May '07 Archive
05-31-07 - Israel hijack role 'was queried' A UK government file on the crisis, released from the National Archives, contains a claim that Israel itself was behind the hijacking. An unnamed contact told a British diplomat in Paris that the Israeli Secret Service, the Shin Beit, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) collaborated to seize the plane. ....."The operation was designed to torpedo the PLO's standing in France and to prevent what they see as a growing rapprochement between the PLO and the Americans." Wow.
05-31-07 - Hamas leader says welcomes any meeting with Fatah on political affairs Exiled Hamas leader in Syria Khaled Meshaal said on Thursday that the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, welcomes any meeting with the Fatah movement or other factions in order to strengthen Palestinian national unity and avoid interior conflicts.
05-31-07 - U.S. raps Israel for not easing conditions in PA In his reports to Washington, Dayton says forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas have improved their performance in recent battles with Hamas. Dayton told the Congress and State Department that the security force loyal to Abbas was demonstrating satisfactory progress and that he detected signs that Hamas was weakening.
Israel wants disunity.
05-31-07 - Israel's Military Fears War This Summer ** Israeli forces are making their primary focus repelling a Syrian attack along its northern border in the Golan Heights. Troubles with their Palestinian neighbors are being downgraded to a secondary priority.
05-31-07 - Troops kidnap the deputy Mayor of Nablus
05-31-07 - Netherlands funds police in Palestinian Territories
05-31-07 - Hamas: the assassination in Nablus clouds Abbas-Olmert meeting
05-31-07 - Egypt, Hamas agree to take efforts to halt Palestinian in fighting
05-31-07 - Militants continue rockets attacks on Israel
05-31-07 - Egypt questions neutrality of Quartet on Israel Egypt's foreign ministry said on Thursday the neutrality of the Quartet of Middle East mediators was in doubt after it failed to condemn Israeli raids in Gaza and the arrest of Palestinian lawmakers.
05-31-07 - Quartet urges BBC man's release The so-called Quartet of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU said "everything necessary" must be done to bring about Mr Johnston's release.
05-31-07 - Jordan urges EU to back Palestinian health, education
05-31-07 - Does 'The Decider' Decide on War? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** Has Congress given George Bush a green light to attack Iran?.....evidence is mounting that we are on a collision course for war:........While U.S.-Iran discussions have begun, there are reports Vice President Cheney and the neocon remnant, along with the Israelis, are opposed to talks and believe that the only solution to Iran's nuclear program is military. Go get 'em, Pat.
05-31-07 - Israel may agree to release Palestinian funds Israel has long resisted European calls to transfer Palestinian tax revenues, now totaling some $700 million, to stave off collapse of the Palestinian Authority and bolster President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah faction has been locked in a power struggle with dominant Hamas Islamists
05-31-07 - Israel to ready public for 'all-out war' ** With Iran racing toward nuclear power and IDF preparations for the possibility of a conflict with Syria and Hizbullah in high gear, the Home Front Command plans to launch a publicity campaign to prepare the public for war. Know something we don't?
05-31-07 - Norway sends aid to Palestinians "We hope our contribution will help to alleviate the current social crisis in the Palestinian Territory, particularly for the many extended families with only one breadwinner," said Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere.
05-31-07 - Poll review: Americans consistently favor Israel A 2006 Pew Survey also found that the United States far outpaces other nations in support for Israel. The only other nation in that survey where sympathy for Israel substantially outpaced sympathy for the Palestinians was Germany.
Why, you may ask? The Israel lobby and all that comes with it (in the media too).
05-31-07 - CARE helps refugees caught in Lebanon crossfire CARE is providing aid to civilians caught in an ongoing confrontation between the Lebanese Army and militants of the Fatah al-Islam faction.
05-31-07 - Florida, Israel team for trade program Florida's governor in Israel announced a multimillion-dollar program to encourage trade between the Sunshine State and the Jewish state. Maybe the spider bite was god's punishment?
05-31-07 - Israel's house of horrors This is the state that is supposed to be the conscience of the world following the Nazi holocaust? Which other government could openly hold such discussions to such overwhelming silence from the so-called "international community"?
05-31-07 - Arabic school in N.Y.C. creates stir Daniel Pipes, a controversial Middle East scholar, wrote that "Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage." He pointed to a column in the Middle East Quarterly about Middlebury College's prestigious language schools. It contended that the Arab language curriculum there "indoctrinated [students] with a tendentious Arab nationalist reading of Middle Eastern history." The dean of Middlebury's language schools, Michael Geisler, strongly denies the assertion and says that much in the article Mr. Pipes quoted was "demonstrably wrong." Still, the charge raised concerns among some in New York's influential Jewish community.
Usual suspects.
05-31-07 - Leading reps, Livni discuss Iran Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) ended a joint visit to Israel on Thursday. Keep those two there, and send over Lantos and others. Let Israel start paying their salary. For, that's who they really work for, not us.
05-31-07 - PM, Bush to discuss Iran, PA on June 19 ** Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet with U.S. President George Bush in Washington on June 19. Talks will focus on the Palestinian issue and the Iranian nuclear threat.
05-31-07 - Lieberman wants Gaza cut off Israel's strategic affairs minister called for cutting power supplies to the Gaza Strip
05-31-07 - Open debate on academic boycott
05-31-07 - Robert Fisk: The scar of Hariri's murder will never heal in Lebanon Syria, whose security apparatus remains the principal suspect, roars quietly over the border. Will there be a price to be paid for this tribunal? Probably.
05-31-07 - Hezbollah condemns Hariri court
05-31-07 - A Congressman of the People: Parren J. Mitchell (RIP) Rep. Mitchell would have been embarrassed to hear Sen. Mikulski confess to the fact that pushy lobbyists from AIPAC regularly call her congressional office. On March 16, 2007, Gregory Levey, writing for Salon.com, revealed how the Maryland Senator, at an AIPAC national convention, held in Washington, DC, had publicly admitted how she "often spoke" to Howard Kohr, the Executive Director of that organization. Sen. Mikulski blurted out: "THEY?RE LIKE DAILY PHONE CALLS!"
05-31-07 - Academics express outrage at Israeli boycott
05-31-07 - In pictures: Peacemakers: Physicians for Human Rights
05-31-07 - Another soldier, 8 militants killed in Lebanon standoff A Lebanese soldier and at least eight Fatah al-Islam extremists have been killed in a surge of fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the army said on Thursday.
05-31-07 - Israeli FM shares stage with senior Palestinian and calls for peace "The best thing to do is to meet and not to wait until we can find a way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," she said at a press briefing along with Palestine Legislative Council member Hanan Ashrawi and UN General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed al-Khalifa, who is from Bahrain.
05-31-07 - Mike Wallace Revisits Memorable Newsmakers Wallace last interviewed Redgrave in 1979, when she was an activist who produced and appeared in a pro-Palestinian film that attracted protests and accusations of anti-Semitism.
05-31-07 - Practical reporting workshop to be held in Palestinian territories
05-31-07 - FILMS ILLUMINATE CONFLICT'S RESULTS Martha Roth of Jews for a Just Peace told the Straight the main goal of the series is to "raise awareness" of the ongoing geopolitical fallout resulting from that conflict
05-31-07 - Palestinian scholar plans a visit Massachusetts-based scholar Naseer Aruri will come to Vancouver to talk about peace prospects in Israeli-occupied territories.
05-31-07 - David Beckham won't travel to Israel with Real Madrid on peace promoting trip David Beckham will not accompany Real Madrid on its trip to Israel in mid-June, the team announced Thursday, citing differences between the England star and the Spanish side's management.
05-31-07 - In the Shadow of the Six-Day War A fairly decent article in TIME.
05-31-07 - Terrorized Let me ask you a hypothetical question. What do you think America would do if Canadian soldiers were firing dozens of missiles every day into Buffalo, N.Y.? Let me ask the neocon morons of the AEI a question : What do you think that Americans would do if a foreign army invaded their cities, towns and villages, and proceeded to seize their land by force, demolish their homes, and force them out? WE ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. Which came first - Israeli land theft, Israeli terrorism, or Palestinian terrorism? The first terrorist organizations in the region were JEWISH (Irgun and Stern), and it was Israeli forces that expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, bulldozed their villages, and barred their return (despite UN resn. 194). Israel continues to illegally occupy and colonize Palestinian land nearly sixty years later. The first terrorists, the worst terrorists, were NOT the largely defenseless agrarian peoples that populated a land that another group sought to 'reclaim'.
05-31-07 - ANERA responds to crisis in Lebanon Fighting in the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon has displaced thousands of Palestinian refugees over the past week. Approximately 20,000 people have fled horrific scenes of conflict and devastation, including over 500 infants and preschoolers, and 100 elderly with chronic illnesses. Many left home without clothing, food, medication and other necessities, and have taken sanctuary in the camps of Baddawi, Chatila and Bourj el Barajneh.
05-31-07 - Israeli army invades several villages near Jenin and kidnaps five Palestinians
05-31-07 - Group outed over $30,000 rent GREATER Dandenong Council has given an ultimatum for a Palestinian group to vacate a Springvale building next month, claiming it failed to pay six years? rent totalling $30,000.
05-31-07 - Crist tours holy sites, shapes trade deal The meetings with government leaders were arranged by Wexler, who is Jewish and among the strongest supporters of Israel in Congress. So while Crist heard from Peres that Palestinians were given Gaza but had not given Israel peace, and from Netanyahu that he would attack Gaza's infrastructure to punish Palestinians for continued rocket attacks, Florida's governor heard no one present the Palestinian viewpoints that Israel has yet to dismantle most of its settlements in the West Bank or that it has destroyed much of Gaza's infrastructure and its citrus orchards.
05-31-07 - Army to deploy surveillance system near Gaza The new system is capable of firing at terrorists instantaneously, unlike ground patrols who need to drive several minutes to thwart attacks and infiltrations.
05-31-07 - Bili?n Tractor still confiscated in an example of Israeli ?Justice? The Israeli Civil administration (the administrative arm of the military rule in the West Bank) is demanding 5428 shekels ($1357) to cover the expenses of towing the tractor they confiscated from Bil?in farmers, Tuesday the 29th, to the military base in the settlement of Beit El. The tractor was confiscated when it uncovered illegal infrastructure buried in the Palestinian enclave inside the Metityahu Mizrah settlement.
05-31-07 - It Takes Donations of Trillions to Hold Them Back Oprah?s going to Israel at Elie Wiesel?s invitation. Fine by me. But then there?s this: Israel?s UN Ambassador Danny Gillerman, who attended the event, said that a visit of a figure with such influence on the international media could help bring an end to the indifference towards the terror threat faced by Israelis.
05-31-07 - Fraser's tirade disappoints Jewish leaders MALCOLM Fraser is still a friend of Israel and the Australian Jewish community despite his increasingly vocal support for the Palestinian cause, according to the community?s most senior elected representative.
05-31-07 - VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (Letters) Your May 26 editorial "Gaza in flames, again" contained nothing but old cliches about the dysfunctional Palestinian society.
05-30-07 - Six days of war, 40 years of secrecy This statement by Stephen Forslund (US Air Force intelligence analyst) is clear enough: "The transcripts made specific reference to the efforts to direct the jets to the target, which was identified as American numerous times by the ground controller. The ground control began asking about the status of the target and whether it was sinking. They stressed that the target must be sunk and leave no trace." These men and the families of those that were killed deserve to have their day in court. Who in their right mind would want this travesty of justice to remain so? This is a great article, and one that will never ever be replicated in any mainstream US news medium. The Israeli lobby makes sure of that.
05-30-07 - Remember the Liberty! "If Israel did deliberately attack the most powerful nation on Earth, it knows it can do so and get away with murder. Worse still, U.S. military personnel now know that if the truth is politically inconvenient, they and their legacy are expendable." There is no 'if' about it. That flag was flying that day, as per the testimony of the sailors on board. And I take THEIR word over that of the ATTACKERS (a FOREIGN nation), as one would THINK that our government would do as well. Not so. Israel got away with not just murder, but war crimes. In the not so recent past, Israel got away with it again. Our government does NOTHING, even if the face of this: But instead of punishing the attackers, Israel honors them in a museum. Told of the display, retired Air Force Major General John Morrison, NSA deputy director for operations at the time, commented, "I am offended by that." And retired Army Lieutenant General William Odom, NSA director from 1985 to 1988, and also unaware of the display, remarked, "I am astonished that Israel should put glory on the people who killed my SigInt-ers [signals intelligence personnel]."10 The Liberty's blood-stained flag is exhibited at the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland. The US Naval Institute has evidently taken that article down. Thanks to the Internet Archiver, it lives on.
05-30-07 - Two Palestinians killed in W.Bank blast-witnesses Two Palestinians were killed and two others wounded when a car exploded in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, witnesses and hospital officials said.
05-30-07 - Israel Kills 4 Palestinians "They hit him in the legs and then shot him in the head and the rest of his body while he lay on the ground,"
05-30-07 - Desperate Palestinian farmers take on UK Government over Israeli arms exports ?There is no normal life for us any more. We barely get by,? says Saleh Hasan, 60, a labourer living in Bethlehem and one of a number of Palestinians hoping to bring a legal action in the UK courts against the British Government.
05-30-07 - West Bank civilians and public officials detained
05-30-07 - Hamas armed wing denies "secret decision" to halt rocket attacks against Israel
05-30-07 - Israel bars burials in Old City cemetery The Israeli government is preventing burials in an ancient Muslim cemetery in the Old City of Jerusalem, a move that could inflame fresh tensions in the city's Muslim community, an Islamic official said Wednesday.
05-30-07 - Jordanian: Israel must stop Old City dig Abdullah Kanaan, the head of Jordan's Royal Committee for Jerusalem's Affairs, said Wednesday that he was concerned Israel was attempting to ?Judaize the city and change its Arab and Islamic characteristics," The Associated Press reported.
05-30-07 - E.U. official wants prisoner releases Poettering further urged Israel to free up some $700 million in Palestinian Authority tax revenues that it has been withholding since Hamas rose to power last year. But Israel rebuffed that demand.
05-30-07 - Rocket hits Israeli apartment
05-30-07 - FEATURE-Palestinian teachers find work as builders, cabbies Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa al-Barghouthi said it was "sad and shameful" to see young teaching professionals leaving the schools to work as manual labourers.
05-30-07 - Palestinian government to make security reshuffle:Haneya
05-30-07 - Israel decides against expanding Gaza action (Extra)
05-30-07 - Palestinian gov't looks for Quartet's recognition: spokesman
05-30-07 - Israeli army invades homes around Bethlehem Private homes in several villages around the city of Bethlehem in southern West Bank were attacked on Wednesday morning.
05-30-07 - Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.
The letter, published in Olam Katan [Small World], a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide this Friday, cited the biblical story of the Shechem massacre
05-30-07 - West Bank gunmen move from petty crime to organized extortion Blackmail of wealthy business people is the latest tactic of some Palestinian militants, who have increasingly turned to crime to fund their armed groups, terrorizing entire cities as intimidated police stand by.
05-30-07 - Norway to help upgrade the Gaza Karni Terminal
05-30-07 - 'Declare Gaza hostile political entity'
05-30-07 - Jerusalem: living heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict Within days, Israel enlarged the municipal boundary, merging the Arab east with west Jerusalem into a "reunified" capital, although international law and UN resolutions prohibit powers from changing the status of occupied land.
05-30-07 - DFLP delegates meet Egyptian Security envoys in Gaza
05-30-07 - Web site allows Christians worldwide to light candles in Nazareth A new Web site set up by a group of Palestinian and Cypriot Christians has allowed thousands of Christians worldwide to virtually light a candle at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth
05-30-07 - Plight of Workers in Palestinian Territories Has ?Worsened Dramatically?
05-30-07 - Report: Israel has no barrier to torture The report, entitled A Time Bomb, describes nine cases of Palestinian security prisoners being tortured in the past year.
05-30-07 - Dr. Barghouthi rejects a proposal from Meretz party to place the Gaza Strip under the control of th Palestinian Minister of Information, and the official spokesperson of the Palestinian National Unity Government, rejected a proposal of some Israeli leaders of the Meretz movement to place the Gaza Strip under the control of the Arab League, and considered the proposal as an attempt to void the unity of the Palestinian territories.
05-30-07 - Abbas wins credit for seeking Palestinian cease-fire
05-30-07 - Palestinian gov't to make security reshuffle Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas said on Wednesday that his government would make reshuffle among senior security chiefs.
05-30-07 - At-Tuwani Update: 25 April - 9 May 2007 Three settlers forced some of the
Palestinians, the flocks, and the internationals down the hill by aggressively
driving the sheep. While this group was moving down the hill, more settlers
arrived and attacked Palestinians and RHR volunteers (including Rabbi Arik
Asherman) with sticks. A Palestinian from At-Tuwani stepped between the
settlers and a Palestinian woman and settlers hit him (bruising his ribs), then
chased him and smashed his phone. As the second group moved down the hill, the
settlers also attacked a Dove who was filming Who are the terrorists?
05-30-07 - Internal conflict and paralysis is corroding our credibility Ahmad Samih Khalidi is a senior associate member of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a former Palestinian negotiator
05-30-07 - Israel urged to lift ban on Palestinian students
05-30-07 - In solidarity with Palestinians
05-30-07 - REFLECTION: Jerusalem - Unified or Occupied? since 1967 Israel has continued to seize
land to build settlements on the Palestinian side of the armistice line. This is
a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention which specifically prohibits
an occupying force from settling its own civilian population within occupied
territory. The Israeli settlement enclaves within Palestinian territory, and the
numerous "Israeli-only" roads that connect them, now present a major obstacle to
the establishment of a viable Palestinian state along side Israel. Even now, the
Separation Barrier Israel has erected continues to confiscate land deep inside
the West Bank, further diminishing what territory is left to Palestinians.
05-30-07 - Lecturers vote for boycott of Israeli universities
05-30-07 - Syrian FM urges to end siege against Palestinians
05-30-07 - Lebanon charges 20 over fighting Twenty people allegedly linked to the 11-day-old battle around a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon have been charged with terrorism.
05-30-07 - Young US Muslims: a threat? The mainstreaming of US Muslims stands in sharp contrast to what's happening in Europe, where Muslims are often economically and socially ghettoized. Their alienation helps make them susceptible to extreme Islam and the lure of "home-grown" terrorism, as evidenced by the 2005 London bombings.
05-30-07 - Israeli charity an option in federal program An Israeli health support group has been selected to participate in a U.S. government program that allows federal employees to make contributions.
05-30-07 - A new/old idea for Palestinian peace
05-30-07 - Al-Qaida slams U.S. over Israel Gadahn, who was previously known as Adam Pearlman, has been indicted in absentia for treason.
05-30-07 - Lawsuit dropped against pro-Israel group The Islamic Society of Boston has dropped its defamation lawsuit against an Israel advocacy group. The lawsuit had charged the David Project, along with several media organizations and an anti-terrorist research group, with publicizing false accusations tying Islamic Society leaders to extremist groups
05-30-07 - Rice: Talk to Palestinians before Syria Translation: 'We must please the gulf Arabs and Europeans in order to get their support to bomb the hell out of Iran (and possibly Syria too), so stick to the current charade'.
05-30-07 - Mofaz warns over Hezbollah strength Hezbollah has returned to positions near the Israeli border with Lebanon, Israel?s transportation minister said.
05-30-07 - Despite peace treaty, Jordanians still wary of Israel 'The alternative homeland theory no longer exists, but the new danger lies in Israeli measures - the settlement activity, the separation wall, starvation tactics - which force Palestinians to leave their homes and go to Jordan,'
05-30-07 - In pictures: Christian Peacemakers, Hebron The Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) has 10 volunteers based in the West Bank city of Hebron. Updates from their efforts in Hebron and At-Tuwani can be found here. Photos can be found here.
05-30-07 - Promoting peace one T-shirt at a time Cambridge resident Zander Sebenius, 16, and Chelmsford resident Tarek El Jahmi, 17, both juniors at BBN, have become what they call "social entrepreneurs," in which they are now selling sweat-shop free T-shirts produced at a unionized factory in Bethlehem.
05-30-07 - Memorial honors Alamance County's men and women of the armed forces The wars and conflicts included on the memorial include the U.S. Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the U.S.S. Liberty Attack and the Middle Eastern Conflict.
05-30-07 - Lebanese woman wounded by leftover bomb Mariam Halawi, 35, was collecting herbs with her husband, Hussein Salame, in the southern village of Qaaqaiyet al-Jisr when the bomb went off, the agency said. She was rushed to hospital where her left leg was amputated, it said
05-30-07 - Soldier killed in fighting at besieged Lebanon camp
05-30-07 - Miserable life for refugees on move in Lebanon Crowded into schools with little food and deteriorating sanitary conditions, life is growing more miserable by the day for thousands of Palestinian refugees who fled fighting in northern Lebanon.
05-30-07 - Lebanon charges 20 jihadists with terrorism
05-30-07 - Shadow of Iraq jihad falls over Lebanon Jihadists battling the Lebanese army in north Lebanon were either on their way to or from Iraq, Palestinian political sources believe, a sign that the shadow of Sunni militancy there has started to fall over Arab countries nearby.
05-30-07 - Fighting flares again at besieged Lebanon camp
05-30-07 - Judge: Release jailed immigrant
05-30-07 - Russia cautions U.S. on military aid to Lebanon Russia cautioned the United States on Wednesday against further destabilising Lebanon with U.S. arms shipments and to closely follow international agreements in delivering such aid.
05-30-07 - Israeli court delays trial of detained PFLP leader Ahmad Sa?adat
05-30-07 - More dialogue needed for Middle East: Women Leaders Conference
05-30-07 - Middle East conflict spawns advertising battle in Washington subways StandWithUs, one of the pro-Israel groups that placed the ads, said it decided not to ignore the first ads because of concerns about the message people might take away from the image of the tank and the child. So they decided to legitimize the killing of children by using a common pro-Israeli propaganda tactic: children dressed as bombers?
05-30-07 - Maybe there's a reason for anti-U.S. propaganda Do the Arab nations occupy our cities with troops in the hundreds of thousands? Do Iraqi battleships patrol our waterways? Do their fighter planes dominate our skies? Great point. We all know what happened when a foreign army TRIED to occupy OUR citiies and towns. The operative word being TRIED.
05-30-07 - Ereikat Receives Members of US Congress, Make Field Visit in the West Bank The delegation, joined by US Consul General, Jacob Walles, consisted of congressmen, Patrick Leahy, Thad Cochran, Chuck Hagel, Ken Salazar and Peter Welch. Chuck Hagel :)
05-30-07 - 40 years after war, Jerusalem's Christian leaders urge work for peace "It is totally unacceptable for the situation to continue where the Palestinians endure daily hardships and humiliations with deprivations of international human rights, allegedly to ensure the safety and security of the Israelis, whereas we believe the security of Israel is dependent on the freedom and justice of the Palestinians," the church leaders said in a letter May 27. ....."Many injustices have to be reversed, not least the restoration of land to lawful indigenous owners and the so-called (Israeli) security wall demolished,"
05-30-07 - Poettering condemns rocket fire from Gaza Addressing the Israeli Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem, he said: "Israel has a right to defend itself. However, I urge Israel to avoid innocent victims among the civilian population."
05-30-07 - Barghouthi: ?The biggest political party in Sweden endorses the unity government?
05-30-07 - Arab-Jewish festival films deal with history, co-existence, identity
05-30-07 - State Prosecutor slams rights groups for signing Hamas court petition The State Prosecutor's Office harshly criticized the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Adalah organization on Wednesday, for signing a petition to the High Court of Justice filed by Hamas members of the Palestinian parliament, protesting the cancellation of their permanent residency status in East Jerusalem.
05-30-07 - PCBS: 488 Thousand Smoker Aged 10 Years and over in Palestinian Territory
05-30-07 - Gaza and West Bank ? ICRC Bulletin No. 20 / 2007
05-30-07 - Israel won. But so have the Islamists The 1967 war was not only a defeat for Arab nationalism - it was also a defeat for secular Arab politics
05-30-07 - Vietnam supports peace process in Middle East "Vietnam supports every effort to boost the peace process in the Middle East in order to reach an equal and sustainable solution on the basis of respecting the interests of related parties and the basic rights of the Palestinian on establishing an independent Palestinian state",
05-30-07 - King Herod's return It has totally escaped the good professor Reich's attention the fact that those artifacts that Israel 'discovered' were located in occupied Palestinian territory. Thus, they do not belong to Israel. And furthermore, just because there is existence of one's purported ancestors therein, does not give anyone the right to come back THOUSANDS of years later, take land by force and claim it as their own based on the dubious ancestral claims. BS of the highest order. My ancestors came from all over Europe, does that give me the right to kick the current tenant's out and take their homes by force since my ancestor may have lived there? They'd laugh my ass right out the door, or worse - rightly so.
05-30-07 - Sheriff Griffin learns about security in Israel The Israelization of America continues.
05-30-07 - EU president vows support for Israel against Iran "Rest assured that if ever Israel's security and existence are threatened by speeches like those made by the Iranian president, or even actions, the EU will support you unhesitatingly," said Pottering, who is in the region for a five-day visit.
05-30-07 - The war that still shadows US diplomacy in Middle East In polls of Arab public opinion, the desire remains for the United States to take a decisive role in pushing the Palestinians and Israelis to a comprehensive peace deal that would encompass all regional powers. "You can see that by far the number-one answer is brokering Arab-Israeli peace based on the 1967 borders. By far that is the issue that they see as most important (for US policy)," Telhami said.
05-29-07 - Security officer killed and seven injured by Israeli under-cover forces in Ramallah Eyewitnesses reported that Abdul-Halim, nicknamed as the Tiger, was in Al Nasera (Nazareth) restaurant in the center of Ramallah when the under-cover forces broke into it and opened fire at him killing him and injuring seven other residents.
05-29-07 - Two Palestinians killed, three wounded in blast in Gaza Palestinian eyewitnesses said that a huge explosion wrecked a house in the refugee camp, adding that when people, ambulances and firefighters arrived at the scene, they found two persons killed and three wounded.
05-29-07 - Abbas to meet Israeli PM as Gaza violence persists
05-29-07 - Two dead in Israeli air strike in Gaza Two Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip overnight, a Palestinian security source said Wednesday.
05-29-07 - UN envoy says Israel attacks on Gaza excessive A U.N. human rights investigator criticised Israel on Tuesday for violating international law in the Gaza Strip through a "disproportionate" use of force and killing of civilians.
05-29-07 - Fatah gunmen protest against Hamas-led government in Nablus
05-29-07 - Army kidnaps two residents form Al Thahryia and Beit Omer towns near Hebron
05-29-07 - Soldiers fire at the vehicle of Palestinian Information Minster
05-29-07 - Two more kidnapped in Hebron; clashes in Sa'er
05-29-07 - Israeli army kidnaps 9 Palestinian civilians from Nablus, among them legislator Jamal Al Terawe
05-29-07 - Israelis seize Fatah legislator
05-29-07 - Defiant Hamas leader says attacks on Israel will go on despite heavy human cost in Gaza
05-29-07 - RELEASE: Homes demolished in Beqa'a Valley One home was under construction and nearly finished. The young man who was
building the house was away at work. His extended family watched in horror as
the bulldozer, and then a wrecker, crashed into the home destroying months of
labor, years of savings and the priceless hopes and dreams of this young family. Photos from this incident can be found here. They could be your neighbors. How would you know the difference? They're PALESTINIAN, and as such, have no rights.
05-29-07 - Barak in run-off for Israeli Labour party leadership Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak won the first round of elections for leadership of the Labour party but must now face a run-off against his strongest challenger, Ami Ayalon, a political newcomer and former security services chief.
05-29-07 - Should we vote for a boycott? British academics debate whether to break links with universities and colleges in Israel
05-29-07 - Iraq Palestinians taste bitter exile Many Palestinians have escaped the death squads of Iraq only to face an uncertain future on the desert border between Iraq and Syria.
05-29-07 - AIPAC Intervenes on Iran ** It has happened again, and in the open. The American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) which heads a network of pro-Israeli lobbies, persuaded Congress to drop a provision which would have required President Bush to ask for Congressional approval prior to attacking Iran.
05-29-07 - A tale of two countries It's interesting to see how shocked people are at first when they realize the full extent of the grip that the Israeli lobby has on our government. I was there, four years ago. I know exactly what they feel. It's one of the most Orwellian things I've ever seen; the entire picture- Israel, Palestinians, Israeli lobby, neocons.
05-29-07 - Israeli economy growing at record pace Ok great. So, not only do they NOT need our billions in American taxpayer dollars, but they can start PAYING US BACK. Thanks.
05-29-07 - Jewish groups welcome Darfur announcement Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of Reform's Religious Action Center, said follow-up was critical. "Strong American leadership remains indispensable towards stopping the genocide," he said. Except for that ongoing 'demographic problem' over in Israel/OT. IT's ok for our politicians to overlook THAT.
05-29-07 - New blog to fight journalists' boycott A prominent British television journalist started a blog to help spearhead the fight against the National Union of Journalists' vote to boycott Israeli goods.
You're on the wrong side of justice, son.
05-29-07 - Bush administration makes case for security assistance to Abbas Meanwhile, he said, residents of the community led by Hamas "are going to see what's going on in the community next door that's receiving help from the United States." Eventually, Ward said, "we might see a different result" in Palestinian elections. There's the Israeli-version(subsequently, that of the US as a result) of democracy for you!
05-29-07 - Soldier dies in Lebanon fighting
05-29-07 - AND THE LAND WAS TROUBLED FOR FORTY YEARS
05-29-07 - Western sponsors aim for vote on Hariri court draft Wednesday
05-29-07 - Misery doubles in Lebanon refugee camp "We the poor have no one to help us but God,"
05-29-07 - Four killed at Beirut checkpoints as security tightened
05-29-07 - Beirut a ghost town on eve of summer season
05-29-07 - A tale of two cities and three worlds
05-29-07 - Local athlete charged with assault in Reidsville A local athlete who was cleared of charges in the beating of two Palestinian students at Guilford College earlier this year is facing an assault charge in Reidsville.
05-29-07 - Hagel in ?08? ?We?ll let you know.? Hagel, who is considering a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, said he has not yet made any decisions. He added that, in any event, the Israel Foreign Ministry building was probably not the most appropriate place for an announcement. "We'll let you know," he told the Q. Sadly, in all actuality, it IS the most appropriate place to announce your candidacy.
05-29-07 - MKs' proposal would hand control of Gaza Strip to Arab League A diplomatic initiative to restore stability in Gaza would give the Arab League responsibility for the coastal strip and install a multi-national force, in cooperation with the European Union.
05-29-07 - Gov. Crist begins 5-day tour of Israel Crist's meetings with Israeli officials were set up by his friend, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach. who is among Israel's strongest supporters in Congress.
05-29-07 - Palestinian's quandary: Working for U.S. in Iraq He carries a Palestinian passport and, at home, he is unable even to leave his village at times due to the travel restrictions by the Israeli army. But here in Iraq, he's escorting one of the highest-level U.S. State Department employees.
05-29-07 - Churches worldwide call for just peace in Holy Land
05-29-07 - 'We have no rights and no future' "We have no rights and no future. We have a lot of problems; We can't work freely, we cannot own a house, we cannot move around. We are treated as if we are not human,"
05-29-07 - Rice says US not opposed to Israel-Syria talks The United States does not object to the idea of peace talks between Israel and Syria, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
05-29-07 - Peace rally and march Saturday in Burlington A march and rally to mark the 40th year of the occupation of Palestine will be held on Saturday at noon at the top of Church Street in Burlington.
05-29-07 - APN, IPF to merge? Americans for Peace Now and the Israel Policy Forum are tentatively discussing a merger.
05-28-07 - Hamas says Israel wounds 2 Gaza gunmen Israeli soldiers shot and critically wounded two Hamas gunmen on Monday in a fresh round of violence triggered by the firing of mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip, Hamas officials and medics said.
05-28-07 - Palestinian poverty is alarming - report The plight of Palestinians in the occupied territories has worsened dramatically, with
2.4-million now living in poverty, according to a report published on Monday by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
05-28-07 - Army invades a village near Bethlehem and kidnaps three civilians
05-28-07 - Haneya follows up weekly cabinet meeting from secret location
05-28-07 - Settler fires rounds of live ammunition at Arabic houses in the Negev
05-28-07 - Donations to Palestinians start to flow after US nod Fayyad was expected to receive enough money through the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) account to pay government workers, including members of the security forces, at least half of their normal monthly wages later this week.
05-28-07 - S. Africa condemns Middle East violence
05-28-07 - Alleged killer of Arab cabbie is indicted Prosecutors who requested that Sofir be remanded until his trial said the murder was committed due to "racial motives and his hatred towards Arabs."
05-28-07 - Arab powers seen taking over P.A. Egypt and Jordan eventually will be required to keep order in the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli official predicted.
05-28-07 - Palestinian civilian kidnapped as army search homes in Hebron
05-28-07 - Palestinian official urges for factions' "genuine" cooperation Visiting Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Azzam al-Ahmed called Monday on all Palestinian factions including the rival movements of Fatah and Hamas to boost "genuine" political cooperation.
05-28-07 - Army injures two Palestinians and kidnaps them after surrounding a hospital in Jericho
05-28-07 - 'Amendment to Right of Entry Law racist' Speakers at a meeting in Tel Aviv on Sunday night were unanimous in declaring the amendment racist and directed primarily at non-Jews of Russian, Ethiopian and Palestinian background, so as to safeguard Israel's demographic balance and ensure that there will always be a Jewish majority...... Other than forcing Palestinians and non-Jewish Russian and Ethiopian immigrants out of the country, said Feler, the amendment would also affect several hundred non-citizens who were stateless Beduin.
05-28-07 - Gaza factions fire more rockets into Israel despite army operations Palestinian factions continued on Monday launching rockets into Israel despite the Jewish country's threats to expand the 11-day-old crackdown on Gaza militant groups.
05-28-07 - Israeli strike on Jabalya camp damages civilian property; human rights offices
05-28-07 - Israel won't budget cellular frequencies to Al-Wataniya Israel refuses to allocate cellular frequencies to the new Palestinian cellular services company recently set up in the territories.
05-28-07 - Israeli forces invade Nablus, attack women's center
05-28-07 - A Palestinian MP calls for international justice against Israel
05-28-07 - American Treachery in the Attack on the USS Liberty Much Deeper Than Previously Thought
05-28-07 - Loonies Tune Out: B?nai Brith Shuts Down Peace Activists in Canada What, according to the complaint, is anti-Semitic? "The idea that Israel has no right to exist or that Israel is an apartheid state," says Mr. Abrams. Also, any comparison of Zionists to Nazis.
The definition of anti-Semitism is changed at will by those that simply cannot tolerate any criticism of the Jewish State.
05-28-07 - Strategic talks stepped up ** Israel's representative to the discussions, Cabinet Minister Shaul Mofaz, is to set off shortly for the United States for a new round that is expected to focus on Iran's nuclear program.
05-28-07 - A condominium solution for a divided Jerusalem There is a widespread misconception among Israelis that, under the status quo, Israel possesses sovereignty over expanded East Jerusalem. It does not. It possesses administrative control. A country can acquire administrative control by force of arms. It can acquire sovereignty only with the consent of the international community. Israel has possessed and exercised administrative control over expanded East Jerusalem for four decades. To this day, none of the world's other 194 sovereign states has recognized its claim to sovereignty. Furthermore, Israel's purported annexation of expanded East Jerusalem has been declared void, and Jerusalem has been explicitly included among the occupied territories in a long series of unanimous or near-unanimous UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.
05-28-07 - Guantanamo prisoner urges release of BBC journalist A television cameraman held prisoner for years at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has issued an impassioned plea for the release of a fellow journalist kidnapped in Gaza.
05-28-07 - Syrian vice president stresses dialogue best method to solve Mideast issues
05-28-07 - Where is the Palestinian peace camp? a series of non-violent demonstrations have cropped up to protest against the building of the West Bank barrier.
These protests, however, are small "because we can't gather like the Israelis do in Tel Aviv," says Dr Salameh. "We would get shot if we tried."
05-28-07 - Lebanon army 'hit by militants' Lebanese troops have reportedly come under attack from Islamist militants barricaded inside a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country.
05-28-07 - Peretz loses Israeli party vote The two men who defeated him, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and a former head of Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon will now face a run-off vote.
05-28-07 - Ya'alon: No peace until Arabs recognize Israel
05-28-07 - Militants accuse US of sending nerve gas to Lebanon Islamist miltants have accused the US of sending nerve gas to the Lebanese army, which is struggling to defeat a group of rebels holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp
05-28-07 - Terror mastermind arrested after 7 years Fatah leader Khaled Shawish behind dozens of attacks on Israeli civilians, including murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane's son. After years of eluding Israeli hands, joint IDF, Shin Bet operation leads to his arrest
05-28-07 - UN team to report on alleged arms smuggling to Lebanon
05-28-07 - 40 years since 1967 - a day of public events
05-28-07 - Analysis: Kazakhstan could be Israel's best source for oil and gas
05-28-07 - Professor who attended Holocaust conference blasts critics as Islamophobes his interest has been in what use of the Holocaust has been made to promote Zionism - the right of Jews to a national homeland - and to support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
05-28-07 - Muslim nations urged to create new 'Golden Age of Islam' Islamic countries increasingly feel "the overwhelming majority of Muslims ... are being demonized for the actions of a small minority," he said, adding that frustrations have grown because of persistent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestinian territories.
05-28-07 - Poison apple If using the innocence of a cartoon mouse to teach violent resistance to Israeli occupation creates hate, it pales in comparison to the hatred that is being created when Jewish children are taught that God gave the land of Palestine to the Jews.
05-28-07 - Palestinians Support Truce with Israel
05-28-07 - Firefights erupt at besieged Lebanon camp
05-28-07 - Palestinians seek end to Lebanon standoff
05-28-07 - Lebanese army and Islamists clash violently
05-28-07 - Livni meets with British ambassador over U.K. boycotts The number of British organizations calling for the boycott of Israel, their public campaigns, and their constant comparisons between Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa have made the battle for British public opinion particularly significant.
05-27-07 - Hamas rocket kills man in Israel
05-27-07 - Hamas says Israel wounds 2 Gaza gunmen
05-27-07 - Israeli military occupies home of man they killed
05-27-07 - HEBRON: Daily Harassment in Hebron
05-27-07 - Report: Cheney aide clearing path to bomb Iran ** Cheney's team wants to work with Israel, nudging the country at some key moment to mount a small-scale attack on the suspected site of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, which could lead to an Iranian counter attack on US forces stationed in the Persian Gulf, Clemons reports.
05-27-07 - Ya'alon: Bring down Iranian regime, send ground troops into Gaza ** Attempts to prevent the nuclearization of Iran will fail, according to former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon, who asserted that the military option should be examined and the Iranian regime should be brought down.
05-27-07 - Palestinian resistance attacks Israeli military post near Efrat settlement
05-27-07 - Israeli warplanes open fire at residential houses in southern Gaza
05-27-07 - Gaza baby treated at Israeli hospital
05-27-07 - Egypt Bashes U.S. for Hypocrisy "The United States says that it doesn't establish relations with a banned group, whether in Egypt or outside Egypt," said Mubarak's spokesman Suleiman Awaad. "The U.S. says it is meeting with the Brotherhood as Parliament members, but doesn't make the same distinction and refuses to talk with Hamas, who is heading the Palestinian government and is occupying the prime minister's seat."
05-27-07 - Former U.S. defense chief: Israel must not attack Iran ** They are trying to get us to do it.
05-27-07 - Hamas rejects Abbas bid for truce with Israel
05-27-07 - Jordan's king: U.S. Congress has crucial role in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking
05-27-07 - Chief Rabbinate: Don?t buy produce from PA The Chief Rabbinate has called on all the bodies that issue kashrut certificates in Israel to refrain from purchasing fruits and vegetables from Palestinian farmers during the next year, which is set to be Sabbatical year (shnat shmita), for fear the proceeds will be used for funding terror.
05-27-07 - Settlers call for 'Operation Defensive Shield' in Gaza Following a ground offensive in Gaza, the leaflet calls on the government to rebuild the settlements on the security zone which will be created in the northern Strip
05-27-07 - Crist's trip to Israel could pay off now and on the trail when pressed, Wexler acknowledged what many others agree to privately: that a trip to the troubled Middle East helps build a foreign policy portfolio for someone with an eye on higher office......"It's a rite of passage," one top legislator said privately about politicians making a "pilgrimage" to Israel - a journey important not only to Jewish Americans but to fundamentalist Christians who see the country as key to biblical prophesy. Politicians must campaign in Israel.
05-27-07 - Oprah's Going to Israel, Will She Go To OPT? Will she go to the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory and bear witness to what the INDIGENOUS people of The Holy Land have suffered after 40 years of OCCUPATION. I don't believe that Oprah has the guts to defy the Israeli lobby in this country, and go visit Palestinians.
05-27-07 - Mideast peace activists to share stories
05-27-07 - 'Wiped off the Map' ? The Rumor of the Century The full quote translated directly to English: "The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."
05-27-07 - Queen Rania participates in third meeting of Arab Woman Organization Higher Council Discussions focused on activating the organization's past recommendations on Arab woman affairs including the call to free Palestinian woman prisoners in Israeli jails.
05-27-07 - UN agency: More than 5,000 families have left Palestinian refugee camp A majority of families from a besieged Palestinian refugee camp caught in the crossfire between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army have fled the crowded camp but thousands of people remain trapped inside, a U.N. official said Sunday.
05-27-07 - Jumblatt downplays Lebanon army action at camp Fresh fighting broke out on Sunday between the Lebanese army and militants in a Palestinian refugee camp, but a senior member of the governing coalition said there were no plans to end the standoff by military means.
05-27-07 - The refugees who refuse to flee Nahr al-Bared
05-27-07 - On the Academic Boycott of Israel
05-26-07 - Rapid-fire Israeli air strikes kill five Gaza Palestinians The five men killed yesterday were all thought to have been members of the Executive Force. Reuters reported that the blast that struck their Gaza City compound damaged a kindergarten next door, forcing young children to run for cover.
05-26-07 - Casualties in Jerusalem shooting Two Palestinian gunmen have opened fire on an Israeli patrol in east Jerusalem, wounding four Israelis, emergency services there have said.
05-26-07 - Palestinian police kill top militant; five others injured in West Bank shootout Palestinian police killed a top militant Saturday in the northern West Bank town of Tubas and five others were injured in the ensuing shootout between police and militants, security officials said.
05-26-07 - Palestine Service Smashes Network of Collaborators The Palestinian Preventive Security (PPS) service in the West Bank yesterday announced that a network of local collaborators with the Israeli occupation was recently smashed and a number of arrests were made.
05-26-07 - Bethlehem : A City Contained "There's not much fun in Bethlehem for the students," John says. "The wall around Bethlehem keeps us physically and emotionally hemmed in. The quality of life here is difficult. It's very oppressive and depressive. And the Christians are just constantly trying to survive and to thrive here." ....."The situation in Bethlehem is peaceful now. There's no fighting in the streets. There was 5 years ago. But the problems for the people here are not caused by any ethnic or religious rivalry. The Muslims don't persecute the Christians here. That's an idea that is often put around."
05-26-07 - Israeli forces kidnap three high school students and attack a Palestinian NGO in Hebron Israeli forces attacked and searched a local cultural club and a number of hoses in Hebron and nearby villages in the southern part of the West Bank on Saturday morning, kidnapping three youths.
05-26-07 - Hamas warns Israel against harming Haneya The ruling Islamic Resistance Movement(Hamas) on Saturday warned Israel against harming Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya after Israeli aircraft struck twice near his house.
05-26-07 - West Asia violence: India calls for restraint Four Palestinians, including a child, were wounded in an Israeli air raid on a post, south of Gaza City.
05-26-07 - The Cabal Strikes Back ** In the end, however, when it comes down to launching a full frontal assault on Iran, it all depends on the Israelis. The War Party is counting on them to strike the first blow, with the guarantee that the Americans will strike the second, third, fourth, and fifth blows, ad infinitum. Blows directed not only at Iran, but also against Syria, Hezbollah, and the Palestinians.
05-26-07 - Democrats Dither As Cheney, Neocons Plot To Nuke Iran ** Now that the US invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have failed, the AEI warmongers are conspiring with Vice President Cheney to foment war with Iran.
05-26-07 - Health, environmental disasters threatens Gaza Strip The statement appealed to Arab cities and capitals to send urgent aid to rescue Gaza and other Palestinian municipalities which offer services to more than 600,000 people.
05-26-07 - Complaints that Israel represses Palestinians Describing the current situation in Palestine as "unspeakable," MEP Kyriacos Triantaphyllides of Cyprus, chairman of a committee working on the Palestinian problem, said the EU should recognise the national unity government there, and complained that Israel was continuing to wreak havoc against civilians
05-26-07 - Israel seizes Palestinian Minister
05-26-07 - Kidnapped journo "alive and well" Kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston is alive and well and could be released "very soon", a Palestinian government official said tonight.
05-26-07 - Fatah's armed wing claims responsibility for attack near Jerusalem
05-26-07 - UN envoy and Abbas discuss possible truce with Israel
05-26-07 - Egypt hosts Palestinian factions Sunday
05-26-07 - Senior Palestinian security chief offers to resign An Abbas aide said Rashid Abu Shbak told Abbas last week that he intended to step down but "President Abbas did not accept it at the time."
05-26-07 - Hamas man speaks of Johnston hope
05-26-07 - Iran is nuclear threat, says Israeli general ** Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the Israeli Defense Forces' defense and armed forces attache in Washington, D.C., was a guest speaker at Temple Beth Jacob's Shabbas service. In his remarks, he said Iran is "the most worrying" of three fronts with which Israel is dealing right now.
05-26-07 - What happend to the Israeli peace lobby?
05-26-07 - Hezbollah warns Govt not to storm camp
05-26-07 - You Tube: The Palestinian Christians
05-26-07 - You Tube: If Americans Knew
05-26-07 - In response to the May 22 letter to the editor "Speak up for equal dignity." Israel and the United States stand condemned for their unconscionable behavior against the Palestinian people
05-26-07 - Water and Resistance Timothy Seidel is a peace development worker with Mennonite Central Committee in the Occupied Palestinian Territories where he has lived for the past three years.
05-26-07 - Battle for Britain The number of British organizations calling for the boycott of Israel, their public campaigns, and their constant comparisons between Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa have made the battle for British public opinion particularly significant.
05-26-07 - You must return the rights of the people you have erred against . . . or pay the price The leader of Fatah al-Islam has threatened Britons with ?destruction through resistance and attacks? for their government?s policies in the Middle East. Odd that they should target Britain in all of this, particularly given this story I read just minutes ago.
05-26-07 - Get Carter The New Republic's editor-in-chief, Marty Peretz, said when Carter's Palestine book was published in the US late last year that the former president, who famously brokered a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s, would 'go down in history as a Jew-hater'. New definition of slur 'Jew hater', 'anti-Semite' : someone that dares criticize Israel. A long article, but a good one.
05-26-07 - U.S. sends arms to Lebanon, militants issue warning Lebanese leaders have vowed to stamp out Fatah al-Islam, which is led by a Palestinian but has little support among Lebanon's Palestinian refugee community of around 400,000.
05-26-07 - A Palestinian refugee and her daughter cross to safety after fleeing their besieged camp of Nahr al-bared in north Lebanon
05-26-07 - Israeli employer fire three Palestinians because the hold prayer at work Three Arab employees working at an Israeli factory in Acre, manufacturing parts for camions were fired last Monday for holding prayers at the factory. Acre also known as Akka, is located on the northern end of Haifa bay in northern Israel.
05-26-07 - The need for continuous PR
05-26-07 - End apartheid in Israel Many claim other countries have far worse human rights violations. The difference is we give billions of dollars in support to Israel.
05-25-07 - Air raid kills two Hamas members
05-25-07 - Palestinian patient dies after delay at Erez Crossing
05-25-07 - Undercover forces invade Nablus, kidnap at least eight residents
05-25-07 - Abbas begins talks for peace as slaughter in Gaza goes on
05-25-07 - Gaza militants signal softer terms, Israel hits again
05-25-07 - The Six-Day War: Forty years on civilian settlement of the administered territories contravenes the explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention." The Convention prohibits deportation or transfer by the occupying power of its own civilian population into the territories it occupies. The official Red Cross commentary explains that this prohibition was "intended to prevent a practice adopted during the Second World War by certain Powers, which transferred portions of their own population to occupied territory for political and racial reasons or in order, as they claimed, to colonise those territories." political and racial reasons for colonization of occupied territory? It sounds awfully familiar.
05-25-07 - Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal Judge Meron's memorandum was obtained from the Israel State Archives. His subsequent defence of it amounts to a direct challenge to Israel's continuing contention that the Geneva Convention's provisions on settling people in occupied territory did not apply to the West Bank because its annexation by Jordan between 1949 and 1967 had been unilateral.
05-25-07 - Israeli army invades Hebron area, kidnapping three and injuring one
05-25-07 - Crucial Gaza border crossing reopens after 12-day closure
05-25-07 - Egypt asks Palestinians to talks on easing tension
05-25-07 - Photographer wounded by troops Palestinian Abbas Momani was wounded when Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets towards a group of journalists covering a rally against Israel's controversial separation barrier in the village of Bilin.
05-25-07 - At-Tuwani Update 10-18 May 2007
05-25-07 - Top architects accuse Israelis of oppression Mr Alsop told Building Design magazine that they felt compelled to act. "This is not against Israel, it's for Palestine," he said. "I think the Palestinians are living in a prison. I'd like fellow colleagues in Israel to feel some responsibility about this shabby treatment. Architects are a fairly humanitarian lot and perhaps they could help."
05-25-07 - Dayton: more 'proactive' role for U.S. in Gaza? Dayton suggested. "We continue to evaluate the situation and consider ways in which we can take a more proactive role in affecting the dangerous conditions and support President Abbas in his efforts to bring the lawlessness in Gaza under control," he said.
05-25-07 - Jewish Reps target arms sales to Saudis U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) plan to introduce legislation blocking the sale of missile technology to Saudi Arabia. Remember now, it was only some weeks back that Israel registered its displeasure at the US selling arms to the Saudis - which is no doubt what prompted this move.
05-25-07 - Bush reappoints 10 to heritage commission The ten individuals re-named this week to terms ending in 2010 are: Andrew Klein, the chairman of the Jewish National Fund's mid-Atlantic zone; Robert Zarnegin a California developer who is prominent in the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces; Steven Some of New Jersey, a lobbyist and a member of the Republican Jewish Coalition,
05-25-07 - House to consider Jerusalem, Ahmadinejad resolutions The committee's chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), sponsored the resolution on Jerusalem, which "commends Israel for its administration of the undivided city of Jerusalem for the past 40 years, during which Israel has respected the rights of all religious groups" and calls on President Bush to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
05-25-07 - Guidebook encourages talk of occupation Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, distributed a guide encouraging rabbis to talk about Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. Good for them.
05-25-07 - House to consider nuclear bank The legislation, proposed first by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was referred by the committee to the full House on Wednesday. It is aimed at calling Iran's bluff Lantos is Israel's head agent on Capitol Hill.
05-25-07 - Congress passes lobbying restrictions Jewish leaders had initially lobbied against the rules, but dropped their opposition after receiving assurances that travel to Israel would be unaffected.
05-25-07 - LEBANON: Yousef Abu Radi, Lebanon "On the way to the hospital I realised that my mother had died" With up to 40,000 civilians living in the camp, questions are being raised as to whether the Lebanese army?s response to the militants has been in contravention of international humanitarian law.
05-25-07 - Obstacles to peace: Borders and settlements
05-25-07 - Prosecutors drop secret trial demand in AIPAC case
05-25-07 - US supplies Lebanese Army for fight against Fatah al-Islam
05-25-07 - FOX News Guest: We Must Stay in Iraq So Israel Can Bomb Iran ** FOX hosts never tell their viewers that these people have a hidden agenda that affects their attitudes towards the Middle East , i.e. in order for them to go to heaven, they believe that Israel must conquer its ancient biblical lands, now controlled by Muslims. As these end timers see their influence shrinking, they have gotten more and more desperate, creating hyperbolic threats and bending the truth. Why do these morons insist on taking the rest of us with them in their bonkers doomsday BS?
05-25-07 - NCC delegation meets refugees in Middle East Palestinian women also have experiences of homelessness, a situation clearly articulated to the delegation by Palestinian Christian women living in the West Bank. One YWCA representative spoke about facing discrimination as a woman and a Christian. She said she believes it is critical for women to not only care for and nurture their families, but also work for peace and justice.
05-25-07 - Hezbollah head warns against raid "The Nahr el-Bared camp and Palestinian civilians are a red line," Sheikh Nasrallah said.
05-25-07 - Israel extended invitation to join OECD The OECD extended the invitation Wednesday after years of lobbying by the U.S. government and Congress and more recently, by Turkey
05-25-07 - US students set up 'checkpoint' on campus
05-25-07 - What the Finkelstein Tenure Fight Tells Us About the State of Academia If Norman Finkelstein is denied tenure by DePaul, it won't be because he was irresponsible but because he took his responsibility too seriously. If he is denied tenure, the loss will be not only Finkelstein's and DePaul's but also the larger project of real academic freedom and responsibility.
05-25-07 - One taken prisoner in Nonviolent action in Bethlehem
05-25-07 - It's the Inner-West Bank Residents and Jewish groups yesterday accused the council of wasting resources on "partisan" international politics it had no business concerning itself with.
05-25-07 - Israel must stop attacks on Palestinians, says Kasrils
05-25-07 - Women business leaders meet The owner of a travel agency in Ramallah, Palestine, Al-Shyoukhi has to endure raids on her offices, daily curfews and constant checkpoints that keep her customers from traveling freely.
05-25-07 - US envoy's foolish words If Israel was a well administered country, US Ambassador Richard Jones would have been invited to the Foreign Ministry in order to explain his odd declarations that spy Jonathan Pollard would never be released from prison. What part of treason do these folks just not comprehend? Were this an individual that had committed such a traitorous act against ISRAEL, I'm sure that they would be singing a very different tune.
05-25-07 - Hebron Governor meets the Head of Italian Municipalities league
05-25-07 - Regardless of whether it is a Hebrew or Arabic tale
05-25-07 - Pakistan Deplores Israeli Aggression against Palestinians: FO
05-25-07 - Ros-Lehtinen, Wexler join Fla. Delegation to Israel Said Ros-Lehtinen, "This visit offers us an opportunity to learn more about the economic and security challenges confronting our two great countries in a region vital to our own national interests." Move Washington to Tel Aviv and be done with it.
05-25-07 - European council warns of racism Foreign migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are the most affected by the rise in intolerance and racism, Smith-Asmussen noted.
05-25-07 - Qaeda vows "seas of blood" over Lebanon Palestinians A group calling itself al Qaeda's wing in the Levant vowed to carry out bombings in Lebanon and attacks on Christians unless Beirut pulled its army away from Palestinian refugee camps.
05-25-07 - Refugees again in Lebanon, the Khatibs find sleep comes hard
05-25-07 - US lawmakers propose special Iran rights envoy Two US senators proposed Friday appointing a special State Department envoy to improve human rights and democracy in Iran, citing Tehran's "flagrant disregard" for civil liberties. However, they do not do so for Israel's flagrant disregard for civil liberties, which is well-documented by major human rights organizations the world over.
05-25-07 - Negotiations on Shalit suspended Egyptian foreign minister tells reporters talks on kidnapped Israeli soldier put on hold due to violence in Gaza
05-25-07 - U.S. resupplies Lebanon army, battle for camp looms
05-25-07 - ATFL, ATFP CONDEMN FATAH AL-ISLAM ASSAULT ON LEBANESE SOVEREIGNTY, ENDANGERING OF REFUGEES
05-25-07 - The only weapon available In these desperate circumstances it is not surprising that South African leaders, from Ronnie Kasrils, the Jewish ex-head of the armed wing of the ANC to Bishop Desmond Tutu, declare that the sufferings of the Palestinians are worse than those of black South Africans under Apartheid. Those who know apartheid at first hand are well able to recognise a racist state. And all the blustering by the Israel lobby cannot wash this away.
05-25-07 - Government Will Collapse, Say Palestinians
05-25-07 - ECAJ calls on government: 'support Israel in Gaza' AS Middle East tensions between Israel and the Palestinians continue to mount, Australia?s roof Jewish body has called on the Federal Government and the international community to support Israel?s latest moves in the Gaza Strip.
05-25-07 - Krakow complains about Israelis Krakow municipal leaders have recently asked the mayor and police to check whether the Israeli bodyguards violated the rights of Poles by stopping Polish citizens and checking their identities, searching them and even handcuffing them. These activities should only be carried out by Polish police, the municipal leaders noted. 'We're not in Israel(Kansas) anymore, Schlomo (Toto)'
05-25-07 - Crossing Cultures Reading Adam LeBor?s ?City of Oranges,? I once again met Fakhri Geday, along with much displacement. LeBor writes Jaffa?s past as a sprawling family saga. At its center are a half-dozen or so clans, Jewish and Arab, whose lives intertwine from the 19th century till today, as the Mediterranean port flowers and then is torn apart by conflict.
05-24-07 - Palestinian farmer killed by Israeli fire in Gaza Said Al Attar, 28, was killed after a tank on the Israeli side of the border opened fire toward a village near to the northern Gaza town of Jabaliya, medics said.
05-24-07 - Israeli gunboats kill Palestinian fisherman in northern Gaza: medics
05-24-07 - Hamas cabinet ministers seized by Israel troops Meanwhile, a Palestinian was killed yesterday by Israeli tank fire near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, while the Health Ministry said that a 40-year-old woman who had been wounded in an air strike last week had died in hospital. The woman, Amal Daoud, had been transferred to Israel for medical treatment after the attack. A Palestinian fisherman, Said El-Atar, was killed by fire from Israeli warships stationed in waters opposite the beach in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia, according to Palestinian sources.
A note, on all three major British rags - Guardian, BBC and now the Independent - the injuries/deaths of Palestinian civilians at the hands of the IDF are now relegated to the bottom of the article, and are almost never headlined (JUST LIKE IN THE US).
05-24-07 - Israeli bombings wounds six in Gaza
05-24-07 - Detention of Palestinian Leaders Draws U.S. Concern
05-24-07 - Fateh Parliamentarian Bloc slams Israeli attacks against the Palestinians, abduction of officials
05-24-07 - Acting PLC head slams Israeli abduction of Ministers, Mayors in the West Bank
05-24-07 - Non-aligned, Palestinians urge ceasefire, UN monitors in Gaza
05-24-07 - Khalid: ?Military escalations, shelling of civilian areas and kidnapping officials are sings of Isra
05-24-07 - Israel assault on Hamas to continue - PM aides
05-24-07 - EU calls Palestinian government "non-functioning"
05-24-07 - Israeli helicopters strike near Haneya house in Gaza An Israeli Apache helicopter fired a rocket at a post for Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya's bodyguards in Gaza at Thursday midnight, causing no casualties, witnesses said.
05-24-07 - Hamas says BG plan to pump gas to Israel an 'act of theft' "When a company sells Palestinian gas to the Zionist occupation, it is similar to acts of theft the Israelis are practising against our land every day."
05-24-07 - Army kidnaps three civilians from Obadiya village
05-24-07 - Army injures one civilian and kidnaps seven residents among them three Mayors in Hebron
05-24-07 - Palestinian gov't demands int'l sanctions on Israel
05-24-07 - Israelis swoop on Hamas politicians Israeli soldiers and security forces detained 33 Hamas politicians, including the education minister, in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank and launched several air strikes at Hamas targets in Gaza in a new round of conflict with the Islamist Palestinian group.
05-24-07 - 9 Qassams hit Negev region Thursday evening
05-24-07 - Abbas urges end to rocket attacks
05-24-07 - Iran to Israel: Don't attack Lebanon Iran's hard-line president warned Israel on Thursday that nations in the region would take action against the Jewish state if it attacked Lebanon in the summer...... Ahmadinejad warned Israel that "60 years of invasion and assassination is enough. If you do not cease invasion and massacre, soon the hand of power of the nations of the region will rub you criminals with earth."
05-24-07 - UN 'troubled' Israel seized Hamas lawmakers
05-24-07 - Envoy suggests UN force for Gaza
05-24-07 - Abbas urges truce after Israel seizes Hamas officials
05-24-07 - Air strike hits near Palestinian PM's home
05-24-07 - Israel, US, and Egypt back Fatah's fight against Hamas "If you want to reach a stable and durable Palestinian settlement you can't do that by empowering one faction at the expense of the other, since you very much guarantee that the other faction, which is being marginalized, will seek to undermine any peace agreement."
05-24-07 - Obstacles to peace: Refugees Palestinian historians, and some Israelis, call 1948 one of the biggest, most comprehensive examples of ethnic cleansing in history - perpetrated by the Haganah (later the Israeli Defence Forces) and armed Jewish gangs. This BBC article is mostly a whitewash of Israel's expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians.
05-24-07 - The Glitter of Old Gaza
05-24-07 - Visiting ?Scar of David' Author Is Criticized An author scheduled for two local appearances today ? including one at a city college ? has outraged some members of the city's Jewish community, who say her book misrepresents Israel's treatment of Palestinian Arabs. Truth must've got out.
05-24-07 - Don't fear world's wrath Such Israeli activity would threaten the future of the Palestinian state ? and this is positive. The international arena will undoubtedly protest even more strongly and will want to reinstate the old status quo. Israel would agree only if conditions are right, conditions that must be hammered out with the US first
05-24-07 - 'Chivalrous' Rommel wanted to bring Holocaust to Middle East Ironically, a Holocaust was brought to Palestine, though it wasn't brought against the Jews, nor was it perpetrated by Rommel and the other Nazis.
05-24-07 - Imprisoning a Whole Nation by John Pilger
05-24-07 - Billboard to promote peace in West Bank The billboard, already drawn by artist Russell Rainbolt, who is joining Barrett on the trip, will be painted by Israeli and Palestinian children. Also painting will be adults who are members of Combatants for Peace, a group of former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian armed resistors who believe nonviolence is the only effective route to peace.
05-24-07 - Hamas officials are Israeli hostages
05-24-07 - 'Stop Dimona' says Blix Israel should comply with the same demand being made of Iran, to cease its nuclear fuel-cycle and stop enriching uranium, Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), told Ynetnews Thursday. OH come now, Israel, be held the same standards it demands of everyone else? Ahahaha, he's joking right?
05-24-07 - Sister city in Palestine mooted Mr Steadman got the idea from Christina Gibb, of Dunedin, who has been working with a Christian Peacemaker Team and spent four months based in Hebron last year.
05-24-07 - Neo-Cons To Plot Iran Strategy Amid Caribbean Luxury The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a neo-conservative group created two days after the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, is holding what it calls ?a policy workshop? during Congress? Memorial Day recess, no doubt to plot strategy for moving U.S. policy toward Iran in a direction compatible with its confrontational views......Uri Lubrani, the chief Iran advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, is also expected to participate.
05-24-07 - Fierce gunfire in Lebanese camp The barrage of machine-gun fire and shells at the Nahr al-Bared camp lasted for some 20 minutes before dying down.
05-24-07 - Forty years of Jewish building cast doubts on ability to divide Jerusalem in peace deal The view from Mervat Zayeha's balcony is a portrait of Israel's unceasing effort to cement its control over east Jerusalem since the capture of the city's Arab sector from Jordan 40 years ago. Israel's supremacism.
05-24-07 - HRH Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah was born August 31, 1970 to a notable Jordanian family of Palestinian origin.
05-24-07 - ICRC chief says sending convoy to Palestinian camp
05-24-07 - 'Cursed' Lebanese endure yet another crisis
05-24-07 - UN to monitor arms movements across Syria-Lebanon border The United Nations said Thursday it would send a team to Lebanon early next week to check on reported arms smuggling across the border with neighboring Syria.
05-24-07 - Abbas denies links with Fatah al-Islam The Palestinian authorities have no links with the shadowy Islamist group locked in a deadly showdown with the Lebanese army, president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday.
05-24-07 - Arab human rights body condemns Israeli action in West Bank The recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people as well as Thursday's detention campaign against Palestinian officials in the West Bank was condemned by the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) as violation of international agreements.
05-24-07 - Moscow worried by arrest of PNA executive power officials- FM Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin stated on Thursday that Moscow is worried by the news of going on arrests in the Palestinian territories of officials of the legislative and executive power of the Palestinian National Authority.
05-24-07 - Nonviolent resistance manage to stop bulldozers in Artas
05-24-07 - Turkey expresses concern over Israel's detention of Hamas officials Turkish Foreign Ministry on Thursday expressed concern over detention of more than 30 senior Hamas officials in Israeli operations.
05-24-07 - GOP Candidates Criticize ABC News Report on CIA-Iran Plan ** "I was shocked to see the ABC News report regarding covert action in Iran," Mitt Romney said as he opened a session with reporters in Tulsa, Okla. I was shocked to see Romney and so many others, veritably pledging allegiance to a nation other than this one.
05-24-07 - Europe must remain neutral in Gaza Both the Israeli Army and the Foreign Ministry seemed to agree on using the threat of possible Israeli reengagement in parts of the Gaza Strip as a means of pressuring the Europeans into altering their mandate to become more "executive." Political leverage and military options were used to pressure the Europeans into expanding their mission to patrolling the Philadelphi corridor and detaining any dissident member of Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
05-24-07 - Jordan Islamists met with US democracy experts (Roundup) The Islamic Action Front, Jordan's main political party, on Thursday conceded that its secretary general, Zaki Bani Ershaid, had met with personnel from a US-based democracy expert group as part of a 'civilization dialogue' with Western research institutions.
05-24-07 - U.S. General Says Hamas Influence Waning in Gaza Even though the security situation in Gaza has deteriorated sharply over the past six months, the most recent clashes between Hamas gunmen and Palestinian security forces offer some indication the tide may be turning against the militant extremists, according to the U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Which was the whole point of the withholding of tax customs by Israel, the resultant poverty, and the arming and training of Fatah.
05-24-07 - JPost.com special feature: The Road to the White House A sick display of our politicians groveling to and ensuring the safety of - A FOREIGN NATION.
05-24-07 - Unwelcome guests Palestinians fleeing the fighting in the camp report that the militant group is composed of Syrians, Jordanians, Saudis and Iraqis. The armed jihadis - Sunnis by religion - appeared in the camps a year ago on motorbikes and scooters, and have been there ever since
05-24-07 - Silence means a boycott is justified The Israeli academics who argue for their unfettered access to international academic networks, grants, visiting professorships, fellowships and other benefits of the academic system, have paid scant attention to the total denial of the most basic freedoms to Palestinians, academics or otherwise.
05-24-07 - Hebron: The Games Children Play
05-24-07 - Evidence Declassified in Aipac Case
05-24-07 - Paris condemns arrest of Palestinian officials by Israel
05-24-07 - The PM's latest award - for chutzpah LOCAL Zionist and Jewish community groups have been falling over themselves to line up and pat Prime Minister John Howard on the back in the past few weeks, conferring a swag of awards and honours on the PM for his support of Israel...... The Iraqi tyrant may not have been a threat to the world, as Howard believed, but he was a threat to Israel as a financier of terrorism against the Jewish State
05-24-07 - Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott This is the second time Prof Weinberg, who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1979, has cancelled a visit to a UK university because of Israeli boycotts.
05-23-07 - 40 years ago, Israel attacked U.S. ship On June 8 this year, we as a country should share a moment of silence for the murdered men of the USS Liberty and demand total accountability from Israel.
Amen to that.
05-23-07 - Amnesty accuses Israel of 'serious rights abuses' In the Palestinian territories, Israeli air and artillery strikes killed some 650 people, half of them unarmed civilians and including some 120 children, "a three-fold increase compared with 2005."......"Israeli soldiers and settlers committed serious human rights abuses, including unlawful killings, against Palestinians, mostly with impunity,"
05-23-07 - Ongoing Israeli aerial assaults in Gaza wound three Three Palestinian bystanders were wounded in pre-dawn Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza city early this morning, paramedics said.
05-23-07 - Most Palestinians killed in Israeli raids were civilians, Amnesty says
05-23-07 - Militants reject Gaza truce call "We cannot surrender to blackmail as planes are overhead,"
05-23-07 - Israel arrests Palestinian minister of education
05-23-07 - Factions to continue shelling Israel until achieving mutual ceasefire The Palestinian factions will continue firing rockets into Israel until the Jewish state accepts a mutual ceasefire and apply it to the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a faction representative said on Wednesday.
05-23-07 - Secret peace talks aim to halt Gaza killings The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas-backed prime minister Ismail Haniyeh have begun talks in an effort to stop the barrage of rockets being fired into Israel.
05-23-07 - Israel to let Presidential Guard train near Jericho
05-23-07 - OPT: Humanitarian conditions worsen in Gaza under IOF military operations
05-23-07 - EU seeks greater control of Gaza-Egypt border "The Palestinians asked us to stay... and we said yes we accept. But we would like to do it in a more effective manner," Solana told reporters after meeting with President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.
05-23-07 - Israeli army kidnaps six Palestinian civilians in Nablus
05-23-07 - Israeli military kidnaps 7 Palestinian civilians in Khan Younis after mistaking them for resistance
05-23-07 - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemns violence in Gaza and Sderot and calls for protection of civilians
05-23-07 - General Workers Union slams Israeli attacks
05-23-07 - Residents of Barta?a and the surrounding areas isolated and repeatedly assaulted
05-23-07 - US officials uphold US aid for Abbas' security forces
05-23-07 - Lebanon rapped over shelling Palestinians' camp "Amnesty International is particularly concerned about the army's use of artillery and other heavy weapons, including tank fire, against heavily populated areas,"
05-23-07 - PLO will not object to Lebanese army entering camp
05-23-07 - Lebanese minister warns militants Lebanon's defence minister has said Islamist militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp must surrender or face further military action.
05-23-07 - Obstacles to peace: Water In the 1967 war Israel gained exclusive control of the waters of the West Bank and the Sea of Galilee, although not the Litani. Those resources - the West Bank's mountain aquifer and the Sea of Galilee - give Israel about 60% of its fresh water, a million cubic metres (1 MCM) per year......Israel allocates its citizens, including those living in settlements in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law, with between three and five times more water than the Palestinians.
05-23-07 - 'Nowhere to put us' We'd never heard of Fatah al-Islam. Who are these guys who are terrorising the whole country?
05-23-07 - Israeli Forest Named After Australian Prime Minister The naming of the John Howard forest was arranged by a quasi-private land agency, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) which deliberately discriminates against non-Jews in its allocation of long-lease agreements.
05-23-07 - NY Sun uses 'anti-semitic' slur against Ron Paul
05-23-07 - Rice urged to look at Gaza smuggling Initiated by Sens. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), the letter says the Gaza-Egyptian border has become a major arms conduit, with shipments of high-grade explosives increasing six-fold from 2005 to 2006, from five tons to 30 million tons.
05-23-07 - Reps salute Japan on Hamas stand Thirteen members of Congress signed a letter commending Japan for withholding aid to Hamas until it renounces violence and accepts Israel. Our representatives evidently have nothing better to do than to work on behalf of a foreign nation.
05-23-07 - Eight-year old needs urgent help she needs to be sent abroad for the process, but her father, a Palestinian, is without a job and cannot afford to do so.
05-23-07 - Carter Publisher May Be Accused Of Damaging CBS's Reputation A CBS subsidiary, Simon & Schuster, will be accused of damaging the reputation of its parent company by publishing Mr. Carter's book " Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." Carol Greenwald, the treasurer of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, a CBS shareholder, plans to criticize the publisher at the meeting. Israeli lobby wants SOMEBODY, ANYBODY to pay for Carter's book. By god, the truth got out! And they can't have that.
05-23-07 - Palestinians say they are victims again in Lebanon,
05-23-07 - A declaration of intent
05-23-07 - Jordan-Palestinian confederation would improve peace prospects: Netanyahu Netanyahu went on to reject an Arab peace proposal as "traditional Arab demands" for Israel to return to "indefensible (pre-) six-day war lines (of 1967) and be prepared to negotiate on its own dissolution, on the so-called right of return of the so-called Arab refugees and that's not helpful."
05-23-07 - Iraq Withdrawal Akin to Defeat, Say Americans It will put Israel in danger 40% 25% 35%
05-23-07 - U.N. asks for access to refugee camp U.N. relief officials appealed Wednesday for safe access to the Palestinian refugee camp at the center of a standoff between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army and urged the government to exercise restraint in civilian areas.
05-23-07 - Palestinian speaks to middle schoolers "He's short!" one young boy exclaimed.
05-23-07 - Another view The wooden wall display includes photos of injured Palestinian children, bulldozed homes owned by Palestinians and international volunteers, including Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old who died in 2003 after being crushed by a bulldozer.
05-23-07 - Amnesty blasts Mideast human rights violations Amnesty International said on Wednesday in its annual report that Iraq continued its descent into civil war in 2006 and that both Israel and Hezbollah committed war crimes during their 34-day conflict.
05-22-07 - Israel hits Gaza with more strikes, seven wounded
05-22-07 - Israel calls for world pressure on Hamas
05-22-07 - Barghouthi: ?Israeli rejection of truce offer proves that it is responsible for escalation"
05-22-07 - BG Group at centre of $4bn deal to supply Gaza gas to Israel BG Group is poised to agree the terms of an historic $4 billion (Ł2 billion) deal to supply Palestinian gas to Israel from a discovery off the Gaza coastline, The Times has learnt. ....Palestinians would receive total royalties of $1 billion. Sources in the Middle East note that the sensitive talks could be derailed at any time by the acute political tension that surrounds the deal
05-22-07 - Seven injured during Israeli air strikes on Palestinian targets in Gaza
05-22-07 - Obstacles to peace: Jerusalem a raft of UN resolutions and international conventions outlawing the change of status of occupied territory conquered by military means have had little impact on Israeli thinking. That's because Israel does not comply with international law, never has.
05-22-07 - Popular Committees slam Israeli attacks on media outlets in Nablus The Committees stated that the attack and the confiscation of computers, transmitting devices and other operating equipment represented a violation of international law, of the principles of human rights and of the freedom of the press.
05-22-07 - Israeli Army invades Qalqilia The Israeli army invaded the West Bank City of Qalqilia in the early hours of Tuesday morning, searching homes, kidnapping civilians, and confiscating the property of local residents and organizations.
05-22-07 - Israel 2007: worse than apartheid South Africa?s stated position is clear. The immediate demands are recognition of the government of national unity, the lifting of economic sanctions and blockade of the Palestinian territories, an end to the 40-year-old military occupation and resumption of negotiations for a two-state solution.
05-22-07 - Army kidnaps Palestinian civilian near Jenin and invades Tulkarem
05-22-07 - U.S. reaffirms its policy against targeted assassinations The U.S. State Department indicated opposition Tuesday to any attempt by Israel to deal with continuing Palestinian rocket attacks by targeting Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
05-22-07 - More civilian deaths in Gaza In an isolated barley field, located just few hundred meters away from the Israel-Gaza border line in eastern Rafah city, a heap of barely lies in the middle of the field. The field is now abandoned -- why? Not because there are no farmers in the area, but rather because the Loulahi family, who had been harvesting barely, were hit by Israeli missiles. Judging by the amount of civilians they kill, either the IDF are the worst shots in the world, or they just don't care about killing them.
05-22-07 - Two civilians killed as UN delivers aid to Lebanon camp
05-22-07 - IDF suggests 'security zone' in north Gaza
05-22-07 - Palestinian culture comes alive on campus "Some people wonder what the culture of Palestine has to do with the whole political conflict, but I think it's absolutely necessary that people are made aware of this culture because, especially in the American media, they are dehumanized and lessened to a statistic."
05-22-07 - Livni's Remarks on Full Reciprocal Truce by PNA Cabinet "Military Escalation", Al Burghouti Says Mustafa Al Burghouti, Information Minister and cabinet's spokesman said that the remarks by the Israeli foreign affair minister Tzvi livni in which the Israeli government rejected to cease fire despite of the Palestinian government offer of full, reciprocal and simultaneous cease fire, prove Israel's responsibility for military escalation.
05-22-07 - Two-Way: Arab women visit, pick up pointers on business Hulaileh-Abdul Hadi said that some people in the Mideast have misconceptions about Americans just as some Americans have misconceptions about Palestinians.
05-22-07 - Carter retreats from remarks on Bush After his most recent trip to the Middle East, where he monitored Palestinian elections, Carter said, "I came back from the Middle East and went directly to the Oval Office. I had a long and extensive conversation with President Bush about the absence of any peace talks and to give him a description of what was happening in Palestine in my opinion." He added: "I was very pleased when President Bush told me the top foreign policy priority for the administration in the remaining months would be peace in the Middle East."
05-22-07 - Palestinian-American Tells of Jewish Friendship While tensions between Israelis and Palestinians rise, a Palestinian-American shares his friendship with an Iraeli artist who introduced him to art and environmental design
05-22-07 - U.S. ambassador apologizes for remarks on convicted spy Pollard What the hell for? He was right; Pollard is lucky he wasn't executed, traitorous bastard that he is.
05-22-07 - U.S. envoy: Unlikely convicted spy Pollard will ever be released The United States ambassador to Israel said Monday it is unlikely that convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard will ever be released, adding that the fact that he has not been executed should be seen as an act of clemency by Washington
05-22-07 - Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon When asked why the administration would be acting in a way that appears to run counter to US interests, Hersh says that, since the Israelis lost to them last summer, "the fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute."
05-22-07 - Answering my critics The responses to my repeated calls for taking steps toward peace with our neighbors have been complete rejection. The basis of opposition comes from those who question the very existence of the Palestinian people. Others, who might be willing to recognize that Palestinians do exist, are not wiling to accept the reality of their presence on any part of the Land of Israel. Others who might be willing to accept the presence of Palestinians in some part of Eretz Israel are not willing to accept the possibility of equal rights for them within the State of Israel or even in areas that are under the control of the State of Israel.
05-22-07 - Major Poll Finds U.S. Muslims Mostly Mainstream They seem to do well, despite some of the post-9/11 BS. Says a lot about my country and my fellow Americans.
05-22-07 - U.S.: No heat on Israel to shun Syria An Israeli government official, speaking on condition of anonymity according to civil service rules, said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert does not seek American approval for talks with Syria, and the U.S. has never tried to block such contacts. Sounds like somebody was trying to use the current admin as an excuse to avoid peace talks with Syria. That's twice the US has denied pressuring Israel about this matter.
05-22-07 - Stop world cluster bombs, urge six Nobel Prize winners Israel most recently used the bombs less than a year ago.
05-22-07 - Truce in Lebanon battle sparks mass exodus from camp "Thousands of refugees -- men, women and children -- started fleeing on foot or by car from Nahr al-Bared camp from early evening to take shelter in the nearby Beddawi camp," said Hajj Rifaat, a camp official of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah faction.
05-22-07 - Washington may provide military aid to Lebanese PM
05-22-07 - Lebanon turmoil will not deter UN vote on Hariri court -- US The United States said Tuesday that the fighting in Lebanon would not prevent a UN Security Council vote on setting up an international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
05-22-07 - Palestinian's release still up in the air Hajbeh, a 44-year-old Palestinian by birth, faces deportation for having checked "single" instead of "married" on his immigration form when he entered the country in 1993. U.S. authorities also suspect him of terrorist activity in Jordan, but he has denied being a terrorist and has no conviction here for such a crime. Why not call Waled Shoebat, the alleged 'ex Palestinian terrorist', and ask him how is it that HE gets to not only call America home, but also gets to give speeches at campuses across the land.
05-22-07 - Making a difference with the orphans at Baqa'a
05-22-07 - Letter to Black America on Palestinian Rights Leaders from Black America have repeatedly and historically been among the most outspoken proponents of justice for the Palestinian people
05-22-07 - Jerusalem Patriarch backs Pope, asks international leadership on peace talks
05-22-07 - No BBC, Jerusalem Is Not The Capital Of Israel!
05-22-07 - DJ Drama Vs. DJ Khaled: Who's Really 'Takin' Over'? DJ Khaled
This Palestinian-American DJ has been a staple on Miami radio and in South Beach clubs, and he has a knack for breaking future hits, including Rick Ross' massive anthem "Hustlin' " and tracks by Kanye West.
05-22-07 - US warns Syria over moves to block Hariri trial
05-22-07 - Palestinian Mufti illegitimates compensation on W. Bank barrier A Palestinian Muslim Mufti ruled on Tuesday that receiving Israeli compensation on the land confiscated for building the West Bank barrier was in violation of Islam law
05-22-07 - Dichter: Peace possible without war ?At that stage, the first Friday, I felt that most of our pressure, the majority of operations, should have focused on the place from which the threat originated, and not on attacking real estate in Beirut.?
05-22-07 - How terrorism finds root in the West Islamist radicalism and its stepchild, terrorism, are problems associated with a younger generation of immigrants. Because why? They are disaffected, perhaps discriminated against in Europe(much moreso than they are here in America)?
05-22-07 - Dire Situation Demands Able Americans Take Action Now It is an absolute tragedy that so little attention has been paid by the American people to such a dire issue I've been trying to get their attention for over four years. It is a difficult task when you're competing with the likes of American Idol (boob tube).
05-22-07 - Wisdom of the presidents
05-21-07 - Israeli woman killed by rocket fired from Gaza by militants An Israeli woman civilian was killed by a Qassam rocket last night after Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians - including all four members of an Islamic Jihad rocket launching cell.
05-21-07 - Israeli Military fire on Palestinian and International journalists
05-21-07 - Norway to give Palestinians direct aid "I urge others to follow," Stoere said. "We need to demonstrate that we are ready to engage, politically and financially" with the Palestinian government.
05-21-07 - Separation fence guards shoot at journalists Photos taken by AFP photographer Moussa al-Shaer clearly show one of the guards using an Uzi submachine gun to fire at the demonstrators.
05-21-07 - EU extends Gaza-Egypt border mission for 12 months EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana visits Israel and the Palestinian territories this week as part of a Middle East tour aimed at kickstarting peace efforts, starting his trip just as Israel stepped up air attacks in the Gaza strip on Monday.
05-21-07 - U.S. House seeks tighter U.S.-Israeli ballistic missile defenses ** The United States House of Representatives has adopted a measure aimed at weaving closer U.S. and Israeli defenses against ballistic missiles of the type that could be fired by Iran. Part of a $504 billion defense spending bill passed Thursday, the measure would redirect $205 million in Defense Department funds toward projects already underway in Israel. The humble American taxpayer is a servant to the state of Israel. Billions of our taxpayer dollars, both directly and indirectly go toward the security of a foreign nation - in contravention of our OWN interests.
05-21-07 - BBC vigils for missing reporter
05-21-07 - Army invades southern cities in the West Bank and kidnaps four civilians Witnesses reported that a massive Israeli force invaded the downtown area of Bethlehem city and ransacked a number of homes there, kidnapping Murad Salhab, 33, and Issa Jawarish, 32. The two captives were taken an undisclosed location.
05-21-07 - Army invades Jenin and clashes with local resistance
05-21-07 - Fatah slams Israeli attacks and warns of consequences The Fatah organization has slammed the latest round of Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, stating that the Israeli administration had reinstated a policy of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians by carrying out organized crimes and shelling civilian areas.
05-21-07 - Army shells Beit Hanoun, elderly man injured
05-21-07 - Israeli minister issues death threat to Hamas leaders All Hamas leaders should be killed to end rocket attacks from Gaza, a senior Israeli cabinet official said today, as Israeli planes carried out new air strikes in the territory.
05-21-07 - Israeli army attack Palestinian media outlets in Nablus Palestinian sources stated that a large Israeli force stormed the city of Nablus and attacked the buildings, confiscating archive tapes, informational materials, documents and broadcast transmitters. Several media outlets were forced to go off the air in the attack.
05-21-07 - Saudi Arabia puts Jerusalem on new currency notes a move officials said reflects the kingdom's concern for the Palestinian issue.
05-21-07 - Kucinich backs P.A. funding "As a result of the suspension of international aid, the number of Palestinians living in deep poverty, defined as those living on less than 50 cents a day, nearly doubled to more than 1 million people, according to the United Nations Relief Works Agency," he said in a statement this weekend. "The suspension of aid to the Palestinian Authority may have also helped trigger the factional violence. Nearly 80,000 Palestinian security forces have been denied their salaries for nearly a year. Many of them have resorted to violence to demand their salaries. Additionally, the fact that Western donors concerned with the humanitarian crisis have channeled aid to Fatah-led institutions may have increased Fatah-Hamas tensions."
05-21-07 - Israel Should Give Up 'Not One Inch' of Land, GOP Presidential Candidate Says Addressing a Christian Zionist meeting in Alexandria, Va., Sunday evening
05-21-07 - How a bomblet took a teen's leg - and is slowly killing her father The munitions, 4 million of which were spread across South Lebanon by Israeli forces - including about 1 million that failed to detonate - have caused 30 deaths and 180 injuries among civilians since the end of the war, according to the United Nations Mine Action Center.
05-21-07 - Shin Bet: Wiretaps can be used to guard state's Jewish nature The Shin Bet considers itself authorized to use surveillance techniques that violate privacy, such as wiretaps, when activity that "sabotages the state's Jewish character" is carried out, even if this activity is not illegal. Fascism to ensure the supremacism.
05-21-07 - Robert Fisk: A front-row seat for this Lebanese tragedy We are back at another of those tragic Lebanese stage shows: the siege of Palestinians.
05-21-07 - Fighting rages in Lebanese camp At least nine civilians died during clashes at the Nahr al-Bared camp, home to some 40,000 Palestinian refugees
05-21-07 - Large blast hits Lebanese capital The explosion happened in a car park near the Russian Cultural Centre, in a Muslim area of the city.
05-21-07 - US Ambassador Jones: 'Be Happy We Didn't Execute Pollard' Speaking at a conference at Bar Ilan University on Israeli-American relations, Jones said, "Pollard took money and sold out his country... The fact that he wasn't executed shows that he was treated mercifully." Right on.
05-21-07 - UN draft on court prompts praise, anger Hizbullah labeled the UN resolution "foreign interference in Lebanon's affairs" and called on Russia for help
05-21-07 - IDF: Iran will have bomb only in 2010 OUR intel says 2015.
05-21-07 - Israeli youths reach out over 'Net Israeli youths have created a Web site designed to help them argue their country's case to counterparts abroad. Hasbara.
05-21-07 - Lebanon refugee camps breeding ground for extremism Lebanon's camps also have the region's "highest percentage of Palestine refugees who are living in abject poverty."
05-21-07 - Syria deny Lebanon militants link Syria's UN Ambassador said that militants fighting Lebanese troops had been jailed in Damascus a few years ago for links to al-Qaeda, and would be rearrested if they returned.
05-21-07 - Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream absolute levels of support for Islamic extremism among Muslim Americans are quite low, especially when compared with Muslims around the world.
05-21-07 - (VIDEO) New England Commemorates the Nakba
05-21-07 - JNF barred access to key UN council Leading up to the vote, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) joined a bipartisan effort led by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) to urge the UN to grant the JNF-US the same rights of access enjoyed by the other NGOs. The supremacism of the JNF is described in paragraph 8 in this article.
05-21-07 - Palestine Awareness Week kicks off today ?A lot of people aren?t offered the opportunity to understand what?s going on and hear the perspectives of the Palestinian people. We want to offer that voice to the Palestinian people and give people the perspective that?s been lacking in the (United States),?
05-21-07 - Palestinian refugee groups call for peace in Lebanon Leaders from the various Palestinian factions in Lebanon, excluding Fatah al-Islam held a joint press conference just hours ago condemning the group's actions and distancing themselves from it.
05-21-07 - Clinton leads in fund raising, but Jews are backing all Dems Major Jewish donors also are backing former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and the "second tier" of candidates, including Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, because of their loyalty to Israel and Jewish issues over the years........Clinton has spent her six years in the U.S. Senate reaching out to Jewish groups on nearly every domestic and foreign issue that the community embraces. She was a leader in getting homeland security funds to Jewish institutions and has taken the lead in demanding changes in Palestinian textbooks that would reflect the reality of Israel's existence.
05-21-07 - Army offers Lebanon cease-fire The Lebanese army says is ready for a cease-fire with Islamist militants in the north of the country if they agree to halt their attacks.
05-21-07 - GOP hopeful's slur recalled "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government," Ron Paul wrote in a 1992 newsletter to constituents and quoted in a 1996 article in the Houston Chronicle. Paul also said Zionists stifle criticism, the Chronicle reported.
"slur"? LOL. Paul is SPOT ON. Read the last paragraph. The Israel shills have now ramped up their campaign to SLUR Paul in light of the recent successful performances he has given at the debates.
05-21-07 - House OKs closer U.S.-Israel missile defense Another amendment, initiated by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), requires the Pentagon to integrate the Israeli and U.S. ballistic missile defense systems to better protect Israel against possible attacks by Iran. Thus does the clusterf$ck get ever tighter.
05-21-07 - Mixed reaction to compromise immigration reform The Anti-Defamation League welcomed the package, saying it provides an opportunity to advance the vital cause of keeping our nation both welcoming and secure by seeking to address the problems that have led many to circumvent U.S. immigration law. Huh? These illegal immigrants are BREAKING THE LAW. You don't reward them for doing so. The arm of Israel (the ADL) has no qualms about ISRAEL'S supremacist "law of return" that is for JEWS only (despite UN resolution 194). Hypocrisy.
05-21-07 - Cheney alone as foreign -policy heavy In Cairo last Sunday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Cheney against any military confrontation with Iran because it would have "grave repercussions on the region," his spokesman Suleiman Awaad said. Mubarak also told Cheney solving the Palestinian conflict was the key to resolving the rest of the region's crises, Awaad said.
05-21-07 - U.S. firm fined for abiding by Arab boycott The U.S. Department of Commerce fined a toolmaker for illegally complying with an Arab boycott of Israel. No other country is afforded this luxury. In other words, the only country that it is illegal to boycott IN THIS COUNTRY is Israel. It was a result of the Arab oil embargo of the early 70s - the real reason for which is unknown to most Americans.
05-21-07 - In the belly of the wailing ?democracy? called Israel
05-21-07 - Arab youth revel in pop revolution
05-21-07 - History of failed peace talks In the 40 years since the Middle East war of June 1967, there have been many peace plans and many negotiations.
05-20-07 - Eight die in Israeli missile attack on home of Hamas legislator Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza last night with an airstrike on the home of a Hamas political leader which killed eight of his relatives and neighbours.....Shortly after the airstrike, an Israeli tank's shell hit a house in northern Gaza, killing a child, and injuring five others.
05-20-07 - Israel pounds Gaza with series of air strikes In a second strike on Monday, a missile fired from an Israeli attack helicopter knocked out electricity for about 50,000 people in Nozeirat and a nearby refugee camp in central Gaza, witnesses said.
05-20-07 - Palestinian Authority denies helping US bolster Abbas forces Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaina made the denial after Israel's Haaretz daily reported that the US was pressing Israel to help boost Abbas' forces that were engaged in six days of fighting against rival Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.
05-20-07 - Five Palestinians arrested while settlers continue to attack and harass farmers in Al-Buweib the DCO did not defend the Palestinians legal right to
work their land. Instead, the military declared the entire area a closed
military zone, and ordered everyone, including the landowners, to leave. Five
Palestinians were arrested and taken to the police stations for allegedly
refusing to leave the area Photo gallery of this event can be found here. I would ask readers: what if this happened in AMERICA, and some group of (armed) illegal (foreign) squatters prevented AMERICAN farmers from tending to THEIR land? Those squatters might find themselves looking down so many barrels, they'd think they were at an NRA convention, rightly so.
05-20-07 - Report: Jordan weighs ruling West Bank Jordan has proposed taking the West Bank under its jurisdiction, an Israeli newspaper reported.
05-20-07 - Nablus Private sector representatives, employees, protest against infighting Representatives and employees of the Palestinian private sector held on Sunday a protest in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, against the internal clashes in the Gaza Strip.
05-20-07 - U.S. calls for restraint in Gaza conflicts The United States on Sunday urged Israel to exercise restraint toward rocket attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) while warning the Palestinian militants against firing rockets at Israeli targets.
05-20-07 - Hamas vows to keep rocket attacks into Israel despite threats "Our rockets are fired in response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation and Olmert's threats will not terrify us,"
05-20-07 - Israeli tank fire wounds Palestinian
05-20-07 - Pope appeals for end to 'tragic violence' in Gaza
05-20-07 - Soldiers attack information Minister during protest in Bethlehem The soldiers violently assaulted Barghouthi and hit him along with several others protesters with batons.
Dr. Barghouthi said that soldiers attacked with batons dozens of women and children and pushed them on the ground as the residents peaceful protested against the uprooting of their orchards, settlements and the Annexation Wall.
05-20-07 - For shell-shocked Gaza residents, truce is temporary respite "Once, I became a refugee because of the Israelis. Today I am once again a refugee, driven from my home because of the fighting between the Palestinians,"
05-20-07 - British MPs help search for kidnapped BBC reporter "Essentially the poverty's got much worse, there's been a break down in law and order and so people have been falling back on their clans to protect them and the thinking is that one of these large clans has got Alan Johnston,"
05-20-07 - The Israeli army attack farmers and peace activists near Bethlehem
05-20-07 - If no one knows who they are, can Sudanese be a real threat? Activists call it ironic: While some Sudanese refugees are imprisoned by the Israeli government as citizens of an enemy nation, others crossing into Israel are being abandoned on the street. The hypocrisy of the cries by the pro-Israel community with regard to Darfur lies exposed to the world.
05-20-07 - 37 killed as Lebanese troops battle militants An army spokesman said 15 soldiers, including two officers, were killed in violent clashes at Tripoli and around the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, a Fatah al-Islam stronghold
05-20-07 - 'Do not perform in Israel' In a letter sent Sunday to the Rolling Stones by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, organizers say: 'Performing in Israel at this time is morally equivalent to performing in South Africa during the apartheid era'
05-20-07 - New Knesset body to tackle issues facing W. Bank residents Schneller said the committee was already discussing two bills relating to military protection around the Jewish settlement blocks. The
05-20-07 - Scores dead as Lebanese army battles Islamists in bloodiest day since civil war So here are a few facts. A group of armed men tried to rob a Tripoli bank on Saturday and got cornered in an apartment block. Others holed up in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp north of the city
05-20-07 - Explosion in Beirut kills one: report "There was an explosive device either under a car or next to a car," another security source said, adding it took place in the car park of a popular mall in a Christian district in east Beirut.
05-20-07 - WEF conference ends with hopes of convening in Bethlehem
05-20-07 - Israel to present counter-proposal to Arab Peace Initiative: senior official Israel's formal proposal would take into account the details of the Arab Peace Initiative and would also outline Israel's opposing position,
05-20-07 - Mideast conference at Polish university The conference attendees will include Andrezej Olechowski and Adam Rotfeld, former Polish foreign ministers; Oded Aran, a World Jewish Congress representative in Israel and former Israeli ambassador to the European Union; leading Polish politicians; and several prominent Middle East analysts from Poland, Europe and Israel.
05-20-07 - Palestinians 'academically boycotted' "At a time when we are trying to prevent an academic boycott of Israel, Israel itself is pursuing a policy that continues to sweepingly deny the right of education and academic freedom of Palestinian students," wrote Prof. Kenneth Mann of Tel Aviv University. Mann is chairman of the advisory council of Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement.
05-20-07 - Jewish groups honour PM PRIME Minister John Howard was last night honoured by three leading Jewish organisations for his friendship to Israel.
05-20-07 - Obama Lines Up Behind Neo-Conservative Campaign Against Iran Acutely aware of public disenchantment with Iraq and opposition to an attack on Iran and convinced that the UN Security Council will never be willing to impose serious sanctions of its own, neo-conservatives, in apparent co-ordination with the right-wing "Israel Lobby," have been trying for much of the past year to rally support for tougher unilateral economic sanctions, including divestment, against Iran.
05-20-07 - 25 detainee injured as soldiers attacked them in the Negev detention facility
05-20-07 - Shaukat calls for defreezing Palestinian Authority?s assets
05-20-07 - British Jews meet U.K. foreign secretary Representatives from the Board of Deputies of British Jews met with the country's foreign secretary. The delegation at last week's meeting broached concerns with Margaret Beckett about the threat posed by Iran to the West, as well as to Israel, and its destabilizing influence throughout the Middle East.
05-19-07 - Israel hits Hamas targets, killing four in Gaza Residents said a 15-year-old youth who was close to the rocket launcher had been killed. They said he was not involved in the launch.
05-19-07 - Hamas missile strikes Israeli vehicle in Gaza A rocket-propelled grenade fired by Hamas militants struck an Israeli army bulldozer inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Hamas said, as Israel launched new air strikes against the militant group, killing two Palestinians.
05-19-07 - Palestinians agree Gaza ceasefire Three died in northern Gaza after Israel launched an air strike in the morning.....Palestinian residents said the dead men were shepherds with no connection to the rocket attacks. ....Later, in the evening, another Palestinian was killed in the Jabaliya refugee camp by an Israeli strike.....Hamas said the deceased was teenager with no militant links, the Associated Press reported
05-19-07 - Palestinian shepherded die in Israeli artillery bombing The casualties were shepherds grazing their cattle when an Israeli missile landed near them. Witnesses said the Israeli strike came shortly after home-made rockets were fired from the area into Israel.
05-19-07 - One civilian killed many more injured due Israeli shelling in northern Gaza strip
05-19-07 - Egyptian mediators secure ceasefire between Hamas, Fatah
05-19-07 - Palestinian Jerusalem institutions hold a meeting to counter Israeli attacks on them The institutions discussed the means to unite their efforts and their agendas as the Israeli authorities are trying to eliminate the presence of Palestinians in Jerusalem, and are ongoing with their attacks against Palestinian institutions and organizations in the occupied East Jerusalem.
05-19-07 - Leftist PFLP and DFLP protest against internal clashes
05-19-07 - Gaza crossing is testimony to dashed hopes To prevent attacks, Israel has made it so that Gazans using the Erez crossing terminal have no direct contact with an Israeli until they reach a passport control booth at the very end. The complex cost $35 million to build. Yet almost no one uses it. Israel prohibits the vast majority of Gazans from coming out, and almost no one from Israel goes in.
05-19-07 - Israel ready to settle scores As another fragile ceasefire begins between rival Gaza factions, Tel Aviv launches air strikes
05-19-07 - Broadcasts urge Hamas, Fatah to fight each other Divide and conquer.
05-19-07 - Minister: Iran will not attack Israel Mottaki rejected the Saudi peace initiative as doomed to fail and called, instead, for a "democratic free and fair referendum" where what he called original Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians would vote and choose their own government, the Jerusalem Post reported.
05-19-07 - Army kidnaps six civilians and searches numerous homes in the West Bank city of Hebron
05-19-07 - Abbas intelligence official attacked in Gaza A convoy carrying a top aide to President Mahmoud Abbas's intelligence chief in the Gaza Strip came under fire on Saturday despite a new ceasefire deal between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, security sources said.
05-19-07 - Palestinian resistance attack invading army troops in Nablus Local Palestinian resistance groups clamed responsibility for hurling home made bombs at invading Israeli forces in the city of Nablus on Saturday.
05-19-07 - Two internationals hospitalized after Israeli settlers attack Tel Rumeida, Hebron? Today, May 19, at 2:30pm, a group of 6 Israeli settlers, aged 15-17, attacked a group of Palestinian children and two human rights workers (HRWs), one from Germany and one from Greece.
05-19-07 - Hamas force should be dissolved-Fatah deputy PM
05-19-07 - Five Palestinians wounded by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza
05-19-07 - Spain calls for Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire
05-19-07 - Report: FBI agent bumped Irvine Muslim with car The University of California, Irvine, is investigating whether an FBI agent bumped a Muslim student with his car near the site of an anti-Israel protest.
05-19-07 - Ban on J'lem Christian event upheld The Chief Rabbinate upheld a ban Thursday on Jewish participation in a Christian women's conference in Jerusalem next week that was organized by the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus, due to concern that some of the organizations involved are active in missionary work, Rabbinate officials said.
05-19-07 - Dubai ruler in vast charity gift The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, says he is giving $10bn (Ł5bn) to set up an educational foundation in the Middle East.
05-19-07 - Attacks strike terror in Gaza and Israel The fact is, though, that neither Israeli incursions, nor air, nor artillery strikes have stopped the rocket fire from Gaza in the past.
To a greater or lesser extent, it has been a constant over the last six years. And will continue, say armed Palestinian groups, as long as Israel occupies land they view as Palestinian.
05-19-07 - Lebanon battles militants at Palestinian camp
05-19-07 - Israel not to re-conquer Gaza: Israeli Peretz
05-19-07 - I?ve looked at life from both sides now The house next door to Hani?s was until recently inhabited by an elderly Palestinian couple. But they made the mistake of leaving for a couple of days and before you could say Shalom! an energetic Jewish family set up home with their noisy children and impressive first-world garden implements under the watchful eye of an Israeli sentry post. A frank look at what life is like for those Palestinians living in Hebron, and also, at the very end of the article, how some settlers really feel about mass murder.
05-19-07 - Hoenlein says US elite being 'poisoned' against Israel "Today it is no longer PC to say they hate Jews, so they say they hate Israel and Zionism, but we know what they mean," To the contrary, more Americans are rejecting the knee-jerk slur of 'anti-Semite' leveled at the slightest criticism of Israel (the latter of which is well-deserved).
05-19-07 - Michigan Peace Team receives award
05-19-07 - "Side By Side Or Face To Face" Exhibition Opens In Istanbul
05-19-07 - Local school cancels Palestinian speakers
05-19-07 - Palestine-Israel: Friday AATW Demonstration Remembers the Nacba
05-19-07 - History keeps Hastings close to Judaism In his speeches to Jewish organizations, Hastings stresses three major themes: tolerance, support for Israel, and a call for action against genocide in places such as Darfur. Help me out here, which country was he elected to serve?
05-19-07 - Threading the needle The Bush administration's failed peace policy has left Palestinians bereft of any hope for an end to occupation. Isolating Hamas hasn't strengthened PA President Mahmoud Abbas, it has deepened societal rifts and pushed Palestinians further outside the mainstream.
05-19-07 - QUIT: Victoria?s Secret Weapon Fashion Show, SF Another little known fact is that many of Victoria?s Secret?s bras, cotton panties and sleepware are made by an Israeli company called Delta Galil. Most of the cotton they use is grown in Israel or Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory. The "Shop Israel" website administered by the Israeli embassy in the U.S. urges people who support Israel to buy Victoria?s Secret products.
05-19-07 - Destroying the Wall in Umm Salamuna
05-19-07 - Saleh affirms Yemen's support for Palestinian rights
05-18-07 - Israeli army kills a Palestinian child near Bethlehem A group of Israeli soldiers attacked homes in the village of Beit Fajar, located to the south of Bethlehem city. During the attack, soldiers randomly opened fire on a group of children playing in front of their homes, critically injuring Ziad Takatka, 16. The boy was moved to Bethlehem public hospital, but later died from his wounds.
05-18-07 - Israel strikes Hamas in Gaza, threatens more action Two militants -- one from each side -- were killed, hospital officials said. A fisherman was also killed after being caught in crossfire. Hospital officials said two other civilians died from wounds sustained during internal clashes earlier this week.
05-18-07 - Islamic Jihad leader appeals Fateh, Hamas to end clashes
05-18-07 - Israel sets high bar for Gaza peacekeeper idea Israel said on Friday it might agree to international peacekeepers being deployed in Gaza as long as they were ready to crack down on Palestinian militants -- a view one foreign diplomat said amounted to a "No".
05-18-07 - Three Palestinian children injured as army invades Tulkarem city
05-18-07 - Two detained, others wounded in anti-wall nonviolent protest in Bethlehem Around 60 Palestinian, Israeli and International protesters gathered in southern Bethlehem on Friday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and to protest against the construction of the annexation wall on Palestinian land.
05-18-07 - House rejects funding caveat on Iran ** The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which favors a robust posture against any possible Iranian nuclear threat, strongly opposed the amendments. Two Jewish members close to AIPAC, Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), had kept similar language from appearing in the bill?s original text. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House speaker, allowed the amendments to go forward to placate anti-war Democrats.
05-18-07 - Russia ForMin calls on Israel to stop rocketing Palestine
05-18-07 - Information Minister calls for releasing abducted reporter Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi called for the immediate release of Abdul-Salam Abu Askar, a local reporter who was abducted in Gaza on Friday evening.
05-18-07 - Baraka: ?Killing of the Palestinian driver wasn?t just an incident? He slammed that Israel claims that the assailant was mentally ill and stated this Israel repeatedly used such claims to justify racist attacks.
05-18-07 - Gunmen open fire at a society in Nablus Palestinian sources reported on Friday that gunmen opened fire at a development society in the Northern Mountain area, in the northern west Bank city of Nablus.
05-18-07 - Leaders arrive in Jordan for World Economic Forum on Mideast
05-18-07 - Jordan king in Palestinian plea Jordan's King Abdullah has urged the world to act to end what he described as the continuing suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
05-18-07 - Teachers Union slams Israeli abduction of Salfit head of Ministry of Education The General Teacher Union in the Palestinian territories slammed on Friday the Israeli army for the kidnapping of Sameer Shaheen, head of the Ministry of Education in the West Bank city of Salfit.
05-18-07 - Arab League chief blames Israel for Gaza infighting 'The inter-Palestinian fighting cannot be averted because the Israeli troops surround the Palestinian fighters and besiege the Palestinian people to starvation limits at a time when the unemployment rate was exceeding 70 percent,'
05-18-07 - Forum leaders differ on Mideast future During one politically charged panel, Saeb Erekat, a top aide to the Palestinian president, chided Iranian hard-liner Mohammed J.A. Larijani, telling him Iran should stop its anti-Israeli rhetoric and instead help create a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
05-18-07 - Released UAE TV reporter won't name Gaza captors The bureau chief of the United Arab Emirates' Abu Dhabi TV in Gaza, abducted briefly by Palestinian gunmen on Friday, refused to identify his captors after the television station blamed Islamist group Hamas.
05-18-07 - Troops cross into Gaza with Israel's blessing The revelation of the troop deployment illustrates the increasing partisanship of Israel and the Bush Administration in the volatile Palestinian political situation
05-18-07 - Iran not seeking Israel destruction: Larijani Iran's national security chief Ali Larijani on Friday denied Tehran was promoting the policy of wiping Israel "off the map," blaming a deliberate distortion by the Western media.
05-18-07 - Haaretz: Poll: 71% of Israelis want U.S. to strike Iran if talks fail ** Fully 71 percent of Israelis believe that the United States should launch a military attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran's nuclear program, according to a new poll. A similar article also appears on Newsmax: Israeli Poll: U.S. Should Strike Iran
05-18-07 - Threatened at a Gaza roadblock
05-18-07 - Unsung 'Fixers' Protect War Reporters
05-18-07 - B?Tselem sends an urgent letter to Peretz to bar the army from shelling civilian areas The Center also said that several Israeli ministers asked Peretz to cut the power and water supply that goes into the Gaza Strip, and considered these calls and shelling as act of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
05-18-07 - MSF reacts to charges issued against Palestinian staff member
05-18-07 - Conservatives Push Joint Israeli-U.S. BMDS The Democratic-controlled House passed its version of the fiscal 2008 defense authorization legislation May 17, including a last-minute provision pushed by conservative Republicans to further integrate the U.S. ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) with Israel. Thus does the America-Israel clusterf*#k deepen, thanks to its agents on Capitol Hill.
05-18-07 - Arab Festival Spotlights Diversity Within Middle Eastern Culture "People don?t understand that there are 22 Arab countries," says Sarsour, who is Palestinian but was born and raised in Sunset Park. "So this will be an educational event as well as a celebration."
05-18-07 - Arab League chief rebuffs Olmert offer to meet Arab League chief Amr Mussa on Friday dismissed an offer from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to meet Arab leaders on their peace initiative as nothing more than a "gimmick."
05-18-07 - Training on story writing available to Gaza journalists The Media Development Center at Birzeit University in the Palestinian territories is organizing a training workshop for print journalists in the Gaza Strip scheduled for June 2 to 14. Application deadline: May 25.
05-18-07 - New law to require referendum before future Israeli withdrawals The law was supported by a concerted effort on the part of a lobby for the Golan Heights communities, who maintain that a potential Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights will be much less likely to occur if it will require the approval of a national referendum.
05-18-07 - Internet Censorship Rising Globally researchers found no filtering at all in Russia, Israel or the Palestinian territories despite political conflicts there. Very good.
05-18-07 - Phone Call between President Abbas, Spanish FM
05-18-07 - There will be no true peace in the region unless we solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict In an interview with His Majesty King Abdullah by the London-based daily the Times, during the Petra Conference of Nobel Laureates, the King asked if the there is no future for the Palestinian representing in establishing a Palestinian state, how can there be between the Arab and Israelis?
05-18-07 - Film explores Hollywood vilification of Arabs In the film, Shaheen, the narrator, explores continual negative stereotypes of Arabs, recycled in one American movie after another, which constitutes about "20 percent of films."
05-18-07 - Discussion of ?Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid? planned On Tuesday, May 22, at 7 p.m., a book discussion of ?Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid? by Jimmy Carter will be held at the Dover Public Library Lecture Hall, 73 Locust St., in Dover.
05-18-07 - Poll finds policy, values hurt U.S. in Muslim world "There have been specific complaints that the U.S. favors Israel over the Palestinians and the Arab world as whole ... and exploits the Middle East for its oil,"
05-18-07 - U.S. Accuses Hamas of Starting Violence
05-18-07 - AIPAC's Power Base: America's Real Terrorists Hey, if you're gonna use my graphic, give me some props!
05-18-07 - Minneapolis Al Nakba Day Recognition On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 in front of the Minneapolis Central Library at 12:00pm, members of JFAETTO (Jews For An End To The Occupation) joined the international commemoration of Al Nakba Day, or "Day of Catastrophe". Just as in other cities in around the world.--Boston, San Francisco, Philidelphia, and Tel Aviv, we mapped out a grid and outline of the state of Israel and Occupied Territories and asked passersby to help us put the names of the 531 Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 back on the map.
05-17-07 - Gaza hit by fresh Israeli strikes Six Palestinians were killed in similar strikes on Thursday.
05-17-07 - Four Palestinians killed in Gaza in a series of Israeli Air Strikes Palestinian media sources and medics said that Israeli warplanes fired on Thursday missiles on a Hamas oupost near the Falastin playground in Gaza city, wounding about 30 Palestinians.
05-17-07 - Israelis strike Hamas targets in Gaza An Israeli hit on a pickup truck near the southern Gaza town of Rafah killed a father and his two teenage sons.
05-17-07 - Bodyguard of interior ministry spokesman killed in new Israeli airstrike A new Israeli airstrike hit on Thursday afternoon a post in front of the house of Khaled Abu Helal, spokesman for Palestinian Interior Ministry, killing a bodyguard of him, witnesses reported.
05-17-07 - Abbas calls off visit to Gaza amid violence Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed a planned visit to Gaza that was aimed at easing tensions between his secular Fatah faction and ruling Hamas Islamists, Palestinian officials said Thursday.
05-17-07 - Israeli tanks enter northern Gaza in "routine" incursion (Extra)
05-17-07 - Barghouthi calls on media to avoid broadcasting inciting material regarding the infighting He told a press conference at the Palestine Media Center in Ramallah that the media should avoid broadcasting or publishing any inflammatory material that may contribute in fueling the situation on internal unrest.
05-17-07 - Gaza violence hampering aid deliveries, say humanitarian workers
05-17-07 - Nine Palestinian civilians kidnapped as army invades several West Bank areas
05-17-07 - President Abbas heads for Gaza as relative calm observed
05-17-07 - Israeli air strikes hit Hamas in Gaza, troops enter Abbas was quoted by Wafa news agency as asking Rice "to stop the Israeli military escalation against our people and continue their efforts to push the peace process forward."
05-17-07 - Murdered Arab driver to be recognized as terror victim That's great. But I again urge you to see how many mainstream American news outlets covered this story.. NONE (as of this writing). Now let's see how many covered the Hamas Mickey Mouse story. DOZENS AND DOZENS. One is alleged to have incited murder of Jews, the other actually does the deed; murders someone because of their ethnicity. Up is down, left is right, black is white; the Orwellian nature of the beast.
05-17-07 - Egyptian official shot while monitoring Gaza 'truce'
05-17-07 - Hebron Update 7-14 May 2007 Benvie went down to
investigate and observed an Israeli soldier, on the Shuhada Street side of the
gate, pointing his gun at a young Palestinian boy (aged about 10 years old) who
was standing on the market side of the gate, just beside the apartment door.
Benvie tried to talk to the soldier, emphasizing that the boy was very young.
The soldier ignored her and continued to point his gun at the boy and shout at
him
05-17-07 - Court demands solution for W. Bank village inside J'lem
05-17-07 - Hamas issues threat to Israel They said this was in response to an Israeli air strike that destroyed one of their security compounds in Gaza City.
05-17-07 - Young Spaniard among Gaza dead Sayans, who was recently married and a member of the Palestinian Preventive Security force, was shot in the back.
05-17-07 - Britain enlists Palestinian firebrand to free BBC reporter The government said Thursday it is asking a radical Palestinian cleric detained whether he would be willing to appeal for the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston from the Gaza Strip.
05-17-07 - Egypt condemns Israeli military operation in Gaza Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Thursday that he deemed the Israeli military raid in northern Gaza Strip as "wanton violence and killing," the official news agency MENA reported.
05-17-07 - U.S. OKs aid channel to Palestinian finance minister The United States has told the European Union that funds can be channelled to Palestinians through an account run by Finance Minister Salam Fayyad but that restrictions against the Hamas-led government remain in place.
05-17-07 - Western diplomats praise Abbas' forces for Karni battle against Hamas Divide and conquer.
05-17-07 - Hamas denies plans of targeting Abbas
05-17-07 - Vast majority of Palestinians 'never finish school' In Palestine, less than 1 percent of children were reported to be finishing their schooling due, largely, to Israeli security crackdowns that regularly interrupt their academic progress,"
05-17-07 - Palestinian plotted to kill Olmert
05-17-07 - Students at Harvard launch a campaign against Israeli General
05-17-07 - World Bank condemns roadblocks, 5 activists arrested for dismantling them
05-17-07 - Palestinian Child Art center warns of affects of infighting on children
05-17-07 - The children of Al Hadidiya live here no more
05-17-07 - Prince lauds efforts to advance Mideast peace His Royal Highness also expressed Brunei Darussalam's solidarity with member nations who are currently experiencing severe problems and in particular appreciated the current efforts being made by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan to advance the peace process and secure lasting settlement in Palestine.
05-17-07 - 4 Israelis arrested at Secretary of State Canton Township Police said they arrested four men from Israel at a Michigan Secretary of State office Tuesday, after they tried to obtain driver's licenses using false addresses in Ann Arbor.
05-17-07 - Obama to Haaretz: More pressure on Iran urgently needed "Iran continues to be a major threat," he told me Wednesday morning, "both the U.S. and to some of our allies."........In some of these initiatives AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, is also playing a role.
05-17-07 - Bottling peace in a jar Robert Massoud, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian parents and now living just north of Toronto, developed the project as "a people-sized initiative for those who want to make a difference" but who "throw up their hands and walk away" in despair from seemingly hopeless cycles of retaliation in the Middle East
05-17-07 - Jordan jails two in plot to smuggle arms to Palestinians A Jordanian military court on Thursday jailed two Jordanians of Palestinian origin for plotting to smuggle weapons to the Palestinian territories.
05-17-07 - Bush acknowledges Palestinian plight President Bush said Thursday he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed the plight of the Palestinian people and the "deep humiliation" they face....."We recognized the deep humiliation that can come as a result of living in a land where you can't move freely and where people can't realize dreams," Bush said. The funny thing is here, months ago I sent out an email to the President asking that our government accept the new unity government (this was part of one of those email alert systems offered by websites such as CFI). Darren K. Hipp, a Special Assistant to the President, actually sent out a letter to me that contained the following excerpt: "[The President] also believes that people who live in freedom are more likely to reject terrorism." No kidding? Hello? Why doesn't the president thus demand Israel withdraw from all of the Palestinian territories that it has unlawfully occupied (and colonized) for nearly 40 years?
05-17-07 - U.S. praises Israel for restraint over Gaza "Israel has the right to defend itself and it has exercised great restraint in the face of these rocket attacks," McCormack told reporters.
05-17-07 - Israel to start international campaign on Qassams Can Israel use these latest events to win over public opinion?
05-17-07 - Palestinian Pinochet Making His Move? Seeing the disastrous implications of the U.S. policy, the Saudis appeared to have put the kibosh on Abrams? coup plan by drawing Abbas into a unity government with Hamas. And as Mark Perry at Conflict Forum detailed in an excellent analysis Dahlan was just about the only thing that the U.S. had going for it in terms of resisting the move towards a unity government
05-17-07 - 'Israel-US relations vital for security' The vast majority of Israelis believe that the relationship with the US is crucial to Israel's survival, and trust the US to come to its aid in time of need, according to a poll released by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies of Bar-Ilan University and the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday.
05-17-07 - Suleiman works on new film 'Time' Suleiman will lense the tentatively titled project in New York, Paris and Israel. It tells a semi-autobiographical story of a Palestinian family from the 1948 creation of Israel to the present day
05-17-07 - Gaza Is Burning: Laila El-Hadded Reports on How Recent Fighting in Gaza has Paralyzed Civilian Life
05-17-07 - Fashion under Adversity
05-17-07 - From Beirut to Gaza, violence follows Gaza woman
05-17-07 - Palestinians protests against the Israeli army closer of their old city in Hebron The Israeli army has installed a network of military watchtowers and road blocks in the old city of Hebron near the illegal settlements, which are originally Palestinian homes that the settlers and the army took by force from their Palestinian owners
05-17-07 - Israeli, Palestinian peace activists meet in Aqaba
05-17-07 - Israeli professors visit U.K. to discuss academic boycott The UCU proposal is part of a growing wave of British initiatives to boycott Israel. These include decisions for an academic boycott approved by the AUT and NATFHE - the two lecturers' unions that later merged to form the 120,000-strong UCU - in 2005 and 2006, respectively; last month's decision by Britain's National Union of Journalists to boycott Israeli products; the Anglican Church's decision to divest from companies doing business with the Israel Defense Forces; a demand for Israel's expulsion from the World Medical Association by 130 British doctors; and boycott calls by leading British architects.
05-17-07 - Jerusalem patriarchate stands by leader Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox patriarchate said on Thursday it was standing by its leader, Theophilos III, after Jordan withdrew its recognition over his alleged failure to recover church land in the holy city.......Theophilos was elected in August 2005 and took office three months later, replacing Irineos I who was dismissed over an alleged multi-million-dollar sale of church land in a mainly Palestinian area of Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem to Jewish investors.
05-17-07 - CRIF head warns of racism in wake of Karaki murder This week harsh questions were directed at the Jews. Goel Pinto, who grew up in France, wrote in an opinion piece in Haaretz that many French Jews harbor militant and racist sentiments toward Muslims
05-17-07 - SA gives R1m aid to Palestine The South African cabinet has agreed to donate R1m to Palestine for the purchase of "urgently required" medicines and other medical supplies following what it describes as a "widespread humanitarian crisis" facing its people.
05-17-07 - Israel: Still paying the price of 'victory' The power of the small settler lobby, for example, has been profound. About 250,000 Israeli Jews live in the areas occupied since 1967. But, thanks to the now-documented collusion of state bodies in questionable legal practices in the territories, and the allocation of billions of dollars to settlements and their attendant infrastructure, the majority of Israel's citizens have paid the price to satisfy this small community's wishes
05-17-07 - In Tense Times, Israeli Arms Biz Booms Earlier this month Northrop Grumman (NOC) announced that it was teaming up with IAI to build and launch small reconnaissance satellites based on the Israeli company's technology.
05-17-07 - Profiles in Courage: Living in East Jerusalem ?We have to start relating to East Jerusalem as part of the whole of Jerusalem or we are going to lose Har Habayit,? Daniel Schwab emphatically explains. ?Everything will survive or fall on the battle for Har Habayit.?
Schwab is not alone in his thinking and today there are plans today to expand the Ma?aleh Hazeitim complex to include another 70 apartments, a mikvah and a synagogue. Why not come out and say what you really mean: "We have to de-Arabize East Jerusalem" (like the Western part).
05-17-07 - Two Peace Activists Banned from DailyKos Two well-known peace activists were recently kicked off Daily Kos, banned because of their criticism of Israeli racism and Israel?s oppression of Palestinian human rights
05-17-07 - Al-Arian documentary stirs lingering emotions
05-17-07 - Human beatboxer captivates audience attention
05-16-07 - Gaza erupts in renewed violence
05-16-07 - Gaza crisis worsens as 16 killed in gun battles Palestinians held rallies in Ramallah, in the West Bank, and in Gaza City protesting against the violence and calling for a halt to a wave of killing that has claimed 41 lives in the past four days.
05-16-07 - Fatah urges Abbas to declare state of emergency
05-16-07 - Olmert in Jordan: Israel not expanding settlements Abdullah expressed his concern that Israel is planning new settlements in the West Bank or to expand existing ones but Olmert called such reports baseless. "Israel is not building new settlements nor is it expanding the established settlements beyond their existing borders," said Olmert. Utter BS.
05-16-07 - Hamas raid on Fatah base leaves 11 dead as Gaza tensions rise Israeli troops, on high alert, fired on two Fatah gunmen who approached the terminal, killing one. A military spokesman said: "The troops fired warning shots, but when the pair didn't stop they fired at them. When you see armed men moving towards you, that's an immediate threat to your life." The Israelis said they did not know they were Presidential Guard. This is in regard to yesterday's clashes at the Karni crossing.
05-16-07 - BBC to mark Johnston's birthday
05-16-07 - Israelis held over 'hate' murder Look at the picture there on the page.
05-16-07 - Gaza unrest gains own momentum As in the past, control of the security forces, which are largely loyal to Fatah, appears to have been the trigger for this new bout of fighting. Recent decisions by the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to appoint his allies in key security positions have angered Hamas.
Likely a direct consequence of US policy (crafted in Israel) to isolate the Hamas government. The order of the day: divide and conquer. If they are too busy fighting each other, how can they attack you?
05-16-07 - Karaki family: There should be no difference between Jewish and Arab blood "Why is it that whenever a Jew murders an Arab they say he's crazy and deranged?" he asked. "But when an Arab murders a Jew, he's always convicted even of he really is insane."
05-16-07 - Five Palestinian civilians kidnapped as army invades Nablus
05-16-07 - Palestine Red Crescent Society: Call for support Appeal No. MDRPS001 Final Report
05-16-07 - Italy says it would consider sending troops to Gaza Italy would consider sending peacekeepers to the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian government requested help to end factional fighting, Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said on Wednesday.
05-16-07 - Gaza bloodshed alarms West's Arab allies Western allies in the Arab world voiced deep concern about the factional fighting that raged on in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, fearful that it risks torpedoing any movement in the peace process.
05-16-07 - AP reporter in Gaza recounts violent day
05-16-07 - Gazans cower as brothers bleed "We can't go near the window, let alone on the balcony. We have all become targets," says Um Mohammed. "This is a city of corpses and ghosts."
05-16-07 - Hamas announces unilateral Gaza cease-fire: AP
05-16-07 - Palestinians rally to end fighting Dozens of Gaza residents turned out for a rally on Wednesday to demand an end to factional fighting, only to be caught in crossfire that wounded eight of them.
05-16-07 - Loewenstein and Barr: Poster at Christians United for Israel rally was inappropriate
05-16-07 - 'We are Palestinian, we are women, we are gay' "Under Islamic law, homosexuality is unlawful, a kind of illness that needs to be treated," said Almost sounds like views of the Christian Right in this country. Fundies come in every religion, folks.
05-16-07 - Divided celebration "Our main goal was to prevent the Israelis from taking people out of the city. At that time the army offered many Jerusalemites a free ride to the Allenby Bridge so that they could join their families in Amman - and stay there of course. We understood that what the Israeli government was seeking was the de-Arabization of Jerusalem, and we tried to fight that.
05-16-07 - Leaders who follow ordinary people's courage earn respect we have an existential war about religion and extremism, where Israel, the occupier and regional hyperpower, is cast as eternal friend, liberal, victim and hero. A recent study at Glasgow University revealed the astonishing fact that over 70% of young people surveyed did not know that East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza are under military occupation by the Israeli army; 11% believe it is the Palestinians who are occupying that land.
05-16-07 - Turkey expresses sorrow over recent Palestinian in fighting
05-16-07 - Reflection: Tortured in Israeli Prison
05-16-07 - Israeli PM orders 'severe response' to rocket fire Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday ordered a "severe response" to continuing rocket fire from Gaza, which has wounded four civilians in four days, his office said.
05-16-07 - 'Bush may strike Iran near end of term' ** The neocons, AIPAC and rest of their delightful friends in the pro-Israel community are doing their best to make sure that Bush does just that.
05-16-07 - Call to Action: Israeli army to uproot trees in Artas village Artas Village, BETHLEHEM? At 10am tomorrow, Wednesday May 16, Israeli Occupation Forces will demolish a field of olive trees in the Palestinian village of Artas, according to residents of the village.
05-16-07 - Rudy Giuliani v. Ron Paul, and Reality The 9-11 Commission based its assessments on testimony from experts on terrorism and the Middle East. Asked about the motivations of the terrorists, FBI Special Agent James Fitzgerald told the commission: "I believe they feel a sense of outrage against the United States. They identify with the Palestinian problem, they identify with people who oppose repressive regimes, and I believe they tend to focus their anger on the United States." Anyone that tells you that we were attacked because 'we're free' is either grossly uninformed or a liar. As Buchanan often says: "They're over here, because we're over there" - and that can be taken both literally (Iraq, Saudi) and figuratively (I$rael). Exhibit A. PDF format: Exhibit B.
05-16-07 - Israel ready to help Abbas, if asked Israel helped create this mess by allowing one side to receive all of the funds and backing (much like in Lebanon).
05-16-07 - A revolting rodent Here's the kick in the ass: our mainstream media is more revolted by the Mickey Mouse knockoff that does not incite hatred but rather calls to resist (Israel), and yet the same mainstream media ignores the REAL HATE CRIMES. Only in America. Prove me wrong: search the Google news for the mainstream American media coverage of the hate crime by the French Israelis, and see if you find anything. Then Google the same news index for the Hamas Mickey knockoff. You'll find hundreds of articles about the latter. Our media covers for the ugly side of Israel.
05-16-07 - 'Iran could be year from nuke' ** Ambassador Dore Gold: Tehran not far from obtaining enough fissionable material to produce nuclear bomb BS alert.
05-16-07 - Church officials: Explosive Gaza violence leaves many scared, trapped
05-16-07 - ADL brings 'Suicide Killers' director to Tivoli
05-16-07 - Hamas' Mickey Mouse Promotes Palestinian Suicide Bombers: Or Does He? Of course, the problem is the damage is now done. MEMRI's story, though false, has circulated deeply and widely. No amount of clarification from the Brian Whittakers of the world can correct the false impression planted by the anti-Arab propagandists.
05-16-07 - Father of Christian Zionism Leaves the Building "Jewish-evangelical relations had become so close by the early '80s that, immediately after Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin telephoned Moral Majority leader Rev. Jerry Falwell before calling President Ronald Reagan to ask Falwell to 'explain to the Christian public the reasons for the bombing'."
05-16-07 - Hamas has ?no problem with Jews' "(Hamas) makes a distinction between Zionism and Judaism. Hamas has no quarrel with the Jewish people, but rather with the Zionists."
05-16-07 - Army detains five Israeli peace activists and injures a number of Palestinians
05-16-07 - Jerusalem eternally united? Critics say reality falls short On May 13, Mayor Uri Lupolianski warned the government that the capital could lose its Jewish majority within a decade. "We won't be satisfied with crumbs," he said. "We need a comprehensive plan." Translation: there's too many Arabs in Jerusalem for their liking. DEMOGRAPHY trumps democracy.
05-16-07 - Pastor John Hagee's D.C. Meeting Worries Jews ** Pastor John Hagee says Armageddon will soon strike the nation of Israel, so he's enlisting Christians to help protect Israel against an attack from Iran.
05-16-07 - A child on Hamas TV talked of annihilating the Jews ... or did she? The effect of this is to devalue everything Memri translates - good and bad alike. Responsible news organisations can't rely on anything it says without going back and checking its translations against the original Arabic.
05-16-07 - A number of nonviolent protestors stop Israeli bulldozers in Artas village near Bethlehem At least 30 Palestinian, International and Israeli peace activists and farmers are preventing the Israeli army from bulldozing land near the village of Artas south of Bethlehem on Wednesday morning.
05-16-07 - League calls for halt to settlement expansion The Arab League yesterday called on the international community to press Israel to halt its plans for settlement expansion in occupied Arab East Jerusalem.
05-16-07 - A paediatrican's holiday in Bethlehem Why do we not know, back home, about the extent of oppression that's happening here? I can only encourage everybody: Go and see for yourself!
05-16-07 - B'Tselem calls on armed Palestinian groups to respect the rules of international humanitarian law
05-16-07 - 'Martyr' film, director talk set Thursday The award-winning documentary, 'The Making of a Martyr: A Journey in the World of a Child Suicide Bomber,' is scheduled to be screened at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Palm Beach Synagogue, 120 N. County Road. A discussion with the film's director, Brooke Goldstein, will follow.
Propaganda video, more likely.
05-16-07 - From Palestine to Rotterdam
05-15-07 - 4 Fatah guards dead in fresh Gaza gunbattles
05-15-07 - Palestinians say IDF fire killed most casualties in clashes According to the Palestinians, an Israeli shell landed inside a group of Palestinian security guards and killed them
05-15-07 - Bethlehem Commemorate 59 anniversary of Al-Nakba Palestinians in Bethlehem commemorate the 59 anniversary of the expulsion of the Palestinians people in 1948 by Jewish group and the destruction of their villages.
05-15-07 - EU, Arab leaders urge quick actions in pursuit of Mideast peace
05-15-07 - HEBRON UPDATE: 25 April-5 May 2007
05-15-07 - Israel seeks changes to stalled U.S. timetable Israel missed a Monday deadline to ask European monitors to remain at Rafah, casting doubt on the future of a mission set to expire on May 24 if an agreement cannot be reached.
05-15-07 - Armed Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers and injure two near Hebron Palestinian media sources reported that around 20 armed settlers from Kharsena, an illegal settlement that is built on stolen Palestinian land and is located to the east of Hebron city, attacked Palestinian farmers with rifle butts and batons, injuring two.
05-15-07 - President Abbas Commemorates 59th Anniversary of NAKBA
05-15-07 - UNHCR seeks urgent health care for Palestinians at Iraq border camp
05-15-07 - The Nakba has Never Ended This year, the Palestinians will remember their nearly six decades of dispossession by marking the expulsion of vast majority of the people; splitting up of families; and the creation of hundred's of thousands of refugees, many of whom remain refugees today.
05-15-07 - Army invades Jenin refugee camp injures a boy and kidnaps a civilian from nearby village
05-15-07 - Four Israelis wounded in Qassam rocket attack from Palestinian militants
05-15-07 - Israeli Murders Palestinian in Terror Crime: 'I Decided to Murder an Arab'
05-15-07 - Jeremy Bowen diary: Beware Mr Blair The received wisdom in Arab countries is that the British have a long history of selling them out, starting with the Balfour Declaration 90 years ago that promised to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
05-15-07 - A child?s view of the Middle East conflict ?Children of Jerusalem: Painting Pain, Dreaming Peace,? on view at Zeum through July 8, is a collection of artwork by Israeli and Palestinian children living in Jerusalem.
05-15-07 - Mainstream media caught in the MEMRI mouse trap Normally CNN, FOX, MSNBC and the New York Times have little in common with each other, let alone blogs like little green footballs, Americablog or the Huffington Post. But when it comes to disseminating Israel?s message, all are on the same page...... MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch, two pro-Israel propaganda groups, compiled and provided the video, the translation and some commentary. None of the media outlets that ran the story bothered to get independent verification of the translation and of course it was disputed by the Arab correspondent/translator at CNN Octavia Nassar For the stories ignored by the msm listed by the author, I would say that the timing of the release of this video by the Israel lobbyists was not a coincidence. There have been many damning stories of Israel coming out of late. You will see much more BS like the Mickey story (which was hyped into near hysterical proportions by our media) as a cover for these damning stories. Our mainstream media must stay on message : Palestinians bad, Israel good.
05-15-07 - Uproar over UCD speech While Shoebat was given standing ovations by the more than 1,000 people who attended his speech at Freeborn Hall, several dozen Muslim students walked out in protest. They said Shoebat was spreading hate by claiming the majority of the world's Muslims, including most American Muslims, support radical Islam. I will reiterate, 'former terrorists' are either jailed, deported or barred from entering this nation in the first place. This guy is no former terrorist - he's a Hasbara artist for the Israeli lobby who trots him around the country to further their cause.
05-15-07 - Professor who accuses Israel of exploiting Holocaust to speak at UC Davis
05-15-07 - Talks with Syria could lead to war, says Mossad chief Dagan believes that the current diplomatic stalemate between Israel and Syria is maintaining stability. In the world of Israel - up is down, left is right, black is white. Same goes for America's coverage of that nation.
05-15-07 - Pardoned oil financier to receive honorary degree in Israel
05-15-07 - Christian Zionist Leader Jerry Falwell Dies
05-15-07 - Document details 'US' plan to sink Hamas The plan envisages delivering "a strong blow to Hamas by supplying the Palestinian people with their immediate economic needs through the presidency and Fatah". At the same time, the international boycott of Hamas would stay in place and Hamas-affiliated programs would be starved of funds. .....while this Fatah official could not say for certain who in the White House would author such a program, the document reflects the long-held views of White House Middle East adviser Elliott Abrams - known as the major impetus behind the rearming of Abbas' security force.
Elliott Abrams - neocon. Do not be fooled into thinking otherwise - neocons are still in positions of power in the Bush admin.
05-15-07 - Israeli top guns train, eyes on Iran ** Israel's three F-16I fighter-bomber squadrons have been training for what officials call "possible strategic scenarios" -- code for a confrontation with arch-foe Iran.
05-15-07 - OIC must reform for survival, Musharraf tells Islamabad conference The Palestinian question was a key agenda item, as well as the Arab-Israeli conflict
05-15-07 - MUSAWA demands excluding the legal system from the general strike
05-15-07 - US envoy to hold talks in Lebanon US Middle East envoy David Welch arrived in Beirut on Tuesday on the first such visit by a US official since Israel's war on Hezbollah last year, government sources said
05-15-07 - Egyptian charged as spy praises Israel An Egyptian accused of spying for Israel praised the Jewish state for its advanced technology on Tuesday and claimed documents he passed on were so outdated they posed no threat to Egypt's security.
05-15-07 - Nobel laureates meet Arab, Israeli students in Petra
05-15-07 - Washington calls on Palestinian factions to "act responsibly" Yeh, and when will Washington 'act responsibly'? Sometime in my lifetime, perhaps?
05-15-07 - Evangelicals blast J'lem Day boycott
05-15-07 - American guru presses ahead with meditation course during fierce Gaza fighting
05-15-07 - Israeli police alert for Arab backlash after Israeli race murder
05-15-07 - A new rallying point In Homesh and Hebron, idealistic settlers are once again vying to increase the Jewish population on the West Bank in a bid to prevent a Palestinian state. Men with crocheted kippot and women with long skirts are once again making headlines. ....."Also, unlike in Gush Katif, the IDF never retreated. Actually, exactly the opposite is happening. High-ranking officers want to build an army base up there because they realize the strategic importance of the area. And there is also a core of 30 families that want to live there." ....."If we can bring a million Jews to Judea and Samaria, we will solve all our problems. Homesh is just the beginning."
05-15-07 - Israel seeks ways to bolster hold on Jerusalem Katz said the move would significantly boost Jerusalem's Jewish majority and remove the threat of a "demographic revolution" any time in the near future.
05-15-07 - Bill targets Gaza killers of Americans The bill has a strong start: Lantos chairs the House's Foreign Affairs committee, Pence is its ranking member and Ackerman chairs its Middle East subcommittee. But the Israeli killers of Americans go unpunished. That suits our Congress just fine.
05-15-07 - Checkpoints Compound the Risks of Childbirth for Palestinian Women
05-15-07 - Iran's former President Khatami blames West for nuclear standoff When asked whether he agreed with Ahmadinejad's calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, he said: "Personally I don't think any people or nation should be wiped out. But I do believe sometimes facts, what has happened in history, has to be taken into account." He added that "the establishment of peace requires justice. The displaced Palestinian people should be allowed to return to their land."
05-15-07 - Philanthropists rally in support of Israel Caucus Big-name donors in Boston?s Jewish community are financially backing a pro-Israel Harvard University group in an effort to improve attitudes toward the Jewish state on college campuses Hasbara.
05-15-07 - Perpetuating conflict On May 20, Prime Minister John Howard will receive the Jerusalem Prize from the State Zionist Council of Victoria, the Zionist Federation of Australia and Israel's World Zionist Organisation "for his support of the Jewish community and Israel".
05-15-07 - Efforts urged to solve Palestinian-Israeli conflict: ambassador to Zimbabwe
05-15-07 - Palestinians in UAE maintain identity Yesterday, Samia, along with Palestinians across the UAE and around the world, marked 59 years since Al Naqba, or 'the catastrophe'
05-15-07 - Little Arabia's 'mayor' eases tensions
05-14-07 - Eight killed in Gaza ambush as faction fighting spirals The attack near the main Karni goods terminal between the densely packed and violent Palestinian territory and Israel brought to 17 the number of Palestinians killed in the deadliest bout of violence in months.
05-14-07 - Palestinian taxi driver killed by Israeli in Tel Aviv The Israeli man, aged 25, told police he committed the murder because the driver 'was an Arab,' Israel radio reported. Who is the anti-Semite here?
05-14-07 - Journalist, media worker killed in Gaza City The Committee to Protect Journalist is outraged by the killings of a journalist and a media worker, who were shot on Sunday in Gaza City.
05-14-07 - Minister quits as fresh violence shatters Gaza ceasefire
05-14-07 - Poverty forces Gaza children into labour and crime A growing number of Palestinian children are roaming the streets of Gaza looking for a meagre wage to help support their families in the impoverished territory.
05-14-07 - Jerusalem Day: Israelis celebrate, Palestinians mourn
05-14-07 - Hebron turned into 'ghost town' B'Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said Israel had in effect expropriated central Hebron to protect some 650 Jewish settlers there. Israel had breached the Geneva Convention prohibiting forced transfer, which was a war crime, the groups said.
05-14-07 - Lod residents protest Arab neighbors Hundreds of Jews protested against an Arab family moving into the Naveh Zayit neighborhood in Lod on Saturday, and two demonstrators were taken in for questioning.
05-14-07 - Israel policies create West Bank 'ghost town': rights group It is abundantly clear - Israel craves PIECE - as in, as many PIECES of Palestine it can get, sans the Palestinians. If nobody stood up for the latter, long ago Israel would've wiped the entire lot thereof RIGHT OFF THE MAP.
05-14-07 - Bush met with Dobson and conservative Christian leaders to rally support for Iran policy ** Dobson went on to enumerate a series of meetings convened by Christian right leaders in Washington to discuss the supposedly existential threat to the United States from a nuclear Iran. The Christian Right have taken their cue from their counterparts in AIPAC.
05-14-07 - Two Palestinian civilians injured as army invades Nablus and nearby refugee camp A massive Israeli force invaded the northern West Bank city Nablus and the nearby Balata refugee camp, during the invasion the Israeli army searched homes and injured two civilians, on Monday morning.
05-14-07 - UK Palestinians in Johnston plea Leading members of Britain's Palestinian community have called for the immediate release of kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
05-14-07 - Dismay at death of two newspaper employees in Gaza Strip clashes
05-14-07 - Israel: Arab peace initiative is a no-go Arab leaders should back Palestinian moderates, but not the Arab League's initiative, a top Israeli official says....."If you table it today ... Israel will ... say it is not an option ... The Arab narrative really doesn't represent any kind of a compromise" and the Arab League's position would prevent the Palestinians from compromising. In other words, Israel can shyst the Palestinians into having to accept much less.
05-14-07 - INTERVIEW-Plight of Iraq's Palestinian refugees worsens-UN A baby has died from fever and a man from asthma at the desolate al-Waleed camp in the desert. A 13-year-old needs a back operation to avoid paralysis and a two-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has no specialist care, said Michelle Alfaro, Iraq protection officer for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
05-14-07 - Popular Committees slam the renewed Fateh-Hamas clashes Media Office of the Popular Committees in Palestine slammed on Monday the renewed violent clashes between gunmen of Hamas and Fateh, and stated that these clashes and all sorts of chaos and insecurity must be resolved immediately.
05-14-07 - EU commissioner hopes for Palestinian aid decision
05-14-07 - Israel marks 40 year rule of Arab east Jerusalem "I believe, I hope and I pray that we will continue to work together to reinforce Jerusalem in order to extend its boundaries." Illegally of course.
05-14-07 - Gaza City viewpoint What is happening is really sad. I think the resignation of the Interior Minister [Hani Qawasmi ] adds fuel to the fire. I personally had faith that this man could do something.
05-14-07 - EU, Arab League clash over positions on Hamas Solana, clearly agitated by Al-Faisal's and Moussa's remarks, rushed to defend the EU's position despite the fact that the press conference had been declared over by the press secretary.
05-14-07 - Palestinian gov't decides to deploy forces to stop Gaza killings
05-14-07 - Saudi Arabia calls for end to embargo against Palestinians Meanwhile, the Saudi cabinet also called on Israel to abide by international legitimacy resolutions and accept the Arab Peace Initiative reactivated by Arab leaders during the 19th Arab League summit in the Saudi capital Riyadh in late March.
05-14-07 - EU presidency urges support for Arab Mideast peace initiative
05-14-07 - Red Cross Report Says Israel Disregards Humanitarian Law The committee, which does not accept Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, says Israel is using its rights as an occupying power under international law "in order to further its own interests or those of its own population to the detriment of the population of the occupied territory." That's like saying a bear defecates in the woods. Whodda thunk it?! Incidentally, notice that this report was leaked to the NY Times by someone outside of the ICRC.
05-14-07 - Q&A: Gaza's civil war Palestinians say the economic squeeze has exacerbated the political rivalry between Hamas and Fatah.
05-14-07 - 'Jews have too much sway in US policy' The survey of 2,714 people in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland found that 51 percent of respondents believed that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the countries in which they live Shouldn't stereotype any group. But certainly, some Jews would appear (by their own deeds and words) to support Israel over the nation in which they reside. It will soon be a crime to believe this, I'm sure. A sidenote: the timing of the release of these poll results by the ADL is impeccable. Witness all of the damning stories about Israel that have come out in the last few days. Coincidence? Highly doubtful. The Hasbara must go on.
05-14-07 - Jordan asks Cheney to act on Mideast peace
05-14-07 - Egypt denounces Israel's reported plans to transfer gov't offices to East Jerusalem Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Monday denounced Israel's reported plan to transfer governmental offices to occupied East Jerusalem, the official news agency MENA reported.
05-14-07 - "We can be a benevolent superpower", interview with Jimmy Carter that's the most accurate word that describes what's going on in Palestine. Apartheid is when two different people live in the same area, and they are forcibly separated and one of the people dominates and persecutes the other. That's what's happening in Palestine and that's what apartheid is.
05-14-07 - Further contribution of Ł3m for Palestinian basic needs I wish to inform the House that the UK intends to make a further contribution of Ł3 million to the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) for Palestinian basic needs. This will provide support for Palestinian government workers and will bring the UK's total bilateral contribution through the TIM to Ł15 million.
05-14-07 - Pro-Palestinians in Canada to boycott bookshops owned by IDF donor The CAIA said that by giving donations to IDF soldiers, Schwartz and Reisman were aiding the oppression of Palestinians by Israeli security forces
05-14-07 - Two Lawyers of Mandela institute visit detainees in Gabloa? and Shatta detention facilities
05-14-07 - Hamas member reveals details of attacks Irman initially was reluctant to use suicide bombers but that changed in early March after an Israeli tank fired on a car carrying the wife and three young children of a Hamas social welfare official in Ramallah, killing all four. Irony.
05-14-07 - West snubs Israel's new Jerusalem It was a painful reminder to Israel that its unilateral redrawing of borders and extension of sovereignty over the Arab part of the city - after its stunning victory in the 1967 Middle East war - remains illegal in international eyes. E. Jerusalem does not belong to Israel. Israel remains an occupying power (no matter how hard it tries to get rid of all of the Arabs therein).
05-14-07 - Fifty-Nine Years of Dispossession For Palestinians, 15 May represents the date when they lost 78 percent of their historic homeland and the date that turned them into the world?s oldest and largest refugee population.
05-14-07 - Israeli film wins European prize "Ido Haar shows illegal Palestinian workers literally building a new Israeli society with the absurdity of never having the chance to be part of it,"
05-14-07 - Latest Mideast peace plan: 'Palestine, the Kingdom of Judah'
05-14-07 - Position paper: Israel must own up to Nakba responsibility The paper castigates tribalism in Arab society, which it says facilitated Israel's "divide and rule" strategy, which "strengthened the discourse based on tribal, parochial zealotry." The divide and conquer policy has been extended to Iraq, Lebanon, and there are attempts toward that end being made in Iran as well.
05-14-07 - Rabbis visiting Temple Mount 'hope for an awakening' "Recognizing values such as returning to eastern Jerusalem and Temple Mount, the massive return of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Israel, and the construction of West Bank settlement are all part of our Jewish core,"
05-14-07 - Jerusalem village's 'nowhere' people in limbo the government is also building a road linking Har Homa to the Jewish settlements of Nokdim and Tekoa, which cuts Nueman off from Umm Tuba and a terminal for goods from the West Bank a few hundred meters from the village.
05-14-07 - Police taking TA murder case 'very seriously' "demonization and incitement against the Arab public give this kind of act its legitimization. Turning words into actions was just a matter o time."
05-14-07 - Israel stages nationwide war drill **
05-14-07 - Khalilzad: U.S. must transform Mideast Speaking before Khalilzad, Rabbi David Zwiebel, Agudah?s executive vice president for government and public affairs, said Bush was one of Israel's greatest friends ever in the White House and deserves "everlasting credit" for his leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
05-14-07 - ZOA Criticizes Bush Administration For Not Attending Israel's Jerusalem Day Festivities Despite this development, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday that he would seek to expand the borders of Jerusalem and that he hoped for eventual world acceptance of Israeli sovereignty over the entire city. Good luck. Nobody is willing to recognize wholesale theft (except maybe the AIPAC-beholden US government, and that will change one day).
05-14-07 - Unlikely ally at West Bank checkpoints A 50-year-old Palestinian woman in a black hijab wants to harvest her fields on the other side of the checkpoint, but the soldiers won't allow her to pass. Before the dispute escalates, two Israeli women rush forward, asking if they can help.
God bless 'em.
05-14-07 - Jerusalem: unified city, divided views To most Palestinians, this is a moment for reflection on all they have lost and continue to lose as new Jewish neighborhoods are built and nourished while Arab ones go underfunded and undeveloped by a municipality whose chief concern, in the words of its mayor earlier this week, is that a Jewish majority prevail. Supremacism.
05-14-07 - Israel joins nuclear terror initiative Israel will become a partner nation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, the U.S. State Department said. Hypocrisy.
05-14-07 - Lost in pronunciation A group of 15 Japanese tourists ended up in the West Bank because of a pronunciation mishap.
05-14-07 - We need to avoid extremes on Israel
05-14-07 - Rabbis to get hasbarah training The National Council of Young Israel will work with the Boston-based David Project to equip pulpit rabbis with tools to combat anti-Israel sentiment
05-14-07 - Harper's sorry stance on human rights The rights of the Lebanese didn't count for anything as Harper stated that Israel's brutal assault on a defenseless Lebanese population was "a measured response." Measured by what standard? Certainly not by the standards set out by the Geneva Convention.
05-13-07 - Truce called after 4 die in Gaza faction violence
05-13-07 - Iran condemns Johnston's kidnap
05-13-07 - Fatah-linked commander shot dead three employees of the Gaza electrical company were shot and seriously wounded while driving in a company car in Gaza City, hospital officials and Palestinian security officials said
05-13-07 - EU boycotts 'provocative' Israeli anniversary party A spokesman for the European Commission said: "... we do not recognise the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem. We believe that the future of Jerusalem should be settled by negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians".
05-13-07 - Jordan's King postpones Ramallah talks "The visit today was delayed because of bad weather."
05-13-07 - Israel approves targeted killings to counter Gaza fire
05-13-07 - Report: Palestinians were forced out of 1,000 Hebron homes A report by two major Israeli civil rights organizations that was issued today indicates that Palestinians abandoned more than 1,000 homes and at least 1,829 businesses in the center of Hebron due to pressure by the Israel Defense Forces, the police and Jewish settlers....."the center of Hebron has become a ghost town because of an active Israeli policy" that includes preferential treatment of the settlers. Supremacy.
05-13-07 - Interior minister suspends resignation, starts his security plan
05-13-07 - Israel to develop Jewish areas of Jerusalem Israel on Sunday allocated one and a half billion dollars to develop Jewish areas of Jerusalem as the mayor warned the rising Arab population could sever Jewish sovereignty over the holy city.
05-13-07 - Peretz appointee suspected in leak to US Over the weekend, Peretz ordered Yehiel Horev, the head of the "Malmab" security branch in the Defense Ministry, to investigate the possibility that the official - who serves as an adviser to Peretz - assisted the Americans in formulating the plan and even leaked sensitive security information to them. But it's ok though for the Israel-defenders to leak sensitive US security information to Israel - which happens so often it has become routine (an argument that the AIPACers have made with regard to the charges leveled against Rosen and Weissman)?
05-13-07 - Israel shocked by Sarkozy's pick for FM it would likely spark outrage within the French Jewish community, an official in Sarkozy's UMP party told the Post. "There would be friction with the Jewish community. Jews in France thought that there would be a Zionist government in France, and this is a scandal for them. They will not embrace him." Isn't it nice how much they care about France?
05-13-07 - Jordan withdraws recognition of Greek Orthodox patriarch Jordan announced yesterday that it has withdrawn its recognition of Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theofilos III, saying he failed to act on a pledge to annul an unsanctioned church property sale to Israel
05-13-07 - 'Christians will be first to leave city' He noted that restrictions on family reunification for Palestinians made it difficult for Christians who found a spouse in the West Bank to live with them in the capital.
05-13-07 - U.N. complains of brushes with Israeli military The incidents, which took place near Lebanon's waters with Israel, were allegedly in violation of rules of engagement
05-13-07 - Sderot sues Palestinian Authority for millions in rocket damages The irony here is: Israel passed a law that bars Palestinians from suing Israel for the damage its army incurs upon them. Supremacy.
05-13-07 - A political marriage of necessity: a single state of Palestine-Israel international pressure should be put on Israel to drop its insistence on supremacy over Palestinians. Then both parties can come together to begin building a single, multiethnic state where Jews and Palestinians can again live side by side
05-13-07 - It is not only God that will be Blair's judge over Iraq Blair failed to understand that America's really special relationship is with Israel, not Britain. Every time that George Bush had to choose between Blair and Ariel Sharon, he chose the latter. Blair's special relationship with Bush was a one-way street: Blair made all the concessions and got nothing tangible in return......Iraq was a non-issue; it did not pose a threat to any of its neighbours, and certainly not to America or Britain. The real issue was Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories and America's support for Israel in its savage colonial war against the Palestinian people.
05-13-07 - Israelis oppose Gaza invasion Most Israelis would oppose a large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip, a poll found. Sunday's Ma'ariv survey
05-13-07 - Qatar pays PA final $22m aid instalment
05-13-07 - MK Erdan: Let's boost Evangelical ties Erdan also said he had difficulty understanding how US President George W. Bush could advocate a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, considering his religious convictions.
05-13-07 - PA Information Minister welcomes EU position to boycott Israeli celebration of ?unifying Jerusalem? Palestinian Minister of Information, Dr, Mustafa Barghouthi, welcomed on Sunday the European Union position to boycott the Israeli celebrations marking the day of ?unifying Jerusalem:, which was carried out after Israel illegally occupied and seized East Jerusalem in 1967.
05-13-07 - Holy Land: Palestinians denied access to Dead Sea Peace campaigners in Israel are protesting about a new government policy which has banned West Bank Palestinians from bathing in the Dead Sea.
05-13-07 - Dubai firm helps secure Gaza border post
05-13-07 - Gov't Decides on PR As Anti-Terrorist Weapon "Iran is building a ?Hamastan? in Gaza. What a coincidence? Why just the other day, one of their shills at the UPI, as one example, propounded that very thing.
05-13-07 - Journalists Syndicate?s Press Release on the Killing of a Journalist in Gaza
05-13-07 - Pushed into the Sea? Try pushed out of your neighborhood instead..
05-13-07 - For Palestinians, memory matters In the months surrounding that date, Jewish forces expelled, or intimidated into flight, an estimated 750,000 Palestinians. A living, breathing, society that had existed in Palestine for centuries was smashed and fragmented, and a new society built on its ruins.
05-13-07 - Zarelli plans conference on U.S.-Israeli relations Republican state Sen. Joe Zarelli of Ridgefield found something more controversial than sex education. Mideast politics......Zarelli, who visited Israel in early January, said he has two goals for the conference: Promote ties with Israel and "enlighten" attendees about the countries' mutual security interests
05-13-07 - Israel to sign agreement with British Gas within two months
05-13-07 - Ex-terrorist tells story at First Baptist Church 'Ex-terrorists' don't get to enter the country, let alone traipse around giving speeches at campuses nationwide. That is, unless they are doing so for propaganda purposes for the benefit of the Israeli lobby. Real terrorists are either jailed, deported, or barred from entering America at all - as has been the case in numerous recent examples dealing with Palestinians, among others.
05-13-07 - Why Palestine? International volunteers help reveal to the world the truth on the ground from Occupied Palestine?a truth that the mainstream media disguises or simply ignores.
05-12-07 - An elderly Palestinian woman dies after being plowed by a settler?s car Salam Hajjar, 62-year-old, was heading for eye surgery on Friday, when she was crushed by an Israeli settler?s car.
05-12-07 - Army setup checkpoint while settlers attack farmers in the West Bank
05-12-07 - Archbishop plea for BBC reporter The Archbishop of York has called for the release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston in an interview broadcast on al-Jazeera television.
05-12-07 - Palestinian officials say they welcome latest peace push by Jordan's King Abdullah "We appreciate the king's visit," said Erekat. "He is exerting every possible effort to warn that time is of the essence, that something needs to be done. The king understands the dangers of wasting time, and he has been warning all the time about the consequences of the peace process going down the drain."
05-12-07 - Half a paycheque just doesn't pay the bills "The hardship is indescribable," said Mr. Barghouti, the information minister. "We don't want the aid as much as we want our own money."
05-12-07 - BBC journalist marks two months in Gaza captivity
05-12-07 - Hamas?s armed wing returns seized police vehicles, PM office says
05-12-07 - Gaza pullout was not the last move, says Livni "I believe I represent most Israelis and I can confirm that Gaza is not the last move. We are convinced that in order to establish a Palestinian state we must withdraw from additional territories," You must withdraw from ALL Palestinian territories in compliance with international law.
05-12-07 - Palestinian mufti condemns Israel''s plan to build residential units in
05-12-07 - Jordan?s King visit to Ramalllah to save PNA from collapse, Erekat says
05-12-07 - Palestinian minister blames Israel for peace talks delay (Roundup) Abu Amr referred to the refusal of the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to include final solution issues like Jerusalem, the settlements and the Palestinian refugees problem, in his recent talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
05-12-07 - Livni sparks political controversy Foreign Minister censured by both right and left-wing, after saying during visit to Cairo that evacuation of Gaza was not Israel's last withdrawal move
05-12-07 - Dr. Barghouthi warns of Israel?s illegal plan displace a Palestinian village The statements of Barghouthi came after the army delivered 28 military orders informing the residents of Al Aqaba, near the West Bank city of Tubas, that soldiers intend to demolish 28 constructions that belongs to the residents including houses, the village?s mosque, public institutions that provides human services, a clinic, a society for women and a kindergarten
05-12-07 - West Bank Restrictions Damage Economy Despite several recent public pledges by Israel's leader, Ehud Olmert, to alleviate West Bank's travel restrictions, the United Nations says, in fact, the opposite has happened so far this year. According to the latest U.N. figures, the number of flying or mobile checkpoints averaged 200 a week in March and April up from 120 a week in January.
05-12-07 - A study: Israel controls 80% of Palestinian water, warning from catastrophic effects
05-12-07 - "It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There" The book argued, incidentally, that Palestine was a land without a people for people without a land. And Professor Finkelstein exposed it as a hoax, and he showed how dishonest the scholarship or spurious scholarship was in the entire book. And he paid the price for his courage, and he has been a marked man, in a sense, in America ever since
05-12-07 - ADL faults Putin on 'Third Reich' allusion Kremlin spokesmen would not clarify Putin's remarks, but Russian analysts said he was referring in part to Bush administration foreign policy. Israel's policies more closely demonstrate those of the Third Reich; lebensraumism, ghettoization, property seizure, supremacy, etc.
05-12-07 - Debaters debate stifling debate Debaters arguing that the pro-Israel lobby stifles debate won a debate at the Oxford Union. The debate took place in BRITAIN - where debate about Israel is much more open, AND coincidentally, Britain's Israel lobby is not nearly as powerful as America's. When I speak of the powerful Israel lobby, I speak of the one in AMERICA. Not sure how this was ever meant to involve that of Britain. Tis America's Israel lobby that guides our foreign policy to the detriment of all. Having this debate IN ANOTHER COUNTRY defeats the purpose.
05-12-07 - Tikkun leader apologizes to anti-occupation groups The leader of a liberal Jewish group apologized to three anti-occupation groups for suggesting that they negate Israel's right to exist.
05-12-07 - Non-aligned critique U.S. on Israel nuclear capacity Non-aligned nations said the U.S. relationship with Israel undermines American arguments against nuclear proliferation.
05-12-07 - Desert flash flood kills Israeli hikers A freak flash flood has killed four Israeli hikers near the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank.
05-12-07 - Letters, faxes, and e-mail The only American national figure to date to have the courage to speak the truth about the obstacles to peace in the Middle East is former President Jimmy Carter. In the final paragraphs of his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," Carter summarizes: "The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens -- and honor its own previous commitments -- by accepting its legal borders.
05-12-07 - IDF probes 'incidents' with UN observers off Lebanon coast On Friday, a German spokesman confirmed a report from the Rheinische Post daily which stated several Israel Air Force fighter jets made an approach towards the German frigate Niedersachsen off the Lebanese coast on Wednesday. The paper added that on April 30 the Niedersachsen had signaled it was "ready for combat" on board when an Israeli speedboat approached the vessel traveling at around 30 knots without initially identifying itself.
05-12-07 - War Games in Beit Leed Imagine this: You live in Pennsylvania. Canada comes into your state and sets up these military installations throughout your state. These installations come in the forms of 25 foot high walls, trenches, fences, sniper towers. Then you have checkpoints, armed with Canadian soldiers. Many of them do not speak English but they speak French. And you have to explain to these Canadian soldiers why you want to cross from your Pennsylvanian neighborhood to the next Pennsylvanian neighborhood where your sick Pennsylvanian grandmother lives. Pennsylvania is hot in the summertime. We don't have to imagine such a scenario. We had one similar to it oh let's see, some 200 years ago. Say, whatever was the outcome of THAT situation?.....
05-12-07 - Rabbis protest joint Jewish-Arab event Rabbi Yehiel Hindi, who also takes part in the struggle, explained that the nature of the planned event violates halachic rules. "In the gathering there would be gentile cooking, drinking and dancing that might create friendships and marriages between the people? it is because of such events that we witness cases of assimilation in the country every day, cases in which Jewish women are seduced by Arabs, and bring miserable families into the world."
05-12-07 - Olmert's not a partner Mofaz will have a lot to talk about when he finally arrives in Washington, possibly at the end of the month: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria........Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said this week that Cheney's visit is meant to help the Bush administration understand "how useful several of Washington's closest allies are prepared to be," especially regarding the developing struggle with Iran.
05-12-07 - Gaza's fish break the blockade Rami Abu Hasirah, a fisherman, said, "Thanks to God, today fishermen netted tonnes of sardines, which will compensate all the losses over the past months."
05-12-07 - AIPAC to pay Weissman's legal fees Ellis accepted the defense's claim that the government had pressured AIPAC, something the pro-Israel lobby has always denied; Ellis blasted the pressure as "obnoxious." This pressure actually spared AIPAC from coming under government fire, which was BS in my opinion. Let them roast as well. They do not represent America and they should be forced to register as a foreign agent.
05-12-07 - West Bank, Gaza Strip occupation marked in Dearborn
05-12-07 - Sderot residents call for action in Gaza
05-12-07 - Judge: Government pressured AIPAC
05-12-07 - To fly or not to fly flags
05-12-07 - One Man, One Vote by Charley Reese Zionist ideology demands that Israel have a Jewish majority and Jewish control, which is why, to this day, the Israelis persist in various ways to try to ethnically cleanse the land of the original majority, which was Arabs......Christianity began in Palestine. The oldest church in Christendom is in Palestine. Christians have lived in Palestine since the days of Jesus. Yet the extreme hardships imposed on Palestinian Christians are ignored by most American Christians
05-12-07 - IDF: U.S. benchmarks may spawn more terror Overall, Israel is upset with the "patronizing tone" of the document, which Israeli officials consider to be a blatant interference in the country's security considerations.
05-12-07 - Israeli Riddle: Love Jerusalem, Hate Living There For four decades, Israel has pushed to build and expand Jewish neighborhoods, while trying to restrict the growth in Arab parts of the city
05-12-07 - Talks in Jerusalem raise hopes the Palestinians asked for a full update of the patriarchate?s property in the wake of a scandal in 2005, when then patriarch Irenaios was deposed for allegedly selling Church property in a sensitive area of east Jerusalem to Israeli companies
05-12-07 - Dozens of Israelis and Palestinians "Jerusalem two capitals for two states" Under the slogan "day of hope Jerusalem two capitals for two states " dozens of Israelis and Palestinians on Friday afternoon, held a gathering organized by the Israeli Peace Now movement to mark the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Jerusalem.
05-12-07 - Stand-off in Hamas saga thaws out The row over Intelligence Minister Ronnis Kasrils?s invitation to Ismail Haniyeh to visit South Africa now seems to revolve around which hat the Hamas leader should wear.
05-12-07 - Rattling the Cage: Bush and his good intentions ** I WANT to give Bush his due. There may have been other presidents who cared as deeply about Israel as he does - I'd put Bill Clinton, at least, in that category - but I don't think any president ever took sides with Israel against the rest of the world like Bush has done......And I only hope that this mutual reinforcement number that Bush and Israel have been playing stops short of a US attack on Iran. A lot of Israelis, maybe most, want Bush to do the job, and I imagine Bush is once again calculating the collateral benefit to Israel. As always, he has our best interests at heart. This notion that America is ordering Israel not to negotiate with Syria is utterly ridiculous. Not only was it denied by our officials(paragraph 3), but the case is almost always the other way around; Israel dictating to us its wants (and getting them).
05-12-07 - A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land Nova McGiffert, 24, an Austin, Texas, social worker who traveled on both Birthright and Birthright Unplugged last winter, says the latter drove home what she called the devastating results of an Israeli occupation. "During Unplugged, all of my nightmares came true about the realities of the situation," she says.
Most of the people that go there and actually SEE IT FOR THEMSELVES sing a tune different than that offered by the majority of our politicians and by the mainstream media. Americans, Jews included, are being deliberately deceived.
05-12-07 - Grenade explodes in Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon
05-12-07 - Theatre company pick of Brits on Broadway The play, by Welsh dramatist Jonathan Lichtenstein, focuses on two dovetailed storylines involving a 78-year-old Holocaust survivor, played by Mamma Mia start Vivien Parry, living in East Berlin in 1990, and the requisition of the house of an elderly Palestinian, portrayed by Ifan Huw Dafydd, in Bethlehem in 2006.
05-11-07 - Israeli Army deletes 80% of Palestinian village buildings Sami Sadeq, head of village council of Aqba near Tubas in the northern West Bank, said the Israeli authorities intend to remove 80% of the village of the map.
05-11-07 - In Israel, Not All Blood is the Same Again, supremacy is demonstrated through actions. Doesn't always have to be stated outright.
05-11-07 - Mideast peace plan to receive new look The Arab League agreed in an unprecedented move Thursday to send a top-level delegation to Israel to re-launch a 5-year-old Arab initiative to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
05-11-07 - Palestinian rival Hamas and Fatah resume clashes in Gaza, causing injuries
05-11-07 - Iranian cleric threatens Tel Aviv ** An Iranian cleric said his country would fire "tens of thousands" of missiles at Israel in response to an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program.
05-11-07 - Experts Appointed to UN Unit for Palestinian Claims Against Israeli Barrier Ahead of Monday's activation of the United Nations unit that will register claims for damage caused by Israel's construction of a barrier in occupied Palestinian territory, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today <"http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/sga1064.doc.htm">appointed three international compensation experts to guide its operations.
05-11-07 - U.N. envoy faults Israel Israel, de Soto said, "selected targets with a careless use of its military might and prosecuted the war in a way that disproportionately harmed Lebanese civilians. It went way too far in this war." ....."The wall creates a cognitive barrier of denial and a release from the need to display empathy to people who live on the other side of it," de Soto said in the interview, which appeared Friday. "If I could, I would take groups of Israeli citizens and show them how the checkpoints destroy the economy and the fabric of Palestinian life, and how the fence divides mother and child, a farmer and his land."
05-11-07 - UN 'concerned' about reported plans for Israeli settlement expansion
05-11-07 - Bishara to give lecture at Qatar University
05-11-07 - Demonstration in Paris to press for Alan Johnston's release as he completes two months in captivity
05-11-07 - Detainee hospitalized after soldiers attacked him in Israeli prison
05-11-07 - Arabs don?t want to wipe Israel off map, Siniora says
05-11-07 - Israelis Share Horror Over Human Rights Abuses We were frequently greeted by ?Shalom!? in the street in Nablus and Balata?maybe a surprise to outsiders who may believe the Palestinian people indoctrinated and hate-filled, but reinforced by the fact that we did not hear a single Palestinian person express hatred or blame towards the Israeli people during our research?just incomprehension and despair
05-11-07 - Houston Palestine Film Fest sheds light on Middle East
05-11-07 - Jordan king to visit West Bank Sunday: Palestinians King Abdullah II of Jordan is to visit the West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday for talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, a Palestinian official said.
05-11-07 - Israel?s Bombing of Civilians Extended War, Olmert Told Panel In Qana, the Israelis said, they were responding to rocket fire. Qana has symbolic importance because Israeli shells killed many civilians there 10 years before in a similar incident. The new deaths created a furor, and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora of Lebanon asked Ms. Rice to cancel her trip to Beirut. The war went on for almost two more weeks.
05-11-07 - PREVIEW-EU to highlight support for Arab Peace initiative European Union foreign ministers will meet counterparts from the Arab League on Monday to bolster an Arab peace initiative aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, EU diplomats said on Friday.
05-11-07 - Canadian journalists call for release of BBC reporter in Gaza Hundreds of Canadian journalists gathered in Toronto on Thursday to mark the 60th day of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston's captivity and to plea for his immediate release.
05-11-07 - HEBRON: Israeli Border Police lose out-of-town visitor's ID, then claim "It is not my problem."
05-11-07 - Walk for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine As in previous years, Jews, Muslims, Christians, and secularists will assemble this year in Oak Park to call for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the U.S. policies that sustain the occupation.
05-11-07 - Medical 'milestone' in Palestine
05-11-07 - Defiant Hamas TV airs resistance Mickey again
05-11-07 - Mandela Was Once a Terrorist It is amazing that one could forget that the new South Africa was liberated by a former terrorist shunned by America, Britain and Israel. Nelson Mandela is now a celebrated hero. But America and Israel were the last to abandon racism and support the end of apartheid in South Africa.
05-11-07 - David Beckham accepts Peres Center invitation to visit Israel The Spanish club was invited to by the Peres Center for Peace, and will play an exhibition match against a team of Israeli and Palestinian players.
05-11-07 - In Case You Thought The Young Will Forget
05-11-07 - Palestinian conference in Dearborn tonight Called ?Palestine: We will return,? the event is open to the public and will feature discussions on Palestinian refugees, dinner, poetry, and Palestinian rap.
05-11-07 - Pro-Israel group counters anti-occupation group The two ads by Stand With Us, which will appear in 20 downtown Washington metro stations, accuse the Palestinians of failing to be a partner for peace. One, which features Palestinian children marching with loaded sub-machineguns, says, "Teaching children to hate will never lead to peace." Strange that only a few months back they found that these ads were not worthy of a response. Scared are we? GOOD.
05-11-07 - Lawmakers circulate letter on Japan The letter, initiated by Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Steven Rothman (D-N.J.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), was prompted by a report in Yomiuri, a major Japanese daily, that Japan was considering ending its participation in West's isolation of the Palestinian Authority while it's governed by Hamas, a terrorist group that rejects Israel's existence.
Our legislators evidently have nothing better to do than write letters on behalf of a nation other than the one that they were elected to serve.
05-11-07 - Additional United States Contribution to Refugees and Conflict Victims in Africa, the West Bank and Gaza It also provides $10 million to address emergency food needs identified in the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) emergency appeal for relief operations in the West Bank and Gaza.
05-11-07 - Columbia University Press Issues "Nakba Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory"
05-11-07 - Calls for Africa to campaign on Palestine
05-11-07 - Teacher's tenure bid is DePaul hot potato Finkelstein, who is Jewish, has written books highly critical of Israel. He is a frequent speaker at other universities.
05-11-07 - Excessive force in Bil?in leaves Palestinian in hospital with two operations
05-11-07 - Analysis: Iran, Hamas remain wary partners ** The head of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, said at a briefing for diplomats and foreign correspondents that Iran is the source for most of Hamas' knowledge about mines, explosives and anti-tank missiles.
Making the case for war, one Israel shill in the MSM at a time.
05-11-07 - Village near Bethlehem protests against the Wall
05-11-07 - 'I Think He'll Be Released Very Soon' The son of the man many call the Palestinian Nelson Mandela says he expects his father to be freed from jail soon.
05-11-07 - Why is Israel after my brother?
05-11-07 - USS Liberty vets to mark attack The veterans and their supporters in the anti-Israel community claim the attack, during the 1967 Six-Day War, was deliberate and that Israel never faced consequences because of a U.S. government cover-up. "and their supporters in the anti-Israel community". Oh I see. So, supporting US veterans that were viciously attacked by a FOREIGN nation are automatically branded 'anti-Israel', that it? Try AMERICAN. What American would take the word of said foreign nation over the word of our military (WHO WERE THERE)?
05-11-07 - Review: Palestinian Revolution Cinema
05-11-07 - Bush releases emergency funds to Palestinians The West Bank and Gaza Strip were included in emergency-relief funds released by President Bush.
05-11-07 - Dateline Florida Tickets are now on sale for the Tampa premiere of USA vs. Al-Arian, the Norwegian documentary of the Sami Al-Arian trial.
05-11-07 - FBI: Grocer laundered $70 million Abduhl Sulaiman, a Palestinian who has been a U.S. citizen for about 15 years, is at least the sixth person from Lexington charged with involvement in organized retail theft in the last five years.
05-11-07 - Mainline churches lobby for U.S. engagement
05-11-07 - Palestinian Educational TV Engages Youngest Viewers Most Palestinians want their children to be well-educated so that they can look forward to bright, productive futures, Knell said.
05-10-07 - Unborn baby killed in exchange of fire Mr Katouni said a bullet entered the family home through a window, hitting his 29-year-old wife in the back and exiting through her abdomen, he said. He said the bullet came from the direction of the Israeli troops, although the claim could not be verified. It took about 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive because soldiers held it up, her husband said. The army was looking into the claim.
05-10-07 - Shot West Bank woman 'loses baby' A pregnant Palestinian woman lost her baby after being shot by Israeli troops during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian officials said. ......A 16-year-old boy was also injured in the raid, Palestinian sources said.
05-10-07 - Jerusalem plans new Jewish quarters in West Bank An Israeli newspaper on Thursday disclosed plans to build three new Jewish neighbourhoods around Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank sparking Palestinian condemnation. How did Israel obtain this land in the first place? Force. And land taken by force is inadmissible, under international law. So too is the colonization of said (occupied) land. The UN has ruled in the past that E. Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza are Israeli-OCCUPIED land. How is this move conducive to peace? It is a slap in the face to the Palestinians and to those in the region that are making the effort towards that end.
05-10-07 - Govt to resume ODA to Palestinian Authority From 1993 to 2005, the government provided about 1 billion dollars (120 billion yen) in assistance to the Palestinian Authority
05-10-07 - Japan may resume direct aid to Palestinians: report
05-10-07 - PA official disputes King Herod's tomb discovery claim "We warn Israel against using this purported discovery for political and ideological purposes," the official added. "The Israeli announcement is part of a fierce Israeli settlement offensive in the Bethlehem area."
According to the official, archeological sites in the West Bank belong only to the Palestinians and are part of their cultural, historical and spiritual heritage. He said Israeli excavation work in the West Bank was being carried out in violation of international laws.
05-10-07 - Jordan says it is premature to discuss confederation with Palestinians "It is a cause that must be dealt with according to international law. Let me reiterate that the Arab Peace Initiative includes a clause that says that there must be an agreed solution to the refugee issue, according to UN General Assembly Resolution 194," he added.
05-10-07 - Special Israeli army force invades Rafah and kidnaps two civilians On Wednesday, the Israeli army shot and wounded two Palestinian residents in eastern Gaza, as army tanks rolled about 500 meters into the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical sources confirmed that one Palestinian resident received gunshot wounds to his legs after the Israeli army opened a hole in the barbed-wire fence on the eastern Gazan-Israeli border.
05-10-07 - Israelis plan more homes on occupied land Jerusalem's city council plans to build three new Jewish settlements on land it occupied in 1967, in contravention of international law, it was announced yesterday. The estates will be built on land that has been earmarked for a future Palestinian state, close to Bethlehem and Ramallah. The world said that they'd like to see Middle East PEACE, Israel again thought they meant PIECE as in, another PIECE of Palestine. This land grab has to do with DEMOGRAPHY - keeping as much Arab land as possible, with as few Arabs on it as possible.
05-10-07 - Palestinians trade abductions hours after President Abbas ordered calm
05-10-07 - A capital question Demography has been the chief battle-ground for control of the holy city ever since Israel annexed the eastern, Arab part. It tried to consolidate its hold by building Jewish neighbourhoods (illegal settlements, in the eyes of international law) around the Arab ones....Israel, meanwhile, has found various grounds to revoke the ?permanent resident? status granted to most Arab Jerusalemites after the annexation A frank look at Israel's efforts to 'Judaize' Jerusalem as reported by the Economist.
05-10-07 - U.S. to give assurances to ease funds to Palestinians But it was unclear whether the assurances, expected to come in the form of letters to banks and donors, will include restrictions that would prevent Fayyad from using the funds to cover the expenses of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, Western diplomats and Israeli officials said.
05-10-07 - UAE urges Palestinian factions to prioritize national interests
05-10-07 - Livni advances Israeli-Arab talks ** The Israeli foreign minister met her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts, as well as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo on Thursday as part of recent attempts at rapprochement between Jerusalem and the Arab League. Coincidentally, Cheney was just in the region trying to lobby these same folks. Methinks that the real agenda here is the upcoming war on Iran. If it's not, then why doesn't Livni meet with her PALESTINIAN counterparts? That is who Israel is trying to negotiate peace with, no?
05-10-07 - Washington D.C. Mayor Sets a Bad Example for Students Talk show host Glenn Beck says CNN would not let him air the video of the so-called "Martyr Mouse" being run by the terror group Hamas on a Palestinian kids TV show.....Beck says producers told him the CNN Arab desk had a problem with the translation and that the video had been pulled from the CNN networks. Probably because the PMW's translation was BS.
05-10-07 - Bush nominates RJC leader as envoy Siegel, a regional president for the Jewish National Fund, is a major Bush fund-raiser
05-10-07 - NSC denies Rice-Abrams rift ** The Forward article described a briefing last week that Abrams delivered to Jewish leaders under the auspices of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the only Jewish Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. At that briefing and in other forums, Abrams reportedly said Rice's recent push to accelerate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was "just process" and that President Bush would apply an "emergency brake" against any pressure on Israel.
It's 'just process' to get the Arabs on board for war with Iran. My guess.
05-10-07 - Sneh challenges World Bank report Israel's deputy defense minister dismissed World Bank criticism of Israeli policy toward the Palestians as "one-sided."
I'm sure the Nazis responded in like manner to criticism of their policies as well.
05-10-07 - Give the Arab Peace Initiative a Chance The report made no mention of the sheer damage inflicted. Lebanon?s airports, bridges and power plants were systematically ravaged. Villages were destroyed, and more than an eighth of its population displaced. The bombardment caused an estimated $7 billion in damage and economic losses while leaving behind 1.2 million cluster bomblets that continue to kill and maim innocent people. Most important, the war took the lives of more than 1,200 Lebanese citizens, the vast majority of them civilians.
05-10-07 - U.K. Jews: Blair was 'friend and ally' "Tony Blair has demonstrated a deep personal commitment and has been hugely courageous in defense of Israel, doing the right thing even when it has lost him support among the British public," Hey, as long as they're "good for Israel", then the hell with everyone else, right?
05-10-07 - A rare trip through Hizbullah's secret tunnel network Israel had seriously underestimated its foe and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other top officials are fighting for their political survival as a result.
05-10-07 - Al Qaeda tactics expand in Gaza Gazan security officials say they know that Johnston is being held by the Dogmoush clan, which is demanding a large tract of land in Gaza ? a piece of one of the evacuated settlements that Israel left to the Palestinian Authority in August 2005. According to this analysis, the clan leaders want to extort promises for land from the Palestinian Authority, meanwhile biding time by cloaking the issue in global jihadist themes.
Israel wants Al Qaeda in Gaza that way they can make the final push to conflate their 'war on terror' with ours; the basic goal of which is to foist their enemies on us (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestinians, etc).
05-10-07 - Palestinians in Europe conclude their Fifth Conference Palestinians in Europe concluded on Thursday their fifth conference in Rotterdam, in Holland. The conference was attended by hundreds of Palestinians who came from various European countries, and was also attended by Dutch supporters.
05-10-07 - BBC's Johnston wins press award
05-10-07 - US official: America appeasing Arabs, EU Abrams also told the meeting that he would guard against the bureaucrats at the State Department taking over American Middle East policy, as well as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice falling into the "Clintonian mode" of needing to point to achievements to secure her legacy as her term concludes, according to someone at the discussion.
05-10-07 - Hamas TV resists calls to pull 'Mickey Mouse' show Mustafa Barghouti, the Information Minister, said the "politically oriented" adaptation of the Disney character represents a "mistaken approach" to the "Palestinians' legitimate struggle against the [Israeli] occupation".
05-10-07 - A passion for Palestine Two things seem odd about the modern state of Israel. The first is that it seems to have learned little from atrocities perpetrated on the Jews (and others) by the Nazis, other than to replicate them, with the Palestinians as victims.
05-10-07 - Dispute over Jerusalem's location at heart of passport fight "The international reality is that there is no sovereign (over Jerusalem) that has been recognized in international law," federal lawyer Sharlene Telles-Langdon told the Federal Court of Appeal in Winnipeg on Tuesday.
05-10-07 - Hamas told to axe children's show The Israeli organisation, Palestinian Media Watch, said that Farfur took "every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy". And Israel doesn't encourage Jewish supremacy through its system of laws, land-leasing system, Jewish-only settlements, Jewish-only roads, law of return for Jews only, etc etc etc? Some things don't have to be directly stated. But the message is quite clear. SUPREMACY. I'm not a Muslim. In fact, I'm a Christian and a secular one at that. I'm not particulary interested in Islam either. The point is, you've got supremacy being taught on the other side as well. Perhaps this PMW ought not be such a hypocrite. But then, that's not their job. Their job is to propagandize. It's working, thanks to their buds in the mainstream American media. You would have thought by the sheer hysteria spouted by the aforementioned, that this Mickey Mouse had told these children to go out and kill Americans. Not so. Not even close.
05-10-07 - We have been talking about sufferings of Palestinians: Rabbi
05-10-07 - Israel worse than apartheid SA - Kasrils Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils on Thursday accused Israel of conducting a policy against the Palestinians that was "worse" than apartheid.
05-10-07 - Fire in Askar!
05-10-07 - What Herod's Tomb Means PS: The discovery has absolutely no significance at all in the conversation between Israelis and Palestinians over who should control the the West Bank, unlike this silly assertion in the paragraph 3 of the Washington Post article on the find:
The discovery dusted off the competing Israeli and Palestinian claims to the region between Bethlehem and the Judean desert. Israeli settler leaders said the reported find of the Jewish king's tomb supported their historic right to the area, while Palestinians expressed fears that it would be used as a pretext to increase Jewish settlement construction south of Jerusalem. Wait a minute now. Does that mean that if I take hold by force of the land my ancestors inhabited, dig around and find evidence of their existence, that that land is mine? Wow. Sweet deal!
05-10-07 - The other side My friend is a house painter. He has never lifted a hand against an Israeli or anyone else, yet he and countless other Palestinians are corralled in their towns and villages by the Israeli Defense Forces. They are forced into desperate acts in order to feed their families.
05-10-07 - Poll: 78% of Israelis do not want to live in Jerusalem The poll found that a majority of Israelis would not cede the Jewish holy sites, including the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, even at the expense of peace.
05-10-07 - Pahad backs Arab peace plan ?It has become abundantly clear that the wall and checkpoints are principally aimed at advancing the safety, convenience and comfort of settlers,? he said. ?It is in essence an apartheid wall.?
05-10-07 - American Missionary Brings Gospel And Food To Jericho "No Christians I met had any desire to help the Palestinians. Evangelical Christians talked about the Palestinians as if they were lepers, as if they were the enemy. When I said I was going to Jericho, it was like feeding them hot chili,"
05-10-07 - Small town has big event for activists Later in the day, Craig and Cindy Corrie, of Olympia, will discuss their daughter, Rachel, who was killed trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
05-10-07 - Rice: Syria real problem in Middle East the US is unimpressed with Syria's peace overtures, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, adding that "in terms of the Middle East, the Syrians are a real problem" for leaders who wish to pursue peace.
05-10-07 - Cell phone shopper arouses suspicions A Muleshoe store clerk?s suspicion that a customer might be engaged in terrorism led police last week to question a Palestinian man regarding his attempt to purchase prepaid cell phones, according to police.
05-10-07 - U.S. official: Peace effort aimed at lessening Arab, EU pressure ** U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams on Thursday told a group of Jewish Republicans that the efforts the United States is now investing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is aimed at lessening the pressure from ?Arabs and the Europeans, who weren?t happy with the United States? in its past approach. Why the sudden interest in pleasing those 2 groups NOW? The coming war on Iran.
05-10-07 - Iran delegate confronts Jewish speaker from US An Iranian delegate stunned the audience at an international inter-faith dialogue here yesterday when he angrily interrupted an American panelist who said Tehran wanted to eliminate all the Jews in Israel.
05-10-07 - Carter Challenging Baptists On Conversions, Says Rabbi ?Carter described his efforts to counter the extreme right-wing Christian Zionists, and his efforts to help the Baptists understand that the real way to be allies to the Jews is not by giving unconditional support to the current government of the State of Israel,?
05-10-07 - Supreme Court judge slams culture of civilian vigilantism Livni was convicted at Jerusalem District Court in June 2003, for stopping a Palestinian truck that had been traveling on a West Bank "security road," and therefore not for Palestinian use. He pointed a gun at the driver, shot at the tires on the truck, and accidentally hit one of the headlights.
05-10-07 - Battalion commander calls for dismissal of officer who attacked Israeli activists The officer, who holds the rank of captain, was caught on film with forcibly strangling a member of the "Anarchists against the Fence," kicking another member of the group and hitting him with his rifle butt.
05-10-07 - Student Council in Bir Zeit University concludes a campaign in support of Bishara of Salah
05-10-07 - UN: Assad is not preparing for war While Syria is repairing its military positions along the border with Israel, its army has not beefed up its forces on the Golan Heights, Austrian Maj.-Gen. Wolfgang Jilke, commander of the UN force deployed along the border, has told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview
05-10-07 - Wall separating Israelis, Palestinians illegal, says speaker
05-10-07 - South Florida Minister Behind Lawsuit to Stop Construction of Mosque in Black Community He said the current mosque is located in a ?white? beach community and the proposed new location would be in a black community near one of the largest prisons in Broward County.?The last thing we need," Dozier said, "is to have our young black males and women being indoctrinated in the ways of al-Qaida and Hamas."
05-10-07 - Report: Carter decries Zionist-Christian links Rabbi James Rudin, an American Jewish Committee expert on Christian-Jewish affairs, was skeptical of Carter's concern. "The Jewish community is much more sophisticated than maybe the president thinks," he said. "We certainly understand that there are people such as he is describing, but that's not the majority of Christian Zionists." The 'Jewish community' doesn't care about their 'politics', so long as the money is rolling in. Exhibit A : "Christian support for Israel is a good thing," Morrison said. "I have no idea what their politics are because we didn't discuss it." Source. Exhibit B: One reason may have to do with dollars and cents - money raised through the "Nights to Honor Israel" and other Christian Zionist events could be a boon for Jewish organizations in this country and charities in Israel. "There is a potential for a lot of money," Source
05-10-07 - House appropriators: Sack Al-Hurra chief The letter was led by Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), who has criticized Register for allowing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other terrorist leaders to speak at length on the channel.
05-09-07 - Abbas, Haniyeh deploy Palestinian police in Gaza
05-09-07 - Chief Islamic Justice slams Israeli demolishing of charitable society in Jerusalem Palestinian Chief Islamic Justice, Sheikh Taiseer Tamimi, slammed that Israeli demolishing and bulldozing of a Palestinian charitable society and several houses in Al Esawiyya area in the occupied East Jerusalem.
05-09-07 - 30 structures in unrecognized Bedouin village in Negev demolished
05-09-07 - Militants want cleric freed for BBC reporter
05-09-07 - Factions unite for Gaza crackdown
05-09-07 - IDF to investigate skirmish at roadblock Judge Advocate General Brig.-Gen. Avichai Mandelblit ordered the opening of a criminal investigation Wednesday night after watching video footage aired on Channel 2 that showed IDF officers beating left-wing protesters. Only because they were caught on tape (again).
05-09-07 - Palestinian Muslims Protest Against Bible Society Bombing in Gaza ?There are people who do not wish to have the Bible Society in Gaza ,? he continued, ?but they are outnumbered by people who welcome it. We are staying here and increasing our service to the people of Gaza.?
05-09-07 - Israel tanks manoeuvre round Gaza fence -residents
05-09-07 - Israeli soldiers search Palestinian mobile phones on checkpoints Israeli troops, stationed at one of the Military checkpoints near Salfit in the western West Bank, were seen searching through mobile phones of the Palestinian passengers without any respect to their privacy.
05-09-07 - Israeli troops enter Gaza despite Palestinian factions' warning: witnesses In another incident, Israeli soldiers positioned outside the fence in eastern Gaza opened fire and wounded an old Palestinian man in his legs, paramedic said.
05-09-07 - Amid crisis, Palestinian parliament also paralyzed
05-09-07 - Palestine ready to negotiate peace with Israel: minister
05-09-07 - Army action against Israeli protestors sparks storm Footage of the army's action made the top story on the evening news bulletins of Israel's two main privately run television stations Channel Two and Channel 10.
05-09-07 - Palestinian security plan to go into effect Thursday
05-09-07 - EU MPs urge restart of direct aid to Palestinians "Anybody who refuses this is neither constructive nor humane,"
05-09-07 - The UN must drive Middle East peace Successive Israeli governments have continued with their project to implant large numbers of Israelis inside the West Bank. Today, as many as 440,000 Israeli settlers live among the nearly 2.5 million Palestinians of the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem.)
05-09-07 - Report: Arab league cancels visit to Israel
05-09-07 - UConn puts UAE campus on hold The University of Connecticut froze plans to open a campus in the United Arab Emirates after state legislators complained that the country bars Israelis from visiting. "after state legislators complained that the country bars Israelis from visiting."
05-09-07 - IPF meets, encourages Pelosi Top officers of the dovish pro-Israel group visited Tuesday with Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a number of other Democrats
05-09-07 - Major ZOA Lecture: MK Gen. Effie Eitam Warned -- "Israel Will Take Action If Diplomacy/Sanctions Fail" To Stop Iran Getting Nuclear Bomb ** ?I pray that this country [the USA] which has so many times led a world coalition against evil, will wake up and not accept a nuclear Iran for its long-term existence. Recently, I spoke to the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). I was invited to give my views, the invitation came from U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. I was told at the NSC, ?We believe we missed some important views by failing to discover the views of right-wing Israelis.
05-09-07 - YouTube - Not so cool facts about Israel
05-09-07 - TV Station Withdraws Political Children's Program at Request of Ministry of Information Dr. Barghouthi expressed surprise that some American television stations continue to cover the story when the issue has now been resolved, and when they have neglected to convey video footage on Israeli human rights violations released by the Ministry over the past six weeks, showing the savaging of a Palestinian women by an Israeli military dog; the use of Palestinian youths as human shields by Israeli soldiers; the beating of a Palestinian youth at an Israeli checkpoint near Nablus; and the violent repression by the Israeli military of a peaceful protest against the Apartheid Wall near Bethlehem.
Start youtubing the Israeli violations caught on film; the lobby's worst nightmare. The truth will prevail.
05-09-07 - Palestinian Hamas takes Mickey Alright, so I believe that this character was broadcast on Palestinian TV. However, if we look at what was actually said, as opposed to the spin that the likes of Fox put on it, it is quite clear that this incident was way overblown. The story originated (very last entry, going backwards in time via Google News search by date) from not one but TWO Israel lobby groups (CAMERA, which got it from PMW). Update at press time (7:19pm 05-10-07), the originating article from CAMERA no longer appears at the very tail end of the search, for what reason, it is not clear.
05-09-07 - 'This House believes the pro-Israeli lobby has successfully stifled Western debate about Israel's actions.' First off, this 'debate' gave the floor to the pro-Israeli commentators for most of the video. It's actually pretty ridiculous that this should be considered a debate. Finkelstein and Cockburn were routinely interrupted and shut down by Aaronovitch and Indyk, and they were not afforded much time at all to speak. Secondly, the pro-Israeli lobby in Britain is not nearly as effective or as powerful as its counterpart in the US. THAT must be kept in mind when watching this debate.
05-09-07 - 700 lobby for Israel The activists are touting four legislative initiatives: U.S. funding for Israel; isolating Iran; bringing genocide charges against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; and U.S.-Israel energy cooperation.
05-09-07 - Palestinians see foreign hand in Lebanon camp killings "A non-Lebanese intelligence service was behind the crime which cost the lives of two Fatah members in Ain el-Helweh," the group's Lebanon chief, Sultan Abul Aynain, told a news conference in the Rashidiyeh camp further south.
05-09-07 - Keeping Jerusalem Jewish There is nothing new in saying that the determination of the size of the Arab population in 1967 was arbitrary; it was done with a combination of bureaucratic manipulation (preventing access to the Population Registry) and geographic manipulation (using Arab-populated territory and vacant areas for the purpose of establishing Jewish neighborhoods). Israeli demoGRAPHY.
05-09-07 - Medical Relief starts a project to rehabilitate schools and kindergartens
05-09-07 - Middle East Peace addressed by ecumenical coalition in Washington
05-09-07 - NSC Chairman: Syrian call for peace talks with Israel 'authentic'
05-09-07 - "Corrie" ALMOST Banned in Boston
05-09-07 - Ban Ki-moon urges peaceful solution at UN meeting on Question of Palestine The two-day gathering sponsored by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Africa will be followed on 11 May by the UN Public Forum in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, to be held at the University of Pretoria
05-09-07 - A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein
05-09-07 - Unknown gunmen attack PALTEL in Khan Younis
05-09-07 - Farah keynotes 'Night to Honor Israel' WND founder and Editor Joseph Farah will deliver the keynote address at "A Night to Honor Israel," sponsored by the Jerusalem Connection and Christians United for Israel, Sunday, May 20, at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria.
05-09-07 - Gaza Rappers Abide by Islam, Sing On Amid Violence and Threats
05-09-07 - S. African official calls on Israel to seize peace opportunity
05-09-07 - U.S. Congress Focuses Attention on Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries In commenting on a lack of awareness about Jewish refugees, Rep. Ackerman added that "Jewish refugees have been successfully absorbed in Israel and elsewhere and, perhaps, as a result, their claims and misfortune have been largely ignored." Rep. Pence concurred: "There is a great deal of world opinion about one group of refugees (i.e. Palestinians). There is a great deal of world ignorance about the other (i.e. Jewish refugees)." Thus does the US Congress again engage in a form of supremacy by holding one group of people supreme over another. Let's all focus on the ones that were settled in long ago, and that aren't still sitting in poverty in refugee camps after 60 years. That's it. That's the ticket.
05-09-07 - Analysis: Israeli security officials oppose Dayton ?The Americans went for the Dayton Plan, but they failed to succeed in Iraq so why should they succeed here. The first terror attack that will occur after the removal of checkpoints, will place them in a difficult position,?
05-09-07 - Israeli society more violent, says Peretz Soldiers' operations in the territories affect their behavior at home, Peretz noted. "Although these operations must be carried out?we can concede amongst ourselves that our continued presence in the territories isn't healthy and does not have a good effect on behavioral norms in the young generation.
05-08-07 - World Bank scolds Israel for impeding travel in West Bank "The practical effect of this shattered economic space is that on any given day the ability to reach work, school, shopping, healthcare facilities and agricultural land is highly uncertain and subject to arbitrary restriction and delay. In economic terms, the restrictions have created a level of uncertainty and inefficiency which has made the normal conduct of business extremely difficult and therefore has stymied the growth and investment which is necessary to fuel economic revival,"
05-08-07 - Israel launches crackdown on Hamas members in West Bank The total of Palestinians seized in the overnight raids were 28, some 15 of them are Hamas members caught in the W. Bank town of Tulkarem, Israel Radio reported.
05-08-07 - Defense officials oppose U.S. plan for Gaza-W. Bank travel In in-house meetings this week, defense officials said that allowing freedom of movement between the two territories may create a dangerous security situation
05-08-07 - Japanese donation to reconstruct 271 shelters in the Gaza Strip Speaking from Gaza, Mr Ging said "I thank the Government of Japan for its generous donation at a time when Palestine refugees are in such great need."
05-08-07 - Hamas denies intentions to kill captured Israeli soldier
05-08-07 - Palestinian interior minister drops resignation after getting more power: spokesman
05-08-07 - Eight Palestinian civilians kidnapped as Israeli forces attack homes in Hebron
05-08-07 - West Bank health services deteriorate as Palestinian medical sector strikes
05-08-07 - Israeli army demolishes a Palestinian disabled children?s society in Jerusalem (IMEMC) Israeli army bulldozers demolished a Palestinian owned building that host disabled children?s society located in Wadi Al Joze neighborhood in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning
05-08-07 - Army withdraws from Al Doha leaving behind three children injured and a destroyed house
05-08-07 - West Bank split into isolated enclaves - World Bank the World Bank said Israel's West Bank barrier and system of road and zoning restrictions were aimed at "protecting and enhancing the free movement of settlers and the physical and economic expansion of the settlements at the expense of the Palestinian population".
05-08-07 - BBC checks 'Alan Johnston tape'
05-08-07 - Palestinian cabinet will not survive aid embargo: minister Music to Israel's ears.
05-08-07 - Palestinian factions reject new truce with Israel "Any halt in the fighting must reciprocated completely. The firing of rockets from Gaza can only be halted along with Israeli aggression in the West Bank,"
05-08-07 - Israeli jailed for helping bomber An Israeli has been sentenced to seven years in jail for helping a Palestinian suicide bomber .....The judge said Badir had known his passenger was planning an attack, but had "shut his eyes and done nothing".
Contrast that to this sentence from yesterday's news: "Milner, who drove Tichman to the scene, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted on four counts of attempted murder and nine counts of deliberately causing damage. However, a panel of three judges reduced Milner's sentence to only three years on Monday after deciding that he had only aided in the crime " Man acquitted of trying to kill Arabs . Drive someone to kill ARABS? Get a lighter sentence by an Israeli court.
05-08-07 - Exodus from Iraq historic, U.N. says U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has described the uprooting of 4 million Iraqis as "the most significant displacement in the Middle East" since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
05-08-07 - UK envoy in Gaza Johnston talks
05-08-07 - On pre dawn invasion; Israeli army kidnaps four civilians from a village near Jenin
05-08-07 - Hammad: ?lack of balance in the Israeli government dangerously affects the Palestinian area?.
05-08-07 - Israel Lands Administration accused of discriminating against Arabs the Jewish National Fund in forbidden from leasing its lands to non-Jews, as stipulated in its treaty cosigned by the state. See this from the other day. Excerpt: '"We are writing to express our strong support for the application by the Jewish National Fund-United States (JNF-US) for consultative status at the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)," said the letter initiated by Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.); Robert Wexler (D-Fla.); and Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.). '
05-08-07 - NCC women's Mideast delegation focus is women and children
05-08-07 - Ackerman: Bush 'right of return' letter unwise "Attempting to force Palestinians to give up their dreams in a vacuum would not only be ineffectual but counterproductive," said Ackerman, who has close ties to the pro-Israel lobby.........Much of the hearing focused on the Jewish refugees Naturally.
05-08-07 - King Herod's ancient tomb 'found' Told of Jesus' birth, Herod ordered all children under two in Bethlehem to be killed, the Gospel of Matthew said.
05-08-07 - Ban wants closer U.N.-Israel ties The U.N. secretary-general said he wants to improve the world body's relationship with Israel and increase Israeli involvement in U.N. activities
05-08-07 - Children in the street: The Palestinian case
05-08-07 - Israeli may join Sarkozy's cabinet Arno Klarsfeld, the son of renowned Nazi-hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, is rumored to be the top candidate to become minister of immigration and national identity when French President-elect Nicholas Sarkozy chooses his cabinet in the coming weeks. That move is about as swift as when McGreevey put that Israeli in charge of the NJ Dept of Homeland Security.
05-08-07 - Sarkozy pledges Israel support Sarkozy "thanked Prime Minister Olmert and said: 'I am a friend of Israel and Israel can always rely on my friendship.' "
05-08-07 - FEATURE-New book shows peacemaker Peres's nuclear role Israel and France once made a secret deal to produce a nuclear bomb together, according to a new biography of Israeli elder statesman Shimon Peres.
05-08-07 - Judge lauded for rebuke in AIPAC case The American Jewish Committee praised the judge in the case against two former AIPAC staffers for rebuking the government
05-08-07 - AIPAC on Trial FBI gave Franklin enough rope to hang himself, and then moved in, showing up at his door and confronting him with his treachery. A search of his home and office turned up a veritable lending library of classified documents dating back years, all of which had doubtless been made available to the Israelis
05-08-07 - Israeli airport security methods studied Foreigners almost automatically receive closer scrutiny, and racial or other types of profiling can trigger extensive questioning and searching.
The Israelis believe this is one of the keys to their success, and the airport officials from the U.S. could only speculate about how it would affect their work.
05-08-07 - Israeli archaeologist says Herod's tomb found in West Bank discovered in the occupied West Bank "discovered in the occupied West Bank"
05-08-07 - Palestinian legislators urge IPU to secure release of MPs from Israeli jails
05-08-07 - Critics of the Tampa Tribune's Sami Al-Arian stories said the writer had ties to his new boss. "We always had suspicions that Fechter was virtually an agent for Emerson, "
05-08-07 - True to form, the Associated Press picks up PMW propaganda Was a matter of when, not if. The Israeli Lobby's hold on the media at work.
05-08-07 - Archbishop of Jerusalem addresses seminar on Christians in Middle East
05-08-07 - Cruel and Usual: Torture of Palestinians Revealed
05-08-07 - Handalah: The cartoon who symbolizes his people
05-08-07 - 'Right of return' urged for Palestinians
05-08-07 - 'War is peace' It is one thing to read George Orwell and Franz Kafka, it is quite another to live their texts. For us - Palestinians - Orwell and Kafka are not works of fiction but concrete reality.
05-08-07 - Immigration Issues, Global Anti-Semitism And Israel Top Agenda of ADL National Meeting in Washington, DC Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff discussed the need to balance the interests of protecting the homeland and the imperative of providing a path for legal immigration. Secretary Chertoff also discussed his department's partnership with ADL's Advanced Training School, which provides specialized training and expertise to agency personnel on extremism, hate groups, terrorism and civil liberties.
05-08-07 - Boston Palestine Film Festival Call for Entries
05-08-07 - Briton first in line for UN Middle East role Michael Williams, a former BBC correspondent and adviser to two British foreign secretaries, is the leading candidate to become the new UN special co-ordinator for the Middle East, operating out of Government House......UN insiders suggest the appointment of Mr Williams would signal a pro-Israeli shift in traditionally Palestinian-leaning UN policy under Mr Ban, with greater emphasis on Israeli security.
05-08-07 - Italy's parliament speaker to address Palestinian lawmakers
05-08-07 - Tikkun to skip occupation protests A liberal Jewish group is opting out of 40th anniversary protests against Israel's occupation of disputed territory because it fears its partners deny Israel's existence.
05-08-07 - An Israeli Apologist (1)
05-08-07 - Strangers in Zion? Four in five immigrants to Israel feel alienated from their adopted homeland, a study showed
05-07-07 - Utterly Forbidden: The Torture And Ill-Treatment Of Palestinian Detainees Most cases of ill-treatment of Palestinians by soldiers are not investigated at all, and few of those that do, culminate in an indictment. In many cases, this is due to various institutional failings such as delays in instigation investigations.
05-07-07 - Abductors 'reveal demands for release of BBC reporter' Al Quds al Araby said Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, had received three demands. These were the handover of a piece of land; the release of Sajida Rishawi, an Iraqi woman sentenced to death in Jordan for her part in the bombing of an Amman hotel in November 2005, which killed 38 wedding guests; and a ransom of $5m (Ł2.5m).
05-07-07 - One killed in clashes at Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
05-07-07 - The case for strikes against Iran ** It would be lawful because the US and/or Israel would be acting in appropriate self-defense. Both countries could act on behalf of the international community and could do so lawfully without wider approval Can you believe that this is the Christian Science Monitor AGAIN giving front page treatment for this? This is the THIRD TIME. Unf%#kingreal.
05-07-07 - Islam cannot justify kidnap of BBC man, militant group told
05-07-07 - Soldiers force out of vehicle a woman returning home after a cesarean procedure
05-07-07 - Jerusalem Palestinian institutions hold a meeting on Israeli violations against the City The institutions also discussed the means that would preserve the Palestinian national institutions in Jerusalem especially as the Jerusalem Municipality is attempting to void the Arab presence there, and is attempting to annex the Palestinian areas for settlement projects.
05-07-07 - UN appeal for Johnston's release
05-07-07 - Kidnap compounds Gaza's crisis
05-07-07 - Israeli soldiers critically wounds a Palestinian boy at a military checkpoint near Bethlehem Palestinian sources reported the a Palestinian boy sustained critical wounds after a group of Israeli soldiers manning Al Nashshash checkpoint located to the south West Bank city of Bethlehem attacked him on Monday midday.
05-07-07 - Abbas urges support for US plan However, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has already dismissed it, saying it will legitimise Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. Israel says there are positive elements but some that are unacceptable.
05-07-07 - Clashes at Ain al-Hilweh kill 2 Fatah members AIN AL-HILWEH: Militants from the Jund al-Sham group in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in South Lebanon on Monday killed two members of the Fatah movement in an apparent surprise attack, instigating a clash in which a Palestinian girl was wounded, according to security sources.
05-07-07 - Rights group petitions Citizenship and Entry Law The Association for Civil Rights in Israel on Monday petitioned the High Court of Justice, asking it to nullify the latest version of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order), which was legislated by the Knesset on March 21.
05-07-07 - Qatar gives $22 mln for Palestinian teachers The Gulf state of Qatar gave 22 million dollars to the Arab League on Monday so that teachers in the Palestinian territories can be paid, a League representative said.
05-07-07 - Israeli troops open fire at Palestinian civilians stranded on a military checkpoint in northern W.B.
05-07-07 - Israel air strike hits north Gaza
05-07-07 - Abbas urges Israel to respond favourably to US plan
05-07-07 - Six resident kidnapped as army invades several parts of the West Bank
05-07-07 - Palestinian Prisoners on High alert in Jalbo'e Israeli prison The high alert was announced after Israeli army special forces attacked the Palestinian detainees using tier gas sound bombs and live rounds, sources from the jail stated that troops are also attacking the prisoners while the later in their rooms.
05-07-07 - Israeli army attack Palestinian homes in Hebron and injures one child Palestinian medical sources reported that Wurod Al Ajloni, 16 was shot in the lower part of her back as she was stading in front of her house located in the southern side of Hebron city
05-07-07 - Settler in a Mickey Mouse suit The insiduous program was monitored by the Palestinian Media Watch, which translated the hate-filled words - including those uttered by a young Arab girl "anchoring" the show - into English, and posted footage from the program on its website.
Whaddya know? Another pro-Israeli translation service puts on a show for their puppets over at Fox News, CNS, WMD and more. Why so-called fair and balanced news agency would take what these folks say as fact and then purport to be a credible news source is beyond me.
05-07-07 - Soldiers break into Galboa? prison
05-07-07 - U.S. might force setting up Lebanon tribunal: Rice
05-07-07 - Jerusalem Arab growth rate twice Jew's "If these trends continue, we could reach the 60/40 rate by 2020, and by 2035 we could see the same number of Jews and Arabs in the city," senior institute researcher Dr. Miya Hoshen said. Israel - all about that demoGRAPHY.
05-07-07 - Israeli politics should not affect peace efforts: Livni
05-07-07 - IDF unveils contingency plan to counter militants' efforts in Gaza Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not approve the IDF's proposals. He only agreed to authorize a small expansion of the area within the Strip in which the IDF is allowed to operate.
05-07-07 - Detainees in Nafha will hold a hunger strike Tuesday
05-07-07 - France calls on Palestinian authorities to end violence
05-07-07 - A terrible, delusional, wasteful misjudgment Blair?s support for Israel last year was wrong. And we said so You have to get past this BS of addressing these clowns that give the kneejerk 'anti-Semite!' reaction to any criticism of Israel. Ignore it outright and stay on message. Acknowledging this crap only encourages them.
05-07-07 - Israel supporters march in N.Y. Among those attending Sunday's Salute to Israel Parade were New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski.
05-07-07 - Pro-Israel student refused service In late April, a checkout person at the Maryland Food Collective told a student that her "I Stand With Israel T-Shirt" was offensive, and refused to serve her Perhaps an "I stand with America" shirt would have been more apropos.
05-07-07 - Delegation learns airport security in Israel A delegation representing several major U.S. airports is in Israel to learn about security practices Thus does the Israelization of America continue.
05-07-07 - Liberal Middle East briefing launched A Forward story last week described the initiative as an attempt to counter the influence of the Daily Alert, an e-mail briefing run jointly by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
05-07-07 - South Africa defends Haniyeh overture A South African official rebuffed Jewish criticism of Pretoria's offer to host the Palestinian Authority prime minister from Hamas.
05-07-07 - Israel welcomes Sarkozy win Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, a personal friend of the conservative Sarkozy, predicted that French policies toward Israel would improve.
05-07-07 - US university halts move to UAE over its policy towards Israel The paper said it obtained confirmation from the University of Connecticut that it halted plans to open up a campus in the emirate of Dubai following concerns raised by politicians and pressure groups in the US who oppose the UAE's policy towards Israel.
05-07-07 - Mideast conflict slows Dead Sea rescue
05-07-07 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Russia but skip Israel for now Rice hopes to take the edge off Russian anger over U.S. plans for a missile defense in Europe while seeking Russia's continued cooperation with a U.N. Security Council campaign to pressure Iran over its nuclear program.
05-07-07 - PROTEST MARS ISRAEL MARCH
05-07-07 - Mallouh demands the entire implementation of the National Unity
05-07-07 - Man acquitted of trying to kill Arabs Milner, who drove Tichman to the scene, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted on four counts of attempted murder and nine counts of deliberately causing damage.
However, a panel of three judges reduced Milner's sentence to only three years on Monday after deciding that he had only aided in the crime
05-07-07 - Media festival to take place in Nazareth
05-07-07 - Israeli economy shrugs off political turmoil It's so nice to know that the Shekel and Israel's economy are doing so well (as we continue to shell out billions of US taxpayer dollars to that nation) while the dollar continues to fall. America collapses under the Israeli albatross (and all that that entails) around her neck.
05-07-07 - In West Branch visit, Dodd points to a renewable future Candidate?s position on Middle East issues not a crowd pleaser
05-07-07 - Palestinians prepared to assure Israel of gas supply
05-07-07 - UNIFIL denies reports of weapons smuggling in South Milos Strugar, spokesperson for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), denied on Friday reports that Hizbullah is smuggling weapons into the South. "The German naval forces are doing their job as good as it can be [done] and have not detected any arms smuggling into the South,"
05-07-07 - Sarkozy's opportunity If France championed draconian sanctions against Iran, it could almost single-handedly lead Europe in avoiding both the need for Western military action against Teheran, and the threat of living under a growing nuclear and terrorist shadow. I knew that France's Iran policy was ultimately behind the pro-Israeli influence of this election.
05-07-07 - Carter's views on Mideast politics Supporters of Israel claim that apartheid is an extreme term to describe the situation, but Bishop Desmond Tutu, who knows something about apartheid, has described the situation as similar to conditions he saw in South Africa
05-07-07 - Israel, Egypt and Jordan to discuss Arab peace plan Olmert has so far refused to discuss final status issues -- the future of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the borders of a Palestinian state -- in his regular bilateral meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
05-07-07 - Israelis from Iraq remember Babylon "We never thought of who was Jewish and who was Arab, until 1947. It all suddenly changed. The people that you knew as good people turned into bad people for you and you became bad for them. It was very sad." Jews and Arabs lived in peace in the region. That is until the advent of Zionism and Israel's ensuing expulsion of the Palestinians.
05-07-07 - Levy to quit as Middle East envoy "Levy will go," a senior figure said yesterday. "It's vital because he is seen as somebody who thinks it's Israel, right or wrong.".....Mr Brown will use his departure to signal a change of approach to the Middle East, although he remains committed to the state of Israel, which he has visited and where he has friends.
05-07-07 - Abbas to meet with Al-Qawasmi to discuss the obstacles facing the interior ministry
05-07-07 - Dar al-Hanun has been there 80 years, but state still refuses to recognize it
05-07-07 - Japanese activists call for boycott of the Occupation?s Philharmonic Orchestra! On March 20, the Kansai Network for Peace in Palestine (KNPP) held a protest in front of the
Symphonic Hall of Osaka to promote the cultural boycott of Israel.
05-07-07 - Questions for Candidate Obama the Senator seems to want to be a "hawk" when it comes to Iran, describing that country as a threat to Israel and the USA. Here again I remain perplexed. Iran does not have the military capability to hit the USA.
05-07-07 - UN Agency Staff Raises $125,000 for Suffering Families in Beit Hanoun Staff members of the main United Nations agency caring for Palestinian refugees have raised $125,000 to aid anguished families in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, where a six-day Israeli siege in November 2006 took the lives of 82 Palestinians and injured 26 others.
05-07-07 - Prizes for Supporting Israel? Mr. Sheridan's Strange Award Greg Sheridan, billed as "the most influential foreign affairs analyst in Australian journalism" by his newspaper "The Australian" was awarded the annual Jerusalem Prize by the State Zionist Council of NSW. According to its president Frank Levy, "The prize is awarded to someone who fosters and supports the state of Israel and its ideologies, the concept of the Jewish homeland and the Jewish community, particularly in Australia."
05-07-07 - Sarkozy gets nearly 90% of Israeli votes French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy received a higher percentage of votes from French citizens in Israel than from expatriates in any other country, according to the French Foreign Ministry.
05-06-07 - One killed in Palestinian militant attack at Gaza school event Palestinian militants in long Islamic robes and beards threw a bomb near a children's festival at a UN-operated elementary school in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, killing a bodyguard of a local Fatah leader and wounding seven other people, medical officials said.
05-06-07 - Palestinians 'routinely tortured' in Israeli jails
05-06-07 - Palestinian finance minister pays partial wages
05-06-07 - Israel, PNA fail to agree on easing daily life obstacles in West Bank: sources Palestinian and Israeli officials failed to reach any results during a security meeting to ease daily life obstacles for Palestinians in the West Bank, Palestinian security sources said Sunday.
05-06-07 - Palestinian interior minister threatens to resign if not given authorities
05-06-07 - Palestinian militants seriously wound Israeli near Ramallah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement's armed wing claimed responsibility on Sunday for seriously wounding an Israel security guard near Ramallah in the West Bank.
05-06-07 - Palestinian children and Israeli hit in shooting . The children had been throwing stones at soldiers carrying out an operation at a house of an Islamic Jihad militant. Troops had used rubber bullets to disperse a crowd that had gathered in the area
05-06-07 - Israeli shot west of West Bank city of Ramallah The Israeli, a guard who lives in a nearby settlement, was injured in the head and leg but succeeded in driving to the settlement of Naalin and was evacuated to a hospital, the radio said
05-06-07 - Palestinians divided over U.S. security plan
05-06-07 - Five Palestinian civilians among them two children were injured as Israeli army invades Jenin
05-06-07 - Gaza militants' projectiles wound two Israelis Two Israelis were injured on Sunday afternoon by fragments of homemade projectiles fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza Strip at Israel, Israeli Radio reported.
05-06-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian civilian and try to take over Palestinian land near Hebron Ibraheem Mour, 17, sustained cuts all over his body after being attacked by a group of armed settlers while working in his land located near the settlement, local sources reported.
05-06-07 - BBC man missing for eight weeks But the Palestinian Authority, the BBC and the UK government say that they are working as hard as possible to secure his release.
05-06-07 - Israeli army fires shells on northern Gaza Israeli army fired on Sunday evening a number of shells in northern Gaza Strip, targeting a group of civilians in Beit Hanoun and a local cemetery in Jabalya refugee camp
05-06-07 - Settlers burn 80 Dunams of agricultural lands near Tulkarem Israeli soldiers obstructed several Palestinian fire-fighter vehicles as they were heading to the burnt lands, especially since some vehicles had to enter Ennav settlements area in order to surround and control the fire
05-06-07 - Israeli wounded by Qassam rocket fired from Gaza
05-06-07 - Cheney Mideast trip to build on Iraq conference ** "He's really more going to focus on regional security, with Iraq being the centerpiece, and focus on the challenges posed by Iran," said US National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe. Cheney is looking to get support for action on Iran. This is why the recent 'timeline' was drawn up which detailed some measures to be taken by both Israel and the Palestinians. Cheney will soon be seen whispering in (SA)King Abdullah's ear: "Can we attack Iran now, can we huh, huh? Will you help us? Did we do enough for I-P peace???!!" Same sh#t, different year, and different ME country to attack. Bush and co. sit on their ass for YEARS on Israel-Palestinian peace. The ONLY time they DO something is when the neocons want Arab support for another attack on a Middle Eastern nation. Or so it would seem.
05-06-07 - Activism for all ages "It was a new kind of opinion," she said. "Most of the presidential candidates don't really talk about their views on the Middle East, and it was good to hear a view that wasn't affected by wanting to get elected."
05-06-07 - Egypt observers killed in crash The Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) is an independent peacekeeping force, stationed in Sinai since 1982.
It monitors the 1979 Egypt-Israeli peace deal
05-06-07 - Poll finds U.S. support for Israel soaring These polls are coming more fast and furious than usual. The Lobby has to reassure themselves that their propaganda (helped along by their friends) via the MSM is still working.
05-06-07 - Hasan Karmi In an interview with me in 2004, Karmi summed up what all British politicians should have inscribed on their hearts: in the early 1920s, he said, "we were optimistic. We felt that eventually the Arabs would get their rights because they were the majority, the owners of the country and the ... land. We didn't imagine the [British mandate] government would help the Jews get hold of the land and the country." He lived to see this process promulgated by the British and entrenched by the Americans.
05-06-07 - Israeli rerouted to Iran Medvediev said the crew refused to allow him to wait aboard the plane, so he was forced to disembark with the other passengers. To his surprise, Iranian officials treated him well despite knowing his nationality That's not going to be useful for the 'Attack Iran!' crowd.
05-06-07 - 1000 in May Day rally despite downpours Ms McNeill, who referred to the election as "an extraordinary time for the nation", urged the UK government not to neglect the issue of a Palestinian state and slated the BNP's efforts to raise its profile in Scotland.
05-06-07 - Thousands of supporters of Israel march in New York I wonder: do thousands of Israelis hold an 'I love America' parade in Israel every year? If not, why not?
05-06-07 - Sarkozy takes French presidency Nicolas Sarkozy, "by far the most pro-Israeli French presidential figure Israel could have hoped for" according to one political analyst, won the runoff election for the presidency
05-06-07 - Abbas, Haneya meet in Gaza on security
05-06-07 - US-Israel disharmony This is not necessarily the last chord: If Israel doesn't immediately take vigorous and smart moves towards both the Administration and Congress alike, we shouldn't be surprised if the US agrees to board the Saudi wagon and accept the "Saudi Peace Initiative" as a basis for an agreement with the Palestinians. The horror.
05-06-07 - Israel's refugee disgrace As of today, out of the 300 refugees who have arrived in Israel, about 200 of the Sudanese are imprisoned indefinitely in "Ktziot" and "Maasiyahu" prisons....The large majority of them have not undergone trial and some have been detained for over two years....The obvious fear of the government and of Israeli citizens is a major influx of Non-Jewish refugees into the country
05-06-07 - Israel draws battle lines around nuclear monopoly "Say that tomorrow Iran gets nuclear weapons, and issues the following ultimatum on Israel: Withdraw from the (Palestinian) West Bank or we will fire conventional missiles at you. Do we get into that sort of fight?" said one senior Israeli official with knowledge of nuclear affairs. "The potential for extortion and major regional instability is mind-boggling,"
Thus do we arrive at the real heart of the matter with respect to Iran's nuclear program: Israel fears not for its very existence, but rather, Israel fears that it will no longer be able to keep hold of unlawfully occupied and colonized Arab territories. Israel fears that it no longer will be able to call the shots, and thus will no longer be allowed to be the neighborhood bully. God forbid that they have to comply with the law (get out of occupied land). The horror. All of this talk about it being 1938 all over again, with the rise of a new Hitler is Orwellian-speak. It's Orwellian when the accuser is itself practicing some of Hitler's policies and similar views of supremacy.
05-06-07 - Settler shoots at Palestinian family, victims arrested
05-06-07 - Jordan: IDF operations preventing Abdullah visit King Abdullah will not be able to accept an invitation to visit Israel until Israel fulfills its obligations towards the Palestinians and accepts the Arab peace initiative, Jordanian Parliament head Abdulhadj al Majali said on Sunday.
05-06-07 - Barakeh: Olmert gov't can't advance peace
05-06-07 - Since formation of Unity Government, Dr. Barghouthi barred from entering Gaza Palestinian minister of information Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi stated on Sunday that the Israeli Authorities have been barring him from entering the Gaza Strip Strip since the formation of the Palestinian National Government several months ago.
05-06-07 - Nasrallah: Talks on captured troops progress Nasrallah told Alalam that if published, the information would reveal that the Bush administration made the decision to launch the war against the ?Lebanese resistance? and Hizbullah as part of its plan to rebuild the Middle East in accordance with Israeli and American interests.?
05-06-07 - PROFILE: Nicolas Sarkozy, France's neo-conservative president Like the American neo-conservatives, Sarkozy is also a strong supporter of Israel, which is contrary to previous French policy, including that of Chirac, who was often critical of Jerusalem and often supported Palestinian interests.
05-06-07 - Military inspector to residents in Al Hadidiya: "The bulldozers are coming!" The residents of Al Hadidya have been awaiting army action since April 21st when a court ruling came into effect ordering them to leave and for the demolition of their homes. Al Hadidya is a collection of Bedouin Camps in an isolated area of countryside, deemed a military area by Israeli occupying forces, close to the illegal Israeli colony of Ro?i. Palestinians, Israelis, and international solidarity activists were maintaining a presence in the area to resist the demolitions.
05-06-07 - Setting Sail to Break the Siege of Gaza This summer ? forty years after the Israeli seizure and occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ? international, Palestinian and Israeli civilians will sail to Gaza to challenge Israeli control and isolation of the 1.4 million Palestinians who live there.
05-06-07 - Israeli FM to visit Egypt for peace plan talks: report A senior Israeli diplomatic source told AFP earlier that "Livni is planning to go on an official Cairo visit on Thursday for talks on several bilateral issues, including the Saudi peace initiative." Coincides with Cheney's visit to the region.
05-06-07 - Foreign Ministry conducting project to prepare to renew talks with Syria
05-06-07 - DFAT asks families to pay for Lebanon evacuation The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has sent letters to thousands of Lebanese Australians asking them to help pay part of the cost of evacuating them from Lebanon last year.
05-05-07 - Single mom among six killed in weekend traffic accidents In another accident, a man was killed early Friday morning when a car crashed into him when he standing on the side of the Geha highway. The man was a resident of the Palestinian village Kablah.
05-05-07 - Abbas and Haniya to meet in Gaza on Sunday Palestinian president and Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas and his prime minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, will meet in Gaza on Sunday, after Abbas had wrapped up a seven-country European tour to garner support for the Palestinian coalition government.
05-05-07 - Seize rare Mideast chance for peace: German FM
05-05-07 - Hamas warns of potential al-Qaeda growth in Palestinian Territories 'Al-Qaeda is coming to Palestine, if the Fatah movement, President Mahmoud Abbas, Arab countries, Israel and the United States keep isolating the Hamas movement,' said Younis al-Astal, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
05-05-07 - Several Palestinian residents wounded by Israeli under-cover unit in northern Gaza
05-05-07 - Hamas rejects US plan On Saturday, the top leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, dismissed the measure, telling Al Jazeera satellite TV that Palestinians should not agree to halt rocket fire in exchange for an easing of travel restrictions. "I swear it's a joke ... the equation has now become: dismantling the checkpoints, in exchange for [giving up] resistance," he said. "This has become the Palestinian cause."
05-05-07 - Palestinian gov't slams U.S. peace initiative "we don't want to improve the conditions of the prison. We want to go out of it"
05-05-07 - Islamic Jihad retaliates against Israeli killing of its members, a statement says In a statement sent to press on Saturday, the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza claimed it fired two homemade shells on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot, hitting a house with no injuries.
05-05-07 - New Aid Convoy Heads for Palestinian Territories Upon directives of His Majesty King Abdullah II to deliver assistance to the Palestinian people, the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization sent a new aid convoy of 6 trucks, laden with 50 tons of food and medical stuff
05-05-07 - Palestinian Finance Minister receives German Foreign Minister in Bethlehem
05-05-07 - The Weekly protest of Bil'in continues
05-05-07 - Two civilians kidnapped and a third injured by he Israeli army in Hebron
05-05-07 - Virtual coexistance
05-05-07 - New Carter Center Field Office in Ramallah to Support Palestinian Democracy and Human Rights
05-05-07 - Azmi Bishara's 'J'Accuse' The treason angle is bunk as far as I'm concerned. Mere ventilating for the sake of the right-wing Israeli constituency which wants Bishara's hide; and an effort to intimidate Bishara and his movement into scaling back their nationalist demands and aspirations
05-05-07 - Activist speaks out about life in Palestine in Corvallis talk He believes the Israeli government has chosen a policy towards Palestinians, which he likens to the South African system of apartheid, in order to eventually make impossible the idea of a viable independent Palestinian state.
05-05-07 - No explanation, no charges, but man stays in jail He's Palestinian. Evidently that's all the reason they need.
05-05-07 - Grads hope to ease arid Palestine climate "We are not allowed to drill any wells without licenses from the Israelis, which they don't give. Even donations from Europe and the United States for infrastructure projects have to be returned . . . because of the Israeli obstacles."
05-05-07 - Pro-Palestinian rally on Holland's Liberation Day draws thousands Thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors gathered in Rotterdam on Netherlands's Liberation Day Saturday to demonstrate against Israel, drawing parallels between the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II and Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
05-05-07 - Invisible Palestinians Exist in Legal Limbo in Lebanon Let us not forget who is ULTIMATELY responsible for this refugee problem. Not Lebanon.
05-05-07 - War without end Evidently, the Guardian felt the need to omit Israel's attack of the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 from its timeline.
05-05-07 - Tsela Barr: Jews must see issues from the other side I wholeheartedly agree with Laitman that in order to purse a path to peace, we must come to terms with what Israel's independence has meant to the Palestinians.
05-05-07 - Judith Utevsky: Laitman is correct on Israeli occupation
05-05-07 - Former CIA Chief Tenet accused of lying in memoirs about Pollard and Israel In his book, "The Missing Peace," Ross writes that at the Wye summit, Clinton asked him if freeing Pollard would be important to Israel. "Yes," Ross writes he replied, "because he is considered a soldier for Israel, and there is an ethos in Israel that you never leave a soldier behind in the field." Why don't all of these 'soldiers for Israel' return home (Ross included)? They are a grave threat to the national security of America.
05-05-07 - Settlers attack Palestinians with stones, assault four human rights workers
05-05-07 - Hezbollah denies Israel's claims that they met with Bishara
05-05-07 - Israel Corp., Palestinian Deal Blocked, Plans China Car Maker New York's Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns against anti- Semitism, opposed DP World because of Dubai's support for an Arab economic boycott of Israel. The U.S. Congress blocked the bid, citing security concerns.
05-05-07 - Christians Demand "Tear Down Separation Wall" Christian evangelist Terry McIntosh and worldwide Friends of the Holy Land is demanding that Israel tear down the Separation Wall and set the oppressed free in a series of television broadcasts in Palestine.
05-05-07 - Germany's foreign minister refuses to meet mayor of Bethlehem
05-05-07 - President Receives German Foreign Minister
05-05-07 - Hezbollah says ready for new showdown with Israel "We have new (military) plans. We have completed ... our ground work in preparing our men, as well as our land, so that we would be ready if the Israeli (government) thought one day" of launching another attack, Sheikh Naim Qassim said in excerpts of the interview aired on Saturday.
05-05-07 - Painted peace activists entangle illegal separation fence in Al Numan near Bethlehem To demonstrate the imprisonment and segregation of the two villages the Palestinian, international and Israeli activists gathered either side of the 3-meter high fence and started hurling brightly colored balls of wool and reels of ribbon over to each other. This created a huge web of color over the razor-wire fence, anchored from both sides by the two segregated groups.
05-05-07 - Bonnie Block: Christian Zionism falls short on justice I find this a violent, scary and dangerous belief. It is certainly not any part of my Christian faith. Therefore, I plan to join members of Jewish Voices for Peace to protest the Christians United for Israel event on Sunday. I hope many other Christians will join us.
05-05-07 - Israel critic retained by Labor Party The horror.
05-04-07 - Israeli troops kill three Palestinians in raid
05-04-07 - U.S. timeline runs into Israeli resistance
05-04-07 - President Abbas condemns Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Jenin
05-04-07 - Stray bullet injures a seven month old baby in Jabalia Unknown gunmen fired randomly near residents' homes in Jabalia town in the northern part of the Gaza strip Friday. One of their stray rounds hit and injured a seven month old baby on Friday afternoon.
05-04-07 - Abbas resignation over sanctions denied
05-04-07 - Arab-Israelis fear Bishara affair may lead to mass deportation Prof Haidar said a mass deportation of Israel?s Arab citizens is not out of the question. ?The Jewish public is prepared to accept any act against the Arab population; therefore, the Arabs are discussing the possibility of a second Nakba
05-04-07 - Abbas believes elections are inevitable A senior Palestinian source, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that Abbas returned disappointed after his recent European and Arabic tour since the European countries informed him that they cannot override the US position which rejects dealing with the new government.
05-04-07 - Hearing shows Israel at crux of U.S. missile defense plan ** The May 3 session also dropped a bombshell: A senior congressman claimed that an Iranian crew was behind the missile attack on an Israeli Navy ship off Lebanon's coast last summer that killed four Israeli seamen.
05-04-07 - Hamas urges Bishara to return, risk jail Hamas called on former MK Azmi Bishara to return to Israel and share the burden of supporting the Palestinian homeland alongside his compatriots - even if he is imprisoned for it, Israel Radio reported on Friday.
05-04-07 - Abbas may resign if embargo continues-ally
05-04-07 - U.S. must be engaged to end Mideast humanitarian crisis, Catholic relief agency says "The humanitarian crisis is unacceptable," said Tom Garofalo, CRS Country Representative for Jerusalem/West Bank/Gaza, who Garofalo will be in the United States from May 7 ? 18 to educate church and political leaders about the humanitarian crisis and help engage them in the peace process.
05-04-07 - Nonviolent Anti-Wall Protest by Palestinian Workers in Bethelehm Some two hundred peaceful demonstrators in Bethlehem protested on Friday against the construction of the annexation wall in the village of Wadi Al-Neiss. The demonstration included mostly Palestinian workers in addition to international peace activists and observers to commemorate Labor day on May 1.
05-04-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers and Israeli police near Hebron A massive group of illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while working on their lands that are close to an illegal settlement post near Bethlehem in the southern part of the West Bank on Friday morning.
05-04-07 - Fateh rejects statements about resignation of President Abbas
05-04-07 - Judge in trial of former AIPAC staffers rips prosecution for delays The judge warned that there could be consequences for the prosecution if it did not do as he told them.
05-04-07 - Britain protests to Olmert about illegal settlement The British Ambassador Tom Phillips, has raised serious concerns with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office over proposals to demolish the empty Palestinian Shepherd's Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, and build apartments for 122 Jewish settler families in its place. Only the 1? Try all of them.
05-04-07 - EU: Israeli gov't crisis must not undermine efforts to revive peace process The Israeli government crisis should not be allowed to undermine efforts to revive the Middle East peace process, European Union president Germany said on Thursday.
05-04-07 - Jordan delegation in Israel for talks on peace process
05-04-07 - Mideast among areas criticized for restrictions on news organizations Still, those three countries and Egypt were rated above 11 other countries and the Palestinian territories, where the report said both Israel and the Palestinian Authority severely restrict press freedom.
05-04-07 - Academic Repression Update / A Question of Scholarship: On the tenure controversy of Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein Prof. Dershowitz's meddling in the assessment of tenure for Prof. Finkelstein has caused grave concerns among the faculty of DePaul University.
05-04-07 - Democratic Teachers Unions demands president, government to abide by the signed agreement
05-04-07 - Senate presses OECD on Israel The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to urge the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to accept Israel as a member.
05-04-07 - JAFI sells MASA to top colleges Career advisors from seven top American universities are touring Israel with the Jewish Agency for Israel to learn about the MASA program.
05-04-07 - GOP contenders: Nuke threat justifies strike ** "If there is a threat to the existence of the State of Israel, which is by the way I think a potential threat to the existence of the United States, then you have to come to the aid of Israel," Tancredo said. These folks have forgotten which country they were elected to serve. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about defending Israel. Moreover, it's ridiculous to suggest that our existence is threatened because Israel's is. Preposterous.
05-04-07 - Israeli Soldiers: "Death to Arabs" Next to Rian Mosque, a new Palestinian school is under construction, Jab al Rachme Girls High School. At 3pm on Saturday, the guard saw a squad of Israeli soldiers enter the building and go upstairs. When they left, the guard discovered that they had written "Death to Arabs ? Arabs must die" in Hebrew in permanent marker on one of the new white boards.
05-04-07 - Roseanne believes in Christ, not Zionism Roseanne Barr says she follows Christ and that "millions of Jews are not Zionists."
05-04-07 - Israel's Cluster Bombs There was some interesting interplay during floor debate over the "human shields" issue. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, supported the measure, but also brought up Israel's use of cluster munitions during the war. To make his point, Mr. Kucinich displayed a fragment of a cluster bomb retrieved from Lebanon. "I wanted to just show Congress this, because what we are talking about, using people as human shields, it's important also for the Israeli government to take responsibilities for their actions as well. I say this as someone who speaks in defense of Israel and the defense of Israel's right to survive."
Way to go, Kucinich.
05-04-07 - U.S. deadlines too tight -- Israel
05-04-07 - "They will not break me" According to Hani, since the 1970s Israel has confiscated at least 7,000,000 square metres -- eighty percent -- of the land of Mas'ha, to build the illegal Jewish settlement of Elkana. Until now Hani Amer and his family have resisted all attempts by the Israeli military and settlers to chase him away. Today their house has completely surrounded by the wall and high fences. The family exhausted all its resources in its resistance to the wall, but Hani Amer is determined to stay.
05-04-07 - Queen Rania stresses common values, urge students to bridge cultural divide
05-04-07 - Singapore pushes U.S. on Mideast peace
05-04-07 - Palestine?s spring blooms in Anatolia
05-04-07 - American Jewish Committee Has Key Role to Play Across UN Agenda "The American Jewish Committee has an important role to play across this agenda," he declared. "I also attach great importance to strengthening the relationship between the UN and Israel,"
05-04-07 - Belgium keeps Palestinian minister out Police at Brussels airport denied entry on Friday to a Palestinian minister heading for the Netherlands, after the Dutch authorities learned he was a member of the Islamist party Hamas and cancelled his visa.
05-04-07 - Jordan lifts ban on newspaper over article on Palestinian security plan
05-04-07 - Haniyeh to speak at conference Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will be addressing a conference in Rotterdam via satellite connection on Saturday.
05-04-07 - 'Be bridges for Holy Land peace,' Melkite Catholic bishop urges "I am a Palestinian, a proud Palestinian. There is nothing to be ashamed of in being a Palestinian. I have no bombs. I am a Palestinian Arab Christian - that complicates things already. But to add to this picture I am as forcefully a Palestinian Arab Christian who is a citizen of the state of Israel," he said. "These four facets of my identity are not always at peace together. There are apparent contradictions."
05-04-07 - EU FMs to meet Arab peace plan initiators this month German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has invited the initiators of an Arab Middle East peace plan to join a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on May 14 for talks.
05-04-07 - Queen Calls for End To Mideast Conflict
05-04-07 - CNI FOUNDATION TO COMMEMORATE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY WHEN: Friday, June 8, 2007 @ 4:00 pm *
WHERE: United States Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
05-04-07 - Arab-Americans pioneer own hip-hop
05-04-07 - Your Neighbors Describe your experience in Israel: "It was a transformative experience. I knew nothing about the Middle East; only what I read in the paper and saw on the news. I didn't understand . . . I thought all Palestinians were terrorists. I didn't know what their lives are really like . . . living as exiles in their own country Imagine. She went there and saw it for herself.
05-04-07 - Bronshtein Was Misleading on Picture Balata In his editorial on the Picture Balata exhibition, Shai D. Bronshtein misleads readers about the situation in Balata refugee camp.
05-04-07 - Walls make good neighbors 'Walls make good neighbors' if the wall isn't BUILT ON YOUR NEIGHBOR'S LAND, if the wall doesn't ENCIRCLE YOUR NEIGHBOR CREATING A PRISON, if the wall doesn't CUT YOUR NEIGHBOR OFF FROM HIS FIELDS THUS DEPRIVING HIM OF HIS LIVELIHOOD. Rocket science. Take a look at the route of Israel's wall - which is the reason the ICJ ruled against Israel. The link to the ruling was mysteriously taken down from the site. No problem.
05-04-07 - Rabbis call for re-establishment of Jewish court MATT BROWN: So, the Sanhedrin is determined to stop Israel from giving up any more Palestinian land in the West Bank. That's where Meir Bertler comes in. He's a radical activist who normally lives in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. He's not afraid of confronting his Palestinian neighbours. And the Israeli military has actually banned him from entering the settlement because he's too great a security risk
05-04-07 - Picture Balata Tells the Real Story of Palestinian Children We regret that Shai Bronshtein found these children?s reality too difficult to bear and instead of coming to terms with it, used his column space in the Harvard Crimson to deny these kids? experiences and perpetuate myths.
05-04-07 - Hillel director apologizes for attack As Seidler-Feller and Neuwirth left a lecture by Alan Dershowitz, Neuwirth commented critically on Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian speaker whom Seidler-Feller had invited. The rabbi then physically attacked her. Neuwirth is a rabid Israel-supporter whose writings appear on the web site of FrontPageMag, among others.
05-04-07 - Canadian University Settles With Activist Student Who Sued Its President
05-03-07 - A woman shot dead in Khan Younis
05-03-07 - Four dead, six injured in road carnage Earlier, near Karnei Shomron, two Palestinians were killed, one Palestinian was seriously injured and four Israelis were lightly injured when their two cars collided
05-03-07 - Benchmark Document/Israel concerned by Washington's demands Oh dear god the horror. Demands! On Israel! But more importantly : we've got Cheney making his 2nd rounds in as many months, and now likewise Condi (who is on her fourth(?) or so trip by now) and the gang turning up the heat. Why?
05-03-07 - Fatah?s armed wing threatens to extend operations outside the Palestinian territories. In a statement sent to reporters, the brigades held the Israeli occupation and the United States responsible for the financial and political boycott of the Hamas-led coalition government.
05-03-07 - Rallies held for BBC's Johnston Rallies have been held around the world in support of Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza, to coincide with World Press Freedom Day.
05-03-07 - Abu Laila: ?the government must fulfill its vows regarding late salaries? Palestinian Legislator, member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Qais Abdul-Karim, Abu Laila, stated on Wednesday that he will call on the Legislative Council?s Social Affairs Committee, which he heads, to convene on Saturday to discuss the issue of the late salaries of the teachers, governmental employees and military personnel.
05-03-07 - General Workers Union in Palestine receives representatives of European Unions Shaher Sa?ad, secretary-general of the Union, said that the delegates were representatives of workers unions in Norway, Greece, Spain, Italy, and Belgium.
05-03-07 - Egyptian mediators present new prisoner swap proposal: Abbas Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday Egyptian mediators between Israeli and the Palestinian side had brought a new prisoner swap proposal involving Palestinian prisoners and an abducted Israeli soldier.
05-03-07 - Pro-Hamas newspaper launched in Gaza "Palestine" is the pro-Islamist answer to the three largest Palestinian newspapers which have longstanding ties to Fatah, the secular faction of President Mahmoud Abbas.
05-03-07 - Palestinians refugees despair after year marooned between Iraq and Syria As Al-Tanf heads towards its one year anniversary in June, life in the tented camps is fraught with anguish and daily struggles. In the last few days a pregnant woman attempted and failed to commit suicide, while at the end of April a fire swept across the Al-Tanf camp leaving 28 refugees injured. Several deaths and miscarriages have been reported, and having endured the cold and floods of winter the refugees are now living under dust storms and the heat of the approaching summer...... As the situation worsens, there is no immediate prospect of a solution. The only proposal thus far, an offer by the Palestinian Authority to take in the refugees, was rejected by Israel.
05-03-07 - Security restrictions, drought slam Bedouin shepherds in West Bank The proud Bedouin has been forced to sell off most of his animals at firesale prices and take out devastating loans to feed those that remain. In February, the Israeli army knocked down his small family hut
05-03-07 - Soldiers install fence around West Bank settlements, isolate Palestinian orchards The Israeli army installed a fence around several settlements which were illegally constructed on Palestinian annexed lands that belongs to the residents of Dir Istia village, near the West Bank city of Salfit, and closed the only road that the residents of the village and several surrounding villages used to reach their lands.
05-03-07 - Mubarak, Abe vow cooperating efforts to end Iran's nuclear crisis The two leaders also dealt with the Middle East issue and other regional topics to focus on how to break the stalled Mideast peace process and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, as well as the situation in Iraq, according to Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Suleiman Awad.
05-03-07 - Blair pledge for missing BBC man
05-03-07 - For 90 minutes this week, Berkeley was Carter Center West On the plaza's north end, a group students joined with Berkeley Hillel to criticize Carter's appearance, saying in a prepared statement that "his presence will add no light but will bring an unneeded amount of heat." Heat is PRECISELY what the doctor ordered.
05-03-07 - Carter finds welcome at UC Berkeley
05-03-07 - At UCI, Carter urges Muslims, Jews to work together I'd like to see the leaders form a combined group and take my invitation to go to Palestine and see what's going on for yourselves," said Carter, in Orange County to discuss his controversial book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." "If you take me up on it, I'll raise the money to pay for your trip."
05-03-07 - Bush threatens hate crimes veto
05-03-07 - South Africa invites Haniyeh South Africa invited the Palestinian Authority prime minister for what would be the Hamas member's first state visit to a non-Muslim country.
05-03-07 - Pressure on Iran over Argentina blasts Observers in Argentina and the United States point to direct pressure from Bush administration officials for the re-opening of the case and for naming the highest levels of the Iranian Government as being directly responsible for the bombing.
05-03-07 - Israelis call on Olmert to resign
05-03-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: Hope Amid the Burning Cars I told
them, the Prophet said 'Fight only those who fight you.' Not their
family or their property. I cried when I saw TV pictures of bus
bombings, killing innocents who know nothing of Palestine. Our enemy
is U.S. policy, not the American people, Israeli government policy,
not the Israeli people."
05-03-07 - Why Israel Is After Me These trumped-up charges, which I firmly reject and deny, are only the latest in a series of attempts to silence me and others involved in the struggle of the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel to live in a state of all its citizens, not one that grants rights and privileges to Jews that it denies to non-Jews. Wow. It's hard to believe that the LA Times, let alone any major news source published this. It was a proverbial groin kick to Israel, and well-deserved. Excellent.
05-03-07 - 'Sim Shalom' at national prayer day The U.S. Army Chorus sang "Sim Shalom," the final prayer of the Amidah, at the National Day of Prayer at the White House. Who was it that was just calling for separation of church and state, mewonders (3rd paragraph)? Where is the protest over this move?
05-03-07 - Israel critic likely to be dumped as Newhouse firms for Labor candidacy in Wentworth Irwin has used her decade in parliament to launch a series of vitriolic attacks on Israeli security policies and the Australian Jewish community. In 2002, she read to the house an email that described the Jewish lobby as "the most implacable, arrogant, cruel and powerful lobby in the country".
Aussies have it about as bad as we do (Israeli lobby).
05-03-07 - Filmmakers seek Mideast peace in dieting, soccer Dieting may not have much to do with politics, but for one U.S.-Israeli filmmaker it was a way to bring together Jewish and Arab women who normally would never meet to talk about peace -- or losing weight
05-03-07 - Olmert undone by the militia he said he could destroy
05-03-07 - Pro-Israel Group Slams Rice Meeting With Syrian FM "We think this is a serious mistake," Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said of the U.S.-Syria meeting.
05-03-07 - Israel not seeking confrontation with Syria, ambassador says
05-03-07 - 'SA can help to broker peace in Israel'
05-03-07 - Settlers condemn and strongly oppose Jerusalem light train project Firstly, the train is being built to stop at Palestinian villages and unlike the by-pass roads will be accessible for Palestinian passengers. Secondly, the original design of the Jerusalem light train project indicates that it is being built to create an easier link between residents of Occupied East Jerusalem and the center of the city. Thus, the train has the potential for serving not only the Jewish population.
05-03-07 - 12 Palestinian civilians kidnapped as Israeli army invades several West Bank areas The Israeli army invaded several parts of the West Bank and kidnapped 12 Palestinian civilians on Thursday morning.
05-03-07 - Roadblock went tumbling down the gorge Because of the obstacle, the villagers were forced to drive about 45 minutes along an alternate road instead of 15 minutes along the direct route to get to Ramallah. Two weeks ago the alternate road was also closed making the trip take and hour and a quarter and cost about 15 shekels instead of 3 - 5. In response, the villagers decided to open up the main road which has been closed by concrete slabs.
05-03-07 - SA Zionists 'disturbed' by invitation to Haniyeh
05-03-07 - Gravel: I'll bring peace to Israel
05-03-07 - Ithacan Grady Flores to discuss West Bank trip today
05-03-07 - Israel?s creation is political While many American Jews come to Israel to enjoy a supportive cultural environment, Palestinian citizens of Israel are treated as traitors if they advocate for equality. In the occupied territories, the Israeli government has created a matrix of control that has transformed Palestinian villages into closed ghettos and curtailed access to their fields, employment, health care, schools, places of worship and families. As a Jew, I find no joy in institutionalized persecution.
05-03-07 - New Davies controversy It comes exactly a year after he was forced to quit as leader of the Liberal Democrats in Europe when the Jewish News exposed distasteful emails he had sent to a reader telling her to ?wallow in her own filth,? and decrying the influence of the ?Jewish lobby?.
05-03-07 - Local Efforts Being Made To Link Christians, Jews Cox and Ben Kinchlow, Christian evangelicals and hosts of the Front Page Jerusalem Radio Network, are leading rallies throughout the Southeast bringing Jews and Christians together and encouraging Christians to pray for, visit and support Israel.
05-02-07 - Palestinian shot dead near Gaza border with Israel A top Palestinian Health Ministry official, Muawiyah Hassanein, identified the man who was killed as a 34-year-old civilian. Hassanein said he was shot by Israeli soldiers while he and his brother were collecting scrap metal near the former Israeli settlement of Elei Sinai, close to the border fence.
05-02-07 - New York judge clears Israeli in war crimes suit The target of the bombing was Hamas leader Saleh Shehada, but the strike also killed 14 Palestinian civilians, including nine children, and wounded many others.....Israel and the U.S. State Department had petitioned the court to grant Dichter's motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
05-02-07 - Israel's violations of the right to life: Palestinian child fatalities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory during 2006 In 2006, the Israeli military's lack of respect for Palestinian human rights and for the guidelines that seek to protect civilians in periods of armed conflict (as embodied in international humanitarian law) continued. Throughout the year, the Israeli military employed violent, excessive and disproporti onate force against Palestinian civilians.
05-02-07 - Palestinians urge Arabs to pay $2 bln in pledges
05-02-07 - Three Palestinians kidnapped and one injured as Israeli army attack homes in Hebron
05-02-07 - Army bulldozer chases journalists; troops kidnap four civilians as army invades Jenin
05-02-07 - Palestinian student kidnapped by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Nablus
05-02-07 - European Union pays a further 21 million Euros to Palestinian public service providers
05-02-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus and nearby village and kidnaps six civilians
05-02-07 - Palestine workers strike over half pay Union leaders said up to 80,000 Palestinian government workers were taking part in Wednesday's strike, shutting down government ministries and buildings.
05-02-07 - A High Price to Pay for Ignorance by Philip Giraldi ** Multiple carrier groups in the Persian Gulf can only mean that another preemptive war, this time against Iran, is either about to take place or is being viewed as a serious option......The leading Iranian émigré group is the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which pretends to have a network of independent sources within Iran but actually is largely dependent on information from Israeli intelligence. The "critical analysis" of events in Iran that reaches policy-makers in Washington frequently comes from it and other lobbying and advocacy groups such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), all of which share an "Iran agenda" that calls for regime change. AIPAC is known to be the source of a position paper on Iran that most congressmen rely on to shape their own views. Israel's advocates, including peripatetic politicians such as ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, make frequent visits to the United States, where they have good access to the media and potential supporters, to reinforce the case that Iran must be dealt with forcefully.
05-02-07 - U.S. sets dates for Israeli, Palestinian moves The U.S. timeline, the first of its kind presented to both sides, includes specific dates for when Washington envisages Israel letting Palestinian bus and truck convoys travel between the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, a demand that has raised some Israeli objections.
05-02-07 - Palestinians know whereabouts of kidnapped BBC man: Abbas
05-02-07 - HEBRON UPDATE: 8-24 April 2007
05-02-07 - The Palestinian Christian Is
05-02-07 - Refugees Learn to Substitute Government PARD has nevertheless made a great difference to the life of many Palestinians.
05-02-07 - Cultural wealth of Palestine to be promoted during culture week Palestinian Culture Week, the first of its kind in Turkey, shows the strong cultural ties between the two countries
05-02-07 - Petroleum Minister: Egypt ready to meet Palestine's needs of energy
05-02-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: "From Palestine to Virginia we support you." On Friday 20 April 2007, at the
weekly nonviolent action held in Um Salmouna village near the West Bank City of
Bethlehem, Palestinian residents and international peace activists planted
thirty-two olive trees to commemorate the lives of the thirty-two Virginia Tech
students.
05-02-07 - Huge gulf in Mid-East narratives
05-02-07 - Justice plea for Gaza film-maker Mr Miller had been making a film about Palestinian children in the Rafah refugee camp. The 34-year-old was trying to ask the soldiers if it was safe to leave the area when he was fatally wounded in the neck.
05-02-07 - Canadian ex-Mossad agent recalls his career as a ?combatant? Now living in Victoria with his second wife and their daughter, Ross, self-composed and articulate, participated in a succession of dangerous, Hollywood-style missions, first as a field agent, then as a counter-terrorism liaison officer to the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation and, finally, as a covert agent in Africa and Southeast Asia. Well if you're in the MOSSAD, how exactly is it that you could also be working for the CIA and FBI, particularly if you are a CANADIAN/ISRAELI citizen? This guy's story is a bit too far-fetched, methinks.
05-02-07 - UN Agency and Syria Agree on $2 Million Deal to Give Refugees Medical Aid
05-02-07 - For Barack Obama, a careful courting of Jewish vote By last week, however, the references to Palestinian suffering and Israeli heavy-lifting were gone, replaced by a less nuanced pro-Israel stance nearly indistinguishable from that of his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
Our politicians, particularly would-be presidents, must bow down and pledge their unwavering allegiance - to Israel. Ridiculous.
05-02-07 - Hezbollah chief 'respects' Israel for war report
05-02-07 - Jordan defends censorship of weekly Jordan on Wednesday defended its decision to ban this week's edition of Al-Majd newspaper, which was to carry a plan to dissolve the Palestinian parliament, on grounds of the kingdom's own national security.
05-02-07 - Rice loses another aide as top Arab-American diplomat resigns Powell was notably instrumental in creating public-private partnerships to help fund relief efforts, notably in Lebanon following the July-August 2006 war between Israel and the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah
05-02-07 - Growing Acceptance Seen Of Fiery Pastor Mainstream Jewish leaders are rushing to embrace him, despite continuing concerns about his apocalyptic views about Israel?s future, his open advocacy of war with Iran and his harsh domestic views, and critics are being pressured into silence. One reason may have to do with dollars and cents ? money raised through the ?Nights to Honor Israel? and other Christian Zionist events could be a boon for Jewish organizations in this country and charities in Israel......Critics say most of the money funneled to Israeli projects by Christian Zionist groups goes to charities in the West Bank and the Golan Heights That's unlawfully occupied territory, folks. Christian Zionists are aiding and abetting, and they (along with anyone else doing so) should be charged with it. When judgment day comes, is all of this money that the Christian Zionists have poured into pro-Israeli coffers going to stop the ensuing (purported) second holocaust? Folks that lie down with dogs, can expect to wake up with fleas.
05-02-07 - Closing The Halliburton Loophole This week Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation intended to close a loophole in existing Iran sanctions that has allowed some American companies ? including Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney?s former employer ? to continue doing business with Iran?s oil sector despite U.S. and international sanctions.
.....His measure is backed by AIPAC ? which is putting its legislative might behind the Iran Counter Proliferation Act.....Jewish organizations across the country are scrambling to get in their applications, now that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released long-delayed funds appropriated by Congress .....Nathan Diament, Washington representative for the Orthodox Union, also praised the DHS action, adding that the new guidelines ?track our preference for threat-based assessments.? There have been concerns that the department has distributed some homeland security money without respect to the level of threat facing institutions applying for grants; that will change under the new guidelines, Diament said. A rare moment of conflict between neocon-supporter(Cheney) and Israel-defenders. Cheney and the neocons have a mutually beneficial relationship. Both sides profit from the wars in the region, and the policy is geared towards making it a safer place for Israel (even though the Iraq war has failed to do so, but that was the primary reason for it).
05-02-07 - Abbas: Egyptian mediators shuttling between Israel, Hamas with prisoner swap proposal
05-02-07 - All but one member of detained family released A Palestinian man and three of his four adult children have been released from a West Texas detention facility, where they claim they were mistreated while being held in an immigration case.
05-02-07 - Association for Civil Rights in Israel Successfully Challenges Movement Restriction in Jordan Valley
05-02-07 - Israeli probe deepens racial divide
05-02-07 - Awareness video focuses on Iron Wall The Iron Wall examines the situation in Israel and Palestine that exists after 39 years of occupation by Israel. The film follows the timeline size and population and its impact on the peace process. It shows the 670 kilometre wall Israel is building and how it impacts on every aspect of life for Palestinians.
05-02-07 - Remarks by President Bush and President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen after Meeting I would like on this occasion to highly express my gratification and my appreciation for the brave position taken by President Bush since the first moment he took power in this country, since he expressed his belief in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, side by side with the state of Israel. It's now nearly mid-2007, and still no Palestinian state. As has been the case for years, the Israelis (and then consequently the US) have laid down a gauntlet of conditions that the Palestinians must meet in order to achieve statehood.
05-02-07 - British doctors call for new Israel boycott In a letter to The Guardian newspaper in England last week the physicians, headed by the notoriously anti-Israel Dr Derek Summerfield and Professor Colin Green claimed "Persistent violations of medical ethics have accompanied Israel?s occupation."
05-02-07 - Majority of Oxford Union students say pro-Israel lobby stifling debate Norman Finkelstein, a leading academic critic of Israeli policies, argued in favor of the motion claiming that the Pro-Israel lobby sows confusion to avoid being held to account
05-02-07 - Palestinian journalists eligible for writing workshop
05-02-07 - Sarkozy: Israel has right to protect itself The official argued that Israel's West Bank barrier, even when it cuts through Palestinian territory, falls under the jurisdiction of security. "When there is peace, the route will be reworked," he said. "For now, it is in disputed territory If he wins, count on France to support US-led action against Iran - which may be the real reason why the pro-Israeli crowd is paying so much attention to this election.
05-02-07 - A tale of two speeches HOWARD, unsurprisingly, matched ? and arguably trumped ? Rudd on Israel. He spoke of his ?unwavering? support for the Jewish State of Israel?s ?courageous defence of her territorial integrity? since 1948 and of his ?determination? to oppose those ?determined to deny Israel the right to exist?.
05-02-07 - Middle East peace unlikely, Israel's UN rep. says Gillerman discussed the perceived threat Iran poses to Israel and the tension between different types of leadership roles in the Muslim community
05-01-07 - BBC's Humphrys honours Johnston
05-01-07 - Quartet to meet some Arab states on Friday
05-01-07 - Palestinian finance minister hails new Saudi cash A package of $250 million of Saudi money -- equivalent to some six weeks of the Palestinian Authority's basic funding needs -- will start arriving soon, Fayyad told Reuters as he lamented delay in resolving technical snags to other aid flows and Israel's refusal to hand over Palestinian taxes it collects.
05-01-07 - Interior minister renews threats to quit coalition Palestinian Interior Minister Hani al-Qawasmeh on Tuesday renewed threats to resign if President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah fails to give him full security authorities
05-01-07 - Al Hadidiya, Before the demolitions Most farmers in the area have had their homes demolished two or three times since in the last five years.
05-01-07 - Palestinian workers to strike over half pay Tens of thousands of Palestinian civil workers will strike on Wednesday to protest the government's failure to secure their full wages unpaid since the militant Hamas group came to power in March 2006.
05-01-07 - Abu Laila slams Israeli attacks against Labor Day procession near Ramallah
05-01-07 - Abbas meets the Singaporean FM in Ramallah Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, met on Tuesday at his headquarters in Ramallah, the Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yong-Boon, and informed him on the latest development in the Palestinian territories, and the efforts to revive the stalled peace process.
05-01-07 - Egypt's Gaza gateway: crossroad of frustration Welcome back, Jill Carroll!
05-01-07 - Ex-CIA Chief: I Prevented Pollard Deal in 1998 Best thing he ever did.
05-01-07 - UN calls for Johnston's release UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has repeated his call for the immediate release of missing BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
05-01-07 - Egypt condemns storming of diplomatic office in Gaza
05-01-07 - 25 Palestinian civilians kidnapped as Israeli army invades several West Bank areas
05-01-07 - Israeli army kidnaps three Palestinian children near Nablus
05-01-07 - Haniya urges release of BBC man
05-01-07 - Palestinians start preparations to commemorate the ?Nakba?
05-01-07 - Palestinian gov't to collapse if sanctions remain: deputy PM
05-01-07 - EU delegation meets Hamas PM, Israel protests A European parliament delegation met Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya in Gaza on Tuesday despite an EU diplomatic boycott of his Hamas movement, sparking a protest from Israel.
05-01-07 - Defense Ministry cancels prohibition on entry into Jordan Valley
05-01-07 - Balad MK-to-be opposes 'Israelization', is a conscientious objector
05-01-07 - Israeli advocates offer glimpse of grim reality Israel at Heart believes Israel has been unfairly portrayed in the media
05-01-07 - Islamic Jihad hails Winograd report as victory for Hezbollah
05-01-07 - Israeli firm buys Times building An Israeli conglomerate is buying The New York Times building.
05-01-07 - Hezbollah: War report proves our victory Hezbollah said the Winograd Commission report into last summer's war proved that the terrorist group had won
05-01-07 - US court fines Palestinian for not disclosing brother's suicide-bomb vow
05-01-07 - Lawmakers urge spending on dialogue The letter, to be sent this week, is signed by Jewish, Christian, Arab-American and Muslim lawmakers from both parties. It is the result of lobbying by the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a coalition of dialogue groups.
05-01-07 - Olmert's legacy could yet be the failure that forces something better
05-01-07 - HEBRON REFLECTION: Drinking coffee for peace
05-01-07 - Congress letter pushes JNF as NGO "We are writing to express our strong support for the application by the Jewish National Fund-United States (JNF-US) for consultative status at the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)," said the letter initiated by Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.); Robert Wexler (D-Fla.); and Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.). It was addressed to ambassadors of nations currently serving on ECOSOC. Here's a little bit about the JNF and Israel : " The key law is "Israeli Land Law," which set up a government-appointed body called the "Israel Land Authority" (ILA), controlled by a board partly appointed by the government and partly by the World Zionist Organization through its subsidiary branch, the "Jewish National Fund" (JNF), to control all the land owned by the state. A key paragraph in the law states that ILA will administer its land according to the regulations of JNF. The regulations of the latter strictly prohibit all non-Jews from benefiting in any way from JNF land and by this simple trick the Israeli state lands (92 percent of the area of Israel) were removed from the use of non-Jews. " From the Washington Report
05-01-07 - Salvaging family bonds in the midst of displacement Her only request of me was that I simply report what I see, and that I let the world know that they aren?t terrorists; that she is just a grandmother whose greatest pleasure, like most grandparents, is to be with her grandchildren.
05-01-07 - Seeds of Peace, to Present Peacemaker Award to Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
05-01-07 - Jordan calls for efforts to protect Jerusalem's Arab, Islamic identity
05-01-07 - PICTI holds Business Plan Contest 2006/2007 award ceremony The Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator - PICTI was successful in launching the first business plan contest in Palestine.
05-01-07 - 59 Years Ago: Deir Yassin
05-01-07 - Photos of a truly brave woman The Israeli girl in Oded Balilty's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo you published was not brave. The Israeli riot police were not going to kill her or even harm her. Their job was to dismantle illegal settlers' buildings in the West Bank
05-01-07 - Paltel reaches 35,500 DSL lines Palestinian operator Paltel reported over 35500 ADSL lines at the end of March, after adding over 3600 lines in March alone.
05-01-07 - Conversation with?Andrea Levin For example, some years ago, after we pressed them pretty hard, PBS stopped airing documentaries on the Arab-Israeli conflict that were really skewed and biased......We are paying attention to the British media. We have done extensive work on The Guardian CAMERA is a staunchly pro-Israel 'watchdog'. It makes sure that our media (and now Britain's too, evidently) toe the Israeli line. As to the bit about the Guardian - I knew it. I could visibly see a difference within the past six or seven months, and mentioned that fact only recently.
05-01-07 - UNHCR gives Syria US$2.06 million to boost health care facilities and skills The donation is in addition to 11 ambulances that UNHCR is delivering to the Ministry of Health, Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
05-01-07 - Israeli, Palestinian Scholars Team Up to Teach US University Students
05-01-07 - Lawyer of Mandela Institute visits the detained PLC head, legislators and several detainees
05-01-07 - Reagan diaries reveal president's private musings Reagan believed Begin "took wrong option" and noted that "Begin informed us after the fact" but that "we are not turning on Israel -- that would be an invitation for the Arabs to attack. It's time to raise H--l."
On February 6, 1982, he noted that "trouble brewing in the Middle East" ahead of the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon and that, "Right now Israel has lost a lot of world sympathy." He said one particularly devastating bombing and artillery attack on western Beirut in August 1982 had led King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to call the White House "begging me to do something." "I told him I was calling P.M. Begin immediately. And I did -- I was angry -- I told him it had to stop or our entire future relationship was endangered. I used the word holocaust deliberately & said the symbol of war was becoming a picture of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off."
05-01-07 - ADL interfaith mission Clergy view Israel through a Jewish lens ?We knew that we couldn?t fairly present the Palestinian side and our primary emphasis needed to be on helping Christians understand the conflict from the Israeli perspective
05-01-07 - Syria blames US, Israel for refugee influx Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Shara yesterday blamed the ?violent policies? of the US and Israel for the plight of millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.
05-01-07 - Heading for French showdown, candidates have eyes on Israel French Jews have made it clear throughout the presidential campaign that candidates' positions on Israel will be a key factor for Jewish voters
05-01-07 - Lawsuit aims to halt mosque construction
05-01-07 - Commentary: Jewish Peace Activists Must Build Bridges Over the weekend of April 28-29, several hundred activists gathered in Oakland at a national conference sponsored by the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). Entitled ?Pursuing Justice for Israel/Palestine: Changing Minds, Challenging U.S. Policy,? the conference gave expression to a movement building in the United States that is more critical of Israeli policies than is the conservative ?Israel right or wrong? lobby.
05-01-07 - UNM Israel Alliance mars its cause by marking wall affiliates of the UNM Israel Alliance persisted in defacing the work by posting fliers on the wall, its foundations and around the premises
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