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Friday, February 02, 2007
02-01-07 - Hamas gunmen ambush Gaza convoy, six killed Hospital officials said 50 people, including two children, were wounded in the clash, the fiercest since Tuesday's truce largely halted five days of gun battles between Hamas and Fatah in which 33 Palestinians were killed.
02-01-07 - Three Palestinians shot in W Bank Hours later, 15-year-old Taha Qalajawi was shot by troops near the controversial barrier Israel is building in and around the West Bank.
02-01-07 - Fatah storms Gaza 'Hamas campus' At least two people were wounded in the heavy gun battle, and part of the building was on fire.
02-01-07 - Palestinian Wounded by Israeli Army Gunfire in Northern Gaza
02-01-07 - Conflicting reports whether US actually offered Fateh-linked security the funds
02-01-07 - Fifty Palestinians killed during internal clashes in January
02-01-07 - PLO official calls for ending of settlement activities in W. Bank In a statement sent to the press, Taysser Khaled urged U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Quartet on the Middle East to pressurize Israel to stop its settlement activities in the West Bank.
02-01-07 - 13 Palestinians killed in by Israeli military fire in January Israeli soldiers shot and killed thirteen Palestinian residents during the month on January. The number includes two children and three fighters who were extra-judicially assassinated.
02-01-07 - No external pressure on UNRWA to reduce services, but agency not equipped for development The United Nations Relief Works Agency will not reduce its services, says Commissioner General Karen Abu Zeid. However the caveat was added that the agency is not in the business of development, only maintenance.
02-01-07 - Ban Ki-moon looks for more than words from Friday?s high-level Middle East meeting
02-01-07 - Israel - Occupied Palestinian Territories quartet meeting: new approach needed to break deadlock Measures such as the confiscation of Palestinian tax funds by Israel and other economic sanctions, the cut in aid to the PA government from key western donors, the tightening of the blockades on the OPT, and the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and barriers on occupied Palestinian land lave resulted in increasing economic hardship and despair.
02-01-07 - What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians To demand that Palestinians recognize "Israel's right to exist" is to demand that a people who have been treated as subhumans unworthy of basic human rights publicly proclaim that they are subhumans. It would imply Palestinians' acceptance that they deserve what has been done and continues to be done to them
02-01-07 - Musharraf lobbies OIC chief on M.East plan Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf lobbied the head of the Islamic world's largest grouping on Thursday to back his idea for Muslim nations to come up with a new Middle East peace initiative.
02-01-07 - Irish government gives ?11.4m in aid for Palestine refugees The Irish government today announced an ?11.4 million ($14.8 million) aid package to support Palestine refugees.
02-01-07 - Bloomberg: No to forcing agreement on Israel In a press conference held immediately following the ceremony Bloomberg stated that no one, including the United States, should force an agreement on Israel. Israel, he said, must reach an agreement with the Palestinians on its own.
02-01-07 - Police Won't File Charges in Racial Fight at Guilford College "We determined that all of the charges that need to be taken out in this case were already taken out at the magistrate's office," police spokesman Lt. Brian James told the News & Record of Greensboro on Wednesday. "We didn't obtain any further evidence that would allow us to pursue additional charges, which is what we were investigating."
02-01-07 - Israeli army abducts five residents from a village near Hebron
02-01-07 - Prosecutor: Troops must step in if Hebron settlers disturb peace Nitzan's statement, which was based on instruction given to military sources in the West Bank, contradicts a claim made a few weeks ago by Defense Minister Amir Peretz, according to which soldiers are not permitted to intervene in cases of settlers disturbing the peace.
02-01-07 - Prosecution: Soldiers must detain settlers harassing Palestinians That this would be a NEW policy for the Israelis is telling. It's similar to the treatment of blacks in the pre-civil rights era in the USA. 'Aww gee. Dems Arabs are humans too.' This newfound policy would not even be given a thought if the video of the settler harassing the Palestinian was not broadcast all over the world; also telling.
02-01-07 - Hamas minister praises report by British parliament that slammed EU isolation policy
02-01-07 - US, Russia hold high-level talks amid rise in bilateral tensions The US and Russia hold high-level talks this week amid a spike in tensions between the former Cold War adversaries over issues ranging from Iran and Iraq to missile defenses and human rights concerns under President Vladimir Putin.
02-01-07 - Israel's Economic Stranglehold a Silent Killer
02-01-07 - United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People to take place in Doha, Qatar, 5 - 6 February The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People with the agreement of the Government of Qatar will convene the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People on 5 and 6 February at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, at the Corniche.
02-01-07 - Muslim community rejoices in Salah verdict Salah was initially arrested in 1993 at a Gaza checkpoint, and much of the evidence used against him at trial in U.S. federal court was gathered by Israeli interrogators. Salah?s attorneys argued the Israelis had pried his confession with torture.
02-01-07 - After 40 years, could the ice be melting on the Golan Heights? the Golan affords Israel total command of the Galilee basin, east as well as west - it "controls" 30 per cent of its fresh water resources
02-01-07 - York guest speakers tackle Middle East politics The York University guest speakers discussed the growth and influence of pro-Israel lobby groups in Canada, especially on university campuses, from both a theoretical perspective and from personal experience....?The campaigns on the campuses began in the United States as far back as the 1970s,? Noble said. ?The American Israeli Political Action Committee undertook to train student activists in how to increase pro-Israel influence on campus by any and all means.?
02-01-07 - Hebron Update 22-28 January 2007
02-01-07 - UNUSUAL PALESTINIAN MUSEUM OPENS IN UK The photograph is of an archive that lists 50,320 buildings in Palestine which date from before 1945. The artist seems to be challenging the viewer to link the lack of exhibits in the museum to the political turmoil in the Middle East before and after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and its effect on the history and culture of the Palestinian people.
02-01-07 - Hebron Reflection: Did they see what I saw?
02-01-07 - Camden friendship group working to ease plight of Palestinians The Committee points out that it is the actions of the Government of Israel that are making life so difficult for people in Palestine, and ultimately suggests that our own government reconsider its acceptance of what Israel does.
02-01-07 - Letter: Against ADL program During the Q&A, a near free-for-all broke out. A woman who tried to quiet hecklers around her reported having obscenities screamed at her, along with death wishes for herself and her husband. Disrupters appear to have been bussed in, with one man thinking he was in Sharon. Finally, the principal ended by shutting the event down. (In contrast, a few days later, the pro-Israel David Project was allowed to present an opposing view, with no reports of disruption.)
That should clue you in as to exactly who is trying to shut down the debate - it isn't the pro-Palestinians.
02-01-07 - Losing hope, Lebanese seek future abroad Jolted by last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas and the power struggles and Sunni-Shi'ite clashes that have followed, thousands of Lebanese -- many of them young and talented -- are leaving to seek jobs and new lives abroad.
02-01-07 - Clinton wants talks with Iran "We stand with Israel because it's a beacon of democracy in the region."
LOL @ Israeli 'democracy'. We 'stand with Israel' because of the intense efforts of the Israeli lobby.
02-01-07 - Saree Makdisi Presents at the Palestine Center The Palestine Center in Washington, DC recently hosted one of the most promising young Palestinian-American scholars, Dr. Saree Makdisi.
02-01-07 - Pope urges courageous Middle East Christians not to emigrate
02-01-07 - Palestinians won't be dragged into Lebanon conflict: Fatah Palestinians who live in Lebanon will not allow themselves to be dragged into the political row between the Hezbollah-led opposition and the Western-backed government, the local head of Fatah said
02-01-07 - Mideast Lutheran bishop sees hope for peace, with help "I met with a Christian Zionist. I told him I was baptized in water and the Spirit," said the bishop. "Palestinian Christians were new for him," he recalled. The visitor told the bishop we should be supporting your schools and your ministry here and promised to contact him after his return to the U.S. "Three months later he wrote me that no support would be coming," said Bishop Younan. "He told me, 'my people believe more in Israel than they do in Jesus.'
Wow. That explains a lot.
02-01-07 - We ought to rewrite the Mideast script With such a limited range of choices on the table, and with the issue of U.S. support for Israel nowhere near the table, it seems clear that U.S. policy in the Middle East will not change significantly despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 midterm elections.
02-01-07 - Lines of Resistance
02-01-07 - Artist's Statement: Emily Jacir's "ENTRY DENIED"
02-01-07 - Two Palestinians found not guilty in US Hamas financing trial This was the trial where disguised Israeli agents were allowed to give secret testimony. Guess the jury didn't buy it. Another failed witchhunt. Message to the lobby: American juries still require EVIDENCE, not contrived BS (which is customarily offered up in Israel).
02-01-07 - Israel to develop new missile interceptors Israel has decided to produce two new missile systems after it failed to intercept short and medium range rockets during last summer's Lebanon war.
02-01-07 - Journalist gets community service for leading group trip to Syria Visiting Syria without permission endangers Israel's national security and needs to be punished in order to deter others, the prosecution claimed.
02-01-07 - Israel - Annual Report 2007 Reporters Without Borders went to Israel in December however to publicise the lack of openness in the Israeli army?s enquiries into these incidents. A senior military spokesperson said most of them had been investigated but that evidence gathered was "insufficient to bring charges."
02-01-07 - Sympathy for Palestine Is Not Anti-Semitic
02-01-07 - Despicable Attack The anti-semitism charge against former President Carter is ridiculous and an insult against him and our country's legacy when he was our leader and thereafter.
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