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Thursday, June 28, 2007
06-27-07 - Twelve die in Israel raids on Gaza Three civilians were killed, including a 12-year-old boy.
06-27-07 - Child killed in Israeli raid as army tries to halt militants' rocket attacks The civilian deaths reported by Palestinian sources were in Shajaia, where Reuters said that the body of a 12-year-old boy lay in the street, his arms twisted, near a house which local residents said had been hit by a tank shell that killed him and two other civilians.
06-27-07 - Hamas criticises Blair envoy move
06-27-07 - Gunmen kidnap one Palestinian civilian near Bethlehem A group of unknown gunmen kidnapped a resident of Beit Sahour town, located near Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank, on Tuesday night.
06-27-07 - Gaza crossing closed for 2 days due to attacks The Kerem Shalom crossing, which had been opened to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in order to allow humanitarian aid to cross, has been closed for two days, local Ha'aretz said on Wednesday.
06-27-07 - Haneya rejects Olmert proposal, ready to reopen talks for unity Haneya said, "We warn the Palestinian and Arab leadership of danger beyond Olmert's policy, which aims to break the Palestinian people's unity by driving wedges among them. The decisions he made are just to throw dust in the eyes."
06-27-07 - More than half of Gaza factories non-operational Some 60 percent of Gaza factories are non-operational due to Hamas' takeover of the territory and the closure of crossings to Israel, according to a report published Wednesday by the Gisha Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement for Palestinians. The report stated that recent events have resulted in a total economic embargo of Gaza.
06-27-07 - Leftist DFLP leader calls on the international community to stop the Israeli attacks in Gaza
06-27-07 - 3 soldiers moderately injured in Nablus
06-27-07 - Hamas dismisses Abbas decree to ban all armed militia
06-27-07 - 4,000 Palestinians flee to Egypt
06-27-07 - UN rights expert calls for BBC journalist's release A UN human rights expert on Wednesday appealed for the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped by Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip in March.
06-27-07 - Neoconned Again? by Philip Giraldi ** Many of the advocates of a muscular policy against countries regarded as outside the pale or perceived as a threat to Israel come from the same circle of neoconservatives, "resident scholars," and sound-bite experts who move seamlessly from think-tank to advocacy group to academia and back again.
06-27-07 - UPDATE: At-Tuwani: 16-25 June 2007 The shepherds left the area. Again, the
CPTers explained to the soldiers this particular land is all they owned and
"going to the other side of the mountain" was not an option. The soldiers
listened but insisted since this was a military zone; the boys should not
come close to it, even if they owned the land.
06-27-07 - At-Tuwani Release: Israeli Military Denies Access to Susiya Land to Surveyors The landowner overheard the DCO officer telling the soldier the
Palestinians did have permission to be on the land. The soldier told the
DCO officer no one had informed anyone in the area (soldiers, police or
settlers). The soldiers then collected the ID's of all the Palestinians and
said the area was going to be a closed military zone.
06-27-07 - Israel urged to leave checkpoints Israeli peace activists are calling for dozens of military checkpoints and hundreds of unmanned roadblocks to be dismantled in the occupied West Bank.
06-27-07 - House panel wants information on Americans' killers A key Congressional committee approved a bill requiring regular reviews of Palestinian efforts to catch the killers of three Americans murdered on a diplomatic mission in Gaza. But they do NOTHING about those Americans that ISRAEL has killed.
06-27-07 - Jewish ophthalmologist helps Syrians improve their vision "I was worried that there would be a safety issue, and there wasn?t," said the doctor, whose wife, Tilly, accompanied him to the Middle East. "Truthfully, I would be more afraid going to Israel, where there is violence."
06-27-07 - AJCongress Releases Rhodes Scholars Statement Condemning Proposed British Boycott of Israeli Academics The silence by these outfits with regard to the denial of tenure to Norman Finkelstein because of his criticism of Israel is deafening. As they set about in their frenzy to defend Israel, their hypocrisy with regard to academic freedom in America (the lack thereof) is astounding.
06-27-07 - Lugar: Arab-Israeli conflict, oil, key in Iraq "Credibility and sustainability of our actions depend on addressing the two elephants in the room of U.S. Middle East policy: the Arab-Israeli conflict and U.S. dependence on Persian Gulf oil," Lugar said. "These are the two problems that our adversaries, especially Iran, least want us to address." Add Lugar to the list of true patriots.
06-27-07 - Congressional letter urges UNIFIL empowerment "We write with serious concern over the continuing illegal transfer of arms to the Hezbollah terrorist organization across the Syrian-Lebanese border," said the letter initiated by Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). Which has ZERO to do with American national interests.
06-27-07 - Mubarak sees no Israel-Syria war Hosni Mubarak played down speculation that a war between Israel and Syria could be imminent.
06-27-07 - Mixed response to Tony Blair as special envoy for Middle East
06-27-07 - Bush to name Muslim nations envoy The role of the envoy will be to bolster relations between the Muslim world and the US. The single greatest move toward that end would be getting the Israelis out of our government(foreign policy).
06-27-07 - Blair's Middle East role tainted by associations with Bush, say critics reservations continued about his ability to act as an honest broker in the Middle East because of his unequivocal support for George Bush in the war in Iraq, and failing to call for a halt to the Israeli bombing of Lebanon last summer.
06-27-07 - Scepticism hangs over Blair's appointment as quartet envoy Mr Blair is not being asked to run talks between the Palestinians and Israel, but he will seek Israel's cooperation in areas such as free movement and access. It was failure to make progress on these which led to Mr Wolfensohn's resignation.
06-27-07 - Bolton: Stop Iran by force ** The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said the American approach to Iran is doomed to failure and that force is necessary.
I'm afraid Bolton is under the impression that anyone actually gives a rat's about his opinion and his love for a nation other than this one.
06-27-07 - Excluding U.S. from peace process could help Middle East settlement - Zhirinovsky Someone benefits from this continuing conflict. "It mainly benefits the U.S. because it allows them to interfere in the situation. The point is that it is a region with enormous oil and gas deposits," he said.
06-27-07 - Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington." Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
06-27-07 - Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. failed Palestine once again The leading American economist Jeffrey Sachs criticized the U.S. and Israel for the collapse of the Palestinian government and the current unrest in Gaza in an opinion article he published in The Jordan Times over the weekend
06-27-07 - Does Tony Blair bring baggage or assets to his new role? some of Olmert's advisers are believed to see a Blair appointment as dangerous. Bush until now has been unquestionably pro-Israel, but he also trusts Blair implicitly. The worry is that Blair could nudge Bush into pressuring Israel into making security concessions to allow greater freedom of movement for the Palestinians......Although nominally answerable to the entire Quartet, Wolfensohn took his orders from Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state. That left him subject to the machinations of Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser who is the Bush administration's last word on Israel issues, and who has resisted any concessions to the Palestinians.
06-27-07 - Lebanese PM says Syria sending arms across border Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accused Syria on Wednesday of sending arms to Palestinian camps in his country and said he would raise the issue with the Arab League.
06-27-07 - Two-state solution only way for Mideast peace: Blair
06-27-07 - 'Safe haven' for trapped refugees in Lebanon battle camp A safe haven has been set up inside a bombed-out refugee camp in Lebanon for civilians trapped by almost 40 days of fighting between the army and Islamist militiamen, a Palestinian camp official said.
06-27-07 - Global opinion increasingly wary of major powers: survey Pew said support for the UN was strong in sub-Saharan Africa, but strikingly negative in the Middle East, especially Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, the Palestinian Territories and Israel. Nearly 70 percent of people in the Palestinian Territories, where the UN has long played a role, had a poor view of the institution, and 27 percent saw it favorably.
06-27-07 - After third Palestine visit, WB resident convinced U.S. must do more to help ?Our dollars are paying for a good portion of The Wall,? Minor said. ?The U.S. and Israel destabilize anything that Palestinians are able to accomplish and then ask why Palestinians can?t govern themselves.?
06-27-07 - Bethlehem children protest against internal clashes At least 300 children participated in the and marched after gathering in front of the Annexation Wall surrounding Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, and marched towards the Church of Nativity. The children then marched on Jerusalem-Hebron road, and headed towards Deheisha refugee camp.
06-27-07 - If asked, Russia to help secure Israeli military?s release - FM
06-27-07 - Giuliani: Retreat from Iraq will create Gaza situation Telling the audience at a Maryland synagogue that Israelis and Americans are now bound in the same war against Islamic militants, Giuliani stressed the need to be "on offense against terrorism" to warm applause.
06-27-07 - 11 int?l cos in Red-Dead Sea canal study tender Eleven international companies will participate in a tender to examine the possibility of digging a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, Jordan's Ministry of Water and Irrigation has announced.
06-27-07 - Former Ambassadors Call on DNC to Remove Jimmy Carter The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today sent a letter signed by six former U.S. ambassadors to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, asking him to remove former President Jimmy Carter from his position as Honorary Chairman of Democrats Abroad, an arm of the DNC.
06-27-07 - Silence Won?t End British Boycotts The Anti-Defamation League took out large ads in the Financial Times and in major American newspapers, calling the boycott motions antisemitic. Lawyer Alan Dershowitz got 100 of his colleagues to promise legal action against any lecturer boycotting Israel. And 2,000 American academics, including at least nine Nobel Prize winners, pledged to stay away from any event excluding Israelis.
06-27-07 - This is what US aid to Israel looks like
06-27-07 - Likud Leader Looks the Part of Prime Minister on Tour of Washington The discussions this week ostensibly focused on the need to block Iran?s nuclear program by using economic sanctions and divestment. But for Netanyahu, who is soaring in Israeli polls, the talks about divestment from Iran had a distinctly forward-looking bent. "It is important for Israel that whoever leads the United States in the future will be supportive of these actions," Netanyahu said following his meetings in Washington.
06-27-07 - Indonesia welcomes release of Palestinian prisoners Indonesia Wednesday welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to release 250 Palestinian prisoners but reminded that the move was only a small part of the complexity in the Israel-Palestine conflicts and Hamas should not be excluded from any conflict resolution plan.
06-27-07 - CIA, FBI documents provide clues to 1973 killing of Israeli diplomat
06-27-07 - AJC Welcomes UCC Policy Shift on Israel The UCC must've become more 'balanced'.
06-27-07 - Film review: "Occupation 101" The film explains that not only does the international community do nothing to hold accountable Israel, the US provides more aid to the state than all of sub-Saharan Africa and South America combined. "Everything Israel does in the occupied territories, US tax payers are paying for it," Noam Chomsky states.
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