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Monday, March 12, 2007


News for 03-11-07

03-11-07 - Palestinians: IDF fire wounds two fishermen near Rafah shore According to Palestinian reports, two fishermen from Gaza were wounded Sunday morning from Israel Defense Forces fire near the Rafah shore.



03-11-07 - A Palestinian Resident of Beit Hanoun Wounded during Shootout Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that Palestinian resident Mohammad Hammad, 48, of Beit Hanoun city in northern Gaza Strip, was shot and wounded during a shootout between supporters of both Fatah and Hamas.


03-11-07 - Secret talks under way with Israel: Palestinian sources


03-11-07 - Rights group: Remand hearings for Palestinians predetermined The outcome of remand hearings held in Israeli military courts for Palestinian suspects are frequently determined in advance without the suspect's lawyer having a genuine opportunity to defend his client, the human rights organization Machsom Watch said in a report published over the weekend.


03-11-07 - Foreign Ministry informs embassies of new West Bank entry visa policy According to the new directives announced by the Foreign Ministry, Israel will issue three-month visas to those seeking entry to the West Bank who are not regarded as security threats. Israel decides who will go in and out of PALESTINIAN territory.


03-11-07 - U.S. in talks with Saudis, Israel ahead of Arab meet Aides to Olmert, visiting Washington last week, apparently held talks with their American counterparts on the Saudi initiative.


03-11-07 - Ultra-Orthodox Jews Moving to West Bank Mr. YUSRAEL MAIDAD (Settler Spokesman): We see the historical pattern of increasing the Jewish population there, of ensuring Israel's security by doing so, by trying to make sure that our second and third generation continue to live there, by drawing in additional sectors of Israel's population, and actually making that piece of territory as much of Israel as physically possible.


03-11-07 - Israelis justify killings of Arab citizens, MK says "In 1956 people were ashamed, they felt uneasy with the massacre. Today the mainstream of Israeli society justifies ? the killing of 13 Israeli citizens during the events of October 2000,"


03-11-07 - Hamas rejects accusation by al-Qaida's Zawahri In a video tape broadcasted Sunday on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera channel, Zawahri said Hamas has given Palestine for the Jews in order to remain in office.


03-11-07 - Mystery of former Iranian minister deepens ** "Although massive speculation by the foreign media about the fate of Ali-Reza Asgari has a special exaggeration, the latest evaluation more than anything else underscores [the likelihood of] his being kidnapped by Mossad [the Israeli intelligence agency] or the CIA,"


03-11-07 - Misery tempts Palestinian Christians to flee "There is no business, no freedom of movement," he said. "We depend on tourism, which is being demolished. Sometimes we receive 1,500 tourists a day but none of them stay the night. They visit the Nativity Church and leave, so we don't benefit." THIS article about Palestinian Christians is by Reuters.


03-11-07 - Olmert and Abbas talks achieve little Israel continues to insist, however, that the Saudis drop a clause, added by the Arab League, demanding a right for all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in Israel.


03-11-07 - BADIL: "Ongoing population transfer in OPT and Israel"


03-11-07 - Shalit talks delayed because of documentary, Hamas official says


03-11-07 - No Palestinian govt before soldier freed: Olmert


03-11-07 - Israeli government erases the Bedouin Village of Twail again


03-11-07 - Palestinian captors say Israeli soldier Shalit to remain hostage until demands met


03-11-07 - Police, family clash over cause of death of Palestinian detainee


03-11-07 - Hebron settlers trespass in Palestinian family?s olive orchard


03-11-07 - Al-Quds Brigades claims responsibility for a Gaza blast Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), claimed responsibility on Sunday for a blast near an Israeli military site east of the Gaza Strip.



03-11-07 - Israeli Army prepares for large confrontations in Gaza Spokesman for the Israeli Army told the paper that Hamas was producing more bombs and missiles and had recently sent hundreds of trainees to Iran.


03-11-07 - Israel army tanks fire several shells towards the Palestinian Bureij camp Israeli occupation army tanks launched on Sunday a number of shells towards the Palestinian Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said


03-11-07 - Israeli army abducts 6 Palestinian civilians in Hebron


03-11-07 - Life on Shuhada Street: reaching home by climbing rooftops, nonviolent demonstration called These settlers are considered some of the most violent in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and attacks on homes, the elderly, children and animals are well-documented.



03-11-07 - Palestinian women demonstrate in Bethlehem, demand improved conditions in Israeli prisons A delegation of demonstrators, who are among those who protest on a weekly basis, gave Red Cross representatives a letter of demands to improve the humanitarian conditions of the prisoners.


03-11-07 - Activist calls for campaign to end settlement project, the most dangerous issue facing Palestine ?The Israeli settlement of Palestine and the West Bank and Gaza, and Jerusalem, is a constant threat facing the Palestinian people and their future,?


03-11-07 - In the war of words, The Times is Israel's ally why should the Palestinians recognize an Israel that refuses to accept international law, submit to U.N. resolutions or readmit the Palestinians wrongfully expelled from their homes in 1948 and barred from returning ever since? If none of these questions are easy to answer, why are such demands being made of the Palestinians? And why is nothing demanded of Israel in turn?


03-11-07 - Israel tackles fall startup for new football league On the heels of announcing the launch of a professional league in America's national pastime, Israel will start a football association this fall.
..."We're looking for ways to link America to Israel every way we can," No kidding? Why? So that it becomes ever more difficult to disentangle ourselves from that nation, perhaps?


03-11-07 - Letter: U.S. should convene Mideast conference


03-11-07 - Syria deploying rockets on border, say Israeli sources The report comes two weeks after Israel held war games on the occupied Golan Heights.


03-11-07 - Occupation is a Crime, from Teaneck to Palestine


03-11-07 - It's Israel that incites hate


03-11-07 - 'World must act to stop Ahmadinejad' Iran could achieve nuclear weapons capability in one to two years, and the world must act collectively to stop Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "sick boast" that he will wipe out Israel, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, nationally syndicated columnist and policy adviser to US President George W. Bush, told The Jerusalem Post.


03-11-07 - No Syrian troop movements on border, says IDF IDF sources denied Saturday an Associated French Press report that Syrians had moved thousands of troops towards their border with Israel.


03-11-07 - AIPAC Pushes to Eliminate Anti-Iran-War Language from Pelosi Iraq Bill


03-11-07 - AIPAC forum opens in Washington Delegates will have the opportunity to meet presidential candidates. On Tuesday, delegates will lobby on Capitol Hill for tougher measures in dealing with Iran and the Palestinians.


03-11-07 - Germans again mull Israel's right to exist German bishops note the ghetto-like conditions under which Palestinians live, and suddenly this is tantamount to denying 'Israel's right to exist'. They are reaching for straws now.


03-11-07 - Sneh meets Saudi official Israel's deputy defense minister held unscheduled talks with a Saudi official. Ephraim Sneh met with Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States


03-11-07 - NBC Show Accused Of Being Anti-Semitic The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America has sent out a mass e-mail calling for people to protest to NBC because of the episode. All of the things mentioned in the article that the NBC show is portraying are things that have been done by Israel in the past. And the ADL spyring scandal in America is similar to that plot. So, if these folks want to complain about 'anti-Semitism', then they need to take a gander in the mirror. NBC was clearly not making this stuff up.


03-11-07 - Arabic speakers monitor Net chats The State Department has hired two native Arabic speakers to monitor Arabic political discussion forums on the Internet and to overtly participate in them in an effort to correct misperceptions about U.S. policy in the Middle East.


03-11-07 - Mish'al meets with PM, SC chairman on Palestinian issues


03-11-07 - A challenge to US Congress Comments both critical and banal were issued by some who have been long opponents to a just resolution to the conflict. They will, no doubt, continue to find ways to obstruct the search for peace.


03-11-07 - Peretz goes to Washington But Ma'ariv reported that unlike his predecessors, Peretz would not be meeting with either the vice president or the secretary of state. The newspaper described the unavailability of Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice as a "show of disrespect" toward Peretz, whose popularity in Israel has plummeted since last year's Lebanon war

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