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Saturday, June 16, 2007
06-15-07 - U.S. policies on Palestinians may change
06-15-07 - Hamas 'working to free BBC man'
06-15-07 - Fatah starts detaining Hamas members in West Bank
06-15-07 - 'We couldn't leave our home. You don't know who is your enemy' They talk about victory; we talk about war crimes. And it's not just Hamas, but Fatah too. What's happened here is not so different to what is happening in Lebanon and Iraq. It is a tragedy, but because we love Gaza, we stay. I will never think about leaving.
06-15-07 - Hamas hints at talks as chaos reigns in divided Palestine
06-15-07 - Israeli Military destroy water pipe and blockade Beit Ummar road On the afternoon of Tuesday 12 June 2007, the Israeli military destroyed a main
water pipe in the town of Beit Ummar and left at least 10 houses in the village
without water. The military also reinforced an existing roadblock on the road
leading toward the wholesale vegetable market, closing the road to both
vehicular traffic and pedestrians.
06-15-07 - 'Multinational force must fight Hamas'
06-15-07 - Israel satellite sends images from space Israel launched the Ofek-7 satellite into orbit Monday, giving it a new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on Iran and other regional adversaries. Israeli space officials said the information gathered would be shared with the United States. Israel's images will no doubt contribute to the case for war (to be fought by the US - AGAIN).
06-15-07 - Why we must break with the American crazies ** While Mr Brown and the British media are still fretting about who said what to whom about WMD intelligence, the talk in American policy circles is about an article, The Case for Bombing Iran, published two weeks ago in Commentary and The Wall Street Journal and cited approvingly to anyone who cares to listen by officials close to Dick Cheney. Its author, Norman Podhoretz, is an intellectual mentor to the people who took America into Iraq......It is significant that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, travelled to Washington at about the same time as the article was published to plead with congressmen ?not to tie President Bush?s hands over Iran?. Why do you think Israel just launched that spy satellite (when we already have some that provide adequate intel, I'm guessing)? Paragraphs 2 and 4.
06-15-07 - On the escalator to war with Iran by Patrick J. Buchanan ** What is going on? The most logical explanation is that the White House is providing advance justification for air strikes on camps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that are allegedly providing training for and transferring weapons to Afghan and Iraqi insurgents. And if the United States conducts those strikes, Iranians will unite around Ahmadinejad, and Tehran will order retaliatory strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq and perhaps across the Middle East. President Bush will then have his casus belli to take out Natanz and all the other Iranian nuclear facilities, as the Israelis and the neocons have been demanding that he do.
06-15-07 - Abbas postpones visit to Moscow - source
06-15-07 - Johnston abduction has 'chilling effect' on Gaza
06-15-07 - Supply fears push up oil prices Instability in Gaza has raised concerns over wider conflict in the Middle East, which supplies a quarter of world oil. The Israel-driven policies in the Middle East are really costing the American people - in more ways than one.
06-15-07 - In pictures: Hamas storms Abbas office
06-15-07 - With Gaza lost, Abbas wins international support U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU officials held an hour-long teleconference.
06-15-07 - Looting spree after Hamas victory in Gaza
06-15-07 - EU suspends humanitarian aid project in Gaza
06-15-07 - All crossings into Gaza shut: Israel They were most of the time anyway (under Israel's direction).
06-15-07 - Fishing boat brings fugitive Palestinians to Egypt Ninety-seven Palestinians, most of them Fatah fighters fleeing the advance of their Hamas rivals, sailed into the Egyptian port of El Arish on Friday aboard a fishing boat, Egyptian police said.
06-15-07 - Egypt withdraws Gaza mission over Hamas takeover Egypt, a key Middle East peace broker and patron of the Palestinians, has withdrawn its envoys from Gaza in protest at the Islamist Hamas movement's violent ousting of its secular Fatah rivals, officials said on Friday.
06-15-07 - Britain 'very worried' over kidnapped BBC journalist in Gaza
06-15-07 - Almost 100 Fatah officials have crossed from Gaza into Egypt.
06-15-07 - Gaza relief crisis eases but funding worries rise Aid groups say an international boycott of direct funding for the Palestinian Authority was leading to social and economic collapse even before factional battles between Hamas and Fatah gunmen in Gaza effectively destroyed a fragile unity government.
06-15-07 - Palestinians divided as Hamas rules in Gaza Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal blamed the international community for the current Palestinian crisis, but said Hamas is not seeking to take power in the Palestinian territories. "We attribute to the international community, which has kept silent about the crimes of Israel, the primary responsibility for our internal crisis, although we acknowledge that we ourselves also have part of the responsibility,"
Divide and conquer.
06-15-07 - Quartet echoes world support for embattled Abbas
06-15-07 - US won't abandon Palestinians: White House The US abandoned Palestinians decades ago.
06-15-07 - Meshaal calls for dialogue after Hamas secures Gaza "The lack of security drove the crisis toward explosion. What happened in Gaza was a necessary step. The people were suffering from chaos and lack of security and this treatment was needed,"
06-15-07 - U.S. may focus on West Bank while isolating Gaza "It's tricky, I admit that. There's a fine balance," said the U.S. official. "Nobody wants to starve Gaza." Too late.
06-15-07 - Leading article: A struggle for power and a people betrayed The failure of the international community to engage with the Fatah and Hamas government has also contributed to the crisis. If the outside world had responded positively when the coalition was formed, the situation now could have been very different. This might have kicked off a new round of negotiations with Israel. Instead, the United States chose the disastrous policy of building up President Abbas's security forces in opposition to Hamas' militia. This has merely fed the flames of the deadly rivalry.
06-15-07 - Abbas tasks Fayyad with forming emergency govt
06-15-07 - Presidents conference meets with Bush Representatives from virtually all the umbrella group?s 50 member organizations met with Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and other top officials Thursday. The hour-long meeting included discussion of immigration, energy policy, the Iranian threat and deterioration in the Palestinian territories, according to participants.
06-15-07 - Israel faces stark Gaza reality One newspaper editorial said: "The internal Palestinian clashes that Israel so wanted for so many years, is finally happening, but oy, it's happening the wrong way around."...... Right-wing nationalist Avigdor Lieberman wrote in an article published in an Israeli newspaper that Gaza should be completely cut off from the outside world. It basically already is.
06-15-07 - Brit Tzedek to lobby during Olmert visit A dovish pro-Israel group will lobby Congress next week during the meeting between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
06-15-07 - Out of sight maybe, but not out of mind Up until a year and a half ago, the vast majority of visitors to Canada Park, one of the most popular hiking and picnic sites on the way to Jerusalem, had no idea that the park was built on the ruins of three Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were forced to leave in the wake of the Six-Day War. It was only after the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund agreed to the demands of the Zochrot non-governmental organization and posted signs in the park about two villages, Yalu and Emmaus, that their existence first became known to hikers. But since their posting, someone has already made sure to tear down one of the signs and vandalize the other.
06-15-07 - FINKELGATE.COM SUPPORT PROFESSOR NORMAN FINKELSTEIN!
06-15-07 - Prison memories haunt Palestinian
06-15-07 - Debate at DePaul Over Whether 2 Professors Can Appeal Tenure Denials
06-15-07 - Report: Jews behind campaign to boycott Israel
06-15-07 - PFLP and DFLP protests the violence in Gaza
06-15-07 - Sharansky loses a supporter; Palestinian self-destruction; Henchmen and separatists; Bush on tour since coming to Israel, and riding his refusenik celebrity to political power, Sharansky has stood for transcendent Jewish sovereignty in Greater Israel and East Jerusalem, denying civil rights to Palestinians. He's made common cause with theocrats, settlers and people who believe Israel's Arab citizens should be disenfranchised, if not expelled. He has justified the abuses of occupation - land grabs, house demolitions, pre-emptive fatal force, etcetera - and as an apocalyptic struggle against terror. He has never stood up for a single Palestinian democrat. Note the racist trash that immediately follows that letter.
06-15-07 - Bible Answer Man Opposes Christian Zionism He says the Zionism that's popular among Christians -- and which has influenced U.S. foreign policy -- is actually a form of racism that misinterprets the Bible.
06-15-07 - Gaddafi urges Arabs to leave Palestinians alone Gaddafi also played down fears that the fighting might lead to two separate statelets with Gaza controlled by Hamas and the West Bank under Fatah's rule and dash hopes for a future Palestinian state. "(Hamas leader Khaled) Meshaal phoned me a while ago today to tell me that Hamas has no such plan in the Gaza Strip. He said a state in Gaza would be treason and madness,"
06-15-07 - Finkelstein Draws Flood of Support in Wake of Tenure Denial Finkelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors, drew praise from his academic department and a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences tenure committee, but his tenure was denied as the result of political pressure, mostly from Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a rightwing scholar who infamously supported legalizing torture It evidently wasn't just Dershowitz. The ADL is as smug as a bug.
06-15-07 - Indians nationals in Gaza safe
06-15-07 - Thirty-One Groups Call for Israel to Release Cluster Bomb Data A coalition of 31 groups including the Council for the National Interest presented a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice this week calling for U.S. government intercession with Israel to obtain detailed site information on Israel's cluster bomb strikes in Lebanon in the summer 2006 war.
06-15-07 - GOP maverick pitches candidacy In a meeting with the editorial board of The Kansas City Star, Paul advocated many of the positions that have made him a heretic within the Republican Party. He blasted the war in Iraq, chided the government for its saber-rattling against Iran and criticized entitlement programs that both parties have supported. Paul scolded the government for interfering in Palestinian affairs and in relations between Israel and Syria
That's my guy, right there :)
06-15-07 - Israeli company wins Marine contract An Israeli armor protection manufacturing company won an international bid to supply the U.S. Marine Corps.
06-15-07 - Nonprofit security back in budget Jewish institutions got the bulk of the $25 million budgeted in 2005 and have applied for some of the $25 million in the 2006 budget.....The Bush administration has resisted such funding, preferring to focus spending on imminent rather than potential threats. That approach delayed the release of the 2006 funds and eliminated such funding in 2007.
06-15-07 - Agudath backs hate crimes law Agudath's endorsement is significant because it undercuts arguments that the bill impinges on free speech, said Michael Lieberman, the Washington counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, the lead Jewish group backing the bill.
"The Agudath endorsement shows speech is not an issue," Lieberman said. "Now we'll be able to reach out to a whole bunch of other groups because of Agudath's credibility
06-15-07 - Booby trap kills 6 soldiers at Lebanon camp Six Lebanese soldiers were killed on Friday by an explosion in a building booby trapped by Islamist militants at a Palestinian camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.
06-15-07 - Appropriators okay Israel aid The foreign operations subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee this week referred $2.4 billion in defense aid and an additional $40 million in refugee settlement assistance to the full committee. The bill has bipartisan support.
The 'refugee settlement assistance' - which is the US taxpayer-funded immigration of Ethiopians to Israel - was shot down some time back because it came on the heels of Katrina. Meanwhile, America's Katrina victims got shafted, and Israel gets its money after all. Looks like the Israel-firsters snuck it back into the agenda. Paragraph 6. Also, paragraph 3.
06-15-07 - Israeli, American air forces in joint exercises ** The weeklong exercises began Sunday in the southern Negev desert. Dozens of aircraft simulated bombing targets on the ground and dog fights.
06-15-07 - CP Records Announces Debut of Belly?s ?The Revolution? The Palestinian born Belly?s growing list of accolades includes four MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs) nominations, charting as the biggest new Canadian artist at Top 40 radio this year and becoming one of the highest charting Canadian urban artists in history. Belly is also the first Canadian hip-hop artist to go number one on MuchMusic with his debut video for ?Pressure.?
06-15-07 - Schusterman gives Brandeis $15 million for Israel studies
06-15-07 - Belly on Geraldo At Large
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