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Sunday, May 27, 2007


News for 05-26-07

05-26-07 - Rapid-fire Israeli air strikes kill five Gaza Palestinians The five men killed yesterday were all thought to have been members of the Executive Force. Reuters reported that the blast that struck their Gaza City compound damaged a kindergarten next door, forcing young children to run for cover.


05-26-07 - Casualties in Jerusalem shooting Two Palestinian gunmen have opened fire on an Israeli patrol in east Jerusalem, wounding four Israelis, emergency services there have said.


05-26-07 - Palestinian police kill top militant; five others injured in West Bank shootout Palestinian police killed a top militant Saturday in the northern West Bank town of Tubas and five others were injured in the ensuing shootout between police and militants, security officials said.


05-26-07 - Palestine Service Smashes Network of Collaborators The Palestinian Preventive Security (PPS) service in the West Bank yesterday announced that a network of local collaborators with the Israeli occupation was recently smashed and a number of arrests were made.


05-26-07 - Bethlehem : A City Contained "There's not much fun in Bethlehem for the students," John says. "The wall around Bethlehem keeps us physically and emotionally hemmed in. The quality of life here is difficult. It's very oppressive and depressive. And the Christians are just constantly trying to survive and to thrive here." ....."The situation in Bethlehem is peaceful now. There's no fighting in the streets. There was 5 years ago. But the problems for the people here are not caused by any ethnic or religious rivalry. The Muslims don't persecute the Christians here. That's an idea that is often put around."


05-26-07 - Israeli forces kidnap three high school students and attack a Palestinian NGO in Hebron Israeli forces attacked and searched a local cultural club and a number of hoses in Hebron and nearby villages in the southern part of the West Bank on Saturday morning, kidnapping three youths.



05-26-07 - Hamas warns Israel against harming Haneya The ruling Islamic Resistance Movement(Hamas) on Saturday warned Israel against harming Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya after Israeli aircraft struck twice near his house.


05-26-07 - West Asia violence: India calls for restraint Four Palestinians, including a child, were wounded in an Israeli air raid on a post, south of Gaza City.


05-26-07 - The Cabal Strikes Back ** In the end, however, when it comes down to launching a full frontal assault on Iran, it all depends on the Israelis. The War Party is counting on them to strike the first blow, with the guarantee that the Americans will strike the second, third, fourth, and fifth blows, ad infinitum. Blows directed not only at Iran, but also against Syria, Hezbollah, and the Palestinians.


05-26-07 - Democrats Dither As Cheney, Neocons Plot To Nuke Iran ** Now that the US invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have failed, the AEI warmongers are conspiring with Vice President Cheney to foment war with Iran.


05-26-07 - Health, environmental disasters threatens Gaza Strip The statement appealed to Arab cities and capitals to send urgent aid to rescue Gaza and other Palestinian municipalities which offer services to more than 600,000 people.


05-26-07 - Complaints that Israel represses Palestinians Describing the current situation in Palestine as "unspeakable," MEP Kyriacos Triantaphyllides of Cyprus, chairman of a committee working on the Palestinian problem, said the EU should recognise the national unity government there, and complained that Israel was continuing to wreak havoc against civilians


05-26-07 - Israel seizes Palestinian Minister


05-26-07 - Kidnapped journo "alive and well" Kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston is alive and well and could be released "very soon", a Palestinian government official said tonight.


05-26-07 - Fatah's armed wing claims responsibility for attack near Jerusalem


05-26-07 - UN envoy and Abbas discuss possible truce with Israel


05-26-07 - Egypt hosts Palestinian factions Sunday


05-26-07 - Senior Palestinian security chief offers to resign An Abbas aide said Rashid Abu Shbak told Abbas last week that he intended to step down but "President Abbas did not accept it at the time."


05-26-07 - Hamas man speaks of Johnston hope


05-26-07 - Iran is nuclear threat, says Israeli general ** Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the Israeli Defense Forces' defense and armed forces attache in Washington, D.C., was a guest speaker at Temple Beth Jacob's Shabbas service. In his remarks, he said Iran is "the most worrying" of three fronts with which Israel is dealing right now.


05-26-07 - What happend to the Israeli peace lobby?


05-26-07 - Hezbollah warns Govt not to storm camp


05-26-07 - You Tube: The Palestinian Christians


05-26-07 - You Tube: If Americans Knew


05-26-07 - In response to the May 22 letter to the editor "Speak up for equal dignity." Israel and the United States stand condemned for their unconscionable behavior against the Palestinian people


05-26-07 - Water and Resistance Timothy Seidel is a peace development worker with Mennonite Central Committee in the Occupied Palestinian Territories where he has lived for the past three years.


05-26-07 - Battle for Britain The number of British organizations calling for the boycott of Israel, their public campaigns, and their constant comparisons between Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa have made the battle for British public opinion particularly significant.


05-26-07 - You must return the rights of the people you have erred against . . . or pay the price The leader of Fatah al-Islam has threatened Britons with ?destruction through resistance and attacks? for their government?s policies in the Middle East. Odd that they should target Britain in all of this, particularly given this story I read just minutes ago.


05-26-07 - Get Carter The New Republic's editor-in-chief, Marty Peretz, said when Carter's Palestine book was published in the US late last year that the former president, who famously brokered a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s, would 'go down in history as a Jew-hater'. New definition of slur 'Jew hater', 'anti-Semite' : someone that dares criticize Israel. A long article, but a good one.


05-26-07 - U.S. sends arms to Lebanon, militants issue warning Lebanese leaders have vowed to stamp out Fatah al-Islam, which is led by a Palestinian but has little support among Lebanon's Palestinian refugee community of around 400,000.


05-26-07 - A Palestinian refugee and her daughter cross to safety after fleeing their besieged camp of Nahr al-bared in north Lebanon


05-26-07 - Israeli employer fire three Palestinians because the hold prayer at work Three Arab employees working at an Israeli factory in Acre, manufacturing parts for camions were fired last Monday for holding prayers at the factory. Acre also known as Akka, is located on the northern end of Haifa bay in northern Israel.


05-26-07 - The need for continuous PR


05-26-07 - End apartheid in Israel Many claim other countries have far worse human rights violations. The difference is we give billions of dollars in support to Israel.

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