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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
07-17-07 - US downplays Mideast talks hopes
07-17-07 - Centrists support Bush plan, left and right are skeptical Bush placed a rare emphasis on U.S. expectations that Israel freeze settlement expansion, saying that "Israel's future lies in developing areas like the Negev and Galilee, not in continuing occupation of the West Bank." When pressed, State Department officials will note that an end to the occupation is U.S. policy. But Bush's comments -- delivered in firm tones at the session attended by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- were unusual.
07-17-07 - Detainees in Kfar Azion on hunger strike
07-17-07 - 'Palestine Times' to resume publishing
07-17-07 - Abu Zuhri denies Hamas? involvement in statement which carried its name
07-17-07 - More than 800 protest Bedouin house demolitions in front of Knesset More than 800 people protested in front of the Knesset on Monday against the government practice of demolishing Bedouin homes in the Negev.
07-17-07 - Haniya rejected Iran's involvement in Gaza attacks On Monday, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniya denied PA President Mahmoud Abbas?s allegations that Iran, Syria, and Qatar had a hand in the recent Gaza Strip attacks.
07-17-07 - PCHR: ?Palestinian Detained in Hamas-controlled prison dies of torture ?
07-17-07 - Hamas dismantles pro-Fatah security service
07-17-07 - Saudi welcomes Bush Mideast peace conference plan Saudi Arabia welcomed on Tuesday a call by U.S. President George W. Bush for a Middle East peace conference, urging wide international backing to avoid repeating the failures of earlier initiatives.
07-17-07 - Gaza-West Bank divisions harden The Hamas takeover of Gaza has scored one noticeable success - it has restored a degree of law and order to the previously lawless territory.
07-17-07 - UK in £3m pledge to Palestinians When is Israel going to release ALL of the tax duties due the Palestinians that it has been holding onto for a year and a half?
07-17-07 - Middle East unmoved by Bush summit plan A day after Mr Bush unveiled his plan for a conference of Israelis, Palestinians, and Arab governments in the autumn, there were few signs of optimism that such a gathering could produce a final resolution to the conflict. Israel moved immediately to limit the scope of discussion, saying it was premature to discuss such issues as borders - one of the most crucial subjects of a negotiation on territory.
07-17-07 - At-Tuwani Reflection: "This is my home." "Yesterday they told us we couldn't be up by the chicken barn. Today they
tell us we can't be anywhere in this valley. Tomorrow they will tell us we
can't be in our caves," an elder shepherd from the Palestinian village of
Tuba in the South Hebron Hills told two of us from the CPT At-Tuwani team.
"This is our land and we can be here."
07-17-07 - Rice, Arab foreign ministers to hold talks in Egypt U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Arab foreign ministers in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh at the end of July, Egypt's foreign ministry said on Tuesday
07-17-07 - Palestinians in Sinai desperate to return to Gaza Khowla Salah al-Ghalban, nine months pregnant and barely able to move, lies on a concrete floor in the Egyptian border town of Rafah as flies buzz around her. She hopes to make it home to Gaza before her baby comes.
07-17-07 - Israel Releases Former Hamas Official
07-17-07 - British Gas wants to increase pace of negotiations
07-17-07 - Congress goes after Gaza killers The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to help find the Gaza killers of three American contractors in 2003. Meanwhile, the War Crimes Report filed with the Secretary Army and filed by the survivors of the attack on the USS Liberty has been ignored for over 2 years now. Congress is beholden to a foreign nation.
07-17-07 - Cracks in Zionism by Charley Reese One of the myths created by the Israeli lobby is that Jews around the world are unanimous in their support of Israel, regardless of what it does. That's not true and never has been true.
07-17-07 - Assad: Golan guarantee before talks Bashar Assad conditioned new peace talks with Israel on a guaranteed return of the Golan Heights to Syria.
07-17-07 - Bishara attends Lebanon 'victory' parley Azmi Bishara, a former Knesset member who resigned and fled Israel this year after it emerged that he could be prosecuted for illicit communications with Hezbollah, attended an anniversary conference in Beirut this week marking a year since the war between the Lebanese militia and Israel.
07-17-07 - Did the UN Cave to Israel?
07-17-07 - Notes From a Beach Blanket The AIPAC spy scandal: now this is one case that seems to have been dropped into a bottomless pit, but no, it has merely been delayed by the Scooter Libby-esque tactics of the defense team.
07-17-07 - Bush's final push for a Palestine What's missing the most in this new clarity of events is Bush's plan to push Israel into making major concessions. Up to now, Bush and Israel have largely been like lips to teeth in chewing on the Palestinian question. Any big concessions, especially on Jerusalem's future and the dismantling of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, need to be on the table.
07-17-07 - Pro-Israel Christians to push Iran sanctions Speakers at the group's second national conference include the group's founder, Pastor John Hagee, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, a probable candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency.
07-17-07 - Displacement and Israel's Wall When one considers the expansive reach of the structure and that eighty percent of it has been built on Palestinian land, the enormity of its impact on Palestinian society is understood.
07-17-07 - Israel's Holocaust "second generation" sue Germany Thousands of offspring of Nazi Holocaust survivors in Israel are seeking reparations from Germany to pay for psychiatric treatment they say they require as a result of trauma suffered by their parents.
07-17-07 - Palestinian teens' Austria trip a cultural respite from strife The project, "Building Bridges to Bethlehem," was put together through the collaborative efforts of the groups Service for Peace? Universal Peace Federation, and Women's Federation, supported by the Palestinian community.
07-17-07 - AL chief hails China's efforts to promote Mideast peace Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa on Monday hailed China's stance on the Middle East situation and its efforts to promote Mideast peace and negotiations among all sides concerned.
07-17-07 - Lebanese soldier killed as commandos close in on Islamists A Lebanese soldier was killed on Tuesday in clashes with Islamist fighters as the army closed in on the extremists' positions in a bombed-out refugee camp, a military spokesman said.
07-17-07 - Bush, Ban to discuss Darfur, pressure on Iran
07-17-07 - Italian minister says isolating Hamas may help al Qaeda The West's policy of isolating Hamas could backfire and push the militant Palestinian group into the arms of al Qaeda, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said.
07-17-07 - Lebanese army makes new gains in Palestinian camp Lebanese troops seized more territory inside a Palestinian refugee camp in pitched battles on Tuesday against al Qaeda-inspired militants, security sources said.
07-17-07 - Former Justice Minister of Canada to Testify at Congressional Briefing on Jewish Refugees In this bi-partisan effort, under the auspices of its co-chairmen, Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), and Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), 'The Congressional Human Rights Caucus' will hear testimony on: 'Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation.'
Their victimhood must reign supreme. Or so it would seem.
07-17-07 - Author Phillip W. Weiss Announces Premiere Reading Of His Play Moishe and Mohammed At The Midtown International Theatre Festival "Moishe is an Israeli Jew and Mohammed a Palestinian Arab and the play entails a free wheeling, no holds barred discussion as both men hurl charges and countercharges at each other, each blaming the other side for causing the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although both men offer frank and compelling arguments, neither is willing to make concessions," Weiss continues.
07-17-07 - Groups Call for Release of Marwan Barghouti
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