March '05 Archive

03-31-05 - Oppose Senate Resolution Undermining International Court of Justice?s Opinion

03-31-05 - Seven dead in West Bank car crash

03-31-05 - Palestinian mob burns police tents in West Bank

03-31-05 - Sharon Plan Looking Like Border Blueprint Citing fierce domestic opposition to disengagement, Israel has quietly asked the United States to refrain from criticizing it about settlement expansion or any other issue until after the pullouts are complete this summer, Israeli officials confirmed.

03-31-05 - Palestinian intelligence chief quits

03-31-05 - Priest recalls violent origins of Land Day

03-31-05 - Abbas orders crackdown on gunmen

03-31-05 - Palestinians pass reform budget THE Palestinian parliament passed a 2005 budget today meant to encourage economic reforms and accountability after the corruption tainted rule of late President Yasser Arafat.

03-31-05 - Palestinians want to return to The Hague PA reportedly plans international campaign to pressure Israel into abandoning security fence

03-31-05 - Palestinian PM calls for serious peace talks with Israel

03-31-05 - Rabbis urge Israeli troops to desert and thwart Gaza pullout

03-31-05 - Hell in Hebron

03-31-05 - Praying in Hebron, a nightmare for Palestinians Last week the army evicted two Palestinian families from their homes backing onto the Tomb to use it as an observation post during the Jewish carnival of Purim

03-31-05 - Jerusalem patriarch apologises for mistakes, insists he will not resign

03-31-05 - PCHR is concerned at the ongoing security chaos

03-31-05 - Religious Leaders Launch United Campaign Against ?World Pride 2005? Gay Festival

03-31-05 - Bank probe reaches Russian mogul Israel has had a chequered reputation in dealing with dirty money, and till 2002 was on an international blacklist of money laundering havens.

03-31-05 - Militant rampage raises questions about Abbas's control

03-31-05 - FBI at crossroads in probe of pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC

03-31-05 - Arab Soccer Players Rescue Israeli Team Kafr Kassem -"mishap"? By the time the shooting stopped that evening in 1956, Israeli troops had killed 49 peaceable residents, half of them women and children, in the village of Kafr Kassem, about 10 miles east of Tel Aviv

03-31-05 - Tuwani: Poison Pellets Kill More Sheep

03-31-05 - Papal candidate gives pro-Zionist talk

03-31-05 - Palestinian charges Ateret Cohanim with forging documents A Palestinian resident of Jerusalem who says he worked as a front man for Ateret Cohanim has charged that the yeshiva - known for its attempts to buy lands from Palestinians - is forging documents in order to grab lands in East Jerusalem.

03-31-05 - Mofaz hints UAV deal with China may be dropped He did not rule out that the Harpy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deal with China might be abandoned under US pressure.

03-31-05 - A Special Investigation In 1985, he resigned his major?s commission with the Israeli army and emigrated to South Africa to work for a Jewish charity serving the Orthodox community in Cape Town. Karni?s ?rst four years in the country were spent educating Jewish youth and encouraging them to relocate to Israel, according to an article the Israeli newspaper Ha?aretz published shortly after his arrest

03-31-05 - Israel has to return Palestinian lands: Abbas

03-31-05 - Gaza pullout would be implemented unarmed: Israeli security chief

03-31-05 - Palestinians to launch campaign to defend Jerusalem

03-31-05 - Sharansky's right wing politics paraded as "Democratic" Avnery records that earlier as Housing Minister, Sharansky had ?systematically enlarged the settlements on expropriated Arab land in the West Bank, trampling on the human and national rights of the Palestinians.?

03-31-05 - The isolation of Jerusalem, another catastrophe

03-31-05 - Yom al-Ard in Bethlehem

03-31-05 - Transport Ministry Wants Rail Link to Gaza and Jenin to Get National Priority

03-31-05 - Man found guilty in Daytona Beach murder

03-31-05 - Potential Costs of Gaza Pullout

03-31-05 - World Council of Churches concerned about Israeli actions in Jerusalem

03-31-05 - Syria urges Muslims and Arabs to unite against Israel's conspiracies Syria on Thursday called on Islamic and Arab states to maintain vigilance and unity against Israel's conspiracies to divide them

03-31-05 - Durbin open to direct aid to Palestinians

03-31-05 - Somerville's New Divestment Row The issue of divestment in Somerville was brought sharply back in the public eye again this week after the city's pro-divestment organization met to discuss adding a question about divestment from Israel on the city's ballot this November.

03-31-05 - A Jerusalem hospital embodies spirit of cooperation

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03-30-05 - 3 Palestinians wounded in anti-wall demonstration near Hebron

03-30-05 - Palestinians fire at Abbas compound

03-30-05 - Palestinian women 'have suffered most in intifada' The report lambasts Israel for failing to allow sick and especially pregnant women access to medical care across checkpoints and suggests that some of the worst devastation wrought by the army's demolition of more than 4,000 homes since the Palestinian uprising began in September 2000 has been inflicted on women.

03-30-05 - Israel/Occupied Territories: New report reveals misery of Palestinian women's lives under occupation

03-30-05 - US treading delicate line on Israeli settlements Washington has sought to ease Palestinian anger over Israeli expansion plans on the West Bank without putting too much pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as he prepares a crucial pullout from Gaza

03-30-05 - Columbia Panel Reports No Proof of Anti-Semitism

03-30-05 - Israel's Arab minority marks Land Day The Arab minority in Israel commemorated annual Land Day to protest against ongoing discrimination and appropriation of their land by the Jewish majority

03-30-05 - Dahlan urges Israel to remove X-ray checking equipment at Rafah crossing "We have informed the Israeli side if these machines are not removed we will prevent the Palestinians from travelling through the crossing to protect their health,"

03-30-05 - The battle for the capital Even a disinterested onlooker can see that the elimination of East Jerusalem as a metropolitan center for its Arab hinterlands is now proceeding apace

03-30-05 - Sleepwalking to disaster in Iran John Bolton has made a career out of alienating the Russians.

03-30-05 - How did Jewish settlements begin? It's a secret "We do not reveal such materials because this whole issue of the settlement in the territories has entered a very problematic area of discussions or contact with the Palestinians," Tsur is cited as having said. "You know very well that the settlers did not enter a vacuum, and this certainly touches upon the contacts with the Palestinians. And you see what's happening in the outside world with the whole story about the fence. These are very delicate subjects, very problematic, and I am certain that you don't want to be the one to open these problems to the outside world."

03-30-05 - Israel: Militants Aren't Being Disarmed With the toppling of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Israel considers Iran and its potential nuclear arsenal the gravest threat to its security

03-30-05 - Jewish Settlers Urged to Give Up Weapons

03-30-05 - Church land deal enrages Palestinians "When we take those [buildings] away from the Palestinians we're saying no - those footholds and strongholds are not going to be in your hands forever and ever," Homeland party member Uri Bank said.

03-30-05 - The planned chaos of illegal settlement outposts

03-30-05 - Nazi Graffiti Sprayed on Grave in Israel

03-30-05 - Israel doubts Egyptians will halt weapons to Palestinians

03-30-05 - Report by Palestinian Christians urges sanctions against Israel The churches have exhausted all other options with Israel," said Rev. Toll, stating that Sabeel's international patron, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has consistently compared the South African apartheid system to Israel's segmentation of the West Bank and its 'illegal wall' being built around Palestinian areas creating prison-like cantons.

03-30-05 - Woman 'horrified' after trip to West Bank

03-30-05 - Israel honors Egyptian spies 50 years after fiasco As unmentioned by author, the targets of these Israeli spies were AMERICAN, not 'foreign'

03-30-05 - Ultra-nationalist Jews banned from sacred Jerusalem compound

03-30-05 - Mofaz trying to rehabilitate defense industry relations with US Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz will meet senior Bush administration officials in Washington today. In meetings with US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, Mofaz will try to resolve disagreements between the US and Israeli defense establishments over Israel's military ties with China.

03-30-05 - Third Palestinian-European Conference on Israel Apartheid Wall Opens

03-30-05 - Refugees saddened by Hansen's departure "After you leave us, we will be like orphans," said a Palestinian mother whose daughter Noran al-Deeb, a pupil at one of the UNRWA's refugee schools, was shot dead inside her classroom in Rafah.

03-30-05 - Revelations from an Insider The question is: Will it be Israel as Cheney prepared us for recently who makes the attack, or will it be us?

03-30-05 - Manhattan's Friends of the Israel Defense Forces

03-30-05 - A new school for Palestinian children thanks to the Saudi Fund for Development

03-30-05 - The Bloody Paths to Crawford, Texas "The truth is that our one-sided relationship with Israel has only created more enemies for us in the Islamic World and more opportunities for terrorist attacks on our interests."

03-30-05 - New Tack In Divestment War And in another escalation of the fight over economic sanctions on Israel, a prominent Jewish group has started to purchase stocks in companies that could be targets of divestment campaigns.

03-30-05 - Top UK band to visit Palestine

03-30-05 - Intl. peace groups call for Israeli goods boycott It's illegal for American citizens to boycott Israeli products

03-30-05 - Pettigrew disappointed by Israel Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew issued a statement last Wednesday saying Canada was ?disappointed? by Israel?s move to build some 3,500 new homes in Ma?aleh Adumim, a community on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

03-30-05 - Israel-Palestinian business collaboration resuming after 4 years

03-30-05 - Israel's settlements

03-30-05 - SA has a better understanding of Israel, says Sharanksy Relations reached a low point last year when South Africa was one of the few countries in the world to make a formal submission to the International Court of Justice at The Hague against the security wall that Israel was building between itself and the Palestinian Authority.

03-30-05 - Judge tosses suit over L.A. airport terror The Justice Department determined that Hadayet, 41, had acted alone and called the shooting an act of terrorism related to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

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03-29-05 - Israeli soldiers injure Palestinian brothers near Nablus as refugee camp stormed

03-29-05 - B'Tselem: Israel maintaining 'strangulation' policy in Gaza Strip The report, titled "One Big Prison," documents what the organization says are Israel's violations of human rights and international law in the Gaza Strip

03-29-05 - Sharon wins vital vote on budget

03-29-05 - Gaza 'still closed' despite truce

03-29-05 - Hamas recruit: I was trained in militant camp in Syria Osama Mattar, now in Israeli custody

03-29-05 - Palestinians "could bring down aircrafts"

03-29-05 - American Jewish Congress Launches Campaign to Fight Divestment and Threats to Israel's Economy

03-29-05 - Israel is among the holocaust deniers Israel has never recognized the murder of the Armenian people, and in effect lent a hand to the deniers of that genocide

03-29-05 - Abbas optimistic militants can join Palestinian mainstream

03-29-05 - Jewish Settlers Warn of Violence

03-29-05 - Ambulances transport Israeli troops

03-29-05 - Dispatch of survey team to Israel and the Palestinian Autonomous Areas The Government of Japan will dispatch a survey team to Israel and the Palestinian Autonomous Areas to support the Palestinian effort to achieve economic self-support.

03-29-05 - 10,000 Activists to Temple Mount Next Month

03-29-05 - Palestinian and Israeli peace activists stand trial

03-29-05 - Michigan residents fight Israel's efforts to confiscate land

03-29-05 - Arab trade unions urge Israel to stop settlement process

03-29-05 - Israel Builds a New Segment of the Wall

03-29-05 - IDF Colonel fears settlers' fury

03-29-05 - PNA appeals to UN on Israel's settlement expansion

03-29-05 - Kaddoumi claims Israel poisoned Arafat

03-29-05 - Police to bar Temple Mt. gathering such an event could prompt Palestinian violence at the bitterly contested holy site

03-29-05 - Palestinian Land Day Demonstrations Against Wall

03-29-05 - BBC reporting doesn't tell the whole story I don't think the institutional press like the BBC, which is terribly important in this country ... I don't think it has got the nerve to tell the story the way it is

03-29-05 - Source: Only U.S. can help on Polish property

03-29-05 - Embattled Arab-Israeli soccer star turns into national hero "I respect Israel," he said. "I only hope that Israelis will respect Arabs."

03-29-05 - Palestine: Women?s March to Polluted Wadi Qana Wadi Qana, a valley full of natural springs and perfect land for citrus plants, was so polluted by the surrounding settlements that its 350 residents were forced to leave in 1986 and move to the village of Deir Istya

03-29-05 - Visit by pro-Israeli prof causes uproar at UofT

03-29-05 - Israeli euphoria over Lebanon starts to wear off

03-29-05 - Palestinians bring back stray Israeli soldier

03-29-05 - ADL to Release New Poll on Anti-Semitism in America During ADL Meeting in Washington, D.C.

03-29-05 - Google deletes Hamas ad Google Spokeswoman Debbie Frost said the advertisement was a breach of the search engine?s policy and was therefore removed

03-29-05 - AIPAC betrayed US spies to Iran?

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03-28-05 - Car explodes in Gaza, several people wounded A car that drove in Gaza City that belongs to a Palestinian lawyer suddenly exploded on Monday night in one of the main city streets, wounding at least two Palestinians that were in the car

03-28-05 - Jerusalem Patriarch must go, says Palestinian Authority diplomat A Greek diplomatic source told AFP Monday that a Greek foreign ministry delegation sent to Jerusalem last week to help investigate the land sale controversy is preparing a report noting Patriarch Irineos I's failure to give useful information

03-28-05 - Palestinians call for immediate political negotiations Continued Israeli theft of Palestinian land is a constant signal to Palestinians that the current Israeli government has no intention to fulfill the vision of two-states or to live within recognised and secured borders."

03-28-05 - IDF said changing its checkpoint policy In recent weeks, Border Police at the "Container" checkpoint have either barred passage to East Jerusalem residents heading to Bethlehem, or have warned them that on their return, they will be summoned for questioning.

03-28-05 - Israel plans to retain control over northern West Bank Israeli authorities plan to dismantle some of these settlements and build new ones in their place

03-28-05 - Abbas's Fatah to hold primaries in reform move

03-28-05 - PM: We can't expect explicit U.S. okay to build in settlements

03-28-05 - Malaysian PM calls for int'l campaign against Israel An international campaign similar to the one against South Africa's former apartheid policy is needed to create an independent Palestinian state existing peacefully with Israel, the Malaysian prime minister said Monday

03-28-05 - 'Fence hinders religious freedom' The U.S. State Department?s annual human rights and democracy report says Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as the route of the separation fence, hinder Christian and Muslim Palestinians from reaching their places of worship.

03-28-05 - West Bank: Israeli Soldier Wounded, Islamic Jihad Members Arrested

03-28-05 - Remember Baruch Goldstein once again, we are witnessing intensive violent activity whose goal is to fan the flames of hatred between Arabs and Jews

03-28-05 - Settlers warn of civil war over Gaza withdrawal

03-28-05 - Gaza withdrawal violates U.S. law? This is rich. The utter hypocrisy shines through once again.

03-28-05 - Hamas pledges retaliation for Jewish attack on al Aqsa Mosque Several Jewish groups had threatened to break into al Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem on April 10, in case Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implements his disengagement plan

03-28-05 - PLO to mull militant groups joining - Islamic Jihad "It is necessary to follow up these issues with them (militants) so that we can push forward calm and the political process," or peace talks with Israel, Abbas said

03-28-05 - Budget for cancer mapping doesn't extend to Arab sector Ghanem presents data collected by the Israel Center for Disease Control, which shows that in the past three decades the rate of malignant diseases in the Arab population has risen by 97.8 percent among men, and 123 percent among women, as opposed to a rise of 39.8 percent for men and 24.4 percent for women among the Jewish population.

03-28-05 - Israel turns Qissaria mosque into a nightclub

03-28-05 - Jordan quizzes Orthodox Church head

03-28-05 - Palestinian peace conference kicks off in Malaysia

03-28-05 - Knesset rejects Gaza referendum Parliament in Israel has rejected a bill to delay the country's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

03-28-05 - Their best defence Israel has no choice but to withdraw from the West Bank - not to indulge the Palestinians but to save itself

03-28-05 - A European Student's Experience at Columbia several Israeli Ministries have been involved in an active campaign to "promote pro-Israel activism on American campuses".

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03-27-05 - Army to confiscate lands west of Bethlehem

03-27-05 - 'Our lives have become hell' Palestinian villagers have endured three days of harassment by settlers from nearby community, local council member tells Ynet

03-27-05 - Israeli minister heads to US to criticise Palestinian security record

03-27-05 - Israel delays handover of town

03-27-05 - US agrees with Israel on West Bank settlement growth: Rice "American policy remains unchanged in accordance with the roadmap, but I just wanted to make certain that everyone understood what the April 14th agreement is,"

03-27-05 - PM: Israel will retain settlement blocs Israel prefers to sidestep the issue of the settlement blocs of Ma'aleh Adumim, Ariel, Gush Etzion and the Jerusalem "envelope," and to continue massive construction in these areas, without reaching an explicit understanding with the United States. So far there has been no agreed-upon definition of the concept of "settlement blocs," or of their boundaries.

03-27-05 - Palestinians Accused of Arms Smuggling

03-27-05 - Palestinians: Israel tries to weaken Abbas

03-27-05 - Israel brings 3 million settlers into Negev and Galilee With the support of Washington, an Israeli ministerial committee plans to pour some three million Jewish settlers to the Negev and Galileo regions during the coming five years

03-27-05 - U.S. Sticking to Bush Assurances to Sharon - Rice

03-27-05 - Sharon: U.S. Settlement Policy Is Clear

03-27-05 - Abbas Chides U.S., Israel on Settlements

03-27-05 - Palestinians say any Israeli retention of settlements 'unacceptable' "This will destroy the peace process... it will destroy President Bush's two state solution,"

03-27-05 - Israel to PA:Remove anti-aircraft missiles

03-27-05 - Mid-East peace song is broadcast

03-27-05 - Christians Celebrate Easter in Jerusalem with this year's celebrations coinciding with the Jewish Festival of Purim, the Israeli military imposed general travel restrictions on Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza from Wednesday through Sunday, steering many Christians away from requesting permission to travel to Jerusalem

03-27-05 - Syria, Tunisia vow adherence to Arab peace initiative

03-27-05 - Secret talks to bring troops from Jordan

03-27-05 - Abbas to visit Arab, European countries before heading to US

03-27-05 - Jewish settler arrested for vandalism in Palestinian village

03-27-05 - New PA Economics Minister Sunuqrut: We want cooperation with Israel

03-27-05 - Palestinian prisoners plan hunger-strike The prisoners will implement the hunger-strike to improve their living conditions in the prison and to press the administration to change its policy against the prisoners.

03-27-05 - Did soldiers sell rifle to terrorists? Military Police interrogating two IDF soldiers on suspicion of selling weapon to a Palestinian

03-27-05 - After dominating Palestinian life for four decades, Arafat fades into past

03-27-05 - Turkish technical delegation tours Palestine

03-27-05 - Palestinian Christians angry over property sale The head of the Greek Orthodox Church has denied these claims, but his detractors say he also denied a similar story several years ago that he sold land to Israelis who, not long afterwards, starting bulldozing a hilltop and building an Israeli settlement in Palestinian territory.

03-27-05 - Arab Israelis barred from using Road 557 to enter West Bank

03-27-05 - Israeli girl soldier, Palestinian elope

03-27-05 - E-1: the end of a viable Palestinian state "Security" has nothing to do with Israel's expansionist policies. Successive Israeli governments did not establish 200 settlements because of security. Nor did they build a massive infrastructure of Israeli-only highways that link the settlement blocs irreversibly into Israel for security reasons. Nor can the route of the Separation Barrier, nor the policy of expropriating Palestinian land and systematically demolishing Palestinian homes be explained by "security."

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03-26-05 - Palestinians decry settler attacks The Palestinian Authority has urged the international sponsors of the peace process to pressure the Israeli government to stop attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villagers.

03-26-05 - Old fears haunt Lebanon camps "I'm frightened, frightened to death. If we are disarmed, who's going to take care of us?,"

03-26-05 - No US agreement on West Bank settlement growth: Rice "There is at this point a desire to understand that better, so that we can understand better what a settlement freeze might really mean." In a follow-up phone call to the Post, Rice added that the US administration had had "discussions about steps toward a settlement freeze" but "we've never reached closure on that -- it's complicated."

3-25 - Two Palestinian hikers drown in Nahal Arugot Two Palestinian teens who were hiking in the Nahal Arugot area near Masada drowned Friday. The two were part of a group of 10 teens from the village of Beni Na?eem near Hebron.

03-26-05 - Rice adds fuel to debate over future of West Bank Jewish settlements

03-26-05 - Jewish settlements are not legal: Abbas Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday that the Palestinians' attitude toward Jewish settlements will never change, considering building of settlements on the Palestinian lands "illegal and unacceptable."

03-26-05 - Expansion of settlements is killing roadmap: Palestinian official

03-26-05 - Quraya seeks US clarification Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya has urged the United States to clarify its position on Israeli settlements after apparently conflicting statements by top US officials.

03-26-05 - Palestinian star calls for faster reform

03-26-05 - No disengagement in Samaria Although the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the disengagement from northern Samaria are supposed to take place simultaneously, many people - mainly the Palestinians - will be surprised to discover that the situation in the field will be entirely different.

03-26-05 - Freeze This Settlement

03-26-05 - Sharon wins vital budget backing

03-26-05 - U.S., Israel preparing

03-26-05 - Children of the shadows The criteria, designed to keep the number of eligible children at a minimum and prevent the inclusion of Palestinian children, include: birth in Israel, initial legal entry by their parents - either as tourists or workers, age between 10 and 18, and knowledge of Hebrew

03-26-05 - Purim in Yitzhar: Throwing stones at Palestinians and calling soldiers Nazis

03-26-05 - Russia "concerned" over Israel settlement plans

03-26-05 - AIPAC Probe / AIPAC works to preserve clout in U.S.

03-26-05 - Ex-MI6 man starts US-Hamas talks

03-26-05 - Plan to get militants to give up guns a shrewd compromise

03-26-05 - Hamas divides over truce with Israel

03-26-05 - Arabs Donate $101 Million To Palestine Fund

03-26-05 - Dispute over water keeps pot boiling Israel's 425-mile security barrier being built in the West Bank to keep out terrorists aggravates the vexing contretemps. It has created a sharp reduction of Palestinian water supplies...To keep the pot boiling, Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon recently announced a new barrier will be built around the Gaza Strip before the withdrawal of Jewish settlers in July. Naem Baroud of Gaza's Islamic University charges, ''This will devastate farmlands and reservoirs''

03-26-05 - Settlers stone soldiers No one was hurt in the incident but several Palestinian homes were damaged.

03-26-05 - Sports ; Golf event to raise funds for Palestinian students:

03-26-05 - Analysis / Sharon, Bush and the settlements One again, Sharon came out on top, and paid neither a domestic nor an international price for his critical decisions to strengthen the "blocs."

03-26-05 - BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

03-26-05 - The AIPAC Investigation -- Current State of Play

03-26-05 - FROM WANNABE SUICIDE BOMBER TO FOOTBALLER

03-26-05 - The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present The authors then proceed to explain how the relationship between the United States and Israel violates Washington's warning and proves all his predictions of the consequences of a "Passionate attachment."

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3-25 - Palestinians under attack from settlers In the latest incident, Israeli settlers in Yitzhar near Nablus attacked the Palestinian village of Asira al-Kabaliya. The mob threw stones at Israeli security forces when they sought to intervene.

3-25 - Five residents, including two children hurt in Bodrus

3-25 - 'Border Guard dumped boy in field' West Bank Palestinian town residents say Border Guard troops provoked local children, severely beat man during raid

3-25 - US firmly backs Israel's right to keep large settlement blocs

3-25 - U.S. Reiterates Support for Israel Plan The U.S. ambassador on Friday reaffirmed Washington's support for Israel to retain major West Bank settlements under any Middle East peace deal just days after Israel announced plans to expand a settlement outside Jerusalem

3-25 - U.S. urges Israel to stop settlement expansion

3-25 - U.S. policy on West Bank is unclear Kurtzer later called Sharon, told him he was misquoted and reiterated the existing U.S. policy,

3-25 - Activists report attack by Israelis The mother of a Louisville woman says her daughter and another Louisville resident were attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron and later arrested by Israeli police.

3-25 - Israel expropriates more land for settlements near Qalqilia

3-25 - Israel halts transfer of cities to PA

3-25 - US denies any accord with Israel over large settlement blocs

3-25 - Planned Jewish rally worries Jordan hardliners discussed sending thousands of Jews to the Haram al-Sharif, or Nobel Sanctuary, in order to draw Israeli army and police away from evicting settlers from Gaza and the northern West Bank.

3-25 - FBI probe into leaked secrets takes aim at AIPAC

3-25 - Thousands rally in Gaza to remember Sheikh Yassin

3-25 - Rehearsals for the Rapture Christian Zionists have been longtime and uncompromising supporters of Israel. For some fundamentalist Christians, this support is motivated by a belief in the "end-times" ? a series of events that takes place in Israel after the Jews have returned and solidified their hold on the territory.

3-25 - Israel can't use US equipment to violate Gaza residents' human rights That's the settlers' rights. Palestinians get the full treatment.

3-25 - EU Accuses Israel of Breaching Peace Road Map

3-25 - Russia concerned about Israel plans to build settlements

3-25 - Gaza settlers grow defiant

3-25 - Ottawa teachers suspended over anti-Jewish essay One teacher praised a student essay about martyrdom and killing Israeli soldiers and another helped with the artwork.

3-25 - 4th annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival 2005, April 15-May 3

3-25 - OLD BEAR RUSSIA BULLISH ON ISRAEL There has also been secret cooperation between Israel and Russia on the terrorism problem that has vexed both countries. In one case, when Israel helped Russia with a vital problem against terrorists, Putin called Sharon and told him "I love you" ? in Russian, a language that Sharon speaks.

3-25 - Jordan: Christ. protest church land sale in J'lem More than 1,000 Orthodox Christians in Jordan held a vigil here on Friday to protest the reported sale of church land in the holy city of Jerusalem to Jewish organizations.

3-25 - 'Discovering the Network' Israeli spies, defended by Plaut in the pages of Frontpage ? is this what passes for "patriotic" conservatism these days?

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3-24 - US won't fight PM over housing plan

3-24 - Israeli plans to expand settlement not final: US The reported comments contradicted an assertion by a Sharon aide who said the Israeli prime minister had told the Americans that government approval for the development was "final."

3-24 - Amnesty: Time to act on removal of unlawful Israeli settlements

3-24 - Top UN Aide Urges Israel Halt Settlement Expansion

3-24 - Palestinians Seek to Block Settlement Senior Palestinian officials on Thursday asked two U.S. envoys to help block the expansion of the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank, saying it endangers peace prospects and isolates east Jerusalem

3-24 - An ancient Palestinian village struggles to survive Israeli settlement expansion and settler violence

3-24 - Israel to ask US for $500-700m in disengagement aid

3-24 - Israel?s separation barrier affects half a million Palestinians ? Report They also said that about 130,000 Palestinian children may not be immunized once the wall is finished.

3-24 - Canada "disappointed" at Israeli settlement expansion Pettigrew argued that the plan was inconsistent with international law and the internationally-backed roadmap towards peace between Israel and the Palestinians

3-24 - Greek Orthodox Patriarch again denies alleged Jerusalem land sale

3-24 - UK refuses records on Jenin death "Surely the interests of a British citizen should take precedence over our relations with Israel,"

3-24 - Israel women trafficking soars The report described how the women are sold at public auctions for as much as $10,000 and forced to work up to 18 hours a day.

3-24 - Jordanian diplomacy falters on Palestine, Syria and Iraq

3-24 - Gaddafi "idiot" remark riles Palestinians

3-24 - Arab League Seeks Israeli Concessions "You cannot give everything to Israel with nothing in return,"

3-24 - The rabbi who pricks Israel's conscience There is a false equation that if you voice any criticism of Israel you are delegitimising Israel at some level. I believe the opposite."

3-24 - Israel Arab charged for club bomb An Israeli Arab has been charged with murder for his role in a suicide bomb attack that killed five Israelis at a Tel Aviv night club last month.

3-24 - Commission on Human Rights continues debate on violations in occupied Arab territories (2/2)

3-24 - Shot by mistake ?It is a classic ?shoot-and-cry? situation,? Ahmed Tibi said, ?But in this case the army doesn?t want to pay up. We?ve asked the army to at least expedite the hospital payment, and we haven?t even begun to speak about damages. But things are just going nowhere.?

3-24 - 'Far right radicalizing' In a briefing to reporters, the source pointed to a recent increase in disturbances perpetrated by settlers, who are targeting both Palestinians and IDF soldiers.

3-24 - Party under way at murderer's gravesite

3-24 - Gazans may be barred from TA flights "If Israel totally withdraws troops from Gaza and the Egyptians take over the control over the border with Egypt, then maybe we won't let them use the Ben-Gurion Airport,"

3-24 - Palestinian heroes remembered Palestinian Land Day is marked every year on March 30. It commemorates the killing of six Palestinians 29 years ago by Israeli security forces as they were protesting against the seizure of Palestinian land.

3-24 - Gaza plan leaves luxury home headache

3-24 - Israeli entrepreneurs train to enter U.S. homeland security market

3-24 - Rice Warns Israel Against Settlement Expansion

3-24 - An Israeli detour

3-24 - A step backward Our position: The U.S. can help Mideast peace by pushing Sharon to cancel expansion move.

3-24 - ISRAEL FLOUTS ROADMAP WHILE THE PALESTINIANS TOW THE LINE

3-24 - Arbitrator: Reactor workers cannot blame cancer on radiation

3-24 - George Washington, Jonathan Pollard and the Jews Report: Pollard stole 10-volume intelligence 'Bible'

3-24 - Yukos oil fugitives find safe haven in the promised land For the Russian government, they are allegedly dangerous criminals who have made off with billions in unpaid taxes and are wanted on charges that range from embezzlement to murder. For Israel, they are potential valued investors in the country's slowly reviving economy.

3-24 - Protesters target Caterpillar dealer ''It is ironic that these activists in Milford are protesting the sale of Caterpillar equipment to Israel at a time when Israel has decided to cease this practice of house demolitions," Israel is still demolishing homes 2 3

3-24 - French goalie refuses to play in Israel

3-24 - Caterpillar distributor is asked to join protest against sales to Israel

3-24 - Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle

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3-23 - Settlers Attack and Later Threaten Palestinian Shepherds Five masked settlers with sticks attacked the Palestinian family, injuring two women.

3-23 - Ma'on Settlers Invade Palestinian Land

3-23 - Poison Pellets spread on hillside where Palestinian sheep graze The contaminated site is the same area where Palestinians farmers and herders were attacked on Saturday March 19th by twelve settlers from the Ma 'on outpost.

3-23 - Israel rejects Arab peace initiative

3-23 - Libyan leader grabs summit limelight, calls Palestinians 'idiots' "The Israelis are idiots and the Palestinians as well," Kadhafi said

3-23 - Country cracks down on foreign Arab presence Most deeply alarmed are Palestinians, whose community in Iraq numbers more than 30,000, most of them in Baghdad. Many came here in 1948, when the British mandate in Palestine ended and the state of Israel was created. "By existing law, almost all of them could be deported," said a senior U.S. official

3-23 - 15 families surrounded, totally isolated in the Gaza Strip

3-23 - UN Official Urges Israel Free Jailed Palestinians He also urged the international community to pressure Israel to dismantle the wall being built on occupied territory, ruled illegal by the U.N.'s International Court of Justice.

3-23 - United States Urges U.N. Human Rights Body Not To Target Israel

3-23 - Israeli army seals off West Bank and Gaza

3-23 - Palm Sunday Procession Challenges Checkpoint Palestinian residents of Bethlehem are not allowed to enter Jerusalem for any reason including, on this Palm Sunday, to worship

3-23 - Sharon survives key budget vote

3-23 - Transfer of West Bank cities jeopardised by Palestinians: Mofaz Mofaz's comments stood in stark contrast to comments made a day earlier by a senior Israeli intelligence official who praised Palestinian security efforts, saying they had prevented as many militant attacks as the Israeli security forces

3-23 - UN rights expert praises Israeli progress in territories, urges more Israel is still demolishing homes 2 3

3-23 - Syria envoy wants U.S., Israel to withdraw troops too

3-23 - Arabs avoid summit controversy, renew Israel peace offer Israel "does not deserve that we extend to it our hand" in peace, Mussa told a post-summit news conference, accusing the Jewish state of continuing to build settlements on Palestinian land.

3-23 - Athens opposes 'Arabisation' of Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem In Ramallah, on the West Bank, Palestinian MPs -- furious at the alleged sale of Jerusalem land to Jewish investors by the Greek patriarchy -- voted Tuesday for Arab Orthodox Christians to secede from the Greek patriarchy

3-23 - Religious heads call for protection of Jerusalem shrines

3-23 - Palestinians Worried About Unemployment, Poverty

3-23 - China calls for international support for Mideast peace process

3-23 - Gov?t says Yesha under belligerent occupation state representatives Osnat Mandel and Yuval Roitman wrote that "the areas of Judea and Samaria and the area of the Gaza Strip have been held by Israel since the Six Day War and until today in belligerent occupation"

3-23 - UN Investigator: Violence Down in Palestinian-Occupied Territories However, Mr. Dugard says these changes fail to address the main violations of human rights in the occupied territories

3-23 - Jerusalem Patriarch Sees Obstacles to Peace on Both Sides

3-23 - Palestinians fume over British Consulate security wall

3-23 - Thousands of women smuggled into Israel for sex trade

3-23 - British Ambassador Sends EU Message Britain is actively trying to persuade European Union member states to freeze all of Hizbullah's assets, including those of its political and social wing, following a change in government policy, British Ambassador Simon McDonald told The Jerusalem Post Tuesday. The shift followed Prime Minister Tony Blair's meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem in December

3-23 - Human rights dynamo backs Corries' suit against Caterpillar

3-23 - Israel not a favoured business location

3-23 - Song of hope

3-23 - Neocons Concentrate on Promoting U.S.-Iran War

3-23 - Life, Sustenance and Love: The Ambulance, the Olive Tree and Feras

3-23 - Control order flaws exposed The Palestinian refugee, who was held for three-and-a-half years, says he cannot understand the double standards of the order, and said it was further exacerbating his psychiatric difficulties.

3-23 - Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Defends Activists in Tradition of Langer, Tsemel "Jenin, Jenin." It screened only three times in Israel before the film board decreed it a piece of propaganda that would upset the Israelis and lead them to think their soldiers intentionally commit war crimes

3-23 - The Americans are going too far A high-ranking Pentagon official declared that Israel has to choose between the U.S. and China, an outlandish comment that deserves no response.

3-23 - Ridiculous and sublime Jerusalem, the site of Christ's death and resurrection, has long mixed religious spirituality with an all too human capacity for earthly nonsense

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3-22 - Israeli Troops Wound Two Palestinian Boys in West Bank

3-22 - Palestinian teachers seek better pay Thousands of Palestinian public school teachers have staged protests against low salaries and deteriorating living conditions.

3-22 - U.S. Seeks 'Clarification' on New Israel Settlements

3-22 - Hebron Palestinians: Settlers attempted to poison our sheep The settlers reportedly dispersed contaminated feed over a 30 dunam (seven acre) area.

3-22 - 'Hizbullah, Syria planning attack' Jordan's King Abdullah says terror plot aims to elicit Israeli response in bid to distract attention from Syrian problems in Lebanon

3-22 - US pressuring Israel over settlements

3-22 - Greek Orthodox church mired in Jerusalem land row

3-22 - Rabbi guilty of blocking police A Jerusalem rabbi has been found guilty by an Israeli court of trying to prevent the demolition of illegally built Palestinian homes.

3-22 - Israel imposes full closure on W. Bank, Gaza over Purim

3-22 - Palestinians 'foiling militants'

3-22 - Critical dispute over Jerusalem real estate "This puts the entire peace process in jeopardy."

3-22 - Israel must 'give up occupied land'

3-22 - Arab summit to renew Israel offer

3-22 - Putin urges Israel to back Arab peace initiatives

3-22 - Israel has no intention of striking Iranian nuclear sites: Sharon

3-22 - Caterpillar: Making a Killing in Palestine?

3-22 - Settlement restrictions don't faze activists

3-22 - Congress' Bad Behavior The bizarre nature of these one-sided anti-Palestinian provisions were noted by a number of commentators, especially since they are far more restrictive than any passed by Congress during Yasser Arafat?s tenure as PA President, and represent a dramatic challenge by anti-peace supporters of Israel among the Democrats and far-right Republicans to efforts being taken by President Bush to show support for the new Palestinian leadership.

3-22 - Arab Summit Asked to Protect Palestine's Holy Places

3-22 - 'Youngsters willing to go to jail'

3-22 - Putin due in April for historic visit

3-22 - The Vision of a Blind Woman Ms. Al-Hissi, was shot by an Israeli soldier while she was six years old. One week after the shooting, she lost sight in one eye. Four years later, she completely lost her eyesight.

3-22 - The passionate minority and the silenced majority

3-22 - Growing pains "I was shocked by what's been going on. I had no idea what Israel was doing to the Palestinians."

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3-21 - Israel's New Jerusalem Plan Angers Palestinians "Israel is responsible for any consequences resulting from this continuous violation of the road map," he said. "I don't think the Palestinian leadership and people can tolerate this."

3-21 - AP: Palestinians Restrict Weapons Use

3-21 - Trees Uprooted, Residents Attempting To Intervene A private Israeli company working near the village of Bil'in, in the western Ramallah area, is in the process of uprooting over 80 olive trees from the villagers' land now located on the western side of Israel's Separation Barrier.

3-21 - Handover of West Bank city agreed

3-21 - New settlements will close door to peace, warn Palestinians "If the issue of Jerusalem, the issue of borders, the issue of water and the issue of settlements are determined by the Israeli wall and settlements, what is left for negotiation? How do you translate President Bush's two-state solution to a realistic political track, while the land that's supposed to constitute a Palestinian state is eaten up by settlements and walls?"

3-21 - Palestinians saves millions of dollars in corruption clampdown: minister

3-21 - Israel plans new West Bank homes - paper Israel plans to build 3,500 new homes on occupied West Bank land for a residential complex connecting a major Jewish settlement to Jerusalem

3-21 - Israel will continue to expand largest West Bank settlements The Israeli authorities are preparing to revive plans to link Maale Adumim to Jewish settlements in Arab east-Jerusalem, occupied since 1967

3-21 - Jordan MP's want Jerusalem patriarch out

3-21 - Bethlehem bloggers online

3-21 - Israel's Gazan spies included in pullback - source

3-21 - N Zealand 'should take in Vanunu' New Zealand's Green Party has called for former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu to be offered a New Zealand passport.

3-21 - Choosing Wolfowitz definitely benefits Israel The World Bank will be supervising the implementation of hundreds of million of dollars worth of projects to rebuild Gaza

3-21 - Outside View: Syria's question to Condoleezza

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3-20 - West Bank: Israeli, Palestinian wounded in two incidents

3-20 - Hebron settlers stepping up attacks Meanwhile Sunday, four settlers were arrested by police after they allegedly attacked a group of Palestinian farmers working in a field near Nablus.

3-20 - Last-minute hitch emerges to West Bank town handover In a move that is also likely to raise tension, Israeli authorities have given the green light for the construction of more than 3,500 new homes in the West Bank east of Jerusalem.

3-20 - Israel, Palestinians Deadlock on Handover Palestinians opened fire on Israeli police and soldiers searching for stolen cars in the Amari refugee camp next to the West Bank city of Ramallah, the military said, wounding two, one critically... But Hamas and Islamic Jihad conditioned their support on Israel's stopping all military operations against the Palestinians. Israel has promised to honor the truce if quiet continues.

3-20 - New evidence of Israeli West Bank expansion Aerial photographs by Israel's defence ministry have provided fresh evidence that the government is continuing its rapid expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank despite public statements to the contrary.

3-20 - Four settlers arrested for alleged attack on Palestinians

3-20 - Could Gaza really be the next India? "Near Morag (an Israeli settlement in Gaza), we had to give up completely on two schools. Our schools have been hit so many times by Israeli fire and we have had four children killed inside the schools."

3-20 - Palestinian elections body resigns

3-20 - 'Army photographed 10-year-olds'

3-20 - Peres fears Likud split may delay Gaza move

3-20 - Every day, they come Just about every day, they come to nonviolently protest the confiscation of their lands.

3-20 - IDF orders new "impersonal" means for dispersing demonstrations The main feature of the "Venom" is allowing soldiers to fire non-lethal weapons to break up riots without leaving their vehicle and becoming targets of rocks, bottles and firebombs. Using a control panel in the vehicle, the operator can choose the type of ordnance -- stun grenades, smoke bombs, tear gas or rubber-coated bullets -- as well as selecting the proper range,

3-20 - Arabs Reject Jordan Proposal on Israel The original plan by Jordan's King Abdullah II had dropped the traditional Arab call for recognizing Israel in exchange for the Jewish state's withdrawal from land it has occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War

3-20 - Pilgrims Retrace Jesus' Trip to Jerusalem

3-20 - We Still Haven't Learned Lesson of Activist's Death while searching the Internet for information about Rachel, I was stunned at the cruel campaign of vilification and blaming-the-victim that abounds there.

3-20 - Water: the language of peace and war in arid Middle East

3-20 - Arab Jews in Palestine Before Israel

3-20 - Withdrawal rankles Israeli farmers in Gaza "When the bulbs are plucked from the ground they just come right out of the sand with their roots intact," he explains. This makes them easier to clean, helping to meet stringent US inspection standards, he says.

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3-19 - Inside scarred minds On his first visit to the Gaza Strip, Daniel Day-Lewis meets the Palestinian families living in the heart of the danger zone ? and the psychologists who are counselling them

3-19 - Civilian Dies of Wounds in Nablus as Israeli Aggression Continues

3-19 - Israeli forces invade West Bank towns

3-19 - Israeli forces strafing Lebanese border areas

3-19 - Qureia: Israel seeking to annex Jerusalem

3-19 - Promised land stained by spread of racism

3-19 - EU to offer Israel benefits for easing Palestinians' lives The European Union intends to offer Israel economic benefits in exchange for relieving the restrictions on the Palestinians, EU sources said.

3-19 - Thousands rally in support of Gaza pullout

3-19 - Church Leaders Seek Patriarch's Resignation

3-19 - What future for Israel's Palestinian citizens?

3-19 - 'Will silence those who condemn Zionists' "They stopped it from being broadcast not because of its (Hizbullah) political standing inside Lebanon, religious lessons, shows and movies," he said. "They stopped it because of its determined stance to support the Palestinians."

3-19 - European Union to declare customs exemptions on joint Israel-Arab exports The EU will declare a customs exemption for Jordanian-Israeli exports in the first stage, likely next month. Later on, it will consider easing duties on Israeli-Egyptian exports, and thereafter Israeli-Palestinian exports

3-19 - Despite IDF ban, MK Eitam and his family will relocate to Gaza

3-19 - Arab Ministers Approve Peace Offer, with Conditions

3-19 - Little changes after Jericho?s handover

3-19 - No surprise; Palestinian photographer wins the most sad photo prize

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3-18 - Jewish investors secretly buy Old City properties from Greek Orthodox Church Purchasing property in the Old City, which is situated in occupied and annexed east Jerusalem, is fraught with political tensions as Jewish groups often try to obtain properties in the heart of Palestinian areas in a major settlement drive.

3-18 - Israel Backs Temporary Palestinian Truce

3-18 - Midest Extremists Pose Threat to Truce "Now on a daily basis Israeli security provides Palestinian security with information, including recorded phone calls between Hezbollah militants, Hezbollah officers and al Aqsa militants,"

3-18 - Israel to refrain from offensives Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Palestinian agreement was positive but not enough.

3-18 - Approved Final Route of Separation Barrier Divides Jerusalem and Bethlehem

3-18 - Algeria: No Israel normalisation plan

3-18 - Bethlehem Mayor urges help for Christians The mayor was quoted in the Palestinian daily al-Quds as saying that the Israeli security barrier is damaging the local tourist industry. Not only are Palestinian lands being expropriated to build the wall, but Israel has de facto annexed Rachel?s Tomb. What's more, with land communication between Jerusalem and Bethlehem made more difficult fewer pilgrims are coming.

3-18 - Who shot Brian Avery?

3-18 - Third man bolted to Israel

3-18 - AIPAC on the VERGE, Tom DeLay Ensnarls Peace Aid Good cop (AIPAC), bad cop (Delay) routine. Both are bad for America.

3-18 - Jordan Proposes New Israel Peace Strategy

3-18 - How to launder outposts

3-18 - Israel bans Gaza settler influx Israel has banned its citizens from moving into Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, aiming to forestall a feared influx of ultra-nationalists bent on blocking a pullout from the occupied territory this summer

3-18 - Sue Israel, not the bulldozer maker If you buy Israel's explanation that what happened was an accident, then why did the bulldozer operator not render aid after he realized she had been run over? That's no way to respond to an accident.

3-18 - Children ask why they can't enter Jerusalem on a donkey

3-18 - Bolton Bring's Pro-Israel Record To UN

3-18 - Media Shows Arab Street Still Seethes About Israel

3-18 - EU blocks Hezbollah TV broadcasts in Europe "The decision is another important step to closer Israeli-European ties," Shalom said

3-18 - Trivializing Palestinian suffering

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3-17 - Yeshiva students attack Palestinians, wound at least five Military sources told Haaretz the Palestinians were severely beaten and that they were "almost lynched," an expression connoting an execution of defenseless victims

3-17 - Jewish Settlers beat Palestinians Three of the Palestinians needed hospital treatment in nearby Ramallah after the assault which left at least one man unconscious.

3-17 - Palestinian militants agree to extend truce If the truce holds, Israel could more easily carry out its plan to pull its troops out of Gaza, but it could also come under more international pressure to make other gestures

3-17 - Israel will not launch offensives if Palestinian calm observed

3-17 - Israel to tell UNHCR to shape up The UN's High Commission on Human rights (UNHCR) needs to clean up its act or be rendered totally irrelevant

3-17 - Calls for justice echo at memorial for Corrie "But I see this day as a time to celebrate the stand she took for justice," she said. "The stands for justice are not always the most popular ones."

3-17 - New Scandal: Israeli Forces Used Orders to Demolish Two Houses in Rafah to Demolish 25

3-17 - Qorei appeals to Israel to thwart Al-Aqsa mosque strike "We warn that the region will explode if there is any attack against Al-Aqsa,"

3-17 - EU finds no evidence it funded Mideast violence

3-17 - House Sets Limits on Palestinian Aid As DeLay Defies Calls of Bush, Rice The limits on Palestinian aid were the product of a deal brokered by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

Before passing the bill Wednesday, House members overwhelmingly rejected an amendment, introduced by Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from New York, that would have blocked all aid to the Palestinians.

3-17 - Israel Boycotts Peace Conference; Mainstream Media Mum on Meeting

3-17 - Palestinians call for Arab intervention over Israel prisoners

3-17 - Text of the Declaration by Palestinians

3-17 - Aipac Puts Two Officials on Paid Leave

3-17 - Israel: A Call for Divestment

3-17 - Bush, in shift, invites Sharon to Texas ranch

3-17 - Jerusalem and Bethlehem divided by separation barrier The Israeli government has revealed its plans for the route of the separation barrier it is building around Jerusalem. It will cut East Jerusalem and the largest Israeli settlement in the West Bank off from the rest of the West Bank, and will divide Bethlehem

3-17 - Another Gaza tunnel destroyed

3-17 - Japan's star rises in Jerusalem While Japan's image as an unbiased player is a highly prized commodity, its most vital asset is that both Israelis and Palestinians regard Tokyo as trustworthy, an increasingly rare status in the notoriously difficult negotiations

3-17 - Palestinian poverty nears 50% across territories

3-17 - Israel pleased with choice of Wolfowitz Jerusalem Post's Man of the Year of 2003

3-17 - Israelis believed behind vast robbery attempt in Britain

3-17 - Wolfowitz Pick for World Bank Prompts Head-Scratching as with his fellow-neo-conservatives, Wolfowitz also has special concerns about the fate of Israel, where he lived during part of his teenaged years and which now is his sister's home

3-17 - Plot foiled to steal 421 million dollars from Sumitomo in Britain

3-17 - Israel to curb Gaza media access

3-17 - Fight Against Hate Hits High School The Zionist Organization of America has begun offering advocacy training for high school students partly so they aren?t ?susceptible to being taken in by the lies of the Arab propaganists [at universities] who call Israel a human-rights abusing horror,? ZOA National President Morton Klein said.

3-17 - Annan's Bow at Arafat's Grave Sparks Outrage in City U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's decision to lay a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat while on his way to the dedication of a Holocaust museum in Israel is infuriating New York politicians and Jewish leaders

3-17 - News: Chicago Lawyers Committee Announces Hate Crime Lawsuit Filed in Anti-Muslim Bombing On Thursday, March 17th Abbas Salmi and his family filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Eric K. Nix for bombing the family?s van in Burbank, IL on March 21, 2003

3-17 - The Captive Mind The targeting of Khalidi is perhaps most revealing of the movement's larger aims, since he is a redoubtable Palestinian moderate

3-17 - Gaza Solidarity Denied

3-17 - Vanunu faces new jail term Whistleblower charged with breaching gag order

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3-16 - Settlers attack Palestinian house in Hebron The roof of a Palestinian house in the West Bank town of Hebron collapsed Wednesday when a group of settlers struck the building's walls with hammers

3-16 - The Killing of Rachel Corrie Amnesty International Urges Rice Urged to Support Independent Investigation

3-16 - Jewish extremists plot takeover of Jerusalem holy site: TV Jewish extremists are plotting to take over a disputed holy site in Jerusalem in a bid to sabotage Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza, an Israeli television station reported

3-16 - 10,000 Jews to ascend Temple Mount Group seeks to reclaim Israeli control of holy site

3-16 - Israelis hand Palestinians limited control of Jericho "It's wrong to say Palestinians have been given control of Jericho. Instead, the lockdown has been partially lifted. They have only dismantled one checkpoint and eased traffic at another,"

3-16 - Palestinians take control of West Bank city "The Israelis want Abu Mazen to fail. Every time you reach an agreement with them they break their promises."

3-16 - Bulldozer firm sued over Gaza death

3-16 - Caterpillar sued over Gaza death

3-16 - Swiss-Israeli arms deals to restart

3-16 - Sharon invited to Belgium under severe diplomatic pressure, notably from Washington, the Belgian government agreed to scrap the law and parliament approved a new, watered-down version requiring that plaintiffs be Belgian nationals.

3-16 - House of Representatives Okays $200 Million for PA

3-16 - Letters to the Editor Since the shooting had taken place in one of our schools, I ordered an immediate investigation into the circumstances of the case. The report unequivocally discredited the theory that the girl had been hit by any Palestinian "firing in the air."

3-16 - Palestinian refugees face obstacle course

3-16 - INTERVIEW - Palestinians train force to handle Gaza pullout

3-16 - 2,488 Palestinians permitted to work inside Israel: official

3-16 - Hamas, Jihad refuse to discuss cease-fire with Fatah in Cairo

3-16 - Open Letter to Kofi Annan

3-16 - US and Brittain support of Israel on the rise "There is a clear opportunity, right now, to build support through a significant education campaign" about how Israel, a democracy, is taking risks for peace.

3-16 - Lelia Matthews left March 11 to ride into Jerusalem, recreating Jesus' arrival more than 2,000 years ago. The trip, which the participants pay for themselves, is a way to show solidarity with "all people in the Middle East who are oppressed" and help facilitate a nonviolent end to the "illegality and immorality" of the occupied territories there, Mrs. Matthews said.

3-16 - Fear and loathing across the Middle East

3-16 - Flo busted in Palestine

3-16 - Saying Israelis are 'legitimate targets' not a hate crime

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3-15 - U.S.: Israel broke promise to set settlement boundaries Israel has still not kept a promise that it made the United States last April to demarcate the built-up areas of every West Bank settlement, for the purpose of setting limits on the settlements' growth. As a result, the U.S. has halted the work of the Israeli-American task force that was supposed to deal with this issue.

3-15 - Rachel Corrie's family sues Israel, IDF The family of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in Rafah two years ago, yesterday filed a lawsuit in the Haifa District Court against the State of Israel and the IDF

3-15 - PA: Right of return paramount The Palestinian Authority has denied Israeli press reports citing concessions from President Mahmud Abbas on the issue of Palestinian refugees' right of return.

3-15 - Israeli Official: Killing of Palestinian Lecturer Was Due to "Identification Mistake"

3-15 - Family of Slain Protester Sues Caterpillar

3-15 - Army blames dog for killing of innocent Palestinian

3-15 - Abbas says he expects full ceasefire by armed groups Palestinian leader calls for talks to start on statehood

3-15 - Palestinians discuss ceasefire

3-15 - Talks secure Israeli army handover of Jericho Israeli troops will pull back from the West Bank city Jericho on Wednesday

3-15 - Because of Israel, the Palest. economy lost $15b

3-15 - Palestinians turn against suicide bombers

3-15 - We Won't Forget Rachel

3-15 - US Mideast security coordinator meets Palestinian interior minister

3-15 - Israeli settler protest condemned Dozens of Jewish settlers and their supporters blocked a main highway at the entrance to Tel Aviv at nightfall Monday, causing a huge traffic jam

3-15 - Knesset resolution demands Pollard's release

3-15 - White House clarifies Bush comments on Israel "The role of the United States will be to continue to urge both parties to make the sacrifices necessary, sacrifice meaning that Israel must withdraw from the settlements, there must be contiguous territory for a Palestinian state, into which a Palestinian state can grow,"

3-15 - Visiting US Jews slam Gaza pullout Dozens of American Jews toured Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to protest against the government's plan to evacuate the occupied Palestinian territory this year.

3-15 - PM focuses on Hizbullah with EU leaders Diplomatic officials in Jerusalem said this should not be interpreted as signaling a seismic shift in American policy, and that when Bush said that Israel must withdraw from the settlements, he was referring to the unauthorized settlement outposts. "This has long been US policy, and there is no change,"

3-15 - New Zealand blocks visit by senior Israeli officer amid diplomatic standoff

3-15 - Israelis fear Syria's Lebanon exit is no panacea

3-15 - No state means no protection Sakallah, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, remembers what it means when you are stateless

3-15 - Jihad criticizes Annan for weak stance on Israeli barrier

3-15 - Soldier escapes murder charge

3-15 - Bishop suggests occupied Palestinian territory could become part of Third World "The pressure currently being exerted by the Americans on Syria needs equally to be exerted upon Israel to enable a withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers."

3-15 - Hamas refuses to participate in the Palestinian govt

3-15 - A senior United Nations official has hailed the UAE for its $27 billion contribution for building the Jenin camp in Palestine

3-15 - Palestinian Plan to Free Militant Sparks Row

3-15 - Israeli President Warns of Anti-Semitism

3-15 - Jewish community lines up to blunt message of anti-Zionist author It was part of a carefully planned effort by the United Jewish Federation to minimize the impact of Finkelstein's appearance by quietly filling the seats of the lecture hall with Jews already inured to his "ridiculous and vile distortions,"

3-15 - Israel surprised at banning

3-15 - Rap finds new voice in occupied Gaza Far away from its roots in the Bronx of New York, rap is finding a new voice as a group of young Palestinians sing about the frustrations of life under occupation in the Gaza Strip.

3-15 - Israeli spy fights life sentence in US jail The New Yorker magazine said Pollard gave away a 10-volume surveillance manual, described by one ex-intelligence officer as "the Bible," which contained detailed information on how US intelligence collects signals anywhere in the world

3-15 - U.S. judges tell Pollard his case is 'not unique' "The problem with Mr. Pollard" is that he "he thinks he is unique," Sentelle said. "This is not unique."

3-15 - Israel's ranking in "Euromoney" Country Risk Index almost unchanged Israel gets full points only in three categories: Access to foreign banks (5 points); repayment of loans repayment of loans? Ok, where's our tax money then?

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3-14 - Palestinian youths shot

3-14 - Report: Abbas to declare not all refugees to return to Israel

3-14 - U.N. to Register Property Damage in Israel

3-14 - Palestinians demonstrate against Annan's Ramallah visit Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during his visit in Ramallah yesterday, protesting his refusal to visit the construction sites of the separation barrier in the city.

3-14 - Palestinian Militants See Conditional Truce Possible

3-14 - Ministers Agree on 3 West Bank Handovers Israel is to turn over control of the West Bank town of Jericho to Palestinian security Wednesday, to be followed two or three days later by Tulkarem, Israeli officials said after a meeting of Palestinian and Israeli Cabinet ministers

3-14 - Israel delays action on settler outposts Instead, the 21-member Cabinet consigned the report to a ministerial committee, a decision that some parliament members described as tantamount to burying it.

3-14 - Jerusalem barrier route revealed Israel has annexed East Jerusalem, though under international law the area is considered to be occupied territory.

3-14 - Israeli barrier to take in Jerusalem settlement suburb "Maale Adumim and its industrial zone are an integral part of Israel and I don't believe the Americans will contest it because President George W. Bush said a permanent settlement must take demographic realities into account,"

3-14 - Israel is accused of barrier land grab The Israeli announcement came as a newly-released UN report showed that the wall will swallow at least a tenth of the West Bank's most fertile lands, where about 49,000 Palestinians are living in 38 villages.

3-14 - Twighlight zone / Riding roughshod Women in labor, the sick and the injured must make their way by ambulance over this long and rough road, via the olive groves, solely because Kedumim Mayor Daniella Weiss' armed security officers won't let them use the direct route

3-14 - World will work to create Palestinian state, says Annan

3-14 - IDF troops arrest two West Bank settlers IDF troops Monday arrested two West Bank settlers suspected of opening fire in the Palestinian village of Akid, west of the town of Ariel.

3-14 - Peace campaigners, Palestinians and Israelis, meet in Ramallah

3-14 - Annan hopeful over Mid-East peace

3-14 - Committee approves bill to commemorate Ze'evi's legacy "The life work of a racist who called for transfer on the backdrop of racism should not be perpetuated,"

3-14 - PM promises campaign for Palestinian state AMSTERDAM ? Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende promised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday that he will strive to help establish a viable, independent Palestinian state.

3-14 - U.S. Group Backs Israeli Settlers

3-14 - Grossman: What's good for Israel is good for U.S.

3-14 - Remembering Rachel Corrie: Justice Still Not Served

3-14 - Apple Trade Boosts Syria-Israel Peace Hope A U.S.-brokered troop separation deal returned Quneitra to Syrian rule in 1974 but not before retreating Israelis bulldozed hundreds of houses. Israel now holds two-thirds of the Golan, or about 450 square miles, and formally annexed it in 1981.

3-14 - Russia offers to allow Israel to check missiles sold to Syria

3-14 - No green light to Israel for strikes on alleged Iran nuke sites: Rice

3-14 - Some 250 Israeli teenagers to refuse military service Some 250 Israeli pupils in their last years at school have signed a petition refusing to do compulsory military service while the Jewish state occupies Palestinian territory.

3-14 - Academic Integrity Travestied at Columbia Middle East Studies Conference Reminiscent of HUAC-era Hollywood, the likes of Kramer have been lobbying Congress for passage of new Title VI legislation that would establish independent monitoring of university courses on issues that "affect homeland security," especially Middle East and international policy studies.

3-14 - Saudi funds to rebuild houses in Gaza

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3-13 - Israel to destroy 20,000 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem The Israeli authorities announced that there are some 20,000 Palestinian residential houses in the city of Jerusalem and its outskirts which they allege were built without licenses.

3-13 - Soldiers attack a protest for women near Ramallah The protest was conducted by nearly two hundred Palestinian and Israeli women, and Palestinian schoolgirls

3-13 - Israel tortures Palestinian detainees- Report

3-13 - To the Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Kofi Annan

3-13 - Israel to demolish 25% of 'land grab' outposts Meanwhile, the Israeli chief of staff, General Moshe Yaialon, announced that Israel would build a temporary fence to divide Jerusalem from the West Bank. The Israeli supreme court is examining several petitions against the fence which have slowed construction.

3-13 - Hamas, Fatah Backers Fight Over Elections

3-13 - Palestinian-Israeli joint committee to convene on prisoners release "The Palestinian side will demand Israel release all prisoners detained before the Oslo Accords and those ill prisoners as well as children and women,"

3-13 - Israel to build second security fence along Gaza Strip

3-13 - Christians flee homes after Druze youths riot "My children were in their room and for the first time ever I thought that they could all be killed. If there was any question of a Jewish family being threatened there would be thousands of police on the streets."

3-13 - Annan kicks off Mid-East mission

3-13 - Israeli ruling leaves Greek church in a spin

3-13 - Israelis say elected Hamas role could hamper talks

3-13 - Israel will attack Iran 'only as last resort'

3-13 - Israel picks a hardline defence chief Halutz also instructed Israeli helicopter gunships and pilotless aicraft to target Palestinian activists along with their families and children in their own homes, or while travelling on crowded streets

3-13 - Erez terminal reopens, now sits on Green Line

3-13 - Israel to allow entry of 1,400 Palestinian workers

3-13 - Israel to dismantle post-2001 West Bank outposts

3-13 - Sharon: Hezbollah endangers Palestinian gov't

3-13 - There Is No 'Peace Process' -

3-13 - Druze women attend conference against compulsory army service

3-13 - No terror link found in probe of money Saleh and most of those arrested are of Palestinian descent

3-13 - How AIPAC Works - Part 2

3-13 - Franciscans and the Holy Land Orthodox Jewish groups received 40% approval and are growing. Wherever they control the local administrations, they apply their rules of life to public affairs -- timetables, transit -- thus discriminating against those who do not follow them

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3-12 - Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant Tehran claims that its programme is designed for peaceful purposes but Israeli and American intelligence officials ? who have met to share information in recent weeks ? are convinced that it is intended to produce nuclear weapons.

3-12 - Palestinian workers protest About 2,500 unemployed Palestinians, who had previously worked in Israel, arrived at the building carrying signs and demanding work

3-12 - Israeli hospital rejects to treat an Israeli woman transferred by Palestinian ambulance

3-12 - Fatma Dies of her Disease Due to Israeli Measures

3-12 - Israeli Troops Invade Villages in West Bank

3-12 - Abbas welcomes Hamas poll pledge

3-12 - Hamas enters parliament election

3-12 - Iran Nuclear 'Nightmare' Very Close, Israel

3-12 - Hebron: Who is responsible?

3-12 - Hughes to Head Efforts to Improve U.S. Image Abroad In her new post, Hughes would lead the Bush administration's efforts to counter the negative image of the United States in many Muslim countries that was spurred by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and a perceived anti-Palestinian bias in Washington's Middle East policy.

3-12 - Earnest Hypocrisy: The U.N., Lebanon, and Israeli Exceptionalism

3-12 - Palestinian Right to Education Petition

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3-11 - Who is Pushing Whom into the Sea? approximately half of the 1948 refugees fled or were extirpated before the first foreign Arab soldier set foot in Palestine....Transfer committees were actually set up from 1937 on until 1948 in order to study ways of riding Palestine of as many Arabs as possible.

3-11 - Palestinian militants say only Israel can bring halt to anti-Israeli attacks

3-11 - Israel Shortens Timeline for Gaza Pullout

3-11 - River Jordan 'nearly running dry' Palestinians complain that Israel diverts up to 80% of water from shared underground aquifers for its own use - including that of Jewish settlers.

3-11 - Hamas Marks Anniversary of Leader's Death

3-11 - Continued Loss of Human Rights in Palestine

3-11 - Palestinians: 'We must work in Israel' Thirty years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian areas produced total dependency on Israel.

3-11 - Egyptians to patrol Philadelphi Route

3-11 - World must persuade Israel to tear down barrier on Palestinian land ? UN meeting

3-11 - In bed with Israel: EU's close relationship with Israel supports abuse

3-11 - 'Israeli textbooks racist?

3-11 - Canada: Bring us your passport so we can cross off 'Israel'

3-11 - Sharon: I could fall over budget

3-11 - BBC says sorry to Israel The climbdown has angered some BBC journalists, who say it will compromise their work in Israel.

3-11 - Behind Scenes, Israelis Press for Syria to Leave Lebanon

3-11 - IDF pullout kit ignores debate about settlements All settlements in the territories are part of the historic continuum of Zionist settlement in the Land of Israel, which has enjoyed the support of all Israeli governments, according to an explanatory kit on the disengagement plan prepared by the Israel Defense Forces' Education Corps

3-11 - U.S. Court to Hear Pollard Appeal A U.S. federal appeals court next Tuesday will hear oral arguments on motions to overturn Jonathan Pollard?s imprisonment.

3-11 - A Free-Speech War Columbia critic of Israel banned from a program for NYC teachers by Joel Klein

3-11 - Syrian Accuses U.S. of Bias in Mideast The Syrian ambassador to the United States said Thursday that President Bush was unfairly criticizing Syria for having troops in Lebanon when he should speak out more forcefully about Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory

3-11 - Chips are down for West Bank's empty casino

3-11 - Beating Israel's activist deportation system, this time Over 130 internationals that work with the ISM and other international peace groups that work against the occupation have been black listed by the government of Israel for their peace work.

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3-10 - Israeli troops kill militant "Just as calm is demanded of us, we also ask that Israel not do things like this,"

3-10 - Militant killed in Israeli raid An Israeli bulldozer ended the siege by crushing the suspect

3-10 - Fatah gunmen storm Abbas meeting

3-10 - Israel/Occupied Territories: Human Rights Concerns for the 61st Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Every year the Commission on Human Rights adopts several resolutions condemning Israel for abuses against Palestinians. As outlined below, Israel continues to commit serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law which deserve condemnation, notably the dire humanitarian impact of the wall and other forms of closure that amount to collective punishment

3-10 - Israel, U.S. begin military exercises eyeing Iranian missiles Israeli security sources said that the operation is aimed at preparing the Jewish State to defend itself against possible Iranian aerial attacks

3-10 - Israeli military commander threatens At-Tuwani shepherds

3-10 - Abbas expects ceasefire next week, accuses Israel of foot-dragging

3-10 - Palestinian leader expects militia ceasefire

3-10 - Mubarak demands full Gaza pullout

3-10 - Erekat condemns Israeli refusal to remove checkpoints around Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat blamed Thursday Israeli refusal to remove checkpoints surrounding Jericho for the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian meeting on handover of the West Bank city.

3-10 - The two faces of Ariel Sharon need to be scrutinised emphasis on outposts played into the hands of settlers, by ignoring the much larger settlements the outposts were created to link. "Even without them there are 240,000 settlers living in the West Bank,"

3-10 - U.S. rabbis, Jewish leaders to visit Gaza with the aim of expressing solidarity with residents slated for evacuation under the disengagement plan.

3-10 - Patriot crews heading to exercise in Israel ?The symbolic thing is this signals the American commitment to Israeli security,?

3-10 - Palestinian condemns Israeli decision to phase out Palestinian labor

3-10 - Apartheid targets Palestinian home-owners inside Israel Again by law, non-Jews are not entitled to apply to join these communities. So even if Ali wanted to build a home outside Sakhnin in one of these Jewish communities, by law he would not be able to do so.

3-10 - Israeli army closes probe into Miller shooting, soldier won't be charged Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today at the Israeli army's decision to close the investigation into the May 2003 fatal shooting of British journalist James Miller in the Gaza Strip and to not press charges against the soldier who fired at him.

3-10 - U.S. official says Israel has yet to fulfill its pledge on outposts

3-10 - U.S. Churches Send Ecumenical Representatives to Israel, Palestine

3-10 - Rachel, Full of Life

3-10 - Mideast duty for U.S. troops may include Israel

3-10 - Abu Mazen Demands Political and Financial Support from Washington

3-10 - Display spurs heated debate Touring activists want Americans to learn more about the Middle East conflict, specifically the controversial "wall" in the West Bank

3-10 - Israel lifts ban on BBC producer

3-10 - Rejecting the US anti-Semitism act What is the US law's exact definition of anti- Semitism, and why does it include criticism, or "demonisation", of Israel and Zionism?

3-10 - ISRAEL HEADS FOR WAR WITH SYRIA

3-10 - Dead filmmaker's family to launch legal action The family of the award winning British filmmaker James Miller, shot dead by an Israeli soldier in Gaza two years ago, is to launch a civil action for unlawful killing after learning that the soldier who opened fire will not be prosecuted.

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3-9 - Israel accused of assisting illegal outposts

3-9 - Israeli Officials Could Face Charges Over Outposts The international community views all the settlements as illegal. The outposts are unauthorized even by Israel.

3-9 - Mass resignations in Fatah Some 250 Fatah members in Gaza City have quit in protest against the "internal chaos" within the Palestinian resistance group.

3-9 - Palestinian militants ready for ceasefire

3-9 - Israeli Officer Indicted To Kill a Palestinian Child Back On Duty

3-9 - Israel won't prosecute officer suspected in British journalist's death "It is not legally possible to link this shooting to the gunshot sustained by Mr Miller," You need to see these two reports - Israeli troops shot British journalist in neck: autopsy    Autopsy indicates cameraman was killed by Israelis

3-9 - Israeli officer who killed UK journalist faces minor charges Crucially, the soldiers in the vehicle were not asked to hand in their weapons for inspection until a month after the killing, and there is some evidence that the guns may have been swapped.

3-9 - Sharon criticised over settlements Israelis began building settlements more than a decade ago to break up Palestinian areas and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

3-9 - W Bank handover talks break down Talks reportedly stalled over the issue of the removal of an Israeli army checkpoint at the entrance to Jericho

3-9 - Security Council pledges support for Palestinians

3-9 - PNA mulls referring to UN, ICJ issue of Jerusalem

3-9 - Defusing Israel's "demographic bomb" While Israeli Jews thought the day they would become a minority was perhaps still twenty years away, the evidence is increasing that the bomb has already exploded and Palestinians are already a majority in historic Palestine, as they were until Israel was created.

3-9 - Weiner: Disband Columbia Bias Panel "We should have killed them all,"

3-9 - Ultra-Orthodox mentor curses Sharon over Gaza plan Let God strike him down

3-9 - Middle East a Topic at Terror Conference Resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is key to any hope of curtailing global outbursts of violence, panelists at a summit on democracy, terrorism and security said Wednesday

3-9 - U.S. officials defends $350 million Palestinian aid request

3-9 - Britain 'dismayed' at Israeli move not to prosecute over journalist's death

3-9 - US planes near Israeli test area were in international airspace: Pentagon

3-9 - U.S. blasts Israel over Lebanon remarks The Americans are also displeased with reports that Israel is demanding that the United States and Europe not reduce their pressure for a complete withdrawal of both Syrian forces and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards

3-9 - ISR