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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
01-23-07 - New violence as Palestinian factions resume talks Palestinian factions are set to meet to press ahead with efforts to form a national unity government as the relative calm of the past two weeks was broken by renewed violence in the Gaza Strip.
01-23-07 - Palestinian factions to resume talks in Gaza
01-23-07 - INTERVIEW-Arab states urged to let in Palestinians from Iraq A U.N. refugee agency appealed to Arab governments on Tuesday to take in 600 Palestinians who have been stranded for months at the Iraqi-Syrian border after fleeing persecution in Baghdad.
01-23-07 - Seized Palestinians freed in Iraq Some 30 Palestinians seized by armed men in Baghdad have been freed, the UN refugee agency says.
01-23-07 - Palestinian attackers blow up vacant Gaza resort Masked Palestinian gunmen blew up a vacant resort in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, claiming they belonged to al Qaeda and that the holiday complex is owned by Fatah kingpin Mohammed Dahlan, its manager said.
01-23-07 - French Diplomat, Two Aides Released After West Bank Kidnapping The men were taken from a hotel in the center of the city by armed Palestinians and led to the old quarter on foot, Agence France-Presse reported, citing witnesses.
01-23-07 - A Palestinian Civilian Dies of Wounds he Sustained from Israeli Army Gunfire Ziyad Abu Sa?ada, 23, of the Kheza?a village, to the east of Khan Younis, died early on Tuesday after having been battling with critical wounds he sustained during an Israeli army invasion into his village last September, the Alwafa local hospital in Gaza City announced.
01-23-07 - Twice Displaced: The Plight of Palestinians in Iraq
01-23-07 - PPS: "900 detainees require immediate medical treatment" Recently, two detainees died on medical neglect; one of them is Morad Abu Sakout, who was only released from Israeli prisons after a sharp deterioration of his health condition and died at a Jordanian hospital. The second detainee, Jamal Al Saraheen, died of medical neglect at an Israeli prison.
01-23-07 - Struggling for Education: The gruelling path to school of the students in Beit Ur The school in Beit Ur is totally surrounded - by the Apartheid Wall on one side and the walled-in settler-only Road No. 443 on the other.
01-23-07 - Carter defends book, says character attacks hurt He said he never asserted that Jewish money was controlling the U.S. media, as some critics have charged, but only that the pro-Israel lobby was strong.
"I've been hurt and so has my family by some of the reaction," Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, told about 1,700 students at Brandeis University, a secular school founded by the American-Jewish community, outside Boston....."We support what Jimmy Carter is saying," said Alan Meyers, 56, a Jewish doctor from Boston. "We feel that there is not enough attention being paid to dissenting Jewish voices in the United States."
Let these articles about Carter serve as a strong reminder to my audience: not all Jews support Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Never forget.
01-23-07 - Nine Year Old Boy Arrested for Chasing Ball in Hebron
01-23-07 - Palestinians Beaten at Guilford College
01-23-07 - Palestinian journalists stage one-day strike in protest against Al- Arabiya bombing
01-23-07 - Carter: Book has prompted discussion Carter received standing ovations at the beginning and end of his remarks.
01-23-07 - Ethnic Intimidation Charges Lead to Arrests at Guilford College
01-23-07 - U.S. court dismisses Palestinian suit Riad el-Solh Hamad, head of Palestine Children?s Welfare Fund, filed suit in September against NGO Monitor, Frontpage Jerusalem, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and others. Palestinians just aren't ever going to be given a fair shake by America. Or so it would seem.
01-23-07 - Hoenlein: Delegitimization of Israel rising among US elite Hoenlein is expected to deliver this message to the Herzliya Conference on Tuesday, in a speech titled "The Poisoning of America," along with recommendations for action on the part of American Jews and Israel to help fight what he sees as a growing threat to support for Israel in America. Nothing has changed in America - except the fact that Americans are FINALLY getting the truth. In the end, it was ISRAEL that 'delegitimized' Israel - more specifically, its treatment of the Palestinians and the resulting coverup in the US by way of its powerful lobby.
01-23-07 - Carter's Square Appearance Draws Supportive Crowd After months of searing criticism over a book comparing Israel?s treatment of Palestinians with earlier state-sponsored racism in South Africa, President Jimmy Carter met an overwhelmingly friendly crowd at a Harvard Square bookstore Tuesday afternoon......Other vocal Carter supporters included a man wearing a yarmulke who carried a large sign that read "Thank you, Jimmy Carter."
01-23-07 - Nomination of Israel's first Muslim minister remains stuck amid party bickering
01-23-07 - FEATURE-Fence cuts Palestinian cave dwellers off from wood
01-23-07 - Activists say Israel has not dismantled West Bank barriers, despite pledge to Abbas Machsom Watch, an Israeli group that monitors checkpoints, said there was no evidence of eased conditions. But, the group noted, the army did lift a general restriction barring young Palestinian men from leaving the northern West Bank city of Nablus without a permit. "This is important, but it is not the 44 roadblocks they said they will remove," said Hagar Lipkin, a volunteer with Machsom Watch.
01-23-07 - Racial Slurs Used During NC Assault on Palestinian Students, Says CAIR A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on the FBI to investigate a group assault on three Palestinian students in North Carolina as a possible hate crime.
01-23-07 - Jordan sending replacement for Al Aqsa pulpit destroyed in 1969 attack
01-23-07 - Israeli billionaire Saban biggest donor to US politicians
01-23-07 - Jerusalem municipality demolishes two Palestinian houses in Jerusalem The Palestine News Network reported on Tuesday evening that Israeli bulldozers, belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality demolished two Palestinian homes in Al Sawahra Al Sharqiyya town, east of Jerusalem after claiming the they were illegally constructed.
01-23-07 - Opera in the northern West Bank The opera came to the northern West Bank's Nablus last night. The Cultural Committee organized a performance of a medley of opera standards. The group of accomplished singers came from the world over and said they came to show their support.
01-23-07 - Rally Against Settler Violence and Road Closure in Hebron
01-23-07 - Journalists sit-in in solidarity with Al Arabiya while condemnations against explosion pour in
01-23-07 - Russia not delivering arms to Palestine - defense ministry
01-23-07 - Talk radio with a difference: the father, the kidnappers and the radio station that got them to talk
01-23-07 - The transformation of the IRA shows why Israel should talk to Hamas
01-23-07 - President of Israel to be charged with rape Israel's attorney general said yesterday he plans to charge President Moshe Katsav with rape, abuse of power and other sexual offences There's a couple of different metaphors/irony in that.
01-23-07 - Chief Rabbi of Tzfat: Prepare to Return to Gaza
01-23-07 - Lebanon opposition halts strike Three people died and 100 were injured as protesters, who blocked many roads, clashed with government supporters.
01-23-07 - Vision of Rebuilding Lebanon Wanes
01-23-07 - In pictures: Lebanese intifada
01-23-07 - Carter and Camp David, where it all began There is a carefulness in Carter's description of events leading up to Camp David that warrants some attention. Begin's involvement with the Irgun is acknowledged, but it is followed with some kind adjustments: Begin is a "man of personal courage and single-minded devotion," yet he was "prepared to resort to extreme measures to achieve (his) goals" Begin was a terrorist and a wanted one at that. The Brits knew all about him.
01-23-07 - 'Progressive' anti-Semitism? While much attention has been paid to the so-called "new anti-Semitism," in which antipathy toward Jews is masked as rabid criticism of Israel The more the pro-Israeli community attempts to equate criticism of Israel to 'anti-Semitism', the more they prove these fine professors right. Playing the anti-Semite card is not going to stop the critics or criticism. The cat is not going back into the bag. Deal.
01-23-07 - As candidates enter 2008 race, they begin courting Jewish support Bowing down at the altar of Israel is an essential part of political campaigning in America.
01-23-07 - Israeli minister advises that Nasrallah 'not try to put Israel to the test again'
01-23-07 - Israeli court orders deported U.S. imam freed A military judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to hold Fawaz Damra, who was arrested by Israeli authorities 2 1/2 weeks ago after being deported by U.S. authorities, according to his lawyer, Smadar Ben-Natan. However, she said, he will be held until Thursday pending a possible appeal by the prosecution.
01-23-07 - Jewish agencies host controversial speakers on Israel Both Ehrenkranz and Bridgeport CRC director Laurie Gross are convinced that it is preferable to have opinions like those of Elhanan and Al Hamri voiced in "friendly" venues such as the JCC. "I'd rather have it at the JCC than at the university because who knows who would be in that audience," says Gross, who purposely tried to keep the talk "within the family" by publicizing it to the Jewish community only. ???
01-23-07 - Palestinian problem key to closing West-Muslim divide: Malaysian PM Speaking to a London think tank, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the "single most powerful factor" dividing Islam and the west, with the US-led conflict in Iraq a close second.
01-23-07 - Muslims see no conflict between Islamic law and democracy: poll
01-23-07 - Musharraf calls for new Mideast initative Talks focused on "the unresolved Palestinian issue" as well as violence and political tensions in Iraq and Lebanon, he said before leaving Jordan for Syria ahead of a wrapping up a regional tour in the United Arab Emirates.
01-23-07 - Lebanese villagers spend winter in ruins All but two rooms of Chaitou's apartment in this southern Lebanese town were destroyed by Israeli shelling. Even in those rooms, where her family sleeps, the winter rain drips through cracks, leaving big puddles.
01-23-07 - Lebanese sovereignty, Israeli obstacles Israel, on the other hand, has not been fully cooperative with the UN forces in implementing Resolution 1701; the Israeli withdrawal on the ground was slow and incomplete in the Ghajar sector, and its violations of Lebanon's airspace have not ceased.
01-23-07 - Silencing the 'other side' of the Palestinian story
01-23-07 - Poll: Americans want P.A. to recognize Israel Commissioned by the Israel Project and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the survey interviewed 800 registered voters by telephone Jan. 18, 20 and 21.
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