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Thursday, March 29, 2007


News for 03-28-07

03-28-07 - Palestinian militant killed in Israeli raid on Jenin A Palestinian militant was killed by Israeli troops in a pre-dawn raid in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said.


03-28-07 - UN warns of new Gaza sewage flood Rescuers in Umm al-Naser are still continuing to search for more bodies and trying to clear away the sewage.


03-28-07 - Israeli tank shelling seriously wounds three Palestinians


03-28-07 - Four wounded in Israeli strike on Gaza Four Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza on Wednesday, the first military action against militants in the coastal strip since a November truce.


03-28-07 - Palestinians seek shelter after deadly sewage flood In a statement, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said Israel bore partial responsibility for the accident because it delayed plans to transfer the pools by blocking the import of the necessary pipes, and also because military operations prevented workers' access to the area.


03-28-07 - Gaza militants fire rockets into southern Israel Palestinian factions have pounded southern Israel with home-made rockets on Wednesday after the Israeli army killed two Palestinians in West Bank


03-28-07 - Arabs unite at summit to renew peace offer to Israel


03-28-07 - PCHR report on the environmental disaster in Um El Nasser village in the Gaza Strip The victims who were killed in yesterday?s environmental disaster in Um El-Naser (Bedouin) village increased to five after rescue crews recovered the body of Fatima Habban Abu Safra (70) yesterday afternoon.


03-28-07 - Eight injured in Gaza clashes, Fateh and Hamas trade accusations On Wednesday evening, Fateh and Hamas movements traded accusation of exchanges of fire in two separate incidents in Gaza that caused the injury of eight Palestinians, including a leader of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, his wife and his two children


03-28-07 - At least 33 Palestinians abducted as Israeli army invades several West Bank areas


03-28-07 - 17 days on, does Gaza clan hold the key? THE BBC correspondent Alan Johnston spent his 17th day in captivity yesterday, meaning he has now been held for longer than any other journalist abducted in the Gaza Strip.


03-28-07 - Arab leaders relaunch peace plan the foreign policy spokesman for Israel's right-wing Likud party, Zalman Shoval, told the BBC that Israel could never accept the parts of the plan that call for the return of refugees who had lived in the territory of pre-1967 Israel. "If 300,000-400,000, or maybe a million, Palestinians would invade the country, that would be the end of the state of Israel as a Jewish state," he said. "That's not why we created the state." There's that Israeli 'democracy' rearing its head again. Israel is all about demoGRAPHY not democracy.


03-28-07 - University students harassed for wearing head scarves at checkpoint


03-28-07 - Arab gov'ts hope to up Palestinian aid


03-28-07 - Arab summit the most dangerous one:Islamic Jihad "A Palestinian statehood in the 1967 borders is considered a concession of all Palestine for the favor of Israel and this harms our cause,"


03-28-07 - Israel breaks up settler protest Officers armed with batons dragged the 300 settlers occupying the site away and placed them on waiting buses.


03-28-07 - U.S. to vet Abbas's forces before training begins A U.S. government document, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters, said members of the presidential guard will undergo a series of local background checks before receiving any U.S.-funded training.


03-28-07 - Most Palestinians view Rice diplomacy negatively: poll That's because, 99 % of the time she spends on such matters, Rice works on behalf of Israel.


03-28-07 - Human Rights Council calls for fact-finding missions to probe alleged Israeli abuses John Dugard, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, reported that he had not been able to carry out his survey called for by a Council resolution last July, due to the Israeli Government?s lack of consent.


03-28-07 - Human Rights Council adopts text on follow-up to resolutions on missions to Occupied Palestinian Territory; review of mandates


03-28-07 - Israel boosts Golan troops as contingency -general Israel has reinforced its troops in the Golan Heights as a precautionary step, though neighbouring Syria does not appear to be planning an attack, Israel's top general was quoted as saying on Wednesday.


03-28-07 - Erdogan invites Palestinian president, PM to Turkey: report


03-28-07 - PLO accuses U.S. of giving Palestinians empty promises


03-28-07 - Video: Israeli occupation forces attack Palestinian civilians


03-28-07 - Army abuses a Palestinian man near Hebron


03-28-07 - Arrow passes another test Israel's Arrow II anti-missile defense system passed another test. The Arrow, envisaged as Israel's main bulwark against any future ballistic missile attacks by Iran or Syria, was fired this week in what the Defense Ministry said was a successful test of its avionics


03-28-07 - JINSA: Stop funding al-Hurrah The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs called on the U.S. Congress to stop funding an Arabic-language broadcaster.



03-28-07 - Saudis admit Israeli journalist Saudi Arabia admitted an Israeli journalist for the first time


03-28-07 - San Francisco federation head resigns Dine previously was executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. This bolsters my belief that Radio Free Europe is nothing more than another pro-Israeli propaganda tool.


03-28-07 - Israel condemns testimony release Mr Olmert's office said uncensored material could still damage Israel's foreign relations. Why's that?


03-28-07 - Information Clearing House Is an Independent News and Information service. Subscribe and then perhaps make a donation to a great newsletter service.


03-28-07 - Land Day Demonstrations, This Friday & Saturday, March 30-31


03-28-07 - Israel snubs Condoleezza Rice With Israel refusing to give in, Miss Rice was forced to head back to Washington unable to announce any major breakthrough on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian question. Who wears the pants (provides billions in aid) here?


03-28-07 - An interview with Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz Speaking of Iran, AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is lobbying to block the requirement that the President seek Congressional approval before attacking Iran. What is your view on this?


03-28-07 - Indonesia calls for resuming talks of Palestine-Israel without precondition


03-28-07 - Gaddafi accuses Arab leaders of selling out Palestinians


03-28-07 - Palestinian ambassador speaks at R-N


03-28-07 - Knot in My Name A gutsy production that everyone opposed to it should see.


03-28-07 - AJC Boston Chapter Launches Israel Ad Campaign The American Jewish Committee's Boston Chapter launched today an ad campaign in the Boston Globe to deepen understanding about Israel and support for her ongoing quest to achieve peace and security.


03-28-07 - Jerusalem diocese to install new bishop There's an apartheid going on, and we are here to do justice and mercy and engage mission with both Israel and Palestine at the same time."


03-28-07 - Calling Palestinian journalists: Boundless media competition


03-28-07 - Holy See acknowledges Israeli postponement of talks


03-28-07 - Entire world is not against us In this regard, the size of Israel's official PR (Hasbarah) budget is very revealing, for it is little more than a medium-large commercial company would spend on advertising. This dearth of resources devoted to winning over the hearts and minds of the international community is not to be explained by any objective paucity.


03-28-07 - Banned Chinese director heads to Palestinian territories


03-28-07 - Israel aims to increase U.S. tourism with a PR attack in a racy men's magazine Hoping to capitalize on the latter, Israel's Foreign Ministry, with the help of two of the myriad U.S. pro-Israel lobby groups, decided to speak to U.S. men in a language they'd understand. Mr. Saranga began a long campaign to persuade Maxim to showcase Israel's other assets to its 2.5 million readers Israel reaches down to the bottom of the barrel in its desperate efforts to recover from overexposure of its apartheid-like policies in the Palestinian territories.


03-28-07 - Iran, Israel, and our Shared Security Goals Israel is facing the greatest danger for its survival since the 1967 victory. Israel maintained its dominance since 1967 even after the 1973 failure. In 1984 I wrote that WMD and terrorism would pose a threat for US national security. If two or three cities are destroyed because of terrorism both the US and Israel?s democracy will be eroded and both will become greater dictatorial societies. Has anyone informed Newt that America is NOT Israel? More: "We can?t live next to a Palestinian state that wants to destroy Israel." Who's 'we'?


03-28-07 - Canadian government snubs Palestinian minister Information Minister Mustafa al-Barghuti planned to meet with members of Canada's three opposition parties.
But requests for talks with representatives of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government went unanswered, he told reporters outside Parliament.
Harper's nose is planted between the cheeks of Canada's Israel lobby.


03-28-07 - After Years in Middle East Politics, One Palestinian Still Finds Hope To those who seek comfort in claiming that the Palestinians are usurpers in the ancient Jewish homeland with minimal collective history or attachment to Jerusalem, Mr. Nusseibeh can lay out his family?s 1,300 years there filled with teachers, judges and politicians. To those who say that, at Israel?s creation, no Palestinian was forced out, Mr. Nusseibeh can note that his pregnant mother and grandmother were expelled from their home in Ramle by soldiers led by Yitzhak Rabin and obliged to walk into Jordan-controlled East Jerusalem.

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