March '08 Archive

3/31/2008 - West Bank settler kills Palestinian after attack bid    

3/31/2008 - Unlawful homes for Israeli settlers, demolitions for Palestinians Amnesty International is urging the Israeli authorities to cease demolishing Palestinian homes in the occupied Palestinian territories, cancel all demolition orders and take steps to prevent and punish settler attacks on Palestinians and on international observers seeking to protect them. The organisation is calling also for an immediate end to the construction or expansion of Israeli settlements in breach of international humanitarian law.  

3/31/2008 - Israel is 'deserting' Bedouin Arabs The report contrasted Israel's depiction of 45,000 Bedouin homes in 39 unrecognised villages as illegal with what it said was the authorities' willingness to overlook or retrospectively legalise unlawful construction by Jewish citizens and to link them to the water and electricity networks.  

3/31/2008 - Israel to consider easing Gaza border control if calm continues    

3/31/2008 - The Israeli army attacks several parts of the West Bank kidnapping eight civilians    

3/31/2008 - The Palestinian court of Justice rolls against the clearance government decision The President of the Public Servants Union, Bassam Zakarnah, stated on Monday that the Palestinian Court of Justice based in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, decided today against the Palestinian caretaker governments' decision to force the Palestinians to pay all their tax and bills before renewing their official documents  

3/31/2008 - Abbas to visit Russia in mid-April    

3/31/2008 - Israeli army wounds two Palestinians in southern Gaza    

3/31/2008 - Prison shortage mars Palestinian security campaign    

3/31/2008 - Hamas Leader Talks Exclusively To Sky "We renew our offer to Israel to let the civilians on both sides not be a part of this conflict," he said. "We renew this offer today."  

3/31/2008 - 2 Qassams land in western Negev; no injuries    

3/31/2008 - Nomadic bedouin fight to survive in the village which does not exist    

3/31/2008 - Russian envoy says Moscow meeting would energize Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts A Mideast conference in Moscow this summer would energize efforts to achieve a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians by the end of the year, Russia's U.N. ambassador said Monday.  

3/31/2008 - Barak says will allow establishment of Palestinian city Israeli source says US Secretary of State Rice was 'amazed' by Israeli gestures to Palestinians presented during three-way meeting with defense minister, Palestinian prime minister How long before Israel reneges on these 'amazing' gestures, mewonders? History dictates as soon as she boards the plane to leave.

3/31/2008 - Israel: End Systematic Bias Against Bedouin Israel should declare an immediate moratorium on demolitions of Bedouin homes and create an independent commission to investigate pervasive land and housing discrimination against its Bedouin citizens in the Negev, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.  

3/31/2008 - U.S. Pres. Bush 'optimistic' on 2009 Mideast peace deal Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem on the first of a three-day visit to the region, Rice said: "We will be verifying what it is they are doing and this is all aimed at trying to improve the movement and access of the Palestinian people in the West Bank."  

3/31/2008 - Israel to build more homes in occupied east Jerusalem    

3/31/2008 - FACTBOX-Palestinian police, prisons lack basic equipment    

3/31/2008 - Israeli play makes link with Palestinians    

3/31/2008 - On Israel, Clinton, Obama and McCain all aim to be like Bush    

3/31/2008 - Jordan's queen urges dialogue on YouTube Jordan's media savvy Queen Rania has launched an appeal on YouTube for a global dialogue to dismantle stereotypes of Muslims and the Arab world, the royal palace said Monday.  

3/31/2008 - UE professor to learn first-hand about Middle East Kim, an assistant professor of political science, will travel more than 6,000 miles to Tel Aviv, Israel, to participate with about 40 other professors in the Academic Fellowship on Terrorism from June 9-20. The program is sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a non-partisan Washington, D.C., policy institute founded in 2004. The fellowship is funded by donors and a grant from the U.S. State Department. Ahh, the FDD is a NEOCON think tank.

3/31/2008 - Israeli Arab accused of spying for Hezbollah    

3/31/2008 - Palestinian ambassador visits UA Palestinian Ambassador Afif Safieh spoke Friday about the necessary conditions for an Israel-Palestine peace treaty, one of them being dialogue, to end years of violent conflict.  

3/31/2008 - Poll: U.S. voters support Israel Americans likely to vote in November strongly believe the United States should take Israel's side in its conflict with the Palestinians, a poll found. Non-stop propaganda really works!

3/31/2008 - Evans wants world to engage with Hamas    

3/31/2008 - Australia affirms support for Israel in the United Nations    

3/31/2008 - Correction: Palestinian ambassador to speak April 12    

3/31/2008 - Financial woes silence anti-boycott body As the spring conference season for British trade unions draws near, and with it the calls to boycott Israeli academia, funds for a non-government body that fights those calls have dried up.  

3/31/2008 - Jail sentence for repairing car in West Bank The Knesset on Monday authorized a bill proposal determining that Israelis caught repairing their vehicle within the Palestinian Authority territories would face a prison sentence of up to three years.  

3/31/2008 - Top UK band to visit Palestine Glasgow based rock band Belle and Sebastian will tour Palestine and Israel next week to see for themselves how the age-old conflict has contributed to music and culture in the region.  

3/31/2008 - Labor snubs call to engage Hamas    

3/31/2008 - Former Abu-Nidal terrorist faces murder trial in Germany Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany - A former member of the Palestinian Abu-Nidal terrorist group goes on trial in Germany on Tuesday for murdering a Lebanese car dealer and his wife for their money.  

3/31/2008 - The senator, his pastor and the Israel lobby    

3/31/2008 - Eligible Palestinian refugees sign up for new housing initiative Palestinians living in refugee camps in the three largest cities of Amman, Zarqa and Irbid were among thousands of low income people who flocked to post offices last week to take advantage of a US$7 billion housing initiative that aims to provide affordable homes.  

3/31/2008 - Palestinian feud focus of debate THE destructive feud between Palestinian factions will come under the spotlight at the latest Doha Debate, to be held this evening at Qatar Foundation Headquarters.  



3/30/2008 - Two Gaza militants killed in Israeli air strike: medics    

3/30/2008 - Israeli Settlers Shoot and Wound Palestinian Sheep and Goat near At-Tuwani Palestinian shepherds in the area and volunteers working with Christian Peacemaker Teams report that Settler violence directed at Shepherds in the Tuwani Area has increased sharply in March. On multiple occasions both Settlers and Army Personnel have injured Palestinian-owned animals.  

3/30/2008 - Arab Summit: Israeli actions against Palestinians 'war crimes' The Syrian-hosted Arab summit, which concluded a two-day meeting in Damascus on Sunday said in a final statement that the Israeli actions against the Palestinians are "crimes of war."  

3/30/2008 - Egypt-Gaza border tunnel collapse kills Palestinian smuggler    

3/30/2008 - Israeli police detains four Palestinians in Tel-Aviv    

3/30/2008 - Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops at West Bank checkpoint Several hundred protesters approached the Hawara checkpoint and scuffled with troops. The soldiers responded with tear gas and stun grenades and detained two people. There were no serious injuries reported.  

3/30/2008 - Israel delays opening of West Bank police HQ    

3/30/2008 - Hamas chief invites Abbas for talks, says Israeli soldier alive    

3/30/2008 - Seized Israeli soldier 'is alive' "Galid is still alive and we are treating him a in good way while the Israelis treat our prisoners badly and everyone knows that," Mr Meshaal said.  

3/30/2008 - Pledge to remove 50 West Bank roadblocks Israel has previously reneged on promises to ease the restrictions in the West Bank, citing security concerns.  

3/30/2008 - Israeli settlers attack, harass, and intimidate Palestinian schoolchildren on their way to and from school The military escort in the area, which is to take the children to and from school to ensure their safety, did nothing during the attack.  

3/30/2008 - ISRAEL: A day of protests Thousands of demonstrators turned out in several cities to decry what they say is the ongoing Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land and homes.  

3/30/2008 - Syrian President Assad to follow up Palestinian dialogue Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will follow up the dialogue between Hamas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Muallem announced on Sunday.  

3/30/2008 - Israeli settlers attack and intimidate Palestinians:    

3/30/2008 - Bedouin resist Israeli plan to build Jewish towns on ancestral lands Last month, Israeli officials returned with a new warning for Finesh and the 200 other Bedouin residents: Move, or we'll demolish your homes.  

3/30/2008 - New home for ex-Gaza settlers: Deep in W.Bank    

3/30/2008 - Palestinian protesters in Gaza demand that Egypt release Hamas militants from prison    

3/30/2008 - Sasson slams government over outposts Attorney Talia Sasson blasted the government on Sunday for its failure to remove any of the 105 unauthorized West Bank outposts in the three years that have passed since the cabinet accepted her report on the matter. Article mysteriously dropped 30 minutes after I indexed it here.

3/30/2008 - Tulkarm Continues Land Day Commemmoration, Israeli Military injures 2    

3/30/2008 - DFLP stages protest on occasion of Land Day DFLP stages protest on occasion of Land Day  

3/30/2008 - US Jews attack unions over ad TWO of Australia's most prominent left-wing unions have been branded anti-Semitic in an influential Jewish-American online newsletter for linking the 60th anniversary celebration of Israel's statehood to "racism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians".  

3/30/2008 - Village epitomizes Jerusalem quandary a Jewish neighborhood called Har Homa looms over Nuaman, threatening to swallow up the village of stone houses, olive, almond and cypress trees and patches of tilled land. Yeh, that 'Jewish neighborhood' is an illegal Israeli settlement. Gotta love the Associated Press and it's doublespeak.

3/30/2008 - Israeli play makes link with Palestinians    

3/30/2008 - Self-defence or brutal occupation?    

3/30/2008 - The Mystery of American Foreign Policy Parry's review of the long-standing ties between the Israelis and the Iranians is quite educational, and it explains a lot about what is happening in Iraq today ? and, perhaps, what will happen tomorrow.  

3/30/2008 - Bush upbeat on Israeli-Palestinian accord: paper U.S. President George W. Bush is optimistic Israel and the Palestinians will sign an agreement defining a Palestinian state before the end of his term in office, a German newspaper quoted him as saying on Sunday.  

3/30/2008 - Rights group: Israel is driving out Jaffa Arabs    

3/30/2008 - Netanyahu: No substitute for Israeli control in West Bank Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday slammed the defense ministry's decision to ease access and freedom of movement for West Bank Palestinians, saying there could be no substitute for Israeli control in the territory.  

3/30/2008 - Bishop, a Palestinian advocate, to speak at city's Islamic centre Hundreds of Christians and Muslims are expected at London's Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario today, to see a Christian bishop who advocates justice for Palestinians in the Middle East.  

3/30/2008 - McPeak cites longtime admiration for Israel The Republican Jewish Coalition on Friday repeated its call on the Obama campaign to sack McPeak.  

3/30/2008 - Syria says ready in case of US military action Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Sunday that Damascus was prepared for all scenarios in its worsening relationship with Washington, including the use of US military force.  

3/30/2008 - No Lebanon breakthrough for Arabs An annual summit of the Arab League has ended in Syria's capital Damascus with a call for an end to the political crisis in Lebanon.  

3/30/2008 - 'Lemon Tree' to be distributed in US    



3/29/2008 - Israeli army shots dead Palestinian teenager in N Gaza Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in northern Gaza Strip overnight, Palestinian medical sources said on Saturday.  

3/29/2008 - Israeli troops kill 2 Gaza gunmen on border-medics Earlier, an Israeli air strike in nearby Gaza City wounded three Palestinians, hospital officials said. It was not immediately clear if they had militant affiliations.  

3/29/2008 - Egypt instals surveillance cameras after Suez killing Egypt has begun installing surveillance cameras to monitor traffic through the strategic Suez Canal after the killing of an Egyptian by a US Navy-chartered ship last week, an official told AFP on Friday  

3/29/2008 - Sunday, 30 March Day of Prayer for Hebron orphans Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron is calling for Christians around the world to make Sunday, 30 March a day of prayer for the orphans of Hebron.  

3/29/2008 - Rice to push hard to improve life on West Bank    

3/29/2008 - Palestinian president calls for Arab, international troops to protect Palestinians    

3/29/2008 - Palestinian issue centerpiece at Arab summit in Damascus The 20th Arab League (AL) Summit kicked off in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday, attracting only 10 heads of state of Arab countries besides President Bashar al-Assad of the host.  

3/29/2008 - Abbas: Israel undermining peace talks Israel's West Bank settlements and security fence aim to undermine negotiations on founding a Palestinian state, Mahmoud Abbas said  

3/29/2008 - Southern Front / IDF upping Gaza ground ops in face of heavier rocket fire Over the past week, the IDF resumed small-scale ground operations in Gaza - up to battalion-level operations, normally in areas that are no more than one or two kilometers from the border fence  

3/29/2008 - Army invades a Bethlehem town    

3/29/2008 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Hebron    

3/29/2008 - Israel splitting Palestinian territories into cantons: Abbas "The solution which Israel is designing consists of a group of cantons on a land separated by settlements, the separation wall and roadblocks," he said.  

3/29/2008 - Syria, Saudi Arabia conciliatory on Lebanon    

3/29/2008 - Female Detainee on hunger strike since 17 days Al Hashlamoon is detained in Al Ramla Israeli prison and subjected to ongoing violations which include ongoing solitary confinement, barring her from receiving proper food, and barring her from showering or even changing her clothes  

3/29/2008 - Duweik calls on Arab leaders to prioritize the Palestinian Cause    

3/29/2008 - Mizhir: ?Abbas? upcoming visit to the US will not make a difference?    

3/29/2008 - Punishing Hamas has backfired    

3/29/2008 - Syrian president slams Israel for its military offensive in Gaza    

3/29/2008 - Whatever Happened to the IRA? What about Israel? How did wiping it off the map fit in with Hizballah's master plan to become a legitimate political, social and economic force in the Middle East? "There's one thing you must understand: Hizballah will never be more Palestinian than the Palestinians." Elaborating, he said that Hizballah, as well as Iran, will accept whatever settlement the Palestinians will accept, including the existence of Israel.  

3/29/2008 - Syria's Assad denies meddling in Lebanon at boycotted summit    

3/29/2008 - Muslim cleric who aided law enforcement faces deportation to Jordan According to Qatanani and his attorney, Claudia Slovinsky, he was detained for three months in Israel in 1993 because he had helped some Palestinian students further their schooling in Jordan, where he was then based. He was released, and eventually emigrated to the U.S. in 1996. Three years later he applied for permanent residency, but his request languished until 2006 when it was denied.  

3/29/2008 - Life after Seinfeld "Last year, I was in the Palestine territories and two Arabs suddenly turned and pointed at me," says Alexander, who is Jewish. "For a few seconds I must admit I was worried. But then the guys broke into a smile and began yelling, 'George, George . . .' You would have thought I was their long-lost cousin." LOL. Everybody loves George Costanza!

3/29/2008 - 'Schalit negotiations semi-deadlocked' Efforts to release kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit are "semi-deadlocked" because of Israel's refusal to release Palestinian prisoners who are serving life sentences, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said Saturday.  

3/29/2008 - The Palestinian 'terrorist' turned Zionist Shoebat is sometimes paid for his appearances, and he also solicits donations to a Walid Shoebat Foundation to help fund this work and to "fight for the Jewish people."....Now he and two other former extremists are set to appear along with US Senator Joe Lieberman, Ambassador to the US Sallai Meridor and other notables at an annual "Christians United For Israel" conference in Washington in July. If this man wasn't a shill for Israel, then he wouldn't be allowed in the US, let alone allowed to give speaking engagements therein. Most 'former terrorist' Palestinians are either jailed or deported.

3/29/2008 - McDonell graduate fights for peace in Ramallah    



3/28/2008 - Israel says two Palestinians killed in Gaza    

3/28/2008 - Anti Wall protest in Al Khader village near Bethlehem    

3/28/2008 - Waste dumping threatens West Bank Residents of Jima'in in the district of Nablus have cited concerns about Israeli vehicles unloading garbage on Palestinian grounds, al-Jazeera reported  

3/28/2008 - Terrorism judgment against P.A. vacated A U.S. federal judge vacated a $174 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority.  

3/28/2008 - Hamas urges Arabs to back reconciliation push Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in exile in Syria, was also quoted as urging Arab leaders at their Damascus summit to support its fight with Israel. But he reiterated the Islamist group was open to a conditional truce with the Jewish state.  

3/28/2008 - Israeli Arabs mark Land Day Chanting "We are here to stay," more than 1,000 Israeli Arabs on Friday marched through Jaffa to commemorate the killing of six people during a 1976 protest against land confiscations.  

3/28/2008 - Tony Blair?s Palestine    

3/28/2008 - Meshaal would consider ceasefire Hamas' leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal, said he would consider a truce with Israel.  

3/28/2008 - Stop Using Israel As a Bludgeon Another would-be victim of this McCarthyist campaign is General Merill McPeak. He is the former Air Force chief-of-staff who said Bill Clinton was engaging in McCarthyist attacks by seeming to imply that Obama -- unlike Hillary and McCain -- is less than a loyal American. Almost immediately, McPeak was smeared as an anti-semite. The evidence: on occasion, he has suggested that Israel return to the pre-'67 lines. That's it.  

3/28/2008 - Egypt upset at US over seaman shooting    

3/28/2008 - Clinton says would consider limited talks with Hamas    

3/28/2008 - UN says 'network' killed Hariri    

3/28/2008 - Retired general: ?On the fly? response strategy must change The United States is going to be in the Middle East for a long time, retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid said Thursday.  

3/28/2008 - Syria brushes off low summit turnout amid Arab rift fears Jordan on Friday became the latest US ally to announce it would send a low-level delegation to the Damascus summit, following the example of Saudi Arabia and Egypt which blame Syria for the political crisis crippling Lebanon.  

3/28/2008 - Palestinians, Israelis React Differently to Saudi Plan While most Palestinians support a peace agreement proposed by Saudi Arabia, the majority of Israelis reject it, according to a poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusale  

3/28/2008 - Lebanon refugees see long wait to raise camp from ashes One man was able to recover only a family photo album. Another desperately sought the key to his home in what was once Palestine. And one woman sifted for hours through the rubble but, like most others, could not salvage anything. They are among thousands of families allowed to return to the old part of the devastated Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon to recover what belongings they can before the bulldozers move in.  

3/28/2008 - Israel seeking peace talks with Syria: minister An Israeli minister said on Friday that the Jewish state was trying to revive peace talks with Syria and that the price of a deal was the occupied Golan Heights.  

3/28/2008 - Jitters over new Israel-Hezbollah war Adding to the jitters, U.S. warships recently deployed off Lebanon and Saudi Arabia advised its citizens to leave Lebanon.  

3/28/2008 - The Gaza I live By Tom Garofalo Catholic Relief Services  

3/28/2008 - Corrie's story    

3/28/2008 - PA to probe ex-Arafat aide over multi-million dollar Aqaba project    

3/28/2008 - Obama's Pandering to Israel; The Audacity of Hypocrisy    

3/28/2008 - Rice to meet Netanyahu during visit Netanyahu visited the controversial E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim and called upon Olmert to start building there immediately despite fierce American opposition. The building plans in the area were approved when Netanyahu was prime minister but have been frozen since due to American pressure. Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski "All of Israel has been built, not because of the approval of the Arabs and the international community, but despite their opposition," Netanyahu told reporters atop a dusty hilltop. "We need the kind of leadership that would insist on this."  

3/28/2008 - Palestinian, Israeli kids are cannon fodder for Rapture    

3/28/2008 - Israeli-Palestinian trade suffers    

3/28/2008 - Publisher, Middle East expert remembered "My dad always wanted Americans to hear the Palestinian side of the story," George Joseph said.  



3/27/2008 - Israeli troops kill Hamas gunman in Gaza - medics    

3/27/2008 - Arab foreign ministers agree to relaunch Mideast peace plan    

3/27/2008 - MK Elon: Palestinian refugee issue fuels terrorism    

3/27/2008 - Palestinians puzzled by Israeli gesture for West Bank city Palestinian officials, however, said the town, Jenin, does not require additional forces. And they said Israel is still not doing nearly enough to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his life-and-death showdown with the militants of Hamas - such as removing roadblocks, dismantling illegal West Bank outposts or releasing prisoners  

3/27/2008 - West Bank Faces Toxic Waste Crisis Several weeks ago, villagers from Jima?in in the Nablus district complained that Israeli trucks were again dumping waste on Palestinian land.  

3/27/2008 - Demands for inquiry into Israeli shootings A criminal investigation was demanded yesterday into whether the killing of four Palestinian militants in a Bethlehem street earlier this month was an "extra-judicial execution" in violation of a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court.  

3/27/2008 - Wounded Palestinians hospitalized in İstanbul grateful to Turkish nation    

3/27/2008 - Palestinians Fear Two-Tier Road System "They took our land to build this road, and now we can't even use it," Mr. Abu Safia says bitterly, pointing to the highway with one hand as he drives with the other. "Israel says it is because of security. But it's politics."  

3/27/2008 - The Israeli army attacks a village near Hebron and kidnaps a school boy    

3/27/2008 - Palestinians protest Israeli charity closures Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron protested on Thursday against Israeli raids and closures of orphanages and charities linked to Islamist group Hamas....."I deserve to be treated like any other child around the world," said 14-year-old orphan Rani Hasan during the protest. "My father is dead. Who will take care of me?"  

3/27/2008 - Palestinians discuss proposal for Israel cease-fire in Egypt    

3/27/2008 - Grave suspicion of extra-judicial execution in Bethlehem killings    

3/27/2008 - Secret tunnel unearths new Jerusalem conflict Amin al-Siyam says he is awakened nearly every night by the sound of Jewish settlers tunneling under his east Jerusalem house towards the Old City's deeply sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound.  

3/27/2008 - Bush invites Abbas to Washington US President George W Bush has invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to visit Washington towards the end of April.  

3/27/2008 - Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Egypt truce "Any truce with Israel must include the West Bank, the lifting of the siege and the opening of the border crossings,"  

3/27/2008 - UC Irvine students: Jews are safe Chancellor Michael Drake has been criticized by the Zionist Organization of America for failing to condemn specific acts of anti-Israel rhetoric on his campus as well as his appearance at this week's Hillel summit in Washington.  

3/27/2008 - Migrants killed on Egypt's border Egyptian border guards have shot dead two African migrants, as they tried to cross the frontier into Israel.  

3/27/2008 - Israel: Hezbollah increases rocket range Israel says Hezbollah's Iranian and Syrian patrons have steadily provided the group with large amounts of rockets since then, many of them capable of hitting central Israel. However, it has not revealed the evidence for its claims Sounds like somebody is itching to start a war.

3/27/2008 - Boycott backer says he was threatened Gianni Vattimo, an author and philosopher, told the Italian media he had received an anonymous letter urging him to "remember" the Palestinian activist and writer Waed Zuaiter, who was killed by Israeli agents in Rome on Oct. 16, 1972.  

3/27/2008 - Union committee to reconsider Israeli academics boycott The University and College Union (UCU)'s national executive committee (NEC) has agreed to reconsider a boycott of Israeli academics at its annual congress in May.  

3/27/2008 - Controversial history prof alleges Israeli ethnic cleansing Ilan Pappe, who teaches history at the University of Exeter in England, told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview from Montreal that he hopes to rouse public opinion to persuade the Canadian government to ?exert pressure? on Israel ?to end the occupation as a first step towards a lasting peace in Israel and Palestine?.  

3/27/2008 - Israeli military kidnaps two from Qalqilia    

3/27/2008 - AJC Outraged by UN Human Rights Council Election of Ziegler, Falk   Oh dear.

3/27/2008 - Acknowledging the Past/Imagining the Future: Palestinians and Israelis on 1948 and the Right of Return    

3/27/2008 - Barenboim to lead concert for peace in Jerusalem Daniel Barenboim, the Israeli conductor and, since January this year, honorary Palestinian citizen, will lead 33 young Israeli and Palestinian musicians in a special "concert for two peoples" in Jerusalem today.  

3/27/2008 - Speaker Argues That Israel's Now Fighting Two Wars at Once The Israel Project is now successfully pitching three to four stories per day about Sederot to news outlets, he said. One way they have gotten the attacks into the news is by helping to place reporters for overnight stays with families in the town, so they can experience what happens when parents and children are awakened late at night, then forced to rush into a bomb shelter within a matter of seconds  

3/27/2008 - UK group tackles anti-Israel media bias A new organization seeking to promote accurate and responsible media coverage of Israel in the UK is to be launched in London on Friday. Here we go. The UK news media are not biased. They report the situation accurately, unlike their American counterparts. That is why this group seeks to change it.

3/27/2008 - Progressives to urge Mazuz to charge Safed rabbi with incitement    

3/27/2008 - Reuters Removes Anti-Israel Blog Link The blog was removed after protests from the HonestReporting organization  

3/27/2008 - Israel to supply cattle to Gaza amid contagion fears    

3/27/2008 - Avraham Burg, Israeli Political Leader, to Speak Here April 2    

3/27/2008 - Meeting Palestinian prime minister, Israel's Barak promises new gestures for Palestinians    

3/27/2008 - Flowers, Strawberries, and Missiles Just 300 yards from the hidden eyes in the Israeli tank, Ahmed Felfel picks his strawberries. But it isn't the Israelis in the tank who worry him as much as those others who will not let him sell them.  

3/27/2008 - IDF: Islamic Jihad producing Grad-like rockets    

3/27/2008 - Palestinian, Jewish Friends Forge Bonds ?Walking the Walk? in Holy Land    



3/26/2008 - McCain: Israel would suffer in Iraq pullout A premature withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel, John McCain said.......Top Israeli officials have also said that a hasty U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel. Note the source.

3/26/2008 - Israeli army denying cancer patient vital treatment 'Denying passage to patients in desperate need of medical care serves no legitimate security purpose, as all patients undergo strict security checks at the crossing, and are generally gravely ill,' said Amnesty International. "Israel, as the occupying power, is responsible for the right to health and access to health care for Karima Abu Dalal and all 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip."  

3/26/2008 - Israelis Blocking Medical Care in Gaza Yassir Abu Aayya, 37, suffering from heart troubles, told TIME he was turned back after refusing to reveal the whereabouts of his militant brother. "They told me I should go back and die in Gaza," he says. If these accounts are true, say human rights activists, the withholding of medical care for non-medical reasons is a form of torture.  

3/26/2008 - NOAL Denounces Israeli Aggression against Palestinians Rodrigo Malmierca, the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations and president of the Coordination Bureau of the Movement of Non Aligned Countries (NOAL), denounced on Tuesday before the UN Security Council the recent aggressions of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.  

3/26/2008 - Israeli settlers open fire at Palestinian shepherds near Hebron, injuring three sheep. A group of Israeli settlers from illegal settlement of Havet Ma'on south of Hebron city, in the southern West Bank, opened fire at Palestinian shepherds and their sheep on Wednesday midday injuring three sheep.  

3/26/2008 - Olmert threatens "painful" measures against Hamas Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday threatened "painful" measures against Hamas and ruled out talks with the Palestinian Islamist group on a possible truce.  

3/26/2008 - A Palestinian sniper shoots at an Israeli farmer near the border with Gaza Israeli media sources reported that a Palestinian sniper shot and wounded an Israeli farmer from the Ein Shlosha Kibutz (farm settlement) near the Gaza borders with Israel, Israeli media sources reported  

3/26/2008 - Israel rejects Carter-Annan mediation Israel turned down an offer by Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan to mediate a cease-fire with Hamas.  

3/26/2008 - Arab summit to adopt Yemeni proposal on Palestinian reconciliation    

3/26/2008 - Israel Passover bomb suspect held Israeli security forces have arrested a key suspect in a suicide bombing which killed 30 mainly elderly people at a festival meal in 2002.  

3/26/2008 - Police station to be inaugurated in West Bank A new Israel Police station will be opened next week in E-1, an area that has been the site of a bitter land dispute between Israelis and Palestinians, officials said Wednesday  

3/26/2008 - Israel to approve security equipment for Abbas    

3/26/2008 - Fatah says Hamas must cede Gaza before talks    

3/26/2008 - Gaza bakeries strike over bread prices Bakers in Gaza refused to bake bread Wednesday, charging that Hamas is keeping prices artificially low to head off unrest among their sanctions-weary people.  

3/26/2008 - An elderly Palestinian woman dies due to Israeli siege on Gaza    

3/26/2008 - Olmert cool to Moscow summit idea Ehud Olmert played down the prospects of Israel attending a Middle East peace summit that Russia wants to host.  

3/26/2008 - Blair: Middle East peace process is a race against time    

3/26/2008 - Israeli Rabbi: Seminary Shooter's Family Should 'Hang' A prominent rabbi on Wednesday called on the government to avenge the shooting attack that killed eight Jewish seminary students earlier this month, saying members of the Palestinian gunman's family should be hanged "from a high tree."  

3/26/2008 - Update on Egnabi family and video link Following their eviction from their Hebron Old City dwelling (CPT Hebron: Israeli soldiers and settlers invade Palestinian home in Old City, 20 March, 2008), the Egnabi family has been living in one room in their building.  

3/26/2008 - Palestinian sources: Israel pardons 36 wanted suspects Israel granted a full pardon to 36 wanted Palestinians who are members of the Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Palestinian sources said Tuesday.  

3/26/2008 - U.S. Navy secretary visits Israel Dr. Donald C. Winter came to Israel this week as a guest of Defense Minister Ehud Barak. He visited Israeli naval bases and Yad Vashem, and held high-level strategic discussions. This comes after a recent visit by U.S. Air Force chief. Odd.

3/26/2008 - Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late At one point, however, the garrulous former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage did allude to one of the largest elephants in the living room-Israel?s far-right Likudniks-and their close alliance with the so-called neo-conservatives running our policy toward the Middle East. But Armitage did so only tangentially, referring to the welcome (if totally unrealistic) promise by Ahmed Chalabi that, upon being put in power in Baghdad, he would recognize Israel. Not surprisingly, the interviewer did not pick up on that comment; indeed, I?m surprised the remark avoided the cutting room floor.  

3/26/2008 - Olmert vows to press on with settlements    

3/26/2008 - Dissolved government in Gaza decides to reappoint its ministers    

3/26/2008 - Palestinian rescue crews dig up bodies of two smugglers killed in Gaza tunnel collapse Palestinian rescue crews have dug up the bodies of two smugglers killed in a tunnel collapse in the southern Gaza Strip.  

3/26/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps three civilians from Bethlehem    

3/26/2008 - Powerful lessons: Ultra-orthodox awkward squad Having threatened to walk out of the government if the negotiators so much as discussed the future of Jerusalem ? the division of which into two capitals is a sine qua non of such an agreement ? the Shas leader Eli Yishai has claimed credit for the decision to build more than 300 new homes in the West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev. This has not only infuriated moderate Palestinians who thought that settlement building would be frozen in accordance with the internationally agreed road map, but has drawn a sharp rebuke from the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.  

3/26/2008 - Dovish PAC in place by April The effort will be headed by Jeremy Ben Ami, a Clinton administration official who was behind an effort last year to unite dovish pro-Israel groups into a lobby that would compete with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.  

3/26/2008 - Canada, Israel sign security declaration In a statement released by Canada?s Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Day said the declaration would help both countries address "common threats" to national security. THus does Canada further fall to the clutches of its own Israeli lobby. My condolences.

3/26/2008 - From 2006: CIA role claim in Kennedy killing Witnesses placed Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy but the autopsy showed the fatal shot came from one inch behind. Weird.

3/26/2008 - Experts: Sirhan Sirhan Did Not Kill RFK New forensics evidence presented Tuesday during a symposium at Foxwoods suggests Sirhan Sirhan did not fire the fatal shots that killed Sen. Robert Kennedy in 1968.  

3/26/2008 - Jewish groups placed on security alert Citing an increase in threats and attacks, a U.S. Jewish security network warned its members to be alert to a "new set of circumstances."  

3/26/2008 - Sign of Jewish weakness The police discounted the possibility of a Palestinian attack or the settling of scores between criminals. It tied the assassination attempt to the religious beliefs of family members. Neighbors noted that the family has been holding odd ceremonies at home and the mayor was quick to clear his town of the terrible suspicion that a missionary sect got a foothold there.  

3/26/2008 - 1979: Israel and Egypt shake hands on peace deal    

3/26/2008 - Prof taking music therapy to Palestinian children Behrens, a professor of music therapy at Elizabethtown College, is traveling to the Palestinian territories today to help children affected by war and violence cope through music therapy.  

3/26/2008 - Egypt to snub Syria's Arab summit    

3/26/2008 - You hear a banging noise? Armed with sticks and a broom, Palestinian boys challenge Israeli armor raiding the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank.  

3/26/2008 - Jail for thug who hit man with crutch Palestinian Mohammed Al Delishari was left scarred and had difficulty breathing following the assault which was captured on a security camera.  

3/26/2008 - Swiss expert voted-in as human rights expert, despite controversy Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, one of Ziegler?s most persistent and vocal critics, says his appointment is a dark day for human rights. Ziegler calls the situation in the Middle East as he sees it. The pro-Israelis don't like it.

3/26/2008 - Jordan MPs introduce bill for abrogation of peace pact with Israel    

3/26/2008 - Canada disputes UN's choice for Israeli monitor Some of Falk's anti-Israel writing is contained in an essay he wrote last summer. "It is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust' . . ." he wrote. Oh the horror that somebody dare speak the truth about Israel.

3/26/2008 - McCain promises personal engagement in Middle East    

3/26/2008 - A Devastated Town Recovers, In A Way Mohanna's house was bombed by Israel during the 34-day conflict in 2006, as were houses of most residents of Siddiqine -- an impoverished village of 6,000, about 10km inland from the coastal town Tyre. Siddiqine resembled a flattened moonscape in the bitterly cold and damp winter that followed, with more than 700 homes out of a total 1050 hit, and half that number completely destroyed.  

3/26/2008 - Israel denies knowledge of imminent Pollard release Eitan, who headed the secret Bureau of Scientific Relations that recruited and handled Pollard in the 1980s, said Monday that Pollard will be released soon.  

3/26/2008 - Israel probes efforts to free spy in US jail State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, who leads the probe, has scheduled meetings with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his predecessors, Ehud Barak -- now defence minister -- and Benjamin Netanyahu.  

3/26/2008 - Engage Israel, Hamas in two-state solution    



3/25/2008 - UN chief concerned about renewed violence in Gaza    

3/25/2008 - Republican Jewish group wants Obama adviser canned The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) Tuesday to remove military adviser and national campaign co-chairman Gen. Tony McPeak from his team, citing past statements McPeak has made about the Middle East that the RJC finds troubling.  

3/25/2008 - Egypt: 126 Palestinians wounded in Gaza fly to Turkey for treatment Egyptian state media says 126 Palestinians who were wounded in recent fighting between Israeli troops and militants in the Gaza Strip were flown to Turkey for treatment.  

3/25/2008 - Israeli army force kidnaps Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza    

3/25/2008 - Czech PM invites his Palestinian counterpart to Prague    

3/25/2008 - Israel-French program connects thousands of Palestinians to Israeli electricity grid Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank are hooking up to Israel's electricity grid. The joint Israeli-French program benefits about 15,000 Palestinians in 27 villages in the northern West Bank near the town of Jenin.  

3/25/2008 - Iran's lethal uranium plans: US Cheney, however, did not mention on what he based his accusation. That's likely because it was Israel that fed him that load of bull on one of the two recent visits therein.

3/25/2008 - Hamas: PA forces arrest 9 of the movement members in the West Bank    

3/25/2008 - IDF nabbed wanted Palestinian involved in soldier's death The 23-year-old Salem admitted to being involved in numerous shooting attacks and explosive device attacks on IDF troops in the Nablus area. He also confessed to complicity in a car bombing directed at forces in Nablus in October 2006.  

3/25/2008 - Palestinians Rebuild Homes Demolished by Military in Qawewis Palestinian villagers from throughout the South Hebron Hills will gather Friday, 28 March, in the village of Qawewis to begin rebuilding homes demolished on 19 March, 2008 by the Israeli military. This nonviolent solidarity action will begin at 10:00AM.  

3/25/2008 - US queries value of UN council's Mideast meetings These "do little to help advance the cause of peace or help the Palestinian people in any tangible way," he told the 15-nation council.  

3/25/2008 - Four Palestinians kidnapped in Balata refugee camp    

3/25/2008 - Cheney Tells Israel He Will Counter 'Iran threat' US Vice President Dick Cheney speaking with Israeli president Shimon Peres on Sunday promised that Washington would do everything in its powers to counter Iran's 'nuclear threat against Israel'.  

3/25/2008 - Israeli police ban Palestinian event Israeli police on Tuesday broke up a Palestinian event meant to promote Jerusalem as the world's next "Arab Cultural Capital."  

3/25/2008 - Obama 'disagrees' with ex-general adviser "I think that everybody understands that a settlement of the Arab-Israeli problem would require the Israelis to stop settling the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and maybe even withdraw some of the settlements that've already been put there. And nobody wants to take on that problem. It's just too tough politically." Right on, Gen. McPeak.

3/25/2008 - EU releases 300 million euros in aid for Palestinians    

3/25/2008 - PM-Cheney meeting shrouded in mystery US Vice President Dick Cheney's second meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, like their first meeting Saturday night, was shrouded in mystery, leading to speculation among diplomatic officials that the focus was on how to stop Iran's nuclear program.  

3/25/2008 - Israel backs larger deployment of Palestinian forces Israel said on Tuesday it would allow up to 600 members of a Palestinian security force trained in Jordan under a U.S. programme to be deployed in a West Bank city once considered a hotbed of militant activity.  

3/25/2008 - Israel okays deployment of Palestinian forces in W Bank    

3/25/2008 - First Presbyterian?s refurbished wheelchairs headed to Palestine ''We're seeing a lot of families where the monthly income is $10 to $20,'' he said. ''There's no way these people could afford a wheelchair without the love and compassion of people in this program.''  

3/25/2008 - Algerian FM, Palestinian official stresses importance of Arab solidarity    

3/25/2008 - Blair says urgent need for Middle East progress Palestinians and Israelis must try to improve living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to keep the peace process alive ahead of a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush in May, peace envoy Tony Blair said on Tuesday.  

3/25/2008 - A Book Americans Must Read Before Time Runs Out by Michael Scheuer "[The Gallup data shows that] contrary to what the 'They Hate Our Freedom' thesis might predict, Muslims do not recommend or insist upon changes to Western culture or social norms as the path to better [Western-Muslim] relations. ? Rather they call on the West to show greater respect for Islam, and they emphasize policy-related issues [U.S. interventionism; unqualified support for Israel; and protection for authoritarian Arab regimes]" (159).  

3/25/2008 - Holy Land's 'suffering servants' need advocacy, solidarity, Presiding Bishop urges With an invitation to "come and see for yourself," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori concluded her March 16-24 pastoral visit to the Holy Land recognizing the need for people worldwide to understand the plight of Palestinian Christians  

3/25/2008 - Lebanon not to attend Arab summit A government minister said parliament's repeated failure to elect a president had made it impossible for Lebanon to attend the meeting.  

3/25/2008 - Jewish state not as Jewish by '30 Nearly one-third of Israelis will be non-Jewish by 2030, according to government projections. Oh dear.

3/25/2008 - Israel's U.N. envoy sees 'worrisome trends' Dan Gillerman, speaking to the Security Council during its monthly meeting on the Middle East, noted "a particularly worrisome trend when it comes to the discourse concerning our region. Some have a penchant for equating the lawful actions of states in defense of their citizens with the violence of terrorists whose goal is to endanger those very civilians. The world is entirely too familiar with Israel's doublespeak and hypocrisy.

3/25/2008 - Study: Peace presents risks for airlines Tuegeman said Israel did not take into sufficient consideration, when it made peace with Jordan and Egypt, that it was effectively opening up its airspace to civilian planes that easily could be commandeered by Arab terrorists for 9/11-style ramming attacks  

3/25/2008 - Israeli commentator defends settlers COMPARING Palestinian calls for the eradication of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to a "judenrein" (the Nazi word for an area free of Jews), a visiting Israeli commentator has also lambasted critics who called the settlements an obstacle to peace. Calling for the end of the illegal Israeli settlements is more like calling for the end of Israel's LEBENSRAUMISM.

3/25/2008 - New research! Peace means war!    

3/25/2008 - French aliyah down under Sarkozy French Jewish emigration to Israel has plummeted since Nicolas Sarkozy took office, data suggest. Oh dear.



3/24/2008 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian on Gaza border Israeli troops killed an unarmed Palestinian and wounded another during a clash with gunmen on the border of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Monday, hospital officials and militant sources said.  

3/24/2008 - Cheney talks Iran in Israel; U.S. strike seen as remote it was the Iranian dilemma that topped the agenda in two meetings Cheney held with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and one with Defense Minister Ehud Barak.......if the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate published last December suggested a chasm between Israeli and American assessments, Israeli officials say the views of both sides now are almost identical......Israel also figures that the chances of the Bush administration ordering a pre-emptive military strike against Iran are virtually zero. The only such scenario the Israelis envision is if the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be far ahead of their Republican rival and Bush senses a "now or never" strike option.......the Israelis are hoping that the hard-line Cheney will push the envelope -- a role he reportedly played vis-a-vis the U.S. invasion of Iraq. One official said Cheney is seen as "a significant player" who could influence "serious issues that cannot wait." This from the Jewish Telegraph Agency (registration is free). Israel is still trying hard to get us to attack Iran for them (like we did Iraq).

3/24/2008 - Anti-missionaries suspected in attack "They [the police], as far as I understand, do not suspect Palestinian terrorism. They suspect a Jewish anti-missionary motive," Oritz told the Post by phone from his Ariel home, minutes after returning from the hospital.  

3/24/2008 - Cheney hits out at Iran, Syria as he wraps up Mideast peace push Iran and Syria "are doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process," Cheney told reporters in Jerusalem as he wrapped up a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories before heading to Turkey. More Orwellian BS from the king of the neocons, who do everything THEY can to torpedo the 'peace process'.

3/24/2008 - Barak to Cheney: We must keep all options open vis a vie Iran   Who's 'we'?

3/24/2008 - 'No option' ruled out over Iran nukes    

3/24/2008 - Netanyahu: If we leave Jerusalem, Iran and Hamas will take control   Iran is to blame for all ills in the world, according to Israel and the neocons.

3/24/2008 - For road to peace, Palestinians get very different maps from U.S., Russia Mr. Cheney did not mention Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank, an end to the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and support for Palestinian reconciliation talks under way in Yemen.'Painful concessions' for Mideast peace: Cheney

Commitment to Israel 'enduring and unshakable' Cheney says

However, all of those were points that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointedly did make.  

3/24/2008 - Cheney says Syria and Iran are sabotaging talks Cheney, who for the second time in two days met the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, in Jerusalem, was on a visit intended to encourage the faltering peace talks, which, four months since they were launched, have achieved little. "It is clearly a difficult situation, in part, because I think it's true, there's evidence, that Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and that they're doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process," Cheney told reporters after the meeting.  

3/24/2008 - Hebron Update: 8-15 March 2008    

3/24/2008 - Rice due back in Middle East next week: Cheney    

3/24/2008 - Israel will shun Abbas over Hamas Israel threatened to cut off peace talks with Mahmoud Abbas if his Fatah faction joins forces with Hamas.  

3/24/2008 - Cheney says Hamas sabotages peace talks    

3/24/2008 - Hunkering down in Hebron Karaki is being ordered to forfeit all this because the Israeli military doesn't like her landlord.  

3/24/2008 - Many Arabs fear McCain would continue Bush policy During a Middle East tour this month, McCain's statements on Israel also sounded alarm bells for Arabs who have long criticized Washington for not exercising enough pressure on the Jewish state to withdraw from occupied Arab land.  

3/24/2008 - IDF deploys new anti-terror system around Gaza "We will be able to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians," another military official said. "We won't fire needlessly, yet at the same time we are responsible for protecting IDF soldiers." In 60 years (plus), they haven't been able to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians. Their remote control guns aren't going to make the difference, methinks.

3/24/2008 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes in Hebron city, one Palestinian injured    

3/24/2008 - Messianics: Attack on boy one of many    

3/24/2008 - Cheney says Hamas-Fatah deal unlikely After meeting Cheney on Sunday, Abbas said Israeli settlement expansion, roadblocks in the West Bank and assaults against militants were holding up peace talks relaunched at a U.S.-led conference in Annapolis, Maryland, last November.  

3/24/2008 - Israelis to keep West Bank checkpoints Israel won't remove the hundreds of checkpoints and roadblocks it has built in the West Bank but it will look at ways to make travel easier for the Palestinians living there, the Israeli defense minister said Monday.  

3/24/2008 - Remains of Jordanian soldier killed in 1967 repatriated    

3/24/2008 - MK demands probe into rabbi who decreed against employing Arabs    

3/24/2008 - Hezbollah said it will continue pursuing mediated talks with Israel on a possible prisoner swap.    

3/24/2008 - Sde Boaz residents live in defiance of 'road map' at illegal West Bank outpost    

3/24/2008 - US vessel 'shoots at Suez boat'    

3/24/2008 - Saudi king favours inter-faith talks to include Judaism: report    

3/24/2008 - Israeli prime minister urges visiting Sri Lankan premier not to 'give in to terrorism'    

3/24/2008 - Episcopal head's Gaza visit highlights plight of Palestinians A Palestinian family, including a young girl, was waiting to cross into Gaza to see relatives for the first time in two years. Although they had already secured the required permits, they were told the border had been closed. Moments later, the Presiding Bishop's delegation was granted access.  

3/24/2008 - Barak: We must take Hezbollah's latest threats seriously    

3/24/2008 - Drake stays mum on UC Irvine anti-Semitism Michael Drake, confronted over his position at the opening plenary of Hillel?s summit Monday in Washington, issued a blanket condemnation of hate speech, including anti-Semitism, saying it had no place in society.....Drake declined to comment, however, when asked by JTA after the summit how he feels about some of the anti-Israel activity that has taken place at UC Irvine. He said the university wished to remain "content neutral." So in fact, he DID speak out on anti-Semitism, but refused to speak out about anti-Israel activity. Evidently, the JTA too conflates anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel. Not the same.

3/24/2008 - Bishop Thomas Gumbleton visits family of imprisoned mayor in Beit Ummar He told Mayor Al Qam?s family that during his trip to the holy land, he has become more aware of the extreme injustices in the Palestinian territories.  

3/24/2008 - Israel passes on U.S.-produced anti-rocket laser    

3/24/2008 - Report: Iranian, Syrian missiles to pound Israel in next war   Someone's gearing up for something.

3/24/2008 - Soldier suspected as Hezbollah spy An Israeli soldier is suspected of supplying classified information to Hezbollah in exchange for drugs.  

3/24/2008 - A Mother And A Daughter Reunited Maimanah grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp. Poetess Rihab didn't know that Maimanah was one of the few survivors of the massacre, also no body knew that the mother survived too. Rihab moved to Tunis and got married there where she lived for 15 years, as the Lebanese authorities did allow her to visit Lebanon.  

3/24/2008 - Saudi king to boycott Arab summit The Saudis had already indicated that King Abdullah might not attend because of a rift with Syria over the current political crisis in Lebanon.  

3/24/2008 - TB cases down but arguments over numbers persist The Palestinians' lack of control over their borders plays a small but not negligible role in the low tuberculosis rates in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), health officials said.  



3/23/2008 - Palestinian killed as tunnel collapsed under Gaza border    

3/23/2008 - More water conservation efforts needed, say experts Ayman Rabi from the Palestinian Hydrology Group, a non-governmental organisation, said certain West Bank areas like Hebron had been hard hit by lack of rainfall. "Already the Palestinians receive less water than is needed," Rabi told IRIN. "In the best case scenarios, in urban areas, we receive 50 litres per capita per day." According to the Israeli non-governmental organisation Btselem there is a huge gulf in water consumption levels between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel has capped the amount of water sold to Palestinians and the Civil Administration requires Palestinians in Area C, under full Israeli control after the Oslo Accords, to obtain permits to dig wells. Sometimes "illegal" wells are destroyed, forcing Palestinians to use expensive water tankers.  

3/23/2008 - Egypt releases detained Hamas men    

3/23/2008 - Official: Israel prepared to honor truce in Gaza    

3/23/2008 - The curse of the Nablus dream house "This just isn't my home any more," says the 47-year-old Palestinian bank manager, "it might as well belong to the Israeli army."  

3/23/2008 - Cheney warns Palestinians over attacks on Israel "A difficult but immutable truth must continue to be told: Terror and rockets do not merely kill innocent civilians, they also kill the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people," Mr Cheney said during a joint public appearance with Mr Abbas. That's hypocrisy given what Israel did to gain statehood. The British MI5 had bounty on Menachem Begin for his part, as one example.

3/23/2008 - Palestinian youth injured near Qalqilia Palestinian medical sources in Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Saturday evening that a Palestinian youth was shot and seriously injured by Israeli military gunfire as the army invaded Azzoun town, east of the city, and clashed with dozens of residents.  

3/23/2008 - West Bank villagers, police clash At least four people were wounded, one of them seriously, when clashes erupted between Palestinian police and residents of a West Bank village yesterday, a security official said.  

3/23/2008 - Palestinian officials accuse Israel of forging ownership documents of East Jerusalem buildings Hatem Abed al Qader, the advisor of the Palestinian premier for Jerusalem affairs, affirmed on Saturday that Israeli authorities are confiscating Palestinian-owned homes in East Jerusalem as part of ongoing annexation of the city.  

3/23/2008 - Barak considering easing restrictions on Palestinians    

3/23/2008 - Israel denies offering Hamas and Islamic Jihad yearlong truce in Gaza Jerusalem officials told Israel Radio that Israel's stance regarding any period of calm was clear, saying that there was no agreement whatsoever and no negotiations over a truce.  

3/23/2008 - Israel denies Italian sports delegation access to Gaza    

3/23/2008 - Cheney urges Mid-East concessions    

3/23/2008 - Palestinian factions sign Yemen reconciliation deal    

3/23/2008 - Efrat settlement near Bethlehem to expand    

3/23/2008 - Cheney hears Palestinian complaints Palestinians had little expectation their meetings with Cheney, a strong defender of the Jewish state, would produce anything concrete. While that was the case, the Bush administration did get another chance to nudge the two sides toward an agreement before President Bush leaves office in January.  

3/23/2008 - French official sacked for anti-Israeli diatribe Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of the southwestern town of Saintes, wrote in an online column this month that Israel was "the only state where snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates."  

3/23/2008 - Zawahri urges anti-Israel attacks over Gaza - Web    

3/23/2008 - Hamas opposes return of PNA security forces to Gaza An Islamic Hamas spokesman said Sunday that his movement opposes the return of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) security forces to the Gaza Strip, which Hamas has been ruling since last June.  

3/23/2008 - Abbas aide accuses Hamas of thwarting Yemeni initiative    

3/23/2008 - Fatah at odds with Hamas over meaning of Yemen deal    

3/23/2008 - Hamas says talks with Fatah to begin April 5    

3/23/2008 - Christians sing, pray at holy sites in Jerusalem to celebrate Easter Pilgrims included Polish men in fur hats, Indian women in saris and Palestinian clergy in white and gold robes.  

3/23/2008 - Treasury cautions on Iran central bank The U.S. Treasury included Iran's central bank in a cautionary advisory to financial institutions. This serves as another reminder that the Israeli lobby wields disproportionate influence over this government.

3/23/2008 - Indyk was Hussein's target The Pentagon said the paper provides ?strong evidence? of the links between Saddam?s regime and global terrorism. The trouble is, Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda (as alleged by the neocons who used this propaganda to get us to go to war with Iraq). These little nuggets put forth in this recent report of late still do not prove the aforementioned, and thus do not justify the American attack on Iraq.

3/23/2008 - Hezbollah calls for Beirut rally Hezbollah is to hold a rally in Beirut to mark the end of the 40-day mourning period for its assassinated commander Imad Mughniyeh.  

3/23/2008 - Ha'aretz: Evil is not neutral Two of the most prominent personages today in the global arena, who visited Israel last week, spoke clearly and lucidly against the Iranian danger. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential frontrunner, agree that the Islamic Republic in Tehran is a genuine threat to the security of Israel, the Middle East and even beyond. ....The international community is obligated to work to stop Iran before it causes a major conflagration.  

3/23/2008 - Peres: No Golan handover "Israel will never agree to return the Golan Heights, only to get, in return, Iranian-Syrian control over Lebanon," the Israeli president was quoted as telling visiting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday.  

3/23/2008 - Hezbollah deputy chief: We have proof Israel killed Mughniyah    

3/23/2008 - $5m Ramallah hospital project delayed    

3/23/2008 - Banksy Bombs Banksy returned to the West Bank in December 2007, leaving six new drawings on the wall near Bethlehem  

3/23/2008 - Easter in Jerusalem Under an 800-year-old peace agreement, two Muslim men share the power to open and close the church's 3-ton wooden doors. One holds the key; the other opens the door. Neither can agree on who plays the more important role. The spat is one tiny reflection of the complex and deep-rooted religious, political and tribal divisions that have split this holy city for centuries.  

3/23/2008 - Internet site seeks former Swedish volunteers to act as goodwill ambassadors "Israel's public relations in Sweden are in a sad state." The Web site recently launched by the Israeli embassy in Sweden is trying to change the situation Toledano described.  

3/23/2008 - Fugitive CEO hosts luxury simcha An Israeli-American millionaire on the run from the FBI threw a luxurious bar mitzvah in his African hideaway.  

3/23/2008 - Conflict is more than just a muddle We do not need two men cut from the same cloth as Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. We need Israel to stop stealing Palestinian land and driving its people into destitution, military prisons and refugee camps to expand a state that gives more and special rights to Jews.  

3/23/2008 - Turkey Is Against Nuclear Weapons Most, Mercan Mercan stressed that, unless the Palestinian-Israeli issue is resolved, the world will not have peace and calm. "We need to place pressure on Israel. However, the existence of Israel must be recognized by the Arabic world. You have to act as a realist," Mercan underlined.  

3/23/2008 - BD10,000 raised for Palestine A BAHRAINI organisation has raised BD10,000 for Palestinians in Gaza in just one day through a charity fundraiser yesterday.  

3/23/2008 - Olmert: We must curb infiltrations from Egypt    

3/23/2008 - Egyptian police arrest 13 Africans trying to cross into Israel    



3/22/2008 - Turkish Red Crescent's Assistance Reaches Gaza The second part of Turkish Red Crescent's humanitarian assistance has reached Gaza on Thursday.  

3/22/2008 - Egypt holds talks with Gaza Islamists on truce Egypt held talks on Saturday with representatives of Hamas and Islamic Jihad from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, part of a push for a truce between the militant groups and Israel, officials said.  

3/22/2008 - Fatah opposes expansion of deposed Hamas government    

3/22/2008 - Defense Minister likely to approve 80 housing units in settlement Derech Ha'avot was established in 2001 on private Palestinian land.  

3/22/2008 - Palestinian talks in Yemen await Hamas response    

3/22/2008 - Cheney backs Israel over security Mr Cheney said the US would never put any pressure on Israel over issues he said would threaten its security.....Mr Olmert said that there were "many items on the common agenda" of the US and Israel including Iran and carrying on peace negotiations with Palestinians. And the settlements Israel is constantly building and expanding in Palestinian territory, do they have anything to do with Israeli 'security'? So, why hasn't the US -aside from Bush the first's attempt in the early 90s - pressured Israel on THAT matter? Furthermore, Iran does not threaten the American national interest.

3/22/2008 - Hebron Update: 1-7 March 2008 Palestinian youth, demonstrating against the Israeli military strikes in Gaza, threw stones and the Israeli military responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition. A twelve-year old boy was killed and many were injured mostly from the ages of 8-19 years old. Wendeln and a guest went to the Palestinian Alia Hospital to find out more about the casualties. The head doctor on the surgical floor took them to see injured youths. An 8-year-old red-haired boy sustained a chest wound with a bullet that barely missed his heart.  

3/22/2008 - Israeli activist invited to speak after British ban Moshe Feiglin is a West Bank settler who heads a faction of the right-wing Likud party. He advocates harsh military action against Palestinians, pulling Israel out of the United Nations and encouraging non-Jews in Israel to emigrate. He is being brought to Canada by the Jewish Defence League.  

3/22/2008 - Poll: Rights of Palestinian women become 'less equal'    

3/22/2008 - Germany Backs Israel All The Way Merkel did not utter a critical word about ongoing Israeli construction in settlements in the West Bank. She did not call on Israel to act with restraint in retaliating TO the rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. And she did not demand an easing of the crippling travel restrictions Israel imposes on Palestinians in the West Bank.  

3/22/2008 - Free Hawai'i. Free Palestine. The Hawai?i Symposium on Palestine, "Who are the Palestinians? Remembering the Nakba," will feature faculty, guest speakers and community members sharing a narrative about Palestine that organizers say rarely gets attention.  

3/22/2008 - Hoekstra heading to Holy Land for Easter U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, has plans for his Easter break. He will be heading to Israel and North Africa on a fact-finding mission as part of a congressional delegation, he told the Daily News Friday  



3/21/2008 - Hamas men 'tortured by Egyptians' A Hamas spokesman said security forces had demanded to know about Hamas leaders' movements and the location of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The Egyptians are doing the bidding of Israel, by way of the US (finally releasing aid to Egypt).

3/21/2008 - 5 Palestinian smugglers injured in tunnel collapse    

3/21/2008 - The situation in Gaza has been worsening for years Health facilities in the Gaza Strip have become extremely fragile. Once the current crisis passes and is off the media's agenda, the situation will continue to worsen.  

3/21/2008 - Israel to build new settler homes in West Bank: report    

3/21/2008 - Palestinian president says follow-up peace conference 'important' "We stressed the importance of holding the follow-up conference," he told a news conference after meeting visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.  

3/21/2008 - Russia to supply Abbas with armored vehicles, no guns After months of delay, Russia agreed to Israeli conditions regarding the delivery of armored vehicles to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces, Israeli officials said on Friday.  

3/21/2008 - Bush erroneously says Iran announced desire for nuclear weapons Asked if Iran could exploit Bush's inaccurate comment for political purposes, Johndroe replied: "I'm not concerned about that. If they want to spin it a certain way, they can do it any way they want. They have still called for Israel to be wiped off the map and are in violation of three U.N. Security Council resolutions." And strangely, Israel has in fact wiped Palestine off the map, and is in violation of dozens of UN resolutions (and has been for years). No action is on the table to deal with Israel.

3/21/2008 - Israeli blockade grounds Gaza fishermen Lying on a mattress on the ground in his small brick house, Brek recalls the fateful events of March 8, when he suffered severe bullet wounds. "I was pulling up my net when an Israeli patrol boat circled twice around my boat before firing at me and leaving. I lost a lot of blood," says Brek.  

3/21/2008 - Villagers near Bethlehem stage a nonviolent protest against the illegal annexation wall    

3/21/2008 - Israeli military attacks weekly Bil'in protest, authorized by Israeli government to use lethal force    

3/21/2008 - Hamas leader looks to strengthen hold on Gaza    

3/21/2008 - Russian FM calls for end to Gaza blockade, settlements Visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday criticized Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and called for an end to the Jewish state's "unacceptable" blockade of the Gaza Strip.  

3/21/2008 - Pilgrims flock to Jerusalem despite troubles Israel has allowed the usual number of Christian Palestinians from West Bank communities in and around Bethlehem to enter Jerusalem for Easter. Palestinians with permits for religious worship are being allowed through, despite the closure of the border with the West Bank to coincide with the Jewish Purim holiday, which also falls this weekend.  

3/21/2008 - Israeli sanctions backfiring? The Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has hit the business sector, farmers and those who might benefit from development projects, but helped Hamas consolidate its authority in Gaza, says a new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG).  

3/21/2008 - State tells Arab Americans: report entry issues The U.S. State Department urged Americans of Arab origin to report difficulties encountered entering Israel.  

3/21/2008 - Israeli settlers attempt to confiscate a Palestinian-owned store in East Jerusalem On Friday, a group of Israeli settlers attempted to confiscate a Palestinian-owned store in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian family who owned the store were surprised when a group of Israeli settlers accompanied by construction workers entered illegally and would not leave.  

3/21/2008 - Russia to convey new Hamas proposal to Israel    

3/21/2008 - World Bank strategy for a prosperous and viable Palestinian State    

3/21/2008 - Saudi king meets U.S. vice president for talks on Mideast issues    

3/21/2008 - US to help Egypt prevent smuggling on Gaza border US helping Egypt build border fence on Gaza frontier: American officials have agreed to a $23 million aid package from which most will go towards purchasing technology to prevent the fence from being perforated and for locating underground smuggling conduits, according to information received in the Israeli political circuit. From details that were made known to Ynet, the US intends to send teams from the US Army Corps of Engineers to the Egyptian side of the Gaza-Egypt border in the near future. Theses teams will assist Egyptian forces deployed along the frontier pinpoint the locations of smuggling tunnels west of the border in the Rafah area. The United States military, rather than defend OUR borders, will instead be defending those of ISRAEL.

3/21/2008 - Bomb targets Christian pastor's home Israeli media speculated that the bomb - apparently delivered in one of the gift baskets Jews exchange on the Purim holiday that began Thursday night - might have been directed at the family's Christian missionary activities.  

3/21/2008 - Germany: The Key to Iran Threat?    

3/21/2008 - SCHANSBERG: The strategic logic of suicide terrorism Since many suicide attacks have been done by Muslims, it's easy to assume that ST is a "Muslim fundamentalist" thing. But Pape finds that this characteristic is involved in only about half of the cases. The leading instigators of ST - nearly one-fourth of the cases - are the Tamil Tigers, a secular group in Sri Lanka. Even among Muslims who engage in ST, about one-third of them are secular.....acts of ST have always been connected to a perception that the stronger power is occupying the weaker party's territory. (This is the weaker party's perception - regardless of the stronger party?s motive.) ST then is primarily a nationalistic response to a foreign power's control over its land.  

3/21/2008 - Any new war with Israel 'will be much more violent' Soon after the American destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon's shore in late February 28 to "preserve political stability," a group of young men gathered in the Southern agricultural town of Qana to voice their fears. "Everyone feels there is a war coming," said university student Salman Ismael, 22, "especially after the killing of [senior Hizbullah commander] Imad Mughniyeh and what is happening in Gaza. And now US ships come to the waters of Lebanon. Israel wants to improve her army in the Middle East after its defeat in 2006. She wants the Arabs to be scared of her."  

3/21/2008 - Peres to Lavrov: We don't believe Syria President Peres tells Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov that Israel distrusts Syrian peace overtures; Earlier, Lavrov meets with Assad, says Moscow peace conference aims to restart Israel-Syria talks  

3/21/2008 - Iran puts European security 'at stake:' Sarkozy    

3/21/2008 - Krauthammer, Tucker Carlson, Rev Wright & Other Racial Paranoids It's no secret to any of my readers that I despise Charles Krauthammer. I never liked his writing. He is a neocon. He's vicious (he ridiculed Christopher Reeve for giving seriously disabled people "false hope). And his views of the Israeli-Palestinian question are repulsive. He hates the Palestinians and would fight to the last Israeli to defeat them. I disagree with Rosenberg. Wright was right on most of what he said.

3/21/2008 - Iranian nuclear plan must be stopped, Barak tells Lavrov    

3/21/2008 - Israel, Pentagon talk arms sales Buhris also asked about the latest model F-22 stealth jet, the Jerusalem Post reported, concerned that it might face a confrontation with Iran before the JSF is ready. Congress has banned selling the F-22 abroad.  

3/21/2008 - Germany, Israel plan int'l summit on Iran A senior source said that Olmert had suggested holding an international conference on Iran. The two leaders decided to advance the initiative and will try to enlist other states to back it, including the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China, as well as other European states and Arab countries that are threatened by Iran's nuclear program. Israel hopes that states from the moderate Sunni bloc in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and others would take part in the conference.  

3/21/2008 - Government will appeal Rosen-Weissman The notification of an appeal came as the sides completed the arduous process of selecting what classified information may be introduced at the trial. and the appeal may be based on prosecution objections to the breadth of information ultimately approved for use.  

3/21/2008 - Israel central bank to buy dollars over two years   Bin Laden is laughing his balls off somewhere in a cave in Pakistan at the wholesale bankruptcy of the United States, in large part due to the wars the neocons, Israel's primo lobbyists, snookered us into fighting.

3/21/2008 - UPDATE: Blake Murphy is deported to the US Blake Murphy, an American activist from Bedford, MA, working in the West Bank, was beaten and arrested by Israeli army and police forces on Friday 14th March 2008. He has had to face a series of evidently false charges from the Israeli authorities due to his work supporting non-violent resistance to the occupation of Palestine. He was deported to the United States on Friday 21st March after a week in detention.  

3/21/2008 - Factions fight in Lebanese camp Clashes have broken out between Palestinian factions in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon.  

3/21/2008 - US hopefuls in Middle East minefield As the former state department Middle East expert Aaron Miller wrote recently in the Los Angeles Times: "No figure in American mainstream politics can be viable without being firmly supportive of Israel."  

3/21/2008 - IPF-Bring Hamas in The Israel Policy Forum urged the Bush administration to find a way to bring Hamas into talks to end violence.  

3/21/2008 - Lavrov presses peace plan The Israelis, who prefer the preeminent role the United States has taken in recent peace-brokering, were non-committal.  

3/21/2008 - Ackerman explains Israel remarks U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) explained remarks that were critical of Israel Oh dear.

3/21/2008 - Hebron Update: 22-29 February 2008    

3/21/2008 - Pollution looms at key water sources Israel's natural water sources will drop so dangerously low by the end of this year that there is a major risk of some of them becoming irretrievably polluted and thus unusable, according to the shocking new forecast from the Water Authority.  

3/21/2008 - An Open Letter to All Feminists: Support Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Women.    

3/21/2008 - Shasta High grad to talk on Palestinians When 31-year-old Janessa Gans visits her hometown this week, she'll be carrying more than a suitcase. With photographs and words, she'll bring a picture of life for ordinary Palestinians in the West Bank -- a picture she hopes fosters understanding of their struggle.  

3/21/2008 - Easter 2008 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land Last week I was shocked to go with our Environmental Center to villages where the majority of their land has been swallowed up in settlements. We planted trees and visited a man who was able to keep his home because of a decision of the Supreme Court, but it has been fenced in with only 5 feet of space between him and the settlement. Why can't we live on our own land, they wonder?  

3/21/2008 - Palestine Through Our Eyes: 60 Years Since the Nakba This photo exhibit chronicles the experience of Palestinian children from a West Bank refugee camp as they visit Jerusalem, the sea, and the villages their families fled in 1948. The exhibit also includes photos and captions by Palestinian refugee children living in camps in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon  

3/21/2008 - 'NORMAL LIFE' ESCAPES PALESTINIAN MILITANT    

3/21/2008 - MIT chooses winners to forge a 'Just Jerusalem' The winners, men and women from the United States, Austria, Malaysia and the Palestinian territories, will spend three months this fall on a $50,000 fellowship at MIT trying to turn their ideas into a workable blueprint, said project director Diane Davis, an author and sociologist at MIT.  

3/21/2008 - Motorola replies to divestment group Motorola responded to a U.S. group that demanded that it end its sale of products to Israel's army and settlements.  

3/21/2008 - Israel wants removal from trade watch list Israel asked the United States to remove it from an intellectual property watch list.  

3/21/2008 - Israel to equip passenger aircraft with anti-missile flares to counter terror attacks Israel is to begin fitting some of its passenger aircraft with flares to counter potential missile attacks, defence officials said.  



3/20/2008 - Two killed in explosion at Hamas base Two Palestinians handling explosives at a Hamas training base have died in an accidental blast in Gaza today.  

3/20/2008 - Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza A Palestinian civilian on a donkey cart was shot dead by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics and witnesses said.  

3/20/2008 - Farmer 'killed by Israeli troops' Palestinian officials say Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian civilian in the central part of the Gaza Strip. The officials say the 60-year-old farmer was riding a donkey cart in an area east of Khan Younis near the border with Israel.  

3/20/2008 - Hebron: Israeli soldiers and settlers invade Palestinian home in Old City The Egnabe family told CPT that they have owned the building for 1000 years. They had recently moved from another part of the building into a new home that the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (http://www.hebronrc.org/) had helped them renovate. The building is near the illegal Israeli settlement of Avraham Avinu and both Israeli settlers and soldiers have harassed the family over a number of years.  

3/20/2008 - '5 Palestinians die while awaiting treatment in Israel' Five Palestinian patients died in recent weeks while awaiting entry permits for treatment in Israel. The five patients were terminally ill, with little hope for recovery. The Physicians For Human Rights advocacy group thus maintains that there was no foreseeable need for the Shin Bet to classify these patients as a ?security risk? and deny them entry into Israel for life-saving treatment.  

3/20/2008 - Release: Settlers Chase Young Shepherds and Steal Bag from This morning three Israeli Settlers arrived just outside the village of AtTuwani in a pickup truck and chased Palestinian shepherds and their flocks;. One of the settlers, the security agent for the settlement of Ma?on, stole a bag of wild herbs. He grabbed the bag and ripped it from the hands of a Palestinian woman who is eight months pregnant.  

3/20/2008 - RELEASE: Israeli Settlers Threaten Palestinian School Children in South The military escort has failed in recent week to accompany the children for approximately one half of the escort route. Settlers recently installed a gate on the road, and the escort jeep has routinely refused to pass through the gate.  

3/20/2008 - Release: Israeli Settlers attack internationals in the South Hebron Hills On the morning of 19 March, two international observers working with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) were attacked and chased by two settlers while they attempted to monitor the escort of the children from Tuba to At-Tuwani. The settlers, whose faces were covered, used a slingshot to fire stones at the internationals.  

3/20/2008 - Official: Israeli practices on ground weaken PNA ability Abed Rabbo said the proof that Israel acts to weaken the PNA "is what has happened on the ground of blockade and siege in the West Bank and Gaza, in addition to settlement activities, arrests and raids on towns and villages."  

3/20/2008 - 'Time frames' for Mideast talks in Moscow under review: US Prospective "time frames" are under discussion for Moscow's plans to host a follow-up to the Annapolis conference that relaunched Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, a US official said Thursday.  

3/20/2008 - Mother of 4 stuck in London    

3/20/2008 - The Popular Committees Appeals the release of a detained mother and her infant    

3/20/2008 - Top IDF officers oppose ceasefire deal    

3/20/2008 - Israeli offensive boosts Hamas in Gaza "Those intending to undermine Hamas have instead given it an assist,"  

3/20/2008 - Hamas says PLO not legitimate representative before being rebuilt    

3/20/2008 - CARE West Bank and Gaza is Helping Palestinians in the Water Sector    

3/20/2008 - Palestinian rivals' talks 'fail'    

3/20/2008 - Five PLO factions welcome the Yamani initiative    

3/20/2008 - A house destroyed A Palestinian woman watches Israeli soldiers and border police demolish her home  

3/20/2008 - Hamas accuses Egypt of militant 'torture' The Islamist movement Hamas accused Egypt on Thursday of torturing dozens of its militants who have been arrested and detained after crossing from the Gaza Strip.  

3/20/2008 - Fatah seeks new blood in Palestinian state bid The once-dominant Fatah faction is looking for younger members as it struggles to draw popular support from its Islamist rival Hamas, and overcome deadlock in Palestinian peace efforts with Israel.  

3/20/2008 - US State Department tells Israel to stop discriminating against Arab-Americans The United States has told Israel repeatedly that Arab-American Palestinians must be treated as American citizens at border crossings or anywhere else, the State Department said Thursday. Who wears the pants here?

3/20/2008 - Israeli soldiers get new firing rules to prevent hostage-taking Israeli troops stationed near the Gaza Strip have been told they must fire on any Palestinian seeking to capture a soldier, even if it puts the potential hostage at risk, public radio reported on Thursday.  

3/20/2008 - Rival Palestinian delegations to stay in Yemen Delegations from Hamas and Fatah will remain in Yemen an extra day for reconciliation talks despite disagreements between the rival factions, Palestinian officials said on Thursday.  

3/20/2008 - Memorial to US activist in West Bank A U.S. appeals court ruled in September that the Corrie lawsuit presents foreign policy questions best left to the White House and Congress.  

3/20/2008 - Boy hurt in West Bank attack A 14-year-old boy sustained light to moderate wounds Thursday night after the vehicle he was traveling in came under attack in the south Mount Hebron area. The army initiated a search for suspects shortly after the attack was reported.  

3/20/2008 - Russian FM warns military action on Iran 'disastrous' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that any military means to solve Iran's controversial nuclear programme would have a "disastrous" effect.  

3/20/2008 - PA Security: Hamas responsible for smuggling medicine in to the West Bank   The horror.

3/20/2008 - Cheney trip not aimed at preparing Iran strike US Vice President Dick Cheney?s nine-day trip to the Middle East and Turkey does not aim to set the stage for a US military strike on Iran, a senior aide said on Thursday......."The vice president talked about the concerns we have about the full range of their activities," said the official, underlining what the United States sees as "an increase in the Iranian relationship with Hamas." Riiiight. And even if we believe that there is such an "an increase in the Iranian relationship with Hamas", what the hell does that have to do with the AMERICAN national interest?

3/20/2008 - Israel, U.S. commanders test 'extreme' scenarios in joint drill At the completion of the exercise, both the Israeli and the U.S. sides announced that extreme scenarios were tested that challenged the participating armies to assist each other. The scenarios were set in the present and based on events of the past several years or events that are expected to occur in the near future.  

3/20/2008 - Bin Laden says free Gaza with "iron and fire" "My speech is about the Gaza siege and the way to retrieve it and the rest of Palestine from the hands of the Zionist enemy," the Saudi-born militant said. "Our enemies did not take it by negotiations and dialogue but with fire and iron. And this is the way to get it back."  

3/20/2008 - Why Did the US Invade Iraq? According to a 1996 paper drafted by prominent hard-line neoconservatives ? including some, like Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, who would later serve in senior posts in Cheney's office and the Pentagon in the run-up to the invasion ? ousting Hussein and installing a pro-Western leader was the key to destabilizing Israel's Arab enemies and/or bending them to its will. This would permit the Jewish state not only to escape the Oslo peace process, but also to secure as much of the occupied Palestinian (and Syrian) territories as it wished. Indeed, getting rid of Hussein and occupying Iraq would not only tighten Israel's hold on Arab territories, in this view; it could also threaten the survival of the Arab and Islamic worlds' most formidable weapon against Israel ? OPEC ? by flooding the world market with Iraqi oil and forcing the commodity's price down to historic lows.  

3/20/2008 - McCain in Holy Land; Evangelicals satisfied Although many American Jews do not view McCain's ties with Hagee favorably, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) decided to allow him to speak at its recent annual convention.  

3/20/2008 - The year of living dangerously Avi Steindel is glad to be back in Pittsburgh after spending a year as an Israeli army sharpshooter Is there something wrong with serving in THIS nation's military?

3/20/2008 - Russian FM meets Syria's Assad    

3/20/2008 - Poll: Most Germans reject notion of 'special responsibility' toward Israel According to a Bertelsmann Foundation survey in 2007, 47% of Germans rejected a special responsibility toward Israel. In contrast, according to the survey, 78% of Israelis believed in a special responsibility.  

3/20/2008 - Race on To Fill Top U.N. Human Rights Post In a race that is being closely watched by Israel and its allies, a stealth campaign has been launched to influence the selection of the top United Nations human rights official.  

3/20/2008 - In Gaza, Presiding Bishop sees humanitarian crisis causing hardship among Palestinians "This is a place of love and reconciliation," Tarazi said, acknowledging the unity between Muslims and Christians in Gaza. "We are all children of Abraham working in mission to help one another.".....Jefferts Schori told Artemios "it is shocking to see the reality" in Gaza and that most Americans have very little awareness of the situation. She introduced Shea's work with government relations in Washington, D.C.  

3/20/2008 - 'Bin Laden' in Palestinian call "It can be said with a high degree of confidence that it is in fact the voice of Osama Bin Laden," a CIA official told Reuters news agency.  

3/20/2008 - US launches legal review of Swiss-Iran gas deal   Here's why. And again.

3/20/2008 - NY appeals court rejects claim by Arabic school principal The trouble started when she discussed the term «intifada» (in tuh FAH duh), which is commonly used to refer to the Palestinian uprising against Israel.  

3/20/2008 - CanWest's latest battle: a 'fake newspaper The publication's content focused on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and was critical of Israel and media coverage of the issue. CanWest alleges that the four-page parody paper and the website version "constitute a misrepresentation ... leading the public to believe there was an association between the plaintiff and the fake newspaper." Sounds more like CanWest is the 'fake' newspaper.

3/20/2008 - President Abbas' sons sue Israeli TV station over report Two sons of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have sued Israel's state-run television channel, saying they were defamed by a news report, the station confirmed Thursday.  

3/20/2008 - Obama blasts Hamas op-ed   Obama must kowtow ever lower to the Israeli lobby. How's the ground smell these days, mm?

3/20/2008 - Israel practices Gaza takeover Israel's armed forces held a war game to simulate a takeover of the Gaza Strip.  

3/20/2008 - Wheels of Justice provides first-hand account of foreign conflict The first speaker, Mark Turner, spoke to a crowd of about 40 people on his experience in Palestine and the devastation that the Israeli occupation has caused.  

3/20/2008 - FASHION POLICE Palestinian scarves Also known as a Palestinian scarf or, according to the British chain store Topshop, a tablecloth scarf, this spiderweb-style headdress has become the accessory of the day for the fashion-forward.  



3/19/2008 - A Palestinian youth killed in Khan Younis A Palestinian youth from the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis has been reportedly shot dead by unknown assailants, medical sources said.  

3/19/2008 - Jerusalem's Latin patriarch retires at 75 The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah was preparing to retire on Wednesday after slamming the "chain of inhumane and futile violence" between Israel and the Palestinians.  

3/19/2008 - McCain Backs Israeli Reprisals in Gaza "That is not a way for people to live," McCain said. "No nation in the world can be attacked incessantly and have its population killed and intimidated without responding. That's one of the first obligations of government, to provide security for its citizens." On that the Palestinians agree. Israel has terrorized them for decades - with US taxpayer money and US weaponry. Israeli 'reprisals' include the wanton reckless killing of women and children - including babies.

3/19/2008 - Jordan paper sees Merkel "destroying" Germany's balanced policy A Jordanian newspaper on Wednesday expressed 'disappointment' over the current visit to Israel by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and accused her of 'destroying' the even- handed policy Germany has so far pursued towards the Middle East.  

3/19/2008 - Israeli army detains 14 Palestinians in W. Bank, Gaza    

3/19/2008 - Germany donates police cars to Palestinians German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday handed over the first two of 20 new police vehicles promised to the Palestinian Authority.  

3/19/2008 - Egypt to take over supplying Gaza power in draft deal Two weeks ago, he said the Egyptian plan would be funded by the Saudi Islamic Development Bank. Tenders will be issued over the next few days  

3/19/2008 - US grants 150 million dollars to Palestinian Authority The funds are the first installment of 555 million dollars pledged at a donors' conference in Paris late last year intended to bolster the Palestinian Authority and underpin recently revived peace talks.  

3/19/2008 - Israel eases firing regulations at Jerusalem barrier demos Under the new regulations, snipers may fire at the legs of adults tagged as "key instigators," according to the mass-selling Maariv daily. Firing on Israeli and foreign citizens remains banned. As to that last sentence: a big joke. The IDF recently shot two foreign nationals in as many weeks. Also, Tom Hurndall comes to mind. The IDF has always fired with 'ease' at protestors, foreign nationals, Palestinian children, etc, etc etc.

3/19/2008 - Merkel made weighty pledge to Israel: German critics "Germany must be careful not to make (US President George W.) Bush's cardinal mistake and be biased in the peace process," the centre-left Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily wrote......"Merkel should speak openly about this. She must explain how far Germany would be prepared to go (and why) to secure Israel's existence." Too late.

3/19/2008 - Yesha rabbinical council chief: Don't rent houses to Arabs Recently, several rabbis led by Rabbi Lior have issued a precedent setting halakhic ruling that Israel must shoot civilian populations in areas from whence attacks on Jewish communities originate.  

3/19/2008 - Hamas vows to share Gaza if Haniya reinstated PM    

3/19/2008 - Qurei rejects Olmert's statements on settlements expansion    

3/19/2008 - Israelis demolish Palestinian homes in West Bank Israeli bulldozers, backed by armed troops, have destroyed five homes in an Israeli-controlled section of the West Bank. The Israeli military said the houses were demolished because they had been built without construction permits. Israeli human rights groups say few building applications are ever granted. That forces Palestinians to build without approval.  

3/19/2008 - Israeli Military demolishes 11 Structures in the Southern Hebron Hills On the morning of 19 March, the Israeli military demolished 11 structures in the agricultural villages of Qawawis, Imneizil, Ad Deirat and Umm Lasafa. Nine of the structures demolished were homes and two were livestock enclosures.  

3/19/2008 - Israeli settlers start new settlement post near Bethlehem    

3/19/2008 - Charging ethnic discrimination, rights group challenges Israel's vaunted airport security Israeli Jews and Arabs get dramatically different treatment when boarding Israeli planes, as anyone who's ever stood in line at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport has seen.  

3/19/2008 - IRAQ: Palestinian refugees renew appeal for protection    

3/19/2008 - John McCain: Israel's enemies threaten us all   McCain,you're invited to stay in Israel, whom you'd be better apt to serve. Americans need leaders who aren't going to take us into (more) wars with nations that don't threaten the AMERICAN national interest. Thanks.

3/19/2008 - Neturei Karta rabbi warns east J'lem Arabs of 'extremist' attacks n the ad published on the front page of the London-based Al-Hayat, Rabbi Israel Hirsch of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group said he wanted to protect Arabs.  

3/19/2008 - Arab Americans press on Israel entry Nearly 30 Arab-American groups asked Condoleezza Rice to press Israel to lift restrictions on the entry of Arab Americans.  

3/19/2008 - Obama's speech: Does empathy for the other have its limits? Obama and his defenders, including the Jews who know him best and longest, have a consistent response: He has an unwavering commitment to defending Israel against forces dedicated to its destruction, combined with the ability to improve America's international image in a way that will ultimately improve Israel's standing in the world and its security.  

3/19/2008 - Footage shows hikers' killers in jail In a bid to disprove reports that two Palestinians who murdered two Israel hikers in December had escaped from prison, the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday allowed a Channel 10 crew to visit the two in their jail cell in Hebron.  

3/19/2008 - Sderot: Israel's 9/11? Um, let's see. On Sept. 11, 2001, 3,000 people were killed. In the last year, two people in Sderot have been killed by rocket fire from Gaza  

3/19/2008 - Jewish fund award to UWO president creates controversy Critics on campus, including three dozen faculty members, have petitioned Davenport to reject the award because they say the JNF has been a party to dispossessing Arabs from their land. The JNF controls large land tracts in Israel and practises discrimination, they claim.  

3/19/2008 - McCain promotes Mideast peace talks but avoids sit-down with Palestinians The only thing not on McCain's agenda was a meeting with the Palestinian leaders who are central to the peace process. The most that McCain was willing to offer was a courtesy phone call to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas .  

3/19/2008 - Arkansas teacher joins anti-war protest "He has been very involved in human rights and justice," Donnelly said. "He spent time in Israel and came away with a lot of affection for the Palestinian people who were suffering a lot."  

3/19/2008 - Russian FM holds Mideast talks in Syria    

3/19/2008 - McCain mistaken on Iran and al-Qaida McCain declined to comment on whether he could back an eventual decision to strike Iran if Tehran doesn't cease its nuclear activities. In response to a question about possible U.S. strikes against Tehran, McCain only said: "At the end of the day, we cannot afford having a nuclear-armed Iran."  

3/19/2008 - Swiss-Iranian gas deal roils Israel "Switzerland and the entire international community are aware of the danger posed by Iran," the statement said. "Israel expects Switzerland to join the international effort in this matter."  

3/19/2008 - Facebook settles Arab-Israeli conflict Note to Tony Blair: Facebook may have found the answer to territorial disputes the world over. Encourage people to do all their interaction online, and they can call the little patch of dirt on which they subsist what the hell they like. "You say Palestine, I say Israel, let's call the whole thing off..." Somebody needs to remind Facebook of the legal status of Israeli settlements in the PALESTINIAN Territories.

3/19/2008 - Rudd avoids protesters at Jewish fund-raiser Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addressed a Jewish fund-raiser amid pro-Palestinian protests. About 50 protesters demonstrated Tuesday night outside a major United Israel Appeal fund-raiser in Melbourne.  

3/19/2008 - U.S. Air Force chief visits Israel During his four-day trip, Moseley met with the top Israeli brass as well as Defense Minister Ehud Barak.  

3/19/2008 - Abbas fires Palestinian official in mobile smuggling case Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday fired one of his advisers after Israel seized 2,000 mobile phones in his car returning from Jordan, a Palestinian official said.  

3/19/2008 - Do not even compare Israel to America   A flashback to a post from one of my old blogs.

3/19/2008 - In Israel visit, McCain shows his pro-Israel credentials Sounding a note of commonality and understanding with his Israeli hosts, McCain said that Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah were threats not only to Israel, but to America as well.  

3/19/2008 - Is the Pentagon Policy Shop Funding Likudist Fronts? Another Prague attendee who was identified on the Participants List as PF?s ?director? was Steven Schneier. As I pointed out last June, Schneier was identified by a 1999 Jewish Week investigative article entitled ?Likud?s Tangled Charity Web? as a key U.S. fund-raiser for and top adviser to former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. His job was apparently to funnel campaign contributions from Likud?s supporters in the U.S....... you may ask, why is the Pentagon policy office awarding a no-bid contract to an organization whose institutional relationships and affiliations appear so opposed to official U.S. policy and which is so utterly lacking in transparency? And how is that such clearly pro-Likud individuals as Cross and Gedmin (not to mention the new Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, James Glassman who, like Gedmin, is an AEI alumnus) are put in charge of U.S. public-diplomacy efforts in Europe, let alone the Middle East? How does this happen?  

3/19/2008 - Jews from Arab lands address U.N. A group representing Jewish refugees from Arab lands testified before the U.N. Human Rights Council.  

3/19/2008 - Hebron The Fourteenth Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb. Palestinian families tell us that under the occupation they have lost much more than just their freedom. Many live with the fear of home invasions or even the demolition of their homes by bulldozers. The Palestinians have been robbed of their security and dignity.  

3/19/2008 - Thirteenth Station:    

3/19/2008 - Israel-Palestine dispute moves on to Facebook Jewish settlers living inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank complained when they found their addresses identified them as living in Palestine, rather than Israel. More than 400,000 people live in settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, all of which are widely considered illegal under international law.....For some this is a battle that is still being fought. In a post on her group's discussion page Lerman wrote: "What I hope even more is that people keep on fighting against mentioning these towns in Palestine. That's something that doesn't exist and will never exist." Someone needs to inform Lerman that the Holy Land has been referred to as Palestine for as far back as the New York Times archives reach (1850s), and something tells me - much further than that. The grand delusion that 'Palestine never existed' is just that - a delusion - propagated by Israeli propagandists.

3/19/2008 - Arab MK to chief rabbis: Slam rabbinic calls to harm Arabs    

3/19/2008 - Palestinian refugees in the West Bank protest against reduced UN aid    

3/19/2008 - BD140,000 for Palestinians A CHARITY event in Bahrain raised around BD140,000 in a single night to help the besieged Palestinian people, organisers confirmed yesterday. British politician George Galloway was the star of Monday's Palestine Support Society dinner and auction, which attracted more than 500 people.  

3/19/2008 - ELCA Bishops Learn About Christian Zionism, Discuss Other Matters Christian Zionism is a "politically mobilized strand of Christian fundamentalism" committed to preserving Jewish control over all of historic Palestine, Smith said. The movement places the State of Israel, and often the United States, "at the center of God's purposes for the end of the age," he told the bishops. Biblical references in the books of Joel and Genesis are used to justify the movement's claims, Smith said.  



3/18/2008 - Elderly Palestinian man killed by unknown gunmen near Qalqilia    

3/18/2008 - Twelve Palestinians wounded in Israeli raid in Gaza The strike hit a car in which the militants were traveling in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahya. The other casualties were passers-by  

3/18/2008 - Israeli High Court orders an end to excavations in Silwan On Tuesday, the Israeli High Court of Justice ordered a halt to the excavations in Silwan. This came after several months of excavations, which caused damages to building foundations and resident's houses in the Palestinian neigborhood of Wadi Hilwa of the town of Silwan, in East Jerusalem  

3/18/2008 - Mubarak: 'No occupation lasts forever' "Your people's security cannot be attained by exercising a policy of collective punishment, aggression, siege, walls and building settlements," he said in comments broadcast live on state television.  

3/18/2008 - Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories: Safety of medical workers under spotlight in joint campaign ?The campaign reflects a shared concern about the increasing lack of respect for medical services,? says Katharina Ritz, the ICRC?s Head of Mission for the occupied territories. ?Protecting medical staff and facilities from attack and facilitating the evacuation and treatment of the sick and wounded ? no matter who they are ? are fundamental requirements under international humanitarian law?.  

3/18/2008 - Hamas: Egypt demanding answers on Shalit A Web site affiliated with the Palestinian Islamist movement reported Tuesday that dozens of Hamas members who were among thousands of Gazans who streamed into the Egyptian Sinai after the border was breached in January found themselves rounded up by Cairo's security agents.  

3/18/2008 - Gazans build graves for shuttered factories Palestinians inaugurated a symbolic graveyard on Tuesday for factories forced to close by an Israeli blockade that they say is killing jobs.  

3/18/2008 - Israeli army detains 23 Palestinians in West Bank    

3/18/2008 - Cheney to Troops: Mideast Needs Freedom Rallying troops after an overnight stay at an air base, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that as long as freedom is suppressed in the Mideast, the region will remain a place of "stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export." The supreme irony of that statement being that because of our support of Israel (which isn't going to change any time soon), Israel has been allowed to deny the Palestinians freedom for decades. Cheney's hypocrisy is not lost on the world. The world laughs their collective asses off at the neocon notion of 'freedom' in the Middle East.

3/18/2008 - Suleiman postpones visit to Israel for third time Egypt's intelligence chief calls off trip to Israel once again, citing Israel's 'lack of commitment' to truce in Gaza as main reason for cancellation  

3/18/2008 - PA downgrades renewed talks to protest settlement construction    

3/18/2008 - Hamas: PA arrested five of its supporters in West Bank    

3/18/2008 - Rabbi stabbed in East Jerusalem A police spokesman said the rabbi was a member of the Ateret Cohanim organisation, which helps hardline Jewish settlers buy up property in the mainly-Arab Old City.  

3/18/2008 - High Court ruling closes off Route 443 to Palestinians The interim decision issued 10 days ago by the High Court of Justice on the use of Route 443 marks the first time the justices have issued a ruling to close a road traversing occupied territory to Palestinian use, for the convenience of Israeli travelers  

3/18/2008 - Hamas says open to Yemen initiative on Fatah    

3/18/2008 - PLO urges Hamas to accept Gaza power-sharing    

3/18/2008 - Israel seals Palestinian territories before Purim holiday    

3/18/2008 - Ex-diplomat: Syria talks could resume soon after U.S. elections "Damascus will only consider discussing such issues as a way to reducing its international isolation and that means getting American concessions," Liel said. "You need the Americans, and the Americans say we're not coming," he added. "Because the Syrians want the Americans in the room, this, in practice, prevents talks."  

3/18/2008 - McCain rep to Jews: Christian right a 'serious problem' And Eagleburger believes that those people who might want to "cut and run" from Iraq now are endangering Israel. If you?re worried about Israel, he said, "just think" about the consequences of leaving Iraq, essentially making Iran stronger. As I predicted many times in the past, in this election Israel might find itself in the middle of the American internal debate over the Middle East. The McCain camp is definitely going to use Israel as a way of convincing people that leaving Iraq prematurely is going to have grave results. We went in to Iraq - and we will remain in Iraq - for the security of ISRAEL. Note the source.

3/18/2008 - Feiglin to speak in Toronto A controversial Israeli politician banned from Britain is set to speak in Toronto.  

3/18/2008 - Jewish groups, police teaming on reward in R.I. firebombing Knafo is in the United States as an emissary for the Jewish Agency for Israel. The Afula native works for Hillel serving the two campuses......Both [Mayor] Cicilline and Police Chief Dean Esserman are Jewish, creating a heightened sensitivity to the issues surrounding the incident. The weekend of the attack, a busload of Providence police recruits traveled to Washington to the U.S. Holocaust Museum for instruction tailored to law enforcement officials. I'm just wondering what the US Holocaust Museum has to do with how law enforcement officials do their job in America. Is it to (further) encourage the supremacism of one group above the others (much like the new US State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism does)?

3/18/2008 - Apparently Without Irony, Washington Post Says Jewish Advocates Demand that Obama Show 'Fealty to Israel' They portrayed Obama as a dangerous leftwinger, and when the Illinois senator's surrogate defended Obama's statement that the U.S. does not have to cleave to Likud policies, Ann Lewis, Hillary's advocate, responded: "The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel. It is not up to us to pick and choose from among the political parties."  

3/18/2008 - Activists to Waldorf-Astoria: Cancel Friends of IDF fundraiser Among other activities, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces explains on its website that it helps to establish and renovate facilities on Israeli army bases. We are shocked that a respected institution like The Waldorf-Astoria would host a fundraiser benefitting a foreign armed group, especially one guilty of egregious human rights violations.  

3/18/2008 - McCain backs Jerusalem as 'Israeli capital' Israel annexed Arab east Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war and declared it part of its eternal undivided capital, a claim not recognised by the international community. E. Jerusalem is Israeli-OCCUPIED not owned. To recognize Israel's sovereignty thereof is to recognize a war crime, since Israel's settlements therein are a violation of Article 49 of The Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel's Lebensraumism is applauded, not punished.

3/18/2008 - Foreign policy experts discuss future at UM There was a round of applause and a few cheers from the more than 120 high school students when senior foreign policy fellow Bruce Riedel said that Barack Obama is the favorite presidential candidate among Israelis overseas. What the hell for?

3/18/2008 - Obama Harassed by Zionists Sen. Barack Obama's views on the State of Israel have been the subject of much scrutiny in recent weeks. Obama has repeatedly stated that he and his advisors are staunchly pro-Israel, but these declarations have not satisfied Zionist groups, and the witch hunt continues. Many have pointed out his relationship with the pastor of his church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has criticized Israel in the past.  

3/18/2008 - Hebron: Eleventh and Twelfth Stations of the Cross    

3/18/2008 - McCain warns of increasing Iranian influence Closing a week-long congressional delegation to the region that included a time in Iraq, McCain expressed concern over a large cache of explosives found in Iraq and alluded that they may have been sent from Iran.  

3/18/2008 - Rudd backs Australian Jewish lobby Prior to the declaration of Israel?s formation terrorist Jewish organisations waged a campaign again British occupation in which the British commander in the Palestinian territories was assassinated by Jewish paramilitary organisations. It was obvious from the very beginning that the Zionists, who seized the leadership of the Jewish State, held the objective of creating a "greater Israel" which inevitably meant the expulsion of the Arabs from their homeland.  

3/18/2008 - McCain cites Iran's nuclear threat while in Israel US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain Tuesday expressed concern about Iran's possible nuclear armament during his two-day visit to Israel.  

3/18/2008 - Police kill Sudanese woman near Israel Israel has asked Egypt to do more to stem the tide of trafficking and weapons flow across Egypt's volatile boundaries in the Sinai ? both the border with Israel and the adjoining boundary separating Egypt and the coastal Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas.  

3/18/2008 - Israeli defence official in Egypt for Gaza talks Suleiman put off going to Israel two weeks ago because of Israel's ongoing attacks on rocket-launching militants in the Gaza Strip that also killed many civilians.  

3/18/2008 - Report: Israeli Jews increasingly anti-Arab    

3/18/2008 - In Ramallah, diocesan institutions bring hope to Palestinians [Rev] Raheb said he believes that the Holy Land is "heading toward a fully developed apartheid system that will be much worse than South Africa,"  

3/18/2008 - McCain begins Israel visit at Yad Vashem   McCain grovels at the altar of Israel (in order to win the AMERICAN presidency).

3/18/2008 - Jordan's king meets McCain, stresses "effective" US Mideast role Also attending the meeting with the king were Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.  

3/18/2008 - Israeli warship enters Lebanese waters: army An Israeli warship briefly entered Lebanese waters on Monday but was intercepted by an Italian ship operating as part of the UN peacekeeping force, the army said on Tuesday. How long before the Israeli warships too open fire on UN peacekeepers?

3/18/2008 - Obama: Pastor's views on Israel 'distorted' Wright has blamed U.S. foreign policy and support for Israel for the anti-Americanism that culminated in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Wright was absolutely correct - his view backed by the findings of the 911 commission. But Americans aren't to know that - which is why the LA Times and Kentucky Herald Leader were the only ones to report on this story.

3/18/2008 - McCain visits Israel 'worried' about Iran, Hamas    

3/18/2008 - Poll Shows Most Palestinians Favor Violence Over Talks   Why, what a coincidence this new poll whose results the NY Times is now trumpeting, ensuring that Americans view the Palestinians as violence-driven when THIS poll, out just days ago, says something very different. Ethan Bronner would appear to be doing damage control for the Israeli lobby, and the New York Times is more than happy to oblige.

3/18/2008 - The Circus Comes to Town Even more importantly, Democrats here must use these weeks to press Clinton and Obama on Iran and its drive for nuclear weapons. There is simply no other issue on which so many lives will hang during the next four years as this one. We know that both favor diplomacy (as does Republican candidate Sen. John McCain and the State of Israel) to persuade the Iranians to drop their push for nukes. But if, as seems likely, Tehran gets the bomb during the next administration, we must know if these leaders are afraid to do whatever it takes, including pre-emptive strikes, to see to it that the mullahs and their genocidal frontman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad don't have the power to unleash mass murder on Israel or any other country. Note the source. These Israel-supporters want to ask of the candidates for the AMERICAN presidency? will you attack Iran for Israel?

3/18/2008 - Switzerland rejects US, Jewish criticism of Iranian gas deal Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey on Tuesday brushed aside US and Jewish criticism of a multibillion-dollar gas deal she helped clinch with Iran, saying the Alpine republic does not need permission from the United States to advance its strategic interests....."Switzerland is an independent country that has its own strategic interests to defend," Calmy-Rey told reporters. Ahh, the bitter irony in such a statement.

3/18/2008 - Israelis look ahead to post-Bush White House "I think Bush gave us a sense of security during very difficult times. On the Iraqi issue he turned out to be wrong, but under the circumstances I think he was the best man for the job and was good for Israel,"....."The issue is not what the candidates think about Israel. The issue is what the candidate thinks about a nuclear Iran, about Iraq, terrorism and radical Islamism," In other words, will America continue to do Israel's bidding in the Middle East (and beyond)?

3/18/2008 - Situation of Palestinians on Iraq-Syria border continues to deteriorate The situation of more than 2,700 Palestinians who have been stranded and are living in inhumane conditions in two border camps at the Iraq-Syrian border continues to deteriorate  

3/18/2008 - Intelligence experts called to testify for ex-AIPAC duo    

3/18/2008 - Israel's 'religious right' gains clout, complicating peace with Palestinians "We go by halacha [religious law] and our spiritual leader, Rabbi Yosef. He supported the Oslo Accords, but only if it will bring real peace," This Rabbi Yosef is an extremist and a racist.

3/18/2008 - Egypt police find explosives caches near Gaza border    



3/17/2008 - Israeli Border Police Attempt to Arrest Palestinian Shepherd and Declare Israeli police threatened to arrest Palestinian shepherds grazing their sheep on Palestinian land near the illegal settlement outpost of Avigail. Israeli border police then declared the area to be a "closed military zone."  

3/17/2008 - Israel to hold massive emergency drill In the face of a possible escalation with Syria and Iran's efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon, parts of the country will shut down next month in what security officials say will be the largest emergency exercise in Israel's history.  

3/17/2008 - Poll finds Hamas leader's popularity rises Israeli attacks in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip have boosted the popularity of the Islamist group's leader Ismail Haniyeh among Palestinians in the territory and in the West Bank, according to a poll on Monday.  

3/17/2008 - PA urges Palestinians to 'return' The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel's 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air. See UN resolution 194, section 11 that Israel never implemented.

3/17/2008 - Barghouti, Abbas Popular for Palestinian Voters    

3/17/2008 - Olmert vows to continue east Jerusalem settlements The international community considers all Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land to be illegal.  

3/17/2008 - Foreign envoys to press Israel on peace process The diplomats are likely to press Israel over its recently-published decision to build some 2,000 new housing units in east Jerusalem and the West Bank settlements.  

3/17/2008 - Hamas: Anti-aircraft fire aimed at capturing Israeli pilots    

3/17/2008 - 3 Arabs sent to jail for torturing Palestinian    

3/17/2008 - HEBRON RELEASE: Al Eizariya/Bethany Palm Sunday Procession On Palm Sunday, 16 March, Palestinians and internationals, Muslims and Christians, gathered at the Lazarus Gate checkpoint to commemorate Palm Sunday and highlight the travel restrictions the Israeli government imposes on Palestinians through the use of permits and Israel?s separation barrier. Most Palestinians from the West Bank cannot travel to Jerusalem.  

3/17/2008 - Five Palestinians kidnapped in the West Bank, two among them children    

3/17/2008 - Smearing Obama As for branding critics of Israel as anti-Semites, is Kessler really maintaining that this never happens? It's the smear-of-first-resort of the Israel-first lobby, as professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have recently discovered. Everyone knows that to traduce this terrain is to walk through a political minefield, which is why most American politicians scrupulously avoid it ? a testament, by the way, to the trenchancy of the Mearsheimer-Walt thesis that the Israel lobby wields an inordinate and ultimately unhealthy influence over the conduct of American foreign policy.  

3/17/2008 - But did you know he's a Muslim? The night before speaking with Haaretz, Levine says he ate dinner with Israeli friends, one of whom asked him: "Would Obama be willing to use force to defend American interests?" .......Obama, Levine says, "fully understands that the greatest threat to Israel at this time is Iran, and that Iran's ability to obtain a nuclear weapon is completely unacceptable. He's made absolutely clear that his priorities with regard to Iran are to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, to stop Iran from continuing to support terror, and to stop Iran from threatening Israel's existence." I skipped a paragraph there in the excerpt, but go back to the article and see for yourself, and then ask yourself: how exactly did the question with respect to AMERICAN interests suddenly become equal to ISRAELI interests? Two different nations with different security threats. The AMERICAN national interest should COME FIRST to any American presidential candidate. And Iran does NOT threaten the AMERICAN national interest. Whose war is this?

3/17/2008 - Nations Working to Ban Cluster Bombs On the morning of an apparent cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants, 11-year-old Hadi Hattab played in the street for the first time since the monthlong war began in July 2006. Seconds later, an explosion of ball bearings shot into his skull from one of more than 4 million cluster bombs fired into southern Lebanon by the Israeli military. The boy died a few hours later.....Most of the bombs were fired by the Israeli military in the last three days of the conflict after a cease-fire had been declared.....Part of the problem is Israel?s refusal to cooperate with U.N. requests to supply information that would help mine removers find unexploded bombs..... The Geneva Convention outlaws the use of weapons in civilian areas, and an initial report by the State Department in January found that Israel had broken a military sales agreement by using U.S.-made cluster bombs in civilian areas.  

3/17/2008 - Syrian FM: War with Israel possible Moallem went on to call Hizbullah a friend of Syria. "Hizbullah is not a proxy of Syria but a friend. Hizbullah is a part of Lebanon and the difficulties Lebanon faces."  

3/17/2008 - Israel upgrades ties with Germany Political, cultural, economic and social relations will all be strengthened, said a joint statement. Good! Maybe Israel can get the Germans to attack Iran instead of getting us to do it. Or better yet, maybe they could finally learn how to GET ALONG WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS. It's only been 60 years! (Hint, stealing Palestinian land and bombing the babies isn't how you go about it).

3/17/2008 - Jordanian Islamists: Merkel runs risk of igniting 'enmity' of Arabs "It is illogical to see the German sin complex towards what the Zionists allege as holocaust find expression in an unjust bias against the Palestinian people, who themselves have become the target of another holocaust as a senior Israeli official put it recently,"  

3/17/2008 - The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem In December 2006, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the case. While the court stopped short of an outright ban on Israel's assassinations program, it ruled that international law constrains the targeting of terror suspects. Currently, in order to justify a strike, Israel must have reliable information that the suspect is actively engaged in hostilities (such as planning a terrorist attack) and must rule out an arrest as being too risky. The court also requires that there be an independent investigation after each strike. The Israelis still continue to kill numerous civilians as a result of their missile strikes, despite this ruling.

3/17/2008 - More To The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer Than Meets the Eye In both his books 'By Way Of Deception' and 'The Other Side of Deception' former Israeli intelligence officer Victor Ostrovsky details how one of Mossad's primary functions was (is) entrapping important persons involved in politics, business, media and whatnot into compromising and embarrassing positions so as to make them more 'pliable' to the demands of the Jewish state. A very interesting piece by this blogger. Raises some new angles.

3/17/2008 - Greeted warmly in Israel, Merkel pressed on Iran ties Israelis asked that Germany, one of Iran's biggest trading partners, do more about stopping Iran's fundamentalist regime from acquiring nuclear weapons......Olmert planned to show Merkel the latest Israeli intelligence on Iran's nuclear program and urge the chancellor to clamp down further on trade with Iran, irrespective of U.N. sanctions decisions -- as the United States has done.  

3/17/2008 - JINSA afraid US military might tell Israel what to do   Who wears the pants here?

3/17/2008 - Support of Christian Zionists makes some Jews uneasy While Israel's birth in 1948 seemed to fulfill biblical prophecy, Christian Zionists believe an intact Israel must also include Judea and Samaria -- the predominantly Palestinian West Bank captured by Israel in 1967. As such, they have resisted returning any land to the Palestinians as part of peace deal. And a war with Iran, some say, could usher in Armageddon......"I don't have to agree with anybody 100 percent in order to welcome their support, as long as their support is not conditioned on my agreeing with them on everything or accepting them 100 percent," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. The comments made by Foxman = hypocrisy.

3/17/2008 - Of war and cancer The crucial Israeli-Palestinian conflict, still the greatest cause of anti-Americanism in the region and one that Bush's neoconservative brain trust thought it could resolve in Israel's favor by smashing Iraq and putting a gun to the head of Iran and Syria, is at one of its most intractable points......Second, both justice and our national security require that we act to make fundamental changes in our Middle East policies. This means balancing our support for Israel's security with an understanding of the legitimate grievances of the Palestinians, and a real commitment to ending the 40-year-old Israeli occupation of their lands  

3/17/2008 - Israel test-fires missile to intercept Gaza rockets Iron Dome is part of a multi-layered defence system aimed at protecting Israel from short-range missiles and rockets fired by militants in Gaza or Lebanon, and longer-range missiles in the arsenals of regional foes Iran and Syria.  

3/17/2008 - Facebook lists West Bank towns as Israel Residents of Ariel, Maale Adumim and other large West Bank settlements, angered when Facebook switched their country of residence to "Palestine," lodged protests with the social networking Web site. They noted that they are citizens of Israel and no Palestinian state exists. Facebook complies with requests from those in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 49); illegal squatters on (occupied) Palestinian land. I wonder what are the legal ramifications for such a move..

3/17/2008 - Rabbi: Hiring Arabs against Torah A top Israeli haredi rabbi banned the employment of Arab workers by Jews.  

3/17/2008 - IRAQ: War Launched to Protect Israel - Bush Adviser   Some of us have know that for years.

3/17/2008 - Even Palestinians' beloved keffiyeh feels the heat of Chinese imports    

3/17/2008 - IDF initiates program to stem Kfir Brigade abuse Simulations, workshops and close cooperation with left-wing humanitarian groups are some of the steps the IDF's Kfir Brigade is implementing in an effort to curb an increase in the number of reported cases of its soldiers who allegedly abuse Palestinians in the West Bank. Maybe if Israel adequately PUNISHED these soldiers that commit the abuse, that would send a stronger message. Not the case right now, which only encourages it.

3/17/2008 - Galloway plea to rescue Palestine "Israel works very hard in Britain and in the US to capture people's hearts and this is one of the problems that we face. "If you look at (US Democrat presidential candidate) Barack Obama he was very sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, but now he has to be on his knees in front of the Zionist lobby"......He is in the Gulf to drum up funding and support for his latest venture, a movie in the style of US film-maker Michael Moore about the Palestinian issue.  

3/17/2008 - Japan donates $5.5 million to rebuild war-destroyed Palestinian camp in north Lebanon The U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees says the government of Japan has donated 588 million yen (US$5.5 million, ?3.5 million) toward the rebuilding of a war-devastated Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.  

3/17/2008 - 'Rachel Corrie' Extends at New Rep New Repertory Theatre announces the extension of My Name is Rachel Corrie. My Name is Rachel Corrie and Pieces, two solo plays run in rotating repertory until March 30, 2008.  

3/17/2008 - Talks mark Corrie's death    

3/17/2008 - How a Station Tries to Calm Mideast?s Rage The station was set up last year by Issie Kirsh, a South African Jew. The idea came from a similar station, Radio 702, that he set up in the apartheid era, allowing South African blacks and whites to speak on the same call-in and talk shows.  

3/17/2008 - Donor: Netanyahu's London tour was kosher Joshua Rowe, a businessman who heads the Manchester branch of the United Israel Appeal, paid for most of a lavish weeklong British advocacy campaign by Netanyahu during the Second Lebanon War, an Israeli television expose on Sunday revealed  

3/17/2008 - Hebron: The Ninth and Tenth Stations    

3/17/2008 - The Palestinian Lyrical Front: A Step in the right direction The Palestinian Lyrical Front, comprising of 10 rap artists/bands aims to break the silence with Slingshot, a Hip Hop documentary focusing on the struggle and daily life of Palestinians living in Gaza, the west bank and Israel.  

3/17/2008 - AJC: Swiss Visit Supports Fanatical Iranian Regime The American Jewish Committee is profoundly disappointed by Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey's visit to Tehran today for the signing of a major gas deal between Swiss energy company EGL and the Iranian government. Oh dear.

3/17/2008 - Dialogue alliance lobbies in D.C. An alliance of Israeli-Arab dialogue groups lobbied Congress and the Bush administration for more funding.  

3/17/2008 - Swastika-shaped retirement home to renovate Today the complaints are coming from Israeli-American researcher Avrahaum Segol, who also brought to the public consciousness a swastika-shaped barracks at the Coronado Naval Base in San Diego.  



3/16/2008 - Today in History - March 16 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American in Gaza to protest Israel operations, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.  

3/16/2008 - Israeli activists storm Jerusalem Arab area Dozens of right-wing Jewish activists have stormed the Arab neighbourhood in East Jerusalem of a Palestinian gunman who killed eight Israelis at a Jewish seminary earlier this month, police and witnesses said. Dozens of protesters broke through police barriers and hurled stones at cars and houses in the neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber, where the family of the seminary attacker lives.  

3/16/2008 - Israeli siege claims the lives of two more Palestinian civilians The sources said that Ahmad Al Nurri, 60, died of cancer, while nine month old Sabeel Tubasi, died from a lung infection. Doctors stated that both were prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip for medical care by the Israeli military. Including those killed today, 120 Palestinian medical patients have died due to the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza.  

3/16/2008 - The Israeli military invades a village in the northern West Bank, attempts to kidnap a child   Hey, Israel, leave them kids alone.

3/16/2008 - Ereikat: Egypt is making great efforts to negotiate a truce between Palestinians and Israel    

3/16/2008 - U.S. gov't asks Congress to okay plan to boost funds for PA police    

3/16/2008 - Hebron Update: 15-21 February 2008    

3/16/2008 - Life in the 'open prison' of Gaza I went to talk about his case with a spokesman for the Israeli government who pointed out that the border closures were for security reasons. And when we got on to the subject of seriously ill patients being allowed out of Gaza for treatment, he told me that, while some patients had been let out, it was his view that terminally ill ones posed a potential danger to Israel. They had nothing to live for, he suggested, so they might blow themselves up and become suicide bombers. Cynical scum to the end in Israel.

3/16/2008 - One Palestinian teen injured by Israeli army fire in Tubass    

3/16/2008 - Palestinian militant groups reject truce deal under Israeli strikes    

3/16/2008 - Rightists riot in yeshiva gunman's district Chanting "death to the Arabs," hundreds of young rightists flocked to Jabal Mukaber, an Arab district of east Jerusalem, late Sunday to stage a demonstration calling for the demolition of the home of Ala Abu Dhaim, who massacred eight students at Mercaz HaRav before being shot dead.  

3/16/2008 - Israel killed 100 Hamas policemen since June    

3/16/2008 - Hamas leader calls on rival Fatah for dialogue A top leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza Mahmoud al-Zahar called Saturday on rival Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas for unconditioned dialogue.  

3/16/2008 - Woman wounded from gunfire in suspected 'honor killing' attempt A woman sustained light wounds after unidentified men opened fire at her on Sunday in the Jawarish neighborhood of Ramle, in what police suspect to be another attempted "honor killing" within the Abu-Ghanem family.  

3/16/2008 - Palestinian government will rebuild dead militant's destroyed home    

3/16/2008 - Militant groups resume rockets attacks on Israel "The rocket's attack is retaliatory to the Israeli occupation's crimes against our people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and a reiteration to the fact that resistance against the occupation would never stop," the group said.  

3/16/2008 - Iran high on Cheney's Mideast agenda   No kidding? Whodda thunk it!

3/16/2008 - Hamas'armed wing: Israeli military escalation will deteriorate situation Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Sunday that any military escalation by Israel will deteriorate the situation "and turn the balance over."  

3/16/2008 - Two Palestinian passersby wounded by Israeli gunboats Two Palestinian passersby have been reportedly wounded by Israeli gunboats along the northern Gaza coast.  

3/16/2008 - Israeli Jews, Palestinians, Americans join traditional Jerusalem Palm Sunday procession    

3/16/2008 - Ariel building project to be unfrozen Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman has waited for two weeks for the Defense Ministry to make good on its verbal promise to him that a project of 48 homes for his settlement city - frozen in November - would be allowed to proceed. Israel is interested in peace alright - more like PIECE - as in, ANOTHER PIECE of Palestine.

3/16/2008 - Life behind the wire in occupied Palestine MEP Jill Evans is a member of the European delegation for relations with the Palestine authority. This is an account of her recent visit to the strife-torn and occupied state  

3/16/2008 - Israelis try to destroy attacker's house    

3/16/2008 - Papers detail settlers' West Bank land grab The land-takeover method was developed in Kedumim and neighboring settlements during the mid-1990s, after the Oslo Accords, and continues to this day. And before that, it was the IDF that took it.

3/16/2008 - Member: Abbas' delegation to Yemen not to talk with Hamas    

3/16/2008 - Top classifiers to testify for AIPAC staffers The two most recent U.S. classification czars will testify for the defense in a case against two former AIPAC staffers.  

3/16/2008 - US official: Return of Palestinian refugees will 'help' Lebanon    

3/16/2008 - Israeli ambassador cancels Edinburgh lecture Mr Prosor was also due to speak in Glasgow on Monday 10 March at a fundraising event for the Jewish National Fund - a major Israeli landowning organisation, described as "racist" by the SPSC because of it?s practice of retaining land for Jewish-only settlement.  

3/16/2008 - In photos: 'Jerusalem Palm Sunday'    

3/16/2008 - PA not immune from Israel justice system The Jerusalem District Court will now be able to hear 55 lawsuits filed by victims of terror against the Palestinian Authority, after the Foreign Ministry issued certificates in every case declaring that the PA did not enjoy judicial immunity. But the Palestinians are barred from taking the same action against the Israeli government (according to Israeli law and US court actions).

3/16/2008 - Peace in the Holy Land We saw numerous settlements, all on West Bank land that had been confiscated from Palestinian residents. The settlements are startlingly large developments and invariably on very desirable land on the top of a hill. In many cases the evicted Palestinians are rendered homeless or separated from where they work by the private roads that link the settlements to Israel. Firsthand account by an American citizen of the reality of Palestinian life.

3/16/2008 - Groups protest Germany's support of Israel Demonstrator Iris Hefets, 43, who moved to Germany from Israel six years ago "because of the political situation," said she hoped the demonstration would show Germans "that it is OK to criticize Israel. It has nothing to do with anti-Semitism." Uh, not according to the US State Department's new definition of 'anti-Semitism'.

3/16/2008 - Bomb scare forces Paris fair's evacuation A bomb scare forced the evacuation of the Paris Book Fair, which was being held amid boycott calls for honoring Israeli writers.  

3/16/2008 - Obama's denounced pastor quits campaign In a sermon delivered following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Wright said, ?We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards."  

3/16/2008 - Report: Syria is seeking 'public' peace talks Syria has recently relayed a message to Israel conveying the country's interest in peace talks with Israel, but on the condition that talks be held openly and not under fire, Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported yesterday.  

3/16/2008 - EU's Solana urges pressure on Syria over Lebanon    

3/16/2008 - U.S.-Europe ties on hold apart from fire-fighting In a telling flash of European frustration with President George W. Bush, Solana said he hoped the next administration would be ready to work quickly with the EU on issues from Iran and Israeli-Palestinian peace to dealing with Russia and fighting global warming.  



3/15/2008 - Four Palestinians killed as Israel targets militants An Israeli air strike on Saturday killed three Islamic Jihad militants readying to fire rockets from Gaza, medics and the radical Palestinian group said, while a fourth Palestinian died from tank shelling.  

3/15/2008 - Palestinians Want Ceasefire with Israel The vast majority of people in the Palestinian Territories would support a truce with Israel, according to a poll by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO). 73 per cent of respondents are in favour of a truce. Somebody needs to tell that to the rabid pro-Israel supporters over at CAMERA. It tends to blow their propaganda right out of the water.

3/15/2008 - Fatah and Hamas delegations to visit Yemen this week To bridge the gap between the two rival Palestinian factions, delegations from Fatah and Hamas will visit Yemen in the middle of this week for dialogue aimed at unifying the Palestinian ranks to face the continued Israeli aggression.  

3/15/2008 - Voice SMS launched for Palestinians Jordan's pioneering provider of telecommunication services, Umniah, recently announced the launch of its innovative International Voice Short Message service (SMS) to Palestine.  

3/15/2008 - Mauritania's relations with Israel a 'sovereign matter': Abbas    

3/15/2008 - Gaza militants claim to hit Israeli army bases with rockets    

3/15/2008 - Ramon: We must crack down on outposts "Unfortunately, we are not meeting our commitments, and this hurts us internationally and compromises our ability to continue with negotiations," Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio on Saturday. Ramon had this to say about settlements in December: Speaking with IDF Army Radio on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Chaim Ramon acknowledged that Israel would continue construction within some of the larger Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.

3/15/2008 - Hamas says it can hit Israeli helicopters with seized guns    

3/15/2008 - AT-TUWANI REFLECTION: The Stations of Shaadi Settlement outposts extend the reach of these settlements, and confiscate increasingly more Palestinian land exclusively for Israeli use. Religiously zealous, ideological and violent settlers threaten and attack anyone who dares draw near. Palestinian shepherds here find they have less and less land to graze their flocks, and must take grave risks when they do.  

3/15/2008 - China to supply crime-fighting gear to Palestinians "What we signed today will give the Palestinians some emergency assistance for the security branches," Yang Wei Guo, the Chinese envoy to the Palestinian territories, told AFP.  

3/15/2008 - Palestinian Forces' Training Marred by Delays, Politics A U.S.-funded program to train and equip Palestinian security forces is mired in delays, a shortage of resources, and differences between Israelis and the Americans over what military capabilities those forces should have once deployed in the territories. ......."Underfunded, underequipped, under-everything," said one of the two Americans with close knowledge of the program. "It is grossly negligent in what it needs." One of our guys over there allegedly killed himself recently.

3/15/2008 - Militant's death unites Bethlehem    

3/15/2008 - The army attack Bil'in non-violent protest: six injured, one kidnapped Dozens of residents of Bil?in, a village near Ramallah, took to the streets on Friday in their weekly demonstration protesting against the illegal confiscation of village land through Israel's continued expansion of the wall.  

3/15/2008 - Al Khader village near Bethlehem holds it weekly anti-wall protest Around 100 Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by Israeli and international peace activists staged a protest on Friday midday against the illegal Wall Israel is building on the village land.  

3/15/2008 - 'J'lem attacker targeted rightist rabbi' The target of last Thursday's shooting attack in Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva was a far right-wing rabbi, the Hizbullah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Akhbar reported Friday.  

3/15/2008 - Living Experience: The enemy within While conflict rages around them, one Israeli woman has taken a bold step by welcoming into her household a Palestinian man and his sick son  

3/15/2008 - Rachel Corrie play debuts in Israel   Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, was (deliberately run over and) killed by an Israeli soldier in a bulldozer on March 16, 2003. No one was ever held accountable for that murder, and our government has never demanded the such.

3/15/2008 - Death threats to Arab MKs increasing Arab MKs have been receiving death threats in the mail nearly every day, said representatives from the three Arab parties Thursday.  

3/15/2008 - Shadowplays The recruitment and deployment of Palestinian collaborators is not a new phenomenon. It is a longstanding Zionist practice, almost as old as Zionism itself  

3/15/2008 - Two Kiryat Ata men arrested for attacking Arab workers Police suspect the two, aged 19 and 25, arrived Thursday afternoon at a construction site in the town's center where the victims worked. They launched insults of racist nature at them, cursed Prophet Mohammed and later physically attacked them and damaged their car. One victim received medical treatment.  

3/15/2008 - Virginia inmate moved amid hunger strike Former University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian stopped taking food or water last week to protest a third attempt by prosecutors to compel his testimony.  

3/15/2008 - Hindsight is 20/20 - how israel duped US into fighting their wars    

3/15/2008 - Merkel says threats to Israel are threats to us "The threats to which the Israeli state is exposed are also threats to us," Merkel said in her weekly podcast.  

3/15/2008 - ISRAEL: Facebook face-off Palestinian members in the West Bank were recently outraged to discover their hometown in their Facebook biographies had been changed from Palestine to Israel. After a brief outcry, the change was reversed. But now Israeli residents in settlements throughout the West Bank are outraged that THEIR hometown has been changed from Israel to Palestine. The legal status of Israeli settlers in the West Bank is one of illegal squatters in occupied territory. TS if they can't handle the truth.

3/15/2008 - Talk to Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas: former top Blair aide    

3/15/2008 - Mideast Players Differ On Approach to Hamas Rice's predecessor, Colin L. Powell, last year told National Public Radio that some way must be found to talk to Hamas, arguing, "I don't think you can just cast them into outer darkness and try to find a solution to the problems of the region without taking into account the standing that Hamas has in the Palestinian community." An aide said last week he retains that view.  



3/14/2008 - State Dept: Criticism of Israel = Anti-Semitism? In the most recent edition of its annual "Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism" released Thursday, the State Department - and hence the U.S. government - moves ever more closely to a long-standing neo-conservative tenet: that criticism of Israel or Israeli policies often, if not always, equals anti-Semitism. The Israeli lobby has succeeded in getting our government to equate criticism of Israel with 'anti-Semitism'. It may only a matter of time now before it's illegal (in this country) to do so.

3/14/2008 - Gaza gunmen hit Israeli helicopter The television report said it was the first known case in which Gaza militants had managed to hit an Israeli aircraft.  

3/14/2008 - Germany to host conference on help for Palestinians Abbas "asked the chancellor to bring up with Israel the question of Jewish settlement building, which considerably complicates bilateral negotiations and the application of the 'road map'," according to the statement.  

3/14/2008 - Two Israelis wounded in clashes with IDF at anti-fence protest Two Israeli protestors were wounded Friday in clashes with Israel Defense Forces troops during a weekly protest against the construction of the West Bank separation fence near the Palestinian village of Bil'in. The protesters accused IDF troops of firing rubber bullets directly at them from short range, without any provocation. They do that quite frequently, evidently. That's how all of those Palestinian kids end up with severe head and neck injuries (some resulting in death) from these IDF-fired rubber bullets.

3/14/2008 - Hamas leader Haniyeh offers Gaza truce    

3/14/2008 - Palestinians Unite in Anger Against Israeli Attack    

3/14/2008 - Rice says Israelis and Palestinians not doing enough    

3/14/2008 - Hebron: The Seventh Station ? Jesus Falls the Second Time Under the Weight of His Cross Just before sunrise, the Israeli military had come in the name of the State of Israel, gun and demolition orders at ready, driving out the families, forcibly holding them back while the bulldozers smash their houses? Left in the piles of rubble, the families sit crushed with nothing left but the weight of their homes twice and thrice lost. .  

3/14/2008 - Palestinians upset over 'Barak snub' "It would have been very appropriate for Barak to go. Maybe Barak couldn't go because he is busy planning more (settlement construction) and more incursions," Erekat said. Good one.

3/14/2008 - Egypt quietly lets in 230 patients from Gaza    

3/14/2008 - Palestinian premier calls for Israeli settlement freeze    

3/14/2008 - EU leaders condemn Israel on settlement plan   But they will do nothing about it - same goes for our government.

3/14/2008 - Facts on the ground The Olmert government contends that it is only allowing settlement growth in "built-up areas," which is usually taken to mean construction within established neighborhoods. That's not the case in Givat Ze'ev. On Thursday, construction workers were busy laying the foundation for at least two new neighborhoods. One sits on a ridge on the outskirts of existing Givat Ze'ev neighborhoods  

3/14/2008 - Israel under fire at talks with Palestinians, US Israel came under fire for its continued Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank at high-level talks on Friday with the Palestinians, hosted by a senior US envoy.  

3/14/2008 - The Popular Committees demands Islamic Summit to protect the Aqsa Mosque    

3/14/2008 - At-Tuwani - Israeli Soldiers and Border Police Assault Palestinian Shepherds While Palestinian shepherds grazed their sheep and worked in their olive groves in Khoruba valley, near the Palestinian village of At-Tuwani, Israeli police threatened them with arrest and assaulted them. A border police officer twisted the wrist of one shepherd and pushed him to the ground. Police grabbed another by his collar and pushed several other Palestinians. Palestinians were attempting to graze their sheep and repair olives trees damaged by Israeli settlers over the last month  

3/14/2008 - Hollywood Execs Tune In to Israeli Television As Hollywood executives roll out the red carpet for television shows imported from overseas, Israel is emerging as an unlikely new starlet. ~Swell~.

3/14/2008 - Obama tries to allay Jewish concerns At the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, President Howard Friedman said Obama's Senate record on Israel has given his critics no reason to doubt him.  

3/14/2008 - Islamic summit to censure Israel and shun terrorism A summit of leaders of Muslim states will condemn Israel for "war crimes" against Palestinian civilians and reject terrorism as against the teachings of Islam, a draft of a communique to be adopted on Friday said.  

3/14/2008 - Jewish Voice for Peace: cut aid Israel is virtually guaranteed the aid, which is favored across the board by pro-Israel groups.  

3/14/2008 - Cheney's Mideast trip about Israel-Palestinians, Iraq, Iran and oil The first stop on Cheney's schedule is the U.S.-allied Arab monarchy of Oman, which has supported the U.S.-led missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sparsely populated oil-producing state, which allows the United States the use of its four air bases, is situated on the other side of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran.  

3/14/2008 - Wave of arrests at Birzeit University    

3/14/2008 - Moscow court allows Israeli's extradition Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livini had privately urged her Russian counterpart to find some way to avoid extradition and allow Klein to fly to Israel.  

3/14/2008 - Washington Post Columnist Gives AIPAC Talks on How to Help Israel in '08 Election The AIPAC notices confirm what I have suspected about Beinart, a pro-Israel agenda. There is nothing wrong with having an agenda; most everyone's got one.  

3/14/2008 - Israel makes another bid for F-22 jets Israel is also holding high-level talks with the Pentagon concerning a future Israeli acquisition in a time of war of the Lockheed Martin-built Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system. A delegation of officials from Israel's Homa Missile Defense Agency were in Hawaii recently to view a successful test of the system. The US Congress recently allocated $200 million subsidy for Israel's use if it decides to purchase the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The US Congress - Israeli-occupied territory.

3/14/2008 - More Settlements, More Unsettled    

3/14/2008 - Islamic summit favours dialogue not clash with West    

3/14/2008 - Israel vulnerable to cruise missiles -newspaper Israel's air defences could fend off long-range ballistic missiles of the kind deployed by Iran and Syria but the Jewish state remains vulnerable to cruise missiles, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.  

3/14/2008 - The Wright Stuff I've been a member of a conservative Jewish congregation for 25 years. I love the rabbi but not his sermons on Israel and the Palestinians. He is a total Israel hawk. To put it mildly, I am not. I am all about the two-state solution (the so-called Clinton plan). Even worse, the congregation has become the favorite of Washington's neocons including the worst warmonger of all: Douglas Feith. The idea of communing with God together with a thug like Feith is sickening to me. Then there is Charles Krauthammer who, in 2001, disrupted Yom Kippur services by bellowing at the rabbi for expressing, in the most general terms, the desire for Middle East peace.  

3/14/2008 - Ackerman blasts Israel, P.A., Bush A top Jewish congressman blasted Israel for settlement expansion and Palestinian leaders for losing moral credibility.  

3/14/2008 - Peres to host high-profile conference Shimon Peres will host a high-level conference featuring top figures from President Bush to Google founder Sergey Brinn.  

3/14/2008 - Facebook Puts Jewish Settlers in ?Palestine? Israelis in the West Bank woke up earlier this week to be informed that they now live under Palestinian rule, though they were restored to Israeli rule on Friday. Jewish 'settlers' of Israel in fact reside unlawfully in Israeli-OCCUPIED territory, according to article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

3/14/2008 - Ongoing tragedy in Mideast A historic tragedy is poisoning the entire Middle East. It involves the people of Palestine and the people of Israel. To this ongoing tragedy the one-sided reporting in the U.S. media, the dead hand of the AIPAC lobby, some millenarian fundamentalists and the hypocrisy of the U.S. government, make a great, perhaps decisive, contribution.  

3/14/2008 - U.S.'s failed coup in Gaza I urge the Rutland Herald to print more accurate articles regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Your quest for profits has led you to ignore important facts that make a difference in public opinion and therefore government policy.  

3/14/2008 - Lawmakers Scuffle Over New Palestinian Aid Package "This was Congress's way of telling the administration it wants to be intimately involved in dealing with this issue," said a lobbyist dealing with Middle East matters on Capitol Hill. Geez, I wonder for which nation this 'lobbyist' was working? ....

3/14/2008 - Blinkers off for the other side of story What Sussan Ley did in Parliament on Wednesday night was speak for the Palestinian people. She was the only MP who did. In fact, the only MHR of the House's 150, apart from the two leaders, to even raise the issue.  

3/14/2008 - Israel secretly warned Syria about Hezbollah Israel recently conveyed a warning to Syria through a third party that it would hold Damascus accountable if Lebanese Hezbollah launched attacks on the Jewish state, Israeli and European sources said on Friday.  



3/13/2008 - Israeli Raid in West Bank Imperils Talk of Truce Israeli undercover troops killed four Palestinian militants in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday, shattering a five-day lull in violence and threatening Egyptian efforts to mediate a cease-fire.  

3/13/2008 - Could olive oil get peace moving? Palestinian olive farmer Mahmoud Issa takes a break from plowing to hammer a busted tractor part back into place. He says the trees surrounding us have been passed down from father to son for centuries. A cycle unbroken until today. Israeli forces recently walled off much of Issa's land in order to protect a nearby Jewish settlement. Now he needs a special permit to cross the barbed-wire checkpoint and work his fields. He says it was like losing a part of himself.  

3/13/2008 - Group of Gazan doctors gets war surgery training The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a three-day seminar on war surgery in the Gaza Strip from 11-13 March for 55 Palestinian medics, with lessons ranging from international humanitarian law to basic management of war wounded, and more specific topics like head and stomach injuries.  

3/13/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps 13 civilians from Nablus    

3/13/2008 - Unknown gunmen destroy an internet coffee shop in Gaza    

3/13/2008 - Hamas: discussions on border reopening made headway    

3/13/2008 - Washington should act in response to Israeli practices, says a Palestinian official Deputy-minister of the Palestinian foreign ministry, Ahmad Sobaih, said on Thursday that it is time for Washington to act in response to Israeli occupation practices against Palestinians.  

3/13/2008 - UN chief condemns Israeli attacks UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday condemned Israel's attacks on Palestinian civilians in a speech to a summit of Muslim leaders here.  

3/13/2008 - Israel allows night burial of seminary gunman A Palestinian who killed eight Israelis in a seminary has been buried in the dead of night, after a delay because of fears by Israeli authorities that a public funeral might trigger protests and violence.  

3/13/2008 - Islamic body wants Israelis tried for war crimes The head of the world's biggest Muslim body, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), called on Thursday for Israelis to be tried by an international war crimes court for "heinous" attacks against Palestinians  

3/13/2008 - One Palestinian civilian injured in Jericho Soliyman Abu Dahok, 34, was injured after a land-mine left by the Israeli army exploded near him  

3/13/2008 - Islamic Jihad resumes rocket attacks on Israel after brief lull    

3/13/2008 - Archimandrite Hanna slams Israeli incitement against Palestinians, Arabs, in Jerusalem    

3/13/2008 - Petrol stations in Gaza appeal for ending the fuel crisis    

3/13/2008 - Abbas accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing Abbas said Palestinians "are facing a campaign of annihilation" by the Israeli state.  

3/13/2008 - US Consulate and PA Ministry of culture open Art Exhibit in Ramallah    

3/13/2008 - An alternative intelligence view If John McCain does not make it to the White House, Israel is likely to be faced with a cruel decision at the end of the decade: to attack a nuclearizing Iran or accept a nuclear-capable Iran. This coming from the ISRAELI news site, Ha'aretz. Whose war is it? And notice how the author blames the US for the failure to democratize the Middle East when it was Israel's minions in this nation that foisted this on us in the first place. If the Israelis have their way, we won't be leaving Iraq any time soon.

3/13/2008 - Islamic Jihad rockets hit Israel after West Bank raid    

3/13/2008 - Police arrest rabbi for 'inciting Palestinians' in East Jerusalem Israel Police on Thursday arrested Arik Ascherman, the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, for "inciting Palestinians to oppose the police" in East Jerusalem.  

3/13/2008 - Palestinians Try to Copy Israel 'Birthright' Program    

3/13/2008 - Smearing Obama The purpose of the smear is to paint him as an Arab-loving, Israel-hating, terrorist-coddling, radical black nationalist......He has occasionally angered pro-Israel hawks by urging direct negotiations with Iran and Syria, but Obama's foreign policy record is well within the Democratic Party mainstream. Love the bit about Aaron Klein, writer for World Net Daily, and sometimes, incredulously, TIME.

3/13/2008 - New anti-Semitism disguised by hatred of Israel, report says   Still trying to silence critics of Israel by playing the anti-Semite card. It don't fly anymore. Look where it's coming from now - that other Israeli-occupied territory - AMERICA.

3/13/2008 - McCain's Spiritual Advisers So while Hagee is busy angling for the rapture by making sure that there's no peaceful settlement to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Parsley wants to mobilize the country in a Christian-style jihad against Muslims.  

3/13/2008 - Syria invites Lebanon to Arab summit    

3/13/2008 - Muslims protest in Cape Town About 10,000 anti-Israel Muslim protesters marched through central Cape Town to Parliament.  

3/13/2008 - ACLU accuses library of censorship for canceling Israeli-Palestinian film Some critics of the film said it was biased against the Jewish state and recommended a more balanced program in the library's three-part series on the Middle East conflict. Israel-supporters resort to fascism - AGAIN.

3/13/2008 - 'Rachel Corrie,' UW student honor activist with performance Any time the Israeli Government is questioned publicly in the United States, controversies are bound to arise and charges of anti-Semitism and terrorist conspiracies are destined to follow. No matter how damning the evidence against the government, or how compelling the Palestinian people?s stories of persecution, it will be met with some degree of disbelief.  

3/13/2008 - Israeli envoy quarrel with Italian FM on Hamas A new suggestion by Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D?Alema for Israel to talk with Hamas sparked a polemic with the Israeli envoy in Rome.  

3/13/2008 - Scholar Wants to Promote Moderation in Palestinian Society    

3/13/2008 - Hebron in photos The Minshar Photo Gallery is set to inaugurate a new showing next Tuesday, titled "40 years of settlement in Hebron."  

3/13/2008 - AIPAC prepares students for 2008 presidential campaign pro-Israel groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) are turning to high school and college students to get their message across.......AIPAC has developed seven Campaign Training Institutes in cities across the country to teach students how to be effective political activists on issues related to the Jewish state.....Students also learned about their own local elected officials and techniques for effectively lobbying them to support a pro-Israel agenda. Note the source.

3/13/2008 - Teachers to discuss backing Palestinians The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is due to discuss a motion at its Easter conference that takes a pro-Palestinian stance on the occupation. It calls on its union to buy educational material produced by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for use by students in schools.  

3/13/2008 - Among the Palestinian old guard, aging and sidelined, defiance mixes with regrets «Of course it's better to deal with secular nationalists than religious extremists,» Yossi Melman, a veteran Israeli intelligence analyst, said in an interview. «It was better back then because along with the violence there was hope for talks, and negotiations did happen and agreements were made. That's a pretty ridiculous statement given that Israel backed and funded Hamas in its infancy because they saw it as a counter to the secular PLO.

3/13/2008 - United Methodists defend report criticised by Jewish groups Officials of the United Methodist Church in the United States have defended a study on Israeli-Palestinian relations as being consistent with church policy after it was criticised by Jewish groups as an affront to Israelis and Jews  

3/13/2008 - Photos of the sea Peace will never come to this region until the Palestinians are granted their freedom.  

3/13/2008 - Davenport's Negev honour draws criticism With acceptance of the honour, announced in December, has come criticism from some faculty who argue the JNF, which controls large sections of land in Israel, practices discrimination and has been a party to dispossessing Arabs from their land.  

3/13/2008 - American activist and feminist Starhawk denied entry and deported from Israel.    



3/12/2008 - Israelis kill four in West Bank Hours later, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least four rockets at the Israeli town of Sderot.  

3/12/2008 - Gaza's isolation gives rise to growing legion of poor One of the most crowded places on Earth, the Gaza Strip is struggling with a crippling embargo imposed by Israel, which has sealed its 1.5 million people off from all but vital aid.  

3/12/2008 - Israel isn't creating basis for peace-UN Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza is not helping to create a basis for peace and could cause lasting damage to Gaza's economy, the United Nations' top humanitarian official said on Wednesday......Holmes reiterated the U.N. position that the blockade was a form of "collective punishment" for the population of Gaza, which would constitute a violation of international law.  

3/12/2008 - Palestinians: Israeli rescued from Ramallah mob PA security forces report assisting Israeli citizen who entered West Bank city by mistake, transferring him to local police station. Report not confirmed by Israel  

3/12/2008 - Hamas calls for truce and outlines terms    

3/12/2008 - Rightist leaflets call on followers to raze terrorist's home While authorities are examining the possible legal implications of destroying the home of the terrorist who carried out the attack on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem, several right-wing groups announced Wednesday that they intend to destroy the murderer's Jabel Mukaber home themselves.  

3/12/2008 - Goods enter Gaza through three newly open crossings UN spokesperson Marie Okabe said Wednesday that some goods were entering Gaza through three open crossings.  

3/12/2008 - Poll: Palestinians yearn for peace The survey from the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found that 73 percent of Palestinians asked supported the present lull in clashes with their Israeli neighbors, and 67.4 percent favored seeing Hamas back away from a "military decision" in the conflict.  

3/12/2008 - Abbas: IDF operation in Bethlehem a barbaric crime    

3/12/2008 - Umm al-Fahm braces for possible retribution for Jerusalem attack The Umm al-Fahm Municipality has decided to contract a private security firm, fearing acts of retribution by Jewish radicals might plague the northern Israeli city following the deadly attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva, last Thursday.  

3/12/2008 - HEBRON UPDATE: 07-14 February 2008 Then the CPTers and other internationals watched a video of a Palestinian family living in a valley below the Kiryat Arba settlement. On 12 January, settlers attacked the family. The military did little to prevent Israeli settlers from throwing stones, but physically restrained Palestinians from retaliating. The settlers injured twelve Palestinians. Four went to the hospital, and two of them required stitches. The Israeli authorities arrested two seriously injured Palestinians and denied them medical treatment  

3/12/2008 - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef?s son: We must repay our enemies in kind Less than a day after publication of reports that rabbis are granting halachic sanction to harm Arabs, various right-wing rabbis publish circular urging followers to ?fight the enemy tit for tat?  

3/12/2008 - Israel and the U.S. / Washington dissatisfied with Israel's footdragging in W. Bank Tension between Jerusalem and Washington is intensifying over the latter's frustration over the stasis in the West Bank, especially with regard to the removal of roadblocks and the evacuation of settlement outposts. The Americans feel that Israel is not keeping its promises to improve the day-to-day life of West Bank Palestinians. Israel, not keep its promises? How can it be possible? ..... And who wears the pants here? Really.

3/12/2008 - Israeli army kidnaps five teenagers from villages near Tulkarem    

3/12/2008 - Rice: No money to settlements "I can assure you that we are following very closely to assure that U.S. dollars are not being used to support the settlement activity." Liar.

3/12/2008 - Israel urges more pressure on Iran's leaders "We must increase the pressure on the Iranian leadership now if we want to avoid difficult dilemmas in the future," Tzipi Livni said in a speech to Massachusetts state lawmakers after a visit to Washington this week. Whose war is it?

3/12/2008 - Livni to Obama: There is a direct link between Iran and terror Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni reiterated for United States presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday Israel's position on the negative influence of Iran on the region  

3/12/2008 - Death toll from Gazan patients kept waiting by the Israeli closure of Gaza reaches 107    

3/12/2008 - The fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene is made to carry the cross    

3/12/2008 - Russia to extradite Israeli wanted by Colombia for allegedly training guerillas    

3/12/2008 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict Freud would not have been surprised at the continuing conflict in the Middle East. He predicted as much 70 years ago.  

3/12/2008 - Palestinian Swimmer 6 SECONDS Away from World Record    

3/12/2008 - Israeli hardliners 'will walk out' when Merkel addresses Knesset in German    

3/12/2008 - Jewish community has warm feelings for Spitzer successor He's great," said New York state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents predominantly Orthodox Jewish areas in Brooklyn. Hikind told JTA he considers Paterson his closest friend in Albany. .....In October he visited Israel for the first time on a trip organized through Project Interchange, a program sponsored by the American Jewish Committee to bring American leaders to Israel. The trip, which focused on energy issues, also afforded Paterson a private audience with Israeli President Shimon Peres. Hikind is virulently pro-Israel.

3/12/2008 - Yeshiva gunman's home may be razed Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter called Wednesday for the family home of Ala Abu Dhaim, the Palestinian who killed eight yeshiva students before being shot dead, to be razed as a punitive measure.  

3/12/2008 - Livni talks to Clinton, McCain A short message from the Israeli embassy Wednesday noted that Livni "updated the candidates on the Middle East situation and expressed gratitude for their actions and expressions of support for Israel." It also noted that she would meet with McCain next week when he leads a congressional delegation to Israel.  

3/12/2008 - Israel's actions belie its claims to want peace    

3/12/2008 - Jews, Muslims sing for Gilad Shalit    

3/12/2008 - Viewpoint: A new student group status quo Unlike most advocacy organizations that endeavor to right some current injustice, I believe that the pro-Israel community seeks to maintain the status quo, be it just, unjust or simply detestable.  

3/12/2008 - Lyon police disperse anti-Israel rally during Peres visit    

3/12/2008 - Israeli foreign minister to meet governor, address lawmakers Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will meet today with Governor Deval Patrick and House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi before giving an address at the State House.  

3/12/2008 - Rabbis demand 'measure for measure' A group of right-wing rabbis issued a statement Wednesday calling on Jews to take revenge on their enemies "measure for measure." A far cry from the preachings of other religious leaders.

3/12/2008 - New Yorkers Rally for Jerusalem With Concert Rabbi Lerner said every city in the U.S. should be holding awareness-raising events to let Jews know that Jerusalem is on the table. He also offered to help anyone who wants to create an event for that purpose The legal status of East Jerusalem, according to international law, is that of OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN territory.

3/12/2008 - CCD demands accountability on Canadian aid to Palestinians CCD voiced its deep concern that "?Canadian tax dollars continue to fund the glorification of terror, the incitement of children and adults, a steady diet of Jew-hatred, and endless dependency on foreign aid, all being promoted by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and its military wing Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a designated terrorist entity in Canada." CDD sounds an awful lot like a pro-Israel front. Canada is looking more and more like America by the day. And they, along with Australia and Britain, will wind up like America if these Israeli lobbies continue to get their way therein.

3/12/2008 - Livni: Israel's international image a far cry from reality "Sometimes there is a very big difference between Israel's international image and it's realities," said Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Wednesday, appearing before Massachusetts state lawmakers. Shysters to the core.

3/12/2008 - PM snubbed from all sides over Israeli motion Mrs Irwin said she had become a strong supporter of Palestine after visiting refugee camps there. On her birthday last year, a family of 18 Palestinians was killed in their beds by mistake by the Israeli military.  

3/12/2008 - Visiting Obama Mideast advisor: 'Obama would be great for Israel' Levine, a former congressman from Los Angeles known in the Jewish community for his staunchly pro-Israel positions and record in Washington, was in Israel last week on a private visit. While he was here he took some time to lobby for Obama, a man whom he said would be "great" to Israel. For which country is Obama running for president?

3/12/2008 - Poll: Nearly 50% of Israeli Jews don't want to live near Arabs    

3/12/2008 - US support for Egypt hints at shift on Hamas    

3/12/2008 - Palestinian envoy backs bigger Indian role in Middle East peace 'The international community must intervene to bring an end to the brutal occupation of Palestine by Israel,'  

3/12/2008 - Gaza girls in Israel for heart surgery Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up Wednesday to operate on three young girls from the Gaza Strip under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between the Hamas-ruled territory and the Jewish state.  

3/12/2008 - Heads of Churches in Jerusalem send condolences to Israeli and Palestinian leaders    

3/12/2008 - Living In-Between In this place of the Incarnation, where Mary became pregnant with the Christ child, Palestinian Christians have borne witness to the Gospel through times of peace and turmoil since their first-century ancestors. It is a land that has been fought over and forgotten ? the small strip of land to which God sent His Son to dwell among us. Forgotten is how today's Palestinian Christians feel ? forgotten by the world and particularly by other Christians.  

3/12/2008 - Chile: Palestinians look for a new future in South America A group of 117 Palestinian refugees trapped in the no-man's land between the Syrian and Iraqi borders are migrating to the Chilean capital, Santiago, to begin a new life.  

3/12/2008 - Israeli official: Israel, U.S. united in fight against terrorism   And not coincidentally, it was our support of Israel that spawned this whole thing. We've been dragged into Israel's war with the Arabs - cui bono? Who benefits? is ever the question that must be asked about Middle Eastern terror.

3/12/2008 - Syria blasts 'hypocritical' addition to US torture blacklist "The deaf ear turned by the US adminstration towards the recent Israeli human rights violations in the Gaza Strip and its killings of children, shows how little importance it attaches to human rights. It's the last country in the world that should be given the job of assessing human rights records."  

3/12/2008 - Israel accuses al-Jazeera of bias The station's Jerusalem bureau chief denied bias and said Israel was trying to influence media coverage. Why, Israel would NEVER do THAT..unthinkable!

3/12/2008 - World Evangelical Alliance head on the long road to peace in the Holy Land Tourism is one of the ways we can support Christians in the West Bank. Whilst there has been a steady rising tide of tourism into Israel, the network of security checks makes it challenging for tour buses to get into the West Bank. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, the site that we should be spending time at, is difficult to get to, and because of that, tourist visits and pilgrimages have been impacted......Many Christians had to leave Bethlehem because of the economic situation brought on by the downturn of tourism, which is the primary funding mechanism in Bethlehem  

3/12/2008 - Cheney says US needs missile defense In addition to potential threats from North Korea, Cheney emphasized what he said was a growing threat from both Iran and Syria. It's laughable that Iran and Syria are a threat to THIS NATION. We all know which nation they purportedly threaten.



3/11/2008 - 6 Signs the U.S. May Be Headed for War in Iran Cheney is also going to Saudi Arabia, whose support would be sought before any military action given its ability to increase oil supplies if Iran's oil is cut off. Back in March 2002, Cheney made a high-profile Mideast trip to Saudi Arabia and other nations that officials said at the time was about diplomacy toward Iraq and not war, which began a year later.....Israeli airstrike on Syria....Israeli comments.....Was Peres speaking for himself, or has President Bush given the Israelis an assurance that they won't have to act alone?  

3/11/2008 - Palestinian Homes Demolished Without Warning Amnesty International's researcher on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories witnessed the demolitions.  

3/11/2008 - Islamic Jihad: Talks with Egyptians not aim at protecting leaders from assassination    

3/11/2008 - Israeli TV claims revenge attack planned for school killings Ultra-nationalist religious Jews have planned a revenge attack after a Palestinian gunman killed eight students at their school in Jerusalem last week, Israeli public television reported Tuesday.  

3/11/2008 - Russian FM to visit Mideast to promote peace conference in Moscow Russia is discussing the convening of a Middle East meeting with the Palestinians, the Israelis, countries involved in mediating the conflict and members of the Arab League, Mikhail Kamynin said in a statement.  

3/11/2008 - Gaza: Elderly woman dies of wounds sustained in Israeli air attacks last week Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the an elderly Palestinian woman died on Tuesday after succumbing to wounds she sustained last week during an Israeli air raid targeting her family home.  

3/11/2008 - Hamas warns Israel against digging beneath al-Aqsa mosque    

3/11/2008 - Egypt's efforts to bring calm to Gaza take effects Egypt's efforts to reinforce a ceasefire in Gaza started to develop with a relative calm in the few past days, a local Palestinian news agency reported on Tuesday.  

3/11/2008 - Rocket attack as Blair prepares to urge Israel to ease stance on Gaza Mr Blair is expected to renew calls today on Mr Olmert and Mr Barak to agree to some opening of Gaza crossings as well as to ease restrictions in the West Bank. He also broadly endorsed the concerns of Palestinian negotiators and the international community over Israeli settlement expansion plans.  

3/11/2008 - Egypt tries to broker Gaza ceasefire    

3/11/2008 - U.S. "road map" assessment seen critical of Israel U.S. and Western officials said Washington was particularly critical of Israel's decision to push ahead with Jewish settlement expansion on occupied land, a move they see as damaging to U.S.-backed peace talks with the Palestinians. We could grind all settlement activity to a halt in the blink of an eye, should anyone in our government have the balls to take a stand. That is precisely what George Bush the 1st did (but was later forced to back down thanks to the Israeli lobby's massive counterattack on Capitol Hill). No one since has dared to be so bold. It is in the best interests of THIS nation to see to it taht Israel comply with international law. Instead, they use our taxpayer aid to break it, and our govt looks the other way.

3/11/2008 - Israel detains 17 Palestinian in West Bank    

3/11/2008 - Difficult Dialogues: There are two sides to the Palestinian conflict "A competition of suffering will get us nowhere," Baskin responded. "Does a Palestinian woman who buries her child have more right to justice than an Israeli woman who buries her child?"  

3/11/2008 - No-Man's Land: Palestinian Refugees in Syria The severity of the humanitarian status of the refugees in these camps led the UN to deploy their high-profile Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie in August 2007. After visiting Al-Waleed, Miss Jolie told the press that, "it is absolutely essential that the ongoing debate about Iraq's future includes plans for addressing the enormous humanitarian consequences these people face." Yet almost half a year on and little has changed, the situation remains as desperate as ever for these Palestinians stuck in one of the world's most barren no-mans-land.  

3/11/2008 - Aussie congrats on Israel's 60th opposed The letter, a copy of which was obtained by JTA, says the ?unprecedented? motion ?honors a foreign country's independence while it is violating the rights of the indigenous people, occupying their land and breaching international law.  

3/11/2008 - Glykeria attacked for 'collaborating with Zionists' The performance was held while the IDF was operating in the Gaza Strip. The club was packed, not only with Greek and Israeli fans, but also with a group of Arabs, some of them Palestinians. As Glykeria started singing the song in Hebrew, the Arab viewers started shouting, whistling out loud and booing in an attempt to stop the show.  

3/11/2008 - Palestinians without papers could soon get IDs Some 400,000 registered Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, about half of them in 12 ramshackle camps scattered across the country. They live as second class citizens, denied the right to work in professional vocations or to own property.  

3/11/2008 - Unlikely friends blog for peace    

3/11/2008 - Squalid conditions at Jerash camp for Palestinian refugees Suffering and deprivation is apparent from the vacant looks of the residents, most of whom live well below Jordan's poverty line. The foul smell, coupled with their dull and dusty surroundings, reflect what refugees feel about their lives, say residents.  

3/11/2008 - ISRAELI DEATHS MATTER MORE The contrast to reactions to the killing of over 120 Palestinians, including many women and children, in occupied Gaza the previous week could hardly be more striking. On one day alone, 60 people died in a hail of Israeli firepower using F-16 planes, Apache helicopter gunships, tanks, armoured bulldozers and ground troops.  

3/11/2008 - Gaza: Four Deaths, Whose Security? Physicians for Human Rights-Israel has therefore chosen to tell the stories of the deaths of three women and one baby girl, as told by their families. The stories give a small glimpse of the Kafkaesque process, in which the suffering of sickness and the cruelty of a hostile bureaucracy combine to embitter the last days of these people's lives.  

3/11/2008 - Israel impressed by Egypt's Gaza efforts The IDF has been highly critical of Cairo over the past year, saying it was not doing enough to stop the smuggling under the Philadelphi Corridor, along which Egypt had deployed 750 policemen following Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005. Paid for by the US taxpayer (via recent release of US aid to Egypt) - another added perk for Israel.

3/11/2008 - Israel protester ejected from parliament "What about the UN resolution?" the woman called out as she held up what looked like a T-shirt before being escorted from the gallery by security guards.  

3/11/2008 - Health agency pulls notice for anti-Israel essay contest A government-funded health agency that serves gay and lesbian youth has removed an Internet posting that publicized an essay contest on the "ethnic cleansing of Palestine." The Sherbourne Health Centre announc ed last week that it had removed notice of the contest following complaints from activist Joanne Cohen....."This call to shutdown academic research and free speech is typical of B'nai Brith's contempt for the basic principles of academic institutions. These tactics of intimidation are becoming an all too common refrain of pro-Israel organizations and are simply designed to stem the growing public awareness of Israel's apartheid policies."  

3/11/2008 - Obama plans hands-on Mideast role Barack Obama will take a hands-on approach to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking if elected U.S. president but without pressuring Israel any more than his rivals for the White House, advisers say. How does NOT pressuring Israel to make peace serve the interests of the AMERICAN people?

3/11/2008 - Graffiti found on El Al plane in Italy-police "It was something like 'Long Live Palestine'," written with a marker pen, Raffaele Veri of the Malpensa airport police told Reuters on Tuesday. "It has happened once before."  

3/11/2008 - Labor split over Israel support A BIPARTISAN motion congratulating Israel on 60 years of statehood has provoked division in federal Labor, with one government MP threatening to boycott the vote and union heavyweights accusing the Jewish state of racism and ethnic cleansing.....Partyroom sources told The Australian that Ms Irwin unsuccessfully attempted to table a number of Amnesty International reports during yesterday's caucus meeting, which she said detailed Israel's alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians.  

3/11/2008 - What can you do about Iran? Use the phone, Meridor says It was a question that plagued Israel?s ambassador to the United States whenever he spoke to U.S. audiences about the need to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.  

3/11/2008 - A Terror Tour of Israel We had signed up for the Ultimate Counter-Terrorism Mission, a weeklong journey around the country during which we would learn about Israel's battle with terrorism. The trip was aimed at U.S. police officers and homeland-security professionals.  



3/10/2008 - Israel arrests 30 Palestinians in West Bank incursion    

3/10/2008 - Barrier turns Nu'man village into virtual enclave    

3/10/2008 - Palestinians: Ceasefire in south already in effect Gaza sources claim Israel, armed Palestinian factions reach understanding on ceasefire in area, effective as of this weekend. Only one rocket fired at Negev in last two days, no IDF strikes registered in Strip. PMO denies any deal reached with Hamas  

3/10/2008 - No deal behind lull, Israel and Hamas insist The uneasy calm appears to have been brokered with Egypt acting as an intermediary. A spokesman for Egypt's foreign ministry, Hossam Zaki, said that his government had spoken to both sides.  

3/10/2008 - Israel suspends Gaza air strikes The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has called a halt to air strikes and raids into the Gaza Strip in response to a drop in rocket fire from the territory, his officials said today.  

3/10/2008 - US talks push for Mid-East peace Settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. Sitting next to Ms Livni, Ms Rice did not comment directly on the construction announcement, saying only that "US policy on this is well known". Yes, well why not grow a set and show these scofflaws who's the boss here?...

3/10/2008 - Fatah: Israel avoids ceasefire to keep up settlements, attacks Israel refuses to create suitable conditions for a ceasefire in order to continue building settlements in the West Bank and increase military pressure on the people of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement said on Sunday.  

3/10/2008 - Germany opposes renewed Israeli settlement building on West Bank The German government Monday expressed opposition to Israel's plans to build new housing settlements for Israeli citizens in East Jerusalem. Foreign ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger said the government was watching the situation with concern, although he noted that violence in the region had declined over the past few days.  

3/10/2008 - UN's Ban says Israel should halt settlement plans "Any settlement expansion is contrary to Israel's obligations under the road map and to international law,"  

3/10/2008 - Erekat describes Israeli approval of new settlement houses as "very dangerous matter"    

3/10/2008 - FOR ONE GAZAN, THERE IS "NO HOPE" John Ging, the director of U.N. operations for refugees in Gaza put it bluntly: "Almost everybody here is dependent on aid ? 1.1 million people are depending on handouts of food from the U.N. and the economy has completely collapsed."  

3/10/2008 - US citizen dies in suspected suicide The U.S. officials confirm that the man was a U.S. contractor, but have refused to identify him. He worked for a U.S. firm that provides services for a training center for Palestinian police on the outskirts of Amman.  

3/10/2008 - EU 'deplores' Israeli plan to build 400 new homes in east Jerusalem    

3/10/2008 - Jordan condemns Israeli settlement plans    

3/10/2008 - EU to seek solution to siege of Gaza EU foreign ministers are expected to discuss the escalating conflict in Gaza when they meet tomorrow morning in Brussels amid growing international fears of a mounting humanitarian crisis.  

3/10/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps "immune" Palestinian in Ramallah PA sources said that soldiers stormed the office after destroying the doors and firing live rounds through the windows. Troops searched the premises before kidnapping Zaher Hassan, a civil defense officer working in the office.  

3/10/2008 - State Dept. awards Palestinian woman Condoleezza Rice conferred an award for courage on a Palestinian woman who advocates for women's rights.  

3/10/2008 - Gaza forced to pump more raw sewage into sea Since Israeli-imposed fuel restrictions began last year, limiting the Gaza power plant's ability to produce electricity, on average another 40,000 cubic metres of untreated or partially treated waste water has been pumped into the sea daily.  

3/10/2008 - Israel, Hamas 'agreed in principle' on truce: Abbas    

3/10/2008 - Bethlehem: Eight Palestinians including journalist kidnapped by Israeli army    

3/10/2008 - Israel ends closure of West Bank The lifting of the closure does not do away with restrictions which have been imposed for years on Palestinians entering Israel.  

3/10/2008 - 50 wounded Palestinians arrive in Egypt for treatment    

3/10/2008 - Israel refuses to hand body of Jerusalem gunman to family "We continue to hold the body because the family has failed to comply with our requirements to hold a quiet funeral without media and without Hamas flags," Jerusalem district police spokesman Shmulik Ben-Rubi told AFP.  

3/10/2008 - Israel's Peres welcomed to France, warned on settlements On another major issue, Iran, Peres told reporters after his talks with Sarkozy that the two leaders hold the same view that Tehran represents the "greatest danger" to world security  

3/10/2008 - The Iran hawks' latest surge . On the Iranian issue in particular, there has long been a close relationship between the Israeli and U.S. governments, and the NIE's disclosure set off a flurry of activity in both countries. It had put hawks in an extraordinary position: If they wanted to keep up the pressure to go after Iran -- using diplomacy and sanctions, or perhaps military force if deemed necessary -- they would now have to discredit the highest-level intelligence report produced by the United States. In Jerusalem, top Israeli leaders convened a meeting to decide how to deal with the problem. One result of the meeting was that when President Bush visited Israel in January, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was tasked with briefing him on Israeli intelligence on Iran, allegedly including some new information, in order to convince Bush to continue applying maximum pressure on Iran. Whose war is it?

3/10/2008 - Minister Boim accuses IAEA chief of serving as agent for Iran Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim has accused the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog of acting as an agent for Iran and of allowing the Islamic Republic to proceed with its uranium enrichment without international intervention.  

3/10/2008 - Bush sends Cheney to meet PM, Abbas US Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to take Jerusalem to task for settlement construction during his visit to Israel and other regional countries next week.....[Bush] also touched on the primacy of the Iranian issues, saying that Cheney would convey that "we fully see the threats facing the Middle East - one such threat is Iran - and that we will continue to bolster our security agreements and relationships with our friends and allies."  

3/10/2008 - Cheney to discuss peace and oil on Middle East trip Cheney will also continue U.S. efforts to persuade allies to help curb Iran's growing influence in the region.  

3/10/2008 - Cheney to tour Middle-East states "His goal is to reassure people the US is committed to a vision of peace in the Middle East," Mr Bush said. BS. It's to keep up the support for any action vis a vis Iran.

3/10/2008 - Senate Dems target Iran's bank The American Israel Public Affairs Committee strongly backs the letter. No sh#t? Never would've guessed that.

3/10/2008 - Palestinian Journalists Bloc slams the abduction of a reporter from Bethlehem    

3/10/2008 - 'Corrie' is compelling glimpse into Middle East    

3/10/2008 - Palestine committee to host major conference in Boston ?Struggle for the Land: Zionism and the Repression of Anti-Colonial Movements,? will focus on Zionism as a colonial-settlement project in Palestine, and its role inside the U.S. and other countries.  

3/10/2008 - McCain, candidacy assured, coming to Israel Days after securing the nomination to run for president of the United States, US Senator John McCain will be coming to Israel, a country with which every American leader since at least Jimmy Carter has found himself entangled. Washington warned us of precisely this type of foreign entanglement in his Farewell Address.

3/10/2008 - Israeli Settlement Plans Imperil Talks The government's announcement is seen as an attempt by Olmert to pacify the pro-settlement, rightwing politicians within his fragile coalition. Israel Radio reported that Olmert approved the settlement construction in the face of threats from the ultra-orthodox Shas party to pull down his government. Work will now restart on settlements in Givat Zeev, an ultra-orthodox enclave in the West Bank, and in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev.  

3/10/2008 - Boos, cheers for Rove People also walked out throughout the night, including a wave of people after Rove said "it is funny that a guy wearing a Palestinian symbol around his neck would be talking to me about blood on my hands."  

3/10/2008 - Protestors brave elements to support Palestinian state As the rain came pouring down, about 50 protestors gathered under the canopy of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus Friday to protest recent violence in Gaza and the killing of civilians there.  

3/10/2008 - With sex and Israeli connection, echoes of McGreevey in Spitzer controversy Mark Brener, the alleged pimp at the center of the prostitution scandal engulfing Spitzer, is an Israeli. I'm wondering if the Israelis are using such nationals in sex-related situations to lure our officials in to situations in which they could be easily bribed.

3/10/2008 - Intel assessment: War unlikely in '08    

3/10/2008 - Drawing defiance Al-Ali's work, currently being exhibited at a central London gallery, was based in large part on his experience as a Palestinian refugee. And at a time when his people are again making headlines - and in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel and what Palestinians call their nakba ("catastrophe") - it has a poignant relevance.  

3/10/2008 - Israeli at center of Spitzer scandal    

3/10/2008 - Making the most of a sad little zoo it's hard not to draw a depressing sort of parallel between the Gaza Zoo and Gaza itself, enclosed by impassable security walls on three sides and by an Israeli-patrolled sea on the fourth ? the world's largest open-air prison, as it is sometimes called.  

3/10/2008 - 'My Heart Is in Gaza' A dwindling Christian population battles fear and economic hardship.  

3/10/2008 - Civilian deaths are indefensible Alan Baker, the Israeli ambassador to Canada, finds that "no reasonable people can be expected to suffer constant, daily barrages of missiles and the deliberate murder of its civilians without the right to defend itself."  

3/10/2008 - Iran students put bounties on heads of Israel leaders Iranian hardline students have offered rewards totalling a million dollars for the "execution" of three Israeli military leaders over the deadly strikes on Gaza, the student news agency ISNA reported on Monday.  

3/10/2008 - Jerusalem patriarch sends strong message to Palestinian Christians    



3/9/2008 - Three Palestinians wounded as Israeli army fires at houses in S Gaza    

3/9/2008 - Student killer was 'good boy with a future' His family denied Abu Dhaim was a member of a militant group but his sister, Iman Abu Dhaim, told reporters that he had been transfixed by the bloodshed in Gaza the previous week which had caused the deaths of 126 Palestinians. One neighbour, Atta Abdo, a 60-year-old taxi driver, said: "It's not surprising such violence in Gaza upset Ala. The Palestinian people are not tourists. This is our land and we will defend our right to live here."  

3/9/2008 - Hamas: Jerusalem shooting responds to Israeli-PA security liaison Islamic Hamas movement said on Saturday the shooting attack in Jerusalem, where eight Israelis were killed on Thursday, was a response to the security liaison between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).  

3/9/2008 - Egypt allows aid to Gaza via Israeli-controlled crossing Egypt Sunday allowed convoys carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through the Israel-controlled Karam Abu-Salem border crossing, according to Egyptian security officials.  

3/9/2008 - FM to U.S. envoy: Conditions not ripe for forming Palestinian state Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Sunday told visiting U.S. envoy James Jones that that the creation of a Palestinian state amid the current situation in the Gaza Strip and ongoing attacks on Israelis was not in line with Israel's security demands.  

3/9/2008 - A Gaza resident wounded by Israeli army fire    

3/9/2008 - Pope denounces endless spiral of destruction and death in Israel    

3/9/2008 - Israel expands settlements in blow to peace process Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, embraced the rightwing settler movement yesterday by saying he shared their pain in the wake of last week's killings at a Jewish religious school and by approving 530 new settler homes in the West Bank.  

3/9/2008 - Hamas, Islamic jihad to discuss ceasefire in Egypt next week    

3/9/2008 - Hezbollah accuses U.S. of declaring war on Lebanese opposition    

3/9/2008 - Kuwaiti analyst: Best if Israel, not U.S., destroys Iranian nukes Officially Kuwait, like the other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, wants a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff between Tehran and the West and will not allow the U.S. to use its territories for any attack on Iran.  

3/9/2008 - Israeli FM heads to US Livni will meet Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice along with other senior officials, her office said in a statement. "The meetings will focus on the peace process, the Iran issue and other regional issues," it said.  

3/9/2008 - Hamas details Iranian, Syrian training Hundreds of Hamas' "best brains" have left Gaza for Egypt, and from there have flown to Damascus, the commander said. Some stayed in Syria for training and others went on to neighboring Iran, with border authorities waiving visa requirements so as to avoid a paper trail. How much was he paid to implicate Syria and Iran mewonders.

3/9/2008 - Crisis Over Teheran's Alleged Nuclear Plans Nearing Climax Iran, a nation of proud people in a neighborhood of proud peoples, sees only absurdity in the discrimination against it when the nearby nations of India, Pakistan, and Israel have all developed their own nuclear weapons without the U.S. stopping them.  

3/9/2008 - AJC: Swiss Support of UN Resolution on Israel Appalling   Oh dear.

3/9/2008 - Palestinian activists protest as Goldie Hawn entertains Israel fundraiser Around 150 demonstrators marched on Glasgow's Hilton hotel, where the actress was speaking to supporters of the Jewish National Fund.  

3/9/2008 - McCain to visit Israel next week According to US sources, the trip is aimed at boosting support for McCain among Jewish voters in the US.  

3/9/2008 - Operation Merlin II back to the CIA-Mossad Operation Merlin "intelligence" of 2000. What did they hope to accomplish with it?  

3/9/2008 - Feiglin banned entry to Britain Britain banned an Israeli Likud Party leader from entering the country.  

3/9/2008 - World condemnation for yeshiva attack An interfaith group was among the voices condemning last week's attack on a Jerusalem yeshiva.  

3/9/2008 - Security Council censured on yeshiva attack The Anti-Defamation League said it is "shocking" the U.N. Security Council did not condemn last week's yeshiva attack in Jerusalem. While many world leaders have deplored the killings of eight students Thursday at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva as an unconscionable act of terror, the council could not reach a consensus on its own statement. Libya, a nonpermanent member, obstructed a unanimous vote. Hypocrisy.

3/9/2008 - Police arrest rock throwers Israeli police are cracking down after a spate of roadside rock-throwing attacks from northern Arab communities.  

3/9/2008 - Rep. Ron Paul Stands Alone in Voting Against Gaza Bill    

3/9/2008 - BibleLands joins calls for end to Gaza blockade BibleLands, the largest UK non-governmental provider of financial support to the Holy Land, has added its voice to calls from a number of church bodies and NGOs for an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip.  

3/9/2008 - Abdullah Offers to Rebuild All Gaza Homes ?The king has ordered the reconstruction of Palestinian houses at the expense of the Saudi government,? Al-Jazirah Arabic daily quoted the minister as saying. Al-Manie did not say how many Palestinian homes would be rebuilt under the program.  

3/9/2008 - Egypt destroys 6 smuggling tunnels    

3/9/2008 - In Palestine, Murder Will Bring Neither Freedom Nor Justice The pursuit of liberation is a human response to oppression, and one that is common to all oppressed people, in all periods of history. But there is a moral and practical, distinction between legitimate political struggle on one hand, and acts of criminal revenge on the other.  

3/9/2008 - Islamic organisation condemns Jerusalem attack In a rare reaction to an anti-Israeli attack, the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference expressed "grave concern over, and condemned the recent killings of students in the west Jerusalem," a statement released here said.  

3/9/2008 - Slaughtering civilians does nothing to serve the Palestinian cause The general right of Palestinians to resist occupation is enshrined in international law, and the specific impulse to avenge the past week's atrocities in the Gaza Strip is perfectly understandable, but those who exercise these prerogatives have a responsibility to choose targets that will not undermine their cause.  

3/9/2008 - Chavez calls Colombia 'Israel' "We aren't going to permit Colombia to become the Israel of these lands," he said. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, on Friday said the remark "reveals his anti-Israel bias, a growing contempt for democracy and his embrace of violent extremism." Ros-Lehtinen has taken the lead in targeting Chavez' Iran ties. Ros-Lehtinen is of course Israel's top agent on Capitol Hill. Does she manage to, once in a while, take care of any matters AMERICAN, mewonders?



3/8/2008 - Cut 'Sovereign' Israel Loose by Charley Reese The Israelis are to the Palestinians like a 250-pound wrestler assaulting a 4-year-old child. Without pressure from the U.S., the Israeli government will go right on killing Palestinians, taking their land and expanding Israeli settlements. And Palestinians, weak as they are (they have no army, no air force, no navy, no country and no international help because the U.S. blocks all such attempts), will go right on resisting as best they can. Right on, Charley.

3/8/2008 - World disgusted by attack on Jerusalem school Human rights group Amnesty International also condemned the school attack as "a gross abuse of international humanitarian law" but urged Israel not to react with more military action in the Palestinian territories. "The lives of Palestinian civilians, who bear no responsibility for yesterday's attack in Jerusalem, should not be put in jeopardy as a result," said Malcolm Stuart, Amnesty's chief for the Middle East and North Africa.  

3/8/2008 - Israeli attacker's family held Israeli police early on Friday arrested more than 10 relatives and friends of a Palestinian suspected of gunning down eight students at a Jewish religious school, witnesses said.  

3/8/2008 - Official: Israel is weakening the Palestinian Authority    

3/8/2008 - Settlers vow revenge over Jerusalem massacre Hamas, which had vowed to avenge the more than 125 Palestinians killed in a recent Gaza offensive by Israel, at first claimed responsibility, then backtracked. Hamas's claim came as the spokesman for Israel's right-wing settlement movement said that he believed the attack on the religious college was aimed at his movement.  

3/8/2008 - Abbas calls for end to conflict by creation of Palestinian state    

3/8/2008 - Feature: Palestinian women pay higher price in face of Israeli actions Um Yehia said she doesn't care about the International Women's Day which falls on Saturday, adding that her only concern is Yehia, her nine-year-old boy who survived an Israeli airstrike near herhouse on Feb. 28. He was playing football when the attack happened, and four of his friends were killed in the strike  

3/8/2008 - Gaza women rally to mark International Womens' Day    

3/8/2008 - Israeli army invades Bethlehem, four Palestinians wounded Four Palestinian youth were injured by Israeli army gunfire on Saturday at dawn in the village of Beit Fajjar, located west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.  

3/8/2008 - Peres says Israel will not act alone on Iran: report Asked if Israel would act alone to stop Iran getting the bomb, Peres, a former prime minister who currently holds no executive power, replied: "Under no circumstance. We are not so imprudent as to concentrate the Iranian danger on Israel."  

3/8/2008 - Abbas demands peace after killings "We condemn all the attacks, we demand peace and we are determined to make peace, and there is no other path but the path of peace based on international justice," Abbas told a rally at his headquarters.  

3/8/2008 - Students return from West Bank Shouster, a Neve Shalom resident herself, said this trip proved the violence in the Territories portrayed in the media was only a vocal minority, whereas the majority were "people who are struggling to live a normal life. [While] nothing in life is really objective[,] people don't even have an idea of the [Palestinians' situation]." If only all Americans could see that. We are being deceived.

3/8/2008 - Open Letter to our Israeli brothers and sisters Hebron CPTers offer our deepest sympathy to our Israeli friends and wish to express our deep sorrow for the violent deaths of the 8 students and those injured from the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem  

3/8/2008 - Jordan curbs terrorist's mourners Jordan blocked relatives of the suicide terrorist who carried out the Jerusalem shooting spree from publicly mourning him.  

3/8/2008 - Y.U. rabbi apologizes for remarks Rabbi Hershel Schachter apologized for saying Israel's prime minister should be shot if he gives away Jerusalem.  

3/8/2008 - Hezbollah denies involvement in yeshiva attack Israeli security officials said the Lebanese militia may have ordered Thursday night's attack, in which eight students were killed, though initial indications were that gunman Ala Abu Dhaim, who was himself shot dead, acted alone.  

3/8/2008 - The Silent Violence of Gaza's Suffering That Candidates and Congress Ignore By RALPH NADER    

3/8/2008 - MK Yatom: Must be division between east, west Jerusalem Yatom addressed Thursday's terrorist attack on the Mercaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem that left eight dead saying: "(Israeli-Arabs) can get to any town in Israel. We must ensure some sort of supervision so those who live in east Jerusalem and have blue identity cards can't cross into Israel without regulation and monitoring.  

3/8/2008 - Self-defense vs. slaughter There is every reason to suspect, moreover, that this particular religious school was more than a target of opportunity. Mercaz Harav is Israel's leading "Hardal" seminary, the Harvard of a movement that blends strictly Orthodox Judaism with a militant and messianic religious Zionism. Its graduates are the theorists and the shock troops among West Bank settlers. Its adherents also are the segment of Israeli popular opinion most inclined to demand that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert -- who they regard as a quisling -- suspend talks with the Palestinians.  

3/8/2008 - Getting to know Ralph Nader He wants to crack down on corporate crime and predatory lending. Also, he will pull US troops out of Iraq, address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and would move to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney.  

3/8/2008 - Interview: Israeli intelligence bracing up for renewed escalation of planned attacks    

3/8/2008 - Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus    

3/8/2008 - MK demands dismantling of mourning tent for Jerusalem terrorist In response the Arab-Israeli lawmakers said the right-wing MK's were making cynical use of the attack to vilify the entire Arab sector. Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta'al) told Ynet that MKs Effie Eitan (National Union-NRP) and Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu) are "fascists who have set out to harass the Arab citizens.  

3/8/2008 - It's Iran vs. Israel Thursday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem in which eight seminary students were killed by a Palestinian gunman, and the latest fighting between between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, are more than new chapters in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: They are part of a much larger struggle underway between Iran and Israel. Oh what a load of BS being peddled from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, err, I mean the Washington Times.

3/8/2008 - Dr. Al-Arian's Third Strike The Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, imprisoned for five years despite a jury?s failure to return a single guilty verdict against him, has gone on a hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va. Al-Arian, who has abstained from food and water since March 3, began his hunger strike after being informed he would be called before a third grand jury.  



3/7/2008 - Report: Israeli army kills Palestinian farmer in Gaza    

3/7/2008 - Israel closes West Bank after school shooting    

3/7/2008 - Army attacks Palestinian volunteers inside the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem    

3/7/2008 - TV: New group responsible for attack in Israel A new group called the Martyrs of Imad Moughniyah and Gaza participated in the armed attack carried out in Jerusalem on Thursday, leaving at least eight people killed and 35 others wounded, Hezbollah's Al Manar TV reported.  

3/7/2008 - Quiet US support for Egypt's Gaza effort    

3/7/2008 - Images of horror in yeshiva to be distributed worldwide Israel has decided to take advantage of Thursday's bloody terror attack in Jerusalem in order to launch an aggressive campaign against Hamas.  

3/7/2008 - Talks on Palestinian state to continue despite right-wing fury An Israeli official said his government would press on with the talks "so as not to punish moderate Palestinians for actions by people who are not just our enemies but theirs as well".  

3/7/2008 - Mystery surrounds role of Hamas in attack on Jerusalem seminary    

3/7/2008 - Turkish Deniz Feneri aids Palestinians Turkish Deniz Feneri Association sent foodstuffs and medical equipment worth of 75,000 USD to Palestine.  

3/7/2008 - Cairo Gaza talks make no progress A Hamas official, Ahmed Youssef, said on Thursday his group could not consider a ceasefire while Palestinians were being attacked on a daily basis.  

3/7/2008 - Britain cautions Israel on "illegal settlements" Britain warned Israel on Friday over the expansion of Jewish settlements, saying any building on occupied Palestinian lands, including in East Jerusalem, was illegal under international law.  

3/7/2008 - Israeli civilians including 4 minors killed by Palestinians in Jerusalem B'Tselem severely condemns the Palestinian terror attack that took place in a shcool in Jerusalem, in which 8 Israeli civilians, including 4 minors were killed and many other persons were injured.  

3/7/2008 - Rice wins Palestinian pledge to restart talks, yet no solution on how to confront Hamas The moderate Palestinian leadership agreed under heavy U.S. pressure to resume peace talks with Israel, dropping a demand that Israel first reach a truce with Islamic Hamas militants in Gaza.  

3/7/2008 - ?Life now completely intolerable for residents of Gaza? - Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland also endorses a recent statement by the World Council of Churches (WCC), which condemns attacks on civilians in the Gaza strip and in Israel.  

3/7/2008 - "We?re waiting anxiously for the Israeli backlash" You mustn't think that every Palestinian celebrated this slaughter. The photos that the media showed of Palestinians rejoicing were taken in Gaza. Those people are militants of Hama - whereas most Palestinians are either worried or frustrated.  

3/7/2008 - Hamas leader to visit Yemen to discuss reconciliation with Fatah    

3/7/2008 - IDF arrests three Palestinians who threw bombs at settlement Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating near Bethlehem in the West Bank on Friday shot and wounded a group of three Palestinians who were seen earlier hurling explosives and Molotov cocktails towards the entrance of the Jewish settlement of Migdal Oz.  

3/7/2008 - Israeli Settlers attack a Palestinian legislator near Nablus    

3/7/2008 - Israel buries victims of shooting Thousands of people have attended the funerals in Jerusalem of eight students killed by a Palestinian gunman at a Jewish religious college on Thursday.  

3/7/2008 - Arab League vows to drop out of NPT if Israel admits it has nuclear weapons They said that if Israel admitted to having the weapons, they would call on the UN Security Council to pressure Israel to destroy its nuclear arsenal and bring its other atomic installation under international inspection.  

3/7/2008 - Several protesters wounded in weekly Bil?in anti-wall protest Dozens of residents of Bil?in, a village near Ramallah, took to the streets on Friday in their weekly demonstration protesting the illegal confiscation of the village?s land through Israel's continued expansion of the wall.  

3/7/2008 - Israel's Blood Feud Stirs Again Many mourners had driven in from the Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories. The Mercaz Harav Yeshiva had produced many of the leaders of the settlers' movement, and the attack on the seminary was seen as a calculated blow by Palestinian militants against Israel's most ideologically motivated opponents to a Palestinian state.  

3/7/2008 - Ban praises outgoing UN human rights commissioner - Summary After presenting her final report Friday to the Human Rights Council, Arbour was accused of "some gaps" in her statement such as failing to mention the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, recent incidents of defamation of religions and efforts by the governments of Sudan and Sri Lanka to improve human rights in their countries.  

3/7/2008 - Don't mention the war as Israel lauded "The policy of appeasement. How low politicians can go. Is Kevin Rudd from now on going to deliver a parliamentary motion to congratulate every country on its national day? Why is Israel special? Is it because of the petty cash the ALP and the Liberals receive from Jewish businesses for their election campaigns?  

3/7/2008 - Israeli warplanes fly over Beirut "Two enemy Israeli warplanes" flew over the southern city of Tyre, Beirut and the port town of Jounieh, north of the capital, before heading back to the "occupied territories," the army said in a statement. The Israeli army said it knew of no activity in Beirut.  

3/7/2008 - Spanish judge drops terror charges against two former Guantanamo inmates Judge Baltasar Garzon said Thursday he has abandoned an extradition request and the original indictment he issued in 2003. The suspects are 45-year-old Palestinian-Jordanian Jamil el-Banna and Libyan-born Omar Deghayes, who is 38.  

3/7/2008 - 9/11 attacks harm First Amendment The shadow of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is eclipsing press freedom and other constitutional safeguards in the United States, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley said Thursday. The Associated Press has really no leg to stand on here when they have been the biggest shills for the Bush administration, the neocons and the Israeli lobby.

3/7/2008 - Latin patriarch in Holy Land set to retire Patriarch Michel Sabbah will be replaced by Fuad Twal, the 67-year-old bishop who has assisted him since 2005.  

3/7/2008 - Lieberman: Jerusalem attack is product of Arab MK incitement    

3/7/2008 - Groups react to Gaza raids Students from Palestinian and Israeli communities put up banners and bulletin boards on Bruin Walk on Thursday in response to the recent Israeli raid in the Gaza Strip, expressing their opinions from both sides.  

3/7/2008 - Brown says Jerusalem attack must not derail peace process The shooting at a religious school in Jerusalem was an attack on "the very heart of the peace process" that must not be allowed to succeed, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.  

3/7/2008 - Who's afraid of 'Rachel Corrie'?    

3/7/2008 - No Day Is A Woman?s Day in Gaza    

3/7/2008 - IDF to use unmanned jeeps in conflict with Gaza militants    

3/7/2008 - Israeli forces cross boarder line in south Lebanon    



3/6/2008 - Israeli soldier killed as jeep attacked on Gaza border Abu Ahmad, an Islamic Jihad spokesman, said the attack was in revenge for an Israeli strike that killed one of its commanders in southern Gaza yesterday.  

3/6/2008 - Eight dead as gunman hits Jerusalem religious school The attacker is believed to have been a Palestinian from East Jerusalem who disguised himself as a Jewish religious student. Armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a pistol, he opened fire for several minutes into 80 students gathered in a library for a special evening of prayer.  

3/6/2008 - UN rights council condemns Israel The resolution sponsored by Pakistan and Muslim countries said Israeli incursions into the Palestinian territory inflicted collective punishment on the civilian population.  

3/6/2008 - Libya blocks condemnation of Jerusalem attack says U.S. The United States accused Libya on Thursday of preventing the Security Council from condemning as a "terrorist attack" a deadly assault on a Jewish school in Jerusalem, but Tripoli called for "balanced action." And coincidentally, the US always blocks the Arab condemnation of Israel's attacks.

3/6/2008 - More than 100 die in Gaza offensive "It's been a bloody week for Gazans," said Suhaila Tarazi, Director of Al-Ahli Anglican Hospital. "Israeli helicopters are flying over all the time, and we don't know where they are going to bomb next." In Ms Tarazi's opinion, 70 per cent of the casualties had been civilian. "One of my theatre nurses went home to find that her house had been destroyed by a tank shell. Her 19-year-old daughter was killed. This is the sort of thing that is happening."  

3/6/2008 - UNRWA employees held a strike in protest to Israeli attacks in Gaza Workers of different institutions run by the UNRWA in the West Bank and Jerusalem held a strike on Thursday protesting against the Israeli attacks and violations against the Gaza Strip.  

3/6/2008 - U.S. urges easing Israeli cordon The United States has told Israel it favors opening some of Gaza's border crossings to commercial as well as humanitarian supplies in a move that could ease an Israeli-led blockade of the Hamas-run territory.  

3/6/2008 - Abbas condemns shooting attack in Jerusalem    

3/6/2008 - Soldier, militants killed in Gaza violence The Israeli soldier was killed in a blast claimed by militants, which targeted his patrol near the security fence in the central Gaza Strip, the army said.  

3/6/2008 - South Africa ruling party condemns Israeli blockade of Gaza    

3/6/2008 - Congressman Ron Paul's Statement on Gaza Bill As one who is consistently against war and violence, I obviously do not support the firing of rockets indiscriminately into civilian populations. I believe it is appalling that Palestinians are firing rockets that harm innocent Israelis, just as I believe it is appalling that Israel fires missiles into Palestinian areas where children and other non-combatants are killed and injured.......Additionally, this bill will continue the march toward war with Iran and Syria , as it contains provocative language targeting these countries.  

3/6/2008 - UK aid agencies say Gaza humanitarian situation dire    

3/6/2008 - Jerusalem Bedouin fear a return to the wilderness rights groups say the purpose of the demolition order is precisely to keep the Qabuas from building a permanent life in the city. Israel annexed mostly Arab east Jerusalem after seizing it in the 1967 war and now officially considers the entire city its "eternal, undivided" capital.  

3/6/2008 - Israeli forces devastate Palestinians properties in al-'Aroob refugee camp in Hebron On Wednesday morning, Israeli forces renewed their vandalizing operations for the third consecutive day in al-Aroob refugee camp, eastern of the West Bank city of Hebron, but no abductions have been reported.  

3/6/2008 - Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran?    

3/6/2008 - ICRC completes primary water supply to ruined refugee camp The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed rebuilding the primary water supply network in currently accessible areas of the ruined Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, north Lebanon.  

3/6/2008 - A double act of revenge: carefully planned atrocity strikes at Israel's spiritual heart It may have been a coincidence that the Mercaz Harav yeshiva or religious college is identified with the spiritual leadership of the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank, and especially with Gush Emunim, one of its leading elements. But Jerusalem is likely to have been deliberately chosen: there were no Palestinian attacks in the city during 2007 though the security forces claimed to have foiled many attempts.  

3/6/2008 - Wave of condemnation for Jerusalem school attack Before an emergency UN Security Council meeting, Israel's UN deputy ambassador, Daniel Carmon, said his delegation called for a "speedy and strong reaction from the council to this terrible act of terrorism."  

3/6/2008 - US' Rice condemns Jerusalem attack as 'act of terror'    

3/6/2008 - Settlers 'to leave' some outposts Inhabitants will be moved to existing settlement blocs, where Israel allows Jewish settlement in defiance of most interpretations of international law.  

3/6/2008 - Bush tells Olmert US 'firmly with Israel' after attack "I condemn in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack in Jerusalem that targeted innocent students at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva. This barbaric and vicious attack on innocent civilians deserves the condemnation of every nation," said Bush.  

3/6/2008 - Egypt hosts Gaza ceasefire talks    

3/6/2008 - IDF Photos At Harvard Hillel Drawing Ire A decision by Harvard University Hillel to host a photo exhibit showing Israeli soldiers mistreating Palestinians drew fire from a national Jewish group this week ? and consternation even from some who made the 11th hour decision.  

3/6/2008 - NCA holds a candle procession in solidarity with Gaza The Christian National Assembly organized a candle procession in Jabal Al Zeitoon in Jerusalem on Monday at night in protest to the Israeli assaults against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.  

3/6/2008 - McCain Picks Up Endorsement From Baker, To Little Protest McCain supporters in the Jewish community portray Baker?s support as an ordinary political matter and insist that Baker?s endorsement does not affect the Arizona senator?s pro-Israel record.  

3/6/2008 - Egypt building Gaza wall to thwart further breaches Egypt has started building a concrete wall along its border with Gaza, a security official said Thursday, even as it speaks to Hamas about improving the dire situation in the increasingly isolated enclave.  

3/6/2008 - The blockade on peace in the Middle East It will be 60 years in May since my father, Glubb Pasha, led Jordan's army, the Arab Legion, to protect the land allotted to the Palestinians by the UN under the mandate of Jordan. This was done with the permission of the British government as the Irgun and the Hagana were already invading Palestinian towns and villages, causing the population to flee. Many good letters on that page.

3/6/2008 - Israeli Drones Jamming Phones in Gaza? Palestinians say they know when an Israeli drone is in the air: Cell phones stop working, TV reception falters and they can hear a distant buzzing That's precisely what happened to the USS Liberty when Israel was bombing it. IT was due to the sheer heroic efforts of the men on board who managed to send an SOS signal out to the Sixth Fleet (which didn't save them anyhow thanks to LBJ).

3/6/2008 - Picking Up Pieces, Gazans Debate Israel Incursion "We all support resistance to the Israelis," said Hitam Abed Rabo, 33, a lawyer with the military court set up by Hamas, which she supports. "They talk about responding to rockets, but nothing justifies what the Israelis did here. They have to be confronted with strong resistance, so they don?t come back."  

3/6/2008 - Gaza: International unions call for cycle of violence to end The ITUC and the ETUC have called for an immediate cession of violent actions by Israel and Hamas and for a return of Israeli and the Palestinian authorities to the negotiating table.  

3/6/2008 - Ashkelon man builds homemade missile Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government's failure to do so - is some vigilante justice. Didn't his army just implement some of Israel's version of 'vigilante justice' to dozens of Palestinians - some of whom were children?

3/6/2008 - Hamas looking like Hezbollah as Israel leaves Gaza The clearest example of echoing Hezbollah came on Monday when thousands attended a so-called victory rally, and Mahmoud Zahar, an influential Hamas leader, briefly came out of hiding to tell the rally-goers that his organization would rebuild any house that had been damaged by the Israeli strikes.  

3/6/2008 - Egyptian police beat pro-Palestinian protesters Egyptian police used force to disperse thousands of protesters who were demonstrating in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses said.  

3/6/2008 - Rice: Arabs not aiding Palestinians enough   Hypocrisy.

3/6/2008 - The Presidential Candidates and Israel A former U.S. Senator from South Dakota, Abourezk said today: "There's something seriously missing when we see virtual silence from all the [leading] presidential candidates --McCain, Clinton and Obama -- in the face of outright slaughter of Palestinian civilians by Israel.  

3/6/2008 - U.S. nominates new Israel envoy Jones' three-year tour has been mostly uneventful, although he stirred controversy last year when he said Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was lucky not to have been executed. Jones later apologized Why apologize? He's absolutely right.

3/6/2008 - Indian govt allies want military ties with Israel cut Allies of India's coalition government demanded Wednesday an end to military ties with major arms supplier Israel over its blockade of the Gaza Strip and military strikes against the territory.  

3/6/2008 - Sderot and Gaza: letter exchange Before I tell you about life in Gaza, I would like to tell you that I am originally from what is now the Israeli city of Ashkelon. My family left with thousands of others after 1948 and my grandfather was one of many killed in fighting the Israelis.  

3/6/2008 - Syria, Iran vow to bolster ties to confront US and Israel Regional allies Syria and Iran voiced their determination on Thursday to bolster their economic and political ties to overcome their common foes, Israel and the United States.  

3/6/2008 - US embassy fears attacks on citizens in Lebanon "There is a general concern that extremist groups may be planning to attack US citizens and interests in Lebanon," the US embassy said in a statement dated March 4, posted on its website and circulated to US citizens. I should point out the story about the two other warships moved off the coast of Lebanon from yesterday's news batch.

3/6/2008 - Paul beats back primary challenge Paul and Kucinich are also known to be sharply critical of assistance to Israel, with Kucinich calling for an evenhanded approach to peacemaking and Paul arguing against U.S. involvement in overseas conflicts. Another score for the good guys.

3/6/2008 - (Some) Jews Against Obama During the past few months a small group of neoconservative Jews, many of whom hold key positions in the world of official Jewish institutions, have been working to undermine the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama with a series of carefully planted character assassinations and deliberately misleading innuendo.  

3/6/2008 - US puts ships from Syria on watchlist The United States has put ships making port calls in Syria on a watchlist, an official said Thursday, as Washington ratcheted up the pressure on Damascus over its alleged links with terrorism.  

3/6/2008 - Howard speaks as he wins neocon award The former Liberal prime minister received the Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute at a large black-tie dinner at the Washington Hilton in the US today.  

3/6/2008 - US raises security precautions for ships arriving from Syria Authorities fearing alleged Syrian links with terrorism are increasing security for ships sailing into US ports after making calls in Syria, an official said, as Washington raised pressure on Damascus.  

3/6/2008 - Senators question anti-Semitism decision The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights concluded in November that there was "insufficient evidence" to support allegations by the Zionist Organization of America that Jewish students had been intimidated and harassed for their beliefs.  

3/6/2008 - Opposing barrier, they find common ground Fearing for the environment, an unusual mix of Jewish settlers and Israeli and Palestinian activists have joined forces to stop the barrier from pushing through this sensitive area east of Jerusalem, saying the pristine landscape and wildlife in Wadi Qelt could suffer irreversible damage  



3/5/2008 - Conditions in Gaza 'the worst since 1967' The British Government should end its boycott of Hamas and work to lift a crippling blockade of Gaza which has left humanitarian conditions at their worst level for 40 years, the top UK charities say today.  

3/5/2008 - West Bank Barriers Keep Rising Despite Promises of Relief    

3/5/2008 - Soldiers 'fought like lions' during Gaza op As rumors swirled as to whether the IDF planned to initiate another limited-scale operation in Gaza this week, commanders of the Givati Infantry Brigade and the Armored Corps' 188th Brigade complimented their soldiers on displaying a "fighting spirit" in the operations earlier this week. To be expected from yellow bellies who killed many civilians - including babies -in that 'battle'.

3/5/2008 - Israeli shot south of Hebron According to IDF sources, the man entered the village in a bid to sell his car to one of the locals, and was shot during a quarrel with one of the residents.  

3/5/2008 - Palestinian farmer critically wounded by Israeli army gunfire in Bil?in    

3/5/2008 - Rocket salvos hit southern Israel    

3/5/2008 - EU pushes for deal to reopen Gaza-Egypt border The European Union said on Monday it was pushing for agreement between Cairo, Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to reopen Egypt's border crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.  

3/5/2008 - Carter, Annan want to talk truce According to Israel's Army Radio, Jerusalem opposes the initiative but has yet to make a final decision.  

3/5/2008 - Israel arrests 27 Palestinians in West Bank    

3/5/2008 - Qassam attacks continue as security cabinet convenes Three rockets fired from north Gaza land in open fields, no injures reported. Security officials present cabinet with various alternatives to broad ground incursion  

3/5/2008 - UN gets 148 million dollars in US aid pledge for Palestinians    

3/5/2008 - Sanctions causing Gaza to implode, say rights groups The appeal follows a report by John Dugard, the UN special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights in the occupied territories, in which he described Palestinian terrorism as the "inevitable consequence" of Israeli occupation and laws that resemble apartheid  

3/5/2008 - Abbas ready to restart dialogue with Israel    

3/5/2008 - Israeli troops open fire at a taxi near Ramallah, injure driver    

3/5/2008 - Afghans protest Danish cartoons, Israel raids Around five thousand Afghans staged a protest on Wednesday to condemn the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish papers, and Israeli raids on Gaza that have killed scores of Palestinians.  

3/5/2008 - Rice backs P.A. security funding The U.S. secretary of state, on a swing through the Middle East to bolster the faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, was responding to an article in Vanity Fair that contended that a U.S.-led effort to arm the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip led to last summer's civil war there between Hamas and Fatah and competing Palestinian governments in Gaza and the West Bank.  

3/5/2008 - Carter, Annan plan visit to Israel, Gaza to help negotiate ceasefire Former US president Jimmy Carter and former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan wish to arrive in Israel in the coming months in order to help negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Army Radio reported.  

3/5/2008 - Funeral held for baby killed in Israeli raid    

3/5/2008 - Arab ministers condemn Israeli "crimes of war" The Arab League condemned Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip as "crimes against humanity" on Wednesday  

3/5/2008 - Eitam to Arab MKs: Day will come when we will banish you Religious MK says Arab lawmakers who participated in 'treacherous' Umm al-Fahm protest against IDF operation should be 'expelled to Gaza'; El-Sana: Eitam should stand trial for his actions during first intifada  

3/5/2008 - 73 MKs sign petition to keep Palestinian refugees out of Israel    

3/5/2008 - Calls for an immediate ceasefire Israel must stop its attacks on the Gaza Strip. A ceasefire must be put in place with immediate effect, says Norwegian People's Aid Secretary General, Petter Eide.  

3/5/2008 - Safieh pleads for more U.S. involvement Safieh was introduced by Cornell University President David Skorton, who described him as a ?frank and engaging advocate of Palestinian points of view.?  

3/5/2008 - Nowhere To Run To The carnage continues, in what Israelis call self-defence. On Feb. 29, Israeli deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai threatened "Shoah" (holocaust) on Gaza in response to home-made Qassam rocket fire directed at the Israeli colony Sedrot, which resulted in the death of three Israelis.  

3/5/2008 - 'Stop the slaughter in Gaza'... Palestinian immigrants, holding their national flag and lighted candles, staged a rally outside Parliament in central Athens yesterday to protest Israel?s ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip  

3/5/2008 - 'It's our duty to show the right way to Israel,' says Turkish envoy Turkey did the right thing by criticizing Israel, its strategic ally, for its use of disproportionate force in Gaza that has killed dozens of civilians, Turkey's top diplomat in Israel said Monday.  

3/5/2008 - Americans have a favorable view of Israel, especially Republicans The most surprising Arab country in this poll is Egypt, with 61% favorability, and only 26% of Americans mentioning it in the unfavorable column - just one percent more than Israel. The Israeli lobby makes sure, via its 'watchdog' outfits especially and many friends in our media, that Israel is portrayed favorably. That explains why Americans hold such a view.

3/5/2008 - Kucinich secures nomination U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) beat a challenger to his House seat who was financed in part by pro-Israel donors. Score one for the good guys.

3/5/2008 - Lowey, Ros-Lehtinen seek hold on P.A. cash   Ros-Lehtinen has nothing better to do than propose legislation on behalf of a nation other than the one she was elected to serve.

3/5/2008 - Bush optimistic of Mid-East peace    

3/5/2008 - The Fourth Station ? Jesus Meets His Mother On the Way    

3/5/2008 - Congress Defends Gaza Assault 404-1 Today Congress passed a resolution (HR 951) condemning Palestinian rocket attacks that include a strident defense of recent Israeli tactics in the Gaza Strip. The resolution also condemned Iran and Syria for "sponsoring terror attacks," and demanded that Saudi Arabia publicly condemn Palestinian actions.  

3/5/2008 - Thousands stage anti-Israeli protests in Yemen    

3/5/2008 - Gaza Bombshell In a story titled "Gaza Bombshell," this week, Vanity Fair reported that the Palestinian civil war that killed dozens last summer was, in fact, the failed product of an American-backed attempt to oust the democratically-elected Hamas. News that the U.S. had backed such a plan, of course, isn't really news (reports of the U.S. arming Fatah have long circulated), but it should be  

3/5/2008 - Israeli Arab jailed in "honor killing"    

3/5/2008 - Cole replaced off Lebanon by two US warships: official Two US warships have taken up position in the eastern Mediterranean off Lebanon, replacing the USS Cole, a US Navy official said Wednesday.  

3/5/2008 - Hezbollah says it is prepared for war    

3/5/2008 - US warship leaves Lebanon for Gulf   AFTER providing Israel with cover to massacre many Palestinian civilians - including children.

3/5/2008 - House defends Israel on Gaza The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution strongly defending how Israel has repelled rocket attacks. How exactly is this a matter for Capitol Hill? Which nation were they elected to serve?

3/5/2008 - Palestinian drag queens at odds with nearly everyone For most like The Bride, being gay makes them pariahs in their conservative Arab communities. Being proud Palestinians puts them at odds with the dominant Jewish-Israeli society. So they try to take a stand against bigotry in both societies without being firmly rooted in either one.  

3/5/2008 - German MP wants anti-Israel employee fired    

3/5/2008 - Australia Gets Key UN Post In Middle East The Secretary-General of the United Nations has announced the appointment of Maxwell Gaylard of Australia as Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. In his new capacity, Gaylard will also serve as UN Coordinator for humanitarian and development activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.  



3/4/2008 - Baby killed in Israeli raid    

3/4/2008 - Palestinian toddler killed, 8 wounded in latest Israeli raid A two-month-old toddler was killed and eight militants wounded on Tuesday night in a new Israeli army raid on the village of al-Garara, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, medics said.  

3/4/2008 - Two killed in Israeli raids on Gaza    

3/4/2008 - New Israeli Gaza incursion overshadows Rice peace push Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian baby girl and a senior militant during a brief incursion into Gaza on Tuesday, overshadowing a new peace push by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.  

3/4/2008 - P.A security arrests five Hamas supporters    

3/4/2008 - Five Palestinians kidnapped by Israeli military in the northern part of the West Bank    

3/4/2008 - UNRWA food supplies in Gaza running out    

3/4/2008 - Qassam hits house in Sderot; no injuries    

3/4/2008 - Abbas holds back on resuming peace talks with Israel    

3/4/2008 - Missile Goes Down a Union's Throat Two F-16 missiles were all it took to bring down the five-storey headquarters of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU).  

3/4/2008 - Egypt seeks truce in Gaza, U.S. wants talks    

3/4/2008 - Arab Israelis protest Gaza 'massacre'    

3/4/2008 - Kerem Shalom goods crossing reopened   One wonders if Rice's recent visit had anything to do with this 'gesture'.

3/4/2008 - Father misses children's Gaza funeral   Notice how this article by the Associated Press doesn't mention the fact that Israeli forces killed the children. A mere oversight on their part, I'm sure. (Right).

3/4/2008 - Rice urges halt to attacks on civilians She called on Israel to do more to prevent the loss of civilian life in its offensives against rocket fire.  

3/4/2008 - School students protest the Israeli attacks on Gaza near Bethlehem    

3/4/2008 - Abbas calls for Middle East truce Ms Rice warned that the "real threat" to peace process were "extremists" such as the Islamist movement Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in June, who she said opposed the establishment of a Palestinian state.  

3/4/2008 - To blame the victims for this killing spree defies both morality and sense The attempt by western politicians and media to present this week's carnage in the Gaza Strip as a legitimate act of Israeli self-defence - or at best the latest phase of a wearisome conflict between two somehow equivalent sides - has reached Alice-in-Wonderland proportions  

3/4/2008 - Egypt allows relief aid into Gaza    

3/4/2008 - Hamas vows to capture soldiers if Israel expands Gaza incursion    

3/4/2008 - Hamas vows to compensate Gazans hurt in IDF operation He vowed to compensate all the Gazans whose property was damaged during the operation, just like Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised Lebanese citizens after the Second Lebanon War.  

3/4/2008 - PM: Israel has strength, might to defend itself against Iran "Israel definitely sees itself threatened by Iran," Olmert said in a tour of northern Israel. "Israel has the might and power to defend itself against any threat." Advertisement But he quickly added, "I don't think the Iranian matter is primarily Israel's responsibility. It is the responsibility of the United States and the leading countries in the international community that are convinced Iran constitutes a threat." Oohh, I see. So it's OUR responsibility to deal with Israel's primary threat (just like Iraq was).

3/4/2008 - Red Cross sends aid convoy to Palestinian areas from Jordan    

3/4/2008 - Long-range rockets fired from Gaza are Iranian: Israel army   BS alert.

3/4/2008 - Children Get to Work Early* Regardless of efforts to address child labour, the sight of begging on the streets of Beirut is common. Nine-year-old Ali is often spotted running along the bridge linking Beirut to the downtown and the Ashrafieh district. "I left school in the Sabra Palestinian camp to make some money. Many rich people drive by in their large cars, and they will usually spare a dollar or two," he says.  

3/4/2008 - Germany urges proportional response Foreign ministry spokesman Martin Jager said Israel should "try to be proportional" in its response, according to an Associated Press report  

3/4/2008 - Caritas Jerusalem mourns with people of Gaza    

3/4/2008 - Gaza emergency relief - Third phase completed Since the beginning of the blockade of Gaza in January 2008, LIFE for Relief and Development has been operating a Gaza Emergency Relief Campaign. Phase Three of the campaign was recently completed as 1,000 families in Gaza received food baskets. This brings the total number of families who have benefited from the Campaign to 3,000.  

3/4/2008 - Peretz: IDF should fire at homes used to launch rockets "If Palestinian families turn their houses into rocket production labs or weapons caches, we should treat them as military installations and attack them," The IDF targets Palestinian homes NOW -whether or not there are 'militant' activities going on inside.

3/4/2008 - Justice Department Taking Steps To Charge Sami Al-Arian   The lobby just can't get their claws out of this guy - he must be charged with something.

3/4/2008 - Speaker sees hypocrisy in Israeli-Palestinian conflict Finkelstein said Monday that Israel is not held to the same moral standards as Palestine and called this disparity an ?exercise in hypocrisy.? In his comparison of the two governments? human rights records, he noted a 4.5 to 1 ratio of Palestinian fatalities to Israeli fatalities.  

3/4/2008 - Hypocrisy flies as McCain faces firestorm on Hagee endorsement "I wasn't too wild about it, but I have a little more sympathy," Donohue said, when asked about Hagee's AIPAC speech. "If I'm a Jew and I know Muslims are out to kill me, it's a little dicey to start questioning how clean he has to be.  

3/4/2008 - Students' Gaza solidarity stirs ire At the behest of an Arab colleague, students in the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel's educational faculty stood in silence Monday to commemorate dozens of Palestinian civilians who died over the weekend during an Israeli assault on Hamas in northern Gaza.  

3/4/2008 - Anti-Israel measure at Texas caucuses? "We have strong indications that a vile, anti-Israel resolution will come up in some precinct meetings," Wunsch wrote. "In previous election cycles, similar resolutions have come forth in both the Democratic and Republican caucuses. So please, regardless of your political preference, take the time to vote for your candidate of choice and be prepared to defend Israel at your caucus."  

3/4/2008 - Bush waives direct transfer ban for P.A. A U.S. official told the JTA that the assistance was "critical" and added that it will "help avert a serious and immediate financial crisis for the P.A., ensure its continued operation, and further the United States? longstanding and bipartisan goal of a just and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians."  

3/4/2008 - Rice Wants Bleeding Palestinians To Resume Mideast Talks    

3/4/2008 - Israel wiped Palestine off the map    

3/4/2008 - Bush upbeat on peace despite Gaza turmoil    

3/4/2008 - Obama's Israel Test The root of the concern, echoed by The New Republic?s Marty Peretz and others, is that some members of Obama?s foreign-policy team are not full-fledged Israel partisans.  

3/4/2008 - Clinton, Obama Jewish liaisons got their start together at AIPAC    

3/4/2008 - U.N.: Hezbollah not rearming in Lebanon U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says the organization's Interim Force in Lebanon has found no basis for claims by Israel that Hezbollah is rebuilding its military presence, The Daily Star reported.  

3/4/2008 - Speaker's ideas cause concern A speech focusing on the Israel-Palenstine conflict caused members of the Jewish Student Organization and others to express disapproval because of the speaker?s controversial views and beliefs.  

3/4/2008 - Palestinians' bittersweet homecoming in Lebanon    

3/4/2008 - US releases Egypt aid, seeks democratic reforms US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that she had released 100 million dollars in aid to Egypt that had been made conditional on doing more to prevent arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip. The lobby wins.

3/4/2008 - Olmert in Tokyo makes case for joint ventures with Japan He didn't specify which defense concerns Israel and Japan share, but his comment came during a news conference that dealt in part with potential nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea.  

3/4/2008 - U.S. warship stirs Lebanese fear of war. While the US State Department says the Cole and other warships are being sent to the eastern Mediterranean to support regional stability amid Lebanon's political crisis, the move seems to have embarrassed the besieged Western-backed administration of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and provided ammunition for the pro-Syrian opposition, led by the militant Shiite Hizbullah, to accuse the government of being a US pawn.  

3/4/2008 - Students reflect on trip Students who traveled to the Palestinian territories during February break on a trip funded by former President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize called the journey "a once-in-a-lifetime experience" that offered them a unique perspective on the Middle East.  

3/4/2008 - High Court to discuss prohibition on Palestinian use of Route 443    



3/3/2008 - Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian student in W Bank    

3/3/2008 - Settler kills Palestinian protester A Neriya resident fired on scores of Palestinian youths demonstrating Monday near the settlement east of Ramallah, part of continued protests against Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, after coming under a barrage of rocks.  

3/3/2008 - Gaza / Israel: Stop attacks on civilians, says WCC Attacks across the Gaza-Israeli border have killed more then 110 Palestinia ns and three Israelis since the middle of last week. One third of the mostly civilian dead are reportedly children.  

3/3/2008 - Man freed after killing W. Bank teen; two rioters held in J'lem Police last night released a West Bank settler who shot and killed a Palestinian teen, who had been with a group that was throwing rocks along a West Bank road. There's that Israeli democracy for you.

3/3/2008 - UN rights chief seeks probe into Gaza deaths United Nations human rights chief Louise Arbour called on Israel on Monday to conduct an "impartial" investigation into the deaths of Palestinians during its offensive in Gaza.  

3/3/2008 - Assault on Gaza: Day of grief and defiance Among those buried yesterday were six members of one family including its head, Abd el-Rahman Mohammad Ali Atallah, and his 60-year-old wife, Suad, two sons and two daughters, who were killed late on Saturday afternoon when their house was destroyed by three aerial bombs which residents near by said also injured four children including a two-day-old infant.  

3/3/2008 - Gaza residents tell of sniper attacks on homes Palestinians described yesterday how civilians were killed while hiding in their homes as Israeli ground troops stormed through northern Gaza suburbs this weekend searching for Hamas militants.  

3/3/2008 - Children and civilian bystanders in Gaza death toll The Israeli chief of staff is reported to have claimed that 90 percent of those killed were militants, but the UN and other sources, including those in Gaza, suggest that as many as half of the dead were civilians. More than 250 other people, including scores of unarmed civilians, have been injured.  

3/3/2008 - Oxfam International warns of dire humanitarian consequences of full scale military incursion into Gaza    

3/3/2008 - Amnesty International: Children and Civilian Bystanders in Gaza Death Toll Israeli military air strikes and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip during the last few days have killed over 100 Palestinians, including dozens of children and other civilian bystanders. Three Israelis ? a civilian killed by a rocket fired by a Palestinian armed group on 27 February and two soldiers ? were also killed.  

3/3/2008 - B'tselem: Contrary to Israel's Chief of Staff, at least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting    

3/3/2008 - Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Killings of civilians must cease Israeli military air strikes and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip are being carried out with reckless disregard for civilian life, Amnesty International said today.  

3/3/2008 - Large Syria rally denounces "Israeli crimes" Thousands of people attended a government-sponsored rally in the centre of the Syrian capital on Monday to condemn what they called "Israeli crimes" in Gaza.  

3/3/2008 - The time for worldwide boycott is now    

3/3/2008 - Barak to hold meeting on legality of striking civilian areas in Gaza   It's kind of late to be asking about that now, isn't it? Try 60+ years. Since, that's how long Israel has been deliberately targeting civilian areas.

3/3/2008 - UNRWA: Gaza violence - 'horrific' UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen Abu Zayd said on Sunday that she was 'horrified' by the current situation in the Gaza Strip.  

3/3/2008 - Four Palestinians arrested after attacking police officers in E. Jerusalem    

3/3/2008 - Israeli Barak: counter-terror operations to continue Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday that counter-terror operations in Gaza would continue, local media reported.  

3/3/2008 - Around 100 Palestinians gathered at the Nativity church to protest at Israeli attacks on Gaza    

3/3/2008 - Gaza medical system at breaking point - aid workers    

3/3/2008 - Israeli army kidnaps 14 Palestinians in pre dawn invasion    

3/3/2008 - Palestinian militants continue firing rockets into Israel    

3/3/2008 - Jumblatt condemns Israeli assault on Gaza Strip "Such massacres should justly be called a holocaust as described by Palestinian President Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas],"  

3/3/2008 - Bethlehem: ten injured and three kidnapped as Israeli army attack protest    

3/3/2008 - Palestinian militants continue firing rockets into Israel    

3/3/2008 - AT-TUWANI UPDATE, February, 2008: Freedom of Access in the South Hebron The Israeli military has often closed this road as part of the Israeli government?s pressure on the Palestinian population in this area to leave. As a result of this pressure and of settler harassment, several smaller villages in the area have already been abandoned. In one case, over 700 local Palestinian residents were bundled into military vehicles and forcibly removed.  

3/3/2008 - Zahalka: 'Israel killing as many as possible' Several MKs, including Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List) and Muhammad Barakei (Hadash), called for "Arab unity" among Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.... Israel Beiteinu and Likud lawmakers accused the Arab factions of treason  

3/3/2008 - Holy Land: Caritas warns of escalating crisis in Gaza    

3/3/2008 - Gaza death toll reaches 100; Hebron responds This afternoon in Hebron the Israeli army killed a twelve-year old Palestinian boy with a fragmenting dumdum bullet through the chest.  

3/3/2008 - Israel rejects truce with Hamas    

3/3/2008 - Gazans discuss Israeli military raids Yesterday [Sunday], they killed a neighbour of mine, he was 15 and was playing football in the street.  

3/3/2008 - Israel warns it will be back as Gaza incursion is finally ended    

3/3/2008 - Olmert warns of more fighting soon as Israel pulls troops out of Gaza In the Gazan town of Jabalia yesterday, crowds poured on to the streets. Funeral tents were set up outside houses as workmen began to repair electricity cables and rebuild walls. More families emerged with stories of civilian casualties amid the combat. Louise Arbour, the UN human rights commissioner, called on Israel to carry out an impartial investigation into the Palestinian deaths.  

3/3/2008 - China urges Israel, Palestine to exercise restraint    

3/3/2008 - Rice, confident of Mideast progress, lashes Hamas    

3/3/2008 - Ahmadinejad: Real holocaust is happening in Gaza    

3/3/2008 - US plotted to overthrow Hamas after election victory But the project was controversial even within the administration, the magazine reports. "There were severe fissures among neoconservatives over this," David Wurmser, a former Middle East adviser to the vice-president, Dick Cheney, told the magazine. "We were ripping each other to pieces."  

3/3/2008 - Tiny protesters lament Gaza bloodshed Dozens of demonstrations also took place in Palestinian refugee camps throughout southern Lebanon on Monday.  

3/3/2008 - US backs Israeli right to defend itself against rockets   What other nations are backing Israel's 'right to defend itself' (from mostly Palestinian civilians, evidently)? Why is the US the only one (again)?

3/3/2008 - UN should talk to Hamas to end Gaza violence: expert "It is imperative that every effort be made to bring the violence to an end. This can be done only by negotiation and mediation," said John Dugard, the special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.  

3/3/2008 - Hamas claims Gaza "victory" as Israel pulls back    

3/3/2008 - Norway calls for end to violence in Israel, Gaza    

3/3/2008 - Residents held a protest in Khan Younis slamming Israeli attacks, calling for unity    

3/3/2008 - Barak seeks legal okay to move Gazan civilians from homes    

3/3/2008 - MSF Reopens Gaza City Clinic to Treat Wounded    

3/3/2008 - Israel buys supply of pills to protect against nuclear radiation    

3/3/2008 - Bush administration declines intervention, paving the way for terror victim lawsuits Families of terror victims got the green light to pursue lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority thanks to a personal lobbying blitz and some quiet diplomacy by U.S. lawmakers and the pro-Israel lobby......sources say, the Bush administration reportedly had leaned initially toward intervening on the Palestinian Authority's behalf but was swayed by meetings last month between families and top Justice Department and State Department lawyers, as well as lobbying led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other Jewish groups.  

3/3/2008 - What is the USS Cole doing off the Lebanese coast? What's curious, however, is that, while it's big news in the Arab world, this "visit" by a guided-missile destroyer and accompanying flotilla has received scant attention in the U.S. news media. What's going on? We're keeping the rest of the Middle Eastern world in check while Israel continues its holocaust of the Palestinians, perhaps?

3/3/2008 - The Middle East's asymmetric war    

3/3/2008 - Israeli Violence Endangers Us, Not the Presidential Candidates    

3/3/2008 - Smith concerned by Gaza humanitarian situation    

3/3/2008 - Obama and the Jews So what exactly is the problem? According to the Times, "some critics" have "expressed concerns" that Obama's repeated statements of support for Israel "are not heartfelt."  

3/3/2008 - Hebron Reflection: Crosses,flags and murdered children The American flag and the Christian cross are my symbols. I am an American (USonian). I am a Christian. CUFI is an organization that is helping Israel with the ethnic cleansing of the city where Zleekha and her mother live. My government and the presidential candidates have repeatedly given the green light to Israel to massacre Palestinians  

3/3/2008 - Ramon blasts 'holocaust' comment by Abbas Ehud Olmert's senior deputy lambasted Mahmoud Abbas for likening Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip to the Holocaust.  

3/3/2008 - Rice urges Mid-East talks renewal US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called on Palestinians to resume peace talks with Israel, on the eve of her latest Middle East visit.  

3/3/2008 - Jerusalem Diary: Monday 3 March Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas donated blood in his office on Sunday, for the people of Gaza.  

3/3/2008 - Israeli official says comment on "holocaust" was manipulated   Strangely, the world says Israel manipulates the Holocaust. Go figure.

3/3/2008 - Egyptian chopper strays over Gaza    

3/3/2008 - McCain backs Israel's right to self defence in Gaza conflict McCain criticized the Security Council for its 'failure to condemn the attacks by Gaza into Israel.'  

3/3/2008 - Hezbollah rally calls for Gaza resistance, not surrender    

3/3/2008 - German government invests in education of Palestinian refugees    

3/3/2008 - Palestinians call drones a deadly weapon    

3/3/2008 - Consul General of Israel Visits UC Irvine A man, who declared himself to be Palestinian, spoke against Dayan, arguing that democracy cannot be attained if challenged by Israel. He questioned claims made by Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman, who has been known to call for the expulsion of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Dayan denied the allegations made toward Lieberman. Lieberman did in fact call for the 'transfer' of Palestinians out of Israel. Dayan wasn't there for putting forward the truth though. He was there to propagandize for Israel.

3/3/2008 - King Abdullah II Discusses Mideast Peace Process With Arab, Muslim and Jewish American Leaders    

3/3/2008 - Israel accused of war crimes in Gaza Lawyers with the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel said in their letter that the "use of inaccurate weapons violates international law," Ynetnews reported.  

3/3/2008 - Several hundred people demonstrate in Paris in support of the Palestinians    

3/3/2008 - Obama says U.S. should not meet with Hamas "You can't negotiate with somebody who does not recognize the right of a country to exist so I understand why Israel doesn't meet with Hamas," Both McCain and Obama are jockeying to outdo the other's kowtows to the Israeli lobby.

3/3/2008 - Palestinian artist's exhibition in Tel Aviv The exhibition was initiated by Israeli businessman Roni Forer, who invited Palestinian leaders to attend the opening, but does not expect them to arrive due to the escalation in the Gaza Strip.  

3/3/2008 - Palestinians, Israelis topic of UAH speaker    

3/3/2008 - Muslim protest at Paris book fair Saudi Arabia has become the latest to withdraw, following Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.  

3/3/2008 - Apartheid? ban causes ruckus, little action The HRO banned the phrase ?Israeli Apartheid,? citing concerns that it would make students feel uncomfortable. Both the MSU and McMaster University decided to support that decision.  



3/2/2008 - New Israeli strikes kill seven in Gaza: medics Two bodies of women were pulled out on Sunday from beneath the rubble of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes in Jabaliya the previous day, medics said.  

3/2/2008 - Hebron teen dies, 4 Israelis hurt as violence spreads to W. Bank Fourteen-year-old Mahmoud Musalameh was shot in the chest, said Dr. Mohammed al-Zaru, from the Alia hospital in Hebron. The teen was apparently hit after cutting through the separation fence. Three other Palestinian youths were moderately injured in the clashes.  

3/2/2008 - Palestinians protest over Israel's assault in Gaza One demonstrator was shot in the head and severely wounded, they added  

3/2/2008 - A single rifle bullet, another victim - but no hope of a doctor Eyad took a bullet to the chest and died later in hospital, his sister was hit with a bullet to the head and died where she fell. Their uncle Hatim, 32, sat outside the funeral tent yesterday and explained openly how much he too disagreed with the militants firing rockets. Then he said: "But what is our guilt?"  

3/2/2008 - Sisters' horrible deaths push family into Arab media circus A day after the Asliyeh sisters, Samah, 13, and Salwa, 18, were killed in an Israel Air Force bombing, their grandfather, Mohammed, was hospitalized yesterday. His blood pressure rose and his sons were afraid he would collapse.  

3/2/2008 - Gazans search for loved ones amid din of fighting    

3/2/2008 - Israel warns of escalation but looks beyond violence Israeli leaders say despite the large loss of life, the military strikes in Gaza over the past five days are only a limited operation and warn a much larger and more violent confrontation with the Islamist movement Hamas draws ever closer.  

3/2/2008 - White House calls for end to Mideast violence    

3/2/2008 - Jordan's parliament blasts attack on Gaza    

3/2/2008 - Saudi likens Gaza assault to Nazi war crimes    

3/2/2008 - Seven protestors injured in Bil'in village near Ramallah Seven Palestinian teenagers were injured on Sunday when Israeli troops attacked a demonstration organized by the villagers of Bil'in located near the West Bank city of Ramallah, to protest the on-going Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip  

3/2/2008 - East Jerusalem residents protest Gaza operation    

3/2/2008 - Turkey condemns Israeli attacks in Gaza    

3/2/2008 - Olmert: Don't preach morals to Israel "It needs to be kept in mind that the State of Israel is defending its civilians in the south. No one has the right to preach morals to Israel, which must take the fundamental action of defending its residents against the rocket fire," The rot goes all the way to the top.

3/2/2008 - Police halt Israeli Arab rally against Gaza op, arrest 2 at T.A. protest    

3/2/2008 - Two protestors injured in Bethlehem during demonstrations against Israeli attacks on Gaza    

3/2/2008 - US and Arab states clash at UN Security Council The 15-member council agreed yesterday on the terms of a statement read to the press, after a five-hour emergency session. But the US delegation managed to tone down the language and it failed to match the unusually strong denunciation issued by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who condemned the "disproportionate and excessive use of force" by Israel "that has killed and injured so many civilians, including children".  

3/2/2008 - Fatah accuses Hamas of endangering its imprisoned Gaza supporters    

3/2/2008 - Israel defiant as Gaza toll rises    

3/2/2008 - Abbas breaks contact with Israel    

3/2/2008 - Gazans angry and unbowed    

3/2/2008 - Mauritania calls on Israel to stop Gaza "bloodbath" The government of Mauritania, one of the only Arab League nations to have diplomatic ties with Israel, called on Israel to stop the «bloodbath» in Gaza, and thousands of protesters took to the streets Sunday.  

3/2/2008 - A man carries a Palestinian boy who medics said was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip    

3/2/2008 - Iran leader calls on Muslims to hit Israel "in face" Iran's supreme leader on Sunday called on Muslims to rise up and their leaders to hit Israel "in the face with their nations' anger" over the Jewish state's offensive in Gaza that has killed more than 100 Palestinians.  

3/2/2008 - Thousands of Jordanians hold anti-Israel march    

3/2/2008 - The body of Palestinian Mahmoud Musalameh, 14, who was shot and killed at a protest against Israeli army operations in Gaza    

3/2/2008 - EU presidency condemns attacks on Gaza    

3/2/2008 - Amnesty blasts Israel, Palestinians over Gaza violence    

3/2/2008 - Pope Benedict appeals to Israelis and Palestinians to end violence in Gaza    

3/2/2008 - Egypt admits wounded Gazans for medical care    

3/2/2008 - Leftists: End Gaza war crimes    

3/2/2008 - Foiled suicide bomber wanted to kill Israelis, now wants to meet them For al-Qudsi, the personal appeared to intersect with the political. While she said she wanted to avenge the suffering inflicted on Palestinians by Israeli troops, her ex-employer said al-Qudsi also felt depressed and stigmatized by her divorce.  

3/2/2008 - Irish delegation visits Middle East    

3/2/2008 - IS THE MIDDLE EAST ABOUT TO BLOW?   I've entertained similar thoughts in light of the events of the past few days.

3/2/2008 - Hezbollah supporters protest Israeli attacks on Gaza Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters gathered today at a border fence separating Lebanon and Israel to protest ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip that have killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days.  

3/2/2008 - Intelligence chief: Don't forget Iran, Syria    

3/2/2008 - With the U.S. dollar plummeting, Israelis rediscovering the shekel While the strong shekel has meant more buying power for Israeli consumers, American immigrants with salaries or pensions in dollars have seen the value of their monthly checks shrink dramatically, Israel?s export industry stands to lose greatly and even the Israeli military is grappling with the reduced value of the U.S. aid dollars it receives.....High-ranking army officers have expressed concerns that the defense budget, and therefore Israel's preparedness for war, might be harmed because of the dollar's drop.  

3/2/2008 - Only a new President can end Gaza's nightmare Shamefully, the world seems unable to rouse itself to condemn this bankrupt policy for what it is, let alone take concrete steps to stop the violence.Instead, we have the depressing sight of the UN Security Council wrangling in its usual fashion over whether a resolution on Gaza should describe Israel's response as "excessive", with the Americans, as ever, shielding their Israeli ally from serious criticism.  

3/2/2008 - Blood-thirsty ISRAEL seeks "clean break" to ensnare Iran/Syria into the war after "shoah" attacks on Gaza & Lebanon    

3/2/2008 - Government calls on Israel, Palestinians to 'step back from the brink' Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday called on Israelis and Palestinians to "step back from the brink" and keep the region's fragile peace process alive.  



3/1/2008 - 2 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza Seven other soldiers were injured in the incident ? six suffering light wounds and one suffering moderate ones.  

3/1/2008 - Palestinians' bloodiest day, Israel kills 61 in Gaza Almost half the dead were civilians, including children.  

3/1/2008 - Scores killed in raids on Gaza Israel's military killed at least 60 Palestinians yesterday - almost half of them civilians, including four children - in its most violent assault on the Gaza Strip since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power last June.....The latest bloodshed comes as an Observer investigation revealed how Israel is again deliberately obstructing the transfer of urgent medical cases for treatment outside Gaza, in the latest extension of its policy of collective punishment of Palestinians.  

3/1/2008 - A Palestinian medical worker rushes a baby into the hospital in Gaza City.    

3/1/2008 - Gazans cower under fire, anger at Israel mounts In the past four days, 95 Gazans have been killed, dozens of them civilians, including children as young as six months. On Saturday alone, 30 civilians were among 60 people killed in the bloodiest day since a Palestinian uprising began in 2000.  

3/1/2008 - UNICEF Statement on situation in Gaza UNICEF is deeply troubled that the current escalation of the conflict in Gaza is hurting a large number of children. Since the beginning of the current round of violence on Wednesday, 17 children from Gaza have been killed and over 200 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.  

3/1/2008 - U.N.'s Ban says Israeli force in Gaza is "excessive" "While recognizing Israel's right to defend itself, I condemn the disproportionate and excessive use of force that has killed an injured so many civilians, including children," Ban told an emergency session of the council.  

3/1/2008 - Hamas warns Israel against harming its leaders    

3/1/2008 - The Second and Third Stations of the Cross in Occupied Palestine For 40 years, Palestinians have born the cross of military occupation. Palestinians have lost their land, their homes, their olive trees, their cultural traditions, and their lives. Throughout these 40 years, people around the world, but especially Christian Zionists, have offered their support to the Israeli military occupation of Palestine. Because the unconditional support our governments offer the state of Israel, we are complicit in the suffering of the Palestinian people.  

3/1/2008 - Hamas responsible for civilian Gaza deaths- Israel Israel's defence minister on Saturday held Islamist Hamas responsible for civilian casualties during fighting in the Gaza Strip, and said Israel would press on fighting Mm k.

3/1/2008 - Palestinians in Lebanon express outrage at Gaza violence Thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon expressed anger late Saturday at the Israeli government over its continued attacks against the Gaza Strip. "Death to Israel," shouted the angry crowd marching through the narrow streets of the Burj al Barajneh camp carrying black flags and pictures of young Palestinian children killed in the latest raids.  

3/1/2008 - Palestinian priest defends comments on Israel Ateek said the language and positions that have brought Sabeel its most virulent criticism were sermons in which he has compared the suffering of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation to the hardships of Jesus and the early Christians. The group has also called for U.S. churches to divest from companies doing business in the occupied territories.  

3/1/2008 - Hebron Update: 01-07 February 2008 The shopkeeper told Martens the Palestinian children threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed on rooftops, who fired live ammunition at the children. The ammunition wounded some children, and an ambulance took them to the hospital.  

3/1/2008 - Palestinian negotiator calls on Gaza factions to stop rocket attacks into Israel    

3/1/2008 - Fatah lawmaker calls for reconsidering peace talks with Israel    

3/1/2008 - Israel using Holocaust as pretext for Gaza killings: Hamas "If the world cannot end the occupation... then it is our right to defend ourselves,"  

3/1/2008 - Libya urges Arabs to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza Libya on Saturday called on Arabs to halt what it called an Israeli military campaign aimed at "wiping out the Palestinian people".  

3/1/2008 - Villagers of Al Khader near Bethlehem protest construction of Israeli Wall    

3/1/2008 - Abbas calls for urgent Security Council meeting on Gaza    

3/1/2008 - Hamas leader says armed resistance "only option" "No one in his right mind would like to see Israel invade Gaza, but the battle has been forced on us. The rockets are a reaction. Israeli aggression came first," Meshaal said.  

3/1/2008 - Peace talks 'buried' by Gaza assault: Palestinian negotiator    

3/1/2008 - Abbas slams Israel's Gaza 'holocaust' "It's very regrettable that what is happening is more than a holocaust. We tell the world to see with its own eyes and judge for itself what is happening and who is carrying out international terrorism," Abbas told reporters in Ramallah.  

3/1/2008 - US urges end to violence in Mideast: White House    

3/1/2008 - Local authorities blasted for polluting water sources The Environmental Protection Ministry harshly criticized local authorities all over the country on Monday for illegally dumping construction waste which threatens Israel's water sources.  

3/1/2008 - Australia's Government Continues Its Love Affair with Israel If Palestinians and their supporters had any hopes of a sympathetic hearing from the new Rudd government on the multiple human rights abuses being perpetrated by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, those hopes are now well and truly dashed.  

3/1/2008 - McCain Gets Hell For Embracing Armageddon Sect    

3/1/2008 - Obama lays out plan for confronting Iran    

3/1/2008 - Lebanese gov't denies U.S. warships presence    

3/1/2008 - Nonviolent Demonstration Opens Road in South Hebron Hills This roadblock has been a major impediment to travel for people in this area. This road is the only vehicle access for people in the South Hebron Hills to travel to and from the city of Yatta, which serves as the economic hub for the entire region.  

3/1/2008 - Saudis urged to leave Lebanon    

3/1/2008 - She was a girl from small-town America with dreams of being a poet or a dancer. So how, at just 23, did Rachel Corrie become a Palestinian martyr?    

3/1/2008 - Jewish organizations react to controversial speaker Finkelstein is a supporter of the Palestinian cause and is the author of "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" and "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History."  

3/1/2008 - Crisis in Gaza? Not for Obama or Clinton The next president will have to deal with the reality of a humanitarian, political and military crisis in the Middle East that grows worse with each passing year because of the internationally recognized reality that the United States -- while profoundly influential in the region -- fails to operate as an honest or effective player.  

3/1/2008 - Government "deeply concerned" at Gaza violence The Swiss authorities have expressed "very deep concern" at the escalation of violence around the Gaza Strip and the consequences on the civilian population  

3/1/2008 - Villagers of Bil?in hold funeral march for the children killed in Gaza    

3/1/2008 - US warship worsens Lebanon crisis: Syrian FM    

3/1/2008 - UN boss alarmed by Hezbollah's threat against Israel    

3/1/2008 - The Mughniyeh Enigma by Scott Ritter    

3/1/2008 - Reporters on the Job "Munib al-Masri wears a finely tailored suit, speaks elegant English, and likes to kiss the hand of a lady when he bids he farewell, and somehow manages to do so without seeming chauvinist or dated," she says. " He told her that he's rarely slept more than four hours a day, so he feels he's already lived two lifetimes.  

3/1/2008 - J'lem diplomats briefed on 'hasbara' Officials in Jerusalem began laying the grounds for a large hasbara campaign to try and show the world that Israel's actions in Gaza were "careful" and the harming of civilians was "impossible to avoid" when Hamas terrorists were using civilian grounds to launch rockets into Israel. BS.

3/1/2008 - Israeli Army Vets Speak Out The exhibit, which on March 1 will open at the Harvard University Hillel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, catalogs the daily routine of life in the West Bank city of Hebron, as seen through the eyes of Israeli soldiers who've been dispatched to serve in an occupation now in its forty-first year.  

3/1/2008 - When Conservatives Loved the Palestinians within the lifetime of our parents, conservatives were surprisingly pro-Arab. This was particularly true of the most salient issue in the Middle East, the Palestinian refugee problem. As surprising as this may sound, the mainstream consensus view of American conservatives from the late 1940s until well into the late 1960s was that the Palestinians had been deeply wronged by Israel and deserved restorative justice.  






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