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Thursday, August 02, 2007


News for 08-01-07

08-01-07 - Hamas man killed in Gaza clash with Islamic Jihad A member of Hamas's so-called Executive Force paramilitary unit was killed on Wednesday in fighting with Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza City, Hamas said.


08-01-07 - Israeli troops kill two Gaza militants in raid Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen and wounded four other people on Wednesday during a raid in the northern Gaza Strip, local residents and ambulance workers said.


08-01-07 - Dialogue only way out of Palestine situation - Mubarak


08-01-07 - Hamas praises Russia efforts to resume Hamas-Fatah talks


08-01-07 - OPT: 1,600 Palestinians back in Gaza from Egypt Nearly 1,600 Palestinians out of 6,000 stranded in Egypt for weeks have made it back to Gaza since Israel started allowing them passage last week, an Egyptian security source told AFP.


08-01-07 - Palestinian who killed 3 soldiers arrested


08-01-07 - Olmert to Rice: "Keep Hamas out of the game"


08-01-07 - Report: Thirty-four Palestinians, including two children, killed by Israeli army fire in July


08-01-07 - U.S. starts aid projects to boost Palestinian economy


08-01-07 - Erdoğan rejects Abbas request to visit Ankara Erdoğan's office rejected the request due to the prime minister's tight schedule. Erdoğan was in Antalya on vacation last weekend and returned to Ankara late Monday.


08-01-07 - Detention of senior Palestinian officials - wrongful infringement of fundamental rights


08-01-07 - Grant assistance for underprivileged farmers in the Palestinian territories, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia through the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)


08-01-07 - Baraka: Israel will not attain security from building settlements and the illegal wall Mohammad Baraka, Arab MK and president of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, stated on Wednesday that the Israeli government will not attain security and peace by continuing to build the illegal Israeli wall and settlements in the West Bank.


08-01-07 - Rice urges push on Mid-East peace


08-01-07 - Terrorists Are Everywhere by Philip Giraldi One of the most troublesome aspects of the Bush agenda is the conflation of a whole basket of groups with the terrorism menace even if they pose no actual danger to the U.S......there is no intelligence that suggests that al-Qaeda has any group or organization currently in place in the U.S. that might be capable of carrying out a major terrorist attack......Hezbollah and Hamas likewise do not threaten the United States and almost certainly have little to no capability to carry out an operation on this side of the Atlantic Ocean Philip Giraldi is a former CIA counterterrorism official. His Deep Background columns in The American Conservative make that mag well worth its weight in gold.


08-01-07 - Israeli army detains 15 Palestinians in West Bank


08-01-07 - Agricultural Workers Union: 1250 dunums of land destroyed last week by Israeli army in Gaza The Palestinian Union of Agricultural Workers issued a report on Wednesday stating that the Israeli army has destroyed 1250 dunums of agricultural lands belonging to farmers in the Gaza strip


08-01-07 - Iran says Israel abuses human rights Israel's "futile" attempt "to raise allegations against others' human rights situation is nothing but a preposterous, and indeed tired, practice to distract the international community's attention from its shameful human rights record," he said.


08-01-07 - Hidden tension between Hamas and the Islamic Jihad The Palestine News Network was informed of a hidden sort of tension between Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. The tension rose due to several activities carried by the Hamas-formed Executive Force, and conducts carried by the Hamas government in Gaza.


08-01-07 - Hamas says invited to Moscow despite ties downgrade The Islamist movement Hamas said Wednesday that a delegation headed by its leader Khaled Meshaal has been invited to Moscow, in spite of Russia having reduced ties with the Islamists.


08-01-07 - Hamas bans Palestinian TV from Gaza The Islamist Hamas movement on Wednesday banned Palestinian public television from making or broadcasting any programmes in Gaza, which has been under Hamas control since mid-June, an official said.


08-01-07 - U.S., Israeli envoys pushing for Mideast peace deal despite Palestinian turmoil


08-01-07 - Fatah Would Defeat Hamas in Palestinian Election


08-01-07 - Palestinian detainees carry hunger strike in protest to medical neglect


08-01-07 - Haniyeh sends salary back to Ramallah government


08-01-07 - Time to shut down reactor the warning bells regarding the danger of a horrific nuclear leak must resonate here in Israel too, before it?s too late.


08-01-07 - Lebanese soldier killed as country marks Army Day A Lebanese soldier was killed Wednesday in battles with die-hard Islamists besieged in a seaside Palestinian refugee camp as the military marked Army Day.


08-01-07 - The $63 Billion Sham Under the president, 80 percent of nations that received arms from America in 2003 were classified by the State Department as being either undemocratic or having a poor human rights record, which covers all the Arab countries in the new deal. Israel is a democracy, but in its 2006 country profile, the State Department cites a source that determined that 322 of 660 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military ?were not engaged in hostilities when killed and 141 were minors.?


08-01-07 - Reform leader blasts Sudan hold U.S. Jewish groups have taken the lead in targeting massacres in the Darfur region of Sudan carried out by government-allied militias that have killed hundreds of thousands of people.


08-01-07 - After 60 years of statehood, electricity begins flowing to Ein Hud for first time


08-01-07 - House passes Iran sanctions bills The American Israel Public Affairs Committee applauded its passage


08-01-07 - Israel ranks the US Presidential Candidates... Ron Paul evidently doesn't rank. That might be because Ron Paul is truly a representative of the AMERICAN people.


08-01-07 - Romney cites Hezbollah as a model


08-01-07 - Syria's Assad repeats call for return of Golan Heights from Israel


08-01-07 - JCRC retracts backing for Feinstein-Lugar resolution The JCRC alert was unusual because mainstream pro-Israel groups have shied away from pressing the Bush administration to increase its peace-brokering profile; such appeals have come mostly from dovish groups like Americans for Peace Now.


08-01-07 - DOJ defends statute used in AIPAC case The Justice Department defended prosecutions under a statute it is using for the first time against two former AIPAC staffers.



08-01-07 - Saudis 'ready to sit' with Israel


08-01-07 - Netanyahu: Golan ours forever Keep dreaming. Sooner or later, the law will catch up with Israel. Won't be pretty.


08-01-07 - Congressional anti-Semitism task force launched The task force, the initiative of Human Rights Caucus co-chairman Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), will be chaired by U.S. Reps. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Ron Klein (D-Fla.).
Keep in mind that criticism of Israel is now tantamount to 'anti-Semitism'.


08-01-07 - Zoughbi Zoughbi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict The challenge for Christians is the same as the challenge for Muslims; it is the Israeli occupation. We are under occupation and are not allowed to go to Jerusalem to practice freedom of worship. Where the basic holy sites in Jerusalem and in the north, we are not allowed to go. We need a permit each time but many times no one will get a permit. So there is a denial of freedom by the Israeli occupation.


08-01-07 - Armenians angry at ADL The ADL contends that it doesn't take positions on historical issues. Other Jewish groups, including B'nai B'rith, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Jewish Committee have taken no position on the resolution.


08-01-07 - Pastors urge Bush not to press Israel "We are opposed to America pressuring Israel to give up more land to anyone for any reason," said the letter sent last week by 51 church officials aligned with Christians United for Israel. "Land-for-peace is a failed policy of the past that has produced nothing but more war." A note on these "Christians".


08-01-07 - 51% of Syrians in favour of peace with Israel in exchange for Golan withdrawal


08-01-07 - Lebanese troops kill 4 militants Lebanese troops have battled al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, killing at least four.


08-01-07 - Open letter: Suspend Israel from Euro 2008 competition Palestinians are effectively barred from international football by the extreme restrictions placed on them by the Israeli occupation. In September 2005, Palestine was in a good position in its Asian zone group in the qualifying rounds for the 2006 World Cup, but the Israeli authorities stopped five key players traveling outside Gaza and Palestine failed to qualify. In April last year, Israeli missiles destroyed the only stadium in Gaza, where 1.2 million Palestinians live. Israeli authorities admitted that the stadium was specifically targeted; this amounts to a war crime under the International Criminal Court Act.


08-01-07 - Evangelical Split Over Israel Batters Bush For the first time, Christians United for Israel, a major Christian Zionist group with strong ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, lobbied President Bush against the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ? a solution advocated by Israel, the Bush administration and the pro-Israel Washington lobby itself......Because of these beliefs, said Cizik, ?They out-Likud the Likudniks. I think they?re more adamant about the land than Israel itself.?


08-01-07 - Ellison returning to Israel for second trip Ellison will be traveling to Israel with about 20 other Democratic lawmakers on a trip sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation. The foundation in an independent, nonprofit charitable organization affiliated with the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby.


08-01-07 - Young mother remains in coma despite treatment Reem, a 30-year-old Palestinian doctor, spent the last 10 months at Royal Hospital in Bangkok, where she went for treatment. She was paralysed following complications after delivery at Al Qasimi hospital.


08-01-07 - Therapy with Palestinian victims of torture ?I?ve always wanted to go to Palestine,? she says. ?I?m Northern Irish and have always had an interest in Palestine because of the humanitarian and political situation there, as that is reflected in my background.?


08-01-07 - USAID provides scholarships to 800 students in Jericho


08-01-07 - Sheetrit: Limit Sudanese influx "Israel can't take in hundreds of thousands of people," Sheetrit said. "As a Jewish state, Israel should take in a quota of people from Darfur, care for them and help them find jobs -- like we have done for other groups of refugees in the past."

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