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Friday, June 22, 2007
06-21-07 - Four Decades of Twisting Facts About Israel?s Attack on the USS Liberty By James Ennes as preparations were being made to abandon ship, they machinegunned the ship?s empty life rafts which had been lowered into the water awaiting survivors?a clear violation of Geneva conventions.
06-21-07 - Unknown gunmen kill a Palestinian man in Nablus Rami Sariss, 32, was visiting family in Al Ein refugee camp near Nablus city, a group of unknown masked men opened fire at this and killed him.
06-21-07 - Gaza and West Bank? ICRC Bulletin No. 24 / 2007 "This is a medical emergency and we are doing what we can to cover the needs in Gaza's hospitals," said Christoph Harnisch, head of the ICRC's delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories. "But that is only part of the problem. Even before the events of last week, the situation in Gaza was difficult."
06-21-07 - Abbas demands final status talks or nothing as he heads to Egypt summit
06-21-07 - Settlers uprooted 300 Palestinian olive trees Residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers
06-21-07 - Israel opens contact with West Bank Livni told Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in a telephone conversation that the establishment of his emergency government, replacing one headed by Hamas, would allow "progress on various issues... as well as advance the political process".
06-21-07 - The Palestinian emergency government annuled all all passports issued in Gaza
06-21-07 - Aid to Palestine through the MEDA programme
06-21-07 - Desperate Gazans throng border fearful of new Iraq "What am I going to do there? I still don't know. I just want my wife and son to be safe," he said. "Soon we'll see car bomb attacks in Gaza. It'll be Iraq here soon."
06-21-07 - PLO recommends dissolving Fatah, Hamas militias
06-21-07 - PM to propose releasing 6 million dollars to PA Only 6? Ridiculous.
06-21-07 - OPT: UN warns of food shortages unless key crossing point reopened
06-21-07 - Open Bethlehem Exposes Israel?s Systematic Strangulation of the Holy City Sansour showed a photo of a terraced hillside that has been carefully tended for more than 2,000 years. The audience audibly gasped when he stated that it is destined to be dismantled for the establishment of yet another Jewish-only settlement. Palestinians are particularly alarmed by a new settlement being built in the heart of Bethlehem, Sansour said. It surrounds Rachel?s Tomb and its residents are militant fundamentalist Jews.
06-21-07 - Turkey begins evacuating citizens
06-21-07 - Hamas militia moves into captured Fatah security base, symbolizing its Gaza takeover
06-21-07 - Palestinian body calls to dissolve militia groups
06-21-07 - Abbas rules out dialogue with Hamas 'terrorists'
06-21-07 - 400 tons of food and medical aid delivered to Gaza Much of the food aid was donated by the Jordanian government
06-21-07 - Hamas requests Turkish mediation in dispute with Fatah
06-21-07 - France will give direct aid to Palestinians
06-21-07 - Top PLO body urges Abbas to call early elections A key body of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) urged President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to call early national elections, a move that would deepen his split with Hamas Islamists.
06-21-07 - Israel targets US lad mag market The pictures are part of a public relations drive to improve the image of the country within the US. Maxim said it was "pleased" with the result of its collaboration with the Israeli consulate in New York, which came up with the idea.
06-21-07 - The End of Dissent? With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Washington to ramp up the Lobby's ferocious campaign to get the US to attack Iran ? or at least credibly threaten to ? the pro-Israel forces on Capitol Hill were out in full force, herding their congressional supporters into a massive display of obedience with a whopping 411-2 vote in the House.
06-21-07 - Jewish spectrum of issues on display in meeting with Democratic senators Howard Kohr, executive director of the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who spoke about the threat that Iran and its nuclear program posed to the region;
06-21-07 - Sydney municipality drops plans to twin with Hebron Jewish leaders in Sydney welcomed a local council?s decision to drop plans to establish sister-city ties with the West Bank city of Hebron.
06-21-07 - Netanyahu pushes Iran isolation Netanyahu met Thursday with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), a leading candidate for her party's presidential candidacy, and Fred Thompson, a former Tennessee senator who is set to announce his bid for the Republican candidacy, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney.
06-21-07 - ZOA lobbies to isolate Iran, Abbas More than 300 ZOA activists from 20 states had almost 200 meetings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, and leading lawmakers -- including Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a long shot contender for the Republican presidential candidacy -- addressed the group. The lead item for the ZOA delegates was strengthening sanctions against Iran, the signature issue for many pro-Israel groups now that Israel assesses the Islamic Republic may be less than two years away from a nuclear weapon.
06-21-07 - Poet will speak about how she learned to listen One of her favorite memories of the trip includes the time she stayed with a family in a Palestinian refugee camp near Hebron in the West Bank. She saw the destitution firsthand.
06-21-07 - Lebanon army 'wins camp battle'
06-21-07 - Arrests at Jerusalem gay parade An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was arrested for planning to bomb the parade, Israeli police said.
06-21-07 - Israel?s Hush-Up Machine in Action: Denying Story Israel Executed Egyptian Prisoners
06-21-07 - Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup
06-21-07 - Mixed reaction for plan to make Blair Middle East envoy
06-21-07 - Nihilism and Neoconservatism With the presidential primaries of both parties effectively rigged against the possibility of a credible antiwar candidate arising to wrest the nomination from the pro-war front-runners, and the War Party's propaganda machine revving up its motors for another go, this time at Iran, we are in for a very explosive next couple of years. The reason is because the political system lacks any effective safety valves: there is no way for ordinary people to have any real impact, and therefore the special interests ? and the War Party is just a collection of very special ideological and corporate interests ? have taken over.
06-21-07 - U.S. to increase military aid to Israel in decade-long deal Olmert had persuaded Bush to announce the aid increase, senior political sources said Wednesday.
06-21-07 - Who runs American Foreign Policy?
06-21-07 - Lebanon: Rights group calls for probe into Palestinian abuse claims "It would be unfair to say all Palestinians who leave the camp are being beaten up, but there are enough cases to cause us to be very alarmed," said Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch, as he gathered testimony in Badawi camp.
06-21-07 - Family: Ex-professor to remain imprisoned for refusing to testify Nahla al-Arian said her husband will not bow to pressure to testify, and showed his resolve with a two-month hunger strike earlier this year.
06-21-07 - Keeping Talk Radio Pro-Israel whether talk radio, be it left or right, is fair to Israel, is, in fact, very important to Harrison. For the past five years, Harrison and his publication have been shepherding more than 50 talk show hosts to Israel in conjunction with America?s Voices for Israel (AVI), a group founded and presided over by Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Note the source.
06-21-07 - Brazil to resettle Palestinian refugees who fled Iraq About 100 Palestinians who fled Iraq more than three years ago and lived in squalid conditions at a refugee camp will be resettled in Brazil, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.
06-21-07 - Hamas suspects rounded up tell of treatment in Palestinian jail
06-21-07 - Column: Address real causes of terror The U.S. government needs to tell Israel they would receive no more of our billions in taxpayer money until they sit down with the Palestinians and work out a just, fair and reasonable relationship, and go back to the boundaries originally set
06-21-07 - Sailing down the Hudson with Hebron in their hearts Monday night's Cruise 'n' Shmooze, organized by the Hebron Fund, was the third of its kind. But this year the pitch was particularly timely. Profits will go to support families living in the disputed "Beit Hashalom" apartment building, Hebron Jews' most recent acquisition, whose purchase is currently being investigated by the government How delightful. Why not sail directly to Israel and be done with it? Leave America out of this BS.
06-21-07 - 300 olive trees replanted at outpost Residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers about a week ago, according to a source in the Civil Administration.
The source said the settlers planted some of the uprooted trees along the outpost's access road and some inside the community. But the regional council claims the orchard had been worked by Jews for years Thieves thieve some more.
06-21-07 - Split bodes ill for Palestinians "For me, Gaza and the West Bank are one unit. I don't accept the division. All of Palestine is Palestine,"
06-21-07 - Israel programs bolstered by $15 million gift to Brandeis In Chicago, the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago has raised more than $1 million to pay for Israel studies programs at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
06-21-07 - Prosecutor investigates Bildt's blog One of the comments being investigated called Palestinians 'spawn of Satan,' while another called them 'a bloody pack of murderers.' In one comment, a reader said: 'give us 24 hours and all Palestinians will be gone, and we'll have 100 percent of Israel.'
06-21-07 - Slain activist's legacy fulfilled as refugees from Iraq reach Ottawa Two Palestinian families fleeing war-torn Iraq via a Syrian refugee camp are finding refuge in eastern Ontario, fulfilling one of the last requests from a humanitarian worker taken hostage and slain in the Middle East more than a year ago
06-21-07 - Israel-Palestine: Churches launch peace advocacy forum Called the "Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum," the initiative intends to be an instrument to "catalyze and co-ordinate new and existing church advocacy for peace". While aimed at "ending the illegal occupation in accordance with UN resolutions," it will be an expression of churches' "commitment to inter-religious action for peace and justice that serves all the peoples of the region".
06-21-07 - U.S., Israel to blame for Palestinian crisis
06-21-07 - Let Egypt into Gaza please, let them fend for themselves or with their great Arab sister Egypt. If we retake responsibility over this Palestinian area, which is controlled by global radicalism, the entire painful episode of disengagement would have been wasted.
06-21-07 - US does not want Syria involved in Mideast peace: VP Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara charged on Thursday that the United States and Israel do not want Syria or the Palestinians involved in any Middle East peace settlement.
06-21-07 - Netanyahu calls for deployment of Jordanian troops in West Bank Netanyahu told reporters during a visit to Washington that he believes that Jordan and Egypt are the key to stabilizing the Palestinian government in the territories.
06-21-07 - Palestinians in Canada urge Israel to open borders
06-21-07 - The West Chooses Fatah, But Palestinians Don't
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