the mosque.
01-22-07 - Bethlehem and the Gaza Strip: 'two of the largest open prisons in the world' By Bishop William Kenney CP
01-22-07 - At-Tuwani update 1-14 January 2007 Funk and Gish visited Khallet al-Thaba, a little village south of Mufakara .They
drank tea with a 60 year old shepherd, who was eager to talk. He told them that
all people are equal, because we are all descendants of Adam. It makes no
difference whether we are Israeli, American, Iraqi, Palestinian, Muslim, or
whatever, because there is one God. No one is better than anyone else.
01-22-07 - Beatings reportedly accompanied by ethnic slurs at Guilford "That's when I got my share of the assault," he said. "That's when they put me on the dirt and beat my ass. All this was accompanied by 'sand niggers,' 'fucking Palestinians,' 'terrorists.' I would like to say seven to eight people were attacking me." Sick.
01-22-07 - Israeli Army Invades Yatta Village Near Hebron, Abduct Two Palestinian Men and Attack Three Others
01-22-07 - Hamas warns Canada it risks making enemies out of Palestinians Canada is Israel's newest occupied territory - thanks to the growing influence of its lobby therein. (And again). One more. The lobby gets to decide who the Canadian govt officials get to meet with now.
01-22-07 - Search for Palestinian runaway ends The boy, an illegal resident, escaped the police while his legs were cuffed and entered a getaway car that was later found abandoned.
01-22-07 - Palestinian political prisoners respond to Israeli attack with nonviolent hunger strike
01-22-07 - Majority polled consider current political situation to be "bad" & are concerned for personal safety
01-22-07 - Muslim convert to Judaism faces terror charge
01-22-07 - Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from Al Ezariya village near Jerusalem
01-22-07 - Jordan urges Iraq to protect Palestinian refugees
01-22-07 - Hebron Occupied, And Deserted Once a bustling marketplace and residential neighbourhood, that part of the city has become essentially a ghost town inhabited by settlers who are protected by the occupation soldiers and the Israeli police force.
01-22-07 - Hamas decides to stop news release over Israeli captive soldier
01-22-07 - Israeli defense minister: Hamas may be a partner
01-22-07 - Palestinian state won't solve conflict, says Israeli ex-army chief And grabbing more of their land will?
01-22-07 - Clowns and Soldiers Israeli peace activists brought four clowns to the Palestinian village of
At-Tuwani this morning to give a performance at the school. Just before the
performance began, Israeli soldiers also entered the village
01-22-07 - Israel faces corruption 'epidemic' with the spate of recent allegations there is now a feeling among the Israeli public that corruption is scaling new heights.
01-22-07 - Swiss admit Israel-Syria mediation the disclosure appeared to confirm a Ha?aretz report earlier this month that a European country had mediated two years of unofficial talks between a retired Israeli diplomat and a Syrian-American businessman about how the two countries could resume peace talks that were cut off in 2000.
01-22-07 - Demme blocked from Brandeis Jonathan Demme said he is willing to face arrest to film former President Carter confronting Jewish critics at Brandeis University.
01-22-07 - Israel, US, and "the lobby"-1: Apartheid in the occupied territories?
01-22-07 - Sea still spitting oil six months after Lebanon war The coast was polluted by around 15,000 tonnes of fuel oil after the Israeli military bombed Lebanon's southern Jiyeh power plant in mid-July during its 34-day offensive against the Shiite militia Hezbollah.
01-22-07 - Israel names new military chief Israel has named Maj Gen Gabi Ashkenazi as its new military chief, following the resignation last week of his predecessor, Lt Gen Dan Halutz.
01-22-07 - Brandeis gears up for Carter, Dershowitz Demonstrators are expected for and against Carter, as well as in support of Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who is speaking after Carter.
01-22-07 - GOP presidential hopeful in Israel Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republication nomination for the U.S. presidency, is in Israel. Our politicians must also campaign in Israel.
01-22-07 - Exclusive: NSC drafting strategy to make Israel a member of NATO The problem lies more with the military contributions that Israel would have to make to NATO actions elsewhere in the world, such as in Afghanistan and Somalia. "Would Israel want to send troops to other countries and perhaps give up lives for those missions?" he asked. Exactly. That's for the troops of those OTHER nations of the world.
01-22-07 - Can U.S. Achieve Peace in the Middle East? by Rep. Ron Paul Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. Sorry, Ron. Your attempt at 'balance' by mentioning 'billions of foreign aid' going to Muslim countries doesn't address the inherent problem in the Israel-Palestinian conflict: that Americans taxpayers are funding Israel's colonial project - to the detriment of Palestinians. Are we giving the Palestinians the same amount of military/financial aid and political support? NO. Therefore, we have chosen sides. THAT is what Washington was referring to in his famous farewell address.
01-22-07 - Woolsey at the Herzliya Conference The whole hee haw (neocon) gang attended. Or so it would seem.
01-22-07 - Now is the Time to Support U.S. Leadership in Achieving Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Prominent Americans Are Convinced The Campaign for American Leadership in the Middle East (CALME) today commended President Bush for his longstanding commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and asked that he work to make his vision reality as soon as possible.
01-22-07 - A no-brainer for American Jews Hillary Clinton told Israeli and Palestinian youth via a video broadcast that "it will be in the long-term interests of the Middle East for Palestine to be a state, and for it to be a state that is responsible for its citizens' well-being, a state that has responsibility for providing education and health care and economic opportunity to its citizens." The remarks immediately upset the Jewish establishment and prompted the White House spokesman to explain that they do not represent the president's position.....During the 2000 Senate campaign, the Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky, who lives in New Square, New York, visited the White House. The American press reported that Hillary Clinton promised the revered Hassidic leader that she would lighten the punishment of four of his followers convicted of fraud. Clinton won a solid majority in New Square.
01-22-07 - U.S. Drafts Holocaust Denial Resolution The draft resolution "condemns without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust," but doesn't single out any specific country for criticism. The U.S. said it planned to circulate the draft to General Assembly members on Monday.
Not a matter for Capitol Hill.
01-22-07 - Israel says it enjoys 'peak' relations with Harper government in Canada And it has its influential Israeli lobby in Canada to thank for it.
01-22-07 - Why Carter is "Good for the Jews" In years to come, we as Jews will be terribly ashamed--we will be humbled and dishonored and ashamed and full of an unbearable regret--that we remained in denial so long of the reality on the ground in Palestine, both today, and in history.
01-22-07 - "Katyusha" love song to protest Israeli Checkpoints in the West Bank
01-22-07 - Legal battle between Jewish activist and BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is locked in an unprecedented legal dispute with a Jewish activist who claims its reporting is biased against Israel.
01-22-07 - But is it good for the Jews? In the wake of this controversy, a former Justice Department official says the former president sought "special consideration" in 1987 for a onetime member of a German SS Death Squad who was proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Neil Sher says he went public with the information now because Mr. Carter's book exposes "where his heart really lies."
I encourage you to look at my breakdown with regard to what Carter actually said. Note that mainstream US media (quite obviously made up of the Israeli lobby) are picking up this piece of propaganda in their campaign to smear Carter.
01-22-07 - U.S. will make new contribution to Lebanon reconstruction at coming donors' conference Just take it right out of the slated 2007 aid money to Israel.
01-22-07 - Rap mogul addresses WJC He called on the Beastie Boys and other Jewish entertainers to create another public service announcement with him, this one focusing on Islamophobia.
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