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Friday, August 03, 2007
08-02-07 - Islamic Jihad leader killed in clash with Israeli soldiers Israeli soldiers shot and killed an Islamic Jihad leader in the West Bank city of Nablus early Friday, the militant group and the Israeli military said.
08-02-07 - Two dead in Gaza factions clash Hamas says the clashes come after its men tried to detain Islamic Jihad men violating a ban on celebratory gunfire.
08-02-07 - Rice meets with entire Palestinian Cabinet in gesture of support
08-02-07 - Report: Al-Aksa amnesty scrapped Israel reportedly has called off an amnesty offered to Fatah gunmen in the West Bank.
08-02-07 - US in $80m Palestinian aid deal
08-02-07 - Court authorizes work on Efrat fence The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a petition protesting a government land seizure order to enable construction of the security barrier east and southeast of Efrat in Gush Etzion. The order calls for the seizure of 152 dunams from a plot of 272 dunams of fertile agricultural land belonging to the Takatka family, who petitioned against it. Israel has no legal right (under international law) to seize Palestinian land, barrier or not. But it continues to do so, with the backing of the United States (thanks to the Israeli lobby herein).
08-02-07 - Lutherans Support People in Africa, Asia and Middle East The unrest in the occupied Palestinian territories "is of great concern," said Deressa. "Many Palestinians have no jobs, and the economic conditions of people in Gaza and the West Bank are getting worse. The Middle East Council of Churches, an ELCA companion agency, is providing food and health care services to the most vulnerable in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The most affected people are children, women and the elderly," she said.
08-02-07 - IDF to confine soldier who shot innocent Palestinian to his base An Israel Defense Forces soldier who apparently shot a Palestinian civilian without justification near Hebron last week will be released to an "open remand" on his base until Tuesday, according to a Jaffa Military Court ruling issued Thursday. A joke.
08-02-07 - Bush Officials May Face New Subpoenas Having the most senior members of the administration testify under oath about conversations with lobbyists in regard to classified information could shatter what is left from the anti-leak posture the administration has adopted in its early years.
08-02-07 - Palestinian militants botch attack on IDF troops An apparent attempt by Palestinian militants to blow up a house in the Gaza Strip while a Golani Brigade force was in it failed on Wednesday. An explosion occurred in the house after the troops had already left, and nobody was hurt.
08-02-07 - Goliath comes tumbeling down Last night, hundreds of Israeli settlers occupied buildings illegally erected on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Bil?in, despite an order from the Israeli Supreme Court forbidding them to do so. The takeover came amidst rumors relating to the imminent bankruptcy of real estate giant Heftsiba.
08-02-07 - Israeli Troops Raid Palestinian Homes
08-02-07 - Briton suffers with Arabs under Israeli demolition law Six months pregnant and exhausted, British mother Jessica Barhum is still shocked that Israeli authorities ordered her, her husband and their baby out of bed at daybreak and pulverised their home.
08-02-07 - Abbas tells Rice he working to improve security
08-02-07 - Settlers attack UN workers in Hebron Hills Two residents of an illegal settlement outpost near Hebron attacked United Nations workers yesterday. The UN personnel were driving in the South Hebron Hills area when one of the settlers jumped on the car and smashed the windshield, sending shards of glass into the driver's eye. Psychos.
08-02-07 - U.S., Israel call for talks on Palestinian state, but not with Hamas
08-02-07 - The Rafah border crossing must be opened; Israeli, Palestinian and European human rights organizations today issued a joint declaration calling on Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the European Union, and Egypt to immediately open Gaza?s borders to passenger traffic, irrespective of their political agenda concerning Hamas.
08-02-07 - Rice says Israel ready to talk peace fundamentals US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a regional tour on Thursday, telling Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas that Israel was ready to discuss "fundamental issues" to advance stalled Middle East peace efforts.
08-02-07 - Israel 'pushing Gaza into starvation' Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip is pushing Palestinians towards starvation, a close aide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday.
08-02-07 - Arab MKs demand official inquiry into desecrated graves case
08-02-07 - 'Bush hasn't the time to reach accord' The Bush Administration would be wrong to believe that it can secure a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in the final year or so it has left in office, Martin Indyk, ambassador to Israel under President Clinton, warned on Thursday.
08-02-07 - Suspects in killing of 10-year-old Palestinian girl not to be tried
08-02-07 - Soldiers kidnapped 170 residents in twelve days
08-02-07 - Palestinian girls are dressed up during a mass wedding party for grooms organized by the Islamic Association in the town of Beit Lahiya
08-02-07 - Clowns lighten West Bank life Zmorrod said he wanted to go "behind the wall," a reference to the separation barrier built by Israel in the West Bank, to promote circus skills among young Palestinians as a way of building self-esteem, confidence and community involvement.
08-02-07 - Bush slaps assets ban on 'Lebanon's enemies' American President George W Bush has ordered a freeze on the US assets of anyone Washington accuses of undermining the Lebanese Government. Including Israel? Right.
08-02-07 - Romney backs away from Hezbollah citation Mitt Romney's campaign said Hezbollah was not a proper model for his vision of U.S. diplomacy, addressing a controversy arising from his earlier remarks.
08-02-07 - Edwards, Obama question Saudi arms sale Obama, like Edwards a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Israel's security was "paramount" in considering such a sale
08-02-07 - Shopkeepers to join W. Bank struggle
08-02-07 - Brown and Israel Having agreed soon after he became prime minister to become a patron of the Jewish National Fund (UK), it is already startlingly clear where his sympathies lie
08-02-07 - A Palestinian girl attends a mass wedding ceremony for 45 couples
08-02-07 - Israeli rights groupreadying to open D.C. office B'Tselem, also known as the Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, wants to hire two representatives for an office slated to open by January, according to executive director Jessica Montell. A most brave and worthy group.
08-02-07 - Jewish, Arab rappers in Israel find common ground
08-02-07 - West Bank youngsters visit bomb victims Palestinian group leader Rev Fadi Diab said most of the teenagers have never travelled outside the West Bank before. "We are excited by this opportunity to make new friends in Ireland."
08-02-07 - A new history lesson in Israel The most recent and complete treatment of this issue is a book by the Israeli historian and University of Haifa lecturer Ilan Pappe, entitled, appropriately, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." Using mostly Israeli official sources, he methodically recounts the entire process that started in the minds of pre-state Zionist leaders who knew they would have to forcibly expel the Palestinians to create a Jewish state in Palestine - given that well over 90 percent of the land was Palestinian in the early 20th Century, and by 1948, the Jewish minority in Palestine owned just 5.8 percent of the land. He describes in detail the planning before 1948 - including files on every Arab village and its inhabitants - which would allow the Jewish militias in 1947-48 to start attacking, terrorizing and driving out Palestinians as soon as the British mandate ended.
08-02-07 - Palestinian amputees face life of suffering after being denied entry to Israel
08-02-07 - Report from the Land of Apartheid
08-02-07 - Lebanon cleric bans honor killings Religious condemnation of the practice is rare and the office of Lebanon's top Sunni cleric said he did not recall any such fatwa being issued in the past. Religious leaders in neighboring Jordan have also remained silent on the issue
08-02-07 - Boost for Sri Lanka-Israel ties
08-02-07 - Hamas' decision on high school results widens its split with Fatah Mohammed Abu Shgair, undersecretary of education in the dismissed Hamas government, told the press that the grades would be made public at Thursday noon and will be limited to the Hamas- run Gaza Strip.
08-02-07 - Two troops killed as Lebanese army battles Islamists
08-02-07 - Mid East: One Million Demand Two-state Solution Frustrated with ongoing instability in the region, the recent crisis in
Gaza and lack of progress, the OneVoice Movement today announced that
nearly 500,000 Palestinian and Israeli citizens have united to demand
immediate, ongoing, uninterrupted negotiations until a comprehensive
two-state agreement is achieved.
08-02-07 - Brown tries to prevent deportation U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown has joined the campaign to prevent the deportation of a Green Township mom.
Brown, D-Ohio, introduced a bill late Wednesday on behalf of Maha Dakar, a Palestinian immigrant facing deportation to Jordan in October.
08-02-07 - Review: Palestinian brothers conflict in 'Masked' What's inflammatory here? That Palestinians are people, too?
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