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Thursday, April 19, 2007
04-18-07 - Palestinian child seriously injured by Israeli settler gunfire near Bethlehem The child was identified as Haitham Khalil Abu Mfarrih, 14. He was shot in his back by a settler driving on the main road close to the village.
04-18-07 - Border policeman acquitted of killing Palestinian However the court ruled that the shooting was a "reasonable" act, adding that "a string of errors led to the tragic result."
04-18-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus city; clashes with resistance and abducts four civilians
04-18-07 - Three children injured as Israeli army invades a village near Ramallah
04-18-07 - The lush Qana Valley lost to pollution from Israeli settlements In the 1970s the Israeli settlements began destroying the natural beauty and replaced the water with sewage flowing through huge pipes from the settlements. The diversion of water dried up the natural springs after the Israeli company Mekorot installed pumps to draw the water into the settlements.
04-18-07 - Russia?s National Security Advisor calls for revival of Middle East peace
04-18-07 - Israeli army abducts 12 Palestinian civilians from villages near Jenin
04-18-07 - Jordanian Monarch: resolving the question of Palestine is key to regional stability
04-18-07 - Information Minister condemns continual Israeli attacks and again calls for international conference
04-18-07 - Positive meeting with French President, Abbas says if blockade not lifted, consequences will be dire
04-18-07 - Israel, Palestinians begin extending operations at key Gaza cargo crossing
04-18-07 - Arab FMs open meeting on ways to activate peace initiative with Israel
04-18-07 - Hundreds join the Bilin Conferene on Popular Resistance More than five hundred Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists arrived in Bilin on Wednesday morning to join the second international conference on popular resistance, which is held in a marquee in the heart of the village.
04-18-07 - PA civil servants in Gaza and the West Bank stage a strike
04-18-07 - Squeeze Play: Approach Tehran with Sticks, Not Carrots ** In short, all the key players in the Middle East -- Sunni, Shia, Israeli -- now have nuclear weapons at a moment when the simmering and, in some cases, quite open conflicts between the region's states, sects, and ethnicities are almost too numerous to count. If that situation sounds terrifying, it should.......Needless to say, a nuclear arms race in the Middle East would greatly increase the chances of war -- between Sunnis and Shia or between Israelis and Muslims -- through mistake or miscalculation. For this reason alone, we must prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Another genius that has failed to grasp the notion that America is NOT Israel. That's Dennis Ross (a pro-Israeli) writing for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy - AIPAC'S 'thinktank'.
04-18-07 - Gates vows US will persevere with Baghdad crackdown "We have anticipated from the very beginning... that the insurgency and others would increase the violence to make the people of Iraq believe the plan is a failure," Gates said at a joint press conference with his Israeli counterpart Amir Peretz in Tel Aviv as he continued a regional tour.
04-18-07 - Israeli army levels a Palestinian factory near Ramallah
04-18-07 - U.S. could ease flow of funds to PLO McCormack said such a decision would be up to the U.S. Treasury. A Treasury spokeswoman declined comment.
04-18-07 - Deal struck to halt attacks on Israel: Abbas aide
04-18-07 - Islamic Jihad denies reports of halting rocket attacks An Islamic Jihad (Holy War) leader on Wednesday denied reports that his movement agreed to halt rocket attacks on Israel, but he admitted talks on the issue were underway.
04-18-07 - 'Occupation' takes home Golden Palm "Occupation 101," directed by brothrs Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, was the recepient of the Golden Palm Award at the 7th annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The documentary about the U.S. government's involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also took the prize for best editing.
04-18-07 - Civil Rights on Campus The Civil Rights Commission's new Web site has already won praise from both the Zionist Organization of America and the Anti-Defamation League. The battle against anti-Israel sentiment on campus will be a long struggle and not an easy one, for the tendencies are related to the anti-American sentiment that also all too often obtains among college professors This is from the NY Sun, a staunchly pro-Israel newspaper. Did you read between the lines here? This is an admission that these new efforts by the Civil Rights Comission to study anti-Semitism on campus are about ONE THING - the fight against critics of Israel. Be warned. Americans have EVERY RIGHT to criticize Israel. The Israeli lobby is seeking to take away your right to FREE SPEECH.
04-18-07 - Indonesia uses one-year Fed Cup suspension to train juniors The Foreign Ministry ordered the team to pull out of the tie in protest over Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip. Indonesia, with the largest Muslim population in the world, has long been a supporter of Palestinian independence.
04-18-07 - DePaul professor to address Israel-Palestine issues at lecture tonight Finkelstein said the United States' role has been "profoundly destructive" to the quest for peace in the Middle East.
04-18-07 - Egypt, Jordan to convince Israel to accept Arab initiative "Israel's position has not changed -- we will not dictate to them what they should say to us, nor would we to anybody, and we intend to fully set out our own proposals."
04-18-07 - "Unintentional" Apartheid After closing the main street in downtown Hebron to non-Jews for nearly seven years, Israel?s war establishment is now probing whether this particular, deliberate example of apartheid, materializing in allowing Jews through a street while closing it for Palestinians, was "intentional."
04-18-07 - Film explores Hollywood vilification of Arabs "I've watched over a 1,000 films and each one consists of hateful Arab stereotypes,"
04-18-07 - The Holocaust as Israel's political asset Turning the Holocaust into a political asset serves Israel primarily in its fight against the Palestinians. When the Holocaust is on one side of the scale, along with the guilty (and rightly so) conscience of the West, the dispossession of the Palestinian people from their homeland in 1948 is minimized and blurred.
04-18-07 - Gates tries to ease Israeli concerns "I'm confident that the Russians would be very happy to sell weapons to countries in the region," he said. Gates said he affirmed the U.S. will continue to help Israel maintain its qualitative military edge, but did not say whether the Saudi deal would go through. Our government must get Israel's permission to sell weapons to Middle Eastern nations, among other things.
04-18-07 - Shoah survivors forced back to Germany due to Israel's lack of restitution laws Holocaust survivors have left Israel to live out the rest of their days in Germany due to the better conditions they receive there, according to a documentary program broadcast Tuesday night by Israel's Channel 2 television. Irony.
04-18-07 - Dems Divided over Webb?s Proposal Requiring Approval for Attacking Iran ** The reversal quieted some Democrats? concerns that reining in Bush on Iran could endanger Israel?s security in the Middle East.
04-18-07 - Israel will not pay exhorbitant price for soldier: Olmert
04-18-07 - More and more Jews reject putting support for Israel over Palestinians? fundamental rights
04-18-07 - Council says no to Rafah tie
04-18-07 - UN World Food Program Reps Takes a Look for Themselves According to recent data from the World Health Organization and UNICEF, the UN's children's agency, over 40 percent of Palestinian five-year-olds are anemic. Nearly 76 percent of children one-to-six years of age show signs of being or becoming vitamin A deficient. Also, 35 percent of all Palestinian families are food insecure and another 27 percent vulnerable to insecurity.
04-18-07 - US wishes Arab contact group with Israel was larger The US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington had notably approached some governments in the Gulf and North Africa which have limited ties with Israel to join the group, but without success. Thus does the US government continue to do Israel's bidding.
04-18-07 - Belgian Defense Minister: Israel must pay to clear cluster bombs in Lebanon
04-18-07 - Carter urges voters to choose candidates committed to peace About six-thousand people attended Carter's lecture on his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." The book has been embraced by some but attacked by others who contend it's slanted against Israel.
04-18-07 - US says Lebanon's Hezbollah still getting arms via Syria The council expressed its "serious concern at mounting information by Israel and another state" of arms smuggling across the border in violation of UN resolution 1701.
04-18-07 - Silencing New Voices t it's hard to avoid concluding the decision was also political, a pointed message from a well-heeled group of Jewish donors to an undersized publication with a small but important audience that the magazine was not propagating the right message in a crucial battle: the campus wars on Israel. ......."We had a conversation with a source with firsthand knowledge of Solelim's inner workings who told us there was some controversy over our coverage of Israel, that something was said at one meeting about how New Voices put quality journalism ahead of support for Israel,"
04-18-07 - Scheuer Corrects National Review, Weekly Standard If the administration needed a terrorism peg on which to hang the rest of its case for war, it had it in spades without the slightest need to even fabricate a tale about Saddam and Osama. Of course, Saddam?s Palestinian proteges only attacked Israelis, and it would hardly have been practical to leverage the Saddam-Palestinian relationship as a means of persuading American parents to spend the lives of their soldier-children to protect foreigners.
04-18-07 - NYTW to Present Aswat: Voices of Palestine, May 5-6 New York Theatre Workshop Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Lynn Moffat have announced a two-day program of readings, Aswat: Voices of Palestine, set to take place on Saturday, May 5
04-18-07 - Wanted Palestinian who brought Haifa to standstill had entry permit Ynet has learned that the man, a 32-year-old resident of Jenin, arrived in Haifa to testify in a civil lawsuit he filed against the State, seeking compensation for injuries sustained from two gunshot wounds to his leg during the first intifada in 1991.
04-18-07 - Bishop of Jerusalem Recognises 'Mutual Sufferings' of Christians, Muslims and Jews
04-18-07 - ASSU rejects divestment Despite garnering five ?yes? votes and only three ?no? votes, the measure failed to gather the majority it needed to pass after five senators abstained.
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