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Sunday, April 15, 2007
04-14-07 - Strike spreads across Gaza Mountains of garbage piled up across Gaza yesterday and acrid smoke billowed from burning refuse bins as a municipal workers' strike over unpaid salaries spread to the territory's five biggest towns, in the widest sign of public dissatisfaction with the Palestinians' new coalition government.
04-14-07 - Palestinian cabinet approves security plan to end lawlessness Mustafa al-Barghouti, minister of information and spokesman of the cabinet, told reporters in Ramallah at the end of the meeting that the cabinet had approved the security plan, adding "the government will start implementing it soon."
04-14-07 - Two women injured by Israeli army fire in Qalqilia The Israeli army stormed the city of Qalqilia and surrounded a house overlooking Nablus Street in the city center, army snipers took positions on top of neighboring houses and opened fire at the two women who were on their roof top watching the military invasion
04-14-07 - Union calls for BBC man's release The UK's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has strongly condemned the abduction of BBC reporter Alan Johnston in Gaza more than a month ago.
04-14-07 - Egyptian FM rules out Arab committee negotiating with Israel
04-14-07 - China calls for political solution to Palestinian-Israeli issue through talks Hailing the formation of Palestinian national unity government,Sun said China has been attaching importance to the Middle East issues and insisting that the Palestinian-Israeli issue should be solved through talks on the basis of concerned UN resolutions and the "land for peace" principle.
04-14-07 - Militants urge Abbas to reform Fatah movement
04-14-07 - Islamic Jihad vows to continue to shell Israeli communities
04-14-07 - High Court to start hearing Adalah petition on possible IDF war crimes in Gaza Dozens of Palestinians - 44 of them children - were killed in the two operations, and 258 houses were destroyed. According to the petition, the houses were home to 522 families.....HRW claims the operation was motivated by revenge for the killing of soldiers in the area the previous week.
04-14-07 - Reporting on a conflict: Fearless in Gaza Alan's fate has scared us all and has changed the atmosphere dramatically. Before, we were aware of the danger but took the risk and continued to travel to Gaza. Now I haven't been for a month. I am losing touch with contacts, friends and the feel of the place
04-14-07 - Palestinian camp children 'shoot' gloomy life in Lebanon The project has already achieved wonders. Through it, Mohamad, an 11-year-old boy at Rashidiyeh camp in southern Lebanon, has been able to overcome his fear and roll out of his home in his wheelchair to take pictures. Mohamad lost both his legs in the explosion of a fragmentation bomb dropped by Israeli forces on southern Lebanon during the Jewish state's military offensive in July-August 2006.
04-14-07 - Palestinians omit Fatah leader from prisoner swap list
04-14-07 - Night in Jenin Camp: family forced outside in the cold while Israeli soldiers destroy belongings
04-14-07 - No breakthrough seen at Olmert-Abbas Jerusalem talks Israeli officials said three key issues -- defining the borders of a Palestinian state, the status of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees -- would not be on the agenda.
04-14-07 - Palestinians to request control over West Bank cities Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will ask Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting Sunday that Israel hand over control over several West Bank towns to the Palestinians, a PA official told Ynet.
04-14-07 - President Receives Chinese Special Envoy to Middle East President Mahmoud Abbas received on Saturday in the Presidential HQ in Ramallah, Chinese special envoy on the Middle East issue, Mr. Sun Bigan.
04-14-07 - Palestinian PM says the government is seriously following up Johnston?s case
04-14-07 - Palestinian PM calls for halting statements regarding the prisoner swap deal
04-14-07 - ATFP seeks surgeons to work one week in Palestine The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) has announced a partnership with The Palestine Children?s Relief Fund (PCRF) to administer a new humanitarian medical program to help alleviate the Palestinian medical situation in the West Bank.
04-14-07 - Kurdistan's Covert Back-Channels Michaels' team brought in dozens of Israeli combat veterans through the Turkish-Iraqi Kurdish border, traveling on Israeli passports whose details were duly noted by Ankara. Soon the Turkish government grew alarmed that Israeli military types were moving into northern Iraq, claiming to be agriculture advisers and the like
04-14-07 - FBI: Hizbullah avoiding attacks on US Fuentes described the FBI as having a "close relationship" with Israel when it comes to combating terrorism, adding that that was also true for the FBI's counterparts in neighboring countries.
04-14-07 - Hazor "Extra Virgin Olive Oil" Full flavored and
artisan, produced in very limited quantities.
Made from early harvest olives which are
pressed immediately - yielding a distinct
peppery aftertaste and vibrant green color
04-14-07 - UN's 30-year quest for Lebanon peace Four unarmed observers - from Finland, Canada, Austria and China - were killed when the UN's observation post was bombed to smithereens by Israel at the height of last summer's fighting. Israel apologised, saying it was a mistake, but eight months on, UN personnel barely conceal their contempt.
04-14-07 - Guess Who Wants to "Micromanage" the President's Policy on Iran? the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - the same folks who lobbied to remove the provision against an illegal attack on Iran from the supplemental - is pushing to strengthen unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran. Guess what their proposed legislation - H.R. 1400 and S. 970 - would do?
04-14-07 - Walt, Mearsheimer walk back from Iraq claim Two professors who published a controversial paper on the "Israel lobby" appear to have walked back from their claim that pro-Israel voices were principally responsible for the Iraq war.
04-14-07 - Dilemmas for aid policy in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories
04-14-07 - Plans for New York Arabic school draw protests, 'jihad' labels This month, some parents have held protests. A headline in The Brooklyn Paper called the fight a "holy war."
04-14-07 - Russian official: Israel-Syria tensions might escalate into war As for the Iranian nuclear program, Ivanov said Russia would not allow the Islamic republic to arm itself with nuclear weapons. "A nuclear Iran would threaten Russia, too," he said.
04-14-07 - When compassion takes a back seat In this 21st century, a group of so-called civilised countries are content to starve a nation into submission
04-14-07 - Citizenship for Jews only? Citizenship rights in Israel must be premised on democratic values, equality
04-14-07 - Mahmud Abbas to Pay Visit to Bulgaria The goal of the trip will be to drum support for and encourage negotiations with the recently formed Palestinian national unity government including the Islamic militant group Hamas and the more moderate Fatah.
04-14-07 - Report: 1 in 5 Israelis excluded from public healthcare services The report states that among those excluded from health services are Bedouins from unrecognized communities in the Negev, the poor, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, illegal foreign workers, Israeli women married to Palestinian residents of the territories, refugees, asylum-seekers, prisoners and those whose civil status is unclear.
04-14-07 - Former Detroit schools administrator faces terrorism trial A criminal complaint issued in December 2004 said Jayyousi, a Palestinian who became a U.S. citizen about 1986, conspired with Kassem Daher, a former theater owner in the Edmonton area of Canada, and Hassoun to recruit mujahideen, guerrillas, to fight overseas.
04-14-07 - The men behind Israel's proxy war Together with his boss, Paul Wolfowitz, then deputy defence secretary, Douglas Feith was part of an influential group of pro-Israeli neo-conservatives in the Bush administration who exploited the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the US to campaign and plot the overthrow of Saddam Hussain.
04-14-07 - Women for Peace March Heads off to Madaba Participants in the Women for Peace March, who had visited Syrian and Lebanon will depart for Palestine tomorrow.
04-14-07 - Damascus denies secret Israel peace talks "The statements and the ideas of the American-Syrian Ibrahim Suleiman do not reflect the point of view of Syria, which has repeated many times its refusal to undertake secret negotiations" with Israel, the official was quoted as saying.
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