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Thursday, May 24, 2007
05-23-07 - 40 years ago, Israel attacked U.S. ship On June 8 this year, we as a country should share a moment of silence for the murdered men of the USS Liberty and demand total accountability from Israel.
Amen to that.
05-23-07 - Amnesty accuses Israel of 'serious rights abuses' In the Palestinian territories, Israeli air and artillery strikes killed some 650 people, half of them unarmed civilians and including some 120 children, "a three-fold increase compared with 2005."......"Israeli soldiers and settlers committed serious human rights abuses, including unlawful killings, against Palestinians, mostly with impunity,"
05-23-07 - Ongoing Israeli aerial assaults in Gaza wound three Three Palestinian bystanders were wounded in pre-dawn Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza city early this morning, paramedics said.
05-23-07 - Most Palestinians killed in Israeli raids were civilians, Amnesty says
05-23-07 - Militants reject Gaza truce call "We cannot surrender to blackmail as planes are overhead,"
05-23-07 - Israel arrests Palestinian minister of education
05-23-07 - Factions to continue shelling Israel until achieving mutual ceasefire The Palestinian factions will continue firing rockets into Israel until the Jewish state accepts a mutual ceasefire and apply it to the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a faction representative said on Wednesday.
05-23-07 - Secret peace talks aim to halt Gaza killings The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas-backed prime minister Ismail Haniyeh have begun talks in an effort to stop the barrage of rockets being fired into Israel.
05-23-07 - Israel to let Presidential Guard train near Jericho
05-23-07 - OPT: Humanitarian conditions worsen in Gaza under IOF military operations
05-23-07 - EU seeks greater control of Gaza-Egypt border "The Palestinians asked us to stay... and we said yes we accept. But we would like to do it in a more effective manner," Solana told reporters after meeting with President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.
05-23-07 - Israeli army kidnaps six Palestinian civilians in Nablus
05-23-07 - Israeli military kidnaps 7 Palestinian civilians in Khan Younis after mistaking them for resistance
05-23-07 - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemns violence in Gaza and Sderot and calls for protection of civilians
05-23-07 - General Workers Union slams Israeli attacks
05-23-07 - Residents of Barta?a and the surrounding areas isolated and repeatedly assaulted
05-23-07 - US officials uphold US aid for Abbas' security forces
05-23-07 - Lebanon rapped over shelling Palestinians' camp "Amnesty International is particularly concerned about the army's use of artillery and other heavy weapons, including tank fire, against heavily populated areas,"
05-23-07 - PLO will not object to Lebanese army entering camp
05-23-07 - Lebanese minister warns militants Lebanon's defence minister has said Islamist militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp must surrender or face further military action.
05-23-07 - Obstacles to peace: Water In the 1967 war Israel gained exclusive control of the waters of the West Bank and the Sea of Galilee, although not the Litani. Those resources - the West Bank's mountain aquifer and the Sea of Galilee - give Israel about 60% of its fresh water, a million cubic metres (1 MCM) per year......Israel allocates its citizens, including those living in settlements in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law, with between three and five times more water than the Palestinians.
05-23-07 - 'Nowhere to put us' We'd never heard of Fatah al-Islam. Who are these guys who are terrorising the whole country?
05-23-07 - Israeli Forest Named After Australian Prime Minister The naming of the John Howard forest was arranged by a quasi-private land agency, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) which deliberately discriminates against non-Jews in its allocation of long-lease agreements.
05-23-07 - NY Sun uses 'anti-semitic' slur against Ron Paul
05-23-07 - Rice urged to look at Gaza smuggling Initiated by Sens. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), the letter says the Gaza-Egyptian border has become a major arms conduit, with shipments of high-grade explosives increasing six-fold from 2005 to 2006, from five tons to 30 million tons.
05-23-07 - Reps salute Japan on Hamas stand Thirteen members of Congress signed a letter commending Japan for withholding aid to Hamas until it renounces violence and accepts Israel. Our representatives evidently have nothing better to do than to work on behalf of a foreign nation.
05-23-07 - Eight-year old needs urgent help she needs to be sent abroad for the process, but her father, a Palestinian, is without a job and cannot afford to do so.
05-23-07 - Carter Publisher May Be Accused Of Damaging CBS's Reputation A CBS subsidiary, Simon & Schuster, will be accused of damaging the reputation of its parent company by publishing Mr. Carter's book " Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." Carol Greenwald, the treasurer of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, a CBS shareholder, plans to criticize the publisher at the meeting. Israeli lobby wants SOMEBODY, ANYBODY to pay for Carter's book. By god, the truth got out! And they can't have that.
05-23-07 - Palestinians say they are victims again in Lebanon,
05-23-07 - A declaration of intent
05-23-07 - Jordan-Palestinian confederation would improve peace prospects: Netanyahu Netanyahu went on to reject an Arab peace proposal as "traditional Arab demands" for Israel to return to "indefensible (pre-) six-day war lines (of 1967) and be prepared to negotiate on its own dissolution, on the so-called right of return of the so-called Arab refugees and that's not helpful."
05-23-07 - Iraq Withdrawal Akin to Defeat, Say Americans It will put Israel in danger 40% 25% 35%
05-23-07 - U.N. asks for access to refugee camp U.N. relief officials appealed Wednesday for safe access to the Palestinian refugee camp at the center of a standoff between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army and urged the government to exercise restraint in civilian areas.
05-23-07 - Palestinian speaks to middle schoolers "He's short!" one young boy exclaimed.
05-23-07 - Another view The wooden wall display includes photos of injured Palestinian children, bulldozed homes owned by Palestinians and international volunteers, including Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old who died in 2003 after being crushed by a bulldozer.
05-23-07 - Amnesty blasts Mideast human rights violations Amnesty International said on Wednesday in its annual report that Iraq continued its descent into civil war in 2006 and that both Israel and Hezbollah committed war crimes during their 34-day conflict.
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