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Saturday, July 28, 2007
07-27-07 - Fatah officials blamed over Gaza
07-27-07 - Hundreds protest near UNRWA offices in refugee camps all over the West Bank Hundreds of Palestinian refugees and their supporters organized protests, on Thursday, all over the West Bank in front of the United Nations Relief Work Agency ? UNRWA- offices due to the cuts in aid and funding money to the Palestinian refugees.
07-27-07 - Israeli sources: PA has helped foil terror attacks Palestinian security organizations loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas have transferred information on terrorist plots in the West Bank to Israel, Israeli security sources said. The information served Israeli security services in countering plans to carry out terrorist attacks.
07-27-07 - OPT - Israel: Gaza 'almost completely' aid-dependent "People hate having to ask for assistance. People want work," said Sime. "They want aid in the form of job-creation programmes." Such programmes may remain a pipedream if the borders stay shut.
07-27-07 - News feature: Poor prospects for 6,000 Palestinians stranded in Sinai
07-27-07 - Rice- won?t promise Palestine by 09 The quest for Palestinian statehood might outlast the Bush presidency, Condoleezza Rice said.
07-27-07 - Lavrov voices concern over Palestine
07-27-07 - Bedouins under threat in Israeli-Egypt border area
07-27-07 - Israeli military suspends company The army said the soldiers, on a foot patrol near Hebron, had commandeered a Palestinian taxi and had shot a man who had come near them.
07-27-07 - Palestinian cab driver relates hijacking, shooting incident Soldiers stopped a taxi at random, told its passengers to get out and tied up and blindfolded the driver. From what please gathered so far it appeared that at a certain point a Palestinian carrying a shovel neared the vehicle and the troops called to him to stop. When the man failed to stop, the commander, apparently feeling threatened, ordered the soldiers to open fire. After wounding him, they left him bleeding on the street and fled the scene.
07-27-07 - Hamas' marketing campaign for Gaza: 'Safe, clean and green' They call it the "Gaza Riviera." Lime-green Hamas banners flutter over Gaza City with a message in English for aid workers and journalists worried about being kidnapped: "No more threat for our foreign visitors and guests."
07-27-07 - Brown to appoint his own Middle East envoy
07-27-07 - Palestinian govt platform drops "armed resistance" "In this platform, we are very clear that the armed resistance must come to an end because it has nothing to do with establishing the state," Like it or not, many states came about as a result of armed resistance against an occupying army. That's how America was born.
07-27-07 - Palestinian student dies of wounds A university student shot during a brawl between supporters of Fatah and Hamas at a West Bank university died of his wounds Friday, hospital officials said.
07-27-07 - At-Tuwani Update: 11 July - 24 July 2007
07-27-07 - Union of Disabled Palestinians office raided by Israeli troops In an Israeli invasion of the city of Qalqilia Thursday, troops raided the office of the Union of Disabled Palestinians in the West Bank city.
07-27-07 - Soldiers die in Lebanese clashes
07-27-07 - Jerusalem hails Muslim woman cabbie In her conservative Muslim community, Mrs Bahr says that it is her female Muslim friends that have been her biggest champions.
07-27-07 - US to fund defense systems for Israel The new system would be used in addition to Israel's existing sophisticated 'Arrow' system, a project the US continues to fund.
On Thursday the House Appropriations Committee voted to give Israel an additional $70 million in defense aid beyond the $80 million requested by the administration.
Are our men in Iraq being given the best equipment there is? Why are we continuing to fund Israel defense projects when their economy is booming and ours continues to tank? Outrageous.
07-27-07 - Israel urges 'damaging' Iran sanctions Israel is anxious that the international community has "taken its eye off the ball" in the effort to ratchet up economic and diplomatic pressure on the Islamic Republic, while the nuclear program speeds relentlessly ahead, The Jerusalem Post has been told.
07-27-07 - Ramon: withdraw from most of West Bank "In my eyes, the occupation of the territories threatens our very existence, our legitimacy and our international standing," Haim Ramon told Israel Radio
07-27-07 - Beverly Hills looks to Holy Land Beverly Hills is looking for a "sister city" in Israel, its mayor said.
07-27-07 - Bush signs ports bill with boycott clause A bill increasing scrutiny over foreign purchases of American ports signed by President Bush includes a provision targeting the Arab boycott of Israel.
07-27-07 - Obama would talk up Israel with Iran "If I sit down with a leader of Iran, I will send them a strong message that Israel is our friend and that we will assist in their security and that we don?t find nuclear weapons acceptable," Obama said in a conference call Thursday.
07-27-07 - Senate approves increased funding for non-profits A significant portion of $50 million allocated for 2005 and 2006 went to Jewish institutions. In the past, federal funds have been used by non-profits for security enhancements, such as concrete barriers.
07-27-07 - Supporting the Palestinian Business Sector: The Middle East Investment Initiative
07-27-07 - 15-year old boy to be deported after half his life in Norway according to UNE, the 15-year-old's attachment to Norway is not strong enough to allow him to stay. The immigration authorities argue that "Hamodi" and his mother are from a culture where family ties are strong. "He has siblings, and a number of uncles and aunts in Syria. We are not informed that he has strong ties to Norwegian places or Norwegian friends," a statement from UNE read.
07-27-07 - Gaza was a Gas for Blair
07-27-07 - Miliband says UK needs U.S. alliance to secure goals Miliband denied suggestions by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, reported by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Thursday, that London had expanded links with the Palestinian Islamist group.
07-27-07 - U.S. plans big arms sale to Saudi Arabia: report ** the proposal for advanced weapons for Saudi Arabia has stoked concern in Israel and among its U.S. backers, the Times said......Senior officials, including State Department and Pentagon officials who outlined the deals' terms, told the Times they thought the Bush administration had resolved those concerns, partly by offering Israel more than $30 billion in military aid over the next 10 years, which would be a significant increase over recent levels.....The Times said officials described the plan as intended to bolster Gulf countries' militaries in a bid to contain Iran's growing strength in the region, as well as to demonstrate Washington's commitment to its Arab allies.
07-27-07 - U.S. to expand aid in Mideast The comprehensive regional aid-and-weapons package is meant to compensate Israel for the sale of U.S. weapons to countries Israel considers potential enemies. But those sales are nonetheless certain to draw opposition from pro-Israeli organizations and human rights organizations.
07-27-07 - Baseball lobby scandal sinks ex-AIPAC staffer's new job A former top fundraiser for AIPAC has been ordered to repay $70,000 in unauthorized expenses to a previous employer, a baseball political action committee.
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