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Friday, August 17, 2007
08-16-07 - Palestinian wells, homes destroyed in West Bank Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, in the northeastern part of the West Bank, had their worst fears confirmed over the past week when Israeli forces demolished homes and wells in small villages in the area, following through on previously issued orders.
08-16-07 - In Gaza: from infighting to poverty, people are the victims
08-16-07 - Israeli military court extends remand of a Fateh legislator
08-16-07 - Hebron: The Game of "Stealing Home" Many people have to leave their homes for several years at a time for business
or family reasons. Few people fear that, in the interim, squatters will break
into their homes and eventually produce papers giving them ownership that a
friendly court will uphold. What a nightmare! Yet this happens
all-too-frequently in Hebron, its surrounding towns and throughout the Israel-
occupied territories. Here is one such case.
08-16-07 - Hebron: UPDATE: Hebron Update: 23-31 July 2007
08-16-07 - Hebron reflection:"Evictions and colsures: Good news and bad news" For Palestinians living under occupation, both "good news" and "bad news" have
signaled land confiscation, closures, house demolition, and restriction of
movement. For Palestinians no news at all is often better than either good news
or bad news.
08-16-07 - Fayad issues conditions for Palestinian peace deal Hamas has to renounce "any and all" claims to govern Gaza before there can be any reconciliation between the Palestinian factions, Salam Fayad, the Prime Minister of the two-month-old emergency Palestinian administration in Ramallah, said yesterday.
08-16-07 - Attorney general arrested in Gaza Hamas forces have briefly detained the Palestinian attorney general in the Gaza Strip, officials say.
08-16-07 - Army bulldoze trees in a village near Bethlehem Witnesses said that the attacked forest consists of 2200 trees and belongs to Crimasan catholic convent and winery. the Israeli army plans to bullied a section of the illegal wall there.
08-16-07 - Israeli soldiers take two children from their father in West Bank Eyewitnesses in the village of Beit Oula, south of Hebron in southern West Bank said that Israeli military vehicles stormed into a house in the village, taking two children from their Palestinian father to be given to their Jewish Israeli mother.
08-16-07 - How has the Hamas government dealt with the Executive Force attacks on Palestinian Journalists?
08-16-07 - Balad MK blames Barak for death of Palestinian at roadblock Physicians for Human Rights filed a criminal complaint on Wednesday with the Tel Aviv police against the Civil Administration's health coordinator, Dalia Basa, accusing her of negligent homicide. This is the first such complaint, though numerous Palestinians have died due to roadblock delays.
08-16-07 - US finalizes deal on unprecedented military aid to Israel
08-16-07 - Palestinian prime minister says no backchannel talks with Israel under way The Palestinian prime minister denied on Thursday that the Palestinians and Israel are holding backchannel peace talks ? but said the two sides had begun discussing core issues that have held up an accord.
08-16-07 - Palestinian PM says early elections "not feasible"
08-16-07 - Rights group complains that Israeli officer blocked ambulance A rights group on Thursday filed a complaint against an Israeli officer for allegedly not allowing an ambulance to enter from the West Bank with a critically injured Palestinian who later died.
08-16-07 - Palestinians fire rockets into Israel from Gaza
08-16-07 - Armed militias obstacle to Palestinian state: Fayyad
08-16-07 - Israel to provide 'economic horizon' for Palestinians Israel will promote an economic plan to complement the agreement of principles with Palestine ahead of a US-proposed international peace conference later this year, local media reported Thursday. Yeh right.
08-16-07 - MIDEAST: Settlers Anchoring In Israeli forces began Wednesday to bulldoze hundreds of trees on land owned by a Catholic convent near the city of Beit Jala near Bethlehem. This section of forest is being razed, according to Israeli plans, to complete a section of the separation wall, which continues to carve the West Bank into pieces.
08-16-07 - Interview with the leader of the Hamas-formed Executive Force
08-16-07 - Which U.S. Political Party Is Better For Israel? For the past several years, whenever anyone asked me which American political party was best for Israel, my answer was: both. Even AIPAC, in the weeks before the 2006 Congressional election, stated that both parties are equally good for Israel. This of course has been and will continue to be ignored by the Republican Party, which attempts to use Israel as a wedge issue in the Jewish community. Note the source.
08-16-07 - Report: Israel dumping bus guards Ma'ariv reported Thursday that because of the radical reduction in Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel over the past two years, the government plans to disband its public-transportation guard unit by Sept. 1.
08-16-07 - A year after the Second Lebanon War Recent reports have revealed that one of the main justifications for Hizbullah's continuing resistance -- that Israel failed to withdraw fully from Lebanese territory in 2000 -- is now supported by the UN. Last month its cartographers quietly admitted that Lebanon is right in claiming sovereignty over a small fertile area known as the Shebaa Farms, still occupied by Israel. Israel argues that the territory is Syrian and will be returned in future peace talks with Damascus, even though Syria backs Lebanon's position. The UN's admission has been mostly ignored by the international media.
08-16-07 - Backlash Over Book on Policy for Israel "On July 24, Council President Marshall Bouton phoned one of us (Mearsheimer) and informed him that he was canceling the event," and that his decision "was based on the need 'to protect the institution.' He said that he had a serious 'political problem,' because there were individuals who would be angry if he gave us a venue to speak, and that this would have serious negative consequences for the council. 'This one is so hot,' Marshall maintained." All a big conspiracy theory, right Abe? The proof is right there.
08-16-07 - Peace worker says west Bank situation is 'getting worse' Visiting the UK as the guest of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, he said that it is now easier for him to travel from Palestine to London than to travel to Jerusalem. He claimed that injustices are on the increase while many women and children are suffering from trauma. And, he lamented, the West Bank barrier continues to grow.
08-16-07 - Rep. Hodes on trip to Israel with 17 other congressmen The trip is being paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit organization "Non-partisan", AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
08-16-07 - Will the Israel Lobby Issue Go Mainstream? The Lobby has already sprung into action in order to quash this book.
08-16-07 - Evangelical pastor told to leave Israel Interior Ministry officials said the decision was made following suspicions that Cantrell was involved in missionary work. The pastor categorically denied the allegations as baseless. Israel is as bad as the House of Saud. America it ain't. Not even close. How many Arabs or Christians live in them there Israeli settlements in the West Bank, mewonders?
08-16-07 - Anti-boycott leaders talk in Israel British leaders of the campaign to stop the proposed British academic boycott of Israel traveled to Israel
08-16-07 - Lobby book authors suffer backlash The City University of New York, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a Jewish cultural center in Washington and three organizations in Chicago have turned down or canceled events with the authors over concerns with their controversial thesis or the event format. All of this just proves once again the thesis of these men; the power of the Israeli Lobby in America.
08-16-07 - American Jewish Group Takes Indian Muslims To Israel
08-16-07 - AJC Salutes Polish Members of European Parliament for Opposing UN Conference The American Jewish Committee praised the Polish delegation to the European Parliament for declaring today that they will not participate in a UN conference designed to vilify Israel. The conference, organized by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, is scheduled to take place at the European Parliament later this month.
08-16-07 - The Hague plans to host Hariri tribunal
08-16-07 - Jordanian foreign minister refuses ride to Jericho via Israeli car
08-16-07 - Abu Lilah: the Peace Valley project is at risk The Peace-Valley project is at great risk if the Israeli army continues its attacks against Palestinians, Palestinian MP Oyies Abu Lilah, from the Democrative Front of the Liberation of Palestine, has stated. He added that the project is still in the early stages of planning.
08-16-07 - Corrie play sparks debate in Ashland The play's director, Geoffrey Blaisdell, planned to start production this month but said that Alzado changed his mind. "He had been threatened that Rachel Corrie and [all concurrently running] shows would be picketed in an attempt to shut down his theater,
08-16-07 - Islamic advocacy group asks for removal from terror-finance co-conspirator list in U.S.
08-16-07 - UK peer blames Israel for extremism
08-16-07 - Mortgages and the Jewish Question Not coincidentally, the big news in Israel last week was the announcement that the Jewish state?s defense budget had to be slashed by a shocking 10%, suddenly and unexpectedly. The reason: Washington told Jerusalem it was not going to deliver an expected infusion of military aid, because Uncle Sam doesn?t have the money. The world economy may not be troubled by the weakness in America, but there?s one little corner of the world that?s terrified.
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