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Thursday, July 19, 2007
07-18-07 - PCHR Condemns Assault against PLC Member in Nablus
07-18-07 - Settlers illegally grab Palestinian lands in Hebron
07-18-07 - Palestinian stranded at Gaza border dies due to poor health conditions A Palestinian woman died on the Egyptian side of the Gaza-Egypt border late Tuesday night, Egyptian medical sources reported.
07-18-07 - Abbas refuses prisoner release list
07-18-07 - Journalist injured, three civilians kidnapped as army invades refugee camp near Ramallah
07-18-07 - Abu Rudiynah: Israeli reports about Rafah crossing not true A spokesperson for the political department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization criticized the recent decision to allow the historical leaders of Fatah, Farouq Al Qaddoumi, Abu Maher Ghuneim, Mohammad Jihad and Abu El Mo'tasem, to return to Palestine
07-18-07 - Palestinian premier calls for renewal of EU aid Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Salam Fayyad called Wednesday on the European Union to renew aid to the Palestinian Authority and spoke of the need to launch a "real" peace process which will lead to a result "we all expect."
07-18-07 - A Stranded Palestinian Family 1.4 million Palestinians, including my family, live in the coastal region of the Gaza Strip, which is only 40 km long and approximately 10 km wide. All of us have only one outlet to the outside world: the Rafah crossing terminal, to the south of Gaza. Despite the fact that Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and despite U.S-brokered arrangements to run the crossing with the help of European observers, Israel continuously closed the crossing, to the extent that in 2006 alone, the terminal's actual working days totaled only one-fifth of its normal operation hours.
07-18-07 - Israeli army invades Hebron city and nearby villages and kidnaps two civilians
07-18-07 - Islamic Jihad says will halt suicide bombings in Israel
07-18-07 - US troop levels in Iraq unsustainable after mid-2008: Powell Powell, a retired four-star general who was President George W. Bush's top diplomat from 2001 to 2005, and was the military's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff during 1989-1993, also called on Washington to find a way to talk with the powerful Palestinian group Hamas, despite its alleged terror links. Bring back Powell. The neocons may have duped him into giving that speech, but Powell's credibility remains intact, at least to me it does.
07-18-07 - Abbas prepares for new Palestinian elections
07-18-07 - Closed crossings pushing Gaza into disaster, says UN Karen AbuZayd, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), which helps Palestinian refugees, called on Mr Blair to visit Gaza to see the problem for himself. Mr Blair is expected to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah from Monday, but there appear to be no immediate plans for him to travel to Gaza.
07-18-07 - Bill allocating JNF land to Jews only passes preliminary reading The bill, initiated by MK Uri Ariel (National Union-National Religious Party), MK Zeev Elkin (Kadima), and MK Moshe Kahlon (Likud), is geared to bypass a 2004 court ruling which annulled an Israel Lands Administration (ILA) policy that prevented Arabs from participating in bids to purchase land owned by the JNF. It's always been that way.
07-18-07 - In pictures: The barrier by Kai Wiedenhofer
07-18-07 - Bush Middle East plan starts to unravel Israel had put Washington on notice earlier yesterday that it was not prepared to discuss such issues as borders at the conference. The biggest obstacle to peace has always been : Israel.
07-18-07 - Australian ambassador leaves early An Israeli ambassador at the center of a racist row last year left Australia six months early.
07-18-07 - This flurry of Middle East activity is the product of a very real threat: Iran ** As the Guardian reported this week, the notion of military action to prevent a nuclear Iran is under serious consideration in the White House - with Bush apparently leaning towards Dick Cheney's view that it may be necessary to use force before they leave office in January 2009. The flock of US presidential candidates are all at pains not to rule out military action and so, strikingly, was David Miliband in his first interview as foreign secretary.
07-18-07 - Our soldiers pay the price In 1948 America cast the deciding vote in the U.N. permanent Security Council to partition the nation of Palestine to create a homeland for the Jews spread around the world. We will be paying for that mistake forever, for being staunch supporters of Israel.
07-18-07 - Sun editor wants Black columns The editor of the New York Sun invited media mogul Conrad Black, now a convicted felon, to write for the newspaper from prison. One Israel-supporter(neocon, same thing) washes the back of another. How charming.
07-18-07 - Syrian envoy to UN: Israel fabricating evidence against us Bashar Ja'afari told Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Syria protests the fact that the UN "adopted the fabricated claims that it received by Israeli intelligence sources." Why not? The US does.
07-18-07 - Intel tech centre plan for Gaza pre-dates Hamas
07-18-07 - Yad Vashem hosts seminar More than 40 American educators, most of them not Jewish, are spending a study week at Yad Vashem. The seminar, being held at Israel?s Holocaust memorial in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League and the Shoah Foundation Institute of the University of Southern California, aims to enhance and supplement educators? knowledge of the Holocaust and how to teach it.
Israel and its lobby in the States use the Holocaust as a political shield against criticism of Israel.
07-18-07 - Untold stories: the children of Dheisheh Kifah Khaled Obeid, 13, was a resident of Dheisheh who died from a bullet wound while throwing stones at IOF soldiers at a checkpoint near Bethlehem. The day before he died, five children were killed in Gaza as a result of an unexploded bomb left by the IOF. The next day, Kifah and other school kids decided to march to the Bethlehem-Jerusalem checkpoint to protest the killings. They held a banner reading (roughly translated), "The smile of a child is stronger than Israeli weapons."
07-18-07 - Knesset to ban fixing cars in West Bank The Knesset will soon vote on a new bill, which is receiving wide support from many MKs, to ban the use of Palestinian-owned garages in the Territories by Israelis. According to the bill, Israeli citizens who will get their cars fixed across the Green Line will face up to three years in prison.
07-18-07 - Militants say ready to talk to end Lebanon fighting The Islamist militant group battling Lebanese troops at a Palestinian refugee camp said on Wednesday it was willing to resume talks to end the fighting, a move that came after it lost ground in a two-month-old battle.
07-18-07 - McCain supports war in speech to evangelical supporters John McCain told Christian evangelical supporters of Israel that withdrawing troops from Iraq now would be "one of the most catastrophic and consequential disasters for this nation." .....McCain said backing the Democratic-sponsored measure and withdrawing would be to "declare defeat and allow al-Qaida to obtain victory." Staying and stabilizing Iraq could help ensure the safety of Israel and the Middle East, he said, winning loud applause. As to the first part of the excerpt: which nation? Clearly he has Israel confused with the one he was elected to represent: America.
07-18-07 - Palestinians attend seminar on nonviolence
07-18-07 - Palestinian Flag Hoisted at Agrexco Carmel
07-18-07 - ?Not One Inch? Still Alive And Well The group also heard emotional calls to action on Iran; Hagee has openly called for pre-emptive war to end that country?s nuclear program.
07-18-07 - U.N. envoy says arms smuggling threatens Lebanon peace Syria's ambassador Bashar Ja'afari denied Syria was funnelling weapons over the border. He accused Israel of violating the resolution through overflights which he said provided intelligence on the alleged smuggling.
07-18-07 - 5 dead in fighting in Lebanon Four Lebanese soldiers were killed as Lebanese troops battled militants Wednesday inside a northern Palestinian refugee camp, a senior military official said. A teenager was later killed by a militant rocket.
07-18-07 - US skeptical about French fence-mending trip to Syria The United States expressed skepticism Wednesday over France's decision to send a top diplomat for talks with Syria, Washington's arch enemy.
07-18-07 - Palestinians count hours to prisoner release Amal has barely managed to sleep since hearing Israel is to release her husband, political leader Abdel-Rahim Mallouh, along with more than 250 other prisoners as a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas.
07-18-07 - Judge dismisses all charges in Chinca's Market case In dismissing multiple counts of attempted receiving stolen property Tuesday, the judge said testimony in the case suggested the real focus of the investigation was not about cigarettes, but the store owner's "connection to his Palestinian homeland, his practice of the Muslim religion, and relationship with other Middle Eastern shopkeepers in Butte County. Thus does the FBI continue to do the bidding of the Israeli lobby.
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