February '08 Archive
2/29/2008 - Killed while they played football, the child victims of Israel's revenge on Gaza
While the Israeli military said it had been targeting militants and rocket-launching squads, the officials said the boys were playing football close to their homes in Jabalya, northern Gaza.
2/29/2008 - Settlers dig tunnels around Jerusalem
Jewish settler groups are digging an extensive tunnel network under Muslim areas of Jerusalem's Old City while building a ring of settlements around it to bolster their claim to the disputed city in any future peace deal, anti-settlement campaigners have told The Times.
2/29/2008 - Gaza Strip/Israel: Civilians Bear Brunt of Attacks
Following the Hamas rocket barrage, an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza on Wednesday evening killed three Palestinian children
2/29/2008 - Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group
German officials have identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation. There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad.......The fact that the agency could not rule out the possibility of fabrication, according to Ritter, indicates that it had either chosen not to do such tests or that the tests had revealed fraud.
2/29/2008 - Israeli minister warns of Holocaust for Gaza if violence continues
Israel's deputy defence minister yesterday warned his country was close to launching a huge military operation in Gaza and said Palestinians would bring on themselves a "bigger shoah," using the Hebrew word usually reserved for the Holocaust.
2/29/2008 - Israel Prepares International Opinion For Assault on Gaza
2/29/2008 - Thousands of Gazans protest over deadly Israeli rai
2/29/2008 - US refuses to intervene in Palestinian damages suits
2/29/2008 - King calls for US help in Middle East
2/29/2008 - Hamas: Israel will flounder in Gaza like it did in Lebanon
2/29/2008 - Palestinian political detainee dies in Israeli detention camp due to medical negligence
2/29/2008 - Hezbollah says US ship is threat
A Hezbollah MP has condemned the deployment of the USS Cole warship off the coast of Lebanon as a threat to Lebanese sovereignty and independence.
2/29/2008 - Barack Obama's Israel Bond
Speaking to a group of 100 pro-Israel supporters in Cleveland this week, Obama assured the crowd that as president he would keep Iran in the crosshairs to protect Israeli interests.
2/29/2008 - More Americans turning to Web for news
Once Americans (such as myself five years ago) turn away from our mainstream medium such as TV and newspaper, and turn toward sources from such countries as say, Britain, they will realize just how badly they are being deceived about some topics.
2/29/2008 - Jewish Dems praise McCain for rejecting GOP flier
The release also described Obama's past membership on the board of a non-profit that donated money to an Arab American group as "disturbing evidence of Obama?s anti-Israel leanings."
2/29/2008 - Wexler: Obama might not mean Ahmadinejad
Wexler told JTA that Obama would meet with Iranian leaders as a means of reducing its threat to Israel For which country is Obama seeking the presidency?
2/29/2008 - Arbour to leave U.N. post
In a statement, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Arbour's most acerbic congressional critic, called her departure "the first step toward saving the broken UN human rights infrastructure from itself."
Ros Lehtinen is Israel's top agent on Capitol Hill. Most of what she does therein has seemingly nothing to do with AMERICAN interests.
2/29/2008 - House committee nods to Jewish refugees
The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution calling for equal treatment of Jewish refugees in any peace deal.
2/29/2008 - Donald Macintyre: To be in favour of peace is not anti-Israeli
In a Haaretz article this week Akiva Eldar pointed out that AIPAC "does not really bother to rally in favour of a two state solution". While those it sees as "friends of Israel" certainly include hardliners who believe in a greater Israel stretching from the Mediterranean to Jordan, those who criticise Israel for not moving fast enough in its own long-term security interests towards the just two state solution it says it wants, are enemies.
2/29/2008 - Obama ?passionate? about Israel being a Jewish state
the Illinois senator has ?specifically and unequivocally rejected the notion? of a Palestinian right of return to lands that are now part of Israel.
2/29/2008 - Academic Freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel
2/29/2008 - Football is politics when Arab Israeli town meets Jerusalem
2/29/2008 - One Palestinian billionaire's vision of unity
2/29/2008 - When McCain and Obama face off, Israel may find itself in the eye of the storm
2/29/2008 - UAE CONTRIBUTES US$50 MLN TO PALESTINE BUDGET
2/29/2008 - Israel remains #1 with Jewish voters
Concerns for Israel stem not just from the Palestinian crisis, but are intertwined intertwined with future dealings with Iran.
2/29/2008 - Scholar banned by US to speak here
CONTROVERSIAL Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was refused entry into the US over alleged links to terror networks, is due to deliver a lecture on Islam at a conference sponsored by the Queensland Government on Monday.
2/29/2008 - Church Leaders Ask Condoleezza to Address Gaza Crisis
2/29/2008 - Palestinian diplomat to speak at Cornell
2/29/2008 - Rift in Israel over military's big purchase
2/29/2008 - Arabs protest ban on Habash memorial
2/29/2008 - Sudan welcomes the arrival of Palestinian refugees
The irony.
2/29/2008 - Photo essay: McMaster?s Israel Apartheid Rally
2/28/2008 - Israel unleashes air strikes on Gaza, killing 20
Israel unleashed a barrage of air strikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing 20 Palestinians including several civilians and children as well as Islamist militants behind rocket attacks on the Jewish state.
2/28/2008 - Palestinians say 2 killed in IDF strike in Khan Younis
Palestinian sources report that two employees of the Palestinian Energy Authority were killed in an IDF air strike in Gaza on Thursday night.
2/28/2008 - Four children killed as Israel pounds Gaza after rocket death
2/28/2008 - Israeli bombs destroy Oxfam-funded health clinic in Gaza
Oxfam International today confirmed that a health clinic it helps fund was hit and vital medical equipment were destroyed in an attack by the Israeli air force on Gaza City late last night (27 February).
2/28/2008 - Abbas: I oppose armed struggle, but won't rule out option for future
2/28/2008 - Palestinian Child Arts Center appeals protection for Gaza children
2/28/2008 - Abu Rodeina demands international protection to the Palestinians
Nabil Abu Rodeina, spokesperson to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded the international community to intervene and stop the Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people as the Israeli army killed 27 Palestinians, including several children on Wednesday and Thursday. Dozens of civilians were injured.
2/28/2008 - Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories: ICRC calls for restraint following latest fighting
2/28/2008 - Israel arrests 12 Palestinians in West Bank
2/28/2008 - Hamas to pay 'heavy price,' Israeli PM tells Rice
2/28/2008 - Bush clears way for Palestinian aid
Bush formally waived for six months restrictions called for under US spending legislation, citing "national security grounds," according to the official, who requested anonymity.
2/28/2008 - Girl killed on Egypt-Israel border
"She was shot by a stray bullet from the other side of the border (Israel), due to the ongoing fighting today between the Palestinians and Israelis," the Egyptian security official said
2/28/2008 - Sustainable income projects threatened by bad weather, access restrictions
2/28/2008 - Erekat: Abbas doubles efforts to reinforce ceasefire
2/28/2008 - Still building
Despite Israel's claims of a freeze on settlements, new homes - and tensions - continue to rise
2/28/2008 - Unprotected among brothers: Palestinians in the Arab World
2/28/2008 - U.S. pro-Israel evangelical leader Hagee endorses McCain
McCain's support for the Iraq war and fierce criticism of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won praise from Hagee, who has brought thousands of evangelical Christians to Washington to lobby on Israel's behalf.
2/28/2008 - Twinning bid fails
In a secret ballot this week, 82 people at Goldsmiths College voted against a motion to twin with both an Israeli and a Palestinian university, while 80 were in favour. Eleven voters abstained.
2/28/2008 - While my oud gently weeps
Three Palestinian Christian brothers from Nazareth grew up absorbing their father's love for the oud, the Arabic guitar. The father made them by hand. The brothers learned to play ? sometimes with tenderness, sometimes with driving virtuosity.
2/28/2008 - Leftover cluster bomb suspected in latest blast in southern Lebanon
2/28/2008 - Palestinians mull a majority
"If Israel wants to call it Israel from Jordan to the Mediterranean, I accept it. So we'll be equal to them," said Saeb Erekat, a negotiator who has been at the center of negotiations to set up a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
2/28/2008 - U.S. sends warship off Lebanon coast
Signaling impatience with Syria, the United States has sent its USS Cole warship off the coast of Lebanon in a show of support amid Beirut's political crisis, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
2/28/2008 - German Jewish leader urges Merkel to back Israel's stance on Iran
2/28/2008 - Again: The Natives Are Gettin Restless Over U.S. Policy Towards Israel
It's about time.
2/28/2008 - Papal visit to Holy Land depends on situation Christians face in the region
The Apostolic Nuncio to the Holy Land, Archbishop Antonio Franco, reiterated his hope this week that Pope Benedict XVI would visit the region, but said the trip would only be possible if the difficulties being experienced by the Christian community are overcome and if progress is made on the Palestinian issue.
2/28/2008 - Ex-JDL member urges faith without fanaticism
after a few years, when some settlers killed Palestinian children in retaliation for violence, it all fell apart. "I was stunned by their deaths,"
2/28/2008 - Top prosecutor in AIPAC case quits
2/27/2008 - Infant is killed in Israeli attack
A baby was killed in an air raid on Hamas government buildings in Gaza last night when the Israeli military retaliated for a lethal rocket attack launched by the Palestinian militant group.
2/27/2008 - Israeli killed in Palestinian rocket strike
The attack happened hours after an Israeli air strike on southern Gaza killed five Hamas militants.
2/27/2008 - Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza
Other Israeli strikes killed at least two other Palestinian civilians, bringing the day's Palestinian death toll to at least eight people
2/27/2008 - Eleven Palestinians, Israeli killed in Gaza flare-up
Another air strike just after nightfall near a petrol station north of Gaza City killed another two Palestinians and wounded 12 others, including four children aged between six and 10, medics said.
2/27/2008 - Gaza issues toxic water warning
The water authority in the Gaza Strip has urged people to boil their drinking water to avoid the spread of disease.
2/27/2008 - Egypt allows 14 Palestinian patients to cross for medical treatment
2/27/2008 - MEPs deeply disturbed by reports of Palestinian detainees' plight
2/27/2008 - Israel arrests 17 Palestinians in West Bank raids
2/27/2008 - Israeli army accused of turning a blind eye
AN ISRAELI rights group yesterday claimed there was a "culture of impunity" in the Israeli security forces after the army decided not to order a disciplinary investigation into the killing of 21 Palestinian civilians in November 2006.
2/27/2008 - The Separation Barrier in the West Bank (as of Feb 2008)
2/27/2008 - Israeli forces detain photojournalist in Jenin
On Wednesday morning Israeli forces detained a Palestinian photo-journalist in Jenin, taking footage of the separation wall which annexes 'Aneen village, west of Jenin city.
2/27/2008 - Fatah armed wing says not committed to the truce with Israel
Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement in the West Bank said on Wednesday that it is not committed to the truce with Israel after its members were arrested.
2/27/2008 - Jordanian police arrest five they suspect of being Hamas spies
2/27/2008 - Japanese PM politely demands Israel follow map
2/27/2008 - Decorated IDF officer accused of killing Palestinian in 'vendetta'
The petitioners also found in the interview credence for their claim that the body was shown as a trophy to Driben's family: "It was important to me to bring his body. So they'd see that I brought him. I put him on the table for them," Y.B. is quoted as saying.
2/27/2008 - Rice urges end to rocket attacks ahead of Mideast trip
2/27/2008 - Seven Palestinians kidnapped in Israeli operation in Jenin
2/27/2008 - Talk to Hamas, Israelis tell government as attacks continue
The Palestinian rockets are notoriously inaccurate but yesterday they struck a 30-year-old Israeli student sitting in his car on the outskirts of Sderot. Another student was wounded as was a 10-year-old boy on Tuesday. An elderly Palestinian man was killed in northern Gaza when the Israelis returned fire, a Palestinian source said.
2/27/2008 - Abbas says Hamas in Gaza alliance with Qaeda
"There is no truth in these allegations," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP, adding that Abbas "is seeking to mobilise international opinion against Hamas."
2/27/2008 - Israeli PM welcomes 'firm' Japan stance on Iran
2/27/2008 - Israeli PM say Iran can be stopped from getting nuclear capacity
2/27/2008 - Iran just months from having nukes: Israel
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he believes that there are no more than a few months before Iran develops a nuclear weapons capacity.
2/27/2008 - PM: Iran nukes not inevitable; Russia: We may back sanctions
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday it was not inevitable that Iran would produce a nuclear bomb, while Russia warned Iran that it may sanctions against the Islamic Republic if it does not stop uranium enrichment.
2/27/2008 - Clueless Candidates Make Osama's Day by Michael Scheuer
What the new president will find is that three decades of U.S. intervention in other peoples' wars ? in this case the Arab-Israeli conflict ? has locked us in Iraq because leaving would undermine Israel's security.
2/27/2008 - Rice tells Olmert she is concerned about Gaza civilians
But Rice, who met Olmert in Tokyo on Thursday, stopped short of an explicit call for Israel to exercise restraint in dealing with rocket attacks by Islamic group Hamas.
2/27/2008 - For Christians talks with Israel are about vital issues, says nuncio
2/27/2008 - Nonviolent Demonstration Against Roadblock in South Hebron Hills
This Friday, 29 February, Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills are
planning a demonstration against the new roadblock just off Route 317,
near
2/27/2008 - Obama: I'm a 'stalwart friend' of Israel, its security is 'sacrosanct'
2/27/2008 - Palestinians Must Regain Their National Rights
The UAE reiterated its support for Palestinian people in their bid to regain their national rights, including the establishment of an independent state.
2/27/2008 - When Arafat almost kissed Benazir Bhutto!
2/27/2008 - Time to examine our moral boundaries
At a time when Americans are debating whether torture is acceptable in a democracy, I recommend an exhibition in Philadelphia by a group of young Israeli military veterans called "Breaking the Silence." I second that recommendation.
2/27/2008 - Most Muslims 'desire democracy'
The largest survey to date of Muslims worldwide suggests the vast majority want Western democracy and freedoms, but do not want them to be imposed.
2/27/2008 - Israeli officials: Egyptian intelligence chief to visit Israel
2/27/2008 - Lebanon to boycott Paris book fair
Lebanon is to stay away from this year's Paris book fair in protest at the invitation of Israel as guest of honour
2/27/2008 - St. Thomas students simulate refugee life
The 18-minute video prepared by the group members showed images of refugee camps in Palestinian-controlled areas, Burma, Indonesia and Darfur.
2/27/2008 - Humanitarian Intervention in the West Bank
2/27/2008 - Children Look At The Brighter Picture
"Around 500 children from all Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon have acquired basic photography skills through this programme," says Abou Chakra. "Most of these kids, who live in unimaginably harsh conditions, have been asked to portray life in the camps as they see it."
2/27/2008 - Gaza Border In Political Limbo
2/27/2008 - Bangladesh deeply concerned at Israeli attack on Palestinians in Gaza
2/26/2008 - Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Gaza border
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian farmer near the Gaza Strip's border on Tuesday, his relatives and hospital officials said, but the Israeli army described the dead man as a militant.
2/26/2008 - Report: Israeli occupation causes terror
A report commissioned by the United Nations says Palestinian terrorism is the "inevitable consequence" of Israeli occupation ? a claim Israel rejected Tuesday as inflammatory......As long as there is occupation, there will be terrorism, says the author, John Dugard, an independent investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a South African lawyer who campaigned against apartheid in the 1980s.
2/26/2008 - US promises Palestinian refugees more aid
UNRWA head Karen Abu Zayd, who accompanied Witten, has repeatedly called on Israel to reopen crossings into Gaza, which has been cut off from all but vital humanitarian aid for more than eight months.
"You see the deterioration before your eyes ... The electricity problem, the water problem. It's cold and it's dark and the people are simply miserable," she told AFP.
2/26/2008 - Israeli military inquiry clears soldiers of killing 21
The Israeli military has decided not to prosecute anyone involved in the artillery shelling which killed 21 Palestinian civilians in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in November 2006.
2/26/2008 - Israeli army attacks Palestinian societies and schools in Hebron
2/26/2008 - Hamas: Egypt to repatriate all Palestinians held in Sinai by weekend
2/26/2008 - UN says smuggling and 'outside' militants move to Gaza - Summary
Serry also criticized Israeli measures against Gaza which, he said, amount to collective punishment of the Gazan population and are "unacceptable."
2/26/2008 - Egypt must seal border with Gaza: Israel's US envoy
On the same day Meridor spoke in Washington, officials in Israel said Egypt has quietly boosted its troop levels along the border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, beyond those set in a 30-year-old peace accord.
2/26/2008 - Israeli military jeeps storm Bethlehem, and clash with local youth
2/26/2008 - Fatah accuses Hamas of arresting eight supporters in Gaza
2/26/2008 - Israeli PM doubts deal with Palestinians this year
2/26/2008 - Heroes of the South Hebron Hills
The Israeli army has brought out
jeeps and asked the shepherds for their IDs. Soldiers have kicked the
sheep and threatened to arrest the shepherds. Soldiers have pulled off
their pants and ?mooned? us. Settlers have approached the shepherds
carrying clubs, have fired on the shepherds and their flocks and thrown
stones at them. Just to graze their sheep on land they have farmed for
generations, Issa and the other shepherds risk arrest and violent attack
2/26/2008 - Palestinian negotiator calls for new alternatives to peace talks
Disappointed of the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, a Palestinian negotiator on Tuesday called for new alternatives to be found on the Palestine issue.
2/26/2008 - IDF says al-Qaida operatives entered Gaza
2/26/2008 - 'Endangered' Gaza Christians Mull Flight Amid Deaths, Firebombs
''The lack of work has long been the main problem,'' said Artemios. ''If young people get out, they don't come back.'' Notice how Bloomberg largely ignores that statement and takes an entirely different spin of the situation.
2/26/2008 - Palestinian factions fire missiles into Israeli targets near Gaza
2/26/2008 - 50 detained over Gaza Strip protest
2/26/2008 - Hamas should stop rocket attacks to end Israeli excuses, Abbas says
2/26/2008 - Crowds vow revenge at West Bank funeral of Hamas imam
2/26/2008 - Syrian defends Hezbollah
The Bush administration ignored concerns by Syria five years ago that invading Iraq would further destabilize the Middle East, and briefly reached out to the nation in the fall to ensure its participation in a peace conference, a top Syrian diplomat said Monday......"It's incredible: Israel occupies Lebanon. (Hezbollah fights) against Israel in their own Lebanon, and you consider them terrorists!"
2/26/2008 - Slain militant was organizer in 2006 war
The 2006 war came after Hezbollah fighters captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid. Israel retaliated with a massive bombardment, then ground incursions, in a 34-day war that devastated south Lebanon.
Notice in the paragraph reflecting casualties of that war, the Associated Press does not break down the civilian/militant kill ratio like it did for Israel. That would be because most of the 1000+ Lebanese that were killed by the Israelis were civilians.
2/26/2008 - Iran and North Korea a threat to Asia stability: Olmert
2/26/2008 - The Clinton Years Revisited - Philip Giraldi
2/26/2008 - McCain lobbyist advocated for Israeli MIAs
The lobbyist at the center of impropriety allegations targeting John McCain once advocated for Israelis missing in action.
2/26/2008 - Jewish Dems, GOPers trade Nader barbs
Republican and Democratic Jews traded barbs over Ralph Nader's characterization of Barack Obama's Israel policy.
2/26/2008 - Israel: No promised land for Africans
2/26/2008 - Temperatures rise in Israel over weather query
The IBA said its ombudsman, Elisha Spiegelman, replied that Judea and Samaria -- the names used by some Jews for the West Bank -- "are not part of the state of Israel" and so were not cited in national TV weather reports.
2/26/2008 - Poll: Large majority of Israelis supports talks with Hamas
Sixty-four percent of Israelis say the government must hold direct talks with the Hamas government in Gaza toward a cease-fire and the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit.
2/26/2008 - ADL Disappointed With Costa Rica's Diplomatic Recognition of 'State of Palestine'
Oh dear.
2/26/2008 - Jerusalem Peacemakers to visit UK
Eliyahu McLean, a Jewish, ordained Rodef Shalom (Pursuer of Peace) and Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari, a Muslim, Sufi leader and Head of the Uzbek Community in Jerusalem are co-directors of Jerusalem Peacemakers, a not for profit organisation, engaged in peace building work in Israel/Palestine and beyond.
2/26/2008 - Two hurt testing captured Hezbollah rocket
Hezbollah rocket crews destroyed or disabled dozens of Israeli tanks during the Second Lebanon War, an attrition rate not experienced by the armored corps in almost a quarter of a century. Israel has since been upgrading its tanks with anti-rocket systems and enhanced armor
2/26/2008 - Area pastor to 'walk the line' for peace
2/26/2008 - Israel seizes Hamas charity in West Bank city of Hebron
2/26/2008 - Iran must pay for '92 bombing
A U.S. judge ordered Iran to pay $33 million to the family of a U.S.-born Israeli diplomat killed in a 1992 bombing. Why was this tried in the US?
2/26/2008 - Lawyers for captured Israeli solder head to Gaza
2/25/2008 - Four Palestinian gunmen killed in Israeli operations in Gaza
Four Palestinian militants were killed overnight Sunday in several Israeli army missile attacks and ground operations in the Gaza Strip, medical and factional sources said Monday.
2/25/2008 - Gazans link hands in protest at Israeli blockade
yesterday's protest in Gaza was largely peaceful except for a group of young Palestinians who broke away at the end and hurled stones at the Israeli army, who fired their guns into the air in retaliation. The army detained 49 people.
2/25/2008 - Qatar willing to broker cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas
2/25/2008 - Abbas likely to ask Fayyad to expand acting gov't
2/25/2008 - Gazan protesters form human chain
2/25/2008 - Ereikat denies Palestinian-Israeli experts talks regarding water and economy
2/25/2008 - Barak rejects PM call to ease rules of engagement at border
2/25/2008 - Gazans form human chain along Israeli border in protest at blockade
About 5,000 people, many of them women, schoolchildren and university students, joined the chain outside the town of Beit Hanoun, about four miles from the border
2/25/2008 - Bethlehem petrol stations continue their strike; the city is running out of fuel
2/25/2008 - Qassam lands near Sderot school; child seriously injured
2/25/2008 - Abbas urges US to play more active role in Palestinian-Israel talks
2/25/2008 - Man murdered in Tira; residents say he was a collaborator
2/25/2008 - Israel: Hamas to blame if civilians hurt in Gaza border march
2/25/2008 - Fuel shortages affecting Gazans at all levels
Fuel shortages and power outages in the Gaza Strip continue to affect civilians and institutions such as hospitals, and remain a part of daily life.
2/25/2008 - Hamas studies Yemeni plan to reconcile with Fatah
2/25/2008 - Israeli army kidnaps at least six Palestinians across the West Bank
Israeli army invaded three West bank cities,in the early hours of Monday morning. Illegally arresting around six Palestinians from;Nablus, Jenin and Bethlehem in separate operations, carried out in the early hours of Monday morning.
2/25/2008 - Israeli PM calls for new sanctions against Iran
2/25/2008 - Official: Egypt frees 21 arrested Gazans, some Hamas activists
Egyptian security on Monday released 21 Palestinians, many of them detained carrying weapons and explosives during the two weeks when the border with Gaza had been breached, and sent them back into the strip, a local security official said.
2/25/2008 - Fateh accuses Hamas security forces of attacking a female university student in Gaza
2/25/2008 - Palestinians plug Jericho into Jordan's power grid
The West Bank town of Jericho was connected to the Jordanian power grid on Monday in a move a Palestinian official said was meant to reduce dependence on Israeli electricity supplies.
2/25/2008 - Bush, Jordan's king to hold White House talks in March
2/25/2008 - 'Terrorism is the lousiest shortcut to failure'
There was great brutality committed against the Palestinians ... which led me to say what I said. I clarified and, as a matter of fact. I apologized for the tone, not for the principle.
2/25/2008 - In Japan, Israeli PM calls for action on Iran
2/25/2008 - EU condemns 'uncivilised' Iranian comments on Israel: statement
The European Union condemned "in the strongest terms" Monday remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials about Israel, after the killing of a top Hezbollah commander.
2/25/2008 - Nader enters race, rejecting label of potential 'spoiler'
Nader praised Obama as "a person of substance" and "the first liberal evangelist in a long time," but accused Obama of leaning "toward the pro-corporate side of policy making" and of keeping silent about Palestinian suffering because criticism of Israel "is a real off-the-table issue for the candidates."
2/25/2008 - Obama Worked with Terrorist, Expert Says
Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line. The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.
Oh dear.
2/25/2008 - Popular Committees appeals the release of an ailing detainee imprisoned by Israel
2/25/2008 - Palestinian Professor released after two years in detention
2/25/2008 - IPI calls on the Hamas-led government in Gaza to unequivocally lift the distribution ban on Al Ayyam newspaper
2/25/2008 - Beverly: Camp seeks to bring together Israeili and Palestinian teens
2/25/2008 - German development minister visits Israel, Palestinian territories
2/25/2008 - Hezbollah and the 'Unknown Knowns'
the internal disunity and open hostility ? notwithstanding the political impasse over the future of the country?s parliamentary and governmental organisation -- all point at the readiness of Lebanon to descend into chaos. This is good news for Israel and the Bush administration. A civil war could achieve what Israel?s botched, illegal war of 2006 could not.
2/25/2008 - Obama: Don't equate 'pro-Israel' and 'pro-Likud'
"I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt a unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you're anti-Israel and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel,"
2/25/2008 - AJC Criticizes Costa Rica Recognition of Palestinian State
"The timing of this decision is both odd and painful," said AJC
Executive Director David A. Harris. "Odd because there is not yet a
Palestinian state. Painful because this action comes less than two years
after President Oscar Arias moved his country's embassy out of Jerusalem,
ending Costa Rica's longstanding and courageous example of maintaining its
embassy in Israel's capital city."
Declare Palestine. Most of the world would immediately recognize it.
2/25/2008 - Egypt starts controversial gas exports to Israel
2/25/2008 - Gazans discuss human chain protest
2/25/2008 - Hamas' Haneya receives message from AL chief
2/24/2008 - Israel steps up border security
Protest organisers say they have no intention of breaching the border.
2/24/2008 - Hamas: No looming talks with Fatah
2/24/2008 - Israel says Arabs won't withdraw peace plan
2/24/2008 - Dozens of protests held worldwide calling for an end to Gaza siege
In partnership with Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), Friends of freedom and Justice-Bilin, and Gaza On My Mind, dozens of groups worldwide held protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza on Saturday February 23rd.
2/24/2008 - 8 killed in road accidents within 48 hours
A Palestinian in his 50s died Saturday night after being hit by a truck at a roadblock near the community of Kiryat Sefer, east of Tel Aviv
2/24/2008 - Arab family scores rare win; court tells settlers to leave land
The family's troubles came in bursts. Initially there was the separation fence, which kept them from their 30-dunam olive grove, which sat between the new fence and Shaarei Tikva. In order to get to their land, they had to ask the settlement's security officer to open the gate. If he wanted to, he did. If not, he went to lunch.
2/24/2008 - Hamas says leader killed to extract "sham confession"
Hamas on Sunday accused Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of torturing one of its leaders to death to extract "sham confessions" that the Islamist group was trying to set up a West Bank militia.
2/24/2008 - Beit Hanoun mayor responds to Israeli counterpart: your rockets kill our people
A mayor of Palestinian border town of Beit Hanoun on Sunday responded to his Israeli counterpart, saying the Israeli missiles "kill our people." Touche. And many more of them.
2/24/2008 - Hamas leader says he met Abbas over prison death
A senior Hamas leader in the West Bank said on Sunday he met president Mahmud Abbas after an imam who was in the Islamist movement died while in the custody of Palestinian security forces.
2/24/2008 - IDF to use 'all means' to stop Gazans breaching border during mass march
2/24/2008 - Hamas accuses Abbas of playing role in Gaza closure
2/24/2008 - Teams formed to push Mideast peace talks
After months of delay, Israel and the Palestinians set up teams of government experts on Sunday to try to jumpstart U.S.-backed peace talks that critics say have yet to make progress.
2/24/2008 - Watchdog: Israel's cluster bombs argue for ban
Israel's use of cluster bombs in the 2006 Lebanon war makes the case for banning the weapon worldwide, a human rights watchdog said.
2/24/2008 - Abbas welcomes Yemen's initiative over Palestinian dialogue
2/24/2008 - Jordan sees Israel's unilateral steps impeding peace
2/24/2008 - Livni: Israel will defend its sovereign borders
Tens of thousands of Palestinians will join hands on Monday to form a human chain across the Gaza in protest of the ongoing siege against the Hamas-ruled territory. At an expected 30 miles of length, the chain will stretch from Rafah in the south all the way to the northern town of Beit Hanoun.
2/24/2008 - Israel begins overhaul of EU relations
2/24/2008 - Abusive officer apologizes to his victim
2/24/2008 - Israel aside, Obama romps in global primary
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the choice in Israel, but Barack Obama easily won an international primary.
2/24/2008 - Israel and Hizballah on High Alert
the Hizballah commander said that the Shi'ite fighters will be on the offensive in the next war, hinting at taking the battle into Israel itself. "We weren't expecting the last war and we fought only to defend our land, but next time you will see a very different kind of fighting," he said.
2/24/2008 - 1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site
A Jewish settler has killed up to 30 Palestinians at a mosque in Hebron after opening fire as people gathered for Friday morning prayers.
2/24/2008 - Lawmakers rap Arbour on Arab charter
The letter from Berman and Ros-Lehtinen did not address Arbour's clarification and instead faulted her for her earlier comments, saying "she should have taken the responsible course of action and rejected the charter for its savagery and ignorance, and doggedly confronted the call for the destruction of Israel." For whom do Berman and Ros-Lehtinen work? What does this have to to do with AMERICAN interests?
2/24/2008 - Israel's refuseniks: The wild frontier
2/23/2008 - Israeli strike kills three Palestinians in Gaza
"They were in an area near the border and they were having lunch outside. They were not militants, but civilians," Hassanein
2/23/2008 - Abbas orders investigation into Hamas preacher death
2/23/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps four civilians from the southern part of the West Bank
2/23/2008 - Egypt meets with Hamas delegation, warns against any new border violation
Cairo reiterates warning to Hamas against any threats to once again breach their shared border, delegation led by Hamas officials Mahmoud Zahar, Said Siyam makes way to el-Arish for talks with Egyptian counterparts in hope of resolving tensions
2/23/2008 - IDF braces for mass march on Gaza border
Israel fears that crowds of Palestinians might rush the border, and that large numbers of casualties will result from the army's attempts to stop them
2/23/2008 - Israeli troops seize senior PFLP militant in Nablus
Israeli troops detained a senior militant from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in a pre-dawn raid in the West Bank Saturday, a Palestinian security official said.
2/23/2008 - Three injured as the army invades Nablus
Three Palestinian civilians were injured when Israeli troops stormed al-Ein Refugee camp located in the northern West Bank city Nablus on Saturday morning.
2/23/2008 - Settlers attack left-wing activists escorting W. Bank shepherds
Members of the Taayush Jewish-Arab coexistence movement were assaulted on Saturday by residents of the nearby Maon settlement as they escorted Palestinian shepherds to their West Bank grazing land.
2/23/2008 - Israel cabinet minister calls for Fatah leader release
"I have a lot of respect for (Palestinian president) Mahmud Abbas and for (Palestinian prime minister) Salam Fayyad, but if we want results we must address Barghuti," Ben-Eliezer said in Tel Aviv.
2/23/2008 - Gaza merchants strike in protest at Israeli blockade
Merchants across the Gaza Strip closed their shops on Saturday in a half-day strike to protest against Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory, an AFP correspondent said.
2/23/2008 - Study: Suicide bombers 'not mentally unstable'
In an extensive study of Palestinian suicide bombings, three University of Toronto researchers have concluded that the bombers were not psychologically unstable and were often motivated by personal vengeance, not religious zeal......"In its origins and at its core, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not religiously inspired, and suicide bombing, despite its frequent religious trappings, is fundamentally the expression of a territorial dispute."
2/23/2008 - Israel isolates Nu'man village from both Jerusalem and the West Bank
2/23/2008 - Demolitions destroy village one house at a time
A small, overcrowded Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, under threat from Israeli-conducted house demolitions and land confiscations, is rapidly becoming poorer.
2/23/2008 - For IDF brigade, 'Hebron is like Wild West and army is the law'
Shooting Palestinian bystanders; illegally commandeering cars and going on joyrides; torturing a youth by pressing a heater to his face and beating cuffed prisoners on their way to custody. These are only some of the reported cases of abuse for which Israel Defense Forces soldiers serving in the West Bank are currently on trial.
2/23/2008 - Brussels: New court to try Israel for war crimes
A new civil court founded in Belgium by human rights organizations will convene for the first time Friday evening and discuss war crimes Israel had allegedly committee during the Second Lebanon War and war crimes the groups claim it is currently committing in the Gaza Strip.
2/23/2008 - Israel considers a U.S-like invasion of Gaza
2/23/2008 - Palestinian fighters fire rockets into southern Israel
2/23/2008 - Israeli Authorities demolish several Arab constructions in the Negev
2/23/2008 - Christian Zionists stand firm as friends to Israel
Hagee uses biblical references to threaten Iran for its anti-Israel posturing as easily as he talks about the love of Jesus, and he leads a fierce opposition to Israel forfeiting so much as one more grain of sand to Palestinians.
2/23/2008 - Presidential Primaries 2008 / McCain's unconditional support for Israel likely to draw Jewish voters
2/23/2008 - Yes, There Is a Guerrilla War Against Zionism in the U.S. What Should Jewish Institutions Do?
When Congressman Berman went into fits of denial that there is an Israel lobby, after saying that he joined the Foreign Affairs Committee because he cared about Israel, this was not honest.
2/23/2008 - We must get out of the Middle East no matter what, CIA vet says
To make his case against foreign entanglements, Scheuer quotes America's Founding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution and the man he considers our greatest president, George Washington: "[A] passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils," Washington once wrote. It creates "the illusion of an imaginary common interest [...] and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and Wars of the latter."
2/23/2008 - Surging in primaries, Obama faces new Israel-related criticism
This week, in an interview with Shalom TV, a Web-based Jewish channel, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said that "if you have an adviser that is not sympathetic to Israel -- not sympathetic to some Jewish concerns -- you have a potential problem."
2/23/2008 - Coverage of the Mideast Conflict
2/23/2008 - Introducing Birthright Palestine
2/23/2008 - Palestinians in Syria protest against Gaza closure, reprinted Prophet cartoon
About 2,000 angry Palestinians took to the streets near Damascus on Saturday protesting the continued Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip and a drawing in Denmark portraying the Prophet Muhammad.
2/23/2008 - At least 70 injured in mass-protest in Al Khader
2/23/2008 - Invading Gaza will not solve Israel's problem
Israel should not fall into Hamas' trap and allow the Israeli public's inflamed emotions to overrun a well reasoned and carefully executed course of action
2/23/2008 - Egypt: "Slow progress" in Israel-Palestinian talks
2/23/2008 - Ramon: Compensate all settlers east of fence
Such a decision would advance negotiations with the Palestinians and prove to the international community and the Palestinians that Israel is serious in pursuing the formation of a Palestinian state, Ramon said.
2/23/2008 - Stop overanalyzing ? all the candidates support Israel
With the remaining three major candidates, you can feel comfortable with each, focusing on their strong pledges for Israel at AIPAC conferences and other forums, their voting records and support for Israel in its war with Hezbollah in 2006, as well as their disdain for negotiating with Hamas.
2/22/2008 - Mideast conflict through prism of a small town
Salim, whose chances of walking again are uncertain, was shot last month during a stone-throwing confrontation with Israeli soldiers in this town, the type of clash that is so frequent in the West Bank that it usually attracts little notice. But Salim's injury was caught on video, providing a rare glimpse into the way Israeli soldiers sometimes use gunfire in street skirmishes with Palestinian stone-throwers.....A few moments later, an armored jeep backs up as rocks are flung at it, and a shot is fired. In the village square, Salim, who is wounded in the leg, is on the ground, screaming and gesturing toward the jeep, which draws closer. A second shot is fired. Salim tries to crawl away before collapsing as friends run up to evacuate him. The soldiers stay inside their jeep, making no attempt to treat Salim.
Read the entire thing. Kudos once again to Mr Greenberg and the Chicago Tribune for having the cojones to print such an honest and informative piece.
2/22/2008 - West Bank farms fall to Israeli bulldozers
The West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza are Israeli-OCCUPIED (not owned) territories. Palestinians have to get Israeli permits to build on Palestinian land (some of it alleged Israeli 'state land', according to Israel). We Americans dealt with a foreign occupying force that was basically doing the same thing to us - once.
2/22/2008 - Israeli mayor of bombarded border town offers to break ranks and talk to Hamas
2/22/2008 - Israeli army carries out an incursion into Rafah city
2/22/2008 - Tourist moderately hurt during Bilin protest
An American peace activist was moderately injured Friday afternoon after Border Guard officers and IDF soldiers fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators in the Palestinian village of Bilin, participants reported.
2/22/2008 - State official: Act against Tehran before it's too late
Ynet learns Israel intends to demand UN Security Council assemble to debate third round of sanctions against Islamic Republic after release of IAEA report.
2/22/2008 - Hamas urges EU to pressure Israel
The militant Islamist group welcomed a call by the European parliament on Thursday for Israel to end its economic embargo of Gaza.
2/22/2008 - The Israeli army attacks Beita village near Nablus and kidnaps 18 civilians
2/22/2008 - U.S. to announce new aid plan for West Bank, Gaza Strip
2/22/2008 - School children in Rafah exposed to Israeli army gunfire
2/22/2008 - Four Injured, including two children, when Israeli troops attacked peaceful protest near Bethlehem
Four unarmed Palestinian civilians were injured when Israeli troops attack a peaceful protest in Al Ma'ssara village located south of Bethlehem city, in the southern part of the West Bank.
2/22/2008 - Iranians spar with Israel at UN
2/22/2008 - Abbas' aide reiterates declaring statehood unilaterally if talks fail
2/22/2008 - Twelve residents injured in a protest against land expropriation near Salfit
2/22/2008 - DFLP chief calls for Hamas and Fatah to start talks
2/22/2008 - West Bank escapees give themselves up
2/22/2008 - Israel extends closure of Palestinian offices in Jerusalem, despite pledge to reopen them
2/22/2008 - Japanese says he may lose eye from Israeli bullet
2/22/2008 - Hamas ready for a mutual cease-fire with Israel
2/22/2008 - French Consul visits Nablus
2/22/2008 - If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine?
2/22/2008 - Iraq, Israel and WMD dossier
2/22/2008 - New U.S. administration won't mean new Mideast policy
All the candidates loudly support the security of Israel, which regards Iran's nuclear capacity as a strategic threat. To cede ground to Iran in Iraq could harm Israeli interests, justifying the candidates' eventually backtracking on withdrawal.
2/22/2008 - Snake Oil Sellers of the Christian Right?
The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs came under heavy criticism earlier this month from Muslim and religious freedom advocacy groups after it invited to a conference three self-professed "former terrorists" with strong links to the Christian right. How many 'ex-terrorists' get to enter the United States (as opposed to being jailed/deported), let alone get to tour the place, giving speeches on campuses nationwide? They are shilling for the Israeli lobby.
2/22/2008 - Israel's Olmert to talk business and Iran in Tokyo
2/22/2008 - Hezbollah vows to avenge Moughniyah's killing
2/22/2008 - Israel to vanish, says Hezbollah
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has told thousands of supporters at a rally in Lebanon that the disappearance of Israel is inevitable.
2/22/2008 - Palestinian Rights Committee bureau visits camps for Palestine refugees in Jordan
-- 'This morning, we saw the real face of Palestine outside of Palestine,' the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People told the community leaders at the Irbid camp for Palestine refugees in northern Jordan
2/22/2008 - Methodist guide on Mideast conflict blasted as 'hate'
A study guide prepared by the United Methodist Church on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is drawing fierce condemnation from Jewish and pro-Israel organizations already concerned that divestment is making a comeback among mainline Protestant groups.
2/22/2008 - His Majesty King Abdullah II to Deliver Address at Princeton University February 29
King Abdullah will address the future of Arab-American relations in the context of the Middle East's current challenges, particularly how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which Jordan views as the most significant issue facing the region.
2/22/2008 - Hezbollah accuses Israel of seeking war
2/22/2008 - Gaza artists reflect on 60 years of human rights
Despite the rain and cold in Gaza, some thirty young Palestinian artists have gathered at a forty meters long wall. It is not one of the walls that close off Gaza from Israel and Egypt; this one has been made available to Gaza artists in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
2/22/2008 - Ismail Haniyeh urged to lift ban on newspaper
2/22/2008 - Demonstration in Azzoun against the planned destruction of a children?s park
The parks construction was near completion when on the morning of February 22nd, 2006, bulldozers accompanied by Israeli soldiers arrived and demolished half of the park - which consisted of two swimming pools and changing rooms.
2/22/2008 - Arab Leaders Say the Two-State Proposal Is in Peril
"there will be a message to Israel emphasizing the need to respond to the initiative; otherwise, Arab states will reassess the previous stage of peace," said Muhammad Sobeih, assistant secretary general of the Arab League in charge of the Palestinian issue. "They will withdraw the initiative and look for other options. It makes no sense to insist on something that Israel is rejecting."
2/22/2008 - Groups blast Methodist Israel guide
Jewish groups blasted a Methodist study guide to Israel as riddled with inaccuracies and intemperate rhetoric.
2/22/2008 - Rice, Olmert to meet in Japan
Condoleezza Rice reportedly will meet in Japan with Ehud Olmert next week to press him on peace talks.
2/22/2008 - Shot with a rubber bullet
2/22/2008 - Telling hard truths about Israel
2/22/2008 - Inside Track: NATO?s West Bank Nightmare
2/22/2008 - Palestinian Territories - Annual report 2008
Palestinian journalists have been badly hit by the political instability in the Territories, especially in the Gaza Strip. Permanently-based foreign correspondents fled the Strip after British journalist Alan Johnston was kidnapped in March and the June takeover of Gaza by Hamas forced out most employees of media outlets close to the rival Palestinian Authority government.
2/21/2008 - Israeli missile kills two Gaza militants
2/21/2008 - Iran urges UN to condemn Israel
Iran urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn Israel's recent warning that it had not ruled out using military force against the country's nuclear program.
2/21/2008 - 2 rockets hit building near Nahal Oz
2/21/2008 - Islamic Jihad rejects NATO deployment in West Bank
2/21/2008 - Israeli military kidnaps two brothers near Tulkarem
2/21/2008 - Israel says EU pressure grows to end Gaza blockade
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution calling on Israel to lift the siege, with MEPs saying "the policy of isolation of the Gaza Strip has failed at both the political and humanitarian level."
2/21/2008 - Several children recently injured by military fire in villages north west of Jerusalem
2/21/2008 - Israel extends closure of Palestinian offices in Jerusalem
PA officials say Israel renewed order to close Orient House, Arab Chamber of Commerce and other symbolic buildings in east Jerusalem despite pledge to reopen them . 'This is not a good sign,' adviser to PM Fayyad says
2/21/2008 - Israel denies building permits to West Bank Palestinians: report
Israel has issued only 91 construction permits to Palestinians in the West Bank over the past seven years but granted 18,472 to Jewish settlers, Israeli activists said on Thursday. The West Bank, along with Gaza and E. Jerusalem, are Israeli-OCCUPIED (not owned) territory. Israel's continued construction therein is a violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
2/21/2008 - Palestinian farmers to benefit from UN projects in Gaza, West Bank
2/21/2008 - Group of Palestinian inmates escape from Nablus prison
2/21/2008 - The Israeli army attacks several villages near Hebron and kidnaps two civilians
2/21/2008 - Situation in the Gaza Strip: policy of isolation has failed, say MEPs
MEPs believe that the civilian population should be exempt from any military action and any collective punishment. They also call on Israel to fulfil its international obligations, as an occupying power, in the Gaza Strip.
2/21/2008 - Israeli army rolls into SE Gaza Strip
2/21/2008 - Hamas warns of "unexpected explosions" if Gaza siege remains
2/21/2008 - Pro-Abbas forces arrest six Hamas members in West Bank
2/21/2008 - Split by geography and by politics
2/21/2008 - Hasbro pulls countries from Monopoly site after Israel flap
The company has also pulled all country names from other cities on the site when even more people complained because Jerusalem was listed as the only city without a country.
2/21/2008 - Image Is Everything In New Terror Game
Could it be that they were trying to push Hezbollah into the kind of response that Hassan Nasrallah actually gave? My thought exactly.
2/21/2008 - What would it take to launch a war with Iran?
Johns says a struggle is under way in Washington, D.C. Those opposed to an attack include Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff. Those wanting an attack, he says, are the deputy national-security adviser for global democracy strategy, Elliott Abrams; Vice President Dick Cheney, "and the hard-line Israel lobby."
2/21/2008 - Journalists invited to apply for 'Expressions of Al-Nakba'
2/21/2008 - US steps up sanctions on Syria over Lebanese crisis
2/21/2008 - Ashkenazi warns Israel may face conflict in near future
2/21/2008 - Removal of Israel reference highlights 'double standards', says Labour MP
2/21/2008 - Palestinian trio takes to the Mountain Stage playing the granddaddy of strummed stringed instruments
2/21/2008 - Egyptian writers protest at Israel's Paris book fair invite
Around 15 Egyptian trade unions -- from doctors to writers -- issued a protest on Thursday over a decision to make Israel a guest of honour at a major Paris book fair next month.
2/21/2008 - European support for Hamas weakens peace chances, Israel warns
2/21/2008 - IDF launches wartime television studio
2/21/2008 - Republican Senator Tells Olmert Not to Give Up Jerusalem
"Don't give up Jerusalem," Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) said he told Olmert when he met with him on Monday. Perhaps Sen. Brownback is unaware of the legal status of Israeli-OCCUPIED East Jerusalem?
2/21/2008 - Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: Level Beit Hanoun
2/21/2008 - Israel's New Plan to Attack Lebanon
"There are a lot of [Israeli] military and cabinet people just dying for a second round with Lebanon. If given the opportunity they'll take it," i.e. attack Lebanon again, not in spite of "but because of" the perception that their '06 attack failed.
2/21/2008 - Boycott group to UNESCO: Protect heritage of all cultures
We call on you, Mr. Matsuura, to implement the UNESCO mission without double standards. The least peace and justice loving people would expect from you is to work towards protecting Palestinian lives and heritage from Israel's colonial and racist policies.
2/20/2008 - Palestinians 'may declare state'
"If things are not going in the direction of actually halting settlement activities, if things are not going in the direction of continuous and serious negotiations, then we should take the step and announce our independence unilaterally," They should. Most countries of the world would immediately recognize it save for the few that are under the influence of the Israeli lobby (America included).
2/20/2008 - Ahmadinejad in new attack on 'savage animal' Israel
2/20/2008 - Envoy: Egypt won't blockade Gaza
Egypt will not allow the Gaza Strip to remain sealed, Egypt's ambassador to the United States said.
2/20/2008 - Israel blocking Gaza kids from joining parents in Ramallah
Israel is preventing four children in the Gaza Strip from joining their parents in Ramallah. The children, aged 3 to 16, have been alone in the Gaza Strip since September 2007 when their mother went to the West Bank for medical treatment and did not return.
2/20/2008 - PM meets Abbas, but Jerusalem not on agenda
A senior Jerusalem source said Monday that Olmert and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had agreed to defer talks on Jerusalem to the final stage of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
2/20/2008 - How Labour used the law to keep criticism of Israel secret
The document reveals how the Foreign Office successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier. At the heart of it was nervousness at the top of government about any mention of Israel's nuclear arsenal in an official paper accusing Iraq of flouting the UN's authority on weapons of mass destruction.
2/20/2008 - Abbas cool to unilateral Palestinian independence
2/20/2008 - Palestinian seductress gets 15 years
An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian woman to prison for planning to lure an Israeli man to his death.
2/20/2008 - Closed hearing and a secret ruling: how the word Israel was deleted
When a researcher first applied to the Foreign Office for the release of the draft dossier, it turned the request down. The ministry then failed to conduct the required internal appeal against its decision. Its next move was to try to persuade the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, that the document - including the word "Israel" - was exempt under section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act, concerning free and frank discussion.
2/20/2008 - Palestinian man critically wounded as he was attacked by loose pigs from a nearby Israeli settlement
Pigs that belong to settlers from the Israeli settlement of Areil near Salfit in the West Bank attacked a Palestinian elderly man and critically injured him.
2/20/2008 - Israelis seize 12 Palestinians in West Bank
2/20/2008 - Abbas cool to unilateral Palestinian independence
2/20/2008 - Hamas arrests suspect in 'plot' to kill Haniya
2/20/2008 - Hamas shaken by pounding of Israeli bombs, but still in control of Gaza
2/20/2008 - Palestinians to report Israeli roadmap violations to US: official
The Palestinians will present monthly reports to the US listing any Israeli violations of the international roadmap peace blueprint, prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday.
2/20/2008 - Sick, injured detainees continue to be barred from medical treatment
2/20/2008 - Several children recently injured by military fire in villages north west of Jerusalem
2/20/2008 - P.A security arrests six Hamas supporters
2/20/2008 - Palestinian Territories - Ismail Haniyeh urged to lift ban on newspaper's distribution in Gaza Strip
2/20/2008 - Israeli soldiers severely beat a Palestinian boy in Tulkarem city
2/20/2008 - Attack on Christian library in Gaza prompts heightened security fears
2/20/2008 - Hebron Update: 16-31 January 2008
2/20/2008 - Israel arrests 6 Palestinians in West Bank
2/20/2008 - Saudi minister calls for Israeli response on talks
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said overnight that a lack of positive response from Israel to initiatives for Middle East peace would make Arab nations review their position.
2/20/2008 - Israel holds talks with Egypt over Rafah crossing
2/20/2008 - Hidden words
The word "Israel" was written in the margins of the draft document by an unknown - but presumably senior - hand. It referred to a sentence which said of Saddam's Iraq: "No other country has flouted the UN's authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction." The implied meaning of the margin note was well articulated by a senior Foreign Office official, Neil Wigan, in trying to argue for its suppression - that "the person who wrote it believes that Israel has flouted the UN authority similar to that of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein".
2/20/2008 - The FO's case to the information tribunal
I believe that if these comments were released into the public domain, this would seriously damage our bilateral relations with Israel. In my view, Israel will, in seeing these comments believe that the FCO has firstly, compared the Israeli regime to that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and secondly, suggested that Israel has flouted the authority of the United Nations in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Although the author of the marginal notes is unknown, I believe that the Israeli government would consider it likely that they would have been written by a senior figure. The assumption could, and I believe would, easily be made that these marginal notes represent the views of the FCO in relation to Israel.
2/20/2008 - Israel's weapons - a diplomatic no-go area
Israel, unlike Saddam Hussein's Iraq, never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the 1970 agreement which allows countries to develop civilian nuclear power in exchange for forgoing weapons. These are supposed to be the preserve of the five permanent members of the UN security council. In recent years India, Pakistan and North Korea have swelled the ranks of the weapons states, but unlike them Israel has never come out of the nuclear closet
2/20/2008 - ?Nuke Mom? Charged With Smuggling
She is believed to be working for and with Asher Karni, owner of Top Cape Technology company in South Africa.
2/20/2008 - MKs to fan out globally to warn of Iran threat
Israel's stepped-up lobbying effort is in part a response to the release by the United States late last year of a new National Intelligence Estimate, which claimed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program.
2/20/2008 - Palestinian woman impersonates Israeli to undergo surgery
2/20/2008 - Finkelstein gives Israeli-American relations lecture
2/20/2008 - Washington rejects Palestinian-Kosovo comparison
2/20/2008 - Israel sure of its military strength - Olmert
Israel's armed forces are ready for a new war, should one erupt, Ehud Olmert said.
2/20/2008 - An Israeli-Arab odd couple seek peace in Hebron
2/20/2008 - Gays rock the Middle East
2/20/2008 - 'Maybe they'll build it on moon'
Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi said that "an Arab town will not be established, because the Israeli government is uninterested in it."
2/20/2008 - Reflection Hebron Occupation: Then and Now
Something happens to people?s
hearts,to people?s consciousness, when they control others. I see it daily
in the Israeli soldiers who call the Palestinians animals and consider as less than human.
2/20/2008 - Nexus between economic development, statehood is focus of United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People
2/19/2008 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant in Gaza
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical workers and a militant group said.
2/19/2008 - Gaza boy shot dead during Israeli incursion
A 10-year-old boy was shot dead during an Israeli incursion into the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medics said, as the army kept up near daily operations in the Hamas-ruled territory.
2/19/2008 - Police feared 'airport stand-off'
An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped arrest in the UK because British police feared an armed confrontation at Heathrow airport.
2/19/2008 - House demolitions cause Palestinians to leave village
2/19/2008 - Despite PM's pledge, Israel still building in West Bank
A new neighborhood comprising 27 trailers is currently under construction at the settlement of Eli, north of Ramallah, even though Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed publicly after the Annapolis conference that any such building would cease....... Similar unauthorized construction has taken place in the settlement of Maskiot in the northern Jordan Valley.
2/19/2008 - 5 Qassams land in Gaza vicinity communities
2/19/2008 - Palestinian rights group and militants spar over blast
Islamic Jihad criticised Palestinian human rights groups on Tuesday for saying they found no evidence Israel's military caused a blast that killed eight people, including a commander of the group, in Gaza last week.
2/19/2008 - Hamas rejects Abbas' remarks that Gaza takeover blocks peace process
2/19/2008 - Abbas and Olmert meet after deadly Gaza clashes
2/19/2008 - Acting PLC head demands Abbas to stop meetings with Israeli officials
2/19/2008 - Israeli peace activists bring in food assistance to the besieged Gaza
2/19/2008 - BBC: UK police feared armed clash with El Al in 2005
BBC: UK police refrained from arresting Israeli general Doron Almog at Heathrow Airport in 2005, fearing potential clash with Israeli airline's armed security guards; El Al refused to grant police permission to board plane
2/19/2008 - UN holds conference on humanitarian assistance for Palestinians
2/19/2008 - Haneya calls on Arab League to help Gazans under siege
2/19/2008 - Snowstorm hits Jerusalem for second time in recent weeks
Residents of Jerusalem on Tuesday awoke Tuesday to find their city covered with snow, disrupting schools, keeping most drivers off the roads and sprinkling the city's holy shrines with white.
2/19/2008 - Israel, US discuss W. Bank NATO troops
The United States is reviewing the feasibility of deploying a NATO force in the West Bank as a way to ease IDF security concerns and facilitate an Israeli withdrawal from the area within the coming years, defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post.
2/19/2008 - Israeli forces kidnap a female university student in Nablus
2/19/2008 - Israel complains to UN over Iranian general's remarks
2/19/2008 - Israel's 'hilltop youth' are settling in
Israeli police officials have authenticated the Khalafs' land title but failed to make good on a promise in December that the settlers would be removed from the farm.
2/19/2008 - Methodist Report Criticized By Anti-Defamation League
A report on Israel produced by the United Methodist Church is "distorted and mendacious," the Anti-Defamation League has charged.
2/19/2008 - German professors: Nazis helped establish Israel
Approximately 160,000 Jews who were expelled from Nazi Germany ended up in Mandate-era Palestine and strengthened the Jewish presence here at the expense of the Arab population, they said.
2/19/2008 - No solution in sight for Palestinian refugees stranded at border
2/19/2008 - For Palestinians, the power of mass non-violence would be undeniable
2/18/2008 - Senior UN envoy 'deeply concerned' about humanitarian situation in Gaza, West Bank
Daily rocket fire from Gaza at Israeli border communities does not justify the closure Israel has imposed on Gaza, the top U.N. humanitarian affairs official said Monday, after a five-day tour of the Palestinian areas and an Israeli town hit by rockets.
2/18/2008 - Egypt: No Gaza border deal without consent of Israel, PA
Hamas has voiced confidence that Egypt will supply the Gaza Strip with its basic needs to avoid a humanitarian crisis, but an official source in Cairo said on Sunday that Egypt would make no deal to reopen its Gaza border without the consent of Israel, Western powers and Hamas's Fatah rivals in the West Bank
2/18/2008 - Olmert says Gaza blockade to continue
"We will continue to apply sanctions that are hurtful to the needs of the (Palestinian) population in order for it to be clear that living conditions cannot be altered only from our side," In other words, Israel is no better than the terrorists (something informed folks already know).
2/18/2008 - Israeli official stokes row with UN
A senior Israeli official yesterday accused the UN's top humanitarian envoy, Sir John Holmes, of putting Israel on a par with terrorists and failing to acknowledge that Israelis were victims in the 60-year conflict with Palestinians, in a public row between the pair.
2/18/2008 - Egypt deports 350 Palestinians back to Gaza
Egypt has deported some 350 Palestinians, rounded up in North Sinai over the past four days, to Gaza, security sources said on Monday.
2/18/2008 - Ambulance service in Gaza stops due to fuel supplies cut
The ambulance service in the Gaza Strip announced complete halt of it work on Sunday, due to what the health ministry says a 'severe shortage of fuel', a statement by the ministry read.
2/18/2008 - Two Palestinians kidnapped in Tulkarem by Israeli military
2/18/2008 - Officials: Gaza op will bring int'l troops
Israel is considering a large-scale incursion into the Gaza Strip during which it would present an ultimatum to the international community for the deployment of a multinational force as the only condition under which it would withdraw, defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post.
2/18/2008 - Palestinian PM urges quicker pace in peace talks
2/18/2008 - Palestinians say Jerusalem still high on agenda
2/18/2008 - Gaza militant dies of wounds
2/18/2008 - Hamas ready to study any cease-fire initiative
2/18/2008 - Negotiator: Abbas will propose cease-fire to Olmert
2/18/2008 - Israel approves rare shipment of cement to Gaza Strip
Israel has approved a rare shipment of cement to the Gaza Strip for a World Bank project constructing a sewage treatment plant,
2/18/2008 - Israeli military kidnaps a Palestinian in Jenin
2/18/2008 - Israel has cut off the northern West Bank
2/18/2008 - Qassam hits Sderot; 11 people hurt
2/18/2008 - Underage detainee complains he was raped by an Israeli prisoner
The Israeli Army radio reported that a Palestinian underage detainee imprisoned in Ophic Israeli prison complained that he was raped by an Israeli prisoner, held for criminal charges and placed with the child in the same cell.
2/18/2008 - Hamas invites France FM to visit in Gaza
2/18/2008 - Iran guards predict Israel demise
Iran's Revolutionary Guards leader has predicted the imminent destruction of Israel by fighters from the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.
2/18/2008 - Three Palestinians injured in Hebron
2/18/2008 - Iran predicts Hezbollah will destroy Israel
2/18/2008 - 'Peace Now' Will Have to Publicize EU Contributions
The bill is designed chiefly to fight Peace Now, a far-left Israel-based organization promoting Israeli retreat to pre-1967 borders and the end of all Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.
2/18/2008 - Report: North Korea provided technological assistance to Syria to build nuclear reactor
Report: North Korea provided technological assistance to Syria to build nuclear reactor
2/18/2008 - U.S. says not part of Hezbollah hit
The United States denied involvement in last week's assassination of Hezbollah's terrorist chief.
2/18/2008 - Israel readies Patriot missiles in north
Israel has deployed U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles near the northern city of Haifa in case of an attack by Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas in response to the killing of the group's top commander, security officials said Monday.
2/18/2008 - Saboteurs may have cut Mideast telecom cables: UN agency
Five undersea cables were damaged in late January and early February leading to disruption to Internet and telephone services in parts of the Middle East and south Asia.
2/18/2008 - U.S., Ukranian Officials See Kassam Damage in Sderot
Senator Jon Kyl (R., Arizona) said he intended to tell the citizens in the U.S. how bad things were in Israel, in the hope that this would ensure continued support for the country. He added that the U.S. Congress has put limitations on the money it sends to Egypt.
2/18/2008 - Do Jews Dominate in American Media? And So What If We Do?
We are talking about a religion, after all, and the pressures faced by Jews who are critical of Israel are not that different from what Muslim women who want greater freedom undergo psychically or by evangelical Christians who want to support gay rights. It is worth noting that great Jewish heretics on the Israel question suffer anger or even ostracism inside their own families
2/18/2008 - Republican Jewish Coalition responsible for mailing anti-Muslim film
At least part of the mailing was sent under the postal permit of Christians United for Israel, a leading Christian Zionist organization......In the cover letterincluded in the mailing, former ambassador Daniel Ayalon praised CUFI's David Brog for his work with Christians and urged Jews to overcome their antipathy to Christian Zionists. "For the first time in Israel's history, we are seeing the emergence of a significant pro-Israel movement outside of the Jewish community,"
2/18/2008 - Deal to free captured Israeli soldier still snagged: report
2/18/2008 - Israel fears Hezbollah may launch attacks with bomb-laden drone
Israeli defense establishment is concerned about that Hezbollah may use an explosives-laden unmanned aerial vehicle to attack northern or central Israel in retaliation for last week's assassination of its military chief Imad Mughniyah, local daily Ha'aretz reported on Sunday.
2/18/2008 - U.S. urged to spend more on missile defense system
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee urged a delegation of U.S. congressmen yesterday to increase American funding for development of the Magic Wand system for defense against medium-range rockets and missiles.......Much of the talks were devoted to the new U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, which asserted that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons program.
2/17/2008 - Israeli forces kill 3 militants, civilian in Gaza
Six other gunmen and a civilian were wounded as Israeli troops backed by aircraft clashed with militant groups in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, the medical workers said.
2/17/2008 - Israel detains dozens of Gazans
The Israeli military says it has taken about 80 Palestinians to Israel for questioning following a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
2/17/2008 - Palestinian anti-siege body urges UN official to press Israel to reopen Gaza crossings
A Palestinian group, lobbying against Gaza siege, on Sunday urged the visiting UN chief humanitarian official John Holmes to build pressure on Israel to reopen crossing points into the coastal Gaza Strip.
2/17/2008 - Hamas confident of Egyptian help on Gaza blockade
2/17/2008 - Olmert says "everyone" a target over Gaza rocket fire
'Everyone' has always been a target of the Israelis (including Americans).
2/17/2008 - France backs sanctions on Iran: Kouchner
"We are united (within the international community) for sanctions on Iran, but we support the start of discussions," Kouchner told reporters after talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
2/17/2008 - Settlers, Palestinians clash near West Bank outpost
2/17/2008 - IDF soldier gravely injured from sniper fire in Gaza
2/17/2008 - Palestinian rocket hits Egyptian building on Gaza border
A Palestinian rocket hit and damaged a building on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, causing no casualties, a security source said Sunday.
2/17/2008 - Israel arrests 16 Palestinians in W Bank
According to the Israeli and Palestinian security sources, the 16 detainees were taken away late Saturday night and early Sunday, 10 of them were caught near Nablus, four in Jericho, one in Hebron and one near Ramallah.
2/17/2008 - Reduction of power and fuel supplies to Gaza will continue, Olmert says
The reduction of electric and fuel supplies to Gaza will continue, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday at the beginning of a weekly cabinet meeting, adding that Israel would continue combating terrorism in southern Israel and will not cease until life returns to normal in the area.
2/17/2008 - Olmert: Year not enough for peace deal
Ehud Olmert told U.S. Jewish leaders it will be difficult to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians this year.
2/17/2008 - Olmert says Israel has 'free hand' on blockade
Holmes demanded that the Palestinians cease their rocket attacks, but said Israel's blockade was "collective punishment" which violated international humanitarian law.
2/17/2008 - Israeli Army Destroying Palestinian Homes
Every single home in the West Bank villages of Humsa and Hadidiya is slated for destruction. The Israeli army has declared most of the Jordan Valley, where the villages are situated, as a "closed military area" from which the local Palestinian population is barred.
2/17/2008 - Syria: Assassination ruined hopes of peace
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Thursday said that Syria will "prove beyond any doubt" who is responsible for the assassination of Hizbullah arch-terrorist and operations officer Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus.
2/17/2008 - Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb
2/17/2008 - 'Hizbullah has a few thousand fighters'
Defense officials expressed skepticism over the reports, saying Hizbullah had only several thousand fighters in total.
2/17/2008 - Human Rights Watch: Israel breaches law with cluster bomb use
Israel breached international law when it bombed southern Lebanon with cluster weapons during its campaign against Hezbollah in 2006, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.
2/17/2008 - 50,000 Hezbollah men said deployed along border with Israel
2/17/2008 - 'UNIFIL complained of Israeli violations of Lebanese territories'
2/17/2008 - Olmert Cabinet honors Lantos
"Throughout his career, he worked out of an abiding faith that U.S. strategic interests were connected to the strength, security and prosperity of the State of Israel. He gave daring, assertive and pointed expression to this throughout his Congressional career, in which he assisted the State of Israel," Olmert said in broadcast remarks.
2/17/2008 - Barak: Iran, Syria could help avenge Mugniyah
2/17/2008 - Readers' editor on the video and reporting of the Dimona suicide bombing
The complaints were part of a lobby started by Honest Reporting, an organisation that monitors media coverage of events in the Middle East for anti-Israel bias. It seems that most of the complainants accessed the video from the front page of Honest Reporting's website, rather than from the Guardian's site. Honest Reporting objected to the fact that there were no Israeli sources in the video and asked people to write to me.
2/17/2008 - 'Mossad killed Imad Mughniyeh'
Someone is aiming to pick a fight.
2/17/2008 - Palestinian shot dead in Beirut clash
A Palestinian man has been shot dead during clashes between anti-Syrian Lebanese Government supporters and Palestinians close to Hezbollah in Beirut, security sources said.
2/17/2008 - London students call for divestment from Israel
A new campaign by student union from prestigious London School of Economics seeks to encourage divestment from companies that support to 'apartheid regime'
2/17/2008 - McConnell: Hezbollah threat 'serious'
2/17/2008 - Israel to resist French on Gaza Strip
After meeting Fayad, Kouchner called for a Palestinian state to be set up "as quickly as possible" and told journalists he would ask Israel to make its best effort to help bring that about. He also said he would press Israel to freeze settlement activity.
2/17/2008 - Speech on the Mideast Brings Opinions to a Boil
When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to be said. "It's true that our money is going there to kill little kids," said one well-dressed woman, who spent the speech nodding in agreement and gave only her first name, Jean. "It's the side we don't hear, that doesn't get on the news."
2/17/2008 - The rabbi lights the fuse
In an interview he gave recently to the British weekly The Jewish News, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said the Arabs who pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque must recognize that Jerusalem belongs solely to the Jews. The Muslims, he said, already have Mecca and Medina, and therefore have no need for a third holy site. During the interview, he even suggested establishing the Palestinian state in the Sinai desert and moving the residents of Gaza there
2/17/2008 - J'lem takes wait-and-see approach to Kosovo
Several Israeli diplomats said recognizing the declaration could have implications on the Palestinian issue.
2/16/2008 - Hamas shows confessions of Fatah members planned to assassinate Haneya
2/16/2008 - Gaza armed groups fire rockets into Israel after air raid
2/16/2008 - Jordan, Egypt demand end to Gaza siege
2/16/2008 - Hamas slams Abbas for keeping on talks with Israel
2/16/2008 - French foreign minister says Israeli settlements should stop
2/16/2008 - French foreign minister Kouchner visits Bethlehem
The creation of a viable Palestinian state is in Israel's interest, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said during a tour of the biblical town of Bethlehem on Saturday.
2/16/2008 - Many Die With Targeted Leader
Palestinian sources said seven houses were destroyed, and about 100 others damaged. According to hospital sources, many of the casualties were children under the age of 12, and included a baby only a few months old. 'But we didn't mean to target civilians, really!'. After about the 100th time that Israel commits such an attack, the excuse has long been worn out. If you know that other civilians will be harmed in such a strike, then you are deliberately targeting them. No different than the terrorists. But then, since its inception, Israel has demonstrated that it has no qualms with targeting Arab civilians.
2/16/2008 - Israel extends closure of PNA's East Jerusalem foundations
2/16/2008 - Militants dismiss Israeli denial on deadly Gaza blast
Seventeen children were among the wounded, according to medical sources and witnesses.
2/16/2008 - Third of settlements built on land seized for 'security purposes'
More than one-third of West Bank settlements were built on private Palestinian land that was temporarily seized by military order for "security purposes," according to a report by the Civil Administration that is being published here for the first time.
2/16/2008 - PM: Road map obligations don't nix 'other lawful activities' in W. Bank
Sasson said Saturday night in response that the letter's ambiguous wording could be interpreted in a manner that contradicts the government's obligation to freeze settlement building.
2/16/2008 - Militants vow revenge for Gaza dead
Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Saturday vowed revenge on Israel after eight Palestinians, including a senior military commander and family members, were killed in an explosion in the Gaza Strip.
2/16/2008 - Army intervenes in Beirut clashes
The Lebanese army intervenes to break up clashes between rival political factions in Beirut.
2/16/2008 - Syria 'to name Mughniyeh killer'
Syria has said it will soon present "irrefutable" proof of who was behind the killing of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in the capital, Damascus.
2/16/2008 - Syria denies joint Iran investigation
Syria denied Iranian claims that the two countries would conduct a joint investigation into the assassination of a top Hezbollah commander, the Syrian state news agency reported.
2/16/2008 - Diamond Mogul Receives Angry Valentine
His detractors oppose his use of diamond mines in Angola and what they say is his extensive involvement in housing construction for Jewish settlers on the West Bank.
2/16/2008 - New trial date set in Holy Land case
2/16/2008 - Troops bar farmers from reaching their lands east of Rafah
2/15/2008 - Senior Islamic Jihad leader killed in Gaza blast
The Israeli army denied any involvement. Islamic Jihad said an air strike caused the blast, which also killed three other militants as well as the wife and two young children of the commander, Ayman Fayed, better known as Abu Abdallah.
2/15/2008 - UN shocked by 'grim' life in Gaza
Undersecretary General John Holmes said it was the result of Israel closing its border crossings and the "limited food and other materials" allowed in.
2/15/2008 - Palestinians say Israel not meeting commitments
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki accused Israel on Friday of failing to meet commitments made at peace talks relaunched at a U.S.-hosted conference in Annapolis, Maryland, in November.
2/15/2008 - Situation of Palestine refugees - UNRWA press briefing
The most serious aspect of the crisis was the energy shortage. The director of a large public hospital in Gaza told him last week that he could no longer deal with the health problems of the population, as he had to spend his whole day looking for fuel. Without it, the generators would stop and vital structures, such as incubators for infants, would shut down
2/15/2008 - PLC deputy head slams attack against YMCS in Gaza
2/15/2008 - Militants bomb Gaza YMCA library
So far no-one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which has been condemned by all the main Palestinian factions.
2/15/2008 - One Palestinian journalist injured by army fire in Bil'in weekly protest
The villagers of Bil'in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, along with international and Israeli supporters, conducted their weekly protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on village land. Israeli troops attacked the protest and injured one journalist.
2/15/2008 - Palestinian official asks Turkey to help with Hamas
2/15/2008 - Hamas supporters protest over Prophet cartoon
2/15/2008 - The Hamas-dominated government says truce is now in Israel's court
2/15/2008 - Reflection HebronThis Is Not Israel
"There will never be peace here as long as you claim everything to be Israel, as long as you intend to steal all this land from the Palestinians. The real reason for not allowing these shepherds to be on their own land is that you are helping the settlers to steal this land."
2/15/2008 - Israeli settlers set up new community on West Bank hill
Nine Israeli families have moved to a valley deep in the West Bank, setting down six trailer homes and promising Friday to bring more to the disputed area the Palestinians want for a future state. The action _ funded in part by a private U.S. group _ is the latest Israeli
settlement activity to anger Palestinians Private American groups are thusly supporting war crimes and getting away with it. For, those settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory are a violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
2/15/2008 - IDF removes checkpoints surrounding Palestinian town of Tulkarm
The IDF lifted a lock-down on the town of Tulkarm which was placed Thursday overnight following intelligence that indicated terrorists in the town were planning an attack.
2/15/2008 - Lantos committee postpones resolutions
The committee was due to "mark up," or vote on whether to refer to the full House, a number of bills Thursday, among them a non-binding resolution on joining the claims of Palestinian refugees and Jewish refugees in the event of a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal; a non-binding resolution commending the opening of Holocaust-era archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany; and a non-binding resolution urging the preservation of Jewish cultural sites in Europe.
2/15/2008 - The War Party Targets Obama
The Lobby went after Paul, and with a vengeance, launching a campaign that climaxed in a classic smear job in The New Republic ? where else? ? which accused the good-natured Paul of being the second coming of Adolf Hitler. It isn't hard to imagine that the same circles have it in for Obama.
2/15/2008 - FBI asks terror squads for threat data
The FBI said Thursday it has put its domestic terror squads on the alert for any threats against synagogues and other potential Jewish targets in the United States following the killing of a Hezbollah commander.
2/15/2008 - Syria says will prove who killed Hezbollah leader
2/15/2008 - Iranian foreign minister meets with heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad in Syria
2/15/2008 - Hizbullah joins hunt for Mughniyeh's killers
2/15/2008 - 'Jewish' MSNBC plaint led to Libby conviction
Levine, who was once employed by Matthews, did not believe the fast-talking host was deliberately targeting Jews, but faulted him for constantly citing Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Libby, then a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
2/15/2008 - Quake shakes Mideast, causes injuries in Lebanon
A Lebanese man and two Palestinians were injured in Tyre when a balcony fell on top of them, the Lebanese National News Agency reported.
2/15/2008 - Jewish Clinton officials defend Malley
A recent e-mail and internet campaign claims that Malley, one of a host of former officials who have offered advice to the presidential campaign of Obama (D-Ill.), "hates" Israel and is allied with Arab radicals.
2/15/2008 - Rice and Livni discuss Gaza, Iran in Washington talks: israeli official
2/15/2008 - Syria 'directly responsible' for situation in Lebanon: US official
"I would describe the situation as one of continuing blockage and the continued eruption of violence in Lebanon ... We regard Syria as directly responsible for this situation," said David Satterfield
2/15/2008 - McCain Touts Stance on Israel
Asked last year about Iran's nuclear ambitions, he jokingly sang the words "Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys hit "Barbara Ann" - this despite the opposition of most Americans to another Middle East war and growing Democratic support for engagement with the mullahs......"Senator McCain has a deeper record on Israel than Senators Clinton and Obama," said Scheunemann, noting that the Arizonan had met every Israeli prime minister since Menachem Begin and backed Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war. The Democrats, Scheunemann said, "are advocating policies that would endanger Israel's security, such as a precipitous retreat from Iraq or opening talks with Iran." Notice to this pro-Israeli, 'opening talks with Iran' is anti-Israel. But is it in the best interests of THIS country - the country for which McCain seeks the presidency? Never a consideration.
2/15/2008 - Spring rolls are off as Asian chefs go on strike in Israel
Proprietors are angry at government plans to purge Japanese, Chinese and Thai eateries of Asian cooks and replace them with Israelis as part of a broader programme to cut the number of foreigners working in the Jewish state.
2/15/2008 - For the World, Gaza Is Reality TV
"If this enforced starvation of one and a half million people was happening to Americans, would they accept it?"
2/15/2008 - Doctor claims her activism got her fired
Wilkerson, who has worked at the clinic for five years, is an outspoken critic of the local Jewish community's support for Israel.
2/15/2008 - As protests rage, Jewish leaders lobby in Georgia
Georgia, a state of less than 5 million, might seem an unlikely player on the stage of great-power politics. But on issues of importance to Israel and the United States, Georgia occupies a key position, and it is being courted aggressively.
2/15/2008 - Lecture lives up to billing
Alison Weir, a former Sausalito, Calif., journalist and founder of the If Americans Knew media watchdog group that monitors news coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, spoke to a packed audience of up to 300 people at the library's Cole Auditorium.
2/15/2008 - Israel to demand PA preserve Jewish sites
The issue was brought to Livni's attention by Minister Ruhama Avraham-Balila (Kaima) following settler complaints regarding the dire condition of the Joseph's Tomb compound near Nablus, which was ransacked in the aftermath of the IDF's retreat from the site on October 7, 2000.
2/15/2008 - Palestinian trio's music will be 'oud' and clear
2/15/2008 - Actress embraces soul of the controversial Rachel Corrie
2/15/2008 - Embattled Middle East Hand Strikes Back At Political Critics
Camera, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, published an article exploring Malley's family roots. The article argues that "Malley's parents were rabidly anti-Israel" and that Malley's articles on Middle East issues "demonize Israel only slightly less than his father."
2/15/2008 - Palestine woman jailed by Israelis
A military court jailed a Palestinian woman for 15 years yesterday after convicting her of a plot to kidnap and murder an Israeli in 2006.
2/15/2008 - TV bunny rouses Gaza kids against Israel, Danes
The latest in a line of cartoon-inspired characters that take the message of the Hamas Islamist movement to Palestinian children, the actor in the Bugs Bunny-style outfit also railed against "Zionist filth" and Israel's control of Jerusalem.
2/15/2008 - ASA Hosts Experts on Gaza
To further communicate the impact that the conflict has on the lives of Palestinian casualties, Whitler showed a short documentary about a young Palestinian girl caught in Israeli crossfire and wounded in the head in 2003.
2/14/2008 - Disabled Palestinian dies of wounds
As the soldiers prepared an ambush, the mentally disabled man, 56-year-old Taysir Nazal, emerged from his home, the neighbors said. Soldiers fired three shots and hit Nazal in his legs, said relatives and a neighbor, Omar al-Sohu.
2/14/2008 - West Bank woman denied ambulance said to be dead
2/14/2008 - Japanese man says wounded in West Bank demo
A Japanese man was wounded by an Israeli rubber bullet as he went to a Palestinian demonstration against the separation barrier in the West Bank, he and an official said Thursday.
2/14/2008 - Palestinians say militant hub is now safe town; Israel says too soon to remove roadblocks
Local Hamas activists have pledged to obey the law, Mideast envoy Tony Blair has taken a stroll through once gunman-infested neighborhoods and policemen are now the only ones carrying weapons in public in this former militant hub.
2/14/2008 - Pro-Abbas security forces nab eight Hamas men in W Bank
2/14/2008 - Israeli army forces arrest 30 Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli special forces arrested 30Palestinians in southeast Gaza Strip early Thursday, an Israeli army spokesman said.
2/14/2008 - Israeli army demolishes Palestinian owned buildings in northern Gaza
The buildings had been long abandoned, their residents having already fled due to the frequent Israeli shelling of the area.
2/14/2008 - Israeli military invades the northern part of the West Bank and kidnaps 9
2/14/2008 - Hamas, Egypt hold talks on Rafah crossing
An aide to deposed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haneya revealed on Thursday that there are talks held between Hamas and Egypt on reopening Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
2/14/2008 - Palestinian teenager injured in Bethlehem by bomb left behind by Israeli army
2/14/2008 - Israel on high alert after Hezbollah threat
"If the Zionists want war, then they shall have it," Mr Nasrallah said.
"If you want an open war, then let it be an open war."
I think Israel is trying to provoke the war she has been waiting for, by involving Syria in this too. Beware. And these guys have responded just the way Israel had hoped to boot.
2/14/2008 - Former CIA official: Mossad behind Mugniyah killing
While Israel has formally refuted allegations it was involved in the assassination of Hizbullah 'operations officer' Imad Mugniyah in Damascus on Tuesday, former CIA official Bruce Riedel says all signs seem to indicate the Mossad was behind the killing. Israelis are expert at these things. The world knows it, which is why some question similar car bombings in the region.
2/14/2008 - Egyptian official: Guards ordered to open fire at Palestinians
2/14/2008 - Al-Qaida leader in Iraq threatens Israel, vows to 'liberate' Palestine in new audiotape
The purported leader of al-Qaida's umbrella in Iraq called in a new posting on a militant Web site on Thursday for attacks on Israel and the liberation of Palestine, proposing that Iraq's territory be a «launching pad» to seize Jerusalem.
2/14/2008 - Hizbullah leader vows to wage 'open war' on Israel
This assassination was likely committed to achieve such a retaliation on the part of Hezbollah which Israel would then seize upon as a possible pretext for war - which might then widen to include Syria and Iran.
2/14/2008 - Army engineers examining Gaza tunnels
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working with the Egyptians to stop smuggling through tunnels spanning the Egypt-Gaza Strip border.
2/14/2008 - Palestinian man injured east of Tulkarem
2/14/2008 - Visiting Ramallah, UN humanitarian chief voices solidarity with suffering people
The United Nations humanitarian chief has opened his first official trip to the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel with a visit to the West Bank town of Ramallah, which he described as an act of solidarity with the suffering people of the region.
2/14/2008 - Contractors named for 307 new Har Homa homes
The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) yesterday named the winners of the tenders to build 307 housing units in East Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood. This will make it harder to stop the planned building in this controversial district and could jeopardize peace talks with the Palestinians.
2/14/2008 - Hamas looks the other way during Valentine's Day
Hamas police looked the other way despite the religious taboo, reflecting the Islamic groups' policy of not going against popular consensus when it comes to social norms. For example, since seizing control of Gaza in June, Hamas has upheld a ban on alcohol but has not forced women to cover their hair.
2/14/2008 - Egyptian officials met with Hamas to prevent further border breaches
A top Hamas delegation crossed into Egypt Thursday and met with Egyptian officials wanting to make clear that no further breaches of its border with the Gaza Strip will be tolerated, a security official said.
2/14/2008 - Venezuela-Iran oil deal raises concern
Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, raised questions about whether the deal violates the Iran Sanctions Act Ros-Lehtinen has replaced Lantos as Israel's top agent on Capitol Hill.
2/14/2008 - Gazans mark Valentine's Day with mixed emotions
2/14/2008 - Abbas hails Bahrain's ties with Palestine
2/14/2008 - Bringing Down the New Berlin Walls
2/14/2008 - Israeli experts propose radical changes to West Bank closure regime
A team of Israeli security experts has devised a plan to replace the existing closure regime in the West Bank with an alternative system which they say will offer Israel security while easing restrictions on Palestinians and allowing their economy to grow.
2/14/2008 - Massive Attack to curate Meltdown
Last year they played two benefit gigs for the Hoping Foundation.
The charity offers support to Palestinian children living in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.
2/14/2008 - 'The Band's Visit' a wistful charmer
The handsome trumpet player Khaled (the dreamy Saleh Bakri, who is actually Palestinian) has no regard for Tewfiq's authority. Khaled is the designated flirter of the group, dispatched to ask directions and favors. There's a trailer on right on this page.
2/14/2008 - As victims become victimizers, crimes cannot be forgotten
2/14/2008 - Syria threatens war lawsuit against US
Syria plans to sue the U.S. for supplying arms to Israel that later killed Syrians in its 2006 war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, the Syrian foreign minister said Thursday, a day after Washington announced new sanctions against Damascus.
2/14/2008 - Conflict Brews Over Palestinians Airing Views in the Pews of Pasadena
2/14/2008 - Beirut divided in mourning for fallen leaders
It was a perfect opportunity for split-screen coverage: a sea of national Cedar flags on one side; acres of Hizbullah's yellow banner, with its logo of a defiantly raised Kalashnikov rifle, on the other. Someone seeks to divide and conquer them. Note the timing of this incident as well (anniversary of Hariri's death). Was it meant to see to it that the Hezbollites clash with the pro-Hariri's?...
2/14/2008 - Gaza's vehicles stop engines in protest against the Israeli siege
2/14/2008 - Greenwich Library reverses course on Mideast lecture ban
Greenwich Library officials, yielding to free speech arguments, reversed their decision to bar a group from giving two lectures on Israeli-Palestinian relations at the library
2/14/2008 - Sarkozy heralds new era in France-Israel ties
Sarkozy also warned that the European Union might boycott the planned United Nations' Durban conference on racism if it becomes an Israel-bashing conference, as it did in 2001.
2/14/2008 - Berman chairs first post-Lantos hearing
"History will remember Tom for his unwavering support of Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship," Berman said. "His life experience instilled in him a deep and abiding commitment to that tiny state, an island of democracy and a true partner of our country."
2/14/2008 - Clinton: Israel's birth proved ok to ignore laws
Bill Clinton said U.S. citizens who broke the law smuggling guns to the nascent Jewish state proved there are times when it's acceptable to break the law.
2/14/2008 - No decision yet on terror lawsuits
Top federal lawyers told Americans seeking legal redress from the Palestinian Authority for terrorist acts that the Bush administration has yet to decide its position
2/14/2008 - Jewish students urged to avoid UC Irvine
An unaffiliated task force made up of Jewish residents of Irvine conducted 80 hours of interviews with students, faculty and residents and determined that anti-Semitic acts are "real and well documented" on campus, according to an article in the local Daily Pilot.....The report takes faculty to task for "political correctness" that prevents them from speaking out against anti-Israel events and speakers sponsored by the school's very active Muslim Student Union.
2/14/2008 - How the EU helps Israel to strangle Gaza
The third party is the EU -- and the EU has always refused to man the crossing when Israel didn't want the crossing open. In effect, the EU has acted as a proxy for Israel.
2/14/2008 - Israel cheers, goes on alert after Hezbollah leader killed
The consensus among Israeli commentators was that the Mossad likely was behind the assassination, though some suggested the United States might have been involved as part of a goodwill gesture by Olmert toward President Bush.
2/14/2008 - Palestinian President meets parliament speaker
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazen, has met in Sana'a with the Speaker of the Parliament Yahya Ali al-Ra'ei.
2/14/2008 - Denmark stirs Mideast anger over Mohammed cartoon
Interesting timing on that one too.
2/14/2008 - Palestinian foreign minister in Ankara
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki arrived in Ankara on Thursday.
2/14/2008 - Bush expands Syria sanctions
The order derives from the Syrian Accountability Act, passed in 2003 after heavy lobbying by pro-Israel groups.
2/14/2008 - Damascus in shock over killing
"This means that the war on Iran has become a reality more than ever before. It is a dangerous security penetration in Syria,"
2/14/2008 - Sarkozy attacks Iran for its stance on Israel
"I won't shake hands with people who refuse to recognise Israel," Sarkozy declared.
2/14/2008 - U.S. learns from Israel-Hezbollah war
2/14/2008 - US senators appeal to Rice over anti-terrorist law
A group of US senators has written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to urge the government not to sacrifice the interests of US citizens in favor of better relations with the Palestinians. They've been doing just that -sacrificing the interests of US citizens in favor of ISRAEL - for YEARS. And that includes some, if not all, of these very Senators. Hypocrisy.
2/14/2008 - A Palestinian Nation-Building Movement for the 21st Century has been Born
Sponsored by The Center for Human Emergence Middle East, the event inaugurated the "Palestine 21" project which aims to empower Palestinian citizens to design their own state.
2/14/2008 - Roses are fed, violets are chewed
Israeli export restrictions prevented them from shipping the blooms to Europe for Valentine's Day.
2/14/2008 - We just disagree
For the past couple of weeks, CAMERA and other like-minded readers have come after me for chastising the organization's attempts to block the appearance here Friday and Saturday (Feb. 15-16) of the Rev. Naim Ateek, a Palestinian Christian who espouses nonviolence but employs harsh and destructive rhetoric. Lots of letters, angry phone calls, and a threat from CAMERA that if I didn't meet their minimum standards of contrition they would send out an e-mail blast summoning their supporters to deluge the Journal with demands for an apology.
2/14/2008 - Make peace, not war
Numerous subjects will be addressed both analytically and artistically: Rola Karam, a former Christian Palestinian citizen of Israel, will introduce a documentary in which she unexpectedly discovered the fate of a cousin of her parents. The cousin was killed by invading Israeli troops in 1948 during the evacuation of the Palestinian village of Eilaboun.
2/14/2008 - Gaza print journalists to get training on investigative reporting
2/14/2008 - UN humanitarian official examining damage from Palestinian rockets, Israeli sanctions
The top U.N. humanitarian official said Thursday he would examine the consequences of rocket fire on Israelis and sanctions on Palestinians during a four-day tour, and try to find ways to help.
2/14/2008 - Secretary-General, in message to Palestinian Rights Committee, says improving situation on ground urgent, but events this year have hindered progress
a number of events this year have hindered the progress. Israeli military operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel and settlement expansion, especially in and around East Jerusalem, have all had a negative effect on the renewed political process.
2/14/2008 - Jewish functionaries are stirring up the Clinton-Obama race
Obama is working hard to allay the fears of "Israel's friends," a description reserved mainly for activists of the pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC and for Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents. As far as they're concerned, whoever doesn't support the Israeli government's policy 100 percent is unfit for leadership
2/14/2008 - Arrests at Agrexco demo
Two pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli agricultural distributors Carmel Agrexco in Hayes, Middlesex, on Monday.
2/14/2008 - Sinatra reportedly helped run guns to Israel
Kollek needed to pay the captain of a ship a cash bribe to smuggle the weapons out of New York harbor, but knew he was being watched by the FBI because the United States was party to an arms embargo of all parties to the conflict.
2/13/2008 - Students return to Gaza schools still suffering from lack of heat and electricity
Nearly 400 government schools in Gaza have reopened their doors to a quarter of a million students returning from winter break ? but teachers and children have been met with classrooms that have neither heat nor light due to reduced power supplies
2/13/2008 - Government unveils rebuilding plan for ruined Palestinian camp
The government launched a preliminary master plan on 12 February to rebuild Nahr El-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, destroyed in a battle last year between the army and militant Islamists.
2/13/2008 - Israel detains 56 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Palestinian security sources said Israeli forces stepped up operations and detained 56 residents in Jenin, Nablus, and Bethlehem while most of the detentions took place in the city of Hebron where 43 people were arrested.
2/13/2008 - Israeli forces roll into destroyed Rafah airport in S Gaza
A number of Israeli army tanks on Wednesday rolled into the destroyed airport of Rafah town in southern Gaza Strip after withdrawing last night following clashes, witnesses said.
2/13/2008 - Israeli soldier stabbed in Jab'a village, near Jenin
2/13/2008 - Hamas asks Egypt to hand over members of rival Fatah
2/13/2008 - 70 envoys visit Gaza border
Israel's foreign minister took the ambassadors and consul heads to the Erez Crossing to win their support for the Jewish state taking military action against Hamas in Gaza, Reuters reported.
2/13/2008 - Hamas' Haneya: ready to consider cease-fire proposal
2/13/2008 - Hamas accuses Fayyad gov't of helping Israeli offensive in Gaza
2/13/2008 - Qassam rocket strikes Sderot house
2/13/2008 - Palestinian negotiator slams Israel over Jerusalem construction
2/13/2008 - Erekat denies reports over delaying talks on control of Jerusalem
2/13/2008 - Valentine flowers wilt behind Gaza's walls
Flower farmers across Gaza, whose sunny climate allows for year-round exports to Europe, have been hard-hit by an Israeli closure regime tightened in June after the Islamist Hamas movement seized power there
2/13/2008 - Checkpoint Jerusalem: I (heart) U!
For about $45, send.a.message will spray paint your special Valentine's message on the concrete walls dividing Israelis and Palestinians.
2/13/2008 - Israeli military arrests approximately 40 Palestinians in Beit Ummar and places village under curfew
The military are denying travel to people in cars or on foot, restricting the freedom of movement for goods and medicine. The military denied entry to an ambulance attempting to enter the village.
2/13/2008 - Israeli Military Conducts Major Operation in Beit Ummar
So far, Israeli military have arrested 55 Palestinians and house to house searches are ongoing, along with sporadic clashes between military and local youth. The stone throwers are met with barrages of tear gas and ?rubber? bullets.
2/13/2008 - News of the weird
A prize-winning paper from a Hebrew University researcher, seeking to explain the paucity of rapes by Israeli soldiers of Palestinian women, concluded that the soldiers were merely using a ?strategy? of non-rape, according to a December report on Arutz Sheva.
2/13/2008 - US 'not satisfied' with Egyptian efforts to scrap tunnels
Egypt is falling short in its efforts to stop Palestinians from allegedly trafficking weapons to the Gaza Strip through tunnels from Egypt, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.
2/13/2008 - Israel to Expel Foreign Restaurant Help
Asian restaurants employ 900 foreign-born chefs and kitchen workers. But the Trade Ministry says it wants to get Israelis into those jobs.
2/13/2008 - The cheery road to a chilling conclusion
. "You need to take a look at God's enemies," she idly mused. "Palestinians Iranians "
2/13/2008 - The Peacebuilding Prince
Prince Hassan bin Talal, brother of the late King Hussein of Jordan, is worried about the future of Christians all over the Arab world, including the Holy Land?the name he gives to the combined area of Israel, the Palestinian region, and his homeland of Jordan.
2/13/2008 - Speaker on civility gets heckled at Cal State Northridge
During his Tuesday lecture, several members of the Jewish Defense League heckled the professor from the front row.
2/13/2008 - In lecture on Mideast conflict, visiting prof limits controversy
Political Science Prof. Neve Gordon, a visiting professor from Ben-Gurion University in Israel, spoke about the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories last night at Hutchins Hall in the Law Quad.
2/13/2008 - Israel accused of Hezbollah leader's killing
Moughniyah, 45, was killed late on Tuesday. He had been on a list of foreigners Israel wanted to kill or apprehend and the United States had offered a $5 million (2.5 million pound) reward for his capture.
2/13/2008 - Turkey no platform for Israeli strikes -official
2/13/2008 - Lebanon braces for mass rally to mark Hariri killing
Lebanon braced on Wednesday for a mass rally by backers of the Western-backed government to commemorate the third anniversary of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder amid mounting street clashes with the opposition
2/13/2008 - Sniping Intensifies On Campaign Advisers
In the days leading up to this week's Democratic primary in Maryland, Jewish voters in Baltimore and the Maryland suburbs of Washington began getting e-mails warning that Sen. Barack Obama is being influenced by "anti-Israel" advisers, and pointing to one in particular: former Clinton administration official Robert Malley....."I don't understand why our community is making Israel an issue at this point," said Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman. "None of the candidates has made it an issue; their public statements have all been very good. So why are we shadowboxing and making this an issue?"
2/13/2008 - Israeli minister hails killing of Hezbollah leader
2/13/2008 - Freedom at a price
2/13/2008 - Hamas shows off gunmen in glossy magazine
2/13/2008 - Greenwich Library in fracas over Mideast lectures
A group critical of Israel and U.S. media coverage of the Middle East is defying a library ban on lectures by the group. The organization, If Americans Knew, criticizes Israeli actions toward Palestinians and says the U.S. media misinforms Americans about the conflict. Greenwich Library officials said they canceled planned talks by Alison Weir of the Portland, Ore.-based group following complaints by some residents about her and the organization.
2/13/2008 - Mughnieh murder 'Zionist gangsterism': Hamas
2/13/2008 - Hezbollah to hold mass funeral for slain commander
2/13/2008 - Presidents Conference goes to Georgia
Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Presidents Conference, cited Georgia?s history of tolerance, pro-Israel stance and strategic importance both as an alternate route for Central Asian gas and its proximity to Iran as the key reasons for visiting.
2/13/2008 - Car bomb ends life of Hizbullah chief wanted for string of kidnappings and mass murders
Did any other non-Middle Eastern countries 'laud' this killing besides the US and Israel? It is doubtful that the CIA did it. IT is quite remarkable how Israeli forces can (still) so easily assassinate in Lebanon and Syria. Makes you wonder (about recent similar bombings going back a few years in the region).
2/13/2008 - US lauds death of Hezbollah leader
2/12/2008 - Fresh Israeli raid sparks clashes
Israeli forces have clashed with Palestinian gunmen during an overnight incursion into the Gaza Strip
2/12/2008 - Hamas gov't says PM lives normal life
Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of the sacked Hamas government lives a normal life and did not go underground though he took some security measures, Hamas administration said on Tuesday.
2/12/2008 - Israel arrests Fayyad's aide in Jerusalem, 14 other Palestinians in W Bank
2/12/2008 - Israeli army kidnaps one in Tulkarem, two from Jenin and continue their attack on the money changers
2/12/2008 - A Palestinian is kidnapped by Special Forces of Israeli army
2/12/2008 - State Prosecutor's Office to close Abir Aramin case
SPO denies petition against Jerusalem District Court's decision in the case of 10-year old Aramin, allegedly killed by stray Border Guard rubber bullet in 2007; reiterates original ruling of undetermined cause of death. Rights group may appeal decision further
2/12/2008 - Top reservists: Roadblocks in W. Bank do more harm than good
A group of top Israel Defense Forces reserve officers are set to unveil Wednesday a new position paper according to which the 550 roadblocks in the West Bank serve to increase the motivation to commit terror attacks, and removing a significant portion of them would help calm the security situation and undermine Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip.
2/12/2008 - NIS 3m. confiscated in W. Bank raid
In a joint operation by the IDF, Israel Police and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), three million shekels were confiscated from money changers in the West Bank. The IDF said that the operation was intended to prevent funds from reaching Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the West Bank. Right.
2/12/2008 - Israel to build new homes in Jerusalem area
Israel's housing ministry said on Tuesday preparations were underway to build up to 1,100 new homes in and around Arab East Jerusalem, which Palestinians see as capital of a future state.
2/12/2008 - IDF arrests Palestinians in Gaza; mortars hit army base
2/12/2008 - Israel releases Fayyad's aide after brief holding
2/12/2008 - Taiba man killed in traffic accident
2/12/2008 - Israeli threat drives Hamas leaders from public view
2/12/2008 - 10 hurt in Israeli raids on Gaza
2/12/2008 - Israeli army pulls out from eastern Gaza as an Israeli soldier wounded
A column of Israeli army tanks rolled back early on Tuesday morning from the eastern neighborhood of Gaza City, after an Israeli army undercover unit attempted to sweep into the neighborhood.
2/12/2008 - Palestinian negotiator calls for ceasefire to save Gaza
2/12/2008 - Hamas official renews call for Mideast ceasefire
2/12/2008 - Israel sure Iran seeking nuclear arms: Olmert
Asked if Israel would consider using military force in dealing with Iran, Olmert cited US President George W. Bush's refusal to rule out force in dealing with Iran's defiance to halt sensitive nuclear work Whose war is this?
2/12/2008 - John McCain and the Neocon Resurgence by Philip Giraldi
The neocons and McCain do not disguise their belief that Iran must be dealt with by military means because diplomacy has failed. Indeed, one might well regard de-fanging Iran as their principal foreign policy objective, one that they share with the White House and the Israeli government.
2/12/2008 - Israel urges international action against an Iranian nuclear threat
Israel, which is widely believed to have built hundreds of atomic warheads, has said it considers a nuclear Iran a threat to its existence. Yes, that makes perfect sense. (NOT).
2/12/2008 - Abbas urges Hamas to commit itself to legitimacy in Gaza
2/12/2008 - Merkel, Olmert offer Iran stances
At a news conference Tuesday in Berlin following their official meetings, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made their different approaches clear: In pressuring the Islamic regime, Merkel looks to sanctions and diplomacy, while Olmert says all options are open.
2/12/2008 - God vs. Elliott Abrams
Abrams has a consistent record, both in and out of government, of opposing any meaningful Israeli concessions to the Palestinians that might end Israel's 40-year occupation of the West Bank and lead to the birth of a viable Palestinian state.....
In the Project for the New American Century's policy tome Present Dangers, he asserted, "Strengthening Israel, our major ally in the region, should be the central core of U.S. Middle East policy, and we should not permit the establishment of a Palestinian state that does not explicitly uphold U.S. policy in the region."
2/12/2008 - Amos Oz warns 'catastrophe' of Gaza invasion
Novelist Amos Oz, a leader of Israel's peace movement, warned on Tuesday against an invasion of the Gaza Strip to snuff out militant rocket fire, saying it could prove catastrophic.
2/12/2008 - Palestinians need cell phone competition-World Bank
The World Bank said on Tuesday Israel and the Palestinian Authority should open the Palestinian mobile phone sector to competition in order to improve efficiency and lower tariffs.
2/12/2008 - ZOA opens Jerusalem office
Daube has been associated with several pro-Israel groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; NORPAC, a pro-Israel political action committee; and Palestinian Media Watch.
2/12/2008 - Bomb destroys car in Damascus
2/12/2008 - Ray of hope for Beirut squat on edge of Shatila refugee camp
Welcome to life in the Gaza Buildings: the slum inside a slum; a former Palestinian hospital just outside the Shatila refugee camp south of Beirut turned squat for the poor and destitute.
2/12/2008 - Gifts for women and children at Gaza Strip
The twelve boxes of gifts handpicked by the princess consisted of toys for the children and shawls and clothes for the women. MRCS together with Peace Malaysia will also donate RM200,000 worth of medical and food supplies to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.
2/12/2008 - Israeli Lobby Declares War On Gandhi
John Mearsheimer who along with Stephen Walt wrote about the Israel lobby and faced its full fury, offered a consolation to Arun Gandhi with a comment that he would have gotten into serious trouble with the lobby even if he had chosen his words carefully "simply because he had criticized Israel and its American supporters, which one does at his or her own peril."
2/12/2008 - The War Against Tolerance
They assure audiences that the Palestinians are interested not in a peaceful two-state solution but rather the destruction of Israel, the murder of all Jews and the death of America.
2/12/2008 - Israeli minister plans Arab city
Mr Sheetrit was speaking only two days after hitting the headlines for his outspoken response to a rocket attack from Gaza that badly injured a young Israeli boy. He told fellow cabinet members they should pick a neighbourhood in Gaza and "wipe it out".
2/12/2008 - 'No progress' in Mideast peace process: Arab League, EU
2/12/2008 - Don't let them starve to death
PALESTINIANS in Gaza will starve, if the world does not force Israel to lift its siege, a top Palestinian official declared in Bahrain yesterday.
2/12/2008 - Germany backs Israel response to rockets
2/12/2008 - Gaza crisis is deteriorating say church and advocacy groups
2/12/2008 - In Gaza, electricity -- or lack thereof -- powers daily activities
One Christian who asked that his name not be used said that people were waiting for some sort of change -- but were unsure if it will be good or bad.
2/12/2008 - Egypt finds explosives cache near Gaza border
2/12/2008 - Zobeidi denies reports of Israel pardoning him
2/12/2008 - Several Female detainees suffering bad health conditions, violations
2/12/2008 - Wounded Palestinians 'may be flown to Bahrain'
PALESTINIAN people, including women and children, injured in Israeli bombings in Gaza could be brought to Bahrain for urgent treatment, an MP said last night
2/12/2008 - U.S. Jewish leader worried by thrust of White House campaigns
Hoenlein said that Israel's supporters should be worried by "the heightening of the bar and the greater tolerance of anti-Israel statements that wouldn't have been allowed in the past."
2/12/2008 - 'Lemon Tree' a hit in Berlin
2/12/2008 - Tom Lantos left behind human rights legacy
Other encomiums came from The American Jewish World Service, which has led the Jewish community in pressing for an end to the genocide in Sudan; the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which praised his steadfast support for Israel and his tough stance on Iran; and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which commemorated his contributions to social welfare at home.
2/12/2008 - 2 Boys, 2 Sides, 2 Beds in an Israeli Hospital Ward
2/12/2008 - Jewish groups work to counter Israeli Apartheid Week
Organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week have concluded their fourth year of anti-Israel programming on university campuses worldwide, but members of the Jewish community were intent on ensuring that their side of the story would also be heard.
2/12/2008 - Report: Egyptian forces hunt tunnels dug between Gaza, Egypt
2/12/2008 - Speaker advocates strong action
The American Zionist Organization brought Jonathan Schanzer, director of policy for the Jewish Policy Center and Former U.S. Treasury Department counter-terrorism analyst, to the University Cincinnati to speak about the Arab/Israeli conflict.
2/12/2008 - Mearsheimer addresses CFI
2/12/2008 - Bush imposes, then waives, PLO sanction
In a memorandum for US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, dated Monday, Bush extended permission for the PLO to keep a Washington office and spend money in the United States for another six months.
2/12/2008 - Terror victims lobby Washington to uphold successful lawsuits
Afif Safieh, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Washington, told the newspaper that there was "a rethinking in the State Department that I wholeheartedly welcome." The suits, he added, were "politically and ideologically motivated."
2/12/2008 - Ha'aretz replacing Landau as editor
Ha?aretz publisher Amos Schocken said Landau became editor during an uneasy period for the newspaper and its editorial staff, and succeeded in expressing Haaretz?s commitment to the values of practical Zionism, according to the newspaper.
2/11/2008 - Israeli military kidnaps a Palestinian Security officer in Bethlehem
2/11/2008 - 12k Letters to Congress Appeal to End Gaza Blockade
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today it has collected and is delivering to Congress more than 12,000 letters calling for an end to Israel's "collective punishment" of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
2/11/2008 - Gaza to be connected to Egyptian power grid in 19 months
The Gaza Strip will be completely connected to the Egyptian electricity network in 19 months, a Palestinian official announced on Monday.
2/11/2008 - Israel arrests six Palestinians in West Bank raids
2/11/2008 - Jerusalem Diary: Monday 11 February
Dr Shaheen lists the diseases children are suffering, directly as a result of the polluted water, including diphtheria and dysentery.
2/11/2008 - Israeli military intensifies blockade on Jenin and Huwara and kidnapped 6 across the West Bank
2/11/2008 - Israel seen failing to keep road map promises
Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad on Monday accused Israel of failing to keep its commitments to freeze Jewish settlement activity and to ease checkpoints that limit Palestinian mobility on the West Bank.
2/11/2008 - UNRWA concerned by impact of rising costs on aid deliveries
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said it is concerned that rising prices of fuel and basic commodities will affect humanitarian aid deliveries to refugees in Jordan.
2/11/2008 - Hamas official warns Palestinians will breach Egypt border again if Gaza embargo not lifted
Palestinians will breach the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip again if the blockade of the coastal territory continues, a senior Hamas member warned Monday, defying an Egyptian threat to «break the legs» of anyone who violates the frontier.
2/11/2008 - Israel to ban Gaza agricultural exports
This follows the entrance of Egyptian agricultural products with no supervision or control into Gaza after the Rafah border was breached.
2/11/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps two Palestinians from Hebron
2/11/2008 - A Palestinian man dies of earlier wounds
The sources identified the man as Saleh Nabhan, doctors said that Nabhan was admitted to on Friday to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza after sustaining critical wounds due to an Israeli air strile targeting Gaza city.
2/11/2008 - Two Palestinian patients die due to the Israeli siege on Gaza, death toll due to the siege hits 103
Medcial sources identified the two as Fathiyyia Abu Wardah, 40, and Khadijja Al Aqaad. The sources said that both died of cancer.
2/11/2008 - UNRWA special appeal for Gaza making very slow progress
A UN special appeal for the Gaza Strip has managed to bring in only a small percentage of the US$9.8 million needed for urgent food aid and cash assistance for the enclave's most vulnerable refugees.
2/11/2008 - Hamas sources: "P.A Security arrests 13 Hamas members in the West Bank"
2/11/2008 - Soldiers indicted on abuse charges
Three combat soldiers from the Haruv Battalion were indicted on Monday on charges of aggravated abuse, obstruction of justice and conduct unbecoming following an investigation into allegations that the troops beat and mistreated 16-year-old Palestinian detainees.
2/11/2008 - Kingdom Asks World Powers to Curb Israeli State Terror
2/11/2008 - Two Palestinians wounded in an Israeli air strike on Rafah
Two Palestinian bystanders have been wounded on Monday evening after an Israeli air craft fired a missile on a car traveling on a southern Gaza road in Rafah city, witnesses said.
2/11/2008 - Israel sees Hamas gone from Gaza "in months"
Israel's Vice Premier Haim Ramon said on Monday a "combination of steps" could topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders within months.
2/11/2008 - E. J'lem residents arrested after Court petition
The police arrested five Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan this week, all within a day of their having petitioned the High Court of Justice to stop an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation under their homes.
2/11/2008 - Barak: U.S. unlikely to attack Iran nuclear installations
2/11/2008 - Report: Mubarak says continued US presence in Iraq to attract terrorists, threaten region
That defiance stepped up after U.S. moved last year to put conditions on the US$2 billion in aid, including US$1.3 billion in military assistance, that Washington gives annually to Egypt, the second largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel.
2/11/2008 - The Hawks' Last Hurrah?
Podhoretz, for his part, agreed: "Unless Bush realizes or fulfills my fading hope of air strikes, it is undoubtedly up to Israel to prevent" Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
2/11/2008 - Israeli authorities demolish a Palestinian-owned house in Jerusalem
2/11/2008 - Settlers attempt to demolish a Palestinian house in Hebron
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees reported on Monday that an extremist settlers group attempted to demolish a Palestinian house in Bani Neim village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
2/11/2008 - UAE president meets Abbas on Palestinian issue
President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan met visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas here on Monday on the Palestinian issue, the official Emirates News Agency reported.
2/11/2008 - ICFJ offers Arabic online course on building news Web sites
The course, which will be led by Daoud Kuttab, veteran Palestinian journalist and founder of Ammannet radio, will take place between April 1 and May 13.
2/11/2008 - Journalism's last line of defense
1) the Patriot Act appeared to silence a lot of pro-Palestinian opinion. I suddenly stopped hearing from people with Middle Eastern names. 2) The Passover bombing marked the first time in the Intifada that Israelis were killed in a specifically Jewish (as opposed to Israeli) circumstance. For many NPR listeners, that raised the existential threat of anti-Semitism and many pro-Israel and Jewish listeners responded passionately. Some of that passion was stoked by one particular lobby group, known as CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America). This group, based in Cambridge, Mass., was particularly effective in generating real anger around NPR's reporting
2/11/2008 - Egypt interrogates returning citizens while sending remaining Palestinians back to Gaza
Egypt's border forces on Monday gradually sorted out the muddle of Palestinians and Egyptians trapped on the wrong side of the recently resealed border with the Gaza Strip, closely interrogating over a hundred returning Egyptians.
2/11/2008 - Barak to promote Israeli satellite sale to Turkey
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak will promote the sale of a spy satellite to Turkey and other military deals during a visit to Ankara this week, Israeli security sources said on Monday.
2/11/2008 - Students bring art supplies to Lebanon
In Lebanon, on a trip bringing art supplies to a refugee school for Palestinian children, Steinhardt senior Frank Fredericks said he and his fellow NYU students encouraged the children to draw "their idea of peace."
2/11/2008 - No Manchurian Candidate
Obama should resist such intimidation. I understand the immediate political calculus that makes a forthright statement of his pro-Israel sentiments critical. That is why, in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last year, he did not even mention Jewish settlements.
2/11/2008 - Israeli city demands that Google Earth erase Palestinian claim -- Google says no
2/11/2008 - New guidelines for Israeli and Palestinian bank ties
2/11/2008 - Spokesman: Rice not to visit Mideast
2/11/2008 - Education in the West Bank - the future begins here
A new boys' school has opened its doors to 400 students attending the 5th to 9th grades in one of the villages of the West Bank. Built in partnership with World Vision and funded by USAID, the Azzun Basic Boys School was inaugurated in the village of Azzun in the West Bank on February 5, with members of the community and the Palestinian Minister of Higher Education present.
2/11/2008 - 'I don't care if our pro-Zionist stance costs us'
Anyone who doesn't more or less share Marty Peretz's views on Israel or U.S. politics has little hope of getting a job at The New Republic, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious U.S. journal told Haaretz while in Israel last month.
2/11/2008 - Egyptians free Irish Gaza entrant
However, Ms Ní Cheannabháin was immediately taken in for questioning.
2/11/2008 - Israel mourns Holocaust survivor Lantos
Lantos "was a leader in promoting Israeli-US ties in Congress
2/11/2008 - Refugee stories - A boy's journey from Baghdad to Damascus
Then, when Thaer began to receive death threats from a Shia militia, he decided that living in the desert was safer than being a Palestinian in Baghdad.
2/11/2008 - Lebanon charges 19 soldiers over protest shootings
A Lebanese judge charged three army officers and 16 soldiers on Monday over the killing of opposition protesters last month in some of Beirut's deadliest street violence since the 1975-1990 civil war.
2/11/2008 - Delegates of the International Mission of United Methodist Churches visit Bethlehem
2/11/2008 - India condemns use of force against Palestinians
Concerned over renewed flare-up in West Asia, India today "condemned" the use of force on civilians in Palestine and sought immediate restoration of peace in the region, for which it is ready to help.
2/10/2008 - Israeli air strike kills Hamas militant in Gaza
2/10/2008 - The Israeli army attacks Palestinians homes in Hebron and kidnaps five civilians
2/10/2008 - Leg of boy injured by Qassam amputated
2/10/2008 - Islamic Jihad urges Hamas, Fatah to unite amid Israeli military escalation
2/10/2008 - Hamas says military escalation not to bring security for "Zionists"
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Sunday that Israeli army attacks in Gaza Strip will not bring security for the "Zionists."
2/10/2008 - Israeli army continues closure of Tulkarem city
2/10/2008 - Israeli FM: no hope for Palestinian state with rocket firing
2/10/2008 - Digging up Jerusalem's past is tricky
Silwan is in east Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in 1967 and which Palestinians claim for the capital of a future state. Israel is conducting arhaeological digs on land it occupies - not owns. It's theft.
2/10/2008 - Egyptian FM urges Israel to shoulder responsibilities to Palestinians
2/10/2008 - Palestinian farmers hit by prolonged frost in January
A recent cold snap with sub-zero temperatures has caused farmers in the West Bank to incur losses of nearly US$14.5 million, according to initial estimates by the Palestinian ministry of agriculture (MoA) set out in a 6 February joint ?fact sheet? with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
2/10/2008 - 'Israel granted amnesty to 32 wanted Fatah men'
Israel has granted amnesty to some 32 wanted members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military wing, Palestinian security officials told Ynet on Sunday
2/10/2008 - Rare meeting between settlers, Palestinians held in Hebron
Heads of local Palestinian clans in Hebron met on Sunday with representatives from Israeli settlements in the area and discussed the easing of tensions between the two sides.
2/10/2008 - 'IDF should wipe out parts of Gaza'
Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit told The Jerusalem Post that during Sunday's cabinet meeting, he had called on the IDF to "take off its gloves," head into Gaza with armored tractors and raze an entire neighborhood from which rockets have been launched, and then withdraw. The residents of that neighborhood would be warned in advance to flee, he said.
2/10/2008 - Lack of fuel causes 30% power shortfall in Gaza
Israel's restriction policy over the fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip caused a power shortage of 30 percent in the poor enclave, a Palestinian official said Sunday.
2/10/2008 - Hamas bans Gaza newspaper over satirical cartoon
A Hamas-led court banned a Palestinian newspaper in the Gaza Strip after it published a cartoon mocking lawmakers loyal to the ruling Islamist group Hamas.
2/10/2008 - Palestinian group calls on Egyptian minister to apologize to Gazans
A radical Palestinian faction on Sunday denounced a recent statement by Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit in which he warned the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip not to cross the border into Egypt or else they would have their legs broken.
2/10/2008 - Israel threatens to hit Hamas leaders in Gaza
2/10/2008 - Fatah calls on Arab forces to end Hamas rule in Gaza
2/10/2008 - Top negotiator Qurai: negotiations with Israel focus on most complicated issues
Top Palestinian negotiator, Ahmad Qurai, said that underway negotiations with Israel are focused on most complicated issues and need much more exerted efforts by Palestinians.
2/10/2008 - Gaza healthcare deteriorating due to Israeli sanctions
Palestinian authorities in Gaza warned on Sunday that the healthcare sector was coming to a halt due to the Israeli blockade on the coastal territory.
2/10/2008 - Israeli Civil Administration set to demolish a clinic and 11 homes near Hebron, in the Beqa?a Valley, this week
URGENT ACTION ALERT
2/10/2008 - Gaza's Committee to break the blockade hails worldwide solidarity campaigns
2/10/2008 - Gaza protest draws hundreds
Condemnation of a virtual blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel since last June reverberated loudly yesterday along Montreal's prime downtown shopping strip.
2/10/2008 - U.S. pushes Egyptian border proposal
The U.S. wants Israel to show some flexibility on Egypt's demand to add 750 soldiers to its border force, as well as to agree to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's proposal to take over responsibility for the Israel-Gaza Strip border.
2/10/2008 - CPM missile targets Israeli spy satellite
"By adopting the same approach as the previous BJP-led government towards Israel, the UPA government is eroding India's traditional ties with Arab countries and Iran. India is seen more and more as a collaborator with Israel. India accords priority to Israel as a partner to fight against terrorism, when Israel is responsible for state terrorism, violence and aggression,"
2/10/2008 - Grand Mufti of Palestine warns against Israeli plots in Jerusalem
Israel's alleged excavations aim to demolish the historical Al-Omari Mosque in Tuba, southeast of Jerusalem, and build a Jewish synagogue instead.
2/10/2008 - Mauritanian Pres.: Attack on Israeli Embassy won't harm ties
Pressure has been mounting on the president to sever relations with Israel following popular protests over a blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip. In late January, political parties called on him to break off relations.
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Abdallahi said the February 1 shooting at the Israeli embassy would not change his position
2/10/2008 - Dozens protest stone throwing in West Bank
West Bank settlers have had enough of the stones hurled at their cars. Dozens of Israeli vehicles arrived Sunday morning at the entrance to the village of Azun, east of Qalqilay, in protest of the hurling of stone and Molotov cocktails at Israeli cars traveling in the West Bank.
2/10/2008 - No need to wait for Russia or China
Certainly, the report published by the American intelligence community has tied President George W. Bush's hands and seriously narrowed his prospects of ordering an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. The question is: What should Israel do? Fight its own battles?
2/10/2008 - Iran high on the agenda for Olmert's Berlin talks
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to use a visit to Germany beginning on Sunday to lobby for tougher measures to force Iran to curb a nuclear programme he has called a threat to Israel's existence.
2/10/2008 - McCain found a tool with which to woo conservative Republicans: Israel
The problem he has is clear: How does one win over the more radical wing of his party without alienating the more centrist voters on which one relies to help him win not just the nomination but also the general election. McCain is using a couple of tools as to try and achieve this goal. One of them, and not a marginal one, is the State of Israel. Senator Joe Lieberman is playing a role here.
2/10/2008 - Christians and Muslims; partners in pain and hope
On the anniversary of the death of a Christian detainee who died in an Israeli prison twenty years ago, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, stated that Christians and Muslims in Palestine are brothers and partners in pain, hope and struggle
2/10/2008 - Ayatollah's advice startles conservatives
A statement from Fadlallah's office said he opposed a man "using any sort of violence against a woman, even in the form of insults and harsh words."....He was among the first religious leaders in the Middle East to condemn the Sept. 11 attacks......But Fadlallah remains a staunch critic of Israel, once describing the Jewish state as "a conglomerate of people who come from all parts of the world to live in Palestine on the ruins of another people."
2/10/2008 - Mofaz chides Olmert over Lebanon war
The Second Lebanon War marked the first time Israel failed to win a major military campaign, a senior Cabinet minister said
2/10/2008 - AIPAC's mystifying behavior
A message to Gordon's office this week requesting his comments on AIPAC's actions went unanswered. Ron Dermer, who as Israel's economic minister at the Washington embassy works on the issue with AIPAC, provided three general explanations for AIPAC's actions. AIPAC must be forced to register as an agent of a foreign entity. For, that is exactly what it is.
2/9/2008 - Gaza rockets injure two Israelis
The rocket, which landed in the town of Sderot, was one of around a dozen fired into southern Israel on Saturday.
2/9/2008 - Gaza's factions take their fight into the school playgrounds
2/9/2008 - CNN video: Palestinian dad seeks justice
2/9/2008 - The Al Aqsa Brigades declares a conditional truce
2/9/2008 - Arab MK: Even Mussolini's soldiers didn't act like IDF
"What is revealed is only the tip of the iceberg. The Palestinian population is abused on a daily basis. The use of mild punishments gives the green light to such acts."
2/9/2008 - Israeli army cordons off W. Bank village, searching for wanted fighters
Israeli army imposed a curfew on a small West Bank village near Qalqila since Friday night, searching for wanted activists accused of firing at an Israeli settler, security sources said on Saturday.
2/9/2008 - Contacts underway to arrange Abbas-Olmert meeting
Contacts are underway to arrange a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Saturday.
2/9/2008 - U.S. sees Palestinian forces needing billions in aid
Building Palestinian security forces for a future state will require a multibillion-dollar infusion of donor funds dwarfing existing commitments, according to U.S. estimates shared with European and Israeli officials.
2/9/2008 - Two injured in Israeli shelling to northern Gaza
Palestinian sources reported on Saturday that two Palestinian resistance fighters were injured due to an Israeli shelling targeting the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hannon.
2/9/2008 - MK Ran Cohen: Abuse of Palestinians corrupts IDF
2/9/2008 - A Hamas legislator demands Abbas to resign
2/9/2008 - Blair: US wants plan based on Israel security
2/9/2008 - Arab, EU FMs to tackle Palestinian situation, Mideast peace process in Malta
Arab and European foreign ministers were scheduled to meet in Malta on Monday to discuss means of improving the situation in the Palestinian territories and pushing forward the Middle East peace process, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
2/9/2008 - Leviev stores in London and New York to face protest
2/9/2008 - Aggressor misidentified
By building illegal settlements and an illegal wall-fence system, Israel has now divided Jerusalem from the West Bank Christians and Muslims. Israel should not be rewarded for these acts of terrorism, war crimes and illegal actions. American Christians need to decide: do we join God in support of the Palestinian Christians, or do we support their persecutor Israel?
2/9/2008 - Middle East tensions in Pasadena
Several Los Angeles rabbis and others in the Jewish community have criticized a decision by All Saints Episcopal Church to allow its facilities to be used Feb. 15-16 for "From Occupation to Liberation: Voices We Need to Hear." The event is sponsored by Friends of Sabeel, an organization of American Christians that supports Sabeel, a Jerusalem-based ecumenical Christian group.
2/9/2008 - Another Act of War
Within weeks of the disclosure by the Syrians of the seemingly unprovoked bombing, neo-crazy media sycophants at the New York Times and the Washington Post were "reporting" that U.S. and Israeli officials had concluded that the North Koreans were constructing at the site a weapons-grade plutonium-producing nuclear reactor ? similar to the one constructed for the Koreans by the Soviets at Yongbyon.
2/9/2008 - 10 members of EU Parliament managed to visit Gaza on February 5
2/9/2008 - 3.76 million Palestinians live in West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem: Palestinian census
2/9/2008 - MPs honored for Israel advocacy
Three members of Parliament were recognized for their activities advocating for Israel at a reception in the House of Commons last week. Thus does Britain start to fall.
2/9/2008 - Israeli report hits out at Irish funding of Palestine groups
2/8/2008 - Israeli power rationing fails to subdue Palestinian fighters
2/8/2008 - Two Palestinians infiltrate Kfar Hess
Two Palestinians, who were apparently out to steal metals, attacked Moshav Kfar Hess's security officer on Friday.
2/8/2008 - Palestinian PM sees no '08 Israel accord
In an interview with Reuters in the Texas capital, Austin, where he is on a private visit, he highlighted the lack of progress on the issue of Israeli settlements and military incursions into the West Bank as among the chief obstacles in the "road map" to peace and Palestinian statehood.
2/8/2008 - Troops suspected of abusing Palestinian teens
According to the female soldier, the two Palestinian detainees were beat up while they were handcuffed and after their eyes were covered. The soldier, who witnessed some of the abuse, said that the troops kicked the Palestinians, hit them using hand restraints, and swore at them. The evidence submitted to the court includes a testimony that charges the soldiers with placing a heater against the face of one of the boys.
2/8/2008 - Bahrainis stranded in Gaza appeal to be allowed to leave
2/8/2008 - Israeli army attacks peaceful protest near Bethlehem, injures six
2/8/2008 - One Palestinian teen injured in weekly Bil'in protest
2/8/2008 - Israel reduces power supply in move to 'disengage' from Gaza
2/8/2008 - Envoy Blair welcomes Palestinian 'progress' during first walkabout
2/8/2008 - Give peace a chance by awarding Israel Palestine 2018 World Cup
If a peace agreement is concluded before that choice is made, a 2018 World Cup jointly staged in Israel and Palestine would be a fantastic opportunity to consolidate the gains for both sides. Infrastructure investment would then follow.
2/8/2008 - Google Denies Censoring Egyptian Footballer
When images of the statement did not appear on Google's image index, the conspiracy theories began. When the image didn't appear a few days after the match, Google was flooded with enough accusations that the company censored the image at the request of the Israeli government that the Google Images team was compelled to respond.
2/8/2008 - Palestinian Prime Minister's Speech To Be Webcast Live
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the Palestinian National Authority will deliver remarks today (Feb. 7) at The University of Texas at Austin on building a Palestinian state and fostering peace and prosperity in the region.
2/8/2008 - Israel has new tool in search for tunnels
The tests are being hidden from the view of nearby Palestinians, Kuna reported Friday.
2/8/2008 - Book Fair's Plans to Honor Israel Lead to Protests
"We are appalled to see the world of culture take the side of those who methodically operate to annihilate Palestine and the Palestinians," read a pamphlet distributed during the demonstration.
2/8/2008 - "Lemon Tree" offers new look to Mideast conflict
A Palestinian woman has long been peacefully tending the lemon tree grove she inherited from her father on the Green Line that separates Israel and the occupied West Bank. But she faces eviction and the removal of the trees so lovingly cared for over many decades when the Israeli defense minister moves in next door -- and the lemon tree grove is deemed to be a security threat.
2/8/2008 - Newsline: On Earth Peace delegation travels to West Bank and Israel
The group learned about the region's history and politics from local leaders. The group met with more than 20 organizations in five main communities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, At-Tuwani, Hebron, and Efrat. Israeli, Palestinian, and international peace workers from groups such as Rabbis for Human Rights, the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, B'Tselem, Wi'am, and the Holy Land Trust shared about their work. The delegation also met with people whose daily lives are profoundly affected, and even at times completely preoccupied, with the political situation.
2/8/2008 - RCA reaches out to Palestinians
The UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) is continuing to extend humanitarian aid to the Palestinians who are suffering as a result of the Israeli blockade.
2/8/2008 - Palestinian Cultural Mural Honors Dr. Edward Said
2/8/2008 - Residents of Silwan protest against the Israeli excavations under their homes
The protesters held Friday prayers in a protest tent, and held their protest which comes as Israel intensified its settlement activities, excavations and violations against the residents and their properties, especially in neighborhoods close to the Al Aqsa Mosque.
2/8/2008 - Woman quizzed over Gaza crossing
Egyptian authorities allowed them back but immediately took Ms Ni Cheannabhain in for questioning. Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern praised Irish diplomats for their efforts to assist Ms Ni Cheannabhain.
2/8/2008 - Eskenazi turns kids into photographers
Twenty-four children - 12 Israelis and 12 Palestinians - would be issued cameras, taught how to use them and sent out into their world to record what they saw.
2/8/2008 - The Cable-Cutter Mystery
Given the context in which these cable cuts are occurring ? heightened tensions in the region, and not only with Iran ? I think it is probable that they are deliberate, and that the diversion of internet traffic for purposes of eavesdropping is clearly the intent.
2/8/2008 - What did Israel bomb in Syria? by Seymour M. Hersh
The former U.S. senior intelligence official told me that, as he understood it, America's involvement in the Israeli raid dated back months earlier, and was linked to the Administration's planning for a possible air war against Iran. Last summer, the Defense Intelligence Agency came to believe that Syria was installing a new Russian-supplied radar-and-air-defense system that was similar to the radar complexes in Iran. Entering Syrian airspace would trigger those defenses and expose them to Israeli and American exploitation, yielding valuable information about their capabilities. Vice-President Dick Cheney supported the idea of overflights, the former senior intelligence official said, because "it would stick it to Syria and show that we're serious about Iran.".....There is evidence that the preëmptive raid on Syria was also meant as a warning about?and a model for?a preëmptive attack on Iran
2/8/2008 - Clinton wins tacit support of Israeli establishment
2/8/2008 - Berlin rally to protest Iran performance
Protest organizers said he should be criticizing the anti-Israel statements and Holocaust denial of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and standing up for the rights of oppressed women and homosexuals in Iran.
2/8/2008 - PYN, Paz Ahora, and ISM attempt to break the blockade by sending a 50,000 Euro medical convoy into Gaza.
2/8/2008 - Senator: U.S. to boycott UN anti-racism meet due to anti-Israel agenda
In 2001, Rice, then President George W. Bush's national security adviser, explained on television why the Americans and Israelis had walked out: Participants spent far too much time trying to condemn Israel and single it out, and I think the United States made the right decision to leave
2/8/2008 - EU set to provide ?7.44 million to revive the Palestinian Agricultural sector
2/8/2008 - 8 arrested in attack on Israeli Embassy
2/8/2008 - Blair promises to aid Dichter with travel to UK
Dichter, served as Shin Bet chief during the aerial attack on Shehadeh's Gaza home which also left 14 Palestinian civilians dead, cancelled a planned visit to Britain in June 2007 because of this.
2/8/2008 - 'The Diving Bell' director coming to Israel
American director Julian Schnabel takes an interest in Tel Aviv's ocean and discusses his plans to shoot film in the country about Palestinian journalist. And bring peace to the region
2/8/2008 - Mid-East keenly follows race to White House
Israel hails George Bush's 2004 letter, stating that it should be able to keep Jewish settlements on seized West Bank land, as if it countermanded all the UN resolutions and the International Court of Justice rulings suggesting otherwise. Yet with the race to succeed George Bush down to a choice between Republican John McCain and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the Republican is not the one whom the Israeli establishment would most like to see win.
2/8/2008 - Taking Stock: Combating Anti-Semitism in the OSCE Region
In May 2007 the United Kingdom-based University and College Union offered two separate resolutions which would require its membership to support a Palestinian call for a boycott and endorse restrictions on collaborative research with Israeli scholars. The debate over the proposed academic boycott featured anti-Semitic demonization of Israel, such as Nazi analogies and suggestions that Israel is "a fascist state." The call for a boycott later was called off. Oh I see, so, according to the State Department, comparing Israel's policies to those of the Nazis, and the like, is now considered 'anti-Semitism'? But the policies themselves against those OTHER Semites - the Arabs - are NOT considered anti-Semitic? Okey doke. Here in the Orwellian Israeli-occupied government in America, up is down, left is right, black is white.
2/8/2008 - Report: Americans involved in anti-Olmert plot
Israeli and American right-wingers are ready to pay at least $1 million to anyone who produces evidence of a scandal that would force Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign, Israel's Channel 2 reported.
2/8/2008 - Palestinian aviation dreams dashed
2/8/2008 - BSJP give insight into Palestinian perspective
Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine (BSJP) formed recently as a collaboration of a few individual students looking to show the Brandeis community a side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that they believe is not represented at Brandeis.
2/8/2008 - Tibi okays rightist MK's 'racist' bill
On Monday the Knesset agreed to consider the bill put forth by MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union-National Religious Party) proposing the evacuation of the Palestinian residents of Hebron in 2008. The introduction to the bill explains that "in order to protect the settlers of Hebron, there is a need to evacuate the Arabs from Hebron." That's how Israel became a Jewish state in the first place - the wholesale 'evacuation' of Arabs from Palestine.
2/8/2008 - Los Angeles area interfaith clergy visit Rome, Israel
Speaking with The Journal after his poetic speech, Bishop Gomez expressed his fear that "there is a real danger of an increased anti-Zionism. You can see that in their world. Anti-Semitism has not been abolished. It's still alive everywhere."
Since when does anti-Zionism=anti-Semitism, Bishop? Before or after your hasbaraification in Israel?
2/8/2008 - 41 detainees in Al Ramla Prison hospital facing harsh conditions
2/8/2008 - Obermann slams Dobbs over ADL comment
In an exchange on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Monday, Janet Murguia, a Latino civil rights activist, cited ADL research into extremist groups whose representatives Dobbs had featured on his show, and then she described the league as a respected voice."Not by me," Dobbs replied, "It's a joke." Good call, Dobbs.
2/7/2008 - Teacher killed and pupils hurt in Israeli missile attack
In a separate incident, Israeli ground forces backed by aircraft exchanged fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip, killing six militants.
2/7/2008 - Gaza: Israel?s Energy Cuts Violate Laws of War
Israel?s cuts of fuel and electricity to Gaza, set to escalate today, amount to collective punishment of the civilian population, and violate Israel?s obligations under the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today.
2/7/2008 - Palestinian premier to US for aid talks
Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad is due in Washington on Thursday for talks in Congress over American aid promised to the Palestinian Authority.
2/7/2008 - Starting tomorrow: Escalation in collective punishment of Gaza ? with supreme court approval - further electricity cuts planned
The cutbacks to electricity were permitted after Israel's Supreme Court last week rejected a petition by ten Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations challenging Israel's planned reductions to the supplies of electricity and fuel it allows Gaza residents to purchase.
2/7/2008 - Palestinians: Men killed by IDF strike died during afternoon prayer service
2/7/2008 - RELEASE: Israeli military blocks main access road in South Hebron Hills
2/7/2008 - Hamas rejects Abbas truce offer as Israel kills seven in Gaza
Hamas promptly rejected the offer, with spokesman Fawzi Barhum branding it a "blackmail attempt against the Palestinian people whom (Abbas) has left to be massacred."
2/7/2008 - Rights groups slam Israeli energy cuts to Gaza
2/7/2008 - Egypt threatens to break the legs of Gaza infiltrators
2/7/2008 - Blair sees Palestinians moving to implement "road map"
2/7/2008 - Qassams land near Ashkelon, in western Negev
2/7/2008 - Israel should not 'worsen' Gaza humanitarian crisis: US
"We understand Israel's right to defend itself but we do not think that action should be taken that would infringe upon or worsen the humanitarian situation for the civilian population in Gaza,"
2/7/2008 - Israeli army says rocket silos found in Gaza
The Israeli army on Thursday released video footage of what it said were underground silos in the northern Gaza Strip which militants intended to use to fire rockets into the Jewish state.
2/7/2008 - Two children lightly hurt in Qassam strike on Negev kibbutz
2/7/2008 - Blair, Peres highlight importance to improve Palestinian economy
2/7/2008 - Islamic Jihad rejects deployment of international forces in Gaza
2/7/2008 - Israel arrests 17 Palestinians in West Bank
2/7/2008 - A Palestinian patient looses arm as treatment refused by Israeli hospital
Israeli media sources reported that an injured Palestinian man lost his arm as Israeli hospital refused treat him.
2/7/2008 - Hamas conditionally welcomes return of EU monitors to Rafah crossing
2/7/2008 - Thieving IDF soldiers to be dismissed
Four IDF combat soldiers will apparently be dismissed from their combat unit after they were caught stealing equipment destined for the Palestinians at a roadblock en route to Gaza. The goods in questions were confiscated by authorities before the soldiers proceeded to steal them.
2/7/2008 - ACT Appeal OPT: Gaza Crisis ? MEPL71 Revision 1
The ACT Coordinating Office is based with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Switzerland.
2/7/2008 - Israeli Army blocks the only road for the residents of an east Jerusalem neighborhood
2/7/2008 - Palestinian security forces attack a Palestinian family in Bethlehem
Eyewitnesses told IMEMC that Palestinian troops entered the camp in the late afternoon, officers then tried to remove Hamas flags which were but by a family on their roof tops.
2/7/2008 - Hamas police seize convoy of food, medicine meant for Palestinian Red Crescent: officials
A Hamas official said the aid was seized because the organization was distributing aid to former Fatah fighters and not to impoverished Palestinians.
2/7/2008 - Unknown gunmen blow up a coffee shop in down town Rafah city
2/7/2008 - Hamas: PNA uses Gaza humanitarian crisis for political aims
"The crisis in Gaza was a humanitarian one resulted from the siege...it is unacceptable that the crisis be exploited in a way that builds pressure on Hamas movement,"
2/7/2008 - American Jewish leader: Don't rule out Bush on Iran
US President George W. Bush is committed to dealing with the Iranian nuclear program even as he enters his last year of office, a senior American Jewish leader said Wednesday.
2/7/2008 - Hamas says 26 missiles fired into Israel
Hamas resumed rocket attacks on Tuesday when Israeli air force raided a position of Hamas' police forces in southern Gaza Strip, killing at least six officers.
2/7/2008 - Op-Ed: Posters, pettiness and Palestine
2/7/2008 - Syria says Golan Heights the key to peace with Israel
2/7/2008 - Edwards, Wynn favor further U.S. engagementon Mideast peace
"One of the requests I had [from a Jewish organization] was a full-blown position paper [on Israel]," she said. "I'm also really thoughtful, and I wasn't in a position to sit down and write" such a document. She said that her campaign does have such a paper on foreclosures, but that's because the topic comes up in every meeting she has with voters.
2/7/2008 - Back to abnormal
TWO weeks after the Islamists of Hamas toppled the border fence, letting hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the Gaza Strip spill briefly into Egypt, the situation appears to have returned to what counts as normal. But normal is not good.
2/7/2008 - Israeli-Arab professor ordered to apologize, pledge respect to Israeli army uniform
Hassan remained adamant that he would not give in to the demand.
«I will never, never, never (apologize). I have my pride living in my homeland and I have my rights,» he said. About 40 students rallied on Wednesday in a show of support for him.
2/7/2008 - Top Spies To Be Called in Aipac Trial
The use of these witnesses appears to be part of an unexpected strategy on behalf of the prosecution ? to show that the former lobbyists not only broke the law but also exposed America to a real national security threat More power to 'em (prosecution).
2/7/2008 - America through a lens, brightly
As Hollywood pushes its product aggressively abroad, executives view international talent and themes as ever more critical in promoting films in these markets. In "The Kingdom" Jamie Foxx stars alongside Palestinian actor Ashraf Barhom, who plays a brave Saudi Arabian police officer.
2/7/2008 - One Internet cut explained, but four others still a mystery
2/7/2008 - DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HELP GALWAY WOMAN IN GAZA
The Minister for Foreign Affairs says officials from his Department are trying to help a Galway woman and her daughter who are stranded on the Palestinian side of the Egyptian border.
2/7/2008 - Lebanon's Hariri blasts Syria and Iran, calls for mass rally
2/7/2008 - A Silly Pretext
No Arab or Islamic country armed even with the smallest of atomic bombs will be ready to hit Israel. And that, is because Israel is a small country interwoven and surrounded by Palestinian and Arab nations.
2/7/2008 - U.S. key to Mideast peace, faith leaders say
American Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders say there is an urgent need for U.S. leadership to negotiate a lasting cease-fire in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
2/7/2008 - India to Pay a Price For Launching Israeli Spy Satellite
Besides the much-touted "strategic partnership" with the US, India has also developed a close political and military relationship with Israel, with which it established full diplomatic relations only in 1992. This has entailed a huge shift away from India's traditional support for the cause of Palestinian nationhood.
2/7/2008 - 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. Israel has committed war crimes against US military and our government let them get away with it.
2/7/2008 - Column: Palestinian groups set tone for change through nonviolence
2/7/2008 - FBI now involved in gas station explosion.
Many questions are left surrounding the death of a young Palestinian man. And, the FBI wants answers.
2/7/2008 - Stuck At The Gaza Border
The Israeli terminal at the Erez crossing is infamous. Colleagues have been detained for hours, strip searched, interrogated.
2/7/2008 - At-Tuwani Update January 08
2/7/2008 - Bomber's aunt: He was depressed following parents' divorce
According to the relative, the mother began to worry, but even after hearing about the bombing, none of the relatives imagined that Herbawi was the one who carried it out.
2/7/2008 - U.S. heading to war in Iran, says former inspector
The White House is using outright fabrications and exaggerations to persuade the American public that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program, Ritter and Peck claimed. The ultimate goal, they said, is overthrow of Iran?s Islamic theocracy.
2/7/2008 - Israeli Apartheid Week launches in Soweto
2/7/2008 - Suicide-bombers Just what are they dreaming of?
2/7/2008 - Analyze This: Why 'maverick' McCain is likely to follow consensus when it comes to Israel policy
For many on the Right, especially the so-called Jewish neo-conservatives, a US administration that dedicates itself too fervently, and involves itself too directly in a negotiating process between Israel and the Palestinians, is bound to end up pressuring Jerusalem to make concessions on such matters as West Bank settlements and tough security measures that impact on the general Palestinian population. This is the path the current Republican administration has followed in recent months, and one that fits less with the neo-conservative outlook evident in the early years of the Bush White House, and more with the mainstream of US policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past two decades.
2/6/2008 - Israel rebuffs Egypt-Gaza border deployments
Israeli leaders on Wednesday rejected proposals to secure Gaza's frontier with Egypt with additional Egyptian forces or international troops two weeks after militants blasted it open, officials said.
2/6/2008 - Israeli forces arrest 10 Palestinians in West Bank
2/6/2008 - Israel arrests father of West Bank suicide bomber
2/6/2008 - Bishop Kenney: Israel's Security Wall 'an insult to human dignity'
2/6/2008 - Poll: Hamas gains in popularity after border breach
2/6/2008 - Israeli aircraft pound Gaza
Israeli aircraft pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday following renewed rocket fire against southern Israel, wounding at least three people, a Palestinian medical source said.
2/6/2008 - Israeli strikes wound Gaza militants, civilians: Hamas
Earlier, four civilians were wounded by two air strikes on an unoccupied metal foundry and a caravan that was located outside a Hamas security position, the officials said.
2/6/2008 - DFLP calls for a national campaign to save the Plains areas continued annexation
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called for launching a comprehensive national campaign in order to save the Palestinian Plaines areas, in the Jordan Valley, from the ongoing Israeli settlement expansion and annexation which aim at removing the residents from their lands.
2/6/2008 - Refugee stories - Letters from Gaza (5) ?the lost generation
For the first time, I'm afraid that the Palestinian society for all its innate pride and dignity is walking towards its end - the end of the Palestinian life. I say this simply because when a person loses his faith and hope, he loses everything.
2/6/2008 - Two Irish women trapped in Gaza
The women crossed over into Gaza illegally from Egypt last Saturday after being refused legal entry by Egyptian authorities. They had been distributing money to disadvantaged Palestinians collected by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
2/6/2008 - President Saleh discusses the current Palestinian problems before Arab Summit
2/6/2008 - Iran annoyed with India's launch of Israeli spy satellite
Iran has expressed its concern over India's helping Israel launch a spy satellite and has asked New Delhi to refrain from allowing other countries to launch spying operations from its territory, officials said Tuesday.
2/6/2008 - EU envoy warns Gaza could become the next Somalia
2/6/2008 - A pre-election attack on Iran remains a possibility
2/6/2008 - High level donor delegation visits Nahr el Bared Camp
The donor delegation began the day with a tour of Beddawi Camp, where they visited the office of the Palestinian Reconstruction Committee which, together with UNRWA, is working on the master plan for the reconstruction of Nahr El Bared.
2/6/2008 - MKs petition justice minister to release Israeli Arab prisoners
Lawmakers from United Arab List-Ta'al petition ask Daniel Friedmann to cut jail time for Israel-Arab prisoners convicted of offenses against state security
2/6/2008 - Crowds gathered for Gaza siege demo
More than 100 people turned out for a rally in Preston against the siege in Gaza, Palestine.
2/6/2008 - Blair calls for ?urgency? in Mideast talks
2/6/2008 - Troops demolish a Palestinian-owned house in Jerusalem
2/6/2008 - Judges: City overreacted over Muslim principal
Almontaser, a longtime New York educator and a Muslim of Yemeni descent, said she was forced to resign because of criticism she endured after discussing in the interview the word "intifada," an Arabic term commonly used to refer to the Palestinian uprising against Israel
2/6/2008 - Canada's 'first gangster rapper' earns nominations for 2 awards
The spotlight is shining on the Palestinian-born 23-year-old
2/6/2008 - Defining "hardship" - a new yardstick for Palestinian refugee aid
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, will adopt new criteria to identify hardship cases among the 1.9 million Palestinian refugees who benefit from its humanitarian assistance programme, according to an UNWRA official.
2/6/2008 - Palestinian, Israeli talks still away from final status
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel did not start deep talks on final status issues, a PNA negotiator said on Tuesday
2/6/2008 - Fair Witness Asks Methodists Not to Vote for Divestment
'Fair Witness'=Christian Zionists.
2/6/2008 - Row in Israel over comments by member of 2006 war probe
A member of Israel's Lebanon war commission sparked uproar on Wednesday by suggesting that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should stay in power because he supports the Middle East peace process.
2/6/2008 - Israel approves Egyptian border fence
Defense officials said it would seek the establishment a multinational force in Gaza modeled after the U.N. force in Lebanon as part of a broader final-status agreement toward an independent Palestinian state.
2/6/2008 - Palestinian, Jordanian, And Israeli Researchers Build A New Partnership To Monitor Regional Earthquakes
2/6/2008 - Demand answers about the Liberty incident
More recently, reporter John Crewdson, in the Chicago Tribune, reported that the National Security Agency intercepts of the Israeli pilots? communications during the attack left no doubt that Israel knew that it was attacking an American ship. Crewdson, relying on recently declassified NSA records and interviews with people with first-hand knowledge of the intercepts, tells a story that backs up the survivors? long-dismissed claims.
2/5/2008 - Israeli raids kill nine in Gaza
Israeli forces have killed nine Hamas members in Gaza, as the Islamist group's armed wing said it was behind Monday's suicide bombing in Israel.
2/5/2008 - Israeli FM backs Egyptian request to double forces on border
2/5/2008 - Gaza siege takes terrible toll
"We are seeing evidence of the stunting of children," noted the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which supplies most of the food to the refugee population of Gaza.
2/5/2008 - Hanegbi wants Hamas politicos hit
A top Israeli lawmaker proposed that political leaders of Hamas be marked for assassination.
2/5/2008 - PRC, Fatah claim credit for rocket attacks at Israel
2/5/2008 - Occupied Palestinian Territories: Gaza Emergency Appeal
2/5/2008 - Hamas: ?P.A security arrests four three supporters?
2/5/2008 - Hamas admits suicide attack as Israel retaliates
The announcement came shortly after Israeli forces killed eight Hamas members, including at least six Hamas security police, in an air strike on a police station in the town of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
2/5/2008 - Police shuts down east Jerusalem center, says it is Hamas front
Israel Police has shut down a religious and educational center in east Jerusalem, saying Tuesday it served as a front for Hamas.
2/5/2008 - The Israeli army attack Palestinian homes in Hebron city and kidnaps two civilians
2/5/2008 - Jordan urges US to pressure Israel to halt Gaza attacks
Jordanian Foreign Minister Salah Bashir conferred on Tuesday with US Special envoy for Middle East Security, General James Jones, urging Washington to pressure Israel to put an immediate stop to its attacks on the Gaza Strip.
2/5/2008 - Gov't task force mulls international presence in Gaza
2/5/2008 - 'No repeat' of Gaza breakout, says Egypt's Mubarak
Egypt will not allow its border with Gaza to be breached again by militants seeking to escape an Israeli blockade, President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday in an interview published in Spain.
2/5/2008 - Hamas in Nablus urges militants to surrender arms
"Hamas in Nablus supports the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority and its security services and thanks them for their efforts to re-establish law and order,"
2/5/2008 - Palestinian children hold candles during a Hamas sit-in against the blockade of the Gaza Strip
2/5/2008 - Hamas regrets Egypt's action in deadly border clash
2/5/2008 - At-Tuwani Reflection: Why can't you bring us our donkey?
Armed with nothing but their rights as human beings, the people of
at-Tuwani stood on their land and demanded their due expertly
2/5/2008 - Gaza petrol stations receive reduced fuel after 20-day strike
2/5/2008 - Iran will have nuclear weapon in three years: Mossad
Israel's Mossad spy agency estimates Iran will develop a nuclear weapon within three years and continue to provide rockets to regional armed groups, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
2/5/2008 - In about turn, U.S. says Iran may be able to make nukes by 2009
Speaking two months after an American intelligence report cast doubt on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, National Intelligence Director John Michael McConnell made his remarks during an appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee to present an annual report on threats to the U.S. Geez. I wonder why. Say, who is it that keeps trying to convince our government that Iran is still a threat?..
2/5/2008 - Israelis Want Next US President to Deal With Iran
Israel also is concerned about Iraq -- and a "haphazard [U.S. troop] withdrawal that would strengthen militants and radicals in the Middle East," Gilboa said.
2/5/2008 - MK Elon: Int'l body must resettle Palestinians
Elon notes that even as a group of US congressmen began working last year to stop US funding to UNRWA, Israeli governments have feared dismantling the organization "as part of their continual avoidance of correctly dealing with the refugee problem."
2/5/2008 - Bush budget: Good news for Israel, not so good for domestic programs
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee was expected to welcome the boost in funding for Israel.
2/5/2008 - A New Sykes-Picot Tragedy
Blair has done nothing to pressure the Israelis to lift the siege they have imposed on the 21st Century's Warsaw Ghetto, also known as the Gaza Strip
2/5/2008 - Lenten Stations of the Cross: The First Station
2/5/2008 - USAID inaugurates a new school in Azzoun
The Azzoun School construction was done under the USAID-funded JOBS program, which has assisted in strengthening the Palestinian education sector in 17 villages, benefiting over 70,000 Palestinians.
2/5/2008 - LGBT Palestinian organisation formed in Jerusalem
2/5/2008 - Why I Will Not Participate in the Turin Book Fair
2/5/2008 - Facing up to the 'Facebook' dilemma
Anti-Israel "virtual vandalism" struck last week when pro-Israel sites were hacked into. The vandals replaced the site image with the Palestinian flag and site descriptions with anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist diatribes.
2/5/2008 - Diplomatic duel: Israel vs. Cuba
Cuban ambassador to UN attacks Israel for Gaza blockade as representative of non-aligned movement; Israeli ambassador responds by saying it is unclear who Cuba purports to represent
2/5/2008 - Puppets, poetry for Palestine in D.C.
An anti-occupation group is running an "Israeli Apartheid" week in Washington.
2/5/2008 - Peace Now to court: Order dismantling of Migron
The High Court of Justice is due on Wednesday to hold a hearing on a petition by Peace Now and Palestinian landowners demanding that the state dismantle the illegal outpost of Migron.
2/5/2008 - Ash Wednesday and Fasting Resources for "Way of the Cross, in Occupied Palestine"
CPT Palestine urges that, every Friday during Lent (Fridays being traditional Christian fast days, particularly through Lent), supporters commit to writing letters or make phone calls to end the support of Israeli occupation of Palestine. As a Lenten discipline, on Fridays write or call government officials, write letters to the editors of newspapers, etc.
2/5/2008 - With Rudy out, Jewish Republicans and neocons ponder what's next
His departure seems to have left Republican Jews rudderless, particularly since so many of his advisers were prominent Jews. They included Frum and a slate of neoconservative foreign policy specialists, among them Martin Kramer, Norman Podhoretz, Michael Rubin and Daniel Pipes.
2/5/2008 - Kristol fuels the speculation on McCain-Lieberman ticket
Kristol told the pro-Israel crowd that Lieberman, a U.S. senator from Connecticut, was Sen. John McCain's preferred running mate, according to one attendee.
2/5/2008 - GOP Jews slam Obama on Muslim summit
The statement continued: "Nowhere in the Paris Match article does Senator Obama affirm Israel's right to exist. Nor does he condemn the repeated terrorist strikes against Israel -- the only stable democracy in the region. Further in his interview, Senator Obama said he wanted to listen to the 'concerns' of these nations. For many, their biggest concern is Israel's existence."
2/4/2008 - Israeli troops kill two Hamas gunmen in Gaza
2/4/2008 - 1 killed by Israel suicide bomber
A violent offshoot of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement claimed responsibility, which could complicate recently renewed peace efforts.
2/4/2008 - One dead in Gaza-Egypt shooting
At least one Palestinian has been killed by gunfire that broke out during clashes between Egyptian police and Gazan protestors at the Rafah crossing.
2/4/2008 - Palestinian teen planning stabbing attack nabbed in Hebron
Security forces were able to foil an attack on Border Guard officers stationed in the Cave of Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday, after arresting a Palestinian teen carrying a 9-inch knife.
2/4/2008 - A Palestinian dies of heart attack on one of Israeli checkpoints
It is reported that Ali al Faqeeh aged 44, was previously in good health. He suffered the heart attack while waiting his turn to pass the checkpoint.
2/4/2008 - Zakarnah: W.B government workers will strike Tuesday and Wednesday
2/4/2008 - Palestinian negotiator accuses Hamas of destroying statehood essentials
2/4/2008 - Fatah militant and PFLP claim Dimona bombing
An armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction carried out a bombing in southern Israel on Monday along with another militant group, a Fatah source said.
2/4/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps four civilians from Hebron area
2/4/2008 - 4 Qassam rockets fired at Sderot; no injuries
2/4/2008 - Alarmed at deteriorating situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Palestinian rights committee bureau warns recent political momentum could be jeopardized
Routine Israeli military operations in the West Bank and air strikes at the Gaza Strip, the expansion of settlements in and around East Jerusalem, the continued construction of the wall in the West Bank, and the imposition of a damaging blockade and sanctions on the Gaza Strip are undermining the implementation of the Joint Understanding achieved by the parties at Annapolis and run contrary to Israel?s Road Map obligations. Hundreds of Israeli checkpoints throughout the West Bank threaten to render any economic assistance ineffective.
2/4/2008 - EU to act in Gaza if solution is reached, Solana says
On a two-day-visit in Egypt, European foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the European Union (EU) is ready to take up its role in the Gaza Strip, if a political solution is agreed on, sources said on Sunday.
2/4/2008 - Abbas condemns Palestinian bombing in Israel
President Mahmoud Abbas condemned a Palestinian suicide bombing in the Israeli town of Dimona on Monday but also levelled censure at an earlier military raid by Israel in the occupied West Bank.
2/4/2008 - Hamas sources: Palestinian security forces arrests 9 members of the movement from the West Bank
2/4/2008 - Israeli air force attacks Gaza militant: Hamas
Israel's air force attacked a senior Palestinian militant as he drove through the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding him and at least two others, a source in the ruling Hamas faction said.
2/4/2008 - Jordan's King Abdullah II: 2008 "crossroad" for Mideast peace
2/4/2008 - Egypt gathers Palestinians at al-Arish airport for departure
2/4/2008 - Bush budget launches new Israel aid
The Bush administration increased the amount partly as compensation to Israel for a planned $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors. The administration defends the overall package as necessary to contain Iranian hegemony and to spur Israel and moderate Arab nations to support Israeli-Palestinian peace.
2/4/2008 - Israeli military kidnaps at least three across the West Bank
2/4/2008 - Sibel Edmonds Must Be Heard by Philip Giraldi
Many of the officials involved are apparently the same neoconservatives who cooked the books to enable the rush to war against Iraq and who are continuing to urge more wars in the Middle East, most notably against Iran and Syria. Several of them are close allies of leading Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
2/4/2008 - The Great Betrayal by Patrick J. Buchanan
Where Bush has lately cleansed his administration of neocons, McCain offers the last best hope for a neocon return and restoration and more wars in the Middle East. And if, as seems probable, Bibi Netanyahu again becomes prime minister of Israel, he and a President McCain will find a pretext for war on Iran.
2/4/2008 - Palestinian official: Israel threatens more restrictions on Gaza fuel
2/4/2008 - International Finance Corporation extends help to Palestinians
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, hopes to sign three agreements during a visit by its chief executive officer Lars Thunell to the West Bank in early February.
2/4/2008 - Conquering Conflict through Creation: The Power of a Child's Canvas
The exhibition features work by Palestinian children and youth from the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School and SOS Children's Village Bethlehem.
2/4/2008 - Obama ads in Jewish Calif. papers
"Together we can," they say in large type, and list such items as ensure Israel's security as a Jewish state and its quest for peace; create an affordable universal health care system; end the war in Iraq; and preserve the separation between church and state.
2/4/2008 - With Jewish states up for grabs on Feb. 5, candidates seek edge
All the presidential campaigns in their bid for Jewish support have stressed support for Israel and strength in combating Islamic terrorismn.
2/4/2008 - Sympathy for Gaza Turns Egyptian Footballer Into Hero
Abou Trika, the popular Egyptian soccer player, is now a national hero. He won the hearts of Egyptians for displaying a slogan in support of Gaza at the African Nations Cup.
2/4/2008 - Why Clinton is good for Israel By U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey
In the months and years since Sept. 11, 2001, Senator Clinton's strength, vision and leadership have been invaluable in the efforts to rebuild New York and to ensure
that our nation is never attacked by terrorists again. The fear, confusion, anger and challenges after this tragic attack brought into focus for many Americans the inextricable link between the United States and Israel, a principle Hillary Clinton has long understood.
2/4/2008 - Long struggle finally brings Gaza student to Central Michigan
After nearly a year of being trapped in Gaza, Matar has been freed from the border and is now fulfilling his dreams of getting an education at Central Michigan.
2/4/2008 - French envoy condemns Iran statements
A French ambassador summoned by Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned recent comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad implying Israel would be destroyed, a French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Monday.
2/4/2008 - Jailed Hamas legislators call for countering Israel?s plan to dig a tunnel near the Al Aqsa Mosque
2/4/2008 - Congress, using disinfo from MEMRI, set to cut Egypt's aid
2/4/2008 - Lebanon to lodge UN complaint against Israel for border shooting
Lebanon's government decided Monday to lodge a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel for a cross-border shooting incident that killed one Lebanese man and wounded another.
2/4/2008 - US anti-missile ship to dock in Haifa
An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile defense system that could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian missile attack against Israel.
2/4/2008 - MECC Calls for Solidarity with People of Gaza & Immediate End of Siege
In a statement issued on the 25th of January, MECC General Secretary called the international community to show solidarity with the people of Gaza.
2/4/2008 - Lebanese block Israeli attempt to divert rain water
Lebanese residents from the Southern village of Kfar Kila have thwarted an attempt by Israeli workers backed by Israeli troops to reopen a channel that would allow them to divert rain water form Lebanese territory into Israel, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported on Saturday
2/4/2008 - U.S. condemns attack in Israel and condemns Hamas
2/4/2008 - Hip-hop concludes Palestine Week
2/3/2008 - World Islamic body urges more U.N. action over Gaza
2/3/2008 - Palestinians say settlers uprooted 200 olive trees
Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Jit claimed Sunday that settlers living in the neighboring Havat Gilad outpost have uprooted some 200 olive seedlings belonging to villagers during the night.
2/3/2008 - Acting Palestinian PM says Hamas rule in Gaza doesn't terminate PNA dominance
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)' control on Gaza Strip since last June doesn't terminate the reign of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on the coastal enclave, acting Premier Salam Fayyad said on Sunday.
2/3/2008 - JNF to erect signs in parks, citing destroyed Palestinian villages
The organization's director, Eitan Bronstein, told Haaretz: "I think that today there is more openness to the subject and it is starting to be less threatening. The sky will not fall if we tell people that we kicked out Arabs and destroyed villages."
2/3/2008 - Israel says Hamas got hi-tech weapons in border breach
2/3/2008 - David Miliband and Douglas Alexander concerned over impact on Gaza of fuel cuts by the Government of
We continue to be deeply concerned by the growing humanitarian impact of restrictions by the Government of Israel on industrial diesel supplies to Gaza, particularly on the most vulnerable sections of the population. We welcome Israel's recent decision to increase the supply of industrial diesel and continue to urge them to lift all restrictions on fuel with immediate effect.
2/3/2008 - Barak allows Hebron settlers to install glass windows
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday gave Hebron settlers permission to install glass window panes in a disputed four story building in Hebron while they fight a legal battle to stave off eviction orders.
2/3/2008 - Israeli soldiers suspended for mooning Palestinians
The video was said to have been shot outside the southern city of Hebron, with the troops allegedly exposing themselves to Palestinian shepherds in order to try and make them leave an area near the flashpoint city.
2/3/2008 - Egyptian soldiers seal Gaza border after two weeks of traffic
Despite the flood of Palestinians into Egypt, there remains concern about the economic crisis in Gaza. Yesterday, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East, Robert Serry, said he was concerned about an Israeli high court ruling last week that rejected challenges to an Israeli government decision to reduce fuel and electricity supplies to Gazans.
2/3/2008 - Egyptians seal border with Gaza
Hamas, meanwhile, appears to be running out of options for keeping the border open, as it pledged. Another breach appears unlikely because Hamas cannot afford to alienate Egypt, its main conduit to the Arab world.
2/3/2008 - Despair as Gazans lose link to outside world
the nearly 100 dollars (65 euros) worth of fertiliser and other farm supplies -- a small fortune for a farmer in impoverished and isolated Gaza -- remains on the other side of the frontier, out of reach.
2/3/2008 - Lebanese man 'killed by Israelis'
A Lebanese man has been shot dead and another wounded in south Lebanon by Israel forces, Lebanese security sources have said.
2/3/2008 - Gaza?s Future
Henry Siegman
2/3/2008 - Ships did not cause Internet cable damage
The transport ministry added that footage recorded by onshore video cameras of the location of the cables showed no maritime traffic in the area when the cables were damaged.
2/3/2008 - Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Geopolitical Suspicions
Most notably, Israel and Iraq are unaffected by the outage.
2/3/2008 - Olmert overrules Shin Bet: Agrees to concessions in Shalit deal
2/3/2008 - Chronicle readers question the candidates: Sen. Hillary Clinton
What is your position on Palestinian property rights? Sen. Clinton: Well John, we must never question Israel's right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital
2/3/2008 - Joint PA-Israeli operation brings back 2 dozen stolen cars to Israel
The cars were all recovered from the area surrounding the northern Samarian city of Jenin by Palestinian police.
2/3/2008 - Sy Hersh confirms: Syrian facility bombed by Israel was not nuclear
Hersh appeared on CNN's Late Edition on Sunday to discuss his upcoming article, "A Strike in the Dark," which will appear in the Feb. 11 issue of the New Yorker......Hersh's best guess as to the motivation of the bombing is that it was partly Israeli politics and partly "a message for the Iranians that we're coming."
2/3/2008 - Brigadier General Udi Dekel was appointed on Sunday to head the staff entrusted with conducting negotiations with the Palestinians.
2/3/2008 - NDP condemns situation in Gaza
New Democrats also deplore the failure of Stephen Harper?s government to play a constructive role on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The emergency session the UN Human Rights Council saw Canada voting alone against a resolution condemning the blockade.
2/3/2008 - Why did the Sabarnah cousins go to the library?
2/3/2008 - Egypt briefly detains AFP journalists in Rafah
Plainclothes police officers erased the photographer's memory cards, saying journalists were no longer allowed to photograph the border, which was being closed again after it was blown open by Gaza-based militants 11 days ago.
2/3/2008 - Repairs to start on undersea cable Tuesday
2/3/2008 - Zuckerman: Israel a 'client state' of U.S.
he is pessimistic about the chances for peace between Israel and the Palestinians but that Israel must make the effort because "it is the only way to maintain whatever political support it has, especially in the United States -- but really, in the Western world."
2/3/2008 - Israel eyes Egyptian border fence
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday he was pushing for the government to approve and fund the construction of a fence between the Negev Desert and the Egyptian Sinai to keep out arms smugglers and terrorists.
2/3/2008 - Societe Generale on trial in French-Israel scam
Cheques trafficked from France were allegedly cleared in money exchange offices or banks in Israel, where a third party can clear a cheque by paying a cash sum, making it difficult to trace the origin of the funds. The sums were then repatriated to French banks.
2/3/2008 - Israeli indicted for selling weapons to Palestinians
2/3/2008 - Memoir powerfully recalls Palestinian childhood
2/3/2008 - Op-Ed: Two-state solution key to avoiding Israel=apartheid
The implication for American friends of Israel is that defending Israel -- on or off campus -- means going beyond PR campaigns and into the realm of public policy. It means going the extra mile not only to defend Israel?s image but to actively support its government?s efforts to avert the deterioration toward binationalism.
2/3/2008 - Mea culpa from Washington Post ombudsman
The Washington Post ombudsman said an offensive essay by Arun Gandhi on Jewish identity should not have been published.
2/3/2008 - Pilgrims In The Promised Land
Living Bread International Church founder Karen Dunham of Clearwater, center, talks with men from the Aroub refugee camp outside of Bethlehem. The men are Palestinian Muslims who have come to the gates of the camp to thank Dunham for the help that her group has provided to the refugees.
2/3/2008 - Embassy not target of Mauritania attack
Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, whose agency is responsible for security at Israeli diplomatic installations abroad, told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Cabinet on Sunday that the embassy in Nouakchott was hit by bullets aimed at an adjacent restaurant last Friday.
2/3/2008 - Shin Bet chief: Trial of soldiers' murderers near Hebron a 'farce'
The head of the Shin Bet security services on Sunday blasted the Palestinian Authority for what he termed the 'farcical' legal proceedings held against the Palestinian murderers two off-duty Israel Defense Forces soldiers near the West Bank city of Hebron late last year.
2/3/2008 - Wall Street Journal Votes for Netanyahu
It?s really all part of the same Netanyahu network: the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, the Shalem Center, Freedom?s Watch, and you can add the Middle East specialists at the American Enterprise Institute, Sharansky?s One Jerusalem, etc. etc.
2/2/2008 - P.A security arrests eight Hamas supporters in the West Bank
2/2/2008 - Soldiers terrify family, force father and children under the rain for several hours
2/2/2008 - Palestinian patient dies due to the Israeli siege on Gaza
2/2/2008 - Palestinian Sources: Israel transferred 120 Palestinian prisoners to administrative detention
2/2/2008 - Three boys wounded near Bethlehem
Three Palestinian young boys were injured when Israeli troops opened fire at them in the village of Al-Khader south of Bethlehem on Saturday at night.
2/2/2008 - Commander whose unit shot unarmed Palestinian sentenced to 15 months in jail and a demotion
Dror claims that the way the Palestinian looked at him was enough to classify him as a "suspect" and to justify opening fire.
2/2/2008 - Hamas says will control Gaza-Egypt border transit
2/2/2008 - Safeguarding 'New-cue-lur' Secrets
According to the Times, the Turks and Israelis had planted "moles" in practically every agency or institution involved in nuclear technology. The Turks and their American Turkish Council, Edmonds claimed, often acted as a "conduit," passing nuclear secrets to Pakistan?s Inter-Services Intelligence, and receiving cash payments in return.
2/2/2008 - Hamas: Fatah security forces arrest four Hamas members from several part of the West Bank
2/2/2008 - Crossing into Egypt for supplies
Since the Egypt-Gaza border was breached more than a week ago, Palestinians have been crossing into Egypt looking for items they cannot find in Gaza.
2/2/2008 - Capitulation to all
The security and demographic imperative to maintain the settlement blocs in the Jerusalem area is compelling. The building project freezes at Ma'aleh Adumim and now Givat Ze'ev, however, suggest that the current government does not share this view and that the American administration's 2004 letter notwithstanding, rejects it too.
2/2/2008 - HEBRON: Tragedy in Beit Ummar pt II: Rest in peace?
Before anyone reached the gate, and without any provocation or warning, the IDF began firing on the procession, first with live ammunition, and then with plastic bullets, tear gas, and concussion grenades. Three Palestinians were immediately injured near the internationals and taken away by ambulance as the outraged procession retreated
2/2/2008 - Israelis told to prepare 'rocket rooms' for war
Retired senior officers told Israelis on Saturday to prepare "rocket rooms" as protection against a rain of missiles expected to be fired at the Jewish state in any future conflict
2/2/2008 - Commission launches PEGASE - a new mechanism to support the Palestinian people
2/2/2008 - Palestinian tries to sneak lion and monkey into Gaza
2/2/2008 - Qaeda claims Israel embassy attack in Mauritania:
Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania early on Friday, wounding at least three people but hurting no embassy staff.
2/2/2008 - Canadian Inquiry Blames Israelis for Deaths in 2006
A Canadian military inquiry's report released Friday blames Israeli forces for the "tragic and preventable" deaths of a Canadian soldier and three other United Nations observers in Lebanon in July 2006.
2/2/2008 - Lebanon orders arrest of 11 soldiers over shootings
A Lebanese judge ordered on Saturday the arrest of three army officers and eight soldiers over the killing of opposition protesters a week ago in some of Beirut's deadliest street violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
2/2/2008 - Former '60 Minutes' Producer Says Show Could Get No Congressman to Speak on the Record About AIPAC
2/1/2008 - Gaza blockade threatens education crisis: UNICEF
"Children are forced to work in catastrophic conditions, without heat or electricity," UNICEF spokeswoman Veronique Taveau told journalists.
2/1/2008 - Hamas release senior Fatah aide
Hamas has freed an aide of Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad seven weeks after he was detained in the Gaza Strip.
2/1/2008 - Arab Israelis strike over dropped shooting probe
2/1/2008 - Hamas bulldozes Egypt-Gaza crossing
Hamas has used a bulldozer to widen a breach in the Gaza-Egypt border so trucks could pass out of the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory, despite Egypt's efforts to seal the crossing, witnesses said.
2/1/2008 - Mashaal: Shalit being treated with kid gloves
2/1/2008 - OFID extends US$5 million grant to assist relief efforts in the Gaza Strip
2/1/2008 - Palestine Red Crescent: working and living under siege in Gaza
2/1/2008 - MCC responds to Gaza blockade crisis with emergency assistance
Mennonite Central Committee is responding to this crisis by providing $25,000 in emergency assistance to buy food, blankets and warm winter clothing for 180 of Gaza?s most vulnerable households in the Khan Yunis Refugee Camp and Gaza City.
2/1/2008 - Leaflet: IDF will fire at residents if they hurl stones
As if Palestinians didn't already know that.
2/1/2008 - Travel brings surprises to Gazans
One Egyptian truck driver ignored a policeman's order to stop and rolled through an intersection in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. Instead of being reprimanded by the normally stern Hamas traffic police, he was cheered by onlookers.
2/1/2008 - Hundreds of Hamas supporters protest against Egypt's attempts to close border breach
Hundreds of Hamas supporters protested on the breached Gaza-Egypt border Friday to demand it remain open, while Egyptian troops poured cement and laid down metal spikes in a new attempt to halt the influx of Gazans.
2/1/2008 - Ambassador upset by newspaper column on Israel
Israel's ambassador to New Zealand has criticised as "outrageous" an article in a New Zealand newspaper which called Israel a "terrorist state"......."What's the next move for Israeli leaders? They could have to follow the example of the Nazis who in the end massacred everyone inside the compound," The truth hurts.
2/1/2008 - Israeli delays mean no Gaza schoolbooks: UN
Children in Gaza will start the second half of their school year on Saturday without textbooks because Israeli authorities delayed authorising imports of paper to print them on, a UN official said.
2/1/2008 - Three injured in the weekly Bil'in protest
2/1/2008 - "We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans"
A dual Israeli-American national, Grossman has promoted the neocon agenda of forcing "regime change" in the Middle East. "[T]he time has come now," he declared on the eve of the Iraq invasion, "to make a stand against this kind of connection between weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. And we think Iraq is a place to make that stand first . . . the great threat today is the nexus between weapons of mass destruction and terrorism."
2/1/2008 - The Nation: The Strangulation of Gaza
All this is supposed to be in response to Palestinian militant groups' firing of crude homemade rockets into Israel, which rarely cause any actual damage. There can be no excuse for firing rockets at civilian targets, but Israel was squeezing Gaza long before the first of those primitive projectiles was cobbled together.
2/1/2008 - Religious leaders back President's Israeli-Palestinian peace pledge
2/1/2008 - Palestinian refugees in Iraq call for unity
Palestinian refugee in Iraq, facing repeated attacks, abductions and killings, voiced an appeal to the Palestinian people in Palestine and to all factions in order to save them and place their issue as a high priority. The refugees called on all Palestinian factions to end the internal tension and to unite
2/1/2008 - Defending Israel to the "End Times"
2/1/2008 - Horowitz Returns to Meet Officials
Horowitz said he wants to discuss his campus appearance on Oct. 24 ? a speech on ?Islamo-Fascism? that he ended prematurely due to repeated interruptions by outside protesters.
2/1/2008 - Poll: Most U.S. Muslims reject attacks on civilians
The poll also found that 75 percent of respondents agreed that "brokering a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would improve America's reputation in the Muslim world."
2/1/2008 - Deminers find new cluster bomb sites without Israeli data
while Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist clearing the estimated one million unexploded bomblets, which continue to kill and maim civilians and decimate rural livelihoods. A single cluster bomb can disperse hundreds of bomblets.
2/1/2008 - Chronicle readers question the candidates: Gov. Mike Huckabee
What is your position on Palestinian property rights? Huckabee believes in ethnic supremacism. Well, at least he answered the question.
2/1/2008 - Chronicle readers question the candidates: Sen. John McCain
What is your position on Palestinian property rights? He doesn't even have the cojones to directly answer the question.
2/1/2008 - 'I'm absolutely passionate about the Middle East. Nothing is more vital to world peace'
Mr Blair believes that the current strategy towards Gaza, which was until recently blockaded by Israel as punishment for Hamas rockets that had been fired at Israeli civilians, is badly flawed.
2/1/2008 - Russia slams Israeli blockade, Palestinian rocket attacks
2/1/2008 - Palestinians are victims of collective punishment
2/1/2008 - Newspaper columnist freed after being held by Hamas for 49 days
2/1/2008 - Divisions deepen Palestinian despair
2/1/2008 - British Jewish group sparks new outrage with condemnation of Gaza blockade
A controversial coalition of prominent Jewish activists and academics has reignited controversy in the British Jewish community after taking out an paid advertisement in The Times thsi week calling for Israel to lift its economic blockade of the Gaza strip and accusing the state of breaching international law.
2/1/2008 - Crowds expected for Gaza siege demo
Organisers are expecting a large turn-out at a rally in Preston this weekend against the siege in Gaza, Palestine.
2/1/2008 - Bloggers try to counter anti-Israel media bias with bad news on other states
Over the past months, seven activists from Israel and elsewhere have been exposing online readers to scandalous yet accurate reports from media in Britain (violent drunk teens), France (high homeless mortality), Norway (serial child molesters), Finland (sexual harassment in parliament), Sweden (soaring suicide rates), The Netherlands (menacing Muslim unrest), Mexico (rampaging flood victims) and Los Angeles (drive-by killings).
2/1/2008 - Let There Be Light
Students gather at People?s Park in I.V. on Thursday night for a Candlelight Vigil for the Palestinian People
2/1/2008 - The Road to Gaza ?
This little bit of freedom was so precious to the Palestinians that they obviously thought going to sleep for the night was obviously a waste of time. Every moment in Egypt became party time.
2/1/2008 - "Breaking the Silence" on Israel's occupation
An Israeli veterans group will tour the U.S. East Coast to talk about the moral price of Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
2/1/2008 - State: Abbas will be funded
The letter was supported by a broad array of pro-Israel groups, notably including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, because Ackerman made it clear the moneys should be project-based. That qualification arose out of a concern that direct funding of the P.A. might not include controls that would keep the money from corrupt officials or terrorists.
2/1/2008 - New cable cut compounds net woes
A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
2/1/2008 - Gun attack on Israeli embassy in Mauritania
The attack comes after political parties in Mauritania, an Islamic republic which includes black and Arab Africans, called for the government to break diplomatic ties with Israel.
2/1/2008 - CPT Palestine Announces ?The Way of the Cross, in Occupied Palestine? Campaign
2/1/2008 - Tragedy in Beit Ummar: A closer look
2/1/2008 - "Hebron" Snow Blankets Hebron
2/1/2008 - People Power in Gaza
Armies can be defeated but human spirit cannot be subdued. Gaza's act of collective courage is one of the greatest acts of civil disobedience of our time
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