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Saturday, May 05, 2007
05-04-07 - Israeli troops kill three Palestinians in raid
05-04-07 - U.S. timeline runs into Israeli resistance
05-04-07 - President Abbas condemns Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Jenin
05-04-07 - Stray bullet injures a seven month old baby in Jabalia Unknown gunmen fired randomly near residents' homes in Jabalia town in the northern part of the Gaza strip Friday. One of their stray rounds hit and injured a seven month old baby on Friday afternoon.
05-04-07 - Abbas resignation over sanctions denied
05-04-07 - Arab-Israelis fear Bishara affair may lead to mass deportation Prof Haidar said a mass deportation of Israel?s Arab citizens is not out of the question. ?The Jewish public is prepared to accept any act against the Arab population; therefore, the Arabs are discussing the possibility of a second Nakba
05-04-07 - Abbas believes elections are inevitable A senior Palestinian source, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that Abbas returned disappointed after his recent European and Arabic tour since the European countries informed him that they cannot override the US position which rejects dealing with the new government.
05-04-07 - Hearing shows Israel at crux of U.S. missile defense plan ** The May 3 session also dropped a bombshell: A senior congressman claimed that an Iranian crew was behind the missile attack on an Israeli Navy ship off Lebanon's coast last summer that killed four Israeli seamen.
05-04-07 - Hamas urges Bishara to return, risk jail Hamas called on former MK Azmi Bishara to return to Israel and share the burden of supporting the Palestinian homeland alongside his compatriots - even if he is imprisoned for it, Israel Radio reported on Friday.
05-04-07 - Abbas may resign if embargo continues-ally
05-04-07 - U.S. must be engaged to end Mideast humanitarian crisis, Catholic relief agency says "The humanitarian crisis is unacceptable," said Tom Garofalo, CRS Country Representative for Jerusalem/West Bank/Gaza, who Garofalo will be in the United States from May 7 ? 18 to educate church and political leaders about the humanitarian crisis and help engage them in the peace process.
05-04-07 - Nonviolent Anti-Wall Protest by Palestinian Workers in Bethelehm Some two hundred peaceful demonstrators in Bethlehem protested on Friday against the construction of the annexation wall in the village of Wadi Al-Neiss. The demonstration included mostly Palestinian workers in addition to international peace activists and observers to commemorate Labor day on May 1.
05-04-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers and Israeli police near Hebron A massive group of illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while working on their lands that are close to an illegal settlement post near Bethlehem in the southern part of the West Bank on Friday morning.
05-04-07 - Fateh rejects statements about resignation of President Abbas
05-04-07 - Judge in trial of former AIPAC staffers rips prosecution for delays The judge warned that there could be consequences for the prosecution if it did not do as he told them.
05-04-07 - Britain protests to Olmert about illegal settlement The British Ambassador Tom Phillips, has raised serious concerns with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office over proposals to demolish the empty Palestinian Shepherd's Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, and build apartments for 122 Jewish settler families in its place. Only the 1? Try all of them.
05-04-07 - EU: Israeli gov't crisis must not undermine efforts to revive peace process The Israeli government crisis should not be allowed to undermine efforts to revive the Middle East peace process, European Union president Germany said on Thursday.
05-04-07 - Jordan delegation in Israel for talks on peace process
05-04-07 - Mideast among areas criticized for restrictions on news organizations Still, those three countries and Egypt were rated above 11 other countries and the Palestinian territories, where the report said both Israel and the Palestinian Authority severely restrict press freedom.
05-04-07 - Academic Repression Update / A Question of Scholarship: On the tenure controversy of Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein Prof. Dershowitz's meddling in the assessment of tenure for Prof. Finkelstein has caused grave concerns among the faculty of DePaul University.
05-04-07 - Democratic Teachers Unions demands president, government to abide by the signed agreement
05-04-07 - Senate presses OECD on Israel The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to urge the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to accept Israel as a member.
05-04-07 - JAFI sells MASA to top colleges Career advisors from seven top American universities are touring Israel with the Jewish Agency for Israel to learn about the MASA program.
05-04-07 - GOP contenders: Nuke threat justifies strike ** "If there is a threat to the existence of the State of Israel, which is by the way I think a potential threat to the existence of the United States, then you have to come to the aid of Israel," Tancredo said. These folks have forgotten which country they were elected to serve. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about defending Israel. Moreover, it's ridiculous to suggest that our existence is threatened because Israel's is. Preposterous.
05-04-07 - Israeli Soldiers: "Death to Arabs" Next to Rian Mosque, a new Palestinian school is under construction, Jab al Rachme Girls High School. At 3pm on Saturday, the guard saw a squad of Israeli soldiers enter the building and go upstairs. When they left, the guard discovered that they had written "Death to Arabs ? Arabs must die" in Hebrew in permanent marker on one of the new white boards.
05-04-07 - Roseanne believes in Christ, not Zionism Roseanne Barr says she follows Christ and that "millions of Jews are not Zionists."
05-04-07 - Israel's Cluster Bombs There was some interesting interplay during floor debate over the "human shields" issue. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, supported the measure, but also brought up Israel's use of cluster munitions during the war. To make his point, Mr. Kucinich displayed a fragment of a cluster bomb retrieved from Lebanon. "I wanted to just show Congress this, because what we are talking about, using people as human shields, it's important also for the Israeli government to take responsibilities for their actions as well. I say this as someone who speaks in defense of Israel and the defense of Israel's right to survive."
Way to go, Kucinich.
05-04-07 - U.S. deadlines too tight -- Israel
05-04-07 - "They will not break me" According to Hani, since the 1970s Israel has confiscated at least 7,000,000 square metres -- eighty percent -- of the land of Mas'ha, to build the illegal Jewish settlement of Elkana. Until now Hani Amer and his family have resisted all attempts by the Israeli military and settlers to chase him away. Today their house has completely surrounded by the wall and high fences. The family exhausted all its resources in its resistance to the wall, but Hani Amer is determined to stay.
05-04-07 - Queen Rania stresses common values, urge students to bridge cultural divide
05-04-07 - Singapore pushes U.S. on Mideast peace
05-04-07 - Palestine?s spring blooms in Anatolia
05-04-07 - American Jewish Committee Has Key Role to Play Across UN Agenda "The American Jewish Committee has an important role to play across this agenda," he declared. "I also attach great importance to strengthening the relationship between the UN and Israel,"
05-04-07 - Belgium keeps Palestinian minister out Police at Brussels airport denied entry on Friday to a Palestinian minister heading for the Netherlands, after the Dutch authorities learned he was a member of the Islamist party Hamas and cancelled his visa.
05-04-07 - Jordan lifts ban on newspaper over article on Palestinian security plan
05-04-07 - Haniyeh to speak at conference Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will be addressing a conference in Rotterdam via satellite connection on Saturday.
05-04-07 - 'Be bridges for Holy Land peace,' Melkite Catholic bishop urges "I am a Palestinian, a proud Palestinian. There is nothing to be ashamed of in being a Palestinian. I have no bombs. I am a Palestinian Arab Christian - that complicates things already. But to add to this picture I am as forcefully a Palestinian Arab Christian who is a citizen of the state of Israel," he said. "These four facets of my identity are not always at peace together. There are apparent contradictions."
05-04-07 - EU FMs to meet Arab peace plan initiators this month German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has invited the initiators of an Arab Middle East peace plan to join a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on May 14 for talks.
05-04-07 - Queen Calls for End To Mideast Conflict
05-04-07 - CNI FOUNDATION TO COMMEMORATE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY WHEN: Friday, June 8, 2007 @ 4:00 pm *
WHERE: United States Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
05-04-07 - Arab-Americans pioneer own hip-hop
05-04-07 - Your Neighbors Describe your experience in Israel: "It was a transformative experience. I knew nothing about the Middle East; only what I read in the paper and saw on the news. I didn't understand . . . I thought all Palestinians were terrorists. I didn't know what their lives are really like . . . living as exiles in their own country Imagine. She went there and saw it for herself.
05-04-07 - Bronshtein Was Misleading on Picture Balata In his editorial on the Picture Balata exhibition, Shai D. Bronshtein misleads readers about the situation in Balata refugee camp.
05-04-07 - Walls make good neighbors 'Walls make good neighbors' if the wall isn't BUILT ON YOUR NEIGHBOR'S LAND, if the wall doesn't ENCIRCLE YOUR NEIGHBOR CREATING A PRISON, if the wall doesn't CUT YOUR NEIGHBOR OFF FROM HIS FIELDS THUS DEPRIVING HIM OF HIS LIVELIHOOD. Rocket science. Take a look at the route of Israel's wall - which is the reason the ICJ ruled against Israel. The link to the ruling was mysteriously taken down from the site. No problem.
05-04-07 - Rabbis call for re-establishment of Jewish court MATT BROWN: So, the Sanhedrin is determined to stop Israel from giving up any more Palestinian land in the West Bank. That's where Meir Bertler comes in. He's a radical activist who normally lives in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. He's not afraid of confronting his Palestinian neighbours. And the Israeli military has actually banned him from entering the settlement because he's too great a security risk
05-04-07 - Picture Balata Tells the Real Story of Palestinian Children We regret that Shai Bronshtein found these children?s reality too difficult to bear and instead of coming to terms with it, used his column space in the Harvard Crimson to deny these kids? experiences and perpetuate myths.
05-04-07 - Hillel director apologizes for attack As Seidler-Feller and Neuwirth left a lecture by Alan Dershowitz, Neuwirth commented critically on Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian speaker whom Seidler-Feller had invited. The rabbi then physically attacked her. Neuwirth is a rabid Israel-supporter whose writings appear on the web site of FrontPageMag, among others.
05-04-07 - Canadian University Settles With Activist Student Who Sued Its President
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