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Wednesday, August 01, 2007


News for 07-31-07

07-31-07 - Israeli army invades several parts of the West Bank, kidnaps civilians and clashes with resistance m


07-31-07 - Under siege: drug shortage 'is killing patients in Gaza' Dr Moaya Abu Hasnein, the director of accident and emergency, said dozens of cancer and kidney patients were slowly dying because of the boycott. While the Rafah crossing, formerly manned by European Union monitors, remained closed, it was impossible to transfer patients to Egypt


07-31-07 - US 'aims to help' Mid-East allies Syria's foreign minister said the arms deals were "dangerous", while Mahmoud Zahhar, a senior Hamas figure, said US peace conference plans were a waste of time.


07-31-07 - Diplomatic ban lifted Israel has lifted its ban on diplomatic ties between Israeli diplomats abroad and their Palestinian counterparts.


07-31-07 - Peres blasts Iran president "Ahmadinejad is an unbelievable joke," Peres told NPR. "He claims he's religious. My impression is that, in his eyes, the nuclear bomb is higher than Allah. He's worshiping the bomb more than he's worshiping the God in heaven."


07-31-07 - Mubarak meets Fayyad on Palestinian developments


07-31-07 - Stranded Palestinian flies home A crippled Palestinian man, who was stranded at Bahrain International Airport for more than two weeks, flew home yesterday.


07-31-07 - IDF forces accused of desecrating Palestinian graves


07-31-07 - A Palestinian prisoner dies of bad health conditions


07-31-07 - Israeli setters attempt to reoccupy evacuated W.B settlement for the third time in two weeks


07-31-07 - Commander who left soldier in Gaza to be sacked


07-31-07 - Three Palestinian resistance groups attack Israeli settler's car near Nablus Fighters from the Palestinian resistance groups Fatah, Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian announced late Monday night that they had attacked an illegal Israeli settler's car at Howwara Israeli military checkpoint, located in southern Nablus city in the northern West Bank.


07-31-07 - Report: Hamas establishes new intelligence force in Gaza Hamas is working towards establishing a new security intelligence force in the Gaza Strip, a report published on Tuesday by the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Arabic language newspaper said.


07-31-07 - US military aid plans aimed against Iran - Russian experts "Arabs do not believe the U.S. can play the role of a fair broker," the expert said. "And the U.S. wants to create the impression that it is sincerely attempting to broker the Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement."


07-31-07 - Hamas official says talks with Israel on prisoners' swap "frozen" Islamic Hamas movement leader in Gaza Osama al-Mzeini said on Tuesday that talks over a prisoners'' swap between his movement and Israel "are frozen."


07-31-07 - U.S. tests Israeli willingness for wider peace talks Geez I wonder who wears the pants here.


07-31-07 - Israeli PM sees no war with neighbours in coming months Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he does not expect conflict with the Jewish state's neighbours in the coming months, pouring cold water on a recent flurry of speculations of an impending war with Syria.


07-31-07 - Russia reduces ties with Hamas, backs Abbas Russia said Tuesday it was reducing contacts with Hamas but would maintain some ties with the Islamist movement in order to promote "dialogue" in the Palestinian conflict.


07-31-07 - Hamas leader shows documents proving PNA's corruption


07-31-07 - Three hundred Palestinians return to Gaza from Egypt Another group of Palestinians awaiting the opening of the Rafah border crossing in Egypt returned Tuesday to Gaza via Israel.


07-31-07 - Taysser Khalied: attack on freedom of speech very dangerous Taysser Khalied, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and of the political office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, condemned today the recent attack by the Hamas Executive Force on Palestinian newspapers and their distributors in the Gaza strip.


07-31-07 - Methodists concerned with Israeli occupation "We're trying to have people recognize that something is going on in those occupied lands that's wrong, and we want it to change," said William P. Aldrich, chairman of the divestment task force of the denomination's New England Conference. "If a person is concerned about what's going on, this is a way of ensuring they are not making money from that." Who would know better what's really going on on the ground in the Holy Land than the clergy who frequent the place.


07-31-07 - Spanish FM welcomes Syrian support for Lebanon initiative Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on Tuesday welcomed Syria's support for efforts by Spain and France to resolve the eight-month-old political crisis in Lebanon.


07-31-07 - Palestinians wary of interim statehood Many Palestinians are wary of a short-term solution they perceive as having more to do with Mr Bush?s legacy and the US?s problems elsewhere in the Middle East than with a lasting settlement of the conflict.


07-31-07 - Congressional lobby reform aims at disclosure


07-31-07 - Mossad helped free medics from Libya Gen. Kirtcho Kirov told the 24-Tchassa daily that Israel's intelligence agency was one of 20 countries whose security services were active in trying to release a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses convicted in Libya for infecting children with AIDS


07-31-07 - Trial date set for ex-AIPAC staffers The trial date set Tuesday by Judge T.S. Ellis was at least the fifth since Steve Rosen, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee's former foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, were indicted in August 2005


07-31-07 - Lebanon's Siniora slams hike in U.S. military assistance to Israel Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora criticized a proposed U.S. arms deal Monday that offers a sharp increase in defense aid to Israel, a rare rebuke against Washington by the Western-backed premier.


07-31-07 - Israel to win U.S. visa exemption The U.S. Congress approved a bill last week allowing the citizens of several countries, including Israel, to enter the United States for up to 90 days without applying for a visa


07-31-07 - Rice, Gates in Egypt to seek Arab front against Iran


07-31-07 - Iran imperative spurs US aid move ** When the stated aim of such assistance is, in the words of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, "to counter the negative influences of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran", then it is not hard to see why Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, found nothing to criticise.


07-31-07 - Palestinian teens to meet Omagh relatives The 16 youngsters from the Palestinian village of Zebabdeh are taking part in the Youth Connections for Peace project in conjunction with a Dublin school.



07-31-07 - Syria says ready to join in U.S. peace conference Syria is ready to take part in a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian-Israeli peace although Washington is behind instability in the Middle East, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Tuesday.


07-31-07 - Robertson: Evangelical Letter Applauding Two-States in Holy Land Unbiblical and Naive


07-31-07 - EU launches training program for Palestinian journalists


07-31-07 - On-line system aims to reduce delays at US Consulate


07-31-07 - Real Effects of the US-Israel Sponsored "Palestinian Civil War" Tragedy


07-31-07 - Churchman to brave West Bank to help the children


07-31-07 - Holocaust survivors blast $20 stipend Where are all of the millions that Israel has collected on behalf of the Holocaust survivors? These people have been abused time and again, their victimhood exploited for political gain.


07-31-07 - IFJ Accuses Hamas of violating press freedom


07-31-07 - As Internal Battles Fracture the Palestinian Territories, WIDE ANGLE Captures a Raw View of Life and Death inside a Hospital in the Gaza Strip Gaza E.R. premieres Tuesday, August 14 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings) as part of WIDE ANGLE?s sixth season.


07-31-07 - Arab world values highly Russia?s peacekeeping efforts in Mideast The Arab world ?values highly Russia?s peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East,? Egyptian Ambassador in Moscow Izzat Saad El-Sayed said here on Tuesday.


07-31-07 - Dems, pro-Israel groups want more info on arms sale to Saudis How can the weapons be adjusted to minimize their potential threat to Israel? What do Israeli military leaders think? And does the aid boost to Israel come with a guarantee?
The unanswered questions have led Democrats to threaten to block the deal. Pro-Israel groups are holding back from such threats but are demanding more answers......Insiders say the overall package was in the works for months and that the Bush administration had consulted closely with Israel, also keeping informed the pro-Israel powerhouse AIPAC......One pro-Israel strategy was already clear: Make certain the hike in aid to Israel comes through


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