July '05 Archive

July '05 Archive

07-31-05 - Crossing reopened, permits cut

07-31-05 - Settlers Ask Israel to Buy Their Houses West Bank settlers whose communities lie outside Israel's separation barrier are asking the government to buy their houses so they can move back to Israel

07-31-05 - Israel threatens massive assault if Gaza pullout under fire

07-31-05 - The Knesset approves law to restrict family reunification between Israelis and Palestinians

07-31-05 - Senior officer linked to killing of Palestinian youth gets promoted Zusmann allowed the troops to open "deterring fire" in the direction of nearby Palestinian homes. Palestinians later reported that a 15-year-old boy was killed in the area.

07-31-05 - Israeli Settlers Injure Ambulance Crew in Khan Younis as Arrests Made in West Bank

07-31-05 - Villagers trapped by Israeli 'apartheid wall' "This is not about security ? this wall could not stop a rocket being fired into Israel. It is about taking our land and our village,"

07-31-05 - IAF: Congested Gaza skies main concern

07-31-05 - Palestinian refugee fighters may be sent to Gaza

07-31-05 - Left-wing refusenik movement shuts down after 3 years The left-wing refusenik movement Courage to Refuse (Ometz Lessarev) shut down its offices Sunday and laid off its only paid employee

07-31-05 - Israel replacing lethal rubber bullets with new sand bullets for riot control Rubber bullets have killed dozens of Palestinians in the past two decades Strange, with all of these newfangled 'non-lethal weapons' developed for the IDF of late, they still manage to fatally shoot the rockthrowing Palestinian children with live rounds.

07-31-05 - Hard school of life in Palestine Bahraini charity worker Layla Kaiksow is trying to change that by raising money for the Dr Hala Attalah Scholarship Fund, which helps put poor women through Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah

07-31-05 - Thousands set to defy Sharon

07-31-05 - Grounds for terror attacks can be removed - Egypt PM Resolving Palestinian demands for an independent state and ensuring that US troops leave Iraq will remove the justification for further terrorist attacks, Egypt's prime minister said today.

07-31-05 - Israeli's concert honours Palestinian Argentinian-born Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has given a "concert for peace" in honour of the late Palestinian author and intellectual Edward Said in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo.

07-31-05 - British Jews set pro-Israel ad campaign

07-31-05 - Al-Aqsa Brigades call for punishing spies for Israel

07-30-05 - Security officer killed in Nablus

07-30-05 - Palestinian man got ill from radiation at Israeli border crossing

07-30-05 - Four farmer injured, 80 olive trees uprooted A local source in the village reported that settlers of Maoun settlement attacked dozens of farmers while thy were working at their orchards, four farmers were injured.

07-30-05 - PNA Eyes Settlement Area for Gaza Seaport Service

07-30-05 - Israel Upgrades, Fortifies Crossings From West Bank "The whole idea behind this is to separate Jerusalem from its Arab population," Abu Assab said. "In a few years, they will close the gate to everyone. That's the next step."

07-30-05 - Mideast quartet envoy sees better life for Palestinians Middle East quartet envoy James Wolfensohn promised Palestinians in the impoverished Gaza Strip a "better life" after Israel's planned pullout, following talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas

07-30-05 - Palestinians Say They Can Keep Gaza Calm Abu Khoussa's comments followed an independent report last week that found Palestinian forces are poorly armed, overstaffed and corrupt. The Palestinians said the report failed to take into account recent reforms, noting they are still trying to rebuild forces severely weakened by four years of fighting with Israel.

07-30-05 - Israel tightens security measures in West Bank

07-30-05 - New hospital for children of war WORK on a children's wing at a Palestinian hospital, which is being financed by Bahraini money, is on schedule for completion by next summer, it was revealed yesterday.

07-30-05 - Palestinian militants release intelligence officer

07-30-05 - Weisglass to tell Rice 'no arms for PA'

07-30-05 - Non-violent protest in Hebron The Christian Peacemakers Teams (CPT) organized a non-violent protest in Hebron on Saturday.

07-30-05 - Palestinian health workers go on strike

07-30-05 - Palestinians form committee to protect settlement lands

07-30-05 - 3 Residents Wounded, Several Arrested In a Peaceful Protest against the Wall in Bilin

07-30-05 - Gazans prepare flags for day after pullout Tens of thousands of white-black-green-and-red Palestinian national flags are being sewn in workshops in Gaza City to fly over the 21 settlements once the pullout scheduled to start on August 15 is complete.

07-30-05 - Workshop in Bethlehem on rights of the disabled when will the residents with special needs be able to have access to public and governmental facilities including governmental health care centers, when they will be able to be treated as equal members of the society, practice their rights and conduct their duties as any member of the society.

07-30-05 - Building to resist

07-30-05 - Abbas to visit Cairo for talks with Egypt's Mubarak

07-30-05 - Flashback Sept. 2004: Israeli Security to Protect London's Underground An Israeli security firm has been chosen to provide security for London?s Underground train network.

07-30-05 - Anti-pullout bribe scandal investigated The Attorney General, Meni Mazuz, has decided to open a criminal investigation against an organization that offered payments to soldiers who would refuse to obey orders, in an attempt to sabotage the disegnagement program.

07-30-05 - Daniel Barenboim - conductor par excellence

07-30-05 - Defense panel chair says U.S. demands for defense sale oversight may hurt Israel The U.S. should not be able to extend its oversight of Israeli defense exports to third countries, such as India and Turkey, as it may harm Israel's military industries, the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud), said yesterday.

07-30-05 - A shallow strategic dialogue The crisis began with a report about upgrading the Harpy, an Israeli attack UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) sold to China, but as the crisis wore on, fundamental problems in the relations between the United States and Israel were highlighted.

07-30-05 - Netanyahu to vote against pullout

07-29-05 - Palestinian police rescue captives from Gaza kidnappers Palestinian police rescued an Australian woman and Palestinian man on Friday who were abducted by the family of a kidnapped security officer in Gaza to try to secure the release of their son

07-29-05 - Two residents of Hebron attacked, badly bruised

07-29-05 - Taut times for Israel and Vatican

07-29-05 - Protestants Call on Israel to Raze Wall

07-29-05 - Israel denies medical treatment for a Palestinian infant Hassanen added that the closure imposed on abu Holy and al-Matahin checkpoints in the southern part of the Gaza Strip is preventing hundreds of residents from reaching hospitals elsewhere in the Gaza Strip.

07-29-05 - Jewish Leaders Urge Restraint in Spat Jewish leaders urged the Vatican and Israel to tone down the rhetoric in the escalating dispute over papal pronouncements on terrorism, saying Friday they feared the feud could do lasting damage to relations

07-29-05 - Vatican in terror dispute with Israel "the attacks on Israel were sometimes followed by immediate Israeli reactions not always compatible with the norms of international law ... It would thus be impossible to condemn the [terrorist operations] and pass over the [Israeli retaliation] in silence".

07-29-05 - Settlers, soldiers beat up Palestinian farmers

07-29-05 - In pictures: Refugee camp life

07-29-05 - 3 Israelis arrested during separation fence protest near Bil'in Israel Defense Forces troops fired tear gas at demonstrators. The army said that the soldiers used the gas because the demonstrators burned tires. However, not one burning tire was found at the site, and no stones were thrown at the soldiers.

07-29-05 - New Jewish homes may go in east J-lem

07-29-05 - Israel's wall crosses U.N. Green Line Close to 90% of barrier's route runs on Palestinian land

07-29-05 - Going to the Wall "We're not talking about two equal states debating over natural boundaries. We're talking about one of the largest military powers in the world against refugee camps on the other side of the wall." ..."The vast majority of people told us they wanted us to go back to America and tell Americans they are not all terrorists," Jeremy said. "They want to live in peace, have jobs and provide for their families."

07-29-05 - Probe: Border Police lied about protests An investigation by Haaretz has found that policemen from that company have made false accusations against demonstrators and even made arrests on the basis of those accusations. Palestinians thus detained can be held for eight days before being brought before a judge.

07-29-05 - Five Palestinians arrested by Israeli troops

07-29-05 - Farmers in Gaza Settlements Near U.S. Deal A U.S. government agency is in talks with Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip to buy 1,000 acres of their greenhouses for $15 million

07-29-05 - Sign posted on Lynn house draws ire of area Jews reading "Land Grabbing Israel is Bleeding America."

07-29-05 - Israel's Attack on the Pope Is a Smokescreen for Abandoning Talks with the Holy See

07-29-05 - 'Israeli terror is worse' Israel is a racist state that commits war crimes and resorts to terrorism worse than that employed by the Palestinians, former Education Minister Shulamit Aloni charged in an unusually scathing interview with Nazareth-based Arab-Israeli newspaper Kul al-Arab

07-29-05 - Security Council extends UNIFIL mandate in Lebanon

07-29-05 - 'Many troops' to block Gaza plan

07-29-05 - Iraqi constitution raises Jewish ire The Anti-Defamation League urged the State Department to push for the removal of anti-Israel passages from Iraq?s draft constitution.

07-29-05 - Pentagon: China spat will be resolved

07-29-05 - Congressman to colleagues: Fight anti-Semitism

07-29-05 - Israel checking Ivory Coast arms sales Israel said it?s cooperating fully with a U.N. investigation into suspected arms sales to the Ivory Coast.

07-29-05 - UN considers Israeli settlements in the Golan as illegal

07-29-05 - First Independent Palestinian News Agency Receives License

07-29-05 - Palestinian Refugees in Shu'fat Defend Their Presence in Jerusalem

07-29-05 - Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance

07-27-05 - Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Youth When a group of youths began throwing stones at the soldiers from a nearby building, troops opened fire, hitting an 18-year-old stone-thrower in the head

07-27-05 - Israeli fire wounds Palestinian passenger in central Gaza Israeli troops stationed at a main roadblock in the central Gaza Strip opened fire at Palestinian traffic and seriously wounded a Palestinian passenger

07-27-05 - Israel limits Palestinian right to sue for damages during intifada The amendments, which will be enacted retroactively from September 2000 when the intifada started, effectively block Palestinians from submitting damage claims against the state of Israel.

07-27-05 - Protestant denomination calls on Israel to tear down its wall A major Protestant denomination demanded Israel tear down the security barrier it has built along the West Bank and pay reparations to Palestinians harmed by it, a vote that provoked criticism by Jewish leaders.

07-27-05 - Palestinian leader: Gaza is first step

07-27-05 - U.S. Near Proposing New Aid for Gaza Water

07-27-05 - U.S.-Israel tensions rise over arms sale --report Haaretz said that since the restrictions were applied, Israel had not complied with a U.S. demand to ensure they did not go against U.S. policy.

07-27-05 - ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS 16 TEXTS ON COORDINATION, REGIONAL COOPERATION, ECONOMIC QUESTIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS

07-27-05 - Campaign Tries to Stop U.S. Aid to PA

07-27-05 - If Sharon only wants Gaza pullout, he doesn't want peace: Abbas

07-27-05 - Israel minister scraps US trip designed to end China row

07-27-05 - Palestinians plan to refresh economy in Gaza

07-27-05 - Israeli settlers attack Mawasi residents

07-27-05 - Israeli armored vehicles raids Jenin

07-27-05 - Army annexes lands near Homesh settlement

07-27-05 - U.S.-Israel crisis deepens over defense exports to China The U.S. wants to see Knesset legislation enacted within 18 months tightening oversight of military exports, and is demanding a memorandum of understanding be signed. The U.S. also wants a written apology from Israel and Mofaz. Opposition in Israel is mounting against the signing of such a memorandum.

07-27-05 - Israeli overflights have yet to show up on U.S. radar

07-27-05 - France seeks a better image in Israel The French government has budgeted 1 million Euros for a fund to improve France's image in Israel.

07-27-05 - Israel row over Sharon curse film The ceremony was performed by far-right extremists in the months before the former prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated in November 1995.

07-27-05 - Police to cage resistant Jewish settlers Israeli police have been practising using large wooden cages to remove Jewish settlers who could position themselves on the roofs of their houses. The security forces plan to use cranes to lower the cages into position before forcibly removing any settler who resists

07-27-05 - FBI seeks to investigate Israeli envoy in Pentagon spy case The Federal Bureau of Investigation is demanding that Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli embassy in Washington, be interrogated in connection to the Pentagon spy case.

07-27-05 - Israel should leave Philadelphi route: Israeli PM

07-27-05 - Israel Downplays Snub in Iraqi Constitution

07-27-05 - PA confident of securing Gaza

07-27-05 - Khalifa's support for Palestine lauded

07-27-05 - J'lem Summit heads to Seoul A five point draft proposed by organizers of the Asian summit calls on the respective members to urge their governments to move their embassies to Jerusalem, not to vote against Israel at the United Nations, to scrutinize the financial aid their countries are providing to the Palestinian Authority

07-27-05 - Israel Assists U.S. Forces, Shares Lessons-Learned Fighting Terrorists Army and Marine Corps forces that battled terrorist insurgents in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Mosul employed urban warfare tactics gleaned from the combat experience of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In the last two years, hundreds of U.S. military personnel have trained in the Negev desert at Israel?s Adam counter insurgency urban warfare training facility And then we wonder why we have a bit of an insurgency problem over there.

07-27-05 - Reform Jewish Movement Urges President Bush to Grant Supplemental Aid to Israel

07-27-05 - Settlers plan to tie down evacuators

07-27-05 - Illinois Candidate-Columnist/Radio Talk Show Host Andy Martin Encourages Worldwide Boycott of Intel Products, Says 'Stop Letting Israel Take Illinois' Jobs' Illinois candidate-columnist/radio talk show host Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Friday, July 29, 2005 to announce a worldwide boycott of Intel products. The Intel boycott comes in retaliation for Intel's plans to build a $4 billion plant in Israel on disputed Palestinian land.

07-27-05 - Soldier jailed for selling M-16 Soldier steals rifle from base, sells it to Palestinian for NIS 7,000 (USD 1,556); judge gives soldier four years in prison

07-27-05 - Jordanian party wants end to peace agreement with Israel

07-27-05 - PLC passes amended basic law

07-27-05 - Sowing 'Seeds Of Peace'

07-26-05 - Child killed by settlers? car in Hebron

07-26-05 - Economic woes stir unease in Gaza ahead of pullout

07-26-05 - Jerusalem OKs Neighborhood Construction Israeli human rights activist Danny Seidemann said Sharon's goal is to strengthen the hold on Jerusalem while the world's attention is focused on his upcoming Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip

07-26-05 - Hamas to ease off attacks in Gaza after pullout: Shin Beth

07-26-05 - Dealing with the core of Mideast terror It's not our values and way of life causing terrorism; it's our policy of support for Israel. Let there be no doubt: The United States will never abandon Israel. But to effectively support Israel, the United States needs to revert to its policy of the honest broker in the Mideast.

07-26-05 - Bush wants another $50 million for Palestinians

07-26-05 - Resident injured, arrested in Hebron

07-26-05 - Polls: Support up for disengagement A series of polls released Tuesday by The Israel Project show that 89 percent of educated, well-off Americans are in favor of Israel?s upcoming withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, and 88 percent favor the establishment of a Palestinian state under present conditions.

07-26-05 - Sharon: No summit until after road map "There will be no international summit until after the first stage of the road map is completed and no one knows when that will be ? it could take 15 years,"

07-26-05 - Weak Palestinian forces may hurt Gaza pullout-report The survey by a Washington-based think tank advising U.S. security coordinator Lt.-Gen. William Ward said Palestinian security services were over-staffed, poorly armed and undermined by corruption and rivalry between security ch

07-26-05 - Jewish homes planned for Jerusalem's Arab quarter

07-26-05 - 36,000 Trees Set Ablaze by Occupation Forces in Qaffin and Akkaba

07-26-05 - The E1 lie In practice, a Palestinian state with a continuous territorial area is no longer possible.

07-26-05 - Palestinian forces 'in disarray' It says the Palestinian forces are caught between far better equipped Palestinian militant groups on the one side and the Israeli army on the other.

07-26-05 - Palestinian Children: Surviving the Present, Facing the Future

07-26-05 - IDF likely to leave Philadelphi during or after pullout Israel is expected to sign an agreement with Egypt next week regarding an IDF withdrawal from the Philadelphi route in the southern Gaza Strip during or after disengagement

07-26-05 - Jewish extremists put ancient death curse on Sharon

07-26-05 - Britain, Israel in anti-terror talks after London bombings Shalom said the time had come for the European Union, of which Britain currently holds the rotating presidency, to add Palestinian militant group Hamas to its blacklist of terrorist organisations

07-26-05 - Vatican clash with Israel poses diplomatic challenge for new pope "It is surprising that someone has wanted to willingly deform the intentions of the Holy Father," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls in an unusually prompt retort. He said Benedict XVI and Church hierarchy had made "numerous" condemnations of "all forms of terrorism, wherever it comes from and whoever it is against."

07-26-05 - War on Terror Should Focus at Source "U.S. Policy in the Middle East has been the greatest recruiting tool that the terrorists could possibly have. Its lopsided support of Israel is the main reason we have so many problems we have today."

07-26-05 - Sharon's Paris trip marks end to Franco-Israeli tension Several hundred demonstrators rallied in central Paris late Tuesday to protest at Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

07-26-05 - Israeli FM lashes out at London mayor's sympathy for suicide bombers

07-26-05 - Church group 'apreciates' Gaza exit The letter also appealed to Sharon ?to stop expanding settlements and building the separation barrier on land in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem.?

07-26-05 - Israel's security service may put far-right leaders in administrative detention

07-26-05 - After Seven Years, Arab Bedouin Family Allowed to Build Home on their Own Land in the Galilee

07-26-05 - Israel advocacy goes hi-tech When day's old propaganda won't do, and you must do the Hasbara, try out the new handy dandy toolbar for Zionists on the go.

07-26-05 - French FM to visit Middle East region

07-26-05 - House demolished in Jerusalem, allegedly illegal built

07-26-05 - 'Dahlan obstructs fight against terror'

07-26-05 - U.N. official urged to condemn colleague Jean Ziegler, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, reportedly referred to the Gaza Strip as an ?immense concentration camp?

07-26-05 - Moussa: 'Comprehensive' approach needed "There is a huge, strong, solid opposition to the policies of the United States, especially when it comes to the Middle East and the bias in its policy between -- towards Israel, at the expense of the other side. But this is a policy that could change and that should change."

07-26-05 - Soccer for peace in Germany Bayern Munich's under-17 team faced an Israeli-Palestinian group Monday in Munich in an event described as a joyful celebration of peaceful relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Even the outcome didn't dampen the participants' enthusiasm

07-25-05 - Knesset panel approves amendments limiting Palestinian right to sue state for damages The government-proposed amendment, which would be retroactively enacted for incidents dating from July 2000, effectively blocks Palestinians from submitting damage claims against the State of Israel.

07-25-05 - Israeli Officials Want to Hasten Pullout

07-25-05 - Israeli High Court denies Palestinian detainee access to lawyer

07-25-05 - JNF to commemorate former West Bank Palestinian villages

07-25-05 - Safe passage between Gaza and the West Bank is vital

07-25-05 - Israeli forces take pictures of naked Palestinian minors

07-25-05 - Hundreds of Palestinians stranded at Gaza checkpoints

07-25-05 - Ricky Martin Seeks End to Arab Stereotypes

07-25-05 - Israel Angry at Pope Over Terror Comments

07-25-05 - Visiting Academic Discusses "Palestinian Girls Facing the Wall"

07-25-05 - Experts: U.S. needs deeper role in Gaza

07-25-05 - Dynamic Art Exhibit Reflects Palestinians? Struggle, Love for Their Homeland

07-25-05 - Abbas relocates to Gaza until completion of Israeli pullout

07-25-05 - Arab League head backs disputed UN terror pact plan "Resisting occupation is a different issue altogether."

07-25-05 - London bombings lead to explosion of anti-Muslim bigotry

07-25-05 - Sharon reiterates need for harsh response to terror during and after disengagement

07-25-05 - From London to Jerusalem Another scathing assault on the Brits

07-25-05 - Exhibiting Pride: Arab American National Museum Opens in Dearborn

07-25-05 - Vatican criticises Israel over pope's anti-terror message The Vatican rejected Israeli attempts to "willingly deform" a condemnation of terrorism by Pope Benedict XVI that failed to include Israel in a list of countries targeted by extremists, spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said

07-25-05 - Fourth Palestine Human Development Report released

07-25-05 - Hamas launches campaign for release of Palestinian prisoners

07-25-05 - Tension high at Lebanese refugee camp after security increase

07-25-05 - Israel accused of prison neglect

07-25-05 - AIPAC/Likudnik Larry Franklin Arrested for Espionage on Behalf of Israel

07-25-05 - Church Head: Divestment is not Anti-Semitic

07-25-05 - We want to live like everybody

07-25-05 - Nablus resists

07-25-05 - Mofaz: Cancel cabinet votes scheduled before each pullout phase

07-25-05 - Knesset to decide on Wednesday whether to block Palestinian compensation suits

07-25-05 - Syria FM calls for Palestinian national unity

07-25-05 - "My Name is Rachel Corrie"

07-25-05 - Whether Israel Likes It or Not, Palestinians May Now Have a True Multi-Party System Palestinians soon may have a viable multi-party system?and the ?only democracy in the Middle East? doesn?t like it at all. In fact, Israel probably will do all it can to prevent democratic elections from succeeding in the Palestinian territories it occupies.

07-25-05 - Sharon accused of halting E-1 plans

07-25-05 - Israelis' $7.4bn buy creates world's biggest generic drug firm

07-24-05 - Kidnapped US citizen released in Rafah

07-24-05 - UAE offers to build new town on site of Gaza settlements UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan has offered 100 million dollars to build a new town for more than 30,000 Palestinians on the site of the Gaza Strip settlements which Israel is to demolish

07-24-05 - Gaza Pullout Uncoordinated; Deadline Looms Less than a month before Israel begins pulling out of Gaza, almost every major issue about the territory's future remains undecided

07-24-05 - Is the writing on the wall?

07-24-05 - Militants resume rocket attacks on Gaza settlements

07-24-05 - Sharon vows harsh response to Gaza attacks condemned by Abbas

07-24-05 - Rice promises to help Palestinians in getting Israeli information on Gaza pullout

07-24-05 - Israeli group marches to support Gaza pullout "It is high time Israelis realize that leaving Gaza has to be just the first step toward an accord with the Palestinians and realizing our dream of being a democratic Jewish homeland," organizer Ami Ayalon, a former security chief, told Reuters

07-24-05 - PALESTINIAN SEEKS A LAND OF FREEDOM

07-24-05 - Israeli plane fires missiles at Palestinian militants in Gaza

07-24-05 - Rice Warns Against Walled Gaza Enclave Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Israel that Palestinians must be able to move freely between the separate territories they will eventually hold

07-24-05 - Israel is still blocking the road to peace

07-24-05 - Egyptian TV 'experts' blame Israel

07-24-05 - Settlers to fight Israeli army tooth-and-nail in W.Bank Many are part of what has become known as the "hilltop youth", a young and more militant generation of Jewish settlers from the West Bank who are not averse to beating up Palestinian farmers, uprooting their olive trees and poisoning their flocks

07-24-05 - Suicide Bombings Bring Urgency to Police in U.S. Israelis training our police officers is ironic given that the reason we were attacked in the first place is because of our unwavering support of that nation.

07-24-05 - Israel not in al Qaeda's sights, for now -official

07-24-05 - 43% of Israelis fear terrorism will rise after disengagement 57% of the public believe that Israel should never have built the settlements in the Gaza Strip, compared with 37% who believe that they should have been built,

07-24-05 - Palestinian authority prepares to meet traffic demand after Gaza withdrawal

07-24-05 - US may sell up to $600 million to Israeli Air Force, after Israel-US agreement on China

07-24-05 - Jihad: Sunday attack in revenge for Israeli aggressions A senior official of the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) announced on Sunday that an earlier attack at the Kissofim crossroad in central Gaza Strip which killed four Israelis was to avenge Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians

07-24-05 - Karzai mulls future diplomatic ties with Israel

07-23-05 - Palestinian gunmen kill two in Gaza-military source

07-23-05 - Rice concerned a weakened Abbas could lose grip on Gaza

07-23-05 - Rice says Israel must allow freedom for Gaza Strip "When the Israelis withdraw from Gaza, it cannot be sealed or isolated ... with the Palestinian people closed in after the withdrawal," "We are committed to connectivity between Gaza and the West Bank and we are committed to openness and freedom of movement for the Palestinian people,"

07-23-05 - Rice reports progress on Gaza pullout but Palestinians wary 24 days before the landmark pullout of Israeli troops and settlers is due to begin, Palestinians complained they still had no answers on basic issues such as border controls and freedom of movement in Gaza

07-23-05 - Israeli court sentences two children to harsh terms

07-23-05 - Palestinian Militant Clamp Down Praised

07-23-05 - Sharon: Deal on Egyptian troop deployment along border to be made this week

07-23-05 - $100,000 food aid leaves for Palestine

07-23-05 - P.A police arrest armed Israelis in Beit Jala When the police stopped the car, they found six young Israeli men and women armed with light weapons and wearing civilian clothes.

07-23-05 - Iraqi citizenship: Anyone but Israelis

07-23-05 - Egypt blasts draw condemnation from bomb-weary Mideast

07-23-05 - Israeli troops ready to open fire on settlers

07-23-05 - Syria asks UN Security Council to force Israel to abide by UN resolutions

07-23-05 - British report on Israeli violations of human rights

07-23-05 - 97 million to expand settlements in the Jordan Valley

07-23-05 - Visit by refugee camp children

07-23-05 - Zionist Organization of America: We Helped Initiate, Promote and Pass New Restrictions on US Aid to Palestinians

07-23-05 - Palestinian factions condemn Egypt bombing attacks

07-23-05 - Profit from the U.S. shift on Palestine increasing public statements from high-ranking former U.S. government officials and members of Congress that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is critical to U.S. national interests - something unheard of in the past

07-23-05 - Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq Turn It Incendiary

07-23-05 - Truck inferno fuels talk of sabotage against Spielberg film In recent weeks, Malta has been bedecked in Israeli flags, Italian signposts and Spanish street names to suit Spielberg's requirements.

07-22-05 - Palestinian killed in West Bank shootout-medics

07-22-05 - Youth killed in Hebron

07-22-05 - Masked fury at West Bank barrier protest Protestors at a rally against Israel's West Bank barrier donned masks of US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, complete with orange blindfolds in a parody of the campaign against the pullout from the Gaza Strip.

07-22-05 - UN CEDAW Committee Concludes 2005 Session "We wish that occupation to end, and for Israel to return to the 1967 borders, as the UN Resolution demands. The Israeli government has to ensure the rights of women in those territories,"

07-22-05 - Security Council rejects fence debate U.S., Britain, Russia, France knock back Palestinian request to debate West Bank security fence, say disengagement more important; council calls on Palestinians to fight terror

07-22-05 - Where Homeland Means Humiliation

07-22-05 - Rice and Sharon discuss Israel's Gaza pullout In the latest clash, Israeli troops killed an 18-year-old Palestinian bystander in a shootout with a gunman in the West Bank city of Hebron

07-22-05 - Rice to Sharon: Back to ?road map? after pullout

07-22-05 - Abbas says left in dark on Israel's plans for disengagement "I will tell her, 'Dr. Rice, we need answers from the Israelis. Is Gaza going to be turned into a large prison? The Israelis are not cooperating',"

07-22-05 - Implementation not Impunity: International Humanitarian Law still not being applied to the Occupied Palestinian Territory

07-22-05 - US appeals court maintains life term for Israeli spy A US appeals court refused to reduce a life jail term ordered against Jonathan Pollard, a former Defense Department employee, who admitted spying for Israel

07-22-05 - Sharon: Ariel to ?expand?

07-22-05 - Transit workers hire Israeli expert

07-22-05 - Spy loses appeal in US His case, which has contributed to tensions between the US and Israel, has been taken up by Jewish groups in the US, and the Israeli government has lobbied the White House to release him.

07-22-05 - Egypt to supply Palestinians with gas Egypt and the Palestinian Authority have signed an agreement to study building a pipeline to supply Palestinians with natural gas

07-22-05 - Army beefs up security at Ain al-Hilweh

07-22-05 - US Organization Calls for Solidarity with Palestinian People

07-22-05 - Hamas rebukes Dahlan for coup comment in Haaretz interview

07-22-05 - Israel re-operates the X-Ray search machine at the Rafah Crossing

07-22-05 - Another day of protest against the Wall

07-22-05 - Councillor detained for six hours A CHESTER councillor was held by Israeli Secret Service officials on a visit to Palestine to sign a friendship pact.

07-22-05 - The dispossessed await day of joy

07-21-05 - Rocket misfire kills Gaza boy

07-21-05 - Urgent Action: Israeli Knesset set to vote on law to deny Palestinians compensation

07-21-05 - Soldiers abuse taxi drvier, urinate on him

07-21-05 - Trouble brews over homes at ancient Jerusalem site Palestinians say they are worried that there will be a surge of demolitions in Jerusalem next month while local and international attention is focused on Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip and a small corner of the West Bank

07-21-05 - Israeli soldier wounded in Palestinian mortar attack

07-21-05 - Police probe Palestinians in stabbing of boy Palestinian security forces said yesterday they were investigating the possibility that Palestinians stabbed a 12-year-old boy to death in the West Bank, after earlier saying witnesses had blamed Jewish settlers.

07-21-05 - Senate vote could hurt aid The Senate passed a provision in the foreign-aid bill that could cut aid to Israel and other countries that do not extradite people charged with crimes in the United States.

07-21-05 - Gaza withdrawal 'may start early'

07-21-05 - Rice to press Sharon on Gaza pullout coordination Israeli media reported that Rice had proposed a summit to bring together Israel and Arab countries after the pullout. But neither U.S. nor Israeli officials could confirm the reports

07-21-05 - U.S. to help Israel secure water The agreement was signed by Israel?s water commissioner, Shimon Tal, and Judith Ayers, the assistant administrator for international affairs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

07-21-05 - Israel to grab more land in Hebron Israeli authorities on Wednesday issued two military orders grabbing hundreds of dunams of farmlands near the settlements of Kiryat Arba? and Kharseena, east of Hebron, in order to construct the Separation Wall in the area

07-21-05 - Biden: Fund P.A. police A senior Senate Democrat called on the Bush administration to immediately fund the re-equipping of the Palestinian Authority police.

07-21-05 - Bush opposes pro-Israel House initiatives A "statement of administration policy" issued Wednesday came too late to stop the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of a State Department authorization bill. Among the provisions the administration opposed were further restrictions on direct aid to the Palestinian Authority; allowing applicants born in Jerusalem to list "Jerusalem, Israel" as their birthplace on their passports; and the transfer of $240 million in assistance to Egypt from military to economic aid

07-21-05 - Israel wants U.S. to help with Arab ties Israel expects the United States to broker new diplomatic relations with Arab countries in the wake of its pullout from the Gaza Strip. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom greeted Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state, on Thursday on her third visit to Jerusalem this year.

07-21-05 - UN Security Council debates Middle East, Israeli barrier Speaking on behalf of the European Union, British UN ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry demanded that "Israel stops and reverses the construction of the barrier inside the occupied Palestinian territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, which is in contradiction to the relevant provisions of international law."

07-21-05 - FEATURE-Disorder tempers dreams of new Gaza after Israelis go

07-21-05 - Arab countries seek new UN push on Israeli barrier

07-21-05 - Congress restricts P.A. aid The amendment that Rep. Shelley Berkeley (D-Nev.) proposed Wednesday to the State Department authorization bill would break up funding to the Palestinian Authority on a quarterly rather than annual basis, allowing Congress to withhold money if the Palestinian Authority fails to account for how the money is spent.

07-21-05 - 120 Supporters in the Caravan for Justice in Palestine have been Forcefully Deported from the Allenby Bridge and sent back to Jordan

07-21-05 - Israel plans to renew contacts with PNA over pullout

07-21-05 - US plans int'l summit after Gaza pullout The main aim of the conference would be to accelerate the renewal of contacts between Israel, North African states and the Gulf region, Rice told Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom at ameeting in Jerusalem.

07-21-05 - PLC to ratify basic law amendments on Tuesday

07-21-05 - Hamas urges PNA to end violent means in preventing rocket attacks

07-21-05 - Khoury says Kassir received death threats

07-21-05 - Students from Israel, Palestine areas to visit Hiroshima, Nagasaki

07-21-05 - Laying Bare The Plight Of 'Invisible' Israeli Arabs

07-21-05 - Gingrich Calls for Leadership by Congress and America's Democratic Allies to Reform United Nations He pointed to the recent UNESCO Meeting in Paris organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People as an example of this mistreatment. "A genuine commitment to reform would require abolishing this sort of U.N. machinery whose only purpose is to demonize Israel. The U.S. taxpayer should not be subsidizing a one sided anti-Semitic assault on the survival of the only true democracy in the region other than Turkey."

07-21-05 - Gandhi's grandson speaks on nonviolence, peace

07-21-05 - Theater thrives in Gaza, despite restrictions An inspirational success in the field of children's theater is the Al Rowwad Children's Theatre Troupe, which operates from the wartorn and poverty-stricken Aida refugee camp in the West Bank. One of the very few troupes to have the opportunity to perform outside the occupied territories, Al Rowwad is currently touring the US with its production, "We are the Children of the Camp."

07-21-05 - UNRWA to Help Expelled Jews This means that UNRWA must aid and assist the residents of Gush Katif and the other towns in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) slated for ethnic cleansing Rightwing Israeli mag goes off deep end. Those 'expelled Jews' are getting 250K each, paid for by Uncle Sam.

07-21-05 - MK Barakeh receives summons over alleged protest violence "Every week we bear witness to yet another violent attack by the security forces at the village of Bil'in," said Barakeh. "The victims are not just Palestinians but also the peace activists who are non-violently demonstrating against the racist separation fence. We've all seen this week just how differently security forces treated the violent protests of the right (at Kfar Maimon)."

07-21-05 - Sharon woos rightists In interview with French newspaper, prime minister speaks of plans to boost West Bank settlements, says he does not intend to discuss partition of Jerusalem; Sharon also calls on international community to impose sanctions on Iran

07-21-05 - Poll: Most say it was mistake to set up Gaza settlements the majority of Israelis believe the settlements in the Gaza strip should never have been created, and that they have a negative effect on the state of Israel's security.

07-21-05 - Summer program offers students a different view of Palestinian life Most days, Lee Gargagliano of Brooklyn hitchhikes and then takes the bus from his hosts' home in a small village outside Beit Sahour to Bethlehem, where he volunteers at an orphanage

07-21-05 - 250 arrested as three-day Gaza settler protest ends

07-21-05 - Church takes time on Palestine policy

07-20-05 - Youth ambushed by settlers According to the Palestinian account, Juhar and his cousin Hamza went to a stream near the village of Krayot in order to fly kites, at which point four settlers attacked them, and one stabbed the 12-year-old

07-20-05 - Israeli settlers accused of stabbing Palestinian boy the 12-year-old was ambushed by several settlers near his home at Qaryot village outside the Palestinian-ruled city of Nablus. He was stabbed 11 times, medics said.

07-20-05 - Seven arrested in Bil?in, six injured Khateeb added that soldiers attacked the seven protestors, clubbed and punched four of them, and arrested Tamer Amer al-Khateeb, from Bil?in, Huwaida Arraf, an Arab-American, three international activists and two Israelis.

07-20-05 - Hamas gunmen 'breach ceasefire' Hamas militants have fired on the home of a Palestinian police chief in Gaza despite a newly announced ceasefire, Palestinian security sources say.

07-20-05 - Resident injured east of Nablus Ahmad As?ad Issa. 22, from Salem village, east of Nablus, was shot and wounded on Monday evening by an Israeli soldier, as he was driving back home from the hospital with his wife and their new born baby.

07-20-05 - Palestinian security member dies of wounds in West Bank The sources said that 25-year-old Mohammed Ghannam died Wednesday morning of wounds he sustained when the Israeli force reoccupied the West bank city of Tulkarm.

07-20-05 - Dahlan: Hamas is trying to overthrow Palestinian Authority "If you brought General Montgomery to maintain security, he wouldn't do any better. What [Sharon] didn't succeed in doing in four years, he is demanding of Abu Mazen in six months. If you ask whether the PA can stop all the terror, the obvious answer is no. Anyone who says otherwise is lying."

07-20-05 - The Museum of Palestine: Keys to the past

07-20-05 - Hamas urges end to inter-Palestinian clashes after attacks At least 22 people were wounded on Tuesday during clashes in the northern Gaza Strip between Hamas and members of either the security services or Fatah.

07-20-05 - Israel parliament rejects Gaza pullout delay

07-20-05 - USAID offers to buy Gaza hothouses The American government is willing to pay some $8 million to $10m. to buy the Gaza settlers' hothouses and give them to the Palestinians to save the jobs of some 4,000 Palestinians who work there, a spokeswoman for the United States Agency for International Development told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

07-20-05 - BG, PA in gas deal without Israel Despite the good news for the Palestinians, some industry experts are skeptical of Israel's silence toward the news. Although it is a partner to the Palestinian Authority in a small gas field to the north of the Gaza Strip, Israel has in the past blocked Palestinian gas export and production agreements.

07-20-05 - Pals.: Israel will take antiquities Palestinian archaeologists say they fear that when Israel withdraws from Gaza it will also take priceless archeological artifacts. Israeli officials have acknowledged this is a possibility...According to international law, it is illegal for an occupying power to remove ancient artifacts, movable and immovable, from the land.

07-20-05 - PA plans for day after pullout

07-20-05 - Gaza clashes renew

07-20-05 - PNA leadership to discuss Israeli assassinating policy with Rice: Erekat

07-20-05 - Lawyers challenge EU and UK over inaction on Palestine One year after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Israel's Separation Wall is illegal, the EU and UK have failed to take the action required of them under the Geneva Conventions to ensure Israeli compliance with international humanitarian law

07-20-05 - Qurei vows to enforce rule of law

07-20-05 - Al-Quds University: Palestinian forces raided crime lab

07-20-05 - LIFE inaugurates two state-of-the-art medical facilities in Palestinian Territories

07-20-05 - Double blow for settlers in Gaza protest

07-20-05 - Israel arrests peace activists in West Bank The protestors tied themselves to iron boxes and blocked the way before bulldozers

07-20-05 - An American Purgatory

07-20-05 - US urges Israelis, Palestinians to guarantee disengagement plan successful

07-20-05 - Will media coverage victimize Israeli settlers? The Israeli media will do its best to exploit the disengagement plan to glorify the Israeli stand before the international community, and, at the same time, show the Palestinians as negatively reacting to it.

07-20-05 - Pro-Palestinian Group To Push Divestment for AFL-CIO

07-20-05 - Israeli-Arab rap: an outlet for youth protest

07-20-05 - Seminar focuses on Arab perspective Jerry Levin, who was kidnapped by Hezbollah in 1984 while serving as CNN's Middle East bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, spoke about his work for the Christian Peacemaker Teams, monitoring Israeli treatment of Palestinians in Hebron.

07-19-05 - Thirteen wounded in Palestinian gunbattles Palestinian security forces and Hamas militants fought gunbattles in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding 13 people amid the worst internal violence in years

07-19-05 - Israeli army leftover kills Palestinian girl, injures two An Israeli leftover ordnance killed a nine-year-old Palestinian girl and injured two of her brothers in Gaza City, Palestinian sources said.

07-19-05 - Militant leader, cohort killed by Israelis in West Bank

07-19-05 - Sharon looking for domestic boost from Rice Rice will also give Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a domestic boost by reaffirming the now famous letter President George W. Bush gave him in 2004 in response to his disengagement plan.

07-19-05 - Fatah condemns Israeli killing of 2 militants

07-19-05 - Palestinian groups agree to seek end to fighting

07-19-05 - Livingstone: Likud is like Hamas At a London press conference, Livingstone, who has a long record of anti-Israeli diatribes, drew a connection between the London blasts and the Middle East. He said Israel had "done horrendous things which border on crimes against humanity in the way they have indiscriminately slaughtered men, women and children in the West Bank and Gaza for decades."

07-19-05 - Gov't books hotel rooms for settlers "We are planning on letting them rest and recuperate for the first couple days following their evacuation," said the SELA official. "Then we will begin to work with them on their options for the future." Palestinians, who routinely see their homes and livelihoods demolished, are never afforded such niceties. And they most certainly are never compensated for their lost property.

07-19-05 - 2 religious soldiers believed behind J'lem fake bomb

07-19-05 - Jews Blast London's Mayor The American Jewish Committee expressed dismay at the remarks Tuesday of London Mayor Ken Livingstone, branding Hamas and the Likud Party as "two sides of the same coin."

07-19-05 - Rice seeks to ease Middle East tensions for Israeli withdrawal

07-19-05 - Israeli police encircle marchers Israel has occupied Gaza and the West Bank since 1967. About 400,000 Israelis live in the territories, in settlements deemed as illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

07-19-05 - Abbas Needs Backup Palestinians need to hear her repeat the bottom-line conditions of Palestinian statehood supported by her boss during an Abbas visit to the White House in May.

07-19-05 - Music became a weapon

07-19-05 - Palestinians clash in Lebanese camp

07-19-05 - FBI to interrogate Palestinian prisoner The FBI is believed to be investigating the killing of an American citizen Jan. 15, 2002 in the West Bank village of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem

07-19-05 - Senator makes plea over West Bank 'wall of shame' Mr Leyden told today's Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee: "We are pumping money into a country and supporting a regime in Israel that is undermining the rights of the Palestinian people and doing a great disservice to the Irish people..

07-19-05 - Sweden condemns Israeli retaliations

07-19-05 - German Foreign Minister commended The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) commended Germany's Foreign Minister for telling the Palestinians in Ramallah that a Palestinian state will only be achieved after violence and terrorism have ended

07-19-05 - Shalom warns terror could delay pullout

07-19-05 - INTERFAITH GROUP REPELS ATTACK ON ISRAELI SECURITY FENCE

07-18-05 - Palestinian boy killed at Gaza checkpoint The boy was struck by a fatal bullet at the Abou Houly roadblock that separates northern and southern Gaza and died en route to a hospital, the medics said.

07-18-05 - Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian teen in Gaza The incident occurred when Israeli soldiers stationed at the al- Matahen roadblock opened fire at Palestinian vehicles that tried to cross the roadblock after being held between al-Matahen and Abu Holi roadblock for five days.

07-18-05 - Lawyers challenge EU and UK over inaction on Palestine

07-18-05 - Extra: Hamas: Truce is conditional on no more Israeli attacks

07-18-05 - Israel frees leading Islamist after two years

07-18-05 - Abbas: Truce With Israel Can Be Salvaged

07-18-05 - Israel wants to ban Palestinian compensations Israeli sources said that the bill would grant the Israeli Defense Minister the authority to define the occupied Palestinian territories as a "conflict zone," thus banning compensation for all Palestinians in the territories. The Israeli government will also exclude Jewish settlements from "the conflict zone," thus preserving compensation rights for Israeli citizens.

07-18-05 - Compare and contrast The Palestinians, in Rose's analysis, are scapegoat for Israel's tortured memory of the Holocaust. They represent not just the threat of arbitrary destruction (of which each suicide bombing is a constant reminder) but they are made also to pay for the suppressed shame that Europe's Jewry felt at having bowed to its fate at Hitler's hands.

07-18-05 - Dahlan calls on Palestinians to unite to succeed pullout

07-18-05 - Hamas armed wing claims responsibility for shelling at settlements

07-18-05 - Army bulldozes farmlands near Tulkarem A local source in the village reported that two military bulldozers uprooted farmlands planted mainly with Olive trees in Khallit al-Sheikh area in order to install a fence and expand the settlement;

07-18-05 - Lebanon slams Mossad, extremists Lebanon's an-Nahar daily Sunday quoted Lahoud as saying that Israel's Mossad and extremists "are trying to destabilize security in Lebanon."

07-18-05 - Israeli protesters defy police ban on march Thousands of police officers and soldiers were deployed to block the marchers' way but after a two-hour standoff last night, the police and army pulled back

07-18-05 - Top Palestinian legislator testifies in Tampa terror trial

07-18-05 - Chutzpah and free speech Dershowitz lauded Israel's human rights record in his book; Finkelstein counters by citing groups such as Amnesty International, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem and Human Rights Watch. The book is a series of juxtapositions ? arguments by Dershowitz on torture, assassinations, treatment of Palestinian children, followed by refutations from human rights organizations.

07-18-05 - Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Clarify Position on Palestinian Settlements In the Holy Land "The world should be aware that this is not a Jewish problem, this is a Zionist problem only, "said Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, because the State of "Israel" is not a Jewish state but a Zionist state.

07-18-05 - Mossad Chief Confirms Netanyahu's Warning of London Bombing

07-18-05 - Double standards Israelis are realizing what happens when they employ the oppressive policies used for years against the Palestinians on their own people

07-18-05 - Gaza settler says willing to become Palestinian citizen Ordinary Gazans have long viewed the 8,500 settlers in the territory as bitter enemies living on land they want for a state. Gaza IS Palestinian land, not just 'land they want for a state'. It belongs to Palestinians - so says just about the entire world.

07-18-05 - Chirac to receive Ariel Sharon in Paris

07-18-05 - US urges Israelis, Palestinians to restore calm

07-18-05 - Gaza Expert: Economic Forces Contributing to Israel's Withdrawal From Gaza, Duke University Professor Says "Of the 35 largest foreign companies that have invested here, the number who came after 2000 [the beginning of the most recent Palestinian uprising] is zero," he said. "And without U.S. loan guarantees, Israeli bonds would be junk. That's a sign that something needs to change."

07-18-05 - Syria's expression of solidarity with the Palestinian issue.

07-18-05 - Methodists Join Divestment Debate

07-18-05 - Response to Israeli violation should be collective: Fatah

07-18-05 - International solidarity convoy in Jordan The convoy includes 150 people representing human rights and non-governmental organizations that support the Palestinian people and resolving the Palestinian problem on the basis of international resolutions.

07-18-05 - Egypt optimistic about mediation in Palestinian in-fighting

07-18-05 - Israel's security eye-opener Israeli Lt.-Col. Jonathan Halevi told the Sun that Canadians should not be complacent about the threat and "should be ready for the possibility that they might be, in the near future, a victim of terror."

07-18-05 - An Open Letter to Steven Plaut Israel's occupation of the West Bank has lasted longer than Japan's occupation of Korea, and more UN resolutions have condemned the matter than any other that the world has known since the UN was established and its charter issued

07-18-05 - Weiner Bangs Arab Bucks Weiner is a hawk when it comes to foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. He voted for the Iraq war, wants clemency for Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, pushed to close the PLO office in Washington, and pushed for sanctions against Syria as early as 2002. He urged Columbia University to fire Professor Joseph Massad

07-17-05 - A Warning from Israel We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees.

07-17-05 - Settler rams child with car in Hebron

07-17-05 - Israel threatens ground assault, kills two militants

07-17-05 - Palestinian Abbas pledges to stop rocket attacks

07-17-05 - Sharon: No Limitations on Army Operations

07-17-05 - Hamas says sticks to 'conditional calm' with Israel

07-17-05 - Killing of Hamas commander threatens ceasefire

07-17-05 - Israelis plan mass protest march on Gaza

07-17-05 - Former Givati commander rapped for troops' deterrent fire Zusman allowed the soldiers to open "deterrent fire" (shooting in automatic bursts using hundreds of bullets) in the direction of Palestinian houses..... Chief paratroop and infantry officer Brigadier General Yossi Heiman convicted Zusman of illegal use of a weapon, although he stopped short of recommending a delay in Zusman's promotion

07-17-05 - PA seeks UN condemnation of fence

07-17-05 - PA pulls terrorists? flags from streets

07-17-05 - Jordan will participate in Palestinian refugees conference

07-17-05 - Key prosecution witness in Fahima trial retracts testimony

07-17-05 - Wirksworth woman heads for Palestine

07-17-05 - Education Ministry pledges support to Palestinians The pledge came during an educational conference for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon,

07-17-05 - Israel is defenseless against its unruly zealots Recently a paratroop battalion commander was quoted as complaining that in the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, in the Nablus area, "there exists a gang of law-breakers; I do not fear entering a Palestinian village the way I fear entering Yitzhar."

07-17-05 - Iran condemns Israel's "provocative acts" against Palestinians

07-17-05 - Jewish Races To Watch In 2006 Jewish and pro-Israel political groups have determined some places to focus their resources this year. It's too soon to tell which members of the U.S. House of Representatives will be vulnerable, but the Senate picture is a bit clearer

07-17-05 - Iran says US and Israel snaring its atomic experts

07-17-05 - Shaath, Chinese envoy discuss Mideast peace process It said Gong reiterated China's determination to support the Palestinian people and their legitimate rights.

07-17-05 - Voices worldwide demand: 'Stop the Wall'

07-17-05 - Israeli army searches for two deserters

07-16-05 - Israel Launches Airstrikes In Gaza Strip Three people, including a girl, were injured in the strikes

07-16-05 - Israel ready to send in the tanks as Gaza moves closer to civil war

07-16-05 - Groups call on U.N. to dissolve committee Two Jewish groups called on the United Nations to disband a committee on Palestinian rights

07-16-05 - Abbas urges Palestinian militants to halt attacks

07-16-05 - UN alarmed by surge in violence in Middle East "There should be no doubt about Israel's legitimate right to self-defense but it must be exercised proportionately and in conformity with international law," the U.N. statement said.

07-16-05 - US official urges full and timely Gaza pullout

07-16-05 - Abbas in TV peace plea as violence puts Israel's Gaza withdrawal at risk

07-16-05 - IDF poised for massive sweep into Gaza

07-16-05 - Sharon stands firm as Israel marches to fight Gaza pull-out

07-16-05 - Armed family controls Gaza street He said the family, whom he did not identify by name, was waiting for clarification on the girl's death from the Palestinian Authority, or Hamas, whose clashes Friday in the area led to the child's death

07-16-05 - Qurei rebuffs Hamas' call for PNA minister resignation

07-16-05 - PNA ministry condemns Israeli attacks on Gaza

07-16-05 - Seething resentment in Bethlehem will fuel more violence

07-16-05 - US official in Egypt to discuss Gaza withdrawal

07-16-05 - Israeli troops arrest 26 'militants' in raids

07-16-05 - Barenboim concert set for Ramallah "It's not a political concert, it's a concert of solidarity with Palestinian civilians,"

07-16-05 - Egyptian delegation to mediate between PNA, Hamas

07-16-05 - Israel prevent Palestinian young males to travel via Rafah crossing: source

07-16-05 - Halpern cited for broadcasting board A former chairwoman of the Republican Jewish Coalition reportedly is the front-runner to head the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Pro-Israelis have heavily criticized PBS/NPR for its 'anti-Israel bias'. This move will ensure that ALL mainstream news orgs will tow the Israeli line.

07-16-05 - House rejects China arms bill The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a bill that could have penalized Israel for its arms sales to China.

07-16-05 - Analysis: Escalation may endanger disengagement Meanwhile, Israel has international backing. Its targeted killings Friday did not injure non-combatants Oh yes they did - " Five civilians, including a child, were also wounded"source.

07-16-05 - Terror and the divestment campaign Some members of the Anglican Church have initiated a debate on the official pro-Palestinian position, and the founding of "Christian Aid Watch" is a hopeful sign And the smearing of pro-divestment groups continues, along with a callous and transparent attempt to exploit the victims of the London bombings thrown in.

07-16-05 - Book review: "The One-State Solution" Tilley also explain why water is "also the silent factor driving Israel's full annexation strategy".

07-15-05 - Two Die In New West Bank Violence

07-15-05 - Two Killed In Israeli Strike In Gaza City Two bystanders have reportedly been killed and 20 more injured in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City

07-15-05 - Five Hamas militants killed as Sharon hints at more Four Hamas militants were killed when an Israeli helicopter fired rockets into a van packed with explosives travelling through Gaza City, sources on both sides said. Five civilians, including a child, were also wounded

07-15-05 - Palestinian in-fighting in Gaza

07-15-05 - Israel kills 6 Hamas gunmen as truce crumbles

07-15-05 - Hopes and fears as Gaza awaits pullout A caretaker in Gaza, he said his greatest fear was that the Israelis would, as he sees it, retaliate for giving back Gaza to the Palestinians.

07-15-05 - U.S. demands aid be used to boost Bedouin and Druze "America is not the Jewish Agency nor the Jewish National Fund, and considers it important that the aid serves all sectors of the Israeli population,"......The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby, said it would work to get Congress to pass the aid package. Dozens of Congressmen will visit Israel in August, and will be invited to travel to the Negev and Galilee and hear about the development plans.

07-15-05 - A Quarter of a Million Dollars Per Settler We will be paying it, via the 2.2 billion in aid the Israelis have requested.

07-15-05 - Anything to declare? In the room, something bordering on the miraculous took place ? Sharon, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all agreed on something. They agreed the world should pay, not the State of Israel.

07-15-05 - Swiss press Israel on West Bank barrier's future The World Court opinion had already confirmed the convention applies throughout the occupied Palestinian lands, "including East Jerusalem, which Israel continues to contest,'

07-15-05 - Rice calls Israeli defense minister to urge calm

07-15-05 - Evangelicals see opportunity in Promised Land

07-15-05 - Israel has $4.9b in unused US loan guarantees

07-15-05 - Successful Gaza pullout great chance for peace: Fischer Germany has budgeted for 48 million euros in direct aid to the Palestinians in 2005. Berlin also contributes to UN development funding and provides some 20 percent of EU funding to the Palestinians.

07-15-05 - Effort Eyed To Combat Divestment It's simply impossible in the eyes of pro-Israelis that Israel could do any wrong, it's got to be 'anti-Semitism', or 'anti-Zionism'. Strongarming opponents though will only achieve the opposite effect.

07-15-05 - VIEWPOINT: Spielberg Shooting Mossad Film, Media Smells Blood American Jews know the difference between a director with a Holocaust-denying father and one whose mother owns a kosher restaurant. A jab at Mel Gibson.

07-14-05 - Israel launches 4 air raids in Gaza-witnesses

07-14-05 - Palestinians on alert as unrest threatens truce security forces in the Gaza Strip were placed on a state of alert to thwart further deadly rocket attacks after the killing of an Israeli posed the latest threat to a fragile ceasefire.

07-14-05 - Sharon: No second unilateral disengagement in the West Bank

07-14-05 - CFL Alert: Apartheid Wall To Strangle Over 100,000 Palestinians In Arab-East Jerusalem

07-14-05 - Lynch suspects indicted ?For that end, the defendant turned around, got a rock, ran toward the brick wall where the wounded boy was lying, jumped over the wall, and slammed the rock powerfully in the direction of (the boy?s) head with the intention of causing his death,? the indictment says.

07-14-05 - Mashaal: Group Committed to Israel Truce

07-14-05 - Hebron: Sharing Each Others' Pain Another day, the team videotaped Israeli settlers combining and hauling away wheat planted by a Palestinian family on their land, while Israeli soldiers watched and did nothing to stop them.

07-14-05 - All Palestinians have a right to Palestine

07-14-05 - Palestinian security forces ordered to use force against militants

07-14-05 - Bush waives restrictions on Palestinian aid

07-14-05 - Palestinians fear more land loss after Gaza pullout "I will make a huge barbecue meal in the pine wood and invite all friends and relatives to celebrate the (settlers') exit," said Ihab Ibrahim from Jenin. "I just cannot wait to see them leaving so that we can live our normal life."

07-14-05 - Ostracising Hamas will not help in the search for peace

07-14-05 - Clashes as Israel seals off Gaza

07-14-05 - Help us stop Israel's wall peacefully Though our village sits two and a half miles east of the Green Line, Israel is taking roughly 60 percent of our 1,000 acres of land in order to annex the six settlements and build the wall around them. This land is also money to us - we work it. Bilin's 1,600 residents depend on farming and harvesting our olives for our livelihood. The wall will turn Bilin into an open-air prison, like Gaza

07-14-05 - Rice tells Abbas to capture Netanya killers

07-14-05 - Divestment debate tabled at ArtBeat Somerville Divestment Project, the group that has called for the city's retirement board to give up Israeli bonds, said they received an e-mail from the city last week stating they would not be allowed to participate in the annual art festival in Davis Square on Friday and Saturday.

07-14-05 - Sucker Punched on Divestment Jewish groups still unclear as to the reasons why Israel is being targeted for divestment by churches. De'nile. .

07-14-05 - Five Palestinians wounded in firefight

07-14-05 - China opposes Israel's building of separation wall Liu said China opposes Israel's building of such a wall in Palestine's occupied territory

07-14-05 - Palestinian leader recognizes Orthodox patriarch's ouster; Israel left in dilemma

07-14-05 - AL Chief Describes Israeli Separation Wall as Illegal

07-14-05 - From Montreal to Ein el-Hilweh: Deportation, Destitution & Dignity

07-14-05 - Protests mark 1-year of ruling on Israeli wall

07-14-05 - 5 youths from W. Bank settlement suspected of raping 9-year-old girl

07-13-05 - Militant killed while meeting reporter ISRAELI soldiers killed a Palestinian militant as he was meeting a British reporter in the West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses said.

07-13-05 - PA Accuses IDF of Murdering Tulkarm Policeman

07-13-05 - Sharon orders reprisals for bombing Two Palestinians were killed in yesterday's operation, and the army also banned Palestinians from entering Israeli territory or travelling between their towns as a further punishment for the attack....In spite of the ceasefire that was agreed by Palestinian and Israeli leaders in February, the army has regularly operated in Palestinian areas, resulting in the deaths of around 40 Palestinians

07-13-05 - Sharon vows vengeance on bombers Israeli forces have sealed off the West Bank and the transfer of the towns of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Qalqilya to the Palestinians - a key pledge in a peace deal agreed last February - has been put on hold, an Israeli official said.

07-13-05 - Caravan For Palestine Arrives In Istanbul Human Rights Organizations in Europe masterminded a ''Caravan for Palestine'' aiming to draw attention to human rights violations in Palestine. The ''Caravan for Palestine'', which set off from Strasbourg, France, arrived in Istanbul.

07-13-05 - Israel cancels meetings with PA officials The meetings were aimed at discussing security coordination and measures to secure a smooth evacuation of Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank slated for mid August.

07-13-05 - British, Austrian engineers freed after kidnap in Gaza

07-13-05 - Palestinian Poet Lashes Out at Militants

07-13-05 - White House Renews Support for Israel Plan "There are a lot of things to consider and they put a number of proposals on the table," said Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman. But he said he was "not prepared to respond in terms of what the specifics of our assistance might and might not look like."

07-13-05 - Iran lashes back at Rumsfeld over Israel bomb claim On Tuesday top US officials, including Rumsfeld, pointed fingers at both Syria and Iran as they denounced the deadly bombing in Netanya

07-13-05 - Syria Urged to End Islamic Jihad Support Asked Tuesday if the State Department had any information that Syria had a hand in the bombing, spokesman Tom Casey replied: "I don't have anything that specific that I can share with you."

07-13-05 - PM closes Strip to Israelis to preempt mass march on Gaza Soldiers and policemen manning the roadblocks were given orders not to open fire. In cases where attempts are made to break through the barriers, they were instructed to push them back by using reasonable force or to chase anyone who breaks through Palestinians get don't get such special treatment when they protest.

07-13-05 - Israel army says clashed with Hizbollah on border

07-13-05 - Jerusalem clerics in fist fight A fight has erupted between supporters and opponents of the defrocked patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, Irineos I.

07-13-05 - City offers hand of friendship to Jericho "We want to make people understand the problems of Palestine, I have always strongly felt it is one of the world's biggest injustices, but also to realise that Jericho is an ancient city with a vibrant culture."

07-13-05 - Israel welcomes new immigrants Many of those arriving in Israel said they were leaving North America because of a wish to live only among Jews.

07-13-05 - Foreign Press warns members not to sign Gaza entry forms Simon McGregor Wood, the ABC television journalist who heads the FPA, said he could understand such a waiver for journalists in Palestinian territory, but it is unacceptable in Gush Katif, which is under Israeli security control.

07-13-05 - Palestinian leader issues decree to oust Greek Orthodox patriarch in Jerusalem

07-13-05 - Indonesian president intends to visit Palestine

07-13-05 - Solana: PA should do more than condemn suicide bombing

07-13-05 - 'The suicide bomber is the smartest of smart bombs' See also Why Are They Killing Us?

07-12-05 - Three Israelis killed in Islamic Jihad suicide attack at mall

07-12-05 - Israeli troops raid W.Bank town, kill policeman Troops fired in the air and then at a Palestinian security post, killing a policeman in what witnesses called an unprovoked attack

07-12-05 - Palestinians ask U.N. to act over W. Bank barrier

07-12-05 - Gunmen beat Palestinian official

07-12-05 - Suicide bomber shatters ceasefire in Israel "The terrorist apparently realised he'd been identified, stood in the middle of the crosswalk right next to four young girls, French tourists apparently, and then blew up,"

07-12-05 - Israelis brace for weeks of pullout turmoil But there are fears that a small core of radical opponents could aim to escalate the campaign by disrupting power lines -- some attempts have already been made. In another measure to create chaos, ultranationalists have planted fake bombs in railway stations.

07-12-05 - Israel to discuss Gaza exit costs Israel has been told by Washington it too can expect some help with its costs. Over half the money will go towards compensating the 9,000 settlers Israel is moving out of the Gaza Strip and four small settlements in the northern West Bank.

07-12-05 - Abbas slams wall around Jerusalem

07-12-05 - US non-committal on Israeli request for Gaza financing

07-12-05 - Palestinians fear impact of separation from Jerusalem "I can't sleep at night," he said. "The Israelis have asked me to apply for compensation and so we can fix on a price but I don't want their money." His wife Majeda said the noise of the bulldozers and mechanical diggers, which have already begun work in her neighbourhood, was terrifying her children.

07-12-05 - Palestinians hold demonstration against "separation barrier"

07-12-05 - Israel to patrol north W.Bank after pullout -radio The reported decision, certain to disappoint Palestinians, appeared to be a departure from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's withdrawal plan, which says Israel will evacuate "all military installations" in the area and redeploy outside

07-12-05 - Annan wants Israel to find alternative to wall The World Court declared it illegal a year ago because it was built on West Bank land rather than on Israeli territory or along the pre-1967 border separating Israel and the Palestinian territory.

07-12-05 - Two homes leveled in Jerusalem

07-12-05 - Palestinians shut out from their farms Aljazeera.net contacted Israel's District Coordination Office in Qalqilya, the Civil Administration and a spokesman for Israeli occupation forces to explain why Gate 46 was shut. No one could give an immediate response.

07-12-05 - NBA stars to promote peace delegation of past and present National Basketball Association stars is scheduled to arrive in Israel soon to offer basketball classes to Israeli and Palestinian children

07-12-05 - US: Israeli pullout should continue

07-12-05 - Qaddumi claim fuels Arafat poison theory among Palestinians

07-12-05 - Israel's Belated (and Grudging) Apology

07-12-05 - Knesset Briefing on Iranian's Nuclear Weapons

07-12-05 - ADL poll: US, EU have opposing views of Israel "Though there is some improvement in European attitudes toward Israel and Prime Minster [Ariel] Sharon, Europeans are still light-years away from the views of Americans," -Europe doesn't have the AIPAC, the largest and most powerful foreign lobby on American soil.

07-12-05 - Egyptian FM slams Israel for building separation wall

07-12-05 - IDF: Troops can fire on pullout foes as last resort

07-12-05 - Israel seek Arab ties after Gaza pullout Ben Dur said the Israeli government expects that once the withdrawal from Gaza is completed, "the Arab and Islamic world will open up and they will be more ready than before to establish ties with Israel."

07-12-05 - England still doesn't get it Israel still trying to conflate its terror attacks with those of Britain.

07-12-05 - British Gas mulls pipeline from Gaza coast to El Arish

07-12-05 - International Demonstration Heads to Palestine Protesting Apartheid Wall

07-12-05 - Iran could be behind Israel bomb blast: Rumsfeld

07-12-05 - Reviewing immigration laws The law clearly did not envision the situation we have today, in which about half, according to some reports, of the immigrants currently arriving under the Law of Return from the former Soviet Union are non-Jews who may have no real connection to Israel or the Jewish people

07-12-05 - Why the EU Matters to Middle East Peace

07-12-05 - Pro-Palestinian U.N. Meeting Riles Jewish Groups

07-12-05 - Gaza mosque welcomes London attacks Sermon translated by Israel, of course.

07-12-05 - Palestinian student Zack Sabella The 21-year-old works for the Middle East Council of Churches' department of service to Palestinian refugees. He is a member of the Christian World Service's Partners4Peace program

07-12-05 - Interior Minister Pines-Paz: Pullout foes' dummy bomb is act of terror "This is neither a protest nor a demonstration. This is an act of terror, Jewish terror. Jewish terrorism aimed against Jews,"

07-12-05 - Secretary-General thanks Civil Society for building bridges of understanding between Israelis, Palestinians, in message to Paris meeting

07-11-05 - Barrier Meant to Ensure Jewish Majority Opponents and supporters demonstrate almost daily at West Bank sites where its construction uproots orchards or cuts Palestinians off from their farmland or services.

07-11-05 - EU joins outcry against Israel's Jerusalem barrier "We think that Israel has the right to defend itself but we think that the fence which will stand outside the territory of Israel is not legally proper and it creates also humanitarian problems,"

07-11-05 - Israeli Soldiers Talk Of Abuses "Who is the enemy?" asks Avichai Sharon. "I never saw the enemy. I saw society. I was three years fighting society in Palestinian cities."

07-11-05 - Two Israeli soldiers injured in southern Gaza Strip

07-11-05 - UN CONFERENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN SUPPORT OF MIDDLE EAST PEACE, IN PARIS, 12?13 JULY

07-11-05 - Israel seeks $2.2 billion from U.S. for Gaza pullout In a debate scheduled for Tuesday, Israel's security cabinet is to consider a Defense Ministry recommendation to keep Israeli forces in the northern West Bank area where the four settlements are to be evacuated, government officials said. The proposal, likely to disappoint Palestinians, appears to be a departure from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "disengagement plan," which says Israel will evacuate "all military installations in this area and redeploy outside."

07-11-05 - Homemade rockets wound 7 Palestinians in southern Gaza Four Palestinian militants sustained serious injuries while two other civilians were lightly wounded,

07-11-05 - Israel's plan to built separation wall criticized The Mayor of Anata Mohammed Ellan, showing us the half finished wall on the roof of his office building, said the whole city will be surrounded by the wall and people will be living in an envelope.

07-11-05 - Arafat was poisoned by Israel, claims Fatah head

07-11-05 - Israel looks for US, EU support to bolster Gaza pullout

07-11-05 - Palestinians rage at proposed fence across Jerusalem

07-11-05 - Barrier demos to be 'stepped up'

07-11-05 - Gaza pullout opponents cause bomb scare Commuters were evacuated from Jerusalem's main bus station on Monday after opponents of Israel's planned Gaza pullout planted what turned out to be a fake bomb in a bathroom, police said.

07-11-05 - Palestinian hotel on frontline of Mideast experience

07-11-05 - German FM to visit Israel, Palestinian territories this week

07-11-05 - Israel's Jews 'set to exceed US' The Arab population in Israel and the Occupied Territories is approaching the size of the Jewish community, and growing faster. This is something many in the Israeli government see as a threat to the country's Jewish identity

07-11-05 - From 1998: Report: Mossad behind destroying London Israeli embassy in 1994

07-11-05 - ?London, Tel Aviv blasts connected? Moreover, the Mossad office in London received advance notice about the attacks, but only six minutes before the first blast, the paper reports. Somebody found a way to connect the terrorism in Britain to the terrorism in Israel, and exonerate Israel, to boot. Isn't that convenient?

07-11-05 - Bethlehem to be transfered

07-11-05 - Hamas denies its leaders to return to Gaza after Israeli pullout

07-11-05 - Security cabinet to mull new Egypt-Gaza border crossing the passage of goods would be relocated to the Nitzana terminal, which would preserve Israeli control over the customs union with the Palestinian Authority.

07-11-05 - Aid To 430,000 Palestinian Refugees In Syria

07-11-05 - Teachers Learn To Teach Israel The goal was to learn how to teach about Israel -- not in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but, according to S. Ilan Troen, a professor of Israel studies at Brandeis, "to ensure that a more serous and balanced study of Israel be available at universities."

07-11-05 - Actress Says Spielberg's New Film Good for Israel's Image Naturally. Why else is he rushing it out for Christmas time?

07-11-05 - Another whinefest by CAMERA- pro-Israeli 'watchdog' reported as fact groundless claims that Israel has attempted to ?change the city's demography,? and accepted without challenge charges that Israeli construction on the outskirts of the city threatened to cut it off from Palestinian cities in the West Bank. I guess this genius didn't see this article - Wall makes Jerusalem 'more Jewish' (or the dozens of similar ones just like it published today). Very little of what CAMERA 'reports' is fact.

07-10-05 - Israel to ask U.S. for $2.2 billion in pullout aid

07-10-05 - Hebron: Urgent Action Requested Largest Land Confiscation in Hebron District

07-10-05 - Barrier to separate 55,000 Palestinian residents from Jerusalem The revised barrier route will mean some 55,000 residents of east Jerusalem, which was captured and annexed by Israel in 1967, will no longer be able to travel freely throughout the holy city

07-10-05 - Israel Cabinet Endorses Jerusalem Barrier The 40-mile Jerusalem barrier ? one of the most sensitive sections of a larger West Bank complex ? also was expected to include the largest West Bank settlement, Maaleh Adumim with nearly 30,000 residents, on the Jerusalem side, further tilting the demographic scale

07-10-05 - Wall Makes Jerusalem Family Consider Move The inequality is unbearable

07-10-05 - Israeli president calls for start of final status negotiations Israeli President Moshe Katsav called on the government to proceed towards permanent status negotiations with the Palestinians and stop making what he called unilateral gestures

07-10-05 - Leading Palestinian MP quits over security crisis

07-10-05 - One year after ICJ ruling, Israel OKs Wall in Jerusalem

07-10-05 - Abbas hails progress on Gaza airport, safe passage talks