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News for 08-29-07

2007-08-30T20:48:00.000-04:00

08-29-07 - Palestinian children die in blast Three Palestinian children have been killed after an Israeli tank shell hit northern Gaza, Palestinian doctors say.... Doctors said two boys aged 10 and 12 died of shrapnel wounds. A 12-year-old girl who was critically injured in the blast died also in hospital.

08-29-07 - Who's Killing American Soldiers in Iraq? by Philip Giraldi ** The Post's assertion that Iran is already at war with the U.S. has a familiar ring to it. It has already been used by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and was originally coined by the Israel lobby

08-29-07 - Israeli forces wound 20 Palestinians in West Bank operation Israeli forces wounded 20 Palestinians during a ground operation in northern West Bank town of Qalqilya on Wednesday, Palestinian medical sources said.

08-29-07 - Israel did not keep one promise, says Fayyad Israel did not carry out even one move it committed to, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad charged on Wednesday, a day after the meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem.

08-29-07 - Israeli forces kidnap 6 Palestinians from Abu Da'ef village in Jenin

08-29-07 - Abbas warns US peace meet could fail Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned on Wednesday that a US-sponsored Middle East peace conference to be held later this year could fail unless Israel agrees on a framework of core issues.

08-29-07 - Has Bush Boxed Himself In? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** Who is pushing for attacks on Iran? Israel and its lobby. Vice President Cheney. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who has been calling for air strikes on al-Quds camps for months. And a War Party facing lasting disgrace for having lied the country into an unnecessary war, and for having assured the American people it would be a "cakewalk."

08-29-07 - Seizing Israelis only way to free jailed Palestinians - Hamas

08-29-07 - Army demolishes tow homes in Qalqilia city The Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia and demolished two homes there on Wednesday morning.

08-29-07 - Hamas parliament leader blames Fatah lawmakers on PLC slowdown Ahmed Bahar, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), on Wednesday accused lawmakers from President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement of breaking down the parliament.

08-29-07 - Palestinian worker chased to death by Israeli policemen Palestinian medical sources reported on Tuesday that a Palestinian worker died after he was chased by Israeli policemen, in Israel. The worker, Fahim Mustafa Hamdan, 45, died after attempting to hide in a yard totally exposed to the extreme summer heat.

08-29-07 - aL-Aqsa Brigades: three members wounded by Hamas?s executive force

08-29-07 - U.S. coordinator plans five new Palestinian battalions in W. Bank A new plan by the U.S. security coordinator in the territories, General Keith Dayton, calls for the deployment of five new Palestinian battalions throughout the West Bank. The plan, whose aim is to bolster Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, requires the approval of Israel if arms and equipment are to be transferred for the new force, political sources in Jerusalem said yesterday.

08-29-07 - Russia sends aid to Palestinians

08-29-07 - Poll: 71% of Israelis want U.S. to strike Iran if talks fail **

08-29-07 - Israeli hospital tries to protect Palestinian girl An Israeli rehabilitation centre is defying a government order to transfer a Palestinian girl paralyzed in an Israeli attack on militants to a hospital in the occupied West Bank.

08-29-07 - Israeli, Palestinian teens map out peace plan Israeli and Palestinian teenagers, meeting in Finland, put their names Wednesday to their own blueprint for Middle East peace, one that envisions two separate states and the eradication of terrorism.

08-29-07 - Israeli Says Hamas Is Training Hundreds Abroad Hamas has sent hundreds of its fighters abroad for military training, most of them to Iran, the Israeli Army?s deputy chief of staff says Making the case for war.

08-29-07 - Israeli army attacks several areas of the West Bank, kidnapping 4 from Nablus and 3 from Hebron

08-29-07 - The deposed Palestinian government continues to make efforts to stop the sanctions imposed on Gaza The Palestinian deposed cabinet issued a statement on Wednesday that the cabinet is still doing efforts by contacting Arab and international countries in order to left the sanctions imposed on the Gaza strip.

08-29-07 - Investigate the Neocons The so-called experts, in case you haven?t noticed, are invariably little more than Likud fellow travelers and agents of AIPAC. In this respect, it has been a revolving door at the White House, under both Clinton and Bush, and every office holder on Capitol Hill as well as every Washington reporter knows it. Why on God?s good earth would Zionist zealots like Elliott Abrams and David Wurmser be placed in charge of U.S. policy vis-a-vis Israel and the Arabs? It is insane.

08-29-07 - J'lem worried by Iranian owned anti-ship missile The recent delivery of an advanced Russian-made anti-ship missile to Iran has defense officials concerned it will be transferred to Syria and Hizbullah and used against the Israel Navy in a future conflict.

08-29-07 - Israel Warned US Not to Invade Iraq after 9/11 Wilkerson notes that the main point of their communications was not that the United States should immediately attack Iran, but that ?it should not be distracted by Iraq and Saddam Hussein? from a focus on the threat from Iran.

08-29-07 - Singling out the "Israel Lobby" for discussion

08-29-07 - Hezbollah rejects war criticism The Lebanese government and Hezbollah have condemned a watchdog report which criticises Hezbollah's conduct in the conflict against Israel last year.

08-29-07 - Israeli dies of Lebanon war wounds Mohammed "Don" Salum, an Israeli Arab who was critically wounded in a Hezbollah rocket barrage that hit Haifa on August 6, 2006, succumbed Wednesday in hospital. He was 40.

08-29-07 - Hezbollah planning to sue Israel Hezbollah is planning a host of lawsuits against Israel over the damages caused during last summer's Lebanon war.

08-29-07 - Israel, Hamas came close to Shalit deal Israel and Hamas came close to clinching a deal in May for the release of Gilad Shalit from his Gazan captivity

08-29-07 - All quiet on the Golan Israel signaled a drop-off in military tensions with Syria over the Golan Heights

08-29-07 - Israel registers impressive growth despite war Then they don't need our aid.

08-29-07 - Extra security for NYC Arabic school

08-29-07 - Obama Wants Divestment Issue For His Own Capitol Hill insiders say Obama genuinely believes in the necessity of curbing Iran?s nuclear ambitions ? but also that his championing of the Iran divestment measure is part of a concerted effort to reassure Jewish voters that began with his March speech to a Chicago gathering of AIPAC.

08-29-07 - Lebanese army receives 130 US Humvees

08-29-07 - Israeli officer jailed for straying into WBank town The Israeli army on Wednesday punished an officer who mistakenly entered a Palestinian town, where Palestinian security men rescued him from angry residents who torched his vehicle.

08-29-07 - No proof Israeli soldiers in Lebanon are alive: U.N. U.N. member nations should insist that Lebanon's Hezbollah group produce evidence that the two Israeli soldiers it abducted a year ago are still alive, a senior U.N. envoy said on Wednesday.

08-29-07 - European officials talking to Hamas European Union security officials reportedly have been holding secret talks with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

News for 08-28-07

2007-08-29T00:28:00.001-04:00

08-28-07 - Israeli army kills Palestinian in northern Gaza The army prevented ambulance workers from getting close to the fence to evacuate the body of Ra'ed al-Riffati, 34, who was lying near the beach, a few meters away from the border, Dr. Mu'awia Hassanin with the ambulance said.

08-28-07 - Lieberman to Iran: Change regime Israel's strategic affairs minister urged Iranians to choose a more moderate government.

08-28-07 - Hamas closes four private clinics in Gaza

08-28-07 - Executive Force issues a statement on Khan Younis Tuesday clashes The Hamas-formed Executive Force, under the authority of the Ministry of Interior in Gaza, issued a press release regarding the internal clashes that took place on Tuesday evening between members of the force and members of Zo?rob family, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

08-28-07 - Israeli settler runs over a Palestinian woman in Hebron Security Sources reported that an Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian woman in the old city of Hebron in the early hours of Monday morning.

08-28-07 - Jordan dispatches medical aid to Palestinian hospitals The aid package, including medical drugs and equipment worth 250,000 Jordan Dinar (about 353,000 U.S. dollars), will be delivered to Al-Maqased Hospital in Jerusalem and to hospitals in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

08-28-07 - High court allows Modi'in Ilit residents to remain in Heftsiba apartments Tuesday's High Court ruling, however, stated that even though the temporary injunction against moving into the new buildings built on Palestinian-owned land remained in force, residents would not be evacuated for now.

08-28-07 - West Bank: Food parcels for Hebron families

08-28-07 - Bush lists 'vital' peace priorities 'Reforming' the entire Middle East (to suit Israel's interests) seems to be our interests.

08-28-07 - Church of Nativity exiles may be granted reprieve

08-28-07 - U.S. delays aid screening plan A Bush administration plan to toughen screening for U.S. aid recipients was delayed while the government considered complaints by NGOs.

08-28-07 - Rice nudges Abbas, Olmert on final status Condoleezza Rice encouraged the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss final-status issues at their meeting this week.

08-28-07 - Israeli anger over holy site work Muslim authorities at al-Aqsa mosque, also venerated by Jews as the Temple Mount, are digging a 150-metre trench for water pipes and electricity cables.

08-28-07 - Olmert and Abbas hold talks on 'core issues' However, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said the two leaders did not discuss the issues in detail

08-28-07 - Hebron: Hebron Update: 10-17 August 2007

08-28-07 - Two Palestinians kidnapped near Bethlehem

08-28-07 - Expansion of surveillance powers has groups fearing U.S. scrutiny The recent congressional expansion of surveillance powers, aimed ostensibly at terrorists abroad, has Jewish groups at home worried that their dealings with Israel could invite U.S. government scrutiny......The expansion of government powers comes as some Jewish groups already are upset at the FBI's surveillance of AIPAC and the ongoing prosecution of two former employees of the pro-Israel lobby......While ostensibly supporting the legislation, it is significant that the ADL, in the first sentence of the release, called for the legislation to be "carefully crafted." Really now.

08-28-07 - Two Israelis shocked, a third wounded as a Palestinian shell lands on Sderot

08-28-07 - Palestinian govt closes scores of charities In an interview with several Palestinian newspapers published on Tuesday, prime minister Salam Fayyad said 103 associations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip had been ordered to close.

08-28-07 - Palestinians bomb Hamas targets in Gaza Palestinian gunmen set off two bombs in Gaza City on Tuesday at separate locations belonging to forces of the Islamist group Hamas, causing damage but no casualties, local security officials said.

08-28-07 - Hamas official denies sending initiative to Abbas An Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) leader in Gaza on Tuesday denied reports that he had submitted his vision of ending Gaza crisis to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of rival Fatah.

08-28-07 - Arab states league decries international inaction against Israeli practices The league of Arab states, decried yesterday the international community?s inaction towards the Israeli practices against the Palestinian people, calling for all concerned bodies worldwide to take a firm stance in this respect.

08-28-07 - Palestinians stranded at Al Oja border terminal call for swift resolution to their plight The Hamas movement has condemned the treatment of those Palestinians stranded at the Beit Hanoun and Al Oja border Crossings, blaming both the Fatah-led government and the Israeli administration for their suffering.

08-28-07 - Journalists rally disperses after Hamas media workers slip into

08-28-07 - Hamas spokesperson criticizes Fayad for sealing off charitable societies

08-28-07 - Israeli army injures man with learning difficulties in the northern Gaza strip

08-28-07 - Answering emails The specific Palestinians I write about are the civilian property owners who fled with a couple days worth of cloths to briefly escape, they thought, an unsafe war zone, but found that the fighting went longer than a few days and when it was over and they attempted to return to their property, it had been taken.

08-28-07 - Travel: Vatican and Israel sign deal to bring pilgrims to Holy Land She added that Israel was also interested in bringing secular Italians to the country, and has "created ad and PR (Public Relations) campaigns to encourage non-religious Italians to visit Israel". Always about the Hasbara.

08-28-07 - Why the US and Israel Should Lose Middle East Wars ** Let's say it bluntly. War with Iran is inevitable before January 2009 unless Bush and Cheney are both impeached first. New Israeli-U.S. hostilities in Lebanon are also likely. Either warfare or covert actions conducted by the U.S. and/or Israel to bring about regime change in Syria are also probable. Former CIA.

08-28-07 - Lebanese gunships raid Islamists in siege camp Lebanese army helicopters on Tuesday attacked positions held by Islamist militants entrenched in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, an AFP correspondent said.

08-28-07 - Second chance rowing in the international events A battle between France and Palestine went on behind them. Mark Gerban of Palestine has been plugging away internationally for a couple of years and is being helped by a German coach in Hamburg. He is the sole Palestinian rower racing at the international level. Gerban tried but couldn?t catch Prosvirnin

08-28-07 - Israeli mercenary arrested An Israeli mercenary was arrested in Russia at the request of Colombian authorities.

08-28-07 - Sarkozy reaffirms pro-Israel stance "I have the reputation of being a friend of Israel, and it's true. I will never compromise on Israel's security," the French president said Monday in his first foreign-policy speech since taking office in May.

08-28-07 - Egypt rejects Israeli charge of inaction on Gaza arms smuggling Egypt criticized Tuesday comments by Israel's internal security minister, who alleged that Cairo was doing nothing to stop arms smuggling to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

08-28-07 - Parents of detainees imprisoned by Israel protest in front to the Tulkarem office of the Red Cross

08-28-07 - Too early for pandering The good news is that it's too early for the various US presidential campaigns to have begun the predictable, and by now ritualistic, arguments about who is "better" on Israel. That is probably because none of the major candidates has said or posted very much about Israel that is not routine fare, designed not to offend anyone.

08-28-07 - Pastor and Jewish Activist to Debate on BBC Inspired by an IsraelNationalRadio program, some 30 Christians protested at a Florida church against its pastor's national call for a Palestinian state in the Land of Israel.

08-28-07 - Trip to Israel leaves impression on Hare Hare told about a nine-day trip that 18 members of Congress took as guests of the American Israeli Education Foundation

08-28-07 - U.N. conference has groups worrying about Durban sequel Groups already differ on how seriously to take next week's conference. U.N. Watch, an American Jewish Committee-affiliated watchdog group, and the Wiesenthal Center had delegates on hand for the Geneva meetings, while the Anti-Defamation League chose not to attend......"Congress holds the purse strings," Bayefsky said. "Congress decides whether or not its foreign operations budget is used for the funding of U.N. meetings, and which U.N. meetings. We can't do anything in Geneva."

08-28-07 - Emory Envoys 'Journey' to Holy Land

News for 08-27-07

2007-08-28T17:49:00.000-04:00

08-27-07 - Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian farmer in Gaza Witnesses said the farmer whose identity was still unknown was shot as he was heading as usual to his farm east of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, adding that his farm is near the borders with Israel.

08-27-07 - P.A. police protect errant Israeli officer Palestinian Authority policemen protected an Israeli army officer who wandered into a West Bank city by accident.

08-27-07 - Haniyya welcomes the statements of the French President The Prime Minister of the dissolved government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, from the Hamas party, welcomes on Monday the statements of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who stated that he is willing to hold talks with Hamas, the Maan news agency reported.

08-27-07 - Journalists in Bethlehem protest against attacks targeting reporters in Gaza Dozens of reporters and representatives of media outlets in the West Bank city of Bethlehem protesting on Monday in front of the Church of Nativity against attacks carried by the Executive Force members against protesters in the Gaza Strip.

08-27-07 - EU Parliament to host Palestinians' rights meeting A UN panel meeting on the rights of Palestinians will take place at the premises of the European Parliament later this week, despite protests by Israel and some European Union parliamentarians, who claim the group organizing it has an anti-Israeli record, officials said Monday.

08-27-07 - Israel minister accuses Egypt of letting arms into Gaza

08-27-07 - The deposed Hamas government installs its own police forces

08-27-07 - Occupation bad for environment Toxic sewage from plants and sewage systems pouring into Palestinian agricultural and pasture areas are a routine matter. Local authorities abandon and neglect the handling of their pollutants as long as the result surfaces a few kilometers away, outside their municipal area. On the other end, Palestinian residents are left to deal with the pollution and filth.

08-27-07 - Israeli troops reinforce presence in northern Gaza Israeli army troops reinforced Sunday their presence in northern and eastern Gaza Strip by moving numerous tanks and armored vehicles into army posts in the areas, Palestinian media sources reported.

08-27-07 - Palestinians urge Israel to discuss final status Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cautioned on Monday that much had yet to be decided about holding a conference the United States hopes may relaunch Middle East peace talks in the coming months.

08-27-07 - Hamas to enforce media law amid crackdown Hamas said on Monday it planned to enforce a 12-year-old Palestinian press law designed to silence dissident journalists, amid a crackdown that has raised fierce protests from the local media.

08-27-07 - Al Mezan condemns Israel's denial of ID for 100,000 Palestinians Without an ID card, Palestinians' movement between Gazaand the West Bank, or leaving either, is impossible. The origins of the problem go back to the 1948 war and the expulsion of Palestinian refugees.

08-27-07 - Hamas chief says Mideast conference doomed to fail

08-27-07 - Resident dies of wounds sustained in Israel invasion to Khan Younis two weeks ago The resident was identified as Mohammad Asfour, 25. He suffered serious wounds as fragments of one of the missiles fired by the army directly hit him in several parts of his body.

08-27-07 - THE BEDOUIN OF ISRAEL BBC Documentary this week....For about two years now, the Israeli government has been carrying out an unwritten policy of wiping from the face of the earth entire villages of Bedouins in the Negev.

08-27-07 - Turkey: 'Israel must get US Jews to back down' While senior Israeli government officials said Sunday that Israel was trying to explain to Turkey that it did not control the American Jewish organizations, Tan did not accept that argument. "On some issues there is no such thing as 'Israel cannot deliver?'" he said, adding that this was one of those issues.

08-27-07 - Mediators try to evacuate wounded from Lebanon siege camp

08-27-07 - Meet Giuliani?s Advisors: AIPAC?s Dream Team

08-27-07 - Zealous for Zion The image of thousands of conservative Christians from the heartland waving the flags of a foreign nation would have astounded anyone 50 years ago?except maybe George Orwell Just a note, looks like the American Conservative made it into the Google News index (finally). Or perhaps it's always been there and I never noticed...

08-27-07 - Israeli law experts challenge U.S. law "For more than fifty years, Israel has faced mortal threats to its national survival and countless acts of terrorism against its civilian population, with devastating losses of life," the brief argues. "Yet even as terrorist attacks have intensified, Israel has strengthened its commitment to unimpeded judicial review of detention." Horseshit. Ask the thousands of Palestinians who have been or are now in administrative detention (no due process involved whatsoever).

08-27-07 - Barak: Hezbollah arsenal bigger than ever Hezbollah's arsenal is bigger than it was before the Lebanon war, Israel's defense minister said.

08-27-07 - DePaul Violates Finkelstein?s Contract and Further Undermines Academic Freedom at the University On Friday, however, both Professor Finkelstein and many disappointed students were informed by the administration that his classes have been cancelled, breaking Finkelstein?s contract and further undermining academic freedom at DePaul by refusing to let the prominent professor teach during his final year.

News for 08-26-07

2007-08-27T17:55:00.000-04:00

08-26-07 - Palestinian baby dies after crossing Gaza An ill one-year-old Palestinian baby died on Sunday after crossing into Israel from the Gaza Strip to receive treatment for a heart condition, Palestinian medics and the Israeli army said. Ibrahim Abu Nahel died after waiting for hours to enter Israel at the Erez border crossing with Gaza, Muawiya Abu Hassanin, the director of the Palestinian ambulance service, told AFP.

08-26-07 - Hebron Update, 1-9 August, 2007 A CPT delegation arrived in Hebron. Harris and Lynes took them up Worshippers'
Way ("Haretij Jaber") and then to the "occupied house." They then went to Tel
Rumeida via Shuhada Street. An Israeli youth threatened to throw stones at them
near Abraham's Well. As the group descended towards Duboyya Street, Israeli
women spat at them. Israelis then attacked a Palestinian mother and child.
Israeli soldiers restored calm.

08-26-07 - Bethlehem mayor angers Jews BETHLEHEM Mayor Victor Batarseh yesterday attacked Israel and angered members of Australia's Jewish community within hours of arriving in Sydney - just as Australian immigration officials in the Middle East warned would occur if he was granted a visa.

08-26-07 - Dark side of Jewish dream historians say that much of the JNF's almost 3000-square kilometres of real estate was not legitimately purchased from its legal owners. At the birth of the state the JNF had only purchased less than 1000 sq kms of land from willing sellers, but Prime Minister David Ben Gurion then hurriedly and illegally sold it another 2000 sq kms which had been seized from native Arab owners displaced by the fighting or by military orders. Ben Gurion's aim was to block any possible implementation of a recent United Nations resolution calling on Israel to allow the displaced Arabs to return to their homes and property in the new Jewish state.
Ethnic cleansing based on supremacism.

08-26-07 - Peace Now: W. Bank roads being paved to tune of NIS 315 million At least six roads or parts of roads are currently being paved in the West Bank for the benefit of settlers, at a cost of at least NIS 315 million, according to a new report by Peace Now.

08-26-07 - Gazans Allowed Out to Resume Lives, Studies Abroad

08-26-07 - Ban on truckloads of paper set to hit Gaza schools "Some 200,000 children will go into our classrooms on 1 September, and won't have the books they need," John Ging, the Gaza director of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, told IRIN.

08-26-07 - Palestinian factions shell Israeli targets around Gaza The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, announced it launched two home-made rockets into southern Israel Sunday morning.

08-26-07 - Face-to-face with top Hamas leader in secret location "Hamas changed a lot and great efforts have been made to conform with the realistic positions of Palestinians and Arabs. When Hamas says with other Palestinians forces that we demand for a Palestinian country as the border was back in 1967. Isn't this a development change?" he said.

08-26-07 - Delays at checkpoints challenged The report showed that 73% of Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances were denied entry into east Jerusalem in 2007. The report also showed that in the majority of cases, ambulances which were allowed entry had still been delayed at checkpoints from anywhere between one to six hours.

08-26-07 - Donald Macintyre: The decision to prevent the Palestinian Under-19 team from playing in Britain is a blow While the letter sent to the players did not say so, British officials have said - to among others Rod Cox, the enterprising Chester businessman who runs Chester and Palestine Exchange and whose brainchild the visit was - that the grinding poverty of Gaza was one of the reasons for the ban. The calculation, according to one official, was that given the lack of opportunity in Gaza at present, and the fact that the players were themselves unmarried and therefore without wives and children to return to, they might be all the more tempted to remain in Britain when the training camp was over.

08-26-07 - Palestinians infiltrate Israel Israel's security fence is doing little to keep Palestinian militants from attacking the Jewish state, a military official acknowledged Sunday. The 'fence' serves as a device to grab more Palestinian land, not one to provide security. Stealing your neighbor's land and water resources isn't going to afford you much security. Rocket science.

08-26-07 - Rice to meet Abbas in Ramallah 'on September 16'

08-26-07 - At-Tuwani Update: 25 July - 6 August 2007

08-26-07 - Gaza journalists sit-in for press freedom

08-26-07 - Israel PM to meet Palestinian President on Tuesday

08-26-07 - Egyptian man, stranded in Gaza, swims home A young Egyptian man swam along the Mediterranean coast from the Gaza Strip to Egypt overnight after almost two years of living without papers in the Palestinian enclave, police sources said on Sunday.

08-26-07 - Hamas 'calls for large-scale attack' in Israel Hamas is seeking to launch a "large-scale" suicide attack inside Israel to damage chances of a peace deal with moderate Palestinians, a senior security official warns. The second in command of Israel's Shin Beth internal security services was quoted by a senior government official as telling ministers during the weekly cabinet meeting that the Islamist group's exiled leadership in Damascus was calling for such an attack.
Surrrre it will be an attack by 'Hamas'. We believe you...

08-26-07 - "Security" wall along Route 317 dismantled

08-26-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: Respect and disrespect The synagogue is a makeshift construction of wood and tarpaulin, built earlier
this year. It was built without permission. Built on the Palestinian family's
land. Were we and the Palestinians being disrespectful, working so near the
synagogue? Or was it the Jewish settlers who were showing disrespect,
worshipping in a synagogue they had built on stolen land? And, if so,
disrespect to whom?

08-26-07 - Hard-hitting critique or deadly lies? Welcome to the bigtime, Mssrs. Mearsheimer and Walt. You've got the leader of one of the most powerful organizations in America writing books to try and shut you down. You've made it!

08-26-07 - Arab-Americans take a shot at stardom

08-26-07 - HEBRON Sderot: where rockets still fall The Israelis we spoke to were all welcoming and glad to share
their anxieties, and their longing for peace. We were both glad to have made
the journey, but the violence-reduction techniques we use in Hebron would not be
applicable in Sderot. All we could do is to show solidarity with Israeli
victims of violence, and this would not justify a continued presence.

08-26-07 - Real peace comes with acceptance Israel has talked about a separate Palestinian "state" but has proceeded to settle Jewish people throughout the West Bank since 1967, confiscating more and more Palestinian land, homes and farms and dislocating the people.....Real peace can only happen when Israel accepts that the four million Palestinians are a people who are entitled to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," just as they do. Scroll down page. Well said.

08-26-07 - Soldiers killed in Lebanon camp battle Three Lebanese soldiers have been killed fighting Islamist militants who have been battling the army for more than three months in north Lebanon, security sources said on Sunday.

08-26-07 - Lebanon militants request evacuation of wounded

08-26-07 - Gaza wave of enthusiasm swept up in Hawaii Thanks to Dorian Paskowitz, "the world has seen for once something from Gaza other than war. It's seen that we, the Palestinians of Gaza, are normal people,"

08-26-07 - Lebanese army readies final assault on Islamists

08-26-07 - Settlers Violate Court Stipulations in Wrestle for Palestinian Land

08-26-07 - Video: Portion from CNN"s "God's Jewish Warriors" This is a perfect example of the power of the Israeli Lobby in America - and this happened 15 years ago or so. This is the kind of 'conspiracy theory' that the AIPAC/ADLers want you to believe doesn't exist. Good info about Baker and Bush (the first) and their efforts to stop the settlements. Features Mearsheimer and Carter. Note the utter bs that America and Israel have the same interests in the ME. America is against illegal settlements, Israel is for. Includes info on Christian Zionists and their role in this. One obvious point in all this: If Israel's and America's interests were the same, then THERE WOULDN'T BE A NEED FOR AN ISRAELI LOBBY IN AMERICA. Our interests are NOT the same. Not by a longshot.

08-26-07 - Peace Now report: Settlers enjoy luxury roads

08-26-07 - Bloggers say Palestine is an identity As I sat there taking pictures I thought to myself, "This is Palestinian folk dance, Palestinian music. I'm sitting here eating Palestinian food in a land we call Palestine." We do exist. We may not have physical borders delineated and recognized by "official" bodies at the U.N., but Palestine is an identity more than it is a state or some governmental body. This living, breathing body called Palestine may not reside on any published map, but it certainly resides in the heart of every Palestinian.

08-26-07 - Unlikely pair take peace project to next level Elbanna said a Palestinian mother told him her son, before he got his chair, "had no access to the world except looking out the window. Now he goes out and lives his life."

08-26-07 - Bogus War Party Propaganda This weekend on Antiwar.com, Justin Raimondo?s Behind the Headlines column ?Home Front ?Surge?: War Party?s Ad Campaign Will Boomerang,? concerns the Israel Lobby?s pushing of $15 million worth of propaganda ads to run on TV, shaming the Democrats for their supposedly weak Stay in Iraq Forever policy.

08-26-07 - A comprehensive report on Israeli detention camps and prisons

08-26-07 - France ready to open up to Syria if it stays out of Lebanon France is ready to open up in a "spectacular way" to Syria if it stops meddling in Lebanon, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a newspaper interview Sunday.

08-26-07 - Indian sect resumes exodus to Israel

08-26-07 - New Pro-Iraq-War Organization Hides Its Pro-Israel Agenda It's clear to me that several members of the new group care about Israel's security as a reason for American military engagement in the Middle East. They should say so upfront. As it is, the Freedom's Watch website has imagery of the eagle wrapped in a flag; its big new ad shows an Iraq War veteran who continues to support the disastrous war because of 9/11, and no one on the site is talking about Israel.

08-26-07 - 'If we Irish can solve our conflict, then...' A Northern Ireland peace activist told an audience of Arabs and Jews at the St. George Hotel in east Jerusalem on Friday, "If we Irish can solve our conflict, then so can anybody."

News for 08-25-07

2007-08-26T20:35:00.000-04:00

08-25-07 - Israelis kill seven Palestinians Palestinian officials said two teenage boys were also killed by Israeli troops in an unrelated incident in Gaza. Medical officials said the two were civilians aged 15 and 16, who were shot close to an Israeli observation post near the town of Beit Lahiya.

08-25-07 - Israeli forces kill an Islamic Jihad leader

08-25-07 - Arab group: We're behind Galilee murder Ahmad Khatib, who was shot to death by a security guard in Jerusalem two weeks ago after seizing another guard's weapon, was behind another attack ? the killing of an Upper Nazareth resident some six weeks ago ? the Arab-Israeli Free People of the Galilee organization said Saturday.

08-25-07 - Israeli soldiers attack head of the Islamic movement and chief of Islamic Justice, in Jerusalem Israeli soldiers attacked on Wednesday evening Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic movement in Israel, and Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, Chief Islamic Justice and the Mufti of Jerusalem, as Sheikh Sabri was holding a charitable dinner on the rooftop of one of the Palestinian houses in Jerusalem.

08-25-07 - Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: ICRC activities July 2007

08-25-07 - Training Course for Cadres of Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture

08-25-07 - Abbas opposes exchange of populated territory with Israel Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday he opposes the exchange of populated territory between Israel and the PA within the framework of a peace deal.

08-25-07 - Hamas leader gives interview

08-25-07 - Mubarak says Mideast peace summit lacks framework A Middle East peace conference called by U.S. President George W. Bush lacks a framework, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Saturday.

08-25-07 - Palestinian journalists protest against Hamas Dozens of Palestinian journalists protested in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday against what they called aggression by the Islamist Hamas movement against their Gaza colleagues.

08-25-07 - Abducted Israeli soldier is healthy: Hamas chief

08-25-07 - Lebanese army resumes raids on refugee camp The Lebanese army resumed its air raids and shelling of militants holed up at Nahr al-Bared on Saturday after evacuating the last remaining civilians from the battered refugee camp.

08-25-07 - 'Academic freedom' as a weapon

08-25-07 - Nashville family trapped in Gaza for weeks allowed to leave

08-25-07 - Jewish Hebron marketplace heir is against settlers He wants the marketplace to revert to the Palestinians who made use of it from the 1930s to 1994, when Israel forced them to shut down the shops after Baruch Goldstein, from nearby Kiryat Arba, killed 29 Palestinians as they prayed in a mosque attached to Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs.

08-25-07 - Civilians evacuated from Lebanon camp released by army

08-25-07 - The girl who urges children to fight Israel ... with clean teeth Israeli groups have cited Saraa as an example of how Hamas breeds hatred of Israel, but her producer, Samir Abu Mosen, says it is not television but growing up with Israeli violence that radicalises Palestinian children.

08-25-07 - UN extends Lebanon peace force

08-25-07 - From EAPPI: Settler with Automatic Rifle Threatens Internationals and Shepherds

08-25-07 - Arabs here to stay The notion known as "population exchange," a term that aims to conceal the transfer principle inherent in disengaging from the Wadi Ara region and handing it over to the Palestinian Authority, has again been placed on the public agenda.

08-25-07 - Colored People to the Back of the Bus

News for 08-24-07

2007-08-25T16:46:00.000-04:00

08-24-07 - 4 Palestinian die in clashes with Israel

08-24-07 - Israeli boy killed in Border Police raid in West Bank The boy, Mahmoud Ibrahim Karnawi, lived in Rahat with his parents - a divorced Palestinian woman who remarried an Israeli Arab, according to relatives.

08-24-07 - More War on the Horizon ** Israel cannot finish off the Palestinians until Hezbollah is destroyed. An Israeli attack on Syria while the US attacks Iran would leave Hezbollah without supplies in the face of a new Israeli attack......The agenda unfolding before our eyes may be the neoconservative/Israeli/Cheney plan to rid the Middle East of any check to Israeli territorial expansion. It sure the hell is.

08-24-07 - Hamas detains journalists at Gaza rally

08-24-07 - Abbas denies reports of Gaza-West Bank passage proposal The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday denied earlier reports featured in Israeli media sources that a route of safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been proposed by the Israeli administration as part of land-swap deal.

08-24-07 - Israelis deny killing Hamas man

08-24-07 - Hamas opens fire at Fatah rally Witnesses say the gunmen opened fire when demonstrators started hurling rocks at a former Fatah compound, now occupied by Hamas forces.

08-24-07 - MKs to initiate bill to evacuate area near Negev industrial zone Should the initiative become law, it would mean that seven unrecognized Bedouin villages would need to be demolished.

08-24-07 - Paralysed Gaza girl faces uncertain future

08-24-07 - Israeli warships attack northern Gaza Strip

08-24-07 - Lawmakers return to U.S. and pledge tougher Iran sanctions U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who led a trip to Israel last week involving 18 members of Congress, told JTA that Israeli leaders depicted the Iran issue as most urgent. The delegation met with Israel's prime minister, foreign minister, defense minister, opposition leader and president. "All of us came back with a renewed sense of the importance of dealing with Iran, of the dangers that a nuclear armed Iran would pose to the region and the international community," Hoyer said. "There is a sense that Ahmadinejad is one of the few world leaders who expresses the possibility of the elimination of another sovereign nation -- Israel -- and hopes to eliminate from the Middle East the United States of America."....The American Israel Public Affairs Committee welcomed the accelerated push for tougher sanctions on Iran.
Thus does the AMERICAN Congress recieve its orders from and do the bidding of: ISRAEL. It's treason.

08-24-07 - Brutal army procedures at the Al Hamra checkpoint

08-24-07 - Columnist presents biased depiction of Israel The idea that Israel is a country based on love is hard to swallow in light of the historical truth that it was created through the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of indigenous Arabs of their homeland.

08-24-07 - Irish slated over anti-Israel funds Israeli diplomats are preparing to raise with the Irish government a report claiming that it is funding, to the tune of around £600,000, the activities of British and Palestinian non-governmental organisations ? some of which are running campaigns aimed at ?demonising? Israel and supporting boycott moves .

08-24-07 - Hebron settlers mull setting up own state There has even been casual talk in Hebron ? where 600 Jews live in the midst of 30,000 Palestinians and other settlements ? of the ?State of Judea?, an alternative to Israeli rule in the event of a mass withdrawal from the settlements.

08-24-07 - Peaceful protest in Al Walaja village faces down massive army presence Al Walaja, like other Palestinian villages in the outskirts of Bethlehem, stands to lose some 50% of its land to make way for expanding Israeli settlements, the route of the annexation wall and the construction of a new settlers-only bypass road.

08-24-07 - Palestine National Football Team T-Shirts Now Available from the PSC

08-24-07 - Pulling Up Illegal Settlement From the Root Approximately 60 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists joined together to protest and take non-violent direct action against the illegal confiscation of Palestinian land from the village of Al Mazra al Qiblya.

08-24-07 - Hamas TV airs 'Lion King' cartoon hero The Associated Press is still playing stoolie to MEMRI, an Israeli-run outfit. Pathetic.

08-24-07 - Israel should halt expulsion of Sudanese: rights group "It is astounding that the Israeli government would hand over Sudanese nationals, even from Darfur, to Egyptian border guards after Israeli soldiers said they witnessed these guards shooting and beating Sudanese migrants to death," said HRW refugee official Bill Frelick. Frelick said Israel appeared in violation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, to which Israel is a signatory.
It is not astounding, given Israel's track record.

08-24-07 - 78 U.S. residents evacuated from Gaza Seventy-eight American citizens and permanent residents were evacuated yesterday from the Gaza Strip, ending more than two months of unsuccessful attempts to leave the region, according to the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations.

08-24-07 - Officials in South Florida order charter school to suspend Hebrew lessons Ben Gamla's director, Adam Siegel, says that the 400 students at the school -- which is now off limits to reporters -- are getting lessons in Israeli geography until the 25 faculty members are once again permitted to resume teaching Hebrew. Let's drop the pretense and just fly the Israeli flag in the American capitals and be done with it. Getting ridiculous.

08-24-07 - Truce as women flee Lebanon camp The families of Islamist militants, besieged by Lebanese troops for three months at a Palestinian refugee camp, have been granted safe passage out.

08-24-07 - The hills are alive Today Shehadeh, who has kept a private journal for 40 years, has become one of the most prominent diarists of modern Palestinian life. His latest book describes six walks through the West Bank and charts the expansion of Israel's settlements, all illegal under international law. Many are built on hilltops, securing water supplies, often linked by their own networks of roads and overlooking villages in the valleys beneath.

08-24-07 - Caught in the net when living conditions become so dire seeking asylum might be preferrable to returning home to family and friends, what does our government do? It bars a group of Palestinian teenagers from coming to play football. Talk about mixing politics with sport.

08-24-07 - Mine expert dies in Lebanon blast The United Nations, which is co-ordinating the clear up, believes only a fraction of the more than one million cluster bombs dropped by Israel have been removed so far. Work has been hampered by what it says is Israel's refusal to provide details of where it dropped cluster bombs and how many.
Ahh, Israel: a giant rolling war crime in progress - never being held accountable for any of it, thusly encouraging them to continue in like manner.

08-24-07 - Bush toughens NGO conditions The policy, announced last month and going into effect Monday, is based on congressional laws aimed at ensuring U.S. funds do not reach Palestinian terrorists. 'War on terror'- Cui Bono?

08-24-07 - Obama: I get my Mideast advice from Dennis Ross
The association with Ross could help Obama solve a key dilemma: how to win the confidence of hawkish pro-Israel donors without alienating his anti-war base. 'See look, Massa AIPAC. I can out-kowtow Rudy AND Hilary with my shiny new pro-Israel 'advisor'!'

08-24-07 - Meridor to speak with Emanuel on Sudan Israel's ambassador will speak with a top Jewish Democrat after the congressman wrote to express his "disappointment" in Israel for turning away Sudanese refugees.
One of the CongressSheep stepped out of line. Ride 'em in!

08-24-07 - Pro-'surge' group is almost all Jewish Of eight donors named Thursday in Politico, a political newspaper, four are Jewish: Sembler; Richard Fox, the chairman of the Jewish Policy Center, an RJC-affiliated think tank; Ed Snider, the founder of the Philadelphia Flyers ice hockey franchise who has been elected to several Jewish Sports Halls of Fame; and Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino operator who recently launched a giveaway newspaper venture in Israel. Note the source.

08-24-07 - NIE faults Iran, Syria in Iraq The Bush administration seeks the isolation of both countries because of their support for anti-Israel terrorism, their alleged backing for the insurgency in Iraq, and their suspected development of weapons of mass destruction.

08-24-07 - Illinois passes Israel life insurance law Illinois passed a law proposed by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago that will expand the state's ban on insurance discrimination based on foreign travel. And we all know which 'foreign travel' that includes...

08-24-07 - Pentagon announces possible weapons sales to Egypt, Israel The US Congress has 30 days to act to prevent the sales. Congress won't prevent the 'sales' to Israel.

08-24-07 - Madonna headed to Israel for Rosh Hashanah Madonna is leading a delegation of Hollywood superstars to Israel for Rosh Hashanah.

News for 08-23-07

2007-08-25T00:16:00.000-04:00

08-23-07 - One palestinian dies in Israeli attack In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Israeli jet fighters targeted the Al Sahja'eya neighborhood, north of Gaza city, killing one Palestinian and injuring

08-23-07 - Palestinian killed in Israeli air raid on Gaza A Palestinian activist was killed and four other Palestinians were injured late Thursday in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip, a medical source said.

08-23-07 - Qassam hits Sderot house; 2 women suffer from anxiety

08-23-07 - Britain bans Gaza football team A Palestinian football team has been banned from playing in Britain, because officials apparently believe they will not return to Gaza.

08-23-07 - Israeli airstrike wounds 5 Palestinians in southern Gaza

08-23-07 - Israeli army starts demolishing Palestinian homes in Tubas Israeli military bulldozers started to demolish homes and residencies in Krebet Homsa in the Jordan valley to the east of Tubas in the West Bank on Thursday morning.

08-23-07 - Dirty hypodermic needle infects Palestinian prisoner with disease

08-23-07 - Three Israeli soldiers injured in West Bank

08-23-07 - Israeli soldiers kidnap 10 Palestinian civilians, while settlers attack homes in Hebron district

08-23-07 - Israeli army opens fire on farmers in Beit Hanoun Israeli troops, positioned on the borders of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, have opened heavy gunfire on Palestinian farmers while they were toiling on the ground on Thursday at midday.

08-23-07 - Israeli army demolishes home in Salfit

08-23-07 - Army Invades Jenin and Surrounding Villages

08-23-07 - Presidency spokesperson: "We will not accept a state with provisional borders"

08-23-07 - Hamas denounces Palestinian security for passing information to Israel The Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas) denounced on Thursday that it had found evidences that showed Palestinian security apparatuses spied on Hamas and provided the information to Israel and the United States under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

08-23-07 - Hamas leader condemns Islamist charity blacklist Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday slammed a U.S. decision to blacklist a major Gaza charity as an attempt to weaken the Islamist group after it seized control of the coastal region.

08-23-07 - Hamas troops to be turned into main police force

08-23-07 - Oily legacy of war mars Lebanon coast

08-23-07 - A Boycott Of Israel: Something Has Changed what Nelson Mandela has called "the greatest moral issue of the age" refuses to be buried in the dust. For every BBC voice that strains to equate occupier with occupied, thief with victim, for every swarm of emails from
the fanatics of Zion to those who invert the lies and describe the Israeli state's commitment to the destruction of Palestine, the truth is more powerful now than ever.

08-23-07 - Offer to help Christian asylum seekers facing deportation from Israel Mark Regev, of the Israeli foreign ministry, responded that it is Israel's right to expel the Sudanese. "People who cross into Israel illegally can be sent back. That is part of international law," he said. What would Israel know about international law, particularly when it comes to crossing over (and 'settling') the territory of others? Hypocrisy.

08-23-07 - Israel to buy advanced Patriot missiles

08-23-07 - Journal: About the Combatants for Peace Meeting in Shufa

08-23-07 - The Flying Checkpoint street theatre project at the Edinburgh Festival!

08-23-07 - Palestinians: 28 fires in 18 months spell harassment A few months ago, brothers Mahmoud and Raji Sabatin were astonished to find they were being billed by the fire department for putting out fires on their property. And not only on their property; the bill also included fire-fighting services in the city park.

08-23-07 - Japan's "economic posture" in the Middle East

08-23-07 - Cluster bomb kills Lebanese A cluster bomb left over from last year's Hezbollah-Israel war exploded in southern Lebanon on Thursday, killing a Lebanese mine-clearing expert and wounding three others who were trying to dismantle it, security officials said.

08-23-07 - Village near Jerusalem, prefect example of the Israeli Apartheid

08-23-07 - Lebanon holds two for attack on UN Two suspected Palestinian extremists have been arrested over a roadside bombing against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, a security official said on Thursday.

08-23-07 - Dahariya officer's lawyers: Probe into West Bank op was flawed Naturally.

08-23-07 - Muslim leaders face 'boycott' over Israel trip "Iraq's tragedy is recent. But Palestine is a cause burning for the last 60 years which Indian Muslims are very sentimental about and attached to. How could these people go there? Even the Palestinian Authority was angry, and these people weren't allowed to enter the premises of the Ramallah office where Yasser Arafat is buried, or the tomb of Hazrat Ibrahim,"

08-23-07 - Palestinian poll finds support for Fatah government over Hamas In the new poll, 47 percent said the Fayyad government is performing better than the previous Hamas-led Cabinet led by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. In comparison, 24 percent favored Haniyeh's government, while 23 percent said there was no difference between the two governments. Six percent did not answer.

08-23-07 - Women ? and their success stories ? speak for themselves at UNIFEM Sabaya Centres

08-23-07 - Carter movie debuts in Italy A documentary about former President Jimmy Carter will make its debut in Italy.

08-23-07 - Scant medicine supplies endanger Gaza patients' lives Ellian Dabba, a nephrotic aged only 19, was lying on a bed at home in Gaza but not in hospital to receive the vital dialysis treatment when reporter visited him.

08-23-07 - Political Tourism in Jerusalem We drove in and around the sprawling Jerusalem municipality, visiting newly expanded settlements, completed and under-construction sections of the concrete separation wall, recently demolished Palestinian homes, and the Draconian Kalandia checkpoint, which leads north to Ramallah.

08-23-07 - Feds: Charity Groups to Be Probed for Terror Ties

08-23-07 - Fairfielder returns from peace delegation "The United States government has taken a side. The government needs to advocate for justice and human rights. I am in favor of a policy that flows from justice and human rights principles, and I do not currently see a resolution with these principles. The United States government puts billions of dollars in aid into Israel."

08-23-07 - So, is real debate over Israel possible on the Hill? when it comes to Capitol Hill, the focus of many of the Jewish and pro-Israel groups named by Walt and Mearsheimer, even some of those organizations say that it's very rare to hear criticism of Israel or of US policy toward it. .....Foxman's own book, The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control, will also come out on September 4, in an effort to counter that of Walt and Mearsheimer. The people in this (pro-Israel) article are totally deluded. America and Israel are nothing alike. But they sure want to take us down with them by making Israel's problems OUR problems.

08-23-07 - Rudy saber rattling is music to some - Giuliani brings presidential hopes to Sephardic enclave

08-23-07 - Chandler family stuck in Gaza Strip to return home After a push from the U.S. Department of State and from the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, the rest of the Hegazy family will be evacuated into Jordan and return home.

08-23-07 - Charity?s boycott guide slammed as a ?handbook of hate? MPs and Jewish leaders have condemned a high-profile British charity which has unveiled plans for a world-wide anti-Israel boycott.

08-23-07 - Two Lebanese soldiers die in battle with Islamists

08-23-07 - In The Name of Peace - Palestinians,Jews,Muslims

News for 08-22-07

2007-08-23T21:46:00.001-04:00

08-22-07 - U.N. "concerned" Israel hasn't done more for Abbas Williams, who will leave his U.N. post in September to serve as Middle East envoy to the new British prime minister, said "meltdown is too strong" of a word to describe the economic situation in Gaza but that conditions were deteriorating. "We do not see how that can be changed short of the opening of additional crossing points, and in particular Karni," Williams said, referring to the commercial crossing that served as Gaza's economic lifeline.

08-22-07 - Peres hails new opportunity to make peace Shimon Peres, Israel's president, said yesterday he saw a "real opportunity" to make peace with the Palestinians and highlighted progress on both political and economic agreements ahead of further talks to be held in the US this autumn.

08-22-07 - Palestinian president condemns Israeli military escalation in Gaza The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday condemned Israeli military escalation in Gaza Strip, saying the recent attacks raise doubts about the Israeli government's peace intentions.

08-22-07 - Israel proposes W. Bank-Gaza route in land swap Israel has proposed that safe passage for the Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip be included in an exchange of territory with the Palestinians in the framework of the agreement of principles now being formulated ahead of the upcoming regional summit.

08-22-07 - U.S. policing Israeli commitment to stop pursuing Fatah men

08-22-07 - Officer to pay for killing W. Bank teen Koretzky ordered the two boys to go into their house, which they did. The crowd of boys remained at the scene. Koretzky fired one bullet toward Zayid's home, which struck and killed the teen, who was in the living room.

08-22-07 - Gaza power plant back online after EU resumes aid Gaza's only power plant went back online on Wednesday after the European Union resumed paying for fuel supplies, ending days of blackouts after moves to ensure Hamas would not benefit from the aid.

08-22-07 - Ex-Fatah fighter in battle for justice after daughter killed by Israeli police Abir was with her sister and two friends after buying chocolate at a grocery shop having just finished a maths exam. One of the friends, 12-year-old Abrar Abu Qweida said an Israeli Jeep passed them in the opposite direction and she noticed a gun protruding from the rear.Moments later, she said, she heard a loud bang and like Abir's sister Arin, 11, hunched her shoulders in an instinctive reaction. She said that Abir fell forward. A boy who helped to take Abir into her nearby school handed the Israeli legal rights agency Yesh Din a rubber bullet he said he found under her body.

08-22-07 - Palestinian mother and her two daughters kidnapped from Al Khadir village near Bethlehem

08-22-07 - Hamas slams P.A security for barring it from carrying social activities The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated on Wednesday that the Palestinian Security forces are barring it from carrying social activities in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank

08-22-07 - Palestinian factions fire rockets into Israeli targets

08-22-07 - Israeli naval forces arrest eight Palestinian fishermen "The watercrafts and the helicopters have suddenly opened fire at the boats," al-Najjar said, adding that seven boats could flee towards the beach but the helicopters and the gunboats shelled them.

08-22-07 - W. Bank-based Palestinian gov't to draft three-year plan of reform

08-22-07 - Israel prevents Palestinians from going to the Dead Sea The reason for the prevention, apparently, is to enable Israelis to use the recreational sites without Palestinians present.

08-22-07 - Palestinian Security forces kidnap 9 Hamas members Palestinian Security forces of Fatah kidnapped 9 Hamas members from different parts of the West Bank on Wednesday morning.

08-22-07 - Jimmy Carter, coming to a theater near you The controversy over Jimmy Carter's book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is set to be reignited by an upcoming screening of a documentary centered on his book tour.

08-22-07 - Hamas leader: Palestinians will 'never stop the intifada' "The Palestinian people will never stop the intifada," Mashaal said. "Maybe they will calm down. Sometimes they might stop to catch their breath. But the only thing that will stop resistance is ending the occupation."

08-22-07 - Police break up Islamist meeting in Jerusalem Israeli police broke up what they said was a gathering of Hamas and an Israeli Islamic group in Arab East Jerusalem on Wednesday.

08-22-07 - Palestinian government plans new law to cut off Hamas funds

08-22-07 - Iraqi, Syrian oil ministers agree to reopen key pipeline Iraqi and Syrian oil ministers agreed on Wednesday to repair and subsequently reopen a key pipeline between their two countries that connects Iraq's oil-rich Kirkuk region and a Syrian port.

08-22-07 - Congress members urge EU Parliament on U.N. committee More than 30 U.S. members of Congress signed on to a letter urging the European Parliament to end its cooperation with a U.N. committee for Palestinian issues. Not a matter for the US Congress.

08-22-07 - More Lebanese army raids on camp The Lebanese military has launched further attacks against Islamic militants in a camp in north Lebanon.

08-22-07 - Emanuel blasts Israel on Sudan refugees "I am writing today to express my disappointment that Israel would turn away any person fleeing from persecution," Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), the fourth ranked Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives said in his letter sent Monday to Ambassador Sallai Meridor.

08-22-07 - Iraqi Jews must leave, liaison says The handful of Jews remaining in Iraq should flee for their lives, a representative of the community said.

08-22-07 - Congress members urge EU Parliament on U.N. committee More than 30 U.S. members of Congress signed on to a letter urging the European Parliament to end its cooperation with a U.N. committee for Palestinian issues. Not a matter for the US Congress.

08-22-07 - AJWS to push U.S. on Sudanese refugee issue The American Jewish World Service is putting together a targeted advocacy campaign to push the United States to develop a policy on accepting refugees from the genocide in the Sudan. "It's not fair to these small countries in the Middle East and in North Africa to ask them to take in all of these refugees,"
Oh you knew that one was coming. Israel doesn't want them, so they'll be sent here instead. Those supremacist aholes. Throw America's borders open to all manner of people, including granting amnesty to illegals, but lil Israel is to remain a nation based on one kind of people. Hypocrites all.

08-22-07 - Israelis airdrop an occupation With an estimated one million unexploded land ordnances meaning lack of access to their lands, many farmers in southern Lebanon see cluster bombs as an Israeli "occupation."

08-22-07 - Senator Dianne Feinstein Tells Pacific Council on International Policy That for Bush Administration to Leave Legacy, Israeli-Palestinian Settlement Must Pass Feinstein says U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should be given more time to devote to the Israel-Palestine peace deal.

08-22-07 - Police investigate destruction of settlements' vines Vineyard?s owner says 4,500 seedlings destroyed by Palestinians, left-wing activists. ?It was like a pogrom,? he says Mm k.

08-22-07 - Preserve Christian presence in Holy Land, Franciscan leader pleads Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, pleaded for support as he spoke to the tens of thousands of people assembled in Rimini for the annual conference organized by the Communion and Liberation movement.

08-22-07 - Israel remains obstacle to peace for Palestinians Larry Koch's characteristic defense of Israeli criminality (Voice of the People, Aug. 13) in ethnically cleansing a million Palestinians; stealing 70 percent of their land, homes, farms, and possessions, and pursuing a repression that kills, maims, dehumanizes and forecloses sustenance for the millions captive in their own land is to call the critic "rabidly anti-Israel" and change the subject.

08-22-07 - Ministers, ex-Ministers, representatives of NGO?s visit Bil?in village

News for 08-21-07

2007-08-22T18:10:00.000-04:00

08-21-07 - Children killed at Gaza border claim Palestinians

08-21-07 - Israel kills three militants and two boys in Gaza

08-21-07 - Hamas warns Israel against harming al-Aqsa mosque Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Tuesday warned the Israeli government against continuing excavations beneath the al-Aqsa holy mosque in Jerusalem.

08-21-07 - Gaza-bound aid unusable after a year on Egypt border Around 80 tonnes of medical aid destined for the Gaza Strip have become unusable after being held up at the border with Egypt for more than a year, a security source at the frontier said.

08-21-07 - Gaza fuel shortage: Your views Yesterday I had to throw all my food away. I had had a lot in my fridge freezer but it all went to waste.
And because there is no electricity there is no water. It cannot be pumped. Unless you have a generator.

08-21-07 - Cigarette ends found in prison food

08-21-07 - Blackout over for Gaza as EU agrees to resume oil shipments

08-21-07 - MIDEAST: When the Occupation Gets Really Filthy ?The Israeli military came inside the valley and cut about 50 apricot and walnut trees since May. And now, they are coming to cut more trees. This is all because of what they are building through this land ? my land. Here, they are building a sewage channel to run raw sewage through this valley collected from four Israeli settlements near here.? .....Elsewhere across the West Bank, Palestinian villagers are facing land confiscation as illegal settlement colonies expand and tumble down hillsides. Some are watching as crops and orchards become poisoned and contaminated from raw sewage being actively pumped into their land from the sewage treatment facilities inside Israeli settlements.

08-21-07 - Soldiers kidnap two residents though their names were dropped from its ?wanted list?

08-21-07 - Islamic-Christian front: ?Israel is still carrying attacks against the Al Aqsa Mosque?

08-21-07 - Al Mezan Center calls on the international community to protest the Palestinian civilians The Al Mezan Center For Human Rights issued on Tuesday a press release calling on the International Community to act in order to protect the Palestinian civilians from the ongoing Israeli military attacks against them.

08-21-07 - Palestinian health officials value King's order to send medical supplies to Gaza hospitals Palestinian health officials on Tuesday hailed His Majesty King Abdullah's directives to send relief aids including medical supplies particularly to AL-Shefa'a Hospital in Gaza Strip.

08-21-07 - Hamas attacks Israel with 25 mortar shells Hamas said that the mortar attacks came as a revenge for killing six of its militants in an air strike on Monday east of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.

08-21-07 - UK 'hypocrisy' over Palestine soccer ban The anti-poverty charity War on Want today condemned the British government's decision to refuse visas to a team of Palestinian footballers due to play a series of matches in England.

08-21-07 - Peace now asks Israeli army to reveal cost of settler removal Israeli media sources have reported that Peace Now has requested the Israeli army reveal the financial cost of the recent removal of illegal settlers from several areas in the West Bank.

08-21-07 - Two Palestinian prisoners launch appeal to save lives

08-21-07 - Power shortages threaten sewage treatment If power and fuel shortages continue, a major sewage treatment plant in the Gaza Strip will be unable to operate, causing public health risks, a water and sanitation official said.

08-21-07 - Second PLC deputy head resigns

08-21-07 - Bedouins demand improved access to health care A new legal petition to Israel?s High Court demands the state connect 11 primary health care clinics in the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Negev desert to the main power grid in order to provide better health services.

08-21-07 - Syrian newspaper: US pushing Israel to war The newspaper slammed Washington's decision to boost military aid to Israel whom it promised $30 billion over the next 10 years

08-21-07 - We have held peace talks with Hamas In his letter (August 17), Dr Colin Shindler mentions that Gush Shalom, the Israeli peace movement in which I am active, predicted that the "broad Israeli peace movement" would conduct talks with Hamas, yet "this has yet to take place".

08-21-07 - Cluster bomb kills Hezbollah member in southern Lebanon A cluster bomb left over from the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah on Monday killed a member of the Shiite militant group in southern Lebanon, the country's National News Agency said.

08-21-07 - High Court presses state to recognize mosques as holy sites The High Court of Justice demanded Monday that the state explain its failure to recognize Muslim sites of worship and to funnel sufficient funds to preserve mosques in Israel.

08-21-07 - Israeli president plans to meet Abbas soon Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday that he planned to meet with Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in the near future, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

08-21-07 - Britons wary of Muslims more than Americans The French were the most enthusiastic when asked whether they saw Muslims as suitable marriage partners for their children, and a large majority also do not see Muslims as a threat.

08-21-07 - War Has Made Baghdad Pre-Industrial Just like Palestine.

08-21-07 - Gazans take delivery of a dozen surfboards as a peace gesture

08-21-07 - Hezbollah aids baby sea turtles Hezbollah has put half of a beach in southern Lebanon under its protection to safeguard endangered nesting turtles, it was reported Sunday.

08-21-07 - Woman wearing veil refused entry into swimming pool

08-21-07 - Group cancels forum on book about Israel lobby "If he wasn't protecting the council from the lobby, who was he protecting it from?" Mearsheimer asked, in wondering whom the authors' appearance would harm.

08-21-07 - Footage of Israeli Soldiers Beating Palestinian Children The first scene is what appears to be what is the subject of this article.

08-21-07 - Saudi-Syria tensions seethe over Lebanon

08-21-07 - Indian delegation visiting Israel witness rocket attacks The delegation is visiting the country on the invitation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Australian Israel Jewish Affairs Council. Hasbara.

08-21-07 - Militants said seeking truce in Lebanon camp war Islamists who have fought the Lebanese army at a Palestinian refugee camp for the past three months are seeking a truce to let their families and other civilians flee, an intermediary said on Tuesday.

08-21-07 - Rival Gaza children's camps mix fun with politics

08-21-07 - Israeli army mulls how to spend its billions The moves have provided the Israeli military with an unprecedented opportunity for long-term planning and all services in the armed forces -- air, army and navy -- are anxious to get a piece of the financial pie. Question: Are AMERICAN troops serving in Iraq being given anything close to billion$ to secure themselves from roadside bombs and such?

08-21-07 - Israel helps protect PA livestock The Agriculture Ministry in Jerusalem on Tuesday donated more than 100,000 veterinary immunizations to Palestinian farmers after foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks were reported in Hebron, Ramallah and Jenin

08-21-07 - Sarra Residents Fight Settlements Through Non-Violent Roadblock Removal

08-21-07 - Jewish-Hawaiian surfing guru donates surfboards to Gazans

08-21-07 - NGO to Send Aid to Iraqis and Palestinians The NGO, which works on behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland, granted 100,000 euros to help Iraqis and 70,000 euros to help Palestinians.

08-21-07 - Israel spares Palestinian home from demolition In 2005, Natshe received a registered letter from the Jerusalem municipal council. The letter informed him that he was being indicted on charges of having illegally built his house four months previously. At the time, the Israeli government wanted to demolish his home to build a 20-foot-high concrete section of a separation barrier

08-21-07 - Palestinian Girl benefits from Dubbo generosity A 10-year-old girl from the Gaza Strip named Mona Al-Hawarjy was suffering a growth deformity in her legs and she was sent to Dubbo for treatment.

08-21-07 - Bush Could Have Given Fatah That Kiss of Death "Abbas now appears to move entirely according to the U.S. and Israeli agenda," Abdel-Halim Kandil, former editor-in-chief of opposition weekly al-Karama told IPS. "The so-called PA has become little more than a security manager for the Israeli occupation.

08-21-07 - Giuliani's doubts on Palestinian talks part of 'systematic' policy, adviser says "The main thing I would emphasize is that Mayor Giuliani believes that the Palestinians should have a state only if they earn it by fulfilling much the same set of conditions that are specified in the road map," Norman Podhoretz, the former Commentary editor and another adviser to the candidate, told JTA in an e-mail.

08-21-07 - Wiesenthal Center praises Polish delegation for withdrawing from conference The UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People describes itself as "the main U.N. forum where all NGOs interested in the Palestine issue can meet."

08-21-07 - Militants in Lebanese refugee camp seek truce for families Islamists who have fought the Lebanese Army at a Palestinian refugee camp for the past three months are seeking a truce to let their families and other civilians flee.

08-21-07 - U.S. rabbi defends N.Y. Arab school despite charges it will be anti-Israel

News for 08-20-07

2007-08-21T18:21:00.000-04:00

08-20-07 - Six killed in Israeli strike on Gaza Israeli planes today struck a car in the Gaza strip, killing six Hamas militants, Palestinian officials said today.

08-20-07 - Gazans face the progressive collapse of their economy Arnold Vercken, WFP Representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, has warned of a progressive collapse of the Gazan economy as a result of border restrictions and a breakdown of services. Kirstie Campbell reports.

08-20-07 - Israeli army wounds three Palestinians in southern Gaza Israeli army shot and wounded on Sunday morning three Palestinians, said to be resistance fighters, in southern Gaza Strip.

08-20-07 - Hamas forced to commit to electricity revenue checks The European Commission has demanded guarantees that Hamas would not " divert" electricity revenues before ending an increasingly critical shutdown, which has left hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents without power for four days.

08-20-07 - Israel to PA: Give W. Bank welfare or Hamas will win The Palestinian Authority must establish a strong welfare system in the West Bank to win elections and gain more support than Hamas, according to a plan formulated by a senior Israeli official. The reverse was precisely why Hamas was so popular in Gaza for so long.

08-20-07 - Hamas vows revenge after six of its members killed in Gaza Al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of the Islamic Hamas movement, Monday vowed to take revenge on Israel for the killing of its six members by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip.

08-20-07 - Egypt to continue supplying electricity to Gazans

08-20-07 - Egypt backs Palestinian demand to tackle all aspects at U.S.-proposed meeting

08-20-07 - Three residents injured, one kidnapped in an invasion to Nablus

08-20-07 - Jerusalemites stripped of residency rights Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem are being stripped of their rights at an alarmingly high rate, according to newly-released statistics.

08-20-07 - Al Haq, Popular Campaign Against the Wall met with international diplomats in Ramallah The Al Haq Intuition, which is active in defending Human Rights, and the Popular Campaign Against the Wall, held on Monday a meeting with several representatives of international diplomatic missions in Ramallah, in the northern part of the West Bank, and informed them on the latest conditions in the Jordan Valley as Israeli continue to implement its plans which aim at removing the Palestinian residents from that area.

08-20-07 - Policewoman booted for alleged abuse The brief film shows three Palestinians on a donkey cart approach the IDF checkpoint. After an inaudible verbal exchange, the policewoman is seen hitting two of the Palestinians.

08-20-07 - Israeli army storms several areas in the West Bank, 8 Palestinians abducted

08-20-07 - ILA leasing Arab-owned land in Jerusalem to Ateret Cohanim The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) is working together with the Ateret Cohanim association to wrest from Palestinian landowners control of 30 dunams (7.5 acres) of land in East Jerusalem and to transfer it to the association without a tender. Such is the claim outlined in a petition submitted two weeks ago to the High Court of Justice, and appearing in documents which Haaretz has received.

08-20-07 - Hamas says Israeli-Palestinian talks meaningless unless it approves

08-20-07 - U.S.-backed campaign against Hamas expands to charities

08-20-07 - ?We will replant these trees again? Artas, however, is also located close to the ever-expanding Gush Etzion settlement bloc and the route of the Wall. Last year, construction started on the hills surrounding Artas. In May this year, inhabitants discovered with concerns that the bulldozers were moving increasingly down, in the direction of the valley. The first land threatened with confiscation and destruction was a plot covered with beautiful apricot trees belonging to the Abu Sway family.

08-20-07 - Egyptian police forces find explosives cache near border with Gaza

08-20-07 - In Gaza, a lion's return brings hope Sabrina had been snatched from her cage two years earlier, and the young cub had become a symbol of the lawlessness that characterized the Gaza Strip. But last month, Hamas forces freed Sabrina from a notorious criminal gang.

08-20-07 - Senior Arab officials tell Israel that Syria is not planning to attack

08-20-07 - Starving Gaza Violence begets violence. Iraq should have taught us that. The road chosen by the Bush administration and the Israeli government is one that failed in Iraq, failed in Lebanon and will fail in the Palestinian territories. It will only increase the chaos, suffering and death.

08-20-07 - Lebanon soldier killed as siege enters fourth month A Lebanese soldier was killed on Monday as the battle with Al-Qaeda inspired Islamist guerrillas at a seafront refugee camp entered its fourth month, the army said.

08-20-07 - Lebanon charges siege camp Islamists with terrorism Lebanon on Monday charged more than 200 people suspected of belonging to Fatah al-Islam with murder and terrorism, as a standoff between the army and the militants entered its fourth month.

08-20-07 - Return to Gaza

08-20-07 - Interpol chief in Israel suspected of fraud, breach of trust

08-20-07 - Hezbollah computer game based on war Hezbollah launched a computer game based on its war last summer with Israel.

08-20-07 - US survey raises eyebrows in Jerusalem A survey by a respected journal showing that 15 of 108 foreign policy elites in the US believe Israel does not serve US national security interests has raised eyebrows in Jerusalem

08-20-07 - Rally in support of new NYC Arabic school Meanwhile state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said the school's children could be "indoctrinated" and warned in a statement that "establishment of an Arab school is a misguided and dangerous idea."

08-20-07 - Ex-prisoner Lu'ay Al Ashkar leaves Israeli detention in a wheelchair Bishara Jabali, Al Ashkar?s lawyer, has initiated a lawsuit against the state of Israeli, the previous head of Shabak (Avy Dekhter), the current head of Shabak (Youval Desken) and the investigators of Shabak, asking for the compensation of his client.

08-20-07 - Keith Ellison ends Israel trip unscathed The Israeli and US press were poised to report on any slip by Ellison that might be construed as anti-Israel sentiment.

08-20-07 - Palestinian tour is cancelled A Palestinian National youth team's tour to the North West for a series of friendlies has been cancelled......the Consulate in Jerusalem has refused visas to every single one of the team and its support staff of coaches and officials.

08-20-07 - Urgent Action Appeal to Stop the Assaults Against Negev Villages

08-20-07 - U.S. Arms Create New Divisions "The U.S. is trying hard to convince its Arab allies that Iran represents a greater danger to them than Israel. When, in fact, Israel remains the overriding military threat to the Arab world."

08-20-07 - Christians, Jews in Holy Land alliance "If you had asked me 10 years ago what I would be doing with my life, I don't think I would have told you I'd be in church," she said. Baras stumps for money from evangelical Christians to support Jewish settlements in the occupied territories -- land she calls biblical Israel......They support Israel -- which to them includes Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. Church members tour settlements with Baras and have donated more than a $100,000 to support them......"If you don't live somewhere, if you don't take possession of it, it is not yours," Baras said.
How is it legal for US citizens to be giving money to a cause that violates international law?

08-20-07 - Defendant scolded over outburst during Holy Land trial At the time of the outburst, the courtroom was cleared of spectators as an Israeli government agent known by the pseudonym "Avi" was being cross examined.

08-20-07 - 2 Haredi buses unwittingly enter Palestinian town

08-20-07 - The View from the Valley of Hell Freed from the constraints of ABC objectivity, his critique of the current situation is hard-hitting and devastating. Repeatedly he describes Israeli maltreatment of Palestinians with ill-disguised horror. The stories of the way Israeli soldiers delight in humiliating Palestinians, the way snipers don't discriminate between stone-throwing children and AK-47-wielding fighters, the way borders are closed, punishing everyone for the sins of the few and the way collaborators are forced and bribed into reporting on their fellow citizens make for grim reading.

08-20-07 - Hebron before and after "Hebron is a microcosm of the occupation," said Manor. "It is a ghost town, with no Palestinian traffic. Houses and stores sealed and racist graffiti sprayed on the walls." Activestills photographers said that during their visit to the city, they encountered many army posts and soldiers and a few settlers, but "hardly any Palestinians."

08-20-07 - Courses on offer at community centre empower Palestinian women in Jordan

08-20-07 - US experts see more dangerous world for Americans A majority of top US foreign policy experts say the world is a more dangerous place for Americans today than just six months ago, thanks largely to the war in Iraq and a failing US war on terrorism, a new survey shows.

News for 08-19-07

2007-08-20T16:56:00.000-04:00

08-19-07 - Islamic Jihad says it fired 2 rockets into Israel The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Holy War), al-Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility on Sunday for launching two homemade rockets from the Gaza Strip into the southern Israeli town of Sderout.

08-19-07 - Palestinian parliament member threats to resign A member of the Palestinian parliament presidency threatened to resign on Sunday to protest the failure of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) to convene since a long time.

08-19-07 - Gaza blacks out as border row blocks oil supply European donors, who used to foot the bill as part of an international aid programme, said they had decided not to continue to do so. A statement issued by the European Commission's Tel Aviv office said: "We're reassessing this operation in order to see how to proceed. A decision will be made in the near future."

08-19-07 - Stolen drinking water fills swimming pool Residents of a West Bank settlement have cut the water supply of a nearby Palestinian village, rerouting the pipes to fill a swimming pool.

08-19-07 - W. Bank-based Palestinian official blames Hamas for Gaza power cuts

08-19-07 - PLO denies negotiations with Israel

08-19-07 - Israeli special forces wound three Palestinian gunmen in Gaza Three Palestinian militants were wounded in clashes with an Israeli undercover force in southeast Gaza Strip, medical sources said on Sunday.

08-19-07 - Palestinians Prevented from Accessing Their Land Despite High Court Ruling

08-19-07 - Al Mezan Center demands a probe into the death of a Gaza resident The Al Mezan Center of Human Rights issued a press release on Sunday demanding a probe into the death of a Palestinian resident who went missing last week, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and his body was found on Sunday morning bearing torture marks and a gunshot injury.

08-19-07 - Soldiers abuse a patient near Jenin as he was heading to hospital in Ramallah for surgery

08-19-07 - Israel: report on amnesty for Palestinians untrue

08-19-07 - US to send trainers for Palestinian Presidential Guard The United States will soon send trainers to help the Palestinian Presidential Guard improve its security capabilities, the US State Department said Sunday in a statement.

08-19-07 - Iran? That's your problem ** All these goodies were meant to sweeten one simple fact: the United States is not planning to launch a military attack against Iran and is telling its allies in the region: We'll give you arms, and won't forget to encourage you. Good luck against Iran. Billions of dollars later and thousands of American soldiers dead, at some point Israel needs to learn to fight its own battles.

08-19-07 - Palestinian and International peace activists plant trees in isolated village

08-19-07 - Palestinian parliament deputy speaker urges Abbas to form new gov't

08-19-07 - Troops invade Nablus, two of its refugee camps Palestinian sources in Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank reported on Sunday at dawn that Israeli troops, supported by armored vehicles, invaded the city, its Balata and Al Ein refugee camps, and exchanged fire with resistance fighters.

08-19-07 - Local family reunited as Giffords helps four get back from Gaza

08-19-07 - Child star gets militants' message to kids

08-19-07 - Lebanese bomb camp in bid to flush out Islamists Troops on Sunday bombarded the north Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in a bid to smash underground bunkers sheltering Fatah al-Islam fighters, who killed two more soldiers at the weekend.

08-19-07 - Soldiers Get Rough With Protesters in Umm Salamuna

08-19-07 - European Jewish body regrets calls for a dialogue with Hamas The European Jewish Congress said it is ''strongly disappointed'' by calls from some European countries on Europe, Israel and the Palestinian Authority to engage in negotiations ?with the terrorist organization Hamas.??

08-19-07 - IDF to import Gaza produce on 'shmita'

08-19-07 - Israel drafts interim deal for survivors Under a draft deal, those survivors who were in concentration camps or ghettoes will now receive between $200 and $300 a month in addition to standard welfare payouts for the elderly.

08-19-07 - Mehdi fighters 'trained by Hizbollah in Lebanon'

08-19-07 - Israel vows entry ban on Darfur refugees Ephraim Zuroff, of the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal centre, said the Jewish people could not be expected to right every wrong just because of their past. "Israel can't throw open the gates and allow unlimited access for people who are basically economic refugees."

08-19-07 - Deporting Palestinian mother unfair Let me get this straight, our government is willing to give millions of illegal Mexicans the right to stay in America but a Palestinian mother of four American children is being deported even after she came here legally in 1997.

08-19-07 - Report: Bodies of 3 PFLP men killed in 1982 found in Lebanon

08-19-07 - IDF to secure hitchhikers in W. Bank with new surveillance

News for 08-18-07

2007-08-19T18:37:00.000-04:00

08-18-07 - Palestinian militant dies after West Bank clashes Mahmud Ashur Darwish, 25, suffered head wounds after a gunfight with Israeli forces in Kafr Dan near the town of Jenin on Friday. His comrade Nur Marai, 19, was killed outright in the clashes, which also wounded eight other Palestinians.

08-18-07 - Palestinian shot dead on Gaza-Israel border The Palestinian source named the victim as Mohammed Abid, a 17-year-old male civilian from El-Bureij refugee camp, and said he was not involved in armed activity.

08-18-07 - One Palestinian Killed and another wounded as Israeli army opens fire in eastern Gaza Palestinian medical sources said that three Palestinians, seen collecting antiquities near a garbage collection plant in the Johr Eldik village, were fired by the Israeli army forces, just close to the Gaza-border line. The sources identified the dead as Nezar Raji, 20, of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.

08-18-07 - West Bank poverty spawns child beggars With unemployment in the West Bank topping 25 percent, the children often become their families' main breadwinners.

08-18-07 - 5 Palestinian infiltrators caught near Gaza fence IDF troops arrested 5 Palestinian infiltrators near the Gaza Strip security fence Saturday, Army Radio reported

08-18-07 - Military checkpoint and roadblocs impedes development of several aid projects in Beit Fourik

08-18-07 - Israel allows Gaza fuel delivery The territory relies on Israel for fuel but Israel says it stopped regular deliveries for security reasons.

08-18-07 - Israel is 'flag of Satan', Iranian President says

08-18-07 - Palestinian woman, Israeli soldier wounded in West Bank clashes An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian woman were wounded in the West Bank city of Nablus Saturday morning as Israel granted an amnesty to more Palestinian activists. Clashes erupted between Palestinian militants and the Israeli army when it stormed al-Ein and Balata refugee camps. The 30-year-old woman was injured by shrapnel in the head, medical sources said.

08-18-07 - Women forced into sex slavery in Ramallah In an unprecedented incident, an Israeli teen was forced to work as a prostitute in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, an Israeli media website reported on Friday.

08-18-07 - 'More wanted Palestinians to be pardoned'

08-18-07 - Salah: Israel wants to divide Al-Aqsa between Jews, Muslims The head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, said on Saturday that Israel is trying to forcibly divide the Al-Aqsa mosque between Jews and Muslims, Israel Radio reported.

08-18-07 - Five injured, among them journalists, at the weekly non-violent protest of Bil'in

08-18-07 - Haniya urges Abbas to hold early elections among PLO body - Summary Meanwhile, Bahar called for a professional committee to investigate the circumstances that surrounded the death of President Yasser Arafat in 2004.

08-18-07 - Detainees facing harsh conditions, prepare for hunger strike Palestinian detainees in Petah Tikva Israeli interrogation center threatened to hold a hunger strike if the Israeli authorities continues to place them in solitary and continues to place them under harsh conditions which are affecting them mental and health conditions.

08-18-07 - Hamas rejects PA's right to make concessions to Israel

08-18-07 - Abbas sacks Hamas public servants

08-18-07 - Al-Faraheen's victims of Israeli pretexts "Fifteen dunums [four acres] of tomatoes along with 400 meters of irrigation pipes were crushed by the Israeli tanks during the invasion into our area, where myself and two other partners make our living," says Samir al-Naqa, a local farmer in the al-Faraheen area.

08-18-07 - IDF: Palestinian civilians have no business near border IDF notes increase in infiltration attempts from Gaza. Saturday's attempts end in 7 arrests, 1 casualty. 'We have no intention of harming Palestinian civilians, but must treat every attempt as a terror threat'

08-18-07 - Palestinian security forces arrests five Hamas member in northern West Bank

08-18-07 - Sheik: Israel murders those who oppose its policy Controversial Sheik Ra'ad Salah, who stands to be indicted on incitement charges, delivers sermon in E. Jerusalem marking '40-year occupation of al-Aqsa Mosque' and alleging that shooting carried out by Arab Israeli terrorist last week was fabricated

08-18-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus and injuries one civilian

08-18-07 - Berliners demonstrate against Israeli products The opening of "Israel Week at the Galeria Kaufhof department store in Berlin spurred a demonstration yesterday against Israeli food products originating in the territories. Protesters held signs reading "No to settlement products" and "Stop the Israel-EU Association Agreement."

08-18-07 - Book One book explores author's childhood The program aims, Dean of Academic Affairs Sam Ruhmkorff says, "to expose incoming students to a voice or perspective which they are not likely to have studied in high school," this year, the voice of a Palestinian women.

08-18-07 - Let's show that we mean business with Palestine Coming from America, where people are no longer separated based on race or religion, my sense of fairness was offended. But discrimination is a fact of life for Palestinians under Israeli rule. West Bank Palestinians drive on separate, decrepit roads and are routinely subjected to lengthy waits at checkpoints, while Israeli settlers living on confiscated Palestinian land speed by on modern freeways. West Bank Palestinians must ration water, while Jewish settlers cultivate lush lawns and fill their swimming pools.

08-18-07 - Tossing Fuel on a Fire: US Military Aid to Israel Tops $30 Billion this is no basket case nation; this is one of the most technologically developed and wealthiest countries on earth we're talking about here.

08-18-07 - History in the (re)making Special Knesset session will reenact fateful United Nations vote that led to Israel's creation. The UN secretary general has been invited to preside over the session, which the event planners hope will include the participation of ambassadors from the 33 nations who voted in favor of the partition

08-18-07 - U.S.: No strings attached to new defense package for Israel The new $30 billion American defense package for Israel is not conditioned on diplomatic progress or concessions to the Palestinians, a top U.S. aide said Thursday as representatives from both countries signed the memorandum of understanding in Jerusalem.

08-18-07 - Iraq to Kishangarh: Palestinians' hunt for postal address on in city It has been a long and precarious journey for 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Thaiar. From Baghdad to Kishangarh village in the backyard of Vasant Kunj, via a bus ride through the sandy plains of Syria.

08-18-07 - Mandela lawyer: ?Israel continues its violations against the detainees?

08-18-07 - CAIR Says ADL Seeks to Hinder Legal Rights of U.S. Muslims The ADL's campaign of defamation was revealed when the Los Angeles Times wrote: 'Pro-Israel or Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Defense League and [Daniel Pipes'] Middle East Forum think tank have provided news organizations with reams of critical documentation on Muslim leaders in recent weeks.'

News for 08-17-07

2007-08-18T19:04:00.001-04:00

08-17-07 - Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank raid Palestinian security officials said that a gun battle broke out between Israeli troops and local gunmen in the village of Kafr Dan. One gunman and a 16-year-old boy were killed.

08-17-07 - Mother's deportation stalled Maha Dakar will stay in the United States for at least 18 months while Congress decides whether to permanently halt deportation proceedings against her.....She and her husband, Bassam Garadah, are here legally but are in an immigration limbo because, as Palestinians, they are considered "stateless."

08-17-07 - Fuel block hits Gaza power supplies "For two days we have not received fuel," the chairman of the Gaza Generating Company, Rafik Malikha, told a press conference today. "The Israeli side is preventing vehicles from approaching the crossing."

08-17-07 - Israeli court refuses to release head of a detainees? society The Ofer Israeli military court refused on Friday an appeal to release Mohammad Bisharat, head of the Nafha Society for Defending the Detainees Rights and Human Rights.

08-17-07 - Hamas says security devices barred it from holding festival in Jenin

08-17-07 - The Al Quds brigades vows retaliation to the Jenin invasion The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, vowed fierce retaliation to the Friday Israeli military invasion to Kafer Dan village, near Jenin, where two Palestinians were killed and several others were injured.

08-17-07 - Non-governmental institutions facing real financial crisis Borhan Al Sa?ady, official spokesperson of the National Committee for non-governmental institutions in Palestine, stated on Friday that several unions and NGO?s are facing real financial crises which are obstructing their work in rebuilding the Palestinians society by establishing projects which supports the Palestinian economy.

08-17-07 - Former combatants will discuss Mideast peace

08-17-07 - Khalid: ?practices of the Executive Force must be condemned and stopped? Taiseer Khalid, member of the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), slammed the practices of the Hamas-controlled executive force in the Gaza Strip, and described the force as ?fascist militias?.

08-17-07 - Olmert, Abbas talks hit snag on refugee problem

08-17-07 - Line of hope links Palestinians and Israelis

08-17-07 - Obama praises Israel aid hike Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) welcomed a hike in defense assistance to Israel.
Stoolie.

08-17-07 - Ellison joins anti-Semitism task force The only Muslim member of Congress has joined its anti-Semitism task force.

08-17-07 - Ankara upbeat on start of Israel-Syria talks Turkish officials trying to jumpstart peace talks between Syria and Israel have sounded hopeful as they have said they were encouraged by recent statements by Syrian and Israeli decision-makers, and described Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent statements on the chance of resuming negotiations as particularly positive.

08-17-07 - Most settlements lie east of fence, most settlers west The settlements west of the fence, which are expected to be annexed to Israel if an agreement is reached, have grown by a total of 11,338 residents between June 2006 and July 2007.

08-17-07 - Tulkarm Struggles Against the Wall, Settlements and Israeli Chemical Factories The Tulkarm area covers the city of Tulkarm and 31 villages in its surrounding areas. In this area live approximately 180,000 inhabitants. About 45,000 live in the city itself, 18,000 live the larger refugee camp and 8,000 in the smaller camp. Tulkarm is only 13 km away from the Mediterranean Sea by the Israeli town of Netanya, but since 1990 the inhabitants can no longer access the beach.

08-17-07 - UN plans Mideast and Iraq conferences in September U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to call a meeting on the future of Iraq as well as a session of the Quartet mediators on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a U.N. official said on Thursday.

08-17-07 - Lebanese army says two militants killed in siege camp

08-17-07 - KinderUSA Files for Dismissal of Lawsuit Our decision to withdraw the lawsuit was based on an assessment of our financial situation; because the needs of the Palestinian children are so great at this time, we decided to expend our resources in terms of time and energy on alleviating the desperate situation of our beneficiaries instead of on costly legal fees that would have ensued as this case proceeded.

08-17-07 - Hamas and Fatah in the dock in Gaza drama More than 1,500 people flocked to the Shawa cultural centre in Gaza to see the play, forcing the organisers to add extra seats to the auditorium to meet demand.

08-17-07 - Charity trial witness falters An Israeli intelligence agent whose earlier testimony linked a U.S.-based Islamic charity to Hamas acknowledged Thursday that none of the overseas charities it supported has appeared among hundreds of names on U.S. government terrorist lists. The testimony seemed to cast doubt on a central element of the government's criminal case against former officials of the now-defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development

News for 08-16-07

2007-08-17T23:41:00.000-04:00

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.

News for 08-15-07

2007-08-16T18:24:00.000-04:00

08-15-07 - Rights group protests death of Bethlehem teen at checkpoint

08-15-07 - Twenty Palestinians Left Homeless in Jordan Valley The four small homes that comprised the village were demolished and twenty Palestinians were left homeless.

08-15-07 - The Israeli army kidnaps four Palestinians near the Gaza strip borders

08-15-07 - Order without law: Hamas flexes its muscles to assert political authority

08-15-07 - Hamas is ready to talk The Palestinian people's struggle for freedom has been continuing for almost a century. During this time, we have faced every form of challenge, from persecution, abuse and humiliation, to military assaults, engineered starvation and social anarchy. All these trials have been deliberately imposed by an occupying power that is breaching international law on a daily basis.

08-15-07 - AL warns of negative consequences of Israeli attacks on Palestinians The unceasing military raids by the Israeli forces against the Palestinians proved that Israel has no real intention to achieve peace, said a statement by the AL general secretariat, calling Israel "a country above the law."

08-15-07 - Abbas: Isolation of Gaza Strip temporary Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that the isolation of Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, from the rest of the Palestinian territories "is temporary and should end soon."

08-15-07 - Army says it uncovered tunnel in Gaza

08-15-07 - Leftist PPP slams Hamas policies in the Gaza Strip

08-15-07 - Palestinian Workers Higher Council opens meeting in Amman Palestinian Higher Labor Council opened meeting in Amman on Wednesday to discuss labor union issues in the Palestinian areas and ways to activate the council's role locally and internationally.

08-15-07 - Hamas claims responsibility for mortar attacks on Erez crossing The military wing of Hamas movement claimed responsibility on Wednesday for bombing the Erez crossing between Israeli and the Gaza Strip with 10 mortar shells which left a number of soldiers wounded.

08-15-07 - Abbas office denies publishing electoral law decree President Mahmud Abbas's office on Wednesday denied that it had published a decree that made changes to the current Palestinian electoral law.

08-15-07 - Palestinian children call on rivals to get back to dialogue

08-15-07 - Abbas mulling changes to electoral law President Mahmud Abbas is mulling changes to Palestinian electoral law that would effectively exclude the rival Hamas movement ruling Gaza from future elections, officials said on Wednesday.

08-15-07 - Army invades Nablus and kidnaps civilians

08-15-07 - 'Quiet Transfer' Pushes Palestinians Out

08-15-07 - More anonymity in terror-linked Holy Land case The Holy Land Foundation was part of a global network of organizations that raised money from Muslims throughout the world and funneled it to Hamas, according to a second Israeli secret agent who testified under a pseudonym Wednesday.

08-15-07 - IDF backtracks on criminalization of illegal W. Bank construction The Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces have moderated an order issued roughly six months ago, which declared that unauthorized construction in the West Bank would be considered a criminal offense.

08-15-07 - Family demands the release of her underage detained son

08-15-07 - Hamas TV attacked over cat-swinging bee-man A United States-based animal rights organisation says it will complain to a Hamas-run television channel about a program that showed cats and lions being mistreated at a zoo in the Gaza Strip.

08-15-07 - ?No American President can stand up to Israel.? These words came from feisty Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations (1967-1970) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-1974). Moorer was, perhaps, the last independent-minded American military leader. Admiral Moorer knew what he was talking about. On June 8, 1967, Israel attacked the American intelligence ship, USS Liberty, killing 34 American sailors and wounding 173. The Israelis even strafed the life rafts, machine-gunning the American sailors leaving the stricken ship I don't agree with paragraph 7-8. There are some Americans like that, but they are thankfully a minority.

08-15-07 - Olmert meets senior US diplomat on eve of arms deal The aid to Israel reflects an increase in value of more than 25 percent, Olmert has said, describing it as a considerable improvement and very important element for national security.

08-15-07 - U.N. Special Envoy Will Join Mideast Forum at Rushmore The two-day forum at Mount Rushmore National Memorial Oct. 16-17, is open to the public and is designed to promote dialogue and expand America's knowledge of the complex issues surrounding tensions in the Middle East, said James Nelson, president of the Mount Rushmore Institute.

08-15-07 - Hizbullah marks Lebanon war anniversary with pomp and piety

08-15-07 - Olmert grateful for U.S. aid boost Ehud Olmert thanked the Bush administration for boosting U.S. military aid to Israel. Yeh, ~swell~.

08-15-07 - Gaza residents tell of demeaning questioning by Shin Bet

08-15-07 - Israel rapped over survivors' subsidies An official audit accused successive Israeli governments of neglecting needy Holocaust survivors.

08-15-07 - When Will Linda Gradstein Go to Gaza? As usual, Ms. Gradstein's report was carefully crafted to satisfy the Israeli government's desire that its illegal occupation of the West Bank, collective punishment of the Palestinian People and military raids into Gaza be reported in terms that present it in the best possible light. They must positively love Ms. Gradstein who apparently has never seen an Israeli Press Release that she did not endorse and mimic.

08-15-07 - Sudan calls for unity among Palestinian factions Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir on Wednesday called for the unity among the Palestinian ranks and the enhancement of dialogue among them to prevent foreign intervention in their affairs.

08-15-07 - Left and Right Make Same Argument Re Israel Lobby

08-15-07 - Va. man indicted for threatening Arabs A Virginia man was indicted Wednesday on charges that he left threatening messages at an Arab political organization in the U.S. during fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the Middle East last year.

08-15-07 - Feds block citizenship of suit plaintiff Born blind to Palestinian immigrants in Jordan, he came to the country as a teenager with the help of U.S. officials. Today he works for the University of Colorado helping a blind engineering graduate student adapt.

08-15-07 - Dahariya incident to be taught in IDF courses Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi says incident in which Israeli troops kidnapped a Palestinian taxi driver, shot a civilian bystander indicates line of military, operational and normative failures; orders conclusions of investigation to be taught to future soldiers

08-15-07 - Palestinian's hold barbecue in the park

08-15-07 - Watertown severs ADL ties The move came under immense pressure from the town's large Armenian community, which is angry over the ADL's unwillingness to acknowledge the killings of Armenians during World War I as genocide. Interesting.

News for 08-14-07

2007-08-15T21:44:00.001-04:00

08-14-07 - Three more bodies found after Israeli army withdrew from Gaza

08-14-07 - Six killed in Israeli raid on Gaza Tzipi Livni was speaking after six Palestinians - including two civilians - were killed when Israeli troops and aircraft struck suspected militants.

08-14-07 - Hamas, Islamic Jihad leaders meet secretly in Damascus Palestinian Hamas and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movements held a secret meeting in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Gaza-based Islamic Jihad leader announced on Tuesday.

08-14-07 - Israeli troops arrest dozens Palestinians in operation in Gaza

08-14-07 - France deplores Israeli incursion into Gaza French Foreign Ministry Tuesday deplored an Israeli incursion that left four people dead at Khan Younis in Gaza and called on Israel to demonstrate "the highest level of restraint."

08-14-07 - WFP aid trucks awaiting access to Gaza Twenty-two trucks of relief materials for the Palestinians in Gaza arrived Tuesday at the Egyptian side of Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border, the official MENA news agency reported.

08-14-07 - OPT: Death of a 75 year old Palestinian woman A PRCS ambulance was stopped by Privet Israeli security guards at Barta?a military gate, in the Jenin area, while on route from Arraba PRCS Emergency Medical Station to Barta?a village to transport a 75 Palestinian woman in critical condition who suffered from heart attack

08-14-07 - Israel, Turkey, US to hold joint military exercises Navy and air forces of Israel, Turkey and the United States will stage joint search and rescue exercises in late August south of the Turkish coast, the Israeli army announced on Tuesday

08-14-07 - Palestinian Ministry of Health slams Israeli assaults The Palestinian Ministry of Health slammed on Tuesday the Israeli invasion into the Gaza Strip earlier in the day which left six residents, including a mother and her son, dead and dozens of residents injured in an area close to Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

08-14-07 - Palestinian Security forces arrest Hamas members in Qalqilia

08-14-07 - Legislator Muna Mansour: without dialogue, national projects will fail The Palestinian Legislator Muna Mansour, of the change and reform bloc of Hamas, praised the British Parliamentary Committee which recommended dialogue with Hamas movement.

08-14-07 - Israeli Media: Settlers in the West Bank deliver a population boom An Israeli news website issued a reported on Tuesday stating that the population growth rate of illegal Israeli settlers is twice that of those in Israel.

08-14-07 - Rice urged to deal with Hamas A dovish pro-Israel group urged Condoleezza Rice to contact Palestinians affiliated with Hamas to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

08-14-07 - Abbas may resign if November peace conference fails: newspaper Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas may resign if a U.S.-proposed international conference scheduled for November failed to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a Jerusalem-based Palestinian daily reported on Tuesday.

08-14-07 - Abbas: The Israeli peace is just a public relations maneuver The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas highly condemned on Tuesday the continuous Israeli army attack on the Gaza strip by saying that this attack is against all Palestinians and is harming the peace process.

08-14-07 - Israel rejects calls to end isolation of Hamas The British all-party Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Select Committee said this week that the boycott had failed to deliver results. It urged Gordon Brown's government to find ways of engaging with "moderate elements" in Hamas and called on Mr Abbas to begin reconciliation efforts with the Islamic faction.

08-14-07 - After six residents were killed, Al Mezan center reaffirms its call for international protection

08-14-07 - The dissolved Ministry Of Interior slams Executive Force attacks against reporters in Gaza The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip, which was dissolved by president Mahmoud Abbas when he declared emergency law, and formed a new emergency government, slammed attacks carried by the Hamas-formed Executive Force against reporters in Gaza on Monday.

08-14-07 - Israel may delay plan on removing West Bank barriers Israel has told the Palestinians it may need more time to develop a plan for removing some of the roadblocks restricting Palestinian travel in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday.

08-14-07 - Hamas hails British, Prodi comments on dialogue Hamas on Tuesday welcomed comments by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and a British parliamentary committee that urged a rethink of the West's boycott of the Islamists ruling the Gaza Strip.

08-14-07 - Gaza: Hamas trades fire with Doghmush clan

08-14-07 - Israel to Europe: Hamas-Fatah talks a "'huge mistake" Israel said on Tuesday it would be a "big mistake" for the international community to try to bridge differences between Hamas Islamists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction.

08-14-07 - UAE Red Crescent donates $100,000 to assist Palestinians

08-14-07 - Israel warns against Hamas talks after British, Prodi comments

08-14-07 - DEBKAfile editor says New York at risk Claiming that New York City residents had much to fear, Shamis said, "There is always something to be afraid of, because the threat is an ongoing threat, and it's a fact that the New York Police Department has taken it seriously. These people have something to gain by keeping the American sheeple in constant fear of the terrorist 'boogeyman' who happens to be Muslim. Israel has been a huge benefactor in the 'war on terror' (on several different fronts - one being the homeland security business).

08-14-07 - Itzik on U.S. tour for captive soldiers Israel's Knesset speaker is meeting with U.S. and U.N. leaders to press the case of Israel's captive soldiers.

08-14-07 - Kohr sixth most powerful? The exective director of AIPAC is Washington's sixth most powerful person, according to GQ magazine.

08-14-07 - U.S. set to increase Israel aid The United States is set to sign a memorandum of understanding with Israel increasing military assistance by 25 percent.

08-14-07 - Arafat's widow loses citizenship The widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been stripped of her Tunisian citizenship, officials say.

08-14-07 - Hezbollah's leader warns Israel Much of Lebanon's infrastructure was damaged by an intense Israeli bombardment in 2006 after Hezbollah forces seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid. Bridges, roads and thousands of homes were destroyed in the Israeli bombardment and a major ground assault across the border.

08-14-07 - Netanyahu fights off challenge from Likud 'infiltrator' Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday fought to minimise an internal threat within his Likud party from an extremist "infiltrator" who advocates barring Arab Israelis from parliament and encouraging non-Jews to leave the country.

08-14-07 - Terror threat Web site called unreliable Shamis says Debka, which is financed by subscriptions and ad revenue, has a daily readership of 1.3 million. But its reports, published in English and Hebrew, rely on anonymous sourcing and often prove untrue.

08-14-07 - IDF assessment: Syria thinks Olmert wants to launch war That's like saying a bear likes to defecate in the woods. But seriously folks..

08-14-07 - Palestinian adolescents find an outlet through UNICEF-supported community centres To help adolescents overcome stress and hopelessness, and to provide meaningful programmes outside schools, UNICEF is currently supporting 40 adolescent-friendly learning centres in the West Bank and Gaza in cooperation with the Tamer Institute for Community Education and the Ma?an Development Centre.

08-14-07 - Neoconservatism: A Cancer on the Presidency His great fault was to heed to the voices of the Zionist lobby in Washington and to listen to the Circe-like sounds of the neocon Fifth Columnists......Bush is going to be judged a disaster by history because he listened to and followed the advice of forked tongues a-la-Feith, Wolfowitz, Kagan, Podhoretz, Abrams, Perle, Pipes, Cheney, Abraham and the worst and most treacherous of this miserable lot, William (Iago) Kristol. Sublimely blind to the disaster of Iraq, these double-agents keep asking for more American and Iraqi blood to be shed, and are lobbying hard for an attack on Iran. Agreed.

08-14-07 - LIFE builds medical clinics in the Palestinian territories

08-14-07 - UN slams Israel over details of ordnance dropped on Lebanon "In spite of repeated requests for information, Israel has not provided the required Strike Data -- location of intended target, quantity and type of ordnance dropped or fired -- that is required to quantify the problem," the UN Mine Action Coordination Center (MACC) said. That would probably be because Israel deliberately targeted civilians, and it would be proven by turning over those maps. Not that Israel really gives a rat's (about targeting civilians, as has been the case throughout its history).

08-14-07 - Lebanon appeals to besieged Islamists to surrender

08-14-07 - Lebanese army wants more from U.S. The Lebanese military has been pounding the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp relentlessly for nearly three months, trying to wipe out Islamic militant fighters. But instead, it has given them a new form of protection: vast rubble in which to hide.

08-14-07 - Giuliani says U.S. will need long presence in Iraq Rudy, the neocon ass kisser. Pucker up.

08-14-07 - Syria backs bigger role for India in Middle East peace Syria Tuesday asked India to play a bigger role in the peace process in the Middle East and said that New Delhi should use its growing relations with Washington to promote stability in the region

08-14-07 - Ban Ki-moon: Kidnapped soldiers top priority Ban told reporters before the meeting that the issue of the MIA Israeli soldiers topped his daily agenda and that he is working hard to resolve the matter. Ban Ki-moon=Israel's stooge.

08-14-07 - Jewish interim principal assigned to Arabic Language School A veteran teacher who helped develop an Arabic-themed public school has been named its acting principal now that the original principal has resigned under heavy criticism.

08-14-07 - Churches urge candidates on peace A coalition of U.S. mainstream churches urged presidential candidates to make a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a top priority.

08-14-07 - Syria has no plans for war on Israel: Al Sharaa

08-14-07 - Muslim hearts are hard to win after years of hypocrisy There must be a timetable for an independent Palestinian state and a willingness to twist Israeli arms to get it.

08-14-07 - U.S. court ruling: Evidence seized in IDF raid not admissible Lawyers for Muslim charity leaders accused of aiding Hamas terrorists scored a rare win in court Tuesday when a federal judge blocked some evidence seized by Israel Defense Forces soldiers during raids of Palestinian organizations. Defense lawyers had objected that some of the documents were not signed or dated, and they cast doubt on Israel's handling of the evidence.
Ouch.

08-14-07 - FM defends Fayad to US House delegates In an unusual diplomatic twist, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not urge US congressmen to fight a proposed massive US arms deal to Saudi Arabia, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni went to bat for Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad in meetings with a delegation of Democratic US Congressman over the last two days.

08-14-07 - Italy discusses Middle East peace prospects with Egypt, Israel

08-14-07 - Sale of Israeli products in Germany protested In their protest announcement, the groups claimed that products from "illegal settlements" and the Golan Heights would be sold. "We don't want any apartheid herbs," the announcement said.

08-14-07 - US candidate Giuliani warns on Palestinian state Republican 2008 White House front-runner Rudolph Giuliani warned Tuesday it was not in the interest of the United States to help create a Palestinian state that would "support terrorism." Rudy, the AIPAC ass kisser. Pucker up.

News for 08-13-07

2007-08-14T18:36:00.001-04:00

08-13-07 - One militant killed, seven wounded in clashes in southern Gaza A Hamas militant was killed and seven other militants wounded early Tuesday by Israeli gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip, militants and Palestinian medical officials said.

08-13-07 - Israel detains 20 Palestinians in West Bank

08-13-07 - Israel, PNA reach deal on role of int'l observers in Hebron The two sides agreed that TIPH should be the neutral witness on the ground who monitors and reports on the situation. TIPH personnel has no military or police functions and does not intervene in disputes, incidents or activities conducted by the Israeli or Palestinian side.

08-13-07 - Gaza: IDF arrests 4 armed infiltrators Four Palestinians infiltrators armed with knives and a hand grenade were captured by IDF soldiers soon after they crossed through the security fence into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon, the army said.

08-13-07 - UK blocks Israel arms deals for fear of rights violations The British government has blocked almost one third of British military exports to Israel this year, citing possible threats to regional stability and fears the equipment might facilitate human rights violations.

08-13-07 - Hebron: Settlers Suspected as Qurdoba School is Set Ablaze

08-13-07 - Hamas says ready for dialogue with West A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Monday reiterated that his group was ready to open dialogue with Europe and hailed a call by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi for launching dialogue with the Islamic movement.

08-13-07 - A Prisoners Society calls for releasing a detainee from Hebron The Waed Society for Detainees and Freed Detainee in Israeli prisons called on several human rights groups and legal institutions to intervene for the release of detainee Maher Obeid, from Hebron, who was repeatedly kidnapped by the army is now detained in administrative detention without charges or trial.

08-13-07 - Abbas' Advisor: "Hamas wants to silence any voices that oppose it" Nimir Hammad, political advisor to the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated on Monday that the attack which was carried by members of the Executive Force of Hamas against a public protest in Gaza earlier this day is an attempt by Hamas to silence any voices that oppose the movement and its policies in the Gaza Strip.

08-13-07 - Peres proposes prisoner amnesty Monday's Ma'ariv quoted the Israeli president as saying in an interview that given the limited mandate of the Palestinian Authority after Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip, the Olmert government should demand quiet in the West Bank rather than ceding physical control of the territory at this time.

08-13-07 - Egyptian aid trucks allowed into Gaza to relieve humanitarian crisis Fifteen Egyptian trucks carrying flour crossed into the Gaza Strip via the Karam Salem crossing on Monday, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.

08-13-07 - Japan contributes 4.3 mln USD to UNRWA

08-13-07 - Fayyad government will ask Abbas to cancel all decrees issued after the Mecca Unity deal

08-13-07 - Eight Palestinians kidnapped in Hebron

08-13-07 - Gaza bank freezes Hamas accounts The Gaza branch of the Palestine Islamic Bank says it acted at the request of the Palestinian Authority. A spokesman for Hamas Islamist group described the move as illegal.

08-13-07 - Hebron: Israeli Military Shuts Down Palestinian Business in Old City Market

08-13-07 - Hamas cracks down on "unlicensed" rallies in Gaza The Hamas security men, shouting "filming is forbidden", confiscated news cameras and cellular phones equipped with cameras.
They also entered the office of the Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya and seized a video camera and a tape after journalists working for the station refused to hand over a recording of the events at the square.

08-13-07 - Israeli ambassador slams British MPs' call to end Hamas boycott

08-13-07 - Japan seeks Mideast peace through economy: FM "In order to establish a Palestinian state, it must be economically viable, and we are presenting the initiative of the 'corridor for peace' as a means for this economic viability,"

08-13-07 - Japan resumes aid to Palestinian Authority Japan will resume direct aid to the Palestinian Authority after boycotting a previous Hamas-led government for more than a year, a Japanese official said on Monday.

08-13-07 - Israeli army demolishes animal sheds and farmers? huts in the Jordan valley The Israeli army stormed the Al Bak'a valley area, demolishing the huts and sheds, barring farmers from removing their belongings and forcing them to leave, local farmers stated.

08-13-07 - A Village Makes Its Own Protest "If we look at the wall, which has confiscated some of the main resources for the Palestinian villagers -- namely, the fertile land and the underground water tables -- the economic and social structures in the Palestinian areas are changing very rapidly," Jamal Jumaa, coordinator with the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign in Ramallah told IPS.

08-13-07 - Israeli forces abduct several Palestinians in Jenin and Qabatyia

08-13-07 - Hamas forces 'beat Gaza rivals' Baton-wielding Hamas security forces tried to disperse the protesters from rival Palestinian factions, gathered to denounce the Islamist group.

08-13-07 - Israeli forces abuse Palestinian workers near illegal Wall in Jerusalem

08-13-07 - Bid to deny tenure to Barnard prof More than 800 people have signed a petition seeking to deny tenure to a Barnard College professor accused of shoddy scholarship and a pro-Palestinian agenda. Another witchhunt by the Israeli Lobby.

08-13-07 - Israeli Arab group claims Jerusalem attack An obscure Israeli Arab terrorist group claimed responsibility for a shooting attack in Jerusalem.

08-13-07 - Israeli youths opt out of army service One trend that disturbs many Israelis is an increase in middle- and upper-class teens - considered the potential leaders and brains of the army - who seek health-related discharges to avoid military service.

08-13-07 - 'Gifts' that haunt U.S.

08-13-07 - Hamas optimism vs. Fatah despair "We've taken control, we've gotten rid of people who were collaborating with Israel, and we've restored order," says Khalil al-Haja, a mid-ranking member of Hamas Qassem Brigade militia. "Abu Mazen [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] will eventually have to realize that we're hear to stay. In six months, we'll be reunited."

08-13-07 - The Middle East Peace Process Scam Since the failed Camp David summit of 2000, and actually well before it, Israel?s interest in a peace process ? other than for the purpose of obtaining Palestinian and international acceptance of the status quo ? has been a fiction that has served primarily to provide cover for its systematic confiscation of Palestinian land and an occupation whose goal, according to the former IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya?alon, is ?to sear deep into the consciousness of Palestinians that they are a defeated people?

08-13-07 - New Leader Picked to Run Arabic School

08-13-07 - UAE Red Crescent gives WFP US$100,000 to help Palestinians The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US$100,000 donation from the United Arab Emirates' Red Crescent Society to help the UN food aid agency assist the growing number of impoverished people in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

08-13-07 - Lebanon villagers slowly rebuilding lives a year after war "Nothing has improved for me in the last year," Mokdad says bitterly as she chain smokes, holding back tears. "I used to have my dignity, my home and now look at me.

08-13-07 - Lebanese soldier killed in battle with Islamists

08-13-07 - Jordan bans sandwiches over salmonella outbreak Jordan banned restaurants across the kingdom from selling popular chicken "shawarma" sandwiches from Monday after more than 200 people were treated for salmonella-linked food poisoning.

08-13-07 - Mideast awaits end of Bush's term Nearly anyone you ask will tell you that things are better since Hamas took control in June. People can walk the streets without fear that a sudden burst of gunfire will catch them in a crossfire. While the economy continues to be squeezed, basic products are available. In daylight hours, stores are open, watermelon and tomatoes are piled high at street stalls and children play outside. At night, cars jam the streets and patrons crowd restaurants.

08-13-07 - Army Torturing Palestinian Refugees'

08-13-07 - Father claims fabrication in footage of Jerusalem shooting The Father of Ahmad Khatib, the Arab-Israeli killed in Friday?s shooting in the Old City of Jerusalem, has claimed that video footage released by the Israeli government is fabricated.

08-13-07 - US lawmaker slams Hamas payments US Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) sent a letter to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayad over the weekend demanding an explanation for his government's transfer of salary payments to Hamas a day after he assured a large delegation of Republican congressmen that his government would not seek reconciliation with Hamas.

08-13-07 - Israel asks EU not to host UN panel on Palestinians' rights Israel has asked the European Parliament not to provide space this month for a two-day UN panel meeting on the rights of Palestinians, saying the UN group co-hosting it has an anti-Israel record.

08-13-07 - UN official calls for improving living conditions of Palestinian refugees Panos Moumtzis, Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Syria, made the remarks at an annual four-day conference of the General Authority for Palestine Arab Refugees at its headquarters in Damascus.

08-13-07 - Other Churchwide Assembly actions On August 11, the assembly passed a resolution calling for ongoing work for a two-state solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. The resolution calls for investment in the Palestinian territories, consideration of refusing to buy goods or invest in activities taking place in Israeli settlements, and a review of other economic options, according to Bishop Christopher Epting, the Presiding Bishop's deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations (EIR), who attended the assembly.

08-13-07 - Israeli, Palestinian men seek family unification

08-13-07 - Syria buys advanced anti-aircraft missiles: Israeli report Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has nevertheless refused to order the distribution of gas masks to civilians, fearing such a step would further escalate the heightened tensions between Israel and its northern neighbour, the report said, quoting sources in the military intelligence.

08-13-07 - New England Methodists: Divest from Israel The United Methodist News Service reported Friday that the denomination's New England Conference may consider divesting itself of holdings in 20 companies that do business in Israel.

08-13-07 - How much pain can one man take? WHAT do you say to a man who lost his first wife two days after the birth of his second child, and who has now lost his second wife and two more of his children? What do you say? What?

08-13-07 - Goodlatte delegation travels to Israel

08-13-07 - Paradise Now After it was nominated for an Oscar, a campaign sprung up to revoke the nomination. During the campaign a group called the Israeli Project charged that the nomination implicated the Academy Awards in a "chain of terroror" that justified the deaths of innocent people. The film lost the Oscar race to "Tsotsi."

08-13-07 - Lakewood family builds bridges for peace

News for 08-12-07

2007-08-13T18:23:00.000-04:00

08-12-07 - Britain urged to engage moderate elements in Hamas The report by the Commons foreign affairs select committee argues that western sanctions against Hamas, for its refusal to renounce violence and recognise Israel, have been "counterproductive".

08-12-07 - Israeli army storms Nablus amid Palestinian resistance Israeli forces rolled into the West Bank city of Nablus early Sunday morning and stormed a number of houses amid resistance by Palestinian fighters, Palestinian witnesses reported.

08-12-07 - Fateh spokesperson: ?Fateh armed groups are not operating against Hamas? Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, official spokesperson of Fateh movement, stated on Friday that Fateh is not operating against Hamas, and denied Israeli reports that armed cells of Fateh are acting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

08-12-07 - Italian PM pushes dialogue to help Hamas 'develop politically' The aim of having a channel open, the spokesman said, was to encourage moderation and avoid dividing the Palestinians.

08-12-07 - Governor Ta?mari says Israeli checkpoints in Bethlehem increase steadily Governor of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Salah Ta?mari, revealed on Sunday that the Israeli checkpoints across the holy city have been increasing steadily.

08-12-07 - PA forces resume police control over Area B in the West Bank

08-12-07 - Hamas claims to hold talks with Fatah A Hamas official in Gaza said Sunday that his organization was holding unofficial talks with representatives from the rival Fatah movement, as tension between the two factions continued to simmer on the ground. Fatah officials denied that any such dialogue was taking place.

08-12-07 - Haneya's aide urges Abbas to give place for capable leader

08-12-07 - U.S. Pressure on Israel for a Palestinian State Foreseen ** Yogev explains that the Bush Administration is working under the pressure of the 2008 elections. "By then," Yogev posits, "Bush plans to hit the Iranian nuclear infrastructures. This is why he is in such a rush to give the Palestinians and the moderate Moslem states fat weapons deals and a Palestinian state - in order to silence them in anticipation of the planned attack on Iran.".....MK Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) told Arutz-7 this morning that the summit is something that must be strongly opposed: "This summit could well lead to a Palestinian state, with clear Hamas and Iranian influence, right on the doorstep of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ben Gurion International Airport. Even if it just serves as a small support for this idea, the summit is something that we must not allow."

08-12-07 - Fertilizer shortages hamper rocket fire But rockets continued to be fired towards Israel on Sunday, with three rockets landing in the western Negev.

08-12-07 - Video shows gunfight between Palestinian and Israeli guard The footage from Friday's incident, which came from several surveillance cameras, showed 29-year-old Israeli Arab Ahmed Khatib seizing the gun of one two guards from an ultra-nationalist Jewish association and opening fire twice.

08-12-07 - Israel to decide soon on easing W. Bank roadblocks Tom Lantos, a key U.S. congressional leader, told reporters in Jerusalem: "Premature removal of these checkpoints is a guarantee of violence and terrorism erupting."

Lantos is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.

08-12-07 - Palestinian health workers stage Gaza strike Palestinian health workers in Gaza launched three days of work stoppages on Sunday to protest against Hamas firing members of the rival Fatah party from senior posts after its takeover of the territory.

08-12-07 - Egypt warns it won't take back refugees who cross into Israel stepped up criticism of Egyptian border police, describing an incident in which the Egyptians allegedly shot and beat several Sudanese refugees in front of horrified Israeli soldiers.

08-12-07 - UN's website breached by hackers Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

08-12-07 - Walt-Mearsheimer Cancelled by Chicago Council on Global Affairs The Foxman ploy sounds suspiciously like the one they tried against Jimmy Carter when he was to speak at Brandeis. The University asked if instead of speaking alone he'd debate Alan Dershowitz, to which the former president said something like: "What? You must be kidding." Brandeis caved and Carter spoke alone as was befitting a former president.

08-12-07 - Speechless in Chicago John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt were scheduled to use the Sept. 27 address to outline their upcoming book, ?The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,? which is expected to be released by Farrar, Straus & Giroux early next month. But the president of the Chicago Council, Marshall Bouton, canceled the event under pressure from critics who were uncomfortable with the academics? arguments, according to a letter drafted by Mearsheimer and Walt to the Council?s board. The Israeli Lobby strikes again. Islamofascism is the problem in America? The greatest threat to American freedoms and security is the Israeli Lobby, and that includes the efforts and policies of the neocons.

08-12-07 - UK 'damaged' by Lebanon war delay The UK's reputation was damaged when the government hesitated in calling for an immediate end to the Lebanon war last year, MPs have said......It called some of Israel's military actions in Lebanon during the war "indiscriminate and disproportionate".

08-12-07 - Kill Or Convert, Brought To You By the Pentagon With the endorsement of the Defense Department, OSU is mailing "Freedom Packages" to soldiers serving in Iraq. These are not your grandfather's care packages, however. Besides pairs of white socks and boxes of baby wipes (included at the apparent suggestion of Iran-Contra felon Oliver North, according to OSU) OSU's care packages contain the controversial Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game. End Times Christianity is Christian Zionism.

08-12-07 - British academics: Stop boycott plan now Professor Mark Pepys, head of the Department of Medicine of the University of London's Hampstead Campus and a member of the University and College Union sponsoring the proposed boycott, warned that British academic institutions must distance themselves from any boycott of Israeli academia or risk seriously damaging ties with U.S. colleges and universities.

08-12-07 - Killing for Honor- A Deadly Part of a Larger Trend

08-12-07 - U.S.-Israel aid deal near The $30 billion package would come in parallel to stepped-up arms donations and sales by Washington to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) said Israel would still have the mightiest military in the region.

08-12-07 - Lantos not hopeful on Mideast conference Lantos said the arms sale "needs to be of such a nature that it does not represent a threat to the State of Israel."

08-12-07 - Time to talk to Hamas

08-12-07 - Break with Bush over middle East, MPs warn Brown The Labour-led Foreign Affairs Committee urged Gordon Brown's ministers to talk to Syria and Iran - part of President George Bush's 'axis of evil'.

08-12-07 - Israel not interested to get soldier freed: Captors Israel is not serious to get its soldier, held since more than a year in Gaza Strip, freed, a spokesman for the captors said Saturday.

08-12-07 - Japanese FM to launch Israel-PA-Jordan project The project, which is still in its nascent stages, is intended to create an "agro-industrial" park in the Jordan Valley region. Products made in this park will then be transferred to a "distribution center" that is to be built in Jordan, and from there to markets in the Gulf States and elsewhere.

08-12-07 - U.S. and Israel close gap on defense aid payouts Israel wins, as expected. See "Holdup in U.S. aid deal".

08-12-07 - Organization of Palestinian businessmen may enter politics Hani al-Masri said the group is looking for a new path in Palestinian politics, a hint at the growing weariness many have professed in regards to the leading two rival parties, Fatah and Hamas, particularly due to the deadly infighting between them which reached an apex with the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June.

08-12-07 - Unionof Labors Association Signs Agreement with Palestinian Counterpart The Jordan Union of Labors Associations today signed a joint cooperation agreement with its Palestinian counterpart.

08-12-07 - Peace in Iraq is inextricably linked to a Palestinian settlement For four decades, successive American administrations have failed to halt Israel's colonisation of the occupied territories. With Washington's redoubtable Israel lobby openly calling for an attack on Iran, the besieged President probably feels it would be safer to follow its lead than confront Israel over its refusal to enter into final status talks on a settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict.....Should Israel's colonisation of the West Bank continue, the US will find itself defending what former US president Jimmy Carter has described as a regime of apartheid in which Jews and Palestinians living in the same area are subject to different laws and differential access to resources. Should America succumb to Israeli pressure to isolate Iran, it will lose the war in Iraq.

08-12-07 - No to evacuation An evacuation that could have been carried out in minutes, in the middle of the night and by surprise, as is done to the Palestinians whose homes are demolished, was carried out in the spotlight, with several weeks' advance warning, to allow the settlers to produce their big show and benefit with pictures of it.

08-12-07 - US moves to hobble Lebanon's president The Bush administration has quietly opened a new diplomatic front in its efforts to free Lebanon from Syrian influence, with a move to undermine the authority of the country's pro-Syria president.

08-12-07 - Barak calls Rice to reaffirm commitment to dialogue The call came after Barak reportedly dismissed as "fantasy" any peace deal with the Palestinians in the near future, comments which drew a swift rebuke from the US State Department.

08-12-07 - 176 treated for salmonella-linked food poisoning in Jordan Nearly 200 people were treated for food poisoning in Jordan after eating salmonella-tainted chicken sandwiches from a fast food restaurant in a Palestinian camp, officials said Sunday.

08-12-07 - Lebanese army turns down siege surrender offer The Lebanese army on Sunday rejected a conditional offer of surrender by Islamist extremists in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country, a mediator told AFP.

08-12-07 - Ukrainian national says employer raped her, confiscated passport Annual reports in which the U.S. ranks countries according to their efforts in this area have noted improvement in Israel in the prevention of trafficking for prostitution. However, Israel has still not met minimum standards when it comes to preventing human trafficking for other purposes.

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08-11-07 - Hamas accuses Fatah, Israel of targeting West Bank supporters The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) accused on Saturday Palestinian security services, loyal to rival Fatah faction, of pursuing its members in West Bank in cooperation with the Israeli army.

08-11-07 - Israeli Web site causes N.Y. to up counterterrorism precautions

08-11-07 - Web report sparks NY alert Citing an "unverified" terrorist threat, the NYPD on Friday set up checkpoints in lower Manhattan and stepped up the deployment of radiological sensors on cars, boats and helicopters.

08-11-07 - Hamas navy ready to kick off: spokesman The 150 troops will run the marine police headquarters in Gaza. Their tasks would be fighting drug smuggling through the sea and securing the Palestinian fishermen properties, the spokesman added.

08-11-07 - Senior Fatah official slams Hamas, urging resumption of dialogue A senior Fatah movement official Saturday criticized Hamas for its policies in the Gaza Strip while saying that the only way out of the current crisis is resumption of national dialogue.

08-11-07 - Arafat's doctor: His blood had HIV, but poison killed him Jordanian news site Amman quoted al-Kurdi - a former Jordanian health ministry official - as saying that the virus had been injected into Arafat's bloodstream close to his death, and that the real cause of the chairman's death was poison.

08-11-07 - Palestinian police fight with a Palestinian civilian in Nablus The fight took place during a police campaign to enforce law and order in the city, Palestinian sources reported.

08-11-07 - Hamas detains Fatah men in Gaza Television footage showed Hamas militiamen raiding a wedding party

08-11-07 - A helping hand for the Holy Land As a volunteer with the Holy Land Christian Solidarity Cooperative, Ghanem contacts churches in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia to display the handmade nativity scenes, crosses, candles and other religious items, and Christmas ornaments. Proceeds from the fundraisers help enable Christian families to stay in their homeland....."Some of the Christian families in Bethlehem became Christians with Jesus 2,000 years ago. They are indigenous of the Holy Land and they feel forgotten."

08-11-07 - Palestinian negotiator says Israel promised Abbas to remove major West Bank roadblocks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has promised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to release in coming days a list of major West Bank roadblocks that will be removed, a Palestinian negotiator said Saturday.

08-11-07 - Hamas member admits collaborating with Israeli army - Update According to the tape, Ouda joined Hamas in 2001. Two years later, the Israeli intelligence recruited him as a spy after arresting him and implicating him in a sexual scandal.

08-11-07 - Al Sa'di: postponing the internal negotiations leads to more division among Palestinians Bassam Al Sa'di one of the Islamic Jihad movement leaders, called upon Fatah and Hamas leaders and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to immediately start internal deluge that includes all the Palestinian factions to being unity in order to stand to the changes that the Palestinian cause in facing.

08-11-07 - Prisoner's interrogation aired Palestine TV on Saturday broadcast footage of the interrogation of a prisoner who Hamas claimed had been tortured to death by rival security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. The prisoner seemed to have suffered no visible injuries.......it was unclear whether he was speaking under threat.

08-11-07 - J'lem shooter: Israeli Arab from Galilee According to the acquaintances, the incident was made up by the two security guards in order to avoid murder charges.

08-11-07 - Thousands attend West Bank rally of global Islamic movement A global Islamic movement that wants bring Muslims back to the roots of their religion drew a crowd of more than 10,000 at a rally Saturday and denounced the moderate Palestinian leadership in the West Bank as infidels.

08-11-07 - Leftists, Palestinians damage separation fence The activists managed to cut 30 meters of the barbed wire and electric fence before security forces arrived at the scene. The activists ceased their activity, and no arrests were carried out.

08-11-07 - Yemen urges Palestinian rivals to heed peace plan "The initiative is before the Palestinian brethren so that they shoulder their responsibilities in healing the rift"

08-11-07 - War of words over alleged Hamas spy for Israel Amid conflicting reports about his death in a Palestinian prison, Mu'aied Bani Ouda, a Hamas commander in the West Bank, admitted in a telecast Saturday by Palestinian state television to helping Israel kill five militants.

08-11-07 - Palestinian security forces detain a Cameraman and release his after several hours

08-11-07 - Left-wing activists, Palestinians cut hole in separation fence Left-wing activists and Palestinians cut a 30-meter hole in the security fence south of Mount Hebron on Saturday in a demonstration against its construction and route, which they said deviates from the Green Line.

08-11-07 - Report: Israelis fighting guerillas in Colombia While denying this report, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos did admit that a group of Israeli advisors was working alongside local defense officials in the last year......The paper described the Israeli aides as "mercenaries," but stressed that the Israeli government was aware of their actions.

08-11-07 - U.S. promotes free elections, only to see allies lose The paradox of American policy in the Middle East - promoting democracy on the assumption it will bring countries closer to the West - is that almost everywhere there are free elections, the American-backed side tends to lose.....But more important, U.S. support is often applied to one faction instead of institutions, causing further division rather than bringing about stability. Divide and conquer. How are they going to attack poor little Israel (because they certainly can't attack the US, those countries do not threaten American national security) if they are too busy attacking each other?

08-11-07 - IDF says ready to battle Hamas at sea Israeli navy given new instructions in light of Hamas' establishment of naval forces in Gaza, military officials say

08-11-07 - Israelis buy rescue insurance for their globetrotting young Young Israelis go off on their travels after what can be highly stressful military service. They tend to group together where they feel safe. The busiest places are in India and South America where locals advertise their wares in Hebrew. While some go to ashrams and yoga centres, others visit areas associated with drug use such as the Hindu Kush, Goa and Colombia. Colombia?

08-11-07 - Report: Egypt refuses to return envoys to Gaza Egypt has turned back Israel's request that it return its envoys to Gaza and resume efforts to bring about the release of captured IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit, Israel Radio quoted the London-based Arab daily Al Hayat as saying Friday.

08-11-07 - Beirut discovers depression

08-11-07 - New party for annexation of territories Aaron, who immigrated to Israel with his family two years ago and lives in Hashmonaim, near Modi'in, would not provide the names of those running on his party list, only saying that he had many supporters around the country and in the United States

08-11-07 - Palestinians seek U.S. funds for training base in Bethlehem

08-11-07 - IDF ?humiliates? peace activists Buma Inbar, an Israeli peace activist and a bereaved father, said the soldiers behaved in a way that shamed the IDF. ?I don?t blame the army, because the commanders apologized for the soldiers? behavior, but their behavior was very shameful, and I?m saying that as an Israeli and bereaved father,? Inbar said.

08-11-07 - Syria says it supports French bid to end Lebanon crisis "We support France's efforts in Lebanon," he told the Al-Manar channel. "We believe the French attitude to be impartial, in contrast with that of the United States.

08-11-07 - Stench of corpses hampers Lebanon soldiers in grisly camp battle Lebanese soldiers are being hampered in their fight against holed-up Islamist militants by the stench of putrefying corpses, army and medical sources said on Saturday.

08-11-07 - Gov't campaign in works to block anti-Israel seminar in Brussels The seminar is being organized by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, established in 1975. Since Jerusalem learned of the seminar two weeks ago, diplomats have been trying to persuade the European Parliament to ban the event, which Israeli sources described as geared toward "passing unilateral condemnations against Israel."

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08-10-07 - Palestinian killed after seizing guard's gun A Palestinian man who seized an Israeli security guard's weapon was today shot and killed by another guard in Jerusalem.

08-10-07 - Islamic Jihad operatives steal PA police jeep Tensions between two Palestinian groups in the West Bank rose Friday night, after operatives from the Islamic Jihad broke into a police station in Jenin and stole a jeep belonging to the Fatah-affiliated Palestinian Authority security forces.

08-10-07 - 45 villages, 90.000 residents in the Negev on the verge of displacement

08-10-07 - Hebron: Reflection on Reportage of an Eviction in Hebron I am satisfied that justice was done in evicting the illegal squatters. What is
profoundly unsettling for me is the exaggeration of the need for military and
other security personnel, of the numbers of such personnel reputedly present, as
well as of the numbers of activists and protestors, and of their reputed
violence. What is to be gained by all this hype? What is even more disturbing, however, is the minimizing in the Israeli and
other presses of the real violence of Israeli citizens, both settlers and
security personnel, against Palestinians and internationals, that I and other
CPTers have witnessed and endured each day, and increasingly so in recent days. Ten masked teenaged Israelis attacked one Palestinian in the Tel Rumeida
neighborhood of Hebron on 5 August, for example. Again, Israeli settlers beat
two international volunteers at the Palestinian house illegally occupied by
squatters in March 2007 that they named, "Beit Shalom," on 6 August while
Israeli soldiers stood and watched.

08-10-07 - Barak says peace deal a 'fantasy' Mr Barak also reportedly said Israel would not remove checkpoints from the West Bank for at least several years

08-10-07 - "Don't turn workers into fighters" "There is no chance to build a good business relationship with Gaza,"

08-10-07 - Highway through West Bank will restrict Palestinians The point of the road, according to those who planned it under former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, is to permit Israel to build more settlements around East Jerusalem, cutting the city off from the West Bank, but allowing Palestinians to travel unimpeded north and south through Israeli-held land.

08-10-07 - Facing 'a life in hell', the little girl who is paying the price of conflict Suddenly the family heard the roar of an Israeli aircraft, and a missile slammed into the wanted man's car, killing him. Maria's mother, seven-year-old brother, uncle and grandmother also died in the fireball. Maria's spinal cord was severed and her lungs were punctured by shrapnel.

08-10-07 - Action Alert: Al-Hadidiya and Hamsa (Jordan Valley) to be evacuated The military have been confiscating water tanks and tractors in order to force the families from the village.

08-10-07 - Hamas prisoner at a P.A prison is clinically dead Meanwhile, the Palestinian Legislative Council, dominated by Hamas, stated that Bani Odah was arrested by security forces, loyal to Fateh, in July 2 2007, and was severely tortured in prison.

08-10-07 - Hamas arrests Fatah members, 20 wounded in clashes More than 20 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were wounded on Friday in violence sparked when Hamas forces arrested some 20 members and supporters of rival Fatah in one of Hamas's largest sweeps since it took over the territory.

08-10-07 - Bilin: Four Detained as Military get Physical with Demonstrators

08-10-07 - Cameraman badly injured by Israeli gunfire unable to leave Gaza Strip to get artificial legs in Egypt "The only reaction from the Israeli authorities to our initial request for information, the day after the shooting, was to say that the origin of the shots could not be identified in the footage available, and to claim that Ghanem was 'working among the terrorists'," the press freedom organisation said. "We have not yet received a response from the Israeli government to our request for a thorough investigation."

08-10-07 - Israeli troops attack nonviolent demonstration near Bethlehem About 100 Palestinian villagers, joined by international and Israeli peace activists, on Friday morning marched to the site of land scheduled for annexation for the purposes of the illegal wall, located in the village of Um Salamonah, south of the central West Bank City of Bethlehem.

08-10-07 - US dismiss Israeli minister's comment on quick Mideast peace deal The United States said Friday that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's overly pessimistic comment about forging a quick peace deal with Palestinians was not reflective of policy of the Jewish state.

08-10-07 - Egyptian media in dispute over number of Palestinians refusing to return Gaza via Israeli crossing Almost all Palestinians stranded in the Egyptian side of Rafah crossing returned home in Gaza via Israeli checkpoint in the past two weeks, but the exact number of Palestinians still remained in Egypt is in dispute, local media reported Friday

08-10-07 - Hamas welcomes Yemeni initiative, Fatah reluctant

08-10-07 - Qassam rocket hits Sderot, sparks brushfire; no casualties

08-10-07 - Please help Palestinian refugees displaced by fighting in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon UNICEF estimates that about 15,000 of those displaced are children. A nearby Palestinian Refugee camp, the Beddawi Camp, continues to host many of those children and other civilians who have fled the fighting.

08-10-07 - McCain: Disarm Hizbullah, tackle Assad "To achieve lasting peace, sooner or later, one way or another, Hizbullah must be disarmed and its patron in Damascus confronted," according to US Presidential hopeful John McCain, who wrote to The Jerusalem Post as part of the latest installment to the 'Road to the White House' blog on JPost.com, which addressed the issue of how the US should deal with Syria.

08-10-07 - Israel wants greater UNIFIL mandate

08-10-07 - Survivors' protest makes foreign journalists gasp, security vanish "I want the Germans to know where the money they gave Israel went," he said angrily. "I want the Germans to know that Israel took the money we should have received. I want them to answer one question: Where did our money go?"

08-10-07 - Hezbollah showcases 'divine victory' over Israel Israel's war with Hezbollah resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 Lebanese civilians, a third of them children, as well as 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.

08-10-07 - Change on Iraq? Ask the Israelis These 40 legislators are the ones who over the past few weeks supported additional funding for the Arrow missile, which is part of the budget for cooperation on combating terror within the framework of the Office of Homeland Security. They are also the ones who will vote on the $30 billion increase in the security budget to which the administration plans to commit itself over the next 10 years...... Hoyer added that he attaches great importance to the Israeli point of view. To this end, he will ask Defense Minister Ehud Barak and several Israeli generals about their opinions on the possible implications of a change in Iraq. There are quite a few Democratic congressmen - including possible candidates

08-10-07 - Combatants For Peace holds a meeting in Tulkarem The Palestinian-Israeli Combatants For Peace Organization held on Friday a meeting in Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank, Palestinian sources reported.

08-10-07 - Israel ends use of color codes to ID Arabs The only problem is that the steps are aimed at the symptoms, not the underlying problem.

08-10-07 - Head of City's Arabic School Steps Down Under Pressure The principal of New York City's first public school dedicated to the study of Arabic language and culture resigned under pressure yesterday, days after she was quoted defending the use of the word "intifada" as a T-shirt slogan.

08-10-07 - Freed Palestinian Doctor Weds Bulgarian Beloved

08-10-07 - Following Principal's Resignation, Calls Increase to Shut School The protest planned for Sunday would have included Mr. Hikind and several other lawmakers, Mr. Hikind said. He said this afternoon that he plans to ask colleagues in Albany to join him in asking the Department of Education to shut down the school altogether Hikind is evidently a card-carrying AIPACer.

08-10-07 - Valley lawmakers to hit road on recess Traveling courtesy of the American Israel Education Foundation, more than three dozen House members from both parties are in Israel this week and next. They include Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, and Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton.....The Republicans are visiting Israel this week, and the Democrats will go next week......The Aspen Institute spent $3.5 million on congressional travel, and the American Israel Education Foundation spent $950,000, the study found. For instance, records show, the foundation spent $10,093 for Nunes and his brother Anthony to visit Israel in August 2003. The foundation was established in 1988 by AIPAC, also known as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

08-10-07 - Jenin: Army Harrasment on the Streets of Jenin Camp

08-10-07 - Giffords plans public talk after trip to Israel Giffords, who is Jewish, made her second trip earlier this year in a brief visit along with Republican Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl as part of the U.S. Congress-Israeli Knesset Interparliamentary Commission on National Security.

08-10-07 - No Non-Arabic Shirt, No Service

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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).

News for 08-08-07

2007-08-09T18:37:00.000-04:00

08-08-07 - Militants killed near Gaza border A statement by Hamas's armed wing said that the men were killed in exchanges of fire on the outskirts of Gaza City.

08-08-07 - Norwegian FM denies saying his country severed ties with Hamas Store expressed his outrage at allegations he had made this comment. In a meeting with Meretz Party Chairman Yossi Beilin on Wednesday, Store said that he had never said such a thing and that he "couldn't believe it when I saw myself being quoted as saying this." Israeli psyops.

08-08-07 - Hebron prepares for another clash as IDF looks to remove Jewish squatters from more stores More drama for the cameras to make like Israel is actually doing something about the illegal squatters/settlers.

08-08-07 - Hebron: Spitting in Babies Faces

08-08-07 - Roundup: Abbas urges Hamas bring Gaza conditions to normal

08-08-07 - Hamas takeover of Gaza strands Americans, including Tenn. family

08-08-07 - Egyptian mediators to follow up Palestinian-Israeli prisoner swap One of the captors of Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit said on Wednesday that an Egyptian delegation will return to the Gaza Strip to follow up a Palestinian-Israeli prisoner swap deal.

08-08-07 - Nine arrested in Jerusalem demonstration Abir Aramin was critically wounded January 16 during a clash between Palestinian school students throwing stones and Israeli border police in the refugee camp of Anata, near Jerusalem. She died two days later in a Jerusalem hospital.

08-08-07 - Four Palestinians kidnapped and two Israeli soldiers injured in the W.B city of Nablus

08-08-07 - Palestinian child kidnapped in Hebron Israeli army sources said troops kidnapped the child because he tried to stab them using a knife, a story not corroborated by eyewitnesses

08-08-07 - Abbas insists no dialogue with Hamas Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday insisted there would be no dialogue with Hamas until the Islamists return Gaza to his legitimate authority after seizing the territory in June

08-08-07 - Hebron: Masked Settlers Attack Human Rights Worker

08-08-07 - Gaza doctors protest after sacking of Fatah colleague Dozens of staff at the largest hospital in Gaza held a protest on Wednesday after the dismissal of a colleague belonging to Fatah, whose fighters have been evicted from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory.

08-08-07 - Hamas says Abbas accidentally paid its fighters

08-08-07 - Hamas-Fatah political dispute reaches Gaza hospital Dozens of Palestinian doctors and nurses briefly stopped work in Gaza's main hospital on Wednesday to protest against the dismissal of two Fatah-affiliated managers by the Hamas-run Health Ministry in the territory

08-08-07 - Unknown gunmen open fire on Hamas member The Hamas member, Awny Al Obwah, 31, was shot by unknown gunmen on Monday night between 9:30- 10:00, and sustained critical wounds to his stomach.

08-08-07 - Israeli settlers attack mosques in Hebron

08-08-07 - Villagers face evacuation orders, movement restrictions Tzidki Maimon from Israel's Civil Administration in the West Bank explained the orders, saying the residents "invaded the land illegally. They set up tents and animal pens" in violation of Israeli laws in the occupied West Bank. Israeli laws in the OCCUPIED West Bank? That land is PALESTINIAN. Israel has no business evicting Palestinians from therein. That's on top of the fact that Israel's occupation and colonization of those territories are themselves illegal.

08-08-07 - Hamas chief says outside forces block reconciliation Exiled Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal on Wednesday accused outside forces of trying to block reconciliation between his Islamist movement and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's secular Fatah party.

08-08-07 - Israel's Settlement Project

08-08-07 - 'US won't tolerate Fatah-Hamas truce' US House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has warned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas not to talk to an unreformed Hamas about reentering a unity government ahead of a visit to Israel and the West Bank next week......The trip is being sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, an independent, nonprofit charitable organization affiliated with AIPAC, which is also leading another trip for Republican representatives The Israeli Lobby's activities have been left relatively unchecked by all of the recent anti-lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill. Big surprise there.

08-08-07 - Hebron store owner: Eviction was a façade "One settler walks down the street accompanied by two jeeps, so how will they suddenly clash? The settlers are also much stronger and more influential than the army and I have no doubt that they will reinvade our businesses."

08-08-07 - Holdup in U.S. aid deal The Bush administration wants incremental increases in the current annual payout of $2.4 billion, whereas the Olmert government wants a large bonus up front, or at least for the new funding to be spread evenly over each of the next 10 years, the Israeli sources said. I bet we can guess who will win that one.

08-08-07 - Egypt pressed on migrant deaths Reports in Israel say army surveillance video showed Egyptian border guards opening fire on the three refugees. Egyptian officials have denied this and accused Israel of trying to "drive a wedge" between Egypt and Sudan.

08-08-07 - Peacemaker Teams To Install Footy Net In Old City On Thursday, August 9th, at 11:00 am, a delegation from Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) will install a net across the street in front of the CPT apartment in the Chicken Market of the Old City.

08-08-07 - UN soldier's widow still seeks 'the truth' More than a year after Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener was killed when Israeli forces struck a UN observation post in Lebanon, his widow says too many unanswered questions surround his death. Hey, if it was 'pro-Syrians', well sheeit, you'd be getting your very own UN resolution (which the US would NOT veto). But if Israel does it, you're SOL, lady!

08-08-07 - Israel to institute new wartime measures Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened top Cabinet colleagues and security chiefs Wednesday to decide on a response to the findings of a commission of inquiry into last year's Lebanon war

08-08-07 - The Catch in Israel's "Generous Offers" at Jericho Israeli shystfest continues.

08-08-07 - Senior Shiite Cleric says U.S. desperate Lebanon's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric Tuesday called U.S. intervention in Lebanon part of a desperate attempt for victory in the region after its "failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine."

08-08-07 - UN food agency to help farmers in southern Lebanon The munitions dropped by Israel included more than a million cluster bomblets, around 40 percent of which failed to detonate on impact, according to the United Nations. The ordance has wounded more than 200 people since the end of the conflict last August 14, according to the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre (MACC), and at least 27 people have been killed, according to an AFP tally.

08-08-07 - Four Islamists, 2 troops killed in Lebanon camp

08-08-07 - Official: Israel needs rocket defense Israel's high-tech army has been stymied by the primitive Qassam rockets, which rarely cause casualties but wreak panic. Qassam rockets are airborne only about 20 seconds, making interception difficult, said Shlomo Brom, a reserves brigadier general and senior researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies.

08-08-07 - Fatah Islam No. 2 killed in Lebanon

08-08-07 - Administration's Prosecution of Muslim Group Brings Charges of Bias Thus far, the courthouse has drawn a steady stream of protesters who have said that prosecutors and Jewish organizations are singling out Muslim charitable organizations It would be interesting to know exactly how many of these 'terror' trials have to do with ISRAEL'S enemies, and how many have to do with Al Qaeda. My bet is that there are infinitely more of the former than of the latter. Cui bono? Who benefits? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror - Patrick J. Buchanan. Note the fourth and fifth paragraph up from the bottom. If we're basing our prosecutions on Israeli testimony - by agents in disguise and using pseudonyms - and LOSING those cases, that ought to tell you something right there.

08-08-07 - Peace sports On each day of the tournament, 50 Israeli boys (Jewish and Arab) and 50 Palestinian boys will train and compete on mixed teams, at the same time getting tips and strategies from the European coaches.

08-08-07 - Play on Corrie takes the US by storm She is described as "the most talked about playwright in America today" but because she had cast her dice in support of the Palestinians her play, My Name is Rachel Corrie, is the target of vicious attacks by pro-Israeli elements in the country.

08-08-07 - Frank Talk About Iran Reut?s conclusion is that Jerusalem must begin speaking to Washington frankly about the areas where the two nation?s interests converge and where they do not. Israel must focus its efforts on ensuring that America does not take Israel for granted, or ignore it altogether, as contacts with Iran proceed.......... Here, too, Israel must assess its strategic needs in light of the chaos in Iraq, and sit down for some straight talk with its American ally, as opinion columnist Yossi Alpher argues on the opposite page. This will require nimble, open-minded tactics on the part of Israel?s friends in America. It is in Israel?s interests to ensure that Washington is under pressure to lean on Iran with every available tool, in order to rein in its mischief-making, its nuclear ambitions and its continued backing of terrorism. They want to make Israel's problems OUR problems.

08-08-07 - Siren Song of Elliott Abrams The Israeli-U.S. strategy for Palestine is now crystal clear: overturn the will of the people (in this case as expressed through democratic elections), kill off any resistance (Hamas in this case, along with any civilians who might get in the way), co-opt a quisling leadership (Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas), push out and kill if necessary as many people as international opinion will allow, ultimately rid Palestine of most Palestinians. The cast of characters and organizations has changed from earlier times, but this has essentially been Israel's strategy from the beginning....

08-08-07 - Push for Mideast Peace Plan Gains Momentum Ahead Of Upcoming Summit Also on Tuesday, a top Israeli general announced that Israeli forces would stop conducting training exercises involving populated Arab villages. A human rights group approached the military advocate general in March after several complaints were filed by reserve soldiers serving in paratrooper battalions.

08-08-07 - Sheikh Ra'ed Salah to be indicted for incitement During a speech before hundreds of supporters, Salah called for "every Arab and every Moslem to help the Palestinian people launch a third intifada."

08-08-07 - Holy Land defense attorney questions FBI agent On Thursday, an Israeli government agent is expected to testify about his government?s seizure of evidence from Hamas offices implicating Holy Land. The agent will testify under a pseudonym amid heightened security at the downtown Dallas federal courthouse. During his testimony, the courtroom will be cleared of spectators, who must go to an overflow courtroom with a video monitor that will not show the agent?s face in order to protect his identity.

08-08-07 - Syrian Amb.: Russia Won't Build Ports Here Ja'afari also explained that Damascus was ready "to resume" a dialog with Israel, but under a multi-national format as outlined in the historic Madrid Agreement.

08-08-07 - Comic in racism row Earlier acts had also interacted with them, so Johns asked: 'Are yout the Israeli students?' He says he then added: 'I've just been in the box office and there's a group of ten Palestinians who say you're occupying their seats.'......The Comedy Store videos all its shows, and footage from the night will be used to determine exactly what happened. Johns said: 'They thought it would just be their word against mine, but the Store tapes all the shows.

08-08-07 - Book Reveals Details of Iran?s Diplomatic Outreach to Israel Both Flynt Leverett, who was the senior Middle East official in Bush?s National Security Council until 2003, and Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to then-secretary of state Colin Powell, have stated publicly that it was neoconservatives in the administration who nixed the proposal. Parsi echoed those assertions, claiming that Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice favored a positive response but were thwarted by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, leading the State Department to rebuke the Swiss ambassador for overreaching his mandate. Cheney and the neocons.

News for 08-07-07

2007-08-08T18:52:00.000-04:00

08-07-07 - Gaza explosion kills two children
Two Palestinian children, a brother and sister aged eight and six years, have died in an explosion in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

08-07-07 - UNCTAD intensifies its assistance to Palestinian customs with ?2.5 million European Union funding

08-07-07 - Haniyeh's deposed government to dispense salaries

08-07-07 - Hebron UPDATE: Hebron Update: 16 - 22 July 2007

08-07-07 - 'Breakthrough' in Gaza death case In what it has described as a "breakthrough", Baroness Scotland's office confirmed that it had received the letter from the Israeli justice minister, Meni Mazuz, asking for more information on the expert evidence provided by the Metropolitan police regarding Mr Miller's death.

08-07-07 - Israel seeks shot Briton footage Their 'crossfire' excuse was not supported by the footage. They'll find another excuse, they always do.

08-07-07 - Hamas lashes out at W.Bank-based courts for convicting its members

08-07-07 - Army grants Gazan doctor's request to study in Egypt

08-07-07 - Yousef: ?Hamas and Fateh and holding secret talks?

08-07-07 - Palestinian Security forces abduct Hamas members before Abbas-Olmert meeting

08-07-07 - PM, Peres deny 'Palestinian state plan' The offices of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres vigorously denied a report in Tuesday's Ha'aretz newspaper alleging that they crafted a plan to establish a Palestinian state on the equivalent of 100 percent of the land in the West Bank.

08-07-07 - Israeli wounded by celebrating gunfire from Arab wedding

08-07-07 - Fatah denies talks with Hamas

08-07-07 - Abbas to hold Mideast peace talks in Egypt

08-07-07 - Israel and Hamas resume contacts over soldier: report Israel and Hamas have resumed Egyptian-mediated contacts over a prisoner exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militants more than a year ago, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

08-07-07 - Palestinian merchants in Gaza live hand-to-market Mohammad Attaweel, a produce dealer who relies on Sufa for his imports, says the unreliable deliveries have hurt business. "I lose thousands of shekels every time," he said while picking up and brushing off an order of peaches.

08-07-07 - Palestinians go home but Hamas still trapped in Egypt

08-07-07 - Saudi reiterates support for Bush's Mideast peace push

08-07-07 - Abbas declares that Palestinian life will improve after talks with Olmert

08-07-07 - Palestinians fete school exam scores Many Palestinians are obsessed with education as a ticket out of their embattled existence. They have one of the highest literacy rates in the Arab world and often seek work abroad for lack of opportunity at home.

08-07-07 - Palestinian militants explode bomb at Hamas compound No one was injured in the blast, security sources said

08-07-07 - Ground to a halt: Denial of Palestinians' freedom of movement in the West Bank

08-07-07 - Israeli army kidnaps 6 Palestinians from Talouza, 2 from Balata refugee camp near Nablus

08-07-07 - Court again postpones two illegal outposts hearing

08-07-07 - Peres expecting U.S., European support for peace proposal The proposal does not suggest a solution to the refugee issue, but Abbas said publicly last week that there is no way to force a sovereign state such as Israel to open its gates to refugees, and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayad similarly told Haaretz in a recent interview that any solution to the problem would require Israel's agreement.

08-07-07 - Treasury moves against Al-Salah The Bush administration moved Tuesday to clamp down financially on a large charitable organization in Gaza for allegedly raising money and providing other support to Hamas, which the U.S. has branded as a terrorist group.

08-07-07 - One year on, war pollution still stains Lebanon's shores Many of these sites lie north of Beirut, in a 30 kilometre stretch between Byblos and Enfe. The clean-up work is being financed to the tune of 4.7 million dollars by the US government's international development agency, which admits the daunting and long-term nature of the work. American taxpayers are cleaning up a(nother) mess that Israel made. How much is Israel contributing to the cleanup? My money's on ZERO.

08-07-07 - Thirty hurt as police evict Jewish settlers from centre of Hebron Settlers routinely protest violently against any attempt to remove them in an effort to discourage the Israeli government from the large-scale withdrawals that would inevitably accompany a final peace agreement with the Palestinians.

08-07-07 - Lebanon says top Fatah al-Islam member killed

08-07-07 - Palestinians struggle with ?three-state solution? ?We are a Palestinian movement, not al-Qaeda. We don?t want to be isolated from the US and Europe. Moderate Islam in Turkey gives a good picture of the Islamic model,? says Mr Barhoum, referring to Turkey?s ruling AKP.

08-07-07 - Mofaz: Airport security checks no longer discriminatory MK Taleb el-Sana (United Arab List ? Ta'al) said the policy was illegal and said he would take the matter up with the attorney general. "Using numbers is like a yellow star in the Holocaust. It is a mark of Cain for Israel. The security concerns cannot be used to render this racism kosher," said el-Sana.

08-07-07 - Burns to hear Israeli take on Saudi arms deal While Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel did not in principle object to the arms sale to the Saudis, and although AIPAC is not expected to actively oppose it, the deal has still not been presented to Congress. Officials involved in the issue said Burns would listen to Israeli concerns.

08-07-07 - The Last Jews In Baghdad The eight Jews, belonging to four families, are all that is left in Iraq from the world's oldest Jewish community, dating to the 6th century B.C. when the Babylonians conquered ancient Palestine and exiled its people as slaves. Over the centuries the Jews flourished, and Baghdad became a center of Jewish culture and learning.

News for 08-06-07

2007-08-07T20:45:00.000-04:00

08-06-07 - Israeli Arab group calls on Abbas to renew dialogue with Hamas In a Ramallah meeting with Abbas, the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee called on Abbas to create the conditions that will bring about the cessation of open hostilities between Palestinian factions.

08-06-07 - Gaza jobs meltdown: an ice-cream firm's tale the policy is increasing anger at Israel and the US among an already radicalized population and feeding the poverty that some analysts say contributed to the rise of Hamas, which took full control of the territory in June after a brief battle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party........ "They want Hamas to change? They want Fatah to change? Well, they aren't punishing them. They're punishing me."

08-06-07 - Norway snubs Hamas Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gar Store, meeting Monday with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, announced that his government had decided to shun Hamas in light of its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June.

08-06-07 - Scores of settlers takeover farm lands of Palestinian villagers near Bethlehem Witnesses told IMEMC.org that armed setters arrived to the lands with tents and building supplies and started to build a settlement on the Palestinians farmers?s lands, the farmers who own the lands and villagers of Ertass rushed to the area, a scuffle took place between the two groups, no injuries reported.

08-06-07 - Olmert travels to Jericho for first talks in Palestine in seven years For the first time in seven years Israeli and Palestinian leaders met for talks in the Palestinian territories yesterday, the latest round in a wave of Middle East diplomacy.

08-06-07 - Leading Article: Justice in this case will benefit Israel too As with the earlier shooting, Israel's response was to obfuscate, cast suspicions on the actions of the victim, play for time and hope the furore would subside. But Britain has been obdurate. After the Israeli army attempted to bury the case in 2005, a British court last year returned a verdict of unlawful killing, and since then British pressure has mounted on Israel to put the unnamed soldier on trial. The Attorney General has said if no progress is made by tomorrow Britain may launch extradition proceedings. True to past form, the Israeli army is denying guilt on the part on the soldier while the justice ministry declares Israelis will not be blackmailed by British ultimatums. Tomorrow, therefore, will probably pass without any movement by Israel, just to prove the point.

08-06-07 - PM weighs land swap as part of future peace deal Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is examining a new framework for peace in which Israel will propose transferring to the Palestinian state areas equivalent to 100 percent of the territories conquered in 1967. The law says Israel owns zero percent of Palestinian Territory - that's why it's called PALESTINIAN TERRITORY.

08-06-07 - Palestinians stranded in Egypt continue to return home through Israeli crossing

08-06-07 - Army bars children from flying their kites in Bil?in village Israeli soldiers chased on Monday several Palestinian children of Bil?in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank, from flying their kites during a summer festival for children in the village. Soldiers fired gas bombs and dozens of children were treated for gas inhalation, the Arabs48 news website reported.

08-06-07 - Abbas, Olmert in 'positive' talks

08-06-07 - Commentary: Embarrassing history By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE During the British mandate (1920-1948), Zionist leaders concluded Palestinians, who owned 90 percent of the land (with 5.8 percent owned by Jews), would have to be forcibly expelled to make a Jewish state possible. Pappe quotes David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, addressing the Jewish Agency Executive in June 1938, as saying, "I am for compulsory transfer. I do not see anything immoral in it." Pappe outlines Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), which followed earlier plans A, B and C, and included forcible expulsion of some 800,000 Palestinians from both urban and rural areas with the objective of creating by any means necessary an exclusive Jewish state without an Arab presence. The methods ranged from a campaign of disinformation -- "get out immediately because the Jews are on their way to kill you" -- to Jewish militia attacks to terrorize the Palestinians. This article breaks down for you exactly how Israel was created - and consequently, how so many Palestinians were made refugees. This video of yesterday's news is a very sad look at the reality for Palestinians. And that's not even the worst of it.

08-06-07 - Officer in 'human shield' case demoted A 14-year-old girl was mistakenly shot during the operation in question after the battalion's soldiers surrounded a house in which a fugitive was believed to be hiding. "Mistakenly shot", my ass.

08-06-07 - Abu Ali Mustafa and Salah Eddin brigades injure Israeli settlers near Nablus In a statement released to the press, the Abu Ali Mustafa and Salah Eddin brigades noted that ?The Abu Ali Mustafa and Salah Eddin brigades ambushed a settler car on the way to the Alon Moreh settlement at 10:30 on Sunday night.?

08-06-07 - Israel rejects UK ultimatum to try soldier Israel is refusing to meet a British deadline concerning the case of an IDF officer suspected of killing British filmmaker James Miller in the Gaza Strip four years ago Naturally. They arrogantly trounce the law. By the way, the original title of the article was evidently changed.

08-06-07 - Almost 2,000 Palestinians still trapped in Egypt

08-06-07 - On resident injured, five kidnapped in Nablus

08-06-07 - Further group of stranded Palestinians return to Gaza The group, the sixth to be transported, is thought to be made up of approximately 1,200 people.

08-06-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes in Hebron A group of Israeli settlers attacked a number of Palestinian homes in Hebron, setting two houses ablaze and running over a Palestinian man in the city centre on Sunday night, Palestinian media sources have indicated.

08-06-07 - Israel to resume trial of Ahmad Saadat -- Israeli sources Israel is to resume Sunday trial of the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Saadat.

08-06-07 - Report: Some 300 gunmen accept Israel's amnesty deal More than 300 West Bank gunmen have so far surrendered their weapons as part of an amnesty deal with Israel, a senior Palestinian security official said Sunday.

08-06-07 - Gandhi would have headed for Gaza to free Palestinians had he been alive, says grandson Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi alias Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Indian Nation, would have headed for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to fight for the freedom of Palestinians had he been alive, says his 72-year-old grandson.

08-06-07 - Israeli group decries Palestinian limits A report by Jerusalem-based B'Tselem acknowledges Israel's right to protect its citizens from attack by Palestinian militants, but said the measures it imposes - 47 checkpoints among them - go beyond legitimate security needs.

08-06-07 - Robert Fisk: Lebanese strike a blow at US-backed government They've done it again. The Arabs have, once more, followed democracy and voted for the wrong man.

08-06-07 - A borderless state is no solution Tackling Iran's nuclear ambitions may be a higher priority in Washington than ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, but the two are inseparably linked. The support of Saudi Arabia and other Arab states against Iran still requires movement on Palestine.

08-06-07 - Video: Artas: Non-Violent Demonstration at Site of Uprooted Trees

08-06-07 - Survivors of Sudanese Shoah no less human than Jewish Holocaust survivors Hadera residents don't want refugees of the Sudanese holocaust in their town. Other towns are also not rushing to compete for absorbing the miserable souls, who are seeking life instead of death in their own country.

08-06-07 - How to Deal with The Lobby

08-06-07 - The road to peace runs through Jerusalem Now that the US is well on the way to failure in Iraq a new theory is doing the rounds. This time, "the road to Jerusalem runs through Tehran." It is the rising power of Iran ? fostered by the war in Iraq ? that may create the conditions for peace between Israel and Palestine.

08-06-07 - MI: Syria increases military activity for fear of an Israeli attack The head of the research division of Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, told lawmakers Sunday that Syria believes that Israel is planning to attack, and has therefore increased its military activity.

08-06-07 - Agent: charity leaders attended meeting of Hamas supporters War on Terror. Cui Bono?

08-06-07 - Study: Israel must initiate talks with U.S. on conflicting Iran interests ** Israel must prepare for the possibility that the United States will try to resolve the Iranian nuclear question by reaching an accommodation with Tehran, which will not include Israel. In such an event, the document notes, Israel must ensure that "the essential interests of the State of Israel are preserved." .....The document points out that Israel assumes that its interests and those of the United States on the Iranian nuclear question are identical.....The Reut researchers also point to a lessening likelihood of American military action against Iran, and growing support for dialogue with Tehran.

08-06-07 - INSIGHT: A Palestinian miracle at the UN

08-06-07 - No home play for Iraq in World Cup qualifiers Afghanistan and the Palestinian team were also barred from playing home matches for security reasons, AFC tournament director and assistant general secretary Carlo Nohra told reporters.

08-06-07 - CITY PRINCIPAL IS 'REVOLTING' "I understand it is developing a nega tive connotation due to the uprising in the Palestinian-Israeli areas. I don't be lieve the intention is to have any of that kind of [violence] in New York City. Intifada, or uprising, doesn't necessarily involve or implicate violence.

08-06-07 - Buchanan setting out on another Mideast trip The Longboat Key Republican was in Iraq earlier this year and is now going to Israel for a six-day fact-finding mission. Buchanan said he has never been to Israel but wants to better understand Middle East politics and the U.S. relationship with Israel, the only true democracy in the region.

08-06-07 - Hebron: Medical Access Denied After Palestinian Hit by Israeli Car. The Palestinian man was put into the back of the Israeli ambulance which shortly left, supossedly to take the man to the hospital within the Kiryat Arba settlement. The injured Palestinians mans father also accompanied him within the ambulance.
However when the ambulance left it just drove back and forth on various streets for two hours, refusing to take the man to the hospital.

08-06-07 - Al Mezan Center demands a probe into army killing of UK Journalist The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights demanded on Monday an immediate probe into the Israeli army fatal shooting of a British Cameraman at the borders area in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, in 2003.

08-06-07 - Israelis want Sudanese deported Most Israelis favor expelling illegal Sudanese migrants, a poll found

08-06-07 - Israel urges Japan to join war on terror A group of Israeli politicians and academics on Monday sought the support of Japan's small but influential Christian community, part of an increasingly global Judeo-Christian alliance against radical Islam......."You can try to be politically correct, but don't be Biblically wrong," said MK Benny Elon (National Union-National Religious Party)......Aharonovitch called on the Christian leaders to show support for Israel by visiting "the country where the Bible is your calling card and guide book"

08-06-07 - Gaza voices This group, Hamas, believe they are the leaders of Islam. The violin, piano, flute, all these instruments are banned. Only the drum is allowed. They say any other instrument is not mentioned in the Koran.

08-06-07 - AEI: Caught Between Its Likudist Heart and Its Corporate Head

08-06-07 - Barak upbeat on Lebanon war's fallout Barak said he believed the fact that Israel was not an occupying force gave it legitimacy when it responded to a deadly Hezbollah border raid on July 12, 2006 with a massive offensive in Lebanon. He also argued that the war had boosted Israel's regional deterrence.

08-06-07 - Soldiers refuse Hebron evictions Twelve Israeli soldiers face disciplinary hearings after refusing to evict Jewish settlers from disputed West Bank properties.

08-06-07 - A summer storm greets Daniel Barenboim in Madrid

08-06-07 - ADL Assured That AIG Provides Insurance To Travelers To Israel

08-06-07 - Israel warns against travel in Mideast Israelis anywhere in the world should also be alert to the danger of being kidnapped by operatives from Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, according to the announcement from Israel's National Security Council.

08-06-07 - Hollywood producers to make film about HIV medics Sixth Sense Productions Inc, which helped raise funding for Oscar-nominated genocide drama "Hotel Rwanda," said the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor had signed over their life rights for the film project "The Benghazi Six."

08-06-07 - Even at YearlyKos Panel Bashing Lobbyists, Israel Support Is 'Third Rail' Yesterday's presidential forum at the YearlyKos convention was all about bashing lobbyists, but there was one lobby they didn't touch. According to the official chatroom at YearlyKos, Israel was off the table

News for 08-05-07

2007-08-06T17:57:00.001-04:00

08-05-07 - Hamas urges Abbas to stop crackdown on Islamic movement

08-05-07 - Award-winning film-maker's death divides UK and Israel In April, 2006, a London jury at St Pancras coroner's court returned a verdict of unlawful killing and said that Mr Miller, 34, had been "murdered". Our government does NOTHING about the deaths of our own at the hands of Israel. Israel got caught trying to blame this murder on 'crossfire', if you read the entire article. Sort of like saying that the attack on the USS Liberty was 'an accident', or was due to the 'fog of war'. Ridiculous.

08-05-07 - Palestinian Imam calls on Taliban to free Korean hostages "In the name of Islam and its principles of forgiveness, we appeal to you (Taliban) to stop killing the Korean hostages because this contradicts with the rule of Islam," Tamimi said in a statement sent to reporters.

08-05-07 - Palestinian merchants tour Ashdod Port "Exposing the Palestinian businessmen to the port and to its various mechanisms will lead to an increase in the merchandise that goes through the port and to an improvement in the PA economy,"

08-05-07 - Most Palestinians back in Gaza from Egypt More than half of the estimated 6,000 Palestinians stranded in Egypt have made it back to Gaza since Israel started allowing them passage a week ago, an Egyptian security source told AFP.

08-05-07 - FEATURE-West Bank trade hub feels checkpoint squeeze Before Israel ringed Nablus with checkpoints in 2002 after the start of the Palestinian uprising, the city was the West Bank's economic heart.

08-05-07 - Eriekat: Abbas-Olmert Meeting not confirmed yet

08-05-07 - Kucinich: Executive Order on Lebanon Undermines The Middle-East Peace Process ?If the Administration continues these policies which undermine the sovereignty of Syria and Lebanon, the United States risks more violence in the Middle East, further isolation from the international community, and the continued sacrifice of our pressing domestic needs.

08-05-07 - Video: Palestinian refugees in Leb. since 1948 meet their families

08-05-07 - Israel faces Holocaust protests Hundreds of protesters in Israel have marched outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office to demand more state support for Holocaust survivors.

08-05-07 - No Escaping Gaza Debacle

08-05-07 - Attack on ship never probed June 8 was the 40th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty, an American naval intelligence ship sailing in international waters with her flag displayed on a clear day. The result of the attack was 34 dead and 171 injured. The event is the only U.S. naval attack never formally investigated by Congress.

08-05-07 - 33 illegal Palestinians caught in Tel Aviv

08-05-07 - Freed Palestinian doctor plans to sue Kadhafi A Palestinian-born doctor who spent more than eight years in a Libyan prison over an HIV outbreak is planning to sue Moamer Kadhafi, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.

08-05-07 - Lebanese girl 'raised from dead' back home "It was one o'clock. Dalia had gone with her father, her brother and her sister to buy some yoghurt for lunch from a shop in the village," recalls her mother, Alia Deeb. "Just when they got back home, they were cut down by an Israeli shell. I saw my husband and my son cry out, their faces all bloodied. Dalia didn't move. Everybody thought she had been killed outright."

08-05-07 - 150 American youths to join IDF "All of them heard about last summer's war in Lebanon and they want to contribute to Israel's security." Something wrong with joining the AMERICAN military? Have they not heard of IRAQ? Wow.

08-05-07 - Muslims gaining strength in United States - cleric "I deal with a woman whether she wears a hijab or not, that's my position. Maybe some of you will disagree," he said. "There is no need for labels -- 'you're an infidel, Muslim, Islamist, you'll go to heaven'. I deal with citizens whoever they are and God is the judge."

08-05-07 - Renowned Palestinian poet Tamim Al Bargouthi passes through to second phase of Prince of Poets competition

08-05-07 - ANALYSIS: Jerusalem lowering expectations over peace talks Jerusalem was busy lowering expectations, and Olmert's bureau said the leaders were not seeking to formulate an "agreement of principles," but rather "agreed-on principles" - which is the same thing, but less frightening. The bureau cautioned diplomatic correspondents not to get their hopes up. evertheless, Rice heard a different tune this week in Jerusalem and Ramallah. Translation: The Israelis are going to walk the walk and talk the talk, to get America to attack Iran. Then, it's back to the same ole, same ole.

08-05-07 - Lebanon vote widens gap among divided Christians Michel Aoun, a Christian leader from the Syrian-backed opposition, said his faction had defeated the candidate of the Western-backed ruling majority by a close margin in the by-election in the Metn mountains northeast of Beirut.

08-05-07 - Lebanese army still battling Islamists at refugee camp The Lebanese army on Sunday pushed forth with its offensive against Islamists besieged in a refugee camp in the north of the country as the battle entered its 12th week.

08-05-07 - She takes flight to Israel ? one way she announced she would follow in the footsteps of her older brother, Gabi, who joined the Israeli army a little more than two years ago, except that she might go into the Israeli navy instead. Something wrong with serving in the AMERICAN military?

08-05-07 - A wedding's irresistible momentum Displaced by Islamic militants and short on food, refugees in Lebanon find a way to wed.

08-05-07 - Remove JewWatch.com from the Google Search Engine! JewWatch may very well be an anti-Semitic site. I don't know, I don't frequent it. However, if Google caves and removes it, what next? This will become a slippery slope as more and more websites that aren't PC, or are deemed -legitimately or not - anti-Semitic are forever buried due to the pressure of special interest groups. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened (witness the mainstream American media, and the non-existent coverage of stories damning of Israel, like the case of the USS Liberty as one example).