April '08 Archive

4/30/2008 - Israeli strike kills Gaza militant They said the militant was killed when an Israeli missile slammed into a metal foundry in the southern town of Rafah. Two other militants and a child were wounded in the attack  

4/30/2008 - Lawyer: Israel orders demolition of 35 homes in West Bank village Israel has ordered the demolition of 35 homes in a West Bank village for being  

4/30/2008 - Carter: Israel rejected Hamas truce offer Former US President Jimmy Carter says that following his meetings with Hamas leaders the group offered a truce in Gaza but Israel rejected the offer. During an interview with NBC, Carter also blamed Israel for denying the citizens of Gaza basic supplies such as water and food.  

4/30/2008 - Israeli president urges world to control Iran, dreads results if Nazis had nuclear bombs The world could have faced destruction if Hitler had succeeded in acquiring nuclear weapons, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday at a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, calling on the world to shoulder today's responsibilities ? a reference to Iran's nuclear program.  

4/30/2008 - Gaza 'on point of explosion' warns UN In testimony via videolink to the Commons International Development Committee, Mr Ging said the main problem was access in and out of Gaza.  

4/30/2008 - Egypt to take Palestinian truce offer to Israel    

4/30/2008 - Palestinian patient dies as a result of Israeli siege imposed on Gaza    

4/30/2008 - Olmert expresses 'deep regret' over killing of Gaza children "Although we do not wish to hurt innocent people, but unfortunately this happens. We must improve our PR efforts to present Israel in a better way."  

4/30/2008 - Hamas are Iran's proxy warriors: Rice In a speech Tuesday to the American Jewish Committee in Washington that underscored growing US concerns about Tehran, Rice mentioned Iran as not just a threat in the Palestinian territories, but also in Lebanon, Iraq and even in Afghanistan.  

4/30/2008 - Hamas warns Israel of alternative to truce Senior Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar warned on Tuesday that Palestinian armed groups would use "every means" against Israel if it does not accept a proposed truce in and around the Gaza Strip.  

4/30/2008 - PA negotiators furious over Israeli proposal Worrying strife breaks out between top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia and Israeli counterpart after latter presents proposal of regional division in which Israel maintains claim to large settlement blocs, Jordan River Valley and Jerusalem  

4/30/2008 - Rights groups: Israel violating international law Joint statement issued by Palestinian, Israeli organizations calls on Jewish state to immediately lift all restrictions imposed on transfer of fuel, goods into Gaza Strip 'for which is it responsible by proxy of the occupation laws'  

4/30/2008 - Carter: Israel rejected Hamas truce offer    

4/30/2008 - Israeli High Court of Justice rules against villagers in the northern West Bank The Israeli army issued orders two years ago restricting the area to be used for building homes in the village from 3000 dunums of land to 100 dunums of land. The villagers took the matter to the Court, and today the Court ruled in favour of the Israeli army.  

4/30/2008 - Settlers attack Palestinian homes near Hebron    

4/30/2008 - Abbas urges leaders avoid WBank in Israel festivity Presidents, prime ministers and other dignitaries who attend Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations next month will be shunned by Palestinian leaders if they visit the occupied West Bank.  

4/30/2008 - Israel told to tackle West Bank plight Israel is coming under concerted international pressure to give swift agreement to specific measures to improve Palestinian life in the West Bank which senior diplomats believe could eventually make or break negotiations between the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.  

4/30/2008 - Human rights groups call on Israel to stop limiting fuel to Gaza    

4/30/2008 - Abbas meets Saudi king ahead of Bush visit "There is a feeling that the US administration is still not willing to take a decisive position towards the Israeli government," to push for an agreement over a Palestinian state, he added.  

4/30/2008 - Inquiry clears army in death of Gaza children, mother: radio A military probe shows the death of a woman and her four young children in Gaza this week was caused by explosives carried by a militant and not by an Israeli missile, Israeli public radio reported on Wednesday. Naturally.

4/30/2008 - Palestinian leader undergoes angioplasty in Jordan An aide says the Palestinian president has successfully undergone an angioplasty at a Jordanian hospital.  

4/30/2008 - The Gaza shooting gallery The grim images are all-too-familiar: From Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 war with Hezbollah to the killing of eight Palestinians on a beach picnic in 2006 to the killing of 18 Palestinians hit by Israeli artillery in 2006 to the recent killing of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana by an Israeli tank shell, time and again, Israel has been forced to defend its questionable military actions.  

4/30/2008 - Russia will keep ties with Hamas: minister    

4/30/2008 - Israeli PM talks peace process with Jordan king    

4/30/2008 - "Falafel fuel" powers cars in petrol-starved Gaza    

4/30/2008 - Israel arrests 30 in West Bank refugee camp    

4/30/2008 - Jailed former professor ends hunger strike in Va. jail A former professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group but has refused to testify in a related investigation has ended a nearly two-month hunger strike, his supporters said Wednesday.  

4/30/2008 - Barbican's tribute to 1948 accused of demonising Israel Jonathan Hoffman, of the Jewish umbrella group the Zionist Federation, has complained to the London arts venue's director Nicholas Kenyon about captions accompanying the photos, which state that the 800,000 Palestinians who left their homes were "uprooted" and "dispossessed". The truth hurts.

4/30/2008 - Leading article: Intelligence or propaganda? There is no independent way to verify any of this, especially since the installation has now been destroyed. We must rely on the integrity of the Israeli and US intelligence services. That is where we hit a problem.  

4/30/2008 - Rice talks to pro-Israel group Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told an American Jewish audience yesterday that young Palestinians are losing hope for an agreement with Israel.  

4/30/2008 - We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation. This authorised the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating.  

4/30/2008 - Rabbi: Revoke citizenship of non-Jews    

4/30/2008 - How Daniel Pipes Destroyed a New York City Principal Pipes began his efforts to kill the school with an op/ed in the neoconservative New York Sun  

4/30/2008 - Palestinian newspaper banned in Gaza appears again    

4/30/2008 - John McCain's Serious Foreign Policy Is there anyone who thinks that Hamas has tried to, will try to, or ever could attack the U.S.? Hamas is an enemy of Israel, not the U.S. Is that a distinction we even recognize any more?  

4/30/2008 - The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War Under cover of the mayhem and propaganda, Israel can grab the remains of the West Bank and have another go at grabbing the water resources of southern Lebanon.  

4/30/2008 - Israel Could Make Orphans Homeless Again    

4/30/2008 - John McCain's Bid For American Jewish Votes    

4/30/2008 - UNIFIL denies Israeli charges it ignores Hezbollah activity    

4/30/2008 - Jewish group drops out of racism meeting after Iran objects A Canadian Jewish community advocacy group withdrew its application to attend the United Nations conference on racism after objections by Iran, UN Watch said Wednesday.  

4/30/2008 - Israel: Soldiers didn't know they were firing at journalist   Riightt.

4/30/2008 - Blood and Sand The book features a map that shows three hundred and eighty-nine Arab villages, from upper Galilee to the Negev Desert. Morris revealed that in forty-nine of these villages the indigenous Arabs were expelled by the Haganah and other Jewish military forces; in sixty-two villages, the Arabs fled out of fear, having heard rumors of attacks and even massacres; in six, the villagers left at the instruction of Palestinian local leaders. The refugees, who probably expected to return to their homes in a matter of weeks or months, went to Gaza and the West Bank, and also to surrounding Arab countries?Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria?where, to this day, they have never been fully absorbed.  

4/30/2008 - Support the Canadian Union of Postal Workers' campaign against Israeli apartheid    

4/30/2008 - 60 MINUTES: NEWS PROGRAM OR ARM OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY?    

4/30/2008 - MK Ariel: Arabs should be urged to willingly emigrate from Israel MK Uri Ariel on Sunday called on the government to encourage Israeli Arabs to "willingly emigrate" from Israel and from large cities within it, so as to solve the problematic situation of the country's minorities.  

4/30/2008 - Israel pullout risks Iran foothold on Golan: minister   Next we'll hear Iran was behind the grassy knoll. Israel and its minions in the US seek to scapegoat Iran for just about all of the ills in the Middle East.

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4/28/2008 - Israeli strike kills 7 Palestinians An Israeli tank shell slammed into a tiny Gaza Strip home Monday, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children as they prepared to sit down for breakfast, officials and relatives said. The four children Israel killed.

4/28/2008 - Israeli fire 'kills four children in Gaza' Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, without giving details of the raid in Beit Hanoun, said Hamas Islamists controlling the Gaza Strip bore overall responsibility for casualties among non-combatants because gunmen "operated among civilians". 'The terrorists made us do it!'

4/28/2008 - UN to resume food distribution in Gaza "This drip, drip, drip policy makes it impossible to plan and conduct a long-term, large-scale humanitarian operation and makes it impossible for people to lead decent and dignified lives,"  

4/28/2008 - Israel braces for criticism of Gaza policies from donor nations Israel is trying to block what is expected to be a stern condemnation of its policies in the Gaza Strip by the donor nations to the Palestinian Authority, which are scheduled to meet in London Thursday. In view of recent developments in the Gaza Strip, and the killing of civilians, there is concern in official circles in Jerusalem that the criticism will be severe.  

4/28/2008 - Blair gives Israel list of roadblocks to remove Middle East envoy Tony Blair has presented Israel with a list of West Bank travel and trade restrictions he wants removed to bolster peace talks with the Palestinians, officials briefed on the document said.  

4/28/2008 - Ban condemns killing of Palestinians in Gaza UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned the deaths of Palestinians, including a mother and four of her children, by the Israeli defence forces.  

4/28/2008 - US presses Israel on Gaza cease-fire Pressure is picking up on Israel to reach a cease-fire deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip ahead of US President George W. Bush's planned visit to Jerusalem in two weeks, defense officials told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.  

4/28/2008 - Hamas blocked fuel for Gaza hospitals: Palestinian ministry    

4/28/2008 - Qassam causes fire in Sderot    

4/28/2008 - Bedouin woman seriously injured in dud blast A 42-year old Bedouin woman from the Negev was seriously injured Saturday after a dud exploded in an IDF training zone. Paramedics reported that the woman's hand had to be amputated due to the injury, and she was evacuated by helicopter to receive treatment in Beersheba.  

4/28/2008 - Hundreds of Gaza Christians head to West Bank for Easter    

4/28/2008 - Abbas urges leaders avoid West Bank in Israel festivity    

4/28/2008 - PRC delegation to head to for ceasefire talks    

4/28/2008 - Psychosocial activities help disadvantaged Palestinian children relieve stress Laughter fills the playground as more than 100 children with disabilities anxiously await their first visit to the only zoo in the Occupied Palestinian Territory  

4/28/2008 - Arab MK: Israel's acts reminiscent of Nazis Israel's acts in the Gaza Strip are reminiscent of the Nazis, United Arab List-Ta'al Chairman Ibrahim Sarsur said Monday, as Arab-Israeli politicians rushed to condemn Israel over the killing of a Gaza family earlier in the day.  

4/28/2008 - Gaza militants to avenge Israeli attack Palestinian militants said Monday they would exact revenge against the "Zionist enemy" in response to an Israeli attack on a house in Gaza.  

4/28/2008 - Palestinian father: They wiped out my family   Gee what a shock that the IDF has exonerated itself of this crime too. Go figure.

4/28/2008 - Palestinian military court sentences convicted collaborator with Israel to death A Palestinian military court on Monday imposed the death penalty on a man convicted of collaborating with Israeli security, raising the possibility of the first such execution in seven years.  

4/28/2008 - Palestinian security finds West Bank weapons cache The discovery of the hidden assault rifles, handguns and explosives in a house near Bethlehem was part of a U.S.-backed "law and order" campaign in the territory, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction holds sway.  

4/28/2008 - Border Guard officer gets 6.5 years for killing Palestinian teen    

4/28/2008 - Abbas gives Egypt mediation 'unconditional' support    

4/28/2008 - Israel ends 10-day Passover closure of Palestinian territories    

4/28/2008 - Despite threats: Palestinian groups still want lull    

4/28/2008 - Johann Hari: Israel is suppressing a secret it must face So how did it come to this? How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago with a promise to be "a light unto the nations" end up flinging its filth at a cowering Palestinian population?  

4/28/2008 - Israeli army storms central Gaza, detains 9 in W Bank    

4/28/2008 - Qassam rockets, mortar shells hit Negev    

4/28/2008 - Fuel association says strike to continue in Gaza The Palestinian fuel association rejected on Sunday a request by the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip to resume deliveries in the impoverished territory, officials said.  

4/28/2008 - Three Palestinians break out of West Bank prison Three Palestinians, including two members of an armed group mostly confined to the Gaza Strip, escaped from a West Bank prison overnight, Palestinian security officials said on Monday.  

4/28/2008 - Conflicting stories about deaths of mother, 4 children in Gaza Israeli military officials blamed the deaths on Palestinian militants who were carrying explosives that detonated in a clash with Israeli soldiers. Reminiscent of the BS Israel told about the Beit Hanoun and Gaza beach massacres some years back.

4/28/2008 - Israel opens key checkpoint in occupied West Bank Ibrahim Abdullah, 47, a passenger in a car passing through the open iron gate of the checkpoint, said the move was "nothing more than media propaganda."  

4/28/2008 - Israel tanks roll into central Gaza Strip    

4/28/2008 - Iran-led radicals getting stronger, Israel warns Mofaz was in Washington as part of the US-Israeli strategic dialogue which meets every six months to discuss common security concerns.  

4/28/2008 - West Bank farmers face ruin after trees uprooted "We only go to work the land in coordination with the [Israeli] military. I am afraid to go alone, as the settlers have pulled guns on me in the past,"  

4/28/2008 - Settlers to move into E. J'lem police HQ Based on an agreement signed with former police commissioner Moshe Karadi, right-wing settlers will take up residence in a group of buildings in Jerusalem's predominantly Arab neighborhood Ras al-Amud in the next few days. The building had hitherto served as the Samaria and Judea District Police headquarters.  

4/28/2008 - Blair to return to Commons to speak on Middle East Blair has been invited to give evidence to the committee's inquiry into the humanitarian and development situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and can be expected to stick rigorously to the subject in hand.  

4/28/2008 - Bush to Mideast, no joint talks planned    

4/28/2008 - Carter insist Hamas meeting brought results Carter blasted what he described as the US policy of boycotting and punishing political factions or governments "that refuse to accept United States mandates," calling it "counterproductive."  

4/28/2008 - Lebanese army: 12 Israeli jets flew over Beirut The Lebanese army reported that Israeli Air Force jets flew over Beirut on Monday. The army said in a statement that 12 "enemy" Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace before noon Monday by flying missions over Beirut and elsewhere in the country. The IDF said it will not discuss its operational activities.  

4/28/2008 - Assad says facility Israel bombed not nuclear: paper The Syrian site Israel bombed in September was not part of a nuclear weapons program, but was a military facility under construction, President Bashar al-Assad said in remarks published on Sunday.....Assad said it was illogical for Syria to seek a nuclear bomb. "Where would we use it? On Israel it would kill the Palestinians. I do not see this as logical."  

4/28/2008 - Israel's military shows off unmanned, armed patrol vehicle    

4/28/2008 - Barak defers U.S. trip in wake of CIA briefing over Syrian strike Barak made the decision a few days ago. The postponement is aimed at avoiding the impression that his meetings were in any way connected to the U.S. decision to disclosure information on the Syrian facility  

4/28/2008 - Demonstration in Nablus to commemorate International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners    

4/28/2008 - IAF Chief: Hitler wasn't believed, we can't make that mistake with Ahmadinejad Shkedi made these remarks in a special interview with "60 Minutes" in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary, excerpts of which aired on Channel 2 television Sunday.  

4/28/2008 - Is War With Iran Imminent? Standing behind this developing pro-war Popular Front, the central factor in turning the U.S. toward a policy of confrontation rather than constructive engagement with Iran has been the Israel lobby.  

4/28/2008 - The neoconning of a nation Cheney and fellow militarists are pushing hard for attacks on Syria, Lebanon and Iran before President George W. Bush leaves office. Neocons have flocked to Sen. John McCain's banner -- in spite of Hillary Clinton's vow to "obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. They believe U.S. attacks on Arab states and/or Iran would prove decisive in winning the presidency for McCain this November. A U.S. attack on Syria could well be the first step of a broader air war against Lebanon and Iran.  

4/28/2008 - Manhunt over: IDF nabs 2 Palestinian infiltrators IDF forces captured two Palestinians who crossed the Gaza border fence north of the Kissufim Crossing Saturday night. Earlier, the IDF surrounded the Kissufim area, which was sealed off after the two infiltrators were spotted within Israeli territory.  

4/28/2008 - Spy Games -- Israel Targeted Again The arrest of a New Jersey engineer on charges of conspiracy to pass U.S. military secrets to Israel Tuesday shows a consistent, continued pattern of Israeli spying on its major benefactor, the United States, according to espionage experts  

4/28/2008 - Complicity in Acts of Aggression The Israelis ? allegedly the source of this "intelligence" ? apparently believe (and want gullible members of the Best Congress Money Can Buy to believe) that ten-foot tall Korean nuclear scientists and engineers have gone into the nuclear-reactor export business.  

4/28/2008 - Syrian reactor capacity was 1-2 weapons/year: CIA A diplomat close to the U.N. nuclear watchdog and outside analysts have said the U.S. disclosure did not amount to proof of an illicit arms program because there was no sign of a reprocessing plant needed to convert spent fuel from the plant into bomb-grade plutonium.  

4/28/2008 - Syria says US reactor charges as fake as Iraq WMD claims    

4/28/2008 - Hayden: Syrian site could have produced fuel for 2 weapons   BS gets thicker...

4/28/2008 - N.Koreans may have died in Israel raid in Syria: NHK    

4/28/2008 - CanWest lawsuit defendant Briemberg wins peace award Mordecai Briemberg, a retired Douglas College instructor and Rhodes scholar, is a cofounder of the Canada-Palestine Network.  

4/28/2008 - Redress the balance on Palestine it was the Israeli propaganda narrative that the Palestinians had simply abandoned their country, not fought enough for it and left for friendly Arab countries. The narrative conveniently defined the Palestinians as ignorant and cowardly. But since the opening of the Israeli archives in the past decade, that narrative has been demolished by a younger band of Israeli historians  

4/28/2008 - A West Bank Zoo Struggles to Survive    

4/28/2008 - Iran-led radicals getting stronger, Israel warns    

4/28/2008 - Wakf official banned from Temple Mount A senior Islamic official has been barred from entering the Temple Mount compound for the next six months after allegedly inciting violence against Jews, police said Monday  

4/28/2008 - Columbia to mark 'catastrophe' Arab-American student groups at Columbia University are marking the 60th anniversary of what Arabs call "the catastrophe" -- Israel's founding.  

4/28/2008 - Bil'in: scores injured by the Israeli army tier gas    

4/28/2008 - Palestinian swimmer works to bring facilities and expertise to Jericho A dream of going to the Olympics may have initiated Sadeq Damrah?s involvement with the Palestinian Swimming Federation, but now he?s dreaming larger than just swimming on the world?s biggest stage.  

4/28/2008 - Church leaders visit Holy Land The leaders of Ireland's four main churches are bringing a message of peace to the Holy Land.  

4/28/2008 - SOCCER: Players name Ronaldo top professional in England "If the Israeli footballers are allowed entry, the government would be seen as being insensitive to the feelings of the Palestinian victims of Israeli ethnic cleansing and atrocities, and the majority of the Malaysians who sympathise with them and support their struggle for justice and peace,"  

4/28/2008 - Jimmy Carter Speaks Out On Wright, Obama, McCain: Watch Video    

4/28/2008 - S.F. Mayor Newsom off to Israel, New York City The goal of the trip is to create connections between Bay Area and Israeli business leaders, a Newsom spokesman said.....He will not visit the Palestinian territories during his stay  

4/28/2008 - More on the Likudist Fronts    

4/28/2008 - Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea    

4/28/2008 - Running a Risk with Iran Our Israeli friends like to remind us of the danger Iran presents to them, but between the two nations, which one is the more dangerous? Iran is too far from Israel to bring its air, sea or land forces to bear against it. Iran might be able to lob ballistic missiles at Israeli cities, but any warhead it throws at Israel would pale in comparison to what Israel throws back (remember, Israel?s the nation with nukes, not Iran).  

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4/26/2008 - Israel limits impact of aid to Palestinians: World Bank Billions of aid dollars pledged to the Palestinians to bolster peace talks with Israel are having a muted economic impact because of Israeli restrictions on travel and trade, the World Bank said on Sunday.  

4/26/2008 - Abbas aide warns government may 'disappear' Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat warned yesterday that the U.S.-backed government of President Mahmoud Abbas may "disappear" if a permanent peace deal with Israel is not concluded by the end of the year.  

4/26/2008 - AT-TUWANI: Palestinians delayed by Israeli settlers gathering in defiance of military order the settlers made their way off the road onto cultivated Palestinian land, causing damage through the presence and grazing of their animals. Despite this threatening behaviour, a Palestinian family continued throughout to harvest their wheat in a nearby field.  

4/26/2008 - Hamas urges Abbas to declare peace talks a failure (Roundup)    

4/26/2008 - Egypt: Israel's stance on Hamas truce offer not final    

4/26/2008 - UNRWA calls on militants to halt attacks on crossings The United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees called on Gaza militant groups on Saturday to stop armed attacks on Gaza border crossings.  

4/26/2008 - Egypt: Egyptian mediation focussed only on Israeli-Hamas truce    

4/26/2008 - Palestinians reject Israeli official's comments on fuel crisis The Palestinian gas union on Saturday rejected a statement by an Israeli official blaming Palestinians, led by Hamas, for the fuel shortages in Gaza Strip.  

4/26/2008 - Mashaal: Truce a 'tactic' in Palestinian struggle Earlier Saturday, Mashaal said that Hamas is still waiting for Israel's official response to the group's sixtruce offer. During a press conference in Qatar, Mashaal said he had asked for a written commitment from Israel to open all of Gaza's border crossings, including the one at Rafah.  

4/26/2008 - Israel's ex-deputy defense minister says truce with Hamas not in Israel's interest Israel's former deputy defense minister says it's not in Israel's interest to strike a truce deal with Gaza's Hamas rulers.  

4/26/2008 - UN refugee agency hopes for early end to Gaza food aid suspension 'From our experience, I don't think this issue will last for long because there are urgent intensive communications with the Israeli side on all levels,' UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hassna told Voice of Palestine radio.  

4/26/2008 - US Congress: Israel homeland for Jewish people In honor of Israel's 60th anniversary, Congress passes resolution pledging to strengthen US-Israel bond; Israel's US Ambassador: Resolution testimony to America's unwavering support Wow. Why not just hoist the Israeli flag over Capitol Hill and be done with it? Ridiculous.

4/26/2008 - Palestinian plight is flip side of Israel's independence joy "For 60 years, Israel has been sitting on my heart. It kicked me out of my home, my nation, and deprived me of many things," And each Israeli birthday makes it harder for 70-year-old Shaikha and his elderly gin rummy partners in the camp's coffee house to cling to dreams of going back to Beit Nabala, one village among hundreds leveled to make way for the influx of Jewish immigrants into the newborn Jewish state.  

4/26/2008 - Arab League warns of 'humanitarian catastrophe' in Gaza    

4/26/2008 - Egypt detains two in alleged Hamas plot Authorities have arrested two members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood for allegedly plotting attacks with Hamas against US and Israeli interests in Egypt, a security official said on Saturday  

4/26/2008 - Orthodox Christians hail 'holy fire' of Easter in Jerusalem Orthodox Christians who are Palestinian and live in the nearby West Bank are generally not allowed by Israel to enter the Holy City. Many of them hold similar ceremonies at churches in their own towns and villages, such as Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Christ.  

4/26/2008 - Hamas denies Egyptian paper?s report on obtaining drones    

4/26/2008 - PFLP delegation to head to Egypt for truce talks A delegation of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) will head to Egypt on Monday for talks with senior Egypt officials on a possible ceasefire with Israel, the group said on Saturday.  

4/26/2008 - INTERVIEW-Abbas doubts deal with Israel possible this year "The gaps between us and Israel on final status issues are wide. Will we reach a deal by the end of the year? I don't know, we will see," he said in an interview as he flew from Washington to Sharm el-Sheikh for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.  

4/26/2008 - Intelligence on Syria delayed to avoid fight "Our first concern was to prevent conflict and broader confrontation in the Middle East," said one of the top senior intelligence officials, who held a briefing with reporters late yesterday afternoon.  

4/26/2008 - Abbas arrives in Egypt for talks on Palestinian issue    

4/26/2008 - Muslim group urges Malaysians to boycott Chelsea football tour "Malaysians should boycott the match," Mohamad Azmi said. "We should unite with the Palestinian people and fight for an independent homeland for them."  

4/26/2008 - McCain woos Jewish donors as GOP tries to lure them from Democrats The fund-raiser for McCain at the Ocean Ridge home of Lothar and Carlyn Mayer was put together as a way of "thanking and acknowledging Sen. McCain's longtime relationship with and support for Israel," said one of the event's hosts, Jeffrey Feingold, a Delray Beach periodontist active in state and national Jewish outreach for the GOP. Pucker up, Johnboy.

4/26/2008 - Syrian President, Turkish PM meet on peace process with Israel Syrian President Bashar al-Assadon Saturday held talks with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on activation of the peace process in the Middle East.  

4/26/2008 - Syria says will help Turk PM on mediation with Israel    

4/26/2008 - Hizbollah builds up covert army for a new assault against Israel 'They were guerrillas during the occupation but shocked Israel in the war by standing and fighting from fixed positions. Even badly outnumbered, they held territory with minimal losses even under assault from tank units,' he says. 'Now they want to expand to make sure they can stop the next invasion before the tanks reach the flat plains of the Bekaa, where Israel's armoured units will have the advantage.'  

4/26/2008 - "Farewell Israel": Myth and Reality Israel's military leaders and their political yes-men don't believe, and never have believed, that Iran, if it possessed nuclear weapons, would unleash them in a first strike against the Zionist state. The real problem for its leaders is that the moment Israel ceased to be the only nuclear-armed power in the region, would be the moment it lost its ability to impose its will on the region. And actually the world.  

4/26/2008 - ANALYSIS-Congressional calculus triggered Syria disclosures    

4/26/2008 - Over Dh52m raised through Sharjah TV telethon A telethon to gather funds for Palestinian children has raised more than Dh52 million by 12am on Sunday through Sharjah TV.  

4/26/2008 - Israel Might Have Many More Spies Here, Officials Say The elderly New Jersey man arrested last week on charges of spying for Israel years ago was probably still working for the Jewish state?s espionage service in tandem with another, as yet unidentified spy, former American intelligence officials say  

4/26/2008 - My Middle East dialogue - Jimmy Carter was right on Hamas. We mediators can take more risks than elected politicians I remember once telling Yasser Arafat he had a yiddisher kop (a creative Jewish mind) and I wasn't sure how he was going to treat me once he found out I was Jewish. He responded by embracing me and saying: "Some of my best friends are Jewish. I used to play with the Cohen boys when I was young. Now help me make peace." But he and Fatah could never deliver it, because they lacked the means to enforce it.  

4/26/2008 - The Americans' Vanunu AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) - the Jewish lobby in Washington - is the bluntest conceptualization of institutionalizing near treason and turning it into an enormous octopus of a political mechanism with enormous dimensions and numerous victims.  

4/26/2008 - U.S. fumes after Israeli envoy to UN brands Carter 'a bigot' The United States registered an official protest with Israel against its ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, for calling former U.S. President Jimmy Carter an "enemy of Israel" prior to Carter's recent visit to the region. Interesting.

4/26/2008 - Evidence-based bombing by Scott Ritter While vexing, the Syrian position is totally in keeping with its treaty obligations, and so it is Syria, not Israel, that was in full conformity with international law at the time of Israel's September 6 2007 attack. A good read.

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4/25/2008 - Palestinian girl killed in Gaza clashes -medics    

4/25/2008 - Two Israelis killed by Palestinian militants: army Two Israeli guards have been killed by Palestinian militants in an industrial area on the border between Israel and the West bank, a military spokeswoman said on Friday  

4/25/2008 - One Palestinian killed, seven hurt in clashes with Israeli troops in northern Gaza: medics    

4/25/2008 - Abbas says he failed to achieve any progress in peace talks with Bush    

4/25/2008 - Thousands in Gaza protest against Israeli blockade Thousands of Hamas supporters on Friday demonstrated in Gaza to demand that Israel lift its crippling blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory.  

4/25/2008 - Peace deal must fulfill Palestinian hopes: Abbas spokesman    

4/25/2008 - Fuel crisis in Gaza: MSF is forced to scale back its medical activities Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) medical activities in the Gaza Strip are being seriously hindered by a lack of fuel. Diesel and gasoline have been unavailable on the market for the past week. MSF teams have had to limit their visits to the most severely ill patients, who make up only one fifth of the patient population of MSF post-surgical care programs  

4/25/2008 - OPT: Aid for Palestinian refugees in Gaza    

4/25/2008 - Israel dismisses Hamas truce offer The Hamas offer came after several weeks of negotiation with Egyptian officials and after several meetings with former US president Jimmy Carter, who travelled to Damascus last week to meet the movement's leader, Khaled Meshal.  

4/25/2008 - Egypt sends police reinforcements to Gaza border    

4/25/2008 - Bush Meets Abbas, but Palestinians Criticize Plans for Trip As he prepares for his second trip this year to the Middle East, President Bush is facing mounting criticism from some Palestinians who are upset that he will go to Israel for its 60th birthday celebration without marking the flip side of that event: the flight of Palestinians from their homes.  

4/25/2008 - US Syria claims raise wider doubts Perhaps mindful of the mistakes of the past, the ten-minute video released by the Bush administration in an effort to prove the Syria-North Korea connection is less ambitious and more focussed. It uses still images which, it is claimed, were taken inside the facility during its construction. There is of course no independent way to verify this. This video was, according to Haaretz, provided by ISRAEL.

4/25/2008 - Human Rights Watch: Gaza Fuel Cuts: Civilians Pay the Price The restrictions on electricity and fuel to an effectively occupied territory amount to collective punishment of the civilian population, a serious violation of international humanitarian law. Unlawful attacks by one side to a conflict do not justify unlawful actions by the other.  

4/25/2008 - Hebron orphanage under threat by the army, hundreds of children will be homeless Speakers at Thursday's press conference included the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), Hebron, teachers and students from Al-Shari'yah Girls School in Hebron, Othman Abu Sabha of Palestinian Union of Medical Relief Committees, Doctors of the World, and Tim Rothermel, spokesperson for President Jimmy Carter  

4/25/2008 - UN targets US over delay in Syrian nuclear evidence Why did it take the CIA seven months to reveal this information to Congress? ....Is there any directevidence of North Koreans actually at the site? The photograph of the Syrian and North Korean nuclear scientists was taken at another location.....Why did Israel act unilaterally to destroy the site before IAEA inspectors had a chance to visit?  

4/25/2008 - Football and politics in the Holy City Beitar fans show the Arab supporters of Nazareth that and a lot more. They are ultra-nationalist and anti-Arab. Beitar win the game and the crowd sing: "Death to Mohammed." Truly a delightful bunch. Why not don white hoods, seig heil, and be done with it?

4/25/2008 - McCain picks up Hamas-Obama linkage    

4/25/2008 - Cheney camp 'behind Syrian reactor claim' "Everything I'm hearing from my own sources in Washington is that what you have now is a kind of push back by Vice-President [Dick] Cheney and his office and other hardliners who are opposed to diplomatic dealings with North Korea," he said. One more time, Israel provided us with the video.

4/25/2008 - Activists hang up on Motorola    

4/25/2008 - Haaretz: Despite Supreme court order, The IDF is not dismantling the fence near Bil?in    

4/25/2008 - Aiding and abetting occupation As United Methodists from around the world are gathered for General Conference, they will consider proposals for divestment from companies sustaining Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.  

4/25/2008 - The Un-American Treatment of Sami al-Arian by Charley Reese Then another U.S. attorney, who likes to publicly boast of his ardent support for Israel, found another way to persecute al-Arian. He subpoenaed him to testify before a grand jury in Virginia, even though as part of his plea bargain, al-Arian had said he would not testify against anyone else.  

4/25/2008 - An Act Of War - Interview: Seymour Hersh Seymour Hersh, one of the world's best known investigative journalists, has turned his attention to the mysterious and controversial bombing of a Syrian facility by Israel last year.  

4/25/2008 - Syrian Nukes: the Phantom Menace Cirincione told the BBC that "This appears to be the work of a small group of officials leaking cherry-picked, unvetted 'intelligence' to key reporters in order to promote a preexisting political agenda." The preexisting political agenda may be promoting a war with Syria and/or Iran, or torpedoing negotiations between the US and North Korea. Finally, Cirincione adds ominously "If this sounds like the run-up to the war with Iraq, then it should."  

4/25/2008 - Syria says nothing to hide over alleged atomic reactor Syria's UN envoy has said Damascus is "not afraid" to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog, which has pledged to look into whether Syria secretly built an atomic reactor with North Korean help.  

4/25/2008 - Clinton stakes new ground on confronting nuclear Iran While Israeli officials and pro-Israel activists in the United States stress the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, many of them also share Clinton's view that Iran's theocracy may be sensitive to threats of massive military strikes and long for explicit declarations along the lines issued by the New York senator.  

4/25/2008 - Israeli law would pay settlers to leave West Bank    

4/25/2008 - Israelis split on keeping Golan    

4/25/2008 - Rice to make trip to Britain, Israel, West Bank US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Britain, Israel and the West Bank for talks on Iran's nuclear program, Kosovo and Middle East peace efforts, the State Department said Friday.  

4/25/2008 - Syrian vows to cooperate with IAEA over US nuclear charges    

4/25/2008 - Defending Jimmy Carter    

4/25/2008 - Syrian Ambassador to U.S. Says CIA Fabricated Photo Evidence of Nuclear Reactor    

4/25/2008 - IAEA Slams US On Syria Bombing; Will Probe Reactor Report Carefully "The Director General deplores the fact that this information was not provided to the Agency in a timely manner, in accordance with the Agency's responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to enable it to verify its veracity and establish the facts," ElBaradei's office said. Additionally, "the Director General views the unilateral use of force by Israel as undermining the due process of verification that is at the heart of the non-proliferation regime," it said.  

4/25/2008 - Wanna buy a house for $20,000? Just keep an eye out for missiles "A guy came to my house and he offered me 130,000, but he was an Arab collaborator so I refused to sell. I'm a traditional Jewish woman and I won't sell my house to an Arab."  

4/25/2008 - Dyer: America benefits little from its alliance with Israel    

4/25/2008 - Syria accuses U.S. of aiding Israel in strike on nuke facility According to a report by The Washington Post on its Web site Thursday, the U.S. has video footage - which the report says was obtained by Israel - that shows that the similarities in design between the Syrian site and the North Korean nuclear reactor in Yongbyon. The key words here being - 'obtained by Israel'. We are still relying on Israel to provide us with 'intelligence', to our own detriment.

4/25/2008 - Cluster bomb left from 2006 war wounds 4 children in S. Lebanon    

4/25/2008 - Lebanon protest demands that Egypt open Gaza border    

4/25/2008 - Pollard's Ghost   There are likely numerous others like Kadish still in prominent positions in and around the government as we speak. That's the scary part. Most are not tied to any organizations and act on their own - because they have a passionate attachment to Israel.

4/25/2008 - Canadian funding to ease medical crisis in Palestinian Territories    

4/25/2008 - MADONNA CONTEMPLATES SECOND ADOPTION MADONNA is considering adopting a second child, with Cambodia and the Palestinian territories top of her list of targets.  

4/25/2008 - Matt Taibbi Undercover with the Christian Right The whole idea behind Christian Zionism is to align America with the nation of Israel so as to "hurry God up" in his efforts to bring about Armageddon. As Hagee tells it, only after Israel is involved in a final showdown involving a satanic army (in most interpretations, a force of Arabs led by Russians) will Christ reappear. On that happy day, Hagee and his True Believers will be whisked up to Heaven by God, while the rest of us nonbelievers are left behind on Earth to suck eggs and generally suffer various tortures.  

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4/24/2008 - Report: 1 dead, several wounded in IAF strikes in Gaza One civilian was killed in the strike and several others wounded. The IDF confirmed the attack, citing the target was his as planned.  

4/24/2008 - Israeli army thrusts into Beit Hanoun, kills an old man    

4/24/2008 - UN suspends aid to Gaza for lack of fuel "We have just stopped the distribution of all food aid to 650,000 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip because of the lack of fuel in our storage in Gaza," said Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) office in Gaza.  

4/24/2008 - US denies giving Israel green light for settlement expansion   Well, but what did the US do about Israel's ongoing settlment building and expansion? Withhold any aid? NOPE.

4/24/2008 - Al Nakba memorial beginning its official period    

4/24/2008 - Bush And Sharon Had Secret Deal To Expand West Bank, Claims Olmert Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, said this week that Bush's letter gave the Jewish state permission to expand the West Bank settlements that it hopes to retain in a final peace deal, even though Bush's peace plan officially calls for a freeze of Israeli settlements across Palestinian territories on the West Bank  

4/24/2008 - Israeli settler rams a Palestinians child with his car Ahmad Al Titti, five years old, was standing beside his father on the main road connecting the city of Hebron to rest of the West Bank, when an Israeli settler rammed the child with his car.  

4/24/2008 - A portrait of life and death in Gaza On his film you can clearly see the muzzle flash from the tank about 1,500 yards away. And two seconds later, just before the film dies, you can see something dark exploding above Fadel. He died instantly, almost decapitated by shrapnel. The two boys who Mahmoud saw next to the tripod were also killed in the blast. "I heard the first explosion, dropped the bicycle and fell to the ground," said Mahmoud. "I had cuts on my neck and chest, but I could move, so I started crawling away."  

4/24/2008 - U.S. to demand Jerusalem acknowledge Kadish was an Israeli agent    

4/24/2008 - Palestinians pledge fuel for aid agency amid shortages John Ging, the UNRWA director of operations in Gaza, said yesterday there had been a "totally inadequate" supply of fuel from Israel to Gaza for 10 months until it was finally halted. "The devastating humanitarian impact is entirely predictable," he said.  

4/24/2008 - Five civilians injured in Bethlehem on Tuesday night    

4/24/2008 - EU calls on Israel to ensure fuel supplies European Union (EU) Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Louis Michel on Thursday urged Israel to ensure fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip, amid United Nations (UN) warnings that aid to Palestinian refugees there will end otherwise.  

4/24/2008 - Israel's U.N. envoy calls Jimmy Carter 'bigot'   Thus does the smear campaign by pro-Israelis get taken to a higher level.

4/24/2008 - Hamas offers Gaza truce with Israel Former Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar, speaking in Cairo after meeting Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, said the truce must include an end to the Israeli blockade of the coastal strip.  

4/24/2008 - Palestinian state is 'high priority,' says Bush US President George W. Bush assured Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas Thursday he was "confident" about reaching an agreement on creating a Palestinian state before he leaves office.  

4/24/2008 - Collapse of Gaza aid distribution just hours away: UN The United Nations warned that aid distribution would end in the Gaza Strip on Thursday unless Israel allows new fuel supplies, but Israel blamed Hamas for the shortages.  

4/24/2008 - Israeli airstrike in Gaza wounds 3 militants    

4/24/2008 - Israeli ex-soldiers expose abuse of Palestinians "A lot of people come and say, 'Oh, that's all in the past,' " explains Yehuda Shaul, executive director of the group, which has brought 3,000 people on eye-opening trips to Hebron. On the contrary, he adds, he sees abuses as increasingly institutionalized. "The whole point of Breaking the Silence is to understand the moral price tag of a military occupation."  

4/24/2008 - Residents: Golan belongs to the Jewish people Heads of Israeli towns in the Golan Heights convened Thursday for an emergency meeting following reports in recent days that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had agreed to relinquish the Golan Heights to Syria. The land was unlawfully seized in the Six Day War and subsequently colonized by Israel. It never 'belonged to the Jewish people'.

4/24/2008 - Gazans discuss the fuel crisis    

4/24/2008 - Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes Cheney's minions are pushing Congress to sponge up Israeli intelligence assessments about purported Syria-North Korea cooperation on a now destroyed, alleged nuclear site. There are many who doubt Israel's assessments in the U.S. intelligence community  

4/24/2008 - Spy case poses questions on size of Israeli ring Official ties are unlikely to be affected, said David Kimche, president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations and a former senior Mossad official. "There won't be any dramatic ramifications in the sense that any sort of actions will be taken against Israel, in my opinion," Kimche said.  

4/24/2008 - Syrian president ready to talk to Israel once Bush term ends    

4/24/2008 - What's behind Kadish arrest? For now, only speculation The president?s lame-duck status has hobbled his effectiveness, and he is eager for progress in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks he helped relaunch last November in Annapolis, Md. "It's not easy trying to conduct policy in Washington when you know that there is a powerful pro-Israel constituency out there that says otherwise," said Lenny ben-David, a former Israeli diplomat and a former AIPAC staffer  

4/24/2008 - Did the Israelis Leak New Spy Info to Thwart War? Over at the American Conservative magazine?s blog, Antiwar.com columnist and former CIA officer Philip Giraldi reports that Israeli sources have indicated to him that the recent leak to the FBI about the new-old Israeli spy case came from inside the Israeli government toward the end of thwarting Ehud Olmert, Dick Cheney and the War Party?s plans to expand the Middle Eastern slaughter to Iran ? and that there are more spies to be revealed?.....The leak of the information at the present time is believed to be linked to proposed closed congressional hearings at the end of this month in which the White House had planned to use several Israeli intelligence officers to provide evidence on the alleged Syrian nuclear program that was bombed on September 6, 2007  

4/24/2008 - Israel's Air Force Chief: Iran Threat Real    

4/24/2008 - US claims North Korea helped build Syria reactor plant The video, made public last night after Congress had been briefed, is a collection of material from various sources, in addition to Israeli intelligence. Israeli intelligence? Whodda thunk it?

4/24/2008 - Palestinian education delegation to UK gets special treatment The UCU has made a mistake -- a precaution too far. My suspicion is that the real reason for the entry restriction is to keep attendance low, in order to give the impression that the level of support for the Palestinian cause is minimal. Moreover, the UCU leadership is worried that there may be a danger of discussions on the academic boycott of Israel breaking out -- something which the General Secretary of the UCU leadership fiercely opposes.  

4/24/2008 - Clinton's Iran tone 'imprudent' A BRITISH foreign minister said US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's threat to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons was imprudent.  

4/24/2008 - Jewish leader: German firms ignoring Shoah "Business with Iran is booming, while morality is wasting away. German companies, of all things, are doing business with a country that advocates a new Holocaust," Graumann said at an event on Tuesday celebrating Israel's 60th birthday.  

4/24/2008 - Foreign Ministry: Israel doesn't spy in US "I assume that the timing is not coincidental, and is aimed at sending a warning signal to the White House ? and particularly to President Bush ? that he should not dare consider releasing Pollard before he leaves office in January," Haber said.  

4/24/2008 - The Ritual Flaying of Jimmy Carter    

4/24/2008 - Palestinian-American speaker draws praise and criticism More than 120 students and faculty attended the lecture to hear Abunimah discuss his thoughts on how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts.  

4/24/2008 - Palestinians briefly open road closed by army, plant their flag on Israeli position Two dozen Palestinian and Israeli protesters are scuffling with Israeli troops at an abandoned army post in the West Bank. The protesters say Jewish settlers have taken over the site and are setting up an illegal outpost there.  

4/24/2008 - Arab lawyer invited to train kinder, gentler Israeli soldiers Wafa Fahoum felt she had to make a stand when her nine-year-old daughter Nadine ? an Arab representing Israel at tennis ? was singled out for questioning by airport security staff while her Jewish team-mates simply walked through.  

4/24/2008 - West Bank Samaritans mark Passover with blood and fire The West Bank Samaritans remain close to their former neighbours, and many Palestinians from Nablus, including the governor, visit the Passover ceremony and exchange warm greetings with longtime friends.  

4/24/2008 - UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PALESTINE REFUGEES to be held in Paris, 29 - 30 April The Committee on the Exercise of the InalienableRights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations International Conference on Palestine Refugees at United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) Headquarters in Paris on 29 and 30 April, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 62/80 and 62/81 of 10 December 2007.  

4/24/2008 - Palestinian, international and Israeli activists reclaim settler outpost    

4/24/2008 - Sarkozy admits 'mistakes' during first year he vowed that as head of state he would not hold talks with the Hamas in the Palestinian territories, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the Taliban militia in Afghanistan.  

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4/23/2008 - Fuel shortage forces UN to halt Gaza food aid The UN is to halt food handouts for up to 800,000 Palestinians from tomorrow because of a severe fuel shortage in Gaza brought on by an Israeli economic blockade.  

4/23/2008 - Tibi: Carter suggested we tell Americans about discrimination MK to present cases of Israeli discrimination against Arab sector in America's major media outlets following advice from former US president. 'Carter said that the American public was unaware of the situation,' he tells Ynet  

4/23/2008 - US man 'gave secrets to Israel' A military engineer has appeared in court in the US on charges of passing classified information to Israel. Kudos to the US Justice department - score one for the good guys!

4/23/2008 - Opposition slams decision to allow aid into Gaza "Is the blood of the soldiers and civilians not as precious as rice, sugar and tomatoes?" asked Knesset MemberIsrael Hasson (Yisrael Beitenu) on Tuesday in response to the renewal of operations at the Suffa border crossing in central Gaza and the decision to continue facilitating the passage of humanitarian aid to Palestinians a mere four days after the bombing of the Kerem Shalom crossing.  

4/23/2008 - Israeli army attacks the village Marda: Detains 50 civilians and kidnaps two    

4/23/2008 - Gaza power plant to run out of fuel in 36 hours: rights group    

4/23/2008 - Gaza's sewage 'tsunami'    

4/23/2008 - The Hamas-run health ministry tries to prevent collapse of its services    

4/23/2008 - Hamas changes stance, saying it's open to Gaza-only truce Senior Hamas representatives said Tuesday that the militant group is willing to accept a cease-fire limited to the Gaza Strip, dropping a long-standing demand that the West Bank be included in a halt to fighting with Israel  

4/23/2008 - Clinton warns Iran of U.S. nuclear response Clinton said it was vital that the United States create a new "security umbrella" to reassure Israel and its other allies in the region that they would not be threatened by Iran. She said she would tell them that "if you were the subject of an unprovoked nuclear attack by Iran, the United States, and hopefully our NATO allies, would respond to that."  

4/23/2008 - Silence in Israel on Hamas proposal    

4/23/2008 - Former prosecutor says new spy case shows that Pollard case was bigger than thought DiGenova says the similarities are eerie. He says it clearly indicates the case is bigger than these two.  

4/23/2008 - FBI Claims a Confession in Israel Spy Case    

4/23/2008 - Israel downplays US spy affair    

4/23/2008 - Israel says no spying on US since 1985   HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Hilarious! I bet the Justice Department isn't buying it either.

4/23/2008 - N.J. man accused of spying for Israel The Pollard case for a short time devastated U.S.-Israel relations. In its aftermath, Israel swore never to run a spy again, and Americans broadened their information sharing with Israel to keep the Israelis from temptation. Yeh, that makes sense. Reward the thieves.

4/23/2008 - Israel downplays US spy affair    

4/23/2008 - More Palestinian patients being denied entry to Israel Figures presented by Physicians for Human Rights from early April indicate Shin Bet rejected entry requests of 12 grievously ill cancer patients from Gaza  

4/23/2008 - Palestinian foreign minister sees Gaza ceasefire 'very close'    

4/23/2008 - ICRC concerned by suspension of family visits to prisoners For families in the Gaza Strip with sons or daughters in Israeli jails, the past 11 months have been especially hard, as they could no longer visit their imprisoned relatives and have only had contact through brief written messages.  

4/23/2008 - Hamas says Israeli defense minister's remarks a 'failure of Israeli army in Gaza' Hamas's spokesperson in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri stated on Tuesday that the remarks made today by the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, signaled 'failure of the Israeli army actions on Gaza'.  

4/23/2008 - Israeli army arrests 20 Palestinians in West Bank    

4/23/2008 - Palestinian journalists urge Hamas, Fatah to stop libel campaigns on media    

4/23/2008 - Gaza power plant to run out of fuel Wednesday night: officials    

4/23/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps 13 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank    

4/23/2008 - Abbas in Washington for talks with Bush    

4/23/2008 - Gift from Britain could bring tourists back to Hebron Mr Edwards, deputy Consul-General in Jerusalem, was there to donate five horse-drawn carriages to take tourists through the carved-up heart of Hebron, where cars are banned.  

4/23/2008 - Gaza journalists mourn Reuters colleague The Jerusalem-based Foreign Press Association said in a statement on Wednesday: "The FPA wishes to express its profound concern over the lack of a full Israeli explanation.  

4/23/2008 - Carter says Secretary Rice "not telling truth" Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of not telling the truth about warnings she said her department gave Carter not to speak to Hamas before a Middle East trip.  

4/23/2008 - Envoys walk out of U.N. after Libya Holocaust remark Western U.N. envoys walked out of a Security Council discussion on Wednesday after Libya's U.N. ambassador likened the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to the Nazi Holocaust, diplomats said.  

4/23/2008 - Clinging to dream of Palestine village Assurances that they would be allowed to return after a fortnight were not honoured; weeks of exile turned into months, years. Despite several court rulings in the inhabitants' favour, the Israeli military prevented their return citing emergency regulations.  

4/23/2008 - Israel's £1.8m for family of Briton killed in Gaza Previous attempts at out-of-court settlements failed because Israel had either "reneged" or "renegotiated to our detriment", the family said. However, they indicated that they may accept the new offer. "Having had an exhausting and expensive five-year fight, the possibility of an out-of-court settlement might be considered, although no agreement has been reached," the statement said.  

4/23/2008 - Shot film-maker's family doubt Israeli payout claims Relatives of James Miller, who was killed five years ago, said reports of the deal could be a "ruse" by the Israeli authorities to delay court proceedings due to start next month.  

4/23/2008 - Palestinian conference to raise $600 million for Gaza A Palestinian-hosted investment conference plans to raise $600 million for the Gaza Strip but delay projects in the territory while Hamas remains in control, organizers said on Wednesday.  

4/23/2008 - US Takes Counterinsurgency Lessons From Israel Iraq, it seems, is surging toward Gaza. This fact is not missed by average Iraqis..... What we are seeing in Iraq today has much less to do with the declared shift in U.S. military doctrine than with a deeper and more far-reaching "Israelization" of U.S. military strategy and tactics over the past two decades that was only heightened by America's misadventures in the Middle East after Sept. 11, 2001.  

4/23/2008 - National Lawyers Guild Urges Israel to Permit Richard Falk to Enter Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories Professor Falk was recently appointed as the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Israel has barred entry to Professor Falk, claiming he cannot be fair because of his prior condemnation of persistent and pervasive human rights violations carried out by Israel in the Occupied Territories  

4/23/2008 - Riad Elsohl Hamad - 1952-2008    

4/23/2008 - Druze cling to land in campaign to prevent land expropriation   The land of non-Jews is always fair game to Israel if it's within Israel's reach.

4/23/2008 - From Dec. 2001: The Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring in America    

4/23/2008 - Turning the Page on US Foreign Policy, Part 2    

4/23/2008 - UN chief calls for immediate presidential elections in Lebanon and disarming of Hezbollah Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Monday for immediate presidential elections in Lebanon without foreign interference and told Syria and Iran they must support the disarmament of Hezbollah's well-armed militia.  

4/23/2008 - Israel 'ready to return Golan'    

4/23/2008 - Jimmy Carter Gets the Point by Philip Giraldi Carter was also lacerated by the U.S. media, which did not report the visit in detail except to criticize it. The Washington Post's neocon-dominated editorial page was the most strident, denouncing Carter for embracing Hamas' terrorists. According to the Post, Hamas engages in "deliberate targeting of civilians," such as the Israeli town of Sderot, which "suffers daily rocket attacks." The Post seems unaware of Israeli targeting of civilians when it can't find an actual "militant" to kill......It is particularly ironic that the Israelis killed 20 Palestinians on April 16, all civilians and including five children, the day on which Obama made his speech and the White House was criticizing Carter's efforts.  

4/23/2008 - Diplomats spar preparing for 'Durban II' On the third day of a two-week preparatory forum this week in Geneva, Algerian diplomat Idriss Jazairy said the definition of anti-Semitism should include bias toward Arabs because they are a Semitic people. Jewish groups see such statements as attempts to cover up hatred of Jews. Arabs are Semites too. Only the bias against THOSE Semites never quite factors in when it comes to 'anti-Semitism'.

4/23/2008 - ANALYSIS: New espionage affair may be old story, but will greatly damage Israel    

4/23/2008 - Content of Belgian-sponsored Palestinian festival irks Jews Isaac Franco, a board member of Belgium's Radio Judaica, said Masarat is about defaming Israel. "The posters shown incite hatred, anti-Semitism and promote terrorism," he said. "We want the ministry to make sure these posters do not come to the festival." Notice how 'defaming Israel' then becomes 'inciting hatred, anti-Semitism, promoting terrorism'?...

4/23/2008 - Al-Qaeda accuses Iran of 9/11 lie Correspondents say the comments underline al-Qaeda's increasing public hostility towards Iran.  

4/23/2008 - Ross Issues Urgent Warning on Iran The U.S. and its allies probably have no more than a year to take action against Iran before that nation acquires nuclear weapons, warns Dennis Ross, an architect of the Mideast peace process. Why? Has Iran threatened us (in the absence of any threats we've made towards them) ,ATTACKED us? NO. So, why is it our job to disarm Iran of any purported nuclear weapons? Who made it so? ISRAEL. And not coincidentally, Dennis Ross is a staunch Israel-supporter.

4/23/2008 - 'She would not retreat' In Athens, Greece, Rachel Corrie is known as "she who would not retreat." Residents in her hometown of Olympia, Wash., refer to her as "the peacemaker." But to UI sophomore Sarita Patnaik, she was the "cool cousin."  

4/23/2008 - Iran seeks to block Canadian NGO Ezrin said Iran is objecting in part because the Canadian Council is not involved in anti-racism or anti-discrimination work.  

4/23/2008 - Study: Muslim anti-Semitism threatens Israel The study singled out Iran as a country whose anti-Semitism poses a potential threat to Israel's existence, given Tehran's supposed nuclear program. Wow. The BS being spewed forth gets ever thicker.

4/23/2008 - Al Qaeda deputy criticises Muslims for not backing insurgencies Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant also blasted Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas over their reported readiness to consider a peace deal with Israel.  

4/23/2008 - US to release Syria nuke details 'soon' Asked when the public would be told about what US intelligence has picked up, Defence Secretary Robert Gates would only say "soon". Who provided the US with this 'intelligence', is the real question.

4/23/2008 - Turkey reassures Syria on Israel peace feelers: reports Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has assured Syria that Israel is ready to return all of the Golan Heights, reports said on Wednesday amid renewed peace feelers between the bitter foes.  

4/23/2008 - Report: Olmert ready to cede Golan Israel reportedly has agreed to withdraw from the Golan Heights as part of a peace deal with Syria  

4/23/2008 - Bill Kristol, great man of sacrifice, on the duties of Passover People continue to be slaughtered and Americans sent to die so that his ideological dreams of an America-dominated Middle East and an Israel unconstrained by anyone or anything can be realized. As the wars and "sacrifices" rage on, his career as a War Commentator consequently flourishes, with more appearances on Fox, more readers for the war-loving Weekly Standard, and now even a column in the New York Times, itself the by-product of nepotistic connections, from which he preaches to the little people of their need to continue to sacrifice for his wars.  

4/23/2008 - Students object to ex-terrorists' talk    

4/23/2008 - Streisand pulls out of Israel's 60th anniversary bash It says she gave no reason for the cancellation.  

4/23/2008 - Conflict perspective: Speaker gives insight on Palestinian issues William Van Wagenen, a former study-abroad student at Birzeit University in Palestine, spoke about the Palestinian perspective in the last Convocation of the semester to raise awareness of the issues in Israel.  

4/23/2008 - Irish church leaders to make peace visit to Holy Land    

4/23/2008 - Parents of French-Palestinian convict look to Sarkozy    

4/23/2008 - Help for Palestinian villagers Keith Douglas was in Palestine for three weeks, between March 20 and April 14, and despite the hospitality of his hosts, he said the region's population were "desperate to survive".  

4/23/2008 - Israel Sees Iran Threat Recede    

4/23/2008 - Selma Waldman, 1931-2008: Painter had a 'unique touch' Her support for the cause of the Palestinian people was unwavering and absolute, a stance that her son, Rainer Waldman Adkins, thinks of as embedded in the Jewish tradition of principled dissent.  

4/23/2008 - Palestinian embroidery details past Today, the PCC, has over 450 women from the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan working on these beautiful pieces. For these women, the payment they receive is a great support for their families. The PCC also aims at supporting education and helps various schools and education programs in Palestine as well as needy families.  

4/23/2008 - Merkley caught up in Mideast debate Some of the Palestinian supporters became concerned about Merkley after he returned Gores' check, citing statements she had made in a 2006 rally condemning Israel's invasion of Lebanon. She said that at that rally, she recited details of an Israeli attack that killed 37 children in Qana and concluded: "Tell me, who are the terrorists?" Merkley said his campaign found her comments in a routine check of campaign donors and decided that he couldn't be associated with such anti-Israeli views.  

4/23/2008 - Video: Carter: "US Candidates MUST do as Israel says"    

4/23/2008 - Fateh wins Student Council elections in Bir Zeit University    

4/23/2008 - Christians flock to Jordan River but can't take the plunge A Palestinian Boy Scout marching band from the nearby occupied West Bank town of Jericho welcomed the faithful to the revered site set in a harsh landscape of arid hills, barbed wire and military positions.  

4/23/2008 - Palestine Securities Exchange (PSE)    

4/23/2008 - Today's photo: Palestinian journalists show off dead colleague's gear The Israeli military says it doesn't target journalists. Tell that to the family of Briton James Miller, as one example.

4/23/2008 - War photographer, professor to speak at Sioux Falls church Marcy Newman, visiting professor at the American University of Beirut, will speak about her experience as part of a nonviolent presence for peace in Gaza and the West Bank.  

4/23/2008 - On the road for justice He was born in Jerusalem, a Palestinian Christian who later moved to the U.S. and became an American citizen.  

4/23/2008 - Photo controversy sparks protest The rally, inside the building for roughly 15 minutes, was sparked by the removal of a photo exhibit sponsored by Students Confronting Apartheid by Israel (SCAI). Old Union administrators took down the photos on April 9 after receiving multiple complaints regarding the exhibit.  

4/23/2008 - Israel may pay for filmmaker's death Miller, then 34, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier while he and two of his colleagues were waving a white flag at night and trying to leave an area then under Israeli military siege.  

4/23/2008 - US official to run Blair's Middle East peace office Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Danin "will be head of mission" for the Jerusalem-based office of Blair, who represents the so-called Quartet of major players in the Middle East peace process -- the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, as well as the United States.  

4/23/2008 - Carter-Hamas meeting achieved nothing: Palestinians "Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions. There was no change on the part of Hamas,"  

4/23/2008 - World Bank approves US$55 million to support Palestinian economic recovery and Palestinian livelihoods    

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4/21/2008 - 3 Gaza militants killed near Israel    

4/21/2008 - Israeli military refuses entry of food aid to Gaza A shipment of food aid for the people of the Gaza Strip was denied entry by Israeli military forces on Monday. The shipment consisted of several trucks full of food aid from Egypt that were denied entry at the Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.  

4/21/2008 - Hamas would conditionally accept peace plan Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in an apparent softening of the group's position, was confirming an account of his remarks given by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter after two meetings in Damascus over the weekend.  

4/21/2008 - U.S. dismisses Hamas comments described by Carter    

4/21/2008 - Hamas says accepts Palestinian statehood "We accept a state on the June 4 line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees but without recognising Israel," Meshaal told reporters, referring to the borders as they stood before the 1967 war.  

4/21/2008 - We can accept Israel as neighbour, says Hamas Hamas said today it would accept a Palestinian state on land occupied in the 1967 war, but it would not explicitly recognise Israel.  

4/21/2008 - Qassam injures 3 Palestinians in Gaza Qassam attacks hit Palestinians as well. A rocket landed Monday in a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, lightly injuring three people.  

4/21/2008 - Report: Hamas police violently dispersed pro-Fateh rally in Gaza    

4/21/2008 - Disabled Palestinian children hold rally calling for end to Gaza siege On Sunday afternoon, a group of Palestinian children with special needs held a march in Gaza City. They held banners and carried signs appealing to the people of the world to "let them live like the rest of the world's children" by pressuring Israel and the U.S. to end their total siege on the people of Gaza.  

4/21/2008 - Boy lightly injured by Qassam in south    

4/21/2008 - Palestinian refugees protest to demand end to siege of Gaza Strip    

4/21/2008 - EI exclusive: a pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia A 13 March action alert signed by Gilead Ini, a "Senior Research Analyst" at CAMERA, calls for "volunteers who can work as 'editors' to ensure" that Israel-related articles on Wikipedia are "free of bias and error, and include necessary facts and context." However, subsequent communications indicate that the group not only wanted to keep the effort secret from the media, the public, and Wikipedia administrators, but that the material they intended to introduce included discredited claims that could smear Palestinians and Muslims and conceal Israel's true history. This article is too good to pass up.

4/21/2008 - Israel conquers Fifth Avenue New campaign promoting Salute to Israel Parade in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary will see New York City streets carrying banners with images of prominent Israelis in hope of conveying full spectrum of country's diverse society in world's first multicultural capital If that's what Fifth Avenue is going to look like, I'd hate to see what Capitol Hill will look like. For, it was conquered by Israel long ago.

4/21/2008 - Israeli Authorities transfer 23 detainees to administrative detention    

4/21/2008 - Army breaks into local market in Hebron, hands tenants a two day evacuation ultimatum    

4/21/2008 - New Yorkers & Palestinians call on Dubai to boycott Leviev jewelry "We call on the government and people of the United Arab Emirates to join the growing international campaign to boycott Lev Leviev?s companies due to their construction of Israeli colonial settlements, and their human rights violations in Angola,"  

4/21/2008 - United Methodist General Conference to Consider Divestment    

4/21/2008 - Qtel raises QR7m for Palestinians Sheikh Fahad bin Jassim Al Thani, COO, Qtel, presented the cheque to Dr Mohammed bin Ghanim Al Ali Al Meideed, Secretary General, Qatar Red Crescent, in the presence of Kassem Radwan, Charge d'affairs, Palestine Embassy and Talal Al Abdullah, manager of the corporations and charities in Qatar Charity Works Authority.  

4/21/2008 - Palestinians hope to raise $1.5 billion at investors' conference    

4/21/2008 - Israelis urged to quickly release findings of probe into shelling of Palestinian TV cameraman    

4/21/2008 - PBS documentary examines Muslim American comedians, premieres May 11 The film deftly captures each comic?s unique take on the problems post 9/11, onstage and off. Zayid, for instance, who has cerebral palsy, founded an organization in 2001 to help disabled Palestinian children  

4/21/2008 - Hezbollah: U.S. claims we use terror against civilians are baseless Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement on Sunday dismissed as "baseless" recent remarks made by U.S. President George W. Bush accusing the group of using terror and violence against innocent civilians.  

4/21/2008 - Hamas's members of parliament demand an Arab intervention    

4/21/2008 - RNW journalist arrested in Israel Radio Netherlands Worldwide journalist Abir Sarras was arrested at Tel Aviv airport on Sunday night. She was told she would not be permitted to enter Israel and would be put on a plane back to the Netherlands.  

4/21/2008 - Russian Church willing to help settlement of Arab-Israeli conflict - Alexy II    

4/21/2008 - Arab American Journalists Criticize Mainstream American Media for Selective Coverage    

4/21/2008 - Obama shows irritation when questioned over Hamas "Why can't I just eat my waffle?" the Illinois senator said as he ate breakfast in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to MSNBC television pictures. Pressed again for an answer, he replied: "Just let me eat my waffle." 'Because you must answer to the Israeli lobby, Obama'.

4/21/2008 - Groundbreaking School in West Bank Unites Jewish and Arab Children    

4/21/2008 - Gaza Killing Prompts Call for Better Protection of Journalists The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has called for improved protection of journalists, after a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news agency in Gaza was killed when a missile hit his vehicle.  

4/21/2008 - Palestinians and Israelis need a just peace The Justpeace60 statement acknowledges the pain of both peoples ? and the rights of both peoples to security and dignity. Grounded in biblical truth and supported by pastors, professors, heads of organizations and editors across denominational, national and political lines, this historic statement aims to be be a prophetic cry and a powerful witness.  

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4/20/2008 - 3 Palestinians killed in Gaza crossing raid The Palestinians were killed in the blast and exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and several militants who entered the crossing in a second bomb-loaded vehicle  

4/20/2008 - Eight killed in Israeli raids after Gaza crossing attack Palestinian medical sources said one of the dead was a civilian  

4/20/2008 - Israeli air strikes kill two in Gaza: medics Israeli air strikes killed two Palestinians, at least one of them a Hamas militant, and wounded eight others in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Islamist group and medical staff said.  

4/20/2008 - Two teens die from injuries sustained in Gaza's deadliest day of fighting in a month The two, ages 16 and 17, died on Sunday. A Palestinian health official says both boys were wounded Wednesday, by an Israeli tank shell that also killed a Reuters TV cameraman. That would bring the total number of Palestinians killed in that shelling to six.  

4/20/2008 - Israeli troops may have targeted Gaza newsman: watchdog A Palestinian cameraman killed by tank fire in the Gaza Strip along with five other civilians this week may have been deliberately targeted by Israeli forces, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.  

4/20/2008 - Hamas car bomb injures 13 Israelis Hamas suicide bombers in two military-style Jeeps yesterday blew themselves up at a Gaza border crossing, wounding 13 Israeli soldiers. The irony here being that Hamas has been targeting Israeli soldiers of late, and Israel responds by killing many civilians. They've always done so- since the beginning.

4/20/2008 - IDF launches formal probe into Gaza killing of Reuters cameraman Two Gaza teenagers who sustained wounds during Wednesday's IDF ground operation died on Sunday, raising the death toll from that incident to six, Palestinian hospital officials said. The two boys were 16 and 17 years old. They were reportedly hit by a shell fired from an IDF tank that immediately killed Shana and three other civilians in Gaza.  

4/20/2008 - Hamas open to peace deal with Palestinian backing: Carter "They said that they would accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians and that they would accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbour, next door, in peace,"  

4/20/2008 - Abbas to pay official visit to Tunisia    

4/20/2008 - Nine-year old child assaulted by Israeli Troops    

4/20/2008 - Due to lack of fuel Palestinian medics will stop working in the Gaza Strip    

4/20/2008 - Putin meets Palestine counterpart Abbas    

4/20/2008 - Abbas to discuss Israel-Palestinian peace with Bush Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he would consult President George W. Bush this week on ways to advance peace talks so that a deal with Israel can be reached by the end of the year.  

4/20/2008 - Erekat: Settlements weaken efforts to make peace this year    

4/20/2008 - Carter presses Hamas to back Gaza peace talks    

4/20/2008 - Israel Would Trade 400 For Soldier, Egypt Says    

4/20/2008 - No Peace Without Hamas By Mahmoud al-Zahar The U.S.-Israeli alliance has sought to negate the results of the January 2006 elections, when the Palestinian people handed our party a mandate to rule. Hundreds of independent monitors, Carter among them, declared this the fairest election ever held in the Arab Middle East. Yet efforts to subvert our democratic experience include the American coup d'etat that created the new sectarian paradigm with Fatah and the continuing warfare against and enforced isolation of Gazans.  

4/20/2008 - Meshal to announce decision over Carter truce proposals Sunday Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal said Saturday that he will announce his organization's decision over former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's truce proposals on Sunday  

4/20/2008 - The village of Al Khader protest the Israeli illegal wall    

4/20/2008 - Eleven injured in the weekly Bil'in protest    

4/20/2008 - Three people feared buried in collapsed Gaza tunnel    

4/20/2008 - Body of 15 year old Palestinian boy found mutilated in Israeli settlement    

4/20/2008 - Palestinian detainees in Majiddo to wage a one-day hunger strike    

4/20/2008 - Israeli Arab students take to the fields to learn green activism "We shall remain put, just as the olive trees and zaatar shrubs do," goes a famous Palestinian idiom. But now, even the zaatar shrubs are in danger of disappearing, as the herb is quite popular. Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority inspectors may now fine people caught picking the fragrant plant.  

4/20/2008 - First, refute the defamation One day perhaps journalists will interject a caveat whenever writing about a UN study on Israel cautioning readers that the contents are very likely propagandistic and unreliable. THis coming from a propagandist from CAMERA, the pro-Israel media 'watchdog'. If the 'defamation' fits...

4/20/2008 - Mideast peace prospects Ziad Asali is president of the American Task Force on Palestine  

4/20/2008 - Barenboim slams Israel's treatment of Palestinians    

4/20/2008 - Few Clear Wins in U.S. Anti-Terror Cases Jurors appear to be particularly troubled by a controversial element in the Miami case, part of several other early prosecutions, in which FBI informants encouraged others to perform acts they otherwise may not have done.  

4/20/2008 - Saleh renews Yemeni support for Palestinian rights President Ali Abdullah Saleh reiterated on Saturday Yemen's stance on supporting the Palestinian rights to establish its independent states of Palestine on its national land with Quds as its capital.  

4/20/2008 - 37 Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq fly to Chile A group of Palestinian refugees stranded on the Iraq-Syria border since 2006 flew to Chile Sunday under a resettlement plan sponsored by the Catholic Church in the South American country and the U.N. agency for refugees.  

4/20/2008 - Efforts under way for Israel-Syria talks: Assad    

4/20/2008 - Carter discusses Iraq, Gaza developments with Syria's Assad (Extra)    

4/20/2008 - Carter Briefs Jordan's King on His Mideast Peace Mission    

4/20/2008 - Record surge in U.S. tourists to Israel During January and February, 85,000 American tourists landed in Israel, up 23% from the same period in 2007, which was itself a record year.  

4/20/2008 - Riad Hamad: A Death in Austin Wednesday, April 16, 2008, the Austin Police Department announced Riad Hamad's death as a 'suicide,' despite his body being discovered gagged and bound with duct tape. Hamad had claimed he was being targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement.  

4/20/2008 - Pummeled with palm fronds In the latest ironic chapter in the bitter relations between the feuding sects that have carved up Christianity's most revered site, Armenian and Greek worshipers got into a brawl on Sunday inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.  

4/20/2008 - Palestinian detainees demand proper medical attention, direct treatment to urgent cases    

4/20/2008 - The Israeli 'settler' serving in Italy's parliament "I ran for a place in parliament as a representative of the Liguria district. I held rallies in Genoa and other cities in the region," she recounts. "But I didn't talk with the people about local problems. I told them that the most important thing for their Italian identity is to stand by Israel's side."  

4/20/2008 - Tunnels bring life to Gaza, and make a select few rich Despite the risks, 16-year-old Yihya, from the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip, says building tunnels to Egypt is the only job he knows that puts food on the table.  

4/20/2008 - Obama Channeling Cheney Can there be any doubt that the premeditated destruction of dozens of IAEA Safeguarded facilities in Iran ? which the Likudniks again claim to be a threat to Israel ? will be anything less than cold-blooded murder of the IAEA-NPT nuke proliferation regime?  

4/20/2008 - PA rally in east Jerusalem dispersed The Jerusalem police broke up an east Jerusalem gathering Saturday, in which 100 people attended a rally protesting the incarceration of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.  

4/20/2008 - Fight erupts in Jerusalem church Israeli police had to break up a fist fight that erupted between Greek and Armenian Orthodox clergymen at one of Christianity's holiest sites  

4/20/2008 - Collective Punishment Breeds Collective Rage    

4/20/2008 - Matt Rees: how I found peace in Gaza I found the Middle East a lot funnier than you might think, too. To the amusement of Palestinian friends, I perfected my impersonation of Yasser Arafat and I also did a pretty good Ariel Sharon. The first Hamas man I met wasn't a stereotypical bloodthirsty fanatic. He was a comically tubby man with a grey beard circling his jaw and a clean upper lip, who spoke English like a suave 1950s character actor and drew his vocabulary from a calendar designed to teach a new word each day  

4/20/2008 - Born to Demolish The Israeli authorities responsible for demolishing Palestinian homes ? the municipality and the Ministry of Interior in Jerusalem, the ?Civil? Administration in the West Bank and the army ? do not provide advanced warning to us or, indeed, to the families themselves. Tens of thousands of Palestinian families live with demolition orders on their homes, some 22,000 in East Jerusalem alone, where fully a third of Palestinian homes face demolition at any time  

4/20/2008 - Murdoch Firm Accused of Sabotage On the hot spot is NDS Group, a UK-Israeli firm that makes smartcards for pay-TV systems like DirecTV. The company is a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation. The charges stem from 1997 when NDS is accused of cracking the encryption of rival NagraStar, which makes access cards and systems for EchoStar's Dish Network and other pay-TV services. Further, it?s alleged NDS then hired hackers to manufacture and distribute counterfeit NagraStar cards to pirates to steal Dish Network's programming for free......The list of witnesses in the case includes EchoStar's founder and CEO Charlie Ergen; several hackers and pirates; and Reuven Hazak, an Israeli who heads security for NDS and is a former deputy head of Shabak, or Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency (the equivalent of Britain's MI5).  

4/20/2008 - Arab Israelis to get apartheid lessons in South Africa An official Arab-Israeli delegation will head to South Africa over the weekend in order to learn about the local population's struggle with apartheid and the killing of citizens by the government.  

4/20/2008 - Melbourne surgeon on Gaza mercy mission Dr Dewan, the director of surgery at Melbourne's Sunshine Hospital, makes regular visits to Gaza for his foundation, Kind Cuts for Kids  

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4/18/2008 - Israelis kill three Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza Israeli troops killed two Palestinian militants and a teenager in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian medical and security officials said.  

4/18/2008 - Israeli troops kill militant in West Bank    

4/18/2008 - Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army Then there is the inter- clan Palestinian fight: "We were told to go over there and find out what was happening. Our [platoon] commander was a bit screwed in the head. So anyway, we would locate houses, and he'd tell us: 'OK, anyone you see armed with stones or whatever, I don't care what ? shoot.' Everyone would think it's the clan fight..." Did the company commander know? "No one knew. Platoon's private initiative, these actions." Did you hit them? "Sure, not just them. Anyone who came close ... Particularly legs and arms. Some people also sustained abdominal hits ... I think at some point they realised it was soldiers, but they were not sure. Because they could not believe soldiers would do this, you know." Wow.

4/18/2008 - Tank shell that sprays deadly darts killed cameraman in Gaza, say doctors Mr Shana set up his tripod and faced back east in the direction of the Israeli border to film a tank perhaps a kilometre and a half away across the fields. The last video from Mr Shana's camera showed the tank opening fire. Two seconds later, after the shot raises dust around the tank's gun, the tape goes blank ? presumably marking the precise moment at which he was hit. Reuters reported yesterday that a frame-by-frame examination of the tape shows the shell exploding and dark shapes shooting out of it.  

4/18/2008 - Carter Calls Gaza Blockade a Crime and Atrocity    

4/18/2008 - Probe sought of whether Israel targeted media crew "Human Rights Watch's investigations at the site found evidence suggesting that an Israeli tank crew fired recklessly or deliberately at the journalist's team," the New York-based group Human Rights Watch said in a statement.  

4/18/2008 - Carter: Gaza residents 'starving to death'    

4/18/2008 - Palestinian journalist killed by metal darts from Israeli shell Reuters said x-rays showed several inch-long darts, known as flechettes, embedded in Shana's chest and legs as well as his flak jacket. His jacket was marked with a fluorescent "Press" sign and his car, which was not armoured, was marked Press and TV.  

4/18/2008 - 7 Qassams land in south; no injuries    

4/18/2008 - Video: final footage of Reuters journalist killed in Gaza Footage of Fadel Shana, 23, being killed by a tank shell in the Gaza Strip has been released by the news agency, which said that the cameraman was hit despite clear markings that showed him to be a journalist.  

4/18/2008 - Arab paper: Olmert offers Abbas 64% of W. Bank    

4/18/2008 - Netanyahu: Abbas-Olmert peace deal will be invalid Opposition leader and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu hinted Thursday that if he were to be elected prime minister, he would not honor any peace agreement struck between current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, if one should be achieved.  

4/18/2008 - Israel allows 20 Palestinian police stations to reopen    

4/18/2008 - Gaza op possible after Bush visit There is a heightened sense in the security establishment that a broad-scale ground incursion inside the Gaza Strip is necessary this summer to deal a severe blow to Hamas's infrastructure, sources in Jerusalem said Wednesday, following the death of three soldiers in a Gaza ambush.  

4/18/2008 - Fury as Carter meets leader of Hamas The former US president Jimmy Carter yesterday met the influential Hamas leader, Khaled Meshal, in Syria in defiance of furious objections from the US and Israel. Former President Jimmy Carter will go down in history as one of the boldest and most courageous Americans of all time.

4/18/2008 - Thousands attend funerals in Gaza    

4/18/2008 - Rabbi Eliyahu: Life of one yeshiva boy worth more than 1,000 Arabs    

4/18/2008 - Israel plans 100 houses in West Bank settlements In an advertisement in the Ha'aretz newspaper, the ministry invited construction companies to bid for the rights to build 48 homes in Ariel, a major settlement, and 52 homes in a smaller settlement called Elkana.  

4/18/2008 - Media watchdog IPI condemns killing of Reuters cameraman The International Press Institute, a media watchdog, condemned on Friday the killing in the Gaza Strip this week of a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news service.  

4/18/2008 - U.N. rights envoy for territories urges U.N. peace role John Dugard, a South African jurist who has served in the independent U.N. post since 2001, condemned Wednesday's violence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where 17 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were killed.  

4/18/2008 - Palestinians mark Prisoner's Day across the West Bank    

4/18/2008 - Reuters cameraman's funeral draws thousands in Gaza    

4/18/2008 - White House: Carter, Hamas meeting not 'useful'    

4/18/2008 - Carter in Hamas 'ceasefire call' Hamas spokesmen said Mr Carter had asked for it to stop rocket attacks on Israel and to enter talks for the release of an Israeli captive.  

4/18/2008 - Egypt cuts fuel supplies to Gaza EGYPT has shut off fuel supplies to the Sinai Desert south of Gaza to deter Hamas from again blowing up the border wall and allowing a mass infiltration of Palestinians seeking supplies.  

4/18/2008 - Tamimi slams the Israeli attacks in Gaza as 18 residents were killed n Wednesday    

4/18/2008 - Trying to kill the truth Palestinian cameraman Fadel Shana'a in an undated photo. Having already survived an Israeli missile attack that targeted his press vehicle in August 2006, Fadel vowed to continue filming in Gaza. "The only time I'll stop filming is if I die or lose my legs." He was indeed killed by an Israeli tank shell on April 16th, 2008  

4/18/2008 - Zahar: Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up like Warsaw Ghetto Jews "Sixty-five years ago, the courageous Jews of the Warsaw ghetto rose in defense of their people. We Gazans, living in the world's largest open-air prison, can do no less," Zahar wrote in the newspaper.  

4/18/2008 - Challenge to renewed boycott bid The University and College Union?s attempt to launch a new academic boycott of Israel could be scuppered by legal challenges from the anti-boycott movement  

4/18/2008 - Rice marks 25th anniversary of Beirut embassy attack Rice used the commemoration to hint at Washington's accusations of interference by Syria into the affairs of neighboring Lebanon, with politicians in Beirut "afraid for their very lives" as the embattled government remains locked in a long-running standoff with the Hezbollah-led opposition.  

4/18/2008 - 'Iran smuggling arms into Gaza by sea' Iran has stepped up its efforts to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip by using floatable devices that it drops near the waters off the Gaza coast to be picked up by Palestinian fisherman, senior defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post.  

4/18/2008 - Dude, Where... Is Osama bin Laden? A young Palestinian man laments that "9/11 legitimized the American presence in the Middle East" and insists that "We are fighting to make our homeland. It's none of their [al-Qaeda's] business."  

4/18/2008 - Could Israel use submarines against Iran? Anticipating a showdown with Iran, Israel decides secretly to deploy a submarine off its arch-foe's coast.  

4/18/2008 - GOP Rep.: Revoke Jimmy Carter's passport for Hamas visits "He's just unilaterally going off on his own and undermining everything the international community and the United States is (sic) trying to do," protested Republican U.S. House Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-09) today in the call to revoke the passport of former president Jimmy Carter.  

4/18/2008 - Israeli minister tells Carter he would meet Hamas A religious Israeli cabinet minister has offered to meet the leadership of Palestinian Hamas to ask for the release of a soldier held in Gaza, his spokesman said on Friday, a move which would break with government policy  

4/18/2008 - Last images of a Gaza reporter    

4/18/2008 - Palestinian motor racing gets a turbo charge    

4/18/2008 - Henry Siegman: Tough Love for Israel for all the sins attributable to the Palestinians--and they are legion, including inept and corrupt leadership, failed institution-building and the murderous violence of rejectionist groups--there is no prospect for a viable, sovereign Palestinian state, primarily because Israel's various governments, from 1967 until today, have never had the intention of allowing such a state to come into being.  

4/18/2008 - We must look at why the Arab world hates us If America has supplied most of the bombs, tanks and support to devastate Lebanon, flatten Palestinian refugee camps and keep many Palestinian natives captive in the land they claimed as home for 2,000 years and you were a Muslim, would you think kindly of us? What if you knew America vetoed most of the U.N. resolutions to stop Israeli injustice toward the Palestinians? Would you not feel maybe we were racist? Would you not, as a Muslim, feel the Americans hated them?  

4/18/2008 - Syria and US at Odds Over Hariri Probe In asking the U.N. Security Council for an extension of the mandate of his probe, investigator Daniel Bellemare said recently that evidence pointed to a "criminal network" being responsible for the "politically motivated" killing of Hariri. The network had pre-existed Hariri's murder, Bellemare said, and it continued to exist for some period afterward.  

4/18/2008 - Jerusalem will never be united    

4/18/2008 - Professor in Deadlocked Terrorism Case Could Face a New Indictment Sami al-Arian, a computer science professor imprisoned for more than five years after pleading guilty to a single terrorism-related charge when his trial deadlocked, is back in legal limbo this week. He faces either deportation or a new indictment that could extend his incarceration for years.  

4/18/2008 - PCC rejects complaint against JC    

4/18/2008 - Mayor to raise funds for E. J'lem Arabs to block Hamas Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski is planning to enlist world Jewry in a fund-raising drive for East Jerusalem's Arabs, in a bid to counter Hamas influence in local schools.  

4/18/2008 - Palestinians learning independence comes with a price Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is cracking down on scofflaws as part of his effort to bring law and order to the West Bank after years of conflict with Israel, and to reassure donor countries that they are not subsidizing deadbeats with their billions of dollars of aid.  

4/18/2008 - Israel must treat Americans equally Palestinian-Americans, even those born in the U.S., are routinely forced to surrender their U.S. passports; Israel requires these U.S. citizens to secure a Palestinian travel document upon entry and exit. Others are denied entry to visit their families; still others are denied the opportunity to remain with their families, bury their dead in ancestral plots or conduct normal business on family-owned properties.  

4/18/2008 - Caterpillar to discuss West Bank concerns with Methodists    

4/18/2008 - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America    

4/18/2008 - Lieberman: Carter Is 'Naive' at Best    

4/18/2008 - Thank you Jimmy Carter for everything, even for using the apartheid word    

4/18/2008 - Methodists defer key Israeli divestment measure    

4/18/2008 - Morrissey: Palestinians ask Morrissey to cancel Israel gig    

4/18/2008 - Hebron settlers threaten German MPs A group of Jewish settlers in Hebron insulted and threatened a visiting German parliamentary delegation touring the West Bank city yesterday. The German embassy in Israel protested to the Foreign Ministry that Israel Defense Forces soldiers and police officers did nothing to stop the settlers' attacks. The German group cut short its visit to the city after the incident.  

4/18/2008 - Clinton vows 'massive' U.S. retaliation if Iran attacks Israel    

4/18/2008 - Arrow successfully simulates intercept of mock Shihab missile Israel is talking with Boeing about manufacturing the new and improved Arrow 3. Israel hopes the U.S. Congress will approve funding for the project. US funding?

4/18/2008 - On 12th Anniversary of IDF Shelling UN Compound CCR Calls On Israel to Compensate Qana Survivors Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), commemorates the 12th anniversary of the 1996 shelling by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of the UN compound in Qana, Lebanon and calls for justice and for Israel to compensate the survivors. The bombardment killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians who had taken shelter there ? about half of them children ? and seriously injured even more.  

4/18/2008 - Proposed House resolution hits Hamas The U.S. House of Representatives is introducing a resolution condemning Hamas, pegged to President Jimmy Carter's meetings with a top representative of the terrorist organization. Why is this a matter for Capitol Hill, particularly given the current economic climate in America? Do our legislators not have anything better to do than to introduce resolution after resolution that have no bearing whatsoever on the vast majority of the American people? Unbelievable.

4/18/2008 - Israel Doesn?t Want to Know Carter Any More    

4/18/2008 - http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Netanyahu_Warns_World_/2008/04/18/89102.html    

4/18/2008 - Deputy FM Whbee: Israel racially discriminates against its citizens    

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4/16/2008 - Israeli troops kill teenager in WBank - officials    

4/16/2008 - Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza kills one militant    

4/16/2008 - Palestinians: 2 dead in clashes with Israelis in West Bank    

4/16/2008 - Cameraman among 20 dead as violence in Gaza escalates The Reuters cameraman, Fadal Shanaa, 23, was apparently killed in an air strike. Associated Press reported that fellow cameramen who rushed to the scene saw the Reuters Jeep on fire and the dead man lying next to the vehicle alongside other casualties. The witnesses said that Mr Shanaa's vehicle had press markings and that he was also wearing a flak jacket identifying him as a journalist. The Reuters news agency quoted Hamas and medical officials as saying that 11 of the 17 killed by the Israeli military were civilians. The Israeli military said it targeted militant gunmen but was "checking" reports that non-combatants were among the dead.  

4/16/2008 - Gaza fighting kills 20 Palestinians, including 5 children Israel struck hard against targets in Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 20 Palestinians in a day of heavy fighting that also saw three Israeli soldiers killed in a Hamas ambush. Several civilians were among the dead ? including five children and a Reuters cameraman killed while covering the conflict, according to Palestinian officials.  

4/16/2008 - Israel kills 17 in Gaza after troops die in clash Israeli forces killed 17 Palestinians, most of them civilians, in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip otoday, medical officials and witnesses said.  

4/16/2008 - Israel soldiers die in Gaza clash Three Israeli soldiers have been killed and three injured in heavy clashes in the Gaza Strip. Four Hamas militants were also killed in the fighting  

4/16/2008 - Source: U.S. Strike on Iran Nearing    

4/16/2008 - Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel. No sh@t? Never would've guessed that....

4/16/2008 - Update on Hebron Schools and Orphanages Monday night, 14 April, soldiers entered the Rahma Bakery and took all the display cases, refrigerators, fixtures, equipment and most of the inventory, leaving an oven that they wrecked. Upstairs the soldiers destroyed heating ducts. This bakery provided bread for the orphanages  

4/16/2008 - UN agencies call on Israel to immediately resume full fuel shipments to Gaza    

4/16/2008 - Palestinian police clash with escaped militants in chase through West Bank city Palestinian police are exchanging gunfire with a group of escaped militants, chasing them through the streets of Nablus in the West Bank.  

4/16/2008 - Hamas denies any plans to breach the borders with Egypt    

4/16/2008 - Four Major Universities in Gaza closed due to ongoing fuel shortages    

4/16/2008 - Young Palestinian woman dies due to the Israeli siege on Gaza Palestinian medical sources in Gaza City reported that one Palestinian patient died on Monday midday, succumbing to cancer after having been denied a permit by the occupying Israeli army to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment  

4/16/2008 - ISRAEL-OPT: Islamic charity in Hebron fears closure Some 240 boys and girls aged 5-18 live at the orphanages, while thousands of other children, many of whom have lost at least one parent, receive schooling, food and clothing from the charity.  

4/16/2008 - Barak orders West Bank closure due to Passover terror warnings    

4/16/2008 - Five wounded as Israeli troops clash with Gaza fighters    

4/16/2008 - Palestinian president meets with Jordan's king    

4/16/2008 - UN chief alarmed at violence in Gaza, south Israel    

4/16/2008 - Blair urges investment in Palestinian territories The Palestinian government and the private sector will host a three-day conference in Bethlehem from May 21 offering more than $1 billion (500 million pounds) worth of projects to foreign investors.  

4/16/2008 - Palestinian leader Abbas arrives in Russia for talks    

4/16/2008 - Carter: Arafat fought for just causes    

4/16/2008 - Abbas: statehood too close if final-status issues settled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said if final-status issues settled with Israel, the Palestinian statehood will be very near.  

4/16/2008 - Heavy exchanges of fire in Gaza; 10 Qassams fired at Negev    

4/16/2008 - Abbas to visit Russia on Thursday    

4/16/2008 - Israel nixed planned visit to Gaza: Carter Former US president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday he wanted to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on his current Middle East tour but indicated that Israel refused to authorise the trip.  

4/16/2008 - 23 Palestinians kidnapped by the army from several parts of the West Bank    

4/16/2008 - Al-Khuzendar : quantities of fuel shipped to Gaza are not enough Deputy-head of the Gaza Strip fuel society, Mahmoud Al-Khuzendar, stated that Israel allowed small quantities of fuel into the coastal region on Wednesday afternoon.  

4/16/2008 - PNA security officer found dead in southern Gaza    

4/16/2008 - The Israeli police demolish a Palestinian owned house in Jerusalem    

4/16/2008 - U.S.: Iranian threats to 'eliminate' Israel justify int'l sanctions Iran's Deputy Chief of Staff Mohammed Rada Ashtiani was quoted earlier by the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr as saying: "If Israel wants to take any action against the Islamic Republic, we will eliminate Israel from the scene of the universe... Our answer to any military attack against Iran will be strong."  

4/16/2008 - US national security advisor in Israel for talks on Iran: radio Stewart Tuttle, the spokesman for the US embassy, said Hadley's talks with top Israeli officials would cover "issues of mutual interest, and a good guess is these will include Iran." Hadley is a neocon.

4/16/2008 - Outposts traded for settlement houses in West Bank Israel has agreed to let Jewish settlers build new houses in existing West Bank settlements in exchange for dismantling unauthorized settlement outposts, settlers and defense officials said Tuesday.  

4/16/2008 - New "Pro Israel, Pro Peace" Political Group Launches: J Street Hopes to Prod Washington MidEast Policy Towards Center On questions of Congressional legislation and appropriations involving U.S. defense sales to the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and policy towards Iran and Syria, AIPAC?s influence is an acknowledged fact of life on the Hill, similar to death and taxes, second in power as a Washington lobby group only to the National Rifle Association.  

4/16/2008 - Israel releases a Palestinian reporter who was shot and injured prior to his abduction    

4/16/2008 - PM: Iran will not be nuclear    

4/16/2008 - New Group Using Web to Counter AIPAC While a broad spectrum of Jewish and pro-Israel groups continue to support the Bush administration?s efforts to isolate Iran diplomatically, J Street is putting diplomacy with Iran near the top of its agenda ? a decision that could ultimately produce more controversy than its lobbying for a stronger Israeli-Palestinian peace process  

4/16/2008 - Hezbollah denies report of planning to launch war inside Israel    

4/16/2008 - US Jewish lobby gains new voice The team behind J Street do not necessarily buy into the Walt-Mearsheimer analysis, but they do believe that America's current policy tilts too strongly towards Israeli right-wingers, and is in the long-term interests neither of Israel nor the US.  

4/16/2008 - Poll: 82% of American Christians support Israel A new survey conducted by a Washington DC-based evangelical organization among American Christians has found that 82% of them believe they have a moral obligation to support the Jews and Israel. The poll, conducted among Catholics and Protestants alike, tested their stance on Jerusalem's future and ways to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat.  

4/16/2008 - Tough New Iran Sanctions Could Backfire, Experts Warn As Washington tries to bolster international cooperation over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program, the domestic push for congressionally mandated sanctions has been spearheaded by lobby groups such as the Israel Project, the neoconservative think-tank Center for Security Policy (CSP), and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  

4/16/2008 - Attitudes Toward US Worsen in Arab World The new survey also found that fears regarding both U.S. and Israeli designs in the region have also increased over the past 17 months, despite the length of time that has passed since the summer 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, which inflamed anti-Israeli and anti-Western opinion throughout the region.  

4/16/2008 - Shas upgrades coalition threat on J'lem    

4/16/2008 - Protesters storm Israeli ambassador?s speech In the middle of Baker's address on Canada-Israel relations over the past 60 years, a group of about 25 young people suddenly burst through the hall's closed doors, loudly denouncing Israel "apartheid" and "war crimes" against Palestinians and the killing of Lebanese civilians, and showering the back of the room with coloured bits of paper calling for a boycott of Israel.  

4/16/2008 - Moussa criticizes Israel's settlement policy    

4/16/2008 - Women Health Doctors Attend Training Offered by CARE West Bank and Gaza    

4/16/2008 - Dutch = cheese, Palestinian = courtesy and curiosity    

4/16/2008 - Olive oil, olive branch The group, which calls itself Import Peace, sells the oil in hopes of helping the impoverished Palestinian farmers who grew it and to draw attention to the under-reported injustices they say Palestinian people face daily.  

4/16/2008 - Student group joins 'die-in' for Palestinians    

4/16/2008 - Demonstration in Bethlehem in anticipation of Palestinian Prisoners' Day    

4/16/2008 - An awkward love affair Palestinian movies are unique - a mix of wry wit and self-doubt. Nicholas Blincoe reports on the London Palestine film festival  

4/16/2008 - SA journalist released from Israeli house arrest    

4/16/2008 - Lieberman: Tibi's place is in Ramallah Following MK Ahmed Tibi's remarks in Qatar Monday, which labeled Israel an apartheid state, Israel Beiteinu chairman, MK Avigdor Lieberman called for Tibi, who serves as the Knesset's deputy speaker, to be expelled from the body.  

4/16/2008 - Born In Bethlehem: special Confidential price The stories which feature in the play are all real accounts of events that take place daily in Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps, which have been documented by international, Israeli, and local human rights organisations.  

4/16/2008 - Obama would do 'everything' to help Israel defend itself Democratic hopeful Barack Obama said Wednesday that as president he would do his utmost to help Israel defend itself from any regional threat, as he criticized ex-president Jimmy Carter for seeking to meet with Hamas.  

4/16/2008 - Security around MK Eitam boosted after anti-Arab speech The Knesset has recently assigned a bodyguard to Effie Eitam following a vehement speech in which the National Union-NRP member told Arab-Israeli lawmakers that "the day will come when we will banish you from this house (Knesset) and from the national home."  

4/16/2008 - Anti-Israel documentary not anti-Semitic The documentary is meant as a critique of the policies of the Israeli government, and army; this is not anti-Semitic. Such criticism is levelled out of concern for the human rights of the Palestinians.  

4/16/2008 - ACLU Asks Harvard?s Police Why Gaza Rally Was Photographed The rally, held in support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, occurred March 3 on a sidewalk along Massachusetts Avenue. In a police report, Harvard detective Thomas Karns wrote that he was conducting ?plain clothes surveillance? and ?photographing the demonstrators for intelligence gathering.?  

4/16/2008 - Gaza athlete dodges bullets in race to Beijing armed with "faith and self-confidence", Palestinian athlete Nader al-Masri is determined to make Gaza proud at the Beijing Olympics in August.  

4/16/2008 - Mashaal: Palestinian 'baby making machine' never stops    

4/16/2008 - Following Israel boycott, Al-Jazeera agrees to discuss coverage of Mideast conflict Last month, an official directive issued in Jerusalem ordered Israeli officials not to grant interviews to Al-Jazeera, citing the station's anti-Israel bias. Foreign Ministry officials said they were pleased with the network's willingness to discuss coverage of Israel.  

4/16/2008 - Olmert: Israel preparing for breaching of Rafah border    

4/16/2008 - US tax dollars at work?   Look who it is authoring this article for the Jerusalem Post - Israel's top agent on Capitol Hill, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

4/16/2008 - Israeli-Arab lawmaker listed as 'Palestinian' An Israeli-Arab lawmaker stirred ire by appearing at a regional conference as a member of the Palestinian delegation.  

4/16/2008 - Breaking ranks with U.S. Jewish 'establishment' on the occupation To quote a recent open letter by the president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, by facilitating the exhibition, we are guilty of "inciting hatred of Israel" and "playing into the hands of Israel's enemies."  

4/16/2008 - Parents of activist Rachel Corrie to read published journals April 22    

4/16/2008 - Report: Meshal says Israel, U.S. nixing deal to free Gilad Shalit The Damascus-based leader said Israeli and U.S. opposition to a deal stemmed from the fear that the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel that an arrangement would entail would serve to raise Hamas' standing.  

4/16/2008 - Israel says Syria arming Hezbollah despite UN resolution    

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4/14/2008 - Area C strikes fear into the heart of Palestinians as homes are destroyed    

4/14/2008 - Three killed in explosion in Gaza house Palestinian medical officials say three people have died in an explosion in a house in the Gaza Strip.  

4/14/2008 - Israeli strike in Gaza kills militant    

4/14/2008 - Livni to tell Gulf leaders in Qatar: Iran the threat, not Israel    

4/14/2008 - Soldier assaults an 80-year old woman at Huwwara roadblock Palestinian sources reported on Sunday that an Israeli soldier attacked an 80-year old Palestinian woman as she was trying to cross the Huwwara Israeli military roadblock near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank  

4/14/2008 - 'Weak' Palestinians holding up agreement: Israel's Peres Israeli President Shimon Peres blamed "weak" and divided Palestinian factions for holding up a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, in an interview published Tuesday.  

4/14/2008 - West Bankers to get mortgages The Palestinian government unveiled a U.S.-led plan Monday to build 30,000 affordable apartments over five years and offer $500 million in long-term mortgages.  

4/14/2008 - Abbas says Israel ready for Gaza truce Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Monday that Israel is ready to reach a truce with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip but through Egyptian mediation, a government spokesman said.  

4/14/2008 - Troops break into a market, residential building and a tailor shop in Hebron Israeli soldiers broke on Thursday morning into the Al Hoda Market, Al Qaisy residential building and Al Taqwa tailor shop which belong to the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.  

4/14/2008 - Gaza children get foreign treatment at home An Australian surgeon operated on Monday on Palestinian children in need of care unavailable in the Gaza Strip or not readily attainable elsewhere due to Israeli restrictions on the Hamas-ruled area.  

4/14/2008 - Jimmy Carter: Israel must talk to everyone Carter told Haaretz Sunday in an exclusive interview that he intends to check Meshal's willingness to accept the Arab League peace initiative. Carter says that acceptance of this plan by Hamas would be a very positive step.  

4/14/2008 - West Bank economy growing despite hardships: Blair    

4/14/2008 - Hamas holding back million litres of fuel: UN Hamas is holding back the distribution of one million litres of fuel in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations official said Monday, joining Israeli claims that the Islamists were stage-managing a crisis.  

4/14/2008 - Gaza militants condition truce with Israel Spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gaza Abu Mujahid said on Monday that Israel should accept the militant groups' conditions in order to reach a ceasefire agreement.  

4/14/2008 - Jimmy Carter plans to meet a fuel-short Hamas Israel blocked fuel supplies from entering Gaza for a fourth day Sunday, exacerbating a new energy shortage in the blighted coastal territory during a spike in cross-border fighting that has left at least 14 Palestinians dead.  

4/14/2008 - Carter: Sderot attacks criminal In Sderot, Mr Carter was shown a display of stacks of rockets that had fallen on or near the town.  

4/14/2008 - Israel snubs Carter and declines security help    

4/14/2008 - Palestinian gunmen attack Abbas aide in West Bank Palestinian gunmen attacked and destroyed the car of a close aide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday and Nablus security officials blamed Islamic Jihad.  

4/14/2008 - Rights group accuses Israel of psychological torture A human rights group said Israel uses psychological torture against some Palestinian detainees by faking the arrest of close relatives or taking family members into custody on questionable charges.  

4/14/2008 - Palestinians to mark 60 years of 'the catastrophe' Palestinian officials said on Sunday they are preparing events to mark the 60th anniversary next month of the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Arabs during the 1948 Middle East war.  

4/14/2008 - Israel says Gaza fuel depot to stay closed for days    

4/14/2008 - Israel's senior politicians and security service snub Carter visit    

4/14/2008 - Abbas forces detain 21 Hamas members in West Bank    

4/14/2008 - Palestinian militants return to security compound in West Bank city    

4/14/2008 - Israel offers one-year Gaza truce    

4/14/2008 - Israel approves 5,000 work permits for Palestinians    

4/14/2008 - IDF probing why Palestinians held 16 hours at checkpoint    

4/14/2008 - Under protection of Israeli army, Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Bethlehem    

4/14/2008 - Gaza's Unemployed Have Handouts or Hamas "If the Israelis opened the crossings again, I would leave the police and become a tailor again," said Abu Hammed, who would give only his nickname for fear of a Hamas reprisal. "The salary is better in the factory."  

4/14/2008 - Israeli Paper: " Israel to hand Qalandia airport near East Jerusalem to the PA"    

4/14/2008 - Carter 'quite at ease' about meeting Hamas' Mashaal Former US president arrives in Israel as part of week-long Mideast tour, defends his scheduled Damascus meeting with Hamas leader. 'It's very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and cooperate with Fatah,' he says  

4/14/2008 - Report: Olmert sets forth conditions for a ceasefire deal with Palestinians    

4/14/2008 - Erekat: Abbas asked Olmert to accept Egyptian initiative for Gaza truce    

4/14/2008 - Israel hopes for Arab consenus on Iran nuclear drive Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will visit Qatar for the first time on Sunday and hopes there is a chance to build a consensus among Arab nations against Iran's nuclear ambitions, which worry many Gulf states.  

4/14/2008 - Shin Bet admits to using relatives to pressure detainees Responding to claims that the Shin Bet is exerting severe and illegal pressure on the family members of Palestinians detainees in the course of investigations against them in an attempt to extract confessions, the head of the General Security Service's investigations branch said Sunday that "things could have been done differently".  

4/14/2008 - Egypt re-opens Gaza crossing border to hospitalize Palestinians Egyptian authorities reopened Monday the Rafah crossing border to allow injured Palestinians to receive treatment in hospitals in Egypt, security and medical sources said.  

4/14/2008 - Gaza militants condition truce with Israel    

4/14/2008 - The Al Quds Brigades claims wounding a soldier in Gaza    

4/14/2008 - Israel 'using psychological torture'    

4/14/2008 - Gaza universities closed after fuel cut    

4/14/2008 - IDF probing why Palestinians held 16 hours at checkpoint The Israel Defense Forces has opened an investigation into allegations that 46 Palestinians were detained for no reason at a West Bank checkpoint for 16 hours last week, and their car tires punctured. The human rights group MachsomWatch (which overlooks IDF activity at checkpoints) filed a complaint about the incident with the army.  

4/14/2008 - Palestinian farmer: Settlers assaulted me A 61-year old Palestinian farmer filed a complaint Saturday at a West Bank police station, claiming that settlers threw stones at him and his wife. The police launched an investigation into the incident.  

4/14/2008 - Several protesters injured in Bil'in weekly protest On Friday at midday the villagers of Bil'in, a village located near Ramallah in the centre of the West Bank along with their international and Israeli supporters conducted their weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall on the village land.  

4/14/2008 - Army invades northern parts of the West Bank, kidnaps five    

4/14/2008 - Hebron Urgent Action: Save the Hebron orphanages and schools    

4/14/2008 - Sunday, March 30 - Day of prayer for Hebron orphans    

4/14/2008 - Hamas and Syria must be included in peace deal: Carter    

4/14/2008 - U.K. Jews to ex-pats in Israel: Fight far-right in London vote British Jewish activists, decrying the far-right British National Party as anti-Semitic and racist, are urging former Londoners living in Israel to vote in the upcoming mayoral and council elections in an attempt to foil the BNP's bid to secure seats.  

4/14/2008 - Jerusalem Diary: Monday 14 April West Bank village holds its 14th Festival of Lettuce  

4/14/2008 - Brief incursion by Israeli soldiers into Lebanon: army "A group of five Israeli soldiers on Sunday evening entered 150 metres (yards) inside the area of al-Shaal, east of Kfar Shouba (in southeastern Lebanon) and remained in the area for 10 minutes before leaving," an army statement said.  

4/14/2008 - Pelosi sponsors bill praising Israel The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill praising Israel on its 60th anniversary  

4/14/2008 - More Israeli Repression - Another Day of Home Demolitions    

4/14/2008 - Israel pays compensation to U.K. for damaging Commonwealth Forces cemetery in Gaza operation    

4/14/2008 - Tell Palestine's story, too Israel celebrated their independance 60 years ago by bulldozing 418 unarmed Palestinian villages, resulting in the first of many waves of Palestinian refugees. What crime had these Palestinians committed? They were on Israel?s side of the UN-drawn border! The Israeli definition of ?Palestinian? does not mean ?resident of Palestine?, but rather ?non-Jewish person?, which includes Christians as well as Muslims living in both Israel and Palestine. Palestinian occupants of those 418 villages refer to this ?celebration? as nakba: catastrophe, and still wear the house keys from those homes where their families had lived and farmed peacefully for generations.  

4/14/2008 - More than a tour guide "We had always heard about the heroic Israelis, making the desert bloom, taking unoccupied land and making it a civilized place," Rowold said. "But it had been occupied, and the reality of Arab Palestinians had not been portrayed accurately, to me anyway."...."To experience the oppression that the Palestinian Christians have for so many years, dealing with the trauma that the children suffer," he said. "I don't know of any more urgent need in the world for justice to be done."  

4/14/2008 - Hizbullah militants regroup amid war jitters Over the past few weeks, military activity on both sides of the border has contributed to war jitters as both Israel and Hizbullah are seemingly poised to strike.  

4/14/2008 - Arab world sees U.S. in poor light: poll In contrast to U.S. government views, most Arabs did not see Iran as a major threat and 67 percent considered Tehran had the right to a nuclear program.  

4/14/2008 - UK: Suspected Israeli drug smugglers to remain in custody Three Israelis suspected in giant drug smuggling affair appear in British court; translator required as suspects claim not to speak any English  

4/14/2008 - Arab world sees U.S. in poor light: poll    

4/14/2008 - Israel can stand up for itself Washington's performance should concern anyone who cares about long-term U.S. influence in the Islamic world. But for Israel (and Israel's supporters), this is an urgent problem. It is Israel, after all, that has been set by the Iranian leadership as the target for annihilation.  

4/14/2008 - Israel fears US will sell F-35 to Saudis while this could pose a major challenge for the IDF, defense officials told the Post on Sunday it also presented Israel with a unique opportunity to ask the Americans for new advanced technology that would not be sold to the Saudis, to enable Israel to retain its qualitative edge in the region.  

4/14/2008 - Israel fears Iran may ship Hezbollah arms via Beirut port Israel is concerned that Iran might start moving weapons to Hezbollah by means of ships that anchor in the Beirut port, government sources in Jerusalem said  

4/14/2008 - US to send $7.2 mln worth of military equipment    

4/14/2008 - House chair condemns Carter, Hamas talks By meeting with the militant Islamic group that controls Gaza and does not recognize Israel's right to exist, Carter "in effect is undermining a current policy which is not just American but held by many others," Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., said in an interview with The Associated Press.  

4/14/2008 - The day I started Intifada III    

4/14/2008 - Most Israelis oppose partition of Jerusalem: poll    

4/14/2008 - Hardline Jews make night pilgrimages to West Bank tomb    

4/14/2008 - Israel to connect to US missle early warning system: report The United States has agreed to connect Israel to its ballistic missile early warning system to warn of any missile attack from archfoe Iran, a senior Israeli defence official said on Monday.  

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4/12/2008 - IDF kills 8 Palestinians, including 2 children, in Gaza The five Palestinian fatalities were named as 12-year-old Riad al-Awesi, who was fatally shot in the chest, Yusuf Sirhan,13, Jihad Abu Zbeid, 19, Shihab Abu Zbeid, 17, and Yusuf al-Ma'ari, 17.  

4/12/2008 - Israeli army kills 8 Palestinians in Gaza fighting Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants and four civilians, including an 11-year-old boy, in assaults on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, the Islamist faction and medical officials said.  

4/12/2008 - Boy, four others killed in Israeli raid in Gaza Riyad Owayssi, 10, stood with dozens of children near the tanks, outside the Bureij refugee camp, when he was fatally hit, medics said.  

4/12/2008 - Tough justice for West Bank children in Israeli military courts he was sentenced to four months in prison. The prosecutor claimed the boy had hurled rocks at a watchtower and at Israel's separation barrier in the occupied West Bank. Upon his attorney's advice, the boy pleaded guilty to avoid spending even more time behind bars.  

4/12/2008 - Israel removes fewer roadblocks than promised: U.N.    

4/12/2008 - World Bank continues support for the Palestinian people The World Bank yesterday signed a Grant Agreement with the Palestinian Authority for the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan multi-donor budget support Trust Fund (PRDP-TF). This agreement reflects the Bank's support for the Palestinian people, who are weathering adverse circumstances.  

4/12/2008 - Egyptian government cuts supplies to areas near Gaza    

4/12/2008 - Hamas to target Israeli ministers if its leaders are targeted A senior Islamic Hamas leader threatened Saturday that if Israel targets any Hamas ministers, Israeli ministers would be targeted. Reacting to Israeli threats to target Hamas leaders in Gaza, Mushi al-Masri said in a statement, "Any Israeli stupidity of targeting Hamas leaders or ministers, Hamas will likewise take action."  

4/12/2008 - Construction of 30,000 affordable homes planned in new West Bank suburbs The Palestinian Investment Fund says it plans to build 30,000 affordable apartments in the West Bank and Gaza to ease a growing housing crunch.  

4/12/2008 - Army invades the West Bank, kidnaps five from a Tulkarem village, four of whom are children    

4/12/2008 - Hamas warns Israel against tightening blockade on Gaza    

4/12/2008 - Hamas: ?P.A security arrests seven Hamas supporters?    

4/12/2008 - Unholy Row Over Religious Site Dig An Israeli Government report found false documents had been used to label Palestinian houses in Silwan as "absentee property", which allowed them to be seized. As a result, Palestinians were thrown out of their homes and the Israeli Government began excavation work under Silwan.  

4/12/2008 - Israeli army sweeps into different parts of Gaza    

4/12/2008 - Gaza fears power cuts after closure of fuel terminal    

4/12/2008 - Palestinians seek Egypt's help in bringing peace to Gaza The Palestinian Authority called on Egypt on Saturday to continue its efforts to help bring renewed calm to the Gaza Strip, in order to avoid the danger of an Israeli invasion.  

4/12/2008 - Palestinian official warns of Gaza blackout due to fuel shortage A senior Palestinian official warned on Saturday that the Gaza Strip will sink into full blackout within days if Israel doesn't allow fuel into the blocked enclave.  

4/12/2008 - Israeli tanks withdraw from Gaza Israeli forces have withdrawn from Gaza after air and ground operations which left at least eight Palestinians dead.  

4/12/2008 - Israeli military fails to uphold Palestinian land rights The landowner had with him documents proving his right of title to the land but the Israeli authorities (army, police and civil administration) did not respect this legal prove of ownership.  

4/12/2008 - Carter Defends Plan To Meet Hamas Despite Israel Criticism Carter, who reportedly plans to meet exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Syria, said he viewed Hamas?s inclusion in peace talks as ?very important? and stressed he was not travelling as an official US negotiator.  

4/12/2008 - IDF: Hamas creating phony humanitarian crisis Hamas is presenting a distorted picture of reality in the Gaza Strip and creating a phony humanitarian crisis in order to score points, a senior IDF officer charged Thursday evening.  

4/12/2008 - Palestinian official: Israeli offensive embarrasses PNA    

4/12/2008 - Hamdan Family Home Demolished - ICAHD Resists    

4/12/2008 - U of W students deserve the right to see movie The film, Occupation 101, features 34 credible Middle East scholars, historians, peace activists, journalists and humanitarian workers, such as the former U.S. ambassador to Israel Edward Walker, Palestinian psychiatrist Iyad Sarraj and Jeff Halper, a professor of anthropology at Ben Gurion University in Israel.  

4/12/2008 - March to mark Palestine massacre A national demonstration was staged to support the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Activists in Dublin marched from the Central Bank to the Dail and then the GPO in remembrance of the massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948.  

4/12/2008 - Inauguration of UN housing near devastated Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon    

4/12/2008 - Belfast Mural commemorates 60th Anniversary of Deir Yassin and Nakba    

4/12/2008 - West Bank police get female touch Palestinian police have made another step towards building a new society by dispatching female officers onto the streets. Police work has traditionally been seen as a men?s work.  

4/12/2008 - Palestianians, Israelis have same right to justice    

4/12/2008 - Press Conference for Release of Palestinian Professor on Hunger Strike    

4/12/2008 - Reform leader urges evangelical boycott The leader of America?s largest Jewish denomination and a prominent Christian-Zionist figure traded barbs this week following calls to boycott events organised by evangelical supporters of Israel.  

4/12/2008 - Introducing the directors from behind the veil Buthina Canaan Khoury is a Christian Palestinian film-maker from the West Bank. Her latest film, Maria's Grotto, which recently opened in Ramallah, deals with honour killings.  

4/12/2008 - CNN: Many Israelis 'uncomfortable' with pastor who supports McCain    

4/12/2008 - No Ambulance, Call the Radio    

4/12/2008 - What's Wrong With Being Anti Israel?    

4/12/2008 - Egypt says mini-summit on Mideast peace under consultations    

4/12/2008 - Israelis stage daring saga of the abandoned Palestinian raised as a Jew what makes the ? distinctly allegorical ? subject matter unprecedented for one of Israel's leading theatres to tackle is the historical context: the natural mother is a Palestinian refugee who involuntarily abandoned her baby son, Khaldun, in the flight from Haifa during the Jewish-Arab war in April 1948. The adoptive mother is a refugee too, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who took over the Palestinian couple's house ? and brought up their son under the name of Dov  

4/12/2008 - Noam Shalit: The fact that Carter isn't pro-Israel may be beneficial Israeli leaders are shunning him for accusing Israel of apartheid and for planning to meet with the head of the violently anti-Israel Hamas group.  

4/12/2008 - The Controversial Wall In Israel    

4/12/2008 - Palestinians, Israelis React Differently to Saudi Plan While most Palestinians support a peace agreement proposed by Saudi Arabia, the majority of Israelis reject it, according to a poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 66 per cent of respondents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would back the comprehensive plan, while 57 per cent of Israelis would oppose it.  

4/12/2008 - Fence creates divisions on campus Tensions over the ongoing conflict in the Middle East were inflamed on campus when Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) put up a fence measuring 15 feet by five feet in the Atrium April 3 to simulate the West Bank separation barrier.  

4/12/2008 - Israel Loves Mugabe The moral depravity of Israel's African policies are highlighted by the close cooperation that existed between Tel Aviv and the apartheid regime of South Africa. Israel provided the expertise, experience, and technology, as well as other covert military aid, which enabled white Pretoria to hold off the African National Congress for as long as it did.  

4/12/2008 - U.K. advertising watchdog nixes 'misleading' Israel tourist ad A British advertising watchdog has ordered a tourist office affiliated with Israel to withdraw a magazine ad that implies that a West Bank landmark is actually in Israel.  

4/12/2008 - Barack Obama campaign launches Hebrew blog in Israel Barack Obama has launched a Hebrew blog in Israel, which an aide Eric Lynn says Obama hopes will help strengthen his ties with the Israeli public. For the presidency of which country is he running?

4/12/2008 - Kuffiyah Kraze and Arabphilia in Ironic T-Shirts: Arabs Steal Che's Iconic Thunder    

4/12/2008 - Israeli army prevent Israelis from joining nonviolent protest in Bethlehem    

4/12/2008 - Hamas: Israel digging tunnels to kidnaps Hamas leaders    

4/12/2008 - Obama declines to criticize Carter on Hamas Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter if he were to meet with Hamas, although Obama said he would not meet with the militant Palestinian group.  

4/12/2008 - Iranian, Lebanese officials to skip Doha Forum over Livni's participation    

4/12/2008 - Palestinian-American doctor turns suffering into song, wins top U.S. prize    

4/12/2008 - 3 to examine Mideast issues From 6:30 to 9 p.m. today, Andrea Morel Farsakh, Anna Baltzer and Stan Moody will speak on human rights issues in Israel and Palestinian territories, give an overview of life in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and explore the relationship between Israel and the American religious right.  

4/12/2008 - Al-Assad immunity proposal rejected Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday rejected suggestions to offer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad immunity in a U.N. probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in exchange for his help in reining in the militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas.  

4/12/2008 - Turkey seeks to block Knesset debate on Armenian genocide Mercan was in Israel this week at the head of a Turkish parliamentary delegation for talks with their Israeli counterparts.  

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4/10/2008 - Nine killed in Gaza border violence Two Israeli civilians and seven Palestinians were killed in violence on the Gaza border on Wednesday after a Palestinian commando raid into Israel.  

4/10/2008 - Israeli strikes kill two Hamas gunmen in Gaza-medics    

4/10/2008 - Petraeus points to war with Iran by Patrick J. Buchanan Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East.....Israel has been hurling invective at Iran and conducting security drills to prepare its population for rocket barrages worse than those Hezbollah delivered in the Lebanon War. Adm. William "Fox" Fallon, the Central Command head who opposed war with Iran, has been removed.  

4/10/2008 - U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.  

4/10/2008 - U.S., Israel criticize Carter plans to see Hamas    

4/10/2008 - Palestinian negotiator says W Bank becomes prison like Gaza    

4/10/2008 - Israeli army kidnaps one civilian from a village near Hebron    

4/10/2008 - Israel sends tanks, bulldozers into Gaza    

4/10/2008 - Netanyahu: 'We won't be able to deter nuclear Iran' "Nothing will stop the Iranians - not the use of force and not a fear of being hit in retaliation," he said, adding that "every Israeli withdrawal from territories it controls leaves room for Iranian terror to enter." Riiight.

4/10/2008 - Youth injured by Israeli gunfire near Ramallah    

4/10/2008 - U.N. Official Urged Commission To Study Neocon Role in 9/11 "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don?t think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."  

4/10/2008 - Soldiers bar farmers from harvesting their lands west of Jenin    

4/10/2008 - Olmert vows to strike Hamas as Gaza fuel cut off    

4/10/2008 - Nablus reporter mugging shows anarchy still lingers    

4/10/2008 - Israeli army detains 21 Palestinians in West Bank    

4/10/2008 - Five Palestinians die due to the Israeli Siege imposed on the Gaza Strip    

4/10/2008 - The Popular Committees slams Israeli plan to build 983 home for settlers in Abu Ghneim    

4/10/2008 - Palestinians held in 'poison plot' Israeli security forces arrested two Palestinians suspected of planning to poison patrons of a Tel Aviv-area restaurant.  

4/10/2008 - The Economist: Let there be justice for all Five years of work by Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, a lobby group based in Washington, paid off earlier this month in the form of a resolution passed by America's House of Representatives, which calls on the government to make a policy of insisting on restitution for Jewish refugees as well as Palestinian ones.....the fact that a resolution of doubtful value even to Israel's government, let alone American foreign policy, passed with bipartisan support shows once more the power of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington.  

4/10/2008 - Ahmad Quriea' denies delaying, settlement of Jerusalem and refugee issues    

4/10/2008 - Hamas denies beefing up forces, weapons in Gaza    

4/10/2008 - Iran FM backs Yemen effort to broker Fatah-Hamas thaw    

4/10/2008 - Egypt warns Gaza militants not to breach border Egypt warned Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Wednesday against any attempt to breach its border with Gaza or take advantage of "fabricated" domestic problems in Egypt.  

4/10/2008 - Hebron Update: 16-22 March 2008    

4/10/2008 - Special Report: ?On World Health Day; Palestinian detainees still facing slow death Palestinian researcher and specialist in the detainees affairs, Fuad Al Khuffash, prepared and published a comprehensive report on the Palestinian detainees and the conditions they are facing in Israeli prisons, as the world marks April 7; the World Health day.  

4/10/2008 - Training in a war zone: Gaza's running man    

4/10/2008 - Egypt beefs up Gaza border force    

4/10/2008 - Israeli army kidnaps the total of 50 Palestinians from the West Bank on Wednesday    

4/10/2008 - Local security officer: Palestinians warned of infiltration Palestinian fuel coordinators alerted Israelis manning the Nahal Oz fueling terminal that Palestinian terrorists had infiltrated Israel prior to the terror attack that left two Israeli civilians dead, Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council chief security officer Yoav Peled said Wednesday.  

4/10/2008 - Tulkarem: the Israeli army kidnaps nine civilians among them a disabled man    

4/10/2008 - Parents of Briton shot by Israeli soldier seek talks with ambassador Five years after their son was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier in Gaza, the parents of the British student Tom Hurndall are still pressing the Israeli government for compensation and a formal apology as they try to build a criminal case against senior Israeli army officers.  

4/10/2008 - Sixty years after Deir Yassin    

4/10/2008 - Statement: Gaza's agriculture on the verge of collapse    

4/10/2008 - Barak: Up quota for Palestinian workers The move is part of the gesture package presented by Barak to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad during their meeting in Jerusalem two weeks ago  

4/10/2008 - Protesters disrupt Israeli ambassador's speech In spite of security precautions, some 25 pro-Palestinian demonstrators pushed their way into a major midtown hotel to disrupt a luncheon speech by Israeli ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker.  

4/10/2008 - Hamas Signals Compromise, But No One's Watching    

4/10/2008 - AT-TUWANI REFLECTION: Shanti?s Shot Sheep Despite the trauma of the day before Shanti joined them. Of all the shepherds in the valley, Shanti was the shepherd grazing his sheep nearest to the illegal Israeli Havat Ma?on settlement outpost, nearest to the risk of danger and attack from settlers. Like the prophets of old, on that day (and in the days that have followed), Shanti put himself in a place of danger to nonviolently resist the Powers that Be.  

4/10/2008 - Syria: UNRWA opens new educational facilities in Khan Dannoun, Damascus    

4/10/2008 - Palestinian Olympic hopeful leaves Gaza to train for Beijing games Nader Masri is one of four Palestinian Olympic hopefuls. But he had been unable to leave for the games because Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza's borders after Hamas militants took over the territory in June.  

4/10/2008 - UN humanitarian chief calls for coordination between Gulf countries and the United Nations in addressing global humanitarian challenges    

4/10/2008 - Families of detained legislators hold a protest in Nablus    

4/10/2008 - For asking legit questions about Israel, the State Dept. wants to toss you in jail    

4/10/2008 - Israel champion Robert Wexler says Obama is a friend of Israel "And I can unequivocally say that Senator Obama has an A-plus record on Israel. If he didn't, I would not be supporting him."  

4/10/2008 - UAE Red Crescent kick-starts ambitious Palestinian refugee camp redevelopment project in Syria    

4/10/2008 - Swedish FM likens Netanyahu to Hamas    

4/10/2008 - Palestinian Billionaire Sinks Riches into Philanthropy    

4/10/2008 - LA Times Revives Obama Smear Does being friends with Palestinians make one anti-Israel? Peter Wallsten of the LA Times apparently thinks so. His latest piece about Barack Obama's past ties to pro-Palestinian activists in Chicago is certainly meant to give the reader that impression  

4/10/2008 - Jordan's King Abdullah II donates land to Jerusalem diocese King Abdullah II of Jordan has given a plot of land to the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem for construction of a church and retreat center at the Jordan River location traditionally believed to be the baptismal place of Jesus.  

4/10/2008 - Keeping US on our side Israel must find way to maintain American support in wake of Bush era  

4/10/2008 - Israel concludes largest civil defence drill    

4/10/2008 - Italian imam will speak at UAlbany Outspoken Sunni cleric says he supports Israeli control of Jerusalem  

4/10/2008 - Holy Land: Christian, Jewish groups support Islamic orphanages threatened with closure    

4/10/2008 - Olive trees used by Jerusalem Lutheran bishop as bridge to Muslims    

4/10/2008 - Palestinians say Bush will meet Abbas in Egypt    

4/10/2008 - UN troops erect barbed wire on Lebanon-Israel border UN peacekeepers in Lebanon began on Friday erecting a barbed-wire fence along the border with Israel to prevent breaches of the "Blue Line" aimed at keeping peace between the two neighbours  

4/10/2008 - New town aims to cement Palestinian presence A Palestinian company will this year start building the first of several new towns in the West Bank intended to cement the Palestinian presence on land dissected by Jewish settlements.  

4/10/2008 - Bush, Obama: Carter should not meet with Hamas officials The Bush administration has counseled Jimmy Carter not to meet with Hamas officials.  

4/10/2008 - Barak: We have our eyes on Syria, Lebanon    

4/10/2008 - Jewish leaders back Hagee in Times A letter from U.S. Jewish leaders to The New York Times offers support for the Rev. John Hagee.  

4/10/2008 - Two cheers for the Administration's flawed anti-Semitism report One great virtue of the report is that it rejects the purported distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism Note the source (horse's mouth).

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4/8/2008 - Israeli missile kills Palestinian militant in Gaza: medics    

4/8/2008 - Israeli bus kills Palestinian shepherd; locals say act intentional At around 5 pm local rescue services reported that the shepherd, 15, was hit by a bus as he crossed a road on a donkey near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, near the Palestinian village of Salem, where the shepherd lived. He was transferred by a Red Crescent medical team to a hospital in Nablus, where he died of his wounds a short time later.  

4/8/2008 - Israel troops kill Gaza militant The official Palestinian news agency spoke of houses being stormed in Jenin and Nablus, and said at least four of those taken were teenagers.  

4/8/2008 - Major powers plan to meet on Iran in mid-April-US Senior diplomats of the five U.N. Security Council permanent members and Germany plan to meet in mid-April to discuss a strategy they hope will persuade Iran to rein in its nuclear program, the U.S. State Department said Monday  

4/8/2008 - Israeli-Palestinian Talks Sour over Settlements Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas raises new objections with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over new Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Since they last met in November, Israel has built more then 2,000 new units, despite pledges to freeze construction, an Israeli watchdog group reports.  

4/8/2008 - Israel to bar UN official for comparing Israelis to Nazis   'Waaah'. Grow up already.

4/8/2008 - Israeli court looks into the Hebron orphanages case    

4/8/2008 - Hebron Orphanages Press Conference    

4/8/2008 - West Bank police arrest suspects in selling tons of expired, unregistered medicines The Palestinian government says it has broken up a ring of criminals selling tons of expired and unregistered medications in the West Bank.  

4/8/2008 - U.S. says some criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic The Bush administration has taken the groundbreaking step of identifying some virulent criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, as it warns that anti-Jewish attitudes and incidents are on the rise worldwide....Its boldest venture is to name some attacks on Israel as anti-Semitism. In addition, the report marks the first time that the U.S. government has made it a policy to apply the label of anti-Semitism to some criticism of Israel. As predicted, it was only a matter of time. The next step is to make it a hate crime to criticize Israel. Not only do we get to fight Israel's battles in the Middle East, but we also get to fight 'anti-Semitism' (virulent criticism of Israel) all over the world.

4/8/2008 - Israel hosts face-to-face talks The first round in seven weeks of talks between Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian leader has ended with pledges to continue meeting regularly.  

4/8/2008 - Israel bars UN envoy after 'holocaust' claim Israel has said it will refuse a visa for the new United Nations human rights envoy to the Palestinians after he said it was responsible for a "Holocaust in the making" in Gaza. The truth hurts.

4/8/2008 - Barghouti: Palestinians ready for historic reconciliation    

4/8/2008 - More than 30 Israeli tanks roll in SE Gaza Strip    

4/8/2008 - Hamas warns of Gaza "explosion" if border stays shut    

4/8/2008 - World donors plan long-term treatment for Palestinian economy after pledging $7.4 billion    

4/8/2008 - Former interim Palestinian president steps down after cellphone smuggling stop at border    

4/8/2008 - Israeli army kidnaps 10 Palestinians from the West Bank on Monday    

4/8/2008 - The Israeli army invades several parts of Bethlehem and Kidnaps a civilian    

4/8/2008 - Hamas denies rocket attacks suspension to avoid Israeli retaliation    

4/8/2008 - UN expert stands by Nazi comments The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.  

4/8/2008 - Bush to join Mideast peace summit in May: Palestinians Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will meet US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at a peace summit in Egypt in May, a Palestinian official said.  

4/8/2008 - Hamas militant killed in clashes with Israeli troops    

4/8/2008 - Israel razes Palestinian home in Beit-ul-Moqaddas    

4/8/2008 - UN starts mission to record West Bank damage claims The head of a U.N. body charged with collecting Palestinian claims of damages resulting from Israel's West Bank barrier has begun his first fact-finding mission, U.N. officials said on Monday.  

4/8/2008 - Israel won't work with fence watchdog Israel will not cooperate with the head of a UN body surveying Palestinian damages resulting from the West Bank security barrier, an official in the Israeli Mission to the UN said Monday. Well now that's so out of character for the Israelis. NOT.

4/8/2008 - Official: Settlement on Palestinian land A top Israeli official has reportedly said that a large Jewish settlement in the West Bank was built on private Palestinian land.  

4/8/2008 - U.N. assesses anti-fence claims The United Nations sent an official to assess Palestinian claims against Israel's West Bank security fence.  

4/8/2008 - Israel warns Iran ahead of 'routine' emergency drill "An Iranian attack will lead to a harsh retaliation by Israel, which will lead to the destruction of the Iranian nation," Ben Eliezer said, pointing out that Iran "will not attack Israel so quickly because they understand the ramifications."  

4/8/2008 - Hizbollah turns to Iran for new weapons to wage war on Israel    

4/8/2008 - Palestinian youth theatre group presents show on life under occupation A new drama group made up of high school students aged 16-17, from the Latin Patriarchate School in Bir Zeit, presented a play and a film focusing on what it means to be a human living under occupation.  

4/8/2008 - Palestinian Olympic runner receives exit permit Following article in Yedioth Ahronoth, Israeli authorities grant permission for runner and fellow teammate to leave Gaza, Jenin to train for Beijing Olympics  

4/8/2008 - Obama Meets The Lobby by Philip Giraldi To be sure, Obama has had to run the gauntlet of the Israel-firsters, imitating every other candidate but Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich in swearing fealty to Tel Aviv's politicians and policies no matter what impact they have on the national interest of the United States.  

4/8/2008 - Brooklyn Event Commemorates Deir Yassin Massacre and Imagines a Just Future    

4/8/2008 - Hizbullah: IDF preparing for new war    

4/8/2008 - Swiss reject terror sponsor charge by US Jewish group Switzerland rejected accusations on Tuesday by the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that it could be financing terrorism after a Swiss company clinched a multi-billion euro (dollar) deal to buy natural gas from Iran.  

4/8/2008 - US left-wing bloggers to visit Sderot The Foreign Affairs Ministry has long since been exerting considerable efforts to bring the prominent writers for an extensive tour of the country, in recognizing the influence many of the writers wield and the fact some of them represent websites that are less-than-friendly towards the Israel. Hasbara.

4/8/2008 - US evangelicals march through Jerusalem Israel's government has so far chosen to enjoy the generous financial and political support of leaders like Hagee, and worry about the second coming later.  

4/8/2008 - UN Palestinian refugee staff strike in Jordan Thousands of staff at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Monday held a one-day strike in Jordan to demand pay rises to meet rising living costs.  

4/8/2008 - Report: Jimmy Carter to Meet With Hamas Leader in Syria    

4/8/2008 - Jewish Group Angry Over Banned New York Radio Ad A Jewish advocacy group is steaming after a classical radio station in New York refused to run an ad that described the daily threat of missile attacks facing Israelis in the Gaza border city of Sderot.  

4/8/2008 - An Evangelical at Armageddon Hagee's remarks, however, have certainly endeared him to Israel's hawks. Ex-Premier and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Hagee's rally in Jerusalem, calling the American Christian Zionists Israel's best friends.  

4/8/2008 - Slain Activist's Journals Draw 200 to Reading    

4/8/2008 - German employee defends against accusations Watzal objected to the interpretation that "conflicts a la Palestine" could be a justified response to U.S. policies. He said the "content of this article does neither imply such an impertinent interpretation nor did I ever justify in my writings any use of force or terror in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for political ends or as a means for a solution of the conflict. I have ever condemned any violence and I do abhor the use of force in principal. My solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was and has been the implementation of international law."  

4/8/2008 - Saudis Believed behind Mughniyeh's Murder, Report    

4/8/2008 - U.N. investigator wants more time in Hariri probe    

4/8/2008 - Police close English radio aimed at Israeli-Palestinian coexistence Owned by a South African Jewish businessman, it is modeled after a South African station that provided a venue for reconciliation after apartheid. The station's tens of thousands of listeners include Palestinians, settlers and foreign diplomats, a portion of whom participate in its talkback segments.  

4/8/2008 - Israeli ministers tested in massive attack scenario Israeli ministers on Monday were to test their response to the scenario of simultaneous attacks from Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as part of a major home front defence drill.  

4/8/2008 - Newspaper: Israeli drill delays Mugniyah report Publication of this report, senior Damascus officials have indicated, could do serious damage to Syria as it would expose the involvement of Arab intelligence officials, as well as that of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese personnel in the Mugniyah assassination  

4/8/2008 - Settlers hand in army guns Israel has been quietly collecting army-issued firearms from some West Bank settlers.  

4/8/2008 - A Human chain in Rafah protests high prices under the siege    

4/8/2008 - After their verbal sparring, Hagee and Yoffie may meet On the national level, Hagee has strong ties with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He delivered a keynote address last year at the pro-Israel lobby's annual policy conference, and CUFI leaders consulted with AIPAC officials in structuring the Christian Zionist organization's lobbying blitzes. AIPAC did not comment.  

4/8/2008 - Livni to discuss Shalit deal in Qatar Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will leave Sunday for a three-day visit to Qatar in a bid to advance the deal for the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. As part of the visit, Livni will work to strengthen the Gulf states' front against the Iranian nuclear program.  

4/8/2008 - Israel concerned N. Korean nuclear know-how, material has reached Iran The United States and Israel seek to pressure North Korea to cease its nuclear cooperation with Iran, which is one of the motives behind their agreement to disclose details on the air-force strike in Syria last September.  

4/8/2008 - Foreign Ministry opens Sderot office The ministry's representative started this week with a mandate to encourage international reporting on the suffering experienced by residents of the southern Israeli town from Palestinian rocket salvoes.  

4/8/2008 - Study: 64% of Israeli Jews won't enter Arab towns More than half of Israel's Jewish and Arab populations believe that the two communities are not on good terms and that relations are likely to deteriorate in the future, according to the annual Arab-Jewish Relations Index for 2007.  

4/8/2008 - Israeli police arrest SA journalist South African journalist Mark Klusener has been arrested in Jerusalem by Israeli police, the foreign affairs department said on Monday.  

4/8/2008 - John Mearsheimer Speaks on Israel Lobby John Mearsheimer, commonly seen as one of the foremost thinkers in modern international relations theory, presented on Monday a lecture entitled ?The Israel Lobby and U.S. Middle East Policy" to a packed University Center Commonwealth Auditorium.  

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4/6/2008 - Gaza boy killed by Israeli tank fire    

4/6/2008 - Mideast peace will not come 'at any price': Abbas Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday he would not accept a peace deal at any price a day before he was to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the first time since February.  

4/6/2008 - Hamas accuses pro-Abbas forces of arresting 10 Hamas members    

4/6/2008 - More hope for the mentally ill in Gaza, West Bank? For mentally ill Palestinians hope may be on the way: The implementation of a national mental health programme has started, officials involved in the project said.  

4/6/2008 - Demolition of houses near the Separation Barrier, Far'un Village, Tulkarm District The Israeli policy has forced many Palestinians to build without a permit so they can meet their natural-population-growth needs and gain a livelihood. Simultaneously, thousands of housing units and structures have been built in Israeli settlements and outposts, some of them without permit, which Israeli planning authorities granted retroactively. The authorities grant this approval even though the settlements ? and all construction in them ? flagrantly breach international law.  

4/6/2008 - Palestinian child's day 2008 Today we celebrate Palestinian Child's Day; and as Palestinians, parents, teachers, doctors, politicians, police-officers, child rights advocates and children, we come together to demonstrate our commitment towards greater respect for the rights of Palestinian children- in Palestine and abroad.  

4/6/2008 - Abbas confirms serious talks ongoing with Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that the Palestinians are holding serious peace negotiations on the permanent status issue with Israel.  

4/6/2008 - Hamas issues first clear threat to kill captured Israeli soldier    

4/6/2008 - Egypt expected to broker national Palestinian dialogue    

4/6/2008 - Abbas authorizes gov't to resort to justice as public strike mounts up    

4/6/2008 - Israel lets special PA force deploy in Jenin, but not Hebron    

4/6/2008 - Holy Land: World Health Organization reports on Gaza medical crisis Caritas Jerusalem has sent us details of a new report from the World Health Organization concerning the health situation in Gaza and those trying to leave Gaza for health care.  

4/6/2008 - PFLP says Abbas-Olmert meeting extra gain for Israel    

4/6/2008 - Diskin: Complete fence before gestures Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin has warned that continuing to ease restrictions on the Palestinians while the separation fence remains breached puts Israel at risk. According to Diskin, the completion of the eastern barrier must be considered before making any decisions on additional gestures.  

4/6/2008 - Israel seeks to reassure neighbours over missile drill Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought to reassure Syria and Lebanon on Sunday that Israel did not want a major missile attack drill to worsen tensions along its northern border.  

4/6/2008 - The Popular Committees slams Israel?s plan to construct 2000 settler homes this year    

4/6/2008 - Palestinian rally drivers race against Israeli blocks Palestinian rally drivers, unable to fully show their skills on open roads because of Israeli roadblocks, sought to promote motor sports in the occupied West Bank by staging indoor races.  

4/6/2008 - AT-TUWANI UPDATE: March 2008 On several occasions during March Israeli soldiers declared areas near At-Tuwani ?Closed Military Zones?, forcing families and shepherds off their land and preventing them from grazing sheep and harvesting spring herbs  

4/6/2008 - AT-TUWANI REFLECTION: Palestinian response to Israeli settler violence On 26 March 2008 one of our shepherd friends was out with his flock below the illegal Israeli outpost of Havat Ma?on. Suddenly he was aware of bullets whizzing near him. The shots had come from the outpost. Three animals were hit, two sheep and one goat; the goat has survived but the sheep have died. The local communities are sustained by subsistence farming and so the loss of any animal is significant to a family?s economic survival.  

4/6/2008 - Israel prepares for future war on three fronts with five-day emergency drill ISRAEL yesterday began a five-day nationwide civil defence exercise that analysts say aims to prepare the country for being bombarded by missiles in a possible future war with Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.  

4/6/2008 - Bibi: Christian Zionists our top friends    

4/6/2008 - Official's threat of 'shoah' against Gaza reprehensible    

4/6/2008 - Israel, U.S. plan to release details on Syria attack The view in Washington and in Jerusalem is that publishing details of the attack will bolster Israel's deterrence and may even lead Syria to cool its close ties with Iran and North Korea.  

4/6/2008 - Hezbollah to "follow closely" Israeli drill along Lebanese border    

4/6/2008 - Union chief retreats from Israel advert The ad has deeply offended Australia's Jewish community for its inflammatory references to racism and genocide  

4/6/2008 - Talk about dividends of peace a tough sell at jammed West Bank checkpoint in Jericho    

4/6/2008 - AT-TUWANI REFLECTION: A little girl?s story    

4/6/2008 - U.S. evangelist pledges $6 million for a variety of Israeli causes American evangelist John Hagee announced donations of $6 million to Israeli causes on Sunday and said Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem.  

4/6/2008 - U.S. Senate takes up Fatah charter A resolution calling on Fatah to renounce its purported charter is circulating in the U.S. Senate. How is this a matter for Capitol Hill?

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4/5/2008 - Israeli fire kills Gaza farmer A Palestinian farmer was killed by an Israeli artillery round on Saturday as he worked in his fields near the border between the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Israel, Palestinian medics said. How many deaths by the IDF of Palestinian farmers does that make in the past month? Two months?

4/5/2008 - Hamas won't free Israel soldier without prisoner release: report    

4/5/2008 - Hebron Urgent Action: Save the Hebron orphanages and schools    

4/5/2008 - Abbas to push Olmert on state of peace talks-aide    

4/5/2008 - Israeli siege bears strange fruit Because Israel won't allow spare parts into Gaza, the Strip's antiquated sewage system, built to serve just a fraction of the 1.5 million people who now live there, is near to total collapse. It is kept working by pumps, which remove excess sewage and dump it straight into landfill sites or the sea. But Israel has cut back on electricity and fuel supplies too, so the pumps don't always work. And that's when the sewage rises in the streets of Zaytoun, where Dardar's family lives and farms.  

4/5/2008 - Hamas: Rocket attacks not aimed at Israeli women, children    

4/5/2008 - Abbas authorizes Egypt to talk with Hamas    

4/5/2008 - Palestinian gov asks fugitives to return A senior Palestinian official urged a dozen fugitive Palestinian gunmen on Saturday to return to a local prison, where they had been serving time as part of an amnesty deal with Israel.  

4/5/2008 - Ben-Eliezer warns of bi-national state National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer on Saturday strongly criticized the ongoing peace talks with the Palestinians, warned of the establishment of a bi-national state in Israel and reiterated his call to free jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti.  

4/5/2008 - Egypt urges Fatah to hold conference to regain political strength    

4/5/2008 - Canadian FM condemns attack on group in Israel The Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) was in Sderot to "familiarize" themselves with goings-on in the region when an unidentified shooter fired at them, Bernier said.  

4/5/2008 - 2 rockets land outside Ashkelon    

4/5/2008 - Palestinian FM believes to ink peace treaty with Israel by year end    

4/5/2008 - 'Hamas won't let Palestinians starve'    

4/5/2008 - U.S. supervising training of elite PA unit in Jordan He told the young officers, most of them in their 20s, that their objective, first and foremost, is to assist their people in contending with the threats of crime, terror and other problems  

4/5/2008 - Hamas: Sniper aimed for MK Dichter A Palestinian sniper shot at Public Security Minister Avi Dichter during a tour near the Gaza Strip border. Dichter was unharmed in the attack but his chief of staff, Mati Gil, was hit. He was taken to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon in good to fair condition. Hospital officials last night said Gil's condition was improving.  

4/5/2008 - Palestinian runner faces Israeli closure, tangled bureaucracies, to reach China    

4/5/2008 - Obama, Clinton, McCain to vice-chair Israel 60th anniversary panel    

4/5/2008 - Shin Bet fears attack on Israeli plane    

4/5/2008 - NY jury rejects Palestinian immigrant's claims in rights case A federal jury in Manhattan has rejected a Palestinian man's claims against the city that two police officers violated his constitutional rights by reporting him to immigration authorities.  

4/5/2008 - Open day held to remind people of Palestinian children Last week, Yemen celebrated ?the Day of Land?, commemorating the Palestinian homeland and open charity day was held at the New School in Sana?a with all revenues going to help Palestinian children. Children from the school performed both Yemeni and Palestinian songs and dances, showing the deep cultural bond between the two countries.  

4/5/2008 - There are No Checkpoints in Heaven "I am sick, son, I am sick," my father cried when I spoke to him two days before his death. He died alone on March 18, waiting to be reunited with my brothers in the West Bank. He died a refugee, but a proud man nonetheless.  

4/5/2008 - Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq fly to Chile    

4/5/2008 - Cdn. teen gets jail, 200 lashes The brothers, both of Palestinian origin, have been Canadian citizens since 2005  

4/5/2008 - From Jenin to Beijing Palestinian Olympic team struggles against PA's unwillingness to support athletes, Israel's begrudging of permits. With no money to buy shoes, no pool to practice swimming, how can athletes train for big event?  

4/5/2008 - Rapper Belly leads way for Ottawans at Juno awards Belly, the Palestinian-born Ottawa rapper, won rap recording of the year for his debut disc, The Revolution.  

4/5/2008 - Gaza Running on Near Empty Gaza needs 850,000 litres of fuel every week, says Mahmoud al-Khozendar, vice-president of the Petrol Station Owners Association in Gaza. Israel allows in just 70,000 litres of it. He said Gaza also needs 2.5 million litres of coal gas a week. Only 800,000 litres per week comes in.  

4/5/2008 - Jordanian king to France for Mideast talks    

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4/4/2008 - U.K. Foreign Sec.: Israel's future depends on Palestinian statehood British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday praised Israel's achievements over the 60 years of its existence, but said the "small country's" future depends above all on "the creation of a new and viable Palestinian state, alongside a secure Israel."  

4/4/2008 - Mysterious explosion south of Gaza Strip, two Palestinians injured    

4/4/2008 - An Appeal to release a sick Palestinian detainee Several Human Rights groups and the family of detainee Yousef Al Shomaly,48, from Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, voiced an appealed to release Al Shomaly after his health condition had sharply deteriorated in Israeli prisons.  

4/4/2008 - Gaza siege claims the life of another infant, woman Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that an infant and a woman died in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Authorities barred their transfer to hospitals outside the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.  

4/4/2008 - Settler arrested for throwing dung at Palestinians Police detain for questioning man who fired into air next to Palestinian farmers working near illegal outpost. 'He came over with a jug, told us it was tea and poured urine,' human rights group volunteer recounts  

4/4/2008 - Palestinian civil servants challenge PM Fayyad    

4/4/2008 - DFLP leader meets with Arab League Secretary-general    

4/4/2008 - Canadians come under fire near Gaza Strip    

4/4/2008 - Hamas says its gunmen wound Israeli minister's aide Hamas said its gunmen wounded an aide to Israeli Interior Security Minister Avi Dichter on Friday when they opened fire from the Gaza Strip on an Israeli kibbutz that the minister was visiting.  

4/4/2008 - Bedouin in unrecognised villages struggle to get water to their home    

4/4/2008 - Israeli military abducts 17 Palestinians across the West Bank    

4/4/2008 - Two cigarette dealers from J'lem assaulted by Palestinian mob near Ariel According to reports, the two arrived in the village to peddle their goods when they were approached by a number of Palestinians who fired in the air and chased them away.  

4/4/2008 - Sderot and Gaza: Second letters Why should we Palestinians have to pay the price of others' crimes? If the Nazis killed your grandmother's family, why do you kill us in return?  

4/4/2008 - Report: Barghouti's son lightly injured from IDF fire in Ramallah    

4/4/2008 - Gov't: bar classification czar Prosecutors in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers want to keep the defense's most potentially damaging expert witness from testifying.  

4/4/2008 - Candidly Speaking: Hillel goes post-modern In another statement, which will undoubtedly return to haunt him in the future, Firestone told the JTA that he denied any relationship between anti-Israeli activity and anti-Semitism and said that bracketing the two together was like "mixing apples and oranges."  

4/4/2008 - Should the U.S. End Aid to Israel? Funding Our Decline  

4/4/2008 - Wiesel, Dershowitz want U.S. to boycott Durban conference Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, law professor Alan Dershowitz and former CIA Director James Woolsey are urging the United States to skip next year's United Nations anti-racism conference in a full-page advertisement appearing Thursday in four newspapers.  

4/4/2008 - UNRWA commemorates 1948: Abu-Yaser recalls life in Tel el-Safi    

4/4/2008 - New global push sought to scrap chemical weapons Nations including Syria, Iraq and Israel should join a landmark pact for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons as they serve hardly any security or strategic purpose, a watchdog agency said on Friday.  

4/4/2008 - ICAHD founder Jeff Halper arrested for attempting to stop house demolition in Jerusalem    

4/4/2008 - Gazans eat endangered turtle "as good as Viagra"    

4/4/2008 - Israel: Iran listening in on IDF communications from Syria Iran has set up sophisticated listening stations in Syria in recent months to intercept Israeli military communications, Israeli security officials said Tuesday  

4/4/2008 - German Jews push for government firing In a 2004 article entitled, "An Israelization of the World?" Watzal implied that attacks on civilians can be justified: "If the USA further Israelizes its domestic and foreign policy, conflicts a la Palestine will become globalized." I fail to see how that statement justifies attacks on civilians.

4/4/2008 - Syria: We choose peace, but we're ready for Israeli attack    

4/4/2008 - China to build oil refinery in Syria near alleged nuclear plant bombed by Israel    

4/4/2008 - Lebanon PM wary of Israeli manoeuvres Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora warned on Friday that Israel could exploit major military exercises to exacerbate tensions along the volatile border between the two countries.  

4/4/2008 - Israel's Tehran connection    

4/4/2008 - UN officer reported Israeli war crimes before deadly bombing: widow A United Nations military observer sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging "a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people" shortly before he was killed by an Israeli bomb in Lebanon, said his widow.  

4/4/2008 - 40 killed by Israeli cluster bombs in Lebanon Forty people have been killed and 252 wounded by Israeli cluster bombs dropped during the 2006 war in Lebanon, the UN demining organisation said on Friday.  

4/4/2008 - Iran cleric says Israel behind anti-Islam Dutch film    

4/4/2008 - Speaker defends Palestine Finkelstein, an American political scientist and prominent scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, spoke to students last night as part of the Palestine Awareness Week.  

4/4/2008 - Tree planting in Beita Today approximately twenty residents from the village of Beita near Nablus, as well as international human rights workers (HRWs), took to the mountain of Jabal al Arma to plant 200 trees in order to prevent the encroachment of nearby settlement Itamar.  

4/4/2008 - Open hearts In the rural hospitals of Tanzania and Zanzibar, Israeli and Palestinian doctors fight for the lives of African children. In a place like this, they say, all conflicts are put aside  

4/4/2008 - FACTBOX: Jenin and the Palestinian security campaign The United States wants Palestinian security forces deployed in the northern West Bank city of Jenin to combat militant groups as well as lawlessness to bolster prospects for reaching a peace deal with Israel.  

4/4/2008 - The value of empowering tomorrow's Jewish leaders ?I think the level of knowledge about the Israeli conflict is high, and people tend to be more outspoken on the anti-Israel side on college campuses,? he said. ?AIPAC does a great job of combating that by bringing together Jewish youth, Evangelical Christians and Muslims, building coalitions and continuously broadening Israel?s base of support.? The Israeli lobby in action brainwashing kids in order to get future propagandists for Israel.

4/4/2008 - First: Muslim woman joins highly elite Israel Air Force rescue unit    

4/4/2008 - Israel, U.S. to coordinate on boycott of Durban II conference Israel and the U.S. decided a few weeks ago to boycott the Durban II conference scheduled for early 2009 and likely to harshly criticize Israel's human rights record unless they receive firm guarantees that the event will not turn into anti-Israel festival.  

4/4/2008 - The Next President and Israel Although most voters, and certainly most voters who care about Israel, favor active diplomacy to end the conflict, the loudest voices on this issue tend to be fervent supporters of the status quo. They are single-issue voters and single-issue donors and, accordingly, they have disproportionate influence despite their decided minority status.  

4/4/2008 - Israeli journalist puts blame on nation Israeli journalist Amira Hass said Israel?s treatment of Palestinians amounts to apartheid in front of a full room Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin Pyle Center.  

4/4/2008 - Poll: McCain Backers Friendliest to Israel    

4/4/2008 - In hospice, Arabs, Jews spend last days It's not that the hospital has suddenly made best friends out of wary Arabs and Jews. But in the last days of their lives, the facility's patients and their families find themselves on equal ground, getting a rare glimpse of each other's worlds.  

4/4/2008 - Gaza?s Crushed Childhoods Ayman, his siblings, and all Gaza?s children are finding their lives diminished each day ? a cruel, slow suffocation of their spirit and their dreams. Instead of enjoying expanding horizons, they are trapped in a virtual prison, where things that every child should be able to take for granted are instead being taken away: the right to play, to go to school, to have enough to eat, to have light to study by at night, and to feel safe in their own homes.  

4/4/2008 - Gifts for the Palestinians, and Questions   Here's a question for The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: for whose national security are you working?

4/4/2008 - Palestinians to deploy to West Bank proving ground    

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4/3/2008 - Three gunmen killed in deep IDF incursion    

4/3/2008 - Hamas man 'killed' in PA custody    

4/3/2008 - Hebron orphanage video added to youtube    

4/3/2008 - Gunmen blow up British cemetery monument in Gaza Palestinian gunmen blew up a monument in a British-run cemetery for foreign soldiers in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses and British diplomats said.  

4/3/2008 - Israel wounds 3, arrests 12 in Gaza raids    

4/3/2008 - Israel fears Syrian army moves may signal Hezbollah attack According to defense sources in Israel, the Syrians are preparing for the likelihood that Israel's response to a Hezbollah attack will be severe and may result in a regional confrontation.  

4/3/2008 - Hamas urges Israel to respond to ceasefire efforts    

4/3/2008 - Egypt allows Palestinians to cross back into Gaza Egypt temporarily opened a border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Thursday to allow around 200 Palestinians stranded in Egypt to return home, Egyptian security sources said.  

4/3/2008 - Meshal: Hamas backs Palestinian state in '67 borders Hamas supports the united Palestinian position calling for the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, including Jerusalem, and the right of return for refugees, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshal told the Palestinian daily Al-Ayam.  

4/3/2008 - Israel army dismantles 10 West Bank roadblocks The measure affects a fraction of the more than 500 roadblocks and checkpoints the army operates across the occupied West Bank, according to a UN tally.  

4/3/2008 - Palestinian PM warns civil servants he'll dock pay for each strike day The Palestinian prime minister has taken on the powerful civil servants' union, saying he'll dock the pay of striking union members. The union has held repeated warning strikes in recent months, calling for wage increases.  

4/3/2008 - Hebron: Palestinian shot after trying to snatch rifle from IDF soldier    

4/3/2008 - Let Israel offer justice to Palestinians Israel allocates 80 percent of available water from aquifers in Palestinian land for its own use. Every Palestinian home has one or more water tanks on its roof. Since Palestinians receive water only one or two days per week, the tanks are used to store water for the rest of the week. Israeli settlers receive six times more water per person than do Palestinians in the occupied territories.  

4/3/2008 - Arab envoy: Bush at critical point in Israeli-Palestinian talks    

4/3/2008 - Order: Spot Arab MK at restaurant? Curse him Extreme right-wing activists issue 'operation order' for events of encountering senior Arab officials in Jerusalem  

4/3/2008 - US Should Press Opposition to New Israeli Settlements    

4/3/2008 - New warnings on boycott bids The Scottish Trades Union Congress will debate a motion from Kilmarnock and Loudon Trades Council at its conference on April 21, calling for a consumer boycott of Israeli goods and disinvestment of pension funds in firms that supply arms to Israel.  

4/3/2008 - New bill prohibits economic ties with Iran    

4/3/2008 - Hillary Clinton's Little-Noticed Israel Problem Her vow of support for Israel's claim on an "undivided Jerusalem," if enacted, would mark a major?and problematic?break with longstanding U.S. policy.  

4/3/2008 - Israel dismisses "tensions" following Syrian reserve call-up Israeli government and military officials unanimously rejected speculations that Syria was preparing for an offensive against Israel, and said Israel was not preparing one either.  

4/3/2008 - 20 questions with John McCain "Look," he cut me off, "I just have to tell you that we should be so grateful for the support of the evangelical movement for the state of Israel, given the influence that they have, beneficial influence that they have over millions of Americans, and then we'll worry about a peace process later on, but I know that they are committed to peace between Palestinians and Israelis as well."  

4/3/2008 - Protest Over West Bank's Apartheid Road System    

4/3/2008 - Palestinian conflict comes to Fulton Anna Baltzer brought her personal experience with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to town in her presentation ?Life in Occupied Palestine? at Westminster College.  

4/3/2008 - The dysfunctional Jewish state Israel's settlers in the West Bank have woven such tight alliances with various parties that they have made themselves effectively untouchable, even though they are only a tiny proportion of Israeli society. As a result, the government is incapable even of enforcing Israel's own laws in the West Bank.  

4/3/2008 - Yoffie blasts Palestinians, Christian Zionists Rabbi Eric Yoffie objected to Jewish cooperation with some Christian Zionists, and also called the Palestinian movement one of the "ugliest and stupidest" in modern history.  

4/3/2008 - Ramon: No retaliation for Mugniyah due to Lebanon war    

4/3/2008 - Tibi's Beirut stop angers rightists An Israeli-Arab lawmaker stirred up right-wing ire by flying to Lebanon.  

4/3/2008 - Resolution would target Hamas Two Democrats in Congress are asking colleagues to sign on to a resolution that condemns Hamas incitement. Why is this a matter for the US Congress?

4/3/2008 - Peretz to begin 'free Barghouti' drive    

4/3/2008 - Over 100 organizations call for boycott of "Israel at 60" celebrations    

4/3/2008 - Are You Listening, Joe Lieberman? Sen. Joe Lieberman, another McCain backer, not only spoke to Christians United for Israel's big gathering last summer, he compared Hagee to the biblical Moses as someone who "has become the leader of a mighty multitude in pursuit of and defense of Israel."  

4/3/2008 - Aussie unions accused of anti-Semitism Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Jewish Labor Committee and of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, last week accused the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union and the Maritime Union of Australia of "anti-Semitism cloaked under the veil of anti-Zionism" following their endorsement last month of a newspaper ad accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing."  

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4/2/2008 - Gaza's health ministry warns of a humanitarian crisis    

4/2/2008 - Hamas's exiled leader denies responsibility for a deadly attack in Jerusalem    

4/2/2008 - Egypt finds three tunnels near Gaza border The tunnels were found in agricultural land early Wednesday morning and were immediately destroyed, the official said, adding that no arrests had been made.  

4/2/2008 - Abbas loath to talk of progress over peace with Israel "I can't speak of progress as long as we have not started to edit a draft. When we start drafting we will feel we have started to make progress,"  

4/2/2008 - One Palestinian injured, another kidnapped in Jenin refugee camp    

4/2/2008 - Talks about captured Israeli soldier still faltering, Mashaal says Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based leader of the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, said that Egyptian-mediated talks for the release an Israeli soldier held by Hamas are faltering.  

4/2/2008 - Gaza witnesses worsening fuel crisis Tens of vehicles queued on the street leading to Bahloul petrol station in northern Gaza city Wednesday, hoping to get fed after rushing between gas stations for supply.  

4/2/2008 - PNA minister: Limited land exchange for Gaza-W. Bank passage can be accepted A Palestinian minister said on Wednesday that a limited exchange of land with Israel in return of "a safe corridor" linking the West Bank and the Gaza Strip could be accepted.  

4/2/2008 - Former Hamas official says dialogue with Fatah is possible    

4/2/2008 - IDF: WHO report 'completely wrong'   Riiight.

4/2/2008 - Mubarak meets Abbas on Palestinian-Israeli talks, regional developments    

4/2/2008 - Grab more hills, expand the territory by Henry Siegman The story is a lie. Israel?s military and political leaders never had any intention of returning the West Bank and Gaza to their Arab residents. The cabinet?s offer to withdraw from Arab land was addressed specifically to Egypt and Syria, not to Jordan or the Palestinians in the territories.  

4/2/2008 - Gaza ?Bombshell? Took a Year To Fall US Coup Backfires, But Most Media Outlets Unwilling to Investigate, Cover Story  

4/2/2008 - An Israeli army force invades northern Gaza , nabs three residents    

4/2/2008 - Israel levels Arab home in Jerusalem in what critics say is bid to ensure Jewish majority An Israeli wrecking crew has demolished a one-story home in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem.  

4/2/2008 - IDF Deputy Chief vows 'painful' response to any attack on Israel Harel's words came during a briefing for reporters at a Tel Aviv army base, hours after London-based Arabic-language daily Al Quds al-Arabi reported that the Syrian army was calling up part of its reserves over fears of an IDF offensive.  

4/2/2008 - Palestinian police officer convicted of murder    

4/2/2008 - UN enemy of Islam: Al-Qaeda number two He warned the Palestinians of agreeing to any peace deal "which calls for setting up a Palestinian state on the parts of Palestine which were occupied after 1967 and forgetting the parts of Palestine which were stolen before that."  

4/2/2008 - 'Referendum on J'lem will end in bloodshed' Could a referendum on the future of contested Israeli land end in civil war? Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, a renowned legalist, stated during a Knesset committee meeting, that ?a referendum on the future of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights may very well end in bloodshed.?  

4/2/2008 - Whispers for Engagement with Hamas    

4/2/2008 - Israel aims to improve image online The Israeli government is launching a campaign to generate positive national images over the Internet.  

4/2/2008 - Clinton campaign launches Jewish outreach in Pa Lewis cited as specifics her efforts to bring attention to anti-Israel, anti-Semitic Palestinian textbooks and to gain entry for Magen David Adom to the International Red Cross. Pressed to distinguish Clinton from Obama on specific issues, Lewis cited Iran. She reiterated Clinton's position that she would not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.  

4/2/2008 - BBC poll: Iran only country viewed more negatively than Israel    

4/2/2008 - Snap all ties with Israel, CPM tells Centre The 19th CPM Congress on Wednesday called upon the Centre to sever its entire military and security ties with Israel as long as it occupied Palestinian land.  

4/2/2008 - Proponent for nonviolent Mideast action at CMU Bekah Wolf, an American Israeli who co-founded a group advocating nonviolent direct action in opposition to Israelis on land set aside for a future Palestinian state, will speak about the organization on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 136A of Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University.  

4/2/2008 - Slap in the face: UAE newspaper A major UAE English daily today commented on the Israel's decision to continue construction of Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and described the move as "a slap in the face of the US".  

4/2/2008 - Barak-McCain dubbed ideal combo Ha'aretz on Wednesday printed the results of a debate by its Israel Factor foreign policy discussion group on which U.S. presidential hopeful would work best with which Israeli prime minister -- including the incumbent, Ehud Olmert, and his rivals for top office.  

4/2/2008 - Nortel to upgrade Palestinian telecoms network    

4/2/2008 - AJC Hails House Resolution on Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands Significantly, the House resolution seeks to guarantee that any solution to the refugee issue takes into account Jewish refugees?whose numbers were very similar to Palestinian refugees?as well as other minority refugees from Arab lands.  

4/2/2008 - ANALYSIS: New Israeli settlement plans set up collision course    

4/2/2008 - Arabs without oil hard hit by food price spiral    

4/2/2008 - Israel hosts NATO naval drill Six NATO frigates commanded by a Turkish admiral arrived Monday in Haifa for a joint drill with Israeli Navy missile boats.  

4/2/2008 - Israel says Syria nuclear base was raid target    

4/2/2008 - Israel to hand out gas masks to civilians Israel has decided to distribute gas masks to civilians, starting next year, to prepare for a possible non-conventional weapons' attack, public radio reported.  

4/2/2008 - Report: Syrian reservists called up for fear of Israeli strike    

4/2/2008 - Jewish leader calls Hagee 'extremist' The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism said Wednesday that synagogues in the movement shouldn't work with the Rev. John Hagee, a Christian Zionist, calling him an "extremist" on Israeli policy who disparages other faiths.  

4/2/2008 - One on One: 'Israel is not a sovereign nation' Not that Hikind's political and other positions have ever been less than an open book, both in his heavily hassidic Brooklyn district or in the Jewish state he visits regularly, and admits to considering his main passion. In fact, he even goes as far as to say he's "guilty" of not living here. .....Hikind, the son of Holocaust survivors - and husband of Shoshana, who runs the New York office of American Friends of Ateret Kohanim Yeshiva - sees nothing wrong with his priorities, which he promotes without apology.... "I'm proud of every single moment, let me make that very clear. Rabbi Kahane had a great influence on me..."....As for Iran, I don't think it's even on the list. People don't think of it as a danger to the US. Do you agree with those people? Of course not. [  

4/2/2008 - West Bank connection on hold Mr Richardson, head of the new Wataniya Telecommunication Company, is to launch the first mobile phone venture to break a monopoly on calls in the West Bank.....But Israel's dominance, as Mr Richardson is finding out, extends beyond roads. It controls the frequencies Wataniya needs to operate and to follow through on £300 million of investment planned by the firm's Qatari owners. That is one of the largest investments in the Palestinian territories in a decade.  

4/2/2008 - ADL Hails House Resolution In Support Of Jews From Arab Lands   The Israeli lobby pats the backs of their stooges on Capitol Hill. For, this resolution has no impact on the vast majority of Americans and quite frankly, is a waste of taxpayers hard-earned money.

4/2/2008 - US official: US will monitor implementation of Israeli pledges to ease restrictions    

4/2/2008 - House Equates Jewish, Palestinian Refugees    

4/2/2008 - University of California Names Jewish President In recent years, Jewish groups have chided UC Irvine?s chancellor, Michael Drake, for failing to adequately condemn anti-Israel activity on his campus  

4/2/2008 - Nature of Israel advocacy on campus while it is usually best to not be diverted, the persistent use of York?s campus as a space for militant Israel advocacy has concerning dimensions of which the campus community should be aware.  

4/2/2008 - Settlers, peace activists clash at illegal outpost close to Kedumim In the afternoon peace activists and Palestinians came to the site with the intention of establishing their own outpost. They said the land's Palestinian owner asked them to keep an eye on it for her. In response the settlers organized youths to return to the site.  

4/2/2008 - Theater Mag Prompts Boycott Debate When American Theatre Magazine asked a small group of theater artists to pen statements on their views of a proposed Israeli cultural boycott, representatives of the magazine thought they were asking a mere dozen or so people.  

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4/1/2008 - Two militants killed in Gaza raid Palestinian medical sources told AFP news agency that the two militants had been killed in a gun battle and that two civilians had been injured.  

4/1/2008 - Egypt opens Rafah terminal for a day to allow in Egyptians stranded in Gaza    

4/1/2008 - Hamas denies planned assassination of Fatah leader in Egypt    

4/1/2008 - Settlers seal off six stores belonging to Arabs in Hebron Settlers from the Jewish Community of Hebron sealed off with glue the entrances to six stores belonging to Palestinians Tuesday morning.  

4/1/2008 - The Popular Committees slams army attack against a Hebron orphanage    

4/1/2008 - Palestinians set investor conference for May 21 The Palestinian government and private sector will host a major investors conference in Bethlehem on May 21, organisers said on Tuesday.  

4/1/2008 - Sick Gazans die in "avoidable tragedies" -WHO    

4/1/2008 - Poll: Israelis favor Arab transfer to Palestine A total of 76 percent of Israeli Jews give some degree of support to transferring Israeli Arabs to a future Palestinian state, a poll commissioned by the Knesset Channel revealed, Monday.  

4/1/2008 - Palestinian dance festival defies Israeli closures Palestinians hope an international dance festival this month will send a message that Israeli checkpoints cannot stop them building bridges with the world, the festival's director said.  

4/1/2008 - Delusional Bush Dances Toward War Why attack Iran? Israeli officials have not been reluctant to insist publicly that they want our impressionable president to take care of their Iran problem before he leaves office.....Bush's open-ended rhetorical commitment to defend Israel if attacked could spell big trouble. If Iran were to strike Israel, Bush has said, "We will defend our ally, no ifs, ands, or buts." That is great rhetoric; trouble is that it surrenders the initiative to the Israelis, who have it within their power to provoke the Iranians.  

4/1/2008 - Israelis reach out to Gazan mother in Ashkelon following TV report    

4/1/2008 - Abbas discusses Mideast peace with Saudi king Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas held talks with King Abdullah on Tuesday on Middle East peace efforts during a brief visit to Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian ambassador in Riyadh said.  

4/1/2008 - Rights group questions Israeli shooting The killing of four armed Palestinian fugitives in a hail of Israeli gunfire is raising new questions about the military's practices during arrest operations in the West Bank.  

4/1/2008 - Hamas leader says Israel is exaggerating militant group's strength to justify assaults The exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, has said that Israel exaggerates the Palestinian militant group's military strength, accusing the Jewish state of seeking to spark a war against Hamas and the Lebanese guerrilla force Hezbollah.  

4/1/2008 - Hamas TV puppet "kills" Bush for helping Israel "You are a criminal, Bush, a despicable man. You made me an orphan. You deprived me of everything," said the hand-held puppet, representing a child and accusing the U.S. president of killing his family in Iraq and in Gaza in collusion with Israel.  

4/1/2008 - Group urges Palestine awareness    

4/1/2008 - Hezbollah rejects Saudi criticism over Lebanon crisis Hezbollah on Tuesday rejected criticism by Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, who has blamed the opposition for obstructing a solution to Lebanon's long-running political crisis.  

4/1/2008 - Non-ID Palestinians in Lebanon limbo They are not even given the status of refugees. Legally, they don't seem to exist at all.  

4/1/2008 - Palestinian businesses look east to China Faced with Israeli trade and travel restrictions, a stagnant economy and a flood of cheap imports from Asia, Palestinian businessmen are increasingly seeking their fortunes in China.  

4/1/2008 - Life sentence for Palestinian who murdered security guard    

4/1/2008 - House recognizes Jews from Arab lands The U.S. House of Representatives recognized the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab lands in any final peace deal. Why is this a matter for Capitol Hill? Are there not any urgent matters that affect the vast majority of the American people (rather than this minority afforded special status)? I THINK SO.

4/1/2008 - Not the bash it could have been From an Israeli perspective, the movie is interesting in that public diplomacy (hasbara) in the Netherlands can now open by saying: "The mindset of the majority of the Palestinians is much closer to what is shown in the first half of Fitna- which focuses on global crimes - than to what Dutch media have communicated over the past decade" - even though the 16-minute movie hardly deals with Palestinians.  

4/1/2008 - Washington Watch: Our own agents of intolerance When prominent Orthodox rabbis advocate mass murder, regicide, mutiny by Israeli soldiers or forbid followers to rent property or give jobs to Arabs, declare it a "sin" to enter a Reform synagogue or to sell Torah scrolls or mezuzot to Reform Jews, and blame a recent earthquake in Israel on "homosexual activity" the fabric of the nation is threatened.  

4/1/2008 - Rice leaves, but political pressure remains The US state department, Israeli officials stated, is concerned that Israel might not be doing all it can in order to abide by the Road Map principles. Of special concern to the US is Israel?s ongoing construction in settlements and illegal outposts, as well as its failure to aid West Bank Palestinian civilians and improve the overall quality of their lives. We could end that whole conflict in a heartbeat by cutting all aid to Israel until it abides by international and humanitarian law which would entail a withrawal from the Palestinian territories and end to the occupation thereof.

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