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Monday, July 16, 2007


News for 07-15-07

07-15-07 - Despite blockade, Hamas pays full wages to fighters Hamas said it paid its security forces in the Gaza Strip their full salaries on Sunday despite an Israeli and Western boycott.


07-15-07 - Israeli authorities extend detention of leader of Palestinian women's movement She is in what Israelis euphemistically call "administrative detention", meaning that she can be held for an indefinite period of time lasting months, or even years, without ever being charged with a crime.


07-15-07 - PFLP armed wing refuses to disarm The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP, stated on Sunday that it rejects any calls for disarmament as long as the Israeli occupation is still present and that resistance will continue until liberation


07-15-07 - Bush to address Israel-Palestinians issue President Bush is set to make a major speech on prospects for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


07-15-07 - US resists pressure to expand Blair's Mideast mandate


07-15-07 - Only 20% of Gaza's small businesses remaining PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. Sleeping in the sand and running out of money, thousands of Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt's desert for more than a month since the border with Hamas-controlled Gaza has been closed. Border crossings to Israel, closed to raw materials, exports and the outside world are hurting businesses, workers and the economy.


07-15-07 - Hamas settling old scores a month after seizing Gaza


07-15-07 - Charismatic West Bank militant leader lays down arms A hero for Palestinians, a terrorist for Israel, charismatic West Bank militant leader Zakaria Zubeidi on Sunday laid down his arms after Israel agreed to stop hunting him down.



07-15-07 - Bush to offer new support for Palestinians: Hadley President George W. Bush is expected to outline Monday new US support for the beleaguered Palestinian government, a senior White House official said Sunday.


07-15-07 - INTERVIEW - Hamas leader won't bow to "food blackmail" "This mistaken policy must be reconsidered ... But we will certainly not bend political positions in return for food. Food and human rights must not be subject to political blackmail."


07-15-07 - Palestinian militants renounce anti-Israel attacks Dozens of wanted Palestinian militants have made a rare pledge to halt anti-Israel attacks in a deal aimed at bolstering moderate president Mahmud Abbas in his battle for authority with Hamas, officials said on Sunday.


07-15-07 - Hamas unable to convene parliament to counter Abbas The session was not able to start because a quorum could not be assembled. Hamas lawmakers said just 28 of 132 legislators turned up for the session, held jointly in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Hamas needed at least 67 for a quorum. Fatah boycotted the session, calling it illegal.


07-15-07 - Nablus roadblocks, indicators of Israeli illegal measures against the Palestinians the Israeli army doubled the number of roadblocks, especially around Nablus, and started barring male residents under the age of 35 from crossing.


07-15-07 - PLC in Gaza outlaws the government of Fayyad


07-15-07 - USA TODAY prints falsehood, Refuses to run retraction W
e think USA TODAY owes it to these dead young servicemen,
to their sisters and mothers, and to the American public, to report this
incident accurately. The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty has profound
geopolitical significance. Readers need full, unfiltered information.


07-15-07 - Report: Iran has 600 targets for missile strike in Israel if attacked ** Iran's warning refers to talk in Israel and the United States of a possible military strike to prevent the Islamic republic from attaining nuclear capability. Various channels delivered the Iranian message, which also warns against an attack on Syria.


07-15-07 - Inside Track: Rudy?s New Foreign Policy Posse by Philip Giraldi ** Podhoretz has recently called on the United States to bomb Iran and he describes the current situation?pitting Washington against what he describes as "the Islamofascist threat"?as World War IV.


07-15-07 - A Primer on Israeli Doublespeak


07-15-07 - Kidnapped Israeli troops 'alive' France's foreign minister says he has heard that two Israeli soldiers seized in a Hezbollah raid over the Lebanese border last year are still alive.


07-15-07 - New U.S. travel warning to Israel The statement notes the threat of Israeli retaliatory raids against terrorist attacks on Israel, as well as confrontations in the West Bank between pro-Palestinian protestors - some, the warning states, who are Americans ? and Israeli settlers and troops.



07-15-07 - Sheetrit eyes Law of Return Meir Sheetrit, who took over the Interior Ministry this month as part of a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said in a weekend newspaper interview that current Israeli immigration policies are too porous and thus threaten the country's Jewish majority.


07-15-07 - Bonnie Block: Israeli occupation fosters violence, and Palestinians are ignored


07-15-07 - Local banker's daughter brings him perspective on world Lindsey became interested in the Middle East when she took a political science class at Georgia State University. The class touched on the strife between Israel and Palestine, and Lindsey was drawn to learn more about the Palestinian side of the story.


07-15-07 - Nablus: Misery at Checkpoints


07-15-07 - Lebanon army advances into camp, 100th soldier dies Lebanese troops advanced for the first time on Sunday into a Palestinian refugee camp as they battled al Qaeda-inspired militants, and two soldiers were killed raising the military death toll to 100.


07-15-07 - Islamists fire rockets as Lebanese army pounds hideouts Islamist fighters on Sunday fired rockets from their holdout in a battered refugee camp in Lebanon where the army has been battling to crush them for eight weeks, police said.


07-15-07 - Israel detains Darfur refugees in desert 'prison' "We don't want to be the Promised Land for African refugees," said Miri Eisin, a spokeswoman for the prime minister, Ehud Olmert

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