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Thursday, April 26, 2007


News for 04-25-07

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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