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Sunday, June 10, 2007
06-09-07 - 40 Years Later...Still No Justice For The USS Liberty Member of that independent committee and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer made the following statement: "Congress has never investigate the recall by the White House of U.S. Navy aircraft sent to rescue the Liberty while the ship was still under attack. The White House cancellation of the Navy's attempt to rescue the Liberty is the most disgraceful thing I have witnessed in my entire military career."
06-09-07 - Was it fog of war, or an act of war, in '67 attack? Crew members said they later counted 821 large holes in the Liberty. "Their whole intent was to sink that ship because we were a perceived threat to their war plans," Gallo said.
06-09-07 - One killed as Gaza militants raid Israel 'in army jeep' Palestinian fighters reportedly drove a disguised Israeli army jeep into Israel from central Gaza on Saturday and attacked an army border post, leaving one militant killed in the first such raid in a year.
06-09-07 - Israeli helicopters strike on Gaza
06-09-07 - In a wide scale campaign Israeli army kidnaps 11 Palestinian from Hebron city
06-09-07 - Military option on table concerning Iran ** Military action is one of the options in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, Israel's deputy prime minister said Saturday, after discussing the issue with senior U.S. officials.
06-09-07 - Hebron: UPDATE: 24 May- 31 May, 2007
06-09-07 - Abbas tells his Fatah movement the alternative to coalition with Hamas is chaos: report Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told leaders of his Fatah movement that a collapse of Fatah's shaky coalition with Hamas will lead to more chaos, a newspaper reported Saturday.
06-09-07 - Israeli tanks roll into S Gaza, arrest residents The media office of the Palestinian National Security Forces added in a statement that the bulldozers destroyed farmlands and the Israeli soldiers occupied the roofs of three houses.The statement also said that the soldiers, covered by machine gunfire, used loudspeakers to call on people, aged above 16, to surrender themselves
06-09-07 - Gaza hospital medics walk out to protest abduction, shooting of doctor Medics at a northern Gaza Strip hospital walked off their jobs for a few hours Saturday to protest the kidnapping and kneecapping of a doctor by Palestinian militants, the first physician targeted in months of deadly infighting.
06-09-07 - Palestinian Hamas lawmaker blasts Blair's remarks Hamas lawmaker Yahia Mussa, based in Gaza, on Saturday slammed British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his remarks on Hamas, saying Blair was working to kill the Palestinian cause.
06-09-07 - Concerns about Israeli presence in Cairo meetings The Lebanese daily newspaper, Al-Akhbar, on Saturday quoted Egyptian and Palestinian officials as saying, "the Egyptian authorities have foiled an attempt by Israeli intelligence agencies to covertly listen in on the Cairo meetings between Egyptian officials and Palestinian factional delegations."
06-09-07 - Senior Hamas leader says Palestinians united in seeking state in West Bank, Gaza
06-09-07 - Information Minister slams Israeli invasion to Rafah Dr. Barghouthi stated that soldiers rounded all males aged 16-50 after breaking into dozens of houses on Friday at night and Saturday at dawn, interrogated them and kidnapped several residents.
06-09-07 - US House's Jerusalem resolution 'unacceptable': Egypt The resolution "not only contradicts international law and (UN) Security Council resolutions on Jerusalem, but also the position of the US administration itself over east Jerusalem," Hadidi said in a statement.
06-09-07 - Unknown gunmen injures one man destroy a car and blow up a shop in three attacks in Gaza strip
06-09-07 - Detainees in Al Jalama on hunger strike
06-09-07 - Seven people wounded as Hamas-Fatah infighting renews in Gaza
06-09-07 - ?Enough is Enough,? warns Morgantini On the occasion of ?40 years of occupation and no end in sight? for the Palestinian people, Luisa Morgantini, the Vice President of European Parliament last week spoke at length to Tejinder Singh (Tito), strongly denouncing the Israeli?s indiscriminate attacks against civilians as representing a serious breach of the principles of the Geneva Convention amounting to a war crime and called for an international UN force to protect civilians.
06-09-07 - Controversial DePaul Professor Denied Tenure In an interview Friday, Finkelstein said he was "disappointed," but that the decision would not muzzle his views. "I met the standards of tenure required at DePaul, but it wasn't enough to overcome the political opposition to my speaking out on the Israel-Palestine conflict," he said. Israeli lobby wins.
06-09-07 - Robert Fisk: Lies and outrages... would you believe it? Only the president of France, General de Gaulle, moved into political isolation by telling a press conference several months later that Israel "is organising, on the territories which it has taken, an occupation which cannot work without oppression, repression and expulsions - and if there appears resistance to this, it will in turn be called 'terrorism'". This accurate prophecy earned reproof from the Nouvel Observateur - to the effect that "Gaullist France has no friends; it has only interests". And Believe It or Not, with the exception of one small Christian paper, there was in the entire French press one missing word: Palestinians.
06-09-07 - Red Crescent team to tour Palestinian refugees camps A Red Crescent Authority (RCA) delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will fly Sunday to Jordan as part of a whirlwind tour which also takes them to Syria and Lebanon to inspect humanitarian conditions at Palestinian refugees camps there.
06-09-07 - 3,000 protest in Tel Aviv against 40 years of occupation About 3,000 people demonstrated in the heart of Tel Aviv on Saturday against Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
06-09-07 - Four decades later, an Israeli attack on a U.S. ship in the heat of battle won't go away Bias toward Israel is made quite evident in this piece by the Associated Press.
06-09-07 - Israeli-Syrian ?war? may be cover for peace
06-09-07 - Israel will pay the price for war in Iraq, former CIA official says ** ?It will be much more difficult to convince the American people of the wisdom of another military adventure in the Middle East after Iraq. Yes, a lot of American politicians are now saying ?we will not let Iran have nuclear weapons?, but it is very hard for me to believe that this Congress would authorize a military operation against Iran in the near future barring a clear provocation by the Iranians.? It's not hard for me to believe, given the power Israel and its lobby have over our Congress.
06-09-07 - Jerusalem resolution sparks debate The resolution, which had only 14 sponsors, passed by voice vote, and Lantos and Ros-Lehtinen refrained from asking for a head count, which is unusual for pro-Israel resolutions. Israel's top two agents in Washington.
06-09-07 - Five Lebanese soldiers killed in refugee camps Five Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in the latest bout of heavy fighting against al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp, a military source said
06-09-07 - 1967: A birth in prison
06-09-07 - SA protesters knock on Israel's door Bernard Sabella, a prominent Palestinian leader - who was a guest speaker at the rallies - said South Africa has a responsibility to assist the territory with what they say is the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Sabella addressed more than 800 people at City Hall in Johannesburg this afternoon.
06-09-07 - Cost of occupation ? over $50 billion I'm sure most of that has been paid for by the unwitting US taxpayers - in more ways than one.
06-09-07 - Yonathan Shapira: Israel the real 'refusenik' - of peace Former pilot turned peace activist tells of experience at UN Palestinian rights committee meeting, says onus on Israel to bring change
06-09-07 - Prosecutors: Salah is a terrorist Following a six-month trial in Chicago, Salah was cleared Feb. 1 of federal racketeering charges alleging that he served as a high-ranking operative of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. He was convicted of a lesser charge of obstruction of justice for allegedly lying about his Hamas ties in a 2000 lawsuit. He's scheduled to be sentenced on that count next week.
Let's see how much time he gets in relation to what Libby got for the same crime.
06-09-07 - Pope tells Bush he backs regional Mideast solution Pope Benedict told U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday the Vatican would like a "regional and negotiated" solution conflicts in the Middle East, including the war in Iraq.
06-09-07 - Report: Syria doubts Israel wants peace
06-09-07 - Murphy introduces pro-Israel resolution Steiner said support for Israel transcends political party lines for most Jewish voters and said a steadfast Jewish Republican would likely vote for a Democrat if he appeared to have better support for Israel. "Almost everyone in the Jewish community would do whatever it takes to support Israel," Steiner said......Asaf Romirowsky, manager of Israeli and Middle East affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, said Israel will play a "major" role in next year's elections.
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