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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
03-13-07 - Hamas fighter killed, nine injured in internal clashes in Gaza
03-13-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian workers in the old city of Hebron The Palestinian workers were renovating one of the historical old Palestinian houses located near the Israeli illegal settlement of Ibraheem Abino, in the old city, when the attack took place.
03-13-07 - Hamas identifies BBC reporter's kidnappers "The kidnappers have no nationalism, they want a cheap reward," he said. "They are well-known, and we hope he (Johnston) will be found today."
03-13-07 - Palestine: Unity gov't to be announced in 48 hours
03-13-07 - Israeli court rejects rights groups' request for opening Gaza crossings Israel's High Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected a petition filed by six human rights groups demanding Israel open all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
03-13-07 - Criminal gangs blamed for kidnap of BBC journalist
03-13-07 - Search continues for BBC reporter The BBC is continuing to try to locate its Gaza Strip correspondent, Alan Johnston, who has gone missing.
03-13-07 - Saudis spurn Israel peace stance Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal described preconditions raised by Israel as "ludicrous".
03-13-07 - Palestinian authorities aim to free journalist Around 30 Palestinian journalists have also held a protest outside the BBC's offices in Gaza city today calling for Johnston's release.
03-13-07 - Hamas reverse on schoolbook ban
03-13-07 - UN to open permanent probe on Israel The United Nation's Human Rights Council is expected to place Israel under permanent investigation for its "violations" of international law in the territories - until such time as it withdraws to the pre-1967 border Rightly so.
03-13-07 - Israel suddenly closes down Rafah key-crossing Spokesman of crossings Wael Dahab told reporters here that the Israeli authorities prevented the European monitors from arriving at Rafah crossing on the borders between southern Gaza Strip and Israel Tuesday.
03-13-07 - Rice to visit Saudis before Israel
03-13-07 - Olmert asks Abbas to concede right of return
03-13-07 - Settlers seek to rebuild evacuated W. Bank settlement Five extra-parliamentary groups have been engaged in recent weeks in putting together a group of activists, in order to re-inhabit the West Bank settlement of Homesh, evacuated during the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank in August 2005. The project is planned to take place in two weeks' time.
03-13-07 - Failure in peace progress would lead to escalation of violence: Jordan's King
03-13-07 - Egypt puts Gaza tunnels out of commission Amid repeated complaints from Israel about the tunnels, which sneak under the border to emerge in fields or homes on the Egyptian side, the Egyptian army has resorted to a deadly deterrence. Any tunnel openings they find will be gassed.
03-13-07 - No progress achieved in prisoners swap talks with Israel: Hamas
03-13-07 - Report: Libya to deport Palestinians Libya's official al-Jamahiriya daily said Tripoli intended to expel the Palestinians on its territory to abort "the conspiracy of liquidating the Palestinian cause and giving up the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homes in return for Israel's acceptance of the Beirut initiative."
03-13-07 - FM Livni: U.S. must stand firm on Iraq Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned the U.S. yesterday not to show weakness in Iraq, during an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington. "If the American
people understood what grip those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms.
Our citizens don't have any idea what goes on." - the late Admiral Thomas Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
03-13-07 - Hamas agrees to exchange 500 prisoners for Shilat
03-13-07 - Excavations in Jerusalem have political goals "It is clear," he told PNN on Tuesday, "that this announcement has political objectives."
03-13-07 - Upcoming UN report indicates that half of Palestinians are malnourished World Vision Jerusalem ? West Bank ? Gaza National Director Charles Claytons says that the report reflects the grim reality for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children and their families in the West Bank and Gaza.
03-13-07 - Fishing the Mediterranean: one of the toughest jobs in Gaza has just gotten harder It is sardine season in the Mediterranean off the Gaza coast. Fishermen need to go out 15 miles to do their work, but Israeli forces are opening fire on the sardine hunters.
03-13-07 - Domestic Violence Amidst Palestine's Poverty Violence was not the norm in the Palestinian home but rising poverty has brought in its wake anger that is eating at the Palestinian social fabric.
03-13-07 - UN agency appeals for $1.7 million to feed 30,000 impoverished Iraqi refugees in Syria Among the beneficiaries are 650 Palestinian refugees living in dire conditions in two locations along the Syria-Iraq border
03-13-07 - Saudi, Bahrain strongly condemn Israeli gross violations against Palestinians
03-13-07 - Egypt demands Israeli probe of alleged PoW slaughter
03-13-07 - Iran says Israel, U.S. threaten Mideast
03-13-07 - Quds brigades claims responsibility for Ashkelon missiles attack
03-13-07 - Syrians confess to Lebanon bus bombs: minister
03-13-07 - Groups protest P.A. boycott letter The groups urged activists to contact lawmakers and ask them not to sign the Nelson-Ensign letter, which AIPAC lobbyists are expected to promote heavily in Washington on Tuesday in conjunction with the group's annual policy forum.
03-13-07 - Olmert: Back U.S. in Iraq Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on U.S. Jews to back a continued U.S. presence in Iraq
03-13-07 - Israel approves Jordan rail link
03-13-07 - Olmert's leaked testimony reveals real goal of summer war we were offered variations on the theme that ended the fighting: the need to push Hizbullah (and, incidentally, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians) away from the northern border with Israel. That was the thrust of UN Resolution 1701 that brought about the official end of hostilities in mid-August. It also looked suspiciously like the reason why Israel chose at the last-minute to dump up to a million tiny bomblets -- old US stocks of cluster munitions with a very high failure rate -- that are lying in south Lebanon's fields, playgrounds and back yards waiting to explode.
03-13-07 - Use Of Human Shields Deplorable
03-13-07 - Years of Strife and Lost Hope Scar Young Palestinians
03-13-07 - Many guests at AIPAC event, but one is most unwanted --- Iraq "When America succeeds in Iraq, Israel is safer," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said late Monday in a live satellite address from his Jerusalem home that capped the gala dinner. "The friends of Israel know it, the friends who care about Israel know it. They will keep the Americans strong, powerful and convincing."......It did not help AIPAC's case for bipartisanship that the lobby this week successfully pressed for the removal of a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have required the president to get congressional approval for war against Iran. Well well well. Et tu AIPAC. Look at the very last sentence of the article. 'Limited time'? Was he referring to the limited time remaining in the Bush administration to strike Iran?
03-13-07 - U.S. envoy: We won't stop Israel talking to Syria Ambassador Jones, who participates in the meetings of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visits to Israel, told the crowd of academics that in all the meetings in which he took part there was never a demand that Israel avoid contacts with Syria. Thought so.
03-13-07 - Kucinich Hires Critic of Israel for Domestic Policy Panel A critic of Israel? OH MY GOD, STOP THE PRESSES!
03-13-07 - Dabkeh Troupe Dances for Cultural Awareness, Solidarity Performing their first dance, Dalo'na, the members of the group were dressed in traditional Palestinian attire
03-13-07 - PM's AIPAC speech surprises delegates Prime Minister Ehud Olmert waded into the thick of America's messy political debate on Iraq late Monday night when he told thousands of AIPAC supporters that "premature" withdrawal from the country could harm Israel and efforts against Iran. .....He referred to the US as the only country that could effectively confront the Iranians
03-13-07 - Israel, U.S. storm out of UN nuclear forum The Israel and U.S. delegations walked out of the United Nations' disarmament forum in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday after Iran said Israel was the "real source of nuclear danger in the Middle East" and had a "dark record of crimes."
03-13-07 - GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel An internal Shabak document says Israel's Arabs are a long-range strategic danger to Israel's character and very existence. Though many believe that Iran is currently Israel's greatest danger, the General Secret Service believes that the worst threat may actually come from within How many Israeli Arabs have died at the hands of Israeli Jews versus the other way around, mewonders? This talk is a guise of the real 'threat' to Israel: Israeli Arab demography.
03-13-07 - Syria sees Mideast peace process as inseparable whole After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Shara told a press conference that Syria is keen on restoring the Golan Heights and all the occupied Arab lands along with setting up an independent state of Palestine, noting that Syria is not seeking a barter deal with the U.S. for establishing peace on the Syrian track.
03-13-07 - House Leaders Support Israel, Differ Over Iraq at AIPAC Conference "Who doesn't believe that failure in Iraq is not a direct threat to the very existence of Israel?" Boehner said.
03-13-07 - Iowa Democrat troubled by Obama statement on Palestinians Obama, speaking to a small group of Democratic activists in Muscatine on Sunday, was quoted in the Des Moines Register as saying, "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.".....David Adelman wrote a letter Tuesday to the Illinois senator calling the comment "deeply troubling." Adelman is a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
03-13-07 - 'We are not threatening to use nukes' It was not the first time Peres, considered the father of Israel's nuclear program, has hinted that Israel has nuclear weapons capability
03-13-07 - House passes resolution for soldiers The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the three Israeli soldiers being held captive by Hamas and Hezbollah.
I refer back to the Moorer quote.
03-13-07 - Obama's Groveling to AIPAC Insufficient Look Zionuts, you will heavily influence policy, but you cannot have the hearts and minds too.
03-13-07 - Turkish Jews lobby against Armenian resolution The three-person delegation, headed by Silvyo Ovadya, the president of the Turkish Jewish community, attended this week's American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference and met with Jewish leaders as well as members of Congress.
03-13-07 - Dead Russian Spy was israeli Double Agent
03-13-07 - Israeli foreign minister challenges Harper's critics
03-13-07 - Teflon Jimmy
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