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Friday, February 23, 2007
02-22-07 - Palestinian police kills a Palestinian man by mistake in Ramallah
02-22-07 - One Palestinian man injured by Israeli army fire east of Gaza
02-22-07 - Occupied Gaza like apartheid South Africa, says UN report "Can it seriously be denied that the purpose of such action is to establish and maintain domination by one racial group (Jews) over another racial group (Palestinians) and systematically oppressing them? Israel denies that this is its intention or purpose. But such an intention or purpose may be inferred from the actions described in this report."
02-22-07 - Eight Palestinians wounded in clashes with local forces Eight Palestinians were wounded Wednesday night when a fight broke out between a Gaza family and members of the Palestinian Interior Ministry's "executive force",
02-22-07 - Call centre plan for Palestinians The charity wanted to devise a scheme that would not be affected the frequent closures imposed on Palestinian areas by the Israeli military. Great idea.
02-22-07 - UN alarm at Palestinian poverty
02-22-07 - Injured resident dies after soldiers obstructed ambulance transferring him to hospital
02-22-07 - Palestinians 45-year old or less barred from entering Al Aqsa Mosque on Friday
02-22-07 - Washington planning UN arms embargo against Iran In recent weeks, Israel has carried out a diplomatic campaign against the transfer of weapons to terrorist organizations, in an effort to establish this concept as part of a new international norm. Imagine.
02-22-07 - PSIS Report: 5050 Palestinians Killed, 49760 Wounded, 10,400 Detained since 2000 The Palestinian National Information Center of the Palestinian Authority?s International Press center reported that since the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifada in September 2000, up until late January 2007, the Israeli army has killed 5050 Palestinian men, women and children, wounded 49760 others and detained 10,400 people.
02-22-07 - Family Seeking Freedom Held In Detention Center The Palestinian family has been awaiting deportation since November 2. They fled the war-torn Middle East in 2001 seeking political asylum in the U.S. The family was denied and was ordered back to Palestinian territory.
02-22-07 - FM: Hamas political leader to visit Russia
02-22-07 - Settlers release boars in Palestinian farmlands
02-22-07 - Israeli Army Reinforces Presence on Southeastern Gaza Border Line Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes have been hovering over different parts of the Gaza Strip since the early morning.
02-22-07 - Anti-wall protests hit second anniversary Villagers of Bil'in say they are cut off from 200 hectares of farmland by the barrier - here a steel fence with stretches of barbed wire and patrol roads. Though the land is on the Palestinian side of the 1967 boundary dividing Israel from the West Bank, Israeli authorities claim it as "state land" and are extending Jewish settlements nearby, particularly Modi'in Illit.
02-22-07 - Carter says majority in U.S. support views in book The book's main points were that Israel should stop persecuting and abusing Palestinians, withdraw to internationally-recognized borders and conduct intense negotiations with its neighbors to bring peace, Carter said.
02-22-07 - Arabs say Israel is not just for Jews Avigdor Lieberman, who joined the Cabinet last year as head of the Israel Is Our Home Party, warns repeatedly that Israel's Jewish character faces a long-term "demographic threat" from Arab population growth. He favors a proposal to strip more than 150,000 Arabs of their Israeli citizenship by redrawing Israel's eastern boundary to put them in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank. In a recent speech, he appeared to validate the manifesto's claim that Israel's Jewish and democratic values are inherently contradictory.
02-22-07 - Israeli authorities destroy crops of Bedouin citizens
02-22-07 - 'Israel's actions akin to Taliban's' The secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), an international grouping comprising 57 Muslim countries, has blasted Israel's excavations at Jerusalem's Mughrabi Gate, saying they are akin to the actions of the ousted Taliban government in Afghanistan.
02-22-07 - Quartet has no plans to boycott to Palestinian government - Lavrov
02-22-07 - Palestinian situation to deteriorate if new gov't fails to end sanctions The situation in the Palestinian territories will definitely deteriorate if a long-awaited national unity government fails to gain recognition of the West and end sanctions led by the United States, analysts said on Thursday.
02-22-07 - Hamas denies Israeli reports of smuggling Sagger missiles into Gaza
02-22-07 - Israel gripped by Syria war fears A reported Syrian troop build-up near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has fuelled speculation in Israel about a future conflict, more than three decades after the two enemies last went to war.
02-22-07 - Israeli army abducts three civilians from Hebron
02-22-07 - Hamas urges US to back Palestinian unity efforts
02-22-07 - OPT: Gaza power supply under pressure The Gaza Strip in the Occupied Palestinian Territories continues to suffer daily power cuts eight months after Israel bombed its only power station, leaving health services relying on expensive generators and residents without regular electricity or water.
02-22-07 - Abbas optimistic that sanctions will be lifted
02-22-07 - Report: Most Jerusalem kids Arab by 2020 A majority of the children in Jerusalem will be Arab by the year 2020, a new study found. Oh the horror!
02-22-07 - Raed Salah to be investigated Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel to be investigated for incitement in speeches regarding Temple Mount works. 'Justice is on my side,' he says Israel is inciting 1 billion Muslims when it continues its illegal excavations under the Al Aqsa mosque compound.
02-22-07 - Al Qassam brigades: "Truce with the occupation practically dead" Abu Obeida, media spokesperson of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on Wednesday that the truce with the Israeli occupation is practically dead, since "the occupation violated it and assassinated the leaders of the military wing of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin.
02-22-07 - Israeli Army invades several parts of the West Bank and abducts two civilians On Thursday at dawn the Israeli army invaded several cities, refugee camps and villages in the northern part of the West Bank, searched houses and abducted two civilians.
02-22-07 - Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages: Israel undeterred in cleansing Negev The Israeli military destroyed 3,500 dunams of Palestinian crops in the Negev Desert yesterday, leaving the ground black and barren. Several families in Arara Village watched from a distance as Israeli tractors sprayed poisonous chemicals under the pretext that the land belongs to the Israeli state.
02-22-07 - Capitol rally for captives Families of three captive Israeli soldiers will join Congress members and Jewish community leaders in a Washington rally.
02-22-07 - Birzeit University close after tuition crisis escalate Dr. Nabil Qassis, President of Birzeit University, the second largest Palestinian University, decided on Thursday to close the campus and suspend all classes for further notice after the tuition crisis between the students and the administration escalated.
02-22-07 - Sharp rise in U.K. anti-Semitism? Numbers don't add up for everyone The Jewish Chronicle, the U.K.'s national weekly newspaper, reported last week that the Community Security Trust "rebuked" Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for "grossly" underestimating the level of anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom. A letter sent to Livni said the Israeli figures "were wrong" and the reported fall is "a grossly inaccurate portrayal of the situation in the U.K."....If British media and other institutions, such as universities, were more balanced in their coverage of Israel, it would help reduce the number of attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions, Gross said The last sentence there is the real issue; the British press needs to become more 'balanced' (like the American press is).
02-22-07 - Danby slams Democrats on Israel Allison, who visited the Middle East following last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah, warned that international sanctions on Palestine could lead to more "disease, malnutrition and violence" in Gaza.
02-22-07 - Iraq is 'worst disaster' for US policy The current administration mistakenly believes it can bring peace by unilateral action, she said.
It has also failed to engage sufficiently in a search for peace between Palestinians and Israel and failed to adequately support Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, she said.
02-22-07 - US poll: Israel alone named 'vital friend' "The broad support of the American people to Israel is of the utmost strategic importance to Israel and it must be nurtured and maintained," Israeli ambassador to the United States Salai Meridor told Ynet in response to the poll's findings This 'support' is understandable given the pro-Israeli bias in just about every major mainstream news medium in the US.
02-22-07 - In Utah, former Israeli leader warns of spread of nuclear weapons More students in America get Hasbara-ized.
02-22-07 - Don?t compare Arabs to settlers Attempts to compare unauthorized outposts to illegal Arab construction hypocritical
02-22-07 - Albright says next president must 'restore goodness of American power' Carter and Albright appeared on The Carter Center stage together for what the former president had indicated would be a debate on his controversial book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid."
02-22-07 - Israelis favor U.S. The United States tops the list of Israelis? favorite foreign countries, a poll found. Small wonder.
02-22-07 - Is Washington Being Sidelined on the Middle East? In a way, the change demonstrates an erosion of U.S. influence in the Middle East, which is a direct result of the implementation of the neoconservative agenda that has led to the disastrous political and military situation in Iraq.
02-22-07 - Iranian students torch flags at nuclear rally The students also condemned construction work by Israel near Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound which sparked violent Palestinian protests and angered Muslims across the world.
02-22-07 - Hutto family facility criticized
02-22-07 - Taking the Rap "Traditionally, Palestinian songs are all about love," says one member, Mohammed al Farra, whose rap handle is D.R., the Dynamic Rapper, "but our reality in Gaza is about suffering. Gaza is like a big prison, and we get our message across with rap music."
02-22-07 - Be leaven to 'true resistance' to end occupation's evil, Holy Land patriarch calls Catholics
02-22-07 - 'There will be another war in the summer' Many in the south suspect Israel is trying to create a buffer zone along the border on Lebanese land allegedly captured during the summer war and the UN is assisting them. That suspicion has furthered the popular perception that the UN forces are in south Lebanon to protect Israel from Hizbullah.
02-22-07 - Public awareness important in terrorism fight, official says Nadav Morag, formerly Israel's senior director for domestic policy, had a nontraditional tip on Wednesday for representatives of public and corporate security agencies concerned about possible terrorism. "Tell the public what you're doing," said Morag, now a faculty member at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Monterey, Calif.
Read that again.
02-22-07 - Escalating Threats of U.S. Attacks Against Iran ** Israeli rhetoric against Iran is largely paralleling U.S. claims; unlike the run-up to the Iraq War, Israel and the pro-Israeli lobbies in the U.S. are pressing hard for an attack on Iran, and any Israeli involvement would significantly undercut Congressional opposition.....The U.S. is more isolated now than at any time since the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War; no U.S. allies except Israel are supporting calls for a U.S. attack on Iran.
That's because US allies know this time around who is behind this second cry of 'wolf!'. They are not amused.
02-22-07 - Washington notes: Iran embargo, Quartet statement, AIPAC trial Last week, a Foreign Ministry delegation headed by the deputy director for strategic affairs, Miriam Ziv, presented data on the arms transfers to Hezbollah to senior officials in the German Foreign Ministry. The Germans expressed some reservations about the validity of the data.
02-22-07 - A Palestinian director with a mission "There is no artistic infrastructure in Palestine and for a lot of reasons," he says. "Some of it is the occupation, some of it is other things which are completely legitimate ? hunger beats art, that's the reality."
02-22-07 - Polls show anti-American feelings at all time high in Muslim countries "Muslims cannot accept the US policy of supporting Israel and its occupation of Arab and Muslim territories," he said, adding that Arabs could also not understand Washington's opposition to Iran's nuclear program while Israel's was ignored.
02-22-07 - Israel's eye in the sky watches for dig protests The airship, or blimp, carries cameras and will hover over the Old City, monitoring the al-Aqsa mosque during Friday prayers
02-22-07 - Defense in ex-AIPAC staffers' case can cite U.S.-Israel ties, judge rules Ellis adds: "U.S. State Department and other U.S. government officials likely are able to testify as to whether the governments of the United States and Israel routinely used AIPAC as a diplomatic 'back channel.' " .....Of the two other U.S. government officials cited in the indictment as sharing information with Rosen and Weissman, David Satterfield has since been promoted to the post of top State Department adviser on Iraq issues, and Ken Pollack, formerly a national security councillor, is now research director at the Saban Center think tank. Apparently there are no plans to charge Satterfield or Pollack.....Ellis also ruled that defense lawyers may present exculpatory evidence of the close Israel-U.S. relationship, and of AIPAC's role in nurturing that relationship. He said he would allow, even encourage, testimony showing that the AIPAC-U.S.-Israel triangle benefits all three parties. ....Ellis' latest ruling means that defense lawyers can "put on evidence that AIPAC serves as a back channel" between the United States and Israel, a source close to the defense said. "Evidence of the policy cooperation between the United States and Israel is relevant." Thank you judge, you have just proved my case for me :) AIPAC, you see, drives American foreign policy in the region (to our detriment).
02-22-07 - Hebron Reflection: "This is Our Life"
02-22-07 - The final punch Evidently, Israel is a prime cheerleader for war, and most likely Israeli agents are working overtime to provide the needed case for war; at least we know, through news reports that Israeli agents are actively involved in Iraq and there is a possibility that they have penetrated the Iranian domain as well, through the northern Kurdish areas
02-22-07 - 'Solve it or quit' Lebanese campaigners tell politicians
02-22-07 - Israel echoes South Africa's apartheid nightmare
02-22-07 - Professor, author to speak on Israeli-Palestinian relations Finkelstein is currently a professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago, Ill. He is the author of five books, all of which pertain to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and anti-Semitism.
02-22-07 - Israeli artist is a voice of dissent "Chad Gadya," the song was called in Hebrew, or "One Goat." Listeners correctly perceived it as criticism for the often brutal way in which Israeli soldiers were treating women and children in the occupied territories. Israeli radio stations banned the song. Parliamentarians denounced it.
02-22-07 - US congressional leaders remember Jewish refugees A group of eight US congressional leaders this week introduced resolutions in both the Senate and House of Representatives calling for recognition that hundreds of thousands of Jews were made refugees by their Arab host nations at the time of Israel's rebirth. This would appear to be another example of Congress solidifing in legislation the supremacy of Jewish victimhood over all others (including that of the Palestinians).
02-22-07 - Former professor discusses peace in the Middle East Zmora said the organization envisions a four-campus college situated on the border of Israel and Palestine that will cater to about 60 students and cost approximately $10 million.
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