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Friday, August 10, 2007
08-09-07 - Israeli army kills mentally disabled Palestinian near Gaza border Palestinian rescue workers found the body of a man Thursday morning believed killed by the Israeli army overnight near the border fence in the Central Gaza Strip, a medical official said. Mohammed Abu Sha'er, 24, thought to have been mentally disabled, died from a bullet to the head, the official said.
08-09-07 - Seven civilians kidnapped during Israeli army morning invasions in the West Bank
08-09-07 - Hamas and Fatah power deal 'key to Mid-East peace' Fatah and Hamas have to negotiate a new power-sharing arrangement for there to be a Palestinian-Israeli peace, the International Crisis Group independent think-tank said yesterday.
08-09-07 - Beilin: Gov't must reach deal with Hamas before Mideast summit "Hamas have said they are capable of stopping Qassam fire on Israel, and I believe they can," he said. "If they're ready to talk to us, we should talk to them,"
08-09-07 - Some 30 Palestinians stranded in Egypt refuse to return Gaza via About 30 Palestinians stranded in Egypt near the borders with the Gaza Strip refused to return home via Israeli crossing, fearing they would be arrested by the Israeli authorities
08-09-07 - Detainees in an Israeli prison on hunger strike for the tenth day Palestinian detainees in Eshil Israeli detention facility continued their hunger strike for the tenth day after one detainee died of medical neglect at the Nafha central prison in the Negev desert
08-09-07 - UN warns over Gaza economic woe Gaza could become completely dependant on aid within weeks because of economic damage caused by Israeli restrictions on border crossings, the UN has said.
08-09-07 - Arab MK slams 'ethnic cleansing' after demolitions in W. Bank After Israel demolished structures in at least five Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley in the last week, Hadash Chairman Mohammed Barakeh called on Thursday for an end to what he termed the "ethnic cleansing" in the area.
08-09-07 - Israelis strike shut Gaza airport An Israel helicopter fired three missiles at the control tower of the Gaza Strip's defunct airport.
08-09-07 - Shin Bet security service bars Gazan from studying overseas
08-09-07 - New UK visa rules halt Palestinian youth football tour If the youth players do make it, the tour will provide them with a level of training that cannot be found in Palestine, including two days of fitness assessment and development with a specialist from the University of Portsmouth and training with an FA coach, Graham Keeley.
08-09-07 - Israeli officer indicted for shooting Palestinian An Israeli army officer involved in the shooting of a Palestinian civilian in the West Bank was indicted. What's the occasion? Is he Druze?
08-09-07 - Hamas payments called 'computer error'
08-09-07 - Israeli forces abduct Chairman of Deaf Society In the latest attack on organizations for disabled Palestinians, Israeli forces have targeted the chairman of the International Society for the Deaf, Yakub Munir Sa'ed Abu Ramoz.
08-09-07 - The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem demolishes a Palestinian home
08-09-07 - DFLP chief tells Israel he wants to return to West Bank
08-09-07 - New protest at Gaza hospital after Hamas arrests doctor Dozens of staff members at Gaza's main hospital staged a new protest on Thursday after Hamas security forces arrested a senior doctor from the rival Fatah faction.
08-09-07 - Stranded Palestinians return to Gaza About 400 Palestinians, the last of thousands seeking to return home after being stranded in Egypt, crossed back into Gaza, an Egyptian security source says.
08-09-07 - Israel wants to deal with refugee issue up-front Israel wants any agreement of principles to reflect its position, backed by U.S. President George W. Bush, that refugees settle in a future state of Palestine, rather than in Israel. Many Israelis fear that any mass return would threaten the Jewish character of the state carved out in 1948. Supremacism.
08-09-07 - Isolated Gaza a jail for its people
08-09-07 - Hamas sets up naval defence in Gaza with no ships
08-09-07 - Hamdi Aman, Jerusalem: "Her injuries are forever, for the rest of her life" "I want Israel to take responsibility for her, give her the care she needs. I never asked them for anything, not for my dead wife, my mother, my eldest son. But please, just treat Maria. Give her the best treatment."
08-09-07 - Israel Buries Nuclear Wastes in West Bank, SIS's Report Says In an official report issued by PNA State Information Service, it revealed that Israel has buried tons of solid waste of Israeli cities and settlements including the hazardous waste of nuclear reactor inside the West Bank.
08-09-07 - Russian Fleet Worries Israel
08-09-07 - Middle East void in chemical weapons pact: Expert Egypt, Israel and Syria have stayed away from the Chemical Weapons Convention, while Iraq and Lebanon have signalled they will join soon, Rogelio Pfirter, director-general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said.
08-09-07 - Overstretched US cuts aid to Israel Washington had promised Israel a substantial increase in its financial support to bolster it against Iran.
But US officials decided to amend their pledge because of escalating costs, including the need to spend $750 million (£375 million) to fly thousands of armoured troop carriers to Iraq to protect troops against Iranian-made roadside bombs
Might I remind you that Israel's economy is 'booming'. Ours is not. And nowhere in the Constitution does it say that we owe Israel anything. OUR troops MUST come first.
08-09-07 - Francis Boyle: Destroying Democracy in Palestine When the Palestinians democratically elected a government that the Neo-Conservatives in the Bush Jr. administration and their Kadima/Likudnik confederates in Israel did not prefer, they jointly did everything humanly possible to destroy it.
08-09-07 - Photostory: The Apartheid Wall
08-09-07 - Detainees in Azion detention facility facing solitary and abuse
08-09-07 - 'Limited Peace' For Israel,'Limited War' Vs. Iran ** Destroying the Iranian nuclear infrastructure could be a limited operation. The United States Navy and Air Force, which are not heavily engaged in the Iraq War Again, it's assumed that America is going to (again) do Israel's dirty work. Note the source.
08-09-07 - Olmert: All quiet on Syrian front "Israel has no intention of attacking Syria, and neither does Syria intend to attack Israel."
08-09-07 - University heads protest boycott Nearly 300 university presidents signed on to a full-page advertisement in Wednesday's New York Times protesting the academic boycott of Israel.
08-09-07 - Ukrainian Jews petition for Pollard release Ukrainian Jews are calling on the United States to pardon Jonathan Pollard.
08-09-07 - Army is expanding Huwwara detention facility near Nablus
08-09-07 - Netanyahu's Tuesday evening challenge: setting the agenda Next Tuesday night, when the polls close for the Likud Party primaries, much of the Israeli media can be expected to launch a full court press to neutralize Binyamin Netanyahu in an effort to block him from using the momentum of the event to jump start efforts to break up the Olmert Government before it commits the Jewish State to more disastrous moves regarding Arab-Israeli relations.
08-09-07 - Lebanese army claims breakthrough in siege camp Lebanese troops made a new breakthrough on Thursday in the final part of a refugee camp in the north of the country where Islamist militants remain holed up, an officer said
08-09-07 - European hypocrisy
08-09-07 - Churchill Fears Over Israel War
08-09-07 - US Dems won't endanger Israel with Iraq policy The Democratic leadership in the US House of Representatives has promised to take into consideration Israel's concerns when formulating its official policy on America's involvement in Iraq......Hoyer will lead a delegation of 20 Democratic congressmen to Israel next week in order to gain a better understanding of the regional threats Israel is facing. A Republican delegation is in Israel this week for the same reason. America's interests and security should come first. It does not.
08-09-07 - Chandler man fears for family stuck in turbulent Gaza Strip His wife, Sohair, his daughters Somaya, 19, Asma, 18, Israa, 16, and his sons Sohaib, 14, and Mosab, 11, still cannot leave Gaza because the United States government banned contact with Hamas......"My children are being punished for being born to people who were born in Gaza,"
08-09-07 - Israel's missile defence to be operational in 18 months
08-09-07 - US anti-terror official talks Iran sanctions in Israel Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met the US Treasury's top anti-terrorism official Stuart Levey on Thursday for talks on economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, an Israeli spokesman said. ...."Israel supports a hardening of sanctions already imposed" on the Islamic republic, Regev said. "Diplomacy must be firm and speak with one voice in order to succeed. Thus does America get more orders from Israel.
08-09-07 - Holy Land trial turns to Israeli agent The federal judge presiding over the Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial ordered his courtroom cleared of spectators Thursday as a secret agent for the Israeli Defense Forces took the stand. The agent, referred to only by the pseudonym Major Lior, testified through a translator......Even defense attorneys did not know the man's true identity. The Israeli government allowed him to testify in an American courtroom only if his name and face were not made public......Defense frustration seemed to spill over into the cross-examination of the Israeli agent. Attorney Linda Moreno grilled him and his translator about whether his team got any kind of court order, or warrant, before seizing the documents. "You're not contending the Fourth Amendment applies outside the U.S., are you?" Judge Fish asked her at one point.
Israel's trials become US trials, to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars.
08-09-07 - Why The Dems Are Not Much Better Than the GOP on Foreign Policy And that especially applies to the Middle East where neocon orthodoxy governs our Israel-Palestinian policy as well as our policies on Iran and Iraq. (Along these lines, read this and this about Steny Hoyer's current visit to the Middle East).
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