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Friday, July 20, 2007
07-19-07 - Palestinians prepare for first prisoner release in three years
07-19-07 - Mideast quartet begins meeting in Lisbon
07-19-07 - Two children injured in landmine explosion in central Gaza strip Two children were injured, Tuesday night, when a landmine exploded near their home in the central Gaza strip, Palestinian sources reported. The landmine was left near a Palestinian police station during Hamas-Fatah infighting in the Gaza strip.
07-19-07 - Bush speech criticized for not fulfilling PA funding pledge
07-19-07 - Prisoner release to separate Palestinian brothers Palestinian brothers Bilal and Khalid Amr were inseparable since they were children, joined the same militant group as young adults and spent the past year together in the same Israeli prison cell.
07-19-07 - Hamas significantly strengthening but is not yet a Hezbollah The senior military source said the improvement in Hamas' capabilities in the past two years was equivalent to a "generational leap," which in military jargon means a significant advance.
07-19-07 - Palestinian gets life sentence for 2006 murder of Italian tourist
07-19-07 - Egypt police move to Gaza border Many of the Palestinians have no money to pay for food or lodging and are staying in mosques or sleeping in the open.
07-19-07 - Hebron Release: Non-violent Resistance to Shop Closures
07-19-07 - Russia's Lavrov warns against isolating Hamas "Whatever you think about Hamas, they are, in our opinion, an influential political entity, which has a majority in the parliament and enjoys strong support... in the West Bank as well as in Gaza. We think that boycotting Hamas or trying to exclude it from the political process would be a counterproductive move boding ill for the future,"
07-19-07 - Hamas will participate in Sunday?s legislative session, will not approve Fayyad government
07-19-07 - Palestinian shepherds refuse eviction by Israeli settlers This was the second day in a row security personnel from the nearby Israeli settlement, Ma'on, and Israeli soldiers came and demanded the shepherds from Tuba leave this valley with their sheep, claiming the land belonged to the settlement.
07-19-07 - Ahmadinejad mocks Israel, praises Lebanon during Syria visit Iran's President Mamoud Ahmadinejad mocked Israel and called for Lebanese unity during meetings in Damascus Thursday with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
07-19-07 - Israeli general says army ready to invade Gaza Israeli forces have made preparations to invade the Gaza Strip to stop a guerrilla build-up by Hamas and may only have a limited opportunity to launch such an attack, a top army commander said on Thursday.
07-19-07 - Palestinian ex-fugitives eager to live normal life "My kids were calling their uncle, 'Daddy,"' he said. "I was sneaking at night to see them, like a thief. Now I can see them, dine in a restaurant with family, friends and relatives."
07-19-07 - Hamas launches vitriolic attack on Abbas "Early elections are an attempt to bypass the will of the Palestinian people and this attempt is bound to failure. It will fail. We, the Palestinian people, will scupper it," said the onetime foreign minister in a Hamas cabinet.
07-19-07 - Palestinian police attack prisoners support rally in Nablus and arrests five
07-19-07 - 'Bush is leading a crusade against us' "President Bush is leading a new crusade against the Palestinians," Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami el-Zuhri, said on Monday night, adding that the group would "neither recognize the occupation nor give up the armed struggle."
07-19-07 - Egypt-Gaza border could open within 48 hours Egypt's Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip could be temporarily opened in the next 48 hours to enable thousands of stranded Palestinians to return home, a security source said on Thursday.
07-19-07 - Fury over Israeli bill to limit some land sales to Jews Arab Israeli lawmakers and civil rights groups on Thursday slammed a bill that would limit the sale of some state land to Jews, a day after parliament passed it in a preliminary reading.
07-19-07 - Mixed reaction in Middle East as Blair makes debut as envoy Israel is delighted he is getting involved but Arab reactions range from sceptical to openly hostile. "George Bush wanted to reward Blair for his hostility to the Arabs," said Galal Nassar in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly. "In backing Bush's nominee the Quartet has endorsed a disastrous choice."
07-19-07 - Israel's envoy to U.S.: Free world is under attack by Iran Hegee also had harsh words for former president Jimmy Carter, whose recent book comparing Israel?s policies in the West Bank with Apartheid has stirred bitter controversy in the United States and abroad. "Israel has an enemy in America called Jimmy Carter," he said, calling on the former president to "disclose how much money the Carter Center receives from anti-Israel sources in the Middle East."
07-19-07 - Spy Towers on the US Border Boeing has enlisted the aid of Elbit Systems, Israel's major defense contractor, to construct high-tech surveillance along the border of the U.S. and Mexico. So far, the high-tech fiasco is not working and Arizona residents are organizing a lawsuit to halt government spying on U.S. citizens. Just what we need.
07-19-07 - Jordanian FM: Peace with Palestinians before Syria
07-19-07 - Christian Zionists: Ahmadinejad is new Hitler Christians United for Israel call on US to attack Iran immediately, move US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as sign of support
07-19-07 - Fury against boycott of Israeli products
07-19-07 - AIPAC panel lobbies on Iran About 100 members of AIPAC's executive committee meeting in Washington this week pushed bills that would tighten existing sanctions, as well as enable state and local governments to divest from Iran.
07-19-07 - Finalists Nominated for 2007 Engineering Award Team Birzeit University, Deir Qaddis, Palestinian Territories University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Project Title Wastewater Treatment and Reuse produced from Olive Oil Mills
07-19-07 - A Palestinian martyr sheds his mask and gun ?I decided I wanted to create movement in the peace process. We surrendered our weapons because we felt there was political progress,? the fit 33-year-old said as he sat beneath a portrait of Yasser Arafat at a Fatah party office in Jenin. He later took the conversation outside, strolling around the city's ancient centre as if quietly celebrating his new freedom.
07-19-07 - Jerusalem: ICAHD Continues to Rebuild! The below report was written by Summer Camp participant: P.R.
07-19-07 - A Palestinian Adventure in Israel's Largest Airport
07-19-07 - Saudis at foreign battles embarrass homeland Lebanese officials say dozens of Saudis are among militants of the Fatah al-Islam militant group which has been battling the army for two months in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon.
07-19-07 - Lebanese army shells militants cornered in camp
07-19-07 - Ashbury to host 3rd Peace Camp for 20 youths It's the third year for the 16-day camp, which brings together 10 Israeli and 10 Palestinian youths in the collegial setting of Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park.
07-19-07 - AIPAC's Lying Yoda It is time someone in the mainstream media (besides my hard-working friend Scott MacLeod, here and here) took to task Dennis Ross, the AIPAC man who served the first Bush Adminsitration and then Clinton as a Middle East mediator, before returning to the AIPAC fold ? but who is treated by the U.S. media as some sort of yoda figure, the fount of jedi wisdom in managing the Middle East.
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