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Saturday, January 27, 2007


News for 01-26-07

01-26-07 - Fifteen killed in Gaza clashes Fifteen people were killed in the Gaza Strip yesterday, including a two-year-old child, in the deadliest single day of fighting between rival Palestinian factions since Hamas came to power a year ago.


01-26-07 - Hamas suspends talks with Fatah


01-26-07 - DAVOS-Abbas: Hamas deal should take less than 3 weeks Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday it should take no more than three weeks to reach agreement with Hamas Islamists on forming a national unity government,


01-26-07 - TV: Hamas suspends all coalition talks with Fatah "Following the awful massacres committed today in Gaza and northern Gaza, we have decided to postpone all dialogue with Fatah,"


01-26-07 - Americans turned back at the border ?Under the pretext of security measures the Israeli army detained members of the delegation representing pro-Palestinian American institutions and committees. Some of the members of the delegation were interrogated and all were detained for five hours while documents were examined.?


01-26-07 - Accusers say they want to be left alone Parents of three accused football players issued a statement defending their sons Friday, saying one of the players, Michael Robert Six, was attacked with a belt. Cohen said Khader took off his belt and swung it in self defense.


01-26-07 - Jordan's king asks for quick solution of Israeli-Palestinian issue


01-26-07 - Palestinians attacked in North Carolina "There is a need for national recognition that the effect of negative stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims has created a dangerous environment where incidents like this can occur," the Arab American Institute said in a statement. It particularly blamed calls by some North Carolina state officials to intern Arab Americans.


01-26-07 - Israeli forces beat up a Palestinian man in Jerusalem Ali Rumi, 31, was beaten up by Israeli soldiers on Friday morning while he was trying to cross a military checkpoint near Jerusalem.


01-26-07 - Strawberries and the crossing When the Karni crossing is closed, vast quantities of strawberries enter the local market in Gaza and they cannot absorb such quantities. In this situation, the losers are the farmers like Abu Mohamed who says, "When Karni is open, we sell a kilo of strawberry for 30 shekels to Europe (5.5 Euros). When it is closed, we sell a kilo for 3 shekels in Gaza (.55 Euros)."


01-26-07 - ?Hate Crime? of Beatings Divides a Campus The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had begun an investigation to determine whether the attack was a hate crime.


01-26-07 - Palestinian children encouraged to go to jail Basically shifting them from one prison to another one (that has food/shelter).


01-26-07 - Israeli army blows up two Hezbollah bunkers The Israeli army says it has blown up two Hezbollah bunkers discovered near the Jewish state's border with Lebanon.


01-26-07 - An act of nonviolent resistance in a wedding ceremony Mohammad Ahmed Brijeh said that he was starkly rejecting the Israeli policy of confiscating Palestinian land. Instead of giving in, he invited his family and friends to a ceremony on southern Bethlehem land that will more than likely soon be covered by the Wall.


01-26-07 - Pushing the barrier One village spilt in two by Israel's controversial wall has been staging a non-violent protest for two years.

Watch the report


01-26-07 - Palestinian President arrives in Madrid for talks


01-26-07 - Emirati enclave in a Palestinian city The UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has completed the first phase of the $13 million project to build an Emirati enclave in the Palestinian city of Khan Younis.


01-26-07 - Spain offers aid to Palestinian president Spain is to provide seven million euros (nine million dollars) to the office of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said.


01-26-07 - Villagers helpless in face of settlers' land grab For more than 20 years this small agricultural area has served as an example of how Israeli military occupation and right-wing Jewish settlement have ground away at the lives of Palestinian civilians......Susya villagers and the human rights groups have filed numerous complaints, sometimes with photographic and video evidence of settlers assaulting Palestinian civilians, including children on their way to school. So far, locals say, no Jewish settler has been punished and when police or soldiers are present they usually fail to intervene to protect Palestinians.



01-26-07 - Al-Qaida No. 2: PA Chair Abbas is a 'traitor,' sold Palestinian land


01-26-07 - Canada searching for comfortable role Most Canadians believe, quite erroneously, that Palestinian Arabs willingly abandoned their homes in the 1948 War ? so tough luck on them


01-26-07 - Man sentenced for funneling cocaine Eden Hafaja, 37, was sentenced to 88 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone I just want to remind you of the sentence that this man will be getting for drug-related crimes in the US. Note the disparity.


01-26-07 - Netanyahu urges pension to quit Iran Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly urged Massachusetts pension fund officials to pull money out of businesses that deal with Iran.


01-26-07 - June 4 date set for AIPAC staffers case The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers set a June 4 trial date Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found thee....OHHHH....


01-26-07 - Beirut lifts curfew after clashes A civil war for every state in the region. Iran and Syria are the next candidates for 'democratization'- neocon-style.


01-26-07 - Jewish Shoah conference participants banned from Israel Neturei Karta members who attended Iran's Holocaust denial conference to be denied entrance to Israel by Interior Minister Bar-On, according to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper


01-26-07 - Khatami slams controversial Holocaust conference Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has criticised a controversial conference on the Holocaust -- held in Tehran late last year -- in an interview published in Israel's mass-selling Yediot Aharonot.


01-26-07 - Hillary the Favorite in Race for Jewish Donations Clinton, he said, "has personally proved herself to the Jewish community on Israel, on which she was once questioned." Read on.


01-26-07 - Lebanon clashes fuel civil war fears


01-26-07 - Hezbollah blames clashes on Israel Hezbollah?s leader said Israel was to blame for internecine violence in Beirut.


01-26-07 - Arafat took secrets to his grave, widow says Suha Arafat, widow of the late Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, admitted that she does not know whether her husband was poisoned to death.


01-26-07 - Israel hails UN condemnation of Holocaust denial Diplomats in New York have said the resolution, which does not name any country, was inspired by the behaviour of Iran, where certain leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have described the Holocaust as a "myth."


01-26-07 - Iran's Khatemi denies criticising Holocaust conference "I never gave any interview to any Israeli newspaper and the comments attributed to me have been made up,"


01-26-07 - U.N. adopts Holocaust denial resolution Venezuela, while supporting the resolution, said Israel's "excesses under the pretext of legitimate defense has led to a new holocaust against the Palestinian people."


01-26-07 - When the mute talks to the deaf Read this individual's diatribe about a group of Palestinian women who spoke of the harsh conditions of Israeli occupation at a local church, and then note who he works for at the bottom of the article.


01-26-07 - Gordon R. England, then Navy Secretary, was honored with JINSA?s Henry M. "Scoop"Jackson Distinguished Service Award in 2001 England is currently OUR Deputy Secretary of Defense.


01-26-07 - Protesters Caught in Crossfire in Bil?in


01-26-07 - Emma bids for MidEast peace Record-breaking actor Emma Thompson revealed today why she is helping to make political history by supporting Britain?s first broad-based alliance for a just peace for the Palestinians in the Middle East. The only person ever to have won film Oscars for acting and writing is backing a new historic drive for a just settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.


01-26-07 - SCHUEFTAN AT HERZLIYA Israel will have to leave most of the territories, certainly the heavily populated parts of it, unilaterally. There is simply no other option.


01-26-07 - Groups debate anti-Semitism in larger context of criticism of Israel questioning Israel's right to defend itself against hostile neighbors could be anti-Semitic, ADL officials say, because such hostilities threaten the country's very existence.... "This is a new costume for a hate that's existed centuries," said Stein. This modern anti-Semitism, she said, just replaces the word "Israel" for "Jew." So they would have everyone believe in order to silence the critics. Not working.


01-26-07 - Fearing Iran Israel fears an Iranian bomb will only enhance Iran's confidence to shape the future of the region as it likes. Israel's nukes have pretty much guaranteed Israel's confidence to shape the future of the region as IT likes.


01-26-07 - Navigating the minefield of politicians' verbal gaffes Hugging Suha Arafat might have been the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton politically, as far as the American Jewish community is concerned - that's what a prominent Jewish leader told me earlier this week.....Why was this unfortunate incident so good for Clinton? Because it taught her an important lesson: Every word, every gesture is watched and counted, especially in this volatile area of interest. She was never caught again hinting at any compromising views she might have, or had. Note the source.


01-26-07 - Hezbollah buries dead, urges Lebanese unity


01-26-07 - Saudi ambassador says U.S., Iraq should agree before troop withdrawal Prince Turki called for the revival of the Middle East "road map for peace", first outlined by Bush, that aims to establish an independent Palestinian state.


01-26-07 - Candidates court Israel, cite Iran risks


01-26-07 - Palestinian cleric denies ties to militants that got him deported


01-26-07 - Palestinians Want Peace Settlement with Israel Again with Angus-Reid tacking on its version of Middle East history while masquerading it as a 'poll'.


01-26-07 - Fear of a Shia full moon "If the Americans succeed, we will be able to regain Iraq. The extremists want to defeat the Americans at the expense of losing Iraq. If Iraq is divided into two sectarian states, they will be magnets for sectarian war across the Muslim world."


01-26-07 - Thousands of Israelis seeking asylum in Canada: reports


01-26-07 - AJCongress may leave campus coalition In a letter this week, AJCongress Executive Director Neil Goldstein denied an earlier announcement that his organization was pulling out of the Israel on Campus Coalition, a 31-member consortium of Jewish groups dedicated to boosting Israel?s image on American college campuses.


01-26-07 - New York group to receive award from bombing memorial

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