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Wednesday, July 11, 2007


News for 07-10-07

07-10-07 - Urgent Action Appeal to stop israeli assaults against Negev villages Naqab(Negev), Palestine: Israel continues its ?secret? policies of house demolitions and violations against the indigenous Arabs of the unrecognized villages. The Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages (RCUV), in cooperation with HIC-HLRN, requests your immediate action in the current violations taking place in the Naqab (Negev).


07-10-07 - Blasts leave hole in Gaza-Egypt border wall Hamas gunmen rushed to the scene to prevent anyone from crossing the border, and there were no immediate crossings reported.


07-10-07 - Troops invade town west of Jenin, kidnap twelve residents Palestinian sources in the northern West Bank city of Jenin reported late on Monday at night that Israeli troops invaded Borqeen town, west of Jenin, and kidnapped twelve residents.


07-10-07 - Israeli army shells Palestinian homes; Palestinian resistance retaliates with homemade shells


07-10-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Hebron On Monday, a group of Israeli settlers from the settlement of "Hafat Ya'er" located near Yatta village south of Hebron city in the southern West Bank, attacked and damaged Palestinian homes.


07-10-07 - Union of Wounded Palestinians appeals medical treatment for three injured, detained residents The Union of Wounded Palestinians in Bethlehem issued a statement on Tuesday stating that the three detainees are in immediate need for proper medical treatment, and appealed several human rights groups and the United Nations to save them


07-10-07 - PCHR: Presidential Decree Destroys the Judicial Authority and the Civil Life" PCHR expresses its utmost concern over the latest presidential decree concerning the military judiciary under the state of emergency, which implies an extortion of the authorities of the Palestinian civil judiciary to be granted to the military judiciary.


07-10-07 - Gaza and West Bank ? ICRC Bulletin No. 25 / 2007


07-10-07 - Officer who beat protesters resigns An Israel Defense Forces company commander in the reserves is resigning his post after he was videotaped two months ago using what appears to be excessive violence against Israeli anarchist protesters removing an IDF roadblock in the West Bank.


07-10-07 - Hamas denies al-Qaida infiltration "The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has no relationship with al-Qaida, and Hamas' philosophy, views and politics are different," he told the Italian broadcaster. "It focuses its struggle against the Israeli occupation and inside the borders of the occupied Palestinian territories, and it does no work outside of these borders."


07-10-07 - Blair seeks broader Middle East role: diplomats Tony Blair is seeking a broader role as Middle East envoy that would give him more direct involvement in peacemaking, expanding the limited mandate world powers gave him last month, diplomats said on Tuesday.


07-10-07 - US not keen on foreign force for Gaza The United States gave a lukewarm response to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' call for an international force in the Gaza Strip, which is now controlled by his Fatah group's rival Hamas.


07-10-07 - Arab League visit to Israel delayed


07-10-07 - Gazans protest to open border crossing with Egypt Hundreds of Palestinians staged an angry protest in southern Gaza on Tuesday demanding the reopening of the strip's border crossing with Egypt where thousands have been stuck for a month.


07-10-07 - Olmert says does not want Gaza, West Bank divided


07-10-07 - Mideast Quartet meets new envoy Blair


07-10-07 - Iran three years away from nuclear bomb: Israel media ** Public radio said that a special unit headed by a senior officer had been set up to coordinate all information gathered by Israeli intelligence services with the aim of deciding on potential targets in Iran. It did not elaborate. Israel = Chicken Little.


07-10-07 - Olmert sees lasting Palestinian split Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert does not believe Palestinian rival movements Hamas and Fatah can reconcile their differences, Spanish newspaper El Pais on Tuesday reported the Israeli leader as saying.


07-10-07 - Tycoon launches new Israeli party Correspondents say Social Justice appears to be a right-wing party that will focus on immigrant issues.


07-10-07 - Buchanan feuds with Foxman "Indeed, if one believes, as devout Catholics do, that Christ and his Church hold the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, it would be anti-Semitic not to pray for the conversation of the Jews," Buchanan wrote. "Even Abe."


07-10-07 - 'Time running out for Iran strike' ** On Monday, The Washington Post revealed new satellite photos of Iran's enrichment facility at Natanz which showed the digging of a tunnel that analysts said could be used to hide and protect key nuclear components. Notice that 'thinktanks' satellite photos have immediately been siezed upon as fodder for the Attack Iran campaign.


07-10-07 - The Israeli police state


07-10-07 - The myth of Entebbe and the history of Israeli false-flag operations Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror. - Patrick J. Buchanan


07-10-07 - Et Tu, Cal It?s also worth noting that Thomas, like his hard-line neo-conservative and Christian Right allies, has been an ardent promoter of the notion that the West faces in ?Islamofascism? a threat equal to or greater than World War II and the Cold War. Cal Thomas = Israel-firster. America's interests come second to folks like him - and there are many like him in our media, and in government. Solution: wheel out giant catapult, and launch them over to Israel. Problem solved.


07-10-07 - Militants stir in Lebanese outposts "The minute the Lebanese government gives us our rights to live an honest and honorable life in this country, we will hand over our weapons to the Lebanese Army,"


07-10-07 - NUJ abandons Israel boycott The National Union of Journalists will take "no further action" on implementing the controversial resolution by its members to boycott Israeli goods and services.


07-10-07 - NATO sees Israel tackling Iran alone ** Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who visited NATO headquarters in Brussels two weeks ago, came away with the impression that Western powers are unwilling to resort to pre-emptive military strikes to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Yediot Achronot reported Tuesday. Israel is trying like hell to get us to do it. Cheney and the neocons are already onboard.


07-10-07 - "Whatever AIPAC Wants, AIPAC Gets" If we took ten Democratic apostates and compared them to ten Democrats who stood by the voters, pro-Israeli PAC contributions were "ten times" greater for the turncoats than those who stayed with their constituencies ($322,000 versus $34,000 on average).


07-10-07 - Boycott bill comes before House The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a bill condemning the proposed British boycott of Israeli academics. Why is this a matter for (US) Capitol Hill?


07-10-07 - German Jewry fights 'hostile takeover' from an Israeli government group At issue is the future of Nativ, founded as an arm of Israeli intelligence in the early 1950s to serve as a covert liaison to Jewish dissidents in the Soviet Union.
Now under control of Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Nativ is attempting to set up operations in Germany to work with the country's 200,000 Russian-speaking Jews......Reportedly, Lieberman even wants to replace the Jewish Agency with Nativ, whose attempts to gain a foothold in the United States have been thwarted. The Israeli Foreign Ministry reportedly rejected such a move as potentially damaging to U.S.-Israel relations


07-10-07 - After GOP vote against Israel funds, pro-Israel Dems warily watch ranks "Republicans have turned around and said 'Israel? Um, not so much,' " one Democrat said. "If some in our caucus think this isn't the third rail, there are Democrats who can say 'not so much.' " Horror of all horrors.


07-10-07 - Iranian Jews identity not exchangeable for money, statement Iranian Jewish community on Tuesday refuted Israeli offer for the Jews to go to the occupied Palestinian territories in return for money


07-10-07 - Growing trend to delegitimize Israel worries Jewish leaders Avinoam Bar-Yosef, JPPPI's director general, said that anti-Israel attacks in the U.S. constitute a "long-term threat" to Israel's standing, American Jewish organizations and the pro-Israel lobby....."In the U.S., the problem is still under the radar. But as a planning institute, we believe that it is necessary to formulate policy on this issue now." The growing trend is to CRITICIZE Israel. To the Israel-defenders, it always comes back to 'anti-Semitism', rather than the heart of the matter - Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.


07-10-07 - Germany revokes refugee status of Iraqis


07-10-07 - Lavrov calls 'interesting' idea of sending peacekeepers to Palestine


07-10-07 - Paying the price for expansionism The sickness came from the fact that there are Christians ? maybe even some in our own community ? supporting and advancing the destruction of lives.


07-10-07 - Hezbollah rejects French terrorism charge ahead of talks


07-10-07 - Support for Hezbollah still high in south Lebanon


07-10-07 - LEBANON: Refugees get Saudi funding, demand shelters next to camp
Saudi Arabia has donated $12m to the UN Palestinian relief organisation, UNRWA, which has been distributing the cheques at Beddawi state school, just outside Beddawi refugee camp


07-10-07 - Israel struggles to deal with mounting refugee problem Concerned at the growing numbers, Israel recently announced it had reached an understanding with Egypt to take back many of the refugees and that they would be treated well. Egypt's Foreign Ministry refused to comment.

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