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Friday, July 13, 2007


News for 07-12-07

07-12-07 - Israeli soldier is killed in Gaza Hamas militants say they carried out an ambush, detonating mines near Bureij refugee camp and then firing on troops. The soldier is the first one to be killed in the strip since November.


07-12-07 - Armed Palestinian militant killed in West Bank A Palestinian militant was shot and killed by the Israeli military near the West Bank city of Tulkarm Thursday, witnesses and the military said.


07-12-07 - World Bank says Gaza may face "irreversible" collapse The World Bank said on Thursday the prolonged closure of Israel's border crossings with Hamas-controlled Gaza could lead to the coastal strip's "irreversible" economic collapse.


07-12-07 - Basic needs reaching Gaza but economy near collapse While humanitarian aid flows into the Gaza Strip are meeting most of the basic needs of the Palestinians, industries are unable to export their goods. This has lead to mass layoffs and unemployment in the already impoverished enclave.


07-12-07 - New pipeline to funnel purified sewage to crops in Jordan Valley Whose crops? Those of the illegal settlers?


07-12-07 - IAA approves of building museum on ancient Muslim cemetery The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) told the High Court of Justice that it was prepared to allow construction of the Museum of Tolerance on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem's Mamila area, although an important archaeologist had determined that the excavation was far from complete.



07-12-07 - Exiled Palestinian leader due to visit West Bank "Israel has given a green light for his return and he will take part at the central committee summit," a senior DFLP official told AFP.


07-12-07 - FEATURE-Gaza businesses risk collapse despite calm


07-12-07 - West Bank town unites amid Palestinian divisions "Here, love and community are in control, family is greater than Fatah and Hamas and brings us closer together," said Samira Halayekh, a Hamas official who was elected to the Palestinian parliament.


07-12-07 - Group calls for probe into 'collaborator's death


07-12-07 - B'Tselem opening D.C. office B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, says it is opening the office to promote debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to educate American Jews about human rights Good!


07-12-07 - Israeli soldiers attack detainees in Huwwara prison


07-12-07 - Fateh spokesperson: Hamas opened fire at protestors in Khan Younis?


07-12-07 - Israeli forces invade several areas in West Bank, kidnap six Palestinian civilians The Israeli army invaded several cities and towns in different parts of the West Bank on Thursday morning and kidnapped at least six Palestinian civilians.


07-12-07 - Egypt's and Jordan's diplomatic visit to Israel will not be an Arab League mission The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan due to visit Israel later this month will only be representing their countries, not the Arab League, Egypt's chief diplomat said Thursday.


07-12-07 - Israeli troops enter Gaza, injure 2


07-12-07 - Israeli army kidnaps four Palestinians, implements military drills in Hebron Israeli military forces carried out a wide scale ransacking operation targeted several areas in and around Hebron. The army also implemented military drills, storming several houses in the area.


07-12-07 - Worsening turmoil in Lebanon likely to hurt Hariri murder probe: UN


07-12-07 - Israel's Livni rules out resuming talks with Syria Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rules out resuming talks with Syria and believes Damascus poses a problem which must be tackled by the region, she said in a French magazine published on Thursday.


07-12-07 - U.N. probe IDs some links to Hariri slay Brammertz also said investigators had determined that the suicide bomber was not Ahmed Abu Adass, a Palestinian living in Lebanon who appeared on a videotape claiming that he would carry out the attack that killed Hariri. He didn't say how they reached that conclusion. He said it was possible that Abu Adass "was forced or duped" into recording the video and then killed or that he "willingly recorded the video together with individuals belonging to a wider extremist group" involved in the assassination.
Odd.


07-12-07 - Three Israeli human rights advocates were honoured in London this week at a New Israel Fund dinner. Uri Pinkerfeld was awarded for his campaign to replant olive trees destroyed by Jewish settlers in the Palestinian territories.


07-12-07 - Palestinians want greater ties with Jordan, polls show


07-12-07 - 4 Lebanese soldiers killed near camp


07-12-07 - Syria may be flexible on key Israeli demand: UN Syria has signaled to the U.N.'s Middle East envoy a willingness to change its relationship with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas if progress were made towards a peace deal with Israel.


07-12-07 - Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel The incentives - ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families - were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.


07-12-07 - Lebanon war was a success, says Olmert "We had great achievements in this war," Israel killed roughly 1000 civilians, and destroyed mostly civilian infrastructure. THey then fired off a million cluster bomblets 3 days before a ceasefire was to be implemented (which they knew about). People are still being killed to this day by those bomblets. Israel has refused to provide UN officials with detailed maps of the areas it targeted with those bomblets. My guess is because they then would be caught redhanded targeting civilians.


07-12-07 - Hariri panel 'has found suspects' In his latest report, Serge Brammertz said he now knew the names of people who bought the van used in the 2005 assassination in Beirut.


07-12-07 - Lebanon army shells refugee camp


07-12-07 - Amnesty seeks UN probe on Lebanon Amnesty also urged Israel to turn over maps of areas in southern Lebanon which it targeted with cluster bombs.


07-12-07 - Southern Lebanon's slow recovery


07-12-07 - SHOCK AND HORROR IN AUGUST / IRAN ATTACK ** and Bush will give Israel the OK to attack Iran and when Iran retaliates ~ we will attack Iran.


07-12-07 - Giuliani, the Likud Candidate?


07-12-07 - Rabbi's son loses passport fight The son of a Toronto rabbi lost a legal battle to have his Canadian passport list his birthplace as Jerusalem, Israel.


07-12-07 - Jews slam Kucinich on Iran Jewish leaders slammed Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich for denying that Iran's president seeks to destroy Israel.


07-12-07 - Talk: keeping faith with nonviolence Fr John Dear SJ is a peace activist, author and editor of 25 books on nonviolence and peacemaking from the United States. Zoughbi Zoughbi is a Palestinian Christian, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Conflict Resolution in Bethlehem.


07-12-07 - Sex and the Single Palestinian


07-12-07 - Michigan's vigilant outcasts Neither Henry's family nor his synagogue had raised Israel's sordid past with him. "That's a personal drive for me. If you tell me 'A' and it turns out 'B,' I'm pretty mad. And if I find out later that you knew it was 'B,' now I'm in the opposite camp, and I'm really upset," he says. Hat's off to Henry, for his courage and his efforts.


07-12-07 - New envoy to U.K.: Jews must do more to put Iran on the agenda The Israeli ambassador-elect to Britain, Ron Prosor, said Tuesday that the Jews around the world and the global community should do more to focus attention on Iran and its nuclear aspirations.


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