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Friday, May 04, 2007
05-03-07 - A woman shot dead in Khan Younis
05-03-07 - Four dead, six injured in road carnage Earlier, near Karnei Shomron, two Palestinians were killed, one Palestinian was seriously injured and four Israelis were lightly injured when their two cars collided
05-03-07 - Benchmark Document/Israel concerned by Washington's demands Oh dear god the horror. Demands! On Israel! But more importantly : we've got Cheney making his 2nd rounds in as many months, and now likewise Condi (who is on her fourth(?) or so trip by now) and the gang turning up the heat. Why?
05-03-07 - Fatah?s armed wing threatens to extend operations outside the Palestinian territories. In a statement sent to reporters, the brigades held the Israeli occupation and the United States responsible for the financial and political boycott of the Hamas-led coalition government.
05-03-07 - Rallies held for BBC's Johnston Rallies have been held around the world in support of Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza, to coincide with World Press Freedom Day.
05-03-07 - Abu Laila: ?the government must fulfill its vows regarding late salaries? Palestinian Legislator, member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Qais Abdul-Karim, Abu Laila, stated on Wednesday that he will call on the Legislative Council?s Social Affairs Committee, which he heads, to convene on Saturday to discuss the issue of the late salaries of the teachers, governmental employees and military personnel.
05-03-07 - General Workers Union in Palestine receives representatives of European Unions Shaher Sa?ad, secretary-general of the Union, said that the delegates were representatives of workers unions in Norway, Greece, Spain, Italy, and Belgium.
05-03-07 - Egyptian mediators present new prisoner swap proposal: Abbas Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday Egyptian mediators between Israeli and the Palestinian side had brought a new prisoner swap proposal involving Palestinian prisoners and an abducted Israeli soldier.
05-03-07 - Pro-Hamas newspaper launched in Gaza "Palestine" is the pro-Islamist answer to the three largest Palestinian newspapers which have longstanding ties to Fatah, the secular faction of President Mahmoud Abbas.
05-03-07 - Palestinians refugees despair after year marooned between Iraq and Syria As Al-Tanf heads towards its one year anniversary in June, life in the tented camps is fraught with anguish and daily struggles. In the last few days a pregnant woman attempted and failed to commit suicide, while at the end of April a fire swept across the Al-Tanf camp leaving 28 refugees injured. Several deaths and miscarriages have been reported, and having endured the cold and floods of winter the refugees are now living under dust storms and the heat of the approaching summer...... As the situation worsens, there is no immediate prospect of a solution. The only proposal thus far, an offer by the Palestinian Authority to take in the refugees, was rejected by Israel.
05-03-07 - Security restrictions, drought slam Bedouin shepherds in West Bank The proud Bedouin has been forced to sell off most of his animals at firesale prices and take out devastating loans to feed those that remain. In February, the Israeli army knocked down his small family hut
05-03-07 - Soldiers install fence around West Bank settlements, isolate Palestinian orchards The Israeli army installed a fence around several settlements which were illegally constructed on Palestinian annexed lands that belongs to the residents of Dir Istia village, near the West Bank city of Salfit, and closed the only road that the residents of the village and several surrounding villages used to reach their lands.
05-03-07 - Mubarak, Abe vow cooperating efforts to end Iran's nuclear crisis The two leaders also dealt with the Middle East issue and other regional topics to focus on how to break the stalled Mideast peace process and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, as well as the situation in Iraq, according to Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Suleiman Awad.
05-03-07 - Blair pledge for missing BBC man
05-03-07 - For 90 minutes this week, Berkeley was Carter Center West On the plaza's north end, a group students joined with Berkeley Hillel to criticize Carter's appearance, saying in a prepared statement that "his presence will add no light but will bring an unneeded amount of heat." Heat is PRECISELY what the doctor ordered.
05-03-07 - Carter finds welcome at UC Berkeley
05-03-07 - At UCI, Carter urges Muslims, Jews to work together I'd like to see the leaders form a combined group and take my invitation to go to Palestine and see what's going on for yourselves," said Carter, in Orange County to discuss his controversial book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." "If you take me up on it, I'll raise the money to pay for your trip."
05-03-07 - Bush threatens hate crimes veto
05-03-07 - South Africa invites Haniyeh South Africa invited the Palestinian Authority prime minister for what would be the Hamas member's first state visit to a non-Muslim country.
05-03-07 - Pressure on Iran over Argentina blasts Observers in Argentina and the United States point to direct pressure from Bush administration officials for the re-opening of the case and for naming the highest levels of the Iranian Government as being directly responsible for the bombing.
05-03-07 - Israelis call on Olmert to resign
05-03-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: Hope Amid the Burning Cars I told
them, the Prophet said 'Fight only those who fight you.' Not their
family or their property. I cried when I saw TV pictures of bus
bombings, killing innocents who know nothing of Palestine. Our enemy
is U.S. policy, not the American people, Israeli government policy,
not the Israeli people."
05-03-07 - Why Israel Is After Me These trumped-up charges, which I firmly reject and deny, are only the latest in a series of attempts to silence me and others involved in the struggle of the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel to live in a state of all its citizens, not one that grants rights and privileges to Jews that it denies to non-Jews. Wow. It's hard to believe that the LA Times, let alone any major news source published this. It was a proverbial groin kick to Israel, and well-deserved. Excellent.
05-03-07 - 'Sim Shalom' at national prayer day The U.S. Army Chorus sang "Sim Shalom," the final prayer of the Amidah, at the National Day of Prayer at the White House. Who was it that was just calling for separation of church and state, mewonders (3rd paragraph)? Where is the protest over this move?
05-03-07 - Israel critic likely to be dumped as Newhouse firms for Labor candidacy in Wentworth Irwin has used her decade in parliament to launch a series of vitriolic attacks on Israeli security policies and the Australian Jewish community. In 2002, she read to the house an email that described the Jewish lobby as "the most implacable, arrogant, cruel and powerful lobby in the country".
Aussies have it about as bad as we do (Israeli lobby).
05-03-07 - Filmmakers seek Mideast peace in dieting, soccer Dieting may not have much to do with politics, but for one U.S.-Israeli filmmaker it was a way to bring together Jewish and Arab women who normally would never meet to talk about peace -- or losing weight
05-03-07 - Olmert undone by the militia he said he could destroy
05-03-07 - Pro-Israel Group Slams Rice Meeting With Syrian FM "We think this is a serious mistake," Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said of the U.S.-Syria meeting.
05-03-07 - Israel not seeking confrontation with Syria, ambassador says
05-03-07 - 'SA can help to broker peace in Israel'
05-03-07 - Settlers condemn and strongly oppose Jerusalem light train project Firstly, the train is being built to stop at Palestinian villages and unlike the by-pass roads will be accessible for Palestinian passengers. Secondly, the original design of the Jerusalem light train project indicates that it is being built to create an easier link between residents of Occupied East Jerusalem and the center of the city. Thus, the train has the potential for serving not only the Jewish population.
05-03-07 - 12 Palestinian civilians kidnapped as Israeli army invades several West Bank areas The Israeli army invaded several parts of the West Bank and kidnapped 12 Palestinian civilians on Thursday morning.
05-03-07 - Roadblock went tumbling down the gorge Because of the obstacle, the villagers were forced to drive about 45 minutes along an alternate road instead of 15 minutes along the direct route to get to Ramallah. Two weeks ago the alternate road was also closed making the trip take and hour and a quarter and cost about 15 shekels instead of 3 - 5. In response, the villagers decided to open up the main road which has been closed by concrete slabs.
05-03-07 - SA Zionists 'disturbed' by invitation to Haniyeh
05-03-07 - Gravel: I'll bring peace to Israel
05-03-07 - Ithacan Grady Flores to discuss West Bank trip today
05-03-07 - Israel?s creation is political While many American Jews come to Israel to enjoy a supportive cultural environment, Palestinian citizens of Israel are treated as traitors if they advocate for equality. In the occupied territories, the Israeli government has created a matrix of control that has transformed Palestinian villages into closed ghettos and curtailed access to their fields, employment, health care, schools, places of worship and families. As a Jew, I find no joy in institutionalized persecution.
05-03-07 - New Davies controversy It comes exactly a year after he was forced to quit as leader of the Liberal Democrats in Europe when the Jewish News exposed distasteful emails he had sent to a reader telling her to ?wallow in her own filth,? and decrying the influence of the ?Jewish lobby?.
05-03-07 - Local Efforts Being Made To Link Christians, Jews Cox and Ben Kinchlow, Christian evangelicals and hosts of the Front Page Jerusalem Radio Network, are leading rallies throughout the Southeast bringing Jews and Christians together and encouraging Christians to pray for, visit and support Israel.
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