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Saturday, April 28, 2007
04-27-07 - Man dies in Rafah border shooting Palestinian medical officials say an off-duty security officer has been shot dead in an exchange of fire at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
04-27-07 - Israeli army kidnap elderly woman from a village near Hebron
04-27-07 - Palestinians say Hamas PM to visit Switzerland
04-27-07 - Israel OKs limited Gaza action
04-27-07 - Israel claims Israeli settler disappeared near Tulkarem The army installed dozens of additional roadblocks at the entrances of Tulkarem, and closed Ennab checkpoint, north of the city, Jabara checkpoint, south of the city, and conducted military searches after stopping hundreds of Palestinian vehicles.
04-27-07 - USS LIBERTY Survivors need your help Please call the Office of the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General at (202) 685-5493 to request they provide a speaker to address the crew of the USS Liberty during their June 2007 reunion. Call the members of your Congressional Delegation and ask that they contact the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General and request that they provide the speaker the USS Liberty survivors are requesting. Invite your Congressional Delegation and their staff members to attend that presentation
04-27-07 - P.A Information minister visits Spain, meets Moratinos
04-27-07 - Human rights report: Israeli forces systematically attack Palestinians The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued a report for the period, 19 through 25 April entitled, "Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)."
04-27-07 - The Israeli army attack the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil'in injures three Three protesters were injured and had to be transferred to hospital, while Abdullah Abu Rahamah, the coordinator of the village's "popular committee against the wall and settlements" was kidnapped by the Israeli forces. He was released after four hours.
04-27-07 - Children tried as adults in the Middle East Young Palestinian stone-throwers in the Middle East are treated as adults, tried in military courts and held in adult jails ? some of them as young as 12. Israel?s treatment of these children is a violation of international law, something Israeli authorities do not even deny themselves. There is a link to a 4 and 1/2 minute video report of this report by this NZ news agency on the page. Worth watching.
04-27-07 - Peaceful demonstration against the illegal wall and settlements near Bethlehem
04-27-07 - Report: Settlers assault left-wing activists protecting shepherds West Bank settlers on Friday assaulted left-wing activists who had come to protect about 20 Palestinian shepherds in the southern Hebron Hills, lightly wounding a Palestinian man and a female Israeli activist, the activists said.
04-27-07 - Abbas, Meshaal hold talks in Cairo
04-27-07 - Israel seeks expanded EU role at Gaza-Egypt border With the mission set to end on May 24, Israel is pushing for changes to give the European monitors "executive powers", allowing them to carry out arrests and confiscate money and items that could be used in weapons, European diplomats say......Critics say the Israeli plan would undermine Palestinian sovereignty and cast doubt on the mission's neutrality: "This is a monitoring mission. This is not an executive mission," said a senior European diplomat familiar with the deliberations.
04-27-07 - EU aide commissioner urges Israel to unfreeze custom duties to PA European humanitarian aid Commissioner Louis Michel blamed Israel Friday for the 'grave' fiscal crisis in the Palestinian Authority, and called on it to unfreeze some 600 million US dollars it owes the PA in custom duties collected on its behalf. .....But he also stated that Israeli restrictions on movement 'annihilated any chance for economic development in the Palestinian territories,' pointing out that nearly 60 per cent of Palestinians lived under the poverty line of 2 euros a day.
04-27-07 - Israeli police search Bishara homes
04-27-07 - Abbas says knows whereabouts of BBC Gaza reporter
04-27-07 - Hamas's Haniya to make first Europe trip
04-27-07 - Residents of Al Hadidiya to Resist Home Demolitions
04-27-07 - Israel may get F-22s if nation at risk The F-22 has been forbidden for export by the Pentagon
04-27-07 - AJC Urges Governments to Press Hamas To End Terror "The attack by Hamas on Israel's Independence Day constitutes a serious escalation in the already tense situation. It also belies the contention that the Mecca Accord and the formation of the Palestinian 'national unity government' signify a positive change in the policies of the Palestinian government," wrote AJC President E. Robert Goodkind and Executive Director David A. Harris. No mention is made of the 9 Palestinians Israel killed in the days leading up to that incident, among whom were 2 children.
04-27-07 - Jewish Settlers Ruffle Feathers with Hebron Move NPR gives airtime and comfort to settlers.
04-27-07 - Arab minister slams rightist MK for anti-Arab remarks
04-27-07 - Lawmakers Want PBS to Air Spiked Film on Islam The film - co-produced by Burke, a Hollywood producer, and Frank Gaffney and Alex Alexiev of the Center for Security Policy - deals with the experiences of moderate Muslims who have fallen foul of Islamists. Frank Gaffney - neocon. Any film about Muslims made by a neocon is undoubtedly (pro-Israel) propaganda. PBS is now being commandeered by Zionists.
04-27-07 - Ban to raise issue of Shebaa Farms at UN
04-27-07 - DHS releases security funds The U.S. Homeland Security Department released $24 million in funds for securing non-profits. Friday's was the second such release of funds; most of an earlier allotment of $25 million went to securing Jewish institutions. The delay in releasing the funds, first earmarked in 2006, was caused by DHS bureaucrats who preferred to reserve the money for imminent rather than potential attacks. Jewish groups, backed by lawmakers in Congress, lobbied for the funds' use for potential attacks. Last year, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff intervened to release the money.
04-27-07 - The day I met Zayed... Since that fateful day 50 years ago, Badran - a Palestinian who now lives in Missouri - has carried the friendship and memory of Shaikh Zayed in his heart, and in photos he has kept of the young shaikh and his friends in New York City.
04-27-07 - Crist's Visit To Israel Has Much At Stake The trip is at least in part a result of Crist's longtime friendship with U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, an ardent supporter of Israel and Israeli causes....Besides Wexler and Crist, those going to Israel may include state Reps. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach; Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach; and Sen. Nan Rich, D-Weston
04-27-07 - Carter's visit to GSU peaceful n the Middle East," Carter said. "I have spent a great part of my life over the last 30 years trying to bring peace, based on justices and righteousness, for the Palestinians."
04-27-07 - Eschewing revenge, station broadcasts message of hope
04-27-07 - BBC wins right to keep report on Middle East coverage secret
04-27-07 - Palestinian supporters protest Israeli independence celebration On Wednesday, the Illinois-Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as IlliniPAC, hosted the celebration of Israel's 59th birthday on the Quad and provided food and entertainment.
04-27-07 - Authorities mobilize police after skirmish with Sinai Bedouins Authorities mobilized hundreds of policemen in eastern Sinai yesterday after armed Bedouins trying to cross into Israel wounded an Egyptian security officer, police said.
04-27-07 - Robert Fisk: We are now in the firing line, sadly
04-27-07 - Pro-Israel group decries UC Santa Cruz 'new anti-Semitism' Roz Rothstein, director of StandWithUs, claimed a March conference - and at least a dozen other talks and seminars since 2001 - created a hostile environment for Jewish students and violated a state law prohibiting promotion of partisan politics. Pro-Israel group cries wolf ('anti-Semitism!'). Now there's something we rarely see these days.
04-27-07 - Tensions Run High After Sunni Killings Lahoud's office issued a statement urging Lebanese people to be alert to conspiracies, and to stop anyone trying to play dirty. Past experience has shown that all confrontations followed provoking incidents, the statement said. Could be the work of someone who wants the Lebanese to hate the Shia.
04-27-07 - Three Ex-Terrorists 'Former terrorists' don't get to enter the country, let alone traipse around giving speeches at campuses nationwide. That is, unless they are doing so for propaganda purposes for the benefit of the Israeli lobby. Real terrorists are either jailed, deported, or barred from entering America at all - as has been the case in numerous recent examples dealing with Palestinians, among others. Americans are being deceived.
04-27-07 - Failing to Hold Israel Accountable for War Crimes in Lebanon In late January the State Department delivered a potentially explosive report to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The classified report asserts that Israel may have violated the Arms Export Control Act with its use of American-made cluster munitions this past summer in Lebanon. Multiple contacts to both offices indicate neither Biden nor Pelosi has any intention of pursuing the matter. In contrast, a congressional investigation 25 years ago helped persuade President Ronald Reagan to suspend cluster munitions to Israel for six years. This Congress, however, will not call Israel to account for its actions.
The US won't even hold Israel accountable for war crimes it committed against these guys.. Israel is almost never held to account by us or anyone for its flagrant violations of law, which only serves to encourage them to continue to do so.
04-27-07 - Israel: Controlling Jewish Destiny Does not Require Controlling that of the Palestinians Contrary to some of the rhetoric emanating from Jewish organizations here, no one I spoke to in Israel likened Israel's situation today to that of European Jews in the 1930's, with Ahmadinejad playing the role of Hitler. Israelis find that kind of rhetoric both laughable and offensive. From admitted Zionist M.J. Rosenberg.
04-27-07 - Israel's military denies incursion into Lebanon The Lebanese army had said a 10-member Israeli patrol crossed the electronic fence on the Saddani hills between the towns of Kfarshuba and Shebaa and entered up to 50 meters and 100 meters (yards) into Lebanese territory. A unit from the UN Interim Force intervened and forced the Israeli patrol to withdraw, it said.
04-27-07 - Unesco Report Details Attacks on Education Worldwide Universities in Nepal and the Palestinian territories were also subjected to attacks. In the Palestinian territories, the report says, "there were 299 incidents of shelling and breaking into schools, directorate offices, and universities by June 2004; 36 teachers, 622 pupils, and 200 university students have been killed by January 2007." Too bad they didn't mention who committed the majority of those attacks in the OT.
04-27-07 - Finkelstein discusses Israel's human rights record Finkelstein also touched upon Israel's security wall: "If Israel is building the wall to incorporate the settlements, then the wall is clearly illegal under international law."
Also, he claimed that according to historian Benny Morris' research, "what happened in 1948 was an ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from the disputed territories, citing one author's claim that "the ethnic cleansing was anchored in the Zionist philosophy of transfer..." Indeed, Finkelstein said, "according to Morris, the biggest mistake they made was they didn't expel every single last Palestinian in 1947, because then this would never have happened today."
04-27-07 - Al Haq: British government being sued for complicity The British government is being sued for failure to adhere to international law. Specifically the suit cites British complicity with the Israelis who blatantly violate the rights of the Palestinians.
04-27-07 - Palestinian children's art stolen ?An important part of our work is the ability to bring Palestinian voices to people in the United States,? said Birthright Unplugged co-founder Hannah Mermelstein in a press release. ?This is a sad reminder that members of our community will resort even to theft to silence these voices.? I can't get over this. This is supposed to be America (land of the free). And we all know just who would be behind something like this. Who doesn't want Americans to see the Palestinian side of the story? Who doesn't want Americans to feel any sympathy for Palestinians?
04-27-07 - 'Farewell to our house!' After these neighborhoods fell into the hands of the State of Israel and the Arab homes were looted, most of them were given to new Jewish immigrants. In the wake of the 1948 War of Independence, quite a few of the beautiful houses in Katamon and Talbieh were handed over to officials of the newly formed state.
04-27-07 - Beit Lahia waste water treatment plant - Floods Humanitarian Situation Report #4
04-27-07 - Aiding Christians in the Holy Land Orzechowski said he hoped to bring awareness to the Palestinian Christians by holding alternative gift markets to sell olive wood crafts that some of the Christians make, and by organizing more trips to the area.
04-27-07 - New football stadium in Bethlehem's Al Khader donated by Portuguese A new international football stadium will be inaugurated on Monday in the southwestern Bethlehem town of Al Khader. It was funded by Portugal, through the Portuguese Institute for Cooperation for Development (IPAD). ....As reported by the Portuguese News Agency LUSA, Portugal will offer the shirts of the players Cristiano Ronaldo and Deco e Quaresma. They will remain in an exhibition room at the Al Khader stadium.
04-27-07 - President of Sesame Street comes to Palestine for launch of third season For the first time ever the President of the highly lauded children's television program, Sesame Street, Dr. Gary Knell, will be in Ramallah.
04-27-07 - Rudd: We will have nothing to do with Hamas Fresh from his keynote speech to the Australian Labor Party's National Conference in Darling Harbour on Friday morning, Rudd addressed a luncheon hosted by the Labor Friends of Israel (LFI), warning that Hamas had not "disavowed its policy of seeking the obliteration of the State of Israel". The Aussie Israeli lobby rivals those of America and Canada; very powerful.
04-27-07 - Lebanon: One Unexploded Bomb Per Person According to the Belgians as many as 800,000 unexploded ordnance (UXO), and possibly more, still remain. Meanwhile, scores of Lebanese civilians have died from contacting cluster bombs. More than 200 have been wounded, most of them severely
04-27-07 - Requiem in Ramallah The name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has not been heard so frequently in the West Bank as in the past two weeks, during the Palestinian Mozart Festival.
04-27-07 - Billboards in Jerusalem demand real Middle East talks
04-27-07 - NATIONAL ARAB CONFERENCE KICK STARTS IN BAHRAIN TOMORROW THE STATE OF THE NATION REPORT DEALS WITH A NUMBER OF ISSUES TOUCHING ON THE ARAB NATION IN LIGHT OF THE GLOBAL CHANGES INCLUDING THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD, THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE, THE LEBANESE CRISIS, THE SITUATION IN SOMALIA AND AN EVALUATION OF THE ARAB COUNTRIES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCES LAST YEAR.
04-27-07 - Israelis not colonialists after all Not likely.
04-27-07 - Gaza exhibition shows region's turbulent past
04-27-07 - Angry, Controversial Senior Sendoff The administration abused the rights of free speech of the Palestinian perspective on the Israel/Palestine conflict when it forcefully removed the ?Voices of Palestine? artwork exhibit last May. Again, this past December, President Jehuda Reinharz made many public statements about how he did not give a damn about bringing a former President to campus, likely because he saw the Palestinians as human-beings.
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