January '07 Archive

01-31-07 - Israeli troops kill two militants in West Bank

01-31-07 - Israel's Olmert looks to extend West Bank barrier

01-31-07 - Palestinian truce holds despite sporadic attacks A ceasefire between the governing Hamas movement and the once-dominant Fatah faction largely held in the Gaza Strip for a second day despite sporadic incidents of violence on Wednesday.

01-31-07 - Israeli soldier wounds a Palestinian girl with a stone A Palestinian girl was wounded when she was hit with a stone thrown by an Israeli soldier in the village of Saida near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, Palestinian sources reported.

01-31-07 - Four Palestinians wounded in Israeli ambush in Jenin

01-31-07 - One woman injured in an Israeli invasion in Nablus The wife of Jawabra was injured when the under-cover troops used a small explosive device to detonate the Jawabra?s door. The door was flung by the force of the blast and struck the woman.

01-31-07 - Gaza Residents Protest at Factional Infighting Hundreds of Palestinian residents in Gaza city took part today in an anti-infighting protest, in which they called for ending all forms of internal violence.

01-31-07 - Clashes erupted in Gaza following a drive-by shooting

01-31-07 - Palestinian family locked in limbo "Their first choice is to get out of detention. If that means going back to the West Bank and Gaza, they'll accept it." ....."To me, it's really an indecent, inhumane thing for ICE to do. It's un-American," he said. "It's definitely criminal. Putting a 5-year-old child in jail for three months is a crime." Palestinians aren't ever going to be given a fair shake by the United States. Millions of illegals are allowed to roam freely in the US - but let's get them Palestinians (including children)!

01-31-07 - Egypt urges PA to form one army

01-31-07 - Detainees in Majeddo demand army to stop attacks against them Palestinian detainees imprisoned at the Majeddo Israeli prison appealed the international community to interfere and stop the continuous attacks carried against them by the soldiers.

01-31-07 - Investors urged to support Palestine

01-31-07 - Government increases assistance for Palestinian refugees Ireland has a long term programme of development and humanitarian assistance in Palestine. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is a key humanitarian partner for Irish Aid for the Palestinian people.

01-31-07 - Turkey condemns Palestinian suicide bombing in Eilat

01-31-07 - Settlers take Palestinian lands by force, plant trees on them Dozens of farmers from the West Bank city of Hebron complained that Jewish settlers took their lands by gunpoint and started digging holes in the lands in preparation for planting thousands of trees before the Tu B?Shvat Jewish holiday. The settlers were carrying there attack under the soldiers? protection.

01-31-07 - Greensboro Police: 'No Hate Crime' Commited "Obviously there was a physical confrontation,? said James. ?We did not gather any evidence that would indicate that any name calling if any names were called lead to the fight."

01-31-07 - Peretz visits NATO Amir Peretz visited the international security alliance?s headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday for what his aides said was primarily a discussion of the global threat posed by Iran?s nuclear program

01-31-07 - Hysteria at Herzliya by Patrick J. Buchanan ** There is no need for war. Yet, Israelis, neocons, and their agents of influence are trying to whip us into one. Senators who are seeking absolution for having voted to take us into Iraq ought to be confronted and asked just what they are doing to keep us out of a war in Iran. Give 'em hell, Buchanan.

01-31-07 - Qatar to host symposium on Palestine The symposium will focus on mobilising the international support for assisting the Palestinian people. The symposium in Doha comes in line with the firm stances of the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in support of the Palestinian people.

01-31-07 - Israeli Army destroy Palestinian home in Nablus

01-31-07 - Israel has no plans against Iran ** Asked if he would rule out military action, Peres said, "By Israel, yes. Israel doesn't intend to use military action." Because in all likelihood, WE'LL be doing it for them.

01-31-07 - Hamas slams Bush for transferring money to Abbas "The U.S. policy aims at colonizing the people and creates internal fighting to boost American presence in the region,"

01-31-07 - Official and popular activists condemn Israeli excavations In Jerusalem Jordan?s official and popular activists rejected the Israeli authorities' pretexts Israeli declared to justify excavations in the Aqsa Mosque area.

01-31-07 - Rice to press for faster 'roadmap' plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace 'We need to attack Iran NOW!'

01-31-07 - 21 Palestinians abucted by Israeli forces in West Bank overnight

01-31-07 - INTERVIEW - Mideast quartet may be at turning point - envoy

01-31-07 - Hamas: ?We will not recognize the Zionist entity?

01-31-07 - Lebanon Crisis Fails Mediation, Plays into Israeli Hands It was sarcastically ironical for Bush to describe the Syrians as ?occupiers,? a word that he has so far missed to learn or utter in reference to his country?s four-year old occupation of Iraq or to the 40-year old Israeli occupation of the Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese Arab territories.

01-31-07 - Israel Boycott and Its Discontents The pro-Israel crowd that turned up for the vote can take comfort in the fact that they had lots of support from the Jewish Defense League, a FBI-classified terrorist group that is banned in Israel yet which mysteriously operates openly in Canada.

01-31-07 - Spooked Beirutis fear new 'balloon-borne' Israeli plot "It wasn't enough that they violate our skies daily with their drones and warplanes, now they sending over their balloons to terrorize the Lebanese people,"

01-31-07 - Former Israeli minister found guilty of sexual harassment

01-31-07 - Lawmakers seek Katsav ouster Israeli lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against President Moshe Katsav.

01-31-07 - Israel probes 'Sanhedrin' The rabbis allegedly branded Naveh a "rodef," or pursuer of Jews, after he placed restrictions on the movements of suspected far-right settler activists. Israeli Taliban.

01-31-07 - Columbia Missourian - Speaking out for peace Former Palestinian and Israeli soldiers speak at MU about their fight to end bloodshed.

01-31-07 - American Road Trip Through Arab Eyes

01-31-07 - Man: I was hate crime victim A Largo resident of Palestinian descent says a man yelled slurs at him at Sam's Club in Clearwater.

01-31-07 - Presiding Bishop, religious leaders address Israeli/Palestinian peacemaking in meeting with Condoleezza Rice

01-31-07 - Bethlehem: prayers and peaceful protest in bulldozed orchards

01-31-07 - U.S. worried about Israel's intellectual property laws "The American government and American companies are very concerned about the state of intellectual property rights in Israel, and we hope Israel will address these concerns," said U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary David Sampson yesterday in an interview with TheMarker. .....The U.S. also demands increased transparency in government tenders, the removal of commercial barriers between American companies and the Palestinian Authority, and the amendment of Israeli regulations to increase conformity with international regulations

01-31-07 - L.A. Israeli Consul General To Foreign Ministry: UPZ And Breaking The Silence Programs Harm Israel's Image And Must Be Stopped these harsh attacks by Jews against Israel have much greater credibility than harsh attacks against Israel by Arabs and are therefore more dangerous...."The United States Commission on Civil Rights, an independent bipartisan federal agency, recently recognized that anti-Semitism, including Israel-bashing, is a serious problem on our campuses. We therefore agree with the LA Israeli Consul General's office that the pro-Israel communities must not add fuel to the Israel-bashing fire by allowing the UPZ programs the credibility and legitimacy of being a part of our pro-Israel ICC umbrella." Already being used to silence critics of Israel - even those that so happen to be Israeli Jews.

01-31-07 - Candlelight Vigil In Downtown LA Silent Candlelight Vigil to Support a Boycott of the Israel Philharmonic and an End to Israeli Apartheid in Palestine

01-31-07 - Iran, Israel, The Big Lie and The Real Threat While many groups have been terrifying their members by depicting Ahmadinejad as bent on exterminating Jews, the Israeli lobby has been doing the same job on our government.

01-31-07 - More dubious charges leveled at Carter from the usual corners And given ample airtime at Fox News - not surprisingly.

01-31-07 - Judge Refuses To Deport Two Men Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, two Palestinian men who were accused along with six others of having ties to Palestinian terrorists, were allowed in a ruling made public Tuesday to retain their U.S. citizenship, The Los Angeles Times reported. Strike that. Reverse (my earlier comments)...

01-31-07 - Textbooks promote jihad, Israeli study says Israel 'promotes Jihad' when it continually goads the US into fighting its wars in the Middle East. This has proved very costly both in terms of American blood and treasure.

01-31-07 - Jewish group condemns Spanish 'genocide' memorial Abraham H. Foxman, said: "Your attempt to equate the industrialized mass murder of six million Jewish women, men and children, as well as millions of others, with the situation of the Palestinian people is shameful."

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01-30-07 - Hamas commander shot, despite ceasefire

01-30-07 - Hamas militant killed in Gaza despite truce

01-30-07 - Palestinian security officer dies of wounds he sustained on Monday Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian security officer of the 17 force, a Fatah affiliated force, died on Tuesday morning due to wounds he sustained on Monday during the Hamas Fatah infighting in Khan Younies city in the southern Gaza strip.

01-30-07 - Abbas condemns Eilat suicide bombing

01-30-07 - Abbas denounces Hamas executive force as 'illegal' Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has condemned the existence of the so-called executive force answerable to the Hamas-controlled interior ministry as "illegal."

01-30-07 - Hamas, Fatah swap hostages under Gaza truce deal

01-30-07 - Israeli special forces stage ambush, shoot and injure 12 year old in Jenin Mahmoud Abed was on his way back to Kafr Dan Village with his 12 year old son, Sa'ed. When he saw that the area was closed, he began to turn the car around in order to return to Jenin City. Israeli soldiers opened fire and shot the child.

01-30-07 - Olmert approves shifting Wall route to include settlements The move will lead to the creation of two Palestinian enclaves, inhibited by at least 20.000 residents, while both settlements have 1500 settlers living there.

01-30-07 - Explosion in shop in Rafa, southern Gaza

01-30-07 - Civilians caught in the crossfire

01-30-07 - Let Our Children Live Abir Aramin has joined the thousands of other children killed in this country and the territories it occupies.

01-30-07 - Police Interview Guilford College Accusers

01-30-07 - Demographer: Israel should relinquish Palestinian areas of Jerusalem

01-30-07 - Israel not likely to face sanction for breaching cluster-bomb pact A pro-Israel lobbyist said one possible repercussion is that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) may reintroduce legislation to make the sale of cluster bombs explicitly conditional on not using them in civilian areas.

01-30-07 - Bush: Iraq failure impacts Iran ** Israeli leaders have expressed concerns that controversies surrounding the Iraq war will inhibit U.S. resolve in confronting Iran?s nuclear program.

01-30-07 - MPs meet Hamas and criticise embargo against Palestinians

01-30-07 - Israeli army abducts 23 Palestinian men from a village near Nablus

01-30-07 - If Arafat were still alive If Arafat was poisoned, it doesn't necessarily mean that Israel was behind it. Towards the end, he was a convenient excuse for Israel to refuse to negotiate a peace deal.

01-30-07 - MPs attack UK-backed financial boycott of Palestinian Authority The report by the all-party International Development committee criticises the UK-backed financial boycott of the Palestinian Authority and says that this is drawing Palestinians closer to Iran.

01-30-07 - Reflection: Suffer the Little Children Israeli soldiers were detaining a group of schoolgirls about 100 yards from their school gate. The soldiers do not usually stop the children there, and they looked confused by the situation. A small girl, six or seven years old, nervously moved away from the group, then ran as quickly as she could towards her school gate. She did not stop when the soldier shouted. The soldier raised his gun, but she probably did not notice, she was so intent on reaching her school. Had she been, as young children often are, anxious about being late for school?

01-30-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: Commentary on recent video showing Hebron settler woman harassing Abu Aisha family We were welcomed to Abu Aisha's home. After the customary tea, they began to tell us their stories. One of the daughters had been stoned by the settler kids a few days ago and another daughter had been hit with a metal bar. Because the settlers were stoning their windows, they put grilles in front of them but the settlers poked metal bars through the grilles and broke the new windows. They showed us a bullet hole high up in one of the windows and the holes that the bullet had made in the curtains.

01-30-07 - Jewish Student Sentenced to House-Arrest For Phony Bomb Threat Yeshiva student and dual Israeli-American citizen Yechezkel Wells was sentenced to six months of hour arrest for phoning in a phony bomb threat last summer. Outrageous.

01-30-07 - Gaza anxious over fragile truce

01-30-07 - Baker: Syria talks may help Israel If the Bush administration opened a dialogue with Syria it could remove a major roadblock to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking - Hamas' refusal to recognize the Jewish state - former Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Tuesday.

01-30-07 - Israeli forces demolishing East Jerusalem homes Tuesday morning Israeli forces are demolishing more Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. Several Bedouin homes were slated for destruction to expand the Ma'ale Adumim Settlement. Jerusalem's ICAHD is on the scene as Israeli bulldozers tear through the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Azaria and At Tur.

01-30-07 - Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man and attacks residents houses in villages near Hebron

01-30-07 - Launch of major coalition to end Israeli occupation of Palestine Actors, politicians and members of human rights, solidarity and peace movements, including Pax Christi, gathered today in Westminster for the launch of a new coalition ENOUGH: End the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.

01-30-07 - Peres rejects Qatari leader's proposal for direct talks with Hamas-led government

01-30-07 - Project part of 'strategy to help Palestinians' A Dh47.7 million housing project under construction in the Gaza Strip is part of the UAE's "long-term commitment" to the Palestinian people, according to a Red Crescent official.

01-30-07 - Legislative Council holds session without many from Hamas, leftist says PLC is outside the conflict

01-30-07 - Israeli Realism on Iran Belies Threat Rhetoric Occasionally, Israeli officials do let slip indications that their fears of Iran are less extreme than the "second holocaust" rhetoric would indicate. Last November, Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh explained candidly in an interview with the Jerusalem Post that the fear was not that such weapons would be launched against Israel but that the existence of nuclear capability would interfere with Israel's recruitment of new immigrants and cause more Israelis to emigrate to other countries.

01-30-07 - Bush unveils security aid for Palestinian ally

01-30-07 - Russia wants Palestinian aid freeze lifted

01-30-07 - Call to honor ICJ ruling against Wall and fight land confiscation in western Salfit The Popular Committee to Resist the Apartheid Wall is calling for the implementation of the Hague's decision of two years ago. The International Court of Justice ruled that the Israeli Wall being built inside the West Bank was illegal, must immediately be stopped and what had been done already must be removed and compensated for.

01-30-07 - U.N. says 700 Palestinians stranded at Iraq border Some 700 Palestinians are stranded at the Iraq-Syria border, living in inhumane conditions in no-man's land after fleeing violence in Iraq, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.

01-30-07 - Potter star backs Palestinian cause Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes launched the ENOUGH! campaign with an emotional appeal to fellow Jews to stand up against Israel.

01-30-07 - Judge rejects complaint in AIPAC ex-staffers case The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers dismissed their request for a hearing on what they called violations of grand jury leak laws.

01-30-07 - SLU group hosts pro-Palestinian event

01-30-07 - Wolf Blitzer is a Zionist

01-30-07 - Fresh lenses trained on ME conflict Seven young Israelis and seven young Palestinians have gathered in a monastery in the hills above Jerusalem to begin a six-month photographic dialogue.

01-30-07 - Nasrallah vows Lebanon will be graveyard for invaders Nasrallah, addressing a huge crowd gathered for the sacred Shiite day of Ashura, accused US President George W. Bush and Israel of "trying to defeat resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq by starting civil wars."

01-30-07 - Students Under Occupation Take a Stand In 2005, student photographers from Birzeit University and Al-Najah University in the West Bank came together to document student life and the obstruction of Palestinian education under military occupation, through the artistic expression of their own ideas and experiences

01-30-07 - Decorated Journalist and Middle East Expert Robert Fisk to Speak at Ithaca College

01-30-07 - Israel was skeptical of Iraq, scholar says "Israel was very aware of the fact that from its point of view, Iran was the bigger threat." Israel wants all of its enemies removed - by US.

01-30-07 - Essay linking liberal Jews and anti-Semitism sparks furor A historian at New York University, Mr. Judt said in a telephone interview that he believed the real purpose of outspoken denunciations of him and others was to stifle harsh criticism of Israel.

01-30-07 - The media let readers down

01-30-07 - Our Opinion: Get Carter The Former President Should Speak at Emory

01-30-07 - Carter's Controversy

01-30-07 - Not my Israel

01-30-07 - Former FM says Israel a captive of Shoah memories he concluded his speech with criticism of Israel and Jews in general, saying "if the strongest nation in the Middle East refers to every war and every threat as a threat of Holocaust, we ourselves are making the Holocaust banal."

01-30-07 - Event billed as speech by ex-terrorists draws ire "Where is the FBI? Where is the (Immigration and Naturalization Service) to strip his citizenship, as they did with so many others with so fewer allegations?" These 'former terrorists' are darlings of the Israeli lobby - THAT'S why they're allowed in this country; to propagandize. Others that committed lesser crimes are in our PRISONS right now.

01-30-07 - Public meeting to address Guilford fight

01-30-07 - Miriam backs peace drive Actress Miriam Margolyes will today help launch a new coalition calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

01-30-07 - Iran, Israel, and our shared security goals By Newt Gingrich The US should have as an explicit goal, regime change in Iran, as its constitution makes them a revolutionary regime.....If we are going to live with the Palestinians then we need to gain control of their urban spaces

01-30-07 - U.S. not ready to resolve Mideast problem - Russian analyst "Ultimately, the president will have to put pressure on Israel, for it to make even minimal concessions. However, it is very doubtful that under the current conditions, Bush has sufficient political capital,"

01-30-07 - Supporting the Holy Land On his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with other bishops from around the world, Bishop Joan Enric Vives Sicilia called on Christians to visit the area without fear.

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01-29-07 - Three Israelis dead as Eilat suffers first suicide attack It was the first suicide bomb in Israel for nine months and the first ever in the Red Sea town, a tourist destination hundreds of miles south of Israel's major cities and the Palestinian territories.

01-29-07 - Gaza ceasefire comes into force A ceasefire has begun in Gaza after several days of fierce fighting between the two main Palestinian factions - Hamas and Fatah.

01-29-07 - Bombing in Israeli resort town shatters lull in attacks The bombing comes ahead of a Washington meeting of the international Quartet of Arab-Israeli peace process sponsors, the US, the United Nations, the European Union, and Russia.

01-29-07 - Israeli aircraft strike Gaza tunnel

01-29-07 - Russia says Hamas to recognize earlier accords with Israel The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is ready to recognize earlier accords with Israel thanks to the joint effort of Russia and Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.

01-29-07 - Forgotten emergency in the Occupied Palestinian Territory UNICEF is appealing for Ģ13 million to address the humanitarian needs of children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

01-29-07 - Voices: Palestinian factions - Adli

01-29-07 - Voices: Palestinian factions - Tom

01-29-07 - Bush's backdoor attack: Iran via Hizbullah New policy authorizing attacks on Iranian agents in Iraq also allows for covert ops against Iran-backed terror groups all across ME, including Hizbullah Evidently, the US just isn't doing enough to take out Israel's enemies.

01-29-07 - Voices: Palestinian factions - Said

01-29-07 - Voices: Palestinian factions - Laila

01-29-07 - Ministers decide to beef up policing of West Bank settlers The Yesh Din organization expressed disappointment with the decisions, claiming that previous attempts to deploy a police force specifically intended to deal with settler violence have failed.

01-29-07 - Voices: Palestinian faction violence The BBC News website spoke to people in Gaza and the West Bank about the situation.

01-29-07 - Refugees protest cuts in international relief The current cuts are specifically targeting the area of education, Jarme said during a demonstration near the Wall that now runs along the northern side of the northern Bethlehem refugee camp.

01-29-07 - Peace Now: New construction at outposts slated for evacuation

01-29-07 - Israeli army abducts 17 Palestinian men from northern West Bank areas

01-29-07 - Political prisoners move to hunger strike: What is happening is an insult to what we have sacrificed "There is no recourse for the prisoners but to declare an open hunger strike in protest of the security problems that threaten to set back the national project many years in an effort to restore the Palestinian cause.?

01-29-07 - Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem, Israeli Style by Paul Findley

01-29-07 - Abbas arrives in Cairo for talks with Mubarak The Abbas-Mubarak talks will focus on the internal Palestinian clashes and the efforts to end the crisis in order to return to national unity talks in an attempt to form a unity government.

01-29-07 - Palestinian bomber had lost his daughter The Palestinian who blew himself up in the Israeli resort of Eilat on Monday was unemployed, despondent over the death of his baby daughter and driven to avenge his best friend's killing by Israeli troops, relatives said.

01-29-07 - United States: Cut Off Cluster Munition Sales to Israel "We've investigated cluster munitions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, but we?ve never seen use of cluster munitions that was so extensive and dangerous to civilians," said Steve Goose, director of the arms division at Human Rights Watch. "The issue is not whether Israel used the American cluster munitions lawfully, but what the US is going to do about it."

01-29-07 - 6th college player charged with assault

01-29-07 - Africa serves as inspiration to Palestinian cause: Abbas "The fight of African leaders to free themselves from colonialism and racism is a great source of inspiration to our people who are the last people to still be the victims of colonialism."

01-29-07 - US studies Israel's cluster bomb use in Lebanon Opinion among US officials was divided, the New York Times reported at the weekend. The paper said some middle-ranking officials at the Pentagon and the state department were arguing that Israel had violated prohibitions on using cluster munitions against civilian areas......"What is shocking and completely immoral is 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution," the UN humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, said soon after the war ended.

01-29-07 - Future for Palestinian Christians

01-29-07 - Witness Disputes Parent's Account Of Self Defense

01-29-07 - Beirut family struggles with war's legacy echoing the views of Hizbullah leaders, this family's anger is aimed at Israel and the US, which many Lebanese and Arabs blame for not stopping Israel from systematically destroying Lebanon's infrastructure.

01-29-07 - Exclusive: IAF to buy US smart bombs According to defense sources, the funds for the deal will come from the IAF's procurement fund. The deal will not require congressional approval since Israel is exercising a previously approved option to purchase the system.

01-29-07 - Israel is the real winner of America's War on Iraq and Iran (If attacked)

01-29-07 - Former CIA chief: Let Pollard go "My view is that a 20-year sentence is enough," James Woolsey, who directed the spy agency from 1993-1995, told Arutz Sheva, an Israeli radio station. They're both traitors.

01-29-07 - JDO spurs shutdown of Neturei Karta hotline The JDO published on its Web site the phone number of Emily Trone, manager of Eagle Teleconferencing Service. Trone decided to take down the Neturei Karta's voice mail after receiving more than 100 calls Monday, she told JTA. "People started threatening me," she said.

01-29-07 - U.S. cool to Saudi Arabia's peace broker offer

01-29-07 - Cluster bomb wounds two Belgian soldiers in Lebanon A cluster bomb explosion has wounded two Belgian soldiers on demining operations in southern Lebanon following last summer's war between Hezbollah and Israel, a UN spokesman said.

01-29-07 - Israel's existence is in peril, expert tells crowd at temple ''The goal is getting the Palestinians to give up,'' scholar and columnist Daniel Pipes told the crowd Sunday night. Pipes is a neocon.

01-29-07 - Palestinian journalists face sticky situation

01-29-07 - Advocates to speak on struggle for peace

01-29-07 - Photo Exhibition Against Checkpoints at Huwwara

01-29-07 - Federation of Palestinian immigrants has new board of directors The Palestinian Arab Confederation of Brazil (Copal) is now called Federation of Brazilian Arab Palestinian Organizations (Fepal), and its new president is Elayyan Aladdin.

01-29-07 - Catholic, other leaders seek more vigorous U.S. role in Mideast peace

01-29-07 - White House lukewarm to Saudi mediation offer The White House reacted cautiously to Saudi Arabia's offer to mediate talks between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, casting doubt on Hamas's commitment to forging peace with Israel.

01-29-07 - US oks cases against accused terror-funding bank Israelis and other foreign nationals can pursue claims in US courts accusing the Jordan-based Arab Bank of promoting Palestinian suicide attacks by funneling Saudi money to bombers' families, a judge ruled.

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01-28-07 - 25 killed in Gaza violence as factions abandon talks

01-28-07 - Saudis seek Palestinian dialogue Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has invited rival Palestinian leaders to a meeting in Mecca aimed at ending a recent wave of factional fighting.

01-28-07 - PCHR: Are We Proud of This?! The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued its findings from the Fateh - Hamas clashes. The full report follows: 19 Palestinians, Including Two Children, Killed and at Least 70 Others Wounded in Shameful Bloody Clashes between Hamas and Fatah Movements.

01-28-07 - Fatah accepts Egyptian initiative to end fighting with Hamas

01-28-07 - Religious leaders take to the streets of Ramallah and Gaza City in protest of internal fighting Religious leaders staged sit-ins Sunday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in protest of the Fateh ? Hamas fighting

01-28-07 - Gazans seek refuge from fierce Palestinian clashes Residents said some families were evacuating homes near the worst of the fighting. Others were keeping children inside and staying away from windows, fearing sniper fire.

01-28-07 - Iraq: UN Agency Raises Third Alarm in Week at ?Unrelenting Violence? Against Palestinians

01-28-07 - Islamic Jihad fires two rockets on Israeli locations

01-28-07 - Israel's Arab problem hits home I was even more disturbed when I brought it to the attention of some of my colleagues in the prime minister's office. One of my superiors simply shrugged it off, while another colleague had this to say: "Look, this is a Jewish state. And at least we let him into the paratroopers -- that's pretty good for an Arab!"

01-28-07 - Abdullah: Palestine comes first Israel must not conclude a deal with Syria at the Palestinians? expense, Jordan?s king said

01-28-07 - After 'hate-crime' melee, calm eludes Quaker school

01-28-07 - Palestinian families exert their clout amid factional fighting

01-28-07 - Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders ** The detailed descriptions of Iran's problems in enriching more than a few grams of uranium using high-speed centrifuges - 50kg is required for two nuclear devices - comes in stark contrast to the apocalyptic picture being painted of Iran's imminent acquisition of a nuclear weapon with which to attack Israel.

01-28-07 - First Arab joins Israeli cabinet All Israeli cabinet ministers - except for the ultra-nationalist Minister of Strategic Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman - voted in favour of Mr Majadele's appointment.

01-28-07 - Brushing the dust off the Journalist Union after a long slumber After the three day media workshop in the eastern West Bank's Jericho, the question remains whether elections will be held in the Palestinian Journalists Union.

01-28-07 - Appeal from Israeli prison for mass popular action to stop internal conflict

01-28-07 - Jenin District raids: they screamed in my face 'you're a liar' Israeli forces conducted over 30 invasions of the Jenin District during the month of January. The towns of Yamoun, Kafr Dan and Tamoun were particularly hard hit, as were Jenin and Tubas cities. Families of the so-called wanted were threatened with the harshest penalties, while Israeli forces raided and searched homes at length, as was the case this morning.

01-28-07 - US attacks Israel's cluster bomb use A congressional investigation found Israel improperly used US-made cluster bombs during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. President Ronald Reagan's administration imposed a six-year ban on sales of the weapons to Israel. However, the country also makes its own cluster munitions.

01-28-07 - German-Israeli movie invited to Tehran film festival Avital was very surprised by this, and said in an interview to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that "the movie is not pro-Palestinian, and it is clear that it was made by an Israeli. It?s a very balanced movie."

01-28-07 - Olmert: Israel won't let the world be indifferent to calls for Israel's destruction

01-28-07 - Anti-Semitic incidents up in Europe In Austria, incidents jumped 66 percent in the past year, in Germany 60 percent This is odd since they both have strict Holocaust denial laws and both have had in recent years high profile trials/sentences using these laws. Those laws were put in place to prevent incitement against Jews, evidently.

01-28-07 - Lebanon faces prospect of civil war

01-28-07 - US Mideast policies ?radicalise? moderates

01-28-07 - Kerry Blasts Foreign Policy, Says U.S. Has Become 'International Pariah' That's because we've taken up the policies and orders from that OTHER international pariah (strange that nobody else has).

01-28-07 - Faith leaders meet Condoleezza Rice to urge greater support for Middle East peace A delegation of Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders is meeting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the State Department today to support increased US engagement in achieving peace in the Middle East.

01-28-07 - Silencing the Criticism Israeli government spokesman Nachman Shai outlined Israel's media strategy with 30 to 60 U.S. Jewish leaders, focusing concern on CNN, and especially two Palestinian reporters. "We are putting real pressure on the heads of CNN to have them replaced with more objective pro-Israel reporters that are willing to tell our side of the story."

01-28-07 - What home means in Cyprus and Palestine

01-28-07 - Jewish organizations sponsor anti-IDF tours in US This is a phenomenon that must not be ignored," the report said. The report urged for action to be taken against the refuseniks and their organizations, saying "their negative effect on Israel's image must by stopped."

01-28-07 - US official cautions of ME states'' acquiring nuclear weapons Allowing certain countries in the Middle East to acquire nuclear weapons will throw the region into a spiraling arms race, Deputy Chairman of US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Gary Seymour said Sunday. No kidding?

01-28-07 - Palestine sends one-athlete delegation to Winter Asiad for friendship Mohammed Elbatta, an amateur giant slalom skier, is the sole athlete representing Palestine in the sixth Winter Asiad, which attracts all 45 members of the Olympic Council of Asia for the first time.

01-28-07 - Abbas, Fatah Would Win New Palestinian Ballots Read the accompanying article, then scroll down bottom to see which outfit commissioned this poll. Now do the same for this one.

01-28-07 - Hezbollah leader condemns Bush attack "What we did wrong is that we do not succumb to the United States of America, what we did wrong is that we stand and still stand by the Palestinian people ...That is what we did wrong,"

01-28-07 - UN Changes Mission of Korean Troops in Lebanon

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01-27-07 - Palestinian factions fight gunbattles in Gaza A 6-year-old boy was among the dead. Residents said he was hit at home by a stray bullet during a clash between gunmen from Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction near the town of Beit Hanoun.

01-27-07 - Death toll mounts in Gaza battles Saturday's deaths raise the toll since Thursday night to at least 22.....Those killed on Saturday included a boy of 11 or 12 who was hit during a shootout late at night between the two factions in the northern Gaza Strip.

01-27-07 - Arab Doctor Will Be Allowed to Stay A German heart surgeon of Arab extraction, who has been working in Palestinian Authority areas without a permit, will not be deported back to Germany, although he is in violation of Israeli law by remaining in the PA without a permit.

01-27-07 - West Bank heart surgeon says faces deportation Thousands of expatriates of Palestinian origin have been entering the West Bank for years on tourist visas because of the difficulty of getting permanent residency cards and other permits issued by Israel.

01-27-07 - Palestinian attorney general sets up special team of prosecutors to put lid on lawlessness

01-27-07 - Abbas aide says PNA receives 130 million dollars in January

01-27-07 - Israel planes dump "suspicious green balloons" on southern Lebanon

01-27-07 - Israeli warplanes intrude on Beirut airspace

01-27-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: Commentary on recent video showing Note: This month, the video of a Hebron settler woman cursing a Palestinian woman from the Abu Aisha family on Tel Rumeida prompted wide Israeli and international outrage. For most people who have served in Hebron, what the settler woman was doing in the video seemed tame when compared to the settler violence they had witnessed since 1995.

01-27-07 - Hebron Update 15-21 January 2007 The delegates met with a Palestinian resident of Tel Rumeida at his place of work. He told them that the settlers were angry because his neighbor's daughter had photographed them attacking some children and advised the delegation that it was too dangerous to visit his home.

01-27-07 - Conference in Hebron Shuhada Street used to be one of the city's main thoroughfares. The Israeli army has prevented Palestinians from using the street for the past six years, and has also enforced the closure of all the stops and stall on the street. This has had a profound, detrimental effect on the livelihood of thousands of Palestinian families.

01-27-07 - Peaceful Actions calling for the opening of Shuhada Street to Palestinians

01-27-07 - ATFP calls for Arabic speaking doctors The American Task Force on Palestine program will rotate the doctors into the West Bank for for one-week stints.

01-27-07 - Khatami to Haaretz: No chance of talks between Iran, Israel

01-27-07 - College reviewing witness accounts

01-27-07 - Poll: 75 percent believe national unity government would lead to lifting the blockade 9.5% of respondents believed that the last visit of US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East achieved some progress in pushing forward the peace process and the implementation of the Road Map; 80.7% believed the contrary.

01-27-07 - Rattling the Cage: Against a preemptive Holocaust ** The Iranians have weapons of mass destruction - chemical and possibly biological, too. They also have missiles that can reach anywhere in Israel. If they are so bent on wiping us out, even if it means their own extermination, why haven't they showered tiny little Israel with WMD-armed missiles? The answer, again, is that while the Iranians are crazy, they're not that crazy. Some excellent points made towards the end there.

01-27-07 - U.S. may cite Israel for use of cluster arms - report Several U.S. officials said they expected little further action on the matter, the Times said.

01-27-07 - Chief Palestinian Justice calls for demonstrations appealing for unity The Sheikh called for sit-ins tomorrow to demonstrate on behalf of unity beginning at noon in Ramallah and at 11:00 in Gaza in the square in front of the Legislative Council building.

01-27-07 - Al Aqsa Mosque remains under threat as Israelis continue excavation and synagogue construction "The Israeli occupation authorities continue broad digging inside the Old City of Jerusalem."

01-27-07 - Israel to assist the U.S. in efforts to boycott Iranian banking The American government has asked for help from Israeli sources to comprehend the internal developments in Iran and elements that affect the stability of the regime. The intelligence community in the U.S. has hired Farsi speakers and experts on Iran, but U.S. officials believe that Israeli intelligence has more experience with the subject and has great advantages in this field.

01-27-07 - Report: Russia tracking IDF movements

01-27-07 - Don't slam Carter; Israel's grip is real

01-27-07 - Jewish sect ostracized over Iran meeting When Cohen returned from Iran, he needed police protection. His house was barraged by hundreds of eggs, his window smashed by a brick and a billiard ball and he continues to be pelted with pebbles, eggs and insults in the street, he said. Last week, two tires on his Volvo were slashed, he said, and his synagogue has closed its doors to him

01-27-07 - Israel shouldn't be above criticism, 1/27 According to Deborah Lipstadt, Jimmy Carter should have written a book about the Holocaust instead of the current mistreatment of Palestinians in their Israeli occupied territory.

01-27-07 - Is Dershowitz qualified to do book reviews? The photo is priceless.

01-27-07 - Israel's Increased Isolation Contrary to Binyamin Netanyahu's suggestion that 9/11 turned Americans into Israelis, 9/11 made Americans realize that while they sympathize with Israel, they do not want the United States to become Israel. An interesting piece by M.J. Rosenberg.

01-27-07 - Youth leaders discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict

01-27-07 - Barack and Hillary: Can Israel rely on either? Hillary Clinton also voted for the war in Iraq and, as of yet, has not called for a timetable for troop withdrawal despite the pressure to do so. One must conclude that there is little basis on which to doubt Hillary Clinton?s sincere support for and dedication to Israel?s safety and security and her determination and strength when it comes to national security and defense. So voting for the war in Iraq is seen as 'dedication to Israel's safety and security'? Read on. "the next US President will have to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, which will impact Israel first and then the entire world. At this point we simply cannot afford to allow a person with incoherent, weak and inconsistent views on national security and foreign policy to become the presidential nominee of a major political party in the United States." Who's 'we'???

01-27-07 - U.S. notes Israel progress on human trafficking The U.S. State Department said Israel made ?noticeable progress? in combating human trafficking.

01-27-07 - Lawmakers to launch captive Israelis appeal Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Middle East subcommittee; Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the ranking member of the subcommittee; and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will join Karnit Goldwasser, whose husband Ehud is among the captives, in launching the appeal on Tuesday.

01-27-07 - Council for Peace and Security nixes Israeli Arab 'Vision' document The Council for Peace and Security on Saturday expressed opposition to the "The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel" document presented by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, saying it "rejects Israel's existence as a Jewish democratic state."

01-27-07 - Homage to Herzliya - The Lobby wants war with Iran **

01-27-07 - World War III has already begun, says former Israeli spy chief A third World War is already underway between Islamic militancy and the West but most people do not realize it, the former head of Israel's intelligence service Mossad said in an interview published in Portugal.

01-27-07 - Time to adopt 'Madrid Model'

01-27-07 - Solidarity march for Palestinian people

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01-26-07 - Fifteen killed in Gaza clashes Fifteen people were killed in the Gaza Strip yesterday, including a two-year-old child, in the deadliest single day of fighting between rival Palestinian factions since Hamas came to power a year ago.

01-26-07 - Hamas suspends talks with Fatah

01-26-07 - DAVOS-Abbas: Hamas deal should take less than 3 weeks Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday it should take no more than three weeks to reach agreement with Hamas Islamists on forming a national unity government,

01-26-07 - TV: Hamas suspends all coalition talks with Fatah "Following the awful massacres committed today in Gaza and northern Gaza, we have decided to postpone all dialogue with Fatah,"

01-26-07 - Americans turned back at the border ?Under the pretext of security measures the Israeli army detained members of the delegation representing pro-Palestinian American institutions and committees. Some of the members of the delegation were interrogated and all were detained for five hours while documents were examined.?

01-26-07 - Accusers say they want to be left alone Parents of three accused football players issued a statement defending their sons Friday, saying one of the players, Michael Robert Six, was attacked with a belt. Cohen said Khader took off his belt and swung it in self defense.

01-26-07 - Jordan's king asks for quick solution of Israeli-Palestinian issue

01-26-07 - Palestinians attacked in North Carolina "There is a need for national recognition that the effect of negative stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims has created a dangerous environment where incidents like this can occur," the Arab American Institute said in a statement. It particularly blamed calls by some North Carolina state officials to intern Arab Americans.

01-26-07 - Israeli forces beat up a Palestinian man in Jerusalem Ali Rumi, 31, was beaten up by Israeli soldiers on Friday morning while he was trying to cross a military checkpoint near Jerusalem.

01-26-07 - Strawberries and the crossing When the Karni crossing is closed, vast quantities of strawberries enter the local market in Gaza and they cannot absorb such quantities. In this situation, the losers are the farmers like Abu Mohamed who says, "When Karni is open, we sell a kilo of strawberry for 30 shekels to Europe (5.5 Euros). When it is closed, we sell a kilo for 3 shekels in Gaza (.55 Euros)."

01-26-07 - ?Hate Crime? of Beatings Divides a Campus The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had begun an investigation to determine whether the attack was a hate crime.

01-26-07 - Palestinian children encouraged to go to jail Basically shifting them from one prison to another one (that has food/shelter).

01-26-07 - Israeli army blows up two Hezbollah bunkers The Israeli army says it has blown up two Hezbollah bunkers discovered near the Jewish state's border with Lebanon.

01-26-07 - An act of nonviolent resistance in a wedding ceremony Mohammad Ahmed Brijeh said that he was starkly rejecting the Israeli policy of confiscating Palestinian land. Instead of giving in, he invited his family and friends to a ceremony on southern Bethlehem land that will more than likely soon be covered by the Wall.

01-26-07 - Pushing the barrier One village spilt in two by Israel's controversial wall has been staging a non-violent protest for two years. Watch the report

01-26-07 - Palestinian President arrives in Madrid for talks

01-26-07 - Emirati enclave in a Palestinian city The UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has completed the first phase of the $13 million project to build an Emirati enclave in the Palestinian city of Khan Younis.

01-26-07 - Spain offers aid to Palestinian president Spain is to provide seven million euros (nine million dollars) to the office of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said.

01-26-07 - Villagers helpless in face of settlers' land grab For more than 20 years this small agricultural area has served as an example of how Israeli military occupation and right-wing Jewish settlement have ground away at the lives of Palestinian civilians......Susya villagers and the human rights groups have filed numerous complaints, sometimes with photographic and video evidence of settlers assaulting Palestinian civilians, including children on their way to school. So far, locals say, no Jewish settler has been punished and when police or soldiers are present they usually fail to intervene to protect Palestinians.

01-26-07 - Al-Qaida No. 2: PA Chair Abbas is a 'traitor,' sold Palestinian land

01-26-07 - Canada searching for comfortable role Most Canadians believe, quite erroneously, that Palestinian Arabs willingly abandoned their homes in the 1948 War ? so tough luck on them

01-26-07 - Man sentenced for funneling cocaine Eden Hafaja, 37, was sentenced to 88 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone I just want to remind you of the sentence that this man will be getting for drug-related crimes in the US. Note the disparity.

01-26-07 - Netanyahu urges pension to quit Iran Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly urged Massachusetts pension fund officials to pull money out of businesses that deal with Iran.

01-26-07 - June 4 date set for AIPAC staffers case The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers set a June 4 trial date Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found thee....OHHHH....

01-26-07 - Beirut lifts curfew after clashes A civil war for every state in the region. Iran and Syria are the next candidates for 'democratization'- neocon-style.

01-26-07 - Jewish Shoah conference participants banned from Israel Neturei Karta members who attended Iran's Holocaust denial conference to be denied entrance to Israel by Interior Minister Bar-On, according to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper

01-26-07 - Khatami slams controversial Holocaust conference Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has criticised a controversial conference on the Holocaust -- held in Tehran late last year -- in an interview published in Israel's mass-selling Yediot Aharonot.

01-26-07 - Hillary the Favorite in Race for Jewish Donations Clinton, he said, "has personally proved herself to the Jewish community on Israel, on which she was once questioned." Read on.

01-26-07 - Lebanon clashes fuel civil war fears

01-26-07 - Hezbollah blames clashes on Israel Hezbollah?s leader said Israel was to blame for internecine violence in Beirut.

01-26-07 - Arafat took secrets to his grave, widow says Suha Arafat, widow of the late Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, admitted that she does not know whether her husband was poisoned to death.

01-26-07 - Israel hails UN condemnation of Holocaust denial Diplomats in New York have said the resolution, which does not name any country, was inspired by the behaviour of Iran, where certain leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have described the Holocaust as a "myth."

01-26-07 - Iran's Khatemi denies criticising Holocaust conference "I never gave any interview to any Israeli newspaper and the comments attributed to me have been made up,"

01-26-07 - U.N. adopts Holocaust denial resolution Venezuela, while supporting the resolution, said Israel's "excesses under the pretext of legitimate defense has led to a new holocaust against the Palestinian people."

01-26-07 - When the mute talks to the deaf Read this individual's diatribe about a group of Palestinian women who spoke of the harsh conditions of Israeli occupation at a local church, and then note who he works for at the bottom of the article.

01-26-07 - Gordon R. England, then Navy Secretary, was honored with JINSA?s Henry M. "Scoop"Jackson Distinguished Service Award in 2001 England is currently OUR Deputy Secretary of Defense.

01-26-07 - Protesters Caught in Crossfire in Bil?in

01-26-07 - Emma bids for MidEast peace Record-breaking actor Emma Thompson revealed today why she is helping to make political history by supporting Britain?s first broad-based alliance for a just peace for the Palestinians in the Middle East. The only person ever to have won film Oscars for acting and writing is backing a new historic drive for a just settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.

01-26-07 - SCHUEFTAN AT HERZLIYA Israel will have to leave most of the territories, certainly the heavily populated parts of it, unilaterally. There is simply no other option.

01-26-07 - Groups debate anti-Semitism in larger context of criticism of Israel questioning Israel's right to defend itself against hostile neighbors could be anti-Semitic, ADL officials say, because such hostilities threaten the country's very existence.... "This is a new costume for a hate that's existed centuries," said Stein. This modern anti-Semitism, she said, just replaces the word "Israel" for "Jew." So they would have everyone believe in order to silence the critics. Not working.

01-26-07 - Fearing Iran Israel fears an Iranian bomb will only enhance Iran's confidence to shape the future of the region as it likes. Israel's nukes have pretty much guaranteed Israel's confidence to shape the future of the region as IT likes.

01-26-07 - Navigating the minefield of politicians' verbal gaffes Hugging Suha Arafat might have been the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton politically, as far as the American Jewish community is concerned - that's what a prominent Jewish leader told me earlier this week.....Why was this unfortunate incident so good for Clinton? Because it taught her an important lesson: Every word, every gesture is watched and counted, especially in this volatile area of interest. She was never caught again hinting at any compromising views she might have, or had. Note the source.

01-26-07 - Hezbollah buries dead, urges Lebanese unity

01-26-07 - Saudi ambassador says U.S., Iraq should agree before troop withdrawal Prince Turki called for the revival of the Middle East "road map for peace", first outlined by Bush, that aims to establish an independent Palestinian state.

01-26-07 - Candidates court Israel, cite Iran risks

01-26-07 - Palestinian cleric denies ties to militants that got him deported

01-26-07 - Palestinians Want Peace Settlement with Israel Again with Angus-Reid tacking on its version of Middle East history while masquerading it as a 'poll'.

01-26-07 - Fear of a Shia full moon "If the Americans succeed, we will be able to regain Iraq. The extremists want to defeat the Americans at the expense of losing Iraq. If Iraq is divided into two sectarian states, they will be magnets for sectarian war across the Muslim world."

01-26-07 - Thousands of Israelis seeking asylum in Canada: reports

01-26-07 - AJCongress may leave campus coalition In a letter this week, AJCongress Executive Director Neil Goldstein denied an earlier announcement that his organization was pulling out of the Israel on Campus Coalition, a 31-member consortium of Jewish groups dedicated to boosting Israel?s image on American college campuses.

01-26-07 - New York group to receive award from bombing memorial

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01-25-07 - Hamas jeep hit with explosives in northern Gaza refugee camp, killing 1 Masked Palestinian militants set off explosives next to a vehicle from the Hamas armed force in northern Gaza after nightfall Thursday, killing a Hamas man and wounding seven others, Hamas and hospital officials said.

01-25-07 - One killed in an Israeli invasion into Tulkarem

01-25-07 - Palestinian journalist freed after three years in detention without charge or trial

01-25-07 - Palestinians in Gaza suffer record poverty: Abbas The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said last month that living conditions among Palestinians had slumped to levels not seen since the 1967 Middle East War, adding the crisis deepened dramatically last year.

01-25-07 - Human rights group demands Israeli army stop using undercover troops The letter was prompted by a Jan. 4 Israeli arrest raid involving undercover troops in the the West Bank city of Ramallah in which four Palestinian civilians were killed. The civilians would have stayed clear of the area if the soldiers had been wearing uniforms, B'Tselem said.

01-25-07 - Family of a ten-year-old Palestinian child killed by the army demand justice to be served

01-25-07 - Gunmen open fire at the Canadian and German embassies in Ramallah Security devices initiated a probe into the two attacks, and deployed dozens of security personnel and policemen around the embassies and governmental institutions in the City.

01-25-07 - Palestinian Interior Ministry begins giving 'stateless' Palestinians new ID cards The Palestinian government has begun issuing papers to thousands of Gaza residents caught in a legal limbo with no residence permits, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday ? but Israel continues to regard them as non-persons. Read between the lines here: Israel refuses the entry of Palestinians into PALESTINIAN territories (along with entry into Israel via the right of return).

01-25-07 - Palestinian social fund supporting Gaza Strip women and traditional embroidery The project is based in the Gaza Strip to ?protect cultural heritage? and is providing sewing machines, embroidery materials and other essentials for the traditional embroidery sewn by generations of Palestinian women.

01-25-07 - IDF builds fake Muslim city to prepare for war Arab music was played in the background throughout the entire exercise, to get everyone in the mood. Arab music gets you in the mood for what?

01-25-07 - The winding road to Zuwata: soldiers, guns and chaos

01-25-07 - Israeli settlers abduct a youth, beat and cut him with sharp tools Eyewitness reported that three settlers abducted Ra'fat Samih Al Khateeb, 16, as he was heading back home after visiting a relative living on the main road that links Hizma with Jericho. While this website may not be CNN, let's keep in mind that settlers have in the past attacked Palestinian children. (They usually get away with it too).

01-25-07 - Palestinians Side With Abbas on Early Elections

01-25-07 - Israeli Army abducts 28 Palestinians from West Bank in dawn incursion

01-25-07 - Jimmy Carter Defends 'Peace Not Apartheid' I had two basic hopes for this book. One, that it would stimulate peace talks. Second, that it would reveal for the first time, to the American public, the horrible oppression and persecution of the Palestinian people and it would precipitate for the first time any substantive debate on these issues.

01-25-07 - Palestinian political prisoners ask for help reintegrating into society as release is on horizon Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are planning ways of re-integrating into society in anticipation of a prisoner release. Hopes still remain that at least some of the 11,000 political prisoners in Israeli jails will be exchanged for the captured Israeli soldier.

01-25-07 - Two More N.C. Football Players Charged Two more Guilford College football players were charged with ethnic intimidation and assault Thursday in connection with a racially charged fight at the school, a newspaper reported.

01-25-07 - The hidden cost of free congressional trips to Israel These trips are defended as "educational." In reality, as I know from my many colleagues in the House and Senate who participated in them, they offer Israeli propagandists an opportunity to expose members of Congress to only their side of the story. The Israeli narrative of how the nation was created, and Israeli justifications for its brutal policies omit important truths about the Israeli takeover and occupation of the Palestinian territories. The CSM gets one right.

01-25-07 - Life under Hamas a rough ride Within the limitations of what was possible, Palestinians voted for Hamas because they were sick of years of corruption and mismanagement by Fatah, and because they believed Fatah's approach to Israel was not working.

01-25-07 - Abbas talks peace with Israeli foreign minister

01-25-07 - Israel tries to cut off Tehran from world markets Pressure will be applied to major US pension funds to stop investment in about 70 companies that trade directly with Iran, and to international banks that trade with its oil sector, cutting off the country's access to hard currency. The aim is to isolate Tehran from the world markets in a campaign similar to that against South Africa at the height of apartheid.

01-25-07 - Netanyahu urges trial for Iran leader, fearing new Holocaust He added he was also trying to drum up support within the United States for a trial. "Wolf. WOLF!!!"

01-25-07 - PCHR weekly report on Israeli violations in the occupied territories

01-25-07 - EI EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Israeli document gives frightening glimpse of apartheid

01-25-07 - Despite Palestinian nonviolent resistance, Qalqilia village under threat of demolition

01-25-07 - Livni warns Abbas against striking deal with Hamas Both Livni and Abbas stressed a desire for a two-state solution, but disagreements were evident on the subjects of borders and the Palestinian refugees.

01-25-07 - Hebron's main street closed for years "When guests come here the army opens the street in order to show the foreigners that there is a freedom of movement, but when the guests leave the freedom of movement leaves as well and the street is closed again,"

01-25-07 - What killed Palestinian girl? On Thursday, with help from B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, the family published an autopsy report determining that Abir was killed by a rubber bullet shot to her head.

01-25-07 - Gov't offers aid to Palestinian refugees at Lebanon donors meet Beckett said Thursday that in addition to the 58 million pounds London has pledged for Lebanon over the next four years, "Today I am announcing an extra 48 million dollars (24.3 million pounds) to go to UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees)."

01-25-07 - New clinic in Palestinian village eases life for hundreds of patients In addition to the clinic, World Vision plans to establish a cultural centre that will also be used as a women?s centre. It will be the only centre of its kind in the area.

01-25-07 - Local Residents Rally Against Occupation in Tel Rumeida Over a hundred local residents attended today?s peaceful demonstration at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint against colonist violence and road closures in Hebron

01-25-07 - OPT: West Bank and Gaza ICRC Bulletin No. 18 / 2007 - Latest report on ICRC activities in the field The rate of destruction of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem has risen dramatically in recent weeks. Since 15 January, seven houses have been demolished on orders from the Israeli authorities and 13 families lost their homes. The grounds for the demolitions were the lack of construction permits. However, extremely complicated procedures and rigid zoning laws make it close to impossible for East Jerusalemites to obtain the required permission.

01-25-07 - More Charges In Guilford Incident; Students Walk Out More than 250 Guilford College students walked out of class Thursday, protesting what they called racism on campus. Meanwhile, two more students face criminal charges in the incident, which brings the total number of people charged to five.

01-25-07 - Israeli Army abducts 17 Palestinians, among them two women, from villages near Hebron

01-25-07 - Jewish congresswoman urges special envoy A Jewish congresswoman introduced a resolution urging the Bush administration to appoint a special envoy to the Middle East.

01-25-07 - Policing politics in school curriculum At the Israel Action Center, Brysk has been working with various schools in the Greater Boston area to help construct curriculum from a pro-Israel perspective.....While organizations like the IAC openly admit their desire to design pro-Israel curriculum, they stick to the facts of the situation, they say, unlike the Wheels of Justice. What happened to all the blather (from these same people!) about 'balance', hmm? Note the source.

01-25-07 - Israel, Jordan, Palestinians agree on economic zone: Peres

01-25-07 - Diary: Carter urged Pope John Paul II to speak about Israel Carter recalls talking with the pope during the October 6th, 1979 meeting about his work on the Camp David Accord between Egypt and Israel and telling him that Jews in the US were upset the Pope had not yet mentioned events in Israel.

01-25-07 - More Deception from the War Criminal The Bush Regime is the first neoconservative regime in US history. Bush hides the neoconservative agenda behind "the war on terror," which essentially is a hoax. The main purpose of the neoconservatives' "war on terror" it to eliminate any effective Muslim opposition to Israel's theft of Palestine and the Golan Heights.

01-25-07 - Small steps, not giant leaps However close Iran is to getting the bomb (and US military analysts are noticeably cooler about the imminence of armageddon than their Israeli counterparts) a convenient conclusion emerges from the current Israeli military consensus: yet again Israel faces an "existential threat".

01-25-07 - Beirut under curfew after clashes Four people were killed and more than 150 injured, police said.

01-25-07 - Israel MPs allow Katsav absence

01-25-07 - The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project

01-25-07 - Allies rally behind Lebanon with aid

01-25-07 - Russia bans dual citizens from gov't Hmm, say I wonder - where is Douglas Feith?

01-25-07 - Sparking debate, SCAI launches divestment push

01-25-07 - ADL Condemns Guilford College Hate Crime The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has condemned the reported bias-motivated attack on three Palestinian students at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. 'Bias-motivated attack'?

01-25-07 - Presiding Bishop among religious leaders calling for renewed Israel/Palestine peace initiative Notice that this propaganda was also released on this day by the Jerusalem Post. It coincides with the concern of these bishops for Palestinian Christians. Consequently, Israel-defenders in the MSM American media are also touting the Post's piece.

01-25-07 - Ordinary Palestinians and Israelis Ask World Leaders at World Economic Forum in Davos, 'What Are You Willing to Do to End the Conflict?'

01-25-07 - Palestinian conflict Is the American civil rights movement truly over if certain members of society have gone from lynching blacks to lynching Arab students?

01-25-07 - Guilford president urges patience with investigation as students plan walkout Prompted by the Muslim advocacy group's involvement, a conservative California news website that monitors radical Islamic groups and advances a counterterrorism agenda, PipeLineNews.org, launched an inquiry into the incident the following day. Looks like the neocons are going to look for an excuse to justify this attack. Any old excuse will do.

01-25-07 - Hollywood Is Accused Of 'Islamophobia' Hollywood has for years portrayed Arabs/Muslims in a negative light. It may coincide with the foundation of Israel.

01-25-07 - U.S. Picks an Inauspicious Time to Restart Mideast Talks David Makovsky, a Middle East expert with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said for the United States the Israeli-Palestinian issue was not central. "The issue is a derivative of getting Arab support for Iraq and Iran policy," he said. "They want a broad front, and this is part of helping those Arab leaders they see as important on these other issues." Bingo.

01-25-07 - Most Americans don't know real Palestinian story

01-25-07 - In the Land Of the Lonely It matters little to Harel and the other Israelis who have settled in Migron that they are living on land that much of the world believes belongs to the Palestinians, in homes that many of their own countrymen would just as soon see abandoned. In fact, the residents of Migron seem to pride themselves on being among the biggest loners in the Middle East. "We're supposed to be a Jewish, democratic state," says Harel, a broad-shouldered ex-paratrooper still in the army reserves. "But if you ask me, it's more important that this be a Jewish state than a democratic one, and for us, Judaism is the land of biblical Israel. It's more here than in Tel Aviv.".....For the most part, the Palestinians in the West Bank live like ghosts on the periphery of the Jewish settlements. The nearby Arab villages are usually walled off, and settler-only highways, guarded by army checkpoints and concrete walls, have turned Palestinian communities into islands

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01-24-07 - IDF kills teen crawling toward Gaza fence An Israel Defense Forces patrol shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian who tried to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip yesterday. Two other teens were arrested and then returned to Palestinian territory.

01-24-07 - Two P.A security members injured by soldiers east of Gaza Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday at night that two members were shot and injured by the under-cover forces of the Israeli army east of Gaza City.

01-24-07 - Jewish settlers vandalise West Bank village The settlers also smashed car windows and shouted "death to the Arabs," witnesses added.

01-24-07 - Closure of the Rafah Border crossing barred 200 patients from traveling to Egypt for treatment In its statement, the Ministry stated that 200 patients were referred to Egyptian hospitals since they need urgent hospitalization, but are still waiting to be allowed through.

01-24-07 - Fatah, Hamas rivals clash in Gaza as national dialogue renews Four Palestinians were shot and wounded on Wednesday during clashes erupted in northern Gaza Strip between militants loyal to the rival movements of Fatah and the governing Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

01-24-07 - Four Palestinians Wounded during Infighting in Beit Hanoun Witnesses said that the infighting ensued after members of the interior ministry?s executive force blockaded the houses of Jamal Al?Atamna and Wajdi Dabour for several hours

01-24-07 - Peres grateful to Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad

01-24-07 - $5m hospital on way for Palestine A $5 MILLION (BD1.89m) paediatric hospital being built in Palestine with Bahraini money is nearing completion and is expected to be officially open by May.

01-24-07 - Jerusalem: 16 year old attacked by settler then arrested by Israeli police Israeli police forces arrested a 16 year old Palestinian boy in the old city of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, after he was hit and abused by an Israeli settler.

01-24-07 - IRAQ: PALESTINIAN ENVOY DENIES REPORTS OF THREATS BY SHIITE MILITANTS

01-24-07 - Judge refuses to release prisoner for brother's funeral The Beer Sheva courthouse refused to release an illegal resident jailed in Israel to attend his brother's funeral. 'illegal resident'? Irony. Does Israel jail its 'illegal residents' of Palestinian land?

01-24-07 - Students Speak Out on Guilford College Fight Some who attended the forum, like Vurhan Ghanayem, a Palestinian scientist at Research Triangle Park, are upset the school has not suspended the suspects and that the school will not call the incident a hate crime.

01-24-07 - Americans told to 'wake up' to plight of Israeli Arabs "The shame in the way Arabs are treated is the shame of all Jews,"

01-24-07 - US church leaders keep focus on an Israel-Palestine solution "The Palestinian Christian leaders have asked us to bring to your attention the very grave situation of Jerusalem," state their US counterparts. "With the construction by Israel of the separation barrier, many of the faithful - both Christians and Muslims - are excluded from the Holy City, and Jerusalem is severed from Bethlehem."

01-24-07 - WITNESS-The road to Gaza between two worlds

01-24-07 - Bush: Hezbollah a threat

01-24-07 - Disillusion sets in amid poverty and factional conflict Palestinians are turning their back on party elected on promise of reform

01-24-07 - Israeli Army invade Tulkarem and surrounding area, search houses

01-24-07 - Palestinian cemetery attacked by settlers and soldiers in West Bank

01-24-07 - Palestinian president to visit Spain after Davos forum

01-24-07 - Israel raises nuclear stakes with Iran ** A senior British military source said yesterday that the Israelis were serious about the use of military force to stop Iran, and were now engaged in preparing public opinion for such a prospect. "They're watering the turf. The Iranians are not under enough pressure," the source said.

01-24-07 - Israeli Army invades a Bethlehem town and abducts sixteen local youths

01-24-07 - Demise of US, Israel Imminent According to a statement released by the Presidential Press Office, Ahmadinejad further noted the frequent failure of the plots of the hegemonic system in the Middle-East region, and said that the demise of the US and Zionist regime is imminent.

01-24-07 - Carter Wins Applause at Brandeis As the audience was silent, he spoke of roads Palestinians could not use and of the more than 500 checkpoints in the tiny West Bank. He suggested that a group of Brandeis professors and students visit the occupied territories for a few days and meet with leaders and private citizens "to determine if I have exaggerated or incorrectly described the plight of the Palestinians. "

01-24-07 - Conference of Presidents postpones Dubai trip

01-24-07 - Funds pledged for Lebanon summit Why should the world be expected to pay for the destruction that Israel has continued to rain down upon Lebanon (and Palestine)?

01-24-07 - Edwards Veers Hard Right During a lamentable speech he made in Tel Aviv, Edwards sanctioned a US war against Iran; denied the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) and bashed the Palestinian people.

01-24-07 - Lebanon conflict oil 'contained' the report indicates that the conflict has left other significant environment problems, some of which pose a threat to human health and welfare. A number of bombed sites, including Jiyyeh, are contaminated with toxic substances which may compromise water supplies

01-24-07 - Scandals shake Israeli public's faith "The credibility of all the leaders is in question, because most of them are either under investigation or have a cloud of corruption over them," Mr. Smith says, "and there is a perception that corruption is a real problem here."

01-24-07 - Rep. Keith Ellison Should Drop in on the Christian-Jewish Party in the House of Representatives I know this is perhaps unfair, but aren't we pretty well stacked on Israel caucuses and short with the broader Arab region? What about a caucus that includes the Arab states and Israel -- tough I know, but it would be a good goal for the Congressmen chairing these groups.

01-24-07 - I Missed The Light Switches In Our House For the entirety of my stay in Palestine, my little, precious hometown of Rummaneh, just outside Jenin did not have electricity. And I still have not yet learned how to adapt my laptop and PDA to run on the kerosene lamp that seems to do for most people after sunset

01-24-07 - Smears for Fears Everything Clark said, in short, is true. What's more, everybody knows it's true. The worst that can truthfully be said about Clark is that he expressed himself in a slightly odd way.

01-24-07 - At Brandeis, a dialogue Carter's refusal looked more like common sense than cowardice to anyone who remembers Dershowitz's debate with Noam Chomsky of MIT about Israel at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, an exchange that degenerated into personal attacks that Chomsky later characterized as infantile.

01-24-07 - Break the Silence Mural Project: Art and Action The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice & The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project present Break the Silence Mural Project: Art and Action

01-24-07 - An Alternative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

01-24-07 - Football, Twelve-Year-Old Boys, and Military Curfews: Elizabeth Laird's "A Little Piece of Ground" The title A Little Piece of Ground is about more than the makeshift soccer field the boys create. It's a metaphor for the plight of the Palestinians and millions of other people around the earth. These are the people who have no place to call their own, thanks to the greed and fears of those who control not only the land the landless live on, but their daily lives, as well

01-24-07 - Israel faces nuclear Holocaust warns Gingrich The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust, former US Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned the Herzliya Conference held by the Institute for Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya on Tuesday afternoon.

01-24-07 - Group that criticized Israel to stay in campus coalition despite protests The decision did little to quell disquiet within the 31-member coalition, which was created in 2002 to advance a pro-Israel agenda on campus.

01-24-07 - US politicians rip Iran in Herzliya US politicians grovel at the altar of Israel.

01-24-07 - The new cold war in Lebanon and Palestine

01-24-07 - Hezbollah says opposition holding back from ousting cabinet

01-24-07 - Saudi, Iran working on deal to end Lebanon crisis Saudi Arabia and Iran, backers of the main rivals in Lebanon's political crisis, are negotiating a deal to end the standoff, Lebanese political sources said.

01-24-07 - Israeli PM warns of 'severe steps' against Iran he also reassured the Israeli public that "as serious as the Iranian threat is, the threat of a nuclear attack on Israel is in no way imminent."

01-24-07 - Out to check Iran n-work, Israel lobby in US meets PM Seeking to build a bridge with New Delhi, a delegation of the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group at the Capitol Hill met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last evening. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee's current agenda is to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government and seek greater security for Israel.

01-24-07 - Withheld report on Middle East trip raises questions If Khan?s report does include recommendations based on the Arab peace initiative, it would contradict statements Prime Minister Stephen Harper made last year to the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy that it was impractical to demand that Israel revert to pre-1967 borders.

01-24-07 - Canada considers more Palestinian aid

01-24-07 - Hunting down Yasser Arafat FILMMAKER Sherine Salama was the last person to interview Yasser Arafat, four weeks before he died in a hospital in Paris.

01-24-07 - American Jews should change their stance

01-24-07 - Rabbis for Human Rights: The Other Face of Judaism

01-24-07 - Canadian Arabs and Muslims threaten to campaign against Tories Canada?s largest Muslim and Arab groups say they are fed up with the Conservatives? pro-Israel stance and will work against the Tory government in the next election.

01-24-07 - Academic begins hunger strike to protest 'government harassment' Sami Al-Arian stopped eating after being held in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury in Virginia. That's according to a news release from the Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace.

01-24-07 - Mockery and deception continue When Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas flew to Damascus last weekend to meet with Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas politburo, he took with him many expectations

01-24-07 - Left-wing rabbis split on anti-IDF group During a board meeting Monday in Jerusalem, some leading members of RHRI strongly criticized Rabbis for Human Rights North America (RHR-NA) for honoring a New York-based legal advocacy group that sued two senior Israeli security officials for perpetrating "war crimes."

01-24-07 - Dome of the Rock on Vodka Bottle in Israeli The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Mohammed Hussein condemned the behavior of the Israeli company saying that "the marketing of wine bottles with a picture of the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, on them is an Israeli attempt to humiliate Muslims everywhere".

01-24-07 - Your desparation is showing Da cat is now prancing round the room, tail high in the air. (I think he shat in the bag to boot. Enjoy).

01-24-07 - The US is taking us for a ride on the peace process Like previous administrations, perhaps even more, the Bush administration tends to adapt to what Israel wants.

01-24-07 - Israelis aren't 'racist' - they're worried Nope, it's racism. You failed to prove that this particular man engaged in any of the behavior that these other Arab politicans purportedly engaged in. You are making your judgement solely on the fact that this man is an ARAB - that's racism. (This must be rocket science).

01-24-07 - A Jesuit Gives Voice to Peace Activists in the Holy Land

01-24-07 - DHS students discuss Middle East

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01-23-07 - New violence as Palestinian factions resume talks Palestinian factions are set to meet to press ahead with efforts to form a national unity government as the relative calm of the past two weeks was broken by renewed violence in the Gaza Strip.

01-23-07 - Palestinian factions to resume talks in Gaza

01-23-07 - INTERVIEW-Arab states urged to let in Palestinians from Iraq A U.N. refugee agency appealed to Arab governments on Tuesday to take in 600 Palestinians who have been stranded for months at the Iraqi-Syrian border after fleeing persecution in Baghdad.

01-23-07 - Seized Palestinians freed in Iraq Some 30 Palestinians seized by armed men in Baghdad have been freed, the UN refugee agency says.

01-23-07 - Palestinian attackers blow up vacant Gaza resort Masked Palestinian gunmen blew up a vacant resort in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, claiming they belonged to al Qaeda and that the holiday complex is owned by Fatah kingpin Mohammed Dahlan, its manager said.

01-23-07 - French Diplomat, Two Aides Released After West Bank Kidnapping The men were taken from a hotel in the center of the city by armed Palestinians and led to the old quarter on foot, Agence France-Presse reported, citing witnesses.

01-23-07 - A Palestinian Civilian Dies of Wounds he Sustained from Israeli Army Gunfire Ziyad Abu Sa?ada, 23, of the Kheza?a village, to the east of Khan Younis, died early on Tuesday after having been battling with critical wounds he sustained during an Israeli army invasion into his village last September, the Alwafa local hospital in Gaza City announced.

01-23-07 - Twice Displaced: The Plight of Palestinians in Iraq

01-23-07 - PPS: "900 detainees require immediate medical treatment" Recently, two detainees died on medical neglect; one of them is Morad Abu Sakout, who was only released from Israeli prisons after a sharp deterioration of his health condition and died at a Jordanian hospital. The second detainee, Jamal Al Saraheen, died of medical neglect at an Israeli prison.

01-23-07 - Struggling for Education: The gruelling path to school of the students in Beit Ur The school in Beit Ur is totally surrounded - by the Apartheid Wall on one side and the walled-in settler-only Road No. 443 on the other.

01-23-07 - Carter defends book, says character attacks hurt He said he never asserted that Jewish money was controlling the U.S. media, as some critics have charged, but only that the pro-Israel lobby was strong. "I've been hurt and so has my family by some of the reaction," Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, told about 1,700 students at Brandeis University, a secular school founded by the American-Jewish community, outside Boston....."We support what Jimmy Carter is saying," said Alan Meyers, 56, a Jewish doctor from Boston. "We feel that there is not enough attention being paid to dissenting Jewish voices in the United States." Let these articles about Carter serve as a strong reminder to my audience: not all Jews support Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Never forget.

01-23-07 - Nine Year Old Boy Arrested for Chasing Ball in Hebron

01-23-07 - Palestinians Beaten at Guilford College

01-23-07 - Palestinian journalists stage one-day strike in protest against Al- Arabiya bombing

01-23-07 - Carter: Book has prompted discussion Carter received standing ovations at the beginning and end of his remarks.

01-23-07 - Ethnic Intimidation Charges Lead to Arrests at Guilford College

01-23-07 - U.S. court dismisses Palestinian suit Riad el-Solh Hamad, head of Palestine Children?s Welfare Fund, filed suit in September against NGO Monitor, Frontpage Jerusalem, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and others. Palestinians just aren't ever going to be given a fair shake by America. Or so it would seem.

01-23-07 - Hoenlein: Delegitimization of Israel rising among US elite Hoenlein is expected to deliver this message to the Herzliya Conference on Tuesday, in a speech titled "The Poisoning of America," along with recommendations for action on the part of American Jews and Israel to help fight what he sees as a growing threat to support for Israel in America. Nothing has changed in America - except the fact that Americans are FINALLY getting the truth. In the end, it was ISRAEL that 'delegitimized' Israel - more specifically, its treatment of the Palestinians and the resulting coverup in the US by way of its powerful lobby.

01-23-07 - Carter's Square Appearance Draws Supportive Crowd After months of searing criticism over a book comparing Israel?s treatment of Palestinians with earlier state-sponsored racism in South Africa, President Jimmy Carter met an overwhelmingly friendly crowd at a Harvard Square bookstore Tuesday afternoon......Other vocal Carter supporters included a man wearing a yarmulke who carried a large sign that read "Thank you, Jimmy Carter."

01-23-07 - Nomination of Israel's first Muslim minister remains stuck amid party bickering

01-23-07 - FEATURE-Fence cuts Palestinian cave dwellers off from wood

01-23-07 - Activists say Israel has not dismantled West Bank barriers, despite pledge to Abbas Machsom Watch, an Israeli group that monitors checkpoints, said there was no evidence of eased conditions. But, the group noted, the army did lift a general restriction barring young Palestinian men from leaving the northern West Bank city of Nablus without a permit. "This is important, but it is not the 44 roadblocks they said they will remove," said Hagar Lipkin, a volunteer with Machsom Watch.

01-23-07 - Racial Slurs Used During NC Assault on Palestinian Students, Says CAIR A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on the FBI to investigate a group assault on three Palestinian students in North Carolina as a possible hate crime.

01-23-07 - Jordan sending replacement for Al Aqsa pulpit destroyed in 1969 attack

01-23-07 - Israeli billionaire Saban biggest donor to US politicians

01-23-07 - Jerusalem municipality demolishes two Palestinian houses in Jerusalem The Palestine News Network reported on Tuesday evening that Israeli bulldozers, belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality demolished two Palestinian homes in Al Sawahra Al Sharqiyya town, east of Jerusalem after claiming the they were illegally constructed.

01-23-07 - Opera in the northern West Bank The opera came to the northern West Bank's Nablus last night. The Cultural Committee organized a performance of a medley of opera standards. The group of accomplished singers came from the world over and said they came to show their support.

01-23-07 - Rally Against Settler Violence and Road Closure in Hebron

01-23-07 - Journalists sit-in in solidarity with Al Arabiya while condemnations against explosion pour in

01-23-07 - Russia not delivering arms to Palestine - defense ministry

01-23-07 - Talk radio with a difference: the father, the kidnappers and the radio station that got them to talk

01-23-07 - The transformation of the IRA shows why Israel should talk to Hamas

01-23-07 - President of Israel to be charged with rape Israel's attorney general said yesterday he plans to charge President Moshe Katsav with rape, abuse of power and other sexual offences There's a couple of different metaphors/irony in that.

01-23-07 - Chief Rabbi of Tzfat: Prepare to Return to Gaza

01-23-07 - Lebanon opposition halts strike Three people died and 100 were injured as protesters, who blocked many roads, clashed with government supporters.

01-23-07 - Vision of Rebuilding Lebanon Wanes

01-23-07 - In pictures: Lebanese intifada

01-23-07 - Carter and Camp David, where it all began There is a carefulness in Carter's description of events leading up to Camp David that warrants some attention. Begin's involvement with the Irgun is acknowledged, but it is followed with some kind adjustments: Begin is a "man of personal courage and single-minded devotion," yet he was "prepared to resort to extreme measures to achieve (his) goals" Begin was a terrorist and a wanted one at that. The Brits knew all about him.

01-23-07 - 'Progressive' anti-Semitism? While much attention has been paid to the so-called "new anti-Semitism," in which antipathy toward Jews is masked as rabid criticism of Israel The more the pro-Israeli community attempts to equate criticism of Israel to 'anti-Semitism', the more they prove these fine professors right. Playing the anti-Semite card is not going to stop the critics or criticism. The cat is not going back into the bag. Deal.

01-23-07 - As candidates enter 2008 race, they begin courting Jewish support Bowing down at the altar of Israel is an essential part of political campaigning in America.

01-23-07 - Israeli minister advises that Nasrallah 'not try to put Israel to the test again'

01-23-07 - Israeli court orders deported U.S. imam freed A military judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to hold Fawaz Damra, who was arrested by Israeli authorities 2 1/2 weeks ago after being deported by U.S. authorities, according to his lawyer, Smadar Ben-Natan. However, she said, he will be held until Thursday pending a possible appeal by the prosecution.

01-23-07 - Jewish agencies host controversial speakers on Israel Both Ehrenkranz and Bridgeport CRC director Laurie Gross are convinced that it is preferable to have opinions like those of Elhanan and Al Hamri voiced in "friendly" venues such as the JCC. "I'd rather have it at the JCC than at the university because who knows who would be in that audience," says Gross, who purposely tried to keep the talk "within the family" by publicizing it to the Jewish community only. ???

01-23-07 - Palestinian problem key to closing West-Muslim divide: Malaysian PM Speaking to a London think tank, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the "single most powerful factor" dividing Islam and the west, with the US-led conflict in Iraq a close second.

01-23-07 - Muslims see no conflict between Islamic law and democracy: poll

01-23-07 - Musharraf calls for new Mideast initative Talks focused on "the unresolved Palestinian issue" as well as violence and political tensions in Iraq and Lebanon, he said before leaving Jordan for Syria ahead of a wrapping up a regional tour in the United Arab Emirates.

01-23-07 - Lebanese villagers spend winter in ruins All but two rooms of Chaitou's apartment in this southern Lebanese town were destroyed by Israeli shelling. Even in those rooms, where her family sleeps, the winter rain drips through cracks, leaving big puddles.

01-23-07 - Lebanese sovereignty, Israeli obstacles Israel, on the other hand, has not been fully cooperative with the UN forces in implementing Resolution 1701; the Israeli withdrawal on the ground was slow and incomplete in the Ghajar sector, and its violations of Lebanon's airspace have not ceased.

01-23-07 - Silencing the 'other side' of the Palestinian story

01-23-07 - Poll: Americans want P.A. to recognize Israel Commissioned by the Israel Project and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the survey interviewed 800 registered voters by telephone Jan. 18, 20 and 21.

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01-22-07 - Explosion at TV offices in Gaza A large explosion has caused serious damage to the Gaza City offices of Arabic satellite TV station al-Arabiya, witnesses say.

01-22-07 - Israeli separation barrier is cutting off Palestinians from their livelihood A British government-funded report says the route of Israel's separation barrier is trapping 250,000 Palestinians in enclaves designed to protect Jewish settlers in the occupied territory.

01-22-07 - Rafah border crossing reopened The sources added that the crossing is open only to allow the Palestinians trapped on the Egyptian side of the crossing to enter the Gaza strip.

01-22-07 - Palestinian rival factions to continue talks on unity gov't

01-22-07 - Israel Readies Nuclear Bunker The maze of tunnels and underground rooms is scheduled to be completed in the next year or two as fears of an attack from Iran intensify, the Baltimore Sun reported.

01-22-07 - Dershowitz sees Israel going it alone Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz warned Israel that it could lose the political support of the United States. The cat (truth) is out of the bag.

01-22-07 - Israel: 2007 'decisive' on Iran ** Burns said the United States and Israel have the right to self-defense if Iran presses ahead toward attaining nuclear capability

01-22-07 - Israeli settlers overtake houses in close proximity to Al Aqsa Mosque Due to the proximity of Al Aqsa Mosque the Silwan neighborhood is hot property to the Israeli government in its bid to overtake Jerusalem.

01-22-07 - Father of Dead West Bank Girl Seeks Peace With Israelis A preliminary report of the autopsy conducted by an Israeli government pathologist and one appointed by the Aramin family found that Abir?s head wounds were consistent with the impact of a rubber-coated bullet, though other possibilities could not be ruled out, Mr. Sfard said. But the Israeli police say the autopsy did rule out the possibility of a rubber-coated bullet.

01-22-07 - Fresh controversy erupts over Hebron settlers' treatment of Palestinians Tommy Lapid's remarks came after Mr. Lapid saw footage of a Hebron woman hissing insults at her Palestinian neighbor and settler children lobbing rocks at Arab homes. A brave soul, he is. To read the reports from Hebron by Christian Peacekeepers who are there to protect the Palestinians, click here.

01-22-07 - Saudis Pressing Oil Prices Down ** We believe an Israeli attack is pending. It is just a question of when.

01-22-07 - Israeli PM grants license to build Jewish synagogue at door of Muslim Quarter near Al Aqsa Mosque Olmert has just granted a license to build a Jewish synagogue at the door of the Muslim Quarter in the Old City, 40 meters from Al Aqsa Mosque. The permit went to a Jewish organization, Ateret Kohanim, described locally as extremist, to build a synagogue overlooking the mosque.

01-22-07 - Bethlehem and the Gaza Strip: 'two of the largest open prisons in the world' By Bishop William Kenney CP

01-22-07 - At-Tuwani update 1-14 January 2007 Funk and Gish visited Khallet al-Thaba, a little village south of Mufakara .They drank tea with a 60 year old shepherd, who was eager to talk. He told them that all people are equal, because we are all descendants of Adam. It makes no difference whether we are Israeli, American, Iraqi, Palestinian, Muslim, or whatever, because there is one God. No one is better than anyone else.

01-22-07 - Beatings reportedly accompanied by ethnic slurs at Guilford "That's when I got my share of the assault," he said. "That's when they put me on the dirt and beat my ass. All this was accompanied by 'sand niggers,' 'fucking Palestinians,' 'terrorists.' I would like to say seven to eight people were attacking me." Sick.

01-22-07 - Israeli Army Invades Yatta Village Near Hebron, Abduct Two Palestinian Men and Attack Three Others

01-22-07 - Hamas warns Canada it risks making enemies out of Palestinians Canada is Israel's newest occupied territory - thanks to the growing influence of its lobby therein. (And again). One more. The lobby gets to decide who the Canadian govt officials get to meet with now.

01-22-07 - Search for Palestinian runaway ends The boy, an illegal resident, escaped the police while his legs were cuffed and entered a getaway car that was later found abandoned.

01-22-07 - Palestinian political prisoners respond to Israeli attack with nonviolent hunger strike

01-22-07 - Majority polled consider current political situation to be "bad" & are concerned for personal safety

01-22-07 - Muslim convert to Judaism faces terror charge

01-22-07 - Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from Al Ezariya village near Jerusalem

01-22-07 - Jordan urges Iraq to protect Palestinian refugees

01-22-07 - Hebron Occupied, And Deserted Once a bustling marketplace and residential neighbourhood, that part of the city has become essentially a ghost town inhabited by settlers who are protected by the occupation soldiers and the Israeli police force.

01-22-07 - Hamas decides to stop news release over Israeli captive soldier

01-22-07 - Israeli defense minister: Hamas may be a partner

01-22-07 - Palestinian state won't solve conflict, says Israeli ex-army chief And grabbing more of their land will?

01-22-07 - Clowns and Soldiers Israeli peace activists brought four clowns to the Palestinian village of At-Tuwani this morning to give a performance at the school. Just before the performance began, Israeli soldiers also entered the village

01-22-07 - Israel faces corruption 'epidemic' with the spate of recent allegations there is now a feeling among the Israeli public that corruption is scaling new heights.

01-22-07 - Swiss admit Israel-Syria mediation the disclosure appeared to confirm a Ha?aretz report earlier this month that a European country had mediated two years of unofficial talks between a retired Israeli diplomat and a Syrian-American businessman about how the two countries could resume peace talks that were cut off in 2000.

01-22-07 - Demme blocked from Brandeis Jonathan Demme said he is willing to face arrest to film former President Carter confronting Jewish critics at Brandeis University.

01-22-07 - Israel, US, and "the lobby"-1: Apartheid in the occupied territories?

01-22-07 - Sea still spitting oil six months after Lebanon war The coast was polluted by around 15,000 tonnes of fuel oil after the Israeli military bombed Lebanon's southern Jiyeh power plant in mid-July during its 34-day offensive against the Shiite militia Hezbollah.

01-22-07 - Israel names new military chief Israel has named Maj Gen Gabi Ashkenazi as its new military chief, following the resignation last week of his predecessor, Lt Gen Dan Halutz.

01-22-07 - Brandeis gears up for Carter, Dershowitz Demonstrators are expected for and against Carter, as well as in support of Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who is speaking after Carter.

01-22-07 - GOP presidential hopeful in Israel Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republication nomination for the U.S. presidency, is in Israel. Our politicians must also campaign in Israel.

01-22-07 - Exclusive: NSC drafting strategy to make Israel a member of NATO The problem lies more with the military contributions that Israel would have to make to NATO actions elsewhere in the world, such as in Afghanistan and Somalia. "Would Israel want to send troops to other countries and perhaps give up lives for those missions?" he asked. Exactly. That's for the troops of those OTHER nations of the world.

01-22-07 - Can U.S. Achieve Peace in the Middle East? by Rep. Ron Paul Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. Sorry, Ron. Your attempt at 'balance' by mentioning 'billions of foreign aid' going to Muslim countries doesn't address the inherent problem in the Israel-Palestinian conflict: that Americans taxpayers are funding Israel's colonial project - to the detriment of Palestinians. Are we giving the Palestinians the same amount of military/financial aid and political support? NO. Therefore, we have chosen sides. THAT is what Washington was referring to in his famous farewell address.

01-22-07 - Woolsey at the Herzliya Conference The whole hee haw (neocon) gang attended. Or so it would seem.

01-22-07 - Now is the Time to Support U.S. Leadership in Achieving Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Prominent Americans Are Convinced The Campaign for American Leadership in the Middle East (CALME) today commended President Bush for his longstanding commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and asked that he work to make his vision reality as soon as possible.

01-22-07 - A no-brainer for American Jews Hillary Clinton told Israeli and Palestinian youth via a video broadcast that "it will be in the long-term interests of the Middle East for Palestine to be a state, and for it to be a state that is responsible for its citizens' well-being, a state that has responsibility for providing education and health care and economic opportunity to its citizens." The remarks immediately upset the Jewish establishment and prompted the White House spokesman to explain that they do not represent the president's position.....During the 2000 Senate campaign, the Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky, who lives in New Square, New York, visited the White House. The American press reported that Hillary Clinton promised the revered Hassidic leader that she would lighten the punishment of four of his followers convicted of fraud. Clinton won a solid majority in New Square.

01-22-07 - U.S. Drafts Holocaust Denial Resolution The draft resolution "condemns without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust," but doesn't single out any specific country for criticism. The U.S. said it planned to circulate the draft to General Assembly members on Monday. Not a matter for Capitol Hill.

01-22-07 - Israel says it enjoys 'peak' relations with Harper government in Canada And it has its influential Israeli lobby in Canada to thank for it.

01-22-07 - Why Carter is "Good for the Jews" In years to come, we as Jews will be terribly ashamed--we will be humbled and dishonored and ashamed and full of an unbearable regret--that we remained in denial so long of the reality on the ground in Palestine, both today, and in history.

01-22-07 - "Katyusha" love song to protest Israeli Checkpoints in the West Bank

01-22-07 - Legal battle between Jewish activist and BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is locked in an unprecedented legal dispute with a Jewish activist who claims its reporting is biased against Israel.

01-22-07 - But is it good for the Jews? In the wake of this controversy, a former Justice Department official says the former president sought "special consideration" in 1987 for a onetime member of a German SS Death Squad who was proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Neil Sher says he went public with the information now because Mr. Carter's book exposes "where his heart really lies." I encourage you to look at my breakdown with regard to what Carter actually said. Note that mainstream US media (quite obviously made up of the Israeli lobby) are picking up this piece of propaganda in their campaign to smear Carter.

01-22-07 - U.S. will make new contribution to Lebanon reconstruction at coming donors' conference Just take it right out of the slated 2007 aid money to Israel.

01-22-07 - Rap mogul addresses WJC He called on the Beastie Boys and other Jewish entertainers to create another public service announcement with him, this one focusing on Islamophobia.

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01-21-07 - EU's Solana shocked at Israeli settlement growth EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged Israel to freeze West Bank settlements and stop constructing the security fence. He hoped "the realities on the ground" brought about by Jewish settlement building would not "prevent a two-state solution from happening."

01-21-07 - No agreement in Palestinian talks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas' exiled political chief have failed to agree on forming a national unity government during talks in Syria.

01-21-07 - Tamimi Warns of Unwavering Israeli Attempts to Oblitrate millstones of Jerusalem Palestinian chief justice Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Al-Tamimi has warned Friday that the Israeli occupation authorities were expediting excavation works under the Aqsa Mosque in a bid to waken its foundation and lead to its final collapse, describing such works as "butchery against civilization".

01-21-07 - Hamas gov't opposes secret talks with Israel

01-21-07 - Islamic Jihad fires rockets on southern Israel "The operation (Red Flower) is the natural reaction to the daily crimes that the Zionist occupation is committing against our people, mainly killing innocents and detaining men and women," said the leaflet.

01-21-07 - Follow-up Committee meets in Gaza The Palestinian Follow-up Committee met on Sunday at night in Gaza City and agreed to resume national talks next Tuesday. Representatives of Fateh and Hamas attended the meeting.

01-21-07 - New proposal: Transfer-for-cash plan "Arabs are busy killing Jews or providing aid, cover and legitimacy to terrorists," Aviner said in a telephone interview. "There is no end in sight. I do not want to keep killing them to protect myself. So the best solution is to encourage them to leave," he said. "As soon as the word gets around that Israel is paying compensation to anyone who leaves, it will have a snowball effect." Just a delightful bunch, they are.

01-21-07 - Ex-US official: Bush would approve Iran attack ** If all options were exhausted in the attempt to stop the Iranian nuclear project, and US military involvement was needed for a successful strike on Tehran, US President George Bush would give the green light for the operation, former director of the US Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, Richard Perle, told the Herzliya Conference on Sunday evening. Note who he is speaking to.

01-21-07 - US under secretary of state: We won't allow nuclear Iran' ** (VIDEO) Nicholas Burns says ?There is no doubt Iran seeking nuclear military weapons; stationing of two battle groups in Persian Gulf is part of our response?; adds: We are committed to being Israel's strongest security partner Note who he is speaking to.

01-21-07 - REFLECTION Hebron: Shabbat Shalom?

01-21-07 - Israel, U.S. discuss Iran ** Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz hosted visiting U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns on Sunday for the first in a series of bilateral consultations on international efforts to ensure Iran does not acquire atomic weapons.

01-21-07 - IDF source admits 44 barriers allegedly removed did not exist This statement confirms a claim made recently by United Nations organizations operating in the territories: that most of these barriers were not removed, because they had not existed for months.

01-21-07 - Autopsy rules out rubber bullets in death of 10-year-old Anata girl Thus does another 'exoneration' begin (had to be one of them there rocks!).

01-21-07 - Carter's observations are well-founded If Carter's depiction of the logical end of Israel's policies has irked his critics, what caused outrage, is his observation that Israel's policies cannot be freely debated in the US. And here, and in the way they have vented their anger, Carter's critics have only served to make his point. As was the case with the study by Mearsheimer and Walt, and the smears that followed, the 'critics' serve to prove Carter right.

01-21-07 - Syria mediates meeting between Palestinian president and top Hamas leader

01-21-07 - Inquiry into Lebanon war will decide the future of Olmert

01-21-07 - Killings of Palestinians raise questions about Israeli army Human-rights groups maintain that such incidents recur because the army has failed to properly investigate and bring soldiers to justice for unlawful killing of civilians. About a week or so ago, there was a piece about how light the sentences are when some of these folks do get brought to 'justice'.

01-21-07 - Facilitating Genocide:The Reporting of Abir Aramin's Death Abir Aramin was only injured at first by the gas bomb that was shot at the back of her head. She had just stepped out of the Anata School for Girls after taking a test when the gas canister hit her and she was knocked to the ground. Several of these reports suggest it was a gas canister or stun grenade, and not rubber bullets, that killed the girl.

01-21-07 - Solana: Time to solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

01-21-07 - MacKay raises concerns over Israel's security barrier Livni said she would like to see Canadian support for Israel's position on the controversial issue of the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes they lost as a result of the Arab/Israeli war And given Israel's burgeoning lobby in Canada, she might just get it.

01-21-07 - The Uprooting of A Nation: An Immoral Endeavor Israel's military victory was accomplished by implementing the Zionist mission of driving the local Palestinian population out of the land of Israel. The inhuman methods employed by the victorious army included blatant intimidation, indiscriminate killings, summary executions, homes demolitions, and a rampant offensive of looting and destruction - resulting in the expulsion of nearly 800,000 Palestinians, the destruction of 531 villages and the evacuation of Palestinian communities from 11 urban centres.

01-21-07 - Netanyahu: West must stop Iran from executing new Holocaust ** "When we are talking about rallying public opinion on genocide, who will lead the charge if not us?" he said. "No one will come defend the Jews if they no not defend themselves. This is the lesson of history." 2002, Netanyahu on Iraq: "Wolf! Wolf!". 2007, Netanyahu on Iran: "Wolf! Wolf!".

01-21-07 - Zionism in the Cinema - Part Three Even after the emergence of Israel as the most powerful political and military entity in the Middle East, the idea that the Jewish state is vulnerable because of its neighbors, and not because of the consequences of the ethnic cleansing that is essential to the Zionist project, is seriously accepted by millions of people.

01-21-07 - The 'Israeli Lobby' The support is seen by many as detrimental to Israeli-Palestinian peace but they fear retribution for speaking out -- such as what Carter, Walt and Mearsheimer have received.

01-21-07 - Readers respond to Palestinian's story

01-21-07 - Gen. Clark's Controversy "While we know (Clark) is a good friend of Israel and is not an anti-Semite, he still engaged in inappropriate language by talking about how Israel and Jewish money will move this country to war on Iran," Foxman said. Oh dear.

01-21-07 - Leave the U.S. embassy where it is What Washington does not need to do, is to stage a provocation. That, at this stage, is the only real significance of moving the embassy.

01-21-07 - Shalom, Ayalon Respond to Clinton Candidacy Ex-Ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon agreed that Clinton has supported Israel in the past, but predicted that if elected, she will be determined to leave her mark on the Middle East, even if she needs to oppose Israeli policy to do so. The HORROR!

01-21-07 - Young, Russian-born U.S. Jews assert their identity on both coasts At January's Shabbat dinner, an AIPAC representative spoke about lobbying for Israel on Capitol Hill and how this group - almost all of whom have friends or family in Israel - could influence American aid for the Jewish state...."I see us as a bridge into the established Jewish community," he says. "I want us to be 'used' as much as possible."

01-21-07 - Strategic talks with U.S. focus on Iranian threat Washington intends to pledge about $1 billion to rebuild Lebanon following last summer's war with Israel, they said, and it expects the Europeans and Saudi Arabia to make hefty pledges as well. Thus does America get stuck with cleaning up after Israel. If there were any justice, that money would be deducted from the 2007 US aid to Israel.

01-21-07 - From 2004: Agents of Influence Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq?

01-21-07 - Women's Association hosts democracy and human rights workshop Women in Jenin Refugee Camp organized a workshop on democracy and human rights. Numerous representatives of women's organizations, female students and unaffiliated local women attended.

01-21-07 - The Cheap Life of Palestinian Laborers

01-21-07 - Hillary Clinton and the Pro-Israel Lobby

01-21-07 - Weekend Reading: Israel's 'invisible hand' in Gaza

01-21-07 - Deborah Lipstadt is less popular than Chicken Manure She then continues by adding that Carter was insensitive because his book only made "two fleeting references to the holocaust." Well reader, believe it or not, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle are all guilty of insensitivity too, as not one of them bothered to leave a single reference whatsoever to the holocaust in their extensive memoirs, but don't expect Lipstadt to mention this fact, it might knock some of the outrage out of her sails or worse, alert her readers to the fact that the aforementioned never even bothered to mentioned this allegedly "well documented" event, in their own war time diaries. Israel and its supporters routinely play the Holocaust card to justify the former's behavior. It does no such thing.

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01-20-07 - Palestinian construction worker killed by Israeli guard in Be?er Shiva As the workers arrived to the building, the guard demanded them to pay him a certain amount of money, and when they refused he pulled his gun out and fired at Mohammad Kamal Al Battat, and shot him dead

01-20-07 - Israeli gunfire wounds two Palestinian teens in Gaza

01-20-07 - Key Palestinian meeting postponed Planned talks between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the political head of rival Palestinian faction Hamas have been postponed.

01-20-07 - Haniyeh sets conditions for temporary truce

01-20-07 - Haniyya: "Hamas agrees to a Palestinian State within 1967 border"

01-20-07 - Carter defends controversial book "Not one of the critics of my book has contradicted any of the basic premises ... that is the horrible persecution and oppression of the Palestinian people and secondly that the formula for finding peace in the Middle East already exists," the 82-year-old Carter said. Amen.

01-20-07 - Israeli Holocaust trustee blasts Hebron settlers A senior official of Israel's central Holocaust memorial on Saturday assailed Jewish settlers who harass Palestinians in a tinderbox West Bank city, saying the abuse recalled the anti-Semitism of 1930s Europe.

01-20-07 - Cross provides assistance to farmers blocked from their land for four years The Director of the Red Cross Tulkarem office, Milani Tremblay, said that for four years farmers have been unable to access their lands freely due to Wall activity. The program's beneficiaries are being provided the necessary support through the provision of infrastructure for land cultivation to begin farming again.

01-20-07 - Egypt reports 11th bird flu death

01-20-07 - Britain deeply concerned at death of Palestinian girl

01-20-07 - Israel halts building of new settlement Israel has faced massive international criticism since Mr Peretz approved the construction of the Meskiot settlement in the northern Jordan Valley to house former settlers from the Gaza Strip.

01-20-07 - Abir Memorial Ceremony in Anata Tomorrow, Sunday January 20th, students of all 3 schools in Anata will hold a memorial ceremony for 10-year old Abir Aramin.

01-20-07 - Bartaa residents boycott obtaining Israeli permission to move

01-20-07 - International Peace Activists in Hebron Protest at the Wall

01-20-07 - Palestinian refugees in Lebanon hope for better life 'Of all the Palestinians living in the diaspora, the Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon have the worst living conditions. At least if you live in another Arab state, you can own or inherit a property. In Lebanon you are barred from doing that,'

01-20-07 - MacKay pledges new money for Gaza crossing The money will be spent on unspecified equipment to help goods and services move more freely in and out of Gaza.

01-20-07 - Despite frustration, southern Bethlehem farmers continue to resist land confiscation The Israeli government is building the Wall in southern Bethlehem through three West Bank villages. Approximately 1,700 dunams of their land will be isolated from the villages of Wadi Rahhal, Umm Salamuna and Al Ma'sara. The lands are planted with grapevines and olive and nut trees.

01-20-07 - Musharraf Seeks To Help Palestinians Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Saturday began a four-day Mideast tour aimed at devising a strategy to bring Palestinians together.

01-20-07 - For 6 years some Hebron residents forced to move via rooftop, now Israelis allowing them on street Six years ago Israeli forces occupying the southern West Bank denied the Palestinians of Hebron the right to walk on Shuhada Street. The Society for Citizens Rights conducted investigations in which it was apparent that Israeli forces were fundamentally violating the rights of thousands of people.

01-20-07 - On the day of Prophet Mohammad, call issued from Jenin: Palestine, our future, our freedom The National and Islamic Forces in Jenin held a Saturday evening meeting under the banner headline, ?Palestine, our future and our freedom ... Yes to national unity ... No to internal fights.? Political leaders, organizational representatives, members of civil society and the clergy, gathered with various national and Islamic forces in the Jenin Town Hall.

01-20-07 - PRO-CON: Is U.S. committed to Israeli-Palestinian peace? YES

01-20-07 - College aids Palestinian matchmaking

01-20-07 - Oly+Rafah Community Mural Projects Event: January 26 On Sunday, January 28th, there will be a follow-up organizing meeting with Susan Greene to introduce and discuss ideas for an Olympia-Rafah Sister City mural project and a proposed documentary about the project, Rachel Corrie, and the struggle for justice in Palestine.

01-20-07 - US homeland security market beckons Outsourcing our homeland security to a nation that routinely violates international and humanitarian law. ~Swell~.

01-20-07 - Senate bans lobbyist travel The Senate bill allows non-profit affiliates of lobbies to run tours for lawmakers, a provision that the pro-Israel lobby aggressively sought. That compromise preserves trips run by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has a non-profit spin-off, as well as those run by local Jewish federations that do not employ lobbyists. AIPAC wins (America loses).

01-20-07 - From opposite sides, paths converge for peace Al Hamri spent 4 /2 years in jail after organizing what he says were nonviolent demonstrations against the Israeli occupation. "In those days, to write fliers or deliver fliers was considered violent in the eyes of the Israelis," said Al Hamri, 42. "I was in jail from the '80s until 1993."

01-20-07 - Entrepreneurs sell kafiyehs adorned with Stars of David "If it was not already locally felt that the Israelis were overtaking all aspects of Palestinian life in order to erase it, chances are that this offensive version of the kafiyeh would not raise more than an eyebrow. Instead, a great deal of offense is being taken," wrote the Palestinian National News service in a recent article on the Israeli kafiyeh.

01-20-07 - Reisterstown man pleads guilty to counterfeiting Mordechai Mizrahi admitted in court to importing $120,000 in counterfeit $100 bills from co-conspirators in Israel, prosecutors said.

01-20-07 - Jewish groups to visit UAE, discuss Iran "The UAE is a critically important place on the issue of terrorism, the fight against extremism and Iran," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Presidents Conference, a 51-member umbrella organization that serves as the Jewish community's main collective voice on Middle East affairs. "We want to see improved relations with the U.S., of course, but also hope that this can foster relations with Israel."

01-20-07 - PRO-CON: Is U.S. committed to Israeli-Palestinian peace? NO

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01-19-07 - Palestinian girl dies of wounds from Israeli fire A 10-year-old Palestinian girl has died of wounds suffered after Israeli border police fired on demonstrators in a village outside Jerusalem this week.

01-19-07 - Unknown gunmen shoots and kills a Palestinian man in Khan Younis

01-19-07 - Palestinian child beaten in head in Bil?in Four children were shot with rubber bullets and another child, Saji, was hit in the head with a baton and hospitalised. Many others suffered severe tear gas inhalation.

01-19-07 - Hamas demands release of revenues Mr Haniya said it did not matter who the money was released to as long as it helped to reduce Palestinian suffering.

01-19-07 - PRC: "We will attempt to abduct more soldiers" The Popular Resistance Committees, one of three Palestinian groups holding the Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit captive since June 25, said that it will attempt to abduct more soldiers in order to secure the release of the bodies of Palestinians Israel is holding.

01-19-07 - The tragic death of an activist's daughter Last April, Mr Aramin helped to found "Combatants for Peace" - a unique organisation of former Israeli soldiers and ex-Palestinian gunmen who have renounced violence and are devoted to the cause of ending the occupation by peaceful methods alone. A mere 10 months later, Mr Aramin has had his beliefs tested to the outer limit, by a grief he could never imagine. Yesterday at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque he buried Abir, his younger daughter, killed by what he and every resident of Anata is convinced was fire at lethally close range - probably, they believe, a rubber-coated bullet from an Israeli border police jeep.

01-19-07 - Fatah strongman Dahlan vows to confront Hamas

01-19-07 - Israel transfers frozen Palestinian funds to Abbas The Israeli official insisted the 100 million dollars would not go towards paying salaries. ??????

01-19-07 - Israeli Army violates Israeli High Court Ruling in Hebron Israeli police and troops operating in the West Bank city of Hebron prevented on Thursday a Hebron peace activist accompanied by a number of Palestinian residents to walk down Al-Shuhada streets in Hebron claiming that this road is a Jewish-only road.

01-19-07 - Frustration over Ramallah violence

01-19-07 - Entry Denied: Palestinian-Americans Among Thousands Blocked by Israel from Occupied Territories

01-19-07 - Palestine: the build up of water supply system finished

01-19-07 - How Israel Enforces "Demographic Separation"

01-19-07 - Perhaps Thinking of Legacy, Bush Has Rice on the Move ?I tend to place a lot of emphasis on the fact that people see their interests differently now than they did 5 years ago or 10 years ago," she said. "They see their interests less as continuing or having maximalist positions about this conflict and are more concerned about the kind of broad strategic picture." She said that the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon "was a major contributor to that shift in alignment" and that it made a Middle East peace deal more promising, and that toppling Saddam Hussein, despite the current violence within Iraq, removed what she called an "eastern front" against the Israelis. By removing regional threats to Israel in the region, 'peace is more promising' because Israel then does not feel the need to make any 'concessions' (giving stolen land back).

01-19-07 - Hebron Update: 8-14 January 2007 Israeli settlers drove the villagers from their original homes twenty-five years ago and the area is now an archeological park operated by settlers. The Israeli authorities have demolished the villagers' caves and tents several times since then in an effort to get them to leave.

01-19-07 - Silent About Gaza

01-19-07 - Middle East peace quartet to meet February 2 in Washington The international quartet for Middle East peace will meet February 2 in the US capital and will be hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a US State Department spokesman confirmed.

01-19-07 - Armenian Christmas in Bethlehem Dr. Batarsa explained the difficult conditions of the city with ?the Wall built after confiscating a great deal of Bethlehem land and the settlement expansion that is making the city and district smaller all the time.? He also spoke of ?continuing incursions, arrests, and abuse of citizens, expressing his hope that these sufferings will be alleviated by ending the occupation and establishing the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital.?

01-19-07 - Coming together in Susiya In 1985, the Israeli military demolished every dwelling in the old village of Susiya, and evacuated its 1,000 inhabitants. Some of the people returned and now live in tents on their land about a half mile from the original village. The Israeli military has not permitted the villagers to build any permanent structures. They support themselves with their flocks of sheep.

01-19-07 - Palestine: Project:"Small animals, big value" completed This solution enables women to gain money while taking care after children and houseworks.

01-19-07 - Anti-Wall demonstration in Um Salamonah village near Bethlehem Before the demonstration Friday prayers were conducted on the farm land, 700 dunams of which is intended for confiscation. If this goes ahead, much of the agricultural land which supplies the village's income will be annexed behind the wall or destroyed.

01-19-07 - Bethlehem villagers pray on bulldozed land and appeal for international solidarity Today in Um Salamuna, Palestinian, international and Israeli activists gathered together on the recently bulldozed land of the village to hold prayers and protest against the confiscation of the land.

01-19-07 - President Abbas in Damascus: consequences of whether he meets with Mashal will be major either way President Abbas will surely see Syrian President Bashar Al Assad when he arrives in Damascus tomorrow. He will meet with Vice President Farouk Al Shara and others in the Syrian leadership, as confirmed by sources close to President Abbas within his office.

01-19-07 - Iraq Surge: Dilemma For Congress, Worries For Israel ** "Israelis and the American Jewish community are very concerned about Washington's total ineptitude in coming up with a strategy on Iran,"...But Jewish leaders are also wary of being seen as cheerleading for war with Iran. Too late. It is abundantly clear just who is pushing for this war. It is also clear that the US is being blamed for failure in Iraq - a war that was based on the Clean Break Strategy (crafted in Israel) and then foisted on this administration via the neocons. Read the entire article and note the unbridled chutzpah.

01-19-07 - A New Chance for Peace? By Jimmy Carter The clear fact is that Israel will never find peace until it is willing to withdraw from its neighboring occupied territories and permit the Palestinians to exercise their basic human and political rights.

01-19-07 - Study: Little Jewish property returned That's a coincidence, because Palestinian property hasn't been returned either.

01-19-07 - Zionism in the Cinema - Part Two

01-19-07 - Teachers' Union Defends Right to Freedom of Speech On January 12th, B?nai Brith launched an all-out assault on OSSTF by sending an e-mail "alert" to its members urging them to pressure OSSTF members to disengage from a debate scheduled to take place at this Thursday?s regular monthly Council Meeting. Today, the Jewish Defense League announced its intention to rally outside of the OSSTF office during the meeting.

01-19-07 - As Bush's War Strategy Shifts to Iran, Christian Zionists Gear Up for the Apocalypse

01-19-07 - Israel calls for harsher Iran sanctions

01-19-07 - Iran's President Did Not Say "Israel must be wiped off the map"

01-19-07 - Michael Savage - part of the Israeli lobby?

01-19-07 - Report on Reuters actions after publishing altered photographs Experienced photo editors and other senior editorial staff went through thousands of images published during the Lebanon conflict. We are satisfied no other images were digitally altered.

01-19-07 - The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts As in so many things, conventional elite opinion lives in a bubble, believing mere assertion and ranting about anti-Semitism will carry the day. The New York Times featured a spectacularly disingenuous hatchet job by its deputy foreign editor, Ethan Bronner, and another assault by former Clinton-era Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross. The New York Times = Israel Lobby

01-19-07 - Israel's apartheid Only in America is the egregious violation of international law by Israel in its relations with the Palestinians hidden from the public by its own media -- your editorial only serves to confirm Carter's point in this regard, as well as your own paper's irresponsibility.

01-19-07 - Rice's Mideast Trip; Obama And The Jews "The idea is that winning Arab support for what they?re doing in Iraq and what they are contemplating for Iran requires having something called a peace process. They?ve heard that from so many people that they can?t ignore it." As I have noted before, this whole new emphasis on the 'peace process' is, like with the case just prior to and after the runup to the Iraq war, a move to get other countries on board for their support for new military action - this time Iran.

01-19-07 - New rules for the Middle East game Despite America's significant role in facilitating Israel's just struggle to survive, it has failed to ensure the county's lasting longevity and independence. Regardless of the Bush administration's intentions, Israel's strategic position has deteriorated on multiple fronts Another 'blame America' piece from Haaretz.

01-19-07 - Bush's Plan: Resolve Without Prudence In this volatile part of the world, there's just one area where I wish President Bush would take more risks - and that's in diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. If you want to strike a blow at Iran, Sunni insurgents and Shiite death squads all at once, that's the way to do it

01-19-07 - UNRWA West Bank Director completes his post, farewell party in Ramallah

01-19-07 - Why did The Israel Factor panelists downgrade Rice? The panelists who are worried by the possibility of American pressure on the Palestinian issue lowered her grade because they believe that some of her statements show she is over-committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

01-19-07 - Book critics ignore the excesses of Israeli policies Maybe it's just me, but I put a helluva lot more stock in Aloni's words than I do with Carter's critics, many of whom have admitted they haven't even read the book.

01-19-07 - Leading critic of Carter's 'Palestine' book to speak in New Rochelle Several members of WESPAC Foundation, a Westchester-based liberal "peace and justice" group that often criticizes Israeli policies, plan to attend Stein's lecture and question his criticisms of Carter, said Nada Khader, executive director of the group

01-19-07 - Paper: Jordan King wants nuclear program Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons of its own, but has never officially confirmed that it does. Actually, yes Israel did confirm that it has nuclear weapons. A mere oversight on the part of the Associated Press, I'm sure. Mmm k.

01-19-07 - Israel's apartheid II Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu noted that what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is far worse than apartheid. Ethnic cleansing and slow genocide are more appropriate terms.

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01-18-07 - Barghouthi meets Mashal, representative of Palestinian factions in Syria Barghouthi said that his talks aim at strengthening national unity among the Palestinian factions and people, and come in an attempt to accelerate the talks that aim at lifting the unjust siege imposed on the Palestinians.

01-18-07 - Israel hands Abbas frozen funds It represents a sixth of the total collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority since the election. The money comes from taxes on Palestinians working in Israel and other tariffs.

01-18-07 - Palestinian human rights group demand a probe into the death of two Nablus residents The Palestinian Prisoner Committee demanded international human rights organizations to conduct an immediate investigation into the death of a Palestinian fighter in Nablus, and a sick resident who died at a military checkpoint near the city.

01-18-07 - Gunmen fire at vehicles of Ramallah deputy mayor, and municipality board member The Hamas-run news website, Palestineinfo, reported that the gunmen ?are believed to be Fateh members?, but the claim was not verified

01-18-07 - Palestinian patient dies at a military checkpoint, woman died of earlier wounds

01-18-07 - Industrial zone in northern Gaza to be rebuilt with Turkish help: Israeli vice premier A plan by Turkey to rebuild a Gaza industrial park is being revived and could provide a living for 7 percent of the 1.4 million Palestinians there, Israel's vice premier and a Turkey official involved in the project said Thursday.

01-18-07 - Ten-year-old girl brain dead after border police shooting

01-18-07 - EU's Solana favors jump to "endgame" in Middle East

01-18-07 - Rice to brief PM on Mid-East tour

01-18-07 - GDP per capita of Arab Israelis third of that of Jews

01-18-07 - EU criticizes Rafah Crossing closures

01-18-07 - Gaza shelling victim falls through cracks Not surprisingly, Israel is still refusing to accept blame for that incident.

01-18-07 - Peace Now holds protest despite ban Oppenheimer had earlier called the IDF's decision to cancel the event "outrageous" and declared that the army was caving in to threats from the settlers.

01-18-07 - It's the little things that make an occupation Those seemingly minor inconveniences that make life hellish

01-18-07 - Israeli official sees 2-year period for peace talks

01-18-07 - Iraqi Refugees: Resettle the Most Vulnerable Although the violence in Iraq is so extreme that all civilians are at risk regardless of their religion or ethnicity, certain groups are particularly vulnerable. One such group is the Palestinians of Iraq.

01-18-07 - Gaza violence scares away foreign aid, media

01-18-07 - Israeli army abducts 17 Palestinian men, one of whom is blind, from several West Bank areas

01-18-07 - New resident: No gov't will return Golan to Syria Construction continues in the Golan, despite media reports, which were denied Tuesday by the Prime Minister, of contact between Israel and Syria as a prelude to peace.

01-18-07 - Inside Israel's Image War Most of hasbara is "reactive, damage control," Why is that? And why is it that this Hasbara is for the most part aimed at AMERICANS?...

01-18-07 - The death of Saddam

01-18-07 - Stu Bykofsky | Carter's book approaches anti-Semitism The smear campaign by Israel's defenders in America continues - with lots of airtime being given them in the mainstream media (but you're not supposed to think about that part).

01-18-07 - Conference calls Abbas on ?rifles? statement Because Israel doesn't have its rifles raised against Palestinians or anything..

01-18-07 - Jewish terrorist?s kin killed in crash Ami Popper, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for gunning down seven Palestinian laborers in 1990, was driving with his family to a vacation in Eilat on Wednesday when the accident occurred. How is it that while you are 'imprisoned for life' you are simultaneously allowed to vacation with family? Are Palestinians imprisoned by Israel for like crimes given the same treatment? Doubtful and yet, not really surprising.

01-18-07 - Middle East hasn't turned out the way Bush, Rice predicted

01-18-07 - UN head says will work toward captive IDF soldiers' release "The UN needs to deal more with the Iranian threat," Gillerman said. Ban replied that denying the Holocaust, and the declarations by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel's destruction, are unacceptable.

01-18-07 - Union Rejects 'Anti Israel' Motion The Toronto District of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation has rejected a motion calling on the union to condemn Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

01-18-07 - Stars bid for MidEast peace Miriam Margolyes, a star of the hit musical Wicked in London?s West End, is set to help launch a new historic drive for a just settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.

01-18-07 - Response to Tough Dove on Dual Loyalty Charge, and Others I don't think a Washington thinktank should tell us to invade Iraq based on the views of someone who is voting in both Israel and the U.S.?without telling us as much. I don't think the New Yorker should be running pieces on All the good reasons to invade Iraq by a guy who served in the Israeli military, without telling us that

01-18-07 - Statement by international Catholic delegation after visit to Holy Land

01-18-07 - Israeli NGO vows Amazon boycott over Carter review In an e-mail, ICAHD said it was "deeply disturbed" by the treatment of Carter's "important new book" and had issued an ultimatum demanding Amazon move the negative review and "restore a semblance of balance" by giving "comparable space and prominence to a more positive evaluation" of the book.

01-18-07 - Olmert seeks to cool rhetoric on Iran Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has appealed to fellow politicians to cool their rhetoric about Iran?s nuclear ambitions and stop instilling in the public a fear that they threaten Israel?s existence. 'This fear campaign is directed at the American sheeple, it's not meant to scare our people, dammit!'

01-18-07 - Detroit native Iron Sheik raps about social change from an Arab-American perspective The growth of Arab hip-hop began in the late '90s, largely through performers of Palestinian decent. It's still an underground movement, but it challenges everything from Hollywood stereotypes to racism in the aftermath of 9/11

01-18-07 - Lebanon says needs massive global aid Immediate material damage from the war has been put at 3.5 billion dollars in a country where public debt currently runs at 41 billion dollars -- or more than 180 percent of gross domestic product. Send the bill to Israel.

01-18-07 - OPT: Palestinian refugee finds a recipe for success in Mexico

01-18-07 - Rabbis: Naveh deserves to be killed The rabbis see the Olmert government as the equivalent of a gentile enemy that "evilly and violently expels and causes mental and physical damage to Jews."

01-18-07 - Carter condemns Israeli/U.S. policy toward Palestine The title alone has brought down a furor of savage condemnation from Zionist, right-wing and mainstream sources.

01-18-07 - American and Palestinian Students Building Bridges: International Lasallian Encounter

01-18-07 - Zionism in the Cinema - Part One

01-18-07 - Bread & Puppet founder exhibition at JSC Schumann will speak about his experience in the West Bank during his artist talk at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 25

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01-17-07 - Palestinians: Girl, 10, seriously hurt by Border Police fire Witnesses said they collected rubber-coated bullets in the area that were fired by the Border Police troops, although other witnesses said a stun grenade fired by the forces exploded near the girl.

01-17-07 - Israeli border police attack and injure a Palestinian worker in Jerusalem

01-17-07 - Farmers lands are on one side of the Wall and house is on the other: Israelis ban cars & horse carts The Israeli government already will not issue permits for Palestinian farmers to use their cars, or any type of motor vehicle, to reach their lands now on the other side of the Wall, but horse drawn carriages have just been banned as well.

01-17-07 - Two Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza Two Palestinian civilians have been wounded by Israeli fire in the northern Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, medics and witnesses said.

01-17-07 - Israeli Army fires one tank shell into the eastern side of Beit Hannoun The shell landed in farming lands and caused damage but no injures, Palestinian sources reported

01-17-07 - Soldiers hit 10 year old in the head at Jerusalem school, Director: soldiers throw grenades at kids Abeer Aramin was only injured by the gas bomb that was shot at the back of her head. She had just stepped out of the Anata School for Girls after taking a test when the gas canister hit her and she was knocked to the ground.

01-17-07 - Israel grants W. Bank access to foreign citizens of Palestinian origin Israel on Tuesday sent a letter to the Palestinian Authority granting Palestinians with foreign citizenship permission to enter the West Bank, yet activists say the new rule is not being implemented.

01-17-07 - Israel to give Abbas $100 million

01-17-07 - Gaza group says Hamas, Fatah delay prisoner deal

01-17-07 - A Jewish, democratic Greater Israel? The West Bank does not now, nor has it ever belonged to Israel. It is Israeli-OCCUPIED territory. All of the settlements therein are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).

01-17-07 - RJC demands Clark apology The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Wesley Clark to apologize for claiming that ?New York money people? were trying to push the United States into war with Iran.

01-17-07 - American Court Files A Lawsuit To Ensure No Money Release To Palestinian People The Arab League's Secretary-General, Amr Moussa sent a letter to the prime minister Ismael Haneyeh on January 14 in which Moussa explained that one of American courts filed a lawsuit to prevent the Arab league to send aids to the Palestinian National Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Al Ayam newspaper reported today.

01-17-07 - Tools for better life in the Middle East: musical instruments For the many budding musicians in the Palestinian territories, life is far from easy. Not only are music stores in short supply, but most students can't afford to buy instruments, explains Marie Albert, administrator of the Al Kamandjati music school in Ramallah, a recipient of instruments from Music Fund. "That's why Music Fund helps us so much," she says, "With these donations, we're able to give children instruments to take home and practice on, instead of just having one lesson a week at the center."

01-17-07 - Rice: May be easier to set final, not provisional, Palestinian borders U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday reiterated that she prefers to see negotiations aimed at achieving a permanent, rather than provisional, Palestinian state

01-17-07 - Hebron: A Different News

01-17-07 - Moussa to Haniyeh: Hamas has no money in the Arab League Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa told the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh, that Hamas does not have sufficient funds deposited with the Arab League, and that he could not transfer any funds from the special account in Egypt at the present time.

01-17-07 - Under-cover forces attack detainees in Be?er Shiva prison

01-17-07 - Turkey to send humanitarian aid to Palestinians The Turkish Red Crescent announced Wednesday that it would send four thousand tons of flour to Palestinians, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

01-17-07 - Abbas will not meet Hamas chief in Syria

01-17-07 - US, Germany relaunch Mideast quartet

01-17-07 - Ambassador Jones talks to 'Post' "... If you look vis- -vis Gaza, Israel is no longer doing anything against the Palestinians in Gaza, but still bad things are happening to Palestinians, so that is good for you because it shows the Palestinians that terror is not in their interests because it will be directed against them." Come again?

01-17-07 - Health Care Breaking Down on West Bank A recent report by the World Health Organization says the healthcare system is almost on the point of collapse. The report says the Palestinian Ministry of Health is heavily dependent on international aid.

01-17-07 - Israeli army balks at some US aid to Abbas forces

01-17-07 - A reality more absurd than fiction nearly a month ago, the deaf and mute farmer Fareed was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint. Very run-of-the-mill. Palestinians get arrested all the time for all sorts of reasons at the hundreds of checkpoints scattered all over the West Bank. However, the deaf and mute farmer Fareed was arrested because he currently stands accused of agitating the Palestinian masses against Israel through shouting messages down a megaphone.

01-17-07 - US Consulate in Jerusalem retracts Ambassador's remarks to Israeli newspaper "The U.S. government does not support intra-Palestinian violence. As Secretary Rice said in Ramallah on January 14, "Our desire is for the Palestinian people to be able to live in unity and democracy and in peace." A very quick backpedal with regard to Jones' remarks.

01-17-07 - Israel Warns Russia on Iran Arms Sale ** Defense officials predicted the systems would be used to defend Iran's nuclear facilities, particularly the uranium enrichment center at Natanz.

01-17-07 - Correcting Carter's 242 distortion Israel's attack dogs are now going after the publisher of Carter's book. Going after Carter was not enough. Must be part of that new 'PR campaign'.

01-17-07 - Dual Loyalty: Why Did Neocon Max Singer Vote in Israel and U.S.? Now you know why OUR politicians campaign in ISRAEL.

01-17-07 - Christmas in the Air and Elsewhere : A Traveler?s Diary So what did I learn from my brief stay in Bethlehem ? It can all be summed up in the words of a song written by my friend Garth Hewitt (www.amostrust.org). Garth wrote, "I got some news. It may be a surprise ; it is a basic truth but I?ve come to recognize it may come as a shock. It?s only known to a few, but Palestinians are humans too. If you share the secret, if you say it loud you gonna be criticized without any doubt, but they?re hated and despised and denied their rights, but strangely they?re precious in God?s own eyes. Palestinians are humans too. They weep and they bleed like me and like you. We can treat them like outcasts like so many do, but Palestinians are people too."

01-17-07 - The newest smear of Carter coming out of Israel Soon we will hear that Carter was in fact a Nazi guard himself (and also that he was behind the grassy knoll). The MO of the Israeli lobby: smear and assassinate the character of those who dare to criticize Israel. The feces is being flung fast and furiously of late - Israel's new PR campaign?

01-17-07 - Israeli Army 'delighted' at reported selection for new head of UNIFIL Last week, Israeli Army officers bid "good riddance" to Pellegrini, whom they claimed was pro-Hizbullah and had not made sufficient efforts to prevent the resistance from rearming along the Lebanese border with Israel.

01-17-07 - Inquest finds Israel had 'no clear objective' during war

01-17-07 - Rice wraps up Middle East mission Most Arab rulers are worried about Iran's new regional power and secretly wish it could be cut down to size - but not if that means military action by the United States or Israel, something they fear would further destabilise an already turbulent Middle East.

01-17-07 - 1991: Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel

01-17-07 - Carter's book is long overdue

01-17-07 - Teacher's anti-Israel resolution angers Jewish group, parents, splits union The motion put forward by Jason Kunin, an English teacher and Jewish activist who has frequently criticized Israeli government policies, and Hyssam Hulays, a computer science teacher, decries "Israel's continued violation of the human rights of Palestinians."

01-17-07 - The Bush Threat to Iran ** Israel and its friends have been pressing for such an attack, or threatening that Israel might make such an attack itself.

01-17-07 - Israeli foreign minister says Iran spreading radical ideology Sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program are not working, Israel's foreign minister said during a visit to Tokyo on Wednesday, and accused the Islamic country of spreading radical ideology around the Middle East.

01-17-07 - Amazon.com's Mideast turmoil Henry Norr, a former San Francisco Chronicle technology columnist, who urged the Jan. 22 boycott on petitiononline.com, claims Amazon purposely gave unusually prominent placement to a highly critical Washington Post review. And, he adds: "You have refused to add the fact that the reviewer, Jeffrey Goldberg, is a citizen of Israel as well as the United States, and that he volunteered to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, for which he worked as a guard at a prison for Palestinian detainees." You can sign the petition here.

01-17-07 - Syrian state media call for Israeli pledge on Golan heights

01-17-07 - Urban Outfitters Stops Selling Kaffiyehs as 'Antiwar' Scarves

01-17-07 - Gulf group: Israel-Palestinian conflict key to peace The United States joined a statement saying that the Middle East would never be stable without a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

01-17-07 - Rabbi calls on world to curb Iran

01-17-07 - Israel, Want to Improve Your 'Brand'? End the Palestinian Conflict.

01-17-07 - Thousands gather in Beirut to celebrate Halutz resignation

01-17-07 - What's next -- war with Iran? ** The American Jewish Committee took out a full page ad in The New York Times showing Iran in the center of concentric circles, including all the Middle East and beyond, asking: "Can anyone within range of Iran's missiles feel safe?"

01-17-07 - Brandeis University to Allow Rebuttal After Carter Speech

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01-16-07 - Home demolitions begin for the year in East Jerusalem Four Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem were demolished today. They were postponed on Monday after Kazim Abdullah's home was demolished without prior warning. Early yesterday bulldozers belonging to the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality surrounded the Tur neighborhood house.

01-16-07 - Unknown gunmen open fire at a residential building in Gaza city

01-16-07 - Two Palestinian children injured by Israeli army missile attack in northern Gaza strip Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinian children were injured due to an Israeli missile attack that targeted Beit Hannoun in the northern Gaza strip on Tuesday morning.

01-16-07 - Unknown gunmen injures a Palestinian resistance fighter in Rafah south of Gaza

01-16-07 - Hamas denies Gaza tunnels dug to kill Fatah leaders

01-16-07 - Palestinian Killed By Unexploded Israeli Ordnance In South Lebanon A Palestinian man was killed in southern Lebanon Tuesday when he tried to defuse an unexploded Israeli bomb, police said

01-16-07 - Tunnels for hire as Gaza's smugglers risk their lives The people of Rafah have been tunnelling to Egypt for more than 20 years in order to smuggle goods. Now there are more tunnels than ever as poverty forces increasing numbers of people to risk death underground.

01-16-07 - IDF removes 44 dirt barriers from W. Bank villages The Israel Defense Forces announced yesterday that it recently removed 44 dirt barriers that were located near Palestinian villages in the West Bank. In recent years, the army established nearly 400 barriers and permanent roadblocks. Hmm...I'm sensing someone put the fire to Israel's ass with all of this movement here. Did Condi finally grow a set? Nah...

01-16-07 - Detainees on 1-day Hunger strike, protesting death of a fellow detainee Issa Qaraqe?, Palestinian Legislator and previous head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society stated on Tuesday that all Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention facilities announced a one-day hunger strike after a detainee died of medical neglect.

01-16-07 - Military freezes ban on W. Bank residents in Israeli vehicles The Israel Defense Forces yesterday froze any application of an order prohibiting Israeli citizens from giving rides in their cars to Palestinian residents of the West Bank without special permission.

01-16-07 - Palestinian students return to school despite intense challenges and violence With the help of the Saudi Committee for the Relief of Palestinian People as well as other donors, UNICEF has provided more than 300,000 school bags and 75,000 school uniforms ? as well as other teaching and recreational materials ? to schools across the territory. Training for teachers has also been provided.

01-16-07 - Palestinian Political Leaders: "Civil War is a Red Line" "Israel succeeded in creating division among the Palestinians", Barghouthi said, "It geographically separating the people, isolated them and creating conflicts among them".

01-16-07 - Chirac wants envoy to Iran Officials said the purpose of a visit would be to discuss regional stability, including the situation in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories and not to hold a separate discussion of the nuclear dossier.

01-16-07 - Israel's military chief resigns The head of Israel's armed forces, Lt Gen Dan Halutz, has resigned amid inquiries into last summer's conflict with Hezbollah, the military has said.

01-16-07 - Gulf Arabs, Jordan back US plan on Iraq Moderate Arab states told the United States they supported President George W Bush's plan for a military buildup in Iraq, hoping it would halt a slide to civil war. Hmm..related to Israel's latest 'peace moves' today?

01-16-07 - Foreign Nationals still denied entry to West Bank by Israel

01-16-07 - Israeli military deters peace between faiths I daily witness the terribly deteriorating conditions in Bethlehem because of the strangulation of the employment, business and social life of Muslims and Christians caused by the ongoing Israeli government control of everyday life.

01-16-07 - Israeli Extensive Excavations West Holy Al Aqsa Mosque To Forge History, Al Aqsa Institution Says The institution said that the Israeli authorities continue digging tunnels and excavation to forge history and obliterate Arab and Islamic milestones in old Jerusalem in the course of judaizating the city.

01-16-07 - Israeli forces abduct two Palestinian men from Beit Ula and Nuba villages near Hebron

01-16-07 - Kraisheh calls for unity government: this is a Palestinian need, not a product of external pressure

01-16-07 - Turkey plans to extend gas, oil and water pipelines to Israel The oil shipments to Israel would be delivered through an extension of either an existing Iraqi oil pipeline to Ceyhan or one that Turkey is planning to build from Samsun to Ceyhan to export Caspian oil, the ministry said.

01-16-07 - Poll shows Fatah would defeat Hamas in elections

01-16-07 - Beware of 'sectarianism' in Palestine

01-16-07 - Russian Jewish banker charged in murder

01-16-07 - U.S. officials: Cheney was kept abreast of Israel-Syria talks These meetings, which took place in Beirut, were also attended by two former senior Central Intelligence Agency officials. Haaretz reported at the time that Cheney also know about the existence of these meetings, and received regular reports from the American participants.

01-16-07 - Secret talks led to Israeli-Syrian peace roadmap, paper claims

01-16-07 - Olmert probed over banking sale

01-16-07 - Palestinian activist faces deportation after losing appeal against Jewish judge

01-16-07 - Hezbollah Inside America: FOX News Tells All in Documentary** This is pure propaganda - a la Fox News - to get you to believe that (another) one of Israel's enemies is our own (to justify an upcoming attack on Iran-who purportedly sponsors Hezb).

01-16-07 - Jordanians becoming increasingly disenchanted with U.S. policies

01-16-07 - Ganging Up on Jimmy Carter Attacks from outside the Carter camp have been even harsher. The Anti-Defamation League has placed harshly critical ads of the book in major newspapers, and ADL Director Abraham Foxman has engaged in the calumny of calling Carter anti-Semitic.

01-16-07 - Palestinian ambassador calls for more balanced U.S. policy

01-16-07 - 'Courageous' book should spur objective discussion The leaders of the Anti-Defamation League called Carter "bigoted" while other groups label him "senile" and have taken out full-page newspaper ads attacking his book.

01-16-07 - Mission to Palestine in pictures Rich Wiles's Portraits of Palestine will be on display at Edinburgh University from Monday until the end of the month. The 32-year-old Hull artist, left, became fascinated by the Palestine region and its people after a visit in 2003 and now spends six months of the year there, building up his portfolio of intimate black and white portraits.

01-16-07 - Just Like Back Home The Ibrahims came to the United States legally and applied for asylum. They have been honest and forthright with immigration from the beginning. They were denied asylum and have filed to reopen their asylum case. In the meantime, the family is to be deported and is being held in jail! As an American citizen, the 2-year-old daughter was ripped from her mother's arms and is in a foster home.

01-16-07 - Judge cleared of ?Jewish bias? While he acknowledged a "fair minded and informed observer" might assume Lady Cosgrove's membership of the IAJLJ might make her sympathetic to the Israeli position, he said it would be "unduly sensitive" to conclude this would lead to a real possibility of bias on her behalf.

01-16-07 - President Carter Condones Mass Murder Of Israeli Jews Wow. The feces-flinging from the familiar corners is intensifying.

01-16-07 - Questions about congressional earmarks concern Jewish social-service providers In 2004, the omnibus spending bill included 37 earmarks for programs with "Jewish" in the name, amounting to $9,973,000. Including the terms "Hebrew" and "Sephardic," the number climbed to 41 earmarks and $10,723,000.... Many other projects of importance to local Jewish communities may not have identifiably Jewish names and could be buried in the vast spending documents.

01-16-07 - CAMERA wants WP to headline Palestinian internecine fighting like one of its minions - the Washington Times - does. Boo hoo.

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01-15-07 - Hamas arrests gunmen who stormed U.N. office in Gaza Hamas-led policemen arrested six gunmen who stormed into a United Nations office in the Gaza Strip on Monday looking for foreigners to kidnap, a spokesman for the force said.

01-15-07 - Palestinian house leveled in Jerusalem, four pending Palestinian sources in the occupied East Jerusalem reported on Monday that the Jerusalem Municipality demolished one Palestinian house in Jerusalem after claiming that it was illegally constructed; the municipality intends to demolish four more homes under the same claims.

01-15-07 - Israel's 'invisible hand' still controls Gaza, says report "The results of these controls have been devastating and have helped plunge Gaza into an economic and humanitarian crisis unprecedented in nearly four decades of occupation," says the report, seen by The Times.

01-15-07 - East Jerusalem home demolitions expected to rise in 2007 The Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions issued its annual report for 2006 expressing concern that Israeli forces will destroy more of Palestinian East Jerusalem this year.

01-15-07 - Quds Brigades claims attack on Kisufim Israeli base

01-15-07 - Israel Plans Settlement on West Bank The work includes a 33-mile loop around Maaleh Adumim, now being built, that would virtually cut the West Bank in half. Land or peace? Israel chooses land again - to its own detriment.

01-15-07 - Hamas says will never recognise Israel Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, said in an interview from Gaza with Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah's al-Manar television: "Hamas will never recognise the legitimacy of the occupation (Israel)."

01-15-07 - Fatah says uncovers possible plot against leaders Palestinian security forces uncovered an extensive network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip that the Fatah faction said on Monday could have been used to assassinate its top leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas.

01-15-07 - Sneh: Law not enforced with regard to Hebron settlers In one case, Alkobi was charged with attacking Yusuf Aza, a 10-year-old boy. He told Yesh Din, a human rights organization, that Alkobi had pushed rocks into his mouth and closed his jaws forcefully on them, breaking some of his teeth. Psychos. Here's what they do to Americans. And again. And some others. But a few of the attacks by settlers on INTERNATIONALS.

01-15-07 - Israeli Army abducts fourteen Palestinian men from several parts of the West Bank

01-15-07 - Palestinian refugees and exiles must have a say-so

01-15-07 - News in brief An Armored Corps regiment commander, whose soldiers killed four Palestinian civilians in Jenin, has been reprimanded and given a suspended prison sentence. In June 2002, he was ordered to fire shells to disperse civilians in Jenin's marketplace who were violating the army curfew. A tank opened fire at civilians, killing a 53-year-old man and three children and injuring five civilians. The brigade commander who gave the order was acquitted by a disciplinary tribunal

01-15-07 - Palestinian cemetery off-limits as Israelis say it is too close to settlement

01-15-07 - Rice: UN sanctions on Iran 'not enough'

01-15-07 - Drug kingpin to be repatriated The plea bargain was expected to be implemented within weeks. With time off for good behavior, Rosenstein could be free by 2013. WTH is that? Assets don't get seized, and you get out in 6 years for smuggling millions of ecstacy pills into the US? Outrageous.

01-15-07 - Appointment of Arab minister on hold Majadele would be Israel?s first Arab Cabinet minister, but the move has been opposed by the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, which like Labor is a coalition partner of Olmert?s Kadima

01-15-07 - Jerusalem church leaders offer to mediate in Fatah, Hamas conflict

01-15-07 - Major investment bank issues warning on strike against Iran ** Preisdent Bush recently removed General John Abizaid as commander of US forces in the Middle East and John Negroponte as Director of National Intelligence, both of whom have said attacking Iran is not a priority or the right move at this time.

01-15-07 - Rice to seek return to road map New settlement plans by Israel violate the 'Road Map'. If Rice had any balls, she'd slap the Israelis down for embarassing her like that. She is, after all, a Republican. Won't hold my breath.

01-15-07 - Tehran largest donor in Ģ500m Muslim pledges to Palestinians An international boycott of the Hamas-led authority imposed last year has given Iran an opportunity to increase its influence. If the US, goaded on by Israel, hadn't besieged the Palestinians for over a year by allowing Israel to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in tax customs, then the Palestinians would not have been forced into the arms of others. This must be rocket science.

01-15-07 - Row over Israeli-Arab cabinet appointment "Israel is a Jewish state and should be run according to Jewish values," Tartman said. Her party has been advocating a land swap in which some Israeli Arab villages would be transferred to the Palestinian state and civil rights would be restricted to people who show allegiance to the Jewish state.

01-15-07 - Israeli forces confiscating southern Bethlehem village, farmers demonstrate Since early this morning dozens of Palestinian farmers in southern Bethlehem's Umm Salamuna Village have tried to stave off the Israeli bulldozers that razed 270 dunams of land for the Wall.

01-15-07 - Report: Rise in sales to PA expected Manufacturers' Association of Israel estimates sales to Palestinian Authority will total USD 2.2 billion this year. Ankara Forum to meet Monday to advance Turkish initiative to establish international company to manage Erez Industrial Park

01-15-07 - U.S. set to announce plea deal with Israeli on drug charges Israel has withdrawn related charges pending here, and the parties decided that U.S. authorities would not be confiscating Rosenstein's assets, as they had requested.

01-15-07 - Israeli strategic chief proposes peace plan with Syria "We should not keep to old territorial formulas, and there is no more reason to think that the price of peace with Syria is a complete withdrawal from the Golan,"

01-15-07 - Rice says planned Mideast talks most ambitious in six years US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a planned summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders could herald the most serious Middle East peace effort in six years

01-15-07 - Ramallah municipality plants one thousand olive trees

01-15-07 - Jews, evangelicals honor Ayalon Top congressmen, including Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the U.S. House of Representatives majority leader; Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the minority leader; and Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, addressed the event.

01-15-07 - Rana Shebley: Miss Palestine 2007

01-15-07 - Secret understandings reached between representatives from Israel and Syria Aronson said the idea of a park on the Golan Heights allows for the Syrian demand that Israel pull back to the June 4 border, on the one hand, while on the other hand, the park eliminates Israeli concerns that Syrians will have access to the water sources of Lake Kinneret.

01-15-07 - It's Not Torture and It Is Necessary by Rabbi Aryeh Spero

01-15-07 - Freedom Ride Against New Apartheid Travel Ban Next Friday, January 19th Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists will form a caravan of cars against the Apartheid decree prohibiting Israelis and foreign nationals from driving Palestinians inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

01-15-07 - Kenya: How About Palestine's Right to Exist

01-15-07 - School speaker policy won't end controversies common sense did not prevail in Andover when a small group of teachers ran roughshod over the administration in bringing the radical pro-Palestinian group Wheels of Justice to speak to students at the high school. Principal Peter Anderson initially - and correctly - barred the group from speaking at the school. This is evidently an editorial by the Eagle Tribune's own. Biased much?

01-15-07 - American image overhaul in PA "Palestinian people are not stupid. Americans think they can buy our sympathy with pretty pictures, but we know that the economic situation we are facing now is a direct result of them boycotting our government, and thus our people."

01-15-07 - Outside View: Iran must be stopped 'Their aim is to become a hegemony. Their aim is to drive the United States out (of the Middle East) and replace it. If they become a nuclear power it can start a nuclear arms race with Turkey and others. I don't think that the U.S. and the West can allow such a thing,' Sounds like Ayalon is talking about Israel. Read on about Ayalon and Israel's 'demographic' problem.

01-15-07 - Learning from his legacy "You admit that you want my land? That you want to take Palestine and Iraq as well?" Ahmad said, thrusting his arm forward to emphasize the point. "Why do you care about that land? You've got land from Morocco to Malaysia. We ended up with a piece that big," said Krivine, gesturing to the water bottle in Ahmad's hand. There it is again - that faulty logic. If I unlawfully help myself to $1000 that belongs to a billionaire, do I have the moral high ground? It's only a little bit - comparatively speaking....

01-15-07 - What to Do About Iran? A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...

01-15-07 - TOP RABBI SAYS GOVERNMENT HAS MOVED AWAY FROM PRO-ISRAEL STANCE Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, has denounced what he says is the Italian centre-left government's move away from support for Israel and has defined Italian policy towards the Jewish state as "wavering". Oh dear god. Stop the presses.

01-15-07 - Palestinian MP lauds late Kuwait Amir''s role in supporting Palestine

01-15-07 - From the Mouth of the Lion's Den Hilda Reilly is a British writer who recently spent six months in Palestine. One of the surprising situations she encountered was the subversive activities of Christian fundamentalists in the Palestinian communities. While in Jerusalem she met a Canadian Christian Zionist couple from who invited her to stay at their home in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. The following account is adapted from a passage in her book, Prickly Pears of Palestine.

01-15-07 - Israel looking for an extreme makeover Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter strongly criticised Israel in his new bestselling book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," and a recent international consumer survey found that Israel has the worst "brand name" of any country in the world. Aha! My New Year's prediction already coming true. Be warned, America. (More) propaganda on the way.

01-15-07 - JIMMY FOR TERROR The NY Post reveals its true colors. Your best bet is to read the book, and then watch as these folks make fools of themselves; it is NOT that bad.

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01-14-07 - Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians on Gaza border Israeli forces killed two Palestinians on Monday near the Israeli-built border fence on the Gaza frontier, ambulance workers said.

01-14-07 - Jordan King seeks bigger US peace push

01-14-07 - Abbas snubs Rice effort to revive road map Mr Abbas went on to reject a central plank of the plan: "We reaffirmed to Secretary Rice our rejection of any temporary or transitional solutions, including a state with temporary borders, because we don't see it as a realistic option."

01-14-07 - Israeli Army Storms Tulkarem, Restricts Movement

01-14-07 - Palestinian protesters dressed as Native Americans take part in a demonstration against U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

01-14-07 - Israeli minister dismisses idea of NATO troops in Gaza

01-14-07 - Susya Settlers Seen off by Solidarity Supporters Settlers from Susya and neighbouring settlements such as Ma?on have, with the help of the IOF and the Civil Administration, been trying for years to drive away the several thousand farmers and herders in the Masafir Yatta area in the South Hebron Hills. This has taken the form of physical attacks, intimidation and harrassment, and land and property destruction.

01-14-07 - Erekat rules out Abbas-Olmert talks on Palestinian state during Rice's Mideast tour

01-14-07 - Palestinian gov't downplays Rice's visit to Middle East "The American policy in the Middle East is used to boost Israeli plans at the expense of the Palestinian people's legitimate rights,"

01-14-07 - Bethlehem: more than 800 Christian children welcome world church leaders The Archbishop of Liverpool, Rt Rev Patrick Kelly, together with world church leaders and heads of the Christian churches of Jerusalem, were greeted by more than 800 Christian children from thirty parishes across Palestine in Bethlehem on Friday

01-14-07 - Olmert 'ashamed' of insult video Only because it was caught on tape!

01-14-07 - Deputy defense minister: We'll mull Barghouti's release

01-14-07 - Israeli forces imprison deaf ? mute man accused of involement with Islamic Jihad

01-14-07 - 11,000 political prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails protesting internal strife Since dawn Sunday, the approximate 11,000 political prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike that will last through the evening today in protest and condemnation of the internal fighting between Fateh and Hamas.

01-14-07 - Arabs look to link Iraq, Mideast deal It echoes widespread Arab feelings that a lasting Middle East peace cannot be achieved as long as Israel doesn't reach a settlement to hand over lands it occupied during the 1967 Mideast war to the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.

01-14-07 - 30 Days Against Checkpoints Underway in Nablus The Palest Indians.

01-14-07 - Rights group: Soldiers obligated to prevent abuse of Palestinians "Soldiers can't claim that it is not within their authority to arrest Israeli citizens who are harming Palestinians or their property," Sfard wrote to Peretz. "Not only are they authorized to do so, they are obligated to do so." Often they don't. Which is why there is a need for these guys.

01-14-07 - Palestinians, Peace activists dress like Native Americans in protest Some 100 Palestinian residents, peace activists held a peaceful protest at Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, dressing like Native Americans to send a message to the visiting US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

01-14-07 - House resolution calls for Ahmadinejad genocide charges The non-binding resolution brought last week to the House?s Foreign Affairs Committee and initiated by Reps. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), says statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for the destruction of Israel amount to crimes according to the 1948 Convention on Genocide genocide def - the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group . Who has driven nearly 3/4 million people from their homes, who has wiped Palestine off the map, who continues to squeeze a people into smaller and smaller areas of land by unlawful land confiscation (this includes by way of the wall)? Is it the Palestinians? And what of Avigdor Lieberman's comments calling on Israel to transfer the Arabs out of that country, hmm? He was just put in a very powerful position in the Israeli government. Can you say HYPOCRISY.

01-14-07 - Jerusalem fence a failure The separation fence, and particularly its yet-to-be-built parts, mostly in Jerusalem are not and never were premised on security needs. They were built to achieve wholly different objectives: In order to stress the "undivided" city's municipal borders, annex more West Bank territory to Jerusalem in practice, and while doing this trying to change the demographic balance in the city in favor of the Jewish side.

01-14-07 - Halutz: Military intelligence shows Syria is not preparing for war

01-14-07 - New York Times Magazine on Pro-Israel Lobby

01-14-07 - Talk of Israeli strike in Iran shows risks-Rice U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday that speculation about an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities underscored the risk of failing to persuade Tehran to halt uranium enrichment.

01-14-07 - Valley school leaders struggle with allowing controversial speakers while protecting students The Andover School Committee approved a new "controversial speakers" policy this past week to prevent a repeat of the Wheels of Justice situation in the future. The policy bans one-sided presentations "whenever possible" and requires controversial discussions to be "objective and scholarly." That works both ways. Invite a pro-Israeli official - then you best offer a representative of the other side. Fair is fair.

01-14-07 - Tell Amazon to Treat Carter's Book Fairly As longtime Amazon customers, we are deeply disturbed by your treatment of Jimmy Carter's important new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The Israeli lobby at work at Amazon.

01-14-07 - Bush ratifies Red Crystal "U.S. leadership and significant international cooperation overcame longstanding obstacles to achieve this humanitarian success."

01-14-07 - Damra now gone, but saga continues Damra's deliverance to an Israeli checkpoint stokes suspicion that U.S. immigration authorities never intended to deport him to the West Bank, or just didn't care where he landed. Some are calling Damra's deportation an "extraordinary rendition," a reference to the shadowy practice of sending suspected terrorists to nations where they could be punished or interrogated under less-strict laws.

01-14-07 - New York Rabbi Finds Friends in Iran and Enemies at Home What he and the Iranian president have in common, he explained, is their belief that the Holocaust has been exploited to justify the existence of Israel.

01-14-07 - The Carter trap On one hand, this problem, too, could be solved: All it needs is one well-known, well-respected, non-Jewish critic to come out publicly against Carter. If such a person does emerge, it will be possible to completely undermine the legitimacy of this miserable book And they'll get one, I'm sure. There are plenty of Israel-defenders in America. But while they may think that they are winning the battle, they will lose the war in the end. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we practice to deceive. Americans don't like being lied to.

01-14-07 - Jerusalem: Christian Church leaders issue appeal for peace

01-14-07 - Clinton vs. McCain: Who's really better for Israel? Whose really better for America (never gets factored in both here and there)?

01-14-07 - Palestinian Authority Enjoys New Media Center

01-14-07 - Red Crystal becomes third emblem of IRC For years Israel demanded recognition under the Geneva Conventions of the Red Star of David - the emblem used by its relief society.

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01-13-07 - Hamas calls for Palestinian unity

01-13-07 - Palestinians edge closer to unity government after strike ends "The American and Israeli policies seek to push the Palestinian people towards civil war and internal conflict so that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict becomes a Palestinian-Palestinian conflict,"

01-13-07 - Unknown Gunmen shoot and injure a Palestinian man in the northern Gaza Strip

01-13-07 - Assailants torch two broadcast vehicles in West Bank town

01-13-07 - Document of honor will govern new relationship between Fateh and Hamas Late Saturday night a meeting was held in Ramallah between several Hamas and Fateh leaders to discuss the latest developments on the domestic front in light of the continuing tension between the two sides

01-13-07 - Rice to seek to bolster Abbas in Ramallah talks Israeli officials said Livni and Rice had been discussing the possibility of creating a Palestinian state with temporary borders following the line of a barrier Israel is building in and around the occupied West Bank. It is not up to the US and Israel to 'give Palestinians a temporary state' or any state for that matter. According to international law, E. Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza are Palestinian territories. They should be afforded a state based on nothing less than the entirety of those three areas.

01-13-07 - Hamas website claims 'Zionist hack'

01-13-07 - Barghouti: Decent camp in Israel should be bolstered ?We?re struggling for a small country in size, but a large one in honor and freedom. The Palestinian people tried resistance without negotiation, and negotiation without resistance, and the truth is there is no other way but resistance to the 1967 occupier while keeping in mind the diplomatic horizon,? he said.

01-13-07 - Hebron: When Issa walked down the street In February 1994, Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Muslims as they were praying in the Ibrahimi mosque. In the weeks that followed the Israeli army closed Shuhada Street to the Palestinians, but allowed the Israeli settlers to roam free, thus punishing the victims for what one Israeli terrorist had done. Then, in January 1997, with the signing of the Hebron protocol which was part of the Oslo agreements, the Israeli government agreed to reopen Shuhada Street to the Palestinians. However, even with USAID money refurbishing the street for the Palestinians, the Israeli Army seemed to be taking orders from militant Israel settlers rather than from signed agreements.

01-13-07 - Rice starts Mideast tour 'without a peace plan'

01-13-07 - Olmert Visit To Egypt Damaged Prisoner Negotiations - Hamas

01-13-07 - Torn loyalties of Israel's Iranian Jews Yossi Melman, the author of a forthcoming book on Iran's nuclear programme, says concerns about an Iranian attack have been exaggerated, an unusual view here in Israel.

01-13-07 - End of Israeli Apartheid

01-13-07 - Why Condemning Israel and the Zionist Lobby is so Important

01-13-07 - Hebron Update 1-7 January 2007

01-13-07 - Alan Dershowitz seeks to grill Jimmy Carter on Israel book

01-13-07 - When They Sandbag Jimmy Carter, Jewish Leaders Deny the Facts The campaign by the U.S. Jewish leadership to smear Jimmy Carter will one day be taught in history books, as an effort by a privileged elite to suppress the truth. Slavery and segregation also had powerful defenders who misrepresented those conditions. Despite all their well-connected efforts, these people will lose for two simple reasons: the facts are against them, and a movement has begun to discover those facts. The progressive Jews jamming the temple last night are the evidence.

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01-12-07 - Hamas rallies supporters against Fatah strongman Hamas supporters emerged from mosques on Friday waving green Hamas flags and chanted slogans accusing Mohammad Dahlan, a Fatah strongman and possible successor to Abbas, of being the mastermind of a "coup" against its nine-month-old government.

01-12-07 - Unknown gunmen attack the home of the Police commander in Bethlehem A group of unknown gunmen detonated a home-made bomb near the house of the Police Commander of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, Issa Hejju on Friday morning.

01-12-07 - Bilen Weekly Demonstration, army injures at lest 11 protesters, including a journalist Jonothan Pollack an Israeli, 25, was injured by a rubber coated bullet in the stomach and Sarah, an international volunteer ,25, sustained shoulder injuries from an explosive gas bomb.

01-12-07 - Gaza - West Bank ? ICRC Bulletin No. 17 / 2007 Closures and other restrictions on movement continued to affect the daily lives of Palestinians. Getting to school or to work, seeing a doctor or simply doing the shopping has become increasingly difficult. In the West Bank, the number of checkpoints and roadblocks remained unchanged despite news of a possible easing of restrictions on movement for the residents. There was no significant reduction in closures in the northern West Bank, especially in Nablus and Tulkarem districts, which are the areas most severely affected by the measure. Many more farmers found it difficult to access their land.

01-12-07 - Palestinian workers in deal to end strike -- union Palestinian government employees are expected to return to work at the weekend under a deal to end a strike over unpaid wages, a union official said on Friday.

01-12-07 - Moderate Arabs avoid U.S. association "What the United States did for the region is destruction for the forces who believe in democracy, rule of law and human rights," Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza told the Times. "We are the real victims."

01-12-07 - The "Surge" Is A Red Herring ** Near the end of his "surge" speech, Bush adopts the neoconservative program as US policy. The struggle, Bush says, echoing the neoconservatives and the Israeli right-wing, goes far beyond Iraq.

01-12-07 - Iranian Jews Reject Outside Calls To Leave ** In recent months, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Israeli officials and some American Jewish communal leaders have urged Iranian Jews to leave. But so far, despite generally being allowed to travel to Israel and emigrate abroad, Iranian Jews have stayed put. Why are they encouraging Iranian Jews to leave Iran, know something we don't?

01-12-07 - Jimmy Carter Speaks Truth to Propaganda We must not let the Israel Lobby get away with demonizing an American president who dares to stand up to their lies. It's a good book.

01-12-07 - Sharon advised Bush: You need Iraq exit plan The former Israeli prime minister, who has been in a coma for a year, met with Bush in early 2003, prior to the U.S. invasion. According to a report in the Forward this week, Sharon said he believed, as Bush did, that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the region. No sh#t?

01-12-07 - Israeli mobster?s wife: Plea bargain to be signed in Miami that he allegedly headed a drug ring that pushed millions of ecstasy pills from Israel to the United States and Australia, through Europe. A total outrage.

01-12-07 - Mediators push for breakthrough in Palestinian stalemate Mediators are seeking to bring together Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and the Damascus-based leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, in a bid to defuse the deadly power struggle between their two parties, officials in Gaza said on Friday.

01-12-07 - Spain proposes adding Arab participation to Mideast Quartet

01-12-07 - US seeks 86 million dollars in military aid to Palestinians Instigating a civil war.

01-12-07 - Arab League seeking support for international Mideast conference The Cairo-based Arab League (AL) is seeking a positive answer to its proposal to hold an international conference on Middle East peace, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported on Friday.

01-12-07 - Israelis at West Bank outpost face an unexpected threat - Israel Migron was among the outposts Sasson targeted. According to her report, it is built on land privately owned by Palestinians from the nearby villages of Burqa and Deir Debwan. And while to her it seemed patently illegal, the housing ministry paid more than $1 million to build its infrastructure and public buildings, including a nearly mile-long road connecting Migron to the highway below.

01-12-07 - Holy Land Custodian Emphasizes War's Human Factor "Objectively, the Palestinians suffer more than any one else, because of the economic situation, the internal divisions and the absence of a state.

01-12-07 - Rabbis throw book at Jimmy I've read the book, it is not one-sided. But Carter does heavily criticize Israel - the real issue here. No one in America is allowed.

01-12-07 - US lets ecstasy dealer serve time in israel By all accounts, serving time in israeli prison (as a Jew) is like vacationing in Club Med. "The Fat Man" is sure to get the royal treatment from his brethren in crime.

01-12-07 - Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

01-12-07 - New policy eyed for AHS speakers The School Committee will review its policies on inviting speakers to the schools in the wake of last week's visit by the controversial pro-Palestinian group Wheels of Justice. My god, people actually heard the truth - despite the best efforts by the Israeli lobby to nix the event. Can't have that.

01-12-07 - Israelis Support Contacts with Palestinians

01-12-07 - A Nazareth miracle It all began with a declaration by the conductor, Daniel Barenboim - a slightly hasty declaration, as he admitted later - that he would establish a Palestinian classical youth orchestra

01-12-07 - Foreign investment in Israel reaches all-time high

01-12-07 - Hezbollah weapons and supplies found hidden along northern border The patrol found the supplies within Israeli territory, but on the Lebanese side of the Israeli-constructed border fence. The action represents the first time Israeli soldiers have crossed the border fence since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in the wake of the second Lebanon war.

01-12-07 - Syria: No preconditions to Israeli talks

01-12-07 - Corbyn warns of 'horrendous' plight of Palestinian people

01-12-07 - U.S. delivers Hummers to Lebanon The delivery was part of a U.S. effort to bolster Lebanon?s western-leaning government against Syria and Hezbollah

01-12-07 - As Carter controversy grows, Jews resign from center?s board Fourteen Jewish members of the Carter Center's board of councilors have resigned to protest the former president's new book blaming Israel for the failure of Middle East peace efforts..."We call upon Mr. Carter to better educate himself and his readers as to the true root causes of the Palestinian people's dire plight, " Oh but I think he did - he saw it with his own eyes. When smear campaigns fail, throw tantrums.

01-12-07 - Doctor offers up plan for peace in Middle East Palestinian-American from Orland Park suggests panel of Americans join Palestinian government

01-12-07 - Border crossings Maya Jaggi praises two unflinching critiques of Palestinian society: Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua and The Illusion of Return by Samir El-Youssef

01-12-07 - U.S. policies have made Israel less safe, experts say The conclusion that the United States has made Israel less safe and the growing criticism of Bush administration policy are ironic, to put it mildly. Securing Israel, America's closest ally in the region, was one of the Bush administration's justifications for toppling Saddam and for promoting democracy throughout the region America invaded Iraq at the behest of Israel and its minions in the US - the neocons. In fact, it's safe to say that Bush's entire Middle East agenda is crafted by Cheney and the neocons. He sure as hell isn't listening to the ISG, now is he? Bush relied heavily on Natan Sharansky's book about Middle Eastern democracy as well. All of these policies are now backfiring, and it's all being blamed on Bush. Half of the blame rests with Israel and the neocons. None of these policies have made the US any safer. To the contrary. The US (again at the behest of Israel) has run roughshod over moderates in the region and has refused to engage in diplomacy in the region - thereby encouraging extremism. Diplomacy at the barrel of a gun will continue to bite us in the ass (as it has done with Israel) over time.

01-12-07 - Top U.S. Presbyterian Leaders Bolster Mideast Christians

01-12-07 - Talk explores hip-hop in the Holy Land

01-12-07 - What Israel Can Do for America The rejection of the L-word is often prompted by denial of the tragic, obvious fact that U.S. support of Israel is one the main reasons why Muslims throughout the world despise Americans.

01-12-07 - Anti-Zionist Jew excommunicated in Vienna The community said in a statement that Israel?s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, asked in December for a cherem, or excommunication, against all Jews who participated in the Tehran conference

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01-11-07 - Fatah loyalists rally in Ramallah

01-11-07 - Palestinians suffering from Israeli occupation: HRW "If the wall were to become a permanent border, it would mean Israel's annexation of approximately 10 percent of the West Bank," including all major settlements and "some of the most productive Palestinian farmlands and key water resources." Israel also continued to expand settlements in the West Bank and failed, as promised,to dismantle illegal outposts not recognized by the government, HRW said. All settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law.

01-11-07 - Israeli forces continue arrests, including four children from Hebron

01-11-07 - Restriction of movement barely eased in West Bank: Israeli paper

01-11-07 - President Abbas: peace based on justice and no negotiations on refugees or Jerusalem

01-11-07 - Palestinian family reunification law gets two-month extension The law preventing the reunification of families of Palestinians from the territories and Israeli Arabs will not be extended for two more years, as requested by the defense establishment.

01-11-07 - Two fishermen wounded by Israeli gunboats fire in Gaza sea, and an Israeli drone crashes over Gaza

01-11-07 - Court orders NIS 100,000 fine for companies building in W. Bank The High Court ordered construction temporarily frozen roughly one year ago, due to the fact that the neighborhood was being built on private Palestinian land. Part of the construction was being conducted without any authorization whatsoever, while the rest was being carried out as part of an illegal master plan approved by the Upper Modi'in Council.

01-11-07 - Abbas: No to state with temporary borders In mass Ramallah rally marking Fatah's 42nd anniversary, Palestinian president says will reject any proposal to establish Palestinian state with temporary borders. Israeli-Arab MK Tibi slams Israel in speech, says 'struggle to free land must continue'

01-11-07 - Police official: Hebron incident reflects reality "As serious as the incident may be, it is just the tip of the iceberg of the daily violence Hebron settlers subject their Palestinian neighbors to on a daily basis, under the army's auspices." The settlers get away with this commonplace treatment of Palestinians because the Israeli army allows it. Christian Peacekeepers in the region are there to protect the Palestinians from this abuse.

01-11-07 - Unknown masked men cut off the phone and Internet cable lines of WAFA office in Nablus

01-11-07 - Abbas determined to prevent further internal clashes with Hamas

01-11-07 - China: Will do anything to solve Iran issue

01-11-07 - Apartheid Road on Bil?in Land Laundered by High Court This is yet another example of the theft of Palestinian land being sanctioned at the highest level by Israeli authorities. The whole of the Matityahu East colonist block was built on Bil?in village land and the whole of the colony of Mod?in Ilit was built on the land of Bil?in and neighbouring villages. Mod?in Ilit is now the largest colony in the West Bank with a population of 35,000 after 4,000 new colonists moved there in 2006.

01-11-07 - Midnight attack on Al Naqab cells

01-11-07 - Israeli army abducts 12 Palestinian men from the West Bank

01-11-07 - Bush's tough tactics are a 'declaration of war' on Iran ** But if the US is preparing to confront Iran militarily - which some top military officials in Israel are reportedly recommending - the Bush administration will find itself involved in conflicts on four fronts.

01-11-07 - Rightwing fury at first Arab in Israeli cabinet Arabs make up around 20% of the Israeli population but are under-represented in most professions.

01-11-07 - Uncle Hamas Cares for Palestinians

01-11-07 - U.S. ambassador to Israel: U.S. reduced W. Bank settlements "I think that we have definitely slowed efforts at settlement-building," Jones said. "It's certainly true that some units are approved every year, a couple of hundred here or there, but I think the U.S.-Israeli understanding has definitely slowed down the process of settlements. We continue to make our views known through public statements and private discussions." Right. We could stop it all in a minute if we withheld ALL of the billions of dollars in US taxypayer aid.

01-11-07 - Peretz: Probe harassment of Palestinians Peretz, who saw the footage and heard first-hand accounts from members of the Abu Aisha family, spoke with IDF Southern Command Chief Yair Naveh and instructed him to launch an investigation into the incident "that shamed Israel," according to him.

01-11-07 - Neither sanctions nor bombs will end the Iran nuclear crisis ** It is not as if Iran presents any immediate, compelling threat. Israeli officials argue that a nuclear bomb in the hands of a man who talks about Israel being "eliminated from the pages of time" poses an unacceptable risk, but he wields no power in foreign affairs. Moreover, Israel's nuclear deterrent would mean mutually assured destruction.

01-11-07 - New synagogue near Al Aqsa Mosque

01-11-07 - Palestinian political prisoners begin nonviolent action: Al Naqab on hunger strike

01-11-07 - Syrian envoy at Madrid Conference: We want negotiations The Palestinians were represented by Hanan Ashrawi, who also participated in the first Madrid Conference. According to her, the Palestinian problem is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

01-11-07 - At Taysir roadblock, things are worse M.P. said things have gotten worse over the past week, with soldiers beating and humiliating Palestinians, especially on Friday and Saturday, when no officers were on duty.

01-11-07 - Organic pesticides and water resource management in the northwestern West Bank

01-11-07 - Madrid conference opens to mark 1991 Mideast peace talks An international conference began on Wednesday to commemorate the 1991 peace talks which brought Israeli and Arab leaders together for the first time and paved way for the Oslo Accords.

01-11-07 - Rice to head to Middle East with Iran in her sights The focus on Iran could overshadow efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not the first time the issue has received a lower priority during President George W. Bush's tenure.

01-11-07 - Gaza: IDF drone crashes; Hamas presents photos An Israel Defense Forces UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) crashed in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday.

01-11-07 - Israeli troops abduct two Palestinian men from Jenin Israeli army forces invaded the down town area of Jenin city in the northern West Bank, on Thursday afternoon. They abducted two Palestinian men; one of them is a Hamas affiliated politican, Khalid Al Hajj

01-11-07 - Carter agrees to book talk at Brandeis Carter will speak for about 15 minutes and then answer questions for 45 minutes during the visit, tentatively scheduled for Jan. 23. Will it be reminiscent of the recent Andover High school fiasco whereby Zionists heckled and shouted and threw tantums at the Wheels of Justice folks?...

01-11-07 - Israel, Hezbollah violated laws of war during conflict: HRW "In its conduct of hostilities, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) repeatedly violated the laws of war by failing to distinguish between combatants and civilians," the US-based rights group said Thursday. "The IDF claims that the high proportion of civilian deaths in the war was due to Hezbollah hiding its rockets and fighters in villages and towns, but IDF attacks responsible for a majority of the civilian deaths took place at times when there was no evidence that Hezbollah fighters or weapons were even in the vicinity," the report said.

01-11-07 - Carter faces revolt over book on Middle East Criticism of Israel seen as 'malicious advocacy' That's alright - it's to be expected.

01-11-07 - European and American Bishops Visit Holy Land The event is organized in coordination with the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land, and the program includes visits to Bethlehem, Gaza and Nazareth, and then finally in Jerusalem.

01-11-07 - Norwegian Oil Fund investments criticised At the same time, the Norwegian government is openly critical to Israel's settlement policy on the West Bank.

01-11-07 - Second thoughts about the Promised Land Jewish Americans have long been Israel's strongest supporters. Many of the most zealous West Bank settlers come from America. The main Jewish lobby groups have tended to back right-wing Israeli governments and avoid criticising their policies. The fact that Israel is America's strongest ally emboldens this gung-ho stance. So does the ultra-Zionist stance of some American Christians......Leaping to Israel's defence is still what the Jewish establishment does best. After the war, the Israel On Campus Coalition, a student organisation, issued a 129-page guide with contributions from all the major Jewish and pro-Israel bodies, packed with set-piece talking points for knocking down critics of Israel

01-11-07 - Reflection Hebron: A Rabbi and a Politician

01-11-07 - Center Reminds Holy Land Youth of Their Roots A youth center in Bethlehem is helping Christians in the Holy Land to remember their roots.

01-11-07 - Google Anti-Israel Probe One Israeli settlement is displayed alongside comments implying citizens are stealing water from neighbouring Palestinians, while other images purport to show copies of land confiscation orders as well as plans to extend the security fence into Bethlehem.....the spokesperson promised that the company would investigate the offending postings. Can't have the truth getting out like that.

01-11-07 - Defense attorneys make pleas After telling jurors he's Jewish, defense attorney Michael Deutsch condemned Israel's "brutal and genocidal occupation" of what once was Palestine. His voice cracking with fatigue and emotion three hours into his speech, he concluded by praising Salah and his family.

01-11-07 - Brief Fire Fight between Army and Jund al-Sham in Ein el-Hilweh A brief fire fight broke out between Lebanese soldiers and Palestinian Islamists in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp Thursday. A soldier was wounded.

01-11-07 - From Jordan's harsh Ruweished desert camp to a new life in Ottawa The world seemed to have forgotten the family and their fellow Palestinians, several of whom decided to return and take their chances in Iraq rather than waste away in Ruweished. But UNHCR was onto their case, trying to find a long-term solution for the 150 Palestinians who remained in Ruweished.

01-11-07 - Damra OK at N. Israel jail, lawyer tells family If he's such a threat to Israel and the US, why did Israel let him go in the first place?

01-11-07 - Father of Captured Israeli Offers Himself The father of a captured Israeli soldier confronted one of his son's captors in a dramatic joint radio appearance yesterday - pleading with the Hamas-linked extremists to release his boy and take him instead.

01-11-07 - Order of malta seeks statute to protect Jerusalem

01-11-07 - At a Brooklyn Temple, An Israeli Veteran Tells of His Sister's Murder by a Suicide Bomber

01-11-07 - Remembering Abraham Local celebrations of Muslim holiday recall God's test of prophet's faith

01-11-07 - UAE rules out US or Israeli strikes on Iran from its soil **

01-11-07 - Making the case for a larger Israel Another Israel-supporting attorney advocates that Israel should be allowed to unlawfully procure territory for itself. For these folks, morality and the law get thrown out the window when it comes to all things Israel - a form of supremacy. Hey, I could use more land too - that doesn't give me the moral or legal right to help myself to that of my neighbors.

01-11-07 - Pro-Israel speakers applauded at high school Applause and civility replaced taunting and yelling at last night's Middle East forum at Andover High School. Well then, I guess we all can figure out who was being 'uncivil' at the last event (that featured pro-Palestinian speakers).

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01-10-07 - Gaza chief brands Hamas murderers

01-10-07 - Hamas official accepts Israel but stops short of recognition In comments to Reuters, Mr Meshal softened his anti-Israel rhetoric, suggesting that Hamas does not seek the destruction of Israel as written in its charter. He said that Israel is a "reality" and "there will remain a state called Israel - this is a matter of fact". He added: "The problem is not that there is an entity called Israel. The problem is that the Palestinian state is non-existent."

01-10-07 - Improvements at W. Bank roadblocks are marginal The insignificant improvements fail to meet the commitment Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during their December 24 meeting in Jerusalem.

01-10-07 - Unknown masked men set the municipality building of Jenata village, near Bethlehem on fire

01-10-07 - Hamas officials suddenly moved in Israeli prison

01-10-07 - Division of congressional posts seems to favor Jewish issues Perhaps the most prominent pro-Israel boost is of Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who becomes majority leader. Hoyer is on a first-name basis with much of the board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and has been to Israel multiple times, exhibiting broad knowledge of its political workings.

01-10-07 - China 'reassures' Olmert on Iran "China made it absolutely clear that it opposes an Iran with a nuclear bomb," Mr Olmert told reporters after the 90-minute meeting with the Chinese premier.

01-10-07 - Police Summon Hebron Settler Filmed Harassing Arabs Only because it was caught on tape and reported in the media! Damage control.

01-10-07 - Egypt to press deal on Middle East "final status"

01-10-07 - Intelligence concerns hindering UN Hariri probe: US official The US official said the reticence of the 10 governments "could involve intelligence" secrets, but he declined to elaborate. Yeh, that the Mossad was likely operating in the area at the time - coincidentally, I'm sure.

01-10-07 - Death toll of Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians hit a low in 2006 The drop in Israeli casualties was accompanied by a dramatic rise in Palestinian deaths, which more than tripled, to 660 from 197 in 2005 - 28 Palestinian deaths for every Israeli killed.

01-10-07 - Barghouthi threatens to go on hunger strike if internal clashes do not cease

01-10-07 - Tibi protests 'anti-Arab bills' ?Arab MK won't breathe, won't move, won't stand, and won't sit without permission of authorized officials," he says sarcastically

01-10-07 - Israeli forces confiscating hundreds of dunams of Hebron land for settlement industry Official sources at the Hebron offices of the Land Defense Committee in the West Bank are reporting that Israeli forces intend to confiscate much of the town of Dahariya for settlement industry. More than 300 fertile dunams of Palestinian land is slated to be taken from the southwestern area of the town.

01-10-07 - Resident: Hebron Palestinians live in cages

01-10-07 - Plan: 1,000 housing units in Har Homa In addition to Har Homa, the mayor also plans to advance the expansion of Ramat Rachel, Mei Naftuah, New Arnona, Gilo, Givat Hamatos and other neighborhoods.

01-10-07 - Israel's Olmert upbeat on Iran nukes amid China talks

01-10-07 - Olmert dismisses Hamas leader's comments on Israel Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday shrugged off comments by the exiled leader of the Islamist Palestinian Hamas group, Khaled Meshaal, in which he acknowledged the existence of Israel.

01-10-07 - Ayalon: Israel is not alone ** Iran has attempted to dispatch emissaries to try and get the United States to rule out military action against Tehran, and their efforts have failed, former Israeli Ambassador to the US, and Co-Chairman of the Nefesh B'Nefesh aliyah program, said during an interview with Ynetnews.

01-10-07 - Bishop looking for Holy Land pilgrims Ghassan Makhalfeh, one of a dwindling number of Palestinian Christians living within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, will speak at the meeting about being a Christian in the Holy Land.

01-10-07 - Settler violence in Hebron continues This is nothing new. What is new is that it was caught on tape - and given attention by a prominent Israeli news source.

01-10-07 - Another teachers strike on the horizon The teachers' representative explained that the demands are clear; the government must pay salaries for January or else there will be a return to the strike.

01-10-07 - Internal fighting report from PCHR: One killed in Nablus while Ramallah and Al Bireh stores damaged

01-10-07 - Palestinian human shield prevents Israeli airstrike

01-10-07 - President Receives German Envoy to Middle East

01-10-07 - Interior Ministry: West Bank settler population grew by 6% in 2006 The settler population in the West Bank grew by nearly 6 percent in 2006, more than quadruple the rate of increase a year earlier, government figures showed on Tuesday.

01-10-07 - Rightist freed from jail after vowing not to attack Palestinians

01-10-07 - Party meetings to begin again after PLO rejects Hamas' possible draft for agreement with Israelis

01-10-07 - Jerusalem school shrinks as Israeli security barrier rises The erection of the security wall has blocked many pupils and teachers at the Industrial Secondary School from reaching their classrooms, slashing attendance by nearly two-thirds and causing severe teacher shortages.

01-10-07 - Commentary: Jimmy Carter: The Courage to Tell the Truth

01-10-07 - Top lawmakers query Interpol on Iran Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), its ranking member, wrote Ronald Noble, Interpol?s secretary general, asking why his agency "appears to have taken the unusual step of undertaking its own review of the evidence," according to a statement released Wednesday by the two congressional offices. Israel's top two agents on Capitol Hill.

01-10-07 - Is US Army blocking use of Israel's anti-RPG weapons in Iraq?

01-10-07 - Jews above criticism? It is almost impossible for an American Jew to criticize the Israeli government's policy toward the Palestinians without being called anti-Semitic or a self-hating Jew. I found this out in the 1980s when I wrote an article for a Center City paper called the Welcomat about finding a Jewish temple where my son would not automatically be taught that all Palestinians are terrorists. Vitriolic letters from all over the East Coast lambasted my views.

01-10-07 - Israel Has Lost

01-10-07 - Distracting Congress from the Real War Plan: Iran **

01-10-07 - Guest Opinion: Shame in Andover

01-10-07 - Terror suspect halts British hearing

01-10-07 - High school invites Jewish leadership speakers The school has allowed the David Project Center for Jewish Leadership to come to the school in response to last week's visit by Wheels of Justice, a pro-Palestinian group

01-10-07 - "Peace Village" on UK tour Jewish and Arab women from a mixed Israeli community known as the 'peace village' have kicked off a unique lecture tour of the UK in order to spread the message that coexistence is possible in the Holyland.

01-10-07 - Egyptian, Jordanian leaders discuss steps to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace process

01-10-07 - IDF: We are NIS 8 billion short American taxpayers beware.

01-10-07 - Terror trial defendants described as humanitarians Hoarse from hours of talking, defense attorneys said Wednesday that two men accused of bankrolling Hamas terrorists sought to ease the plight of downtrodden Palestinians but never violated the law.

01-10-07 - Palestinian American Congress Voices Deep Concern over Violence in GS,WB

01-10-07 - Anti-war group targets Israel in West Bank A leading group in the anti-Iraq war movement is cosponsoring a June rally to protest 40 years of Israeli presence in the West Bank.

01-10-07 - IDF: Growing chance of war on Lebanese, Syrian fronts

01-10-07 - After Tehran Holocaust conference, anti-Zionist Jew shunned in Vienna Three lawsuits have been filed against a Viennese rabbi who attended a Holocaust denial conference in Iran in December. Unreal.

01-10-07 - Community expects U.N. choice to continue strong backing of Israel In 1997 he put his name ? alongside fellow Bush allies Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz ? to the statement of principles of the newly formed Project for a New American Century, a conservative group that advocated global American leadership, increased defense spending and promotion of American values abroad.

01-10-07 - Why no outrage from community as Bush ignores embassy pledge? When ZOA President Morton Klein met with Bush for several minutes at a Newark Airport hotel in 2000, he raised only one point: Would a President Bush move the embassy? "No," was the reply, since it would "screw up the peace process." When those views hit the press, the Bush campaign staff went into full damage control, insisting with straight faces that their boss must have been misunderstood. It's bothersome that someone who worked at the Justice Department (and who also worked at AIPAC) is advocating America officially recognize Israel's illegal annexation of Jerusalem.

01-10-07 - Coalition to fight Israel boycotts British Jewish groups formed a coalition to combat proposed boycotts of Israel.

01-10-07 - Analysis: Implications of Hamas' alliance The expert, intelligence Brig. Gen. Shalom Harari, told diplomats and foreign correspondents in Jerusalem Tuesday he believed the military "will have to enter Gaza in a very wide scale operation in the next year if not in the next six months."

01-10-07 - Mideast Maps and Rorschach Tests (4 Letters)

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01-09-07 - Israeli army critically injures a Palestinian youth in Gaza Samir Al Madhon, 17, was critically wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him near the borders in the eastern side of Gaza city on Tuesday afternoon

01-09-07 - Jailed Jenin legislators appeal factions to end violent clashes Abducted Palestinian Legislators from the Jenin District, imprisoned by Israel, voiced an appeal to Fateh and Hamas gunmen, engaging in armed clashes, to stop the violence and maintain national unity.

01-09-07 - Hamas militant dies of wounds sustained in political clash A Hamas militant on Tuesday died of wounds sustained in fighting last week, medical officials said, the latest death in a spate of factional violence in the Gaza Strip.

01-09-07 - Hamas accepts temporary peace deal with Israel: PLO

01-09-07 - Hamas and Fatah gunmen clash in Gaza

01-09-07 - Arab League says ready to send delegation to help end Palestinian in fighting Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Tuesday that his pan-Arab organization is ready to send a high-level delegation to the Palestinian territories to help end the infighting there.

01-09-07 - Three members of the Executive Force injured in Gaza, five abducted

01-09-07 - Settlers aim to continue settlement expansion

01-09-07 - Army: "We abducted 4110 Palestinians in 2006"

01-09-07 - Rice to visit Mideast for talks on Iraq, Israeli-Palestinian ties

01-09-07 - Peretz halts construction of fence in the desert Peretz halts construction of fence in the desert

01-09-07 - Mubarak: Palestinians will pay a heavy price

01-09-07 - Captured Israeli 'in good health'

01-09-07 - On tape: Palestinians harassed in Hebron ?cage? Tape obtained by B?Tselem shows heated argument between Palestinian family in Hebron and woman Jewish settler; quarrel just one example of suffering we endure on daily basis, head of Palestinian family tells Ynet

01-09-07 - Who Is Planning Our Next War? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** Israel's war, says Bibi, must be sold as America's war. We are thus forewarned. A propaganda campaign, using Israeli agents and their neocon auxiliaries and sympathizers, who stampeded us into war in Iraq, is being prepared to stampede us into war on Iran. Great article.

01-09-07 - Israel?s purging of Palestinian Christians Without Palestinian Christians confusing the picture, it will be much easier for Israel to persuade the West that the Jewish state is facing a monolithic enemy, fanatical Islam, and that the Palestinian national struggle is really both a cover for jihad and a distraction from the clash of civilisations against which Israel is the ultimate bulwark. Israel?s hands will be freed.

01-09-07 - Israeli forces continue to take Palestinians into its prison system at an alarming rate

01-09-07 - Shas MKs ask PM to reduce sentences for terror attacks against Arabs Shas ministers and MKs are asking Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to release or reduce the sentences of Jewish prisoners who carried out or attempted to carry out terror attacks against Arabs - if Palestinian prisoners "with blood on their hands" are released as part of an anticipated prisoner exchange for captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.

01-09-07 - 980 Units to be Built at Har Homa Har Homa - illegal settlement

01-09-07 - Israeli army abducts seven Palestinian men from Hebron

01-09-07 - Israeli army invades down town Bethlehem, surrounds a house and abducts three brothers

01-09-07 - Palestinian housing statistics indicate major problems due to Israeli policy of home demolitions

01-09-07 - Major loophole in Democrats' ethics bill will benefit controversial lobbying groups Though tasked with authoring the legislation, Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter (D-NY) said she disagreed with the exemption in an exclusive interview. "I would've done it straight out," Slaughter said, noting that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Aspen Institute are exempt from many of its harshest restrictions AIPAC, of all lobbies, will benefit from this new loophole? What a coincidence!

01-09-07 - Israeli documentary captures citizen reconciliation - and encourages more

01-09-07 - Lebanon opposition renews protest

01-09-07 - TV anchor: Arab look not appropriate for Eurovision Song Contest Michaeli, a TV anchor for Channel 9, and a former candidate for the recent Kadima party elections, made waves after stating that the selected representative should not have an Arab look.

01-09-07 - Hundreds protest group whose members attended Iran's Holocaust conference Mordechai Levy, head of the JDO, said over the loudspeaker that Weiss and other Neturei Karta members should be driven out of the community. "We know where you live. We know where you daven," he said, using the Yiddish word for "pray." "We know where you work. And we're going to get you fired from your jobs, thrown out of shuls (synagogues) and driven from Monsey. Neturei Karta are traitors to the Jews." And the supreme irony here is - I bet the Iranians treat their Jewish brethren better than these JDO thugs treated the Neturei Karta Jews.

01-09-07 - From Dec: Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform Two of America?s most influential Jewish organizations are gearing up for their first direct confrontation with the incoming, Democratic-led Congress. The topic: Democratic proposals for congressional ethics and lobbying reform. The Israeli lobby wins again (majority of Americans lose).

01-09-07 - Build integral humanism by respect of human rights, pope tells diplomats Pope Benedict renewed his call for "a free and sovereign" Palestinian homeland, and said that Lebanon has a right to have its borders respected and Israel has a "right to live in peace in their state."

01-09-07 - Israel plans to nuke Iran **

01-09-07 - No-goodniks and the Palestinian shootout The Abrams program was initially conceived last February by a group of White House officials who wanted to shape a coherent and tough response to the Hamas electoral victory of January. These officials, the authors were told, were led by Abrams, but included national security advisers working in the office of the vice president, including prominent neo-conservatives David Wurmser and John Hannah. The policy was approved by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Neocons.

01-09-07 - Condi's Savage War on the Palestinians

01-09-07 - Christmas celebration in Jerusalem

01-09-07 - Conditional citizenship one cannot rule out the possibility that an expulsion of Arab Israelis would pass without widespread opposition - for instance, on the pretext that they had "broken faith" with their country.

01-09-07 - Palestinian female filmmakers triumph with their art

01-09-07 - Column: America's debt and Israel's occupation

01-09-07 - Support Palestine's Struggle

01-09-07 - Christian Allies Caucus vows that 'the best is yet to come' Ultimately, the group hopes to create an international network of parliamentary sister caucuses that coordinate activities in support of Israel in close communication with each other.

01-09-07 - Peres scorns Peretz's new peace plan

01-09-07 - A Middle East free of nuclear weapons

01-09-07 - JOURNALISTS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE

01-09-07 - Arab Americans seek watch-list clarity The Bush administration has dramatically expanded its "watch lists" of banned terrorist groups to include charities that allegedly fund Hamas and Hezbollah, groups that target Israel with terrorist attacks.

01-09-07 - Already fifty little "hearts for peace"? its main objective: to operate on fifty Palestinian children at the Hadassah hospital in 2006

01-09-07 - Man Bites Dog Palestine Coverage

01-09-07 - Jones: US will stand by Israel in face of Iranian threat ** He assured the audience that, "Israel's security and well being are of vital importance to the United States."

01-09-07 - CIA gets the go-ahead to take on Hizbollah The Central Intelligence Agency has been authorised to take covert action against Hizbollah as part of a secret plan by President George W. Bush to help the Lebanese government prevent the spread of Iranian influence. Senators and congressmen have been briefed on the classified "non-lethal presidential finding" that allows the CIA to provide financial and logistical support to the prime minister, Fouad Siniora. Because one and 3/4 civil wars in the region are not enough.

01-09-07 - U.S.: Indonesian UN statement on Mideast conflict 'unbalanced' Indonesia introduced a draft UN statement Tuesday to promote the momentum of the recent meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but the United States said it blamed Israel for recent incursions and was unbalanced.

01-09-07 - Correction: Iran-Holocaust-Conference In a Dec. 12 story about an Iranian-sponsored conference on the Holocaust, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a claim that Zionists have exaggerated the number of Jews killed by the Nazis.

01-09-07 - Sundance Channel Unveils Two Programming Features on Time Warner Cable On Demand in Celebration of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Wall (also known as Mur): A meditation about the social impact of the security wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories, featuring discussions on both sides of the barrier.

01-09-07 - Israeli official to bring news and views to Napa . Terrorists and their oil rich sponsors have deftly portrayed Palestinians as victims of Israeli "aggression" and perverted especially on college campuses, as a way of code words like apartheid, occupation, and "Zionist entity," gaining sympathy for their cause PR campaign right on cue. Note the outright BS in that article too.

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01-08-07 - 20-year old Palestinian shot and injured by Israeli gunfire near Beit Hanoun

01-08-07 - Palestinian resistance claims to have fired three homemade shells into Israel

01-08-07 - Former Palestinian minister escapes drive-by shooting in Ramallah

01-08-07 - Fateh supporters in Ramallah torch stores, fire at homes of Hamas supporters

01-08-07 - PCHR calls for an end of violence between Fateh and Hamas

01-08-07 - Car of former Palestinian finance minister damaged in accidental shooting

01-08-07 - Faction tensions simmer in W Bank Arsonists have destroyed a number of shops in the West Bank town of Ramallah during the night.

01-08-07 - Fatah frees kidnapped Hamas official

01-08-07 - 150 dunams of Palestinian farmland bulldozed by Israeli troops near Hebron

01-08-07 - Israel denies planning nuclear attack on Iran ** Ephraim Kam ? a former senior intelligence official now at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Strategic Studies ? also suggested the report should not be taken literally. "No reliable source would ever speak about this, certainly not to the Sunday Times," he said

01-08-07 - Israel's Peretz unveils new roadmap initiative Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Monday presented the left-wing Labor Party with a new diplomatic initiative, which calls for final status negotiations with the Palestinians within six months, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported.

01-08-07 - 2005: Abbas triumphs in Palestinian elections There were problems with registration, heavy turnout and the turning away of hundreds of voters from a big Israeli-run polling station in East Jerusalem.

01-08-07 - Palestinians from Iraq are refugees once again: Syrian government allocates small plot for new camp The Ministry of Refugees announced Monday that the Syrian government has agreed to allocate 10 dunams of land to build houses for the hundreds of Palestinian refugees fleeing Baghdad.

01-08-07 - Syria says Israeli occupation at root of Mideast crisis

01-08-07 - Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction, A Threat to Peace: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal "In developing their "ethno-bomb", Israeli scientists are trying to exploit medical advances by identifying distinctive a gene carried by some Arabs, then create a genetically modified bacterium or virus... The scientists are trying to engineer deadly micro-organisms that attack only those bearing the distinctive genes." Dedi Zucker, a leftist Member of Knesset, the Israeli parliament, denounced the research saying, "Morally, based on our history, and our tradition and our experience, such a weapon is monstrous and should be denied."

01-08-07 - Palestinian workers inside Israeli boundaries brutally beaten and forced to strip naked They were arrested, banned from work for one month, and fined 5,000 shekels. But first they were severely beaten.A report issued by the Palestinian Workers Union indicated that large numbers of border guards stormed several houses and workshops in Haifa in search of Palestinian laborers.

01-08-07 - PPS Appeals to HR Organisations to Release Palestinian Family from Israeli Jails

01-08-07 - Indonesia to invite Hamas, Fatah leaders

01-08-07 - Joy, relief after abducted AFP photographer released in Gaza Joy and relief greeted AFP photographer Jaime Razuri, following his release in Gaza a week after he was snatched by gunmen in the latest foreigner kidnapping in the volatile territory.

01-08-07 - Shin Bet: 14 percent of suicide bombers had Israeli citizenship The committee met Monday in order to discuss the extension of a temporary law that prevents family reunification between Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza and Israeli Arabs due to security reasons.

01-08-07 - Soldiers questioned in 2004 death of girl

01-08-07 - Israeli Authorities Continue Demolishing Houses in Negev

01-08-07 - Far-right Israeli MP forms 'transfer' youth movement Hiking, scouting and promoting the forced "transfer" of Palestinians out of the West Bank -- these are the main goals of a new youth movement formed by a far-right Israeli MP.

01-08-07 - Repeal order forbidding transporting Palestinians in Israeli vehicles

01-08-07 - PFLP urges its members to avoid participating in internecine fighting

01-08-07 - Hamas used US as base for Israeli terrorist attacks: prosecutor "This is a case where the Israeli government is using the US courts to fight its own so-called war on terrorism," Rima Kapitan, a civil rights lawyer with the Chicago branch of the Council of American-Islamic Relations told AFP. The US 'war on terror' largely benefits Israel. Most of these trials of late have to do with ISRAEL'S enemies.

01-08-07 - Gov't to support bill on revoking citizenship for disloyalty to state

01-08-07 - Palestinian paper uses English to fight spin

01-08-07 - For Jews and women, several vignettes capture shift in Congress Powerhouses like the UJC and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee will not be affected under the new rules. UJC devolves such tours to local federations, which do not employ lobbyists, while AIPAC long ago spun off an educational nonprofit that does not employ lobbyists to handle the tours. Smaller boutique groups such as the American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League and the Republican Jewish Coalition are examining their options. The ADL, for instance, employs three registered lobbyists and hosts at least two lawmaker tours a year.

01-08-07 - Brother: Israel arrested deported imam

01-08-07 - A Green Line in the Sand

01-08-07 - Conflict besets Andover High The only 'conflict' that is part of that incident is the fact that Israel-defenders want to silence the other side, and they will do anything - including making preposterous allegations and when that fails, attempting to shout them down - to achieve it.

01-08-07 - Ex-Israeli soldier urges dialogue instead of fighting Hamri, a youth leader during the first Palestinian intifada (uprising) who spent more than five years in Israeli jails. But Al Hamri's U.S. visa was not issued in time for him to speak in Atlanta.

01-08-07 - The Coming Attack on Iran ** The Israeli/neoconservative plan, of which Bush may be a part or simply be a manipulated element, is to provoke a crisis with Iran in which the US Congress will have to support Israel. Both the Israeli government and the American neoconservatives are fanatical. It is a mistake to believe that either will be guided by reason or any appreciation of the potentially catastrophic consequences of an attack on Iran.

01-08-07 - An Israeli Defense of Jimmy Carter "The U.S. Jewish establishment's onslaught on former President Jimmy Carter is based on him daring to tell the truth which is known to all: through its army, the government of Israel practises a brutal form of Apartheid in the territory it occupies,"

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01-07-07 - Senior army officer: ?Ramallah invasion that left four Palestinians dead was a mistake?

01-07-07 - Militants hold Abbas responsible for harm against Hamas troops

01-07-07 - Palestinians free AFP photographer: officials

01-07-07 - Israeli army arrests 10 Palestinians in W. Bank cities The Palestinian side has denounced that Israel did not stop military actions in the West Bank as declared after the summit meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last month. Instead, it installed roadblocks and checkpoint days after removing some of them

01-07-07 - Thousands at Fatah's Gaza rally Many thousands of Fatah's followers filled Gaza City's main stadium, and gave a hero's welcome to Fatah's strongman in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan. US Middle East policy (crafted in Tel Aviv): divide and conquer.

01-07-07 - Military strike is only way to stop Iran, says top Israeli strategist ** Zvi Shtauber, director of Tel-Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, was speaking last night after the Foreign Ministry denied a report in The Sunday Times that Israeli pilots were already training to strike three targets with low-yield nuclear weapons.

01-07-07 - Europe presses Rice for swifter action on Mideast peace

01-07-07 - Troops at Girit outpost: We were ordered to shoot to kill Soldiers and officers at the Girit outpost in the Gaza Strip claim to have received orders that at night, they were always to shoot to kill - even though this violated the official rules of engagement in Gaza, according to a High Court of Justice ruling that ordered the army to open an investigation into the issue.

01-07-07 - Court petitioned over travel with Palestinians Eight human rights organizations petitioned the High Court of Justice on Sunday against the military order forbidding Israelis and foreigners from traveling in the same car with Palestinians inside the West Bank.

01-07-07 - Israel Slams Egypt For Violating Border Deal Was that money used to free the AFP photog?

01-07-07 - Arab countries urge Israel to allow entry of pro-Abbas forces Israel has blocked several demands to allow the forces into the Gaza Strip. In recent months, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert outlined a number of conditions to approve right-of-way of the brigade, urging them to prevent rocket attacks by Palestinian militants into Israel.

01-07-07 - Soldiers abduct four Fateh members, claim seizing explosive belts in Nablus An army source claimed that the invasion thwarted a suicide bombing that was planned to be carried out in the coming days, and that two "masterminds of the attack" were taken prisoner, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.

01-07-07 - Major shake-up in security forces expected within days The Secretary of the Supreme Authority of the Fateh movemnt, Hussein Al Sheikh, said that President Abbas will name the new leaders of the security services in the coming few days. In addition to 140 name changes, comprehensive moves are included.

01-07-07 - President going ahead with early elections, but date not yet set While in Bethlehem for Sunday's Eastern Christmas celebrations, the President met with Fateh officials on the sidelines. He said that all efforts to form a national unity government had failed.

01-07-07 - Israel rejects Hamas video of soldier - source

01-07-07 - Abbas demands that rival Hamas join security forces

01-07-07 - Hoyer and Dems Set Stage for Iran Attack

01-07-07 - US deports Israeli convicted of conspiring to aide Hizbullah

01-07-07 - Beltway Insiders Versus Neo-Cons Would it not be wonderful if an anti-Lobby organization of Jewish Americans emerged with a title like "Not in Our Name"? There is such an organization - called 'Not in my name'.

01-07-07 - Hezbollah: 'Captured soldiers will not be freed unless Quntar is released'

01-07-07 - Man dies after being critically wounded by cluster bomb in south Lebanon A 70-year-old Lebanese farmer died three months after he was critically wounded by a cluster bomb explosion in south Lebanon

01-07-07 - Syrian president meets European delegation over regional issues

01-07-07 - US: Jews launch Operation Screwball Follow the link to the website. The Zionists published the home addresses and phone numbers of these Neturei Karta Orthodox Jews, much like they do to Jews on the Massada hit list. Swell bunch, ain't they?

01-07-07 - Friends say recently deported Ohio imam has disappeared Immigration authorities said Friday that Damra was flown to Amman, Jordan, at 4 a.m. EST Thursday, then crossed the Allenby Bridge to the West Bank. But his friends and family in Cleveland and in Damra's hometown of Nablus say no one has heard from him since he was taken.

01-07-07 - Doves become new source of Ain al-Hilweh violence Armed clashes have become increasingly commonplace in Ain al-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, located on the outskirts of Sidon. In the past, however, frequent skirmishes usually involved disputes between rival armed factions.

01-07-07 - Who is Avigdor Lieberman? A racist from Russia.

01-07-07 - Schools consider rules governing controversial speakers Teachers would be banned from expressing partisan points of view in the classroom and would be required to obtain permission from their principal before inviting outsiders to address students under a new policy before the School Committee. This MO can work both ways.

01-07-07 - An Israeli-Arab-European Trialog of Cultures in Berlin

01-07-07 - U.S. v. Salah has elements of Jews vs. Arabs During a two-week stretch of the trial, jurors heard unprecedented testimony from a pair of agents from Israeli's Shin Bet security service. The two agents -- testifying under assumed names and in a courtroom closed to the public -- were involved in an interrogation of Salah that lasted nearly two months after his arrest at an Israeli checkpoint in 1993. Disguised agents of a foreign government (that routinely violates international law) are allowed to testify - in secret - during criminal proceedings in the US of A. Outrageous.

01-07-07 - AUSTRALIAN ISRAELI LOONY LOBBY CRANK UP THE WARMONGERING AGAINST IRAN.

01-07-07 - Zionists Vs Truth -The Wheels of Justice Battle for Andover

01-07-07 - SBS 'Palestine' film tag angers Jewish producer

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01-06-07 - Three Palestinians killed in armed clashes between two families

01-06-07 - University lecturer seriously injured by gunmen in Nablus The 52-yea old lecturer was injured by four rounds of live ammunition in his legs and one round that mildly scratched his head.

01-06-07 - Hamas defiant on 'illegal' force

01-06-07 - Two Hamas officials abducted in West Bank In both incidents, the identity of the assailants was unclear.

01-06-07 - Hamas slams U.S. funding for pro-Abbas forces

01-06-07 - Israel's Bad Influence ** By coincidence, an Israeli general has verified everything Ritter says.

01-06-07 - Osirak Redux? ** A few days of Israeli bombing may or may not retard the Iranian nuclear program, but it would impede any plan by the realists to engage Iran in an effort to stabilize Iraq, start withdrawing U.S. troops, and change the direction of American policy in the Middle East

01-06-07 - Hamas threatens to expand its own force Hamas responded Saturday to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's order dissolving its security force by promising to double its size.

01-06-07 - Arab MK: Palestinians, unite against Israel

01-06-07 - Report: Egypt let Haniyeh bring $20 million into Gaza via Rafah An Egyptian customs official told the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram on Saturday that Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh brought $20 million into the Gaza Strip with Egyptian approval.

01-06-07 - Palestinian youth raises awareness through art "The situation in Gaza is very difficult and no one live in this situation, because their is no electricity, no water, no salaries ..in Gaza."

01-06-07 - Detainees in Hadarim facing hardships, yet call for ending internal clashes Palestinian detainees imprisoned at the Hadarim Israeli detention facility called on the Palestinian factions to end all sorts of internal clashes and violence. The detainees said that the factions should resolve their differences peacefully instead of resorting to violence.

01-06-07 - Fateh Celebrated its 42nd Founding Anniversary in Bil'in

01-06-07 - Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel

01-06-07 - Expelled settlers replant Zionist dream in West Bank "A colony must be established here," says the young man with a short beard and a serious stare. "It's up to us, just like throughout the land of Israel. We have to populate this region. Because if we are not here, the Arabs will come."

01-06-07 - Report: Israel Planning Nuke Raid on Iran Uranium Enrichment Sites ** Some sources in Washington said they doubted if Israel would have the nerve to attack Iran. Did Israel leaks its plans to the media before it struck Osirak? If not, why not? This would appear to be a move to extort some kind of action by the US.

01-06-07 - Thoughts on Carter's book

01-06-07 - Nonviolent resistance: Wake up every day and ask yourself what you can do to resist the occupation the goal of the training process is to activate the people who are considered the ?silent majority,? and encourage them to participate in the public debate and political arena

01-06-07 - Christian Zionists Key To Continued U.S. Support For Israel Like it or not, the future of the relationship between Israel and the U.S. may very well hinge far less on America?s Jews than on its Christians.

01-06-07 - Analysis: Alleged corruption shocks Israel Corruption seems to have worsened in recent years.

01-06-07 - You Don't Speak for All Americans on Palestine During the last mid-term election, Mrs. Pelosi stated repeatedly that the single most important accomplishment of the Twentieth Century is the formation of the state of Israel . Apparently the moon landing, the invention of the internet, nuclear energy, the Civil Rights Act, or the fall of communism was less important.

01-06-07 - Effort to Recover Leaked Documents Ends This was part of the AIPAC scandal.

01-06-07 - Hurricane Carter

01-06-07 - In Washington: Much ado about nothing The Israelis believed that electing a government controlled by people who endorse violence was antithetical to the idea of democratic elections Really. Is that why they elected Menachem Begin, as one example?

01-06-07 - Saudis, France urge compliance from Iran " Israel should not be excluded from the international efforts and procedures,"

01-06-07 - Snow in Palestine

01-06-07 - MECC General Secretary Attends WCC Brainstorm Session on Palestine

01-06-07 - Christian Zionists to gather at Southfield church

01-06-07 - Fahima?s release doesn?t excuse her captors

01-06-07 - Middle East forum cut short as hecklers drown out speakers Many adults in the audience of more than 150 people taunted and laughed at the speakers from the pro-Palestinian group known as Wheels of Justice, who spoke about human rights abuses among Israelis and Palestinians and the violent Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. They showed slides of crying Palestinian children and a video of Israelis demolishing the homes of Palestinians. If pro-Israelis don't succeed in outright banning the opposition, they will literally try to shout it down - so that the rest of us cannot hear it.

01-06-07 - Iran and trade to top Olmert's agenda in China visit Along with pushing Israeli concerns over the prospect of its arch-foe obtaining an atomic bomb, Olmert will also seek to bolster important bilateral economic ties with the rising world power, officials say.

01-06-07 - Orthodox Christmas begins in gloomy Bethlehem

01-06-07 - The greatest settler

01-06-07 - Fresh from the horse's ass 'Saddam' terror group says it's targeting U.S. Mmm k.

01-06-07 - Religion Notes The two have become "Combatants for Peace," people who have decided that the violence and bloodshed must end, and that Israelis and Palestinians must commit to a peaceful end to their seemingly unending conflict.

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01-05-07 - Cleric gunned down in Gaza after plea for calm The cleric, who was in a car when the gunmen opened fire, was not affiliated to any faction. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting, which occurred after prayers at a mosque in the Maghazi refugee camp.

01-05-07 - Palestinian leaders call for end to Gaza fighting thousands of angry, chanting Fatah supporters took to the streets in Jabaliyah during funerals for the most recent victims of the clashes.

01-05-07 - Gaza leaders struggle to bring feuding forces back from the brink

01-05-07 - Gaza factions told to end clashes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and PM Ismail Haniya have agreed to urge armed men from their rival Fatah and Hamas factions to leave Gaza's streets.

01-05-07 - Gaza on brink of civil war as cleric is killed

01-05-07 - Israeli army raids W. Bank village - witnesses

01-05-07 - Eighth Palestinian security man dies from wounds sustained in Thursday's attack

01-05-07 - Al-Aqsa brigades strike two Jewish settlements with rockets The missile attacks were a primary retaliation against aggression committed by Israel against Palestinians in the city of Ramallah yesterday, the statement concluded.

01-05-07 - Journalist wounded by Israeli gunfire during incursion in Ramallah; news agency stormed by gunmen in Nablus Palestinian journalist Fady Al-Aroury, who works for the privately-owned local news agency Maan and the daily newspaper "Al Ayyam", was meanwhile wounded by Israeli gunfire on 4 January during an Israeli military incursion into the West Bank city of Ramallah

01-05-07 - Bil?in Demo Cancelled by IOF Violence

01-05-07 - U.S. to give Abbas forces $86 mln amid power struggle The Bush administration will provide $86 million to help security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, expanding U.S. involvement in his struggle with Hamas, according to documents seen on Friday.

01-05-07 - Israel doubts on settlements legality "The settlement is built on our land," says Mr Zidane, referring to the Jewish settlement Bet El, whose red-roofed houses can be seen from his general store.

01-05-07 - Israeli tanks move into Gaza Strip

01-05-07 - Israeli PM: two-state solution should be achieved through negotiation

01-05-07 - Israeli officials slam timing of deadly Ramallah raid

01-05-07 - 'Progress' in probe into AFP photographer's Gaza abduction

01-05-07 - Infighting has negative impact on children

01-05-07 - Russia says Israeli raid in Ramallah increases tensions among Palestinians

01-05-07 - House reforms travel provisions Jewish groups were concerned that the travel reform would crimp Israel trips, but were assuaged by reassurances that such trips were certain to continue, albeit run by non-profit groups and not lobbies.

01-05-07 - Book Review: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism

01-05-07 - Court orders state to prove it owns museum site In the meantime, three families who maintain that their ancestors are buried in the cemetery asked the Muslim Shariya Court to cancel any transaction that harms the cemetery. The court acceded to the request.

01-05-07 - Most Jews ever set to enter Congress Also, much of the Democratic leadership is considered strong on Israel, including incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and Rahm Emanuel (D-Illinois), head of the House Democratic Caucus. And many Republican backers of Israel, who no longer head committees, still continue to serve in minority leadership roles.

01-05-07 - Dutch Protestant aid group leaves coalition over Israel

01-05-07 - UK documentary follows peace pilgrimage in Israel-Palestine

01-05-07 - Brother of avowed suicide bomber pleads Haven't seen too many arrests/trials of Al Qaeda suspects these days. The 'war on terror' largely serves Israel.

01-05-07 - Help Abbas if you want peace A former adviser to the heads of the Israeli Shabak intelligence service is recommending Israel engage Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a serious peace process despite his political weakness.

01-05-07 - British MP forces Europeans to change Middle East report Pressure from a British politician forced European MPs to change a draft of a report on the Middle East to make it less slanted against Israel

01-05-07 - AIPAC welcomes Khalilzad Khalilzad is considered a loyal Bush staffer and is unlikely to deviate from administration policies of strong support for Israel and confrontation with Iran.

01-05-07 - Islamic Jihad distributes aid and gifts for the feast in Jenin

01-05-07 - Ban describes Israeli incursion into Ramallah as act of violence

01-05-07 - Attack on Iran could bring devastation to Arab world Still in the grip of the neoconservative cabal which has destroyed his presidency by its insane belligerence, Bush continues to see the Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah-Hamas axis as the main enemy to confront and bring down.

01-05-07 - Lebanese stage symbolic funeral for Iraq's Saddam

01-05-07 - Superintendent: Wheels of Justice visit is 'reasonable'

01-05-07 - Jimmy Carter Gains Support From (the Great) Siegman

01-05-07 - U.S. deports Ohio imam A Muslim leader convicted of lying about his involvement with a suspected terrorist organization has been deported to his native Palestinian territories, immigration authorities said Friday.

01-05-07 - APN chides Bush on Middle East Americans for Peace Now accused President Bush of neglecting Arab-Israeli peace and urged him not to obstruct Israel-Syria talks.

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01-04-07 - Palestinian security officer killed A senior Palestinian security officer was killed in an attack Thursday just moments after pleading for help on the phone with a television station: "They are targeting the house, children are dying, they are bleeding."

01-04-07 - 10 Palestinians killed in raid, clashes In the Ramallah raid, four Palestinians, all civilians, were killed and 20 wounded. Abbas said in a harshly worded statement that Israel's peace promises rang hollow in light of the raid and demanded $5 million in compensation for the damage to shops and cars in Ramallah.

01-04-07 - Three Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza Three Palestinian farmers have been wounded by Israeli fire in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza near the border with the Jewish state.

01-04-07 - Abbas and Haniyeh agree to defuse tensions in Gaza

01-04-07 - Farmers facing Israel confiscating 19 out of 22,000 dunams of land & a fatwa against winery

01-04-07 - Abbas, Haneya likely to meet as senior security official killed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is likely to meet Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas in Gaza city tonight following the killing of almost a dozen Palestinians in two days of factional fighting.

01-04-07 - The Right to Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Israel is arbitrarily turning away foreign nationals at Israeli ports of entry, which are the only way to reach the oPt, causing unjustified hardships: families are being separated, investors are exiting the country, educators are unable to reach their schools and universities, students' education is being disrupted, and elderly are being left without caretakers

01-04-07 - Hamas says it?s ready to swap a video of Shalit for the release of detainees

01-04-07 - Israeli West Bank incursion hampers peace efforts: Egypt

01-04-07 - Israeli Experts Say Middle East Was Safer With Saddam in Iraq "When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos," Diskin said, unaware that the meeting was secretly recorded. "I'm not sure we won't miss Saddam." The tape was later broadcast on Israeli television. Be careful what you wish for next time.

01-04-07 - Abducted P.A deputy minister of health released

01-04-07 - Olmert 'wants coalition partner to quit defence post' Channel 2 and Israel TV said that sources in the prime minister's office told them Mr Peretz would be asked to resign and take another cabinet position, and would be fired if he refused.

01-04-07 - WITNESS: Gaza, where tragedy and news are never far away

01-04-07 - Exclusive: Iran War "In 2 Years" ** CIA specialist on Iran Reuel Marc Gerecht said there had been a "tidal shift" of opinion towards military action, especially in Israel.

01-04-07 - Netanyahu: Pensions cut ? Arabs' birth rate declined In his speech, Netanyahu referred to the cuts in child pensions, saying that since they were implemented "two positive things happened: Members of the haredi public seriously joined the workforce. And on the national level, the unexpected result was the demographic effect on the non-Jewish public, where there was a dramatic drop in the birth rate."

01-04-07 - Mubarak and Olmert meet for talks

01-04-07 - Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from a village near Bethlehem

01-04-07 - Gaza's 'pope' steers his tiny flock through turbulent times

01-04-07 - Israel FM calls for dialogue with 'moderate Palestinians'

01-04-07 - Photographer's release urged Palestinian journalists protested yesterday to demand the release of AFP photographer Jaime Razuri, four days after he was kidnapped in Gaza and with still no word on his whereabouts, state of health or indication of who was behind the abduction.

01-04-07 - Palestinian prime minister, cutting short Arab tour, en route back to Gaza

01-04-07 - Christians Suffer With Muslims, Says Gaza Priest "We do not suffer from the Muslims...We suffer with them," a Gaza priest has said.

01-04-07 - Israeli forces abducts five Palestinian men from a village near Hebron

01-04-07 - 'My crime was to protest at Israeli assassinations' She is unbowed by her experience. "I learnt about the nature of Shin Bet, how they terrorise us, both the Israelis and Palestinians. I learnt about the nature of the government, how they do not want us to see what is going on in our name," she said.

01-04-07 - Why an academic boycott of Israel is necessary

01-04-07 - Suspect arrested in store slaying A Palestinian immigrant, Ayoub Abdelhamid came to the United States in 1976 to escape the Israeli occupation.

01-04-07 - How Hillary became New York Senator She knew that New York's Orthodox and chasidic communities would be a hard sell, as they were expressing their personal dislike for her and her positions, particularly regarding Israel. She needed to show she could win some support in Orthodox circles.

01-04-07 - Report: Guantanamo detainee draped in Israel flag

01-04-07 - Thirty Days Against Borders - Children of Nablus against the Occupation

01-04-07 - A political legacy under siege Sharon had suffered a minor stroke two weeks previously, so it was decided that he should be taken by ambulance to hospital in Jerusalem. At some point on the hour-long journey, he suffered a huge brain haemorrhage and lapsed into a coma, which has endured until now.

01-04-07 - Israeli warplanes monitor Lebanese-Syrian borders Despite a UN-brokered ceasefire on August 14, the Jewish state has continued to carry out flights over Lebanese territory, maintaining they were vital to gather intelligence on alleged arms smuggling to Hezbollah.

01-04-07 - Street names a dividing line for Israeli town After Ramla was captured by Israeli forces in July 1948, most of the Arab residents who had not fled were expelled. Israeli authorities later settled Jewish immigrants in the empty homes, naming streets after prominent Zionist and Jewish personalities

01-04-07 - Protests possible at high school "To me, the First Amendment isn't an issue. The issue here is extremist hate groups," she said. Now the Wheels of Justice tour is an 'extremist hate group'. Mmm k.

01-04-07 - Wheels of Justice offers extremism, not education Unbelievable.

01-04-07 - Israeli army abducts a Palestinian man and his son in Tubass city The Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Tubass on Thursday morning and abducted a man and his son

01-04-07 - Jewish groups studying impact of N.Y. governor's axe to junkets Spitzer on Monday banned members of his administration from accepting any gift - including support-building missions to Israel - that might permit the inference of being intended "to influence the individual in the performance of official business."

01-04-07 - Defense rests after hearing from torture expert at U.S. Hamas trial Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified that she witnessed part of Salah's 54-day interrogation at a high-security prison in Ramallah. She said he seemed to be in good spirits. Salah attorneys say Miller saw only a small fraction of what went on and was easily fooled.

01-04-07 - Mubarak hints: We?ll develop nukes

01-04-07 - Hezbollah detainees in Israel seek POW status

01-04-07 - Fresh from the horse's ass You know who. If it's something the Israeli Foreign Ministry needs (to further their propaganda), then our favorite 'reporter' will just so happen upon some 'Palestinians' who can give him exactly what he needs.

01-04-07 - The Israeli occupation Unsurprisingly, the Ha?aretz editorial affirms, as does the Iraq Study Group, the Israel-Palestine crisis must be resolved to prevent "further radicalization of the Middle East." Israeli security can never be built on the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

01-04-07 - PBS documentary explores the ugliness of anti-Semitism While assiduously neutral in its presentation, "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century? is "biased" against those that spread Jew hatred, and is unavoidably slanted toward Jewish and Israeli victims of prejudice. Sounds to me like this presentation is a cherry-picked representation that serves the state of Israel - a PR move (under the guise of anti-anti-Semitism) to vilify Arabs and exonerate Israel - which is being facilitated by PBS.

01-04-07 - Anti-Semites, White Supremacists Exploit Jimmy Carter's Book for Propaganda Value The ADL is pulling out the big guns now - playing the anti-Semite card (much like that camp played the David Duke card with regard to the March report by Mearsheimer and Walt). They are reaching for straws now. Lest we forget - the ADL was found liable for DEFAMATION by wrongfully branding a Denver couple anti-Semitic.

01-04-07 - Tackling Terror the Priority for Penn State Activists Pro-Israeli propaganda on campus. Note the efforts by that camp to conflate anti-Israelism, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism.

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01-03-07 - Gaza infighting leaves five dead Gunmen killed three Fatah-allied security officials in Khan Younis, while a Fatah man died in north Gaza. Clashes also broke out in Jabaliya where a woman was fatally caught in the crossfire and several people were hurt, hospital officials said.

01-03-07 - Israeli army shoot and injure a Palestinian man northern Gaza Strip

01-03-07 - Gaza police search for Peruvian Palestinian colleagues of Mr Razuri say they are worried about his health; he has a heart condition

01-03-07 - Bodies of a Woman and child found in Gaza

01-03-07 - Six injured in internal clashes in Gaza

01-03-07 - Hamas dissidents kidnapped AFP photographer in Gaza: Peru Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde said that a dissident group of Hamas kidnapped AFP photographer Jaime Razuri in Gaza Strip, adding that the 50-year-old hostage was "in good health."

01-03-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus and Tubass, three residents abducted among an injured man

01-03-07 - Report: Rice due in Israel on new Mideast tour next weekend

01-03-07 - Security arrangements finalized for Haniyeh's return to Gaza He has been on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, and has been informed of the unprecedented security measures planned by representatives of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the United States and the European Union in anticipation of his return.

01-03-07 - Hebron Update 06-12-25 to 06-12-31 Three Palestinians, accompanied by Israelis and internationals had just walked Shuhada Street carrying a paper in Arabic and Hebrew, of a recent court decision that the closure of Shuhada Street to Palestinians is illegal. A Palestinian ISM'r who had led the procession later visited the apartment and gave CPT copies of the order.

01-03-07 - Americans, Europeans Leave Gaza after Abduction Threats American and European citizens were advised to leave the Gaza Strip following kidnapping warnings, Israel Radio reports.

01-03-07 - Gazan militants vow to continue firing rockets at Israel

01-03-07 - Iran leader says believes Israel will soon collapse

01-03-07 - Parents in prison are strangers to their children Parents are strangers to their children who are born, or grow up, without knowing them. Salama had only been married for two months when Israeli forces arrested him. They never charged him with a crime, or afforded him a trial.

01-03-07 - Year end statistics: Israeli forces killed 742 Palestinians, injured 3,735 and arrested 5,671

01-03-07 - Olmert to meet Egytian president Israel had a positive stance on Egypt?s expected proposal to arrange a regional summit meeting between Olmert, Mubarak, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Jordan's King Abdullah.

01-03-07 - Failure of Palestinian diplomacy in 2006

01-03-07 - Israel seeks operational link with U.S. missile defense system ** The request for information from the U.S. was intended, according to the same source, "in the event that the American systems are deployed in Israel for reinforcement.

01-03-07 - US Told to Stop 'Spoiling' Israel

01-03-07 - Keane/Kagan Plan Means More Bloodshed Bush's proposal, if he makes it, is the work of retired army general Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute. AEI is the second most important Israeli lobby in Washington after AIPAC.

01-03-07 - Israeli 'traitor' vilified in press freed after two years in jail An Israeli woman whose attempts to better understand Palestinians led to a campaign of vilification and charges of treason was released yesterday after serving more than two years in jail.

01-03-07 - U.S. must discourage Israel's West Bank move The announcement sends every possible wrong message to the Palestinians and the international community. It violates international law, which forbids nations to make permanent settlements in land under military occupation - Israel has occupied the land known as the West Bank since the 1967 war with its Arab neighbors. It complicates hopes for a "two-state solution," with Palestinians controlling their own independent state next to Israel in the West Bank.

01-03-07 - Olmert aide in corruption inquiry Police have for several months been investigating allegations that top government officials had either received or given bribes to win tax breaks for companies, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

01-03-07 - Stop That Spin House Democrats boast that their proposed ethics legislation will ban travel provided by lobbying organizations to lawmakers. Don't believe it. Maneuvering by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and others has opened a gaping loophole in the bill. Lobbies such as AIPAC and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have their own nonprofit foundations, which will still be allowed to underwrite congressional junkets under the new rules.

01-03-07 - 2006: Israel defense sales hit record India was Israel's biggest customer, Ben-Hanan said, with purchases reaching $1.5 billion.

01-03-07 - Geopolitical Diary: Israel's Options Against Iran ** With the United States currently lacking any solid options to contain Iran via a political resolution in Iraq, there has been intense speculation over the possibility that Israel might have to get its hands dirty and take military action against Iran -- with or without U.S. cooperation..... If the military option is to be used, Israel sees the value in having U.S. forces that are well-positioned in Iraq to help carry out the attacks. Israel - the monkey on America's back.

01-03-07 - Hezbollah holds talks with Saudi king: source

01-03-07 - Zubeidi 'salutes' Fahima, hopes to see her soon "She deserves all our respect because she sacrificed three years of her life for the sake of peace and dialogue between Jews and Arabs. She is a very brave woman and we salute her for working toward the establishment of a Palestinian state."

01-03-07 - Campus Leaders in Israel on ADL Study Mission

01-03-07 - Lieberman to Ban Ki-moo: Don't Link ME Conflict with Iranian Nukes

01-03-07 - Support a Palestinian Civil Rights Movement

01-03-07 - Fateh to Commemorate its 42nd Founding Anniversary in Bil'in on Friday

01-03-07 - American finds out what occupation feels like

01-03-07 - Israeli PM to China for talks with President Hu: official Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to travel next week to China for talks with President Hu Jintao and other senior officials focusing on economic and diplomatic ties, his office said.

01-03-07 - Getting the Middle East Back on Our Side By BRENT SCOWCROFT A vigorously renewed effort to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict could fundamentally change both the dynamics in the region and the strategic calculus of key leaders

01-03-07 - Israel to send 'star' as envoy will replace Naftali Tamir, whose term is to be cut short. Mr Tamir is expected to depart from Australia mid-year after being rebuked for alleged racist comments about Asians having "yellow skin" and "slanted eyes".

01-03-07 - Wikipedia Seeks To Pollute Google, Search Engines When people ask me why Wikipedia is obsessed with taking out the Israel News Agency which provides an on-line back-up for information coming from the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Israel Export Institute and the Israel Defense Forces I have really been stuck for an answer. Ahh, can you say PROPAGANDA.

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01-02-07 - Hamas member of the Executive Force killed in Gaza explosion The Palestinian Information Center, controlled and run by Hamas, reported on Tuesday that a member of the Executive Force that belongs to the Ministry of Interior was killed in an explosion in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip

01-02-07 - Truck driver wounded as a mortar shell hits the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip A Palestinian truck driver was wounded in the attack, which no Palestinian resistance group declared responsibility for.

01-02-07 - P.A security officer shot and injured by gunmen in Hebron Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that a Palestinian security officer was shot and injured by unknown gunmen in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.

01-02-07 - Independent Appeal: The small green shoots of hope sprout among the date groves "Life has been made impossible for us here in Berdale by the occupation," he says. In the past few years, the occupying forces have slashed Berdale's water supply, cutting it from 240,000 litres a year to 140,000. As a result, the wells have dried up, and they cannot irrigate most of their fields......In the 1970s, the residents were forced off of their land at gunpoint and an illegal Israeli settlement called Mechola was built on the remains.

01-02-07 - The Rafah terminal to open on both directions Thursday Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that the Rafah Border Crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Thursday morning on both directions for five continuous days.

01-02-07 - Hamas, Fateh trade accusations regarding renewed clashes Officials of the rival Fateh and Hamas movements traded accusations over the renewed violent clashes between the two movements, and accused each other of acting for further escalation.

01-02-07 - Hamas accepts Israeli offer of 450 Palestinian prisoners for Shalit Palestinian sources told Haaretz that under the terms of the proposal, Hamas would give Israel a video showing that the 20-year-old Shalit is alive, and in exchange, Israel would release an as-yet undecided number of women and minors held in its jails.

01-02-07 - Palestinians: Mortars fired at al-Aqsa Martyrs' Bridgades' official's house

01-02-07 - Fatah frees 7 Hamas members

01-02-07 - Settlement sewage polluting northern West Bank Farmers told PNN on Monday that wastewater and other contaminates are flowing from settlement factories and into agricultural areas and Burqin Village land. Fears are that the Israeli waste will also contaminate the ground water.

01-02-07 - MKs call on Tamir not to include Green Line in textbooks Israel still cannot decide on its borders because it isn't done thieving Palestinian land. So, when Israel demands of Hamas to 'recognize Israel', does it expect them to recognize the illegal settlements on their land? Which Israel?

01-02-07 - Ban puts priority on Israeli-Palestinian peace The new United Nations secretary-general said solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was key to wider peace in the Middle East.

01-02-07 - Israeli police officer living in illegal outpost The Peace Now organization turned to the Police Investigation Unit to investigate how it can be that a police superintendent is living in the illegal outpost Mitzpeh Yair, in southern Mount Hebron.

01-02-07 - Caritas brings life-saving help to dialysis patients in Gaza Caritas Jerusalem continues to be alarmed at the ongoing deterioration of the health situation in the Palestinian Territories. Hospitals have been especially hard hit and those with chronic health problems requiring regular treatment are especially at risk.

01-02-07 - France calls for release of kidnapped photographer

01-02-07 - Hamas denounces the abduction of foreign reporter in Gaza

01-02-07 - Analysis: Threat to Israel looming larger ** Today, the Bush-Cheney team faces the same spin scenario: how to weave the global war on terror and the Shiite powers that be in Iran. This one is relatively simple: Iran trains and funds Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian territories. Anticipating the new line, Sen. Joe Lieberman (Independent-CT) referred to "Iran and al-Qaida" on Wolf Blitzer's Sunday program on CNN. That Iran is Shiite and al-Qaida Sunni becomes irrelevant in the new game plan that will most probably lead to U.S. air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2007/08...... The "neocons" who work closely with Netanyahu on what could be the next phase of a nascent regional war in the Middle East, say Bush has the authority to take out Iran's nuclear threat. Because it has only one purpose -- to take out Israel.....And if Bush doesn't take on Iran, prominent Israelis are speculating that president Clinton 2 (Hillary) will do so

01-02-07 - Truth at last, while breaking a U.S. taboo of criticizing Israel Can a state established in a multiethnic milieu be simultaneously "Jewish" and "democratic"? Isn't strife the predictable yield of preserving the dominance of Jews in Israel over a native Palestinian population? Does our unconditional aid merely enable Israel to continue abusing Palestinian rights with impunity, deepening regional hostilities and distancing peace? Isn't it time that Israel lived by rules observed in any democracy - including equal rights for all?

01-02-07 - Presidential Source: No out-of-country Talks over Unity Government A Palestinian government source denied that a short meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh was held in Cairo, according to Palestine News Network.

01-02-07 - President Receives Cable of Congratulation from USA President Bush President Bush wished to his Excellency and the Palestinian people, on this occasion, a hope for peace and a realization to achieve a vision of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

01-02-07 - UAE RCS's biggest reconstruction project in Palestine completed The construction of the biggest humanitarian project to be financed and implemented by UAE Red Crescent Society - RCS- in Jenin Refugee Camp, Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been officially announced complete.

01-02-07 - Israeli army abducts 11 Palestinian men from different parts of the West Bank The Israeli army has abducted 11 Palestinian men in pre-dawn invasions to several areas of the West Bank on Tuesday.

01-02-07 - Israel may opt for U.S.-made missile over own Arrow system The same sources added that Israel will be able to purchase THAAD with American military funding assistance, and have in its arsenal the same advanced missile system that will be used by U.S. armed forces.....Funding for the development and production of the Arrow came mostly from American aid sources.

01-02-07 - Long-serving Jerusalem mayor dies He oversaw a building programme which reinforced Israeli claims to the city. The status of E. Jerusalem according to international law.

01-02-07 - AG rejects criminal probe into PM's remarks on Israeli nukes

01-02-07 - America doesn't have to run the world by Patrick J. Buchanan Interventionism has failed us. Americans are groping toward a new foreign policy that puts America first and a trade policy that puts Americans first.

01-02-07 - Litvinenko murder may be linked to mystery Russian poisonings In August Golubovich gave an interview accusing Leonid Nevzlin, the former co-owner of Yukos, of being behind the attempts. The Russian prosecutor- general?s office announced last week that Nevzlin, who is now based in Israel, is suspected of involvement in the death of Litvinenko......Golubovich, 41, had fallen out with Nevzlin over business related to Yukos. Well now.

01-02-07 - Israel to test installation to monitor Iran's nuclear activity: report Israel on Tuesday will test, for the UN, an underground installation in the Negev desert designed to monitor any attempt by arch-foe Iran to test nuclear devices, the daily Yediot Aharonot reported.

01-02-07 - Palestinian woman travels to Glens Falls to give birth "She was surprised how nice people have been to her. In the supermarket, in the doctor's, on the street. They didn't make her feel strange or any different. She wants to thank them. They have been very nice." And that's the America that I was brought up to know and love.

01-02-07 - Think tank: Israel could attack Iran's nuclear program alone ** Only if they can't get us to do it for them.

01-02-07 - Has Lebanon's Cedar revolt come undone?

01-02-07 - Syria expert: Assad overtures serious

01-02-07 - Teddy Kollek, longtime mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 95; state funeral Thursday Kollek aides later admitted that during his decades in office, the city's master plan was aimed at preserving the population balance at 28 per cent Arabs and 72 per cent Jews. Palestinian schools and neighbourhoods also received less funding than those of their Jewish neighbours

01-02-07 - City's first baby of 2007 fulfills Palestinian mother's wish

01-02-07 - Top KKE delegation in West Bank

01-02-07 - British MP calls Harper's foreign policy 'absurd' "It's absurd to say that you are fighting for democracy in Afghanistan when you are the first government in the entire world to starve and punish the Palestinian people when they voted for a party of which your government did not approve of in the Palestinian elections," said Galloway, to the thunderous applause of a supportive crowd.

01-02-07 - Pushing the Wedge in Palestine

01-02-07 - Palestinian political rap attracts growing crowds "We love Dam, they are one of the most famous Arabic rap groups and they talk about our conflict through rap," says 15-year-old Hiba, one of the concert-goers. Website

01-02-07 - Attacks against United Nations personnel in 2006 go unpunished, Staff Union says On 24 July, an Israeli tank shell hit a position run by UNIFIL peacekeepers in south Lebanon, wounding four Ghanaian soldiers. On 25 July, an Israeli air strike hit the building and shelter of a United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) observer post in the town of Khiyam.....On 29 July, two UNIFIL Indian soldiers were wounded and their observation post damaged by an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon.....On 12 August, a UNIFIL Ghanaian peacekeeper was wounded by Israeli artillery fire near the southern village of Haris.....On 14 August, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) staff member Abdel Saghir, 48, was killed in a residential area by a missile fired by Israeli forces

01-02-07 - Jewish groups are expecting action with Democrats controlling Congress The American Israel Public Affairs Committee also plans to emphasize the Iranian threat at its traditional round of Capitol Hill briefings for lawmakers and their staffs, said Jennifer Cannata, an AIPAC spokeswoman. "Iran is on the top of the legislative agenda," she said

01-02-07 - Funeral procession in Bethlehem in honor of Hussein: the intrepid advocate for Arabism

01-02-07 - Lieberman asks new UN chief to revoke Iran's membership Minister of Strategic Threats Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday sent a letter to new United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking him to revoke Iran's UN membership, Army Radio reported.

01-02-07 - Iraq war: Good or bad for Israel? Saddam's execution revives debate If the Americans had not taken Saddam out, Israel would have had to spend billions of dollars building ground forces to check a possible Iraqi ground sweep through Jordan. Sever Plocker, Yediot's economics editor, observes that both American-led Iraq wars, in 1991 and 2003, were followed by economic booms in Israel. He points out that in both cases, Israel received American loan guarantees, which injected new energy into the economy. As America goes deeper into the red.

01-02-07 - Poll: Americans Predict Attacks in 2007 25 percent anticipate the second coming of Jesus Christ.

01-02-07 - Israel eyeing U.S.-made missile-killer Israel?s purchase of THAAD would be at least partly funded by U.S. aid disbursements

01-02-07 - New Jews in Congress One item expected to pass, the minimum wage hike, has the support of several Jewish groups, including the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Reform movement. Another item, ethics reform, will ban lobbyists from involvement in congressional travel. The travel reform is a compromise that Jewish groups have accepted in order to preserve educational tours of Israel for members of Congress.

01-02-07 - Israeli military chief refuses to resign over Lebanon war Israeli Defence Forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Dan Halutz, insists he will not resign over his conduct during last year's Lebanon war, despite admitting several shortcomings.

01-02-07 - israel desperately seeks war with Iran **

01-02-07 - Controversial Group To Speak At Andover H.S. students will attend three lectures -- one on the First Amendment, one by Wheels of Justice-- and a third by representatives of the Kennedy School of Government, offering a more moderate view of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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01-01-07 - Hamas boosts Temple Mount activities The arrests came just 48 hours after police apprehended four Arab teens and a Wakf official on the Temple Mount for allegedly hanging two large pictures of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian flags on Al-Aksa Mosque.

01-01-07 - Gaza militants weigh prisoner swap deal The first phase would see the release of all Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails once Israel has received a video of Corporal Gilad Shalit reading a text of its own selection to ensure the recording is recent.

01-01-07 - Israel rejects 'excessive' Palestinian prisoner swap demand

01-01-07 - Hamas and Fatah in kidnap clashes Militants from rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have seized members of each other's group, sparking fresh violence in the Gaza Strip

01-01-07 - Agency photographer abducted in Gaza

01-01-07 - Nazareth man stabbed to death; biker injured in Jaffa shooting

01-01-07 - Top Fatah official to represent victims of Beit Hanun shelling Abu Zayda, a former minister of prisoner affairs in the Palestinian Authority, has considerable public standing both in Palestinian society and among Israelis. This might neutralize pressure on the families to transfer of the matter to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

01-01-07 - Jordan king complains of Israeli odors Jordanian King Abdullah II has complained of bovine odors coming from the Israeli side of the frontier along the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday. Hell, I am in America and can smell the bovine odors coming out of Israel.....

01-01-07 - 'DreamBox' surveillance system from Israel protects American water supply Another major part of our homeland security is put in the hands of Israel. That should scare you.

01-01-07 - Palestinian arts academy opens The Palestinian International Arts Academy provides a place for local artists to work and study in relative peace and to spread the Palestinians' issues and grievances throughout the world, the Kuwait News Agency said.

01-01-07 - Human Rights Defenders targetted in Hebron again

01-01-07 - Israel begins promised easing of West Bank controls But Erakat said that it was not possible to say if anything had changed yet. "We observe what Israel does and we will judge what we will see with our eyes, not what we hear from them," he told AFP.

01-01-07 - Center for Refugees calling for internal dialogue to repair dismal 2006

01-01-07 - Peretz May Cave to Intīl Pressure and Nix Maskiot Housing Yoram Ettinger, former liaison for Congressional affairs in Israel's Washington embassy, told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine, "It is only the State Department that is objecting, not the President.

01-01-07 - Israelis stake claim in valley of discord "The Jordan Valley is practically cut off to Palestinians from the rest of the West Bank," the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report released earlier this year. The policy has created a chain of small tent cities inside the restricted area, home to several hundred Palestinian farmers who live outside the valley, but who work or own land inside it. They remain in the valley, afraid that if they return to their homes in the nearby town of Tubas, they won't be allowed back to where they earn their livelihoods. This land is being UNLAWFULLY SEIZED by Israel. What part of that does this news outfit not comprehend?

01-01-07 - Faith, Commitments and Mideast Peace by Jimmy Carter the plight of the Palestinian people represents one of the most abhorrent cases of human rights oppression on earth. Forced from their homes and land and surrounded by walls, they live under a system of mandatory segregation, with passes required to reach their jobs, schools, pastures and fields. A unique system of military justice deprives them of any legal ability to alleviate their suffering.

01-01-07 - Iran can still be stopped ** The diplomatic and PR effort: We must immediately launch an intense, international, public relations front focusing first and foremost on the US. The goal being to encourage President Bush to take up his specific promises not to allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons. We must make it clear to the government, the Congress and the American public that a nuclear Iran is a threat to the US and the entire world, not only Israel.

01-01-07 - Many Israeli policies fit 'apartheid' label Is there a clearer example of apartheid than the fact that large areas of the West Bank are off limits to the Palestinian population through military closures, but access is freely given to settlers? How about the city of Hebron, where entire Palestinian neighborhoods have been locked and shuttered by the Israeli Army in order to allow the militant settlers unfettered access? Is this not apartheid? Perhaps the editors have a better name for it.

01-01-07 - Parallels between Henry VIII and the fate of Saddam It was only when he began to express support for the Palestinian cause that he became a nuisance.

01-01-07 - Lieberman eyes NATO, E.U. membership Jerusalem has previously balked at the idea of full membership in groups like NATO out of concern it would curb Israelīs military autonomy. Lieberman denied that this would be the case. "There is no doubt that membership in NATO would still afford us 100 percent freedom in terms of military activity," he said.

01-01-07 - Pope calls for Middle East peace accord in New Year's homily Marking World Peace Day, he referred to "the scene of the shepherds of Bethlehem visiting Jesus in the manger," asking: "How can you not look again at the dire situation that characterises this land where Jesus was born?"

01-01-07 - The politico-religious Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Why it is never resolved (Part I)

01-01-07 - Dor Alon to lose two-thirds of fuel sales to PA

01-01-07 - Lebanon Destroyed, Destabilised, Desperate for Change

01-01-07 - Barenboim delights thousands in his native Argentina with tango-only concert Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors sat side by side in the final hours of 2006 in a show of unity at a concert led by the renowned Argentine-born conductor Daniel Barenboim, a prominent advocate for peace in the Middle East.

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