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Tuesday, July 10, 2007


News for 07-09-07

07-09-07 - Shooting incident kills young man in Egypt Mosallem, 22, was from a village in Rafah, an Egyptian border town with Gaza Strip of the Palestinian territories.


07-09-07 - Occupation bars a child from representing Palestinian children in Qatar Aseel, a 14-year old child, sat at home with tears flooding on her red cheeks after the Israeli occupation barred her from travelling to Qatar to participate in a festival for children, this occupation is not only occupying her land, but also depriving the children from their basic rights.


07-09-07 - Palestinian Art Institute to Open in September The International Academy of Art Palestine, which plans to open in September, will offer a four-year program and be based in Ramallah.


07-09-07 - Exclusive: Security fence may not be completed until 2010 In a survey of 57 Palestinian communities impacted in the northern section of the fence, the report said only 26 of 61 gates were open to allow farmers to cultivate their land on the other side and that even then, farmers could only access that land 64% of the time.


07-09-07 - New gov't bill: Israel won't compensate Gazans The proposal, which was initiated by Knesset Member Effie Eitam (National Union-National Religious Party) and Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna'i (Labor), contradicts a prior ruling by former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, according to which Palestinians hurt in IDF operations would be entitled to damages.


07-09-07 - Hamas rejects EU control of Rafah Crossing Islamic Hamas movement said on Monday it rejects the European Union observers' role in controlling the Palestinian passengers' movement at Rafah borders crossing between Gaza and Egypt.


07-09-07 - Israel's barrier to sever Jerusalem from West Bank A barrier Israel is building in the West Bank will effectively separate Arab East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied territory, a report issued today by a United Nations (UN) agency said. Israel's defence ministry, in charge of the project, had no immediate comment on the report.


07-09-07 - Freed lioness Sabrina, left, stands with brother Sakher, right


07-09-07 - Dissolution of Palestinian Security Council fuels retirement rumors for its leader Dahlan


07-09-07 - Israeli held in attack of Palestinian cabbie Police said the suspect told them he had been "instructed" by his rabbi to kill an Arab Was it this rabbi?


07-09-07 - PLO demands the Wall case to be discussed at the Security Council The National and International Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) issued a press release marking the third anniversary of an advisory ruling of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, in which the court stated that the Israeli annexation Wall is illegal.


07-09-07 - Erekat: Gaza coup should not obstruct negotiations


07-09-07 - Islamic Jihad, Hamas attack Israel by rockets


07-09-07 - Canada may renew funding flow to Palestinian authority during Abdullah visit Prime Minister Stephen Harper may use the opportunity of a visit by the king of Jordan to announce renewed funding to the Palestinian Authority, a government source told The Canadian Press.


07-09-07 - UN halts building projects in Gaza because of shortages due to Israeli closure Ahmed Ashour, 44, his wife and seven children are living with his 83-year-old mother-in-law. His house in the Rafah camp was destroyed in an Israeli operation in 2003, and UNRWA was building him a new one.


07-09-07 - Israeli ex-minister says Barghuti should be freed Israel's former deputy defence minister Ephraim Sneh said on Monday after visiting Marwan Barghuti in prison that the former West Bank Fatah leader would be more useful outside jail than inside.


07-09-07 - Gaza lion freed after two years Zoo officials said Sabrina's brother Sakher, who had roared inconsolably when his sister was stolen, instantly recognised her and the pair started to play.


07-09-07 - Israel luring Iranians with cash ** Israel is using cash incentives to encourage Jewish immigration from Iran.
An expatriate group of Iranian Jewish donors is behind a $1 million fund offering $10,000 to each Jew willing to leave the Islamic Republic for the Jewish state, according to media reports. WHY? Know something we don't?


07-09-07 - FEATURE - Fatah men say mistreated by Hamas in Gaza


07-09-07 - EU backs Palestinian peace force Ten European Union foreign ministers have signed an open letter to Tony Blair to urge him to study prospects for an international force to patrol the Palestinian territories, in his new role as Middle East envoy.


07-09-07 - Hamas returns stolen Sabrina to Gaza zoo Hamas police yesterday seized a lion that was stolen from a zoo almost two years ago by gunmen from one of Gaza's largest clans. I remember that incident.


07-09-07 - Abbas rules out Gaza talks, wants peacekeepers Abbas said there is no sense in holding talks with 'those who carried out a coup in Gaza. Seizing power in Gaza cannot serve as a good environment for dialogue and finding a solution.'


07-09-07 - Popular Committees slams continuous abduction of Palestinian refugees in Iraq


07-09-07 - Arab town gets Jewish mayor Ahmed Tibi, an Arab resident of Taibeh and a Knesset member, called the choice of Tuizer "bizarre," saying it was an underhanded plan to "set up a job for Shlomo Tuizer," whom Tibi described as a "right-wing activist," according to The Jerusalem Post


07-09-07 - Absorption center to host Sudanese The Jewish Agency for Israel will house 58 refugees from Sudan in its student village near Sderot.


07-09-07 - Israel plans tent city for Sudanese Israel's failure to deal with the refugees adequately has raised an outcry among some who see the Jewish state as obligated to provide asylum to those fleeing persecution.



07-09-07 - Report: Israel aiding Morocco Israel reportedly warned Morocco about impending al-Qaida attacks.


07-09-07 - The joy of Alan


07-09-07 - Photos bridge Arab-Israeli divide


07-09-07 - Israeli troops rescue rare eagles


07-09-07 - Heavy fighting at Lebanese camp


07-09-07 - One year on: Lebanon political paralysis Martin Asser has returned to Lebanon, a year after covering the war between Hezbollah and Israel for the BBC News website. His series of articles are examining how the country has fared since that conflict.


07-09-07 - Sarkozy vows to use all power at disposal to free captive IDF troops


07-09-07 - Lebanon war shredded US clout in Mideast "But what the war did was reinforce a growing perception in the region that the US will stand by Israel no matter what." Nothing new.


07-09-07 - EU Med states call for Mideast peace conference


07-09-07 - Israel, Italy reiterate call to prevent Iranian nuclear bomb


07-09-07 - Israel's Olmert invites Syria's Assad for direct talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a television interview on Monday invited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for direct talks "wherever he wants."


07-09-07 - AJC Delegation in Lisbon Discusses Mideast Policy with New Leadership of the European Union "Our meetings with Portuguese officials - on the common threats posed by Iran's nuclear program and its support for terrorism, on Israel's quest for peace and the grave challenge posed by Palestinian leadership struggles, and on the urgency of confronting Islamist radicalism - were open and constructive," It's a big conspiracy theory that the Israel lobby tries to control world politics.


07-09-07 - Gazans don't deserve to get water from Israel, or do they? Another study by The Israel Project (TIP, it was briefly mentioned in my Friday column) gives me an opportunity to delve, yet again, into the complicated issue of America's public opinion toward Israel. The study was conducted by Stan Greenberg of Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner and Neil Newhouse of Public Opinion Strategies The Israel lobby must keep American sheep and their legislators in line.


07-09-07 - 30 citizens of Russia and CIS to be evacuated from Gaza First thirty citizens of Russia and other CIS member-states arrived to the Erets checkpoint on the border of Gaza Strip and Israel at 9:30 Moscow time to be evacuated by buses from the troubled territory, well-informed sources told Itar-Tass on Monday.


07-09-07 - Israel pumping Syrian water to Kinneret ? experts For years Israel has been pumping water from springs in the Golan Heights to the shrinking Sea of Galilee, depriving Syria of major water resources, experts said Sunday. They steal water from Palestinians too.


07-09-07 - Is two-state solution still viable? Political shake-up alters thinking The idea here, favored by the Israeli government, the Israeli left and the U.S. administration, is to maintain the two-state approach but defer its implementation. Israel and the Palestinian moderates under Abbas would negotiate the contours of a final peace deal, with the understanding that any agreements would become operational only when circumstances permitted. Circumstances will never permit it, because Israel refuses to stop seizing and 'settling' Palestinian land. There's no chance in hell that they're going to pull out their illegal squatters and allow the Palestinians to live in peace as they see fit.


07-09-07 - Miliband to be tough on Iran and close to US He also refused to rule out military actions against Iran, in an apparent hardening of opinion.


07-09-07 - 10 Saudi Islamists killed in Lebanon unrest


07-09-07 - Kidnapped Palestinian with Bulgarian Passport Lands in Sofia


07-09-07 - Divide, Yes, but Conquer, Probably Not Why is it up to Israel or the West to decide what Palestinians can or cannot do, should or should not do with their own territory? The West Bank, Gaza and E. Jerusalem are Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.


07-09-07 - Israelis Reject Reparations for 1948 Refugees Hypocrisy. Israel is still collecting reparations for the Holocaust.


07-09-07 - With Pressure Put on Hamas, Gaza Is Cut Off There are people in Israel who oppose reopening Karni, says Shlomo Dror, spokesman for the Coordinator of Activities in the Territories, the Israeli military agency that deals with Palestinian civil affairs. "We are now discussing what constitutes humanitarian assistance," he says. "Some people feel we should be allowing in water, electricity, and that?s it." .....Unable to import raw materials or export finished products, the factories are closing, forcing as many as 30,000 more families to rely on aid to survive. Israel, like the Nazis, employs collective punishment.


07-09-07 - 'New rules for new wars' The Herzliya conference will be followed by a meeting in Washington DC in October, in which experts in international law and national security are expected to list recommendations for reforming international law on warfare. Actually, HRW found this claim by Israel that Hezbollah was using human shields bogus. In fact, last fall Israel was again caught on film (AP) doing that very thing.

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