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Thursday, April 12, 2007
04-11-07 - Masked men kill police officer in Gaza Masked gunmen in the volatile Gaza Strip on Wednesday shot dead a Palestinian police officer loyal to the moderate Fatah movement, medical sources said.
04-11-07 - Survey: 10 percent of Palestinian children suffer permanent effects of malnutrition
04-11-07 - The Israeli army abducts seven civilians from Nablus city
04-11-07 - PLC deputy: US attempting to sow internal discord by donating money to Fateh security
04-11-07 - Education Ministry and judges targeted in arrest campaign In the southern West Bank's Hebron, Israeli forces took the 40 year old Director of Education, Nizar Shehada, prompting demonstrations demanding his release. Soldiers broke into his Ras Al Gorah home in the north of Hebron before dawn this morning.
04-11-07 - Hamas slams U.S. fund for Abbas' forces "The American administration has never been with the Palestinian people's interest, they have been aligned to the Israeli agenda,"
04-11-07 - Israeli army raids Nablus to arrest militant
04-11-07 - EU demands "transparency" in Palestinian finances
04-11-07 - Hamas signals willingness to negotiate on prisoners
04-11-07 - EU boosts Palestinian ties by meeting finance chief (Roundup)
04-11-07 - Russian General Says U.S. Continues Preparations for Iran Strike ** "If Iran strikes back at Israel with missiles, Tel-Aviv is likely to use nuclear weapons on Iran," Ivashov said, adding that such a "development of the situation would undermine stability not only in the Middle East, but also in the entire world."
04-11-07 - Israeli army kidnaps four civilians in Hebron including two officials
04-11-07 - Fayyad Starts from Brussels the Trip to Mobilize Financial Support
04-11-07 - Israel lifts Passover closure of West Bank The army on Wednesday lifted its 10-day closure of the West Bank, renewing the restricted movement of tens of thousands of Palestinian laborers and merchants into Israel.
04-11-07 - President Abbas in Bethlehem criticizes Israeli government for impeding freedom of worship
04-11-07 - Report: ?68 women gave birth on checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died? The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli troops stationed at hundreds of roadblocks in the occupied territories barred dozens of pregnant women from crossing the checkpoints while in labor; 34 infants and four women died on their roadblocks.
04-11-07 - Hebron settler eviction ordered The defence minister's decision follows a legal assessment by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that concluded that the building was unlawfully occupied.
All of Palestinian territory is unlawfully occupied, genius.
04-11-07 - BBC's day of action for reporter BBC Director-General Mark Thompson is making a direct appeal for his release.
04-11-07 - Divide and rule - America's plan for Baghdad ** the campaign has far wider military ambitions than the pacification of Baghdad. It now appears that the US military intends to place as many as five mechanised brigades - comprising about 40,000 men - south and east of Baghdad, at least three of them positioned between the capital and the Iranian border. This would present Iran with a powerful - and potentially aggressive - American military force close to its border in the event of a US or Israeli military strike against its nuclear facilities later this year.........Those attending the course - American army generals serving in Iraq and top officers from the US Marine Corps, along with, according to some reports, at least four senior Israeli officers - participated in a series of debates to determine how best to "turn round" the disastrous war in Iraq.
Read that last sentence again.
04-11-07 - Israeli official denies rejection to prisoners list
04-11-07 - EU Says No to Aiding Palestinian Unity Government New Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad has failed to convince the European Union to agree to resume aid to the Palestinian Authority despite what he called a "very acute financial crisis".
04-11-07 - Palestinian nonviolent resistance in Israeli prisons: hunger strike against solitary confinement Palestinian political prisoners are conducting a one-day hunger strike protesting the Israeli policy of solitary confinement. The Minister of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Taysir Abu Sneineh, announced the strike during a Ramallah press conference held yesterday.
04-11-07 - On video: Palestinian as human shield The terror-stricken 24-year-old Palestinian soon found himself forced onto the front lines of Israel's shadowy war against militants, a human shield as he led heavily armed soldiers from house to house. "I was afraid I would die," he said in a recent interview.
A rare story by the AP that actually portrays some truth about the I-P conflict.
04-11-07 - New PA plan to safeguard West Bank, Gaza
04-11-07 - Israel says Russia against a nuclear-armed Iran
04-11-07 - Palestinian minister seeks $1.3 billion in aid
04-11-07 - Four Palestinians wounded during clashes in Gaza and Rafah Four Palestinian residents were reportedly injured Wednesday during family clashes in both the Gaza Strip cities of Gaza and Rafah, Palestinian medical sources said.
04-11-07 - Wadi Joz home saved from bulldozers for five days Farid Jaber and his family are sleeping in their East Jerusalem home tonight, but just barely. On Wednesday afternoon an Israeli municipal court postponed demolition for five days for a fine of 30,000 shekels.
04-11-07 - Army abducts a university teacher at a checkpoint near Ramallah
04-11-07 - More Gazans at risk from new sewage flood
04-11-07 - Israel, Palestinians to start U.S.-arranged talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet on Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas under a U.S.-brokered deal but Israel made clear the focus would not be on steps toward a Palestinian state as Abbas hoped.
04-11-07 - From June 2003: Friendless Fire? But instead of punishing the attackers, Israel honors them in a museum. Told of the display, retired Air Force Major General John Morrison, NSA deputy director for operations at the time, commented, "I am offended by that." And retired Army Lieutenant General William Odom, NSA director from 1985 to 1988, and also unaware of the display, remarked, "I am astonished that Israel should put glory on the people who killed my SigInt-ers [signals intelligence personnel]."10 The Liberty's blood-stained flag is exhibited at the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland.
04-11-07 - Palestinian family must wait in jail for case hearing "Just because they're immigrants doesn't take their rights as human beings,"
04-11-07 - Bank of Israel has 1 Arab employee Despite promises by Governor Stanley Fischer to open bank's doors to minorities, only one Arab Israeli was recruited
04-11-07 - BEIT ARABIYA THREATENED WITH DEMOLITION FOR THE FIFTH TIME! The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an Occupying Power to extend its law and administration to an occupied territory, rendering the very process of granting or denying permits to Palestinians, not to mention Israel?s policy of house demolitions, patently illegal under international humanitarian law;
04-11-07 - Closed 1967 Senate protocols reveal bids to pressure Israel Hundreds of pages released this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee contain protocols of closed committee hearings from the seminal year of 1967, including one in which former Senator William J. Fulbright is quoted as saying, "The trouble is they [the Israel lobby] think they have control of the Senate and they can do as they please." Fulbright was castigated for his efforts to put American interests first back THEN. Same phenom continues to this day, which is why our politicians rarely say a word.
04-11-07 - Iraqi girl's first operation is a success Damsky spent more than a year serving with the Army Reserves in Iraq, where he met Noor's father. He and his family are hosting the mother and daughter at their apartment in Astoria, Queens. Noor's trip here and medical expenses are being paid for by the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, while Damsky and other donors are covering the family's living expenses.
04-11-07 - Supporters of Norman Finkelstein the fight is not yet over. Please continue to show your support by writing a comment or signing your name (and institutional affiliation if applicable) at the bottom of this page.
04-11-07 - Palestinian president to visit Italy
04-11-07 - Author to lecture at UMass about Israeli-Palestinian conflict
04-11-07 - Chaos in the "Greater Middle East"
04-11-07 - Pelosi proffered olive branch to troubled region This year marks 40 years of Israeli occupation in Palestine, 40 years of oppression of the Palestinian Arabs. Is there any wonder they are as angry as they are?
04-11-07 - Mansour: Israel's Continued Violent Acts Contradict Concept of Peace Dr. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, said in a letter to the President of the UN Security Council Mr. Emyr Jones Parry that Israeli, the occupying Power, continues to carry out violent and unlawful policies that are totally contradictory to the concept of peace.
04-11-07 - Senate plans vote on MidEast divestment The ASSU Undergraduate Senate moved a step closer to voting on the controversial Israel divestment bill that members first discussed during winter quarter at its meeting last night.
04-11-07 - Only Two Tories on Canada-Palestinian Hill Group In a press release, Mr. Ménard said the association aims to foster dialogue between Palestinian and Canadian parliamentarians, create a better understanding of issues in both countries, contribute to a fair and lasting peace in the Middle East and to "support all measures conducive to the establishment of a viable and sovereign Palestinian state."
04-11-07 - Palestinian director screens film, holds workshops in Asheville ?The Olive Harvest,? which won the Skyy Prize at the San Francisco Film Festival, is a tale of romantic love, tradition and family loyalty, played against the larger climate of political and economic unease in a Palestinian village.
04-11-07 - Israeli Jets Scramble to Intercept U.S. Airliner After Communications Loss Israeli media reported later Wednesday that the air force planes were close to opening fire on the airliner when it restored contact. The pilot was interrogated after landing.
04-11-07 - Report: Hezbollah preparing for summer war
04-11-07 - New Fair Trade Deal between Palestinian Farmers and #1 Organic Soap Brand Presented at Green Festival The first ever Fair Trade
deal between a leading American company and Palestinian farmers will be
discussed from 2:30 to 3:30 PM on Saturday, April 21 at the Chicago Green
Festival in the Fair Trade Pavilion which will be held at McCormick
Place/Lakeside 2301 S. Lake Shore in Chicago.
04-11-07 - Ottawa's Snub of Palestinian Minister a Miscalculated Move
04-11-07 - Information Minister: Israeli military has blood on more than just its hands As the list of Palestinians to be released in an exchange is rejected, Information Minister Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi is accusing the Israeli government of destroying progress. ?Israel is fully responsible for impeding the exchange? of several hundred Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli soldier captured in the southern Gaza Strip
04-11-07 - Imprisoned since 1977, Nablus man tops list for exchange
04-11-07 - Chicago Palestine Film Festival shorts reviewed
04-11-07 - The Palestinian perspective It is unrealistic to ask people who continue to be oppressed, dispossessed and persecuted to quit resisting the oppressor, the dispossessor, the persecutor and forego their internationally established rights. It is unrealistic to ask Palestinians to recognize Israel while Israel refuses to recognize the democratically elected Palestinian government.
04-11-07 - On Old Jerusalem both offenses against another religion are being committed today -- by Israel. And the outrage is conspicuously missing
04-11-07 - Al-Saleh Foundation adopts 500 Palestinian orphans . This means that it will provide these orphans with food, homes, and everything else they need. Saleh has also offered 100 government jobs to orphans all around the country, and donated YR500 million to the al-Saleh Foundation, after donating the same amount to the Dar al-Rahma Foundation for Human Development.
04-11-07 - Tokyo Carves Out Role In Middle East
04-11-07 - Ad prompts change in policy In response to a controversial pro-Israel ad, UF's Student Senate passed a bill Tuesday specifying that Student Government-funded organizations must use the SG logo and the organization's name on any publication.
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