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Friday, March 23, 2007
03-22-07 - Gaza man shot to death during fight between family, Hamas militiamen Samir Hilles, 40, was trying to mediate between Hamas militiamen and members of his family, who blocked the vehicle the militiamen were driving, forced out its six occupants and torched it. Gunfire erupted after militia reinforcements arrived, and Hilles was killed, Hamas said.
03-22-07 - Two killed in fresh Gaza rivalries
03-22-07 - Palestinian child killed in Fatah-Hamas clash-medics
03-22-07 - Fatah, Hamas agree on ceasefire in northern Gaza Strip
03-22-07 - Baby killed in Hamas-Fatah clashes in northern Gaza Strip A two-year-old boy was killed and his grandmother moderately injured on Thursday night when militants of rival Fatah and Hamas movements clashed in northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said
03-22-07 - Bodies of two residents found in Gaza, several attacks reported Palestinian security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday at night that bodies of two residents were found in the Central and the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip. Shots were also fired at a third resident, one UNRWA vehicle was hijacked in Gaza and two Executive Force vehicles were hijacked and burnt in Al Shujaeyya neighborhood in Gaza City.
03-22-07 - Masked Palestinian gunmen carjack UN vehicle in Gaza City
03-22-07 - Tit-for-tat attacks hit Palestinian unity
03-22-07 - Fatah and Hamas in Gaza Agree to Calm Following Renewed Infighting
03-22-07 - Israeli army turns West Bank village into training ground "They should conduct their exercises outside populated areas (instead) of terrorising a whole village," he said. "We are civilians, we cannot stop them."
03-22-07 - OPT: One-third of Palestinians 'food insecure' Note the response in the article by the Israeli official - ie, blame the victims.
03-22-07 - Border Guard policemen filmed beating Palestinian youth Border Guard policemen were caught on camera beating a 17-year-old Palestinian youth at the West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus Wednesday. The incident was documented by one of the local residents. Watch the video clip at the link.
03-22-07 - UN rights envoy likens Israeli actions to apartheid "Settlers, largely unrestrained by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), subject many Palestinians to a reign of terror -- particularly in Hebron," he said.
03-22-07 - Letter to Alan and his abductors
03-22-07 - Palestinian minister plans EU trip for aid talks Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank and IMF official close to the moderate Fatah faction and the West, is expected to travel broadly to seek ways to end Western sanctions.
03-22-07 - Split emerging among Israel, U.S. and Europe over approach to Palestinians
03-22-07 - Palestinian member of Israeli Knesset: Israeli settlers in Hebron ticking time-bombs Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, Mohammad Barakeh, says that the ?gangs of settlers? in the southern West Bank city of Hebron are ?extremely dangerous.?
03-22-07 - Supreme Court Orders Wall Work Stopped in Gush Etzion
03-22-07 - Israel hints at peace concessions
03-22-07 - Six Palestinians abducted as army invades several Parts of the West Bank
03-22-07 - Professor kidnapped in Gaza released, officials say A Hamas-affiliated university professor kidnapped by gunmen was released early Thursday, officials from Hamas said.
03-22-07 - International aid to Palestinians grew despite sanctions Much of it was emergency aid from Europe, the United Nations and the Arab world that was funneled to people outside the government to ease a humanitarian crisis largely triggered by the international sanctions
03-22-07 - Government officials: Palestinian right of return a 'nonstarter' Senior Jerusalem officials reiterated their view that the Palestinian right of return is a non-negotiable issue, ahead of the Arab League Summit in Riyadh, Ynetnews reported Thursday.
03-22-07 - The squeeze continues "We're making people far more dependent on aid, when all they want is to prosper by their own efforts," says David Shearer, head of the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It would help if the Israeli jackboot wasn't on their neck.
03-22-07 - Re-opening of Wadi Gaza bridge
03-22-07 - U.S. joins Israel in peace effort The United States has quietly joined Israel in urging Arab leaders to reformulate their 2002 peace offer in an effort to end the decades-long Middle East conflict Was there ever any doubt? The US government is Israeli-occupied territory.
03-22-07 - Israel satisfied, Palestinians slam Quartet boycott extension
03-22-07 - Army bulldozers destroy farm lands near Hebron to expand settlement The Israeli Authority is plannig to expand the illegal Israeli settlement of "Kisara Hagai" on the expense of the local Palestinian farmers
03-22-07 - Arab bid for peace with Israel is 'serious' offer: Jordan FM
03-22-07 - Adjusting to a new life Through an effort sponsored by both Sosebee's Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and similar charity Healing the Children, Hussein underwent an additional three surgeries in Phoenix while living with an American host family.
03-22-07 - Most Israelis want contacts with new Palestinian cabinet: poll A majority of Israelis would support their government having contacts with the new Palestinian unity cabinet led by the Islamist movement movement, in a poll broadcast on public radio on Thursday. I am reminded of a line from a song by the Doors: Break on through to the other side.
03-22-07 - Israel's Peres opposed starting Lebanon war
03-22-07 - Bolton admits Lebanon truce block A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. ....Mr Bolton, a controversial and blunt-speaking figure, said he was "damned proud of what we did" to prevent an early ceasefire. John Bolton is (was)Israel's man at the UN.
03-22-07 - Analysis: Mideast: Permanent Kefuffle ** At first, the idea was to make sure president Bush could not launch air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities without prior Congressional authorization. But friends of Israel in and out of Congress swung into action, arguing that Iran, under present management, was a second "holocaust" in the making......Meanwhile, Israeli settlements keep growing illegally just below the international radar screen, house by house, in some 140 settlements. Many are strategically located to command access to the main aquifer under the West Bank. A secure road network under Israeli control interlinks the colonies.
03-22-07 - Maxim to gloss Israel's image Maxim will send a team to Israel next week for a photo shoot with seven local fashion models. The idea was hatched by the Foreign Ministry as part of efforts to offset Israel's image as a hotbed of conflict
Israel resorts to T&A.
03-22-07 - Jews, Gentiles Fighting the Good Fight Against AIPAC and For a Sane U.S. Mideast Policy
03-22-07 - Poet laureate loses appeal A U.S. court declined to intervene in the firing of a former New Jersey poet laureate who suggested that Israel had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
03-22-07 - Soros and Media Heavyweights Attack Pro-Israel Lobby?s Influence on U.S. Policy The simmering debate over American policy toward Israel and the role of the Jewish community in shaping it exploded with near-nuclear force this week. Several of the nation?s best-known international affairs commentators fired salvos at pro-Israel lobbyists and defenders of Israel fired back with unprecedented fury.
03-22-07 - New voices temper Palestinian rule
03-22-07 - Can American Jews unplug the Israel lobby? in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, that all changed dramatically. 9/11, and the Bush administration's response to it, made it inescapably clear that America's Mideast policies affect everyone in the country: They are literally a matter of life and death. The Bush administration's neoconservative Mideast policy is essentially indistinguishable from AIPAC's. And so it is no longer possible to ignore it -- even though it is a notoriously touchy and divisive subject.
03-22-07 - Embassies complain of humiliating security checks On January 4, a group of German students invited to visit Israel by a German school in Jerusalem complained of humiliating treatment at the airport. The group said that two students were asked to strip bare naked.
03-22-07 - DeLay: I quit for Israel Tom DeLay says he quit the U.S. Congress to fight for Israel and conservative causes.
03-22-07 - Real Justice Requires Honest Reflection
03-22-07 - Soros Won?t Take On AIPAC (Yet) In fact, while some Jewish groups and neoconservative Jewish policy advocates lobbied for the war, there is no evidence AIPAC ever did so. Asked to cite an example of such support, Vachon acknowledged, "AIPAC took no official position on the war [but] clearly there was a perception, partly orchestrated at its 2003 meeting" of such support. It is my belief that AIPAC is a serious threat to the sovereignty of this nation.
03-22-07 - Wars, No, Conflicts, Yes Israelis and Palestinians are not fighting over water, but Israel controls 90 percent of trans-boundary flows that Palestinians have very little ability to control, and there is deep resentment over this on the Palestinian side."
03-22-07 - DPRK hails establishment of new Palestinian government
03-22-07 - Rights group: Shin Bet must not block legal political activity "The attempt by the Shin Bet to define the rules of the democratic game once again is a serious violation of the rule of law,"
03-22-07 - Cameron stands encircled by zealous Anglo-neocons The Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) are a successful force, now claiming a large majority of Tory MPs as members.
03-22-07 - Former President Carter defends his controversial book
03-22-07 - Synod urged to follow ACC steer on Palestine, Caterpillar
03-22-07 - MIDDLE EAST: TOP ITALIAN OFFICIAL IN ROW OVER PHONE CALL WITH PALESTINIAN PREMIER
03-22-07 - Bike Race in Ramallah to Protest against Israeli Violations of Human Rights
03-22-07 - The Rep's 'Rachel Corrie' is stunning Once inside the theater, playgoers received a program that included two large advertisements, one placed by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the other by the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. The latter warns playgoers, "Don't be misled" by a sympathetic portrayal of Corrie and her mission. Unbelievable. These folks have the audacity to smear the girl at a play that pays tribute to her life.
03-22-07 - Palestine is willing to take part in Eurovision
03-22-07 - Palestinians demonstrate for protection of journalists and release of BBC correspondent Daily protests demand that more action be taken to ensure that freedom of the press is not violated, an issue Palestinian journalists are all too familiar with after facing routine attacks, harassment and arrests by Israeli forces.
03-22-07 - Female ministers in Palestinian government join forces
03-22-07 - The attack on the 'Jewish lobby' keeps coming and coming
03-22-07 - Dershowitz Offers Sober Assessment of Israel's Place in the World Dershowitz still trying to discredit Carter and his book by way of the smear.
03-22-07 - Blue eyes, blond hair: that's US problem, says Japanese minister Japan has healthy relations with Arab countries and Iran and imports much of its oil from the Middle East. It is a big contributor of aid to the Palestinian Authority, but also has friendly ties with Israel
03-22-07 - Clinton thanks AJCommittee for tackling Carter Former President Clinton told the American Jewish Committee he was "grateful" for the group's critiques of Jimmy Carter's claims about Clinton's peacemaking efforts. Clinton should read second paragraph of this article. It was Israel that rejected that peace plan.
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