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Saturday, February 24, 2007
02-23-07 - Palestinian killed, one abducted by unknown gunmen in Gaza
02-23-07 - Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike ** Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.....A senior Israeli defence official said negotiations were now underway between the two countries for the US-led coalition in Iraq to provide an "air corridor" in the event of the Israeli government deciding on unilateral military action to prevent Teheran developing nuclear weapons.
02-23-07 - IDF prohibits fishing off Gaza coast and abuse fishermen
02-23-07 - Israelis and Palestinians unite in protest at barrier And, as happens every week, there was pushing and shoving, then a volley of stones thrown by boys some distance away from the demonstrators. The Israeli military fired stun grenades and dozens of rounds of tear gas, before eventually bringing out a water cannon to disperse the crowd. Sixteen people were injured, four of whom were taken to hospital.
02-23-07 - Israeli court backs settlement fence Israel?s High Court of Justice ruled that security fences around two West Bank settlements may be built on land owned by Palestinians.
02-23-07 - House of P.A security official attacked with explosives, bullets
02-23-07 - Palestinian member of Knesset: Israeli government displacing 35,000 Palestinians from East Jerusalem The latest reports indicate that after expelling tens of thousands of Palestinians, the Israeli government intends to displace another 35,000 from East Jerusalem for expansion of the Ma'ale Adumim Settlement.
02-23-07 - EU not yet ready to lift boycott on Hamas-led government, says Solana
02-23-07 - European states will send money to new gov't: Hamas
02-23-07 - Israel breaks up West Bank barrier protest Israeli, foreign and Palestinian protestors had gathered in the village of Bilin, near Ramallah, to mark a two-year-old campaign against the Israeli barrier built in this area of the occupied Palestinian territory
02-23-07 - Rice Faces Formidable White House Foe Abrams' personal influence over Bush could not possibly match Rice's, but his bureaucratic skills and political connections -- notably to the so-called "Israel Lobby" of pro-Likud Jewish organisations and the Christian Right -- give him considerable clout. According to various sources, Abrams has been working systematically to undermine any prospect for serious negotiations designed to give substance to Rice's hopes -- and increasingly impatient demands by Saudi King Abdullah -- of offering the Palestinians a "political horizon" for a final settlement.....Abrams was an early protégé of Richard Perle, whom he first met, along with other prominent pro-Likud hard-liners, such as Feith, former U.N. Amb. Jeane Kirpatrick, and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, while working in the offices of Washington State Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson....Badly damaged by his felony conviction for lying to Congress about his role in the Iran-Contra affair, Abrams, like many neo-cons, left government service under the decidedly "realist" administration of President George H.W. Bush
'felony conviction for lying to Congress'? Why is this man back in the US government? Because he's a darling of the neocons/AIPACers. Read the entire article.
02-23-07 - Jerusalem prayers pass off peacefully Only Muslim men aged over 45 with Israeli identity cards, together with Muslim women, were admitted to the compound to pray as 2,000 Israeli police fanned out around occupied east Jerusalem.
02-23-07 - Merkel urges Israel recognition German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed the European Union's insistence that any new Palestinian government must recognise Israel.
02-23-07 - Egypt seizes explosives near Gaza Security forces in Egypt say they have found one tonne of explosives near the border with the Gaza Strip
02-23-07 - Hamas chief to woo Russian support for end to boycott Israel continues to insist that the international community not deviate from demands for the government to recognise the Jewish state, renounce violence and abide by past peace agreements before relaxing the embargo.
02-23-07 - UN body slams plight of Arabs in Israel, occupied territories
02-23-07 - Indonesia says plans Hamas meeting in March Most populous Muslim country invites Hamas to talks with Western representatives in Jakarta aimed at persuading group to moderate its positions
02-23-07 - In a Meeting with Hamas?s Mashal, Egyptian Foreign Minister Hopes End of Embargo in Sight
02-23-07 - Jordanian Muslims march in protest of Israeli dig at Islamic holy site About 2,000 Muslim worshippers marched Friday following noon prayers in eastern Amman, in protest of the Israeli archaeological dig around an Islamic holy site in Jerusalem.
02-23-07 - UNESCO to inspect dig near Temple Mount World body to send four experts to Jerusalem to assess impact of construction works on the Temple Mount
02-23-07 - Israeli Army abducts two civilians from Bethlehem
02-23-07 - Israeli settlers demonstrate for new bypass road through Bethlehem This road, like many others, would naturally be for Jews only.
02-23-07 - 2nd anniversary of weekly non-violent Bilin demonstration against illegal wall: 1500 attend
02-23-07 - MCC funds million dollar Palestinian water recycling project A $1.16 million Cdn/$1 million U.S. grant from Mennonite Central Committee makes it possible for ARIJ's water and environment research unit to install on-site waste water treatment systems for 180 homes, providing direct benefits to about 1,800 people. The project gets underway this year and will be completed in 2010.
02-23-07 - Attorney: Guilford College dragging feet
02-23-07 - Jewish toddler missing in Hebron found A two-and-a-half-year-old child from the Jewish neighborhood of the West Bank town of Hebron was found by Palestinian policemen Friday evening while wandering alone in one of the city's Arab neighborhoods.
02-23-07 - "All Candidates are pro-Israel"
02-23-07 - Israeli minister in vision gaffe Dahh..
02-23-07 - Dems complain about RJC at Rice briefing Six Jewish Democrats in the U.S. Congress asked Condoleezza Rice to explain why she invited a Republican Jewish group to a briefing on the Middle East.
02-23-07 - Analysis: U.S. nixes Israel-Syria talks It is laughable the notion that the US directs Israeli policy and not the other way around.
02-23-07 - Dems call on GOP to drop Indianapolis pol ..."My opinion is, if Israel would go into Iran, Democrats will follow that cause. I really do believe that."
02-23-07 - Muslim nations to hold Mideast talks in Pakistan
02-23-07 - Abdullah tells Israel TV: This could be last chance for Mideast peace
02-23-07 - The British government must take this new opportunity to end its shameful opposition to a ban on cluster bombs According to the police report, Kamaleddine Mohammad was gathering wood near the Rashidiyeh Palestinian refugee camp outside Tyre in Lebanon last month when he stepped on an unexploded submunition from a cluster bomb. Mohammad was yet another victim of Israel's cluster bombing campaign at the end of last summer's war between Israel and Hizbollah. He is one of the tens of thousands of civilians killed or injured by cluster munitions in war zones throughout the world in recent decades.
02-23-07 - 46 nations push for cluster bomb treaty Some key arms makers - including the U.S., Russia, Israel and China - snubbed the conference
02-23-07 - British U-turn brings global ban on deadly cluster bombs a step closer
02-23-07 - Carter Addresses Book Critics in Town Hall Carter said the public would be hard-pressed to find officials in the U.S. government willing to criticize Israel. "It would be political suicide for them to do so," he said......He also said one of his top priorities besides his family is to "bring peace to Israel and justice to Palestine."
He received three standing ovations from the audience
02-23-07 - Report issued by PLC deputy Issa Qaraqa': Israeli school curriculum promotes racism
02-23-07 - Hizbullah rep says no talks on hostage swap There are currently no negotiations for prisoner exchange between Israel and Hizbullah, Lebanese Hizbullah parliamentarian Hasan Haballah says. Haballah warns group may launch civil revolt in Lebanon if ?doors closed in our face?
02-23-07 - Teaneck synagogue seeks to aid West Bank Congregation B'nai Yeshurun will host a real estate fair aimed at persuading American Jews to buy property in the disputed territories of the West Bank. To send financial support to a cause that is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which all Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land are, is to support war crimes. Why is this being allowed?
02-23-07 - Watching the Checkpoints Contrary to the impression of most observers, the great majority of the checkpoints are not even near the Green Line, Israel's internationally recognised border until it occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. Some are so deep inside Palestinian territory that the army refuses to allow Machsom Watch to visit them. There, the women say, no one knows what abuses are being perpetrated unseen on Palestinians. Machsom Watch - a brave group of women.
02-23-07 - UN envoy to visit Lebanon to assess August truce A UN envoy is to visit Lebanon next week to assess compliance with an August truce resolution that ended last summer's war between Israel and Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
02-23-07 - Clinton raised $100 million for Bonds Former President Clinton reportedly helped raise more than $100 million for Israel Bonds in a single sitting.
02-23-07 - Old Europe and the Mullahs by Philip Giraldi ** AIPAC's formulation that the option of force "must remain on the table" when dealing with Iran has been repeated like a mantra by numerous politicians and government officials, not too surprisingly as AIPAC writes the briefings and position papers that many Congressmen unfortunately rely on
02-23-07 - What else can Israel ask of President Bush? On Friday, when Rice was en route to the region, Olmert and Bush spoke on the phone. It is not clear who called whom, and what exactly was said, but Olmert announced after the conversation that Bush is in line with him about insisting on "the Quartet's conditions" for the Palestinian government: recognize Israel, renounce terror and honor previous Palestinian-Israeli agreements........Some believe that since Bush is the best thing to ever happen to Israel, it is important to exploit the remainder of his term to upgrade relations. GFY. The first thing that comes to mind after having read this article. America has done quite enough, thanks.
02-23-07 - Kurds deny deal to allow Palestinians safe haven
02-23-07 - Islamophobia at Urban Outfiters
02-23-07 - Chances of another Middle East war in 2007 low: Israeli report
02-23-07 - Holy row after Glasgow twins with Bethlehem
02-23-07 - Viet Nam welcomes Palestine's peace deal A Foreign Ministry spokesperson has affirmed that Viet Nam welcome a deal signed by Fatah and Hamas to form a national solidarity Government in Palestine.
02-23-07 - U.N. marks Zionism = racism repeal
02-23-07 - Three out of four Israelis would like to be part of EU Seventy-six per cent of Israelis cited foreign policy as a priority, which suggests that the widespread perception of Tony Blair as a friend of Israel may have influenced Britain's 80 per cent approval as the Israelis' favourite European country And that would be because under Blair, Britain has gone along with the Bush administration's neocon-driven foreign policies.
02-23-07 - US Jews mull Sudan boycott The resolution has gained much support, but also faces criticism, as some Jewish organizations "fear that an economic boycott of any country could be used against Israel, itself the target of divestment efforts," the Jewish Week said.
02-23-07 - War drills occupy French sailors amid Lebanon lull Amid the drills, Israeli warplanes continue to overfly UN peacekeeping ships, a practice French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie criticised last October as "dangerous".
02-23-07 - ACLU asks NY federal court to strike down US terrorism policy It said an entry in the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual says that the provision is directed at those who have voiced "irresponsible expressions of opinion."
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