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Monday, May 21, 2007
05-20-07 - Eight die in Israeli missile attack on home of Hamas legislator Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza last night with an airstrike on the home of a Hamas political leader which killed eight of his relatives and neighbours.....Shortly after the airstrike, an Israeli tank's shell hit a house in northern Gaza, killing a child, and injuring five others.
05-20-07 - Israel pounds Gaza with series of air strikes In a second strike on Monday, a missile fired from an Israeli attack helicopter knocked out electricity for about 50,000 people in Nozeirat and a nearby refugee camp in central Gaza, witnesses said.
05-20-07 - Palestinian Authority denies helping US bolster Abbas forces Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaina made the denial after Israel's Haaretz daily reported that the US was pressing Israel to help boost Abbas' forces that were engaged in six days of fighting against rival Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.
05-20-07 - Five Palestinians arrested while settlers continue to attack and harass farmers in Al-Buweib the DCO did not defend the Palestinians legal right to
work their land. Instead, the military declared the entire area a closed
military zone, and ordered everyone, including the landowners, to leave. Five
Palestinians were arrested and taken to the police stations for allegedly
refusing to leave the area Photo gallery of this event can be found here. I would ask readers: what if this happened in AMERICA, and some group of (armed) illegal (foreign) squatters prevented AMERICAN farmers from tending to THEIR land? Those squatters might find themselves looking down so many barrels, they'd think they were at an NRA convention, rightly so.
05-20-07 - Report: Jordan weighs ruling West Bank Jordan has proposed taking the West Bank under its jurisdiction, an Israeli newspaper reported.
05-20-07 - Nablus Private sector representatives, employees, protest against infighting Representatives and employees of the Palestinian private sector held on Sunday a protest in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, against the internal clashes in the Gaza Strip.
05-20-07 - U.S. calls for restraint in Gaza conflicts The United States on Sunday urged Israel to exercise restraint toward rocket attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) while warning the Palestinian militants against firing rockets at Israeli targets.
05-20-07 - Hamas vows to keep rocket attacks into Israel despite threats "Our rockets are fired in response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation and Olmert's threats will not terrify us,"
05-20-07 - Israeli tank fire wounds Palestinian
05-20-07 - Pope appeals for end to 'tragic violence' in Gaza
05-20-07 - Soldiers attack information Minister during protest in Bethlehem The soldiers violently assaulted Barghouthi and hit him along with several others protesters with batons.
Dr. Barghouthi said that soldiers attacked with batons dozens of women and children and pushed them on the ground as the residents peaceful protested against the uprooting of their orchards, settlements and the Annexation Wall.
05-20-07 - For shell-shocked Gaza residents, truce is temporary respite "Once, I became a refugee because of the Israelis. Today I am once again a refugee, driven from my home because of the fighting between the Palestinians,"
05-20-07 - British MPs help search for kidnapped BBC reporter "Essentially the poverty's got much worse, there's been a break down in law and order and so people have been falling back on their clans to protect them and the thinking is that one of these large clans has got Alan Johnston,"
05-20-07 - The Israeli army attack farmers and peace activists near Bethlehem
05-20-07 - If no one knows who they are, can Sudanese be a real threat? Activists call it ironic: While some Sudanese refugees are imprisoned by the Israeli government as citizens of an enemy nation, others crossing into Israel are being abandoned on the street. The hypocrisy of the cries by the pro-Israel community with regard to Darfur lies exposed to the world.
05-20-07 - 37 killed as Lebanese troops battle militants An army spokesman said 15 soldiers, including two officers, were killed in violent clashes at Tripoli and around the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, a Fatah al-Islam stronghold
05-20-07 - 'Do not perform in Israel' In a letter sent Sunday to the Rolling Stones by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, organizers say: 'Performing in Israel at this time is morally equivalent to performing in South Africa during the apartheid era'
05-20-07 - New Knesset body to tackle issues facing W. Bank residents Schneller said the committee was already discussing two bills relating to military protection around the Jewish settlement blocks. The
05-20-07 - Scores dead as Lebanese army battles Islamists in bloodiest day since civil war So here are a few facts. A group of armed men tried to rob a Tripoli bank on Saturday and got cornered in an apartment block. Others holed up in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp north of the city
05-20-07 - Explosion in Beirut kills one: report "There was an explosive device either under a car or next to a car," another security source said, adding it took place in the car park of a popular mall in a Christian district in east Beirut.
05-20-07 - WEF conference ends with hopes of convening in Bethlehem
05-20-07 - Israel to present counter-proposal to Arab Peace Initiative: senior official Israel's formal proposal would take into account the details of the Arab Peace Initiative and would also outline Israel's opposing position,
05-20-07 - Mideast conference at Polish university The conference attendees will include Andrezej Olechowski and Adam Rotfeld, former Polish foreign ministers; Oded Aran, a World Jewish Congress representative in Israel and former Israeli ambassador to the European Union; leading Polish politicians; and several prominent Middle East analysts from Poland, Europe and Israel.
05-20-07 - Palestinians 'academically boycotted' "At a time when we are trying to prevent an academic boycott of Israel, Israel itself is pursuing a policy that continues to sweepingly deny the right of education and academic freedom of Palestinian students," wrote Prof. Kenneth Mann of Tel Aviv University. Mann is chairman of the advisory council of Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement.
05-20-07 - Jewish groups honour PM PRIME Minister John Howard was last night honoured by three leading Jewish organisations for his friendship to Israel.
05-20-07 - Obama Lines Up Behind Neo-Conservative Campaign Against Iran Acutely aware of public disenchantment with Iraq and opposition to an attack on Iran and convinced that the UN Security Council will never be willing to impose serious sanctions of its own, neo-conservatives, in apparent co-ordination with the right-wing "Israel Lobby," have been trying for much of the past year to rally support for tougher unilateral economic sanctions, including divestment, against Iran.
05-20-07 - 25 detainee injured as soldiers attacked them in the Negev detention facility
05-20-07 - Shaukat calls for defreezing Palestinian Authority?s assets
05-20-07 - British Jews meet U.K. foreign secretary Representatives from the Board of Deputies of British Jews met with the country's foreign secretary. The delegation at last week's meeting broached concerns with Margaret Beckett about the threat posed by Iran to the West, as well as to Israel, and its destabilizing influence throughout the Middle East.
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