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Friday, July 27, 2007
07-26-07 - Six Palestinians killed by Israelis A fifth Palestinian -- 20-year-old Jihad al-Shaer -- was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank village of Taqoa, near Bethlehem, after attacking a soldier at a checkpoint, medics and witnesses said.
An army spokeswoman said a soldier fell down after the Palestinian tried to stab him and that the Palestinian died after he was "hit" by another soldier.......In the village of Al-Dhahiriyeh in the south, 18-year-old Adham Nazmi al-Shalami was shot and wounded seriously in the chest by Israeli special forces while working in his father's quarry, Palestinian medics said.
07-26-07 - IDF suspends officer whose troops shot a Palestinian without justification The Israel Defense Forces suspended a platoon commander Thursday, after his troops shot and wounded a Palestinian civilian without any apparent justification in the Southern Hebron Hills earlier in the day.
07-26-07 - Palestinian security chief quits in wake of Gaza defeat Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian national security adviser, said he was quitting because of poor health, but some officials said that he had been asked to resign to take responsibility for the recent defeat in Gaza.
07-26-07 - Palestinians willing to restart peace talks amidst an Israeli proposal
07-26-07 - Israel ready to discuss Arab peace initiative: Olmert Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Israel would like to launch serious discussions on the Arab peace initiative with "an open heart and an open head."
07-26-07 - One killed as army invades village near Bethlehem
07-26-07 - CORRECTION: Israel transferred 1,000 rifles to Palestinian
07-26-07 - Rice: Israel's future is in the Negev and Galilee "I believe that Israel understands too that it has obligations that need to be met and need to be met now, because the future of Israel is not under the continued occupation of the West Bank," Rice said. "The future of Israel is in building a strong Israeli state in places like the Negev and Galilee."
07-26-07 - Under cover forces invades Jenin refugee camp and kidnapped a resistance fighter An under cover Israeli army force invaded Jenin refugee camp located in the city of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank and kidnapped one Palestinian resistance fighter there on Thursday midday.
07-26-07 - Investigators say 60 Palestinian officers to be tried for letting Gaza fall to Hamas
07-26-07 - Lavrov, Mashal discuss situation on Palestinian territories Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Hamas? political bureau chief Khaled Mashal on Thursday to discuss the situation on Palestinian territories.
07-26-07 - Abbas security chief Dahlan resigns Palestinian security chief Mohammad Dahlan resigned on Thursday, six weeks after his forces were routed by Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip, two senior officials told Reuters.
07-26-07 - Palestinians Ponder Solutions to Crisis People living in the Palestinian Territories have different views on the adequate way to deal with the current political turmoil, according to a poll by Fafo
07-26-07 - Economic and Social Council adopts texts on Palestinian people, Independence for colonial countries, social development The Council adopted a resolution by a roll-call vote of 29 in favour to 2 against, with 18 abstentions on the economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan, in which it called for the lifting of the severe restrictions imposed on the Palestinian people to alleviate the desperate humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
07-26-07 - US wants Israeli-Palestinian deal within year: Abbas US President George W. Bush is looking to reach a final status Israeli-Palestinian agreement before he leaves office, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said in an interview published on Thursday.
07-26-07 - INTERVIEW-Abbas says will alter voting law, may hamper Hamas Asked whether voting could take place in the West Bank while leaving an election in Gaza aside or holding it over for later, he said: "We do not want to divide the homeland.
07-26-07 - Tensions rise in West Bank city The observer group said that during a three-month period ending Jan. 31, a total 35 complaints of settler violence and harassment were received, and that number grew to 71 cases over the course of the following three months.
07-26-07 - Delay: US and Israel must enjoy second coming That evangelical support for Israel is largely based on "End Times" theology is largely irrelevant to the Israeli politicians who share the goal of expanding settlements into the West Bank and a military strike on Iran, but it is anything but irrelevant to the rank-and-file members and even one former House Majority Leader.
07-26-07 - Panel to probe alleged IDF war crimes in Second Lebanon War Gal-On said serious accusations made by human rights organizations, who reported that the IDF committed war crimes and harmed the civilian population of Lebanon, strengthened her conviction that these claims must be probed.
07-26-07 - Gag lifted on arrest of Israeli allegedly recruited by Hezbollah The Shin Bet security service on Tuesday lifted a gag order on the June arrest of a woman who allegedly admitted during questioning that she had been recruited by the Hezbollah.
07-26-07 - Syria threatened to fight in Lebanon war-Hezbollah
07-26-07 - Iraq refugee summit offers help
07-26-07 - Deal ends Israel general strike
07-26-07 - U.S. Kills Plans to Build Embassy in Hezbollah Area of Beirut U.S. officials say the proposed embassy site is just a few hundred yards from the scene of fierce fighting last summer between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.
07-26-07 - Palestinian doctor will not forgive Libyan jailors The Palestinian, who recently received Bulgarian citizenship, and the nurses were freed on Tuesday after more than eight years in detention, under a cooperation deal between Libya and the European Union.
07-26-07 - The ivory tower behind the Apartheid Wall
07-26-07 - Gearing Up For The Next Administration Groups on the Jewish right, he said, have a built-in advantage at this stage of the presidential contest: the desire of most major candidates to avoid even the faintest hint of conflict with pro-Israel groups. Kahn said groups like the Zionist Organization of America are starting to exploit that advantage by pressing candidates from both parties to flesh out their broad pro-Israel pronouncements with details
07-26-07 - LA evangelical leader: Iran confrontation 'inevitable' he said he was "very gratified" when President George W. Bush was elected, given his unwavering commitment to Israel's interests and in his antiterror policies
07-26-07 - Lebanese army 'tightens noose' on Islamists in camp Two soldiers were killed late Thursday by a shell fired by Islamists inside the camp, bringing the troop toll to 122. This figure included a soldier whose body was was recovered earlier from the camp. Two soldiers were also wounded.
07-26-07 - How Truth Slips Down the Memory Hole Dr. David Halpin, a British trauma surgeon who works with Palestinian children, emailed the BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen. "The BBC should report the alleged details about the shooting," he wrote. "It should honor Alan [Johnston] as a journalist by reporting the facts, uncomfortable as they might be to Israel." He received no reply.
07-26-07 - Lebanon: Refugees again "How long must the Palestinian people endure tragedy? How many times do we have to be displaced?" The speaker is Abu Hisham, sitting in Beddawi camp surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
07-26-07 - BUNGLERS IN WASHINGTON GET EVERYTHING WRONG The administration continues to blame the Palestinians for every problem there and, although they have shown incompetence and often cruelty, the fact is nothing happens on its own. In order to bring an Israeli-Palestinian peace, the United States would have to become an independent negotiator, in the style of James Baker in the administration of Father Bush, and force both sides to negotiate and compromise.
07-26-07 - U.S. candidates see Iran nuclear threat All were asked by the Israel Project to discuss their views and endorse a petition signed on-line by more than 75,000 people telling the United Nations Security Council "Iran must be stopped now -- before it develops a nuclear bomb." Jump for your masters. Bark like a dog.
07-26-07 - Israel believed close to Saudi meeting A senior government source said Israel is close to meeting with Saudi Arabian officials.
07-26-07 - Rice: 'There will be a Palestinian state' Prior to her visit to the Middle East next week, U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice told an Arabic broadcaster in Washington "There will be a Palestinian state."
07-26-07 - Israel's occupation remains poisonous
07-26-07 - Anti-Zionist rabbis demand IDF protection during shmita year
07-26-07 - U.S. Unions Organize Against British Boycott As the number of British labor unions passing Israel boycott resolutions has snowballed in recent months, American trade union officials have raised alarms over the growing phenomenon, which encompasses boycotts of Israeli goods and academic institutions. Last week, nearly every top union leader in America signed on to a statement drafted by the Jewish Labor Committee decrying the raft of boycott proposals as non-constructive. US unions need to get a clue and get with the program.
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