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Saturday, July 14, 2007
07-13-07 - Abbas to form new caretaker government The Palestinian emergency Cabinet would step down last night to be replaced by a caretaker government that will rule indefinitely, Palestinian officials said yesterday.
07-13-07 - PCHR Calls for Investigation into the Death of a Detainee in Suspicious Circumstances in Gaza Centra PCHR calls upon the Attorney-General to open an immediate investigation into the death of Fadel Dahmash in Gaza Central Prison on Tuesday evening, 10 July 2007, and to instruct the conduct of forensic checking to find out the reasons of his death.
07-13-07 - Gaza and West Bank viewpoints I think Hamas and Fatah should start negotiating again, and start thinking about another solution. Both Hamas and Fatah need to be involved to help the Palestinian people. Abu Mazen needs the support of Palestinians. If he relies on Israeli and US support alone, it won't help. He needs a balance.
07-13-07 - PM Fayyad developing "reform" plans for West Bank
07-13-07 - Israel army holds Shalit suspect The Israeli military says it has arrested a Palestinian man over the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit one year ago near the Gaza Strip.
07-13-07 - One kidnapped at peaceful demonstration near Bethlehem Approximately 60 Palestinian villagers from Wad el-Neiss, located to the south of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, side-by side with Israeli and international supporters, protested today against the confiscation of land for the construction of the illegal Israeli wall.
07-13-07 - Closure of Gaza crossings draws concern from Ban Ki-moon
07-13-07 - Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for firing RPG at a building occupied by troops in Rafah airport
07-13-07 - Palestinians stranded in Egypt desperate to return to Gaza, demand food, shelter
07-13-07 - Palestinian PM to resign as state of emergency ends Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad was to step down briefly on Friday as a state of emergency ends a month after Hamas militants seized the Gaza Strip.
07-13-07 - Palestinian PM charged with forming new government Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad was charged with forming a new government on Friday after stepping down briefly as a state of emergency ended a month after Hamas militants seized the Gaza Strip.
07-13-07 - Israeli PM in secret visit to Jordan: reports According to the Maariv newspaper, the meeting on Wednesday concerned the possible resumption of negotiations between Israel and Syria, which have been suspended since 2000.
07-13-07 - Dallas court agrees to protect Israeli officer's identity In May, Judge A. Joe Fish, a federal judge in Dallas, allowed measures that would conceal the identity of a member of the Shin Beth, Israel's security service, in the trial against five men alleged to have funneled funds raised by the Holy Land Foundation to Hamas
07-13-07 - Investors sue Israeli satellite company The suit claims that the Israeli Ministry of Defense pressured the company to renege on a lucrative deal with Venezuela due to the United States' current strained relationship with the South American country. The suit further alleges that politics got in the way of deals with Angola, Russia and Taiwan.
07-13-07 - Pro-Israel Lobby Throws Support Behind Fatah-Led Palestinian Cabinet In a memo sent out to congressional offices this week, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee commended the new Palestinian government for ?taking important steps needed for peace? and for breaking ties with Hamas, which now rules Gaza. The kiss of death. Now Fatah will be seen as collaborators, if they weren't already. Massa Israel is proud.
07-13-07 - Refugee crisis threatens Lebanon
07-13-07 - Iranian general's wife says Israel kidnapped him Israel is responsible for the disappearance of former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Asgari, who has been missing since February, his wife Ziba Ahmadi said in an interview to Iranian news agency Mehr.
07-13-07 - 'Dubai' bill targets boycott A bill passed by Congress that creates greater oversight of foreign investment in the United States calls for scrutiny of companies cooperating with the Arab boycott That would be the Arab boycott of Israel, of course. It's not a matter for the US Congress.
07-13-07 - Murphy?s pro-Israel resolution passes Murphy?s support of Israel became a heated issue in his campaign last year against then-Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick. At one point, Fitzpatrick, a staunch supporter of Israel, claimed Murphy?s support for Israel was weak, a charge Murphy angrily denied.
07-13-07 - Senate considers dialogue funding The foreign assistance bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate recommends millions of dollars in assistance for Arab-Israeli dialogue.
07-13-07 - Robert Fisk: TE Lawrence had it right about Iraq Has the US General David Petraeus read this? Has Bush? Have any of the tired American columnists whose anti-Arab bias is wobbling close to racism, bothered to study this wisdom? I remember how Daniel Pipes - one of the great illusionists of modern American journalism - announced in the summer of 2003 that what the Iraqis needed was (no smirking here, please), a "democratically minded strongman"......But wait, Pipes is at it again. The director of the "Middle East Forum" has been writing in Canada's National Post about "Palestine". His piece is filled with the usual bile. The neocons and thus the Bush administration have 'misunderestimated' those 'backward Arabs'. So too has Israel. They simply will not bend to someone else's will.
07-13-07 - U.S. Jewish prof calls Gaza treatment 'Holocaust' "Israel is currently stiffening the boycott on economic relations that has brought the people of Gaza to the brink of collective starvation," he says. "This set of policies, carried on for more than four decades, has imposed a sub-human existence on a people that have been repeatedly and systematically made the target of a variety of severe forms of collective punishment."
07-13-07 - Conrad Black convicted on three charges A jury convicted the former owner of the Jerusalem Post of obstruction of justice and fraud.
07-13-07 - IPF wants more carrots for Iran The bill, proposed by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the Jewish chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, would further restrict presidential waivers on sanctions and would extend sanctions to countries and companies that deal with Iran's nuclear sector.
07-13-07 - Senators urge Rice on Hezbollah Ten U.S. senators urged Condoleezza Rice to work with the United Nations and Lebanon to end arms smuggling according to the terms that ended last summer's Israel-Hezbollah war. Not a matter for the US Congress.
07-13-07 - Brit Hume Makes Light of Lawsuit Brought by Parents of Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie "But the lawyers for the Justice Department and Caterpillar Corporation continued to make the case that Israel's home demolitions are legal, and American judges do not have the jurisdiction to pass judgment on the state of Israel." Why are lawyers for the US Justice Department siding with Israel's policy of home demolitions, which are illegal in most cases? I have a hard time understanding why the DOJ would file a friend of the court brief on behalf of Caterpillar in this case. An American citizen was killed by a foreign military. Where is the loyalty here? Why isn't the US DOJ instead investigating the murder of this American citizen? A disturbing example of the power of the Israeli lobby in America.
07-13-07 - Ackerman marks Goldwasser-Regev anniversary Not a matter for the US Congress.
07-13-07 - Weiner introduces seven Middle East bills One of the bills introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 10 by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) would ban Palestine Liberation Organization representation in the United States, and another would ban assistance to the Palestinian Authority until it meets conditions including recognition of Israel and a renunciation of terrorism. Both laws are already on the books; President Bush and his predecessor, President Clinton, have waived the ban on PLO representation since the early 1990s, citing national security. More legislation for Israel.
07-13-07 - Red Crescent provides aid to Palestinians in Syrian
07-13-07 - Tel Rumeida: Slouching Towards Annexation
07-13-07 - Reclamation and Resistance Palestinian Theater in NYC by Rania Jawad
07-13-07 - Death toll climbs as camp battle heats up in north Lebanon Evacuation operations have been stalled since Wednesday when relief workers tried in vain to rescue the fighters' families -- about 45 children and 20 women -- who failed to turn up at an agreed meeting point just inside the camp.
07-13-07 - Month after rift, few signs of reform under Abbas
07-13-07 - Top Tory calls for dialogue with Hamas A senior member of Conservative Friends of Israel has challenged the international veto on talks with Hamas after revealing that he has had several meetings with a representative of the organisation over the past year.
07-13-07 - Evangelicals, Arab envoys talk Israel Top U.S. evangelical Christian leaders met with Arab ambassadors recently to discuss religious freedoms in Muslim lands and the perceived evangelical tilt to Israel.
07-13-07 - A Different 'Gut Feeling': Israel Attacking Iran ** It always pays to be suspicious when a U.S. official ramps up fear, but Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" remark about an Al Qaeda attack on the U.S. this summer sparks a different suspicion ? and a similar sinking feeling: Israel is about to launch a unilateral strike on Iran. The August 2005 issue of the American Conservative featured this Deep Background column by former CIA official Philip Giraldi: "In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney?s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing?that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack?but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections." Cheney and the neocons have been looking for another 911-style attack to use as a pretext for an attack on Iran. Looks like they may just get one (like they did for the attack on Iraq). Israel's minions in the US, including Joe Lieberman, are already openly calling for an attack on Iran. Same with Bolton. Latest updates of this topic can be found here, compiled by yours truly.
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