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Monday, April 30, 2007
04-29-07 - Israel may buy Palestinian gas Israel has approved in principle the purchase of Palestinian gas from British Gas, the company developing a field off the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office told AFP on Sunday.
04-29-07 - Israeli Army Chief of Staff threatens to invade Gaza
04-29-07 - EU Parliament Delegation Visits Palestine During the visit, would end on May 4, the delegation will discuss this and various aspects of the problem with high-level representatives of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Palestinian Government.
04-29-07 - Qaeda figure urges Hamas "bombs, fire" on Israel
04-29-07 - Palestinians increasingly disillusioned with political parties, unity government: poll Palestinians are also becoming increasingly disillusioned with political parties, the poll suggested. Some 41 percent said they trust none of the parties, up from 35 percent in December.
04-29-07 - Countdown has begun ** Until recently, American intelligence estimated that this would only happen in 2015. Now US intelligence is falling into line with its colleagues in Israel and is estimating that an Iranian bomb can be expected as early as 2010. Imagine that?
04-29-07 - IRAQ: UNHCR warns of tragedies facing Palestinian refugees Hundreds of Palestinian refugees stranded in makeshift camps in no-man?s land between the desert borders of Iraq and Syria must be moved to a safer place to avoid any human tragedies, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said last week.
04-29-07 - ISRAEL-OPT: Humanitarian situation got worse in 2006, says UN agency
04-29-07 - Israeli army breaks into the house of a Palestinian security officer in Ramallah
04-29-07 - Young Gaza amputee takes steps in Oakland The bright-eyed little boy lost his lower right leg, just above the ankle, last Nov. 8 when Israeli shells fell on his family's house in the Palestinian city of Beit Hanoun, on the northeast edge of the Gaza Strip. His mother was killed, as were his two little sisters ? 3-year-old Maram and 9-month-old Maysaa ? and 15 other members of his extended family.
04-29-07 - Israeli army denies seizing new West Bank land for barrier "The works for construction of the barrier in this sector are finished. The confiscation order that we issued is nothing but a renewal of one that we issued in 2004," It's still land confiscation, genius.
04-29-07 - Saudi king discusses Palestine with Abbas Abbas briefed the Saudi king on developments in the Palestinian territories following what the Palestinian news agency WAFA called "the Israeli military escalation against the Palestinian people."
04-29-07 - Israel partly at fault
04-29-07 - Singapore, Israel set to take bilateral ties to new level The two sides are set to sign an agreement to expand the scope of cooperation beyond defence.
04-29-07 - Magazine pulls Olmert's Iran raid quotes The Jerusalem Post reported that Olmert had been speaking off the record; however the statements caused some consternation among Likud members who feared public-relations damage.
04-29-07 - Deal ends Israel border sit-in by Egypt Bedouin Hundreds of disgruntled Egyptian Bedouin ended a sit-in near the border with Israel Sunday following a deal with the authorities, a senior official said.
04-29-07 - Muslim leaders warned of shaking hands with Satan
04-29-07 - Hezbollah returning to south of Litani River: Israeli army chief The IDF chief dispelled rumors that Syria is planning to attack Israel in the summer and said that according to existing information the Syrian forces are deployed in a defensive formation.
04-29-07 - Understanding Conflict?By Gaming
04-29-07 - As Israel baseball league drafts its players, charities draft league "For Americans going over there, it is fascinating to see something so typically American being started in Israel. We are in the business of creating connections between Americans and the land of Israel."
Why is that?
04-29-07 - Israeli war inquiry 'rebukes Olmert over military errors'
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
04-28-07 - Israeli soldiers kill 3 Hamas militants in Gaza In a separate incident in southern Gaza, a Palestinian civilian was killed on Friday night by what local medics and residents said was an Israeli tank shell. The Israeli army said it was not involved.
04-28-07 - Israel seizes West Bank land for controversial barrier Israel is to confiscate 23 hectares (57 acres) of Palestinian farmland in the occupied West Bank for its controversial security barrier, according to a military order seen by AFP on Saturday.
04-28-07 - HEBRON URGENT ACTION: Tell Israeli government that new settlement is The new building represents a dire threat to the local Palestinian
population. Already four checkpoints less than 500 meters apart, line the
same road for entry into Hebron's Old City. The maze of checkpoints, gates
and roadblocks continues endlessly for Hebron's Palestinian residents.
Currently the Israeli military has installed 124 road block/earth mounds
within Hebron's City limits, trapping the 35,000 residents of H-2,
Israeli-controlled Hebron. The restrictions have forced 1,180 shops to
close since 2002.
04-28-07 - Siege on Palestinians to be gradually lifted: Abbas Visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday expressed optimism that the political and financial siege on the Palestinians would be gradually lifted
04-28-07 - Russia strongly critical of rocket attacks against Israel - FM Russia is strongly critical of rocket attacks against Israeli territories by the Palestinians, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said on Friday in the wake of a military escalation in Palestinian-Israeli relations.
04-28-07 - P.A presidency slams the Israeli attacks in Gaza
04-28-07 - Chief Palestinian Justice calling on UN to implement resolutions against occupation As one of the prominent leaders of the charge to save Al Aqsa Mosque, the Sheikh expressed his supreme disappointment that the international community has not issued a denunciation of the excavations. He asked for any human rights report or statement regarding Israeli violations.
04-28-07 - Meshal: Last week's rocket attack on Israel was justified Meshal said the rockets were fired to avenge the killing of nine Palestinians by Israel at the beginning of the week. "These violations require a response," he said. Which may be what Israel was looking to get in the first place. Wouldn't be the first time Israel provoked them into a response so that they could turn around and say - 'see look at that. How do you expect us to negotiate with terrorists?!'.
04-28-07 - Palestinian plan to pay part wages draws union fire
04-28-07 - Head of negotiations: there is nothing called 'freedom of movement for security' Dr. Sa'eb Erekat told PNN this afternoon that there is no test project between Palestinians and Israelis referred to as "freedom of movement for security."
04-28-07 - Hamas leader urges Arab countries to support Palestinians
04-28-07 - One Palestinian civilians abducted by Israeli troops near Hebron Abd Al Rahman Badran, 55, was driving his taxi back to Ithna village when Israeli troops stopped him at a military checkpoint just outs said the village then they took him to unknown detention camp, witnesses stated.
04-28-07 - Israeli settlers shoot at house in Hebron before soldiers arrest owner and son A group from what is largely considered to be the most violent of all Israeli settlements, Kiryat Arba, opened fire on a Palestinian home in Hebron last night. The Israeli military occupying the area also arrested three Palestinians from the city and a nearby town.
04-28-07 - Israeli settler attacks Palestinian girl, Police detain four human rights workers
04-28-07 - Switzerland refuses to confirm visit by Hamas PM
04-28-07 - Army evicts settlers from reoccupied West Bank colony Israeli troops evicted about 100 Jewish settlers overnight from a West Bank settlement that had been destroyed in 2004 and that they reoccupied this week, an army spokeswoman said on Saturday.
04-28-07 - Missiles could stall Iran nuclear programme: Olmert
04-28-07 - Settlers occupying Hebron house to get eviction orders Sunday
04-28-07 - Gaza's ancient treasures revealed "Kids in Gaza have the right to go to a museum like any other kids in the world, they have the right to see their own history, and learn that this (the current conflict) is a temporary phase and hopefully it will not continue forever."
04-28-07 - Israeli Settlers and troops attack Palestinian farmers and Israeli peace activists near Hebron 200 Israeli illegal settlers and soldiers attacked Palestinian farmers, international and Israeli peaceful activists who were protesting in stolen Palestinian land in Yatta village south of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank on Saturday midday
04-28-07 - Regional powers fight over Lebanon "We are concerned that Lebanon would become a theatre for the actual conflict between Iran and the US.
04-28-07 - Arab unity call Now is the time to bring together every Arab nation to oppose the greed of the Israelis, the Americans and the British and expose them and their policies, said Dr Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian member of Israel's Knesset.
04-28-07 - Forest dedicated for Coretta Scott King Hasbara.
04-28-07 - Palestine & Peace: The Challenges Ahead by Hanan Ashrawi we do have the results of these elections. Not only were they boycotted, the Palestinians were under sanctions-which is ironic again because for the first time in history you have a people under occupation and under sanctions at the same time-while for decades Israel has been violating international law, flouting the will of the international community and with no sanctions, sometimes with even full immunity
04-28-07 - In Gaza, holding out hope for safe landing "It was the most beautiful place in all of Gaza. Kings and presidents have flown through here," .....The Israelis first targeted the airport at the beginning of the second intifada, destroying a runway. The entire airport was hit after the kidnapping of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit last summer.
04-28-07 - Mideast films sweep Canadian documentary fest "The majority of people don't want to hear about the Palestinians," he said. "Anything about them is immediately seen as political, even though there might be other, more human layers."
04-28-07 - Barghouthi: ?Only the Ministers Council is authorized to set date for local elections?
04-28-07 - Israel wraps up West Bank war games Israel has ended extensive military manoeuvres in the occupied West Bank that were designed to assimilate lessons learned from last year's war in Lebanon, a senior officer said on Friday.
04-28-07 - AIPAC Trial Likely to be Postponed
04-28-07 - Film-makers see Iraq, Palestine in different light Films like Children Under Occupation, Hoda and Hadeel raise serious questions before the international community about the plight of the Palestinian children, who have been killed and tortured for no crimes they have committed. Hadeel is the real life story of a Palestinian girl, who was crushed to death when her house collapsed in an Israeli bombing.
04-28-07 - EU Commissioner tours Palestinian, Iraqi refugee camps in Syria Michel visited Palestinian refugee camps and areas sheltering Iraqis who have fled their wartorn country, and projects implemented by their partners UNRWA, UNHCR and ICRC.
04-28-07 - US, Israeli firms to tap need for small satellites Northrop Grumman Corp. said Wednesday it had teamed with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. to pitch small surveillance satellites to the U.S. government in a deal spurred by China's anti-satellite test in January. Just what we need.
04-28-07 - Just an optical illusion If any American president were to give a small cough and say, in a half-whisper, "hmm, I am considering my steps concerning Israel," our country's excellent economic situation would immediately turn topsy-turvy. Israel's international credit line would instantly freeze, the dollar would soar, and so would our inflation rate. Our balance of payments surplus would become a deficit and foreign investment would flee Israel many times faster than it came. After all, the world knows that without American backing, tiny Israel would quickly revert to its natural proportions.
Therefore, it really does not matter whether or not the economic aid ends in October. What is important is that Israel continue to enjoy the political support of the most powerful nation on earth. After all, were it not for America's veto in the United Nations Security Council, economic sanctions, a la South Africa during its apartheid regime, would have been imposed on Israel long ago. Without that veto, Israel would never have been able to continue fighting the Second Lebanon War when every other country in the world wanted it stopped as soon as it began. This writer laments the fact that Israel has to depend on American political and economic support. So do I. It's been sixty years - time for Israel to sink or swim on its own. If Israel can't make it without our support, then Israel should seriously ponder the question - why is that? Perhaps its time to change their behavior and learn how to get along with their neighbors. American support is not a sure thing and won't last forever - despite the best efforts by the Israeli lobby and government that seek to so clusterf&*k the two nations together that it would be near impossible for America to ever extricate itself from that unhealthy relationship (which is why they do it).
04-28-07 - Borders Spell Trouble for Arab-American More recent episodes that provoked concern include one in which border agents reportedly Googled the name of an Ohio man and then questioned him about a letter to the editor he had written to The Toledo Blade regarding events in the Middle East.
04-28-07 - Hadash official: Hizbullah not Israeli Arabs' enemy The Balad movement held a rally in support of former Knesset Member Azmi Bishara, who is under investigation for suspected collaboration with the enemy during the Second Lebanon War last summer.
04-28-07 - Activist Corrie personified Northwest idealism
04-28-07 - President Heads to Amman after a European Tour
04-28-07 - President Discusses Israeli Escalation with Saudi King Over a phone call, the President praised the Saudi stance towards the Palestinian cause and the Saudi exerted efforts to support the Palestinian people presented by Mecca agreement.
04-28-07 - Three women, one voice for peace: Group seeks to bridge Israeli-Palestinian divide
04-28-07 - Babes and Bikinis: Israel Plans to Revamp Its Image The project began six months ago when Israeli officials in the United States discovered (through market research) that men between the ages of 18 and 35 were uninterested in Israel, and considered the country "irrelevant.".....Maxim is going to run a special Israel edition this July that will promote the country to its 2.5 million readership, and the magazine hopes it will revamp Israel's image in the eyes of young American men. .....Saranga said Maxim is an excellent platform for delivering this message and will target the audience it is hoping to convert -- young men......Lindsay Citerman, an Israeli who studies Judaism in Jerusalem, said, "Tel Aviv is a sexy city, but I am not sure if this is the best way to sell Israel to Americans."
Israel has to resort to T&A ops (in the US only, oddly) in order to win over Americans. Why is this campaign solely directed toward Americans (young men, at that)?
04-28-07 - Property battle This subsidized colonization of Christian-Palestinian land must stop. It continues to steal the human dignity of the Palestinian people, Christians and Muslims. It is an insulting treatment in contradiction of the Balfour Agreement, international law, and everything America stands for.
04-28-07 - Strange bedfellows More significantly, Abdullah II is said to have told the Israeli delegation that clauses in the Arab Peace Plan pertaining to the Palestinian refugees' right of return should be understood as referring to "compensation" not "repatriation", and that "everything will be consensual and that the Arab Peace Plan was not actually a plan but merely a talking point."
04-28-07 - Taking the piss out of war games in Hebron
04-28-07 - Frisch School Seniors Lobby Congress - Students Travel to Washington to Meet with Congressmen and Senators "As future leaders of the Jewish community, it is necessary and important to lobby Congress in support of Israel,"
04-28-07 - From March: Israel PR Public Relations Pros Hold Syria, Iran War Exercise "As Israel's IDF Homefront command is presently holding exercises to protect Israel's civilian population in the event of conventional and non-conventional warfare, Israel must be prepared to win the image and digital battle as well," Know something we don't? One thing is sure - Israel cares more about and puts more effort toward covering up for its crimes than it does about the rule of law and actual democracy. This attitude and policy has been foisted upon our government via the neocons.
04-28-07 - On West Bank, questions linger amid small hopes Most Palestinian Christians were not allowed into Jerusalem to celebrate Easter. Most were simply turned away. A few found a way in. In contrast, Jews and Christians from around the world were welcomed with open arms.
What will it take for the American people to see this crisis for what it really is and insist that the Israeli government be obliged to follow international law? When will we elect legislators and a president who are not afraid to stand up and stop this apartheid, this travesty, this inhumane treatment of yet another indigenous peoples?
04-28-07 - Israeli Democracy For Jews Only? Only recently, Israel's Shin Bet (secret police) let it be known that it would "disrupt the activities of any groups that seek to change the Jewish or democratic character of Israel, even if they use legal means."
04-28-07 - My resignation baffling Israel?s right, Bishara says Former Balad Knesset Member Azmi Bishara told Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram on Saturday that his resignation from parliament has ?spread confusion in Israel, especially among the Right, which prepared a carnival of incitement in light of the allegations against me.?
04-28-07 - Singapore minister visiting Israel and Palestinian territories Yeo plans to visit the Palestinian National Authority's headquarters in Ramallah on May 1 to call on President Mahmoud Abbas and Deputy Prime Minister Azzam al-Ahmad. He also plans to meet with Foreign Minister Ziad Abu-Amr.
04-28-07 - Non-violent action on Palestinian land occupied by Israeli convict
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
04-27-07 - Man dies in Rafah border shooting Palestinian medical officials say an off-duty security officer has been shot dead in an exchange of fire at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
04-27-07 - Israeli army kidnap elderly woman from a village near Hebron
04-27-07 - Palestinians say Hamas PM to visit Switzerland
04-27-07 - Israel OKs limited Gaza action
04-27-07 - Israel claims Israeli settler disappeared near Tulkarem The army installed dozens of additional roadblocks at the entrances of Tulkarem, and closed Ennab checkpoint, north of the city, Jabara checkpoint, south of the city, and conducted military searches after stopping hundreds of Palestinian vehicles.
04-27-07 - USS LIBERTY Survivors need your help Please call the Office of the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General at (202) 685-5493 to request they provide a speaker to address the crew of the USS Liberty during their June 2007 reunion. Call the members of your Congressional Delegation and ask that they contact the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General and request that they provide the speaker the USS Liberty survivors are requesting. Invite your Congressional Delegation and their staff members to attend that presentation
04-27-07 - P.A Information minister visits Spain, meets Moratinos
04-27-07 - Human rights report: Israeli forces systematically attack Palestinians The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued a report for the period, 19 through 25 April entitled, "Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)."
04-27-07 - The Israeli army attack the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil'in injures three Three protesters were injured and had to be transferred to hospital, while Abdullah Abu Rahamah, the coordinator of the village's "popular committee against the wall and settlements" was kidnapped by the Israeli forces. He was released after four hours.
04-27-07 - Children tried as adults in the Middle East Young Palestinian stone-throwers in the Middle East are treated as adults, tried in military courts and held in adult jails ? some of them as young as 12. Israel?s treatment of these children is a violation of international law, something Israeli authorities do not even deny themselves. There is a link to a 4 and 1/2 minute video report of this report by this NZ news agency on the page. Worth watching.
04-27-07 - Peaceful demonstration against the illegal wall and settlements near Bethlehem
04-27-07 - Report: Settlers assault left-wing activists protecting shepherds West Bank settlers on Friday assaulted left-wing activists who had come to protect about 20 Palestinian shepherds in the southern Hebron Hills, lightly wounding a Palestinian man and a female Israeli activist, the activists said.
04-27-07 - Abbas, Meshaal hold talks in Cairo
04-27-07 - Israel seeks expanded EU role at Gaza-Egypt border With the mission set to end on May 24, Israel is pushing for changes to give the European monitors "executive powers", allowing them to carry out arrests and confiscate money and items that could be used in weapons, European diplomats say......Critics say the Israeli plan would undermine Palestinian sovereignty and cast doubt on the mission's neutrality: "This is a monitoring mission. This is not an executive mission," said a senior European diplomat familiar with the deliberations.
04-27-07 - EU aide commissioner urges Israel to unfreeze custom duties to PA European humanitarian aid Commissioner Louis Michel blamed Israel Friday for the 'grave' fiscal crisis in the Palestinian Authority, and called on it to unfreeze some 600 million US dollars it owes the PA in custom duties collected on its behalf. .....But he also stated that Israeli restrictions on movement 'annihilated any chance for economic development in the Palestinian territories,' pointing out that nearly 60 per cent of Palestinians lived under the poverty line of 2 euros a day.
04-27-07 - Israeli police search Bishara homes
04-27-07 - Abbas says knows whereabouts of BBC Gaza reporter
04-27-07 - Hamas's Haniya to make first Europe trip
04-27-07 - Residents of Al Hadidiya to Resist Home Demolitions
04-27-07 - Israel may get F-22s if nation at risk The F-22 has been forbidden for export by the Pentagon
04-27-07 - AJC Urges Governments to Press Hamas To End Terror "The attack by Hamas on Israel's Independence Day constitutes a serious escalation in the already tense situation. It also belies the contention that the Mecca Accord and the formation of the Palestinian 'national unity government' signify a positive change in the policies of the Palestinian government," wrote AJC President E. Robert Goodkind and Executive Director David A. Harris. No mention is made of the 9 Palestinians Israel killed in the days leading up to that incident, among whom were 2 children.
04-27-07 - Jewish Settlers Ruffle Feathers with Hebron Move NPR gives airtime and comfort to settlers.
04-27-07 - Arab minister slams rightist MK for anti-Arab remarks
04-27-07 - Lawmakers Want PBS to Air Spiked Film on Islam The film - co-produced by Burke, a Hollywood producer, and Frank Gaffney and Alex Alexiev of the Center for Security Policy - deals with the experiences of moderate Muslims who have fallen foul of Islamists. Frank Gaffney - neocon. Any film about Muslims made by a neocon is undoubtedly (pro-Israel) propaganda. PBS is now being commandeered by Zionists.
04-27-07 - Ban to raise issue of Shebaa Farms at UN
04-27-07 - DHS releases security funds The U.S. Homeland Security Department released $24 million in funds for securing non-profits. Friday's was the second such release of funds; most of an earlier allotment of $25 million went to securing Jewish institutions. The delay in releasing the funds, first earmarked in 2006, was caused by DHS bureaucrats who preferred to reserve the money for imminent rather than potential attacks. Jewish groups, backed by lawmakers in Congress, lobbied for the funds' use for potential attacks. Last year, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff intervened to release the money.
04-27-07 - The day I met Zayed... Since that fateful day 50 years ago, Badran - a Palestinian who now lives in Missouri - has carried the friendship and memory of Shaikh Zayed in his heart, and in photos he has kept of the young shaikh and his friends in New York City.
04-27-07 - Crist's Visit To Israel Has Much At Stake The trip is at least in part a result of Crist's longtime friendship with U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, an ardent supporter of Israel and Israeli causes....Besides Wexler and Crist, those going to Israel may include state Reps. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach; Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach; and Sen. Nan Rich, D-Weston
04-27-07 - Carter's visit to GSU peaceful n the Middle East," Carter said. "I have spent a great part of my life over the last 30 years trying to bring peace, based on justices and righteousness, for the Palestinians."
04-27-07 - Eschewing revenge, station broadcasts message of hope
04-27-07 - BBC wins right to keep report on Middle East coverage secret
04-27-07 - Palestinian supporters protest Israeli independence celebration On Wednesday, the Illinois-Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as IlliniPAC, hosted the celebration of Israel's 59th birthday on the Quad and provided food and entertainment.
04-27-07 - Authorities mobilize police after skirmish with Sinai Bedouins Authorities mobilized hundreds of policemen in eastern Sinai yesterday after armed Bedouins trying to cross into Israel wounded an Egyptian security officer, police said.
04-27-07 - Robert Fisk: We are now in the firing line, sadly
04-27-07 - Pro-Israel group decries UC Santa Cruz 'new anti-Semitism' Roz Rothstein, director of StandWithUs, claimed a March conference - and at least a dozen other talks and seminars since 2001 - created a hostile environment for Jewish students and violated a state law prohibiting promotion of partisan politics. Pro-Israel group cries wolf ('anti-Semitism!'). Now there's something we rarely see these days.
04-27-07 - Tensions Run High After Sunni Killings Lahoud's office issued a statement urging Lebanese people to be alert to conspiracies, and to stop anyone trying to play dirty. Past experience has shown that all confrontations followed provoking incidents, the statement said. Could be the work of someone who wants the Lebanese to hate the Shia.
04-27-07 - Three Ex-Terrorists 'Former terrorists' don't get to enter the country, let alone traipse around giving speeches at campuses nationwide. That is, unless they are doing so for propaganda purposes for the benefit of the Israeli lobby. Real terrorists are either jailed, deported, or barred from entering America at all - as has been the case in numerous recent examples dealing with Palestinians, among others. Americans are being deceived.
04-27-07 - Failing to Hold Israel Accountable for War Crimes in Lebanon In late January the State Department delivered a potentially explosive report to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The classified report asserts that Israel may have violated the Arms Export Control Act with its use of American-made cluster munitions this past summer in Lebanon. Multiple contacts to both offices indicate neither Biden nor Pelosi has any intention of pursuing the matter. In contrast, a congressional investigation 25 years ago helped persuade President Ronald Reagan to suspend cluster munitions to Israel for six years. This Congress, however, will not call Israel to account for its actions.
The US won't even hold Israel accountable for war crimes it committed against these guys.. Israel is almost never held to account by us or anyone for its flagrant violations of law, which only serves to encourage them to continue to do so.
04-27-07 - Israel: Controlling Jewish Destiny Does not Require Controlling that of the Palestinians Contrary to some of the rhetoric emanating from Jewish organizations here, no one I spoke to in Israel likened Israel's situation today to that of European Jews in the 1930's, with Ahmadinejad playing the role of Hitler. Israelis find that kind of rhetoric both laughable and offensive. From admitted Zionist M.J. Rosenberg.
04-27-07 - Israel's military denies incursion into Lebanon The Lebanese army had said a 10-member Israeli patrol crossed the electronic fence on the Saddani hills between the towns of Kfarshuba and Shebaa and entered up to 50 meters and 100 meters (yards) into Lebanese territory. A unit from the UN Interim Force intervened and forced the Israeli patrol to withdraw, it said.
04-27-07 - Unesco Report Details Attacks on Education Worldwide Universities in Nepal and the Palestinian territories were also subjected to attacks. In the Palestinian territories, the report says, "there were 299 incidents of shelling and breaking into schools, directorate offices, and universities by June 2004; 36 teachers, 622 pupils, and 200 university students have been killed by January 2007." Too bad they didn't mention who committed the majority of those attacks in the OT.
04-27-07 - Finkelstein discusses Israel's human rights record Finkelstein also touched upon Israel's security wall: "If Israel is building the wall to incorporate the settlements, then the wall is clearly illegal under international law."
Also, he claimed that according to historian Benny Morris' research, "what happened in 1948 was an ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from the disputed territories, citing one author's claim that "the ethnic cleansing was anchored in the Zionist philosophy of transfer..." Indeed, Finkelstein said, "according to Morris, the biggest mistake they made was they didn't expel every single last Palestinian in 1947, because then this would never have happened today."
04-27-07 - Al Haq: British government being sued for complicity The British government is being sued for failure to adhere to international law. Specifically the suit cites British complicity with the Israelis who blatantly violate the rights of the Palestinians.
04-27-07 - Palestinian children's art stolen ?An important part of our work is the ability to bring Palestinian voices to people in the United States,? said Birthright Unplugged co-founder Hannah Mermelstein in a press release. ?This is a sad reminder that members of our community will resort even to theft to silence these voices.? I can't get over this. This is supposed to be America (land of the free). And we all know just who would be behind something like this. Who doesn't want Americans to see the Palestinian side of the story? Who doesn't want Americans to feel any sympathy for Palestinians?
04-27-07 - 'Farewell to our house!' After these neighborhoods fell into the hands of the State of Israel and the Arab homes were looted, most of them were given to new Jewish immigrants. In the wake of the 1948 War of Independence, quite a few of the beautiful houses in Katamon and Talbieh were handed over to officials of the newly formed state.
04-27-07 - Beit Lahia waste water treatment plant - Floods Humanitarian Situation Report #4
04-27-07 - Aiding Christians in the Holy Land Orzechowski said he hoped to bring awareness to the Palestinian Christians by holding alternative gift markets to sell olive wood crafts that some of the Christians make, and by organizing more trips to the area.
04-27-07 - New football stadium in Bethlehem's Al Khader donated by Portuguese A new international football stadium will be inaugurated on Monday in the southwestern Bethlehem town of Al Khader. It was funded by Portugal, through the Portuguese Institute for Cooperation for Development (IPAD). ....As reported by the Portuguese News Agency LUSA, Portugal will offer the shirts of the players Cristiano Ronaldo and Deco e Quaresma. They will remain in an exhibition room at the Al Khader stadium.
04-27-07 - President of Sesame Street comes to Palestine for launch of third season For the first time ever the President of the highly lauded children's television program, Sesame Street, Dr. Gary Knell, will be in Ramallah.
04-27-07 - Rudd: We will have nothing to do with Hamas Fresh from his keynote speech to the Australian Labor Party's National Conference in Darling Harbour on Friday morning, Rudd addressed a luncheon hosted by the Labor Friends of Israel (LFI), warning that Hamas had not "disavowed its policy of seeking the obliteration of the State of Israel". The Aussie Israeli lobby rivals those of America and Canada; very powerful.
04-27-07 - Lebanon: One Unexploded Bomb Per Person According to the Belgians as many as 800,000 unexploded ordnance (UXO), and possibly more, still remain. Meanwhile, scores of Lebanese civilians have died from contacting cluster bombs. More than 200 have been wounded, most of them severely
04-27-07 - Requiem in Ramallah The name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has not been heard so frequently in the West Bank as in the past two weeks, during the Palestinian Mozart Festival.
04-27-07 - Billboards in Jerusalem demand real Middle East talks
04-27-07 - NATIONAL ARAB CONFERENCE KICK STARTS IN BAHRAIN TOMORROW THE STATE OF THE NATION REPORT DEALS WITH A NUMBER OF ISSUES TOUCHING ON THE ARAB NATION IN LIGHT OF THE GLOBAL CHANGES INCLUDING THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD, THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE, THE LEBANESE CRISIS, THE SITUATION IN SOMALIA AND AN EVALUATION OF THE ARAB COUNTRIES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCES LAST YEAR.
04-27-07 - Israelis not colonialists after all Not likely.
04-27-07 - Gaza exhibition shows region's turbulent past
04-27-07 - Angry, Controversial Senior Sendoff The administration abused the rights of free speech of the Palestinian perspective on the Israel/Palestine conflict when it forcefully removed the ?Voices of Palestine? artwork exhibit last May. Again, this past December, President Jehuda Reinharz made many public statements about how he did not give a damn about bringing a former President to campus, likely because he saw the Palestinians as human-beings.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
04-26-07 - DFLP slams Israeli attempts to demolish Higher Islamic Council building in Jerusalem The leftist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) slammed on Thursday that Israeli plans to demolish the building of the Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem. The Font considered this plan as part of the continuous Israeli plans to wipe the Arab history from the Holy City.
04-26-07 - Palestinian injured in infiltration attempt to Egypt: report One of the two Palestinians who tried to infiltrate into Egypt from the Palestinian territories was injured as he threw a bomb at the security agencies, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported on Thursday.
04-26-07 - Israel rejects call for unconditional talks
04-26-07 - Israeli army kidnaps five civilians from Nablus
04-26-07 - Erekat: we appreciate Egyptian efforts to stabalize 'calm' and put international pressure on Israel
04-26-07 - Hamas pledges to respond to any Israeli strike
04-26-07 - EU urges Gaza reporter's release
04-26-07 - PFLP attack Israeli army vehicles in central and northern parts of West Bank
04-26-07 - U.S. State Department Pushes for Palestinian Resettlement "These are already recognised refugees. The U.S. as the occupying power has the capacity to evacuate. They could put them on a plane and get them out of there," said Frelick. "The question is where that plane would land." They still can't go home - to Palestine.
04-26-07 - Aid to Palestinians to be bypassed unity government: EU European Union aid will bypass the Hamas-led Palestinian government until it recognizes Israel, renounces violence and abides by interim peace deals, the EU's aid commissioner said Thursday.
04-26-07 - Israeli army detains Palestinian shepherds near Nablus Soldiers came from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Aeli and detained the shepherds for some time. Troops then took the shepherds to the settlement and held them there for four hours. The shepherds were released after a group of international solidarity and human rights workers intervened and managed to convince the soldiers to release the shepherds.
04-26-07 - EU lawmakers urge more efforts to release BBC reporter in Gaza
04-26-07 - Palestinians renew truce, demand it include W.Bank
04-26-07 - Switzerland calls for more Middle East dialogue Swiss President and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said on Thursday that she hoped the creation of the new Palestinian government could help restart the peace process in the Middle East.
04-26-07 - Hagel: Support for Israel not 'automatic' Hagel (R-Neb.), who is considering a run for the presidency, told the Arab American Institute's annual dinner that he believes Israel and the United States have a "special relationship," but resented being told by a pro-Israel activist that if he wants backing from the pro-Israel community, his support for Israel should be "automatic." Hagel for President!!!
04-26-07 - The GE Presidential Debate Williams accused Obama of having said that the Palestinian people are suffering, and Obama assured him that he meant they were only suffering from their own leaders' failures and that Israel is not to blame. Obama has fully transformed into the asskisser of the AIPACers. Shame. Won't be getting my vote for that reason alone.
04-26-07 - Congress considers Jerusalem resolutions Resolutions in both houses of Congress promote the unity of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. Both resolutions are timed to commemorate 40 years of Israeli sovereignty throughout the city, which will be marked in June. .....The nonbinding resolution introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) calls on President Bush to stop exercising his waiver of a law that mandates moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, and "calls upon the President and the Secretary of State to repeatedly affirm publicly, as a matter of United States policy, that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of the State of Israel."
Move Capitol Hill to Tel Aviv. This is the fourth article dealing with Israel-related legislation in OUR government today alone. Let the Israelis pay their salaries.
04-26-07 - Resolution marks Israeli independence A U.S. Senate resolution celebrating Israel's 59th Independence Day is expected to pass unanimously. Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced the resolution. .....In addition to praising the creation of the Jewish state, the resolution commends U.S.-Israel cooperation in defense, diplomacy and homeland security. It also commends the bipartisan support for Israel in the United States. I guess OUR representatives on Capitol Hill had no pressing AMERICAN matters to attend to this week?
04-26-07 - House passes 'human shields' bill In remarks, Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) noted recent reports that Israeli troops had used Palestinians as shields, while Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) countered that in Israel, soldiers found guilty of doing so were punished. .....The American Jewish Congress lobbied strongly for the bill.
People were not 'held responsible'. The problem with this piece of legislation for Israel is that in its exhaustive research of that conflict, Human Rights Watch found no such evidence that Hezbollah was using human shields. In fact, Israel only recently was caught (on tape via AP) doing that very thing. Add to that the fact that Israel, knowing that a ceasefire was imminent (expected in 3 days), fired a million cluster bomblets into mainly civilian areas of Lebanon.
04-26-07 - Dissidents, Western leaders to meet Dissidents and democratic leaders will convene in Prague at a conference co-hosted by a Jerusalem think tank.
Speakers will include President Bush, former refusenik and Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky, former Czech President Vaclav Havel and former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.
Sending in the friends of the neocons to persuade Czech to go along with the missile defense program, are we?
04-26-07 - Feinstein: Bush still can make Mideast peace Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Rules Committee, praised the Arab League for reviving a 2002 plan that offers Israel comprehensive peace in exchange for a return to 1967 borders and some sort of agreement on a "right of return" for Palestinian refugees. Israel has said it will consider the offer, but it considers a mass return of refugees as demographic suicide for the Jewish state.
04-26-07 - Legislator blasts pro-Israel group "Well-publicized statements by Pastor Hagee demonstrate extremism, bigotry and intolerance that is repugnant," U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, a Democrat, said in a two-page reply declining a form invitation from Pastor Mac Hammond. Good for her!
04-26-07 - In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space The irony of Israel's war of words and propaganda with regard to Iran and its alleged threats against Jews/Israel: Iran's Jews are safe and under no threat. In fact, Israel's refusal to make peace with her neighbors is the main exacerbating influence there (and elsewhere).
04-26-07 - Israeli anxiety over 'enemy within' Arabs make up nearly 20% of the population, but they have long complained of discrimination, and official figures tend to back their case. Why are they considered 'enemies within' when for the most part, they are only calling for Israel to be a true democracy and for equal rights for all of its citizens? Why does that have Israel's panties in a bunch? Isn't that what they purport to be - a democracy?
04-26-07 - Top IDF officer: We knew war would not get abducted soldiers back "After a couple of hours it became clear that we would not get the kidnapped soldiers back through military means," Eisenkott told students at a Nahariya school. So then why did they continue on in their campaign to destroy Lebanon, bombing (sometimes fleeing) civilians in the process?
04-26-07 - New plan advocates land swap between Israel, PA Kadima MK Otinel Schneller's new realignment plan advocates a land swap between Israel and the Palestinian Authority whereby the three Arab Israeli villages in the triangle area will be transferred to Palestinian control in return for the annexation of the three largest settlement blocks of Ariel, Gush Etzion and Modi'in..... Schneller says the aim of his plan is to maintain the existence of a strong Jewish majority within Israel's final borders. Israeli demoGRAPHY.
04-26-07 - Ayalon: I?ll reach agreement on Golan Heights In the pamphlet, Ayalon presents his plan to reach a peace agreement with Syria, according to which Israel will transfer control of the Golan but will lease it for 99 years. How is it Israel's land to lease?
04-26-07 - Hadash MK speaks at memorial for Palestinian 'catastrophe'
04-26-07 - Pilgrimage-marathon in Holy Land to link Bethlehem and Jerusalem On Monday the fourth marathon-pilgrimage linking Nativity Square in Bethlehem with the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem began, with this year?s pilgrimage dedicated to John Paul II.
04-26-07 - The puppet who cleared the way for Iraq's destruction Before we conclude that Wolfowitz was the original author of the policies that destroyed Iraq, we should note that his entire career, at least up through his Pentagon service, has been in the service and at the direction of others. His early work in Washington promoting the dubious merits of an anti-ballistic missile programme, for example, was sponsored by Paul Nitze, a powerful insider who devoted a lifetime of intrigue to boosting east-west tensions and US defence spending. Nitze served as godfather to the neoconservative movement in the 70s, correctly calculating that a fusion of the pro-Israel lobby with the military-industrial lobby would create an alliance of unstoppable power. Among the early and most potent recruits was an old friend of Wolfowitz's, Richard Perle, known and feared in Washington as "the Prince of Darkness" for his ruthless bureaucratic skills and commanding position in the neoconservative forces.
04-26-07 - Mr. Bush, Tear Down These Walls! by Scott Ritter History has rightly condemned both practices. The only modern nation that actively incorporates the construction of walls as an aspect of domestic and foreign policy is Israel, and its policy of apartheid regarding the Palestinians is morally indefensible
04-26-07 - 'Kidnapped' Lebanese found dead Lebanese police have found the bodies of a Sunni man and a boy in hills south-east of Beirut, three days after they went missing, feared kidnapped.
04-26-07 - Raji Sourani re-elected as VP of international human rights organization The Director of Gaza City's Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Raji Sourani, was elected as the FIDH Vice President for the third consecutive term
04-26-07 - Judith Laitman: Tradition requires Jews to seek justice for Palestinians
04-26-07 - The A,B,C's of Home Demolition in Israel
04-26-07 - UN report: Rafah Crossing terminal was closed 50% during April
04-26-07 - Bedouins fleeing police try to break in to Israel One member of the Bedouin tribes said "they were requesting entry into Israel, because they feared police brutality and arrests" following an incident that took place Wednesday.
04-26-07 - British human rights worker arrested in Tel Rumeida under false charges Joanne Crouch, a British human rights worker (HRW), was arrested in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron. Israeli police at the Kiryat Arba police station tried to charge her with spray painting "Free Palestine" on a wall in the Palestinian neighborhood.
04-26-07 - No criticism from Condi Støre said Norway was not yet convinced by the US argument that the shield was urgently needed to pre-empt potential threats from Iran and North Korea.
04-26-07 - New Palestinian daily set for publication
04-26-07 - PM lauds Gandel, warns Iraq exit would embolden Iran WITHDRAWING Australian troops from Iraq would embolden Iran and further jeopardise Israel's security, Prime Minister John Howard has warned. In a speech to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) on Thursday, Howard said a premature exit from war-torn Iraq would unsettle moderate Arab states in the Middle East and undermine regional stability. His comments echo the warning last week from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the coalition's exit strategy from Iraq must preserve American prestige or it will boost the cause of global terrorism.
04-26-07 - End the Occupation Now by Mairead Corrigan Maguire As I helped a French woman, I was shot in the leg with a rubber-covered steel bullet. I was targeted by an Israeli soldier and shot from a distance of 20 metres. This itself was illegal because such lethal weapons, under Israeli military law, are not allowed to be used within a 20 metre range.
04-26-07 - Clarifying vision for contemporary art in Palestine The International Academy of Art Palestine sponsored a two-day seminar on ?Contemporary Art and Higher Art Education? in the West Bank city of Ramallah at the end of last month.
04-26-07 - US, Norway play down differences in Palestinian policy
04-26-07 - A Calculus: Will Israel strike Iran? ** Israel would prefer that Iran be struck and weakened -- by some other power. For Israel it would be best if the United States and a coalition of the West emasculated and neutered Iran of nuclear capabilities. Should that not occur, then yes, I believe that Israel will under certain circumstances strike Iran.
04-26-07 - Hezbollah taunts Israel with picture of captive soldiers
04-26-07 - World Vision program comes to aid of children in Dbayyeh camp World Vision works in impoverished areas throughout Lebanon. It is active among the Palestinian population, saying it gave aid in one form or another to 700 Palestinians in 2006.
04-26-07 - Clinton: US might have to confront Iran ** Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that it might be necessary for America to confront Iran militarily, addressing that possibility more directly than any of the other presidential candidates who spoke this week to the National Jewish Democratic Council.
04-26-07 - Yikhrib Baythum, They're Commodifying Apartheid?!? Can anyone in the KABOB-o-sphere confirm the involvement of Israel's Zeef Belinksi in the construction of US-sponsored segregation walls in Iraq?
04-26-07 - US diplomat says moderate Arab nations fear Iran over Israel The former defense secretary said he believed the United States' support of Israel was unwavering, regardless of administration changes in either country. He also noted that Washington was likely to respond positively to an Israeli request to purchase the US-developed F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet. Israel's Air Force has recently shown interest in the jet, which is equipped with uniquely advanced stealth technologies and weapons.
04-26-07 - A Sister City Debate in Rachel Corrie's Hometown
04-26-07 - Choosing Allies Over Principles Though many Jews support the genocide resolution, some of the biggest Jewish communal players, such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs (which has worked for years to build support for the Israel-Turkey alliance), are not. ADL head Abe Foxman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that "the Jewish community shouldn't be the arbiter of that history, nor should the U.S. Congress." Total hypocrite.
04-26-07 - BIL'IN, WEST BANK: 1 Samuel 17:1-50 in Bil'in
04-26-07 - Art Under Apartheid in Tel Rumeida ISM Freedom Summer 2007 invites you to teach creative workshops with Art Under Apartheid in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron.
04-26-07 - Israeli airport undergoes double security alert for false alarms
04-26-07 - Tracking Jewish money How our 'democracy' really works.
04-26-07 - Kravitz against war Recorded in Miami last week, 'We Want Peace' features Kravitz alongside Iraqi pop star Kadim Al Sahir, Palestinian musician Simon Shaheen and Lebanese artist Jamey Hadded.
04-26-07 - Palestine on campus
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
04-25-07 - UN agency finds living conditions for Palestinians keep deteriorating The UNRWA report concluded that the crisis has been ?compounded by protracted Israeli military operations in Gaza and increased restrictions on movement for Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territory, coupled with rising levels of internal tension.?
04-25-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus, opens fire randomly at civilians, resistance injures two soldiers Witnesses stated that soldiers used sound bombs and opened fire randomly during their house to house searches.
04-25-07 - European Commission: Wall has provoked a serious decline in living conditions
04-25-07 - Israeli forces kidnap two men and bee hives from Beit Omer near Hebron
04-25-07 - Hammad: Israeli government's escalation is an exercise to avoid Arab Initiative and ?peace process? Political Advisor to President Abbas, Nimer Hammad, told PNN on Wednesday afternoon that the policy of escalation pursued by the Israeli government is designed to avoid accepting the Arab Peace Initiative or from moving forward with the ?peace process.?
04-25-07 - Palestinians renew truce Palestinian armed factions renewed their commitment to a Gaza Strip truce on Thursday but said rocket salvoes from the territory could resume if Israel did not halt military operations in the occupied West Bank.
04-25-07 - Morgantini Calls for Stopping Executions and Impunity of Israeli Government "How many other abuses must be committed? How many other deaths must there be before the European Union takes a strong and pragmatic position regarding Israel on the respect of international law and human rights, in the name of a peaceful and long-lasting solution to the conflict based on the two peoples two states principle?",
04-25-07 - Spain doubles its contribution to UNRWA's emergency appeal
04-25-07 - Israeli army kidnaps five Palestinians from Hebron An undercover Israeli army force kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn five Palestinian men from the southern West Bank city of Hebron and a nearby village.
04-25-07 - Refugees severely burned in fire on Syrian-Iraqi border Three Palestinian refugees were severely burned and 25 others, mostly children, were treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns in a refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border
04-25-07 - Islamic civilization bulldozed for Israeli takeover of Jerusalem Israeli bulldozers demolished parts of the Supreme Islamic Council near Al Aqsa Mosque beginning on Sunday. Located dozens of meters from the western wall near Jaffa Gate in East Jerusalem's Old City, the building is slowly being destroyed.
04-25-07 - Rocket fire gives Israel a pretext to strike: Egypt
04-25-07 - Demonstrations for BBC's Johnston A rally for kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston has been held by the National Union of Journalists in London.
04-25-07 - AT-TUWANI UPDATE: 11- 24, April 2007
04-25-07 - Palestinian Analyst: ?Israeli threats to invade the Gaza Strip are serious?
04-25-07 - Palestinian dies of wounds sustained two months ago Hassan Siam, 24, was admitted to a hospital in Gaza City when he sustained critical wounds during factional infighting in Al Shat' refugee camp located in the city, medical sources reported.
04-25-07 - Palestinian refugee and his Iraqi nephew, both killed in Iraq Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that one Palestinian refugee died in an explosion in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, as he was heading with his Iraqi nephew to hospital to receive medication for a chronic disease he suffered from.
04-25-07 - Time will Never Heal this Wound Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes in a wave of massacres and killings carried out by Jewish gangs and later the Israeli army. Others fled in fear for their lives, believing they would return in a matter of days to their homes.
04-25-07 - Israeli troops advance into Khan Younis and uproot farmlands, civiliain injured in Jabalia
04-25-07 - Haneya urges int'l community to pressurize Israel to end offensives
04-25-07 - Former Israeli Arab MP suspected of helping enemy
04-25-07 - Survey Finds Suspicion of US Pervasive in Islamic World And an average of two out of three respondents named "expand[ing] the geographic borders of Israel" as a third major U.S. policy objective in the region.
04-25-07 - National highest honours bestowed Former Palestinian ambassador to South Africa Salman El-Herfi was present to receive his National Order. "It is a great thing from a great nation and a great people."
04-25-07 - Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv Releases Results of 2007 Survey of Israelis' Attitudes on National Security; First Since Lebanon War Demography remains more important than geography. Respondents were asked to rank four key values-a) a country with a Jewish majority; b) Greater Israel; c) a democratic country; and d) a state of peace-as to their order of importance. For over twenty years, the value ranked as the most important is a Jewish majority. In 2006, for the first time, an absolute majority of the Jewish population (54%) listed it as the most important value vs. only 7% who chose Greater Israel as the number one value
04-25-07 - Rice to travel to Mideast, Russia next month "She's going to be traveling to Moscow to talk to (Russian) Foreign Minister (Sergei) Lavrov about issues related to Iran and U.S.-Russia relations," McCormack added
04-25-07 - Palestinian refugee children?s art stolen from library BOSTON, USA? On April 19, 2007, eighteen photographs were stolen from an exhibit documenting Palestinian children?s journey to Jerusalem, the sea, and their ancestral lands. The exhibit, which opened on April 14, was hanging in the Honan-Allston branch of the public library, and was scheduled to remain there until May 25.
04-25-07 - AFP photographer wins award for picture of slain Palestinian child
04-25-07 - Romney favors ambassador to deter nukes "What Jimmy Carter fails to understand is what so many fail to understand: Whether it is Hamas or Hezbollah or al Qaeda, there is an overarching goal among the violent jihadists that transcends borders and boundaries," Romney says. "That goal is to replace all modern Islamic states with a caliphate, to destroy Israel, to cause the collapse of the West and the United States, and to conquer the world."
04-25-07 - BADIL Information & Discussion Brief No. 10 - Palestinian Refugee Children: International Protection and Durable Solutions
04-25-07 - Israeli suspicions feed Arab-Jew rancor After a court eased the order Wednesday, police disclosed that Bishara is suspected of crimes against Israel's security, aiding the enemy during wartime, passing intelligence to the enemy, contacting foreign agents and receiving money in violation of anti-money laundering laws.
04-25-07 - Dodd Vows Support For Israel Dodd got a standing ovation from the 150 people gathered at a downtown meeting of the National Jewish Democratic Council, whose agenda vows to fight for "separation of church and state, a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and reproductive freedom."
if these folks believe in the separation of church and state than their support of Israel is oxymoronic. They want separation of church and state HERE (cake) but for Israel to remain a 'Jewish State' (and eat it too). Hypocrisy.
04-25-07 - U.S. Gov?t Discriminates Against Muslim Immigrants: Study Welcome to Israel! Err, I mean, America!
04-25-07 - Reporting risks leave Gaza neglected
04-25-07 - Gaza antiquities to be displayed in Geneva The objects, including 5,500-year-old jugs, Egyptian alabaster vases, and Byzantine mosaics are on loan from the Palestinian Authority's antiquities department and a private Palestinian collector.
04-25-07 - Former Palestinian foreign Minister Al-Zahar wonders "where does Israel exist?"
04-25-07 - The Palestine Securities Exchange launches online stock trading ('e-trading')
04-25-07 - UN appeals for calm in Gaza
04-25-07 - Palestinians urge Israel to seize "historic opportunity" for peace, but Israel says Palestinians must first end "campaign of terror"
04-25-07 - In Lebanon, Tempers Rise Over Reconstruction
04-25-07 - Longtime professor Nassar departing ISU A Palestinian-American born in Jerusalam, Nassar next moves to California State University, San Bernardino. There, he'll be dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
04-25-07 - MIFTAH calls for reforming security devices
04-25-07 - PNN: From Palestine to Virginia Tech
04-25-07 - Diplomatic Mission intervention unites foreign passport holders with their families;
04-25-07 - Mansour: Palestinian Reality is Harsh and Depressing
04-25-07 - Combat moderates Israeli soldiers' views Officers underwent a substantial change, adopting much less right-wing and more pragmatic views than enlisted soldiers. They underwent a greater change in espousing strongly democratic values, adherence to the rule of law and minority rights, the poll added. However, female soldiers leaned more to the right, the study showed. Coincidentally, you don't see too many female Israeli soldiers in the occupied territories.
04-25-07 - Palestinian Days concluded Organized by Kana?an Association for Palestine, political and art activities for the Palestinian Day in Yemen concluded last Thursday at the Taj Sheba Hotel.
04-25-07 - Italy concerned about Gaza situation: FM
04-25-07 - Friendship helps define conflict in Middle East
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
04-24-07 - A series of internal incidents in Gaza leave one boy dead, seven others wounded
04-24-07 - IRAQ: Militants force Palestinians to leave Anbar
04-24-07 - Two children injured in an explosion near Jenin Palestinian medical sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that two brothers aged 7 and 4 were moderately injured when an explosive object left behind by the Israeli army, detonated near them.
04-24-07 - Egypt denounces Israeli military operations against Palestinians He said he was "astonished" at the timing of the military operations as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are to meet regularly to bring viewpoints closer and discuss political horizons.
04-24-07 - Pope, Abbas hail moves to revive Mideast peace process
04-24-07 - Hamas government calls for resuming Gaza ceasefire
04-24-07 - Refugee reality: dreams of home
04-24-07 - Egyptian security officials plan to meet with Hamas to avoid escalation The officials are apparently trying to hold meetings with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Israeli leaders in an attempt to avoid further escalation.
04-24-07 - A miniature train surprises residents of downtown Nablus "Riding the train around Nablus while a children's song plays all the ride long is a wonderful form of entertainment for the children who have been trapped inside the city for the past five years, unable to leave because of the Israeli occupation", a local teacher commented.
04-24-07 - While Carrying his body, relatives of slain resident break into the legislative council in Gaza The Maan News Agency reported that the Legislative Council was holding a session when the residents broke into it chanting slogans slamming chaos and insecurity, and demanding the Palestinian government to unveil the incidents that lead to the death ofHhasan Abu Sharkh.
04-24-07 - Hamas denies reports of Egyptian travel restrictions on its officials
04-24-07 - Public Sector employees to go on strike demanding unpaid salaries
04-24-07 - Cracks in unity as Hamas ends ceasefire Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader and Palestinian prime minister, blamed Israel for stepping up the level of violence. "We made great efforts at keeping the truce and there was a positive Palestinian position, but unfortunately this position was met by expanding the aggression against the Palestinian people," he said.
04-24-07 - Israeli army opens fire at homes, Al Barghouthi warns of effects of Israeli attack on Gaza Israeli army tanks stationed east of Khan Younis city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip opened fire at nearby Palestinian civilian homes on Tuesday morning. The homes sustained damage, no injures were reported.
04-24-07 - Israel bars chief Islamic cleric from travelling to Jordan
04-24-07 - Abbas says Hamas truce violation will not be repeated
04-24-07 - Norway says Palestinian engagement slowly bearing fruit Norway said the month-long policy of international engagement with the Palestinian unity government, led by the Islamic group Hamas, was starting to bring results and helped avoid "civil war tendencies".
04-24-07 - US warns Palestinians not to abandon truce with Israel The United States warned Palestinians on Tuesday not to abandon a spotty ceasefire with Israel, saying the "pathway to Palestine" and an independent state lies through negotiations, not violence. Why not tell Israel to stop killing Palestinians, particularly Palestinian children, which is a violation of the ceasefire and the reason that Hamas is calling off the truce. Rocket science.
04-24-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus and nearby village
04-24-07 - BBC's Johnston 'in good health'
04-24-07 - Two soldiers hurt as activists march to Homesh The army had wavered on the question of authorizing the march, but ultimately decided that anyone attempting to reach the settlement would be breaking the law. Despite this, army sources said the Israel Defense Forces did not expect to fully stop the activists, who planned to spend Independence Day at Homesh.
04-24-07 - Israeli jet fighters buzz Hezbollah's new bases
04-24-07 - Attack by Hamas Casts Doubt on Future of Cease-Fire in Gaza Notice this propaganda by the NYT with the headline laying blame on Hamas for the breakdown of the ceasefire, when Israel killed 9 Palestinians in two days - 2 of whom were children, which this author conveniently omits from the article. Nah. No bias there.
04-24-07 - Students Abducted And Beaten
04-24-07 - It's foreign policy, stupid! Dems have a brand new bag Marc Winkelman of Austin, Texas, expressed relief that the candidates focused on foreign policy. He had feared that an isolationist wing would draw the party inward. "This was a big concern," Winkelman said. "A lot of people believe we have no right to stick our nose in other people's business."
04-24-07 - New Mexico buys $5 million in bonds
04-24-07 - U.S. lawmakers protest U.K. boycott U.S. Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, and Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) wrote Monday to Sir David Manning about the National Union of Journalists' decision to boycott Israel How is that part of their duties on Capitol Hill?
04-24-07 - Haneya to start Arab, Asian tour in early May
04-24-07 - Lawmaker urges accountability at Al-Hurrah U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), head of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said Al-Hurrah has violated U.S. policy by airing live interviews with terrorist leaders such as Hezbollah chief Sheik Hasan Nasrallah.
04-24-07 - Obama: 'Tough' talk needed on Mideast "We have to be very hardheaded and clear-eyed about the dangers that exist throughout the Middle East in those who seek to perpetrate terror against the United States as well as Israel," Obama (D-Ill.) said Tuesday at the National Jewish Democratic Council's Washington conference, where he appeared with every other Democratic candidate for the presidency.
04-24-07 - Israel's 'modesty buses' draw fire
04-24-07 - Khalidi: Constraints on Palestine fueled conflict In breaking apart the colonial imperial structure, the international community promised to grant Palestine self-determination, he said. But it did not follow through on its pledge, he added, focusing instead on creating a Jewish state.
04-24-07 - Twenty-Four Injured at Demonstration Marking End of Bil'in Conference At an awards ceremony,
CPT along with other international accompaniment organizations received a
certificate of appreciation from the Palestinian National Authority for its work
in the region. The conference ended with a peaceful demonstration on Friday
afternoon. Similar demonstrations in the village of Bil'in have taken place
every Friday for the last two years protesting the building of the
separation/apartheid wall through village land.
04-24-07 - 'Bedouins only good in uniform' "A good Bedouin soldier is one in uniform, not one that has finished his service and goes back to being just another Arab",
04-24-07 - 21 Home demolition orders, activists to maintain presence in Izbat at-Tabib
04-24-07 - Obama tries to reassure Jewish voters Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) on Tuesday tried to reassure Jewish voters concerned about his Muslim ties, arguing that his commitment to Israel's security is unwavering.
04-24-07 - Lieberman: Patience With Iran Wearing Thin ** "We have begun to work with reformers within Iran,? he said in remarks reported by the Montreal Gazette.
04-24-07 - War With Iran Could Force the ?Silent To Act' ** The Israeli minister of housing, Meir Shetreet, downplayed the prospects of an Israeli attack on Iran. "I don't think Israel should be the one to take on Iran," he said. "This is a threat against the Western world." Right.
04-24-07 - Bush, Olmert discuss Mideast peace efforts
04-24-07 - Jailing of Syrian a 'sad commentary' on freedom under Assad: US Israel just shot an Irish Nobel peace prize winner, jailed a famous Puerto Rican peace activist, and we all know what israel did to RAchel Corrie. BUt Syrians are da bad guys. Israel good, Arabs bad.
04-24-07 - Azzun Al Atma: gate in the Wall controlled by soldiers who photograph girls Abed Ayub said that soldiers at the gate to the Wall which surrounds the town seven kilometers south of Qalqilia stopped a private car and photographed the girls inside.
04-24-07 - United Church Delegation Calls for an End to Palestinian Embargo In a letter sent this week to Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, the Moderator of The United Church of Canada is urging the
Canadian government to "urgently and immediately resume financial support to
the Palestinian Unity Government so that the Palestinian people can live the
life of dignity to which they are entitled."
04-24-07 - Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) to Host Briefing on the Growing Phenomenon of Holocaust Denial, May 1 The event, sponsored by Rep. Steven Rothman (D-NJ), will be timed to accompany Holocaust Remembrance Day......During the presentation, exclusive footage will be shown for the first time in the West.
The footage includes translated segments of statements by the most infamous Western Holocaust deniers appearing in Middle East media, as well as statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
04-24-07 - Christian Zionists raise hackles over fundraiser "Christian support for Israel is a good thing," Morrison said. "I have no idea what their politics are because we didn't discuss it."
04-24-07 - Bishara: Israel?s democracy is meant for select few
04-24-07 - The Legend of the Removed Checkpoints
04-24-07 - Homesh Return March Exceeds Expectations IDF soldiers at checkpoints along the way are making no attempt, as of Tuesday evening, to stop the marchers, saying they are there to secure the area, protect the marchers from Arabs from local villages, and to prevent activists from using side trails off the main road.
04-24-07 - Higher Follow-up Committee calls for continued resistance, end of chaos The Higher Follow-up Committee for National and Islamic Factions held an urgent meeting on Tuesday to discuss the recent escalation in Israeli military attacks and assassinations of Palestinians
04-24-07 - Army chief: We shall not back down if war is forced on us "We are not an army that seeks war, but a defensive army. Which was why last year's war with Lebanon was in the works months before Hezbollah abducted the soldiers? Mmm k.
04-24-07 - Norwegian officials to meet US Secretary of State Rice Thursday Rice will no doubt attempt to get Norway to join the boycott of the Palestinian government. This she will do acting in her capacity as- like so many others in our govt - a servant of the state of Israel.
04-24-07 - NYU sees growing dialogue on Middle East issues
04-24-07 - Women's Division addresses Middle East, immigrants The division also called for an end to "uncritical" U.S. support of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights. It asked both the U.S. and Israeli governments to support cleanup of unexploded cluster bombs in southern Lebanon
04-24-07 - Controversial film stirs heated debate Religion and politics collided at an event hosted by the College Republicans titled "Islamofascism Awareness Day." The organization publicly screened the award-winning 60-minute documentary, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West,"
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
04-23-07 - Ceasefire under threat after Israeli raids kill nine
04-23-07 - ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS UNITE TO PROTECT JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY ? UNESCO
04-23-07 - Six homes to be destroyed for Wall under pretext of lack of Israeli-issued permits Israeli forces will destroy six more Bethlehem homes. The Israeli Major General Yair Naveh issued notices to six citizens in Umm Salamuna Village in southern Bethlehem.
04-23-07 - Israeli Settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Hebron and injure two The settlers from Kurmitsur settlement, which is located on stolen village land, attacked the farmers who were working on their land just out side the barbed wire fence surrounding the settlement
04-23-07 - The forced starvation diet of Palestinians
04-23-07 - Cash-strapped Palestinians see livelihoods decimated by security crisis
04-23-07 - HEBRON UPDATE: 1-7 April 2007 The
Palestinian man fears that Israelwill now build an IDF post on the hill. In this
way, as well as others,Israel has been gradually, and illegally, expanding
Haggai
04-23-07 - Johnston kidnappers want £2.5m
04-23-07 - Multi-faith appeal for Johnston "His abduction was a catastrophe. If you wanted to find a person whose abduction could damage the Palestinian cause, you couldn't find anyone better to do the job." Odd, isn't it?
04-23-07 - AT-TUWANI: Israeli military targets shepherds, seven-year-old boy in South In the past ten days, Israeli soldiers abducted several shepherds, including a
7-year-old boy, who were grazing their sheep near Israeli settlements in the
Southern Hebron District. In none of the cases did they send them to the Israeli
civilian police for the required legal processing.
04-23-07 - Two dead as new violence hits Palestinian camps
04-23-07 - As Palestinian government is set to implement security plan, chaos increases in Gaza
04-23-07 - Report: Egypt cracking down on Hamas Egypt reportedly is getting tougher on Hamas. The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that new actions include travel restrictions on Hamas officials and tightened border control to prevent weapons smuggling from Sinai into Gaza.
04-23-07 - Israeli forces arrest five high school students and use another as human shield
04-23-07 - Shootout in East Jerusalem leaves two injured
04-23-07 - IDF denies rumors it distributed leaflets in Gaza
04-23-07 - Israeli army continues to enforce curfew on Howwara town near Nablus
04-23-07 - PLO: Israeli forces looking for way out of negotiations by attacking Palestinians
04-23-07 - Palestinian interior minister submits resignation
04-23-07 - What do Israelis think about America's role in the world? a remarkable total of 82 percent of Israelis say that the United States takes their interests into account. A mere 14 percent disagree. No kidding? Why we NEVER would've guessed that the US takes Israel's interests into account. Will wonders never cease?!
04-23-07 - Mubasher signs strategic agreement with Palestinian Stock Market Exchange Mubasher, a subsidiary of National Technology Group (NTG) and the premier provider of e-financial solutions, has recently announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with the Palestinian Stock Market Exchange that will enable the company to provide website users and investors with access to Palestinian financial information through the ?Mubasher Pro? real time stock market information service.
04-23-07 - Pakistan vigil for BBC's Gaza man Journalists in Pakistan have held a vigil calling for the release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston who was abducted in Gaza six weeks ago.
04-23-07 - Tree Planting in Biddu
04-23-07 - Calls for end of embargo on Palestinians Main opposition PASOK leader George Papandreou called for the lifting of an embargo imposed on the Palestinians after a meeting on Monday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is currently on a visit to Athens.
04-23-07 - Leftist lights torch for Fatah commander at alternative ceremony Lefist Tali Fahima lit a torch Monday in honor of Zakaria Zubeidi, the commander of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing). "I light this for my friend Zakaria Zubeidi, with whom I have demolished fortresses," she said.
04-23-07 - USAID Distributes Insulin to West Bank Hospitals and Clinics The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Monday insulin deliveries to 37 Palestinian health care facilities in West Bank (WB).
04-23-07 - Several detainees confined to solitary for objecting to collective punishment
04-23-07 - SCOTTISH HOSPITAL VISIT PREPARES PALESTINIAN CHAPLAIN FOR NEW ROLE
04-23-07 - Nobel laureate treated, released after being shot in West Bank rally Maguire had been attending the Second Bil'in International Conference on Nonviolence in the West Bank village of Bil'in, where Palestinians and international and Israeli peace activists have held such protests against the wall since February 2005.
04-23-07 - Islamic Jihad rejects Pakistan's offer of peace mediation
04-23-07 - British boycott a blow to journalism It gets easy to spot the Israel-defenders that sit on editorial boards of major news media across the world.
04-23-07 - The President of Iran Is Not Hitler Another piece in Israel My Glory quotes Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that ?unless the United States stops Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, America has only two to five years left.?
04-23-07 - Is the Media Sabotaging the AIPAC Spy Trial? A few of the same corporate news outlets filing the motion were willingly used by Weissman and Rosen to disseminate classified information to further AIPAC's policy objectives Is the author of this piece suggesting that there is an abundance of Israel-defenders in the mainstream media in America? Preposterous! ....
04-23-07 - Arab doctors criticize security check at train station in Haifa
04-23-07 - Fadlallah: Lebanese 'addicted' to 'foreign forces' Senior Shiite cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said the Lebanese had given up control of their own affairs and "merely following up on foreign stands taken by regional and international forces ... planning to use the Lebanese arena to serve their strategic interests."
04-23-07 - Levin Gives Cheney Reason To Smirk Levin may be concerned about things other than looking bad. Those taking part in last month?s meeting of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington heard stern warnings from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni that America not show ?weakness? on Iraq ? warnings that a U.S. troop withdrawal would make the neighborhood far more dangerous for Israel.
04-23-07 - 130 UK doctors call for boycott of Israeli Medical Association
04-23-07 - Bombing of American school: Gaza's latest nightmare "We have become Iraq," a dusty man said while bending down on the floor, trying to clear away the debris from an explosion that rocked the school early Saturday morning.
04-23-07 - Israel eyes Iran's aims nervously For now Israeli sources believe that diplomacy can defuse the situation. As one senior source told me, "2007 will be the year in which we bear the fruits of the sanctions against Iran".
04-23-07 - Police, Customs bust $37m drug import AN Israeli national has been charged with trying to import the synthetic drug MDMA, with a street value of $37 million, into Australia inside three hot water tanks.
04-23-07 - Israeli envoy plans for new French leader France's next president and ministers must understand the importance of relations with Israel, Israel's ambassador to France told JTA.
04-23-07 - Former Arab Israeli MP to whip up support campaign Prominent Arab Israeli Azmi Bishara plans to whip up an international support campaign before returning from abroad to face accusations that led him to resign from parliament after 11 years
04-23-07 - The right to strike John Kennedy's assassination and the rise to power of Lyndon Johnson improved Israel's status in Washington. For American Jewry, the political and personal channels to Johnson were more open, warm and influential. Johnson did not share Kennedy's intransigent opposition to the reactor at Dimona.....the new president appointed to three key positions officials who were more sympathetic to Israel than their predecessors Interesting. Read the last few articles with respect to the Liberty. Israel still refuses to admit that the attack was deliberate.
04-23-07 - Muslim activists protest Israeli lawmakers' trip to Indonesia
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