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Sunday, April 29, 2007
04-28-07 - Israeli soldiers kill 3 Hamas militants in Gaza In a separate incident in southern Gaza, a Palestinian civilian was killed on Friday night by what local medics and residents said was an Israeli tank shell. The Israeli army said it was not involved.
04-28-07 - Israel seizes West Bank land for controversial barrier Israel is to confiscate 23 hectares (57 acres) of Palestinian farmland in the occupied West Bank for its controversial security barrier, according to a military order seen by AFP on Saturday.
04-28-07 - HEBRON URGENT ACTION: Tell Israeli government that new settlement is The new building represents a dire threat to the local Palestinian
population. Already four checkpoints less than 500 meters apart, line the
same road for entry into Hebron's Old City. The maze of checkpoints, gates
and roadblocks continues endlessly for Hebron's Palestinian residents.
Currently the Israeli military has installed 124 road block/earth mounds
within Hebron's City limits, trapping the 35,000 residents of H-2,
Israeli-controlled Hebron. The restrictions have forced 1,180 shops to
close since 2002.
04-28-07 - Siege on Palestinians to be gradually lifted: Abbas Visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday expressed optimism that the political and financial siege on the Palestinians would be gradually lifted
04-28-07 - Russia strongly critical of rocket attacks against Israel - FM Russia is strongly critical of rocket attacks against Israeli territories by the Palestinians, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said on Friday in the wake of a military escalation in Palestinian-Israeli relations.
04-28-07 - P.A presidency slams the Israeli attacks in Gaza
04-28-07 - Chief Palestinian Justice calling on UN to implement resolutions against occupation As one of the prominent leaders of the charge to save Al Aqsa Mosque, the Sheikh expressed his supreme disappointment that the international community has not issued a denunciation of the excavations. He asked for any human rights report or statement regarding Israeli violations.
04-28-07 - Meshal: Last week's rocket attack on Israel was justified Meshal said the rockets were fired to avenge the killing of nine Palestinians by Israel at the beginning of the week. "These violations require a response," he said. Which may be what Israel was looking to get in the first place. Wouldn't be the first time Israel provoked them into a response so that they could turn around and say - 'see look at that. How do you expect us to negotiate with terrorists?!'.
04-28-07 - Palestinian plan to pay part wages draws union fire
04-28-07 - Head of negotiations: there is nothing called 'freedom of movement for security' Dr. Sa'eb Erekat told PNN this afternoon that there is no test project between Palestinians and Israelis referred to as "freedom of movement for security."
04-28-07 - Hamas leader urges Arab countries to support Palestinians
04-28-07 - One Palestinian civilians abducted by Israeli troops near Hebron Abd Al Rahman Badran, 55, was driving his taxi back to Ithna village when Israeli troops stopped him at a military checkpoint just outs said the village then they took him to unknown detention camp, witnesses stated.
04-28-07 - Israeli settlers shoot at house in Hebron before soldiers arrest owner and son A group from what is largely considered to be the most violent of all Israeli settlements, Kiryat Arba, opened fire on a Palestinian home in Hebron last night. The Israeli military occupying the area also arrested three Palestinians from the city and a nearby town.
04-28-07 - Israeli settler attacks Palestinian girl, Police detain four human rights workers
04-28-07 - Switzerland refuses to confirm visit by Hamas PM
04-28-07 - Army evicts settlers from reoccupied West Bank colony Israeli troops evicted about 100 Jewish settlers overnight from a West Bank settlement that had been destroyed in 2004 and that they reoccupied this week, an army spokeswoman said on Saturday.
04-28-07 - Missiles could stall Iran nuclear programme: Olmert
04-28-07 - Settlers occupying Hebron house to get eviction orders Sunday
04-28-07 - Gaza's ancient treasures revealed "Kids in Gaza have the right to go to a museum like any other kids in the world, they have the right to see their own history, and learn that this (the current conflict) is a temporary phase and hopefully it will not continue forever."
04-28-07 - Israeli Settlers and troops attack Palestinian farmers and Israeli peace activists near Hebron 200 Israeli illegal settlers and soldiers attacked Palestinian farmers, international and Israeli peaceful activists who were protesting in stolen Palestinian land in Yatta village south of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank on Saturday midday
04-28-07 - Regional powers fight over Lebanon "We are concerned that Lebanon would become a theatre for the actual conflict between Iran and the US.
04-28-07 - Arab unity call Now is the time to bring together every Arab nation to oppose the greed of the Israelis, the Americans and the British and expose them and their policies, said Dr Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian member of Israel's Knesset.
04-28-07 - Forest dedicated for Coretta Scott King Hasbara.
04-28-07 - Palestine & Peace: The Challenges Ahead by Hanan Ashrawi we do have the results of these elections. Not only were they boycotted, the Palestinians were under sanctions-which is ironic again because for the first time in history you have a people under occupation and under sanctions at the same time-while for decades Israel has been violating international law, flouting the will of the international community and with no sanctions, sometimes with even full immunity
04-28-07 - In Gaza, holding out hope for safe landing "It was the most beautiful place in all of Gaza. Kings and presidents have flown through here," .....The Israelis first targeted the airport at the beginning of the second intifada, destroying a runway. The entire airport was hit after the kidnapping of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit last summer.
04-28-07 - Mideast films sweep Canadian documentary fest "The majority of people don't want to hear about the Palestinians," he said. "Anything about them is immediately seen as political, even though there might be other, more human layers."
04-28-07 - Barghouthi: ?Only the Ministers Council is authorized to set date for local elections?
04-28-07 - Israel wraps up West Bank war games Israel has ended extensive military manoeuvres in the occupied West Bank that were designed to assimilate lessons learned from last year's war in Lebanon, a senior officer said on Friday.
04-28-07 - AIPAC Trial Likely to be Postponed
04-28-07 - Film-makers see Iraq, Palestine in different light Films like Children Under Occupation, Hoda and Hadeel raise serious questions before the international community about the plight of the Palestinian children, who have been killed and tortured for no crimes they have committed. Hadeel is the real life story of a Palestinian girl, who was crushed to death when her house collapsed in an Israeli bombing.
04-28-07 - EU Commissioner tours Palestinian, Iraqi refugee camps in Syria Michel visited Palestinian refugee camps and areas sheltering Iraqis who have fled their wartorn country, and projects implemented by their partners UNRWA, UNHCR and ICRC.
04-28-07 - US, Israeli firms to tap need for small satellites Northrop Grumman Corp. said Wednesday it had teamed with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. to pitch small surveillance satellites to the U.S. government in a deal spurred by China's anti-satellite test in January. Just what we need.
04-28-07 - Just an optical illusion If any American president were to give a small cough and say, in a half-whisper, "hmm, I am considering my steps concerning Israel," our country's excellent economic situation would immediately turn topsy-turvy. Israel's international credit line would instantly freeze, the dollar would soar, and so would our inflation rate. Our balance of payments surplus would become a deficit and foreign investment would flee Israel many times faster than it came. After all, the world knows that without American backing, tiny Israel would quickly revert to its natural proportions.
Therefore, it really does not matter whether or not the economic aid ends in October. What is important is that Israel continue to enjoy the political support of the most powerful nation on earth. After all, were it not for America's veto in the United Nations Security Council, economic sanctions, a la South Africa during its apartheid regime, would have been imposed on Israel long ago. Without that veto, Israel would never have been able to continue fighting the Second Lebanon War when every other country in the world wanted it stopped as soon as it began. This writer laments the fact that Israel has to depend on American political and economic support. So do I. It's been sixty years - time for Israel to sink or swim on its own. If Israel can't make it without our support, then Israel should seriously ponder the question - why is that? Perhaps its time to change their behavior and learn how to get along with their neighbors. American support is not a sure thing and won't last forever - despite the best efforts by the Israeli lobby and government that seek to so clusterf&*k the two nations together that it would be near impossible for America to ever extricate itself from that unhealthy relationship (which is why they do it).
04-28-07 - Borders Spell Trouble for Arab-American More recent episodes that provoked concern include one in which border agents reportedly Googled the name of an Ohio man and then questioned him about a letter to the editor he had written to The Toledo Blade regarding events in the Middle East.
04-28-07 - Hadash official: Hizbullah not Israeli Arabs' enemy The Balad movement held a rally in support of former Knesset Member Azmi Bishara, who is under investigation for suspected collaboration with the enemy during the Second Lebanon War last summer.
04-28-07 - Activist Corrie personified Northwest idealism
04-28-07 - President Heads to Amman after a European Tour
04-28-07 - President Discusses Israeli Escalation with Saudi King Over a phone call, the President praised the Saudi stance towards the Palestinian cause and the Saudi exerted efforts to support the Palestinian people presented by Mecca agreement.
04-28-07 - Three women, one voice for peace: Group seeks to bridge Israeli-Palestinian divide
04-28-07 - Babes and Bikinis: Israel Plans to Revamp Its Image The project began six months ago when Israeli officials in the United States discovered (through market research) that men between the ages of 18 and 35 were uninterested in Israel, and considered the country "irrelevant.".....Maxim is going to run a special Israel edition this July that will promote the country to its 2.5 million readership, and the magazine hopes it will revamp Israel's image in the eyes of young American men. .....Saranga said Maxim is an excellent platform for delivering this message and will target the audience it is hoping to convert -- young men......Lindsay Citerman, an Israeli who studies Judaism in Jerusalem, said, "Tel Aviv is a sexy city, but I am not sure if this is the best way to sell Israel to Americans."
Israel has to resort to T&A ops (in the US only, oddly) in order to win over Americans. Why is this campaign solely directed toward Americans (young men, at that)?
04-28-07 - Property battle This subsidized colonization of Christian-Palestinian land must stop. It continues to steal the human dignity of the Palestinian people, Christians and Muslims. It is an insulting treatment in contradiction of the Balfour Agreement, international law, and everything America stands for.
04-28-07 - Strange bedfellows More significantly, Abdullah II is said to have told the Israeli delegation that clauses in the Arab Peace Plan pertaining to the Palestinian refugees' right of return should be understood as referring to "compensation" not "repatriation", and that "everything will be consensual and that the Arab Peace Plan was not actually a plan but merely a talking point."
04-28-07 - Taking the piss out of war games in Hebron
04-28-07 - Frisch School Seniors Lobby Congress - Students Travel to Washington to Meet with Congressmen and Senators "As future leaders of the Jewish community, it is necessary and important to lobby Congress in support of Israel,"
04-28-07 - From March: Israel PR Public Relations Pros Hold Syria, Iran War Exercise "As Israel's IDF Homefront command is presently holding exercises to protect Israel's civilian population in the event of conventional and non-conventional warfare, Israel must be prepared to win the image and digital battle as well," Know something we don't? One thing is sure - Israel cares more about and puts more effort toward covering up for its crimes than it does about the rule of law and actual democracy. This attitude and policy has been foisted upon our government via the neocons.
04-28-07 - On West Bank, questions linger amid small hopes Most Palestinian Christians were not allowed into Jerusalem to celebrate Easter. Most were simply turned away. A few found a way in. In contrast, Jews and Christians from around the world were welcomed with open arms.
What will it take for the American people to see this crisis for what it really is and insist that the Israeli government be obliged to follow international law? When will we elect legislators and a president who are not afraid to stand up and stop this apartheid, this travesty, this inhumane treatment of yet another indigenous peoples?
04-28-07 - Israeli Democracy For Jews Only? Only recently, Israel's Shin Bet (secret police) let it be known that it would "disrupt the activities of any groups that seek to change the Jewish or democratic character of Israel, even if they use legal means."
04-28-07 - My resignation baffling Israel?s right, Bishara says Former Balad Knesset Member Azmi Bishara told Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram on Saturday that his resignation from parliament has ?spread confusion in Israel, especially among the Right, which prepared a carnival of incitement in light of the allegations against me.?
04-28-07 - Singapore minister visiting Israel and Palestinian territories Yeo plans to visit the Palestinian National Authority's headquarters in Ramallah on May 1 to call on President Mahmoud Abbas and Deputy Prime Minister Azzam al-Ahmad. He also plans to meet with Foreign Minister Ziad Abu-Amr.
04-28-07 - Non-violent action on Palestinian land occupied by Israeli convict
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