March '07 Archive
03-31-07 - One Palestinian Resident Killed in Gaza Palestinian media sources reported on Friday night that a resident was shot and killed and another was wounded after unknown gunmen in the Alshija?iya neighborhood, opened fire on them.
03-31-07 - Palestinian boycott over BBC man Palestinian journalists are being urged to stop covering government activities following the apparent abduction of the BBC's Gaza reporter Alan Johnston.
03-31-07 - Israel bars Hamas minister from Hebron holy site
03-31-07 - Palestinian government urges EU to deal with all its ministers Palestinian Minister of Planning Samir Abu Eisha on Saturday urged the European Union to contact with all its members directly, and said the Palestinian national unity government has united agenda and leadership.
03-31-07 - Palestinian refugee marks Land Day away from her land "Many of these kids grew up without knowing their fathers, and they will die without knowing Palestine,"
03-31-07 - Progress made on captive Israeli soldier in Gaza
03-31-07 - Grim image of Israeli occupation "The Palestinians always pay the price,"
03-31-07 - Germany's Merkel arrives in Jordan for talks on Mideast peace process
03-31-07 - Palestinian gov't official rejects Olmert's accusations against Haneya Hamad accused Olmert of being responsible for " killing the children, demolishing homes and raiding the Palestinian towns."
03-31-07 - Olmert plays down chances of military action in Gaza
03-31-07 - Barghouti Decries Israeli Action against the Palestinian Waqf Minister Palestinian Information Minister, Mustafa Barghouti, decried Saturday the Israeli decision to ban the Palestinian Waqf minister from attending a special ceremony in the ancient Palestinian city of Hebron, on the occasion of Prophet Mohammad?s Birth Day.
03-31-07 - EU: Europe disburses over 21 million euros to Palestinian public service providers and pensioners
03-31-07 - Israeli forces arrest 3 Palestinians planting olive seedlings in commemoration of Land Day
03-31-07 - Nonviolent resistance in Israeli prison: Palestinians on hunger strike Twenty-two prisoners are on hunger strike. They began on Thursday in protest of four consecutive months of isolation after their periods of interrogation had been completed.
03-31-07 - EU agrees to deal with non-Hamas Palestinians
03-31-07 - UN agency sending staff back to Baghdad Guterres said he also was encouraged by their discussions on the need to improve the security situation for the thousands of Palestinian refugees in Iraq.
03-31-07 - Agricultural Relief describes Israeli settler destruction of trees and wells as barbaric
03-31-07 - Iran army chief warns of Israeli 'suicide attack' ** "The Zionists plan to carry out a suicide plot in the summer," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran's armed forces joint chief of staff, as saying.
03-31-07 - Two more Egyptian children stricken with bird flu
03-31-07 - Deputy speaker renews support of Yemen for Palestinian people
03-31-07 - War created revolutionary change in region, Olmert says ?The influential Arab countries are beginning to understand that Israel is not their greatest concern; this marks a revolutionary change in their outlook,? the prime minister told fellow Kadima members during a Passover toast held at his official residence in Jerusalem.
03-31-07 - Army shoots down reports of arms smuggling "There is no hard evidence of any kind that arms or terrorists or any prohibited items are being smuggled across the Lebanese-Syrian border, as we, along with the Internal Security Forces and Customs, have full control of the borders," Hajj repeatedly told reporters. "No weapons are being transferred to Palestinian camps either,"
03-31-07 - Israel Will be at War by Summer, Politician Says ** Dr. Eldad explained that Israel was facing a new strategic threat, caused in part by its own failure to deal a crushing blow to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the impression of weakness last summer's failed war created in the minds of Israel's enemies......Israel has "no choice" but to launch a pre-emptive war to destroy Hezbollah as an effective fighting force, he believes......Eldad is not suggesting economic or diplomatic "engagement," as the State Department might use the term. He is talking about having Israel's military take out Iranian nuclear and missile sites if the Western nations refuse to do the job......Like most Israeli leaders, Dr. Eldad would prefer that the United States and its partners take out Iranian nuclear and missile sites, if for no other reason than the vastly superior conventional firepower the U.S. could bring to bear. Why is it up to us to 'do the job'?
03-31-07 - Mosaic's AD Letter - Prior to Cancellation Another theater cancels the play about Rachel Corrie.
03-31-07 - U.N. chief: Arms crossing Syrian border Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Ban during a stop in Israel last weekend that the cease-fire in southern Lebanon is endangered by Hezbollah militants. He accused the Iranian- and Syrian-backed guerrillas of continuing to receive arms shipments from Syria. Lebanese leaders have rejected Israeli claims that weapon smuggling continues.
03-31-07 - The Israel Factor: Panel looks more favorably on Obama This month's The Israel Factor survey concentrated in its first part on the most important piece of news related to the Israel angle of the American election: The policy speech made by Democratic candidate Barack Obama to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Chicago.
03-31-07 - Mormon leaders at home in Holy Land
03-31-07 - Israeli PM says open to talks with Syria
03-31-07 - Carter enters lions' den I do not believe these groups set out to discredit opponents and destroy free speech. I believe they had the singular purpose of ensuring U.S. government support for Israel. But after decades of Israeli actions running counter to American policies and values, it becomes difficult to do one without the other.
03-31-07 - US House leader tours Jerusalem holy sites
03-31-07 - How Palestine Became Israel's Land Through a series of shocking massacres, the territory assigned to the Jews suddenly became 77% resulting in more than 750,000 Palestinians being forcibly expelled and dispossessed of their homes, personal property and their homeland.
03-31-07 - Rice boards that Clinton-era shuttle
03-31-07 - The Fantasy of American Diplomacy in the Middle East
03-31-07 - UN chief vows to work for permanent Lebanon-Israel truce Israel has ignored UN complaints over its continuing violations of Lebanese airspace, saying overflights were necessary because of the arms being smuggled into Lebanon.
03-31-07 - Steven Emerson's Disturbing Track Record "Mr. Emerson's prime role is to whitewash Israeli governments and revile their critics,"
03-31-07 - Imprisoned Palestinian official looking for legal channels to care for prisoners' families
03-31-07 - Judge recommends Palestinian be released after four years in jail Hajbeh, a 44-year-old Palestinian by birth, faces deportation for having checked "single" instead of "married" on his immigration form when he entered the country in 1993. U.S. authorities also suspect him of terrorist activity in Jordan, but he has denied being a terrorist.
03-31-07 - War Anniversary: Israel, Palestine Links Absent That vision, an Israeli one to the core, was often presented as exclusively American, most notably by the Project for the New American Century, established by leading neocons in 1997, the same individuals who vowed allegiance to Israel for many years. PNAC was the key group behind the war in Iraq
03-30-07 - Unknown militants murder religious man in Gaza
03-30-07 - Details of killing of 10th grader in southern Jenin Israeli forces shot the boy in the neck, reported medical sources at Dr. Khalil Suleiman Memorial Hospital in Jenin. Israeli soldiers also shot 17 year old Ahmed Mahmoud Essa'has twice in the head and side. He is hospitalized in stable condition as is 20 year old Shaouki Fayyad Essa'has
03-30-07 - One Palestinian Killed, Eight others Injured in an Explosion in Khan Younis The sources believed that the explosion took place when members of the Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, were training at a camp of its own in the southern Gaza Strip city
03-30-07 - Militant group threats to kidnap Israeli soldiers The militant group -- the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), vowed on Friday that it would intensify carrying out armed attacks against Israel in the West Bank and kidnapping Israeli soldiers.
03-30-07 - Arab residents commemorate Land Day Arab residents of Israel, especially in Sakhneen, Al Taiba, and Kufur Kanna Palestinian towns, marched on Friday in commemoration of the Land Day, and carried Palestinian flags, chanted slogans against the Israeli policies of discrimination, land annexation and racism.
03-30-07 - Israeli military practices involving Palestinian civilians come under question Images of an Israeli arrest raid in the West Bank have raised concerns that the army is flouting its own supreme court's ruling against forcing civilians at gunpoint to serve as human shields. Israel was caught using Palestinians as human shields. This is not a new phenomenon either.
03-30-07 - Efforts continue to free BBC man
03-30-07 - Olmert Rejects Right of Return for Palestinians
03-30-07 - Bil?in Commemorates Land Day Today was the 31st anniversary of ?Land Day,? a day when Palestinians commemorate the killing of six Palestinians in the Galilee in 1976. Israeli troops killed these non-violent demonstrators during peaceful protests over the confiscation of Palestinian lands
03-30-07 - On Land Day, 3 Palestinians Arrested in Village of Rafat
03-30-07 - Non-violent protest against Wall in Tulkarem for Land Day
03-30-07 - Secret Briefing by Zinni Seen as Key In Aipac Duo Trial Defense lawyers have sought the testimony of those in attendance to demonstrate to the jury that meetings between administration officials and Jewish representatives were common practice, and that intelligence was frequently shared during these powwows without the participants knowing the information was classified. But, as first reported in the Forward last month, the Jewish representatives who attended the meeting are refusing to cooperate with the defense team......In Zinni, the defense team would be turning to a harsh critic of both the Iraq War and neoconservatives at the Pentagon, who according to Zinni thought the invasion would stabilize American interests in the Middle East and strengthen Israel's position. "I think it's the worst-kept secret in Washington. That everybody - everybody I talk to in Washington - has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do," said Zinni in a May 2004 interview with the CBS News program "60 Minutes."
Zinni - one of the good guys :) In a nation whose media and politicians are so cowed by this lobby, it is welcome to find such a rare person that has the cojones to stand up to them. In my book, that puts them on par with the founding fathers of this nation.
03-30-07 - Greenpeace warns of nuclear mishap "Ambiguous policies about the possible existence of a nuclear program in Israel only serve to destabilize the region. A policy of honesty and transparency is in need to pave the way to nuclear free Middle-East,"
03-30-07 - Arab League initative crucial to peace, says Abbas The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned of escalating violence if Israel fails to accept a peace initiative sponsored by the Arab League.
03-30-07 - Olmert says peace deal possible within five years But, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Mr Olmert insisted there would be no concessions over refugees. "I will not agree to accept any kind of Israeli responsibility for the refugees. Full stop," he said. No refugees would be allowed to return to their family land in what is now Israel, he said. "Any refugee coming to Israel. Full stop. Out of the question. I'll never accept a solution that is based on their return to Israel, any number." Wow.
03-30-07 - Joint Israeli-Palestinian cooperation Israeli defense officers meet with Palestinian Presidential Guard to discuss, coordinate Abbas security
03-30-07 - FORMIDABLE BARRIERS TO BUSINESS IN A STATELESS TERRITORY
03-30-07 - Palestinian Child Political Prisoners 2006 Report
03-30-07 - Palestinian PM says if embargo goes on, they have other choices "We have dignity, and we don't wish to see the embargo going on forever."
03-30-07 - Um Salamuna village protest the construction of the wall Around two hundred protestors marched in the village of Um Salamuna, south of Bethlehem to protest the construction of the wall on their land and to commemorate the 31 anniversary of Land Day.
03-30-07 - Israeli army chief says captured soldier is alive: report
03-30-07 - Never mix between Hamas, national coalition platforms: Official
03-30-07 - Palestinians warn Canada of necessity for dialogue Canadian officials yesterday confirmed they would not meet any member of the new government, taking a harder line than the White House A policy that can be attributed to the influence of Canada's very powerful Israeli lobby.
03-30-07 - Father and son used as human shields in Nablus
03-30-07 - Nonviolent commercial strike in East Jerusalem in support of Al Aqsa Mosque and Sheikh Ra'ed Salah
03-30-07 - Israel Might Launch an Offensive on Gaza, Israeli Army Chief Says
03-30-07 - Iran: Attack fears spurred nuclear block ** Iran, in a confidential letter posted Friday on an internal Web site of the U.N. nuclear monitor, said its fear of attack from the U.S. and Israel prompted its decision to withhold information from the agency.
03-30-07 - More Sewage Floods in Gaza are Likely, as Um Al Nasser Village Faces a Crisis
03-30-07 - Jerusalem church leaders call for support to end embargo Leaders of churches in Jerusalem in an Easter message have urged Christians around the world to work to end an international financial boycott of the Palestinian government imposed after the Islamist Hamas movement came to power in 2006
03-30-07 - The Real 'Existential Threat' ** The coming war with Iran will not end until the entire region is aflame ? with the fire spreading to three continents, and beyond. Is this the price the world is willing to pay to put an end to the "existential threat" to Israel?
03-30-07 - UN chief urges Lebanon dialogue
03-30-07 - Risks and rewards in Ramallah
03-30-07 - Pelosi to address Knesset Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will address the Israeli Knesset, before heading to Syria
03-30-07 - Farrakhan speaks to the media In a prescient moment, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan even chided Mr. Bashir on the methods used by the media to mislead the public, noting that in this almost two-hour interview, only portions would actually be viewed by the public after selective editing.
03-30-07 - House to consider 'human shield' resolution The U.S. House of Representatives is to consider a resolution condemning Hezbollah for using "human shields" during its war against Israel.
The only problem with this piece of legislation for Israel is that in its exhaustive research of that conflict, Human Rights Watch found no such evidence that Hezbollah was using human shields. In fact, Israel only recently was caught (on tape via AP) doing that very thing. Add to that the fact that Israel, knowing that a ceasefire was imminent (expected in 3 days), fired a million cluster bomblets into mainly civilian areas of Lebanon. These bomblets have continued to kill and maim Lebanese and foreign officials that are trying to find and destroy them. Israel has to this day refused to provide the UN with detailed maps of where it shot off the cluster bombs. My guess is because that would offer definitive proof that ISRAEL TARGETED CIVILIAN AREAS. Lastly, this is not a matter for Capitol Hill. So much legislation is being passed in the halls therein that has nothing to do with THIS country. In fact, it seems to be taking up increasingly more valuable time that could be devoted to matters of import to the AMERICAN people. You know, the ones that are PAYING THE $@@$%ING TAXES. Here is an older HRW report on Israel's use of human shields in Jenin.
03-30-07 - In the service of the Jewish state The attempt to send the well-known former SS Colonel Walter Rauff to Egypt having failed, the Israeli Service with all probability (however this has not yet been confirmed) had engaged Subject [Walberg], whose sentiments and past would arouse no suspicions in Egypt that he is a Jewish agent."
03-30-07 - Construction of massive IDF base gets government go-ahead One of the stated objectives of the project, set to be completed within four years, is to ensure the hold of state lands by preventing the establishment of unlicensed Bedouin communities.
03-30-07 - Aguda supports Iraq war Agudath Israel of America declared its support for President Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq.
03-30-07 - Report: ADL, BBI reps were at Rosen event Representatives of ADL and B'nai B'rith reportedly are refusing to cooperate with the defense in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers......The ADL and B'nai B'rith fear being drawn into a case that already has complicated AIPAC's mission in Washington. Haul 'em in, fellas.
03-30-07 - Hold lifted on aid to Abbas U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) lifted the hold she had placed on funds for security forces loyal to the Palestinian Authority president.
03-30-07 - Carter wins ?truthteller' award Among those presenting the award will be Rabbi Leonard Beerman, founding rabbi of the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles and a board member of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East.
03-30-07 - Officials: Arrow can take what Iran can give "Our Arrow operational system can without a doubt deal with all of the operational threats in the Middle East, particularly in Iran and Syria,"
03-30-07 - Army widows group shunned minorities ? report An organization of Israeli army widows blacklisted minorities, one member charged
03-30-07 - Parliament wants talks with Palestine A majority in Parliament thinks that the Netherlands and the EU should re-open dialogue with the Palestinian government
03-30-07 - Show features Palestinian art The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project will host a recep tion and talk at 2 p.m. Saturday to introduce Palestinian art that will be exhibited during April at Traditions Cafe & World Folk Art, 300 Fifth Ave. S.W., Olympia
03-30-07 - Women?s March in Hebron on April 1st
03-30-07 - Ellison on Israel trip Others on the trip are: the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.); the Government Reform Committee chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.); the Rules Committee chairwoman, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.); the Natural Resources Committee chairman, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W. Va.); and Rep. David Hobson (R-Ohio.).
03-30-07 - A chance for Bush to change legacy
03-30-07 - Meeting Up with Palestine in Iowa: Why I Love that State
03-30-07 - Beirut bars Israeli reporter An Israeli journalist was excluded from a press delegation accompanying U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Lebanon.
03-29-07 - Young Palestinian killed in West Bank
03-29-07 - Saudi FM accuses Israel of always rejecting peace Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal accused Israel on Thursday of consistently rejecting Arab peace offers, after it refused to accept a revived Middle East peace plan.
03-29-07 - Palestinians cling to 'right of return' "I remember my village like I remember that I need to pray," says Zeinab. "I will never forget my village."
03-29-07 - Palestinian child dies of wounds suffered on Wednesday near Ramallah Oweidah was shot as he approached, along with some of his friends, the Israeli Annexation Wall near Qalandia, in Ramallah in the northern part of the West Bank; no other casualties were reported.
03-29-07 - Palestinian dies of wounds sustained on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip
03-29-07 - The Al Aqsa Brigades vows retaliation for assassinations of its leaders
03-29-07 - Israeli forces abduct two civilians from Hebron
03-29-07 - IDF NCO, 3 others charged with selling weapons to Palestinians Four men, including an Israel Defense Forces non-commisioned officer, were indicted Thursday in Nazareth Magistrate's Court for selling weapons to Palestinians in the West Bank. The court lifted the two-month gag order on the case, revealing that 16 additional IDF soldiers have been questioned, 10 of whom will stand trial in IDF military courts.
03-29-07 - Fateh members in EU express disappointment at continuing Israeli aggressions both in word and deed
03-29-07 - More harassment and stonings in Tel Rumeida When the HRWs asked the police to remove the settlers from the Palestinian garden, a solider told the them that the garden was a Jewish property.
03-29-07 - Clark says Iran attack would harm Israel **
03-29-07 - Possible Breakthrough Seen in Israeli-Arab Peace
03-29-07 - MDA enters Ramallah to save Palestinian baby Two Arab-Israeli paramedics took the call. ....The paramedics evacuated the unconscious baby, just a few hours after two other babies, who went to the same daycare center as the boy, died of similar symptoms.
03-29-07 - Palestinians build new outpost near Bil?in
03-29-07 - PCHR weekly report on Israeli violations in the occupied territories
03-29-07 - Attacks on northern West Bank include Jenin and Nablus
03-29-07 - Missing in Gaza: Whereabouts of kidnapped reporter remain a mystery Palestinian journalists in Gaza have held two 24-hour strikes over Mr Johnston's kidnap and have set up a protest tent in Gaza City displaying pictures of the captive reporter. Shuhdi Kashef of the Gaza journalists' union has promised protests will continue until he is freed. Civil Society groups throughout Gaza have also registered strong condemnations of the abduction.
03-29-07 - India backs Middle East peace, Palestine cause Calling for a 'comprehensive and just peace' in the Middle East, India Thursday reiterated its commitment to an independent Palestine and underlined its close and multi-faceted ties with the Arab world.
03-29-07 - Official Statistics: 187,000 Dunums Built-up Land in Israeli Settlements in West Bank
03-29-07 - Doha Debates favours Palestinians? right to return to their motherland Ali Abunimah has argued that the right of return for Palestinian refugees is a fundamental right and that international community should pressurise Israel in the same way it pressured the then Apartheid regime in South Africa to give up the racial policy.
03-29-07 - Arab leaders offer Israel guarded peace offer
03-29-07 - Strain between Vatican and Israelis over taxation and confiscation of Catholic properties
03-29-07 - Saudi call for BBC man's release
03-29-07 - Abbas warns of negative results if his coalition rejected
03-29-07 - Palestinian refugees in Iraq appeal Arab Summit to rescue them
03-29-07 - Study: Arabs may be poorer, but Jews get more welfare funds The government spends more in welfare on the Jewish sector that it does on Arab citizens, even though the Arab population has a higher rate of poverty, according a report issued by the Sikui Association for the Advancement of Equal Opportunity on Thursday.
03-29-07 - Lebanon opens beneficent center for elderly Palestinian refugees Lebanon has opened a beneficent center in a bid to care for elderly Palestinians refugees in the country, local newspaper The Daily Star reported on Thursday.
03-29-07 - Irish arts group: 'Reflect' on Israel ties An Irish arts academy passed a motion calling for Irish artists and cultural institutions to "reflect" before cooperating with events or institutions sponsored by Israel.
03-29-07 - The Little Saudi Surprise: So It Stings. Live With It "The Israelis want to win the lottery without paying for a ticket," said Jamal Khashoggi, a former Saudi Embassy adviser in Washington. "The lottery is normalized relations with Saudi Arabia, but first they must pay for the ticket by reaching an agreement with the Palestinians."
03-29-07 - Attempt to toughen terrorism act launched An e-mail was being sent around this week seeking co-sponsors for a bill drafted by the office of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the ranking Republican on the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee. An unidentified staffer for Ros-Lehtinen wrote the e-mail, which was "To counter attempts by Rice/State to deal with unity govt and send assistance to non-Hamas members of unity govt."
03-29-07 - RJC loves Lieberman The RJC routinely attacked Lieberman as soft on Israel when he was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2000.
03-29-07 - Israeli experts: Hezbollah most dangerous Hezbollah poses the most immediate international terrorist danger, Israeli experts said at a conference that drew top U.S. officials. The Institute for Counter-Terrorism, an independent think tank comprising former top Israeli security officials, ran a workshop Wednesday at the Israeli Embassy in Washington on changing strategies in combating terrorism.
03-29-07 - Jerusalem mayor spied on terrorists for MI5 The revelation that the mayor was among those assisting the British to contain the right-wing groups - described by their Jewish opponents as well as the British authorities at the time as "terrorists" - came in yesterday's issue of the daily Yedhiot Ahronot.
03-29-07 - Students support wide-ranging anti-semitism policy After an impassioned debate delegates at the National Union of Students' annual conference yesterday adopted a policy against anti-semitism that covers some criticism of Israel.
03-29-07 - ?Revoke citizenship of Arab MKs?
03-29-07 - It's Their Land This reporter was informed that not only had Israel confiscated acres of the most fertile of Palestinian land they had also placed land mines on the land. Many farmers and other innocent ones had lost their lives or legs, so people had quit caring for their groves and the Israeli government declared the village of Sakhnin a military zone.
03-29-07 - Arab leaders warn of Mideast arms race Wael al-Assad, the league's official in charge of preparations for the meeting, said closer nuclear cooperation was prompted by fear of Israel's nuclear weapons, and Iran's escalation of its program.
03-29-07 - US Consul General Offers Condolences to Families of Victims of Umm al-Nasr Sewage Reservoir Collapse
03-29-07 - "Judaising" Jaffa: the demolition of Ajami
03-29-07 - Scarf face In the Western world, you?ll find them around the necks of many an urban hipster. They?re everywhere: from the streets of New York, to the pages of party website The Cobra Snake and backstage at Fashion Week. A favourite of stylists and models, they?ve also become a cult accessory amongst Tokyo teens.
03-29-07 - Peace Now committed to truth You would think that the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America would be interested in presenting the facts - accurately
03-29-07 - Jewish activist set to lose battle with BBC over Israel reporting Sugar said he applied to see the report because "a very large proportion of the Jewish community felt, rightly or wrongly, that the BBC?s reporting of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, that broke out in 2000 was seriously distorted".
03-29-07 - HELENA COBBAN: How analysts in the Arab world see the Iraq war They also all saw a clear linkage between U.S. influence in the region as a whole and U.S. policy toward the Palestinians. They argued forcefully that making real progress on attaining a final Palestinian-Israeli peace could significantly help the U.S. manage the situation in and around Iraq.
03-29-07 - Palestinians try to enter Eurovision song contest
03-29-07 - Board orders civics teacher at centre of Mideast dust-up out of the class Kunin was sent home the very Thursday, January 18, that he and other teachers at a District 12 council meeting sought support for a resolution urging a boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel because of its occupation of Palestinian land. .....Certainly, tempers prior to the January 18 vote were running very high. A report of the looming debate in the National Post mentioned Kunin's name, and B'nai Brith began a frenetic lobbying effort
03-29-07 - Palestinian casualty abducted by Israeli army on way to hospital
03-29-07 - Jaffa's Ugly Truth
03-29-07 - Appearance of Staunch Israel Critic Sends Penn Campus Into a Tailspin At Bryn Mawr -- where Finkelstein did not receive college sponsorship -- a group of students approached several deans to try to get the talk canceled. They were unsuccessful, according to Tara Malone, co-president of BrynPAC-- Bryn Mawr-Israel Public Affairs Committee.
03-29-07 - Israel's 'new' Procedures Change little at the Borders Israel's continued refusal to process family reunification applications directly affects as many as 500,000 to 750,000 people who may be forced to leave the occupied Palestinian territory to keep their families intact.
03-29-07 - Academic slams Israel for land grab On his first-ever visit to a Gulf state, Pappe was in Doha yesterday at the invitation of the Qatar Foundation to speak at the Doha Debates.
03-29-07 - For Hillel, fashion is no sweat Unique to the show was The One, a line of clothing designers claimed was made in a sweatshop-free, Palestinian-owned factory in Bethlehem on the West Bank. The clothing line touts itself as helping to "build prosperity, co-operation and peace at the very heart of the conflict in the Middle East."
03-29-07 - Jimmy Carter Opened the Window but Eileen Fleming Blew the Door Open The events of 9/11 were the catalyst for this middle aged Physicians wife to leave hearth and home four times to go-witness-and report about life in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Good for you, Eileen.
03-29-07 - Kevin Eigelbach: Still the chosen people? Some Christians go much farther than Wolf in their support for Israel
03-29-07 - Anti-occupation group can tout rally The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is joining with other pacifist groups in planning the June 10 event.
03-28-07 - Palestinian militant killed in Israeli raid on Jenin A Palestinian militant was killed by Israeli troops in a pre-dawn raid in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said.
03-28-07 - Arabs unite at summit to renew peace offer to Israel
03-28-07 - Israeli tank shelling seriously wounds three Palestinians
03-28-07 - Four wounded in Israeli strike on Gaza Four Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza on Wednesday, the first military action against militants in the coastal strip since a November truce.
03-28-07 - Palestinians seek shelter after deadly sewage flood In a statement, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said Israel bore partial responsibility for the accident because it delayed plans to transfer the pools by blocking the import of the necessary pipes, and also because military operations prevented workers' access to the area.
03-28-07 - Gaza militants fire rockets into southern Israel Palestinian factions have pounded southern Israel with home-made rockets on Wednesday after the Israeli army killed two Palestinians in West Bank
03-28-07 - Eight injured in Gaza clashes, Fateh and Hamas trade accusations On Wednesday evening, Fateh and Hamas movements traded accusation of exchanges of fire in two separate incidents in Gaza that caused the injury of eight Palestinians, including a leader of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, his wife and his two children
03-28-07 - UN warns of new Gaza sewage flood Rescuers in Umm al-Naser are still continuing to search for more bodies and trying to clear away the sewage.
03-28-07 - PCHR report on the environmental disaster in Um El Nasser village in the Gaza Strip The victims who were killed in yesterday?s environmental disaster in Um El-Naser (Bedouin) village increased to five after rescue crews recovered the body of Fatima Habban Abu Safra (70) yesterday afternoon.
03-28-07 - Arab summit the most dangerous one:Islamic Jihad "A Palestinian statehood in the 1967 borders is considered a concession of all Palestine for the favor of Israel and this harms our cause,"
03-28-07 - Arab gov'ts hope to up Palestinian aid
03-28-07 - Israel breaks up settler protest Officers armed with batons dragged the 300 settlers occupying the site away and placed them on waiting buses.
03-28-07 - University students harassed for wearing head scarves at checkpoint
03-28-07 - 17 days on, does Gaza clan hold the key? THE BBC correspondent Alan Johnston spent his 17th day in captivity yesterday, meaning he has now been held for longer than any other journalist abducted in the Gaza Strip.
03-28-07 - At least 33 Palestinians abducted as Israeli army invades several West Bank areas
03-28-07 - U.S. to vet Abbas's forces before training begins A U.S. government document, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters, said members of the presidential guard will undergo a series of local background checks before receiving any U.S.-funded training.
03-28-07 - Most Palestinians view Rice diplomacy negatively: poll That's because, 99 % of the time she spends on such matters, Rice works on behalf of Israel.
03-28-07 - Erdogan invites Palestinian president, PM to Turkey: report
03-28-07 - Human Rights Council calls for fact-finding missions to probe alleged Israeli abuses John Dugard, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, reported that he had not been able to carry out his survey called for by a Council resolution last July, due to the Israeli Government?s lack of consent.
03-28-07 - Human Rights Council adopts text on follow-up to resolutions on missions to Occupied Palestinian Territory; review of mandates
03-28-07 - Israel boosts Golan troops as contingency -general Israel has reinforced its troops in the Golan Heights as a precautionary step, though neighbouring Syria does not appear to be planning an attack, Israel's top general was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
03-28-07 - Video: Israeli occupation forces attack Palestinian civilians
03-28-07 - PLO accuses U.S. of giving Palestinians empty promises
03-28-07 - Army abuses a Palestinian man near Hebron
03-28-07 - Arab leaders relaunch peace plan the foreign policy spokesman for Israel's right-wing Likud party, Zalman Shoval, told the BBC that Israel could never accept the parts of the plan that call for the return of refugees who had lived in the territory of pre-1967 Israel. "If 300,000-400,000, or maybe a million, Palestinians would invade the country, that would be the end of the state of Israel as a Jewish state," he said. "That's not why we created the state." There's that Israeli 'democracy' rearing its head again. Israel is all about demoGRAPHY not democracy.
03-28-07 - Arrow passes another test Israel's Arrow II anti-missile defense system passed another test. The Arrow, envisaged as Israel's main bulwark against any future ballistic missile attacks by Iran or Syria, was fired this week in what the Defense Ministry said was a successful test of its avionics
03-28-07 - JINSA: Stop funding al-Hurrah The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs called on the U.S. Congress to stop funding an Arabic-language broadcaster.
03-28-07 - Israel snubs Condoleezza Rice With Israel refusing to give in, Miss Rice was forced to head back to Washington unable to announce any major breakthrough on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian question. Who wears the pants (provides billions in aid) here?
03-28-07 - San Francisco federation head resigns Dine previously was executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. This bolsters my belief that Radio Free Europe is nothing more than another pro-Israeli propaganda tool.
03-28-07 - Israel condemns testimony release Mr Olmert's office said uncensored material could still damage Israel's foreign relations. Why's that?
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03-28-07 - Land Day Demonstrations, This Friday & Saturday, March 30-31
03-28-07 - Saudis admit Israeli journalist Saudi Arabia admitted an Israeli journalist for the first time
03-28-07 - Calling Palestinian journalists: Boundless media competition
03-28-07 - Canadian government snubs Palestinian minister Information Minister Mustafa al-Barghuti planned to meet with members of Canada's three opposition parties.
But requests for talks with representatives of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government went unanswered, he told reporters outside Parliament.
Harper's nose is planted between the cheeks of Canada's Israel lobby.
03-28-07 - Iran, Israel, and our Shared Security Goals Israel is facing the greatest danger for its survival since the 1967 victory. Israel maintained its dominance since 1967 even after the 1973 failure. In 1984 I wrote that WMD and terrorism would pose a threat for US national security. If two or three cities are destroyed because of terrorism both the US and Israel?s democracy will be eroded and both will become greater dictatorial societies. Has anyone informed Newt that America is NOT Israel? More: "We can?t live next to a Palestinian state that wants to destroy Israel." Who's 'we'?
03-28-07 - Israel aims to increase U.S. tourism with a PR attack in a racy men's magazine Hoping to capitalize on the latter, Israel's Foreign Ministry, with the help of two of the myriad U.S. pro-Israel lobby groups, decided to speak to U.S. men in a language they'd understand. Mr. Saranga began a long campaign to persuade Maxim to showcase Israel's other assets to its 2.5 million readers Israel reaches down to the bottom of the barrel in its desperate efforts to recover from overexposure of its apartheid-like policies in the Palestinian territories.
03-28-07 - Banned Chinese director heads to Palestinian territories
03-28-07 - Entire world is not against us In this regard, the size of Israel's official PR (Hasbarah) budget is very revealing, for it is little more than a medium-large commercial company would spend on advertising. This dearth of resources devoted to winning over the hearts and minds of the international community is not to be explained by any objective paucity.
03-28-07 - After Years in Middle East Politics, One Palestinian Still Finds Hope To those who seek comfort in claiming that the Palestinians are usurpers in the ancient Jewish homeland with minimal collective history or attachment to Jerusalem, Mr. Nusseibeh can lay out his family?s 1,300 years there filled with teachers, judges and politicians. To those who say that, at Israel?s creation, no Palestinian was forced out, Mr. Nusseibeh can note that his pregnant mother and grandmother were expelled from their home in Ramle by soldiers led by Yitzhak Rabin and obliged to walk into Jordan-controlled East Jerusalem.
03-28-07 - Holy See acknowledges Israeli postponement of talks
03-28-07 - An interview with Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz Speaking of Iran, AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is lobbying to block the requirement that the President seek Congressional approval before attacking Iran. What is your view on this?
03-28-07 - Jerusalem diocese to install new bishop There's an apartheid going on, and we are here to do justice and mercy and engage mission with both Israel and Palestine at the same time."
03-28-07 - AJC Boston Chapter Launches Israel Ad Campaign The American Jewish Committee's Boston Chapter launched today an ad campaign in the Boston Globe to deepen understanding about Israel and support for her ongoing quest to achieve peace and security.
03-28-07 - Knot in My Name A gutsy production that everyone opposed to it should see.
03-28-07 - Palestinian ambassador speaks at R-N
03-28-07 - Gaddafi accuses Arab leaders of selling out Palestinians
03-28-07 - Indonesia calls for resuming talks of Palestine-Israel without precondition
03-27-07 - Five killed after sewage floods village in Gaza Five people were killed in Gaza yesterday when overflowing sewage destroyed an earth embankment, flooding a village in the northern strip with mud and waste.
03-27-07 - Militants die in West Bank battle Two Palestinian militants have been killed in a fire fight with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Israel's army and the militants' group said.
03-27-07 - Hamas' military urges cancelling Gaza ceasefire today, Abu Obaida, a spokesman for Hamas armed wing, urged other factions to respond to "the ugly crime that the Israeli army committed in Nablus."
03-27-07 - Gaza warned of further sewer collapses
03-27-07 - In pictures A sewage 'tsunami' hits a village in the northern Gaza Strip
03-27-07 - Israel to grab 80 Dunams to construct a Wall section in Qalqilia The Israeli Authorities decided on Tuesday to annex 80 Dunams of farmlands that belong to Qalqilia residents, in the northern part of the West Bank, for the construction of the Annexation Wall. The lands belong to residents of Azoun and Jayyous villages, near Qalqilia.
03-27-07 - Teenager severely beaten and then placed under house arrest That's evidently the recent beating that was caught on tape.
03-27-07 - Cheney: Iraq pullout would hurt Israel A U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq would be damaging to Israel, Dick Cheney said.
Staying there is damaging to the US. Which country do you serve, Dick?
03-27-07 - Summit must not give refugee concessions: Meshaal "he said that conceding legitimate rights such as the right of return and the Palestinian people's right to protection was unacceptable."
03-27-07 - US hawks see strikes on Iran as less likely now ** Mr. Rosbenberg says continued tough talk ? and the Democrat climbdown over the spending bill ? largely serve two functions: To hopefully soften up Iran in ongoing diplomatic negotiations over inspections of its nuclear facilities; and as a sop to hard-line groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which says it favors attacking Iran if diplomacy doesn't yield results soon, and whose lobbying was largely seen as leading Ms. Pelosi to take her action. I disagree with the author. It's coming, and that's why Rice is suddenly trying to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians; to get support from those not on board for military action against Iran. All of this newfound talk of diplomacy and pragmatism is a ruse.
03-27-07 - Palestinian refugees in Lebanon pessimistic Refugees in places like the Burj al-Barajneh camp in the overcrowded shantytown on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut expect the gathering will result in major changes to the 2002 Saudi initiative, including the ?removal of the right of return?.
03-27-07 - Reach out to Israel, Arabs urged US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called on Arab nations to reach out to Israel. Why should they? Has Israel given up the Arab land that it has unlawfully occupied and colonized for nearly 40 years?
03-27-07 - Fate of refugees bedevils quest for Mideast peace Munir Jaber was seven years old when Jewish fighters assaulted the thinly defended village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem before dawn on April 9, 1948 and killed scores of men, women and children....."Thirty seven of my family were killed," Jaber said, telling how his brother's throat was slit and his cousin was shot. How much more do the Palestinians have to give up to Israel?
03-27-07 - Jordanian king highlights UN role in Mideast peace process The role played by the UN to bring Palestinians and Israelis back to the negotiating table and to alleviate the economic difficulties facing the Palestinians is highly appreciated, said Abdullah
03-27-07 - HEBRON UPDATE: 12 March to 17 March 2007
03-27-07 - British consul strip searched at Israeli PM's office
03-27-07 - Undercover Israeli Army Unit Sweeps into Khan Younis
03-27-07 - Arab plan best chance for peace: Abbas "If this initiative is destroyed, I do not believe that a better chance for peace will present itself in the near future," Abbas told AFP.
03-27-07 - Israelis destroying children's play area and seven homes near Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem Muslim and Christian dignitaries held an emergency meeting in Jerusalem last night. The subject was demolition in the Old City's Bab Hatta neighborhood that will leave seven families homeless and hundreds of children without a place to play.
03-27-07 - Israeli army invades several West Bank areas and abducts seven civilians Shikh Bilal Abu Safra, the vice director of the charity office in the Palestinian ministry of religious affairs and holy sites ( WAQF), was taken from his home in the city after troops suurounded the house and searched it, local sources reported.
03-27-07 - U.S. offers millions to strengthen Abbas's forces It is unclear whether the revised package will win U.S. congressional backing. Israel's agents on Capitol Hill will block this initiative as well, no doubt.
03-27-07 - Water rights expert: Israel must compensate for theft of Palestinian water Dr. Fadiyah Deibs is calling for the United Nations to put an end to the Israeli siege on Palestinian water sources. The Israelis control the Palestinian water supply and therefore the Palestinians have no rights in this regard, said the natural resources expert in the UN on Tuesday.
03-27-07 - Arabs head to Saudi summit to endorse Mideast peace
03-27-07 - Israel and Palestinian leaders agree to regular talks Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to hold confidence-building talks every two weeks that could eventually lead to discussions on a Palestinian state, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
03-27-07 - Lift economic blockade on Palestinians says world Lutheran body The main governing body of the Lutheran World Federation has called on the international community to end an economic blockade imposed on Palestinian territories to enable the restoration of infrastructure there.
03-27-07 - Iraq's break-up will lead to '100 Years War' The Jordanian prince warned that a possible break-up would play into the hands of Israeli "extremists," making Israel the dominant minority in a region of minorities. Divide and conquer.
03-27-07 - Christians plan 'Jerusalem Assembly' " Celebrating the nearly forty years since the reunification of Jerusalem, Covenant Alliances will bring a delegation of more than two hundred Christian Zionist leaders for the US., Canada, England Africa and Israel who will highlight their love and dedication to the State of Israel,"
03-27-07 - BBC fights to suppress internal report into allegations of bias against Israel
03-27-07 - Secretary Rice prods Mideast players to table When George Bush entered the White House in 2001 amid the early days of the Palestinian uprising, and after President Clinton's administration failed peace summits, the administration disengaged from the nuts and bolts of peacemaking. The only times the US seeks peace initiatives between these two groups is when the neocon-driven Bush admin seeks to gain support for an attack on a Middle Eastern nation.
03-27-07 - Now is the time to call the bluff of the land of missed opportunities
03-27-07 - Israel gives in on 'road map' to grease wheels of peace push Israeli analysts conclude that unlike the neo-cons, she believes that such movement is possible and that it could strengthen the axis of moderate Arab states around U.S. leadership in the critical standoff with Iran. Bingo.
03-27-07 - The Occupation of Hebron : Call for Papers All academic submissions related to these themes are welcome. This includes as well papers on the territories occupied by Israel, and in particular related to the jurisprudence of the Israeli High Court.
03-27-07 - Rashid Khalidi on Elliot Abrams' 'Hard Coup' Against Hamas
03-27-07 - Muslims share experiences with racism
03-27-07 - Disputed Play on Gaza Activist Debuts in Seattle outside the theatre, volunteers, like Lisa Connick are handing out leaflets with a similar message. There are a few tense moments.
03-27-07 - Police prepare for Homesh evacuation The police are preparing for the evacuation of hundreds of settlers who reoccupied the settlement of Homesh which was evacuated and destroyed in the summer of 2005 under Israel's disengagement plan.
03-27-07 - Contemporary Arab Cinema showcased in five major film events
03-27-07 - Photo exhibit continues in Ramallah: At the Checkpoint
03-27-07 - Poll: Half of Israeli Jews think state should encourage Arab emigration A poll commissioned by the Center for the Campaign Against Racism found that half of Jewish Israelis believe the state should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate.
03-27-07 - Israeli prison administration attempts to break nonviolent resistance
03-27-07 - Defense: Feds eyeballed AIPAC until it cut off Rosen, Weissman The U.S. Attorney in eastern Virginia at the time, Paul McNulty, "would like to end it with minimal damage to AIPAC," the document quotes Lewin as telling Lowell. "He is fighting with the FBI to limit the investigation to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and to avoid expanding it." WTF for? Read on: "When McNulty brought the indictment six months later, in August 2005, he emphasized that AIPAC was not under investigation. McNulty is now the deputy U.S. attorney general." No kidding? More: "On March 15, 2005, government officials meet with Lewin, the AIPAC lawyer, and disclose secretly obtained evidence; on March 18, McNulty's office allegedly tells Lewin that "AIPAC needed to fire Rosen and Weissman;" and on March 21, they're fired"
03-27-07 - ?Marriage to an Arab is national treason? Over half of the Jewish population in Israel believes the marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to national treason, according to a recent survey by the Geocartography Institute.
03-27-07 - Rally to be held to commemorate Palestinian holiday
03-27-07 - Arab peace initiative expected to be centerpiece in Riyadh summit Olmert lacks the political capital to come to a final agreement with the Palestinians. Any agreement would entail giving Palestinian land back and the implementation of the right of return - 2 no nos. The fact that Likud would lead in any new Israeli elections signifies that there's even less of a chance for any peace agreement.
03-27-07 - Accept peace plan or face war, Israel told Prince Saud dismissed any further diplomatic overtures towards Israel. "It has never been proven that reaching out to Israel achieves anything," he said. "Other Arab countries have recognised Israel and what has that achieved?
03-27-07 - Israel's apologists distort the truth This method of attacking the messenger is clearly on display in Brumer's article as well as in the flurry of protest against the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie" at the Seattle Repertory Theatre Great piece. Read the entire thing.
03-27-07 - Joy trumps woe in West Bank I am a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology and I just returned from volunteering for three months in the West Bank, in part working with impoverished Palestinian children in the House of Hope in Bethlehem, a school for about 30 disabled children
03-27-07 - University apologizes to its Hillel Pace Hillel President Michael Abdurakhmanov told The New York Times in January that following complaints by a Muslim student group, a dean told him not to show "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West."? If the film were shown, the dean allegedly said, police could be called in and Hillel members could be considered suspects in recent Islamophobic acts.
Hillel is a pro-Israel outfit.
03-27-07 - Danes cleared of financing terror Two members of a Danish Palestinian foundation who sponsored a group associated with Hamas were cleared of funding terrorism
03-27-07 - New Rep offers its first summer show "We're offering probably the most controversial play in America, one with a pro-Palestinian perspective, and we're pairing it with another play with a pro-Israeli perspective,"
03-26-07 - One Palestinian shepherd found dead near a settlement in northern West Bank Jaber's family stated that he went missing on Sunday afternoon; Palestinian security sources stated that the man was choked to death and stabbed with a knife several times. The Israeli army rushed to the scene and surrounded the area, they did not allow family members of the victim to take the body or examine it.
03-26-07 - Palestinian farmer killed in West Bank- officials Jawdat Bani-Jaber, mayor of Aqraba, accused Jewish settlers of being behind the killing.
03-26-07 - Palestinian Economy Tumbles Under Sanctions
03-26-07 - Israel resists Rice plan for talks on peace settlement Another shadow was cast over Ms Rice's efforts by the arrival yesterday of 2,000 Jewish settlers at the northern West Bank settlement of Homesh evacuated in August 2005 under Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan
03-26-07 - Five residents injured in Hamas-Fateh clashes in Rafah Palestinian medical sources at Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Monday at night that five residents were shot and injured during clashes between Hamas and Fateh gunmen.
03-26-07 - BBC rallies for missing reporter The BBC set up a satellite link between Gaza and Television Centre so staff and supporters could exchange messages of support on giant screens.
03-26-07 - Jordan backs Mid-East peace plan
03-26-07 - Rice, Livni meet Washington has no intention of taking over Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Condoleezza Rice said.
03-26-07 - IDF may re-evict Homesh Wednesday Despite Monday's calm, Tuesday is expected to be more turbulent, due in large part to the army's intended response to a vision such as Wallerstein's. And so we can expect that the IDF will use water cannons, rubber bullets and sound grenades much like they use at the Palestinian protests, yes?
03-26-07 - Parents of Palestinian girl killed by IDF in December sue state The two girls passed close to the separation barrier near Faroun Village in the Tul Karm province, when IDF soldiers opened fire at them. Doaa was fatally wounded and taken to Beilinson Hospital, where she died.
03-26-07 - 'No comment' from PMO officials on Olmert-Saudi meeting reports Arab sources told Haaretz that Saudi Arabia's National Security Advisor, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, met with Olmert again in a follow-up to their previous meeting in Jordan about six months ago.
03-26-07 - Indonesia planning to host meeting between Hamas, Western figures
03-26-07 - Rice accedes to PM, won't discuss final status The decision to make a lukewarm and substantially softer statement during the press conference was made following deliberations between Rice and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Thus does Rice continue working on behalf of Israel, not America.
03-26-07 - World Bank touts Rafiah to save PA economy A recent World Bank report recommends making the Rafiah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt the primary export point for Palestinian-made goods, replacing the limited Palestinian access to Israeli ports. Exports via Rafiah would gain access to the Suez Canal seaport and Egypt's international airport in Cairo.
03-26-07 - Fallout fear puts deadline on nuclear sites attack ** Sources cited by The Jerusalem Post say a US or Israeli strike on the Iranian facilities would probably be carried out before Iran had enriched weapons-grade material in sufficient amounts to trigger a nuclear catastrophe if hit.
03-26-07 - 12 Palestinian civilians abducted as Israeli army invades several parts of West Bank The abductions were focused on the cities of Ramallah in the central West Bank, where three civilians were taken, and Hebron city in the southern West Bank where seven were taken.
03-26-07 - World Bank urges opening Gaza border for trade
03-26-07 - European Observers? Chief at Rafah Crossing Terminal Rethinks Presence Pistolese was speaking in an interview with an Israeli daily. The EU official said that the EU?s presence at the crossing has been part of the EU?s investment for the advancement of peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. He said that for Israel to help this investment is useful, as it should keep the crossing opened.
03-26-07 - Palestinian delegation has four point plan for Arab summit President Abbas will be in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on Tuesday afternoon accompanied by Prime Minister Haniya and a four point plan that includes UN Resolution 194 as part of the Arab Peace Initiative.
03-26-07 - Two Palestinian youths abducted as Israeli army attacks Jenin University A massive Israeli army force invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Monday midday then surrounded the American- Arab University, two Palestinian youths were abducted.
03-26-07 - Israeli Army Shells a Palestinian Truck in Eastern Gaza
03-26-07 - Palestine Times hits the shelves If only they would run segments like this on regular CNN.
03-26-07 - China protests Israeli MK visit to Taiwan
03-26-07 - The real refugee problem There is a legitimate reason why the U.N. and Arab countries are not focusing on the Jewish refugees. That is because they became free citizens of a state they helped create. The true refugee issue of the Middle East is that of the Palestinians.
03-26-07 - Neighborly advice on Iraq It goes without saying that what all of Iraq's neighbors want most is an Israeli-Palestinian settlement. What all fear most is a U.S. war with Iran. It would be nice to divorce Iraq's woes from those broader conflicts, but the reality of the Middle East is that progress on all of these issues is fiendishly interlinked
03-26-07 - An overdue yellow card Boycotting Israel's goods and sporting events may not bring peace and justice, but it will send an important message to the country's leaders.
03-26-07 - EU snaps up Gaza croc woman The woman told border guards she intended to sell the crocodiles to a zoo in Gaza City.
03-26-07 - Alan Johnston: Your messages Do you have a message for missing BBC correspondent Alan Johnston?
03-26-07 - Rachel Corrie, spotlighted yet again All that now remains is to wait and see how this fresh approach to countering the play is received. Will the advertisements make any real headway toward educating audiences? Seattle Jewry hopes so.
03-26-07 - 2-1 voters believe P.A. state would be terrorist American voters believe by a 2-1 margin that a Palestinian state would be a terrorist state and not a democracy, a new poll shows. Whaddya know, having well-placed 'friends' in the MSM American media really does wonders.
03-26-07 - PLO: Hopes Deferred, Hopes Renewed
03-26-07 - Soccer-Israeli former Palestine coach dies of cancer Nasser, 50, who played for Hapoel Haifa in the 1980s, also coached a number of clubs representing Israel's Arab communities, including Ahi Nazareth with whom he won promotion to the Premier League in 2003, and Bnei Sakhnin.
03-26-07 - Fingerprints of history "I believe that a branch of Syrian Baath Party security assassinated Al-Hariri. I don?t say, however, that [Syrian President] Bashar Al-Assad was involved. I don?t think it was sanctioned from the top. I was walking on Beirut?s corniche, 400 metres away, when it happened. I got there before anyone and before the police. I saw Hariri on fire in the street. His socks were burning. And when I asked one Lebanese who was assassinated, he told me it was Hariri."
03-26-07 - Film on "Radical Islam" Tied to Pro-Israel Groups A controversial documentary on the threat of radical Islam, promoted by the two most-watched U.S. cable news networks, was marketed and supported in part by self-described "pro-Israel" groups, according to an IPS investigation Look no further for proof that Israel has very good friends in our MSM media. You think you're getting credible news? ROFLMAO. Funny, and yet thoroughly repulsive.
03-26-07 - Syrian President meets British parliament delegation on regional situation Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Monday a delegation of the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the regional situation, particularly in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon.
03-26-07 - Salam Fayyad: Everyone's favorite Palestinian
03-26-07 - Global battles on the silver screen: war films at Ankara film fest The second film in the lineup is Rashid Masharawi's 1996 movie "Haifa," which depicts the events that unfurl in a Palestinian refugee camp.
03-26-07 - Holy See: Religions Can Aid Peace in Holy Land Monsignor Pietro Parolin, undersecretary for relations with states of the Vatican Secretariat of State, said this last Thursday when addressing a conference sponsored by the U.N. committee dedicated to the rights of the Palestinian peoples.
03-26-07 - Make settlers decide Israel should pull out of Hebron, let settlers decide where they wish to live
03-26-07 - Senators sign letter to Rice on P.A. The Senate letter was strongly supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
03-26-07 - British Gas deal decision deferred again
03-25-07 - Gaza rally for BBC correspondent More than 100 journalists, politicians, and others attended the rally.
03-25-07 - Six civilians injured by gunmen in Khan Younis Palestinian medical sources in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis reported that six residents, including four members of the same family, were shot and injured on Saturday evening by unknown gunmen.
03-25-07 - UN Chief Criticizes Israeli Military Checkpoint Pursuit
03-25-07 - 'Bush House Man' would hate the fuss There was no one more aware than Alan Johnston of the dangers of reporting from Gaza, but he thought the risks were worth taking in the pursuit of a good story
03-25-07 - 'My son lived a worthwhile life' When the Hurndalls met Jack Straw, the then foreign secretary, they found him remote and cold. Blair never publicly condemned the shooting. On top of all this, she received anonymous phone calls and letters calling her a "Nazi-lover" for questioning the Israeli authorities.
03-25-07 - Hamas rejects Israel's decision to withhold Palestinian tax revenues "Since the first day when Hamas won parliamentary elections more than a year ago, Israel has tried to blackmail the Palestinian people by withholding their money,"
03-25-07 - Arabs to remind Israel of peace plan, not dilute it Israel's goal is the same as it has always been - to keep as much Arab land as possible with as few Arabs as possible on it. The new kicker - that they want the Arab nations to normalize relations with them BEFORE any peace deals. In other words, Israel wants its cake (Palestinian land) and it wants to eat it too (via normalized relations). Good luck.
03-25-07 - Swedish offer support during governmental meeting
03-25-07 - Palestinian official hopes Rice will revive Mideast peace process
03-25-07 - Egypt says Arab peace plan is basis for talks "Of course the Arab side cannot make a proposal then amend it before taking up the matter with the other party. We are waiting for the Israeli side,"
03-25-07 - UN Secretary General in Aida Camp
03-25-07 - Palestinian envoy delivers message to Syrian president Shortly before meeting Sharaa, Fatouh told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the aim of his visit is to brief the Syrian leadership on the latest development on the Palestinian arena.
03-25-07 - Israelis-Palestinians trade barbs ahead of Rice visit "If the American administration wants its peace efforts to succeed it must force Israel to enter into serious negotiations,"
03-25-07 - Naveh cancels travel restrictions in West Bank Major General Yair Naveh, head of the IDF's Central Command, announced Sunday that he is canceling the Order on Movement and Travel, which would have banned transporting Palestinians in vehicles driven by Israelis or foreigners, unless the drivers possessed a special permit.
03-25-07 - Abbas reiterates commitment to peace, ceasefire
03-25-07 - FACTBOX-Arab proposal for peace with Israel
03-25-07 - How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America To justify the "war on terror," the administration has lately crafted a false historical narrative that could even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. By claiming that its war is similar to earlier U.S. struggles against Nazism and then Stalinism (while ignoring the fact that both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were first-rate military powers, a status al-Qaeda neither has nor can achieve), the administration could be preparing the case for war with Iran.
03-25-07 - ADC calls for congressional inquiry into Bolton remarks Bolton was quoted in an interview with BBC saying he was, "damned proud of what we did" to prevent an early ceasefire
03-25-07 - 'At that moment life stopped for a part of me, as it had for you' Extracted from Defy the Stars by Jocelyn Hurndall
03-25-07 - For Many Palestinians, ?Return? Is Not a Goal
03-25-07 - Security tight for Israeli mobster U.S. officials are turning over one of Israel's most notorious gangsters to serve a 12-year prison term in his homeland, a report says.
03-25-07 - Israel: Lebanon Cease-Fire in Jeopardy Israel's defense minister told the head of the United Nations on Saturday that the U.N.-brokered cease-fire in southern Lebanon is endangered by Hezbollah militants, who continue to hold two captured Israeli soldiers and receive arms shipments from Syria.
03-25-07 - Palestine Mozart Festival begins March 31 in Jerusalem One of the largest performing arts projects ever staged in the Occupied Territories, the Palestine Mozart Festival (www.palestinemusicfestivals.org) will feature over 25 events staged in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus and East Jerusalem.
03-25-07 - Kidnapped soldiers' father frustrated
03-25-07 - TV Evangelist John Hagee Wants War With Iran, and He Wants It Now!
03-25-07 - Leftists protest near disputed Hebron house
03-25-07 - Joint Letter of Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Submitted to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Occasion of his Visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territory
03-25-07 - Protest held over jailed professor According to the supporters and demonstrators, al-Arian also was promised in his plea that he would be deported from the U.S.
03-25-07 - Student urges Stanford divestment from Israel
03-25-07 - Muslim activist strives to bridge cultures
03-25-07 - FEATURE-Palestinian militant leader in Lebanon spotlight
03-24-07 - Israeli Army Wounds a Palestinian Resident in Northern Gaza Palestinian medical sources in northern Gaza reported Saturday that a Palestinian resident was shot and wounded by Israeli army gun fire near the Beit Hanoun industrial zone.
03-24-07 - Presidential spokesperson: with one excuse after another, Israel will still not seriously negotiate
03-24-07 - Fateh spokesperson: no fingers pointed in Gaza internal fighting, joint investigations underway Although internal fighting subsided late last night, the Fateh spokesperson in Tulkarem says the situation remains grave. Samir Naifa addressed the issue on Saturday from the northwestern West Bank city.
03-24-07 - Suspects in Jaffa murder nabbed in West Bank village IDF forces, police officers detain nine people suspected of involvement in murder of fellow Palestinian who killed his wife a few years ago
03-24-07 - Palestinian foreign minister to visit France: official The new Palestinian foreign minister, Ziad Abu Amr, is an independent. The French invitation suggested April 2 as a date, but the trip would have to take place later because of scheduling conflicts, said Abu Amr's deputy, Ahmed Suboh.
03-24-07 - Ghazi Hammad: Israeli Withholding of PA Due Tax Money 'Repressive'
03-24-07 - United States Dissatisfied with Renewed Norway-PA Ties United States Department of State summoned Friday Norway?s ambassador to Washington over Norwegian deputy-foreign minister?s meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, in Gaza last week.
03-24-07 - Peretz's aides: Progress depends on Shalit's release Ban has already said that he has no plans to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh during his Middle East tour.
03-24-07 - UN chief urges Palestinian cabinet to meet world demands UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the newly formed Palestinian unity government Saturday to meet the demands set by the international community.
03-24-07 - European Commission to Fund Impoverished Palestinians The European Commission (EC) announced Saturday it would pay $US 9 million in aid to impoverished Palestinian households.
03-24-07 - Islamic Jihad: Rice's visit means to campaign strike against Iran "We think this visit comes as part of preparations for war targeting Iran or Hezbollah... and maybe to strike an Arab country, "
03-24-07 - Moussa: No plans to modify Arab peace initiative "We fail to understand why we should modify such a peace offer, and make it less objective and less positive. We are not going to fall into this trap,"
03-24-07 - A glimmer of hope for Gaza's lifeline Gaza, crammed with 1.4 million people, wasn't prosperous to begin with, and the Karni bottleneck has helped push unemployment to 36 percent by suppressing trade and driving up transportation costs and consumer prices. As soon as Condi leaves the region, the gates at Karni will be slammed shut. Happens every time.
03-24-07 - Palestinians to ask fund aid from Arab summit: minister
03-24-07 - Settlers plan defiant return to West Bank Retaking Homesh is just one of a series of increasingly brazen initiatives by hardcore settlers bent on revitalising like-minded ideologues who believe they have a Biblical right to the ancient land of Israel. Last week, a group of settlers took over a Palestinian-built apartment block in the West Bank flashpoint town of Hebron, claiming they had purchased the building legally. Other groups say they are planning to establish several new settlements late next month.
03-24-07 - PA minister accuses Olmert, Peretz of war crimes In a press conference in Ramallah on Saturday, Dr. Barghouti presented a video in which IDF soldiers are seen beating a Palestinian youth at the Hawara checkpoint in Nablus and another video documenting abuse in the al-Ubaydia village near Bethlehem.
03-24-07 - Tentative Moves Toward New Palestine Govt
03-24-07 - Evangelical leaders urge unconditional support for Israel Two prominent evangelical Christian broadcasters are urging Christians to pledge "unconditional support" for the State of Israel.
03-24-07 - Photography exhibit opens: arresting images of the Draconian measures which trample human dignity Palestinian children and the elderly were highlighted as Israeli forces subjected them to "Draconian measures which trample human dignity," described one attending journalist.
03-24-07 - The Condi Diary: Night Flight to Egypt On the night flight to Egypt, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to curl up with Michael Oren's Power, Faith and Fantasy, America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present. Recommending the bestseller to the reporters traveling with her, she noted that American involvement in the region went back to Thomas Jefferson.
Thoroughly repulsive. That book is a piece of pro-Israeli proganda to further the notion that Israel and America should be hopelessly intertwined (clusterf#$ked).
03-24-07 - Rice meets Arabs, urges reconciliation with Israel U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday made the case to four Arab foreign ministers that a broader Arab-Israeli reconciliation would help promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Thus does Rice parrot an Israeli official that recently stated that these Arab nations should normalize ties with Israel now, BEFORE Israel gives back the Palestinian land it has unlawfully occupied and colonized for nearly forty years.
03-24-07 - Lebanon Islamists recruit Palestinians to fight Israel
03-24-07 - Australia to maintain boycott on PA
03-24-07 - Arab, Jewish teens look for common ground Nofar Carmeli used to see Arabs as people who hated her because she is Jewish. She thought they wanted to kill her. Someone wants you to believe that. Same folks want Americans to believe that they 'hate us for our freedom' and because 'we're infidels'.
03-24-07 - Ontario Press Council refused to acknowledge proof of plagiarism in Globe and Mail editorial Gee lifted the propaganda whole cloth from PMW never bothering to check its accuracy (!) or even citing it as a source, unlike the Jerusalem Post, which did cite it. Note again that Israel shills in the MSM (this time in Canada) are using PMW 'findings' without any question as to their veracity despite the known agenda of said organization. It was only after charges of plagiarism that the Globe and Mail decided to investigate the truthfulness of the information coming from the PMW. Strange then that the Israel-defenders in the American MSM and consequently members of Capitol Hill are relying heavily upon the findings of the PMW to judge the behavior/textbooks of Palestinians.
03-24-07 - Israeli peace activist speaking at WSU Outside these growing walls, Palestinian homes are demolished regardless of ownership. "I see it every day and I can't believe the world is letting Israel do this," Halper said.
03-24-07 - Police, IDF block bike tour through West Bank An Israeli rider, Haggai Mattar, 23, said he spoke to soldiers and police in Hebrew, and was given a variety of reasons for why the ride was being halted, including that the bikers had no permit for the tour and that there was concern about their safety. "Everyone gave a different answer," he said.
03-23-07 - Preventive security member killed in internal clashes in Gaza The sources stated that resident Arafa Nofal, a member of the Preventive Security Force, was shot and killed during armed clashes between Hamas and Fateh gunmen.
03-23-07 - Border Guard policemen admit they abused Palestinian teen According to Qawarik, the policemen detained him and his friends after they were leaving school, and then "two of the policemen started hitting me in the legs with a rifle, punching me, slamming my head against the door of a nearby container, pushing me to the floor and hitting me in the head."
03-23-07 - 'All efforts' in hunt for BBC man Every possible effort is being made to secure the release of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston, a Palestinian presidential aide has said.
03-23-07 - Friday prayers on Bethlehem lands threatened with confiscation Hundreds of Palestinians marched in the weekly nonviolent demonstration against land confiscation in southern Bethlehem.
03-23-07 - Palestinians cope with water scarcity in Gaza Most Palestinian children live with far less than the recommended daily minimum amount of 20 litres of clean water. In Gaza, it is hard to obtain because salinity and sewage have seeped into the coastal aquifer
03-23-07 - Report: no deal reached on release of Israeli soldier
03-23-07 - UAE reiterates support for Palestinians' right to self- determination
03-23-07 - Nonviolent Palestinian resistance to occupation: there is no peace with checkpoints or settlements As a bastion of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation, western Ramallah's Bil'in Village hosted a conference for all regions of the West Bank.
03-23-07 - Fateh condemns southern West Bank arrests and assassination attempts Al Zarir added, ?Israel is doing this every day in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah and Bethlehem, and all the areas of the West Bank.
03-23-07 - Kuwait says holds Israel responsible for violations against Palestinians
03-23-07 - Voter list update highlights Palestinian suspicions An official on the Elections Commission, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Hamas government refused to cooperate in the effort because "they are scared that what's going on are preparations for new elections."
03-23-07 - PCHR: Weekly report: 2 Palestinians killed, 13 injured including 7 children
03-23-07 - Rice visits Mideast amid doubts about U.S. commitment
03-23-07 - Judge Palestinian cabinet by actions: Belgian FM
03-23-07 - Israel suggests reciprocal truce: Abbas
03-23-07 - Israel seeks friends through MySpace page Officials hope that running a MySpace page dedicated to Israel will help improve relations with people from other countries, and increase awareness and communication with those under 35. Yesterday it was announced that Israel will resort to some soft porn via Maxim to promote its image, now they are trawling My Space for 'friends'. I've an idea: why not cease crapping all over the Palestinians, stealing their land and that of their neighbors, and flipping off the entire world in the process, including America? Rocket science.
03-23-07 - B'nai B'rith calls for U.N. official's ouster B'nai B'rith International called for the ouster of a U.N. special rapporteur on Palestinian rights.
03-23-07 - Court affirms former professor's contempt citation Sami al-Arian also ended his two-month hunger strike in a North Carolina federal prison. He says a plea agreement exempts him from testifying before the grand jury.
03-23-07 - Bikes vs. Bombs There were many nationalities represented. Hundreds of Palestinians, thirty or so Israelis, Danish, American, Spanish, Canadian, all coming together in the intellectual center of Palestine to bike in solidarity against Israel?s current system of Apartheid.
03-23-07 - Robert D. Novak: W ducks dinner with press Behind Clintonites harping on this incident is the political danger risked by any Democrat displaying sympathy for the Palestinian cause, as Hillary Clinton did when she was first lady.
03-23-07 - 'Peace in the Middle East:' Malley's Solutions For Conflict The 2000 Camp David was unsuccessful because of the people who sat on the committee was unaware of any culture familiarity. He mentioned that people in the United States understand the position of the Israelis but do not completely understand that of the Palestinians
03-23-07 - EU should not wait for US nod By definition, democracy is a choice made by a sovereign people and it should therefore not depend on the approbation of foreign countries, and certainly not of a country which militarily occupies another one.
03-23-07 - Israel to brand Arabs as peace spoilers Israel is gearing up for a diplomatic campaign that will paint the Arab world as the recalcitrant party if it does not drop the article in the Arab peace initiative that calls for the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees, The Jerusalem Post has learned. And it will succeed (at least in Canada, America and Australia) thanks to Israel's many cohorts in the media.
03-23-07 - Rice to Palestinians: End incitement against Israel This brouhaha about the purported incitement in Palestinian textbooks was started by PMW - a(nother) pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' with an agenda like that of MEMRI.
03-23-07 - Congress considers funding Holocaust education Both houses of Congress are considering bipartisan legislation to offer federal funds for Holocaust studies in schools
03-23-07 - Illegal West Bank settlers demand compensation for evacuating outpost
03-23-07 - No country, no pool, but Palestinians take the plunge The swimmers made it clear they were here to swim, but also to make a splash. "I'm proud to be here and represent my country," said Nassar. "It's the best thing anyone can do."
03-23-07 - UN chief in Egypt in push for Mideast peace
03-23-07 - Israel United: Can football heal a divided nation? Playing Beitar at Jerusalem's Teddy Kollek Stadium, Suan has been confronted with banners saying "Death to Arabs" and "Abbas Suan: you don't represent us." ...This month's game between Maccabi Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem was a case in point. Thousands of fans joined in a newer and ugly chant: "Abbas Suan has cancer." But one is to believe that it's the Arabs that are the racists (anti-Semites), a notion routinely put forth by the MSM in America. This kind of talk, like this, will never make the news here.
03-23-07 - Israeli Soldiers Stand Firm, but Duty Wears on the Soul the man said that he, too, had served in the West Bank, "and I'm proud of what I did there to defend Israelis."
It is crucial to intimidate people at checkpoints to keep them cowed, he said, his voice shaking a little, "because we are so few there, and they are so many."
03-23-07 - Israel, Palestine continued focus of responsible investment committee MRTI's efforts are the result of a decision of the 216th General Assembly (GA) in 2004 to "initiate the process of phased, selective divestment" from companies the PC(USA) believes are profiting from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and from construction of Israel's security barrier
03-23-07 - 'Careful vetting'? Read between the lines of this article. Our Congress jumps at the whims of staunch Zionist 'watchdogs' such as PMW. Frankly though, this is nothing new. The veracity of their 'findings', given their obvious bias, is not in question either, evidently.
03-23-07 - "Damned Proud" of Dead Arab Women and Children
03-23-07 - Six hours in Bethlehem
03-23-07 - A Holy Land connection with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Led by Father Rob Waller, St. Andrew/St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish laid the foundation for the program that brings Palestinian Christian children to the United States.
03-23-07 - Fatah leader's son out from Israeli jail Israel released the son of a Fatah leader who had spent three years in prison and have put him under house arrest in the West Bank.
03-23-07 - Global contest seeks a "just, peaceful" Jerusalem
03-23-07 - Peace activist Jeff Halper to speak at U of M Hibbing-raised Halper, an anthropologist, is the coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) a leading organization of the Israeli peace movement.
03-23-07 - "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" | Play brings words of Olympia woman, activist to life
03-23-07 - Just Whom Does Congress Represent? What did Pelosi say that so enraged the AIPAC audience? Here is Pelosi in here own words: "Any U.S. military engagement must be judged on three counts - whether it makes our country safer, our military stronger, or the region more stable. The war in Iraq fails on all three scores."
03-23-07 - Israel's football frenzy Generally, Israel is aware that it has a PR problem, and the visit of the English is an opportunity for the country to present a side to itself beyond the controversies of conflict in the region
03-23-07 - Letter: Girl's death highlights Palestinians' plight
03-22-07 - Gaza man shot to death during fight between family, Hamas militiamen Samir Hilles, 40, was trying to mediate between Hamas militiamen and members of his family, who blocked the vehicle the militiamen were driving, forced out its six occupants and torched it. Gunfire erupted after militia reinforcements arrived, and Hilles was killed, Hamas said.
03-22-07 - Two killed in fresh Gaza rivalries
03-22-07 - Palestinian child killed in Fatah-Hamas clash-medics
03-22-07 - Fatah, Hamas agree on ceasefire in northern Gaza Strip
03-22-07 - Baby killed in Hamas-Fatah clashes in northern Gaza Strip A two-year-old boy was killed and his grandmother moderately injured on Thursday night when militants of rival Fatah and Hamas movements clashed in northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said
03-22-07 - Bodies of two residents found in Gaza, several attacks reported Palestinian security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday at night that bodies of two residents were found in the Central and the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip. Shots were also fired at a third resident, one UNRWA vehicle was hijacked in Gaza and two Executive Force vehicles were hijacked and burnt in Al Shujaeyya neighborhood in Gaza City.
03-22-07 - Masked Palestinian gunmen carjack UN vehicle in Gaza City
03-22-07 - Tit-for-tat attacks hit Palestinian unity
03-22-07 - Fatah and Hamas in Gaza Agree to Calm Following Renewed Infighting
03-22-07 - Israeli army turns West Bank village into training ground "They should conduct their exercises outside populated areas (instead) of terrorising a whole village," he said. "We are civilians, we cannot stop them."
03-22-07 - OPT: One-third of Palestinians 'food insecure' Note the response in the article by the Israeli official - ie, blame the victims.
03-22-07 - Border Guard policemen filmed beating Palestinian youth Border Guard policemen were caught on camera beating a 17-year-old Palestinian youth at the West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus Wednesday. The incident was documented by one of the local residents. Watch the video clip at the link.
03-22-07 - UN rights envoy likens Israeli actions to apartheid "Settlers, largely unrestrained by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), subject many Palestinians to a reign of terror -- particularly in Hebron," he said.
03-22-07 - Letter to Alan and his abductors
03-22-07 - Palestinian minister plans EU trip for aid talks Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank and IMF official close to the moderate Fatah faction and the West, is expected to travel broadly to seek ways to end Western sanctions.
03-22-07 - Split emerging among Israel, U.S. and Europe over approach to Palestinians
03-22-07 - Palestinian member of Israeli Knesset: Israeli settlers in Hebron ticking time-bombs Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, Mohammad Barakeh, says that the ?gangs of settlers? in the southern West Bank city of Hebron are ?extremely dangerous.?
03-22-07 - Supreme Court Orders Wall Work Stopped in Gush Etzion
03-22-07 - Israel hints at peace concessions
03-22-07 - Six Palestinians abducted as army invades several Parts of the West Bank
03-22-07 - Professor kidnapped in Gaza released, officials say A Hamas-affiliated university professor kidnapped by gunmen was released early Thursday, officials from Hamas said.
03-22-07 - International aid to Palestinians grew despite sanctions Much of it was emergency aid from Europe, the United Nations and the Arab world that was funneled to people outside the government to ease a humanitarian crisis largely triggered by the international sanctions
03-22-07 - Government officials: Palestinian right of return a 'nonstarter' Senior Jerusalem officials reiterated their view that the Palestinian right of return is a non-negotiable issue, ahead of the Arab League Summit in Riyadh, Ynetnews reported Thursday.
03-22-07 - The squeeze continues "We're making people far more dependent on aid, when all they want is to prosper by their own efforts," says David Shearer, head of the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It would help if the Israeli jackboot wasn't on their neck.
03-22-07 - Re-opening of Wadi Gaza bridge
03-22-07 - U.S. joins Israel in peace effort The United States has quietly joined Israel in urging Arab leaders to reformulate their 2002 peace offer in an effort to end the decades-long Middle East conflict Was there ever any doubt? The US government is Israeli-occupied territory.
03-22-07 - Israel satisfied, Palestinians slam Quartet boycott extension
03-22-07 - Army bulldozers destroy farm lands near Hebron to expand settlement The Israeli Authority is plannig to expand the illegal Israeli settlement of "Kisara Hagai" on the expense of the local Palestinian farmers
03-22-07 - Arab bid for peace with Israel is 'serious' offer: Jordan FM
03-22-07 - Adjusting to a new life Through an effort sponsored by both Sosebee's Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and similar charity Healing the Children, Hussein underwent an additional three surgeries in Phoenix while living with an American host family.
03-22-07 - Most Israelis want contacts with new Palestinian cabinet: poll A majority of Israelis would support their government having contacts with the new Palestinian unity cabinet led by the Islamist movement movement, in a poll broadcast on public radio on Thursday. I am reminded of a line from a song by the Doors: Break on through to the other side.
03-22-07 - Israel's Peres opposed starting Lebanon war
03-22-07 - Bolton admits Lebanon truce block A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. ....Mr Bolton, a controversial and blunt-speaking figure, said he was "damned proud of what we did" to prevent an early ceasefire. John Bolton is (was)Israel's man at the UN.
03-22-07 - Analysis: Mideast: Permanent Kefuffle ** At first, the idea was to make sure president Bush could not launch air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities without prior Congressional authorization. But friends of Israel in and out of Congress swung into action, arguing that Iran, under present management, was a second "holocaust" in the making......Meanwhile, Israeli settlements keep growing illegally just below the international radar screen, house by house, in some 140 settlements. Many are strategically located to command access to the main aquifer under the West Bank. A secure road network under Israeli control interlinks the colonies.
03-22-07 - Maxim to gloss Israel's image Maxim will send a team to Israel next week for a photo shoot with seven local fashion models. The idea was hatched by the Foreign Ministry as part of efforts to offset Israel's image as a hotbed of conflict
Israel resorts to T&A.
03-22-07 - Jews, Gentiles Fighting the Good Fight Against AIPAC and For a Sane U.S. Mideast Policy
03-22-07 - Poet laureate loses appeal A U.S. court declined to intervene in the firing of a former New Jersey poet laureate who suggested that Israel had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
03-22-07 - Soros and Media Heavyweights Attack Pro-Israel Lobby?s Influence on U.S. Policy The simmering debate over American policy toward Israel and the role of the Jewish community in shaping it exploded with near-nuclear force this week. Several of the nation?s best-known international affairs commentators fired salvos at pro-Israel lobbyists and defenders of Israel fired back with unprecedented fury.
03-22-07 - New voices temper Palestinian rule
03-22-07 - Can American Jews unplug the Israel lobby? in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, that all changed dramatically. 9/11, and the Bush administration's response to it, made it inescapably clear that America's Mideast policies affect everyone in the country: They are literally a matter of life and death. The Bush administration's neoconservative Mideast policy is essentially indistinguishable from AIPAC's. And so it is no longer possible to ignore it -- even though it is a notoriously touchy and divisive subject.
03-22-07 - Embassies complain of humiliating security checks On January 4, a group of German students invited to visit Israel by a German school in Jerusalem complained of humiliating treatment at the airport. The group said that two students were asked to strip bare naked.
03-22-07 - DeLay: I quit for Israel Tom DeLay says he quit the U.S. Congress to fight for Israel and conservative causes.
03-22-07 - Real Justice Requires Honest Reflection
03-22-07 - Soros Won?t Take On AIPAC (Yet) In fact, while some Jewish groups and neoconservative Jewish policy advocates lobbied for the war, there is no evidence AIPAC ever did so. Asked to cite an example of such support, Vachon acknowledged, "AIPAC took no official position on the war [but] clearly there was a perception, partly orchestrated at its 2003 meeting" of such support. It is my belief that AIPAC is a serious threat to the sovereignty of this nation.
03-22-07 - Wars, No, Conflicts, Yes Israelis and Palestinians are not fighting over water, but Israel controls 90 percent of trans-boundary flows that Palestinians have very little ability to control, and there is deep resentment over this on the Palestinian side."
03-22-07 - DPRK hails establishment of new Palestinian government
03-22-07 - Rights group: Shin Bet must not block legal political activity "The attempt by the Shin Bet to define the rules of the democratic game once again is a serious violation of the rule of law,"
03-22-07 - Cameron stands encircled by zealous Anglo-neocons The Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) are a successful force, now claiming a large majority of Tory MPs as members.
03-22-07 - Former President Carter defends his controversial book
03-22-07 - Synod urged to follow ACC steer on Palestine, Caterpillar
03-22-07 - MIDDLE EAST: TOP ITALIAN OFFICIAL IN ROW OVER PHONE CALL WITH PALESTINIAN PREMIER
03-22-07 - Bike Race in Ramallah to Protest against Israeli Violations of Human Rights
03-22-07 - The Rep's 'Rachel Corrie' is stunning Once inside the theater, playgoers received a program that included two large advertisements, one placed by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the other by the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. The latter warns playgoers, "Don't be misled" by a sympathetic portrayal of Corrie and her mission. Unbelievable. These folks have the audacity to smear the girl at a play that pays tribute to her life.
03-22-07 - Palestine is willing to take part in Eurovision
03-22-07 - Palestinians demonstrate for protection of journalists and release of BBC correspondent Daily protests demand that more action be taken to ensure that freedom of the press is not violated, an issue Palestinian journalists are all too familiar with after facing routine attacks, harassment and arrests by Israeli forces.
03-22-07 - Female ministers in Palestinian government join forces
03-22-07 - The attack on the 'Jewish lobby' keeps coming and coming
03-22-07 - Dershowitz Offers Sober Assessment of Israel's Place in the World Dershowitz still trying to discredit Carter and his book by way of the smear.
03-22-07 - Blue eyes, blond hair: that's US problem, says Japanese minister Japan has healthy relations with Arab countries and Iran and imports much of its oil from the Middle East. It is a big contributor of aid to the Palestinian Authority, but also has friendly ties with Israel
03-22-07 - Clinton thanks AJCommittee for tackling Carter Former President Clinton told the American Jewish Committee he was "grateful" for the group's critiques of Jimmy Carter's claims about Clinton's peacemaking efforts. Clinton should read second paragraph of this article. It was Israel that rejected that peace plan.
03-21-07 - Youth killed by military fire near Ramallah
03-21-07 - Renewed Clashes in Beit Lahia Claim One Resident's Life, Wound Others Palestinian media sources said Wednesday that one Palestinian civilian was killed and eleven others wounded during renewed Hamas-Fatah infighting in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahia.
03-21-07 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in Ramallah
03-21-07 - Palestinian youth killed in Israeli incursion into Nablus
03-21-07 - Right to family life denied As an occupying power, Israel is obliged to respect the family rights of Palestinians (1). Yet violations by Israel of the right to family life have persisted for decades and have worsened over the past six years. By 2006 at least 120,000 families were affected. Moreover, since 2006 the restrictions on family life, and the number of families affected by such restrictions, have increased ? the right to enter the OPT is now also denied to spouses from countries for whom advance visas are not required to enter Israel.
03-21-07 - Two Palestinian Security Personnel Wounded in a Drive-by Shooting in Khan Younis
03-21-07 - Haneya vows to restore security in Palestinian territories Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas asserted on Wednesday that ending a state of lawlessness and restoring security were on the top of the unity government's agenda.
03-21-07 - US 'to slash funding for Abbas' The United States is to slash funds for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' security forces, amid fears the money could end up with Hamas.
03-21-07 - Israeli Army dog attacks a Palestinian Woman in Bethlehem Troops released the dog after an army bulldozer had demolished part of the home of a civilian named Daoud Rabai'a, 29, who is claimed to be 'wanted' by the Israeli army.
03-21-07 - New ministers heading to Europe to gain support for unity government, Germany is focal point
03-21-07 - Muslim pioneer pushes Israel to negotiate "As an Arab I understand the Palestinian side, and as an Israeli I understand the Israeli side," Majadele said. "These are tools that can be used in trying to end the conflict."
03-21-07 - Women celebrate Mother's Day by standing up to occupation: nonviolent demo against Wall Women of all ages gathered in Umm Salamuna Village to demonstrate against land confiscation on the occasion of Palestinian Mother's Day. The land is being bulldozed, eaten by the Israeli machines, in order to impose the Wall in between the villages of southern Bethlehem.
03-21-07 - PLO says Rice's coming visit important Yasser Abed Rabou made the remarks in an interview with the Voice of Palestine. Rice is due to arrive in Israel on Saturday to begin her tour of the region, the third one so far this year.
03-21-07 - UAE-OPT: Interview with Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner General of the UN Agency for Palestine refugees
03-21-07 - Rice defends security aid to Palestinian ally
03-21-07 - Arab summit should back Palestinian govt-Meshaal
03-21-07 - Emergency water supply and sanitation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
03-21-07 - Palestinians complain of 'double standards' in Hebron Like other Palestinian residents of Hebron, he wonders why the law enforcement authorities failed to do a similar check on dozens of settlers who occupied a building in the city, claiming that they had purchased it legally in exchange for cash.
03-21-07 - PLO chief heaps more pressure on Fatah al-Islam
03-21-07 - Turkish team inspects controversial Jerusalem dig About six Turkish officials toured the area briefly with Turkey's consul general in Jerusalem, Ercan Ozer.
03-21-07 - Big powers say they will judge Palestinian government by deeds
03-21-07 - United Nations meeting in support of Israeli-Palestinian peace to take place in Rome, 22-23 March
03-21-07 - Three civilians kidnapped from villages near Hebron
03-21-07 - Quartet urges Palestinian commitment to peace principles
03-21-07 - Germany Slowly Builds Bridges to Palestinian Government Merkel herself will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories at the end of the month, a government spokesman said Wednesday in Berlin
03-21-07 - Report: "Israeli troops committed 1,123 violations last week" The violations included opening fire at civilians, shelling neighborhoods, and repeatedly invading cities, villages and refugee camps.
03-21-07 - No military solution to Palestinian issue: Sinha
03-21-07 - Italy and Palestine With reference to your leader (March 20), I wish to clarify that the news of a telephone call from the Italian minister for foreign affairs, Massimo D'Alema, to the prime minister of the new Palestinian government of national unity, Ismail Haniyeh, is unfounded.
03-21-07 - Qaraleh congratulates Palestinian Foreign Minister Head of Jordan?s Diplomatic Representation Office to the Palestinian Authority Yahya al-Qaraleh on Wednesday reaffirmed Jordan?s firm stand in supporting Palestinian brothers at all levels to help them regain their legitimate rights.
03-21-07 - War drill fails to reassure Israelis Israel's largest-ever such drill was meant to signal to the public that the government and safety services had learned the lessons of this summer's war with Hizbullah in southern Lebanon.
03-21-07 - 'Israel Lobby' Authors Return With Book
03-21-07 - U.S.: Europe won't stop Iran terror funding "The major stumbling block -- the one that looms larger than all the others combined -- is that the Europeans won't recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization," Stuart Levey, the U.S. Treasury's under secretary for terrorism financing, told the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday.
03-21-07 - Female? Foreign? Israeli spies want you Israel's high-tech secret services have been told to step up efforts to recruit women and foreign Jews
03-21-07 - House letter urges E.U. on P.A. A congressional letter urging the European Union to maintain its isolation of the Palestinian Authority garnered signatures from more than half of the U.S. House of Representatives.
03-21-07 - Obama's Israel credentials pushed A Jewish congressman wrote Jewish leaders to tell them that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama has a sincere love for Israel.
03-21-07 - MacKay tries to soothe Arab and Muslim critics MacKay was attempting to soothe critics of his government's Middle East tilt in policy toward Israel in a speech in Ottawa late Monday.
03-21-07 - Nonviolent Palestinian resistance on behalf of Al Aqsa, strikes in Jerusalem Dozens of Palestinian Muslims gathered at the protest tent near Al Aqsa Mosque after Friday prayers today. They chanted slogans for justice, for God and for an end to the occupation.
03-21-07 - Singapore welcomes formation of Palestinian unity government
03-21-07 - Rights activist, banned from Israel, seeks Mideast peace "Every day Israeli warplanes fly over Gaza and cause sonic booms. Windows shatter twice a day. Sixteen year olds are losing their hair because hunger and malnutrition are so prevalent. People live in half bombed-out houses. During the intifada, 12,000 Palestinian homes in Gaza were destroyed."
03-21-07 - Education Ministry: Israeli attack on Palestinian school curriculum political The Israelis are accusing Palestinians of teaching students to ignore former signed agreements between the governments and for promoting an attitude ?hostile? toward the occupation.
03-21-07 - Hebronites threaten to sue Peace Now for slander The leaders of the Hebron Jewish community sent a letter on Wednesday night to left-wing activist group Peace Now, demanding that they take back their claims that a group of settlers broke into a house in one of the city's Palestinian neighborhoods.
03-21-07 - Interfaith activists mend ties after bishop's slurs Shimon Stein, Israel's ambassador to Germany, reacted to Hanke?s comparison with "horror and disgust." Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, condemned the remarks as "appalling and completely unacceptable." Most people that visit the area would agree with the bishops' description of the place. But everybody is expected to shut up about it to please the likes of these folks.
03-21-07 - Palestinian lesbians draw fire
03-21-07 - Sen. Obama Rebuffs George Soros on Hamas
03-21-07 - Author: Shimon Peres persuaded France to backdate 1957 nuclear deal with Israel "Shimon Peres: The Biography" also says an earlier, secret agreement between the two countries pledged French co-operation on Israeli research and development of nuclear weapons, even before the French government formally decided to build its own atomic bombs.
03-21-07 - Grim upsurge for Lebanon prosthetics Prosthetic limb-fitting centres in southern Lebanon are struggling to cope with the rising toll from the one million unexploded munitions left over from last year's war with Israel. .....The UN has said that clearing them has been made more difficult by Israel not revealing the precise areas they targeted.
03-21-07 - Calling out Satterfield Next opportunity: March 27 at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, when Satterfield speaks on "Iraq: Prospects for Peace at Home and Progress with its Neighbors." WINEP was, after all, spun off from AIPAC back in the late 1980s, its events are attended by the pro-Israel community's best and brightest and I know that a lot of its staff's attitude toward the Rosen-Weissman case can be summed up in the unexpandable acronym, WTF?
03-21-07 - Texas Samaritan for Canadian boy says he'll help more kids detained in U.S.
03-20-07 - Human rights organization's crime blotter: child killed, judge kidnapped
03-20-07 - Aid embargo remains against Palestinians
03-20-07 - UK presses Abbas on BBC reporter
03-20-07 - Kazim Abdullah, East Jerusalem, "I've never felt such cold before" EAST JERUSALEM, Palestinian mother Kazim Zohoudi Abdullah, 48, lives with her family in a tent (see slideshow) supplied by the Red Cross after the Jerusalem Municipality demolished their home because it was built without a permit.
03-20-07 - House Demolition in Halhul and House Invasion in Hebron
03-20-07 - Settlers make Hebron 'unbearable'
03-20-07 - Law denying family unification to Israelis and Palestinians extended The Knesset is expected on Wednesday to extend and widen the controversial Citizenship Law, which denies family unification to Israelis and Palestinians.
03-20-07 - Holy Land Christians need peace, editor says
03-20-07 - ISRAEL-OPT: Evictions continue in East Jerusalem They were hustled out as two bulldozers from the Jerusalem Municipality tore it down ? leaving them to face the winter cold with just a canvas Red Cross tent for shelter
03-20-07 - Israel to respond to "terror activity": security source
03-20-07 - Israeli army levels two Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem Israeli army bulldozers leveled two Palestinian homes located in east Jerusalem, and threatened to demolish a third on Tuesday around midday.
03-20-07 - Palestinian calls for Israel boycott A Palestinian politician Tuesday called for a worldwide boycott of Israel after more than 200 Israeli rabbinical students moved into a house in the West Bank.
03-20-07 - IDF, Police avoid removing settlers from Hebron home Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Tuesday that he is waiting for the completion of the legal review of the matter. In the meantime, the IDF has deployed soldiers to provide security for the dozens of settlers who have moved into the building.
03-20-07 - Gaza strike over abduction of BBC reporter
03-20-07 - Arab league calls on Israel to be proactive in starting the peace process ?Israel did not make any offer, any serious talks of peace?, Mousa stated, ?The Israeli government is continuing with its policies of constructing settlements, and is still delaying the final status talks and resorting to tricks in order to waste time?.
03-20-07 - Israeli Police abducts several Palestinians in Netanya Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday that the Israeli police took prisoner several Palestinian residents in the Israeli town of Netanya. The police claimed that it received intelligence information that the arrestees intended to carry a suicide bombing in Israel.
03-20-07 - Israel to snub foreign envoys who meet Hamas ministers
03-20-07 - Israeli Army Razes Farm Lands near Maghazi
03-20-07 - Palestinian journalists strike over kidnapping Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip went on strike on Tuesday in protest at the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston.
03-20-07 - We can do more than beg, says new finance chief for Palestinians
03-20-07 - Israeli army veterans show dark side of occupation "Israelis usually are really shocked when they see this," he says. "We are not."
03-20-07 - Israeli army annex farm lands to build a military post According to the military order the land will be used as a military post to protect illegal settlers driving on the Jewish-only road known as road number 60, which is originally built on land stolen from the village and other nearby villages and towns.
03-20-07 - Palestinian factions clash in lebanon
03-20-07 - Testimony: Settlers attack Palestinian farmers, including small children They started throwing stones at me again. I picked up my nephew, putting his head to my chest and my hand on his head, and turned his back to the settlers. I sat on the ground and they threw stones at me. Ten stones hit me. I tried to protect my nephew, who was screaming and crying. I thought I was going to die or be injured. They threw stones for about five minutes and then walked toward the settlement.
03-20-07 - US envoy defies Israel by holding talks with Palestinian minister AIPAC will mobilize a response, I'm sure.
03-20-07 - Egypt says would-be Hamas suicide bomber arrested near Israeli border
03-20-07 - Israeli army levels a Palestinian home in Halhul village, clashes erupt Two army bulldozers protected by a massive force invaded the village of Halhul. Israeli soldiers surrounded the village then bulldozers started to level the house of Ibraheem Abu Yousif
03-20-07 - PLO: the way to regional stability is for Israel to follow international law The Department of Arab and International Relations in the Palestine Liberation Organization gave its official support for the new unity government in a letter issued from Ramallah.
03-20-07 - PLO denies relations with suspects in Lebanon bus bombings
03-20-07 - Open heart surgeons to head to Syria The International Open Heart Surgery Team of the Red Crescent Society will head for Syria next Thursday to operate on a number of Syrian and Palestinian heart patients in the capital city of Damascus.
03-20-07 - Troops abduct five fishermen in Rafah Local sources reported that the fishermen were working near the shore when Israeli naval boats attacked them, then abducted the five and took them to unknown locations
03-20-07 - War documentary shelved The Israel Broadcasting Authority's board of directors this week ruled that "Spirit of Shaked" would not be aired again, as is customary for most original programming on state-run Channel One television
03-20-07 - Israel to hold nationwide missile attack drill **
03-20-07 - Conflict with Iran inevitable, Ya'alon says **
03-20-07 - Peres confident on European stance Shimon Peres voiced confidence that the European Union would not yield on its demand that Hamas embrace peacemaking with Israel
03-20-07 - Unafraid to tackle other issues, Jewish groups avoid Iraq war Foxman said the Walt-Mearsheimer fallout was inhibiting Jewish activism in favor of confronting Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, a cause that has broad support in the Jewish community.
03-20-07 - Iraq steps up anti-Israel boycott US law bars American firms from complying with boycott-related requests and requires them to report any such incidents to the authorities. These might include demands made of companies to verify that their products do not contain components made in the Jewish state or signing forms attesting that they do not do business with Israel.
03-20-07 - Tanya Reinhart Reinhart's passionate calls for justice for the Palestinians made her a sought-after speaker internationally, and last October she gave the Edward Said Memorial lecture at Adelaide University in Australia.
03-20-07 - Norway-Hamas link angers Israel Israel has cancelled a meeting with a visiting Norwegian minister after he held talks with the prime minister of the new Palestinian unity government.
03-20-07 - Assad admit secret talks "Various figures visited Israel and came to Syria and conveyed to us the Israeli points of view, but there was nothing serious on the ground,"
03-20-07 - At the Checkpoint: Photo Exhibit
03-20-07 - U.S., the world, know P.A. is new but must decide if it's improved A letter gathering signatures in the U.S. House of Representatives urged the European Union to maintain a hard line on the Palestinians. "We strongly urge you to maintain restrictions of direct aid to any Palestinian government until such time as that government fulfills its Quartet obligations," said the letter, which had garnered more than 220 signatures by Tuesday. Jewish groups backed that line. A statement from the American Jewish Committee commended the Quartet and expressed its disappointment with Norway. The JCPA called for a continued aid freeze
03-20-07 - Indonesia supports new Palestinian gov't
03-20-07 - CNN's Wedeman: Gaza kidnapping gives me chills Both of us saw Gaza as an intriguing, tragic place, where we were often met with generosity and openness from people who, given their circumstances, might have been expected to be hostile.
03-20-07 - Israel a Hotbed of Internet Attacks, Report Says Israel has the dubious honor of being home to the most malicious Internet activity per Internet user, according to Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report.
03-20-07 - Past shared, present shattered "The Palestinians need pragmatic leadership. Until such time, they can starve to death," says Shaw. "I think the majority of the Israelis say to hell with them."
03-20-07 - Adwan visits the Christian Brothers Academy On March 9, Dr. Sami Adwan, Professor of Education at Bethlehem University, visited Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey
03-20-07 - "They're just like us!" Young Palestinians, born and living in Israel visited Bethlehem University Campus on March 13th.
03-20-07 - Israel hails US-EU non-recognition of Palestinian cabinet
03-20-07 - Rice to visit Egypt, Israel, West Bank and Jordan
03-20-07 - The Curious Boy: A Grieving Mother?s battle with the IDF "You realise, don't you," he said, looking at me very directly, "that we're not going to get anywhere with the Israelis." At first I didn't understand. "All we want is to get at the truth. Doesn't everyone?" "It's not quite as simple as that. They're a hard-bitten lot. They're not going to admit to anything. A lot of people have tried to call them to account, but I'm afraid they haven't succeeded."
03-20-07 - Vocational training for young Palestinian refugees. Vocational training scholarships and life skills will be offered to 31 Palestinian youth aged 14 to 20 thanks to a US $15,000 World Vision US private non-sponsorship funding.
03-20-07 - Gulf Arabs boost aid to Sunni militants in Lebanon
03-20-07 - Controversy follows "Corrie" to Seattle stage The Rep is fielding many reactions to the play. One is a letter from the Va'ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, a consortium of Orthodox Jewish rabbis who say the play falsely casts Corrie's death "as a murder while demonizing Israel as an evil, inhumane power whose only purpose is to kill innocents." The letter also urges the Rep to "balance" the play's depiction of the complex Gaza situation by airing other, more vigorously pro-Israel views.
Plays must be 'balanced' in order to please the pro-Israelis. Ridiculous. Read on "In a coordinated effort by some Jewish groups, the Pacific Northwest Anti-Defamation League took an ad in the Rep's program (which is published by the Encore Media Group) defending Israel's Gaza policies as essential security measures. And an ad from Seattle's Jewish Federation ties the tragedy of Corrie's death to those of six Israeli women, also named Rachel, who were killed by Palestinian violence. Members of these Jewish groups also handed out pro-Israel leaflets to Rep patrons as they entered the theater for last week's previews of "Rachel Corrie.""
03-20-07 - Jordanian king urges int'l community to adopt Arab peace initiative
03-20-07 - UNESCO told Israel to stop Al Aqsa excavations in July 2006
03-20-07 - For many, national unity has gone too far the image of Haniya and Dahlan in a friendly handshake, in which the two look genuinely happy together, is too much for many to accept.
03-20-07 - Umm Salamuna Anti-Wall Demo on Mother?s Day & the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
03-20-07 - Chicago Palestine Film Festival 2007 starts April 14 The Chicago Palestine Film Festival (CPFF) is proud to present its 6th annual festival which will take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center from April 14-April 26.
03-20-07 - Report: France urged Israel to hit Syria Army Radio reported that in the message, which was delivered by Chirac to Israel via a secret channel, the French president suggested that Israel invade Damascus and topple the regime of Bashar Assad. In exchange, Chirac assured Israel full French support for the war.
03-20-07 - New joint Israeli-Palestinian olive oil brand launched
03-20-07 - CWS on frontline of advocacy for water as a human right Politics and conflict sometimes play a part in making water a scarce resource. That is the situation Church World Service is addressing in the Palestinian villages of Beit 'Ur Al Theta and Deir Abu Da'if in the occupied West Bank. This area, located in the northern highlands of the West Bank, gets ample rainfall and has ample supplies of renewable ground and spring water. But the Israeli government restricts Palestinian access to the water.
03-20-07 - Family of fasting inmate asks for hunger strike to stop Sami al-Arian, 49, a Palestinian who taught computer science at the University of South Florida, stopped eating Jan. 22 to protest a judge's decision to hold him indefinitely after he refused to testify before a Virginia grand jury.
03-20-07 - Dennis Ross in the spotlight You?ve asked for Jonathan Pollard to be released. What are your arguments and do you believe it will happen soon?
03-20-07 - Bad intelligence blamed, but look who supplied it It is obvious that there was a cabal of Israel supporters who wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, for his aid to the Palestinian families whose members were killed by Israel, and to destroy Iraq as an enemy of Israel.
03-20-07 - Israel: Lebanon conflict was a war
03-20-07 - AJC Praises Quartet for Policy on Palestinian Government, Disappointed With Norway's Embrace of Hamas The American Jewish
Committee praised the Quartet -- the United Nations, European Union, Russia
and the United States -- for standing firm in refusing to recognize the new
Palestinian government until it fulfills explicit international conditions.
03-19-07 - One man killed, seven injured in Gaza One Palestinian man was killed and seven others injured when an explosion took place in a house located in Al Al Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city on Monday midday.
03-19-07 - Free my son, BBC reporter's father pleads Mr Johnston's father made a direct plea to his son's kidnappers in a televised statement, imploring: "It is not helping the Palestinian people. It's no way to treat a friend of the Palestinian people."
03-19-07 - Lift boycott on new Palestinian unity government says Christian Aid 'A year of economic and political sanctions on the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, together with the closure of borders, extreme restrictions on movement and frequent Israeli incursions, has led to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,'
03-19-07 - Israeli troop shoots Palestinian civilian at military checkpoint in northern W.B As the man was being detained, one of the soldiers opened fire randomly at the people standing at the checkpoint injuring Hamdan.
03-19-07 - Palestinian sanctions to remain
03-19-07 - EU extends aid to Palestinians three months The European Union decided to continue its temporary aid to the new Palestinian government for three months, EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner said here Monday.
03-19-07 - Norwegian minister meets Hamas PM After meeting Mr Haniya, Norway's deputy foreign minister, Raymond Johansen, said: "We hope that all the European countries, and even other countries, will support this unity government.
03-19-07 - Israel to compensate Palestinian shot by IDF troops
03-19-07 - Rice may "shuttle" on upcoming trip to Middle East
03-19-07 - 5 Qassam rockets hit south A senior group official told Ynet that his organization would continue to fire rockets as long as Israel continued its attacks, invasions of West Bank cities and villages, and assassinations of group members, many of whom were killed in recent weeks.
03-19-07 - Netanyahu says Israeli government in free fall Netanyahu added that the Likud was committed to keeping the Jordan Rift Valley under Israeli sovereignty
03-19-07 - Report: U.S. shuns Israel on Iran plans ** according to Ma'ariv, the Olmert government is in doubt about whether President Bush is capable of mustering domestic support for anything other than diplomatic pressure on Tehran.
03-19-07 - Palestinian invents queuing socks A West Bank woman has developed special socks to help Palestinians suffering from swollen feet as they wait at Israeli military checkpoints.
03-19-07 - Netanyahu Issues Call to World From Jerusalem Conference Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking at the 4th Annual Jerusalem Conference Monday morning, repeated his call for the world to prove that now is not like the 1930s and that the world knows how to respond this time.
03-19-07 - Israeli troops kidnap two Palestinians from Gaza Strip The sources reported that Israeli Gunboats operating in the Tel Al-Sultan area near Rafah opened fire at Palestinian fishermen, however no injuries were reported.
03-19-07 - Dozens of families expected to occupy Hebron house Despite their assertion that they bought the house lawfully, Hebron resident Bayez Rajabe contends their claim, saying that he is the sole owner of the house and he never sold it.
03-19-07 - Settlers attack Palestinians in Tel Rumeida, Human rights Workers Detained
03-19-07 - Israeli worker shot by Hamas sniper The armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for the sniper shooting Monday of an Israeli electrical worker.
03-19-07 - INTERVIEW-Don't shun new Palestinian gov't, Italy says
03-19-07 - Israeli army invades several West Bank areas and abducts 13 civilians
03-19-07 - Israeli settlers steal supplies from Hebron construction site
03-19-07 - Israeli administration prevents Palestinian Druize delegation from entering Al Aqsa Mosque
03-19-07 - Sweden welcomes new Palestinian government
03-19-07 - Inter-Palestinian clash wounds two in northern Lebanon The sources said two Fatah members were wounded in the legs when an armed member of the new Fatah al-Islam movement opened fire on them in the Naher al-Bard Palestinian refugee camp.
03-19-07 - Belgian FM urges direct Mideast talks "We would like this crossing point to be open more often but in order to achieve this, it is also important for this the Philadelphia corridor to be less porous," the Belgian minister told reporters.
03-19-07 - Only 10% in U.S. See Iran as Immediate Threat Only 10 per cent of respondents think Iran is a threat to the United States that requires military action now, down 11 points since mid-February. Sorry Netty. Americans aren't buying the propaganda.
03-19-07 - Coalition Announces Launch of ?Jews Against the War? to Give Voice to Growing Anti-War Jewish Majority On the fourth anniversary of the war on Iraq, a coalition of Jewish leaders announced the launch of "Jews Against the War" (JAW), an organization dedicated to ending the Iraq war and preventing one with Iran What about the war on Palestine?....
03-19-07 - Second Annual Conference in Bil'in, Palestine Join us in strategizing effective, concerted non-violent action in Palestine and across the globe!
03-19-07 - The political ideas competing for support in the Arab world all these worldviews contain a strong pro-Palestinian component. Adherents of any might enter a tactical alliance with the US, but so long as Washington is seen as blocking the Palestinians' hopes, such alliances will be hard to maintain.
03-19-07 - Talking to Hamas
03-19-07 - Iraq, Iran, and the Lobby
03-19-07 - 8,000 new classrooms to be built in Arab, ultra-Orthodox schools The plan also calls for a minimal replenishing of East Jerusalem classrooms
03-19-07 - Viewpoint: Divest from complicity The Israeli Defense Force uses this military superiority to expand control over Palestinian land and livelihood. Our elected officials sign the checks, even though Israeli occupation defies International Court of Justice rulings and international law.
03-19-07 - Robert Fisk: US power games in the Middle East Now it has to be said that there's a lot of scepticism about this story. Not because Syria has, inevitably, denied any connection to Lebanese bombings but because in a country that has never in 30 years solved a political murder, it's pretty remarkable that the local Lebanese constabulary can solve this one - and very conveniently so since Mr Sabeh's pro-American government continues to accuse Syria of all things bestial in the state of Lebanon.
03-19-07 - In Memory of Tanya Reinhart Tanya's passing is a terrible loss, not only to her family and those fortunate enough to come to know her personally, and to those she defended and protected with such dedication and courage, but to everyone concerned with freedom, justice, and an honorable peace.
03-19-07 - Maker: Israeli 'drones' fly over Iraq
03-19-07 - Palestinian human rights organization joins World Coalition against the Death Penalty The Gaza City-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights joined the World Coalition against the Death Penalty.
03-19-07 - Jordan blasts Israel's Olmert The Jordanian government Monday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for reportedly stating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq will threaten the kingdom.
03-19-07 - Outside View: Why Muslims hate the U.S.
03-19-07 - Peretz attempts to woo Arab sector to garner support
03-19-07 - Settler to activist in Hebron: Go to Aushwitz
03-19-07 - Soros: AIPAC needs reform Soros claimed that by allying itself with neoconservatives backing the Iraq war and opposing any dialogue with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas, "AIPAC under its current leadership has clearly exceeded its mission, and far from guaranteeing Israel's existence, has endangered it."
03-19-07 - U.S., EU officials meet over Mideast peace process U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discussed here on Monday with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, EU foreign policy chief Javier and other EU officials over the Middle East peace process.
03-19-07 - Lebanese army boosts security around Palestinian camp
03-19-07 - Gates promotes computer training in Colombia conflict areas The hundred-dollar computer (actually they're to cost $150 each) is expected to begin reaching children in July or so in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, Thailand and the Palestinian territory.
03-19-07 - Congress commends Greece for Israel friendliness Resolutions marking Greek independence in both Houses of the U.S. Congress commend Greece for its Israel relations You've got to be kidding me. Our legislators have nothing better to do?
03-19-07 - Israelis split on P.A. contacts
03-19-07 - Groups launch Ahmadinejad campaign The World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel launched an Internet campaign against Iran's president.
03-19-07 - PLO distances Palestinian cause from suspects in Ain Alaq bus bombings Zaki said the presence of the militant group in Nahr al-Bared, a refugee camp outside Tripoli, "bothers us all."
03-18-07 - One Palestinian Girl Killed, Two Women Wounded during Clashes in Rafah Palestinian medical sources confirmed that an 8 year-old girl was shot dead in the chest and two women wounded in a crossfire during tribal clashes in Rafah city, south of Gaza Strip.
03-18-07 - US to open talks with Palestinian coalition ministers American officials said yesterday they would meet some members of the new Palestinian coalition government, although Washington would not lift a ban on direct funding
03-18-07 - Israeli Troops Wound Two Palestinian Residents in Nablus Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli soldiers, manning the checkpoint, opened heavy random fire at Palestinians, while lining up at the checkpoint, wounding Qasem Khader, 59, with a bullet in his left leg and Ziad Shoban, 17, with a tear gas canister in his foot.
03-18-07 - Palestinians slam Israel's decision to boycott new unity gov't
03-18-07 - Gunmen release a Palestinian judge shortly after abducting him
03-18-07 - Analysis: Israel manages to avoid dilemma posed by PA gov't There are six reasons for Israel to hold a dialogue with Hamas, the last being the most important:
03-18-07 - Israeli soldier injured during Nablus invasion Israeli military sources reported on Sunday at night that one soldier was injured when an explosive charge detonated near a military jeep as the army was invading Batala refuge camp, in Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank.
03-18-07 - Israel, U.S. test missile defense ** Israel and the U.S. are concerned that Iran could be developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles able to threaten Israel When did it become our job to defend the nation of Israel, I wonder? Soon it will be written into the Constitution. Thanks to these folks, that actually isn't necessary.
03-18-07 - Jewish grandmothers patrol West Bank checkpoints Over the years, Machsomwatch has recorded a long list of checkpoint incidents: babies stillborn to mothers held up in queues, sick patients denied passage to hospitals, arguments that ended in Palestinians shot, food rotting on the way to market, students missing their final exams and bridegrooms their weddings.
03-18-07 - Supreme U.S. commander in Europe calls Israel 'model state' Craddock said Israel will receive this year more than 93 percent of the military aid in the EUCOM area - $2.4 billion out of some $2.54 billion for all of Europe and Africa Model of apartheid, more like it.
03-18-07 - Turkey urges support for Palestinian gov't
03-18-07 - Back to the Clinton plan The Saudi plan goes even farther than the Clinton plan, which the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff at the time, Shaul Mofaz, said posed an existential threat to Israel. Likud politicians, some of whom are leading the country today, totally rejected as irresponsible
03-18-07 - Abbas appoints Dahlan to security post The appointment of Mohammad Dahlan, one of the most powerful Fatah leaders, as national security adviser elevated his official role in the chaotic security hierarchy at a time when both sides say they want to bring an end to factional fighting.
03-18-07 - Caritas reports on Gaza's sick denied access to urgent medical care Presently, the level of despair in the Palestinian society is almost unfathomable. Palestinians today see Gaza as a vast prison. The inability of sick people to reach Israeli hospitals has caused many deaths.
03-18-07 - Several reasons block Palestinian-Israeli prisoner swap: spokesman Spokesman for the new Palestinian government Ghazi Hamad Sunday said several problems prevented Israel and the Palestinians from reaching prisoners swap deal
03-18-07 - Arab summit to discuss ways of supporting new Palestinian gov't: Moussa Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Sunday that Arab leaders will discuss ways of backing the newly formed Palestinian unity government at an Arab summit scheduled for March 28-29 in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
03-18-07 - Kuwait welcomes formation of Palestinian unity gov't
03-18-07 - U.S. says new Palestinian government must recognize Israel The United States will not deal with the new Palestinian government unless it agrees to give up violence and fully recognize Israel, President George W. Bush's national security adviser Stephen Hadley said on Sunday. Hadley = neocon.
03-18-07 - IRAQ: Police raids spread panic among Palestinians
03-18-07 - Israeli, U.S. forces hold air defense drill ** Israeli and U.S. forces are holding a joint exercise on defending Israel against missile attack.
03-18-07 - Europe insists P.A. recognize Israel The European Union Council refused to release funds to the Palestinian Authority until the unity government renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel
03-18-07 - RACHEL'S WORK LIVES ON
03-18-07 - Hebron Update March 4-10
03-18-07 - Israel expects weakening in int'l position on PA "Overall, the diplomatic battle is being waged effectively," said the sources, praising Germany, which currently holds the European Union presidency, for its efforts in formulating the European position.
03-18-07 - New Information Minister: media to become more internationally savvy The new Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, said that the unity government put in place on Saturday is ?the best Palestinian government in history."
03-18-07 - Troops invade Salfit, wound three residents
03-18-07 - Two wrongs don't make a rights council Archbishop Desmond Tutu Israel's non-cooperation with my mission did not impede the council from making a strong statement condemning the shelling of Beit Hanoun. But by refusing to cooperate, the Israelis prevented our mission from engaging with all sides and making recommendations to address the needs of the victims of the Beit Hanoun attack and help prevent similar incidents.
03-18-07 - New government does not include Minister of Jerusalem
03-18-07 - Human rights: UNRWA vehicle comes under fire in Gaza Strip The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns yesterday's assault on Mr. John Ging, UNRWA's Chief of Operation. The attack took place in the northern Gaza Strip and targeted his convoy.
03-18-07 - EU welcomes Palestinian national unity government
03-18-07 - Japan, UN sign $4.2 million food deal for Palestinian refugees Japanese envoy Shigenobu Kato signed the deal with the secretary-general of the U.N. agency that deals with Palestinian refugees, UNWRA, at the Japanese Embassy in Amman, the kingdom's official Petra news agency said.
03-18-07 - Israeli administration bans lawyers from meeting with Palestinian political prisoners The Israeli administration is preventing Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyers from meeting with political prisoners in Etzion. The decision to forbid legal visits for a week in the Israeli prison was issued without explanation.
03-18-07 - Palestinian unity gov't vows to curb disorder Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa al-Barghouti said on Sunday the first national unity cabinet session has asked the interior minister to begin practical steps to tackle security chaos.
03-18-07 - South African delegation visits Tulkarem, pledges ongoing support to Palestinians
03-18-07 - Quarter of Israeli Arabs deny Holocaust According to the poll, the incidence of Holocaust denial is especially high ? 33 percent ? among Israeli Arabs of school age even though the syllabus of Arab schools in Israel include mandatory classes on 20th century European history, including World War II.
03-18-07 - Forget Israel, Befriend Russia
03-18-07 - Israel's Last Chance
03-18-07 - Permission to Speak Freely? I received the following disturbing message from Tom Feeley, the editor of Information Clearing House, a widely recognized source of alternative news: Great newsletter. I was wondering why it went missing for a few days there.
03-18-07 - Political Zionism has incited bigotry
03-18-07 - Dancing to the pipes I know I am certainly susceptible to nostalgia for all things Celtic. I was in Gaza City one time, waiting with several colleagues for the arrival of Yasser Arafat. When his fleet of black Mercedes sedans finally whipped around the corner, kicking up dust and scattering kids, a Palestinian bagpipe band launched into a highland march.
"It sounds like (expletive deleted) Saint Paddy?s Day in Boston," said a reporter standing next to me.
03-18-07 - What Hilllary Clinton Should Know About Palestinian School Books
03-18-07 - israelis planned kidnapping of soldiers in Lebanon
03-18-07 - Bethlehem headteacher calls for UK investment in peace education "Whilst we could see our school cafeteria reduced to rubble because of this "Separation Barrier", here at Hope Flowers we seek to demolish the walls in people's minds."
03-18-07 - Verification Council for Israel's Russian Jewry At least 25% of registered Jewish immigrants from Russia are not Jewish - leading to the formation of a council to verify Jewishness.....an outwardly-religious family living in a hareidi city for over 12 years was found to be not Jewish; when they were found out, they quickly converted to Judaism
03-18-07 - Blow the whistle on Israel Despite protests against the match on the grounds of Israel's treatment of Palestinian footballers, the FA decided that England will go ahead with the fixture.
03-18-07 - Arab minister snubs anthem "The anthem was written for Zionist Jews," Majadle told Israel Radio. "I am neither Zionist nor a Jew. I am a proud Arab and Muslim."
03-18-07 - Netanyahu tells Olmert to start working "Anyone who wants to negotiate for peace, must completely forget about the right of return. Only then will there be a chance for peace... This is a different political attitude that the one this government is muttering," the Likud leader said.
03-18-07 - Linguist, peace activist Prof. Tanya Reinhardt dies age 63 She was active in recent years in Israeli-Palestinian efforts against the West Bank separation fence and the seizure of land from Palestinians for its construction
03-18-07 - Gaza is turning into another Baghdad
03-18-07 - America and Israel must open the door to Hamas By George Soros The Bush administration is again committing a blunder in the Middle East by supporting the Israeli government in its refusal to recognise a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas
03-18-07 - Crop planes near Gaza forbidden
03-18-07 - The Logic of Recognition Are Palestinians requested to recognize the Jewish State as an absolute entity, or within certain borders, and which borders? The pre-67 borders, or the post-67 borders?
Or are the Palestinians requested to recognize the ugly wall as the final borders? Are Palestinians requested to recognize the incarnation of Jewish Nationalism, or Zionism on Palestinian land?
03-18-07 - 'Anti-Zionism is mask for anti-Semitism' He said he wanted to restrict the meaning of the term Zionism because of the attacks being made on it, particularly by Arabs
03-18-07 - Israeli ex-POWs come out against Egypt Israeli war veterans accused Egyptian forces of murdering Israeli troops who were taken prisoner
03-18-07 - May Day Benefit
03-18-07 - Giving Large "You don't solve problems by blowing yourself up in public buildings and killing innocent people ? that's not going to solve the problem," she says. "I understand, if I were a Palestinian, and the third generation now in a refugee camp, I'd probably be doing the same thing to myself, because it's wrong. But it's not Israel's fault." It IS Israel's fault. Israel is the one that that made them refugees in the first place and it is Israel that is preventing their lawful right to return home.
03-17-07 - Haneya: first cabinet meeting of coalition gov't on Sunday
03-17-07 - Abbas urges world to lift "siege" on Palestinians
03-17-07 - Haneya says new coalition to respect signed agreements
03-17-07 - Rally for missing BBC journalist Palestinian journalists have rallied outside parliament in Gaza City in support of the BBC's Alan Johnston, who is thought to have been abducted.
03-17-07 - Evergreen celebrates activist's life Corrie was an Evergreen student who was killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, an area bordering Israel that's governed by the Palestinian Authority.
03-17-07 - Statehood the priority, says Palestinian PM Mr Haniya says resisting occupation is a legitimate right of the Palestinian people enshrined in international law.
03-17-07 - Remembering Rachel, 4 Years and Still No Justice. Dispatch #2
03-17-07 - Norway Quickly Recognizes new Palestinian Government Also calls on Israel to release tax funds they have been holding from Palestinians worsening economic conditions there
03-17-07 - Israel's Arab minister urges government to talk with Palestinian unity government
03-17-07 - Jordan's relief aid convoy heads for Palestinian territories The Jordanian Hashemite Charity Commission (HCO) on Saturday sent 6 trucks of aid convoy to Palestinian areas which are expected to arrive there on Sunday.
03-17-07 - Israeli Shebak planning another attack on Gaza Strip The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that according to Israeli political sources the preparations to once again invade Gaza are on high.
03-17-07 - Syria welcomes formation of Palestinian unity gov't
03-17-07 - Turkey hails formation of Palestinian National Unity Government
03-17-07 - US cool on Palestinian government
03-17-07 - Israel at loggerheads with allies on boycott of Palestinian coalition
03-17-07 - Jordan, Bahrain urge to keep pushing forward peace process
03-17-07 - Foreign Ministry moves to prevent collapse of PA boycott The Foreign Ministry has identified two main trends in the EU stand. Ireland and Spain have called for an unconditional normalization of relations, while the British are promoting a proposal to maintain contact with Fatah ministers only.
03-17-07 - Excerpts from Palestinian gov't program Excerpts from the program of the Hamas- Fatah coalition government, provided by incoming Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti. The platform was finalized Friday and some of the language differs from a draft published on Hamas and Fatah Web sites earlier in the week.
03-17-07 - Threat to Al Aqsa Mosque greater than ever after media and critics swayed by Israeli campaign
03-17-07 - Brussels press: No genuine desire on part of Israelis to achieve just peace A Belgium newspaper criticized the Israeli government's refusal to deal with the new Palestinian national unity government.
03-17-07 - Unity government to win most PLC blocs, despite implicit acceptance of Israeli conditions
03-17-07 - Sanctions handicap Palestinian government -Fayyad
03-17-07 - Army setup several checkpoints near Jenin
03-17-07 - Palestinians denounce attack on UNRWA envoy The Palestine Liberation Organization's Refugees Department denounced on Saturday the attack that targeted the convoy of John Ging, director of the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) operations in Gaza.
03-17-07 - Evening invasions startle Nablus residents
03-17-07 - Freed Hamas leader shuns terror tactics He was released unexpectedly last weekend, on the eve of Hamas's unity coalition agreement with Fatah which made it the senior partner in the Palestinian government.
03-17-07 - Lebanese army boosts security around Palestinian camp, base of militants blamed in bus bombings
03-17-07 - Ahern hails new Palestinian government
03-17-07 - Kristof: US should stop biting tongue on Israel Whether they have "learned to muzzle themselves" or they "just don't get it," US politicians should stop biting their tongues when it comes to Israel, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof argues in Sunday's paper.
03-17-07 - Kuffiyeh Kraze Hits the West Koast
03-17-07 - Recognise new Palestinian government, urges Yemen Yemen urged the international community to recognise the new Palestinian government of national unity and to lift the aid blockade imposed on it, the official Saba news agency said.
03-16-07 - One Palestinian Security Officer Killed, another Wounded in Central Gaza Palestinian security sources said that Hussain Alselhi, 31 and Mousa Rjelat, 28, of the intelligence service, were driving past the town?s cemetery when another car, loaded with masked gunmen, intercepted them and forced them out, then sprayed them with several bullets.
03-16-07 - Rachel Corrie's Voice
03-16-07 - Israel: Stop Forcing Civilians to Assist Military Operations The Israeli army should immediately cease deliberately endangering Palestinian civilians by forcing them to assist military operations, Human Rights Watch said today. During recent military operations in the Old City of Nablus, Israeli soldiers forced at least three Palestinians at gun point, two of them children, to assist in searching apartments for suspects. International humanitarian law prohibits a party to a conflict from using the civilian population or individual civilians in order to attempt to shield military operations......Human Rights Watch and Israeli and Palestinian organizations documented numerous cases of Israeli forces using Palestinian civilians as human shields during the early years of the current intifada IDF hide behind children and then they have the chutzpah to claim that others hide behind civilians.
03-16-07 - IDF troops conduct takeover drills in Palestinian village For the third time within a month, despite a complaint filed with the Military Advocate General, Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit, the IDF conducted a takeover exercise at Beit Lid, a village near Tul Karm. Ask yourself, for how long would Americans put up with something like this if an army of a foreign nation were to conduct such activity (among others) in their cities and towns?
03-16-07 - UN man escapes Gaza kidnap bid Three masked gunmen pulled up in front of John Ging, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, who was travelling with a driver and a security official in a marked UN vehicle that had just crossed into the Gaza Strip from Israel. Eleven bullets hit the car and the gunmen tried to force open the car door but failed. The UN vehicle drove off as the gunfire continued.
03-16-07 - Girls in Rafah remember Rachel Corrie The two girls emphasized in their poems that the children of Rafah in particular and all children of Palestine will never forget Rachel and she will be in their memories as long as they live. The children then hung placards with slogans that commemorate Corrie and wishing that she was with them, among the signs: ?Rachel we will not forget you," and "Rachel we need you."
03-16-07 - Eight wounded in demos against West Bank barrier Five demonstrators and three police officers were wounded on Friday during weekly protests against the West Bank barrier, army radio reported.
03-16-07 - Palestinians welcome new unity government "We are so happy about the unity government because we don't want more fighting between Hamas and Fatah,"
03-16-07 - Britain to talk with non-Hamas ministers: diplomats Britain, in a break with Israel, will allow diplomatic contacts with non-Hamas ministers in a new Palestinian unity government but will continue to shun members of the Islamist group, European diplomats said Friday.
03-16-07 - Palestinian unity moves welcomed Arab League spokesman Alaa Rushdi told the BBC that the move would help the work of the Arab summit to be held in Saudi Arabia later this month
03-16-07 - UNHCR condemns deadly Iraqi raid on Palestinians in Baghdad The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday it was deeply disturbed by a raid conducted by the Iraqi security forces earlier this week in a Palestinian area of Baghdad that left at least one person dead.
03-16-07 - U.S. declines comments on new Palestinian government
03-16-07 - Feature: Palestinians hope new gov't to gain recognition and help restore normal life
03-16-07 - Israel critic may get permanent U.N. post "Israel is clearly in military occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories," Dugard said in a report on the territories earlier this year. "At the same time elements of the occupation constitute forms of colonialism and of apartheid, which are contrary to international law."
03-16-07 - News Analysis: Lifting embargo, restoring security two main challenges facing new Palestinian unity gov't One of the main challenging issues after the new government is born "is the improvement of the internal Palestinian security,"
03-16-07 - Bush talks with Saudi, Egyptian leaders on Mideast "The president made clear once again his commitment to a Palestinian state that can live side by side in peace with Israel," Snow said.
03-16-07 - Pelosi's Disastrous Misstep on Iran Under pressure from some conservative members of her caucus, and from lobbyists associated with neoconservative groupings that want war with Iran and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC), Pelosi agreed on Monday to strip the Iran provision from the spending bill that has become the House leadership's primary vehicle for challenging the administration's policies in the region.
03-16-07 - Senators change P.A. letter AIPAC strongly backs the letters, while APN says it has "concerns" about them because it favors contacts with P.A. Cabinet ministers from Abbas' Fatah Party, which is less extreme than Hamas.
03-16-07 - France: Resume aid to Palestinians "We must resume direct assistance to the Palestinian national unity government as soon as it is inaugurated," Dominique de Villepin said in remarks prepared for a speech Friday at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
03-16-07 - Hamad: "President and PM received assurances from EU countries to deal with unity government" Palestinian government spokesperson, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, stated on Friday that President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, received assurances from several European countries that they will be willing to recognize the government and deal with it.
03-16-07 - 'I try to forget - but i can't' She was the 12-year-old girl filmed crying alongside her father and siblings as they lay dying - victims of an explosion at a family picnic. But what happened to Huda Ghalia next? Rory McCarthy meets the shy, teased girl who became a symbol of Palestinian despair
03-16-07 - Palestinian coalition to be formed, West watches A U.S. official said on Friday that Washington would leave the door open to unofficial contacts with Palestinian Finance Minister-designate Salam Fayyad, a political independent.
03-16-07 - Mosque demolition orders in Negev, six destroyed in just a few years The Israeli government is in the process of "developing the Negev" which translates into expelling its native population. Israeli forces have destroyed six mosques in the area in recent years.
03-16-07 - Impoverished Palestinians sell wedding gold
03-16-07 - PMO to Balad: We will thwart anti-Israel activity even if legal "The Shin Bet security service will thwart the activity of any group or individual seeking to harm the Jewish and democratic character of the State of Israel, even if such activity is sanctioned by the law,"
03-16-07 - Severing ties with Abbas a mistake, PM aides say
03-16-07 - Abbas: Protect Palestinians in Iraq Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to intervene to protect the Palestinians in Iraq.
03-16-07 - Palestinian refugees in Iraq stuck in "Catch 22" "They're in a Catch-22. They're targeted, they have death threats, they have these raids, but they can't flee and when they flee they either have to do it illegally or they are stuck at the border,"
03-16-07 - Education Employees to be paid, EU considers resuming PA funding The Acting Palestinian Minister of Finance, Dr. Samir Abu Eisheh said that the ministry will pay one month's salary to the education sector employees.
03-16-07 - U.S. official: Israeli investors should pump money into Iraq
03-16-07 - Israeli university's age restrictions discriminates against Arab students
03-16-07 - Egypt protest over 'POW deaths'
03-16-07 - U.S. failed to give Israel all drafts of UN Resolution 1701 The United States usually represents Israel's positions in the Security Council, and did so during the war as well No kidding? Well I never would've guessed that.
03-16-07 - AIPAC judge calls hearing on secret evidence The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers ordered hearings on whether to keep evidence secret at trial.
03-16-07 - Olmert defiant as calls grow for resignation ahead of war report Mr Olmert is in an uncomfortable position. His popularity ratings have sunk, with an Israeli public disillusioned by what is widely perceived as a failed war against Hizbullah last July and by corruption allegations against Mr Olmert and several other scandals involving members of his government.
03-16-07 - AIPAC rejects Pollard motion AIPAC officials spoke against the motion, arguing that involving the organization in efforts on behalf of Pollard, currently serving a life sentence for spying for Israel, would complicate the lobby's mission to promote a close U.S.-Israel relationship.
03-16-07 - No divestment for Howard University ?Without qualification, Howard University and I oppose any action calling for a divestiture of university funds from certain U.S.-based companies doing business with Israel,? university president H. Patrick Swygert wrote to Thomas Kahn, president of the AJCommittee?s Washington chapter.
03-16-07 - Israel struggles with Sudanese refugees The treatment of the refugees, particularly those who have made harrowing escapes from Darfur, has brought protests in Israel.
03-16-07 - Former Egyptian prisoner of war says he saw Ben-Eliezer killing two Egyptian soldiers
03-16-07 - Better red than dead? A plan to save the Dead Sea looks environmentally and economically dubious
03-16-07 - 'Paradise Now': Sympathy for the devil? Abu-Assad also says the movie is not pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel, or more to the point, propaganda. "The movie is beyond pro or anti. The movie is about characters in a very difficult situation and they try to make a human decision. I really didn't want to make a movie that will reduce itself to pro or anti or propaganda. I believe I made a human tragedy. In tragedies, you shift the theme to a better level from just being pro or anti."
03-16-07 - Inside America's powerful Israel lobby Many rank-and-file members of AIPAC seemed to be spoiling for military action against Iran -- "We have to do to them what we did to Saddam," one delegate told me........."Our commitment to Israel defines us as a nation," said Republican Norm Coleman of Minnesota, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, adding that the AIPAC lobbyists "help make sure that we don't forget." ........."I don't sit behind my desk and come up with this stuff," Coleman said, stressing that he often consulted AIPAC executive director Howard Kohr for policy advice. Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, said that she, too, often spoke to Kohr and others in the AIPAC leadership. "They're like daily phone calls," she said, as other Democratic and Republican members of Congress onstage nodded in agreement. Read the entire article.
03-16-07 - Wexler introduces visa waiver bill A Jewish congressman introduced legislation that would allow Israelis to travel to the United States without visas.
03-16-07 - World Jewish Congress on verge of split Hermesh said that in the conference call Bronfman also accused the Israel branch of financial irregularities and threatened to directly intervene in the appointment of a new director for the branch. An independent audit of the Israeli operations, meanwhile, has been ordered, the WJC said from group headquarters in New York.
03-16-07 - Obama Was Right: Senator's Remarks In Muscatine Supported by Nearly 20 Years of Iowa Democratic Platforms
03-16-07 - As Health Deteriorates, Jailed Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian Enters 54th Day of Hunger Strike to Protest Indefinite Imprisonment
03-16-07 - Strategic Affairs Minister Lieberman Visits Israeli-Arab Village
03-16-07 - Interfaith: Self-righteous gentiles Ambassador to Germany Shimon Stein said that anyone who made such comparisons had "either forgotten everything, learned nothing or failed morally." I'd say that they clearly didn't forget anything, and that these bishops have excellent morals to call the situation exactly as it is. It took a lot of guts to do so. Israel expects everyone to look the other way and shut their mouth. By not doing so, I'd say that these German bishops HAVE learned the lessons of the past.
03-16-07 - An Orthodox rabbi questions attitudes toward non-Jews ?Now that Israel is surrounded by a government committed to its destruction, what do you say to Israeli children about what their attitude should be toward their Palestinian neighbors? Should it be tolerance, justice, and friendship? Or the opposite??
03-16-07 - Yes, Barack, But How Much Do You Hate the Palestinians? AIPAC is a right-wing body, even on the Jewish-American political spectrum ? in Israeli terms, its orientation is strongly Likudnik, aligning it with the right-wing fringe in Israel, too. Close to 80% of American Jews, according to surveys see the Iraq war as a mistake. (As opposed to the AIPAC crowd and Israeli government, which continues to support it.)
03-16-07 - U.S. complicity in war The United States must end complicity in Israel?s war on Palestinians
03-16-07 - AIPAC-Christian Zionist Right-Wing Alliance, When Will Democrats Catch On?
03-16-07 - Methodist bishops pledge cooperative work - but not merger A committee was appointed to draft a statement calling for an end to the war in Iraq, and another group was named to write a letter on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, emphasizing injustices shown to Palestinians. Both letters will be circulated among the bishops for their signatures before being forwarded to U.S. government bodies.
03-16-07 - Finkelstein?s Lecture Featured No ?Fringe Views?
03-15-07 - One killed, two injured near Rafah border Palestinian sources reported that one Palestinian man was killed and other two injured when an underground tunnel collapsed on them near the Palestinian Egyptian border in Rafah city in the southern Gaza strip.
03-15-07 - Palestinians unveil unity govt but Israel rejects contacts Israel immediately said it would not deal with the new coalition, which unites the radical Islamist Hamas movement with president Mahmud Abbas's secular Fatah party and was formed after weeks of wrangling over the lineup.
03-15-07 - An If Americans Knew Investigation: Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Borders & Airports Sometimes mothers and children are strip-searched together, at other times little girls are taken from their parents and strip-searched alone The Israelis also strip searched a Holocaust survivor.
03-15-07 - One Fatah activist dies of wounds sustained in Gaza One said to be Fatah activist died on Thursday of wounds he sustained on Wednesday during infighting between Fatah and Hamas security forces, in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip.
03-15-07 - Palestinian PM unveils unity team The list will be submitted to parliament on Saturday for approval.
03-15-07 - BBC plea for Gaza correspondent The BBC has made a plea for information about the whereabouts of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
03-15-07 - Palestinians hope unity deal restores economic aid A senior Israeli official reportedly called the establishment of the Palestinian unity government "a big step backward."
03-15-07 - 3G License Signed in Palestine "We are convinced of the growth potential of the telecommunications sector in Palestine and it is a proud moment for us to sign this new mobile license,"
03-15-07 - Snow falls as winter returns to Israel In the Jerusalem-area mountains, 5-10 centimeters of snow accumulated on the ground at altitudes of over 900 meters above sea level. However, in the city itself, where the snow was accompanied by rains, the ground remained clear, despite snow falling almost all day
03-15-07 - Fleeing from Iraq, Palestinians in fear of arrest in Cyprus Doros Polycarpou, President of KISA, Action for Equality, Support and Anti-Racism, described the Palestinian?s plight as, ?very serious?, adding that they are ?being denied the right to apply for asylum, which they are entitled to. The law is very clear: From the first moment that they arrived on the island, they should have been looked after, not had life made difficult for them.?
03-15-07 - Nonviolent demonstrations mark a year since leftist leader was abducted from PA jail
03-15-07 - Saudi plan is starting point, says Rice In support of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's stance on the matter, Rice said that Israel should not respond to the Arab league's offer at this point in time, since she said the Israelis had their own ideas for achieving peace, which should also be considered. Rice parrots Israel's position. What a surprise.
03-15-07 - Apocalypse Now: Iran Threat Dominates AIPAC Confab ** just under the surface, support was clear for a military attack if sanctions failed. Indeed, AIPAC supported a move to smooth the way for such an attack during the conference itself. House Democrats fashioning a supplemental appropriations bill for the Iraq war this week had hoped to include a provision requiring President Bush to get authorization from Congress for any attack on Iran. But late Monday, the provision was kept out of the bill, according to several Capitol Hill sources, due to vehement opposition from AIPAC and pro-Israel members of Congress, including Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-L.I./Queens) and Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.).
03-15-07 - Palestinian coalition platform calls for end of occupation
03-15-07 - Israel steps up anti-P.A. campaign Israeli officials said Thursday that, with the governing Palestinian Authority faction Hamas and the relatively moderate Fatah expected to announce their new unity Cabinet within days, Israel would try to prevent its acceptance abroad
03-15-07 - Israel arrests 25 Palestinians in the W. Bank Israeli forces arrested 25 Palestinians Thursday in Majdan and other villages of the West Bank, claiming they are wanted for security reasons.
03-15-07 - In pictures: Palestinians react to unity deal
03-15-07 - Israel risks isolation as Hamas-Fatah coalition takes office a senior British official was pessimistic, saying: "My impression at the moment is that the Americans are unwilling to work with the new government."
03-15-07 - Nablus Invasion Diary II: Human Shields and Medical Obstruction . According to his son, Ghareb was in the bathroom when tear gas began to fill his home. He gasped to his wife that he could not breathe, and went into cardiac arrest. The family immediately called for help, but soldiers prevented the ambulance from reaching Ghareb's home for over an hour. By that time Ghareb had stopped breathing and fallen into a deep coma. By the time he reached the hospital, he had no pulse, and it was too late.
03-15-07 - MARCH 16th, DAY OF REMEMBRANCE One month from today we will mark the fourth anniversary of Rachel Corrie?s death. Please join Rachel?s Words and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation in making March 16th a day of remembrance.
03-15-07 - Egypt says peace first with Israel, normalisation later "The logic of the Arab initiative is that Israel first withdraws from territory, reaches an accord with the Palestinians and that a Palestinian state is established,"
03-15-07 - Postal services resume between Jordan, Palestinian territories
03-15-07 - Army opens investigation into charges soldiers misused Palestinians in raid 'misused'? The IDF were caught redhanded using Palestinians as human shields.
03-15-07 - Rice to meet Abbas twice during regional visit
03-15-07 - Settlers take private land And the Israeli army seized the rest of the land those settlements (among other things) are built on - at first, under the pretext of 'security'. Years later, outposts are constructed which grow into full-fledged settlements. Deporting or transfering parts of a nation's own civilian population into the territory it occupies is a violation of article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
03-15-07 - Military tribunal drops charges linking Barghouti's son to shooting attacks The IDF resumed practicing takeover operations in built-up areas in the Palestinian village of Beit Lid, near Tul Karm, in spite of complaints filed with the Military Advocate General for two similar incidents earlier this month. A battalion of reservists carried out an exercise, simulating the takeover of the village. Lawyers representing the village residents complained that the training endangered the lives of the residents. This was the third battalion of the same brigade to have taken part in exercises in the village. The training started at 10 P.M. and lasted until the morning hours of the next day. (Amos Harel)
03-15-07 - PCHR weekly report on Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied territories
03-15-07 - Pro-Palestinian French group appeals to stop Jerusalem tram According to the prosecutors, the tram is meant to "turn the settlements that are located close to Jerusalem into Jewish neighborhoods of the city, facilitating transport to and from these settlements and encouraging more people to live there."
03-15-07 - Israel: Further information on Fear for Safety These latest attacks are just some of many perpetrated by Israeli settlers
against international human rights defenders in recent months and years,
seemingly in an attempt to discourage and eliminate the presence of
international witnesses, thereby depriving the local Palestinian population of
this limited form of protection.
03-15-07 - The Danish Government helps Palestine refugees in Lebanon recover from the summer war
03-15-07 - More Jerusalem Home Demolitions The wintry weather did not prevent the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality bulldozers from traveling to the Hummos Valley in the village of Sur Baher. They demolished two of the homes in southeastern Jerusalem under the pretext of not being licensed......In the meantime, Israeli forces imposed a closed military zone on the Hummos Valley while distributing demolition orders to approximately 50 families under the pretext of licensing. The demolitions are slated for June, although the Israelis generally accept large sums of money to postpone.
03-15-07 - Egypt: Palestinian who planned to attack Israelis nabbed
03-15-07 - Palestinian children capture their camp life on film There are some 367,000 Palestinian refugees living in 12 camps across Lebanon. All of them are denied social rights, and they are only allowed to do cheap manual labour regardless of their education or skills.
03-15-07 - Iraqi Interior Ministry says raid on Palestinians compound was targeting stolen car ring, not refugees The Interior Ministry on Thursday defended a raid on a Palestinian compound earlier this week in eastern Baghdad, saying it was targeting a stolen car ring ? not the refugees.
03-15-07 - Turkish experts to inspect construction work near Jerusalem holy site
03-15-07 - Israel seeking name for Lebanon war Operation Bomb Fleeing Refugees? Operation Cluster Bomb Civilian Areas? Operation Level Lebanon?
03-15-07 - Anti-Zionist Rabbi Beaten by Jews in Poland for Attending Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran "With every blow I felt like I was speaking in the name of the Jewish people,"
03-15-07 - U.N.'s al-Hariri inquiry finds out more about bomber
03-15-07 - Liberian refugees in Israel face deportation In recent years Israel has sought to deport illegal foreign workers, many of whom Christians, saying it wants to reduce unemployment. Human rights groups say the policy also aims to maintain the Jewish population's majority in Israel.
03-15-07 - Hebron museum to preserve four-legged chicken
03-15-07 - Miaow! George's claws come out He expressed his outrage at the plight of the Palestinian people, who have "no nation, no state, no rights, are hounded from pillar to post and live in their hundreds and thousands in rancid, rat-infested refugee camps". But worst of all, he said, "the victims are called the terrorists".
03-15-07 - Rachel Corrie and Palestine The bulldozer killing of Rachel Corrie was not the only case of such a death in Palestine, but it was the first time a US citizen had become the target of Israel's military. Not true.
03-15-07 - "Palestine Times" to be distributed in Israel
03-15-07 - Group lauds call to free journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, 41, could face execution if he is convicted of sedition, blasphemy and treason for calling for diplomatic ties between Israel and Bangladesh......The House resolution, drafted by Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), was overwhelmingly adopted. It is the latest initiative in an international campaign, led in part by AJCommittee, to secure freedom for the Bangladeshi journalist.
03-15-07 - Jewish organizations allege troubling ties among Muslim groups Referring to "the other side of the coin," Khalid said, "We have never heard condemnation of killing of innocent people by the Israeli army. We never ask. We never demanded you should denounce. We've been on the ropes always."
03-15-07 - Cheney urges Hill to OK funds for surge While none of the 2008 White House hopefuls spoke at the AIPAC conference, several hosted receptions last night to schmooze with Jewish voters -- and potential donors -- following a gala dinner. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, held a dessert event and Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois Democrat, planned a soiree for the same hour
03-15-07 - Saying ?yes, but? to Evangelicals for Israel American Jews need to connect very seriously with the rest of the Christian world. It is the Catholic Church, the mainline Protestant churches, and to a somewhat lesser degree the black Baptist churches that need to be engaged. This is the challenge for the Jewish community as it tries to sell Israel and Israeli policy to the non-Jewish world. Why does it have to be 'sold' at all, one might ask? Do the Danes have to sell their policy? How about the Japanese? Why not?
03-15-07 - Working for peace A Christian, a Jew and two Muslims went on a trip to the Holy Land.
03-15-07 - Obama remark draws fire from Jews "The next time Obama says something on the Mideast, people are going to listen a lot closer, and the next time he says something about it, he's going to be a lot more aware of that," said Stein, who writes about the politics of Mideast policy. "Part of it is the learning curve for the candidate."
03-15-07 - Finally in the Jewish state, some Falash Mura are turning to Jesus "This phenomenon exists in various sectors of the Israeli population," Molla said. "I don't think it's connected to the Falash Mura. Unfortunately, missionaries succeed in penetrating the Ethiopian community. They operate on the periphery. They are not loved. They are not supported."
03-15-07 - After visiting Israel, fire chiefs wonder about U.S. preparedness Harmes was among 14 chiefs from 13 states who toured Israel in February on a mission co-sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation through AIPAC and the International Association of Fire Chiefs. They visited Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other locations......The trip was intended to encourage relations between the U.S. and Israeli homeland security and first-responder communities.
03-15-07 - Finkelstein featured speaker for peace MEMRI's website features news stories translated from various sources in the Arab world. The group has been previously accused of re-contextualizing stories from Arab media outlets to serve their own agenda.
MEMRI was discussed in a news post from earlier this week.
03-15-07 - Taming Leviathan The lobbyists had every reason to feel proud of their work. Congress has more Jewish members than ever before: 30 in the House and a remarkable 13 in the Senate. (There are now more Jews in Congress than Episcopalians.) Both parties are competing with each other to be the ?soundest? on Israel. About two-thirds of Americans hold a favourable view of the place.
03-15-07 - Coffee-klatch campaigningCandidates court Jewish voters at AIPAC fete Earlier in the evening, Biden stood on a chair ? instead of using a podium like Clinton and Obama ? and ripped those who have questioned the close ties between the United States and the Jewish state.
03-15-07 - Israel's right to be racist
03-15-07 - Audio Download: "Palestine" from rapper Patriarch's debut album As an Arab-American rap artist living in a post 9-11 world, Patriarch speaks to the masses about the stereotypes, fear and anger towards the Arab world. He flawlessly delivers his message of political activism to relatively untouched US market of over four million Arab-Americans.
03-15-07 - Danish company charged for T-shirt sales supporting FARC, Palestinian group The company, Fighters and Lovers, said on its Web site that it would donate 37 kroner (?5; US$7) to the groups for each 175 kroner (?24; US$31) T-shirt sold. However, no money has been transferred to either group, and it was not immediately clear if any shirts were sold.
03-15-07 - Reality TV show follows Arabs in America During filming of the 10-week road trip, the show's quartet ? an Egyptian, Ali Amr; a Saudi, Sanad Al Kubaissi; a Lebanese, Mohamed Abou Ghazal; and a Palestinian, Lara Abou Saifan ? met with politicians, blues musicians and church leaders as well as ordinary Americans while riding horses in Yellowstone National Park, playing softball in Chicago and touring Universal Studies in Los Angeles.
03-15-07 - If You Love America, Say No To Obama Perhaps most dangerously of all, however, is Obama?s abhorrent lack of passion towards Israel.
03-14-07 - Israel should stop contested excavation: UNESCO The chief of the UN culture agency said Wednesday he supported a report calling on Israel to end excavation work near Al-Aqsa mosque which has sparked protests across the Muslim world.
03-14-07 - Six Palestinians, including three children, injured in internal clashes in Gaza Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday at night that six Palestinian residents, including three children, were injured in renewed violent clashes between Fateh and Hamas gunmen in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
03-14-07 - PLO Condemns Killing of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq The PLO Refugees' Affairs Department condemned Wednesday the Killing of eight Palestinian refugees in Baghdad by the armed militias.
03-14-07 - RELEASE: Tom Fox memorial
03-14-07 - Jerusalem home demolitions: by 2020, 240,000 Palestinians will be 40,000
03-14-07 - Emotions flare at Mideast talks in Japan "I wish Israel all the luck," Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said in comments laden with sarcasm during a panel discussion.
"Such prosperity and such advancement and such economic power," he said. "Sure you don't need that much of my water? You don't need my land in the Jordan Valley?"
03-14-07 - YNet: "Court convicts Hebron settler for stoning Palestinian homes"
03-14-07 - Lawyers Urge Israeli Rights At home in Israel, El-Sana has represented the Bedouins in front of the Israeli Supreme Court and has petitioned the government to improve facilities for Bedouins
03-14-07 - Palestinian factions agree cabinet deal
03-14-07 - Palestinian refugees in Iraq were attacked 31 times in February, eight killed
03-14-07 - At-Tuwani Update: February 20 - March 10, 2007 Mueller, O'Neill and a Dove accompanied a Palestinian shepherd near Havat Ma'on.
Settlers came down from the outpost and the Palestinian moved to the other
side of the valley. The settler children threw stones at the Palestinians
and internationals. One settler grazed his goats on land belonging to a man
from At-Tuwani. Internationals called the police, but the police said they
would not come to investigate.
03-14-07 - Hebron Update 25 February - 3 March 2007 A group of ten settler children, aged between 8 and 13
years, approached the CPTers and called them Nazis. The soldier said something
to the children. The children began to spit at Benvie and one kicked her. The
children then began to throw stones and one stone hit Arbour on the side of his
head, causing his ear to bleed profusely. Throughout, the soldier did nothing
but watch
03-14-07 - Rachel Corrie's parents ask you to take action On the third anniversary of Rachel's killing in Gaza, here are three things that we urge you to consider doing today, or as soon as possible:
03-14-07 - Israel not 'enthusiastic' about strike on Iran: Olmert Israeli officials are making a concerted effort to backpedal away from previous strong language about Iran so as not to be seen as the instigators of an attack on Iran.
03-14-07 - Army probes mosque vandalism According to Rabbis for Human Rights, the soldiers vandalized the mosque, and threatened to demolish it, in response to stone-throwing attacks by Palestinian youths against cars from nearby Israeli settlements.
03-14-07 - Top UN official sees potential for progress in Middle East peace efforts
03-14-07 - Hamas?s Executive Force Attacks Electricians in Northern Gaza Palestinian media sources reported that on Wednesday morning, members of the Hamas-formed executive force of the interior ministry attacked electricians working for the Palestinian electricity company who were mending power cables in Beit Hanoun city, north of Gaza Strip
03-14-07 - Israeli army destroys Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
03-14-07 - Israeli troops attack one Palestinian civilian and abduct another in Hebron
03-14-07 - Rachel Corrie stirs idealism, controversy A resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., calling for a U.S. investigation into Corrie?s death never advanced out of committee, and Baird acknowledged there?s little chance of its being successfully resurrected given the U.S. government?s ardent support for Israel.
03-14-07 - Nablus: unknown group fires on settler car, Israeli forces close checkpoint and raid towns
03-14-07 - Conference for peace of Middle East held in Tokyo A Conference for Confidence-Building between Israelis and Palestinians was held here on Wednesday to discuss ways for an attempt building a cooperative bilateral relationship between the two sides.
03-14-07 - Palestinian security officer''s house under fire Masked militants fired at the home of a top Palestinian security officer early Wednesday morning, Palestinian sources said.
03-14-07 - Israelis, Palestinians Applaud Econ Plan Under the plan, the agroindustrial park will be built near the town of Jericho and process agricultural products from the Palestinian territories like oranges and tomatoes, according to a Foreign Ministry official who briefed reporters later Wednesday on customary condition of anonymity.
03-14-07 - Rachel Corrie?s memory carries on at Evergreen
03-14-07 - Israeli forces arrest 7 in West Bank: Nablus residents forced into the cold midnight streets At dawn Wednesday Israeli forces launched its daily campaign of arrests throughout the West Bank. The suburbs of Nablus, Ramallah and Bethlehem were hit particularly hard with a large military contingent plowing through the sleeping streets to arrest seven people
03-14-07 - Stop Funding for Attack on Iran! Last night, Rep. Pelosi and the democratic leadership decided to pull language from the Supplemental Appropriations bill which stated that no funds may be authorized for military operations in or related to Iran unless specifically authorized by the Congress.
03-14-07 - AIPAC meet offers rejoinder to charges of 'Israel Lobby' pundits Israeli-American historian Michael Oren outlined a history of the United States that made the founding of the republic seem as much about moving Jews to the Holy Land as it was about dumping tea into the harbor I nearly just vomited at this newest propaganda inflicted upon America by the Hasbara artists.
03-14-07 - Play lets Rachel Corrie speak "The Anti-Defamation League and several other groups have sponsored some ads in the program that call into question the validity of the play," said director Braden Abraham of Seattle. "It's unprecedented for a group to take out ads in our program condemning our material. That is unique.
03-14-07 - AIPAC backed removal of Iran war provision AIPAC lobbying helped remove a provision from a bill that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval for war against Iran. No kidding?
03-14-07 - The AIPAC Caucus Hawkish "pro-Israel" organizations, on the Jewish and Christian right, have been leading advocates of a more confrontational Iran policy. Thousands of supporters are in town for AIPAC's star-studded convention, which as usual drew half of the Senate and a third of the House, including members of both parties' leadership.
03-14-07 - Syria denies link to group accused of Lebanon bombs Syria denied on Wednesday Lebanese allegations that it had links to a group accused of bombing two buses near Beirut last month and said it was hunting the group down for ties to al Qaeda.
03-14-07 - Poor Obama! Can't Fake Hating Arabs +++BONUS MJ's Kid's Video for the far right in the pro-Israel community, it is more important that a candidate hate Arabs than love Israel. It's true. At AIPAC, professions of love for Israel are politely applauded but only Arab bashing (and Palestinian bashing in particular) brings the crowd to its feet.
03-14-07 - Civil rights under siege in Israel Israel is confronting a civil rights movement within its 1967 borders, and a national liberation struggle in the West Bank and Gaza. Both challenge the fundamental tenets and structures of Zionism, which elevate Jewish blood, privilege and religion over democracy, equality and the rule of law.
03-14-07 - Comment: Israel's policy keeps Mideast conflict alive Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who opened the sold-out conference via video, eloquently set forth the analogy between the Palestinian struggle for justice and his experience with the South African apartheid. Then speaker after speaker, Jewish, Muslim and Christian, electrified the participants by telling them about the Palestinians' grave and inhumane suffering under Israel's 40 years of colonial occupation. You have to look at the source of the original page in which this article appears in order to see it. There was some kind of error on the page that prevented the article from being loaded.
03-14-07 - Media coalition intervenes in lobbyist case The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 12 other groups, including The Associated Press and the Washington Post, asked Wednesday to enter the case for the limited purpose of challenging the government's apparent request to close the upcoming trial in this matter.
03-14-07 - AIPAC's Gabfest: Israel Lobby Shows Off Its Power What I?m sure won?t be discussed at this Pro-Israel love feast was the fate of the 34 U.S. servicemen, who were maliciously slaughtered on the USS Liberty by the Israelis on July 8, 1967; the late Rachel Corrie, a peace and justice activist, who was killed by a 9 ton Israeli bulldozer, at Rafah, on March 16, 2003
03-14-07 - Ban concerned over arms smuggling in Lebanon, Israeli overflights The UN secretary general noted that Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora had expressed his country's "frustration with continuing Israeli overflights, the rising civilian toll caused by Israeli cluster bombs and slow progress on the issue of the (disputed) Shebaa Farms."
03-14-07 - Israeli couple held with live cartridges in Goa
03-14-07 - Globe cleared after hearing Robertson said that when the editorial writer was asked to identify the source of the video, he said it was Palestine Media Watch, an Israeli organization that Robertson said "is known for promoting one-sided, hateful views of Palestinians." That explains a lot. We've got mainstream media relying on heavily biased outfits such as PMW and also MEMRI for their facts/news/translations. Incredible. Why not just pull them straight out of your ass? Same difference.
03-14-07 - Palestine: Israeli press expects PRTV to join soon Eurovision contest
03-14-07 - India must review ties with Israel: Karat
03-14-07 - WA Rachel Corrie The play "My Name is Rachel Corrie" opens tomorrow at the Repertory Theater in Seattle.
03-14-07 - A Clash Looms on Secrecy in Aipac Spy Case
03-14-07 - From 2002: Selective Memri Its work is subsidised by US taxpayers because as an "independent, non-partisan, non-profit" organisation, it has tax-deductible status under American law. .....The second thing that makes me uneasy is that the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel......Evidence from Memri's website also casts doubt on its non-partisan status.....Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence.
03-14-07 - Bloggers vs. the Lobby On New Year's Day, Israeli superhawk Benjamin Netanyahu called for an "intense international public relations front" to persuade Americans of the need for military confrontation with Iran. See yesterday's news batch for Netty's change of tack. It is clear that Israel, the neocons and the Bush admin are all seemingly pursuing the path to negotiations and are giving the appearance that they've relaxed their sphincters a bit. Won't last long.
03-14-07 - The Goy Who Cried Wolf If Hagee is willing to mobilize hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of conservative Christians to the cause, then they're willing to overlook his eagerness for the Second Coming (when we'll all become Christians), because it's just a silly fantasy that won't come to pass, anyway.
03-14-07 - Love across the Israel-Palestine divide I was surprised to see that the Palestinians accepted me as one of their own. Then I saw the occupation from the other side of the wall, and it's not what we see on television and it's not what we've been told on the Israeli side of the wall.
03-14-07 - Charges Dropped in NC College Fight
03-14-07 - U.S.-Israel energy act introduced The American Jewish Congress applauded the introduction of the U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Act to the U.S. Senate.
03-14-07 - Solana backs Syria on Golan "We would like to work as much as possible to see your country, Syria, recuperate the territory taken in 1967,"
03-14-07 - Levins teach peace to the Middle East She works with the Peace Education Mission, Bethlehem Model, to teach Palestinian children and teachers how to find non-violent solutions.
03-14-07 - 'Israel will never return Golan Heights' Land grabbers say 'Return stolen loot? No way!'.
03-14-07 - Lieberman invokes Czechoslovakia "There are elements in Europe that are willing to sacrifice Israel in exchange for their security, for their trade interests," Lieberman told Israel Radio
03-14-07 - Organizers call off Mideast visit The planned trip to the Palestinian territories this summer has been cancelled because of the failure to raise the necessary funds and campus support, one of the group's organizers said. Former President Jimmy Carter first encouraged students to visit the territories and observe living conditions there during his Jan. 23 visit, after which students quickly formed a group to accept the former President's challenge.
03-14-07 - Right-Wing Academic Values FrontPageMagazine.com features regular denunciations of academic sinners by Horowitz, appearing side-by-side with frothing rants against various other enemies, domestic and foreign. Alan Dershowitz and Daniel Pipes publish there, along with Christopher Hitchens and a lesser constellation of would-be freedom fighters, terrorism experts and expatriate authors based in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
03-14-07 - Liberal Zionists denounce AIPAC "The new approach aligns AIPAC more closely with neoconservatives, placing it in sharp opposition both to the Bush administration and the Israeli government." The positions of AIPAC, neocons, and the Bush admin are virtually identical - and have been for some time (to the detriment of Americans).
03-13-07 - Hamas fighter killed, nine injured in internal clashes in Gaza
03-13-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian workers in the old city of Hebron The Palestinian workers were renovating one of the historical old Palestinian houses located near the Israeli illegal settlement of Ibraheem Abino, in the old city, when the attack took place.
03-13-07 - Hamas identifies BBC reporter's kidnappers "The kidnappers have no nationalism, they want a cheap reward," he said. "They are well-known, and we hope he (Johnston) will be found today."
03-13-07 - Palestine: Unity gov't to be announced in 48 hours
03-13-07 - Israeli court rejects rights groups' request for opening Gaza crossings Israel's High Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected a petition filed by six human rights groups demanding Israel open all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
03-13-07 - Criminal gangs blamed for kidnap of BBC journalist
03-13-07 - Search continues for BBC reporter The BBC is continuing to try to locate its Gaza Strip correspondent, Alan Johnston, who has gone missing.
03-13-07 - Saudis spurn Israel peace stance Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal described preconditions raised by Israel as "ludicrous".
03-13-07 - Palestinian authorities aim to free journalist Around 30 Palestinian journalists have also held a protest outside the BBC's offices in Gaza city today calling for Johnston's release.
03-13-07 - Hamas reverse on schoolbook ban
03-13-07 - UN to open permanent probe on Israel The United Nation's Human Rights Council is expected to place Israel under permanent investigation for its "violations" of international law in the territories - until such time as it withdraws to the pre-1967 border Rightly so.
03-13-07 - Israel suddenly closes down Rafah key-crossing Spokesman of crossings Wael Dahab told reporters here that the Israeli authorities prevented the European monitors from arriving at Rafah crossing on the borders between southern Gaza Strip and Israel Tuesday.
03-13-07 - Rice to visit Saudis before Israel
03-13-07 - Olmert asks Abbas to concede right of return
03-13-07 - Settlers seek to rebuild evacuated W. Bank settlement Five extra-parliamentary groups have been engaged in recent weeks in putting together a group of activists, in order to re-inhabit the West Bank settlement of Homesh, evacuated during the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank in August 2005. The project is planned to take place in two weeks' time.
03-13-07 - Failure in peace progress would lead to escalation of violence: Jordan's King
03-13-07 - Egypt puts Gaza tunnels out of commission Amid repeated complaints from Israel about the tunnels, which sneak under the border to emerge in fields or homes on the Egyptian side, the Egyptian army has resorted to a deadly deterrence. Any tunnel openings they find will be gassed.
03-13-07 - No progress achieved in prisoners swap talks with Israel: Hamas
03-13-07 - Report: Libya to deport Palestinians Libya's official al-Jamahiriya daily said Tripoli intended to expel the Palestinians on its territory to abort "the conspiracy of liquidating the Palestinian cause and giving up the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homes in return for Israel's acceptance of the Beirut initiative."
03-13-07 - FM Livni: U.S. must stand firm on Iraq Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned the U.S. yesterday not to show weakness in Iraq, during an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington. "If the American
people understood what grip those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms.
Our citizens don't have any idea what goes on." - the late Admiral Thomas Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
03-13-07 - Hamas agrees to exchange 500 prisoners for Shilat
03-13-07 - Excavations in Jerusalem have political goals "It is clear," he told PNN on Tuesday, "that this announcement has political objectives."
03-13-07 - Upcoming UN report indicates that half of Palestinians are malnourished World Vision Jerusalem ? West Bank ? Gaza National Director Charles Claytons says that the report reflects the grim reality for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children and their families in the West Bank and Gaza.
03-13-07 - Fishing the Mediterranean: one of the toughest jobs in Gaza has just gotten harder It is sardine season in the Mediterranean off the Gaza coast. Fishermen need to go out 15 miles to do their work, but Israeli forces are opening fire on the sardine hunters.
03-13-07 - Domestic Violence Amidst Palestine's Poverty Violence was not the norm in the Palestinian home but rising poverty has brought in its wake anger that is eating at the Palestinian social fabric.
03-13-07 - UN agency appeals for $1.7 million to feed 30,000 impoverished Iraqi refugees in Syria Among the beneficiaries are 650 Palestinian refugees living in dire conditions in two locations along the Syria-Iraq border
03-13-07 - Saudi, Bahrain strongly condemn Israeli gross violations against Palestinians
03-13-07 - Egypt demands Israeli probe of alleged PoW slaughter
03-13-07 - Iran says Israel, U.S. threaten Mideast
03-13-07 - Quds brigades claims responsibility for Ashkelon missiles attack
03-13-07 - Syrians confess to Lebanon bus bombs: minister
03-13-07 - Groups protest P.A. boycott letter The groups urged activists to contact lawmakers and ask them not to sign the Nelson-Ensign letter, which AIPAC lobbyists are expected to promote heavily in Washington on Tuesday in conjunction with the group's annual policy forum.
03-13-07 - Olmert: Back U.S. in Iraq Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on U.S. Jews to back a continued U.S. presence in Iraq
03-13-07 - Israel approves Jordan rail link
03-13-07 - Olmert's leaked testimony reveals real goal of summer war we were offered variations on the theme that ended the fighting: the need to push Hizbullah (and, incidentally, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians) away from the northern border with Israel. That was the thrust of UN Resolution 1701 that brought about the official end of hostilities in mid-August. It also looked suspiciously like the reason why Israel chose at the last-minute to dump up to a million tiny bomblets -- old US stocks of cluster munitions with a very high failure rate -- that are lying in south Lebanon's fields, playgrounds and back yards waiting to explode.
03-13-07 - Use Of Human Shields Deplorable
03-13-07 - Years of Strife and Lost Hope Scar Young Palestinians
03-13-07 - Many guests at AIPAC event, but one is most unwanted --- Iraq "When America succeeds in Iraq, Israel is safer," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said late Monday in a live satellite address from his Jerusalem home that capped the gala dinner. "The friends of Israel know it, the friends who care about Israel know it. They will keep the Americans strong, powerful and convincing."......It did not help AIPAC's case for bipartisanship that the lobby this week successfully pressed for the removal of a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have required the president to get congressional approval for war against Iran. Well well well. Et tu AIPAC. Look at the very last sentence of the article. 'Limited time'? Was he referring to the limited time remaining in the Bush administration to strike Iran?
03-13-07 - U.S. envoy: We won't stop Israel talking to Syria Ambassador Jones, who participates in the meetings of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visits to Israel, told the crowd of academics that in all the meetings in which he took part there was never a demand that Israel avoid contacts with Syria. Thought so.
03-13-07 - Kucinich Hires Critic of Israel for Domestic Policy Panel A critic of Israel? OH MY GOD, STOP THE PRESSES!
03-13-07 - Dabkeh Troupe Dances for Cultural Awareness, Solidarity Performing their first dance, Dalo'na, the members of the group were dressed in traditional Palestinian attire
03-13-07 - PM's AIPAC speech surprises delegates Prime Minister Ehud Olmert waded into the thick of America's messy political debate on Iraq late Monday night when he told thousands of AIPAC supporters that "premature" withdrawal from the country could harm Israel and efforts against Iran. .....He referred to the US as the only country that could effectively confront the Iranians
03-13-07 - Israel, U.S. storm out of UN nuclear forum The Israel and U.S. delegations walked out of the United Nations' disarmament forum in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday after Iran said Israel was the "real source of nuclear danger in the Middle East" and had a "dark record of crimes."
03-13-07 - GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel An internal Shabak document says Israel's Arabs are a long-range strategic danger to Israel's character and very existence. Though many believe that Iran is currently Israel's greatest danger, the General Secret Service believes that the worst threat may actually come from within How many Israeli Arabs have died at the hands of Israeli Jews versus the other way around, mewonders? This talk is a guise of the real 'threat' to Israel: Israeli Arab demography.
03-13-07 - Syria sees Mideast peace process as inseparable whole After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Shara told a press conference that Syria is keen on restoring the Golan Heights and all the occupied Arab lands along with setting up an independent state of Palestine, noting that Syria is not seeking a barter deal with the U.S. for establishing peace on the Syrian track.
03-13-07 - House Leaders Support Israel, Differ Over Iraq at AIPAC Conference "Who doesn't believe that failure in Iraq is not a direct threat to the very existence of Israel?" Boehner said.
03-13-07 - Iowa Democrat troubled by Obama statement on Palestinians Obama, speaking to a small group of Democratic activists in Muscatine on Sunday, was quoted in the Des Moines Register as saying, "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.".....David Adelman wrote a letter Tuesday to the Illinois senator calling the comment "deeply troubling." Adelman is a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
03-13-07 - 'We are not threatening to use nukes' It was not the first time Peres, considered the father of Israel's nuclear program, has hinted that Israel has nuclear weapons capability
03-13-07 - House passes resolution for soldiers The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the three Israeli soldiers being held captive by Hamas and Hezbollah.
I refer back to the Moorer quote.
03-13-07 - Obama's Groveling to AIPAC Insufficient Look Zionuts, you will heavily influence policy, but you cannot have the hearts and minds too.
03-13-07 - Turkish Jews lobby against Armenian resolution The three-person delegation, headed by Silvyo Ovadya, the president of the Turkish Jewish community, attended this week's American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference and met with Jewish leaders as well as members of Congress.
03-13-07 - Dead Russian Spy was israeli Double Agent
03-13-07 - Israeli foreign minister challenges Harper's critics
03-13-07 - Teflon Jimmy
03-12-07 - Masked gunmen kidnap British reporter in Gaza City street attack A British journalist was yesterday snatched from his car by masked men in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian police. The gunmen are believed to have followed Alan Johnston, the BBC's Gaza correspondent, from his office to his apartment in Gaza City before kidnapping him. Police found his abandoned car and business cards at the scene.
03-12-07 - Fears for BBC Gaza correspondent "It is his job to bring us day after day reports of the Palestinian predicament in the Gaza Strip," said the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, Paul Adams, himself a former Middle East reporter.
03-12-07 - Israeli army injures a Palestinian civilian from Hebron Mohamed Al Waridat, 22, was shot with a live round in the back in Abu Dies village near Jerusalem city.
03-12-07 - Israel arrests dozens of Palestinians in West Bank
03-12-07 - Israeli army attacks a school and injures three children near Hebron During the clashes three students were injured when soldiers chased a group of small school girls and attacked them with batons, among those there were Worod Al Timizi, 8 yeas old, medical sources reported.
03-12-07 - Palestinian National Security Officer Abducted in Northern Gaza
03-12-07 - Israel frees top Hamas official
03-12-07 - Hamas armed wing denies reports of training in Iran
03-12-07 - Mourning period begins for East Jerusalem man beaten to death on Salah Addin Street A woman in his car had West Bank identification and when the Israeli police pulled the van over at the Sawwanah barrier they tried to take her. Karawi protested on behalf of the woman in his charge and the police turned their attention toward him.
03-12-07 - Israeli minister calls for tougher UN sanctions on Iran Hours before her arrival in Ottawa, Livni also singled out the threat posed by Iran in a major speech in Washington
03-12-07 - Netanyahu: Attack on Iran 'last resort' Earlier, US Vice President Dick Cheney warned 6,000 supporters gathered at AIPAC's annual policy conference on Monday that failure in Iraq would endanger Israel. Notice how the Israelis and AIPACers have toned down the language with regard to action on Iran. I foresee that they will then point to this in an attempt to exonerate themselves of blame after we have done the deed.
03-12-07 - Six emergency medical centres opened in Gaza Caritas Jerusalem worked with the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the targeted local communities to hold consultative meetings to identify the specific needs of the location where a medical point will be established.
03-12-07 - Don't wait for peace to normalize ties, Israeli FM tells Arab states Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged Arab nations on Monday to normalize ties with Israel now, saying this could hasten the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel wants to have their cake (Palestinian land), and eat it too (via 'normalized relations' with their Arab neighbors). Good luck.
03-12-07 - Living with risk in Gaza day after day, month after month, year after year, Alan has persisted in living in Gaza to cover Palestinian issues. He feels they are too important to go unreported.
03-12-07 - Israel urges world to isolate, confront Iran "The Middle East is a tough neighbourhood, and when there is a
bully in this neighbourhood there are only two choices: to beat it or
to join it," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a major pro-
Israel gathering in Washington Oh it has a bully alright.
03-12-07 - Holocaust denial conference attendee beaten A fervently Orthodox Austrian Jew who embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly was assaulted by a group of Israelis in Poland.
03-12-07 - Report: Exports leaving Gaza not enough to restart economy In its monthly report monitoring activity at the crossing, Paltrade concludes that there is insufficient commerce passing through Karni to successfully restart the Palestinian economy in the Gaza Strip.
03-12-07 - Hamas says still seeks Israel's destruction "We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine,"
03-12-07 - Israel opens crossing, Palestinians close another in Gaza When the crossing opened last week, an aged Palestinian man died due to scramble, three others were injured when security members opened fire to control and organize the crowds.
03-12-07 - Israel cautions EU against concessions on Hamas
03-12-07 - Journalists - one of a few remaining western prizes Alan Johnston knows the risks very well. He was in Gaza when the most high-profile of many kidnappings, that of Fox News journalist Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig took place
03-12-07 - Students targeted during university elections campaign period Israeli forces arrested another 15 students from the Islamic bloc at the Arab American University several days ago
03-12-07 - Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Urgent steps needed to address discrimination Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli government and the Knesset, Israel?s parliament, to take concrete steps to address serious concerns raised by the UN expert body on racial discrimination last Friday, 9 March 2007
03-12-07 - FACTBOX-Christian minority shrinks in Palestinian areas
03-12-07 - Palestinian Christians feel world doesn't care
03-12-07 - Meshaal says Palestinian accord upset US, Israeli plans
03-12-07 - Israeli warboats open fire at N. Gaza Palestinian sources said Israeli warboats stationed across the shores of Gaza opened heavy fire on Al-Soudaniya, spreading fear among civilians.
03-12-07 - Nonviolent resistance to occupation: family refuses to leave despite being surrounded by settlements ?We have stood as strongly as possible in the face of severe soldiers and settlers or else we would not have been able to keep any of our land with us. What we were able to keep are our homes in semi-demolished states and a path as a way of preserving our presence here.?
03-12-07 - UN expert accuses Israel of "apartheid and colonialism" Israel is clearly an occupying force among the Palestinians, committing crimes such as apartheid and colonialism, a United Nations human rights expert claims.
03-12-07 - Islamic Jihad urges factions to reject truce with Israel
03-12-07 - Israeli army detains Palestinian police officers near Hebron
03-12-07 - Art from Gaza and the West Bank: Gallery of a troubled nation This month's exhibition at Al Hoash is timed to coincide with International Women's Day but instead of carrying a clunkingly worthy political message, it celebrates the work of five Palestinian female artists.
03-12-07 - Egypt shows 1967 'killings' films Egyptian opposition politicians have expressed fresh anger over an Israeli documentary film about the treatment of Egyptian troops during the 1967 war
03-12-07 - Tree planting as popular resistance in the Jordan Valley
03-12-07 - Livni: US has no objection to Syrian-Israeli peace talks Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Monday that the United States would not object to any Israeli attempt to start peace negotiations with Syria.
03-12-07 - Israel recalls envoy found naked, drunk He was wearing sex bondage equipment
03-12-07 - Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Protest Annual AIPAC Convention All wars and all suffering which came about through Zionism and the
state of "Israel", including the brutal seizure of the land and
possessions, of the Palestinian people, are painful to the Jewish nation,
which finds it shameful that these acts of brutality are committed in the
name of "Israel" and Judaism.
03-12-07 - Updating voter registration after delays due to instability
03-12-07 - Official: Catholic clergy can't accept Israel Daniel Seaman rejected recent criticism by Irish and German Catholic delegations to Israel as "appeasement" of Palestinians and an assertion of Christian dominance in the Holy Land. The bishops, along with Jimmy Carter, are calling it like they see it. Israel simply cannot have that.
03-12-07 - Remarks by Vice President Cheney at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2007 Policy Conference The war on terror is more than a contest of arms and more than a test of will, it is also a battle of ideas. We know now to a certainty that when people across the Middle East are denied freedom, that is a direct strategic concern of all free nations. And therein lies your quandary, Dick. You, and the AIPAC crowd, support Israel's policies that deprive Palestinians of freedom and of basic human rights, but equally important: JUSTICE. Alas, this must be rocket science. A prediction: when Cheney leaves office, he will rejoin Halliburton and possibly move to Dubai (Halliburton's new hq).
03-12-07 - Bombing attempt thwarted in southern Lebanon
03-12-07 - Tell Your Senator: Don?t Sign the AIPAC Letter This cleverly-crafted "ask" is not about maintaining the current U.S. policy, but rather expanding it in a manner that is clearly inconsistent with the best interests of both Israel and the United States.
03-12-07 - Demo Against Hebron Street Closure At 12.55 pm a vehicle from Medecins Sans Frontiers was stopped by soldiers at the checkpoint. They refused to allow them to pass and visit patients in Tel Rumeida.
03-12-07 - Centenarian's tale of Palestine
03-12-07 - Zionists target WUFYS for criticizing israel Can I request that Patrick Fitzgerald be sent over to my house to investigate me? ;)
03-12-07 - Opposing Iran, pacifying Iraq go together, Cheney tells AIPAC Speaking at the session Cheney opened, AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr told delegates that the next day they would lobby for new legislation, the Iran Counterproliferation Act of 2007, proposed by Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the top Democrat and Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee
03-12-07 - Lantos urges AIPAC on Iran U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos implored delegates at AIPAC?s policy conference to lobby members of the Congress to pass a bill he introduced to toughen sanctions against Iran and bar the White House from waiving them.
03-12-07 - AIPAC: Everything short of force on Iran The United States must "do everything possible short of contemplation of the use of force" in dealing with Iran?s nuclear threat, AIPAC?s policy chief said Why the US?
03-12-07 - AIPAC: States should disinvest from Iran AIPAC is launching a 10-state effort to get public employee pension funds to divest from companies that deal with Iran
03-12-07 - Hagee draws AIPAC cheers Hagee outlined his vision of a united evangelical-Jewish front lobbying for Israel
03-12-07 - Israeli poll: "68.4% of Jews in Israel for uprising by Arab residents of the country" 80% of the polled Jews said that Israel must retain a Jewish majority in any future agreement that deals with borders and demography. Also, 64.4% of the polled Jews said that they believe that Arab residents of Israel "pose a security risk due to their high birth rates".
03-12-07 - Nazi-hunting centre convicted for defamation The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center was convicted of defamation by a Paris court on Thursday for accusing a French-based group of financing Palestinian militants......Samuel was handed a suspended fine of 1,000 euros (1,300 dollars) and ordered to pay one euro in symbolic damages to the Palestinian support group over what the court described as "seriously defamatory" allegations.
That's some punishment there.
03-12-07 - Did Churchill pen 'anti-Semitic' paper? The subject of this piece is irrelevant to this website. However, I think that what's the most interesting aspect of this story is not its content but rather the fact that the entire American media has ignored it - 1 day since its release, according to the Google News index. The absence (which continues as of this writing 9PM EST 03-12-07) should clue you in to something.
03-12-07 - Top Israeli politician visits as Conservatives woo Jewish vote Livni said she planned to have a long meeting Tuesday with MacKay to discuss such concerns. Her visit comes as the Conservatives continue to reach out to Jewish voters. Harper heated up those efforts in a speech to the Canadian Council for Israel last month. He noted that his party alone endorsed Israel's month-long bombing campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon last summer.
03-11-07 - Palestinians: IDF fire wounds two fishermen near Rafah shore According to Palestinian reports, two fishermen from Gaza were wounded Sunday morning from Israel Defense Forces fire near the Rafah shore.
03-11-07 - A Palestinian Resident of Beit Hanoun Wounded during Shootout Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that Palestinian resident Mohammad Hammad, 48, of Beit Hanoun city in northern Gaza Strip, was shot and wounded during a shootout between supporters of both Fatah and Hamas.
03-11-07 - Secret talks under way with Israel: Palestinian sources
03-11-07 - Rights group: Remand hearings for Palestinians predetermined The outcome of remand hearings held in Israeli military courts for Palestinian suspects are frequently determined in advance without the suspect's lawyer having a genuine opportunity to defend his client, the human rights organization Machsom Watch said in a report published over the weekend.
03-11-07 - Foreign Ministry informs embassies of new West Bank entry visa policy According to the new directives announced by the Foreign Ministry, Israel will issue three-month visas to those seeking entry to the West Bank who are not regarded as security threats. Israel decides who will go in and out of PALESTINIAN territory.
03-11-07 - U.S. in talks with Saudis, Israel ahead of Arab meet Aides to Olmert, visiting Washington last week, apparently held talks with their American counterparts on the Saudi initiative.
03-11-07 - Ultra-Orthodox Jews Moving to West Bank Mr. YUSRAEL MAIDAD (Settler Spokesman): We see the historical pattern of increasing the Jewish population there, of ensuring Israel's security by doing so, by trying to make sure that our second and third generation continue to live there, by drawing in additional sectors of Israel's population, and actually making that piece of territory as much of Israel as physically possible.
03-11-07 - Israelis justify killings of Arab citizens, MK says "In 1956 people were ashamed, they felt uneasy with the massacre. Today the mainstream of Israeli society justifies ? the killing of 13 Israeli citizens during the events of October 2000,"
03-11-07 - Hamas rejects accusation by al-Qaida's Zawahri In a video tape broadcasted Sunday on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera channel, Zawahri said Hamas has given Palestine for the Jews in order to remain in office.
03-11-07 - Mystery of former Iranian minister deepens ** "Although massive speculation by the foreign media about the fate of Ali-Reza Asgari has a special exaggeration, the latest evaluation more than anything else underscores [the likelihood of] his being kidnapped by Mossad [the Israeli intelligence agency] or the CIA,"
03-11-07 - Misery tempts Palestinian Christians to flee "There is no business, no freedom of movement," he said. "We depend on tourism, which is being demolished. Sometimes we receive 1,500 tourists a day but none of them stay the night. They visit the Nativity Church and leave, so we don't benefit." THIS article about Palestinian Christians is by Reuters.
03-11-07 - Olmert and Abbas talks achieve little Israel continues to insist, however, that the Saudis drop a clause, added by the Arab League, demanding a right for all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in Israel.
03-11-07 - BADIL: "Ongoing population transfer in OPT and Israel"
03-11-07 - Shalit talks delayed because of documentary, Hamas official says
03-11-07 - No Palestinian govt before soldier freed: Olmert
03-11-07 - Israeli government erases the Bedouin Village of Twail again
03-11-07 - Palestinian captors say Israeli soldier Shalit to remain hostage until demands met
03-11-07 - Police, family clash over cause of death of Palestinian detainee
03-11-07 - Hebron settlers trespass in Palestinian family?s olive orchard
03-11-07 - Al-Quds Brigades claims responsibility for a Gaza blast Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), claimed responsibility on Sunday for a blast near an Israeli military site east of the Gaza Strip.
03-11-07 - Israeli Army prepares for large confrontations in Gaza Spokesman for the Israeli Army told the paper that Hamas was producing more bombs and missiles and had recently sent hundreds of trainees to Iran.
03-11-07 - Israel army tanks fire several shells towards the Palestinian Bureij camp Israeli occupation army tanks launched on Sunday a number of shells towards the Palestinian Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said
03-11-07 - Israeli army abducts 6 Palestinian civilians in Hebron
03-11-07 - Life on Shuhada Street: reaching home by climbing rooftops, nonviolent demonstration called These settlers are considered some of the most violent in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and attacks on homes, the elderly, children and animals are well-documented.
03-11-07 - Palestinian women demonstrate in Bethlehem, demand improved conditions in Israeli prisons A delegation of demonstrators, who are among those who protest on a weekly basis, gave Red Cross representatives a letter of demands to improve the humanitarian conditions of the prisoners.
03-11-07 - Activist calls for campaign to end settlement project, the most dangerous issue facing Palestine ?The Israeli settlement of Palestine and the West Bank and Gaza, and Jerusalem, is a constant threat facing the Palestinian people and their future,?
03-11-07 - In the war of words, The Times is Israel's ally why should the Palestinians recognize an Israel that refuses to accept international law, submit to U.N. resolutions or readmit the Palestinians wrongfully expelled from their homes in 1948 and barred from returning ever since? If none of these questions are easy to answer, why are such demands being made of the Palestinians? And why is nothing demanded of Israel in turn?
03-11-07 - Israel tackles fall startup for new football league On the heels of announcing the launch of a professional league in America's national pastime, Israel will start a football association this fall.
..."We're looking for ways to link America to Israel every way we can," No kidding? Why? So that it becomes ever more difficult to disentangle ourselves from that nation, perhaps?
03-11-07 - Letter: U.S. should convene Mideast conference
03-11-07 - Syria deploying rockets on border, say Israeli sources The report comes two weeks after Israel held war games on the occupied Golan Heights.
03-11-07 - Occupation is a Crime, from Teaneck to Palestine
03-11-07 - It's Israel that incites hate
03-11-07 - 'World must act to stop Ahmadinejad' Iran could achieve nuclear weapons capability in one to two years, and the world must act collectively to stop Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "sick boast" that he will wipe out Israel, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, nationally syndicated columnist and policy adviser to US President George W. Bush, told The Jerusalem Post.
03-11-07 - No Syrian troop movements on border, says IDF IDF sources denied Saturday an Associated French Press report that Syrians had moved thousands of troops towards their border with Israel.
03-11-07 - AIPAC Pushes to Eliminate Anti-Iran-War Language from Pelosi Iraq Bill
03-11-07 - AIPAC forum opens in Washington Delegates will have the opportunity to meet presidential candidates. On Tuesday, delegates will lobby on Capitol Hill for tougher measures in dealing with Iran and the Palestinians.
03-11-07 - Germans again mull Israel's right to exist German bishops note the ghetto-like conditions under which Palestinians live, and suddenly this is tantamount to denying 'Israel's right to exist'. They are reaching for straws now.
03-11-07 - Sneh meets Saudi official Israel's deputy defense minister held unscheduled talks with a Saudi official. Ephraim Sneh met with Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States
03-11-07 - NBC Show Accused Of Being Anti-Semitic The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America has sent out a mass e-mail calling for people to protest to NBC because of the episode. All of the things mentioned in the article that the NBC show is portraying are things that have been done by Israel in the past. And the ADL spyring scandal in America is similar to that plot. So, if these folks want to complain about 'anti-Semitism', then they need to take a gander in the mirror. NBC was clearly not making this stuff up.
03-11-07 - Arabic speakers monitor Net chats The State Department has hired two native Arabic speakers to monitor Arabic political discussion forums on the Internet and to overtly participate in them in an effort to correct misperceptions about U.S. policy in the Middle East.
03-11-07 - Mish'al meets with PM, SC chairman on Palestinian issues
03-11-07 - A challenge to US Congress Comments both critical and banal were issued by some who have been long opponents to a just resolution to the conflict. They will, no doubt, continue to find ways to obstruct the search for peace.
03-11-07 - Peretz goes to Washington But Ma'ariv reported that unlike his predecessors, Peretz would not be meeting with either the vice president or the secretary of state. The newspaper described the unavailability of Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice as a "show of disrespect" toward Peretz, whose popularity in Israel has plummeted since last year's Lebanon war
03-10-07 - IDF soldiers kill Palestinian near security fence along Gaza Strip
03-10-07 - Hamas militant shot dead in Gaza A commander of Palestinian militant group Hamas has been killed during a gun battle with rival faction Fatah in the northern Gaza Strip.
03-10-07 - UN committee: Israel should let Palestinian refugees come back it recommends that "the state party ensure that the definition of Israel as a Jewish nation state does not result in any systematic distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin." Way too late for that.
03-10-07 - Twilight Zone / Only twelve years old "No one told us not to go out with the sheep. There is no sign there. You didn't see any sign, so how could the girl have seen one?" Again, an examination by Haaretz this week found not one IDF warning sign.
03-10-07 - Palestinian unity government to be established soon: PM-designate A Palestinian national unity government will be established next Wednesday or Thursday, Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haneya said on Saturday.
03-10-07 - Israeli police beat Palestinian man to death, family demands neutral autopsy
03-10-07 - Palestinian security campaign begins in Nablus: licensed taxis cannot meet public demand Hundreds of yellow taxis were absent from the Nablus street Saturday morning as the Palestinian security campaign got underway in the northern West Bank city.
03-10-07 - Palestinians fire upon Hamas minister PALESTINIAN gunmen fired on the convoy of a Hamas government minister today, threatening to undermine unity government talks due to wrap up within days.
03-10-07 - Dozens of intellectuals march to protest school ban on anthology of folk tales Dozens of Palestinian writers, academics and other intellectuals marched in this West Bank city Saturday to protest the Hamas-run Education Ministry's decision to pull an anthology of folk tales from school libraries.
03-10-07 - One Gaza gate opens to future, another locks in past For the past month, Rafah has opened for only five days, leaving some Palestinians stranded under tarpaulins in the desert for weeks. Some claim to have lost jobs and others say they have missed valuable university work. There is nothing they can do as they sit in the rubbish-strewn sands that have taken on the feel of a shanty town.
03-10-07 - France urges EU leaders to endorse Mecca deal Chirac called on European Union leaders meeting in Brussels to "welcome the Mecca accords, which France sees as a first step towards applying the conditions of the Quartet" of Middle East mediators
03-10-07 - Palestinian government says EU summit decisions "positive"
03-10-07 - Iranian defector huge coup for Americans ** That allegation was denied by a U.S. government official who, in the Post story he Asgari disappeared on his own volition but suggested the Israelis helped him jump ship, according to the Washington Post. Asgari is willingly cooperating, another official told the Post, but would not disclose where he was being questioned or who was interrogating him. But a report in Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said he was in the United States. Something stinks here.
03-10-07 - Old faces return to the new government on the Hamas list
03-10-07 - Ministry of Education to limit circulation of children's book as Palestinian intellectuals protest
03-10-07 - Left-wing activists rebuild demolished Palestinian homes
03-10-07 - Unknown Attackers Storm a Local University in Gaza Unknown attackers stormed Saturday the Al-Quds University of Gaza and opened fire inside, Palestinian media sources reported.
03-10-07 - Israeli forces forbid Ibrahimi Mosque from sounding call to prayer today it was reiterated that Ibrahimi Mosque is still forbidden from sounding the call to prayer for the evening and night worship times.
03-10-07 - Monitors: Gaza border operates properly European monitors said it's virtually impossible to sneak weapons or explosives through. The luggage of passengers from Egypt is checked twice, first with a scanner that detects metal and chemical substances, and then manually.
03-10-07 - Palestinian dies in custody; family claims police brutality
03-10-07 - Tree planting and Tom Fox memorial in Tel Rumeida
03-10-07 - Sadat nephew calls for review of Israel peace
03-10-07 - Barghouthi calls on PFLP to participate in unity government Jailed Fateh leader, and previous Legislative Council member, Marwan Barghouthi, called on president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Prime Minister-designate, Ismail Haniyya, to practice utmost efforts to guarantee the participation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the upcoming government.
03-10-07 - The Israeli "art student" mystery Reports of the mysterious Israelis with an inexplicable interest in peddling art to G-men came in from more than 40 U.S. cities and continued throughout the first six months of 2001. Agents of the DEA, ATF, Air Force, Secret Service, FBI, and U.S. Marshals Service documented some 130 separate incidents of "art student" encounters. Some of the Israelis were observed diagramming the inside of federal buildings. Some were found carrying photographs they had taken of federal agents. One was discovered with a computer printout in his luggage that referred to "DEA groups." That was Israel's way of telling us "we own you".
03-10-07 - From Mar. 2007: The Israel Lobby byJohn Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt It was nearly a year ago that this report was released. It feels like a lifetime.
03-10-07 - Bethlehem University Welcomes the German Bishops? Conference
03-10-07 - Syrian-American in 'secret talks' to brief Israel MPs A Syrian-American businessman who is said to have taken part in unofficial peace talks with Israeli counterparts is to appear before a top parliamentary panel next month, an official said Thursday.
03-10-07 - What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? What is perhaps most damning is that the Israelis' celebration on the New Jersey waterfront occurred in the first sixteen minutes after the initial crash, when no one was aware this was a terrorist attack. In other words, from the time the first plane hit the north tower, at 8:46 a.m., to the time the second plane hit the south tower, at 9:02 a.m., the overwhelming assumption of news outlets and government officials was that the plane's impact was simply a terrible accident. It was only after the second plane hit that suspicions were aroused. Yet if the men were cheering for political reasons, as they reportedly told the FBI, they obviously believed they were witnessing a terrorist act, and not an accident. It has been my belief since I came across the story of that particular incident, that these guys knew what was going on, and that's why they were seen cheering after the first plane went into the WTC. These 2 articles by Ketcham should clue you in to the unprecedented influence that the Israeli lobby wields over our government and also in the mainstream media.
03-10-07 - Palestinian Christians Look Back on a Year of Troubles This is a perfect example of the way our msm operates. They will do a story about Palestinian Christians, but omit completely the role of Israel in the exodus of Christians. The focus is instead on alleged land theft by other Palestinians. It's ridiculous to suggest that (other Palestinians) are the main cause of the exodus of Palestinian Christians from the Holy Land, and not the policies of Israel. But that's our media for you : 'Palestinians bad. Israel good.'
03-10-07 - Hizbullah: Olmert confirmed what we knew
03-10-07 - The Kuala Lumpur Deceit
03-10-07 - A predator becomes more dangerous when wounded ** By an accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in largely Shia areas of the Middle East: southern Iraq, adjacent regions of Saudi Arabia and Iran, with some of the major reserves of natural gas as well. Washington's worst nightmare would be a loose Shia alliance controlling most of the world's oil and independent of the US. Chomsky, while he makes an interesting point here, always wants to keep your attention away from the Israeli factor, seems.
03-10-07 - Folk dances capture Palestinian culture
03-10-07 - Larger CIA and DoD Privatization Scandal Emerging from Walter Reed Story, US Attorneys Firing Let's recap: a corrupt Israeli PM - has a stake in a corrupt Israeli bank- owned by a corrupt Wall Street global hedge fund - which owns a corrupt US defense contractor - which contributes to corrupt GOP Congressmen - who also receive money from another corrupt defense contractor - that defense contractor produced faulty intel under contract to a corrupt CIA Assn't Director - that faulty intel was used to justify a corrupt US Administration's case for invading Iraq - that was planned and executed by corrupt neocons inside DoD who had written a proposal years earlier to wage wars to privatize the Israeli economy. Nice investigative work!
03-10-07 - Under fire, Israel lobby rallies US backers By Tony Czuczka Two US political scientists sparked a furious debate last spring
with an essay that portrayed Washington as slavishly devoted to
Israel And ironically, the forthcoming AIPAC conference, among other things, will prove just that.
03-10-07 - Egypt: Don't Talk About the (1967) War In 1995, a similar crisis broke out when some Israeli veterans said that they had executed Egyptian soldiers in the 1956 and 1967 wars. These disclosures led to the discovery of mass graves near the city of Al-Arish in the Sinai containing the remains of Egyptian civilians and POWs.
03-10-07 - German Bishops Rile Holocaust Memorial Irish bishops recently referred to Gaza as a prison.
03-10-07 - Israeli foreign and defense ministers head to United States The Israeli ministers will also participate in a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the radio said
03-10-07 - Israel can face Iran nuclear threat alone: Lieberman Israel considers Iran's nuclear programme to be an "existential threat" after its hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map Did he really?
03-10-07 - Human Rights Group: Israel Police Top Cop Quits After Commission's Verdict Committee For The Defense of Human Rights: Israel's police commander resigned after a government commission said he ignored ties between senior officers and underworld figures.
03-10-07 - ACTIVISTS NATIONWIDE SUPPORT "CONGRESS, STAND UP TO AIPAC" PROTEST
03-09-07 - Israel accused of using Palestinian children as human shields Yesh Din, another Israeli human rights group, has reported that the Israeli army used peaceful Palestinian villages to carry out training exercises. The group said that the villagers were harassed and scared as two battalions of reservists acted out a battle in their midst for three hours. The exercises were carried out without warning in the early morning in the villages of Beit Lid and Safarin last month.
03-09-07 - Analysis: Intelligence summit takes flak ** Old pros from America's secretive world of espionage and counterterrorism emerged temporarily from the shadows to convene for a three-day "Intelligence Summit" in a downtown hotel in St. Petersburg, Fla., earlier this week. They were joined by a handful of allies from friendly countries -- mostly from Israel -- to discuss what they see as the number one threat facing Western democracies, the ever-increasing form of militant Islam and its indiscriminate use of terrorism......Many would rather "not waste time" talking with governments they say will never keep its word. Instead, they would prefer to simply "kick butt," as one speaker put it, and making realistic plans to enable regime change in Syria and Iran through assassinations and intimidation. His comments were received with applause and cheers from the audience.
03-09-07 - Israel will not transfer more frozen tax revenues to Palestinians Israel will for the time being not unfreeze more of the hundreds of millions of US dollars in tax revenues it owes the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israel Radio reported Friday.
03-09-07 - Palestinian PM urges EU to lift embargo
03-09-07 - Twenty wounded in West Bank barrier demos Twenty people were lightly hurt on Friday when Israeli troops dispersed protests against the Jewish state's controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank, medics said.
03-09-07 - UN panel tells Israel to respect Palestinian rights Israel should ease roadblocks and other restrictions on Palestinians and put a stop to settler violence and hate speech, a United Nations rights watchdog said on Friday.
03-09-07 - Haniya asks for two extra weeks for forming government, Abbas agrees
03-09-07 - Muslims outbreeding Jews in Israel Israel's Muslim minority has a far greater birth rate than the Jewish majority, a government study found. Oh dear god. The horror.
03-09-07 - Hamas militants balk at expanded truce proposal "There can be no talk about calm as long as the digging and harm to al-Aqsa continued and as long as the Zionist aggression continued," Masri said, referring to the Israeli archaeological excavations near the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques in Jerusalem's Old City.
03-09-07 - Israeli forces prevent human rights activist from traveling from Gaza Strip to West Bank
03-09-07 - Carter defends book title to students Defining apartheid as forced segregation and oppression within a territory, Carter said that "is exactly what is taking place on the West Bank." Unlike the apartheid of South Africa, Carter said, this oppression is not based on race, but instead a desire to confiscate Palestinian land.
03-09-07 - Non-violent protest in Wadi Al Niss against illegal wall
03-09-07 - End of Cowboy Diplomacy, Part II? Bush not only spurned the pleas of Washington's European and Arab allies to press the Jewish state for a ceasefire, but his top Middle East aide, Elliott Abrams, reportedly encouraged it, to the horror of both his State Department colleagues and his Israeli interlocutors, to expand the war into Syria.
03-09-07 - Journalists hit by Israeli stun grenades, tear-gassed in the West Bank
03-09-07 - Report: Israel behind Iranian's disappearance U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Israel was involved in the disappearance of a retired Iranian general. The Washington Post on Thursday quoted an unnamed U.S. official as suggesting that Israeli agents "orchestrated" the defection of Ali Reza Asgari, a former Iranian defense minister who went missing last month while on a visit to Turkey.
03-09-07 - Report: Israeli soldiers used children as 'human shields' AP also quotes Yaacov Amidror, a retired Israeli general who is a security specialist at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, who argues the use of civilians in this way during raids actually is actually the best way to protect soldiers and other innocent civilians. When the Israeli Supreme Court ruled on the use of human shields, however, it rejected similar arguments from the Israeli army
03-09-07 - Sinai war film maker admits error An Israeli documentary maker whose film provoked a diplomatic row with Egypt has admitted he misidentified Palestinian war dead as Egyptians.
03-09-07 - Iceland increases contribution to UNRWA The Government of Iceland decided 8 March 2007 to double its contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to 0,2 million USD in 2007
03-09-07 - Netanyahu urges tough sanctions on Iran over nuclear issue During his visit to the United States, Netanyahu said he planned to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions with Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic and Republican presidential candidates
03-09-07 - Nonviolent demonstration against takeover of southern Bethlehem on Women's Day
03-09-07 - Joel Mowbray reports: The AP issues a correction Israel shill sqawks, AP asks 'how high shall I jump?'
03-09-07 - Market loses billions due to Arab unemployment Lack of Arab women in workforce leads Israeli market to lose over NIS 6 billion each year
03-09-07 - Losing Focus: Peace and Justice Movement in Britain at Crossroad
03-09-07 - Lebanon arrests arms dealer with SAM 7 missiles
03-09-07 - Egyptian bank fined for Israel boycott Egypt?s largest state-owned bank is being fined by American regulators for complying with the Arab boycott of Israel.
03-09-07 - Wexler cancels PLO meeting A Jewish congressman cancelled a meeting with the PLO representative in Washington after the PLO envoy derided AIPAC.
03-09-07 - Lantos, Ackerman oppose aid cut to India The cut "disregards the critical priorities of our Indian partners," the letter said. Among other elements of India's close ties to the United States are its friendly relations with Israel.
03-09-07 - Israel unveils portable hunter-killer robot The VIPeR, roughly the size of a small television, was invented as part of Israel's efforts to develop weaponry that could reduce the risks to its forces from hand-to-hand fighting against Palestinian or Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.
03-09-07 - Oligarch fears Russian 'hit' A Russian oligarch who fled to Israel fears that he could be targeted by assassins sent by Moscow
03-09-07 - Peace portraits strike different chords in Israelis, Palestinians
03-09-07 - PLO official says Palestinian refugees "guests" in Lebanon
03-09-07 - "Bishops Cannot be Silent About Conditions in Palestine" How do you evaluate the reactions that occurred? The Central Council of Jews in Germany said the statements had anti-Semitic overtones.
03-09-07 - Former terrorist's talk packs museum Judging by the numerous arrests and trials of Palestinians in this country for like crimes, 'former Palestinian terrorists' in America are either locked up, deported, or are barred from entering in the first place. That is, unless they aren't really a 'former Palestinian terrorist' at all, and instead are the product of an Israeli lobby that trots them (like a showhorse) all over America for propaganda purposes. 'Palestinians bad, Israel good!'
03-09-07 - The Kings of Middle Eastern Comedy
03-09-07 - Archbishop points to history of coexistence
03-09-07 - Student asked to leave Canada for failure to take test The Palestinian girl, born and brought up in the UAE, has been told to go back to Abu Dhabi and re-apply for her student visa. But Al Ghussain is worried that there is no
03-09-07 - STOP THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS DJ Spooky has crafted music for "Stop the Clash of Civilizations," a political video designed to help resolve the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Check it out
03-09-07 - CAIR Urges U.S. Action on Middle East Peace
03-09-07 - Area Christians and Jews will unite March 25 to honor nation Since the initiative was launched last year, there have been more than 40 Nights to Honor Israel in U.S. cities, under the leadership of Christians United for Israel, an organization created in February 2006.
03-09-07 - Egypt forbids 2,000 pilgrims from visiting Israel
03-09-07 - Empty chair in Baghdad We can assume that Israel would expect the American Administration to refrain from holding talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Baghdad, and officially this would certainly be the case. But is it not likely to see opportunities to converse outside the meeting halls about any issue out there? Even if the beginning is resistant and difficult, this conference may become a constitutive regional event in the Middle East; a sort of "clearing house" for all the conflicts and clashes in our region, with no exceptions. Oh dear. Imagine - the US won't be able to to take its orders from Israel, as is most often the case.
03-09-07 - Hate Crime Legislation Will Target Your Freedom of Speech The main force supporting the bill is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). This group was behind passage of the British law. The ADL is a radical organization, which routinely charges organizations more to its right, of hate speech. It appears that nearly any organization that does not accept the ADL's worldview is marked for advocating hate.
03-09-07 - Israel 'Worse Than Iran' A spokesperson for BICOM said the poll "reinforces our need to remind people of Israel's historical desire to find peace with its neighbours and its willingness to give up land for peace. This is the main message that will ultimately help shift public opinion towards Israel". You're kidding me right? When has Israel stopped building settlements on Palestinian land? Was I absent that day?
03-09-07 - Jews help Muslims with Christian cash
03-09-07 - Joel Mowbray reports: Kirk calls for AID investigation When Israel's shills in the media sqawk, Congress asks 'how high shall we jump?'. I don't think that any American with an issue that effects the MAJORITY of AMERICANS (you know, the ones that pay taxes HERE) can get Congress to move that fast. But by golly, if a Palestinian so much as breaks wind within fifty feet of an Israeli Jew (Israeli Arabs are given the same treatment as the Palestinians), the ink for a dozen resolutions denouncing the matter in Congress will come fast and furiously.
03-09-07 - Disgusting: NBC's "Law and Order" Promotes Anti-Jewish - Anti-Israel Sentiment A Jewish police captain (Danny Ross) covers up for Israel at the urging of the pro-Israel pac (political action committee). The captain's friend, the director of the pac, is portrayed as an agent of Israel and possibly involved in spy activities. Because that kind of thing would never happen in America.
03-08-07 - Palestinian dies as thousands storm Gaza crossing Omar Qazaa, a 61-year-old Palestinian who had been waiting at the crossing since Wednesday night, suffered a heart attack as the crowd surged forward. Medical workers said he died later in hospital.
03-08-07 - Reporters hurt as Israeli security forces break up Palestinian demonstrations Associated Press Television cameraman Eyad Moghrabi was hit on the leg by a flying piece of metal. TV footage showed a stun grenade exploding among the reporters, who were several meters (yards) away from the demonstrators. The pictures show the reporters scattering, with one clutching her leg
03-08-07 - Gaza security members protest for unpaid salaries Hundreds of Palestinian security members on Thursday sealed off several main roads in Gaza city in protest to the Hamas-led caretaker government after it failed to pay their salaries as promised.
03-08-07 - Israel imposes restrictions on foreigners entering Palestine Israel has control over all entrances and exits to and from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which enables Israel to control visitors who plan to meet Palestinians.
03-08-07 - On the occasion of International Women's Day
03-08-07 - Israeli soldiers use two Palestinian minors as human shields Testimonies taken by B'Tselem reveal that during the army's operation in Nablus in late February, soldiers used two Palestinian children, a fifteen-year-old boy and a eleven-year-old girl, and a twenty-four-year old man as human shields
03-08-07 - B'Tselem: IDF used Palestinian girl as human shield in Nablus Israel Defense Forces soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian girl as a "human shield" during an operation against militants in the West Bank town of Nablus last week, an Israeli human rights group said on Thursday.
03-08-07 - With bulldozers and soldiers at the door, Jerusalem home owner buys time After three more demolitions in A-Tur on Monday, the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality postponed the destruction of Mohammad Silva's two-story house yesterday. The resident of the Mount of Olives neighborhood paid thousands of shekels in order to keep his home just a bit longer.
03-08-07 - Muslim and Christian leaders: excavation at Al Aqsa is an assault on all Palestinians The words came from the two prominent religious leaders during a conference held in Bethlehem's Peace Center on Wednesday evening under the title, ?No to war, yes to real national unity,? and in honor of the eighth annual International Women's Day.
03-08-07 - Fatah urges Hamas speed up unity government formation
03-08-07 - Hamas condemns arrest of 13 Palestinians in Nablus Hamas strongly condemned on Thursday Israel's storming of Palestinian homes in the city of Nablus last night and its arrest of 13 people in the process.
03-08-07 - Nasser Saladin Brigades claim responsibility for Ashkelon attack Al-Nasser Saladin Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for launching a "Nasser 4" rocket at southern Israel Thursday morning.
03-08-07 - Palestinian policewomen make inroads in Gaza
03-08-07 - Israeli army abducts 19 Palestinian civilians from the West Bank Israeli forces abducted at least 19 Palestinian civilians during invasions of several parts of the West Bank on Thursday morning.
03-08-07 - UN agency debates Israel's nuclear programme Iran and Arab states complain that it is unfair to scrutinize Tehran for allegedly developing nuclear weapons when Israel has them and is not under IAEA monitoring, as it has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
03-08-07 - Israel, Hamas reach deal on release of kidnapped soldier: report
03-08-07 - Prisoner Society issues appeal on behalf of 60 year old man Sixty year old Naim Abu Hamdieh from Hebron in the southern West Bank is serving 25 years in Israeli Nafha Prison. The Palestinian Prisoner Society is calling on international and domestic human rights organizations for prompt intervention in saving his life.
03-08-07 - Letter urges Rice to hold fast on P.A. "We urge you to continue to hold firm and insist that these very basic principles not change," says the letter to the U.S. secretary of state initiated by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) "No direct aid and no contacts with a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce terror and accept previous agreements."
03-08-07 - AIPAC is for Israel, plain and simple It is precisely because groups like AIPAC maintain their pressure that Israel can count on the bulwark of American support Note the source. Also, this is more proof that AIPAC should register as a FOREIGN AGENT. Its proponents and some of its members admit that this is a lobby for ISRAEL.
03-08-07 - Future generations depend on our efforts Suha is a student at the Rafah Preparatory Girls' "A" school, one of the UNRWA schools participating in the pilot phase of the Schools of Excellence initiative, launched by UNRWA's Gaza Field Office.
03-08-07 - Palestinian and Lebanese women stand together in calling for rights "This day is very important because the women are having a revolt for their rights and they will now ask for more rights,"
03-08-07 - EU's Solana says Palestinians must give clear recognition of Israel "There are many ways whereby you can express the recognition of Israel," Solana told The Associated Press. "I am not going to define what is the manner that would be the most appropriate, that's for them to decide, but in any case it has to be sufficiently clear that statement can be read and not only imagined." Which Israel?
03-08-07 - Former president stands firm on apartheid accusation against Israel On the West Bank, Carter said, Palestinians were victims of oppression, their homes and land confiscated to make way for subsidized Israeli settlers. "The life of Palestinians is almost intolerable," he said. And even though Israel agreed to give up Gaza and remove Jewish settlers from the territory, "there is no freedom for the people of Gaza" and "no access to the outside world." "They have no real freedom of all," Carter said.
03-08-07 - Two Border Policemen get prison terms for robbing Palestinians The two said that on occasion they stopped Palestinian taxi drivers while they were off duty, searched their vehicles and stole any money that they found. Their license plates were covered up during the robberies, in order to allow them to escape without being identified.
03-08-07 - A Great Success: The Third Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
03-08-07 - Rachel Corrie Remembrance Events Rachel Corrie grew up in Olympia and died in Rafah, Palestine while protecting a Palestinian home from demolition by an Israeli army weaponized Caterpillar bulldozer. On this day we remember the valor, commitment and spirit she demonstrated. We also remember the Palestinians who survive under the occupation and the Israelis and Internationals who continue resisting....and dancing!
03-08-07 - Defense for Aipac Duo Says Groups Refuse To Testify The defense would like to call several high-profile witnesses, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and senior officials from the State Department, the National Security Council and the Pentagon. The goal would be to prove that the government routinely passed information to Aipac and that the practice was seen by all sides as legitimate
03-08-07 - Arab students will no longer be tested on Zionism, Arab heritage
03-08-07 - German bishops cause uproar with criticism of Israel
03-08-07 - In D.C. speech, king of Jordan honors 2 LI families who lost sons on 9/11, calls on U.S. to guide peace process Ackerman, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he was disappointed by Abdullah's address. "Israel becomes the scapegoat of first and last resort - it's just not the case," he said.
03-08-07 - New mosque at West Bank hospital
03-08-07 - The Haram al-Sharif Compound and Jerusalem's Old City For almost 40 years, Israel has embarked on two simultaneous projects in East Jerusalem. The first is an aggressive settlement and roads network that would forever link the eastern sector of the city to the western part and to Israel. The second is an attempt to limit Palestinian natural growth by revoking Palestinian residencies, demolition of Palestinian homes, confiscation of Palestinian land and issuing a very limited number of building permits to Palestinians.
03-08-07 - In Plea for Peace, Abdullah Asks for Jewish Leaders' Aid "The wellspring of regional division, the source of resentment and frustration far beyond is the denial of justice and peace in Palestine," the king said. The reaction from Congress was muted. The House majority leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer, a Democrat of Maryland, said he was "disappointed" with the speech, according to Fox News. The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Tom Lantos, a Democrat of California, called the speech "profoundly disappointing.".......On Tuesday, more than 5,500 members of Aipac will lobby Congress, in part to urge the Bush administration to continue to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist and renounce terrorism
03-08-07 - Carter controversy One student, who describes herself as perhaps "the biggest Jimmy Carter fan on campus," said that the situation has been blown far out of proportion.
"Anyone who has read it (Carter's book) knows that he is not the extremist, that some seem to think he is. Carter's conclusion, that both Israel and Palestinians have past transgressions and that concessions are needed on both sides for peace, is a fairly mainstream conclusion,"
03-08-07 - Jamaican PM honored by IOC Palestinian Naila Shatara-Kharroub won for Asia
03-08-07 - Alternative Holy Land travel guide launched The tours listed bear witness to life under occupation in the Palestinian territories: the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, the checkpoints, settlements, the Barrier Wall, refugee camps, and the demolition of homes. Some involve home stays or volunteer work.
03-08-07 - Israelis Want US Aid to Come Without 'Political Strings' The results of a new public opinion poll suggest that Israelis will resist further pressure from the Bush administration for Israel to pursue "land-for-peace," notwithstanding the United States' generous backing of the Jewish state......"It should be added that these strings exist, not just for outright aid, but also for the whole gamut of relations with the U.S., including export-import trade relations, access to technology, U.S. tax exemption for charities raising funds for Israeli causes and NGOs, etc."
It's ridiculous the notion that Israel abides by the wishes of the US and not the other way around.
03-08-07 - Lantos: Congress is not "potted plant" He accused the administration of supplying US assistance to Al-Quds University in Gaza, which he termed a "terrorist" institution. Lantos, one of Israel's main agents in Congress, parrots the propaganda mentioned in yesterday's news post.
03-08-07 - ICRC president visits United Kingdom The talks are expected to focus on the humanitarian situation in some of the ICRC?s main areas of operations such as Israel and the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan's Darfur region, where the ICRC provides aid to more than half a million villagers and nomads and where Mr Kellenberger recently conducted a week-long visit
03-08-07 - Inside the Beltway "They sold out by the end of the business day," Adela de la Torre, spokeswoman for George Washington University, told us in advance of former President Jimmy Carter's appearance tomorrow in Foggy Bottom.
03-08-07 - AIPAC: Isolate Iran, P.A. AIPAC?s draft action agenda for this year includes as priorities the isolation of Iran and the Palestinian Authority.
03-08-07 - Australian Jewry's Israel question Five million Jews in Israel cannot live in an indefinite state of war with several hundred million Arabs. Peace for Israel means finding a way to remove the deep sense of injustice among the Palestinians, and recognising that military force breeds more, not less, extremism and violence.
03-08-07 - A better way to help Israel: Don?t subsidize settlements
03-07-07 - Report: Hamas to offer Israel truce for boycott lift Meanwhile, Miri Eisen, spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Ehud Olmert, was quoted by the daily that, "We need to see that you can actually implement the ceasefire (in Gaza) before we can consider an extension."
03-07-07 - Israel arrests Islamist leader in Jerusalem Israeli police arrested Arab Israeli Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah in occupied east Jerusalem on Wednesday after using tear gas to break up a rally where he allegedly called for violence.
03-07-07 - Policeman who killed Israeli Arab to stand trial for manslaughter The officer, S.M., shot Mahmoud Abu Satah Ganaim, 24, who was suspected at the time of breaking into a vehicle. The officer initially claimed to have opened fire out of self defense, but his version of events has been seen as problematic.
03-07-07 - Israeli Forces Surround Palestinian Military Intelligence Compound In the raid, some 30 military jeeps surrounded the three-story building in a residential neighborhood in southern Ramallah. Troops firing stun grenades and shooting in the air called on the fugitives to surrender, then entered the compound and seized 18 wanted men, Palestinian security officials said.
03-07-07 - Israel-Syria Breakthrough Anticipated The Jerusalem Post quoted a senior State Department official Wednesday as saying it is a "myth" to believe the U.S. is "blocking the path to Syrian-Israeli discussions." It's more like an 'excuse' so that Israel does not have to make peace with Syria. For, making peace with Syria would entail giving back land that Israel has unlawfully held on to for nearly forty years.
03-07-07 - Israeli Army abducts 13 Palestinian school children near Hebron Israeli forces abducted 13 Palestinian school children on their way to school in Al Arop refugee camp, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday morning.
03-07-07 - TIPH: "International observer assaulted in Hebron" This incident is only the last in a number of serious assaults on TIPH observers in this area, Karl-Henrik Sjursen Head of Mission for TIPH says. If this is allowed to continue it is only a matter of time before the perpetrators will succeed in inflicting permanent bodily injury on one of their victims, or in the worst case, the loss of life.
03-07-07 - Israeli army abducts 14 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank
03-07-07 - Analysts: Iran's military poses little threat ** Cordesman also contended that tensions in the Gulf were being worsened by U.S. and Israeli leaders overstating the Iranian threat.
03-07-07 - Goods trickle through Gaza crossing, but at a price Coca-Cola Co.'s sole producer and distributor in the Palestinian territories says the cost per kilometre to Karni was now greater than anywhere else in the soft drink giant's distribution chain, including war-torn Iraq. "It's easier to get into heaven than to get into Gaza," said Zahi Khouri, whose National Beverage Company holds the Coca-Cola licence.
03-07-07 - ANALYSIS-No Western aid gush for Palestinian unity cabinet "I have no expectation of a change in U.S. policy," said Mouin Rabbani, an International Crisis Group analyst. "The Europeans, despite what they might think or feel, are probably not going to get into a conflict with Washington over this."
03-07-07 - Four youth shot and injured near Wall in western Ramallah Palestinian medical sources report that four youth were injured in the central West Bank on Tuesday. The young people threw stones at Israeli forces and the Wall in western Ramallah's town of Beitunia, while soldiers opened fire early yesterday evening.
03-07-07 - Most outstanding issues on the coalition formation settled: official
03-07-07 - Shin Bet interrogation tactic rejected The High Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) interrogators to inform a Palestinian detainee that his wife had not been arrested and placed under interrogation, as they had previously told him.
03-07-07 - Northeastern Jerusalem villages accessible only via maze of bad roads, settlers and soldiers
03-07-07 - US refuses to join UN rights council, citing its actions against Israel Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns linked the decision to remain off the year-old council to the 47-member panel's stance on Israel, which he said had "discredited" the body.
03-07-07 - Israel probes hospital superbug The bacteria is harmless to healthy people, doctors say, but can infect people with weakened immune systems.
The bug can lead to diseases such as pneumonia, blood poisoning and soft tissue infections.
03-07-07 - Egypt's antiquities chief urges ban over Al-Aqsa work
03-07-07 - Prime Minister asks for Arab collectivism against American demand to dismiss Right of Return.
03-07-07 - Israelis told to leave Egypt, Jordan
03-07-07 - Missing Iranian "founded" Hezbollah: Israeli spy "He lived in Lebanon and, in effect, was the man who built, promoted and founded Hezbollah in those years," Igra said. "If he has something to give the West, it is in this context of terrorism and Hezbollah's network in Lebanon." Well, I bet we can guess who's got him now, eh?
03-07-07 - Israeli sheik called a 'ticking time bomb' "It is the Israeli authorities that are the ones that should be charged," Salah said in an interview before his arrest. "I'm in the right, trying to fight for a just cause, and I have the right to resist."
03-07-07 - PMRC slams Israeli attacks against its medical crews The Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (PMRC) slammed on Wednesday the Israeli military attacks against its medical teams in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank.
03-07-07 - World Bank: stop sending aid through Abbas's office
03-07-07 - Israeli high court imposes restrictions on Sheik Ra'ed Salah in Jerusalem
03-07-07 - Hebron settlers filmed throwing rocks at Palestinians Palestinians are shot for doing less. Watch the video.
03-07-07 - Jordan's king urges U.S. to work on Mideast peace Speaking to a joint session of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, Abdullah noted that 11 U.S. presidents and 30 Congresses had already wrestled with the dispute and said it could not be left once more to a future generation.
03-07-07 - Syrians from occupied Golan join nonviolent protest at Al Aqsa, Israelis take flags, arrest Sheikh During the scene of cohesion and solidarity, dozens of Israeli soldiers, police and border guards stormed the area and confiscated the Palestinian and Syrian flags. Israeli forces fired concussion grenades into the group of people, forcibly separating them.
03-07-07 - Govt Challenged over Israeli Action at Mosque
03-07-07 - Report: Missing Iranian official being questioned in N. Europe
03-07-07 - A Barack-star no more Just like Hillary Clinton, who was stalked for years by conservative pro-Israeli groups for expressing some mild sympathy but is now probably on the hawkish end of Israeli politics, Obama has been to burn incense on the altar of AIPAC.
03-07-07 - Master of oud, violin, relishes teachable moments
03-07-07 - Aipac Will Press for Hard Line on Iran Regime Mr. Block stressed that the annual policy conference this year was evidence of the "bipartisan nature of American support for Israel throughout the past and into the future regardless of which party is in control of the House or Senate, and the history, breadth and diversity of America's centuries of support for the Jewish homeland in Israel." Is this really what the founding fathers like George Washington had in mind for this country?
03-07-07 - Jews react strongly to remarks made by German bishops in West Bank
03-07-07 - Nafha: Detained Palestinian MPs Suffer Health Complications The Nablus-based Nafha Society for the Defense of Prisoners? Rights reported that the 36 Palestinian MPs being imprisoned in the Israeli detention facilities of Majedo and Alramla, have been going through crucial health complications.
03-07-07 - AIPAC speaker hopes US gets nuked after Israel provokes war with Russia
03-07-07 - ADL Calls On German Bishops' Conference To Publicly Repudiate Comparison Of Ramallah To Warsaw Ghetto Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke, the Bishop of Eichstaett, has since clarified his statements, saying that comparisons between the Holocaust and the Palestinian territories are "unacceptable." "While we were encouraged by Bishop Hanke's clarification of his personal remarks, we believe that it is imperative for the German Bishops' Conference to publicly and strongly reaffirm that any comparison between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is inappropriate and a breach of church teachings,"
03-07-07 - U.S. denies scholarship-terrorism link "They both have passed U.S. government vetting anti-terrorism procedures." McCormack added that scholarship funds are used only for educational purposes. But that fact hasn't stopped the folks from the usual corners and their cohorts in the media from broadcasting this propaganda.
03-07-07 - Ramallah bids for Birmingham link The mayor of Ramallah is making efforts to have the Palestinian city twinned with Birmingham.
03-07-07 - Bill Clinton sees new dynamic at work in troubled Middle East Clinton criticized former President Carter's controversial book on the Middle East, which likens Israel's policies to the apartheid system of South Africa. "If I were an Israeli, I wouldn't like it because it's not factually accurate and it's not fair," he said.
03-07-07 - What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? "One story was that [the Israelis] appeared at Liberty State Park very quickly after the first plane hit. The other was that they were at the park location already". Either way, investigators wanted to know exactly what the men were expecting when they got there.
Before such issues had been fully explored, however, the investigation was shut down. Following what ABC News reported were "high-level negotiations between Israeli and U.S. government officials", a settlement was reached in the case of the five Urban Moving Systems suspects. Intense political pressure apparently had been brought to bear. The reputable Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that by the last week of October 2001, some six weeks after the men had been detained, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and two unidentified "prominent New York congressmen" were lobbying heavily for their release.
Now we know why they were not charged, and then subsequently deported. It is my contention that these men knew in fact what was going to happen, and that's why they were cheering when the FIRST plane went into the WTC. That they would cheer such an event at all, is telling. Meanwhile, the sheeple continue being fed pro-Israel propaganda via the mainstream American media. It's working.
03-07-07 - Canadians and the International Boycott Movement
03-07-07 - UN envoy in Cairo for Mideast peace talks
03-07-07 - Israelis warned against spending Passover in Sinai
03-07-07 - Israeli and Palestinian women campaign together for peace "Once I got here in 1974 I realised rather quickly that the ideals weren't true. Palestinians are not treated as equals ? not in Israel and not in the occupied territories," Therein lies the heart of the conflict.
03-07-07 - Commentary About Jewish Elites & The Anti-Defamation League It is disgusting that former President Jimmy Carter is being vilified by some people for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" and he is very accurate in his description, at least as far as the occupied territories are concerned
03-07-07 - 'Femicide' on the rise in conflict zone "The general atmosphere here in Gaza is encouraging this ? there is no respect for law, no punishment of criminals and everyone has a gun," Then perhaps these women need to become Second Amendment Sisters (like myself). Fair is fair.
03-07-07 - Palestine Participates in International Tourist Exhibition in Germany Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Engineer Jawadah Marques said that the participation of Palestine in this fair during the period, 7- 11, is very important for the sake of marketability of the Palestinian tourism and archeological sites and reactivating tourism in Palestine.
03-07-07 - Non-violent protest at Huwwara Israeli army checkpoint The Popular Committee against the Closure of Nablus held a demonstration at Huwwara checkpoint, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on Wednesday morning to protest the curfew imposed on much of the city last week.
03-07-07 - Hardline Pastor Gets Prime AIPAC Spot And a time when pro-Israel forces are being accused of beating the drums for war with Iran, Rev. Hagee seems to believe such a conflict is both inevitable and necessary...... Congressional observers say AIPAC remains a legislative powerhouse, ?but more lawmakers will now feel free to ask questions, especially about routine and nonbinding resolutions praising Israel and criticizing the Palestinians,? said a longtime pro-Israel lobbyist.
03-07-07 - World Council of Churches in new effort for Israeli-Palestinian peace The World Council of Churches says it is to launch in June an international, inter-church advocacy initiative for peace in Israel and Palestinian territories in Jordan.
03-07-07 - Force-Feeding Near for Fasting Inmate Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian who taught computer science at the University of South Florida, stopped eating Jan. 22 in objection to a judge's decision to hold him indefinitely because he refused to testify before a grand jury.
03-07-07 - You can't make peace with a violent people Pot, this is the kettle calling. And again. One more.
03-07-07 - Man without country back home -- for now
03-07-07 - Israeli PM says Lebanon war was pre-planned: report In testimony apparently aimed at dismissing any notion he acted recklessly, Olmert told the commission he asked army commanders in March 2006 if a contingency plan for military action existed in the event soldiers were abducted along the Lebanon frontier, Haaretz said.
03-07-07 - Analysis: Al-Qaida in south Lebanon said a well-informed Arab politician who spoke on condition of anonymity.....the source said, this deployment of Islamist militants to south Lebanon is being carried out "with the discreet approval of Iran and Syria." Then we must attack Iran and Syria!
03-07-07 - Umm Salamuna anti-Wall demo and tree planting in Hebron this Friday
03-07-07 - Jews learn 'Alice in Wonderland' history of Israel
03-07-07 - Israeli MK predicts attack on Iran ** Eitam told The CJN that Israel may have to act alone against Iran within "a window" to two to three years, but he suggested Israel would move before Bush leaves office. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama, the leading Democratic presidential candidates, have the stomach to tackle Iran militarily, Eitam said, and he wasn?t sure how Republican contenders Rudy Giuliani and John McCain would act...... "It would be a strategic tragedy if the United States stabilizes Iraq, but is so weakened by that operation that the credibility of the president is so low that they couldn?t strike Iran."
03-07-07 - Party reps square off on Mideast policy Canada is almost as thorougly Israel-ized as we are. Shame.
03-06-07 - Palestinian employees union calls for strike against Hamas-led gov' t An umbrella union of Palestinian governmental employees called on Tuesday for a one-day general strike against the government's violation of an agreement to pay overdue salaries.
03-06-07 - Children injured in Jabalia explosion, missiles target Israel
03-06-07 - Israeli army prevents Palestinian patients from crossing to Israel for treatment Dr. Hasanain said that among those patients were two children that had all the papers needed including a security clearance. However, soldiers detained the ambulances they were traveling in for at least 3 hours, and then forced them to go back to the Gaza strip
03-06-07 - Unknown gunmen kill a Palestinian writer in Baghdad A group of unknown gunmen shot and killed Ahmed Alriyahie, a Palestinian writer living in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
03-06-07 - Palestinians see growing food shortages The problem is most acute in Gaza, where Israeli security clampdowns at commercial and civilian crossings have pushed unemployment to 39 percent and exposed 54 percent of 1.4 million Gazans to food insecurity, according to the WFP.
03-06-07 - Crossing the Line: Violation of the Rights of Palestinians in Israel without a Permit Over the years, B'Tselem has issued numerous reports on the abusive conduct of police officers and soldiers against Palestinians who violate the closure to seek work. While the Israeli authorities condemn the acts of abuse that are reported in the media, claiming they are lamentable exceptions, the report shows that these cases are not exceptions at all. In fact, they are the tip of the iceberg, under which is concealed a harsh routine of violence and abuse, including the use of illegal force, illegal damage to property, use of illegal force to extract information and recruit collaborators, and unlawful use of firearms. The report also documents how these forbidden acts occur upon the express instructions of commanding officers, and that the authorities, which officially condemn the actions, transmit a contradictory message to the soldiers and police officers by turning a blind eye and giving tacit consent.
03-06-07 - Abbas accuses EU of discriminating against PA, being pro-Israel Husseini noted in his letter to Steinmeier - current president of the European Council - the reports of Israel's intention to build a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and the construction of a new Jerusalem District police headquarters beyond the Green line.
03-06-07 - International aid agency: 80 percent of Gazans now rely on food aid Eighty percent of Gazans receive food aid from the World Food Program or from UNRWA, WFP spokesperson Kirstie Campbell says, "and without it they are liable to starve."
03-06-07 - Bishops equate Israel's actions to Holocaust While crossing one of the checkpoints into East Jerusalem the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, told reporters: "This is something that is done to animals, not people." Meisner, a resident of eastern Germany, said that the fence reminded him of the Berlin Wall and that in his lifetime he did not believe he would see such a thing again. As the Berlin Wall was brought down so will this wall be brought down, he said, adding that the fence served no purpose...."Israel has, of course, the right to exist, but this right cannot be realized in such a brutal manner,"
03-06-07 - Hardest-hit Gazans look to new government for hope "We have no place to work. We are unable to feed our children. From this government, I hope to be able to earn a living," Wafi said as his wife pounded on a piece of concrete to extract a sliver of metal on a Gaza beach.
03-06-07 - U.N. official urges West not to isolate Palestinians
03-06-07 - Livni presses E.U. on Iran, Hamas "The E.U. must stick to its demands, keep up the pressure on terrorists and extremists while working with moderates," Livni said. "These demands are not obstacles but rather crucial elements in the way to peace. Compromise will not help the peace process and will not end the conflict.? Meanwhile, the Palestinians slip ever deeper into poverty and hunger. It is precisely this type of collective punishment that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews.
03-06-07 - Frictions rise at point where faiths collide in Jerusalem
03-06-07 - Boeing Expands Philanthropy Plans in the Middle East with grant to AMIDEAST Palestine The Boeing Company announced today that it will partner with AMIDEAST West Bank and Gaza in the Palestinian territory to help develop a one-year pilot program for Palestinian school teachers designed to significantly improve the quality of English instruction at the primary level.
03-06-07 - Olmert calls special cabinet session over Iranian nuclear threat Stuart Levey, U.S. undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, who is coordinating the drive for an economic boycott on Iran, visited Jerusalem on Sunday. Levey spoke to Olmert and Livni on the difficulties his initiative is encountering in European states that trade with Iran.
Levey should stay there, and start getting his paycheck from Israel. What's the diff?
03-06-07 - Israeli & Palestinian Activists to Rebuild Demolished Homes Near Hebron A coalition of Israeli organizations announced a joint, Israeli-Palestinian activity, to rebuild homes that were demolished by the military in the South hills of Hebron, during the weekend of March 9-10.
03-06-07 - Israeli Army Sweeps into Northern Gaza The sources said that an Israeli infantry force, backed by warplanes, has swept into the eastern part of Beit Hanoun and taken over two houses in the area. No further details were reported.
03-06-07 - Apartheid Comes to New Jersey When a journalist mentions to him that these are colonies for Jews only, he says that he prays hard for peace, and looks forward to the day when Jews and Arabs can live together, but for now this is hard because of the "security situation." It doesn't occur to him that this "security situation" may itself be the result of these exclusive colonies being built on stolen Palestinian land.
03-06-07 - Fighters detonate two explosives near the Wall, military patrol in Tulkarem
03-06-07 - Israeli ambassador blasts German bishop for Warsaw ghetto remark The bishops' conference later dismissed the criticism in a statement, saying that the tour had been marked by "great sensitivity" for Israelis and Palestinians and that Lehmann had expressly underscored Israel's right to exist.
03-06-07 - AIPAC meeting a chance to stake ground on Iran, Mideast The agenda for the policy conference reads like a wish list for what the pro-Israel powerhouse expects from the candidates --- and members of the U.S. Congress.
03-06-07 - Four decades of confiscation leave a fraction of the former "bread basket" Despite having completed building the Wall in the Jenin District, Israeli forces continue intensifying settlement activities to overtake more of the northern West Bank.
03-06-07 - Iran says West may have seized ex-defense official "A man with nuclear information would be a valuable asset for the CIA and Mossad," said Alon Ben-David, Israel analyst for Jane's Defense Weekly, referring to U.S. and Israeli foreign spy services. "He could be worth kidnapping, despite the risks."
03-06-07 - Iran urges Hamas to keep up Israel resistance Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday urged visiting Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal to keep up resistance against Israel and end political infighting in the Palestinian territories.
03-06-07 - Arabs protest Israeli nuclear hint Arab nations have protested over Israel's first hint of a nuclear arsenal to the U.N. atomic watchdog, saying this flouts international commitments to a nuclear arms-free zone in the Middle East, diplomats said.
03-06-07 - Olmert to meet with Abbas within days: officials
03-06-07 - Israeli police enter Area A and target cars in southern Nablus At Huwara Checkpoint in southern Nablus the Israeli police held hundreds of cars waiting to pass during Tuesday morning's commute. Although there is an Israeli military checkpoint occupying what is known as ?Area A? under Oslo, the Israeli police do not normally enter because of that status
03-06-07 - Israeli army invades several parts of the West Bank and abducts 12 civilians
03-06-07 - NEF Collaboration with World Food Program Makes Leap in West Bank This six month pilot project will feed 10,000 Palestinian children in over 130 kindergartens in poor districts of Jenin, Tubas, and Nablus in the West Bank.
03-06-07 - Turks want Arabs in Jerusalem inquiry Turkey is trying to form a committee comprising Turkish, Jordanian and Palestinian experts to check an Israeli dig near the Mosque of al-Aksa in Jerusalem.
03-06-07 - Israel allows four-day opening of Gaza int'l terminal: Palestinian official A key Gaza crossing point was opened Tuesday and scheduled to operate until Friday, the longest period Rafah terminal will work since a main closure last year by Israel, Palestinian official said.
03-06-07 - Israeli forces seriously abused Palestinian detainees, US report says ?The educational systems for Arab and Jewish students remained unequal. Trafficking in and abuse of women and foreign workers remained a problem in some areas and industries although the government passed new anti-trafficking legislation,? the report said. Odd that there's no mention of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
03-06-07 - US report: Israel generally respects human rights BS.
03-06-07 - EU to condemn Iran for not heeding UN nuclear resolution Meanwhile, the IAEA circulated to the board Tuesday a letter Oman had sent last month to IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei on behalf of the Arab League expressing "deep concern and great disquiet" over Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's comments in December that seemed to confirm that Israel has the bomb.
03-06-07 - Israel claims that Hamas is sending fighters to train in Iran Therefore, we must attack Iran, right?
03-06-07 - King Abdullah''s role in creation of Palestine National Unity govt hailed India Tuesday reiterated its support for the Palestinian cause and hailed the contribution of King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz of Saudi Arabia in facilitating formation of a Palestinian Government of National Unity.
03-06-07 - WAR -- Conflict footage, taken to the streets
03-06-07 - War-torn town link talks The mayor of Ramallah, Janet Michael, was today meeting the mayor of Walsall, Councillor Barbara McCracken, to discuss setting up a friendship link between the two places and the twinning of schools.
03-06-07 - Mecca deal paralyzing PA government, Peretz says ISRAEL is paralyzing the PA government.
03-06-07 - Hil & Bam gear up for battle over Jewish vote The leaders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 plan dueling receptions Monday when an influential pro-Israeli lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, holds its major Washington policy conference.
03-06-07 - OP-ED: Pro-Israel problems Carter's modest allotment of a 15 minute speech, followed by 45 minutes of questions, was still too much for some. A mere half-hour after Carter left the premises, Dershowitz was ushered into the same space. In this center of open inquiry, no residue of Carter's views was allowed to linger unrebutted in the minds of students and faculty
03-06-07 - Syria agreed to cut off Iran -- negotiator "They understood they cannot get the Golan Heights as long as they are allies of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas," Alon Liel said Tuesday in a conference call organized by the Israel Policy Forum, a U.S. Jewish group.
03-06-07 - Israel Project launches Iran campaign The Israel Project is launching a campaign to educate Americans on the dangers of Iran's nuclear program. In a statement the group said the campaign will include mass mailings, television advertisements and a Web page titled the Iran Press Kit. Why Americans? What are they trying to accomplish here?
03-06-07 - Mofaz addresses Iranians on nukes An Israeli Cabinet minister denounced Iran's nuclear program in a Farsi-language radio address.
03-06-07 - Scholar gets silent treatment Pipes' views are considered controversial by some people because he is a strong and vocal critic of Muslim extremism. He told the audience of about 150 on?Monday that Palestinians should acknowledge that they have lost their battle against Israel.
03-06-07 - No Room for Civility at the Checkpoint If the Israelis consider every Palestinian, from a child to an old woman, to be a terrorist, then the Israelis have a problem that's not going to be solved by walls and security checks.
03-06-07 - OneVoice speakers promote Middle East peace OneVoice?s international program manager, Miriam Asnes, explained how the organization is working with the Palestinian and Israeli peoples
03-06-07 - Finkelstein, Pipes to visit next month
03-06-07 - ELCA Presiding Bishop Announces Evangelism Grants to Synods "We need you to continue to do your piece of this," Hanson said to the bishops. He urged them to get to know local Muslim and Jewish leaders, and discuss the issues. Hanson also urged the bishops to continue to pray for and support Palestinian Lutherans and other Christians.
03-06-07 - University of Maryland endowing Israel chair "There's a major trend on U.S. campuses to expand Israel studies and to create endowed chairs in the field, and we're in the forefront -- but we're going about it differently here,"
03-06-07 - MP says: 'vote for the BNP' Originally the couple wrote asking Mr Pelling to sign a motion which urged the Government not to upgrade Israeli relations with the EU.
03-06-07 - Former Lebanese president calls for int'l actions to end Lebanese crisis
03-06-07 - AIPAC can't stand the Light of Day
03-05-07 - Abbas, Haniyya met on Monday night, agreed on names of independent government candidates Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, met on Monday evening with the acting and designate Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, and agreed on the names of independent candidates who will hold positions in the upcoming unity government.
03-05-07 - Fateh gunman injured in infighting with Hamas gunmen In what are described as the worst bouts of internal violence since rival Palestinian factions agreed to form a unity government in Makkah last month, it is reported that also on Monday, unknown gunmen fired at the house and car of a senior security officer. Shots were also fired at a police headquarters, and police returned fire, officials said.
03-05-07 - EU maintains suspension of direct aid to Palestine
03-05-07 - Report: 13 Palestinians killed, 188 injured by Israeli army fire during February 2007 The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza issued a report on Monday which stated that 13 Palestinians including one woman, were killed while 188 others were injured by Israeli army fire during the month of February 2007.
03-05-07 - Tehran in U-turn to back Mid-East peace plan By securing Tehran's apparent backing for the peace plan, which dates from 2002 and envisages a Palestinian state on land occupied in 1967, diplomatic pressure will mount on Israel.
03-05-07 - Would Israel attack Iran? Depends who you ask "It is becoming increasingly clear that Israel has no viable military option on Iran, and is pinning its hopes on some sort of solution by the Americans," said Alon Ben-David, Israel analyst for Jane's Defence Weekly.
03-05-07 - Top lawmakers oppose cash for Abbas Signing on to the letter were Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-Fla.), its ranking member; Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), chairman of its Middle East subcommittee; and Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the subcommittee?s ranking member.
03-05-07 - Keep Hope Alive campaign holds second International Planting Day Seven fields belonging to Johnny's family have already been annexed by the Israeli authorities, of which seventeen and a half dunums were confiscated for the construction of the illegal Wall. Some forty dunums of Johnny's land now lies behind the Wall.
03-05-07 - Hamas orders book of Palestinian folk tales pulled from schools The book ban angered and worried many Palestinians, who long feared that Hamas would use its victory in last year's parliamentary election to remake the Palestinian territories according to its hard-line interpretation of Islam.
03-05-07 - Cancer rates up in Israeli prison
03-05-07 - U.S. aid to Palestine hinges on Hamas
03-05-07 - Purim attacks on Palestinians in Hebron Yesterday morning a neighbor of the Abu Aisha family saw a settler give a piece of bread covered with an unknown powder to their goats. The neighbor told this to the Abu Aisha family but the goat seem to be alright at that time. This morning however they found a goat lying in it?s stall unable to walk or eat.
03-05-07 - Israeli army abducts two teens from a village near Nablus
03-05-07 - Non-violent protest in Hebron
03-05-07 - Israel urges no EU compromise on Palestinian aid
03-05-07 - Report says U.S. scholarship funds supported Palestinian jihadists State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said U.S. officials concluded after a review that neither institution ? the Islamic University of Gaza and al-Quds University ? engages in terrorist activities. The original article containing the propaganda was crafted by Joel Mowbray of the Washington Times.
03-05-07 - Egypt anger over 1967 'massacre' The claims were aired last week in an Israeli documentary, described by its director as a "self-examination" of Israel's use of force during the war.
03-05-07 - Israel, Iran top 'negative list' A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests
03-05-07 - Israel urges international community to shun Iranian leader Israel on Monday called on the international community to shun Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because of his vision of "wiping Israel off the map."
03-05-07 - Israelis to supply vehicles for Iraq An Israeli state-owned corporation has won a contract to supply the U.S. Marine Corps with state-of the-art armored vehicles for use in Iraq, the latest in a long line of Israeli defense sales for use in the war.
03-05-07 - Cheney keynoting at AIPAC This will be the second year in a row that the vice president is the keynote speaker at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's benchmark event
03-05-07 - Israel, U.S. accused in general's disappearance a veteran of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, went missing while on a visit to Istanbul last month
03-05-07 - Saudis' new diplomatic activity could help renew peace process To ensure the United States stays on its side, Israel sent two of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's top aides, Yoram Turbovitch and Shalom Turjeman, to Washington to coordinate policy. They want to make sure that Washington backs the Saudi initiative only if it makes the changes Israel has suggested.
03-05-07 - Jewish coalition calls for open debate on Palestine Professor Slezak, whose mother survived the Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II, said he had received a death threat at the weekend after his views were presented in the Jewish media.
03-05-07 - Op-ed: On Apartionalism -- Nationalist Apartheid The unequal system of codified law, including the Law of Return and the policies of the Israel Land Administration (ILA), is reminiscent of the laws in South Africa that gave more rights to whites than blacks
03-05-07 - Start-up center bridges Arab-Jewish divide Companies cropping up try to integrate underrepresented Arab minority in Israel
03-05-07 - Doctors go a long way to treat kids "It?s very easy to become polarized," Zouros said. "It?s very easy to see things through a perspective of one side of the conflict. Sometimes the Western media tell one side of the story, and it?s interesting to be able to experience what life is like on the other side."
03-05-07 - Palestinian Photographer Awarded 2 International Prizes
03-05-07 - King meets Cheney, Gates King Abdullah also called upon the US Administration to support the Arab Peace initiative and help achieve tangible progress in the peace process in accordance with the two-state solution and international legitimacy.
03-05-07 - Power of Everyday Life: Never ending Resistance in Palestine
03-05-07 - Israel's Hot Winter Offensive
03-05-07 - Board says no to union demands "This is clearly a change in past practice regarding speakers coming into the classroom," Meyers wrote in the letter, which The Eagle-Tribune obtained last week. "We believe that this is based upon the viewpoints being presented by the speakers."
03-05-07 - A Horse of a Different Color For a moment, there, Obama must have gotten confused and thought he was running for prime minister of Israel
03-04-07 - Fatah ready to submit names of candidates: spokesman Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement is ready to present names of its candidates the group proposed as ministers in an upcoming national unity government, a spokesman said on Sunday.
03-04-07 - Abbas, Hamas forces expanding A Western diplomat working with the presidential guard said the hold on U.S. funds could make it harder for Abbas's forces to attract recruits and provide them with the equipment they need. Hamas gets money from Iran and other Islamist allies, and provides its fighters with weapons and training.
03-04-07 - Maria doesn't know she'll never walk The London Times reported on Sunday that it had collected almost $10,000 in readers' donations for Maria Aman, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was seriously wounded in a targeted killing in Gaza some ten months ago. Aman's mother, grandmother, brother and uncle were all killed in the attack while she was left paralyzed from the neck down and will have to be ventilated for the rest of her life.
03-04-07 - Abbas, Haneya end meeting without announcement of unity gov't Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haneya ended their meeting midnight yesterday without announcement of the expected national unity government.
03-04-07 - Palestinians in Gaza are Deprived of a Vital Food Source Gaza fishing is a source of living for thirty thousand people, but since last June, the Israeli naval forces have harassed Palestinian fishing boats that dare leave the dock.
03-04-07 - Arab peace initiative not negotiable: Mussa "Any twisting of the Arab initiative will cause great harm to the Palestinian cause and can affect any movement towards a just peace," he said.
03-04-07 - Olmert aides to rally US support for continuing Hamas ban Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has dispatched two senior aides to Washington to convince its top ally to keep up its boycott of the Palestinian ruling Hamas movement, an official said Sunday.
03-04-07 - Abdullah wants more U.S. involvement Abdullah, whose pro-Western country is considered an important regional broker, suggested that Israel was not displaying sincerity in its efforts to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.
03-04-07 - Abbas arrives in Gaza for talks with Haneya Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Gaza Sunday afternoon for talks with Prime Minister- designate Ismail Haneya of Hamas on forming a national unity government.
03-04-07 - Hamas urges Arab FMs to help lift siege on Palestinians Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Sunday urged Arab foreign ministers to take practical actions to help lift the West's siege on the Palestinian people.
03-04-07 - Israeli, U.S. officials to meet In addition to Livni, Levey will meet with senior officials in the Mossad secret service agency, the National Security Council and the Atomic Energy Commission, Haaretz and Israel Radio said....Levey will detail for the Israelis the U.S. efforts to get international businesses to stop working with Iran, Haaretz said US foreign policy - crafted in Tel Aviv.
03-04-07 - Israel closes West Bank for four days The closure means that Palestinians are not being allowed to travel to Jerusalem or Israel for any reason. Travel within the West Bank is also very restricted. At the same time the Israelis living in the illegal settlements in the West Bank are being allowed to travel as they please.
03-04-07 - Kuwaiti MPs seek preemptive ban on dealing with Israel Five Kuwaiti lawmakers on Saturday submitted draft legislation that calls for a total ban on dealing with Israel and proposing hefty penalties for violators.
03-04-07 - Arab FMs call for UN observers in Palestine Arab foreign ministers meeting in here on Sunday called on the UN security council to bear the responsibility and send observers for the protection of the Palestinian people and to condemn the Israeli digging works underneath the muslim holy mosque of al Aqsa.
03-04-07 - Held without charge or trial: Sheikh stripped, beaten and isolated for reference to battle Palestinians being held under Administrative Detention, meaning renewable sentences imposed without charge or trial, are demanding to be put in the same area so that they can collectively bargain. They are also demanding weekly family visits and the ability to accept clothing and blankets.
03-04-07 - FEATURE - Palestinian village torn from Jerusalem neighbours
03-04-07 - Egypt says deeply worried over Israeli operations in Nablus
03-04-07 - Palestinian Odyssey On Syrian Soil As a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948, many displaced Palestinians landed in Syria, which was only about 75 km from the Syrian border towards the south-west, and many more arrived in 1967 when Israel occupied the strategic water-rich Golan Heights.
03-04-07 - Israel to complain to U.N. about mines Israel will file a complaint with the United Nations forces in Syria after six mines thrown from Syria were found in the southern Golan Heights, the Israeli army said Sunday. The Golan Heights - another Israeli-OCCUPIED territory.
03-04-07 - Jordan's Arab Bank denies funding Mideast violence The Jordan-based Arab Bank, one of the largest in the Middle East, on Sunday dismissed US press allegations that it was involved in funding Palestinian groups that finance suicide bombers.
03-04-07 - Iran sanctions, Palestinian government to top EU agenda European Union foreign ministers will meet Monday to take stock of Iran's continued failure to halt uranium enrichment and how close the Palestinians are to forming a long-awaited unity government.
03-04-07 - South Lebanon villagers slam French troops, policy
03-04-07 - How Barack Obama learned to love Israel He co-sponsored an amendment to the Illinois Pension Code allowing the state of Illinois to lend money to the Israeli government.
03-04-07 - MK Orlev presents updated list of mortal enemies of Israel
03-04-07 - Jewish Australians call for debate on Israeli policy More than 120 Australian Jews say they share their British counterparts' view that the Jewish establishment does not reflect the range of opinions about the Middle East. They believe that unquestioning allegiance to Israeli Government policy does not necessarily serve Israel's best interests.
03-04-07 - Giffords is 1st female Jew elected from Ariz. Giffords made her second trip to Israel last month for a brief visit along with Republican Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl as part of the U.S. Congress-Israeli Knesset Interparliamentary Commission On National Security. She hopes to return this summer.
03-04-07 - Palestinian musical tour to support conservatory Thirty-five young Palestinian musicians are bringing their musical talents to the UAE next week, with the money raised by the performances going towards their West Bank-based conservatory.
03-04-07 - Israeli producers stopped by NYPD
03-04-07 - Murder suspect extradited In the video, which police viewed before charges were brought, the robber looks as if he's about to make a purchase when he pulls a gun and shoots Abdel Hamid, who was a member of Wilmington's small Palestinian community.
03-04-07 - AL foreign ministers meeting reflects unified Arab stance on regional issues The Middle East resolution called on all states in the Middle East to join the NPT and put their nuclear facilities under the inspection.
03-04-07 - In Israel, believers focus on day-to-day When Job was a boy, he said, his family was forced from their home during the first Arab-Israeli war.
"The Israelis took my land and my house," he said, pausing for a long while. "I have nothing against the Jews. But I want, at last, my children to live with means, like others. There should be agreements to stop bombing on both sides."
03-04-07 - Hawke lashes Bush on Iraq war Mr Hawke told the dinner that whatever else was done to address terrorism would be in vain unless the Palestinian issue was resolved.
03-04-07 - American-Arabs look to future Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., was the evening's keynote speaker. Chafee is one of a handful of senators who opposed the Iraq war from the outset and has called for renewed peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
03-04-07 - War of words over school 'pro-Palestinian' meeting ANGRY campaigners have called on a top private school to reconsider plans to hold a "pro-Palestinian" meeting tonight.
03-04-07 - Gambling with death in south Lebanon fields The United Nations has asked Israel for months -- in vain -- to tell it where the Jewish state's aircraft unleashed their deadly cargoes. "If the Israeli government had provided us with this information it would have greatly helped our work,"
03-04-07 - Minister denies war-crimes allegations An Israeli Cabinet minister denied Egyptian accusations that he was involved in the killing of Egyptian prisoners of war.
03-03-07 - U.S. aid sanctions turn taps off critical Palestinian water, wastewater projects "Sometimes, before I go to sleep, I think, what shall I do in the morning in order to have water," said Seidat, a 29-year-old schoolteacher and mother of three. "Am I going to have water in the morning or not? What shall I do? Where do I have to go? These are big questions in my mind."
03-03-07 - Hamas delivers minister candidates list to PM-designate Haneya
03-03-07 - Two Palestinians wounded in West Bank raid The two were wounded when soldiers in jeeps poured into the city centre and opened fire, before withdrawing soon afterwards.
03-03-07 - Hebron Release: Youth football team organized in Old City to counter stress from Many young people, particularly in the Old City, are at risk because
of the violence and ever-increasing oppressiveness of the Israeli occupation.
The children have few safe places to play in, and they witness daily acts of
violence by the Israeli occupation forces.
03-03-07 - EU not involved in aid cutoff against Palestinians: Erekat "EU nations did not impose siege on the Palestinians and last year they donated more than any year before,"
03-03-07 - Islamic Jihad vows to continue rocket attacks into Israel
03-03-07 - Settler assaults on internationals in Tel Rumeida and tree planting in Beit Omar
03-03-07 - Salah urges Muslim states to halt 'Judaization' of Jerusalem
03-03-07 - Journalists persevere despite repression: union reports monthly violations On the tenth of February Israeli forces arrested Associated Press photographer Abdel Hafeez Al Khalmon in the southern West Bank. He was taking pictures of Israeli soldiers beating a man in Hebron's Old City.
03-03-07 - Five Gunmen Abduct a Palestinian Resident in Khan Younis Mohammad Shahin, 22, owner of an internet café has been reportedly abducted form his shop in the Al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis.
03-03-07 - Israel could remove dozens of settlements: Peres "Yes, settlements will be removed -- not all the settlements, and I'm not even sure most of the settlements," Peres told Israel's Channel Two television. Israel has no legal or moral right to put any settlements on Palestinian land.
03-03-07 - 'Threat to the world' Iran's nuclear weapons program poses the "most serious threat to the world," Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor warned. "There is limited time (to stop Iran), and the question is, 'What will be done with that time,' " he said in an interview with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program.
03-03-07 - Knesset speaker meets UN secretary general
03-03-07 - Judge rejects request by Muslim charity He refuses to declassify FBI evidence despite a recently unsealed document that falsely accused officials of anti-Jewish slurs.
03-03-07 - South African Apartheid &Israel Compared
03-03-07 - Suits claim bank financed terror Israelis and U.S. citizens injured in suicide bombings have also filed lawsuits against the bank in New York
03-03-07 - Congress should deny foreign aid to Israel If past behavior is any indicator, Congress will borrow the money (from China) to provide Israel an aid package worth over $5 billion
03-03-07 - Transcript of remarks by Senator Barack Obama at the AIPAC Policy Forum, Chicago, Illinois, March 2, 2007 It is far too dangerous to have nuclear weapons in the hand of a radical theocracy.....Last summer Hezbollah attacked Israel. By using Lebanon as an outpost for terrorism and innocent people as shields, Hezbollah has also engulfed that entire nation in violence and conflict and threatened the fledgling movement for democracy there.
You don't say? Then why isn't Israel's nuclear program being forced to undergo the same scrutiny. Notice that Obama repeats Israel's claim that Hezbollah used 'innocent people as shields'. Not only did Human Rights Watch debunk that myth in its exhaustive research of that conflict, but just the other day, ISRAEL was caught on film by the AP USING INNOCENTS AS HUMAN SHIELDS.
03-03-07 - Israel's first Arab president has Web abuzz
03-03-07 - Sarid: "In 1967, army executed 250 unarmed Egyptian soldiers" There is an account of how Israeli forces executed Egyptian POWs here(par.s 8-11).
03-03-07 - Israeli economy bounces back from war Israel's economy has more than recovered from the setbacks of the Lebanon war, new data revealed. Then it doesn't need our taxpayer aid.
03-02-07 - Three residents injured, two taken prisoner in Nablus Witnesses said that the Israeli gunfire wounded local resident Essam Albakri in an explosion that ripped through just beside him. Albakri?s hand has been amputated as his face has been wounded due to the explosion, witnesses added.
03-02-07 - Unity Government to be declared on Sunday
03-02-07 - Haniyya appeals to factions to speed-up choosing ministers for unity government Friday, Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, appealed the Palestinian factions who want to participate in the unity government to speed-up in choosing their candidates, and warned that further delays could embolden the factions that oppose the deal, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.
03-02-07 - Twelve-year old undergoing surgery after being shot in the head at Bil?in
03-02-07 - Bil'in : 19 protesters among them two children were injured in the Weekly Non Violent protest on friday weekly demo in Bil'in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, soldiers shot two children at a range of less than 10 metres, with rubber coated steel bullets...One was hit in the upper leg and the other in the lower back. Both were hospitalized
03-02-07 - HEBRON RELEASE: Team fasting in protest of Israeli closure of the West Bank The Hebron team will hold a short Lenten fast on Saturday 3 March and Sunday 4
March in protest of the Israeli closure of the West Bank.
03-02-07 - Palestinian youth throw stones at Wall in protest of Al Aqsa destruction The West Bank's Bethlehem broke out in a volley of bullets and stones Friday as Palestinian youth protested the destruction at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque.
03-02-07 - Umm Salamuna anti-Wall demonstration: the nonviolent resistance will not be deterred Hundreds of Palestinians staged a nonviolent demonstration in Umm Salamuna Village as Israeli forces continue the confiscation of land for Wall construction throughout the Bethlehem District.
03-02-07 - Vacant lot donated to Palestinian gov't Turkish authorities have decided to donate a vacant lot worth $4 million for a future Palestinian Embassy in Ankara to the Palestinian government.
03-02-07 - Japan's emergency assistance to improve the humanitarian situation of the Palestinians the Government of Japan decided to extend Emergency Grant Aid of a total of 7.2 million US dollars to UNDP, UNRWA and UNFPA in order to improve the humanitarian situation of the Palestinians.
03-02-07 - Palestinians Miss Govt Deadline Caretaker Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh yesterday called on factions to speed up the formation of a unity government after they missed yesterday?s deadline to allocate Cabinet berths.
03-02-07 - Moussa urges for international peace conference on Palestine issue
03-02-07 - British Conservative leader speaks out against Israeli settlements The Tory party leader reportedly condemned settlement expansion and described East Jerusalem as being occupied Palestinian territory while being interviewed by a handful of journalists during a tour of Jerusalem?s Old City. E. Jerusalem IS Israeli-OCCUPIED territory, according to international law.
03-02-07 - Jordan's king says Israelis must choose between life in a "fortress" or peace with neighbors "It is time that the (U.S.) employ this influence to prove its transparency to the people of the region, and that it is not biased," Abdullah said.
03-02-07 - Medical care for Palestinian children Oday is just one of hundreds of Palestinian children to benefit from the work of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, a charity based in Ohio that every year sends dozens of young patients in need of surgery to the United States and Europe, and brings in teams of specialist doctors to treat urgent cases in the West Bank and Gaza.
03-02-07 - Israeli army raids in West Bank aggravate situation - Russia
03-02-07 - Non-Violent protest in Um Salamoneh Israeli bulldozers started destroying land belonging to Um Salamoneh on Tuesday. Palestinian farmers and villagers from Um Salamoneh and the surrounding villages protested this action at the site, and were joined by Israeli and International supporters. The Israeli army attacked and injured several villagers, and abducted one local youth, who was released shortly after.
03-02-07 - Israel fears possible Russian arms sale to Syria Israel expressed concern Friday about a potential Russian sale of advanced anti-tank weapon systems to Damascus amid persistent fears in the Jewish state about a future conflict with its enemy.
03-02-07 - Islamic Jihad vows to attack Israel
03-02-07 - Call to ease Palestinian boycott it proposes that fresh demands should be made on Hamas, including the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli corporal seized by militants last June, a comprehensive ceasefire and acquiescence in talks between the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.
03-02-07 - Behind ?The Veil?
03-02-07 - Hillel launches online petition against Iran The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life launched an online petition urging the U.S. government to work with allies in tightening sanctions against Iran
03-02-07 - Captive soldiers resolution in Senate Two U.S. senators introduced a resolution calling for the release of three captive Israeli soldiers.
03-02-07 - Russia wants israel to join NPT israel is now accusing Russia of selling its most advanced anti-tank missiles to Syria.
03-02-07 - Man's vacation takes a detour On Thursday, the Palestinian health care worker and actor who lives in California was held without bail in the Hillsborough County jail
03-02-07 - Israeli navy to patrol Dead Sea: TV
03-02-07 - A Mainstream Palestinian Viewpoint would Americans today agree to give half of their homeland to another people who were a clear minority and who were coming in to the country by external decree (in this case the British)?
03-02-07 - Lebanon discovers network spying on Hezbollah: report
03-02-07 - Obama: Engagement, sanctions with Iran The Bush administration, backed by AIPAC, favors only limited, multilateral engagement with Iran until that country achieves nuclear transparency.
03-02-07 - Op-Ed: Occupation defies social justice Now is the time for Jews to be the loudest, strongest advocates against occupation and in support of equal rights for Palestinians ? not in spite of our Judaism but because of it
03-02-07 - Israeli army briefly detains man at Lebanon border Lebanese security sources said the man was gathering scrap metal in an area near the border with Israel when he was detained. They identified him as Mahmud Hussein Hajj, a resident of Hula.
03-02-07 - Palestinian-Israeli conflict discussed Safieh asserted that Israel?s policy is based upon the notion of acquiring ?as much Palestinian geography as possible with as little Palestinian demography as possible,? and cited Israel?s territorial appetite as the major impediment to a successful peace process.
03-02-07 - West Bank Palestinians to speak Saturday Two Palestinians from the West Bank will speak in Tucson Saturday night alongside local activists protesting militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border.
03-02-07 - Dershowitz response astonishing With Dershowitz?s letter to The Hoot this week, two things are now obvious: First, Carter was undeniably astute in his refusal to debate a professor who has forgotten the basic standards of constructive academic debate, and second, Dershowitz himself was left defeated by the Carter event as he witnessed a community that, for the most part, cared little for what he had to say.
03-02-07 - The White House, like the White Paper The flood of Israeli visits to the U.S. capital is unceasing......Prime Minister Olmert will meet with Abbas in another two weeks, and Rice's pal, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, will visit Washington to speak at the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC
03-02-07 - False quotes shake up terror trial The mystery of how and why a government wiretap summary falsely attributed anti-Jewish slurs to officials of a Muslim charity remained unanswered Tuesday as federal prosecutors pledged to look into the matter.
03-02-07 - Keeping hope alive in Palestine Eight thousand olive tree saplings will be planted this spring in the Palestinian territories to replace olive groves that have been uprooted
03-02-07 - College finishes its probe of fight
03-02-07 - Israeli prof: Gaza is a 'prison' The discussion, called "The Spirit of Struggle," focused on what Reinhart called the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians as a result of the "internationally tolerated" Israeli policy in the West Bank and Gaza.
03-02-07 - U.S. to Send Top Refugee Official to Damascus
03-02-07 - Golan's apples blossom in Red Cross hands The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) said that it regularly transports the season's apples back across the frontline between arch-enemies Israel and Syria to help the Syrian farmers sell them back home.
03-02-07 - Rupert Murdoch: Fox in the henhouse Today, Fox Broadcasting and allied enterprises are deeply into the henhouse of America and the world, reaching over 96 percent of US households, owning more than 175 international newspapers and magazines on three continents, publishing 40 million papers a week, virtually controlling print markets in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.....While Murdoch doesn?t speak openly of his roots, he nevertheless has been open about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu Murdoch's Fox News is notoriously pro-neocon. Note in the article his ties to the Israeli lobby.
03-02-07 - Ahmadinejad impresses church leaders The Anti-Defamation League blasted a meeting between a U.S. Christian delegation and the Iranian president as a ?betrayal.?
03-02-07 - A Long Enough Sentence The NY Sun gives space to those advocating for Jonathan Pollard's release. Here is a reminder of what Pollard did. And again.
03-02-07 - School leaders, not teachers, must set policy The editorial board of the Eagle Tribune once again reveals its true colors (blue and white).
03-02-07 - Jewish Group Will Commend Schakowsky As 'Ally Of Israel' In addition to presenting the congresswoman with a plaque in a private ceremony today, Kleiner said group members plan to take advantage of their meeting with Schakowsky to express their concerns about the Iranian nuclear program, which they believe threatens Israel
03-02-07 - The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
03-01-07 - Bedouin girl shot in head; IDF suspected The girl, who had been herding sheep, was brought to an IDF base by a Bedouin man who said the girl had been shot by IDF soldiers after wandering into a firing zone.
03-01-07 - Israel ends raid against militants in Nablus One Palestinian civilian was killed during the raid. Israeli troops shot him and wounded several people on Monday as they watched from their roofs while soldiers searched buildings for gunmen Israel has said were involved in planning anti-Israeli attacks.
03-01-07 - Israelis in fresh West Bank raids Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haniya has said Israel is trying to undermine a recent unity agreement between Palestinian factions.
03-01-07 - Hamas says progress achieved in prisoners swap
03-01-07 - Names of minister candidates to be delivered to Haneya before Friday: official
03-01-07 - Guilford College Players Apologize to Palestinian Students
03-01-07 - Pollution adding to Gaza's woes
03-01-07 - Israeli troops invade a village near Salfit and abduct four civilians On Thursday, Israeli forces invaded the village of Qarawit Bani Hassan, west of Salfit city in the northern part of the West Bank and abducted four Palestinian civilians.
03-01-07 - Hamas lawmakers to remain in Israeli custody Five senior Hamas lawmakers detained in Israel will remain in prison after the Supreme Court of Justice rejected their appeal on Thursday.
03-01-07 - Interview: Palestine after the Mecca agreement
03-01-07 - PPS: Israeli prisons use beatings and sleep deprivation to coerce confessions Four young men from the Bethlehem District reported similar abuse to Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyers this week.
03-01-07 - Israel pushing to improve Saudi peace initiative ahead of Riyadh summit Israel is expecting the Arab League to adopt an improved version of the Saudi peace plan at a summit meeting called for the end of this month in Riyadh, senior government sources told Haaretz on Thursday. "We understand that the intention is to improve the initiative and come up with a better offer," said one.
03-01-07 - Israeli soldiers attack and beat up six Palestinian civilians A group of Israeli soldiers attacked and beat up six Palestinian farmers who were working in their lands near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday morning.
03-01-07 - They have the right to protest, we have the right to support Israel "They have the right to protest, we have the right to support Israel. That?s America."
You're not supporting Israel. The West Bank - where those settlements are built - does not belong to Israel. It's Israeli-OCCUPIED territory. Building settlements therein is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (article49). Inviting Americans to buy this housing may not be illegal, but it should be. Violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention may be considered war crimes.
03-01-07 - Israel closes W. Bank, Gaza during Jewish Purim holiday Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz yesterday ordered the security establishment to impose a full closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, an army spokesperson told Xinhua.
03-01-07 - Hebron Update: 18-24 February 2007
03-01-07 - Muslim and Jew unite in al-Aqsa protests
03-01-07 - UNESCO should supervise Israeli construction work near al-Aqsa Mosque: Egypt The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities on Thursday said that the UNESCO should supervise Israel's construction work near the holy al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
03-01-07 - Israel tightens grip on Jerusalem The new settlement would strengthen Israeli control over the north of the city where Palestinian neighborhoods and a refugee camp stretch in a finger of development towards the nearby West Bank city of Ramallah.
03-01-07 - Film of Israeli raid raises questions In interviews with the AP, the Palestinian man, Sameh Amira, 24, said he was awakened at about 5 a.m. by soldiers and ordered to go with his family to a neighboring home. About an hour later, he said he was forced to lead troops into three apartments, including his own. He said he was not allowed to put on warmer clothes. "They asked me to walk in front of them against my will," he said, adding that he was occasionally prodded along at gunpoint.
03-01-07 - Israeli forces abduct two Palestinians from Tulkarem
03-01-07 - US, Israel begin talks on new 10-year aid plan
03-01-07 - EU will 'never' abandon Palestinians: Ferrero-Waldner The European Union will never halt aid to the Palestinian people even if a new Hamas-led unity government Hamas fails to meet international conditions, its external relations commissioner said Thursday.
03-01-07 - Poverty follows Palestinians' sanctions
03-01-07 - Ahmadinejad blames U.S., Israel for wars Iran's president blamed the United States and Israel for the world's problems Thursday in a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Sudan.
03-01-07 - Israeli army invades a Palestinian refugee camp near Tubas; four civilians injured, two abducted
03-01-07 - INTERVIEW-After Arafat, Hamas: Palestinian FinMin soldiers on
03-01-07 - Senior Palestinian official: Drop demands for Israel recognition
03-01-07 - US representatives approve cooperation with Israel Sources in Israel and AIPAC worked for two years to advance this bill
03-01-07 - Israel's liaison to its neighbors: Saudi Prince Bandar There are many indications that the prince, who served 22 years as Saudi ambassador to Washington, is behind the quiet slide his country is making toward Israel since the end of the second Lebanon war.
03-01-07 - Bolton Says U.S. Should Seek 'Regime Change' in Iran Here are a few paragraphs from an article from Feb. 2003: "In a meeting with U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton yesterday, Sharon said that Israel was concerned about the security threat posed by Iran, and stressed that it was important to deal with Iran even while American attention was focused on Iraq. Bolton said in meetings with Israeli officials that he had no doubt America would attack Iraq, and that it would be necessary thereafter to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea." From the Israeli Haaretz.
03-01-07 - JCPA Delegates Spurn Israel Demands Delegates to this week?s Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) plenum in Washington defied the Israeli government when they refused to adopt a last-minute resolution calling for tougher action against Iran and for its leaders to be indicted for inciting genocide....Israeli diplomats from the embassy in Washington, in a rare show of active involvement in the internal deliberations of an American Jewish group, actively worked the floor, lobbying delegates in favor of the resolution and, in some cases, calling top organization leaders......Israel's big slice of U.S. aid, which once provided pro-Israel lobbyists with an annual challenge in Congress, has become so routine that the debate over the money is all but inaudible.
03-01-07 - Syrian Envoy Rips U.S. and Israel for Rejecting Overtures From Damascus
03-01-07 - Obama to offer pro-Israel views at Chicago gathering AIPAC, whose sole interest is U.S.-Israel relations, is one of the most influential lobbying groups in the nation. Its annual policy conference starts March 11 in Washington. The gathering provides fertile territory for Obama to schmooze with well-connected backers and donors. Though no 2008 presidential candidates are on the program, Obama is hosting a reception for AIPAC members -- as is archrival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
03-01-07 - U.S., Israel meet on assistance Haven't we done enough?
03-01-07 - Itzik stresses captives to Rice The speaker of the Knesset met Condoleezza Rice and stressed the centrality of captive soldiers in any of Israel's dealings with the Arabs
03-01-07 - Bili'in, 23 February 2007, the second anniversary of weekly demonstrations against the barrier.
03-01-07 - The rhetorical war against Iran As much as we believe our media to be fair and balanced, we only get one side of the news on issues such as Iran, which dangerously provides us with false and misleading information. It has only been four years since Americans were misled into a war in Iraq, and we should not allow ourselves to be misled again.
03-01-07 - We can deal with Iran, boasts Israeli minister Then stop bugging the hell out of my country to take care of them.
03-01-07 - Israel exports fruit to Iran: face the music How can ?Zionist? mandarins be allowed into one of the spokes of the Axis of Evil? Bazaris (merchants) explain the situation easily: the produce comes from Occupied Palestinian Territories.
However, Israel does not allow Palestinians to directly export (or import) goods.
03-01-07 - Local peace activist to give report on work in Middle East Art Gish, just back from Iraq and Palestine, will speak about his human-rights work with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) there on Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 p.m., in the sanctuary of Christ Lutheran Church.
03-01-07 - Honest Broker - Jimmy Carter?s book stirs a critical debate.
03-01-07 - West Bank Open House Seen As A Success The campaign aims to sell houses in 12 settlements beyond the separation fence, ranging from $93,000-$160,000, and then rent the houses to young Israeli couples. The houses, yet to be built, will be within the perimeters of existing West Bank settlements, including Kiryat Arba, Shilo, Karnei Shomron and Sussia. Herbst said that Binyanei Bar Amana is capable of building up to 1,000 new houses a year if there proves to be a market for them.......Also appearing at B?nai Yeshurun to endorse the effort was New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), who said that he and his wife Shani intend to purchase a house in one of the settlements.
We all know by now which nation Hikind really serves. And Spitzer's take on all of this, mewonders?...
03-01-07 - Factor notes: Why Clinton trumps Edwards The Israel Factor panel ranks the two senior Democratic and Republican representatives from New York at the top of the list. Rudi Giuliani is the preferred candidate from among the Republicans, as is Hilary Clinton among the Democrats. This is no coincidence. The constant interest in, and the open sympathy for, Israeli affairs that is required of all important elected officials in the most Jewish of states in the U.S. has had its effect on them both. Note the source.
03-01-07 - West Bank homes offered at boro meet An Israeli real estate company offering property in the occupied West Bank made its first stop in New York at a Jewish center in Hillcrest, drawing about a dozen potential buyers as well as a pair of Flushing peace activists who oppose the controversial transaction........"In Iraq could you sell land that was evacuated? That is against international law," he said. "Did they get a license?"
03-01-07 - Jimmy Carter to speak on Middle East, controversial book at Lisner Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will speak at Lisner Auditorium next Thursday to discuss Middle Eastern affairs and his controversial book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
03-01-07 - Scholars Debate Israel to Boos Throughout the event it appeared that a pro-Palestinian sentiment was much stronger than pro-Israeli views.
03-01-07 - The New Republic's odd new owner The bad news for TNR staffers is that CanWest's recent history is littered with lawsuits, gag orders, and byline strikes, buffered by a steady stream of columnists, reporters, and editors who complain CanWest actively censors its employees who stray from the company's conservative, pro-war, pro-Israel blueprint...."The Asper family of Winnipeg is violating Canada's cherished tradition of a free media," wrote Haroon Siddiqui, a columnist for the Toronto Star, in 2002. "CanWest has spawned a culture of fear and self-censorship among journalists." Join the club, Canadians. Same lobby behind that racket too. Read on.
03-01-07 - Obama looking for Jewish support Since he was voted into the Senate, Obama has backed the Palestinian anti-terrorism bill, voted to defend Israel during the war and supported the foreign-aid bill. Despite these pro-Israel deeds, Jews in the US are concerned about his standpoint on Israel. Among his democratic supporters are left-wing
bloggers who tend to criticize Israel.
03-01-07 - Israeli Firm Tapped To Provide U.S. Marines With New Armored Vehicles
03-01-07 - Blogging About Pro-Israel Journalist Puts Writer in Court A UC Berkeley student who maintains a blog critical of a local freelance journalist was brought to small claims court yesterday, as the journalist said the student has interfered with his business opportunities.
03-01-07 - The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian Pro-Israel hawks had resented this computer professor at the University of South Florida long before Atta and the hijackers flew their planes into the Trade Towers because they saw Al-Arian, a Palestinian born in Kuwait of parents kicked out of their homeland in 1948, as an effective agitator here for the Palestinian cause
03-01-07 - MKs Out For Blood Over Prof?s 'Libel' Book Toaff, a Bar-Ilan University medieval history professor, never thought his book "Pasque di Sangue" ("Passover of Blood"), which has so far been published only in Italian, would lead to calls for his dismissal from the university, or that Israeli legislators would be seeking his indictment.
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