May '08 Archive

5/30/2008 - Gaza woman dies of wounds after Israeli fire: medics A 60-year-old Palestinian woman died on Friday of wounds she sustained when gunshots were fired from an Israeli military position near her home in the Gaza Strip, medics and relatives said.  

5/30/2008 - Tutu: Silence on Gaza blockade shames us all Archbishop Desmond Tutu has denounced the international community for its "silence and complicity" on what he called Israel's "abominable" 11-month blockade of Gaza.  

5/30/2008 - U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Gaza The American State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at American institutions this fall because Israel has not granted them permission to leave. WTF? Wow.

5/30/2008 - House members press Swiss on Iran deal    

5/30/2008 - Egyptian efforts to broker truce with Israel fruitless    

5/30/2008 - Student trapped in Gaza asks Blair for help to beat travel ban For Mr Abuajwa and many other students seeking to study abroad, the description of Gaza as a "big prison" is more than just a slogan  

5/30/2008 - Act Now! Stop the Closing of Orphanages and Schools in Hebron by the Israeli Military It is therefore of utmost importance that all NGOs and internationals who have been involved in this campaign continue to pressure their governments to insist that Israel not only stop this action but also pay restitution for the losses suffered by the institutions involved. Please contact your Congress Representatives or Members of Parliament as soon as possible.  

5/30/2008 - Rice to check why US cancels grants to Palestinian scholars US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vowed Friday to look into a report that her department has scrapped grants to Palestinian scholars because they could not get Israeli approval to leave Gaza. It is doubtful that she will actually do anything about it.

5/30/2008 - Wild pigs attack Palestinian farmers in several West Bank areas    

5/30/2008 - One civilian dies of wounds sustained on Wednesday    

5/30/2008 - Israel seeks international peace talks amid political uncertainty Amid political uncertainty in Israel and the United States, the Jewish state's deputy prime minister Haim Ramon called Friday for an international conference to forge an interim Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.  

5/30/2008 - More rockets hit south; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility    

5/30/2008 - Talking to Hamas As for the latest announcement that Syria and Israel are prepared to open peace talks again, Mishaal said that he supports Syria's decision but that he believes these talks will come at the expense of the more difficult and complicated Palestinian negotiations.....Mishaal acknowledged that the Carter visit was "fruitful," and he repeated his pledge to Carter that Shalit would be allowed to write a letter to his family. "The president requested the letter, and it's out of respect for Carter we have agreed to that. We requested from our brothers in Gaza that they allow that letter, and it will be coming soon."  

5/30/2008 - Thousands protest Gaza blockade Thousands of people joined the demonstration called by Hamas to demand that Israel lift its crippling blockade of the impoverished enclave  

5/30/2008 - Dozens captured in Israeli incursion in Gaza: witnesses Israeli troops used loudspeakers to order residents of the Beit Hanun area aged 16 to 60 to gather in a square, and then took away about 60 of them, according to Mohammed al-Kafarneh, who said he witnessed the incident.  

5/30/2008 - Is President Bush becoming irrelevant? by Patrick J. Buchanan Neoconservative ideology, not U.S. national interests, McClellan is saying, motivated Bush to launch one of the longest and most divisive wars in U.S. history.....Israel has ignored Bush's demand that it stop building and expanding settlements on a West Bank that is to be the heartland of a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been secretly negotiating with Syria for the return of the Golan Heights in exchange for peace. Another gem by Mr. PJB.

5/30/2008 - Fatah calls for Arab efforts to reconcile with Hamas    

5/30/2008 - B'tselem: Israel refuses to issue ID cards to unregistered Palestinians Since the occupation began in 1967, Israel has exercised almost total control over the Palestinian population registry and has sole power to determine who is a Palestinian resident.  

5/30/2008 - AIPAC draft agenda: Iran, peace, terrorism Much of a draft proposal obtained by JTA focuses on backing existing efforts in Congress and elsewhere to further isolate Iran until it ends its suspected nuclear weapons program. The agenda also promotes Israel's qualitative military edge in the region and the peace process.  

5/30/2008 - Chertoff: Hezbollah Makes Al Qaeda Look 'Minor League' JERUSALEM ? Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff warned Thursday that the radical Islamic group Hezbollah "makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team," and poses the greatest threat to national security. WHOSE national security would that be? He's utterly insane if he was referring to the nation that he is SUPPOSED to be serving - AMERICA.

5/30/2008 - Palestinians pin biz hopes on high-tech industry    

5/30/2008 - Israel uses gunfire to repel Hamas border rally    

5/30/2008 - PLC slams the Israeli abduction of assistant of the detained Legislative Council head Srour lives in the West Bank city of Ramallah and was kidnapped by the army after the soldiers broke into his home and searched it.  

5/30/2008 - Interfaith group blasts Dunkin' on keffiyeh "Enough already," Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, the alliance's president, said in a statement. "Have we really reached the point where we are associating wearing a scarf of Middle Eastern origin with terrorist sympathies? Should we apply this standard to everything that comes from the Middle East? Or are we only applying this standard to our wardrobe?"  

5/30/2008 - Commentary overlooked Israel's bias against non-Jews    

5/30/2008 - EVANG LUTHERAN CHURCH OF FINLAND DELAGATION VISITS JORDAN & PALESTINE The Palestinian Office Head called on churches in the world to raise the motto of: ³it is time for the birth of the Palestinian State², and called for the immediate lifting of the siege against Gaza  

5/30/2008 - Dutch to give EUR 1.3m for Palestinian prisons The Netherlands is contributing EUR 1.3 million for the renovation of seven Palestinian prisons in the West Bank.  

5/30/2008 - Thomas' oft-ignored view happily received It was a great pleasure to read the excellent May 19 column by Helen Thomas. The column about the plight of the Palestinian people went right to the point of the treatment they received.  

5/30/2008 - USC, UCLA professors work on Israeli-Palestinian archaeological pact    

5/30/2008 - Repairing Nahr al-Bared to cost $400 million    

5/30/2008 - ISRAEL @ 60 ? Inside the Neturei Karta    

5/30/2008 - The 106-Year-Old Refugee In the process of making Chronicles of the Refugee, a six-part Arab language documentary series about the global Palestinian experience, Adam Shapiro came across a most unusual potential interview subject. At Yarmuk Camp in Damascus, Syria, he met Yusra, a woman born 46 years before the U.S. Partition of Palestine in 1948, making her 106 years of age.  

5/30/2008 - Council of Religious Institutions calls for ceasefire, condemns Bible burnings The religious leaders released two statements, one calling for an end to the violence in the Holy Land and the other denouncing the recent Bible burnings in Or Yehudah.  

5/30/2008 - Boycott US doughnut chain for halting scarf ad, activists urge "Dunkin Donuts has capitulated and withdrawn an advertisement for its products following the allegation ... that the spokeswoman in the ad was wearing a kaffiyeh, a scarf which is a staple of clothing traditionally worn by Palestinian men," the ANSWER Coalition said in a statement.  

5/30/2008 - Germany: Our responsibility for Holocaust commits us to Israel    

5/30/2008 - U.S. vows to reach Middle East peace deal    

5/30/2008 - Syrian source: Israel did not ask us to sever ties with Iran    

5/30/2008 - DSPR CENTRAL COMMITTEE & ROUND TABLE MEETINGS The Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees has concluded its Central Committee meeting (May 7 - 9) and its Round Table meeting (May 10 -11). The meeting of the Central Committee reviewed the work in the different Areas (Gaza Strip, West Bank, Nazareth, Jordan Lebanon and Central Office) and commended the continuing efforts of all in spite of great odds and difficulties.  

5/30/2008 - Sderot and Gaza: third letters Tell me how many UN resolutions concerning Palestine have been implemented? According to the UN, we have the right to return to our homes. Yet to this day, nothing has happened.  

5/30/2008 - Jewish GOPers to broadcast board Halperin of New Jersey is a former chairwoman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and once led a campaign against perceived anti-Israel bias at National Public Radio, one of the institutions that receives CPB funding.  

5/30/2008 - Britain looked to Israel when studying military deception After Egypt blocked the strategic Straits of Tiran and expelled U.N. forces from the Sinai Desert, Israel launched pre-emptive strikes on June 5, 1967, against Egyptian and Syrian air forces, destroying them on the ground. In six days of one-sided battles, Israeli forces captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and Sinai from Jordan, Syria and Egypt. In an unsigned, top secret military document, that war was cited as "an example of how deception can be employed in the modern era and in such a way that the enemy decision making process is placed at a severe disadvantage."  

5/30/2008 - DHS Looks to Adopt Israeli Airport Security Methods While in Jerusalem for a conference attended by public and homeland security ministers from around the world, Chertoff signed an agreement with Israel to share technology and information on methods to improve homeland security. An incredibly unwise move. That's the last thing we should be doing.

5/30/2008 - Hezbollah says ready to discuss defense strategy but not give up weapons    

5/30/2008 - Search Is Urged for Syrian Nuclear Sites The Bush administration is pressing U.N. inspectors to broaden their search for possible secret nuclear facilities in Syria, hinting that Damascus's nuclear program might be bigger than the single alleged reactor destroyed by Israeli warplanes last year. The 'evidence' of that alleged reactor destroyed by Israel was largely provided BY ISRAEL, according to former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Giraldi.

5/30/2008 - Neo-Cons Silent on Hagee Repudiation by McCain it was the neo-cons, mainly Irving Kristol and Commentary?s former editor, Norman Podhoretz, who, like the Likud party (whose then-leader, Prime Minister Menahim Begin, gave the late Jerry Falwell his first private jet), saw Christian Zionists as a key political constituency in the U.S. that would mobilize effectively against any inclination by a future U.S. president to pressure Israel to dismantle Jewish settlements on the West Bank or remove Jewish settlers from East Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians  

5/30/2008 - New type of migrant settles in Sderot In the last few years, a growing number of collaborators from Gaza have ended up in the Israeli town of Sderot, the place that, more than any inside Israel, has come under missile fire from Palestinian militants in Gaza.  

5/30/2008 - Dershowitz, in Teaneck, makes the case against Carter Before his presentation, Dershowitz spoke with this newspaper about his forthcoming book, "The Case Against President Carter and Other Israel?s enemies," due out in September. Unbelievable.

5/30/2008 - Bin Laden turns his mind to Israel in one recent statement he called Palestine "my nation's pivotal issue". It was, he declared, "an important factor in giving me since childhood, and giving the 19 free men (who carried out the 9/11 attacks), an overwhelming feeling that we must stand by the oppressed and punish the unjust Jews and their backers."In fact, Palestine has never been an operational priority for the group.  

5/30/2008 - Japan gives 5.7 million US dollars for food aid to Palestine refugees    

5/30/2008 - Jimmy Carter is right to say the unsayable This week at the Hay book festival, despite asserting that Israel?s security was his prime concern, his criticism of Israel?s actions on the West Bank and Gaza was far beyond sentiments ever issued by a leading US politician in office. ?It is politically impossible for anyone holding public office or running for it to be critical of Israel,? he said, while accusing European governments of a ?supine? approach.  

5/30/2008 - American Jewish Committee Won't Touch Hagee on Holocaust; Silence from AIPAC, ADL    

5/30/2008 - Israel Imposes a 10-Year Ban on American Critic of Israeli Policies    

5/30/2008 - Saturday brings first wheelchair basketball season Sofan's background may help to ensure the success of the Saturday wheelchair basketball program. As a native Palestinian, Sofan played for the national wheelchair basketball team as well as the swimming and table tennis teams. He was also the coach of a Palestinian wheelchair basketball club.  

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5/28/2008 - Two Hamas militants killed in southern Gaza    

5/28/2008 - UN team 'devastated' by Gaza stories: Tutu    

5/28/2008 - Amnesty: Siege on Gaza gravest humanitarian crisis yet The report states that over 370 Palestinians were killed by IDF fire, of which half were civilians and 50 were children. Thousands were injured during the attacks, which were launched in retaliation to Qassam rocket fire and the shooting at Israeli settlements and IDF checkpoints near Gaza by Palestinian gunmen.  

5/28/2008 - Israeli demolition threatens 3,000 Palestinian homes: UN Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank risk being displaced as the Israeli authorities threaten to tear down their homes and in some cases entire communities, a UN agency said on Wednesday.  

5/28/2008 - In Beit Hanoun, Tutu visits a family torn apart by shells The shelling killed 18 Palestinian civilians, all members of the Athamna extended family, among them 14 women and children.  

5/28/2008 - Palestinians live in horror of losing their homes Salim Hamed Jaber, 85, shook his head angrily as he recounted how an Israeli soldier drove up to his impoverished household in the occupied West Bank to deliver a demolition order. .....Al-Aqaba, population 300, is one of several West Bank communities that could be wiped off the map if the demolition orders are carried out.  

5/28/2008 - Abbas sees Olmert crisis hurting peace talks    

5/28/2008 - Israel has denied 94 percent of requests for West Bank building permits: U.N.    

5/28/2008 - Patient no. 167 dies in Gaza due to the Israeli blockade    

5/28/2008 - Gaza: One Palestinian woman and her two children injured due to unknown explosion    

5/28/2008 - Human rights abuses seen up in Gaza and W.Bank    

5/28/2008 - Hamas says discusses prisoner issues with Abbas in Ramallah    

5/28/2008 - Hamas says discusses prisoner issues with Abbas in Ramallah    

5/28/2008 - VIDEO: Jerusalem camera catches brutal attack by Jewish teens on Arab youths    

5/28/2008 - The Israeli army attacks a peaceful protest in a village near Ramallah The villagers along with international and Israeli peace activists were protesting the illegal Israeli wall and settlement construction on the village land.  

5/28/2008 - Palestinians say 10 wounded in protest against security fence near Modi'in    

5/28/2008 - Border Police hurt 16 activists near Na'alin separation fence    

5/28/2008 - Tutu asks Hamas to halt rocket fire NOBEL peace laureate Desmond Tutu urged a senior Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip overnight to put an end to rocket attacks by militant groups against Israel.  

5/28/2008 - Israeli forces storm Qalqilya, arrest five Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested five Palestinians in an ongoing raid into West Bank city of Qalqilya, Palestinian security sources said.  

5/28/2008 - AL forms special committee on Israeli crimes against Palestinians    

5/28/2008 - Physicians for Human Rights - Israel update In a hearing regarding 13 petitions submitted by PHR-Israel to the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ), held yesterday afternoon (26.5.08), the judges decided not to intervene in the decision of the GSS (General Security Service, shabac) to deny life-saving care to patients from Gaza, and to leave them in Gaza with no treatment.  

5/28/2008 - Egypt to supply Gaza power plant with gas During the past three weeks, the fuel Israel sent to Gaza was even less than the reduced amounts that supposed to be received, the Gaza Petrol Stations Owners Union said.  

5/28/2008 - Erekat: Israel, Palestinians have gaps over final status issues    

5/28/2008 - Hamas still awaits Israeli response on Egypt's ceasefire proposal    

5/28/2008 - Hamas hails Egyptian gas supply to Gaza The government of the Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza welcomed on Wednesday a proposal for supplying Gaza Strip main power plant with Egyptian gas.  

5/28/2008 - Israel arrests 25 Palestinians in West Bank    

5/28/2008 - Israeli naval forces detain 10 Palestinian fishermen on Rafah shores    

5/28/2008 - Hamas calls for demonstration near southern Gaza crossing    

5/28/2008 - Iran-Syria sign defence pact    

5/28/2008 - Israeli settlers and army started to expand illegal settlement on Bil'in land    

5/28/2008 - Keep up resistance, Iran tells Hamas    

5/28/2008 - Iran Aiding, Arming Hezbollah and Hamas, Says Israel    

5/28/2008 - Study: Jews, Arabs support coexistence    

5/28/2008 - Hagee bows out of '08 race, but vows to fight on for Israel    

5/28/2008 - What to tell the kids when protesters mar Israel celebrations The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a national coalition that includes many anti-Israel organizations, is launching an advertising campaign in New York in advance of the city's June 1 tribute to Israel, which is likely to be the largest celebration of Israel outside the Jewish homeland itself.  

5/28/2008 - Palestinian security forces return from US-paid training    

5/28/2008 - Defending Palestinians This pursuit of justice for Palestinians has made "hate mongers" of many notable persons these past 60 years. Just to mention a few: former President Jimmy Carter, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Bertrand Russell, Mahatma Gandhi.  

5/28/2008 - Palestinian cell service still on hold nearly a year and a half after arriving here, the chief executive officer of Wataniya Palestine Telecom is still waiting for Israel to release cellular frequencies.  

5/28/2008 - Olmert 'took cash in envelopes'    

5/28/2008 - U.S., Israel, Canada and European countries co-operate on anti-terror efforts Israel's minister of public security says nine countries, including Canada, are co-operating to create a counterterrorism network.  

5/28/2008 - Israelis and Palestinians Launch Web Start-Up    

5/28/2008 - LBJ tapes show a strong connection to Israel   I don't have a problem with any president of the US having an emotional connection to Israel - just leave the rest of us OUT OF IT.

5/28/2008 - Vatican, Israel report 'substantial' progress in talks The two sides have been negotiating over the legal status of the Roman Catholic Church in Israel, notably the disposition of Church property and tax exemptions for revenue earned by Christian communities.  

5/28/2008 - After weeks of feuding over Mideast, candidates head to AIPAC parley They have engaged in a bruising battle over Iran policy. McCain favors increased isolation for Iran, Obama favors what he calls tough diplomacy and direct negotiations, and both are casting their arguments in terms of what's better for Israel The obeisance is utterly disgusting.

5/28/2008 - J Street to Lieberman: Cut Hagee ties A dovish pro-Israel lobby wants U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman to cut ties with the Rev. John Hagee  

5/28/2008 - Fox: Carter 'outing' of Israeli nukes helps Iran    

5/28/2008 - Lawmakers slam Jordan's foreign policy towards Syria, Palestinians    

5/28/2008 - Gaza Strip : journalists suspected of Fatah links continue to be arrested    

5/28/2008 - Egyptian-born Israelis cancel Egypt tour amid hostile campaign The group of 45 elderly Jews of Egyptian descent were planning a four-day trip to Egypt that was to begin on May 25 after Egyptian media reported that the delegation would try to reclaim family properties seized by Egypt in the 1950s.  

5/28/2008 - NJ Surgeon to Perform Complex Facial Reconstruction on Palestinian Boy Injured in Bomb Explosion    

5/28/2008 - MK Eldad: Anyone ceding Israeli territory should be sentenced to death   The occupied territories are PALESTINIAN.

5/28/2008 - Letter: Protesters at Celebrate Israel event not calling for ethnic cleansing    

5/28/2008 - Palestinian police get riot control training from EU after fatal clash last year    

5/28/2008 - Former Belgian Minister sparks ire of Jewish community with remarks on Israel A former Belgian Defense Minister sparked the ire of the Jewish community after he reportedly compared Israel?s policy toward the Palestinians to the fate of the Jews during World War II.  

5/28/2008 - And what else did you learn? A policeman of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security force balances a baton on his nose in Jericho, West Bank, after a ceremony celebrating the graduation of 600 cops trained in Jordan.  

5/28/2008 - Protestor who waves Palestine flag on crane in Bilin removed after 5 hours    

5/28/2008 - Lecturer union urges moral review of Israeli college links A lecturers' union was last night accused of launching a new academic boycott of Israel after it agreed a policy to call on its members to "consider" their links with Israeli institutions.  

5/28/2008 - Narratives under siege: Eighteen years of work destroyed in less than four hours Nasser Jaber?s chicken farm was bulldozed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) ten days ago, in the early morning hours of May 16, while he was sleeping at home in Rafah  

5/28/2008 - Eviction orders approved for 2 settler-occupied Hebron stores    

5/28/2008 - Media coverage of Israel 'unfair': consul general "Some articles were very favourable, but other media - this attempt to 'balance' between [presentation] of Israel's independence and the [Palestinian] 'nakbar' [catastrophe] - it was very distressful to me, as if depicting two sides of the same coin. Suddenly the pro-Israeli community has a problem with 'balance', only when they cannot be the dominant voice (like here in America).

5/28/2008 - US congressmen demand UNRWA reform   How is the US Congress serving YOU (as an American) lately, mm? Oops, they can't. They're too busy bowing down to a NATION OTHER THAN THIS ONE.

5/28/2008 - Victoria Clark: Here's a US pastor we should really worry about    

5/28/2008 - Israeli occupation Israel has its own brand of killing, fighting, hating and destroying. It's called occupation.  

5/28/2008 - Two men accused of agreeing to broadcast the Hezbollah television channel al-Manar to U.S. customers will face trial on terrorism charges in January, a U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday.    

5/28/2008 - Hundreds of New Testaments torched in Israel    

5/28/2008 - Barack Obama supporter accuses Jewish lobby members of McCarthyism Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser, said that the pro-Israel lobby in the US was too powerful, while the slur of anti-Semitism was too readily used whenever its power was called into question.  

5/28/2008 - WCC NEWS: Email a peace prayer to Bethlehem    

5/28/2008 - 10 wanted Palestinians arrested overnight    

5/28/2008 - Prophecy of retribution In 1913, after a correspondent had complained of the contemptuous attitude of settlers and the Zionist Organisation's Palestine Office, Ha'am wrote back, "When I realise that our brethren may be morally capable of treating another people in this fashion and of crudely abusing what is sacred to them, then I cannot but reflect: if such is the situation now, how shall we treat others if one day we actually become the rulers of Palestine?"  

5/28/2008 - Tear gas and the tree    

5/28/2008 - Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachael Ray In A Scarf That Looks Too Arab Dunkin Donuts has pulled a commercial featuring pitchwoman Rachael Ray wearing a scarf because Michelle Malkin and other conservative observers thought the scarf looked too much like a keffiyeh  

5/28/2008 - Canada's prime minister seen as key to growing support for Israel Elected with a minority Conservative government in January 2006, Harper has left an unmistakable record of solidly and unapologetically pro-Israel moves and statements, mostly to the delight of the country's 370,000 Jews......The Canada-Israel Committee reports that in the past three years, there have been 13 "constructive vote changes" -- including shifts from a "yes" or "no" to abstentions -- on issues related to Palestine and Israel. Poor Canada.

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5/26/2008 - 11-year-old killed by unexploded IDF ordinance near Ramat Hovav    

5/26/2008 - 4 killed in horrific car accident near Modi'in Four illegal Palestinian workers died and three others were injured when their car hit a bus near Mitzpe Modi'in on Route 443 on Sunday just before noon.  

5/26/2008 - Jimmy Carter says Israel had 150 nuclear weapons Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, former President Jimmy Carter said yesterday, while arguing that the US should talk directly to Iran to persuade it to drop its nuclear ambitions.  

5/26/2008 - Israel 'has 150 nuclear weapons' Former Israeli military intelligence chief Aharon Zeevi-Farkash told Reuters news agency he considered Mr Carter's comments "irresponsible". "The problem is that there are those who can use these statements when it comes to discussing the international effort to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons," he said. Oh dear.

5/26/2008 - Gaza blockade is 'human rights crime': Carter Former US president Jimmy Carter on Sunday described Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip as "one of the greatest human rights crimes now existing on Earth." This was TOTALLY IGNORED by the US media. AGAIN. You tell me - who RUNS THIS PLACE?

5/26/2008 - Israel charges Iran spy suspect    

5/26/2008 - Israel 'would consider strike' amid fears over Iran's weapons programme With US President George Bush nearing the end of his term, the likelihood of US military action appears to be fading. The strong chance of Democrat Barack Obama winning the presidential race means Israel will have to consider going it alone.....Bar also pointed to a paper to be published next month by the Washington Institute for Near East Strategy. Its authors, Patrick Clawson and Michael Eisenstadt, argue that it should not be assumed an attack on Iran would result in a doomsday-type scenario. That aforementioned 'thinktank' is another neocon front.

5/26/2008 - Settlement issue hinders talks Despite Israeli commitments to end settlement expansion, both planning and construction are moving forward every day across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In the six months since negotiations resumed between Israel and the Palestinians, settlements have remained a sore point.  

5/26/2008 - Armed Israeli settlers steal a flock of sheep from Palestinian farmers near Hebron.    

5/26/2008 - Palestinian officials to visit Cairo seeking fuel for Gaza    

5/26/2008 - Carter blasts EU over Palestine "It's a horrible punishment of them and to see Europe go along with this, I think is embarrassing. It shoul;d be embarrassing. There's no reason to treat people this way."  

5/26/2008 - Carter urges 'supine' Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade Carter said the Quartet's policy of not talking to Hamas unless it recognised Israel and fulfilled two other conditions had been drafted by Elliot Abrams, an official in the national security council at the White House. He called Abrams "a very militant supporter of Israel".  

5/26/2008 - Two Gaza rockets land in S Israel    

5/26/2008 - Desmond Tutu to investigate killing of Palestinians in Gaza After 18 months of being denied a visa by Israel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner is expected to cross the border at Rafah via Egypt  

5/26/2008 - Qatari Diar?s Palestinian project hailed Middle East envoy Tony Blair promised support of the donor community to Qatari Diar?s Palestinian planned community project ? the development of the town of Rawabi.  

5/26/2008 - Report: Israel steps up detention campaigns against Palestinians    

5/26/2008 - Mideast conflict takes its toll on children This asymmetry in Palestinian and Israeli child deaths is key in understanding the perpetuation of this conflict.  

5/26/2008 - Abbas: No progress in talks with Israel    

5/26/2008 - ICRC urges Israel to allow jail visits by Gaza families The International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday urged Israel to allow families from the besieged Gaza Strip to visit their relatives detained in Israeli jails.  

5/26/2008 - Intel Supports Education in Palestine As part of its ongoing commitment to Palestine and in line with its active role within the U.S. Palestinian Partnership (UPP), Intel announced today a range of education and digital inclusion initiatives at the Palestine Investment Conference  

5/26/2008 - 'J'lem offers 91% of W. Bank in new map' Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and other PA officials, however, told The Jerusalem Post that the report is unsubstantiated.  

5/26/2008 - Palestinians question man over suspicious envelope delivered to prime minister    

5/26/2008 - Hamas seeks mediation from Qatar, AL for reconciliation with Fatah    

5/26/2008 - Egypt in new bid to find Gaza truce but Israel doubtful    

5/26/2008 - Hamas: Israel's demand for stopping arms smuggling blocks Gaza ceasefire    

5/26/2008 - Olmert: Israel won't open key Gaza crossing now    

5/26/2008 - US scientist gives Israeli prize to Palestinians David Mumford said he would donate his $33,333 portion of the Wolf Prize to a Palestinian university and an Israeli group that tries to ease Israeli travel restrictions on Palestinian students. He said he believes freedom of movement is crucial to intellectual development.  

5/26/2008 - 13 Palestinians wounded in the Gaza Strip on Saturday    

5/26/2008 - Hamas wants Arabs to broker Palestinian accord    

5/26/2008 - Palestinian militants consider Israeli partial pullout of Erez "victory" Palestinian militants on Monday said an Israeli decision to pull non-combat soldiers out of a crossing point with the Hamas-rule Gaza Strip was a victory for resistance movements against the Jewish state.  

5/26/2008 - Israel allows limited quantities of fuels into Gaza    

5/26/2008 - Palestinians, Israel approve Egypt's vision on truce: Report    

5/26/2008 - Jordan's king pledges support to Palestinians in talks with Israel    

5/26/2008 - Kennedy's cancer could signify loss of profound Israel ally    

5/26/2008 - Israeli peace activist wounded during a protest against roadblocks in Hebron    

5/26/2008 - Ahli target Palestine keeper Ahli have offered a trial to Palestine keeper Ramzi Saleh, assistant coach Hossam Al-Badri said on Sunday.  

5/26/2008 - Palestinians Favour Negotiations with Israel    

5/26/2008 - Helping Israel Help Itself    

5/26/2008 - ISRAEL: Seeing a threat in U.S. academic    

5/26/2008 - Art and politics, and a voice of reason    

5/26/2008 - NORPAC draws 1,000 activists to D.C. Nearly 1,000 activists lobbied for Israel in Washington.  

5/26/2008 - Leichhardt Council stops Hebron exhibition In September, a plan put to the council for a sister-city relationship with the Palestinian town of Hebron, on Israel's West Bank, was scuttled after protests from local residents and Jewish groups. The Aussies too must be 'balanced'.

5/26/2008 - IDF soldiers to be moved from base near Gaza amid terror threats In unprecedented decision, army instructed to evacuate soldiers serving near Erez crossing due to volatile security situation in area. MK Orlev: This is a cowardly act. Those who run away from terror - terror will chase after them. Are they also planning to relocate Sderot, Kfar Aza and Ashkelon?  

5/26/2008 - Geneva to host racism conference Israel, Canada and the United States have indicated they will boycott the 2009 event, which is slated for April 20-24, as they suspect that Israel again will be targeted unfairly with harsh rhetoric.  

5/26/2008 - Olmert tells critics: No promises made to Syria so far    

5/26/2008 - Progress seen in prisoner talks Israel and Hezbollah are nearing a breakthrough in prisoner-swap negotiations, sources on both sides said.  

5/26/2008 - Ahmadinejad sure Syria will press struggle against Israel    

5/26/2008 - Israeli PM says Syria peace talks to remain secret    

5/26/2008 - Olmert says Israel serious about peace with Syria    

5/26/2008 - Ex-army chief says Israel can 'manage' without Golan    

5/26/2008 - Israel Targets Iran Through Syrian Friendship    

5/26/2008 - International caucus backs one Jerusalem the groups' first conference, held in Washington under the auspices of U.S. Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Dave Weldon (R-Fla.), co-chairmen of the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus.  

5/26/2008 - Sarkozy: No more Hamas talks France is now shunning Hamas, Nicolas Sarkozy said, after holding informal talks with the radical Palestinian faction.  

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5/24/2008 - Grad rockets land near Netivot Four rockets fired towards western Negev on Saturday, two of them confirmed as longer-range Grads. Residents awaken to first barrage at 6:40 am. No injuries or damage reported  

5/24/2008 - Hamas, Islamic Jihad leaders say truce efforts failed    

5/24/2008 - Israel to get Hamas answer on truce Sunday    

5/24/2008 - Israeli settlement expansion can't be justified, French FM says    

5/24/2008 - Palestinian PM pleads case for unity Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad insisted unified authority in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was "absolutely essential" to progress, in a BBC radio programme broadcast Saturday.  

5/24/2008 - Palestinians: Israeli attack wounds 2 Hamas militants in Gaza    

5/24/2008 - Abbas fears Olmert probe may hold up peace talks    

5/24/2008 - PNA denies Hamas accepts Abbas forces deployment on Rafah crossing    

5/24/2008 - Hamas: Israeli PM too weakened to negotiate peace agreement with Syria    

5/24/2008 - Hamas invites Frensh FM to visit Gaza The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) ruling Gaza Strip called Saturday on French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to visit the territory to learn about the suffering of its people.  

5/24/2008 - Palestinian officials to visit Cairo seeking fuel for Gaza    

5/24/2008 - Hamas: Egyptian ceasefire efforts still go on    

5/24/2008 - Building a Case for Attack on Iran's Nuclear Sites it appears that the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is preparing the case for why an attack ? either by the U.S. or Israel ? on Tehran?s nuclear facilities might not be as calamitous as most analysts, including top Pentagon brass, believe. WINEP, of course, was founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and has acted as an integral part of the so-called Israel Lobby since its launch.  

5/24/2008 - An Act of War according to Haaretz, Prime Minister Olmert "suggested" that, among other more drastic steps, the US impose a "naval blockade," using U.S. warships, "to limit the movement of Iranian merchant vessels."  

5/24/2008 - Syria rejects linking Israel peace with cutting off Iran    

5/24/2008 - Iran: Israel should withdraw from Golan Heights unconditionally    

5/24/2008 - Syrian defence minister to hold Tehran talks It is the first visit to Tehran by a Syrian official since Syria and Israel announced on Wednesday that they had resumed peace negotiations indirectly through Turkish mediators.  

5/24/2008 - Jeff Halper Launches His New Book in the UK If you are in the UK, you are invited to hear Prof. Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), at venues around the country for the launch of his new book, ?An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel?.  

5/24/2008 - Silent protest in Shufa village, Tulkarem, against Israeli road-blocks    

5/24/2008 - Sharing pain, land    

5/24/2008 - Jews defend Hagee's words   Nutjobs of a feather flock together. Charming.

5/24/2008 - Hezbollah welcomes Lebanon deal    

5/24/2008 - Palestinian Youth Express Themselves Through Hip-Hop    

5/24/2008 - Light turnout marks Palestinian solidarity rally in Loop    

5/24/2008 - Volunteers make huge Palestinian flag to enter Guinness record    

5/24/2008 - Sign of change? Israeli, Palestinian officers meet despite the contacts, Palestinians contend that Israeli actions on the ground ? including military incursions and targeted assassinations ? are severely undermining their efforts to establish authority in the West Bank.  

5/24/2008 - From the West Bank to the West Coast - and graduating with honours    

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5/23/2008 - Deaths of five militants hamper Gaza peace efforts Five Palestinian militants were killed in clashes yesterday with Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip, further undermining efforts to bring a brief truce to the violence-wracked area.  

5/23/2008 - Gaza demo turns deadly after failed border bombing A Palestinian man was killed on Thursday when Israeli troops opened fire on stone-throwing demonstrators protesting at the Jewish state's crippling blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, a medic said.  

5/23/2008 - $1.4bn pledged for Palestinians    

5/23/2008 - Saudi Company to invest $250 million in a project in Palestine    

5/23/2008 - Army: Truck bomb was aimed at kidnap A truck explosion on the Gaza-Israel border was part of an effort to abduct Israeli soldiers, the Israeli army said.  

5/23/2008 - UN says Israel erected more West Bank roadblocks    

5/23/2008 - Reuters Tackles Israel Over Death In Gaza Reuters bureau chief Alastair Macdonald told Sky News that Shana was operating in line with the agency's safety guidelines by making it clear he was a member of the press - and it is time Israel explains why he died.  

5/23/2008 - Abbas wants Europe to play vital role in Mideast peace process Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday urged Europe to play an important political role in the Middle East peace process.  

5/23/2008 - Abbas says "east Jerusalem is ours" Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in Bethlehem on Wednesday that east Jerusalem is an occupied Palestinian territory and "it belongs to us, and we will get it back one day."  

5/23/2008 - Israeli Arab driver critically hurt by guard at W. Bank settlement    

5/23/2008 - Hamas delegation to brief Palestinians on Gaza ceasefire talks    

5/23/2008 - Israeli border guards kill infiltrator from Egypt    

5/23/2008 - Iran mosque blast plotters admit Israeli, US links: report    

5/23/2008 - How Israeli fighter pilots threatened to blast Tony Blair?s jet out of sky Tony Blair came within moments of being killed when two Israeli fighter aircraft threatened to shoot down a private jet taking him to a Middle East conference in the belief that it might have been staging a terrorist attack.  

5/23/2008 - Hamas says Israeli reply to proposed truce 'not enough'    

5/23/2008 - Red Crescent to provide $520,000 for Palestinians Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) signed an agreement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees yesterday to provide $520,000 for medical and dental equipment.  

5/23/2008 - No truce unless Israel lifts Gaza blockade: Hamas    

5/23/2008 - Soldier moderately wounded by anti-tank missile in Gaza    

5/23/2008 - Critically ill patients from Gaza appeal to Israeli court    

5/23/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps three civilians from the Hebron area    

5/23/2008 - Pelosi denies Olmert proposed U.S. blockade of Iran "During the luncheon meeting with Prime Minister Olmert, there was never any mention of a U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports," Elshami said in a statement. He declined to comment further.  

5/23/2008 - The Israeli army invades villages near Jenin and kidnaps three civilians    

5/23/2008 - Palestinians say IDF arrested Hamas head in Jenin    

5/23/2008 - Three injured during the weekly protest of Bil'in Villagers from Bil'in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest, on Friday midday, against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village's land.  

5/23/2008 - A student and a teacher injured during a settlers attack on Hebron school    

5/23/2008 - 12 Palestinians detained for throwing stones near Bethlehem    

5/23/2008 - Palestinian woman petitions to evict settlers from Shvut Ami outpost    

5/23/2008 - New mobile phone operator to launch in Palestinian territories by end-2008    

5/23/2008 - Petraeus calls Syria nuclear program troubling    

5/23/2008 - Israel hopes hard power will do the talking Israel is gambling that its military superiority can persuade an isolated Bashar al-Assad to distance himself from Iran and its allies  

5/23/2008 - McCain forced to ditch pastor who claimed God sent Hitler    

5/23/2008 - Bombing Iran: The Clamor Persists Listening to the questions asked of Gen. David Petraeus in the Senate Thursday, you might think the U.S. was headed for a new war in the Gulf. Senators from both sides of the aisle spent as much time asking him about Iran as they did about Iraq and Afghanistan. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut grilled Petraeus on Iran's anti-U.S. activities in the region. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii plaintively asked about the utility of negotiations with Iran.....Following Bush's visit this month, the Jerusalem Post reported that a senior U.S. advisor on the trip had told Israeli officials that Bush was prepared to attack Iran, but that Gates and Rice were blocking the way  

5/23/2008 - FBI affirms support for AMIA probe The FBI is working to catch the five Iranians involved in the 1994 attack on Argentina's main Jewish center, its deputy director said.  

5/23/2008 - Letter: Former president is far from anti-Semitic Contrary to the letter-writer?s belief, not ?everybody? believes Carter is an anti-Semite. The writer follows the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?s line by attacking anyone who does not obey the Eleventh Commandment: ?Thou shalt not oppose or criticize anything done by Israel.?  

5/23/2008 - Bush bid to isolate Mideast hardliners backfires: analysts The Bush administration's campaign to isolate Iran and Syria has backfired as the two Middle East hardliners ended up this week sidelining the United States, analysts said.  

5/23/2008 - Israel sets demands in new Syrian peace track Israel set terms for concluding a peace deal with Syria on Thursday, closing ranks with Washington in demanding Damascus distance itself from Iran and stop supporting Palestinian and Lebanese militants.  

5/23/2008 - Christian legislators gather on Capitol Hill to garner Israel support A delegation of Christian parliamentarians from around the world whose countries have formed pro-Israel parliamentary lobbies gathered Thursday on Capitol Hill in an effort to buttress support for the State of Israel across the globe.  

5/23/2008 - Netanyahu denies saying he wouldn't abide by Syria deal    

5/23/2008 - Land plot in Bethlehem turned over to IOPS Palestinian National Authority (PNA) leader Mahmoud Abbas has turned over to the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IOPS) documents on ownership of a land plot in Bethlehem, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.  

5/23/2008 - Israel sets demands in new Syrian peace track Israel has set terms for concluding a peace deal with Syria, closing ranks with Washington in demanding Damascus distance itself from Iran and stop supporting Palestinian and Lebanese militants.  

5/23/2008 - OPT: OCHA Closure Update May 2008    

5/23/2008 - Santa Clara County marks Palestinian Culture Day on 60th Anniversary of al-Nakbah    

5/23/2008 - Conditions worsening for workers in occupied Arab territories, UN report finds    

5/23/2008 - Orthodox Jews Morn Israel @ 60 Anti Zionist Orthodox Jews, organized by Neturei Karta International, will demonstrate against the "Walk With Israel" celebration in Toronto.  

5/23/2008 - Settlers briefly invade abandoned army base in Beit Sahour    

5/23/2008 - Madonna plans documentary on Israeli-Arab conflict    

5/23/2008 - Fashion wars / U.S. store pulls 'pro-violence' Palestinian T-shirt In 2007, it again came into conflict with Jewish and pro-Israel consumers for selling versions of a traditional Arab headdress, the kaffiyeh, as an "anti-war scarf."  

5/23/2008 - Palestine Dedicated Fund records a return of 21 per cent in the first four months of 2008    

5/23/2008 - Mideast negotiations now bypassing Washington    

5/23/2008 - French TV loses Gaza footage case A French court has ruled in favour of a media watchdog website accused of libel for claiming that footage of a shooting incident in Gaza in 2000 was fake.  

5/23/2008 - Israel asks U.S. for 25 F-35 warplanes, at $80 million a unit legislation in the U.S. Congress forbids the sale of the F-22 on the grounds that it would diminish the U.S. Air Force's advantage. Sources in Israel have expressed hope that U.S. President George W. Bush's recent visit to Israel would ensure the approval necessary to acquire the plane  

5/23/2008 - In campaign season, Pelosi takes Israel fight to GOP Pelosi said the two preeminent topics raised by Israeli leaders during her trip to mark the Jewish state's 60th anniversary were the twin threats of Iran and Hamas.  

5/23/2008 - US political author Norman Finkelstein denied entry to Israel    

5/23/2008 - Japan to give $54 million for food Japan allocated $54 million in emergency grants on Friday to the United Nations to help Afghanistan, Africa and Palestinian refugees cope with the ongoing food crisis  

5/23/2008 - U.S. must recognize the growing injustices    

5/23/2008 - Israel hit by Bible burning row    

5/23/2008 - No time to celebrate as Palestinians still suffer    

5/23/2008 - My Name is Rachel Corrie    

5/23/2008 - Obama promises 'unshakable commitment' to Israel if elected Critics have raised doubts about Obama's commitment to the Jewish state, floating rumors that he was a Muslim and linking him to Louis Farrakhan, a prominent black Muslim leader known for his anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric.  

5/23/2008 - Thanks to Jimmy Carter for his peace efforts: 2 letters    

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5/21/2008 - Four dead in Israeli air strikes Medics say an aircraft-fired missile hit a group of children near Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, decapitating a boy, 13, and wounding two others.  

5/21/2008 - Palestinians: Farmer killed in IDF strike in Gaza    

5/21/2008 - Israeli attack on rocket launchers kills teenager Palestinian doctors said the missile attack on the Hamas-controlled territory killed a 13-year-old boy and seriously wounded another youth.  

5/21/2008 - The Fourth Estate Fails Again by Philip Giraldi Those who have been following the issue know well that planning to attack Iran is nothing new, that there are many in the Bush administration and outside it who are eager to bomb the mullahs into the stone age. What is different now is that there is a consensus inside the White House that a military attack is not an option but rather a necessity to "send a message" and restrain Iranian ambitions......That a dim bulb like Bush might draw all the wrong lessons from a historical analogy, confusing appeasement with diplomacy, comes as no surprise. But, perhaps inadvertently, he has clearly and unambiguously restated the centrality of Israel to the security problem posed by Iran Philip Giraldi is a former CIA COUNTERTERRORISM official.

5/21/2008 - Five Gaza children wounded in Israel air raid None of the five -- two babies less than a year old, and children aged five, 12 and 14 -- was seriously hurt, the Palestinian emergency services said.  

5/21/2008 - UN voices concern over worsening health conditions of Palestinian refugees Calling for a boost in funding to continue its operations, a United Nations agency expressed its concern over the deteriorating heath conditions of Palestinian refugees, especially in the West Bank and Gaza, in a new report launched today.  

5/21/2008 - Five Palestinians wounded, including 5-month-old baby in Israeli airstrike    

5/21/2008 - Pro-Israel caucuses to discuss Elon plan Pro-Israel lawmakers from 13 countries will meet in Washington to affirm support for Israel.....The conference, to take place in one of the congressional office buildings attached to the Capitol, will devote a session to the consideration of ways to end the refugee status of millions of Palestinian.  

5/21/2008 - Bush: Deal on Palestinian state before 2009    

5/21/2008 - Troops kidnap six youth, including a handicapped resident, in Hebron    

5/21/2008 - U.S. aid to Palestinians to total 280 mln pounds The U.S. government will provide $550 million (280 million pounds) in direct financial support to the Palestinian Territories in 2008 and aims to leverage more in private investment funds to help spur the Palestinian economy, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday.  

5/21/2008 - Hebron: Israeli settlers and troops attack shepherds; kidnap one    

5/21/2008 - Hamas denies holding direct talks with Israel    

5/21/2008 - IDF approves establishment of 20 Palestinian police stations in West Bank    

5/21/2008 - Minority Palestinians believe Israel to stick to ceasefire    

5/21/2008 - Abbas tells investors: spend in Palestine to help lay foundation for Middle East peace    

5/21/2008 - WHO calls on Israel to lift Palestinian blockade    

5/21/2008 - Egypt says Gaza truce close but Israel silent    

5/21/2008 - Scrapped checkpoints give hope Mansi says he has been able to double deliveries of the rocks his firm hauls around the West Bank thanks to the scrapping of the "Sheep's Junction" checkpoint outside his home south of Hebron.  

5/21/2008 - U.S. officials to promote Palestinian investments    

5/21/2008 - Islamic Jihad promises to commit to ceasefire if Israel does    

5/21/2008 - Egypt opens Rafah border for 22 Gazans to return home    

5/21/2008 - Soldiers abuse a Palestinian youth for three hours    

5/21/2008 - Ceasefire talks bring nothing due to Israeli obstacles    

5/21/2008 - Former security personnel in Gaza call for a strike on June14 Several police and security officers, who used to be linked to the routed Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called on Wednesday for a general strike in June14, 2008 on the first anniversary of Hamas's takeover of the coastal region.  

5/21/2008 - Islamic Jihad says Israel-connected spy network discovered in Gaza Strip    

5/21/2008 - Palestinians deny Israeli reports over deals on border and security    

5/21/2008 - Palestinians get investment but roadblocks a concern International business executives pledged to invest in the Palestinian economy at a conference in Bethlehem on Wednesday but said Israeli restrictions must be eased for the economy to flourish.  

5/21/2008 - Israel to add 286 homes to WBank settlement Israel on Wednesday unveiled plans to build new houses in the Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, defying international calls to freeze such activity.  

5/21/2008 - White House denies Iran attack report Army Radio had quoted a top official in Jerusalem claiming that a senior member in the entourage of President Bush, who visited Israel last week, had said in a closed meeting here that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were of the opinion that military action against Iran was called for.  

5/21/2008 - New outpost in South Mount Hebron    

5/21/2008 - Olmert proposes naval blockade on Iran: report The Haaretz daily quoted Olmert as telling Nancy Pelosi that "the present economic sanctions have exhausted themselves" and the international community needed to take more drastic steps to stop Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons....The prime minister's suggestions, Haaretz said, included a naval blockade of Iran using U.S. warships to limit the movement of Iranian merchant vessels. That's a blockade 'USING US WARSHIPS', folks. Whose war is this?

5/21/2008 - Israeli Authorities demolish apartments in Jerusalem, intend to demolish 22 more    

5/21/2008 - Palestinians bidding for business The three-day conference has attracted over 1,000 business people, bankers and government officials from across the Middle East and beyond.  

5/21/2008 - Bush plays the Hitler card by Patrick J. Buchanan What has Bush's refusal to talk to Hamas, Hezbollah, Damascus and Tehran done to make either Israel or America more secure?  

5/21/2008 - Report: U.S. Will Attack Iran A leading member of America?s Jewish community told Newsmax in April that a military strike on Iran was likely and that Vice President Cheney?s March trip through the Middle East came in preparation for the U.S. attack.  

5/21/2008 - Israel wants more pressure on Iran    

5/21/2008 - Krauthammer errs on Mideast    

5/21/2008 - EU extends mandate of its halted Gaza border crossing mission    

5/21/2008 - Former education minister wants to eliminate Arabic as official language An Israeli lawmaker wants to eliminate Arabic as 1 of Israel's two official languages.  

5/21/2008 - Electric car hits the road in fuel-starved Gaza A Palestinian-designed electric car drew admiring stares on Tuesday from Gazans forced to use cooking oil to power their cars because of a fuel shortage.  

5/21/2008 - Israeli Threat Sustains Palestinian Identity    

5/21/2008 - Israel?s Friends and the Path to Peace by Stephen M. Walt Our book contains detailed case studies showing that unconditional support for Israel is not in America?s national interest. Readers can judge for themselves whether we are ?persuasive.?  

5/21/2008 - Obama and Israel It?s worth noting that peace would not only be what?s best for Israel, but would also, not incidentally, free the Palestinians from a deadly system of occupation and repression.  

5/21/2008 - Palestinians Prefer Fatah Over Hamas    

5/21/2008 - Israel at 60: A Palestinian perspective    

5/21/2008 - Egypt PM wants Israel to pay more for its gas    

5/21/2008 - Bibi: 'No one hurts US more than Israel'   I made a correction to the title.

5/21/2008 - A loss of balance on Israel That Canadian attempt at even-handedness has utterly disappeared under Stephen Harper, who lavishly celebrated Israel's 60th anniversary with promises of Canada's "unshakeable" support, while utterly ignoring the fact that this is also an anniversary ? although a very different one ? for the Palestinians.  

5/21/2008 - Touring the West Bank with Israeli veterans The veterans tell about the "process of moral corruption" which soldiers undergo; in other words "losing the sense of right and wrong". The former soldiers say the tour breaks one of the biggest taboos in Israeli society.  

5/21/2008 - What makes a pro-Israel president? The notion that a President Barack Obama would have a desire or ability to walk away from this consensus American position is ludicrous. But given the simmering controversy over whether Obama is "good for Israel," it's worth exploring this question: What really makes a pro-Israel president?  

5/21/2008 - 60 years of denial    

5/21/2008 - Colonialism, racism and capitalism Krauthammer is part of a massive disinformation campaign that supports current U.S. policy in the Middle East.  

5/21/2008 - Israel founded on backs of Palestinian people    

5/21/2008 - Diabetes, hypertension up among Palestine refugees: UN    

5/21/2008 - Saudi-led group to build Palestinian mall complex    

5/21/2008 - Seattle Activists Aim To Put Israel Divestment on City?s Agenda    

5/21/2008 - The Palestine literature festival was an enlightening experience - but not always for the right reasons We were in Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem for the Palestine festival of literature which I, Brigid Keenan, Eleanor O'Keeffe, Victoria Brittain and other friends had put together. It ran from May 7 to 11 and in every city our venues were filled to the rafters and our authors rode high on the enthusiasm of the audience.  

5/21/2008 - McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will (AUDIO) John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a "hunter," sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.  

5/21/2008 - Sheikh Raed Salah indicted for incitement According to the indictment, filed with the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, Salah, along with several others, incited crowds during an illegal protest rally held in Jerusalem on March of 2007, against the archeological digs held near Temple Mount.  

5/21/2008 - Human Rights Groups in Gaza slam the government for barring a protest commemorating the Nakba    

5/21/2008 - Bush's remarks were way off key in the Middle East - editorial The Hamas that America now spurns was the victor in a democratic process that America supported. This unmentioned fact constitutes a fundamental disconnect in U.S. policies that continues to erode progress toward a Middle East peace.  

5/21/2008 - US welcomes Syrian-Israeli talks but stresses Palestinian track    

5/21/2008 - Officials: Bush pledged funding for Arrow 3 US President George W. Bush pledged his commitment to Israeli leaders during his visit to Jerusalem last week to obtain the necessary funding for the development and production of Israel's Arrow 3 ballistic missile defense system, The Jerusalem Post has learned.....In an interview with the Post on Sunday, Pelosi said that Congress was committed to helping Israel retain its qualitative military edge over other countries in the Middle East. She noted that the House of Representatives passed legislation doing just that last week. Under the House version, which still needs the approval of the US Senate before being sent to Bush to become law, future arms sales would need to make sure that Israel's military advantage was maintained Read that again.

5/21/2008 - Osama: Palestinian Cause Was 'Main Factor' The answer to Why the press can't say why they hate us goes to ideology. If the Palestinian grievance is acknowledged or valorized, rather than dismissed out of hand, well that opens the door on the Nakba, on the dispossession, on the many landgrabs of the Jewish state and inevitably casts doubt on the inherent goodness of Zionism and the justice of the occupation, theirs and ours.  

5/21/2008 - Global Peace Index: Israel hits rock bottom Iceland is the world's most peaceful nation while Israel ranked 136th out of 140 nations, according to the "Global Peace Index," compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit.....The United States slipped from 96th last year, but was still ahead of foe Iran which ranked 105th. Iran is ahead of Israel on that list, the irony.

5/21/2008 - Israel and Syria admit the start of formal peace talks in Istanbul    

5/21/2008 - Olmert warns of Syria concessions Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has described peace talks with Syria as "exciting", but warned that they might involve "painful concessions".  

5/21/2008 - Israel-Syria peace deal could threaten Iran, Hezbollah    

5/21/2008 - Bush trip fails to advance policy goals or bolster Arab moderates Israeli officials are still hopeful that the United States will play a leading role in preventing Iran from producing nuclear weapons. They say they showed Bush new intelligence on Iran?s nuclear program and came away with the impression that the U.S. leader means business on Iran.  

5/21/2008 - Bush Team Criticizes New Report About Iran The statement, following an even angrier attack on NBC the day before, appeared to reflect a heightened sensitivity to what Mr. Bush?s aides view as mischaracterizations of his intentions in confronting Iran over its pursuit of nuclear enrichment, its involvement in Iraq and its support of the militant Islamic groups Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian areas.  

5/21/2008 - Obama: Israel's settlement policy hinders peace process    

5/21/2008 - Analysis: The Palestinians' trump card The chances of Bush pressuring Israel? About nil. Particularly if one looks at Bush's speech in the Knesset Thursday, in which he showered Israel with praise, a speech that "angered us," said Abbas.  

5/21/2008 - New boycott of Israeli academics would be 'unlawful' Lawyers say the motion would "expose Jewish members of the union to indirect discrimination" and could make the UCU liable for an "act of harassment on grounds of race or nationality".  

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5/19/2008 - Military: Israeli soldiers shoot, kill Palestinian teenager at West Bank roadblock    

5/19/2008 - US says French contacts with Hamas 'unwise'    

5/19/2008 - France says it's had informal contacts with Hamas    

5/19/2008 - Egyptian FM: US is fueling Middle East turmoil    

5/19/2008 - Two sick patients, one infant and one adult, die due to ongoing siege on Gaza    

5/19/2008 - Vice PM: Israel in direct negotiation with Hamas Israeli Vice Premier Haim Ramon said Monday that the Jewish state is holding talks directly with the Palestinian movement Hamas, despite a government decision forbidding such moves.  

5/19/2008 - Roadblocks open to Palestinian movement; settlers protest    

5/19/2008 - Thousands of Gazans believed to have gone abroad for terror training Up to a couple thousand Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are believed to have traveled overseas for military training in recent years, senior defense officials warned on Monday as the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed that it recently captured a former Fatah operative who had undergone advanced weapons training in Iran. Major BS alert.

5/19/2008 - Palestinians cool to embrace from al-Qaida leader In his latest message, Osama bin Laden portrays himself as the only true defender of the Palestinians. But the Palestinians, even the Islamic militants of Hamas, didn't seem too enthusiastic Monday over the bear hug from the fugitive al-Qaida leader.  

5/19/2008 - Israel holds war games just south of border    

5/19/2008 - Hamas bans pornographic websites in Gaza Strip    

5/19/2008 - Hamas ministry to censor Internet sites in Gaza    

5/19/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps eight Palestinian children from Jerusalem    

5/19/2008 - Palestinian patient dies in Gaza; death toll due to continued Israeli siege stands at 158    

5/19/2008 - Hebron: Israeli settlers and troops attack shepherds; kidnap one A group of Israeli settlers, supported by Israeli troops, on Monday attacked Palestinian shepherds, kidnapping one, near the village of Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.  

5/19/2008 - Palestinian forces arrest two Islamic Jihad militants    

5/19/2008 - Israel to resume fuel supplies into Gaza Israel pledged to resume reduced fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Monday, director of the Palestinian Petroleum Agency Mujahed Salama said.  

5/19/2008 - Israel arrests 25 Palestinians in West Bank    

5/19/2008 - Too little, too late The first graduates of General Keith Dayton's Palestinian police-training program will soon hit the hard streets of the West Bank. Unfortunately, they will do so without the firearms, radios and first-aid equipment that they have been promised after graduating from a training program so fraught with problems that it can hardly be called a training program at all......Steven Smith, a veteran of international policing missions in Bosnia and Serbia, is the lead instructor for the Administration of Justice program at Gavilan College, California. Interesting.

5/19/2008 - Israel not to swap Palestinian prisoners for soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah Israel has refused to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for two soldiers kidnapped by the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, local daily Ha'aretz on Sunday quoted an official as saying.  

5/19/2008 - Deputy IDF chief, top US military official discuss Iran IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Major-General Dan Harel met this past weekend with the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, to discuss the Iranian threat, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.  

5/19/2008 - US House speaker: Nothing should be ruled out in order to stop Iran    

5/19/2008 - Pelosi: More must be done to stop Iran The Democratic Pelosi, the No. 3-ranking politician in the US after the president and the vice president, is leading a blue-ribbon panel of 13 congressmen to Israel for the state's 60th anniversary.  

5/19/2008 - 13 Jerusalem Arabs held for selling weapons to Palestinians    

5/19/2008 - Israeli film evokes massacre    

5/19/2008 - Most Gaza arms seen sent via sea Israeli worries about gunrunner tunnels from the Egyptian Sinai to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip are overblown as the greater smuggling threat is from the Mediterranean sea, a senior Israeli lawmaker said on Monday.  

5/19/2008 - 'India continues to stand by Palestinians'    

5/19/2008 - The Anniversary Is Over, the Agony Is Not "It was about 2am. We all had to run after we heard that the Haganah (a Jewish force at the time) had invaded our village." Like others, he fled with his wife to Gaza, the only exit route left. He barely survived, he said, and showed scars on his hand he said came from an attack by a British helicopter backing the Jewish forces.  

5/19/2008 - Israeli and Palestinian Kids to Challenge World Leaders with Vision for 2018 Joint Discussion with Foremost Dignitaries at the World Economic Forum This afternoon, in an interactive 'WorkSpace' Session with some of the world's foremost dignitaries and business leaders - including Tony Blair, Amre Moussa, Saeb Erekat, MK Yossi Beilin, and Rabbi David Rosen - four young students - two Israeli, two Palestinian - will lead a discussion on their visions for the future of the region, and on the taboo issues that often impede the negotiations process from moving forward.  

5/19/2008 - Reporters share Gellhorn prize The prize is to be shared by the American Dahr Jamail for his work as an unembedded journalist in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria; and the Palestinian Mohammed Omer for dispatches from his native Gaza. Both journalists work without the backing of news organisations.  

5/19/2008 - In New York, Maronite patriarch discusses plight of Lebanese He also asked the international community to help the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.  

5/19/2008 - UAE delegation heads to Palestine Investment Conference    

5/19/2008 - Arab diplomats in Russia decry Israel "What took place 60 years ago was an act of genocide," said Faed Mustafa, the charge d'affaires for the Palestinian mission in Moscow. "A whole people was ejected from its own territory for the purpose of that territory being occupied by another people."  

5/19/2008 - Arab rights organizations to sue police for Nakba riots    

5/19/2008 - Syrians and Palestinians create largest flag in the world    

5/19/2008 - Joint Israeli, Palestinian effort to ease entry of investors to West Bank conference    

5/19/2008 - Temporary tattoos for summer A Palestinian girl holds up her hand decorated with with henna during a traditional wedding in Abu Dis.  

5/19/2008 - Divestment proposals die, ELCA communion OK'd Voted down petitions seeking selective divestment of church funds from companies that profit from products or services that "cause harm" to Israelis and Palestinians or support "Israeli occupation of Palestinian land."  

5/19/2008 - Media Heavies Question ?Pro-Israel? Moniker    

5/19/2008 - Citizens protest destruction of Muslim cemetery Jaffa's Arab residents hang posters protesting destruction of Muslim cemetery after sale of land to private hands. Councilman Turk: Residents must defend holy sites  

5/19/2008 - A disaster for Palestinians    

5/19/2008 - An American president in Israel    

5/19/2008 - Congressional Leader Pelosi Says She Agrees With Bush Over Backing Israel "I don't know what would be gained by a military strike other than to strengthen the president of Iran and increase the price of oil, but I think we shouldn't take anything off the table," she said.  

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5/18/2008 - Bin Laden calls on Muslims to end Israeli Gaza blockade: website It called on Muslims, especially those in Egypt, to work to break the "unjust blockade" on Gaza, which has resulted in "dozens of deaths."  

5/18/2008 - Israel, Palestine discuss peace in private: Rice    

5/18/2008 - Palestinian factions say ready to face Israeli offensive into Gaza    

5/18/2008 - Lutherans condemn anti-Semitism and back Palestinian rights    

5/18/2008 - Deposed Hamas PM urges Egypt to open Gaza border unilaterally    

5/18/2008 - Abbas said to be weighing resignation Mahmoud Abbas told an Israeli lawmaker that he could resign if there is no progress in talks on founding a Palestinian state.  

5/18/2008 - Olmert: Bush reassured Israel Olmert added that he and the U.S. president also had in-camera discussions "on the most sensitive and important issues regarding bilateral relations, including the issues that top the agenda, namely the Iranian and Syrian issues, the situation in Lebanon, the negotiations with the Palestinians and the situation in the Gaza Strip."  

5/18/2008 - Bush castigated by leading Palestinian    

5/18/2008 - Palestinian top diplomat extends condolences over China's deadly earthquake    

5/18/2008 - Bomb outside Christian school in Gaza A bomb exploded outside a Christian school in the Gaza Strip on Friday, causing damage but no injuries, witnesses said.  

5/18/2008 - Hamas insists on prisoner swap for Shalit    

5/18/2008 - Investors' conference to stimulate Palestinian economy, but closure regime imposes limits    

5/18/2008 - Palestinians still have right to return    

5/18/2008 - Readers weren't supposed to see notes wonders "How on earth did The Post (and other big city papers) miss the enclosed story about Israel's U.N. ambassador calling Jimmy Carter a 'bigot,' and the U.S. protest that followed?  

5/18/2008 - Palestinians in Qatar mark 60 years of ?Nakba?    

5/18/2008 - Israeli aircraft over Gaza under constant threat of Hamas fire: ex-Israeli air force chief    

5/18/2008 - Obama courts Jewish vote as doubts persist Stepping up to a microphone, flanked by Israeli and American flags, Obama sounded notes carefully tailored to the crowd of 1,200. With a practiced deftness, he praised Zionist leaders Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion, cited the Holocaust and recalled an Israeli helicopter ride that reaffirmed for him "the dangers faced by this particularly narrow strip of land."  

5/18/2008 - Hilda Silverman tirelessly pursued peace in Mideast She denounced some of Israel's actions toward Palestinians, then stood firm as many Jews labeled such criticism a betrayal.  

5/18/2008 - Paris march marks Nakba At least 400 protesters, according to Paris police, marched Saturday to commemorate the day Israel declared its independence in 1948. The protesters chanted slogans such as "Zionists, fascists, you are the terrorists" and called for the right of Palestinians to return to their pre-1948 homes.  

5/18/2008 - Carter Is A Model Of What Ex-Presidents Should Do If one really wants to seek objective understanding of the situation in the Middle East they can find it in The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Watt.  

5/18/2008 - Cameras record Gaza's gruesome reality    

5/18/2008 - Passion beyond the political IF the real Rachel Corrie was anything like the astonishing young woman portrayed in this production, then she ought to be a role model for young people everywhere, indeed, for us all.  

5/18/2008 - On one street in Beirut, all are welcome Hamra was mostly farmland west of the old downtown before World War II. It began to swell as a commercial and intellectual hot spot during the 1950s, when it was first paved. A flood of Palestinian intellectuals and merchants fleeing the newly established state of Israel settled here.  

5/18/2008 - Palestinians demand regular army for new state    

5/18/2008 - Fraser, Leibler spar over Hamas An Australian Jewish leader and a former prime minister are squabbling over negotiating with Hamas.  

5/18/2008 - Israel must be held to same nuclear scrutiny as Iran    

5/18/2008 - Report: US willing to mediate between Israel, Syria London-based al-Hayat newspaper quotes Israeli official as saying President Bush has asked Turkey to boost its mediation efforts, in bid to distance Syrians from Hizbullah  

5/18/2008 - Israel?s ?American Problem? the best way to bring about the birth of a Palestinian state is to reverse ? not merely halt, but reverse ? the West Bank settlement project. The dismantling of settlements is the one step that would buttress the dwindling band of Palestinian moderates in their struggle against the fundamentalists of Hamas.  

5/18/2008 - Seattle divestment initiative challenged An Israel advocacy group is going to court to stop a Seattle ballot initiative on divestment.  

5/18/2008 - First blood The creation of a viable Jewish state required not only expansion but also expulsion - seizing territory to acquire strategic depth and facilitate national development while removing as many Palestinians as possible to make room for Jewish immigrants and prevent the emergence of a potential fifth column.  

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5/17/2008 - Hamas blames int'l parties for involving in Palestinians' internal problems    

5/17/2008 - Bush: Mideast must push back against Iran, Syria Israel itself got no such public criticism when Bush spent two days there earlier this week  

5/17/2008 - Opening of Gaza's borders not imminent - analysts Meanwhile, Gaza's only border crossing to Egypt, the Rafah terminal at the southern end of the Strip, was also closed.  

5/17/2008 - Hamas: Fatah forces kidnap three movement activists in the West Bank    

5/17/2008 - Bush tries to convince Arab sceptics on peace push "We must stand with the Palestinian people, who have suffered for decades and earned the right to a homeland of their own," Bush will say, according to an advance text of his speech......Bush's more sympathetic language on the Palestinians' plight appeared aimed at countering Arab doubts, reinforced by his Israel visit, about his ability to act as an even-handed peace broker.  

5/17/2008 - Bush says Palestinians' plight "breaks my heart"   But he refuses to do a damn thing about it - namely, pressure Israel to stop the settlement-building, as one example.

5/17/2008 - Israelis launch two Gaza raids: Palestinians They also said that a poultry farm was completely destroyed, and estimated losses at a million dollars.  

5/17/2008 - Two youth kidnapped near Bethlehem    

5/17/2008 - Israeli army arrests 10 in Gaza raid    

5/17/2008 - Hamas calls on Arab League to help settle inter-Palestinian disputes    

5/17/2008 - Suleiman: Major IDF op expected if Shalit isn't released Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman has warned deputy Hamas politburo chief Moussa Abu Marzouk that if kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit is not released Israel will launch a major offensive in Gaza, the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported Saturday, quoting Palestinian sources.  

5/17/2008 - Israeli, Palestinian films play in Cannes    

5/17/2008 - Thousands of black balloons released as people commemorate the ongoing Nakba    

5/17/2008 - Al Khader village protests the Israeli wall    

5/17/2008 - Factions in Gaza ready to face Israeli offensive (1st Lead)    

5/17/2008 - Palestinian finally released after year in detention A DISABLED Palestinian, held in detention as a terror suspect for a year, despite assurances from Israel and the US that he was not a threat, has finally been released.  

5/17/2008 - Gaza: The Occupation Isn't a Myth The feeble attempt by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey to argue that Israel isn't occupying Gaza ["The Myth of Occupied Gaza," op-ed, May 10] didn't pass the laugh test.  

5/17/2008 - John Mearsheimer Eviscerates the 'Times' Review of '1948' Margolick says that "transfer -- or expulsion or ethnic cleansing -- was never an explicit part of the Zionist program." It just started happening in the course of the war, and the "Jewish leaders, struck by their good fortune," pushed it along. This is not true; there is an abundance of evidence that contradicts Margolick?s claim.  

5/17/2008 - On Independence Day, Israeli Arabs Reminded of Their Place    

5/17/2008 - Hundreds join nonviolent anti-wall protest in Al-Me?sara Around 250 Palestinians and Internationals, including 70 Americans demonstrated against the construction of the separation wall on the land of Al-Me?sara village south of Bethlehem on Friday morning.  

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5/16/2008 - Settlers, Palestinians clash in West Bank    

5/16/2008 - Israel poised to defy US on West Bank building as President Bush flies in for 60th anniversary Within hours of Mr Bush's arrival, an Israeli cabinet minister said that approval would be granted soon for hundreds of new homes in Beitar Illit settlement.  

5/16/2008 - A pro-Palestine protestor shot "like a mosquito" This amateur video, which has caused uproar on the internet, would seem to demand some serious questioning of the Israeli Army's techniques in Palestinian territories. The footage was filmed in Bil'in, a village in the West Bank near to the border with Israel.  

5/16/2008 - Hamas to send delegation to Egypt for Gaza truce talks    

5/16/2008 - At UN, Palestinian-Americans mark 60 years of displacement, press for resolution    

5/16/2008 - The Popular Committees slams Israeli bulldozing of farmlands near Hebron    

5/16/2008 - Young Palestinian injured in clashes with Israeli army    

5/16/2008 - An appeal to Bush to intervene for the release of child, women detainees    

5/16/2008 - Representatives of Palestinian factions to meet again in Cairo over ceasefire The ruling Hamas party in Gaza said on Wednesday it received an official invitation from Cairo for a new round of ceasefire talks after Israel responded yesterday to Egypt-mediated Hamas ceasefire offer.  

5/16/2008 - Israeli military kidnaps five in Nablus    

5/16/2008 - A solemn Nakba an event sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) brought citizens together to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the historic movement......"We want people to realize that there was a great deal of suffering for these Palestinians when this happened and that, under international law, those people have a right to return to their homeland,"  

5/16/2008 - Israeli settlers occupy a land east of Beit Sahour, say they want to build a settlement there Israeli troops arrested Farid Al-Atrash, a lawyer from Bethlehem as he was among other Palestinians protesting the presence of Israeli settlers who occupied a piece of land east of the town of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem in order to build a new settlement on that land, Thursday morning.  

5/16/2008 - AT-TUWANI UPDATE: April 2008 During recent weeks, Palestinians of At-Tuwani and the surrounding area have organized and carried out a series of nonviolent actions insisting on their rights to graze and harvest on their own land. Nearly every action followed at least one specific instance of violence or harassment from settlers residing in nearby illegal Israeli settlements and  

5/16/2008 - Israel firm on refugees after Bush dismays Arabs Israel ruled out all debate on letting Palestinian refugees return in any peace deal, as U.S. President George W. Bush ended a visit on Friday that left Arabs dismayed by his outspoken support for Israel's "chosen people."  

5/16/2008 - U.S. sees need for "tangible action" on Iran: Israel Regev described diplomatic efforts so far to exert pressure on Iran as "positive," but added: "It is clearly not sufficient and it's clear that additional steps will have to be taken."  

5/16/2008 - Bush skirted main goal in Middle East in favor of threatening Iran In 22 minutes, Bush offered one of the strongest demonstrations of support for Israel ever made by an American president. And he reawakened lingering hopes among hawks in Israel or the United States for a U.S. military strike to thwart Iran's nuclear program.  

5/16/2008 - Palestinian-Americans mark 60 years displaced    

5/16/2008 - Bin Laden warns Israel is target "Sixty years ago, the Israeli state didn't exist. Instead, it was established on the land of Palestine raped by force," he said. "Israelis are occupying invaders whom we should fight."  

5/16/2008 - Arab ministers debate prosecution of Israeli militants Arab justice ministers held talks on Wednesday on means of reacting to Israeli genocides targeting the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.  

5/16/2008 - Home and Away Khaldi?s paintings survey scenes of refugee camps, exodus and loss, as he portrays the displacement of 4.5 million Palestinians to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank.  

5/16/2008 - Little or no time for Palestinians in Parliament    

5/16/2008 - Palestinians waiting    

5/16/2008 - Left-wing activists protest Bush visit at Knesset    

5/16/2008 - Arabs protest university's decision to hold Student Day on Nakba Three students were arrested after violent confrontations erupted when Jewish students attempted to prevent the protestors from waving Palestinian flags.  

5/16/2008 - Israel demands UN strike 'Nakba' from its lexicon    

5/16/2008 - New mural in Belfast as Palestinians mark 'the catastrophe'    

5/16/2008 - Should we still view Israel as a 'special friend'?    

5/16/2008 - Hebron is a ghost town where joggers carry automatic rifles are the least of it. Throughout the West Bank, Israel is steadily, relentlessly and apparently unstoppably imposing what old South African regimes used to know as "separate development". Israeli and Palestinian cars have different number plates (yellow and green) and travel on separate roads (the Israeli roads newer and straighter). Jewish settlements march east into Palestinian territory in acts of illegal conquest unknown even to Dr Verwoerd.  

5/16/2008 - Pelosi leads Israel codel Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to mark its 60th birthday.  

5/16/2008 - Bush to head for Egypt talks with Palestinians    

5/16/2008 - 'May You Live In Interesting Times' If the citizens of any other country harassed and assaulted an American envoy ? as happened in Hebron, Israel, the other day ? you can bet we'd all have heard about it by now, from irate American officials and the news media. In this case, not a word.  

5/16/2008 - Netanyahu: We've made mistake of ceding land before    

5/16/2008 - 500 children, from Tulkarem refugee camp, attempt to march to their families homes    

5/16/2008 - An Ocean Apart, Bush, McCain Play to Neocon Dreams    

5/16/2008 - Birth of a nation in exile My father, Sami Odeh, is one of hundreds of Palestinian-Canadians who survived the systematic ethnic cleansing carried out by Jewish militias and the Israeli army in Palestine in 1948. Over half the indigenous Palestinian population (800,000 people of Muslim and Christian faith) were forcibly expelled or terrorized into leaving, then prevented from returning to their homes and land.  

5/16/2008 - 'Any Solution Will Have to Involve More Creative Thinking' While Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of their state's founding, Palestinians around the world are mourning the "Nakba" -- or "catastrophe" -- that drove so many into exile. Scholar Lila Abu-Lughod has taken a close look at the way Palestinians see the past and present.  

5/16/2008 - Eisen: Iran war would drain Israel Open conflict with Iran would be a defeat for Israel, an Israeli government spokesperson said in Dublin.  

5/16/2008 - McCain Accused Of Hamas Hypocrisy In an interview on Sky News two years ago, McCain told James Rubin he was willing to negotiate with the militant Palestinian group Hamas.  

5/16/2008 - Obama says Bush policies strengthened Iran, Hamas Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said on Friday President George W. Bush's "failed policies" had strengthened U.S. enemies like Iran and Hamas.  

5/16/2008 - War veteran tackles Israel's 'collective amnesia'    

5/16/2008 - Palestinian detainees hold a hunger strike in commemoration of the Nakba    

5/16/2008 - Jordanians demonstrate to protest anniversary of Israel's founding    

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5/15/2008 - Four Palestinians killed in Gaza Palestinian medics say at least three militants and a civilian have been killed in two Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip  

5/15/2008 - Palestinians Mark ?Catastrophe? of Israel?s Birth The commemoration of the Naqba, or ?catastrophe? ? the defeat of invading Arab armies and the expulsion or flight of about 760,000 people ? came as US President George W. Bush was to mark the creation of the Jewish state with an address to the Israeli parliament.  

5/15/2008 - Jimmy Carter: A human rights crime The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.  

5/15/2008 - Inside a Palestinian refugee camp Sixty years ago, the Diab family swapped the simple life of Palestinian peasants in western Galilee for an existence of displacement, dispossession and exile.  

5/15/2008 - Palestinian refugees in Gaza still dream of going home When Israeli soldiers razed his village of Najd during the Jewish state's independence war, Yussef Abu al-Jidyan fled to a Gaza refugee camp where he has now lived for 60 years. But he has never lost hope of returning.  

5/15/2008 - Bush hails Israelis as ?chosen people? but ignores Palestinians on ?catastrophe? day    

5/15/2008 - Israeli military kidnaps 19 Palestinians across the West Bank    

5/15/2008 - B'tselem: The Gaza Strip - Grave dearth of medical supplies and lifesaving treatments    

5/15/2008 - Gaza's children suffer as conflict enters the classroom    

5/15/2008 - Armed Settlers Invade Palestinian Village, Attacking Palestinians and Internationals While Soldiers and Police Stand By    

5/15/2008 - Israel warns of Gaza assault after rocket attack    

5/15/2008 - China's Middle East special envoy to attend Palestinian investor's conference    

5/15/2008 - Expulsion and dispossession can't be cause for celebration    

5/15/2008 - Report: Palestinian youths wounded by IDF fire near Erez Earlier in the afternoon sources reported that soldiers had used tear gas and fired warning shots in the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd.  

5/15/2008 - Reuters demands answers from Israel over journalist death    

5/15/2008 - Hamas condemns the Holocaust We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression  

5/15/2008 - Siege Hits Palestinians Before They Are Born "Premature babies born dangerously underweight is a daily and increasing phenomenon in Gaza's hospitals,"  

5/15/2008 - Abbas: End of occupation only way to ensure Israel's security    

5/15/2008 - Condi Stomps the Mullahs by Philip Giraldi The war drums are again beating. It's beginning to look like the neocons have cranked up their useful idiots in the Bush administration for a fall offensive, target Iran. And maybe also Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians. The bad guys' list, which is remarkably similar to a roll call of Israel's enemies, seems to have expanded both vertically and horizontally at a time when the U.S. military is using paper clips and chewing gum to hold together its efforts in Iraq.  

5/15/2008 - Bush: Allowing Iran to Obtain Nuclear Weapons Is 'Unforgivable Betrayal of Future Generations' In a speech to the Knesset, or parliament, Bush took special aim at Iran, saying the United States stands with Israel in opposing moves by Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons.  

5/15/2008 - Use of torture on 17-year-old boy by Israeli security service    

5/15/2008 - Israel: Bush means business on Iran nukes Israel is fully satisfied with the results of the visit of George W. Bush, including policy on Iran's nuclear program, senior officials in Jerusalem said Thursday.  

5/15/2008 - Abbas pledge on 'catastrophe' day    

5/15/2008 - The Israeli army kidnaps a Palestinian journalist from the city of Hebron    

5/15/2008 - Three journalists arrested in West Bank Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of three Palestinian journalists by the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence services in separate incidents a week ago in the West Bank. Two of the journalists, employed by news media affiliated to Hamas, the Islamist party that controls the Gaza Strip, have already been detained in the past.  

5/15/2008 - Police detain 50 Palestinians staying in Israel illegally    

5/15/2008 - Official: Israel to expand West Bank settlements    

5/15/2008 - Iran: Will it be jaw-jaw or war-war? by Patrick J. Buchanan With Israel, the Israeli lobby, the neocons and Dick Cheney insisting on air strikes, and even Hillary Clinton talking about Iran being "obliterated," the last course would seem the least probable.  

5/15/2008 - International NGO?s Rally to Rescue Hebron Orphans Representatives from CPT, UNICEF, UNOCHA, Save the Children UK, Defense for Children International, the YMCA, Relief International and other human rights organizations met in Hebron on 8 May to help Hebron?s orphans and students now living with the fear that the Israeli military will close their homes and schools.  

5/15/2008 - Failed war on terrorism on display Human Rights Watch and two Israeli groups, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, have just made the same points Carter did and asked Bush to stop backing the Gaza closure. Canadians should demand the same of Harper.  

5/15/2008 - Urgent Action: Israeli Military Raid Hebron Girls' Orphanage Sewing    

5/15/2008 - Israel at 60: The Cost of US Support Israel?s 60th anniversary is an opportune occasion to question why the U.S. government offers unlimited support to a country that persistently and routinely violates principles that Americans hold sacred.  

5/15/2008 - Inside a Palestinian refugee camp    

5/15/2008 - Finding Obama Guilty of Insufficient Devotion to Israel    

5/15/2008 - Palestinian refugees in Lebanon mark 60 years in exile    

5/15/2008 - Arab minority has lower life expectancy - new report    

5/15/2008 - U.S. envoy cuts short Hebron trip after clash with settlers    

5/15/2008 - Olmert to hand Bush a weapons wish list During U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Israel, which is scheduled to begin this morning with the American president landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to ask Bush to upgrade substantially the security relationship between Israel and the U.S., according to sources close to Olmert.  

5/15/2008 - Frank Israeli film examines 1982 Beirut massacres    

5/15/2008 - Israeli fund raising in U.S. provides context for Olmert case    

5/15/2008 - Village's battle against Israel's fence Every Friday for more than three years, schoolteacher Abdullah Abu Rahma has grabbed a bullhorn and a Palestinian flag and marched a few hundred yards from his West Bank village to a 10-foot-tall mesh fence and an inevitable confrontation with the Israeli army.  

5/15/2008 - Library cancels Palestinian exhibit "It's the censorship of Palestine," she said. "Apparently the anti-terrorism squad decides what we can see on the public walls of a library."  

5/15/2008 - U.S. looks set to offer Israel powerful new radar    

5/15/2008 - Bush says Iran uses Hezbollah to upset Lebanon    

5/15/2008 - Bush Speech Criticized as Attack on Obama President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to denounce those who would negotiate with ?terrorists and radicals? ? a remark that was widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential contender, who has argued that the United States should talk directly with countries like Iran and Syria.  

5/15/2008 - Obama vs. The Lobby    

5/15/2008 - Rosen lawyer wants Jews to 'rise up' U.S. Jews should "rise up" against the classified information case the government has brought against two former AIPAC employees, the lawyer for one of them said  

5/15/2008 - US victims of attacks in Israel sue Swiss bank American victims of bombings and rocket attacks in Israel have sued Swiss bank UBS AG for more than $500 million, accusing the bank of helping fund the militants behind the attacks through dealings with Iran.  

5/15/2008 - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has rapped the world community for failing to implement various resolutions on the long-standing Palestinian issue.    

5/15/2008 - Australia to take Ahmadinejad to court Kevin Rudd made a pre-election pledge in October that a Labor government would use the 1948 genocide convention to take legal action against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for threatening to ?wipe Israel off the map.?  

5/15/2008 - True Torah Jews: Zionist ?Rabbis? Falsify Torah    

5/15/2008 - Gaza runner faces hurdles on the long road to Beijing    

5/15/2008 - Responses to retrospectives on Israel's 60th anniversary    

5/15/2008 - Hamas Hysteria    

5/15/2008 - Solidarity with Palestinian people    

5/15/2008 - OPT: UNRWA open day showcases youth and economic development initiatives UNRWA's Open Day at the Damascus Training Centre today, 14 May, showcased its youth and economic development initiatives in support of Palestinian refugees, focusing on employment, vocational education and the microfinance and microenterprise.  

5/15/2008 - Sixty Years After the 1948 War Ben-Gurion's chilling ratio was useful in casting Israel as a fragile island in a sea of well-armed Arabs, but it didn't describe the actual fighting conditions on the ground. In fact, in 1948, Israel had more soldiers than all of the invading Arab armies combined.  

5/15/2008 - Syrians stage protests to mourn Naqba    

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5/4/2008 - Anti Wall demonstration in a Bethlehem village, two Palestinians injured    

5/4/2008 - U.S. envoy cuts short Hebron trip after clash with settlers One of the rightists is reported to have driven his jeep into the convoy accompanying General William Fraser. Subsequently, one of the vehicles in the convoy heavily collided with the jeep, according to Israel Radio.  

5/4/2008 - B'Tselem: IDF probe into death of Gazan family not enough A B'Tselem investigation also counters the IDF's official version. It reveals that an IDF missile fired at three gunmen, hitting them and another bystander. About a minute later another missile was fired at a fourth guman, who was standing near the Abu Muataks' front door, and killed him and the five family members.  

5/4/2008 - Lebanon Palestinians to march on border More than 100,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon are expected to march toward the border with Israel on May 14 in the context of the Palestinian Authority's plan to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel, PA officials told The Jerusalem Post Thursday  

5/4/2008 - High prices force U.N. to cut Palestinian refugees's food aid Rising prices and funding shortages have forced the United Nations to stop providing emergency food aid to more than 13 percent of the 750,000 Palestinian refugees it feeds in Gaza, a U.N. official said Friday.  

5/4/2008 - The Israeli army invades Bethlehem and kidnaps one civilian    

5/4/2008 - Israel told to halt West Bank settlement After meeting in London, ministers from the "Quartet", which comprises America, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union, made a series of demands on Israel.....But Israeli officials said that they would continue to build homes inside existing settlements, which they describe as "natural growth", not "expansion". The answer is simple: the US must cut off all aid to Israel, and that includes the aid of the US veto of anti-Israel/pro-justice resolutions at the UN Security Council.

5/4/2008 - Jenin: the Israeli army kidnaps five children    

5/4/2008 - Two Italians injured, one Palestinian kidnapped as Israeli settlers attack Tuwani    

5/4/2008 - Palestinian cancer patient dies while waiting for Israeli entry permit A Palestinian father of six who was diagnosed with a brain cancer died at Gaza's Shifa Hospital on Wednesday while waiting for an entry permit to Israel, where he was set to undergo brain surgery and receive chemotherapy treatment at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.  

5/4/2008 - Newsweek: 'Our Dreams Are Dead' To spend a week among the Palestinians in the West Bank, as I recently did, is grounds for antidepressants. Not half enough has been written about what is going on there. The violence in Gaza gets almost daily press?more border attacks and rockets launched into Israel, a new retaliatory body count (including, just this week, a mother and four young children killed during an Israeli operation in northern Gaza)?but the slow suffocation of the Palestinians in Jerusalem, in Bethlehem, in Ramallah, in every village in the West Bank, gets scant attention A refreshingly honest piece by Newsweek.

5/4/2008 - Fatah says it will take over security at all Palestinian refugee camps Fatah's security chief in Lebanon says his faction will extend security control over all Palestinian camps in order to prevent the rise of Islamist radical groups such as the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah Islam, whose conflict with the army last summer destroyed the northern Nahr al-Bared camp.  

5/4/2008 - Extremist Jewish organization resurfaces in Canada Like an aging group of retro rocker musicians, the extremist Jewish Defense League (JDL) resurfaced in Toronto recently after a decade of dormancy, trying to look a little more mainstream.  

5/4/2008 - Israel's war against the hospice of the Daughters of Charity continues In 1974, Jerusalem's Mayor at the time, who was notorious for his continuous efforts to transfer Christian Church properties to Israeli hands, both public and private, pressurised the Mother Superior to sign a contract of sale of part of the property of the "Hospice" to an Israeli business. The sale, which was not authorised by the Church, was of course illegal, and the Church demanded that it be declared null and void. Thereupon, the State simply confiscated the property in order to assure its transfer to Israeli business interests. Israel wants the property of non-Arabs too - and will take it using any means available, however lowdown and dirty.

5/4/2008 - Irish Christian leaders barred from holy site in Jerusalem When the group made an unscheduled visit to the Western Wall, a Jewish worshipper confronted them, objecting to their crosses. A security guard agreed that the group could not approach the wall-- the remaining section of the old Temple-- unless they agreed to remove their crosses. The clerics refused to do so.  

5/4/2008 - John Mearsheimer Eviscerates the 'Times' Review of '1948' It is also worth noting that there were Jews living peacefully in the area we call Palestine before the Zionists began moving there from Europe. Moreover, there was little resistance to the first Jews who came to Palestine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The resistance appeared when the Arab population came to understand the Zionists' agenda.  

5/4/2008 - Are these Syrian nuclear pictures faked? Doubts about their authenticity have been raised by Professor William Beeman, head of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, who has had a long involvement with the Middle East. He posted on a Los Angeles Times website a note received from a "colleague with US security clearance" pointing out "irregularities". The unnamed colleague said a picture taken before the bombing looked as if it had been digitally enhanced, noting that the lower part of the building, the annexe and the windows pointing south appeared much sharper than the rest.  

5/4/2008 - Al-Tanf camp: Trauma continues for Palestinians fleeing Iraq    

5/4/2008 - Schwarzenegger to authorize release of 30 Israeli prisoners Attorney says leaders of California's Jewish community behind governor's decision to allow prisoners to serve remainder of their sentences in Israel  

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