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Tuesday, May 08, 2007


News for 05-07-07

05-07-07 - Utterly Forbidden: The Torture And Ill-Treatment Of Palestinian Detainees Most cases of ill-treatment of Palestinians by soldiers are not investigated at all, and few of those that do, culminate in an indictment. In many cases, this is due to various institutional failings such as delays in instigation investigations.


05-07-07 - Abductors 'reveal demands for release of BBC reporter' Al Quds al Araby said Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, had received three demands. These were the handover of a piece of land; the release of Sajida Rishawi, an Iraqi woman sentenced to death in Jordan for her part in the bombing of an Amman hotel in November 2005, which killed 38 wedding guests; and a ransom of $5m (£2.5m).


05-07-07 - One killed in clashes at Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon


05-07-07 - The case for strikes against Iran ** It would be lawful because the US and/or Israel would be acting in appropriate self-defense. Both countries could act on behalf of the international community and could do so lawfully without wider approval Can you believe that this is the Christian Science Monitor AGAIN giving front page treatment for this? This is the THIRD TIME. Unf%#kingreal.


05-07-07 - Islam cannot justify kidnap of BBC man, militant group told


05-07-07 - Soldiers force out of vehicle a woman returning home after a cesarean procedure


05-07-07 - Jerusalem Palestinian institutions hold a meeting on Israeli violations against the City The institutions also discussed the means that would preserve the Palestinian national institutions in Jerusalem especially as the Jerusalem Municipality is attempting to void the Arab presence there, and is attempting to annex the Palestinian areas for settlement projects.


05-07-07 - UN appeal for Johnston's release


05-07-07 - Kidnap compounds Gaza's crisis


05-07-07 - Israeli soldiers critically wounds a Palestinian boy at a military checkpoint near Bethlehem Palestinian sources reported the a Palestinian boy sustained critical wounds after a group of Israeli soldiers manning Al Nashshash checkpoint located to the south West Bank city of Bethlehem attacked him on Monday midday.


05-07-07 - Abbas urges support for US plan However, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has already dismissed it, saying it will legitimise Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. Israel says there are positive elements but some that are unacceptable.


05-07-07 - Clashes at Ain al-Hilweh kill 2 Fatah members AIN AL-HILWEH: Militants from the Jund al-Sham group in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in South Lebanon on Monday killed two members of the Fatah movement in an apparent surprise attack, instigating a clash in which a Palestinian girl was wounded, according to security sources.


05-07-07 - Rights group petitions Citizenship and Entry Law The Association for Civil Rights in Israel on Monday petitioned the High Court of Justice, asking it to nullify the latest version of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order), which was legislated by the Knesset on March 21.


05-07-07 - Qatar gives $22 mln for Palestinian teachers The Gulf state of Qatar gave 22 million dollars to the Arab League on Monday so that teachers in the Palestinian territories can be paid, a League representative said.


05-07-07 - Israeli troops open fire at Palestinian civilians stranded on a military checkpoint in northern W.B.


05-07-07 - Israel air strike hits north Gaza


05-07-07 - Abbas urges Israel to respond favourably to US plan


05-07-07 - Six resident kidnapped as army invades several parts of the West Bank


05-07-07 - Palestinian Prisoners on High alert in Jalbo'e Israeli prison The high alert was announced after Israeli army special forces attacked the Palestinian detainees using tier gas sound bombs and live rounds, sources from the jail stated that troops are also attacking the prisoners while the later in their rooms.



05-07-07 - Israeli army attack Palestinian homes in Hebron and injures one child Palestinian medical sources reported that Wurod Al Ajloni, 16 was shot in the lower part of her back as she was stading in front of her house located in the southern side of Hebron city


05-07-07 - Settler in a Mickey Mouse suit The insiduous program was monitored by the Palestinian Media Watch, which translated the hate-filled words - including those uttered by a young Arab girl "anchoring" the show - into English, and posted footage from the program on its website.

Whaddya know? Another pro-Israeli translation service puts on a show for their puppets over at Fox News, CNS, WMD and more. Why so-called fair and balanced news agency would take what these folks say as fact and then purport to be a credible news source is beyond me.


05-07-07 - Soldiers break into Galboa? prison


05-07-07 - U.S. might force setting up Lebanon tribunal: Rice


05-07-07 - Jerusalem Arab growth rate twice Jew's "If these trends continue, we could reach the 60/40 rate by 2020, and by 2035 we could see the same number of Jews and Arabs in the city," senior institute researcher Dr. Miya Hoshen said. Israel - all about that demoGRAPHY.


05-07-07 - Israeli politics should not affect peace efforts: Livni


05-07-07 - IDF unveils contingency plan to counter militants' efforts in Gaza Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not approve the IDF's proposals. He only agreed to authorize a small expansion of the area within the Strip in which the IDF is allowed to operate.


05-07-07 - Detainees in Nafha will hold a hunger strike Tuesday


05-07-07 - France calls on Palestinian authorities to end violence


05-07-07 - A terrible, delusional, wasteful misjudgment Blair?s support for Israel last year was wrong. And we said so You have to get past this BS of addressing these clowns that give the kneejerk 'anti-Semite!' reaction to any criticism of Israel. Ignore it outright and stay on message. Acknowledging this crap only encourages them.


05-07-07 - Israel supporters march in N.Y. Among those attending Sunday's Salute to Israel Parade were New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski.


05-07-07 - Pro-Israel student refused service In late April, a checkout person at the Maryland Food Collective told a student that her "I Stand With Israel T-Shirt" was offensive, and refused to serve her Perhaps an "I stand with America" shirt would have been more apropos.


05-07-07 - Delegation learns airport security in Israel A delegation representing several major U.S. airports is in Israel to learn about security practices Thus does the Israelization of America continue.


05-07-07 - Liberal Middle East briefing launched A Forward story last week described the initiative as an attempt to counter the influence of the Daily Alert, an e-mail briefing run jointly by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.


05-07-07 - South Africa defends Haniyeh overture A South African official rebuffed Jewish criticism of Pretoria's offer to host the Palestinian Authority prime minister from Hamas.


05-07-07 - Israel welcomes Sarkozy win Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, a personal friend of the conservative Sarkozy, predicted that French policies toward Israel would improve.


05-07-07 - US university halts move to UAE over its policy towards Israel The paper said it obtained confirmation from the University of Connecticut that it halted plans to open up a campus in the emirate of Dubai following concerns raised by politicians and pressure groups in the US who oppose the UAE's policy towards Israel.


05-07-07 - Mideast conflict slows Dead Sea rescue


05-07-07 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Russia but skip Israel for now Rice hopes to take the edge off Russian anger over U.S. plans for a missile defense in Europe while seeking Russia's continued cooperation with a U.N. Security Council campaign to pressure Iran over its nuclear program.


05-07-07 - PROTEST MARS ISRAEL MARCH


05-07-07 - Mallouh demands the entire implementation of the National Unity


05-07-07 - Man acquitted of trying to kill Arabs Milner, who drove Tichman to the scene, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted on four counts of attempted murder and nine counts of deliberately causing damage.
However, a panel of three judges reduced Milner's sentence to only three years on Monday after deciding that he had only aided in the crime



05-07-07 - Media festival to take place in Nazareth


05-07-07 - Israeli economy shrugs off political turmoil It's so nice to know that the Shekel and Israel's economy are doing so well (as we continue to shell out billions of US taxpayer dollars to that nation) while the dollar continues to fall. America collapses under the Israeli albatross (and all that that entails) around her neck.


05-07-07 - In West Branch visit, Dodd points to a renewable future Candidate?s position on Middle East issues not a crowd pleaser



05-07-07 - Palestinians prepared to assure Israel of gas supply


05-07-07 - UNIFIL denies reports of weapons smuggling in South Milos Strugar, spokesperson for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), denied on Friday reports that Hizbullah is smuggling weapons into the South. "The German naval forces are doing their job as good as it can be [done] and have not detected any arms smuggling into the South,"


05-07-07 - Sarkozy's opportunity If France championed draconian sanctions against Iran, it could almost single-handedly lead Europe in avoiding both the need for Western military action against Teheran, and the threat of living under a growing nuclear and terrorist shadow. I knew that France's Iran policy was ultimately behind the pro-Israeli influence of this election.


05-07-07 - Carter's views on Mideast politics Supporters of Israel claim that apartheid is an extreme term to describe the situation, but Bishop Desmond Tutu, who knows something about apartheid, has described the situation as similar to conditions he saw in South Africa


05-07-07 - Israel, Egypt and Jordan to discuss Arab peace plan Olmert has so far refused to discuss final status issues -- the future of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the borders of a Palestinian state -- in his regular bilateral meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.


05-07-07 - Israelis from Iraq remember Babylon "We never thought of who was Jewish and who was Arab, until 1947. It all suddenly changed. The people that you knew as good people turned into bad people for you and you became bad for them. It was very sad." Jews and Arabs lived in peace in the region. That is until the advent of Zionism and Israel's ensuing expulsion of the Palestinians.


05-07-07 - Levy to quit as Middle East envoy "Levy will go," a senior figure said yesterday. "It's vital because he is seen as somebody who thinks it's Israel, right or wrong.".....Mr Brown will use his departure to signal a change of approach to the Middle East, although he remains committed to the state of Israel, which he has visited and where he has friends.


05-07-07 - Abbas to meet with Al-Qawasmi to discuss the obstacles facing the interior ministry


05-07-07 - Dar al-Hanun has been there 80 years, but state still refuses to recognize it


05-07-07 - Japanese activists call for boycott of the Occupation?s Philharmonic Orchestra! On March 20, the Kansai Network for Peace in Palestine (KNPP) held a protest in front of the
Symphonic Hall of Osaka to promote the cultural boycott of Israel.


05-07-07 - Questions for Candidate Obama the Senator seems to want to be a "hawk" when it comes to Iran, describing that country as a threat to Israel and the USA. Here again I remain perplexed. Iran does not have the military capability to hit the USA.


05-07-07 - UN Agency Staff Raises $125,000 for Suffering Families in Beit Hanoun Staff members of the main United Nations agency caring for Palestinian refugees have raised $125,000 to aid anguished families in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, where a six-day Israeli siege in November 2006 took the lives of 82 Palestinians and injured 26 others.


05-07-07 - Prizes for Supporting Israel? Mr. Sheridan's Strange Award Greg Sheridan, billed as "the most influential foreign affairs analyst in Australian journalism" by his newspaper "The Australian" was awarded the annual Jerusalem Prize by the State Zionist Council of NSW. According to its president Frank Levy, "The prize is awarded to someone who fosters and supports the state of Israel and its ideologies, the concept of the Jewish homeland and the Jewish community, particularly in Australia."


05-07-07 - Sarkozy gets nearly 90% of Israeli votes French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy received a higher percentage of votes from French citizens in Israel than from expatriates in any other country, according to the French Foreign Ministry.

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