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Friday, May 18, 2007
05-17-07 - Gaza hit by fresh Israeli strikes Six Palestinians were killed in similar strikes on Thursday.
05-17-07 - Four Palestinians killed in Gaza in a series of Israeli Air Strikes Palestinian media sources and medics said that Israeli warplanes fired on Thursday missiles on a Hamas oupost near the Falastin playground in Gaza city, wounding about 30 Palestinians.
05-17-07 - Israelis strike Hamas targets in Gaza An Israeli hit on a pickup truck near the southern Gaza town of Rafah killed a father and his two teenage sons.
05-17-07 - Bodyguard of interior ministry spokesman killed in new Israeli airstrike A new Israeli airstrike hit on Thursday afternoon a post in front of the house of Khaled Abu Helal, spokesman for Palestinian Interior Ministry, killing a bodyguard of him, witnesses reported.
05-17-07 - Abbas calls off visit to Gaza amid violence Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed a planned visit to Gaza that was aimed at easing tensions between his secular Fatah faction and ruling Hamas Islamists, Palestinian officials said Thursday.
05-17-07 - Israeli tanks enter northern Gaza in "routine" incursion (Extra)
05-17-07 - Barghouthi calls on media to avoid broadcasting inciting material regarding the infighting He told a press conference at the Palestine Media Center in Ramallah that the media should avoid broadcasting or publishing any inflammatory material that may contribute in fueling the situation on internal unrest.
05-17-07 - Gaza violence hampering aid deliveries, say humanitarian workers
05-17-07 - Nine Palestinian civilians kidnapped as army invades several West Bank areas
05-17-07 - President Abbas heads for Gaza as relative calm observed
05-17-07 - Israeli air strikes hit Hamas in Gaza, troops enter Abbas was quoted by Wafa news agency as asking Rice "to stop the Israeli military escalation against our people and continue their efforts to push the peace process forward."
05-17-07 - Murdered Arab driver to be recognized as terror victim That's great. But I again urge you to see how many mainstream American news outlets covered this story.. NONE (as of this writing). Now let's see how many covered the Hamas Mickey Mouse story. DOZENS AND DOZENS. One is alleged to have incited murder of Jews, the other actually does the deed; murders someone because of their ethnicity. Up is down, left is right, black is white; the Orwellian nature of the beast.
05-17-07 - Egyptian official shot while monitoring Gaza 'truce'
05-17-07 - Hebron Update 7-14 May 2007 Benvie went down to
investigate and observed an Israeli soldier, on the Shuhada Street side of the
gate, pointing his gun at a young Palestinian boy (aged about 10 years old) who
was standing on the market side of the gate, just beside the apartment door.
Benvie tried to talk to the soldier, emphasizing that the boy was very young.
The soldier ignored her and continued to point his gun at the boy and shout at
him
05-17-07 - Court demands solution for W. Bank village inside J'lem
05-17-07 - Hamas issues threat to Israel They said this was in response to an Israeli air strike that destroyed one of their security compounds in Gaza City.
05-17-07 - Young Spaniard among Gaza dead Sayans, who was recently married and a member of the Palestinian Preventive Security force, was shot in the back.
05-17-07 - Britain enlists Palestinian firebrand to free BBC reporter The government said Thursday it is asking a radical Palestinian cleric detained whether he would be willing to appeal for the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston from the Gaza Strip.
05-17-07 - Egypt condemns Israeli military operation in Gaza Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Thursday that he deemed the Israeli military raid in northern Gaza Strip as "wanton violence and killing," the official news agency MENA reported.
05-17-07 - U.S. OKs aid channel to Palestinian finance minister The United States has told the European Union that funds can be channelled to Palestinians through an account run by Finance Minister Salam Fayyad but that restrictions against the Hamas-led government remain in place.
05-17-07 - Western diplomats praise Abbas' forces for Karni battle against Hamas Divide and conquer.
05-17-07 - Hamas denies plans of targeting Abbas
05-17-07 - Vast majority of Palestinians 'never finish school' In Palestine, less than 1 percent of children were reported to be finishing their schooling due, largely, to Israeli security crackdowns that regularly interrupt their academic progress,"
05-17-07 - Palestinian plotted to kill Olmert
05-17-07 - Students at Harvard launch a campaign against Israeli General
05-17-07 - World Bank condemns roadblocks, 5 activists arrested for dismantling them
05-17-07 - Palestinian Child Art center warns of affects of infighting on children
05-17-07 - The children of Al Hadidiya live here no more
05-17-07 - Prince lauds efforts to advance Mideast peace His Royal Highness also expressed Brunei Darussalam's solidarity with member nations who are currently experiencing severe problems and in particular appreciated the current efforts being made by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan to advance the peace process and secure lasting settlement in Palestine.
05-17-07 - 4 Israelis arrested at Secretary of State Canton Township Police said they arrested four men from Israel at a Michigan Secretary of State office Tuesday, after they tried to obtain driver's licenses using false addresses in Ann Arbor.
05-17-07 - Obama to Haaretz: More pressure on Iran urgently needed "Iran continues to be a major threat," he told me Wednesday morning, "both the U.S. and to some of our allies."........In some of these initiatives AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, is also playing a role.
05-17-07 - Bottling peace in a jar Robert Massoud, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian parents and now living just north of Toronto, developed the project as "a people-sized initiative for those who want to make a difference" but who "throw up their hands and walk away" in despair from seemingly hopeless cycles of retaliation in the Middle East
05-17-07 - Jordan jails two in plot to smuggle arms to Palestinians A Jordanian military court on Thursday jailed two Jordanians of Palestinian origin for plotting to smuggle weapons to the Palestinian territories.
05-17-07 - Bush acknowledges Palestinian plight President Bush said Thursday he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed the plight of the Palestinian people and the "deep humiliation" they face....."We recognized the deep humiliation that can come as a result of living in a land where you can't move freely and where people can't realize dreams," Bush said. The funny thing is here, months ago I sent out an email to the President asking that our government accept the new unity government (this was part of one of those email alert systems offered by websites such as CFI). Darren K. Hipp, a Special Assistant to the President, actually sent out a letter to me that contained the following excerpt: "[The President] also believes that people who live in freedom are more likely to reject terrorism." No kidding? Hello? Why doesn't the president thus demand Israel withdraw from all of the Palestinian territories that it has unlawfully occupied (and colonized) for nearly 40 years?
05-17-07 - U.S. praises Israel for restraint over Gaza "Israel has the right to defend itself and it has exercised great restraint in the face of these rocket attacks," McCormack told reporters.
05-17-07 - Israel to start international campaign on Qassams Can Israel use these latest events to win over public opinion?
05-17-07 - Palestinian Pinochet Making His Move? Seeing the disastrous implications of the U.S. policy, the Saudis appeared to have put the kibosh on Abrams? coup plan by drawing Abbas into a unity government with Hamas. And as Mark Perry at Conflict Forum detailed in an excellent analysis Dahlan was just about the only thing that the U.S. had going for it in terms of resisting the move towards a unity government
05-17-07 - 'Israel-US relations vital for security' The vast majority of Israelis believe that the relationship with the US is crucial to Israel's survival, and trust the US to come to its aid in time of need, according to a poll released by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies of Bar-Ilan University and the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday.
05-17-07 - Suleiman works on new film 'Time' Suleiman will lense the tentatively titled project in New York, Paris and Israel. It tells a semi-autobiographical story of a Palestinian family from the 1948 creation of Israel to the present day
05-17-07 - Gaza Is Burning: Laila El-Hadded Reports on How Recent Fighting in Gaza has Paralyzed Civilian Life
05-17-07 - Fashion under Adversity
05-17-07 - From Beirut to Gaza, violence follows Gaza woman
05-17-07 - Palestinians protests against the Israeli army closer of their old city in Hebron The Israeli army has installed a network of military watchtowers and road blocks in the old city of Hebron near the illegal settlements, which are originally Palestinian homes that the settlers and the army took by force from their Palestinian owners
05-17-07 - Israeli, Palestinian peace activists meet in Aqaba
05-17-07 - Israeli professors visit U.K. to discuss academic boycott The UCU proposal is part of a growing wave of British initiatives to boycott Israel. These include decisions for an academic boycott approved by the AUT and NATFHE - the two lecturers' unions that later merged to form the 120,000-strong UCU - in 2005 and 2006, respectively; last month's decision by Britain's National Union of Journalists to boycott Israeli products; the Anglican Church's decision to divest from companies doing business with the Israel Defense Forces; a demand for Israel's expulsion from the World Medical Association by 130 British doctors; and boycott calls by leading British architects.
05-17-07 - Jerusalem patriarchate stands by leader Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox patriarchate said on Thursday it was standing by its leader, Theophilos III, after Jordan withdrew its recognition over his alleged failure to recover church land in the holy city.......Theophilos was elected in August 2005 and took office three months later, replacing Irineos I who was dismissed over an alleged multi-million-dollar sale of church land in a mainly Palestinian area of Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem to Jewish investors.
05-17-07 - CRIF head warns of racism in wake of Karaki murder This week harsh questions were directed at the Jews. Goel Pinto, who grew up in France, wrote in an opinion piece in Haaretz that many French Jews harbor militant and racist sentiments toward Muslims
05-17-07 - SA gives R1m aid to Palestine The South African cabinet has agreed to donate R1m to Palestine for the purchase of "urgently required" medicines and other medical supplies following what it describes as a "widespread humanitarian crisis" facing its people.
05-17-07 - Israel: Still paying the price of 'victory' The power of the small settler lobby, for example, has been profound. About 250,000 Israeli Jews live in the areas occupied since 1967. But, thanks to the now-documented collusion of state bodies in questionable legal practices in the territories, and the allocation of billions of dollars to settlements and their attendant infrastructure, the majority of Israel's citizens have paid the price to satisfy this small community's wishes
05-17-07 - In Tense Times, Israeli Arms Biz Booms Earlier this month Northrop Grumman (NOC) announced that it was teaming up with IAI to build and launch small reconnaissance satellites based on the Israeli company's technology.
05-17-07 - Profiles in Courage: Living in East Jerusalem ?We have to start relating to East Jerusalem as part of the whole of Jerusalem or we are going to lose Har Habayit,? Daniel Schwab emphatically explains. ?Everything will survive or fall on the battle for Har Habayit.?
Schwab is not alone in his thinking and today there are plans today to expand the Ma?aleh Hazeitim complex to include another 70 apartments, a mikvah and a synagogue. Why not come out and say what you really mean: "We have to de-Arabize East Jerusalem" (like the Western part).
05-17-07 - Two Peace Activists Banned from DailyKos Two well-known peace activists were recently kicked off Daily Kos, banned because of their criticism of Israeli racism and Israel?s oppression of Palestinian human rights
05-17-07 - Al-Arian documentary stirs lingering emotions
05-17-07 - Human beatboxer captivates audience attention
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