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Wednesday, February 07, 2007


News for 02-06-07

02-06-07 - Hamas, Fateh agree to release abducted members In a step which is observed as another chance to enforce the truce, the rival Fateh a Hamas factions agreed to conduct a mutual release of hostages that gunmen of both factions have captured.


02-06-07 - EU's attempt to avoid Hamas costs £2m in bank charges "European states are wasting millions of euros of aid to Palestine through this bureaucratic scheme," said Barbara Stocking, director of Oxfam. "Our aid is being delivered through a complex mechanism that is causing irreparable damage to essential services for Palestinian people."


02-06-07 - Saudis put their status on the line in bid to end Palestinian crisis


02-06-07 - FEATURE-Palestinian farmers fight Israel eviction threat Israel has suggested the shepherds move from al Hadidiya, a village of makeshift sheds and tents in a valley near the West Bank's border with Jordan, to a more established town nearby, a military source said.
The shepherds are reluctant to give in to what Palestinians see as an Israeli land-grab, or risk being penned in by Israeli army checkpoints and cut off from the pastures and farmland they lease......More than 40 percent of the valley zone has effectively been placed off-limits to Palestinians while Jewish settlements there have expanded, Red Cross and Palestinian officials say.
'Piece' or peace. Israel chooses 'piece'.


02-06-07 - Detention Center Blues "They were treated as inmates," said attorney Joshua Bardavid, "rather than a family being held for immigration reasons."


02-06-07 - Iran nuclear ambitions can be stopped without violence: Israel "Israel was never pushing anyone to any extreme action." Mmm k. The backpedaling continues.


02-06-07 - Muslims say Israeli work threatens Jerusalem mosque


02-06-07 - As Mecca talks begin, Gaza counts its victims


02-06-07 - Egypt teenager dies of bird flu


02-06-07 - From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq ** By now, the story of how neoconservatives hijacked American foreign policy is a familiar one. With Vice President Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld leading the way, neocons working out of the office of the vice president and the Department of Defense orchestrated a spectacular disinformation operation, asserting that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed a grave and immediate threat to the U.S. Veteran analysts who disagreed were circumvented......Once again, neocon ideologues have been flogging questionable intelligence about W.M.D. Once again, dubious Middle East exile groups are making the rounds in Washington?this time urging regime change in Syria and Iran......Ten years later, "A Clean Break" looks like nothing less than a playbook for U.S.-Israeli foreign policy during the Bush-Cheney era......Adds former C.I.A. officer Philip Giraldi, "I've heard from sources at the Pentagon that their impression is that the White House has made a decision that war is going to happen."
From Vanity Fair, no less. Excellent.


02-06-07 - Qassam rocket lands in Israel, damages building


02-06-07 - Gaza's brothers-in-arms hope leaders make peace


02-06-07 - Shaath holds the U.S and Israel responsible for internal unrest


02-06-07 - Palestinian child health still faces challenges, despite end of strike at clinics To help address the health needs of Palestinian children, UNICEF is providing over 400 health clinics and 17 hospitals with $2.9 million in medical supplies,


02-06-07 - Workshop discusses evolution of Palestinian women's movement and18th century civil society


02-06-07 - Palestinian father and daughter die in Sanaa fire A Palestinian man and his daughter died yesterday after a fire broke out in their house in a residential complex belonging to Palestinian refugees in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.



02-06-07 - A Palestinian man killed in Iraq Palestinian sources in Baghdad reported that one Palestinian man was killed late Monday night during a rocket attack on the restaurant he works in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.


02-06-07 - Israeli army abducts two Palestinian men from Surif town near Hebron


02-06-07 - Bethlehem student protest against Israeli demolitions at Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem's Old City Israeli soldiers fired concussion grenades and gas bombs at the students who pelted the sniper towers with stones. Several of the young people are suffering from gas inhalation this afternoon after becoming nauseous and fainting


02-06-07 - Israel arrests 10 Palestinians, including Aqsa activist, in Nablus


02-06-07 - Wall altering the face of Jerusalem The barrier's contribution to security is a matter of debate: While there has been a sharp drop in attacks in Jerusalem, the calm has coincided with a decision by Hamas to suspend suicide bombings in Israel as part of a shaky cease-fire. A bomber who struck the southern resort city of Eilat last week, killing three Israelis, was dispatched by Islamic Jihad, which has rejected the truce.


02-06-07 - Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from a village near Tulkarem On Tuesday morning Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Jarushia near Tulkarem city in the northern part of the West Bank, and abducted one man


02-06-07 - Despite Promises, Israel Continues to Deny Foreign Nationals Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territories


02-06-07 - Bombs found 'are old' - Hezbollah


02-06-07 - SN opinion of Israel's use of cluster bombs correct


02-06-07 - Turks ask for Jewish help on Armenia Gul and the Jewish leaders also discussed U.S.-Turkish relations, Israeli-Turkish relations, Jewish-Muslim relations and the Turkish Jewish community.



02-06-07 - PDF file on USDOJ website - submitted as evidence in the Libby trial It's Libby's schedule for June 23, 2003. 4:30 pm entry. I'm sure that meeting with Israeli generals is commonplace for White House officials, but I just thought it interesting.


02-06-07 - Canadian government forming pro-Israel lobby The establishment of the new pro-Israel lobby will be officially announced in Ottawa on Tuesday in the presence of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper My condolences to the Canadian people.


02-06-07 - Israel must not interfere in Gaza war, Peres says He added that Israel must maintain a low profile in the conflict.


02-06-07 - Defiant Hezbollah returns to Israel border with flags and bikes


02-06-07 - Story of Israeli spy in Toronto 'nonsense,' Israel says In 1997, Canada temporarily brought its ambassador home from Israel to protest the fact that two Israeli agents used fake Canadian passports in a botched assassination plot against a Palestinian militant.


02-06-07 - Agudah rabbis call for Pollard?s release Agudath Israel says it will join other Jewish organizations in asking its members to phone the White House daily between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. EST until Passover.


02-06-07 - Radio Free Europe wants more Iran The 2008 budget request for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty would increase broadcasts to Iran while cutting them to Eastern Europe. Here's why.


02-06-07 - Stand With Us releases Israel-education booklet Stand With Us prepared "Israel 101" in response to what it says is a "
pressing need" for an easy-to-use resource for students engaged in Israel advocacy on college campuses. Wouldn't need any booklets if you had truth on your side.


02-06-07 - NYC Council Members Experience Rocket Attack The New York delegation arrived Sunday and is scheduled to return home on Thursday. The trip is sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal and other groups.


02-06-07 - Teaching: Churches for Middle East Peace set for May 6-8 conference in Washington, D.C.


02-06-07 - Committees form to deal with controversial issues Their formation comes after the high-profile visits of former President Jimmy Carter and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz last month and the removal of Palestinian artwork last spring, events that garnered national attention.


02-06-07 - Students seek healing while community takes sides


02-06-07 - Apartheid denial Carter's book remains high on the New York Times best-seller list, thanks in part to his critics' attacks on him. And the conversation on apartheid, which he provoked, continues.


02-06-07 - Cluster bombs: a war's perilous aftermath as UN-organized demining teams toil across olive groves and tobacco farms to destroy what they call an "unprecedented" concentration of the controversial cluster bombs here, the casualties continue to mount.


02-06-07 - Harper paints his opponents as fairweather friends of Israel the wife of a Liberal MP, Irwin Cotler, said she would tear up her party membership card after then-leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff called the Israeli bombing of Qana a war crime

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