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Sunday, February 18, 2007
02-17-07 - Palestinian official calls on U.S. to change its stance
02-17-07 - Interim Hamas government condemns shooting at minister's house The Hamas-led interim Palestinian government on Saturday slammed unknown gunmen's shooting at the house of its Planning Minister Samir Abu Eisha in the West Bank.
02-17-07 - Olmert, Bush may shun Palestinian govt: Israel President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have agreed to shun a Palestinian unity government unless it meets international conditions, an official in Olmert's office said on Saturday It's over before it even began.
02-17-07 - Abbas tells U.S. he's done his best The world will have to deal with a new Hamas- Fatah coalition even if its platform falls short of international demands such as recognition of Israel, Mahmoud Abbas told a U.S. envoy Saturday, according to an aide to the Palestinian president.
02-17-07 - Israelis Are Gone, but Gaza Rebuilding Is Slow
02-17-07 - Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part Three) Israel's role in attempting to prod the U.S. to attack Iran has been considerable and is a major theme of Ritter's book.
02-17-07 - Does America Want a Real Peace Process The Administration and even many members of Congress seem aware that the problem that Israel poses to the reputation of the United States throughout the world demands some immediate attention. Will it get that attention? The subcommittee hearing indicates otherwise.
02-17-07 - Hebron Update 5-10 February 2007 Martens, Ozanne and Baldwin observed a clash between Israeli border police and
Palestinian youth in Bab iZaweyya. Palestinian youths started throwing stones
around noon, and soldiers responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Shortly
after 1:00p.m., soldiers hit and shoved children close to where the CPTers were
standing. Ozanne intervened between a soldier and a boy, but the soldier
threatened her saying, "if you don't shut up, I will kill you all!"
02-17-07 - Rice prepares for Mid-East summit Ms Rice said it was an important time to advance the vision of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
02-17-07 - Unity Govt not good enough, Israel says "Unfortunately, before the formation of the future Palestinian government, the understandings do not meet the requirements of the international community," Ms Livni said after a meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
02-17-07 - Israel and U.S. to coordinate stance on PA unity government 'Israel and US coordinate stance' defined: Rice was given her orders.
02-17-07 - Making Enemies - How Israel helped to create Hamas Indeed, according to former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Charles Freeman, Shin Bet?the Israeli counter-intelligence and internal security service?knowingly created Hamas: "Israel started Hamas. It was a project of Shin Bet, which had a feeling that they could use it to hem in the PLO."
02-17-07 - Court orders settlers to leave building in East Jerusalem
02-17-07 - Palestinian Christians offer seldom-heard perspective
02-17-07 - Palestinian member of Israeli Knesset says Israel responsible for resuming negotiations with PLO
02-17-07 - Fundraising gala to aid Palestinian Children
02-17-07 - IOF occupies Palestinian house in Tel Rumeida - ?We can do whatever we want?
02-17-07 - Palestinian prisoners at Etzion military detention camp go on hunger strike
02-17-07 - Poll: Majority of Palestinians Back Makkah Deal, %62 others Support Feb.19 Summit
02-17-07 - Lords of the underworld
02-17-07 - Chief Palestinian Justice being tried by Israeli government for protesting destruction at Al Aqsa
02-17-07 - 'Made in Iran' isn't proof of complicity just as Bush is demanding that Iran stop providing weapons to Iraq, human rights groups are demanding that the United States cut off sales of cluster bombs to Israel. The reason: Since Israel's war with Hezbollah last summer, more than 30 Lebanese have been killed by previously unexploded "bomblets" that were dropped by Israel but manufactured in the United States.
02-17-07 - Egyptian-Canadian 'admitted to helping Mossad' - report
02-17-07 - Uncensored look at censorship One of the issues to be examined by the CBC is the controversy surrounding Simcoe, Ont., author Deborah Ellis's book Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak. Last year, several Ontario school boards blocked access to Ellis's book after complaints by the Canadian Jewish Congress about its appropriateness for children aged 8 to 11
02-17-07 - How the high street stole the show The boys, who have some form on embracing clothes with vaguely renegade military associations, wore skinny black jeans with skinny black T-shirts, and wrapped keffiyehs (the black-and-white checked scarf, primarily associated with Yasser Arafat and pro-Palestinian activism) around their necks. Is the keffiyeh about to hit the mainstream?
02-17-07 - The hate that (used to) dare not speak its name This past week the Democrats started to exercise their newly acquired power with a hearing of the Middle East Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the ?next steps in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process.? Do you think they invited Jimmy Carter? Bishop Tutu? Nelson Mandela? An neutral expert on the Middle East? A Palestinian? Nope. The three invitees ? the only three invitees ? were (drum roll, please):
02-17-07 - Saudis are not the solution, experts say Saudi leaders fear losing public legitimacy more than they fear Iran, said Schueftan. Therefore, even though solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would help them in their fight against Islamic extremism and Iran, they were unlikely to take the lead in bringing the Israelis and the Palestinians together, he said
02-17-07 - James Brooks: Palestinians and the Diplomatic Horizon In the summit's final act, US and Israeli leaders will probably unite to dismiss the Palestinian position as "unrealistic", even "provocative", no matter how closely it resembles international law, UN Security Council resolutions, and the right to armed resistance to illegal military occupation. The Bush gang may even use the failure as an excuse to escalate its war on Hamas.
02-17-07 - Speaking tour: Eyewitness in Palestine Christina Gibb, a Quaker from Dunedin, who has spent 10 months over the last three years in Hebron, Palestine, with Christian Peacemaker Teams will be speaking at public meetings in Opotiki, Gisborne, Wellington, Upper Hutt and Masterton from 20 to 26 February (see details below).
02-17-07 - Palestinian mural in San Francisco at center of battle In his written correspondence and meetings with students, the President claimed the mural is "conflict centered," represents a "culture of violence," and shows "hatred towards Jews." He believes the mural's portrayal of Naji al-Ali's iconic barefoot refugee child, Handala, and the Palestinian house key with 'Al-Awda' (the return) written in Arabic calligraphy, are hateful symbols
02-17-07 - Explosion on Lebanese side of northern border No injuries reported, IDF estimates blast caused by old explosive device triggered by an animal
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