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Saturday, April 21, 2007
04-20-07 - Gunmen shoot and injure a P.A security officer in Qalqilia
04-20-07 - Israel to seal off West Bank and Gaza The Israeli military said on Friday it would seal off the West Bank and Gaza Strip from midnight (2100 GMT) on Saturday. The decision was taken ahead of a remembrance day for Israeli soldiers killed in combat and the country's independence day on Tuesday.
04-20-07 - HEBRON: Israeli settlers occupy Palestinian building. It is clear that the settlers want the
Palestinians out so that they can establish an unbroken chain of settlements
along the road.
04-20-07 - Man hurt by anti-gay bomb in Israel The device exploded near a convent in the town of Beit Jamal, west of Jerusalem. The farmer, who was working nearby, was taken to hospital with a light wound to his foot.
04-20-07 - Gaza: a disturbing dispatch from a no-go area
04-20-07 - Palestinian leader to visit Pope The Palestinian leader, who last met with the Pontiff in December 2005, is expected to speak with the Pope about the prospects for resumption of the peace process.
04-20-07 - Human rights report: Israeli forces injure children, women and the disabled this week
04-20-07 - Abbas insists Johnston is alive Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas repeated that a British journalist kidnapped in Gaza is alive and said his government was in contact with the British authorities on the case.
04-20-07 - PFLP fires a grenade at an Israeli military jeep in northern Gaza
04-20-07 - Prime Minister: there is a limited time for blockade to continue before we consider other options ?For us lifting the financial blockade is two-fold. The first part is to lift restrictions on the work of banks, and the second is to unfreeze our funds that the Israelis are holding. But what is happening is that we are being turned into beggars. We must preserve the dignity of our people.?
04-20-07 - Forty days since BBC's Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza Reporters Without Borders today called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to urge his kidnappers to produce evidence that he is still alive
04-20-07 - ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: March 2007 The ICRC continues to address the humanitarian consequences stemming from the ongoing construction of the West Bank Barrier in the districts of Hebron, Qalqilia and Salfit. The ICRC is particularly concerned about the difficulties experienced by Palestinian farmers in accessing privately owned lands located in the seam zone. While recalling to the Israeli authorities the illegality of the West Bank Barrier when it deviates from the Green Line into occupied territory, the ICRC seeks to minimise the negative impact for the affected communities.
04-20-07 - Fighting Terror Takes Pro-Active Military Approach, Experts Say Thursday's event was hosted by the Israel Project
04-20-07 - DOCUMENTARIES: Palestine Kids What?s it like growing up in a war zone? Five year old Diana lives in a cave in the West Bank. Mufida, 16, is struggling to complete her education with Israeli soldiers living on her roof. And Yassin, 7, just wants to move to Brazil. Dodging bullets, hiding from Israeli soldiers and losing their land to settlers is part of every day life for these children. Through their eyes, we gain a fresh perspective on everyday life for Palestinians
04-20-07 - NUJ plans vigil for Johnston
04-20-07 - Norway 'not alone' on Hamas Norway's foreign minister claimed Friday that the country's decision to formally recognize the new Palestinian government has paved the way for other countries to normalize relations with the Palestinians as well. Even some Israelis, it's reported, are tapping the Norwegians for their ties to Palestinian authorities.
04-20-07 - Special envoy says China's role in Middle East is "active and fair"
04-20-07 - King Abdullah to pay historic visit to Israel next month, report
04-20-07 - Israel denies helping Iraqi Kurds, sees one Iraq When asked by a reporter in a group of visiting journalists from Turkey if Israel was providing assistance to the Iraqi Kurds, National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said: "As far as I know, there's nothing.".....Ben Eliezer, who overlooks the country's energy and water matters, said a plan to bring oil, natural gas and water to Israel through a triple pipeline system from Turkey could be finished in three years if ongoing feasibility studies supported the project.......One pipeline is planned to carry Azerbaijan's oil that reaches Turkey via a pipeline through Georgia. Ben Eliezer said the oil then can be pumped to Israel's Red Sea port of Eilat through an existing pipeline system and then part of it could be exported to countries, including India, Japan and China. There's this, this, and this.
04-20-07 - Video about the Israeli lobby This is that same video that I had linked to a week or so ago, but noted that someone had inserted some anti-Semitic bs in the beginning (for whatever reason, could be to discredit the entire message of the video ) - minus the anti-Semitic crap. This is likely the ORIGINAL. It came from this page, but I had trouble seeing the picture from the page, so I linked to the clip itself. This is a very well made video that features Walt, Mearsheimer, Earl Hiliard, Tony Judt. This version is longer than the previous one. Beware of those that seek to lump together criticism of Israel with genuine anti-Semitism. As to the statement by Judt at the very end of the clip, one may ask themselves: why is that? The answer to the question lies with the very theme of the clip.
04-20-07 - A Picture of Palestine photographs. Supporters of the Israeli occupation may denounce what the presenters said as inflammatory, but, in the end, the pictures speak for themselves:
04-20-07 - Palestine session for Labor fringe The one-hour presentation, ?Palestine ? the way forward?, will be given by Australians for Palestine, a group calling on Australia to formally impose sanctions against Israel, which it describes as an apartheid state.
04-20-07 - Top Jewish Dems 'appreciate' Olmert Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), who both chair committees in the U.S. House of Representatives, were quoted in this week's Forward about Democratic anger at the Israeli prime minister, who accused Pelosi, speaker of the House, of misrepresenting him after she delivered a purported message from Olmert to Syria.
04-20-07 - U.S. to sell Saudis 'smart bombs' ? report The United States reportedly will sell "smart bombs" to Saudi Arabia, despite Israeli objections. Gates was seen whispering in Olmert's ear 'these weapons will be used by the Saudis for when we attack Iran. It's all good, homey!'
04-20-07 - EU to help refugees fleeing Iraq
04-20-07 - McCain's 'Dean Scream'? McCain declared that, after all, Israel is being threatened, and we can?t allow that.
04-20-07 - Palestine: land and water management
04-20-07 - Freedom will prevail Palestinian officials and citizens from all walks of life, including detainees in Israeli jails, have appealed repeatedly for the release of Alan Johnston.
04-20-07 - Bethlehem: activists plant trees in memorial to students killed in Virginia Khalid Al Azza, head of the Land Defense Committee in Bethlehem, stated that the idea of planting the trees is to express the Palestinians rejection to all massacres and crimes against innocent civilians regardless of their color, race and ethnicity.
04-20-07 - Secrecy Surrounds Probe of Arab-Israeli Lawmaker "There's a dilemma in Israel. Israel defines itself as a Jewish and democratic state. There is fear among some Israelis that if democracy is accorded to all its citizens this will attenuate Israel's character as a Jewish state. So there's that built-in tension between democracy and a Jewish state,"
04-20-07 - Palestinians threaten to capture more Israelis Hundreds of Palestinians rallied yesterday in the northern Gaza Strip to demand that Israel release Palestinian prisoners in a swap for a captured Israeli soldier. Some threatened to seize more Israelis to create further pressure for a deal.
04-20-07 - European Union increases contribution to UN agency for Palestinian refugees Today?s signing, at Qalandia camp in the West Bank, is the first instalment of a four-year deal in which the EU has promised to give UNRWA ?264 million by 2010. This year?s amount represents an increase of more than ?1.5 million over 2006.
04-20-07 - Hizbullah Criticizes as 'Inaccurate' U.N. Reports of Arms Smuggling Hizbullah lashed out at the U.N. Security Council, saying reports of illegal arms smuggling from Syria to Lebanon were "inaccurate," and assuring that the group has enough weapons that it need not be re-supplied.
04-20-07 - U.S. eyes potential $65 million bomb sale to Israel "It is vital to the U.S. national interest to assist Israel in developing and maintaining a strong and ready self-defense capability," the Pentagon added. In the words of Col. Wilkerson from the video (of the Israeli lobby) of today's news batch: Bullsh#t. It's actually just the opposite.
04-20-07 - UN child rights expert criticises Palestinians and Israel "I recognise that Israel has very legitimate security concerns. But I still think the humanitarian consequences of this barrier are such that it is unconscionable,"
04-20-07 - The Virginia Tech Tragedy this tragedy at Virginia Tech touched families from not just America, but all over the globe. From Lebanon, to Egypt, to Israel, to Palestine, to Peru, to Puerto Rico and beyond
04-20-07 - Easter in Jerusalem brings layers of emotion
04-20-07 - Carter's Mideast Message Plays in Iowa
04-20-07 - Palestinians unite for freedom from occupation and the right of return Commemorations of the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba will be launched in Israel on 24 April with the traditional Return-March of Palestinian citizens of Israel to the 1948 depopulated village of Allajun
04-20-07 - Conflict between Israel and Palestine has a hidden history suggests University of Toronto scholar Over 200 Arab villages were destroyed before a regular Arab soldier set foot in Palestine. Their ethnic cleansing program was called "Plan D". A detailed inventory of all Palestinian settlements and property had been made for it. (Often the unwary Palestinians extended hospitality to the takers of this macabre "census").
04-20-07 - The Saudi Plan and Palestinian "Return" Even if the Arab League plan did endorse return, just how would it be implemented without Israel's consent (which it would never give)? Those opposed to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations always point to a worst case scenario that would be imposed on Israel by the United States, Europe, or the Arabs. And yet the opposition of those three groupings to settlement expansion has not succeeded in preventing settlements from expanding. On the contrary, the settler population has expanded nonstop for decades despite the opposition of the entire world and the United States in particular. Nor has opposition to redundant and onerous West Bank checkpoints succeeded in getting them removed. In point of fact, one would be hard pressed to come up with any significant policy change on the part of the Israeli government that was produced because forces outside Israel wanted it.
04-20-07 - Bulgaria to open diplomatic representation in Palestinian city Ramallah During the talks Bulgarian President expressed his intention for Bulgaria to open a diplomatic representation in the city of Ramallah, which will strengthen the bilateral relations.
04-20-07 - New security plan: restrict weapons in society while preserving legitimacy of resisting occupation
04-20-07 - Video: Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran **
04-20-07 - Double Jeopardy Entraps Palestinians
04-20-07 - US walls off warring Sunni district Several residents likened the project to the massive barriers built around some Palestinian zones in Israel. "Are we in the West Bank?" asked Abu Qusay.
Has your land been stolen yet by the wall for the Israeli-only settlements?
04-20-07 - Nobel peace laureate Corrigan injured in anti-fence protest Puerto Rican peace activist Tito Kayak climbed a tower on which the army had planted security cameras and hoisted a Palestinian flag.
04-20-07 - West Bank: giving entrepreneurs a boost in the shadow of the barrier Most people in the village of Beit Sira no longer have access to jobs in Israel and Jerusalem and restriction on movement make working in Ramallah nearly impossible. The ICRC is helping 26 local businesses in the village under its Livelihood Support Programme.
04-20-07 - 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' Iran, US senator sings ** "That old Beach Boys song, 'Bomb Iran'?" McCain said in response to a question about US policy on its diplomatic pariah at an electoral campaign meeting in the state of North Carolina......"Iran is dedicated to the destruction of Israel," McCain went on in a serious tone, however.
"That alone should concern us, but now they are trying for nuclear capabilities. I totally support the president (George W. Bush) when he says we will not allow Iran to destroy Israel."
04-20-07 - Puerto Rican activist arrested during protest of separation barrier Israeli police arrested a well-known Puerto Rican activist on Friday after he climbed a tower near Israel's West Bank separation barrier and planted a Palestinian flag on it, police said
04-20-07 - Bad News, Good News Day for Al-Arian Today, the 4th Circuit issued an order denying Al-Arian's request. However, a short time later, the court withdrew the denial.
04-20-07 - Kirchner laments lack of justice Earlier Thursday, American Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne met with DAIA leaders and stressed the importance of Holocaust education.
04-20-07 - Panel discusses Holocaust's role in Middle East conflict She explained that "evoking the Holocaust" is a tool often used by what she deemed "right-wing" groups. As examples she pointed to the David Project Center for Jewish Leadership. According to Rothchild, the David Project has equated the threat of a nuclear Iran with Hitler's Final Solution and the current times with the 1930s.
04-20-07 - Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
04-20-07 - Commentary: ?Jewish Voice for Peace? Holds First National Conference Finally, we find Jewish leaders wielding the powerful charge of anti-Semitism, at times, to silence legitimate albeit sometimes hyperbolic criticism of Israel. At the same time, we see them take no accountability for the widespread Islamophobia and toxic disregard for Arab lives that has become widespread in many Jewish communities.
04-20-07 - Director Longley had been in war zone before As significant as his time in Iraq was, it was his time in the Gaza Strip that left the biggest impact, he said.
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