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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
03-12-07 - Masked gunmen kidnap British reporter in Gaza City street attack A British journalist was yesterday snatched from his car by masked men in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian police. The gunmen are believed to have followed Alan Johnston, the BBC's Gaza correspondent, from his office to his apartment in Gaza City before kidnapping him. Police found his abandoned car and business cards at the scene.
03-12-07 - Fears for BBC Gaza correspondent "It is his job to bring us day after day reports of the Palestinian predicament in the Gaza Strip," said the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, Paul Adams, himself a former Middle East reporter.
03-12-07 - Israeli army injures a Palestinian civilian from Hebron Mohamed Al Waridat, 22, was shot with a live round in the back in Abu Dies village near Jerusalem city.
03-12-07 - Israel arrests dozens of Palestinians in West Bank
03-12-07 - Israeli army attacks a school and injures three children near Hebron During the clashes three students were injured when soldiers chased a group of small school girls and attacked them with batons, among those there were Worod Al Timizi, 8 yeas old, medical sources reported.
03-12-07 - Palestinian National Security Officer Abducted in Northern Gaza
03-12-07 - Israel frees top Hamas official
03-12-07 - Hamas armed wing denies reports of training in Iran
03-12-07 - Mourning period begins for East Jerusalem man beaten to death on Salah Addin Street A woman in his car had West Bank identification and when the Israeli police pulled the van over at the Sawwanah barrier they tried to take her. Karawi protested on behalf of the woman in his charge and the police turned their attention toward him.
03-12-07 - Israeli minister calls for tougher UN sanctions on Iran Hours before her arrival in Ottawa, Livni also singled out the threat posed by Iran in a major speech in Washington
03-12-07 - Netanyahu: Attack on Iran 'last resort' Earlier, US Vice President Dick Cheney warned 6,000 supporters gathered at AIPAC's annual policy conference on Monday that failure in Iraq would endanger Israel. Notice how the Israelis and AIPACers have toned down the language with regard to action on Iran. I foresee that they will then point to this in an attempt to exonerate themselves of blame after we have done the deed.
03-12-07 - Six emergency medical centres opened in Gaza Caritas Jerusalem worked with the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the targeted local communities to hold consultative meetings to identify the specific needs of the location where a medical point will be established.
03-12-07 - Don't wait for peace to normalize ties, Israeli FM tells Arab states Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged Arab nations on Monday to normalize ties with Israel now, saying this could hasten the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel wants to have their cake (Palestinian land), and eat it too (via 'normalized relations' with their Arab neighbors). Good luck.
03-12-07 - Living with risk in Gaza day after day, month after month, year after year, Alan has persisted in living in Gaza to cover Palestinian issues. He feels they are too important to go unreported.
03-12-07 - Israel urges world to isolate, confront Iran "The Middle East is a tough neighbourhood, and when there is a
bully in this neighbourhood there are only two choices: to beat it or
to join it," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a major pro-
Israel gathering in Washington Oh it has a bully alright.
03-12-07 - Holocaust denial conference attendee beaten A fervently Orthodox Austrian Jew who embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly was assaulted by a group of Israelis in Poland.
03-12-07 - Report: Exports leaving Gaza not enough to restart economy In its monthly report monitoring activity at the crossing, Paltrade concludes that there is insufficient commerce passing through Karni to successfully restart the Palestinian economy in the Gaza Strip.
03-12-07 - Hamas says still seeks Israel's destruction "We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine,"
03-12-07 - Israel opens crossing, Palestinians close another in Gaza When the crossing opened last week, an aged Palestinian man died due to scramble, three others were injured when security members opened fire to control and organize the crowds.
03-12-07 - Israel cautions EU against concessions on Hamas
03-12-07 - Journalists - one of a few remaining western prizes Alan Johnston knows the risks very well. He was in Gaza when the most high-profile of many kidnappings, that of Fox News journalist Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig took place
03-12-07 - Students targeted during university elections campaign period Israeli forces arrested another 15 students from the Islamic bloc at the Arab American University several days ago
03-12-07 - Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Urgent steps needed to address discrimination Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli government and the Knesset, Israel?s parliament, to take concrete steps to address serious concerns raised by the UN expert body on racial discrimination last Friday, 9 March 2007
03-12-07 - FACTBOX-Christian minority shrinks in Palestinian areas
03-12-07 - Palestinian Christians feel world doesn't care
03-12-07 - Meshaal says Palestinian accord upset US, Israeli plans
03-12-07 - Israeli warboats open fire at N. Gaza Palestinian sources said Israeli warboats stationed across the shores of Gaza opened heavy fire on Al-Soudaniya, spreading fear among civilians.
03-12-07 - Nonviolent resistance to occupation: family refuses to leave despite being surrounded by settlements ?We have stood as strongly as possible in the face of severe soldiers and settlers or else we would not have been able to keep any of our land with us. What we were able to keep are our homes in semi-demolished states and a path as a way of preserving our presence here.?
03-12-07 - UN expert accuses Israel of "apartheid and colonialism" Israel is clearly an occupying force among the Palestinians, committing crimes such as apartheid and colonialism, a United Nations human rights expert claims.
03-12-07 - Islamic Jihad urges factions to reject truce with Israel
03-12-07 - Israeli army detains Palestinian police officers near Hebron
03-12-07 - Art from Gaza and the West Bank: Gallery of a troubled nation This month's exhibition at Al Hoash is timed to coincide with International Women's Day but instead of carrying a clunkingly worthy political message, it celebrates the work of five Palestinian female artists.
03-12-07 - Egypt shows 1967 'killings' films Egyptian opposition politicians have expressed fresh anger over an Israeli documentary film about the treatment of Egyptian troops during the 1967 war
03-12-07 - Tree planting as popular resistance in the Jordan Valley
03-12-07 - Livni: US has no objection to Syrian-Israeli peace talks Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Monday that the United States would not object to any Israeli attempt to start peace negotiations with Syria.
03-12-07 - Israel recalls envoy found naked, drunk He was wearing sex bondage equipment
03-12-07 - Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Protest Annual AIPAC Convention All wars and all suffering which came about through Zionism and the
state of "Israel", including the brutal seizure of the land and
possessions, of the Palestinian people, are painful to the Jewish nation,
which finds it shameful that these acts of brutality are committed in the
name of "Israel" and Judaism.
03-12-07 - Updating voter registration after delays due to instability
03-12-07 - Official: Catholic clergy can't accept Israel Daniel Seaman rejected recent criticism by Irish and German Catholic delegations to Israel as "appeasement" of Palestinians and an assertion of Christian dominance in the Holy Land. The bishops, along with Jimmy Carter, are calling it like they see it. Israel simply cannot have that.
03-12-07 - Remarks by Vice President Cheney at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2007 Policy Conference The war on terror is more than a contest of arms and more than a test of will, it is also a battle of ideas. We know now to a certainty that when people across the Middle East are denied freedom, that is a direct strategic concern of all free nations. And therein lies your quandary, Dick. You, and the AIPAC crowd, support Israel's policies that deprive Palestinians of freedom and of basic human rights, but equally important: JUSTICE. Alas, this must be rocket science. A prediction: when Cheney leaves office, he will rejoin Halliburton and possibly move to Dubai (Halliburton's new hq).
03-12-07 - Bombing attempt thwarted in southern Lebanon
03-12-07 - Tell Your Senator: Don?t Sign the AIPAC Letter This cleverly-crafted "ask" is not about maintaining the current U.S. policy, but rather expanding it in a manner that is clearly inconsistent with the best interests of both Israel and the United States.
03-12-07 - Demo Against Hebron Street Closure At 12.55 pm a vehicle from Medecins Sans Frontiers was stopped by soldiers at the checkpoint. They refused to allow them to pass and visit patients in Tel Rumeida.
03-12-07 - Centenarian's tale of Palestine
03-12-07 - Zionists target WUFYS for criticizing israel Can I request that Patrick Fitzgerald be sent over to my house to investigate me? ;)
03-12-07 - Opposing Iran, pacifying Iraq go together, Cheney tells AIPAC Speaking at the session Cheney opened, AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr told delegates that the next day they would lobby for new legislation, the Iran Counterproliferation Act of 2007, proposed by Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the top Democrat and Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee
03-12-07 - Lantos urges AIPAC on Iran U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos implored delegates at AIPAC?s policy conference to lobby members of the Congress to pass a bill he introduced to toughen sanctions against Iran and bar the White House from waiving them.
03-12-07 - AIPAC: Everything short of force on Iran The United States must "do everything possible short of contemplation of the use of force" in dealing with Iran?s nuclear threat, AIPAC?s policy chief said Why the US?
03-12-07 - AIPAC: States should disinvest from Iran AIPAC is launching a 10-state effort to get public employee pension funds to divest from companies that deal with Iran
03-12-07 - Hagee draws AIPAC cheers Hagee outlined his vision of a united evangelical-Jewish front lobbying for Israel
03-12-07 - Israeli poll: "68.4% of Jews in Israel for uprising by Arab residents of the country" 80% of the polled Jews said that Israel must retain a Jewish majority in any future agreement that deals with borders and demography. Also, 64.4% of the polled Jews said that they believe that Arab residents of Israel "pose a security risk due to their high birth rates".
03-12-07 - Nazi-hunting centre convicted for defamation The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center was convicted of defamation by a Paris court on Thursday for accusing a French-based group of financing Palestinian militants......Samuel was handed a suspended fine of 1,000 euros (1,300 dollars) and ordered to pay one euro in symbolic damages to the Palestinian support group over what the court described as "seriously defamatory" allegations.
That's some punishment there.
03-12-07 - Did Churchill pen 'anti-Semitic' paper? The subject of this piece is irrelevant to this website. However, I think that what's the most interesting aspect of this story is not its content but rather the fact that the entire American media has ignored it - 1 day since its release, according to the Google News index. The absence (which continues as of this writing 9PM EST 03-12-07) should clue you in to something.
03-12-07 - Top Israeli politician visits as Conservatives woo Jewish vote Livni said she planned to have a long meeting Tuesday with MacKay to discuss such concerns. Her visit comes as the Conservatives continue to reach out to Jewish voters. Harper heated up those efforts in a speech to the Canadian Council for Israel last month. He noted that his party alone endorsed Israel's month-long bombing campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon last summer.
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