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Thursday, January 25, 2007


News for 01-24-07

01-24-07 - IDF kills teen crawling toward Gaza fence An Israel Defense Forces patrol shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian who tried to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip yesterday. Two other teens were arrested and then returned to Palestinian territory.


01-24-07 - Two P.A security members injured by soldiers east of Gaza Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday at night that two members were shot and injured by the under-cover forces of the Israeli army east of Gaza City.


01-24-07 - Jewish settlers vandalise West Bank village The settlers also smashed car windows and shouted "death to the Arabs," witnesses added.


01-24-07 - Closure of the Rafah Border crossing barred 200 patients from traveling to Egypt for treatment In its statement, the Ministry stated that 200 patients were referred to Egyptian hospitals since they need urgent hospitalization, but are still waiting to be allowed through.


01-24-07 - Fatah, Hamas rivals clash in Gaza as national dialogue renews Four Palestinians were shot and wounded on Wednesday during clashes erupted in northern Gaza Strip between militants loyal to the rival movements of Fatah and the governing Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).


01-24-07 - Four Palestinians Wounded during Infighting in Beit Hanoun Witnesses said that the infighting ensued after members of the interior ministry?s executive force blockaded the houses of Jamal Al?Atamna and Wajdi Dabour for several hours


01-24-07 - Peres grateful to Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad


01-24-07 - $5m hospital on way for Palestine A $5 MILLION (BD1.89m) paediatric hospital being built in Palestine with Bahraini money is nearing completion and is expected to be officially open by May.


01-24-07 - Jerusalem: 16 year old attacked by settler then arrested by Israeli police Israeli police forces arrested a 16 year old Palestinian boy in the old city of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, after he was hit and abused by an Israeli settler.


01-24-07 - IRAQ: PALESTINIAN ENVOY DENIES REPORTS OF THREATS BY SHIITE MILITANTS


01-24-07 - Judge refuses to release prisoner for brother's funeral The Beer Sheva courthouse refused to release an illegal resident jailed in Israel to attend his brother's funeral.


'illegal resident'? Irony. Does Israel jail its 'illegal residents' of Palestinian land?


01-24-07 - Students Speak Out on Guilford College Fight Some who attended the forum, like Vurhan Ghanayem, a Palestinian scientist at Research Triangle Park, are upset the school has not suspended the suspects and that the school will not call the incident a hate crime.


01-24-07 - Americans told to 'wake up' to plight of Israeli Arabs "The shame in the way Arabs are treated is the shame of all Jews,"


01-24-07 - US church leaders keep focus on an Israel-Palestine solution "The Palestinian Christian leaders have asked us to bring to your attention the very grave situation of Jerusalem," state their US counterparts. "With the construction by Israel of the separation barrier, many of the faithful - both Christians and Muslims - are excluded from the Holy City, and Jerusalem is severed from Bethlehem."


01-24-07 - WITNESS-The road to Gaza between two worlds


01-24-07 - Bush: Hezbollah a threat


01-24-07 - Disillusion sets in amid poverty and factional conflict Palestinians are turning their back on party elected on promise of reform


01-24-07 - Israeli Army invade Tulkarem and surrounding area, search houses


01-24-07 - Palestinian cemetery attacked by settlers and soldiers in West Bank


01-24-07 - Palestinian president to visit Spain after Davos forum


01-24-07 - Israel raises nuclear stakes with Iran ** A senior British military source said yesterday that the Israelis were serious about the use of military force to stop Iran, and were now engaged in preparing public opinion for such a prospect. "They're watering the turf. The Iranians are not under enough pressure," the source said.


01-24-07 - Israeli Army invades a Bethlehem town and abducts sixteen local youths


01-24-07 - Demise of US, Israel Imminent According to a statement released by the Presidential Press Office, Ahmadinejad further noted the frequent failure of the plots of the hegemonic system in the Middle-East region, and said that the demise of the US and Zionist regime is imminent.


01-24-07 - Carter Wins Applause at Brandeis As the audience was silent, he spoke of roads Palestinians could not use and of the more than 500 checkpoints in the tiny West Bank. He suggested that a group of Brandeis professors and students visit the occupied territories for a few days and meet with leaders and private citizens "to determine if I have exaggerated or incorrectly described the plight of the Palestinians. "



01-24-07 - Conference of Presidents postpones Dubai trip


01-24-07 - Funds pledged for Lebanon summit Why should the world be expected to pay for the destruction that Israel has continued to rain down upon Lebanon (and Palestine)?


01-24-07 - Edwards Veers Hard Right During a lamentable speech he made in Tel Aviv, Edwards sanctioned a US war against Iran; denied the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) and bashed the Palestinian people.


01-24-07 - Lebanon conflict oil 'contained' the report indicates that the conflict has left other significant environment problems, some of which pose a threat to human health and welfare. A number of bombed sites, including Jiyyeh, are contaminated with toxic substances which may compromise water supplies



01-24-07 - Scandals shake Israeli public's faith "The credibility of all the leaders is in question, because most of them are either under investigation or have a cloud of corruption over them," Mr. Smith says, "and there is a perception that corruption is a real problem here."


01-24-07 - Rep. Keith Ellison Should Drop in on the Christian-Jewish Party in the House of Representatives I know this is perhaps unfair, but aren't we pretty well stacked on Israel caucuses and short with the broader Arab region? What about a caucus that includes the Arab states and Israel -- tough I know, but it would be a good goal for the Congressmen chairing these groups.



01-24-07 - I Missed The Light Switches In Our House For the entirety of my stay in Palestine, my little, precious hometown of Rummaneh, just outside Jenin did not have electricity. And I still have not yet learned how to adapt my laptop and PDA to run on the kerosene lamp that seems to do for most people after sunset


01-24-07 - Smears for Fears Everything Clark said, in short, is true. What's more, everybody knows it's true. The worst that can truthfully be said about Clark is that he expressed himself in a slightly odd way.


01-24-07 - At Brandeis, a dialogue Carter's refusal looked more like common sense than cowardice to anyone who remembers Dershowitz's debate with Noam Chomsky of MIT about Israel at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, an exchange that degenerated into personal attacks that Chomsky later characterized as infantile.


01-24-07 - Break the Silence Mural Project: Art and Action The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice & The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project present Break the Silence Mural Project: Art and Action


01-24-07 - An Alternative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict


01-24-07 - Football, Twelve-Year-Old Boys, and Military Curfews: Elizabeth Laird's "A Little Piece of Ground" The title A Little Piece of Ground is about more than the makeshift soccer field the boys create. It's a metaphor for the plight of the Palestinians and millions of other people around the earth. These are the people who have no place to call their own, thanks to the greed and fears of those who control not only the land the landless live on, but their daily lives, as well


01-24-07 - Israel faces nuclear Holocaust warns Gingrich The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust, former US Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned the Herzliya Conference held by the Institute for Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya on Tuesday afternoon.


01-24-07 - Group that criticized Israel to stay in campus coalition despite protests The decision did little to quell disquiet within the 31-member coalition, which was created in 2002 to advance a pro-Israel agenda on campus.


01-24-07 - US politicians rip Iran in Herzliya US politicians grovel at the altar of Israel.


01-24-07 - The new cold war in Lebanon and Palestine


01-24-07 - Hezbollah says opposition holding back from ousting cabinet


01-24-07 - Saudi, Iran working on deal to end Lebanon crisis Saudi Arabia and Iran, backers of the main rivals in Lebanon's political crisis, are negotiating a deal to end the standoff, Lebanese political sources said.


01-24-07 - Israeli PM warns of 'severe steps' against Iran he also reassured the Israeli public that "as serious as the Iranian threat is, the threat of a nuclear attack on Israel is in no way imminent."


01-24-07 - Out to check Iran n-work, Israel lobby in US meets PM Seeking to build a bridge with New Delhi, a delegation of the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group at the Capitol Hill met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last evening. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee's current agenda is to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government and seek greater security for Israel.


01-24-07 - Withheld report on Middle East trip raises questions If Khan?s report does include recommendations based on the Arab peace initiative, it would contradict statements Prime Minister Stephen Harper made last year to the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy that it was impractical to demand that Israel revert to pre-1967 borders.


01-24-07 - Canada considers more Palestinian aid


01-24-07 - Hunting down Yasser Arafat FILMMAKER Sherine Salama was the last person to interview Yasser Arafat, four weeks before he died in a hospital in Paris.


01-24-07 - American Jews should change their stance


01-24-07 - Rabbis for Human Rights: The Other Face of Judaism


01-24-07 - Canadian Arabs and Muslims threaten to campaign against Tories Canada?s largest Muslim and Arab groups say they are fed up with the Conservatives? pro-Israel stance and will work against the Tory government in the next election.


01-24-07 - Academic begins hunger strike to protest 'government harassment' Sami Al-Arian stopped eating after being held in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury in Virginia. That's according to a news release from the Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace.


01-24-07 - Mockery and deception continue When Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas flew to Damascus last weekend to meet with Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas politburo, he took with him many expectations


01-24-07 - Left-wing rabbis split on anti-IDF group During a board meeting Monday in Jerusalem, some leading members of RHRI strongly criticized Rabbis for Human Rights North America (RHR-NA) for honoring a New York-based legal advocacy group that sued two senior Israeli security officials for perpetrating "war crimes."


01-24-07 - Dome of the Rock on Vodka Bottle in Israeli The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Mohammed Hussein condemned the behavior of the Israeli company saying that "the marketing of wine bottles with a picture of the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, on them is an Israeli attempt to humiliate Muslims everywhere".


01-24-07 - Your desparation is showing Da cat is now prancing round the room, tail high in the air. (I think he shat in the bag to boot. Enjoy).


01-24-07 - The US is taking us for a ride on the peace process Like previous administrations, perhaps even more, the Bush administration tends to adapt to what Israel wants.


01-24-07 - Israelis aren't 'racist' - they're worried Nope, it's racism. You failed to prove that this particular man engaged in any of the behavior that these other Arab politicans purportedly engaged in. You are making your judgement solely on the fact that this man is an ARAB - that's racism. (This must be rocket science).


01-24-07 - A Jesuit Gives Voice to Peace Activists in the Holy Land


01-24-07 - DHS students discuss Middle East

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