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Thursday, February 22, 2007
02-21-07 - Militant dies in Israeli ambush Mahmoud Abu Obeid was driving through Jenin when undercover agents sprayed his car with bullets, witnesses said.
02-21-07 - Half of Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza malnourished The unpublished draft report, the first of its kind since the boycott was imposed when the Hamas government took office last March, says bluntly that the problem "is primarily a function of restricted economic access to food resulting from ongoing political conditions".
02-21-07 - Resident of Gaza Killed in Mysterious Explosion A mysterious explosion ripped through the Wad Alselqa village, south of Gaza Wednesday, killing a 33 year-old Palestinian resident, medical sources reported.
02-21-07 - Russia, U.S. at odds on Palestinians before meeting Russia called on Wednesday for an easing of pressure on the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority but the United States said an aid embargo must remain in place until the Palestinians meet conditions set out by western powers.
02-21-07 - Fatah to join coalition with Hamas despite international apathy
02-21-07 - Palestinian unity government must stick to roadmap: Blair Meanwhile, Israel is still building/expanding the settlements...
02-21-07 - Hebron Update 11-17 February 2007
02-21-07 - Olmert calls for tougher Iran sanctions
02-21-07 - US wants tougher Iran sanctions Hey, where did I just hear that?...
02-21-07 - Quartet warning to Palestinians
02-21-07 - Talk is cheap: Bush is pushing the Palestinians toward civil war This part of the world is intimately familiar with Washington's habit of seeking to impose double standards, and no one has been on the wrong end of such attempts more regularly than the Palestinians, but the Bush administration is breaking new ground in terms of duplicity and inconsistency
02-21-07 - Olmert told Abbas 'you cheated me,' senior PA official says Palestinian official who attended Jerusalem summit hosted by Rice says Israeli premier told Palestinian leader, 'you cheated me by reaching unity deal with Hamas'; Abbas responded by saying, 'you gave me nothing and didn?t keep your promises,? official adds.
02-21-07 - Germany urges tamer Mideast expectations
02-21-07 - Suicide bomber has a change of heart as soon as Israeli interrogators had acquired a name for the mastermind of the failed attack, they sent a squad of undercover special forces deep into the West Bank yesterday where they tracked down and killed him.
02-21-07 - Gaza woman gives birth to quintuplets
02-21-07 - Israel keeps building in West Bank settlement blocs: report Israel is currently building more than 3,000 new apartments in existing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, with construction of 1,000 of them started in 2006, a report published Wednesday by Peace Now said.
02-21-07 - South Bethlehem village marked out for the Wall
02-21-07 - Quartet under pressure to recognise Palestinian government
02-21-07 - Hamas' Syria-exiled leader in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials on Mecca deal
02-21-07 - Israeli army closes Palestinian shops in Hebron The soldiers claimed that Palestinian youth hurl stones at them from the top of the shops, and that is why they closed them.
02-21-07 - Palestinian Authority deficit reaches 655m dollar in 2006
02-21-07 - U.S. favorite accepts key Palestinian ministry post A U.S.-educated economist with close ties to the Bush administration agreed on Wednesday to serve as finance minister in a Palestinian unity government, despite the threat of a boycott by the United States and Israel.
02-21-07 - Sinai bomb plotter held A Palestinian man wearing a suicide belt who planned to attack Israeli tourists has been caught after entering Egypt through a tunnel on the Gaza border, Egyptian police sources said yesterday.
02-21-07 - Lebanese army fire at Israeli planes The Israeli planes had "violated Lebanese sovereignty, posing a challenge to U.N. Resolution 1701," the spokesman said, referring to the Security Council resolution that ended Israel's 34-day war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon last August. What do you suppose Israel would do if the Lebanese (or any other nation in the region), routinely and in defiance of international law, flew over the country?
02-21-07 - Doves blast watchdog group to Clinton Brit Tzedek suggests that PMW?s alleged agenda colored its conclusions.
02-21-07 - As Democrats flex their muscles, groups array against Bush agenda Another area promising tension with the Bush administration is its drive to revive the Israel-Palestinian peace process. Pro-Israel and Jewish Democrats, backed by the pro-Israel lobby, often drive congressional Middle East policy, and they already have made clear their skepticism about Rice?s efforts. Note the source.
02-21-07 - Great rebuttal by CNN anchor against a Israel Spokeswomen Israel cares not for the lives of Arabs - be they civilian or otherwise. Never has. Recall that AFTER the incident in question of the video clip, that Israel fired 1 million cluster bomblets into Lebanese civilian areas knowing that a ceasefire was to be implemented in 3 days. The same Israeli spokeswoman can be seen during the last few minutes in this clip on this British news website trying to spin Israel's attack on Beit Hanoun which killed many civilians including children. It's pitiful.
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02-21-07 - In pictures: Jerusalem's Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif
02-21-07 - Reinforcing the Occupation: Israel's High Court
02-21-07 - Director of Israeli support group to speak The Christian Friends group does not evangelize but does encourage churches and other organizations to support Israeli settlements through financial or material means, according to the organization?s web site. Israeli settlements are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Sending money to support them is sending money to support war crimes.
02-21-07 - Olmert: ?Realignment plan postponed due to current circumstances?
02-21-07 - UNRWA opens Japanese funded computer lab and multi-purpose room at Jerusalem/Yazour school in Yarmouk, Syria These facilities will provide hundreds of Palestinian refugee students and the community at large with access to computer technology and learning material
02-21-07 - Palestinian farmers and Israeli supporters plant trees near Hebron
02-21-07 - 'Israeli Apartheid Week' spreads to more campuses "I've spoken to a couple people already who have called me frustrated because the administration won?t take action,"
02-21-07 - Jimmy Carter confronts fallacies of pro-Israel lobby
02-21-07 - Charade in Jerusalem Israel could have reinforced Mr. Abbas?s position and increased the chances for progress with a series of low-risk steps: committing to serious negotiations, freezing the expansion of settlements and easing restrictions on civilians? movements in the West Bank. Those steps would have given new hope to Palestinian moderates and thereby increased the political pressure on Hamas to abandon terrorism.
02-21-07 - Hezbollah slams assets freeze A Hezbollah statement faxed to The Associated Press said the measure against Jihad al-Bina came because the company is "rebuilding areas destroyed by the brutal Zionist aggression last summer which occurred with a clear political, military and financial American support."
02-21-07 - Egyptian cop refuses Israeli Embassy duties
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