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Wednesday, January 31, 2007


News for 01-30-07

01-30-07 - Hamas commander shot, despite ceasefire


01-30-07 - Hamas militant killed in Gaza despite truce


01-30-07 - Palestinian security officer dies of wounds he sustained on Monday Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian security officer of the 17 force, a Fatah affiliated force, died on Tuesday morning due to wounds he sustained on Monday during the Hamas Fatah infighting in Khan Younies city in the southern Gaza strip.


01-30-07 - Abbas condemns Eilat suicide bombing


01-30-07 - Abbas denounces Hamas executive force as 'illegal' Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has condemned the existence of the so-called executive force answerable to the Hamas-controlled interior ministry as "illegal."


01-30-07 - Hamas, Fatah swap hostages under Gaza truce deal


01-30-07 - Israeli special forces stage ambush, shoot and injure 12 year old in Jenin Mahmoud Abed was on his way back to Kafr Dan Village with his 12 year old son, Sa'ed. When he saw that the area was closed, he began to turn the car around in order to return to Jenin City. Israeli soldiers opened fire and shot the child.


01-30-07 - Olmert approves shifting Wall route to include settlements The move will lead to the creation of two Palestinian enclaves, inhibited by at least 20.000 residents, while both settlements have 1500 settlers living there.


01-30-07 - Explosion in shop in Rafa, southern Gaza


01-30-07 - Civilians caught in the crossfire


01-30-07 - Let Our Children Live Abir Aramin has joined the thousands of other children killed in this country and the territories it occupies.


01-30-07 - Police Interview Guilford College Accusers


01-30-07 - Demographer: Israel should relinquish Palestinian areas of Jerusalem


01-30-07 - Israel not likely to face sanction for breaching cluster-bomb pact A pro-Israel lobbyist said one possible repercussion is that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) may reintroduce legislation to make the sale of cluster bombs explicitly conditional on not using them in civilian areas.


01-30-07 - Bush: Iraq failure impacts Iran ** Israeli leaders have expressed concerns that controversies surrounding the Iraq war will inhibit U.S. resolve in confronting Iran?s nuclear program.


01-30-07 - MPs meet Hamas and criticise embargo against Palestinians


01-30-07 - Israeli army abducts 23 Palestinian men from a village near Nablus


01-30-07 - If Arafat were still alive If Arafat was poisoned, it doesn't necessarily mean that Israel was behind it. Towards the end, he was a convenient excuse for Israel to refuse to negotiate a peace deal.


01-30-07 - MPs attack UK-backed financial boycott of Palestinian Authority The report by the all-party International Development committee criticises the UK-backed financial boycott of the Palestinian Authority and says that this is drawing Palestinians closer to Iran.


01-30-07 - Reflection: Suffer the Little Children Israeli soldiers were detaining a
group of schoolgirls about 100 yards from their school gate. The soldiers do not
usually stop the children there, and they looked confused by the situation. A
small girl, six or seven years old, nervously moved away from the group, then
ran as quickly as she could towards her school gate. She did not stop when the
soldier shouted. The soldier raised his gun, but she probably did not notice,
she was so intent on reaching her school. Had she been, as young children often
are, anxious about being late for school?


01-30-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: Commentary on recent video showing Hebron settler woman harassing Abu Aisha family We were welcomed to Abu Aisha's home. After the customary tea, they began to
tell us their stories. One of the daughters had been stoned by the settler kids
a few days ago and another daughter had been hit with a metal bar. Because the
settlers were stoning their windows, they put grilles in front of them but the
settlers poked metal bars through the grilles and broke the new windows. They
showed us a bullet hole high up in one of the windows and the holes that the
bullet had made in the curtains.


01-30-07 - Jewish Student Sentenced to House-Arrest For Phony Bomb Threat Yeshiva student and dual Israeli-American citizen Yechezkel Wells was sentenced to six months of hour arrest for phoning in a phony bomb threat last summer. Outrageous.


01-30-07 - Gaza anxious over fragile truce


01-30-07 - Baker: Syria talks may help Israel If the Bush administration opened a dialogue with Syria it could remove a major roadblock to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking - Hamas' refusal to recognize the Jewish state - former Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Tuesday.


01-30-07 - Israeli forces demolishing East Jerusalem homes Tuesday morning Israeli forces are demolishing more Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. Several Bedouin homes were slated for destruction to expand the Ma'ale Adumim Settlement. Jerusalem's ICAHD is on the scene as Israeli bulldozers tear through the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Azaria and At Tur.


01-30-07 - Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man and attacks residents houses in villages near Hebron


01-30-07 - Launch of major coalition to end Israeli occupation of Palestine Actors, politicians and members of human rights, solidarity and peace movements, including Pax Christi, gathered today in Westminster for the launch of a new coalition ENOUGH: End the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.


01-30-07 - Peres rejects Qatari leader's proposal for direct talks with Hamas-led government


01-30-07 - Project part of 'strategy to help Palestinians' A Dh47.7 million housing project under construction in the Gaza Strip is part of the UAE's "long-term commitment" to the Palestinian people, according to a Red Crescent official.


01-30-07 - Legislative Council holds session without many from Hamas, leftist says PLC is outside the conflict


01-30-07 - Israeli Realism on Iran Belies Threat Rhetoric Occasionally, Israeli officials do let slip indications that their fears of Iran are less extreme than the "second holocaust" rhetoric would indicate. Last November, Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh explained candidly in an interview with the Jerusalem Post that the fear was not that such weapons would be launched against Israel but that the existence of nuclear capability would interfere with Israel's recruitment of new immigrants and cause more Israelis to emigrate to other countries.


01-30-07 - Bush unveils security aid for Palestinian ally


01-30-07 - Russia wants Palestinian aid freeze lifted


01-30-07 - Call to honor ICJ ruling against Wall and fight land confiscation in western Salfit The Popular Committee to Resist the Apartheid Wall is calling for the implementation of the Hague's decision of two years ago. The International Court of Justice ruled that the Israeli Wall being built inside the West Bank was illegal, must immediately be stopped and what had been done already must be removed and compensated for.


01-30-07 - U.N. says 700 Palestinians stranded at Iraq border Some 700 Palestinians are stranded at the Iraq-Syria border, living in inhumane conditions in no-man's land after fleeing violence in Iraq, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.


01-30-07 - Potter star backs Palestinian cause Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes launched the ENOUGH! campaign with an emotional appeal to fellow Jews to stand up against Israel.


01-30-07 - Judge rejects complaint in AIPAC ex-staffers case The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers dismissed their request for a hearing on what they called violations of grand jury leak laws.


01-30-07 - SLU group hosts pro-Palestinian event


01-30-07 - Wolf Blitzer is a Zionist


01-30-07 - Fresh lenses trained on ME conflict Seven young Israelis and seven young Palestinians have gathered in a monastery in the hills above Jerusalem to begin a six-month photographic dialogue.


01-30-07 - Nasrallah vows Lebanon will be graveyard for invaders Nasrallah, addressing a huge crowd gathered for the sacred Shiite day of Ashura, accused US President George W. Bush and Israel of "trying to defeat resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq by starting civil wars."


01-30-07 - Students Under Occupation Take a Stand In 2005, student photographers from Birzeit University and Al-Najah University in the West Bank came together to document student life and the obstruction of Palestinian education under military occupation, through the artistic expression of their own ideas and experiences


01-30-07 - Decorated Journalist and Middle East Expert Robert Fisk to Speak at Ithaca College


01-30-07 - Israel was skeptical of Iraq, scholar says "Israel was very aware of the fact that from its point of view, Iran was the bigger threat." Israel wants all of its enemies removed - by US.


01-30-07 - Essay linking liberal Jews and anti-Semitism sparks furor A historian at New York University, Mr. Judt said in a telephone interview that he believed the real purpose of outspoken denunciations of him and others was to stifle harsh criticism of Israel.


01-30-07 - The media let readers down


01-30-07 - Our Opinion: Get Carter The Former President Should Speak at Emory


01-30-07 - Carter's Controversy


01-30-07 - Not my Israel


01-30-07 - Former FM says Israel a captive of Shoah memories he concluded his speech with criticism of Israel and Jews in general, saying "if the strongest nation in the Middle East refers to every war and every threat as a threat of Holocaust, we ourselves are making the Holocaust banal."


01-30-07 - Event billed as speech by ex-terrorists draws ire "Where is the FBI? Where is the (Immigration and Naturalization Service) to strip his citizenship, as they did with so many others with so fewer allegations?" These 'former terrorists' are darlings of the Israeli lobby - THAT'S why they're allowed in this country; to propagandize. Others that committed lesser crimes are in our PRISONS right now.


01-30-07 - Public meeting to address Guilford fight


01-30-07 - Miriam backs peace drive Actress Miriam Margolyes will today help launch a new coalition calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.


01-30-07 - Iran, Israel, and our shared security goals By Newt Gingrich The US should have as an explicit goal, regime change in Iran, as its constitution makes them a revolutionary regime.....If we are going to live with the Palestinians then we need to gain control of their urban spaces


01-30-07 - U.S. not ready to resolve Mideast problem - Russian analyst "Ultimately, the president will have to put pressure on Israel, for it to make even minimal concessions. However, it is very doubtful that under the current conditions, Bush has sufficient political capital,"


01-30-07 - Supporting the Holy Land On his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with other bishops from around the world, Bishop Joan Enric Vives Sicilia called on Christians to visit the area without fear.

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