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Saturday, May 19, 2007
05-18-07 - Israeli army kills a Palestinian child near Bethlehem A group of Israeli soldiers attacked homes in the village of Beit Fajar, located to the south of Bethlehem city. During the attack, soldiers randomly opened fire on a group of children playing in front of their homes, critically injuring Ziad Takatka, 16. The boy was moved to Bethlehem public hospital, but later died from his wounds.
05-18-07 - Israel strikes Hamas in Gaza, threatens more action Two militants -- one from each side -- were killed, hospital officials said. A fisherman was also killed after being caught in crossfire. Hospital officials said two other civilians died from wounds sustained during internal clashes earlier this week.
05-18-07 - Islamic Jihad leader appeals Fateh, Hamas to end clashes
05-18-07 - Israel sets high bar for Gaza peacekeeper idea Israel said on Friday it might agree to international peacekeepers being deployed in Gaza as long as they were ready to crack down on Palestinian militants -- a view one foreign diplomat said amounted to a "No".
05-18-07 - Three Palestinian children injured as army invades Tulkarem city
05-18-07 - Two detained, others wounded in anti-wall nonviolent protest in Bethlehem Around 60 Palestinian, Israeli and International protesters gathered in southern Bethlehem on Friday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and to protest against the construction of the annexation wall on Palestinian land.
05-18-07 - House rejects funding caveat on Iran ** The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which favors a robust posture against any possible Iranian nuclear threat, strongly opposed the amendments. Two Jewish members close to AIPAC, Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), had kept similar language from appearing in the bill?s original text. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House speaker, allowed the amendments to go forward to placate anti-war Democrats.
05-18-07 - Russia ForMin calls on Israel to stop rocketing Palestine
05-18-07 - Information Minister calls for releasing abducted reporter Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi called for the immediate release of Abdul-Salam Abu Askar, a local reporter who was abducted in Gaza on Friday evening.
05-18-07 - Baraka: ?Killing of the Palestinian driver wasn?t just an incident? He slammed that Israel claims that the assailant was mentally ill and stated this Israel repeatedly used such claims to justify racist attacks.
05-18-07 - Gunmen open fire at a society in Nablus Palestinian sources reported on Friday that gunmen opened fire at a development society in the Northern Mountain area, in the northern west Bank city of Nablus.
05-18-07 - Leaders arrive in Jordan for World Economic Forum on Mideast
05-18-07 - Jordan king in Palestinian plea Jordan's King Abdullah has urged the world to act to end what he described as the continuing suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
05-18-07 - Teachers Union slams Israeli abduction of Salfit head of Ministry of Education The General Teacher Union in the Palestinian territories slammed on Friday the Israeli army for the kidnapping of Sameer Shaheen, head of the Ministry of Education in the West Bank city of Salfit.
05-18-07 - Arab League chief blames Israel for Gaza infighting 'The inter-Palestinian fighting cannot be averted because the Israeli troops surround the Palestinian fighters and besiege the Palestinian people to starvation limits at a time when the unemployment rate was exceeding 70 percent,'
05-18-07 - Forum leaders differ on Mideast future During one politically charged panel, Saeb Erekat, a top aide to the Palestinian president, chided Iranian hard-liner Mohammed J.A. Larijani, telling him Iran should stop its anti-Israeli rhetoric and instead help create a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
05-18-07 - Released UAE TV reporter won't name Gaza captors The bureau chief of the United Arab Emirates' Abu Dhabi TV in Gaza, abducted briefly by Palestinian gunmen on Friday, refused to identify his captors after the television station blamed Islamist group Hamas.
05-18-07 - Troops cross into Gaza with Israel's blessing The revelation of the troop deployment illustrates the increasing partisanship of Israel and the Bush Administration in the volatile Palestinian political situation
05-18-07 - Iran not seeking Israel destruction: Larijani Iran's national security chief Ali Larijani on Friday denied Tehran was promoting the policy of wiping Israel "off the map," blaming a deliberate distortion by the Western media.
05-18-07 - Haaretz: Poll: 71% of Israelis want U.S. to strike Iran if talks fail ** Fully 71 percent of Israelis believe that the United States should launch a military attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran's nuclear program, according to a new poll. A similar article also appears on Newsmax: Israeli Poll: U.S. Should Strike Iran
05-18-07 - Threatened at a Gaza roadblock
05-18-07 - Unsung 'Fixers' Protect War Reporters
05-18-07 - B?Tselem sends an urgent letter to Peretz to bar the army from shelling civilian areas The Center also said that several Israeli ministers asked Peretz to cut the power and water supply that goes into the Gaza Strip, and considered these calls and shelling as act of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
05-18-07 - MSF reacts to charges issued against Palestinian staff member
05-18-07 - Conservatives Push Joint Israeli-U.S. BMDS The Democratic-controlled House passed its version of the fiscal 2008 defense authorization legislation May 17, including a last-minute provision pushed by conservative Republicans to further integrate the U.S. ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) with Israel. Thus does the America-Israel clusterf*#k deepen, thanks to its agents on Capitol Hill.
05-18-07 - Arab Festival Spotlights Diversity Within Middle Eastern Culture "People don?t understand that there are 22 Arab countries," says Sarsour, who is Palestinian but was born and raised in Sunset Park. "So this will be an educational event as well as a celebration."
05-18-07 - Arab League chief rebuffs Olmert offer to meet Arab League chief Amr Mussa on Friday dismissed an offer from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to meet Arab leaders on their peace initiative as nothing more than a "gimmick."
05-18-07 - Training on story writing available to Gaza journalists The Media Development Center at Birzeit University in the Palestinian territories is organizing a training workshop for print journalists in the Gaza Strip scheduled for June 2 to 14. Application deadline: May 25.
05-18-07 - New law to require referendum before future Israeli withdrawals The law was supported by a concerted effort on the part of a lobby for the Golan Heights communities, who maintain that a potential Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights will be much less likely to occur if it will require the approval of a national referendum.
05-18-07 - Internet Censorship Rising Globally researchers found no filtering at all in Russia, Israel or the Palestinian territories despite political conflicts there. Very good.
05-18-07 - Phone Call between President Abbas, Spanish FM
05-18-07 - There will be no true peace in the region unless we solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict In an interview with His Majesty King Abdullah by the London-based daily the Times, during the Petra Conference of Nobel Laureates, the King asked if the there is no future for the Palestinian representing in establishing a Palestinian state, how can there be between the Arab and Israelis?
05-18-07 - Film explores Hollywood vilification of Arabs In the film, Shaheen, the narrator, explores continual negative stereotypes of Arabs, recycled in one American movie after another, which constitutes about "20 percent of films."
05-18-07 - Discussion of ?Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid? planned On Tuesday, May 22, at 7 p.m., a book discussion of ?Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid? by Jimmy Carter will be held at the Dover Public Library Lecture Hall, 73 Locust St., in Dover.
05-18-07 - Poll finds policy, values hurt U.S. in Muslim world "There have been specific complaints that the U.S. favors Israel over the Palestinians and the Arab world as whole ... and exploits the Middle East for its oil,"
05-18-07 - U.S. Accuses Hamas of Starting Violence
05-18-07 - AIPAC's Power Base: America's Real Terrorists Hey, if you're gonna use my graphic, give me some props!
05-18-07 - Minneapolis Al Nakba Day Recognition On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 in front of the Minneapolis Central Library at 12:00pm, members of JFAETTO (Jews For An End To The Occupation) joined the international commemoration of Al Nakba Day, or "Day of Catastrophe". Just as in other cities in around the world.--Boston, San Francisco, Philidelphia, and Tel Aviv, we mapped out a grid and outline of the state of Israel and Occupied Territories and asked passersby to help us put the names of the 531 Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 back on the map.
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