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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
06-05-07 - Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in raid: medics The source told Reuters that soldiers came to a house in Hebron before dawn and shot a man who answered the door, killing him, then shot his wife, wounding her. Medics said the man was 67.
06-05-07 - Palestinians came together for Johnston
06-05-07 - Civil war warning to Palestinians The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that his people were on the brink of civil war as gunmen from the rival Hamas and Fatah factions fought each other in Gaza.
06-05-07 - 1967: Our rights have to be recognised When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences. At the time, they were driven by one strategic objective: to end the conflict by seizing all that remained of Palestine and complete the process of ethnic cleansing that started in 1948. They did not realise the resolution of this conflict would take much more than military superiority.....Israel's fateful error was to underestimate the resolve of the Palestinians They made the same mistake with regard to the men on board the USS Liberty, who heroically saved that ship, repeatedly strung the flag up and managed to send out an SOS. God bless 'em.
06-05-07 - Mid-East marks start of 1967 War Israel banned a Palestinian conference due to be held in East Jerusalem.
06-05-07 - War anniversary revives bitter Palestinian memories Now 84, Umm Ali finds it hard to conjure up images for her grandchildren at the United Nations' Beach Refugee Camp of the home village of Sawfeer that she fled from nearly 60 years ago, carrying her children in her arms. "I wish I'd died and never had to leave our land," she said.
06-05-07 - Civil Rights association protests Justice's revision of Basic Law The court overturned the Intifada Law, which exempts the state from
compensating Palestinians for damage caused in the course of noncombat
activities in the territories. Friedmann wants to reinstate it.
06-05-07 - UN chief marks 40th anniversary of 1967 Arab-Israeli war "On this day, the secretary-general remembers the men, women and children who have been killed or had their lives shattered by the tragedies of conflict in the Middle East, particularly the Palestinians who continue to live under an occupation that has lasted forty years," Ban said in a statement released by his press office.
06-05-07 - Israeli army preparing for escalation on two fronts: officer Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing for possible escalation on both Palestinian front and northern front, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Tuesday.
06-05-07 - Lost hope in the West Bank Studies have shown that when mice are put in overcrowded conditions they attack each other, and Gaza is sometimes described by Palestinians as a vast cage. Seventy-six percent of the population is under 30. Most are jobless. So effective have Israelis been in destroying their institutions, Palestinians say, that no one should be surprised when anarchy reigns and militant, Islamist Hamas fills the vacuum.
06-05-07 - One Palestinian security officer injured in renewed internal clashes in Gaza At least one Palestinian security officer was wounded on Tuesday morning during renewed Hamas-Fatah clashes that took place near the Karni commercial crossing, in the north east of the Gaza strip
06-05-07 - Forty kites mark Middle East war The event is organised by UK-based human rights campaign group Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
06-05-07 - Israeli forces surround Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem
06-05-07 - Israel masses military forces in northern, eastern Gaza Strip Israeli forces withdrew from southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Tuesday but reinforced military massing in the north and the east of the Strip, raising fears of a large-scale ground offensive.
06-05-07 - Detained Palestinian legislator sent to hospital due to serious health concerns
06-05-07 - Arab League holds minute's silence for victims of 1967 war
06-05-07 - Olmert to decline Abbas' requests regarding funds, prisoners
06-05-07 - Details of the Israeli invasion into Qabatia The Israeli army invaded on Tuesday at dawn Qabatia town, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin and kidnapped ten residents, mainly students
06-05-07 - Doctorate candidate from Gaza refused entry into Israel
06-05-07 - Olmert, Haniyeh write of path to peace in Middle East
06-05-07 - Israeli protestors demand end to 40-year occupation
06-05-07 - Four Palestinian wounded by Israeli fire in West Bank The four university students were wounded when troops fired rubber bullets to disperse a demonstration during an army incursion in Qabatiya, near the northern town of Jenin, they said.
06-05-07 - Intifada leader urges campaign against Israeli occupation Marwan Barghuti, the jailed leader of the second Palestinian uprising, called on Tuesday for a "vast popular campaign" against Israeli occupation on the 40th anniversary of the 1967 war.
06-05-07 - Mainstream churches oppose Jerusalem resolution A coalition of mainstream churches urged U.S. lawmakers to reject a resolution calling on the administration to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
06-05-07 - House passes Jerusalem resolution Capitol Hill pays homage to the nation to which it is most loyal, evidently.
06-05-07 - Islamic groups linked to Holy Land case Federal prosecutors named three prominent Islamic organizations among the co-conspirators in a criminal case against a defunct charity that allegedly helped fund Hamas.
06-05-07 - Movements prod U.S. on Mideast Leaders of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements joined an interreligious peace coalition in urging the Bush administration to make Arab-Israeli peace a priority.
06-05-07 - Syrian lawmaker talks of war "The Syrian street wants to restore the Golan," Habash said. But he noted recent peace overtures by Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus and said that if there is a new conflict, it would be Israel's doing
06-05-07 - Some Lebanon gunmen 'surrender' A commander of the Palestinian Fatah party in Lebanon says seven militants who were fighting the Lebanese army have now surrendered to his group.
06-05-07 - Syria draws distinction between Hariri murder trial and probe
06-05-07 - IDF okays Homesh mass rally for rebuilding of West Bank enclave Right-wing activists and settlers plan to hold a mass rally next week with the army's permission in Homesh - the site of a former West Bank settlement. The Yesha Council has taken the unusual step of calling for the rebuilding of evacuated settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
06-05-07 - Refugee Resentment Simmers as Fighting Escalates
06-05-07 - We should support the Arab peace offer The British government and the EU should throw their full weight behind the Arab peace plan that offers peace and normalisation in return for full Israeli withdrawal from Arab land before 1967.
06-05-07 - Detainee loses fingers as army break into detention facility
06-05-07 - Militants planned 9/11-style Lebanon attack
06-05-07 - Israel provoked Six-Day War, says former Dutch UN observer Speaking on a Dutch current affairs programme late Monday, Jan Muhren, who was stationed interchangeably at the Golan Heights and the West Bank in 1966-67, says neither Jordan nor Syria had any intention to start a war with Israel.
06-05-07 - Lebanese army shells camp for 5th day Fatah Islam has nothing to do with the Palestinians, Abbas said in a speech in the West Bank marking 40 years of Israeli occupation. He accused the militants of "abusing the camps" to carry out attacks on the Lebanese army and "endangering the lives of Palestinians."
06-05-07 - Ex-UN envoy questions int'l Hamas blockade "I can't help but wonder whether it would not have been more productive for the international community to take it that the new government, which took over in February of last year, is in effect bound by previous agreements rather than... setting the bar at a height which it was known that they could not clear, at least not explicitly."
06-05-07 - Italy calls on Syria to stop 'terrorist' infiltrations
06-05-07 - Israel wanted the dowry, not the bride
06-05-07 - Occupation blocks Palestinian potential I wonder what Americans would do if they lived for 40 years with every aspect of their lives controlled by a foreign army, or what members of Congress would do if they had to pass through a checkpoint on Capitol Hill. Revolt.
06-05-07 - U.S. shows signs of emulating controversial Israeli anti-terrorism policy Not a coincidence either.'See, the US does it too. Now you can't complain when we do it.'
06-05-07 - Israel to US: Limit Saudi missile deal Meanwhile, defense officials on Tuesday told the Post disagreements had emerged between Israel and the US over the installation of Israeli technology in the Joint Strike Fighter, also known as the F-35, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin.
06-05-07 - Hartwell's DVD tells a story of hope and hardship at Ahli Arab Hospital
06-05-07 - Evacuation of settlers in Hebron home unlikely in near future The evacuation of settlers from a Palestinian home in Hebron will be deferred for a long time, if it takes place at all, senior defense officials said on Tuesday
06-05-07 - Israel security cabinet to discuss Syria
06-05-07 - Nonviolent Demonstration in Bethlehem to mark 40 years of Occupation About 100 Bethlehem area residents demonstrated on Tuesday at the Nashash Israeli army checkpoint between Bethlehem and Hebron cities in the southern part of the West Bank, closing it down for 20 minutes and demanding an end of the illegal occupation of Palestine
06-05-07 - Syria denies connection with Fatah al-Islam fighting with Lebanese army "Fatah al-Islam militants are wanted in Syria and a number of this organization's members are detained in the Syrian prisons,"
06-05-07 - 40 years on, Israel remains a prisoner
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