September '07 Archive

9/30/2007 - Dems would exhaust Iran options ** Democratic presidential candidates said they would exhaust diplomatic options before sanctioning an attack on Iran. Notice the fact that American national security isn't being threatened by Iran isn't a factor in this 'debate' about whether or not the US should attack Iran.

9/30/2007 - Several Palestinians injured during internal clashes    

9/30/2007 - US considers strikes on Iran's military: report ** During a video conference over the summer, Mr Bush allegedly told Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Iraq, that he was considering striking Iranian targets across the border and that the British "were on board", Mr Hersh writes. But Israeli leaders were dismayed that the US had decided not to target Iran's nuclear program and French officials expressed doubts about the possible limited air strikes, he said  

9/30/2007 - Report: Israel unhappy with U.S. plan for Iran ** According to correspondent Seymour Hersh, the plan was shared with U.S. allies including Israel, which raised objections to the relative lack of Iranian nuclear facilities on a target roster that instead focused on military training camps.  

9/30/2007 - Dozens of Palestinians sift through rubbish tips to survive For some West Bank Palestinians rubbish has become not only a livelihood but the only method of survival they know. Many dozens of Palestinians across the territory, including children, work at landfill sites, trying to earn a meagre living.  

9/30/2007 - Israel freeing 87 jailed Palestinians to aid Abbas    

9/30/2007 - Hamas renews call for cease-fire with Israel    

9/30/2007 - UCU cancels tour of Palestinian academics A tour of Palestinian academic officials arranged by the British University and College Union was canceled following the union's decision to call off its threat of an academic boycott of Israel.  

9/30/2007 - Handicapped Gaza woman beats the odds    

9/30/2007 - It took this call for a boycott to make Israeli government take notice The motion from Belfast Trades Council called for the ICTU to "support and promote a boycott campaign of Israeli goods and services similar to the boycott of South African goods during the Apartheid regime".  

9/30/2007 - Jewish leaders, Merkel to meet German officials and world Jewish leaders will discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions and the threats to Israel.  

9/30/2007 - Pentagon raises bar of intelligence-sharing A new Pentagon policy directive for U.S. military intelligence mandates information-sharing with U.S. domestic agencies and foreign partners and recognizes the leading role of the new director of national intelligence.  

9/30/2007 - Israeli settlers try to establish new wildcat outposts Activists had announced last week their intention to set up five new outposts across the Palestinian territory in defiance of Israeli authorities, who had declared the sites closed military areas  

9/30/2007 - Palestinians in Iraq tortured, ill-treated: Amnesty "Palestinian refugees in Iraq have been subjected to gross human rights abuses including abduction, hostage-taking, unlawful killing, torture and other ill-treatment at the hands of armed militia groups," it said.  

9/30/2007 - When Livni met Bono Bono told Livni he is also working on a project involving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and mentioned that U2 guitarist The Edge has relatives in Jerusalem  

9/30/2007 - 'They won't let us through" - Russian brides stuck in West Bank    

9/30/2007 - Democrats say internal squabble won't disenfranchise Fla. voters "The events he has planned in Florida oftentimes are events that are made up of prominent members of the Jewish community," Wexler said of Obama's visits to Florida. "He has been addressing issues like Israel, like Iran and its nuclear weapons program."  

9/30/2007 - Sabbath of the suicide bomber "Paradise Now, which is a film I like and appreciated a lot, represented only the Palestinian point of view. Our film represents the Israeli point of view as well as the Palestinian point of view."  

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9/29/2007 - Hamas slams Abbas speech before General Assembly as "factional"    

9/29/2007 - Nine injured in the weekly non violent protest at Bil'in    

9/29/2007 - Israel FM tells Abbas to be 'realistic' over timeframe Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has cautioned Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to be "realistic" about the prospects for Middle East peace, an Israeli newspaper reported on Saturday.  

9/29/2007 - Army invades Hussan village; three youth injured    

9/29/2007 - Portugal warns of impact of failure at Mideast conference    

9/29/2007 - Egypt lets stranded militants return to Gaza: Hamas    

9/29/2007 - Iranian lawmakers label U.S. troops and CIA as "terrorist" "They (the U.S. army and the CIA) support Israel's state terrorism in its crackdown on Palestinian and Lebanese people, trained Al-Qaida and Taliban and established secret prisons in Europe, torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib," added the statement.  

9/29/2007 - Israel fears PA taking tougher stance prior to summit    

9/29/2007 - Anti-Iran Hawks Win Partial Victory in Congress ** its huge margin of approval, which some observers said was boosted by this week's controversial visit to New York by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, helped demonstrate once again how responsive members of both major parties are to the so-called "Israel Lobby," which has made the sanctions bill its top legislative priority this year......the first call for cross-border attacks on Iranian targets was made by the Senate's "independent" Democrat, Joseph Lieberman, who is regarded as particularly close to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)......As introduced, the amendment, which, according to several Capitol Hill sources, was drafted by AIPAC, actually went considerably further, deploying language that some senators argued could be interpreted as authorizing war against Iran.  

9/29/2007 - Liberty Survivors Reply to Cristol's Arizona Republic Screed of July 17, 2007    

9/29/2007 - Syria sees warmongering in Israeli sortie Syria accused Israel of staging a strategic air raid to prepare international opinion for a future war between the countries.  

9/29/2007 - Why Did Israel Attack Syria? ** before an attack on Iran could be countenanced, Hezbollah in Lebanon had to be destroyed and Syria at the very least cowed. The plan was to isolate Tehran on these two other hostile fronts before going in for the kill. Israel's attack on Lebanon was a prelude to an attack on Iran.

9/29/2007 - Israel hails end of British academics' boycott threat Israel welcomed on Saturday a decision by Britain's main academics' trade union to end a threatened boycott of Israeli universities following legal advice that it would be unlawful.  

9/29/2007 - Play highlights witness of Christians in Palestine During a visit to the Holy Land to meet members of the Palestinian Christian community, Riding Lights received a clear message: ?Pray for us, visit us, tell our story.?  

9/29/2007 - The Teflon Alliance with Israel In their book on the lobby, Mearsheimer and Walt provide overwhelming evidence for an Israeli link to the war that completely undermines the public myths revived by Wilkerson's and Greenspan's statements, and they build a convincing case against the notion that the war was "all about oil." They are the first who have done the extensive research necessary to bring the mountain of evidence together. KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON are former CIA officials.

9/29/2007 - The Man Behind the Iran Curtain When asked for a one-word answer ? "yes or no" ? as to whether his government desired the "destruction of Israel as a Jewish state", Ahmadinejad responded: "And then you want the answer the way you want to hear it. Well, this isn't really a free flow of information... I'm asking you, is the Palestinian issue not an international issue of prominence or not? Please tell me, yes or no." His answer received laughter and applause.  

9/29/2007 - Israel News Agency Discovers Nazi Sex Video On YouTube "The Israel News Agency often patrols the Web for Nazi, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content. When we find it we immediately report it to the Website and or Internet Service Provider which carries the content," said Joel Leyden, publisher and editor in chief of the INA. If the content carries direct death threats we report it to the FBI and to Israel security forces. We trust that the content is not taken down immediately but rather analyzed as to it's source and those who subscribe to it are unmasked by legal, justice and security organizations."  

9/29/2007 - U.S. gives anti-terror funds to mostly Jewish non-profit groups That Jewish organizations received the bulk of the funding does not mean there are new or heightened threats against Jewish Americans, the department said. ....."It is no secret that Jewish communities are targets, whether in the United States or in Israel," said a former FBI agent who works in counterterror. He spoke on condition of anonymity, because he is not authorized to speak publicly in his new government post.  

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9/28/2007 - Army prevents Sheikh al Tamimi from reaching Jerusalem    

9/28/2007 - Peaceful demonstration at al-Walaja village    

9/28/2007 - Police flood Jerusalem amid unrest fears Israel deployed 4,000 police throughout Jerusalem on the third Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, preparing for a possible backlash from Gaza strikes earlier in the week, police said.  

9/28/2007 - Khalid calls for unity Tayseer Khalid, member of the Executive committee of the PLO and of the political office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on Thursday denounced the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip which have killed several residents and injured others.  

9/28/2007 - Hamas says well prepared for any Israeli incursion into Gaza    

9/28/2007 - RELEASE: Settlers enter village in the South Hebron Hills, assault On September 23rd, shortly before sundown, ten Israeli settlers entered the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills. The settlers threw stones, hitting a woman and her adult son. Settlers remained in the village for about an hour. Israeli partners called police at 5:30pm to report the incident. Police did not arrive in Tuba until 7:30pm after the settlers had already left.  

9/28/2007 - Palestinians committed to peace meeting: Abbas    

9/28/2007 - PLO factions, Islamic Jihad, issue a statement on Israel?s decision declaring Gaza a ?hostile entit Palestinian factions that are part of the umbrella of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Islamic Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip issued a press release slamming the Israeli decision considering the Gaza Strip as a hostile entity, and stated that this decision is a declaration of war against the Gaza Strip.  

9/28/2007 - Morality Police patrol West Bank    

9/28/2007 - India supports Palestine's struggle for homeland Mukherjee and Abbas recalled India's "historic and consistent support for the Palestinian people's struggle for a homeland and for the Palestinian people to attain their rightful place in the comity of nations".  

9/28/2007 - Bedouin struggle for land in Israel desert    

9/28/2007 - Rachel Corrie: Staging a protest "Openly debating U.S.-supported Israeli policy is a major taboo in our society," said playwright Jason Grote, whose "1001" premiered at the Denver Center Theatre Company in January.  

9/28/2007 - Corrie's global conscience surfaced early    

9/28/2007 - Ex-Va. appointee discusses videotaped denouncement of Israel In one last year, he denounced the "Israeli war machine," and in 2000 he endorsed "the jihad way" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  

9/28/2007 - Palestinians prepare return to devastated refugee camp    

9/28/2007 - Britain's Labor party decries academic boycott Members of Britain's Labor Party spoke out against a proposed academic boycott of Israel.  

9/28/2007 - Saying the unsayable The links between the Israel lobby and US foreign policy are a Washington taboo. But a controversial new study is opening up a long-stifled debate  

9/28/2007 - US pledges funds for Hariri court The US has pledged $5m towards the UN-backed tribunal set up to try suspects in the 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.  

9/28/2007 - Jets scrambled toward Syrian aircraft For the second time in less than a week, IAF fighter jets were scrambled to the northern border on Thursday after radar systems picked up Syrian helicopters making their way towards Israel. Israelis seem to be looking for a fight.

9/28/2007 - Bank of Palestine denies any ties to Islamic bank    

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9/27/2007 - Israeli strike hits 'rocket crew' An Israeli air strike has killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the territory to 11 since Wednesday.  

9/27/2007 - Dickinson: The situation is very close to a Humanitarian Disaster in the Gaza Strip    

9/27/2007 - Money trail to Hamas begins with Israeli banks Israeli authorities tracking Hamas's funds said they made an unexpected discovery last month - cash from one of Israel's biggest banks had found its way to a security force loyal to the Palestinian Islamists in Gaza.  

9/27/2007 - Palestinian policeman injured by Palestinian Security A 24 year-old Palestinian policeman, Mohammad Abu Saleem, was shot on Wednesday morning by Palestinian Security officers while he was trying to cross a barrier near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.  

9/27/2007 - Israel Warned After Closing West Bank for Jewish Holiday    

9/27/2007 - Journalists angry with Palestinian Authority conduct    

9/27/2007 - Palestinian Security forces arrest five of Hamas West Bank activists    

9/27/2007 - Palestine's Abbas to pay working visit to Portugal Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will pay a working visit to Portugal Saturday, the Portuguese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.  

9/27/2007 - Saudis urge Hamas and Fatah to form new coalition    

9/27/2007 - Settlers planning 5 new outposts    

9/27/2007 - Israel arrests top wanted in West Bank raid    

9/27/2007 - The forgotten faithful    

9/27/2007 - Israel won't halt fence work to get Saudis to int'l conference Israel has no intention of stopping work on the security barrier to lure Saudi Arabia to the US-sponsored conference on the Middle East later this year, senior diplomatic sources said Thursday night in response to comments made by the Saudi foreign minister in New York.  

9/27/2007 - Newsweek Senior Editor Says 'Israeli Lobby' Is Shaping U.S. Policy Toward Iran    

9/27/2007 - Palestinian Detainee facing deportation along with his family    

9/27/2007 - Life is an open book for the peace-loving Quakers    

9/27/2007 - In Israel, an oasis of peace Half Jewish, half Arab, Neve Shalom tries to overcome mutual mistrust. Divisive pressures test the community's resolve.  

9/27/2007 - Palestinian factions criticize Abbas-Olmert meetings after Gaza offensive Palestinian factions have criticized recent meetings between President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Israeli leaders on Thursday in the wake of Israeli offensive in Gaza.  

9/27/2007 - French FM cancels meet with Syria over Lebanese MP's killing    

9/27/2007 - Sa'adat warns against use of prisoners for political gains    

9/27/2007 - Arafat was unsure on Palestinian state Senior Palestinians urged Yasser Arafat not to declare an independent state in the 1970s because they feared it would allow Israel to maintain sovereignty over all Palestinian lands, according to declassified documents.  

9/27/2007 - Why Does Norman Podhoretz Hate America? by Michael Scheuer Podhoretz hates every American who does not support the neoconservatives' views, the foreign policy they have devised, and the military and national security disasters to which they are leading America. Michael Scheuer is a former CIA counterterrorism official.

9/27/2007 - Children imprisoned by Israel in Telmond appeal Abbas to intervene for their release    

9/27/2007 - Kuwait appeals for serious action to resolve Mideast crisis "This requires serious action from the international community to protect the Palestinian People and implement the resolutions of international legitimacy of the Palestinian People.  

9/27/2007 - Clinton supports Israeli 'strike' on Syria    

9/27/2007 - 2000: 'Provocative' mosque visit sparks riots    

9/27/2007 - High Court demands response    

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9/26/2007 - Palestine says Israeli shell kills four Gaza civilians    

9/26/2007 - 'Eight die' in Israeli Gaza raids In a separate incident, Israeli tank fire killed four Palestinians in Beit Hanoun, local medical officials said. At least three of those killed in the reported shelling of a house in the town have been named as civilians. Witnesses said the fourth victim was a gunman.  

9/26/2007 - Johnston kidnapper killed in raid One of the kidnappers of the BBC journalist Alan Johnston was killed yesterday when an Israeli missile hit the vehicle he was travelling in.  

9/26/2007 - Barak says Israel is 'close' to Gaza operation At least two civilians were reportedly among eight Palestinians killed in Gaza yesterday by Israeli forces as Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister, warned that a "widespread" military operation in the Strip was "getting closer".  

9/26/2007 - Israeli fire wounds Gaza child The child, thought to be around 12 years old, was wounded when Israeli warplanes fired a missile against a rocket launcher in the area, the witnesses said.  

9/26/2007 - Palestinian militants complain of Israeli phone threats Palestinian militants in Gaza Strip and West Bank reported on Wednesday they have received threats of killings on their mobile telephones from Israeli intelligence.  

9/26/2007 - Saudi urges Israel to freeze settlements, barrier Israel should freeze construction of Jewish settlements and a separation barrier in the West Bank to prove its "seriousness" ahead of a Middle East peace summit, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Wednesday.  

9/26/2007 - The Popular Committees Slams settler and soldier attacks against residents in Hebron and Bethlehem    

9/26/2007 - PLO veteran mourned in Gaza Strip Thousands of Gazans have attended the funeral of Haidar Abdel Shafi, who led Palestinian negotiators at the Madrid peace conference in 1991.  

9/26/2007 - PLC in Gaza slams Israeli military attack against the house of a Gaza legislator    

9/26/2007 - Palestinian security finds arms cache near Jerusalem    

9/26/2007 - Militant group accuse PNA forces of curbing attacks against Israel    

9/26/2007 - November conference failure will hurt Fatah: lawmaker    

9/26/2007 - Palestinian Security forces find two home-made shells near Bethlehem Palestinian Security forces on Wednesday to located two home-made shells in the city of Beit-Jala, located in Bethlehem.  

9/26/2007 - Palestinians Reject Foreign Soldiers in Gaza The vast majority of people living in the Palestinian Territories would be against the entry of United Nations (UN) or Arab troops into the Gaza Strip, according to a poll by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion. 70.6 per cent of respondents oppose a military intervention.  

9/26/2007 - Palestinian cave dwellers defy creeping occupation "But the land is all we have, and if we move the Israelis will take it from us. This is what they want."  

9/26/2007 - Palestinian experts hold Israel responsible for water shortage in the Palestinian territories Fadel Ka'wash, in charge of the Palestinian Water Authority, stated that the occupation had confiscated 85% of the Palestinian water resources , adding that" Since the beginning of the fifties until now Israel had looted the underground water and the rain water by digging aquifers and huge water networks."  

9/26/2007 - Fatah officers rally in Gaza to demand pay Hundreds of security men from President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement held a rally in Gaza on Wednesday to demand the government he set up in the occupied West Bank pay their salaries.  

9/26/2007 - Israeli incursion into West Bank refugee camp causes destruction, fear "The effects of these military operations at such close quarters have an incalculable impact on the well-being of the young," said Christopher Gunness from UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.  

9/26/2007 - Paul not welcome at RJC event There was time only for leading candidates; and Paul's record of consistently voting against assistance to Israel and his criticisms of the pro-Israel lobby.  

9/26/2007 - Boca resident stuck in the Gaza Strip Hafez Almbasher, a Boca Raton resident with a green card, was visiting his mother, a Palestinian who lives in the Gaza Strip, back in April.  

9/26/2007 - New bill to fund Holocaust education It was co-sponsored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who said "students, in order to spread tolerance and civility, should study the dark blemish upon mankind which is the Holocaust. Education is so important and decisive to this endeavor.?  

9/26/2007 - Syria said ready to cede disputed area to U.N. Syria has indicated it is willing to allow the United Nations to take custody of the disputed Shebaa Farms area claimed by Lebanon but which is under Israeli occupation, a Spanish diplomat said on Wednesday.  

9/26/2007 - Divided and voiceless Any progress in the Middle East must begin with building a peace among Palestinians  

9/26/2007 - Iranian President: If Holocaust happened, why must Palestinians pay? In an address before students and faculty at Columbia University in New York on Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that if the Holocaust really happened, the Palestinian people mustn't be forced to pay the price.  

9/26/2007 - Gov't bans Hebron settlers from winterizing controversial house    

9/26/2007 - House committee congratulates Israel on U.N. gain It also backs Israel's efforts to join the Security Council, the U.N.'s only body with powers of legal enforcement, by 2019. The resolution will now be considered by the full House.  

9/26/2007 - Merkel harsh on Iran, anti-Semitism Angela Merkel delivered a stern rebuke of Iran and promised to stay vigilant in confronting anti-Semitism.  

9/26/2007 - In Mideast, is plowshare mightier than sword? Bulldozers have rumbled through the valley to raze unlicensed Palestinian homes. Settlers have stolen and burned the black tubing that carries water to Palestinians' crops. Israeli soldiers have arrested Jaber four times for trying to protect his land.  

9/26/2007 - Evangelical Split Seen Fueling Giuliani Bid "It's a win-win for him," said a longtime Jewish Republican who is supporting another GOP contender. "The more hawkish he is on Israel, the better he does with some important Evangelicals, despite his views on their other big issues. And it doesn?t hurt him with Jewish Republicans either, although it could prove to be more of a problem if he wins the nomination and then has to appeal to a wider group of Jewish voters."  

9/26/2007 - Congress Throws Covert Israeli Attack on Syria Out Into the Open Ranking minority member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen also took on the issue of the Israeli attack on Syria, which according to reports was aimed at nuclear devices that Syria received from North Korea.....According to Wexler, who is a strong backer of Israel and a member of the foreign affairs committee, congressional support for the Israeli attack is needed, since it will pose ?an obvious contrast? to the lack of action on behalf of Congress when Israel attacked an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981, effectively putting an end to the Iraqi nuclear program.  

9/26/2007 - Kadima MKs vow to thwart any withdrawal from Jerusalem Israeli Ynetnews reported on Monday that four members of the Kadima Party, the ruling political body in Israel, vowed to thwart any proposals by the Israeli Prime Minister, head of the party, Ehud Olmert, to withdraw from parts of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.  

9/26/2007 - Sydney council reaches agreement over Hebron    

9/26/2007 - Vandalism strikes Muslims, Jews A pro-Israel banner was slashed at the Silver Spring Jewish Center in Wheaton on Sept. 3, said Nurit Shoham, center office administrator. How is that considered a hate crime?

9/26/2007 - Children are also casualties in world's wars Those children in Palestine and Iraq and all those other "trouble spots" around the world know little, perhaps nothing, about such childhood adventures. What they do know is that big people don't get along and killing each other is a perfectly normal thing.  

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9/25/2007 - Holy Land Church workers refused re-entry visas The Israeli Government has rescinded its policy of granting re-entry visas to Arab Christian ministers, priests, nuns and other religious workers who wish to travel in and out of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, according to Christian clergy in Jerusalem.  

9/25/2007 - Israeli minister proposes trading Barghuti for missing soldier An Israeli minister said on Tuesday his country should exchange jailed Palestinian intifada leader Marwan Barghuti for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militants more than a year ago.  

9/25/2007 - Indonesia calls for dialogue between Palestinian factions    

9/25/2007 - Israel constructs 40 new roadblocks in the West Bank despite repeated promised to reduce their numbe    

9/25/2007 - Army invades Bethlehem town; resident abducted    

9/25/2007 - In Gaza, 3 grieving fathers recall strike that killed their children    

9/25/2007 - Hamas says release of jailed Fatah lawmaker separated from Shalit's case    

9/25/2007 - Gaza must be part of future Palestinian state: Fayyad    

9/25/2007 - Israel arrests 15 Palestinians in West Bank    

9/25/2007 - Seven Palestinian civilians kidnapped in Hebron and nearby village    

9/25/2007 - Israeli High Court will hear petition against Israel's policy of dividing families in West Bank    

9/25/2007 - At-Tuwani Update: 21 August - 14 September 2007    

9/25/2007 - Hamas slams Israeli disconnection with Gaza banks    

9/25/2007 - Haider Abdel-Shafi Dr Haider Abdel-Shafi, who has died at the age of 88, was a towering figure of the Palestinian national movement for more than half a century - not only one of the fiercest critics of Israel, but also often of the Palestinian leadership. He had a commanding presence, equally at home in an Oxford college as on the crowded streets of Gaza, and his integrity shone out in any company.  

9/25/2007 - Ahmadinejad adresses U.N. General Assembly "The era of darkness will end," he concluded. "Prisoners will return home, the occupied lands will be freed, Palestine and Iraq will be liberated from the dominion of the occupiers and the people of America and Europe will be free of the pressures exerted by the Zionists."  

9/25/2007 - Israel's leading writers demand talks with Hamas on a ceasefire    

9/25/2007 - West Bank: A walkers' paradise?    

9/25/2007 - Israel seeks exemption from atomic rules Israel is looking to a U.S.-India nuclear deal to expand its own ties to suppliers, quietly lobbying for an exemption to non-proliferation rules so it can legally import atomic material, according to documents made available Tuesday to The Associated Press.  

9/25/2007 - House votes to sanction Iran The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee strongly praised the bill's passage as a step toward discouraging Iran's suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.  

9/25/2007 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP Transcript for 09/21/07 ** MR. BUCHANAN: Everything you read about Cheney is he's saying, "Condi Rice has failed. Let's get on with it." I think the Israelis are pushing it. We don't know what that strike in Syria was about. The neoconservatives are pushing it; the AEI. They're holding their little sessions there, promoting this idea. It is the biggest issue in D.C. right now.  

9/25/2007 - Ben-Eliezer: Continued neglect of Israeli Arabs may spark 'internal Intifada'    

9/25/2007 - Detainees in Huwwara and Salem detention facilities facing bad health conditions    

9/25/2007 - Israeli bank cuts ties with Gaza banks    

9/25/2007 - Bethlehem police nab Israeli with 900 chickens Officers picked up the man and the chickens he was allegedly trying to sell in defiance of a local boycott on produce from Jewish settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory, security forces said.  

9/25/2007 - Israeli air strike did not hit nuclear facility, intelligence officials say Vincent Cannistraro, Director of Intelligence Programs for the National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan and Chief of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center under President George H. W. Bush, said Sunday that what the Israelis hit was "absolutely not a nuclear weapons facility."  

9/25/2007 - Rabbis Say Iran Seeks Peace, Respects Judaism - Calls for True Dialogue With Ahmadinejad    

9/25/2007 - Israeli in Lebanon jail not a spy-family    

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9/24/2007 - Hamas urges Abbas not to meet Bush    

9/24/2007 - Israeli army kidnaps 22 Palestinians The Israeli army kidnapped 22 Palestinians in the early hours of Monday morning from different parts of the West Bank.  

9/24/2007 - Israel wants joint statement at US peace meet    

9/24/2007 - Blair: Palestinians need institutions for a state Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said a Middle East political pact will work only if Palestinians first build proper institutions and living conditions are improved in the West Bank and Gaza.  

9/24/2007 - Bush meets with Palestinian leader Abbas    

9/24/2007 - Resident dies of wounds sustained after being attacked by gunmen Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank reported on Monday that resident Ali Sa?id Matar, died on Sunday of wounds sustained on Thursday after being attacked by unknown gunmen.  

9/24/2007 - Preparations on track for donors conference for Palestinians An upcoming international donors conference meant to revive the Palestinian economy will also represent a major boost to the peace process, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.  

9/24/2007 - Israel wants joint statement at US peace meet Israel said on Monday it wants to emerge from a US-sponsored peace conference later this year with a joint statement that touches on the most intractable issues of the Middle East conflict.  

9/24/2007 - Palestinian interim gov't says no word over if old prisoners among those to-be-released The Palestinian caretaker government, based in this West Bank city, said Monday it had no information if Israel was going to include old prisoners among the group who it would release as a goodwill gesture.  

9/24/2007 - MIDEAST: Border Impasse Arises Again A new security arrangement between Cairo, Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority (PA) has effectively sealed the last sovereign transit point in or out of the troubled territory, which has been governed by Palestinian resistance faction Hamas since mid-June.  

9/24/2007 - Olmert: Israel to withdraw from "considerable" part of West Bank   Suurre.

9/24/2007 - Bush vows to work for Palestinian statehood    

9/24/2007 - Israeli bulldozers raze arable lands in Rafah    

9/24/2007 - Ahmadinejad: No attack on Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not launch an attack on Israel or any other country.  

9/24/2007 - Hamas welcomes Fatah leaders' return to Gaza Ayman Taha, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, told reporters that "Hamas movement doesn't oppose their return to Gaza. It is their right as long as they would act according to the law and they won't act in a way that would bring tension to Gaza again."  

9/24/2007 - Cheney mulled luring Iran into war with Israel: report ** the weekly said the steady departure of neoconservatives from the administration over the past two years had helped tilt the balance away from war.  

9/24/2007 - Syria set to reject peace talks offer Syria is expected to rebuff an invitation from the US to attend a grand Middle East peace conference later this year because it does not believe that either the Bush administration or Israel wants to reach a comprehensive regional settlement.  

9/24/2007 - Israel faces corruption 'epidemic' The latest scandals to hit the Israeli political establishment are just two examples in a long line that have recently rocked Israeli political and public life.  

9/24/2007 - Nonviolent Protest Gains in West Bank Ten shouting Palestinians were pushing against one boulder, but the primitive Israeli roadblock cutting off the tiny Palestinian village from Bethlehem was not budging. Then, with the help of two giant crowbars, an Israel protester, and a Japanese backpacker, the group heaved the stone aside, opening the road for the first time in three years.  

9/24/2007 - Former Syrian official: Report on IDF commandos is psychological warfare    

9/24/2007 - Bethlehem beholds very rare species ? tourists    

9/24/2007 - In a recent report: Israel uses 180 investigation methods to interrogate jailed Palestinians Lawyer Ahmad Shawahneh, a Palestinian activist in Prisoners' rights reported that investigations conducted by the Center on Palestinian political detainees imprisoned by Israel, affirmed that the Israeli security apparatuses are using 180 methods while interrogating the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli jails.  

9/24/2007 - Just How Powerful is the Israel Lobby?    

9/24/2007 - IAF dispatches jets as Syrian plane disappears from radar The Israel Air Force dispatched several fighter jets toward Syria Saturday, after a Syrian airplane disappeared from the Israeli radar screens, army sources said.  

9/24/2007 - 'Secret clause lets Shin Bet get data from cell phone firms' The licenses that the state gives to cell phone companies contain a secret codicil requiring them to give the Shin Bet security service information about conversations and messages that its customers transmit on their cell phones, according to the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel (FOIM).  

9/24/2007 - Israeli PM faces corruption probe    

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9/23/2007 - Israeli settlers stab a Palestinian boy, attack an ambulance crew A number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron, stabbed a Palestinian boy near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba?, to the east of the city.  

9/23/2007 - Israel rejects Gaza cease-fire offer    

9/23/2007 - Mid-East peace conference backed After Sunday's meeting, the Quartet issued a statement expressing its support for the proposed international meeting that the Americans have been in the forefront of promoting.  

9/23/2007 - Haniya discusses lifting siege with Iranian President    

9/23/2007 - Progress on Mideast talks, Iran vital: Miliband The world must act now to keep alive the prospects of a two-state solution in the Middle East or see the opportunity disappear, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Sunday.  

9/23/2007 - Cheney seeks pretext for war as US reestablishes elite Air Force wing ** The group is led by Brigadier-General Lawrence Stutzriem, and assisted by a former Israeli military officer and cyberwarfare expert.  

9/23/2007 - Israeli rabbis to shun Christian event "According to information that has reached the chief rabbinate, there are participants in this conference who convert Jews to Christianity and perform missionary activity throughout the year," Rabbi Simcha Hacohen Kook, the chief rabbi of Rehovot, who took part in committee discussions of the matter, said on Sunday. "This is against the law, so the chief rabbinate is calling upon Jews not to take part in the conference."  

9/23/2007 - 2 Qassams, mortar land in western Negev    

9/23/2007 - Gaza Strip isolation begins to bite    

9/23/2007 - Israeli writers urge ceasefire with Hamas Prominent Israeli writers called on their Government to negotiate a ceasefire with the Islamist movement Hamas as a step towards lasting peace with the Palestinians  

9/23/2007 - Israel okays 500 Palestinian police for West Bank city Israel on Sunday authorised the deployment of 500 Palestinian police reinforcements to the restive West Bank town of Nablus, where it recently carried out a major military incursion.  

9/23/2007 - Quartet hopes to resume funding to Abbas government The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators said on Sunday it hoped to start directly funding the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next year.  

9/23/2007 - Israeli electricity and fuel clampdown on Gaza condemned by church and aid groups UK-based international development agency Christian Aid says it deplores attacks on civilians and affirms Israel?s right to defend itself from attack but the humanitarian consequences of cutting these vital services to Gaza will be severe.  

9/23/2007 - Israel set to free Palestinians The list of prisoners nominated for release must now be approved by a ministerial commission, which includes members of Israel's Shin Beth security service.  

9/23/2007 - Israel discussed by Scheuer and Garofalo Realtime 9/21/07   Whoa. Minute 4:00 on for the next few seconds. Former CIA counterterrorism official Michael Scheuer will now get reamed (for being a true patriot). And minute 05:00 on the dot. Garafolo at the end was spot on. Must watch.

9/23/2007 - Come clean on nukes, Rice tells Koreans    

9/23/2007 - Snatched: Israeli commandos ?nuclear? raid ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit ? almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms ? made their way stealthily towards a secret military compound near Dayr az-Zawr in northern Syria. They were looking for proof that Syria and North Korea were collaborating on a nuclear programme. The point being here that Israeli commandos are quite capable of impersonating and mixing in with Arabs in that part of the world.

9/23/2007 - US feared N Korea-Syria link before Israeli strike Universities have larger nuclear programmes than Syria.?Most experts have suggested that Israel was much more likely to have targeted some a facility related tofor conventional weapons or missiles, over which North Korea and Syria have co-operated in the past.  

9/23/2007 - From 2004: No End to War By Patrick J. Buchanan Fear is what Perle and his co-author David Frum are peddling to stampede America into serial wars. Just such fear-mongering got us into Iraq, though, we have since discovered, Iraq had no hand in 9/11, no ties to al-Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction, no nuclear program, and no plans to attack us. Iraq was never "the clear and present danger" the authors insist she was.....The neocons do not want to narrow our list of enemies. They do not want to confine America's war to those who attacked us. They want to expand our list of enemies to include Israel?s enemies...... if we allow the neoconservatives to morph our war on al-Qaeda into Israel's war for Palestine, our war will never end. And that is the hidden agenda of the neoconservatives: permanent war for their permanent empowerment......because Israel is a friend does not mean that the Sharonites have preemptive absolution to settle or seize Arab lands or permanently to deny Arab peoples the rights we preach to the world. In our own national interests, we must say so?in the clear......With the end of the Cold War, an alliance with Israel has ceased to be central to U.S. interests. Indeed, our reputation as armorers and allies of Israel only damages us as Sharon rampages through the West Bank and Gaza walling off Arab land and denying to Palestinians that very right of self-determination we Americans espouse. Sharon is making hypocrites of us, and we are cowards for permitting it. Powerful truth by the venerable Patrick J. Buchanan.

9/23/2007 - Israel's Right of Self-Defense Raw foreign "intelligence," withheld from our zillion-dollar multi-agency intelligence community, chock-full of skilled professionals who evaluate satellite imagery for a living, stovepiped directly to the White House where "some" members of the Cheney Cabal ? proven neophytes when it comes to evaluation of satellite imagery of any industrial process ? have concluded the facility under construction could be used to produce material for nuclear weapons.  

9/23/2007 - Israeli army launches 'early warning' website The Israeli army unveiled a new website on Sunday that will be used to warn Israelis of impending attacks after the "lessons learned" from the 2006 war in Lebanon.  

9/23/2007 - At State Dept., Blog Team Joins Muslim Debate The postings, are an effort to take a more casual, varied approach to improving America?s image in the Muslim world. Want to improve our image? Get Israel out of our government (foreign policy).

9/23/2007 - Americans warned on travel to Syria The department has urged Americans to stay away from Syria amid threats of Islamic insurgency attack. Officials said the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad might be unable to stop attacks on Americans in the country. Attacks by Israeli commandos dressed as Syrians?....

9/23/2007 - ?The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy? Excerpted from The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer Stephen M. Walt ....This situation, which has no equal in American history, is due primarily to the activities of the Israel lobby. While other special interest groups-including ethnic lobbies representing Cuban Americans, Irish Americans, Armenian Americans, and Indian Americans-have managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions that they favored, no ethnic lobby has diverted that policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest. The Israel lobby has successfully convinced many Americans that American and Israeli interests are essentially identical. In fact, they are not.  

9/23/2007 - YouTube contest aims to boost Israel's image The Israeli consulate in New York has launched a video competition on YouTube to boost Israel's image. Boost Israel's image in AMERICA. Why?

9/23/2007 - Israel raises alert level in north after electronic alarm activated    

9/23/2007 - Israel settles Darfur asylum deal Officials said those from other parts of Africa already in the country would be expelled, along with new arrivals.  

9/23/2007 - Young Israelis dodge the draft, some in protest Vardi is part of a growing group of young Israelis who are refusing to sign up for mandatory military service, often in protest over the Jewish state's occupation of Palestinian territory or because of last year's unpopular war in Lebanon.  

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9/22/2007 - UN finds 40 new W. Bank roadblocks in two months Despite repeated promises to reduce the number of roadblocks in the West Bank, Israel has in fact added dozens of new ones, according to the United Nations.  

9/22/2007 - Gaza-based Fatah leadership resigns over delayed salaries    

9/22/2007 - Palestinian security forces attack peaceful demonstration Palestinian security forces attacked on Saturday a peaceful demonstration in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.  

9/22/2007 - Iran shows off new missile, taunts Israel    

9/22/2007 - Hamas women protest in West Bank Some 200 women supporters of Hamas have marched in the West Bank to demand the release of Hamas members being held in jails run by the Palestinian Authority.  

9/22/2007 - Israel Police: Yom Kippur Attack Stopped    

9/22/2007 - Dr. Barghouthi:"There is no real peace partner in Israel"    

9/22/2007 - Fatah official: talks with Hamas likely after November conference    

9/22/2007 - Four Palestinian children injured by remnants of Israeli military operation in Gaza Four Palestinian children were injured on Friday night when an unknown device exploded. The device is believed to be a remnant of the Israeli military's operation in Beit Lahiya, located in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.  

9/22/2007 - Janeane Garofalo: 'Bush is a War Criminal,' 'O'Reilly Can Kiss My Fat A**' Our support of Israel to the detriment of the Palestinian people and the American people is not wise, and it's been responsible for a lot of problems. And the way the mainstream media portrays the Palestinians is totally unfair...Our Israeli policy is very dangerous for us, and for them. I don't think the Knesset, the rightwing of the Knesset, represents the Israeli people any more than the rightwing of this government represents the American people.  

9/22/2007 - Dehumanizing the Palestinians    

9/22/2007 - The war on Gaza's children It is a violation of international law to collectively punish more than a million people for something they did not do. According to the Geneva Convention, to which it is a signatory, Israel actually has the obligation to ensure the well-being of the people on whom it has chosen to impose a military occupation for more than four decades.  

9/22/2007 - 15 Palestinians found in a container in Barcelona Port 15 illegal immigrants, five of them children, all of the thought to be Palestinian, have been discovered in a container on board a Turkish boat which docked in Barcelona today.  

9/22/2007 - UMC calls for sale of Caterpillar stock The board objects to Caterpillar sales of bulldozers and other equipment, which eventually were used for "the illegal destruction of Palestinian homes, orchards and olive groves in the Occupied Territories and to clear Palestinian land for illegal Israeli settlements, segregated roads and the Separation Barrier," the resolution states.  

9/22/2007 - French court reopens investigation into the death of Mohammad al-Dura    

9/22/2007 - In Tiny Particles, a Big Link in Jerusalem    

9/22/2007 - U.S. plans to invite Arabs to peace meeting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Washington plans to invite six Arab states including Syria to a Middle East peace conference, Abbas's aides said.  

9/22/2007 - Israeli Raid on Syria Fuels Debate on Weapons Mr. Bolton wanted to include information in a public speech about a Syrian nuclear program that could not be corroborated by intelligence agencies. In recent interviews, Mr. Bolton has suggested that the Israeli strike may have partly vindicated his view.....It is unclear to what extent the secrecy about the Israeli strike has been motivated by American doubts about the intelligence or by an effort to protect sources and classified information. Was Bolton vindicated, or was Israel's intel that they supplied to our government as evidence, bogus?

9/22/2007 - Want electricity? Stop the rockets   Like punishing all Americans for the criminals amongst us.

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9/21/2007 - Israel consulted US before Syria strike, report says **   We are getting much closer to another Middle East war that's going to involve several countries. And if you think the price of gasoline is high NOW...

9/21/2007 - Oxfam's partners in Gaza warn of Israel's decision outcomes to declare Gaza a "hostile entity"    

9/21/2007 - Israeli police deny worshippers access to al-Aqsa mosque    

9/21/2007 - PCHR Calls for Investigating Torture and Abuse by Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank    

9/21/2007 - Haniyeh in negotiations to bring an end to home-made shell fire    

9/21/2007 - Student challenges Gaza lockdown in court    

9/21/2007 - Israel blocks Muslim worshippers Israel stopped thousands of Palestinians from entering Jerusalem for Ramadan prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque on Friday and tightened border security as Jews prepared for the solemn annual rite of Yom Kippur.  

9/21/2007 - Egypt hits at EU for U.N. nuclear vote abstention Egypt criticised the European Union on Friday for failing to support a U.N. atomic watchdog resolution calling on all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons ? a clear reference to Israel's undeclared arsenal.  

9/21/2007 - Iran cleric hears "death knell" for Mideast peace plan A senior Iranian cleric said on Friday the "death knell" had sounded for a U.S.-sponsored Arab-Israeli peace conference, which has drawn skeptical remarks from some Arab countries that are expected to take part.  

9/21/2007 - Hamas rebuffed in approach to Israel: source A prominent Hamas official tried to open discussions with Israel to ease confrontation in the Gaza Strip but was rebuffed, a Palestinian official familiar with the situation told Reuters on Friday.  

9/21/2007 - Syria strike: US shared intelligence with Israel However, there is considerable scepticism of the intelligence that prompted Israel's attack, with some proliferation experts querying whether Syria is even attempting to acquire nuclear weapons. The quality of the Israeli intelligence is also unknown, as is the extent of North Korean co-operation. Some people have suggested that a North Korean ship merely unloaded items it no longer needed.  

9/21/2007 - Israel: Groups condemn government A coalition of Israeli human rights groups condemned the government's decision this week to cut back fuel and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, saying it violated international law.  

9/21/2007 - ICAHD: GAZA; A CALL FOR URGENT ACTION    

9/21/2007 - Non-violent protest near Bethlehem    

9/21/2007 - Bush to hold first direct talks with Tony Blair as Middle East envoy    

9/21/2007 - Israeli Public Security Minister bans charitable Ramadan breakfast in Jerusalem Under Israeli legislation, the Public Security Minister can prevent and bar meetings of any kind at their discretion. Those scheduled to attend included Christian and Islamic religious figures.  

9/21/2007 - US, Israel shared intel before Syria raid: report    

9/21/2007 - Palestinian plight in Lebanon worsens    

9/21/2007 - Crowds attend Lebanese MP funeral    

9/21/2007 - Iran and Israel face off over nuclear weapons Iran called for UN inspectors to be dispatched to verify whether Israel has nuclear weapons, in a heated showdown with the Jewish state at a meeting of the UN atomic agency Friday.  

9/21/2007 - At a Philadelphia Synagogue, Fear of Walt/Mearsheimer (and the Myth of Jewish Powerlessness)    

9/21/2007 - ZOA, OU concerned at Ramon offer Two U.S. Jewish groups expressed concerns that top Israeli officials were proposing sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians.  

9/21/2007 - Citizenship case takes a new twist A computer expert who pioneered text-to-speech software, Mahd, 34, is representing himself. He was born totally blind to Palestinian refugees in Jordan and came to the United States as a teenager with the help of U.S. officials. He has worked for IBM and on government contracts, living in the country legally for 17 years.  

9/21/2007 - Barak: Israel shouldn't appease U.S. president with one year left In statements made to Haaretz, Barak warned against a "withdrawal from Israeli principles that have stood for 40 years, merely to gain favor in the eyes of an American president who is leaving office in a year."  

9/21/2007 - Israeli authorities deny Catholic priest re-entry into West Bank Father Faris Khaleifat of Annunciation Church, a Melkite Catholic parish in Ramallah, was returning to his parish when Israeli authorities at the Al Sheik Hussein Bridge crossing canceled his multiple-entry visa without explanation Sept. 14.  

9/21/2007 - UN chief names Israeli musician Daniel Barenboim peace envoy    

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9/20/2007 - Teen crushed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Thursday after being run over by an Israeli army bulldozer during a military incursion in the Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses said. Mahmud Kayed was run over by the bulldozer when it lurched towards a group of youths throwing rocks at the vehicle during the army incursion in the Al-Bureij refugee camp, they said.  

9/20/2007 - Israeli troops kill 4 Palestinians in Gaza raid A senior Hamas operative, a 22-year-old militant and a 16-year-old civilian were also killed, medical workers said.  

9/20/2007 - Wounded activist testifies against IDF Brian Avery, the American human rights activist who was shot in the face and badly wounded in the West Bank in 2003, took the stand for the first time since the incident in the opening hearing of a civil suit in Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Thursday that he filed for damages against the state.  

9/20/2007 - Moscow calls on Israel not to cut fuel deliveries to Gaza Strip Moscow backs UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's appeal to Israel to review its decision to introduce additional restrictions on electricity and fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip if missile attacks on Israel from the Palestinian territory continue.  

9/20/2007 - Israel bars students from leaving Gaza at last minute    

9/20/2007 - Awad: "Everything is being done to overcome the embargo"    

9/20/2007 - Bush to meet Abbas in New York next week: W.House    

9/20/2007 - Meretz: Cabinet can't whitewash war crimes in Gaza Left calls cabinet decision to declare Gaza a hostile entity 'dangerous and foolish.' Right dismisses cabinet vote as 'lip-service', too little and too late  

9/20/2007 - Hamas and the PFLP in Nablus organize a protest against the military invasion into Nablus    

9/20/2007 - Israel can beat any enemy: defence minister "We can win in every situation, even when the sound of war comes from Syria or when Iran readies its weapons," he said.  

9/20/2007 - Arabs push through U.N. watchdog vote against Israel    

9/20/2007 - Mid-East diary: Keeping perspective The Palestinians to whom I have spoken ask what is new. For years, they have routinely described the Gaza Strip as a big prison and it is hard to argue with the description. Throughout 40 years of occupation, collective punishments that violate the fourth Geneva Convention have been commonplace.  

9/20/2007 - Arabs slam Israel for declaring Gaza "enemy entity" Arab and Islamic countries on Thursday condemned Israel for declaring the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity", and accused Israeli forces of killing Palestinian civilians, detaining parliamentarians, and destroying property.  

9/20/2007 - Pressure to arrest Ahmadinejad Israel's friends are calling for the arrest of Iran's president in advance of his arrival next week in New York City  

9/20/2007 - Carter: Iran No Threat to Israel Now "Iran is quite distant from Israel," said Carter, 83. "I think it would be almost inconceivable that Iran would commit suicide by launching one or two missiles of any kind against the nation of Israel."  

9/20/2007 - Gazans fear worst after Israeli threat to cut supplies Gazans braced for the worst on Thursday after Israel branded the territory a "hostile entity" in a move that paved the way for cuts to basic supplies and drew widespread international criticism.  

9/20/2007 - Full closure on West Bank, Gaza A full closure has been imposed on the West Bank and Gaza starting Thursday at midnight for the duration of the Yom Kippur holiday. The closure will be lifted on Defense Minister Ehud Barak's orders following a renewed security assessment after the holiday ends.  

9/20/2007 - EU calls on Israel to reconsider sanctions against Gaza Strip The European Union joined on Thursday a United Nations call for Israel to reconsider its move to declare the Gaza Strip "hostile territory" and appealed for it not to cut key services to the Hamas-run territory.  

9/20/2007 - P.A shuts down Al Aqsa TV Station in the West Bank Mohammad Eshtewy, director of the Al Aqsa satellite station in the West Bank, stated on Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority, headed by Dr. Salaam Fayyad, decided to shut down the station and to bar its activities in the West Bank.  

9/20/2007 - Barghouthi: ?Israel?s decision to consider Gaza a hostile entity, a declaration of war" Palestinian Legislator, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, stated on Wednesday that the Israeli decision to consider the Gaza Strip as a hostile entity is considered a declaration of war against the Palestinian people, and a collective punishment.  

9/20/2007 - Israeli military operation in el-Ein refugee camp continues into third day    

9/20/2007 - 35 senators sign peace resolution The nonbinding bipartisan resolution, initiated by U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), had languished for months until a recent lobbying blitz led by dovish pro-Israel groups rekindled interest. It calls for President Bush to name a top-level envoy to the talks and to urge the sides to negotiate a two-state solution.  

9/20/2007 - On Being Called An Anti-Semite in Montana   The Israeli Lobby in action.

9/20/2007 - American journalist criticizes American Media coverage of Palestinian issues In a lecture organized by the Al Najah University of Nablus on Wednesday, Alison Weir, founder of the ?If Americans knew? organization, criticized the biased American Media coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.  

9/20/2007 - No credible threat to Israel Israel does not enhance its survivability by lawless and violent policies and behaviors that create more enemies than it can kill or incapacitate by its aggressive tactics.  

9/20/2007 - Scots stop anti-Israel petition The decision was applauded by Leah Grant, of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, who saw it as a ?reassuring? development.  

9/20/2007 - Combatants for Peace    

9/20/2007 - Australia calls for soldiers' release Australia's government passed a motion calling for the release of Israel's abducted soldiers. Aussies have their own burgeoning Israeli lobby. My condolences.

9/20/2007 - Groups welcome travel insurance law Jewish groups welcomed the passage of a bill banning insurers from discriminating against travelers to Israel.  

9/20/2007 - Al-Dura footage to air    

9/20/2007 - MIDEAST-US: The Long Propaganda War Wittes suggests that the U.S. use the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as an opportunity to build a coalition to counter Iranian clout that would include Israel and moderate Arab states allied or friendly with the U.S. Again, the current administration's bumbling efforts to hastily set up a meeting for mid-November between Israel and some Arab states is already mired in doubt about what specific progress will be made, dimming hopes for a lasting and effective coalition  

9/20/2007 - NY university urged to cancel Ahmadinejad speech    

9/20/2007 - U.S. talking about isolating Iran "The reason why is, is because it's very important for us to take the threats coming out of the mouth of the president of Iran very seriously," Bush said, adding that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad constantly talks about using force on Israel, "and Israel is our very firm and strong ally."  

9/20/2007 - Bush warns N. Korea on nuclear export In a press conference Thursday, Bush refused four times to comment on allegations that Israel struck deep into Syrian territory two weeks ago, targeting nuclear material shipped to Syria by North Korea. However, the president said he was willing to comment in general on allegations that North Korea exports its nuclear know-how, contrary to an emerging agreement in its talks with the international community. Israel to Bush: "Bark like a dog". Bush: "Woof!"

9/20/2007 - Jewish congressmen slam Moran Sixteen Jewish Democrats in Congress slammed a colleague who blamed AIPAC for the Iraq war.  

9/20/2007 - Brazil offers hope to Iraq refugees It is the second time in 60 years that they and their families have been refugees. They fled British-mandate Palestine after the formation of Israel and eventually ended up in Iraq, where they were welcomed by the former government and given generous financial support  

9/20/2007 - Moran Should 'retract His Remarks' About Israel Lobby, Hoyer Says Moran, a Virginia Democrat, got himself in hot water last week telling a Jewish magazine that the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was enormously influential in pushing for war in Iraq. He also said AIPAC's "ties to certain newspapers and magazines and individuals in the media are substantial and intimidating."  

9/20/2007 - Giuliani says NATO should admit Israel, Japan   Giuliani for President...of ISRAEL!

9/20/2007 - 'Dozens died in Syria-Iran missile test'   This 'report' sounds like more propaganda in the effort to include Syria when the US attacks Iran.

9/20/2007 - Fury as Netanyahu confirms Syria strike An anonymous official said to be close to Mr Olmert was quoted in the Haaretz newspaper as saying: "Bibi's slip of the tongue borders on national irresponsibility. Once again Netanyahu couldn't restrain himself and he ran to tell the guys."  

9/20/2007 - Israeli plans tallest N.Y. residence An Israeli real estate magnate plans to build New York City's tallest residential building.  

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9/19/2007 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in Nablus incursion Mohammed Selim, 38, whom witnesses said was a civilian and handicapped in his legs and one hand, died on the balcony of his house in Ein Beit Elma refugee camp inside the city, Palestinian security sources said  

9/19/2007 - Israel declares Gaza Strip hostile territory The Israeli government yesterday declared the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity" and threatened to further cut fuel and electricity supplies if militants continue to fire Qassam rockets at Israel, a decision that was backed by the United States. The decision was described by Palestinians and international agencies, including the UN, as collective punishment, which is illegal under international law. Hamas said the policy was a declaration of war.  

9/19/2007 - Gaza militants shell Israeli army positions Three Palestinian militant factions, including two previously-unheard groups, announced on Monday responsibility for targeting Israeli army bases around the Gaza Strip with mortar shells and home-made rockets.  

9/19/2007 - Israel to reduce power and fuel supplies to Gaza    

9/19/2007 - Attackers wound 2 Hamas security men in Gaza    

9/19/2007 - Israeli forces kidnap 3 Palestinians from Qalqilia, one from Hebron, two from Bethlehem    

9/19/2007 - World Bank says donors need long term plan for OPT    

9/19/2007 - World Bank: Gaza must be part of PA economic recovery plan    

9/19/2007 - Palestinian opinion poll shows Hamas trailing Fatah, criticism of Gaza takeover The popularity of the Hamas militant group has fallen far behind rival Fatah, according to an opinion poll released Monday, and Palestinians were overwhelmingly opposed to the Islamic group's heavy-handed tactics in the Gaza Strip.  

9/19/2007 - Israel to remove 24 barriers across West Bank Defence Minister Ehud Barak presented the plan during a meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who arrived earlier in the day for a series of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss efforts to revive the stalled peace process.  

9/19/2007 - WHO in urgent appeal to avert Palestinian health crisis The World Health Organisation issued an urgent appeal on Wednesday for international donors to fund essential drugs and medical supplies to avert a Palestinian health crisis.  

9/19/2007 - Rice: U.S. won't abandon Palestinians Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States "will not abandon the innocent Palestinians in Gaza," shortly after Israel declared the territory to be an enemy entity in order to cut off power and fuel supplies to the coastal strip. They already did years ago.

9/19/2007 - Palestinians left helpless by Israelis, World Bank warns Tony Blair, the new international Middle East envoy, and key donor countries meeting in New York will be given an alarming picture of economic run-down in which Gaza in particular faces an "extreme scenario" in which children under 15, comprising half the population, will soon "be thrust into a non-existent labour market".  

9/19/2007 - Egypt, Syria press for IAEA resolution against Israel Egypt and Syria urged the UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday to pass a resolution condemning Israel for possessing nuclear weapons.  

9/19/2007 - UN chief: Cutting off fuel to Gaza is violation of international law United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel on Wednesday to reconsider its decision to declare the Gaza Strip a hostile territory, warning that any cutoff of vital services would violate international law and punish the already suffering civilian population.  

9/19/2007 - Rice criticises nuclear watchdog The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, today publicly criticised the UN's atomic watchdog and called for diplomacy with "teeth" to end Iran's nuclear plans.  

9/19/2007 - Iran issues Israel attack warning Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if it launches an attack on Iranian soil first, military officials say.  

9/19/2007 - US vows 'serious' Mid-East talks   This is a dog and pony show to get the Arab countries to support another war in their neighborhood - this time, Iran.

9/19/2007 - B'Tselem: "Stripping Palestinians of their homes contravenes Palestinians human rights" The Israeli Center for Human Rights "B'Tselem" has demanded the Israeli military Deputy-General to issue orders to the Israeli police to investigate the widespread demolition of homes in Qalqiliya and the practices associated with these demolitions.  

9/19/2007 - Fallow year is year of plenty for Arab-Israelis    

9/19/2007 - U.S. officials object to Israel's treatment of Arab-Americans During meetings between senior State Department officials and their counterparts in Israel, the Americans said that in recent months there has been a troubling increase in the number of complaints by American citizens of Palestinian and Arab origin, regarding the treatment they receive at border crossings and airports in Israel.  

9/19/2007 - A double standard on academic freedom No full-page advertisements in major American newspapers have publicized Israel's violations of Palestinian children's right to an education. No editors, syndicated columnists or presidents of major universities in this country have denounced this callous measure. Our politicians have demanded no remedial action. Instead, they continue, verbally and materially, to support Israel in its near-total blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians, kids and all.  

9/19/2007 - Israeli army soldiers broke into a PRCS volunteer committee center in Deir Estia    

9/19/2007 - Judge Throws Out ?Jerusalem, Israel' Passport Lawsuit The State Department contends that marking Menachem's place of birth as "Jerusalem, Israel" would upset long-standing American policy that the sovereignty of Jerusalem is an issue to be determined in peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Arabs.  

9/19/2007 - URGENT Legal Funds Needed! Qusin Demo Video and Report    

9/19/2007 - Police bar sounding of muezzin in mostly Arab part of Acre Police have decided to prohibit the sounding of the muezzin, the prayer call used in Islam, during the month of Ramadan in an Acre neighborhood comprising an Arab residential majority.  

9/19/2007 - Anger at new Lebanon MP killing World leaders and Lebanese politicians have condemned the bomb attack that killed an anti-Syrian Lebanese MP in a mainly Christian suburb of Beirut  

9/19/2007 - Netanyahu says Israel carried out Syria air raid, he backed it Opposition leader and former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said that the Jewish state had carried out an air strike in Syria two weeks ago and that he had backed it.  

9/19/2007 - Half-million signers demand two states More than a half-million Israelis and Palestinians have signed a petition demanding a two-state solution.  

9/19/2007 - Act won't allow domestic spying Jewish organizations were among those that had expressed concerns about the law passed this summer with vague language that could be interpreted as allowing searches without warramts of U.S. individuals and organizations in communication with suspected spies and terrorists overseas.  

9/19/2007 - Defend Cong. Moran from AIPAC Media Attacks (Updated)    

9/19/2007 - US Methodists plan to disinvest from Israel and Sudan "The United Methodist Church has a long history of unwavering support for Israel's right to exist," said Sprecher. "We have also long supported human rights for Palestinians. We, like many, are frustrated by the increasing harsh conditions Palestinians continue to endure under Israel's 40 years of illegal occupation."  

9/19/2007 - Beep backs Arabic school, urges controversial principal be reinstated    

9/19/2007 - On unconditional support of Israel We are Israel's foreign-policy patsy for two main reasons: (1) the influence of the pro-Israel lobby, which is, perhaps, the most powerful in Washington; (2) the pervasive pro-Israel bias throughout the American media. (Example: The killing of 35 Palestinian children by Israeli weapons in 2007 goes unreported. But, had they been Israeli, you would know about each one.) Until these influences are overcome, Americans will never be secure.  

9/19/2007 - Unique Middle East program rooted at MIT bears fruit Palestinian becomes first MEET student to enroll at MIT  

9/19/2007 - School, activists at odds over Mideast speaker Qumsiyeh denies the accusations of anti-Semitism and misinformation, which he said are used by his opponents to silence his arguments. ?Whenever people are speaking truth in a situation where there is injustice, they?re going to be attacked,? said Qumsiyeh. ?I?m very sad that they?re losing an opportunity to engage in dialogue.?  

9/19/2007 - Assad reiterates peace hopes    

9/19/2007 - Sheetrit pessimistic about peace talks Should the league compromise on a contentious issue like refugees, Sheetrit said, the Palestinians would have no choice but to go along.  

9/19/2007 - Tenure Battle At Barnard Gains Fresh Urgency In one particularly contested section, Abu El-Haj writes about observing the use of bulldozers during a dig, proposing that they may have erased the top layers of culture that would have contained evidence of other civilizations. Her focus on bulldozers, her critics say, conjures up a sinister, more contemporary meaning of the machines.  

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9/18/2007 - Two killed in West Bank clashes An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian militant have been killed in clashes during an Israeli raid in the West Bank town of Nablus, officials have said.  

9/18/2007 - Women police: the new veiled face of order in Gaza Susan Aqal is a tightly veiled Palestinian mother who has a baby boy. But she has abandoned traditional domestic life to interrogate suspected drug addicts, thieves and murderers in the volatile Gaza Strip.  

9/18/2007 - 'Soldiers came out of nowhere and abused us'    

9/18/2007 - Letter From the Middle East: Palestinians build a Political Prisoners Museum    

9/18/2007 - Israeli border police attack and injure two Shepherds near Jerusalem    

9/18/2007 - Hamas official denies holding contacts with Israel    

9/18/2007 - Fatah, Hamas fight upends aid to Palestinian poor The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is here, and Naila Khalaf is entering it with little to feed her 11 children.  

9/18/2007 - 'In' and 'out' in Palestine and Israel When we talk about Christians in Palestine-Israel it is important to pay attention to our language of who is ?in? and who is ?out.? As the story above indicates, some people may not see our Palestinian brothers and sisters as being ?in.? From one perspective, Palestinians, be they Christians or Muslims, are usurpers who should leave the land. A reading of Scripture that erases Palestinians from the land is tantamount to a biblically-justified ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.  

9/18/2007 - Israel to query 2002 strike killing of civilians, Hamas chief Late at night on July 22, 2002, an Israeli F-16 dropped a one-tonne bomb onto Shehade's house in a crowded section of Gaza City, killing him, his wife, nine children and four other civilians and wounding dozens of others. Like letting the fox investigate the henhouse.

9/18/2007 - Palestinian government seen needing $1.6 bln a year    

9/18/2007 - Families cannot sue firm for Israel deaths Cindy Corrie, Rachel's mother, told the Guardian that she was extremely disappointed by the court's decision. "Clearly there were war crimes committed here and we will continue to challenge Caterpillar and the US government." Mariah LaHood, a lawyer with the Centre for Constitutional Rights who acted on the case, questioned the role the US government played in giving evidence favourable to Caterpillar. "Isn't there a responsibility to permit justice to be sought on behalf of a US citizen killed in a foreign country?" Not if that foreign country was Israel.

9/18/2007 - Abbas faces pressure to skip Mideast conference Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is under pressure from his Fatah faction not to attend a U.S.-led Middle East conference, aides said on Tuesday, citing uncertainty over its participants and outcome.  

9/18/2007 - West Bank village faces demolition    

9/18/2007 - 'Ground forces were operating in Syria' According to the report, at a rendezvous point on the ground, a Shaldag air force commando team waited to direct their laser beams at the target for the approaching IAF planes. The team had arrived a day earlier, taking up position near a large underground depot. Soon the bunkers were in flames. I wonder how often Israeli commandos have been inside Lebanon conducting ops in the past few years? ....

9/18/2007 - Dutch church to reexamine policy of solidarity with Israel    

9/18/2007 - 'Israeli warplanes raid' Lebanon It was reportedly the first time that Israeli planes have flown at supersonic speeds in Lebanon's airspace, causing sonic bangs. More psyops.

9/18/2007 - Ministers speak out against Ramon plan Several ministers express outrage at vice premier's letter proposing ceding parts of Jerusalem to Palestinian Authority. Kadima MK warns party could turn into Meretz; Olmert's office says plan does not obligate prime minister  

9/18/2007 - Isolation of Gaza Chokes Off Trade    

9/18/2007 - Neocon hawks go all-out for Giuliani Many of its leaders now see Giuliani as the made-to-order candidate, or at least the best chance to perpetuate their influence, experts say By coincidence (not really), Israel has him pegged in first place in terms of his support for that nation.

9/18/2007 - Prisoners? families in Gaza call for the release of their beloved ones    

9/18/2007 - Bolton: U.S. backs Israeli pre-emption The United States would stand behind any pre-emptive attack by Israel on neighboring countries believed to have nuclear weapons programs, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said in an interview published Tuesday in the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot.  

9/18/2007 - Israel, Iran cooperate in crash probe    

9/18/2007 - Arab committee boycotts Israel national carrier An Arab civil liberties group on Tuesday called on the Arab community in Israel to boycott national carrier El Al to protest against the "humiliation" of Arab fliers in the name of security.  

9/18/2007 - Report: Israel to launch satellite India Defense magazine reported this week that by month's end, Israel will launch a TechSar satellite from the Indian air base of Sriharikota.  

9/18/2007 - N Korea denies Syria nuclear ties Syria has formally complained to the United Nations about the alleged raid by Israeli aircraft over its territory.  

9/18/2007 - U.S. officials seek to lower expectations as they prepare for November summit Lawmakers are circulating a letter, initiated by U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), urging Rice to insist that Arab nations meet those requirements in order to attend the summit. The letter, backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, states: "Your ongoing efforts to work with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are critical, but so is the support these efforts receive from those Arab countries."  

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9/17/2007 - Teenager shot dead in West Bank Local residents said Mohammed Jabbarin, 16, had not been armed and had been shot after he threw rocks at a patrol  

9/17/2007 - Palestinians looking for substance from peace meeting "The most important thing is not what we call things, it's the substance," Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP when asked to comment on the Israeli statements issued the previous day.  

9/17/2007 - Egypt coordinates stands with Russia, EU on U.S.-proposed Mideast conference    

9/17/2007 - Gaza doctors suspend strike for Ramadan    

9/17/2007 - Israeli forces kidnap one Palestinian from Bethlehem, another from Qalqilia    

9/17/2007 - Israeli border guards charged in attacks Four Israeli border guards have been charged with beating and threatening two Palestinians and two Israeli-Arabs in the West Bank.  

9/17/2007 - Abbas? Advisor slams Israeli Army killing of a child in Ramallah Abdul-Rahman stated that the child, Muhammad Jabareen, 16, was throwing stones at invading forces, and does not deserve to be punished by death.  

9/17/2007 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant in northern Gaza Israeli soldiers, stationed near northern Gaza borders with Israel, shot dead on Monday night a Palestinian militant, said sources from both sides.  

9/17/2007 - Erekat: Israeli operations lead to more violence    

9/17/2007 - Europeans try to mediate between rival Fatah and Hamas    

9/17/2007 - Palestinian police capture Israeli citizen in Bethlehem Palestinian police forces captured Monday night a stray Israeli citizen near the Church of Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, police sources said  

9/17/2007 - Brown says Palestinian economy is key to revival of peace process Israeli closures and security restrictions on the movement of goods and services "represent the greatest barrier" to Palestinian economic growth. These are targeted at extremists but "impact equally on the majority of moderate Palestinians", it warned, adding: "Israel's medium-term security can only be assured through Palestinian prosperity."  

9/17/2007 - Palestinians Sue for Use of Road Built for Them "It's a road inside the West Bank, and in this sense it is outside the borders of Israel, and basically Israelis don?t have a right to go there," she said. "It's the same as Israelis claiming that Palestinians don't have the right to enter Israel. The same argument should apply to Israelis [in the West Bank]."  

9/17/2007 - Hamas slams Arab states' support to Abbas    

9/17/2007 - Iran threatens Israel, U.S. interests Iran threatened to fire hundreds of missiles at Israeli and U.S. targets if its nuclear facilities are attacked.  

9/17/2007 - Olmert: I respect Assad Ehud Olmert voiced respect for Bashar Assad and reiterated Israel's desire for peace with Syria. Umm, they say this right after they buzzbombed the place?

9/17/2007 - Israelis vacation in Golan Heights despite tensions with Syria    

9/17/2007 - Orthodox Jew tapped to replace Gonzalez Mukasey's Jewishness became an issue when a defendant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing filed a motion to remove the judge, arguing that his allegiances to fellow Jews and Israel would create a bias against Muslim defendants. The motion was dismissed as "utterly irrelevant."  

9/17/2007 - Lawmaker prods Olmert over Syria An Israeli lawmaker demanded Ehud Olmert provide an accounting of Israel's alleged airstrike inside Syria.  

9/17/2007 - Syria reopens Lebanon border posts    

9/17/2007 - First joint Israeli-Palestinian exhibition held at UN headquarters    

9/17/2007 - A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East    

9/17/2007 - It is unjust and absurd to apply economics to this hell    

9/17/2007 - French Jew defends claim that Arab boy's death was staged ?The problem here is Karsenty himself,? said Stephane Bou, who has written on the subject for Charlie Hebdo, a satirical political weekly. ?He is known here for being obsessed with international plots against Jews and against Israel."  

9/17/2007 - US Court Won't Reinstate Corrie Suit Because the U.S. government pays for all Caterpillar bulldozers sold to Israel, the lawsuit presented foreign policy questions best left to the White House and Congress, said the three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco."A court could not find in favor of the plaintiffs without implicitly questioning, and even condemning, United States foreign policy toward Israel," Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw wrote.  

9/17/2007 - Intensive contacts to revive Shalit's case: militant group    

9/17/2007 - Experts: Syria may have violated non-proliferation treaty   Hey pot, this is the kettle calling..

9/17/2007 - Politics Pushes Uneven Policies The completely one-sided support for Israel from some conservative evangelicals rests on two things: one, a very dubious interpretation (I'm being generous here) of biblical prophecy and eschatology (the theology of the "end times") in which the modern state of Israel is still equated with the Old Testament notion of "God's chosen people;" and two, a complete denial of the very existence of Palestinian Christians.  

9/17/2007 - Israeli soldiers prosecute the director of ?Jenin Jenin? movie    

9/17/2007 - UN moves to counter deteriorating Gaza education levels    

9/17/2007 - Muslim charity trial wraps up in Texas Defense attorney Nancy Hollander said prosecutors built their case on the word of one Israeli official who testified under a false name, and showed the jury only selective evidence  

9/17/2007 - Political rivalries emerge in Ramadan    

9/17/2007 - Bush's fall Mideast meeting may be in trouble Palestinian leaders, along with Saudi Arabia , are threatening to boycott the event unless it ends with a detailed framework and specific timetable for establishing a Palestinian state.  

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9/16/2007 - Israeli fire kills two Palestinians in West Bank    

9/16/2007 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in Hebron Israeli troops killed an armed Palestinian after shooting broke out between two feuding Palestinian families near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, local residents and medics said.  

9/16/2007 - Israel says deterrent ability recovered after Syria strike    

9/16/2007 - Truck Aid Convoy Heads for Palestinian Territories    

9/16/2007 - Salaheldin Brigades ambush an Israeli force in eastern Gaza The Saalheldin brigades, the militant offshoot of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), claimed on Sunday evening responsibility for ambushing an Israeli infantry force in eastern Gaza city.  

9/16/2007 - Hamas to maintain truce with Israel Hamas said on Sunday it was abiding by a truce with Israel as Muslims mark the holy month of Ramadan, amid fears the Jewish state might launch a major incursion into the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip.  

9/16/2007 - Soldiers Caught on Tape Threatening Crowd with Grenade at Hawarra    

9/16/2007 - Olmert seeks to lower expectations for Mideast talks    

9/16/2007 - Israeli forces bar movement of Palestinians between eastern and central West Bank Following the Israeli military's complete closure of the Gaza Strip from last Tuesday, the Israelis have imposed even more restrictions on the movement of Palestinians. On Saturday, morning travel between eastern and central areas of the West Bank was halted. These restrictions, introduced for the period of the Jewish New Year celebrations, Rosh Hashanah, are expected to remain in place until Sunday.  

9/16/2007 - Fatah renews condition for dialogue with Hamas    

9/16/2007 - Feature: Power shortage, part of daily life for Gazans    

9/16/2007 - Hamas said planning spoiler attack Hamas intends to carry out a major terrorist attack that will scuttle an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference, Israel's military intelligence chief said. Surrrre it will be by 'Hamas', mmm k.

9/16/2007 - Missing women of Gaza    

9/16/2007 - IDF demands uncut al-Dura tape   Israelis are still trying to discredit this video.

9/16/2007 - Influence of the Israel lobby    

9/16/2007 - Syria raid a 'clear message to Iran' An air strike Syria accuses Israel of staging on its territory was a warning both to Damascus and to Iran, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said.  

9/16/2007 - The Bully of the Middle East Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and in their most recent book. But they have had to spend a great deal of words and time assuring their readers that they are not anti-Semites, an accusation that has been the main force of the attack on them by the Israel Lobby.  

9/16/2007 - MLK disciples work for peace in the Mideast Gaza has become synonymous with suicide bombings and fighting. But the tactics of civil disobedience have also been used as part of the struggle for statehood.  

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9/15/2007 - Palestinian seriously injured during Israeli operation in northern Gaza One Palestinian, 17, was seriously injured with a bullet to the stomach at his home in Bein Hanoun, health ministry official Moaiwaya Hassanein said. Local residents said the young man was not known as a militant.  

9/15/2007 - Bush administration dogged by NKorea-Syria nuclear links The reports, citing unnamed sources, were based on intelligence information supposedly from Israel's flyover and apparent raid last week on targets inside Syria. There's your problem right there.

9/15/2007 - Was Israeli raid a dry run for attack on Iran? ** The opaqueness surrounding the nature of what may have been hit in Operation Orchard has been compounded by claims that US knowledge over the alleged 'agricultural site' has come not from its own intelligence and satellite imaging, but from material supplied to Washington from Tel Aviv over the last six months, material that has been restricted to just a few senior officials under the instructions of national security adviser Stephen Hadley, leaving many in the intelligence community uncertain of its veracity. Red flag.

9/15/2007 - Intent on destruction: The Israeli nightly invasions of Ein Beit el Ma camp ?We are having visits all the time from the Israeli military, especially in these last months and especially at night. They enter the camp at about 1am, and occupy the rooftops. I know more and more residents are sleeping during the day now, because they can't rest at night.?  

9/15/2007 - President Abbas receives the American general consul Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, received Saturday at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah , Jack Wallace, the American consul in Jerusalem.  

9/15/2007 - Israeli army attacks nonviolent protest near Bethlehem Around 100 Palestinians, internationals and Israeli activists marched with local villagers in protest against the construction of an illegal road on village-owned land.  

9/15/2007 - PPS report: ?32 detainees are hospitalized in Al Ramla prison hospital?    

9/15/2007 - Hamas: Fatah security forces arrest four Hamas members in the West Bank    

9/15/2007 - Arab-Israeli group: National service offshoot of occupation army Baladna ? the Association for Arab Youth ? is expected to launch a campaign Friday calling on young Arab-Israelis to boycott the national service, which it referred to as "an offshoot of the IDF".  

9/15/2007 - Hamas wary of possible Israeli incursion, Israeli says not possible to stop rocket fire    

9/15/2007 - Two unknown assailants attack a journalism office in Gaza    

9/15/2007 - Israel's Olmert delays Palestinian prisoner release    

9/15/2007 - Islamic militants reject Hamas' call to halt attacks The armed wing of Islamic jihad movement Saturday rejected Hamas movement's calls for halting attacks on Gaza crossing points controlled by Israel.  

9/15/2007 - Foreign activist, Palestinian protester wounded by Israeli army A foreign peace activist and a Palestinian protester were wounded on Saturday as the Israeli army fired rubber bullets to break up a protest in the West Bank, witnesses said.  

9/15/2007 - Hamas force says defuses bomb at Gaza parliament A Hamas-led security force said on Sunday it found a bomb outside the parliament building in the Gaza Strip, a development that could fuel tensions between governing Islamists and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction.  

9/15/2007 - Hebron: Update: 01-06 September 2007    

9/15/2007 - Puerto Rican, Palestinian activists make stop Puerto Rican Activist Tito Kayak will join Palestinian film journalist Emad Bornat to bring their tour, ?Puerto Rico to Palestine: Uniting Struggles in Defense of the Land,? to Ithaca on Monday, Sept. 17  

9/15/2007 - Hammad: Building PA institutions will remain in the vacuum as long as the occupation continues    

9/15/2007 - Lebanon seizes fugitive militants Lebanon's military says it has captured four Islamist militants two weeks after the army stormed a Palestinian refugee camp, ending a bloody 105-day siege.  

9/15/2007 - Giuliani Advisor: Raze Palestinian Villages Daniel Pipes?who, as I first reported here, has signed on as a foreign policy advisor to Rudy Giuliani?s campaign?essentially argued for war crimes against Palestinians, and there was no cry of protest from the media or anywhere else.  

9/15/2007 - Palestinian Diaspora: With or against collaboration?    

9/15/2007 - Jordan queen in Ramadan fundraising campaign for UNICEF The campaign is aimed at "promoting awareness and raising funds to directly support children in areas of crisis" in Iraq, Darfur and the Palestinian territories, the queen's office said on Saturday.  

9/15/2007 - Palestinians in Lebanon are haunted by history 'Sep 16 marks a black day for us Palestinians in Lebanon. It is today 25 years, but we still live in fear that something like this massacre will take place again after the recent clashes in north Lebanon,' he said.  

9/15/2007 - Syria won't go to war with Israel, Kassem says    

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9/14/2007 - Palestinians pray for Ramadan amid tight Israel security    

9/14/2007 - Two Israelis wounded in West Bank shooting Two Israelis traveling in a car were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank, the army and emergency services said on Friday.  

9/14/2007 - Israel curbs Ramadan prayer entry    

9/14/2007 - Palestine: democracy not Zionism The solution for the land which, until it was literally wiped off the map in 1948, was called Palestine is the same. It can only be democracy  

9/14/2007 - Israeli air strike targets Jihad fighters in Gaza    

9/14/2007 - Palestinian envoy has high hopes for Mideast conference "We hope this might be crowned by a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital," he said, ahead of a meeting with South African President Thabo Mbeki.  

9/14/2007 - Head of Hamas in Gaza tells Saudis he wants to patch up relations with rival Fatah    

9/14/2007 - Gaza Municipality warns of Israeli threats to cut power supply over the Gaza Strip    

9/14/2007 - U.S.: Syria on Nuclear Watch List **   Thus will Syria be added to the US's hitlist based on dubious Israeli intel. Syria will get whacked when we hit Iran.

9/14/2007 - Weekly non-violent protest continues in Bil'in At midday on Friday the villagers of Bil'in were joined by international and Israeli peace activists in a march to the illegal wall built by the Israelis on village land. Another 100 Palestinians from the West Bank city of Jericho came to Bil'in in support.  

9/14/2007 - New study of effects of the Wall The Civil Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Palestinians in Jerusalem published a report on Thursday documenting the effects of the illegal Israeli Wall on the lives of Palestinians in and around the city.  

9/14/2007 - Israel and Censorship at Harvard In recent years, at least three professors?Oxford?s Tom Paulin, DePaul?s Norman Finkelstein, and Rutgers? Robert Trivers?have been invited to speak at Harvard and then disinvited after complaints that they had spoken critically of Israel or disagreed sharply with Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz regarding Israel?s military conduct.  

9/14/2007 - Battle for resources in Hebron    

9/14/2007 - Town could get Middle East twin    

9/14/2007 - CALL TO ACTION! Villagers of Sarra and Qusin Refuse to be Kept in a Cage!    

9/14/2007 - Mystery deepens over Israeli strike on Syria Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported this week a US official as saying that recent satellite imagery, mainly provided by Israel, suggested that Syria may building some form of nuclear facility with the help of material unloaded by North Korea. The operative words here being "provided by Israel".

9/14/2007 - Non-Violent Protest in Al-Walaja Turns Ugly as Israeli Army Rears its Head    

9/14/2007 - US claims Hezbollah still smuggling arms through Syria    

9/14/2007 - Despite Backlash, Many Jews Are Questioning Israel    

9/14/2007 - UNHCR lays on free meals for Iraqi refugees during Ramadan "It is so good to see this large number of people gathered to share food. We are all brothers ? Palestinian, Syrian and Iraqi, and we all help each other. Solidarity is our strength, our tradition. When Iraqis eat this meal at home, it is with a message that we welcome and support them,"  

9/14/2007 - China emerges as leader in cyberwarfare an expert with the SANS Technology Institute, pointing to Israeli hacks against the US, and French hacks against European Union partners  

9/14/2007 - Articles of faith "We were surprised by how nasty it got," says the Harvard professor. "The David Duke reference, the neo-Nazi websites - these were intended to smear us and swing attention on to us rather than to what we were saying. It wasn't pleasant, but it never made me doubt what we had written or doubt myself." Standing tall in the face of attack is one thing; to raise your head above the parapet for a second round is quite another. But that is what the Mearsheimer/Walt double act are doing: they have gone on the offensive with the publication of a book-length version of their original treatise. "When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier" - Gandhi

9/14/2007 - Syria denies U.S. media reports on Israeli warplanes attack    

9/14/2007 - The Israel Lobby: Mearsheimer & Walt on Tour    

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9/13/2007 - 14 Palestinian civilians kidnapped as Israeli army attacks Hebron city and nearby villages    

9/13/2007 - Living off scraps: The West Bank's bitter harvest To Israeli settlers on the West Bank, it's just the dump where their rubbish ends up. To many Palestinians, it's the key to their families' survival.  

9/13/2007 - Hamas welcomes the Russian role in internal Palestinian talks    

9/13/2007 - Palestinian detainee attacked by Israeli soldiers    

9/13/2007 - aL-Qassam Brigades say they are prepared to defend Gaza    

9/13/2007 - Ramadan in Palestine    

9/13/2007 - Egypt faults U.S. for inactivity on Mideast peace French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the preparations, mainly in the form of talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, were a beginning but not enough.  

9/13/2007 - Palestinian authorities accuse Hamas of stashing arms in mosque    

9/13/2007 - Hamas seeks to limit rocket fire at Gaza crossings Hamas's government in the Gaza Strip called on Thursday on Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets and mortar bombs at border crossings with Israel that are used to bring food and other supplies into the territory.  

9/13/2007 - Israeli fire wounds two Gaza militants    

9/13/2007 - No pickles, pine nuts for Gazans this Ramadan Gaza, home for 1.5 million people, has long been facing economic hardship because of high unemployment, Israel's closure of its borders to stop militant attacks and a Western embargo imposed since Hamas Islamists took over power last year.  

9/13/2007 - Rocket attacks from Gaza hampering aid deliveries, Israel says    

9/13/2007 - Palestinian agricultural Relief Services: the Jordan valley suffers from lack of services    

9/13/2007 - Unknown gunmen attack One Voice Movement office in Gaza One Voice is one of the non-governmental organizations working in the West Bank and Gaza, trying to ease the economic and humanitarian plight of Palestinians.  

9/13/2007 - Children face difficult school conditions The school year began in the occupied Palestinian Territories last week amidst parents concern for the economic burden that the new school year brings.  

9/13/2007 - Fayyad meets tourism sector representatives in Bethlehem    

9/13/2007 - BADIL Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 2006 ? 2007 Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP) are the largest and longest-standing unresolved case of refugees and displaced persons in the world. In 2006-2007, there were appoximately 7 million Palestinian refugees and 450,000 internally displaced Palestinians representing 70 percent of the entire Palestinian population worldwide (10.1 million  

9/13/2007 - Russian envoy describes ties with Syria as "very good" On the Palestinian issue, Sultanov said he discussed with the Syrian leaders means to accomplish the basic aim in this regard, which is establishing a Palestinian state.  

9/13/2007 - Israel urgers tougher sanctions on Iran    

9/13/2007 - Debate Essential To Arab-Israeli Peace The word "apartheid" is exactly accurate. This is an area that's occupied by two powers. They are now completely separated. Palestinians can't even ride on the same roads that the Israelis have created or built in Palestinian territory. The Israelis never see a Palestinian, except the Israeli soldiers. The Palestinians never see an Israeli, except at a distance, except the Israeli soldiers. So within Palestinian territory, they are absolutely and totally separated, much worse than they were in South Africa, by the way. And the other thing is, the other definition of "apartheid" is, one side dominates the other. And the Israelis completely dominate the life of the Palestinian people  

9/13/2007 - Turkish intelligence assisted IDF in attack on Syria ? report Turkish intelligence provided Israel with information on the Syrian targets allegedly attacked by the Air Force last week without the Turkish government's authorization, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jareeda reported Thursday  

9/13/2007 - Two Cheers for Putin Let?s take it from the top. When communism collapsed, a few smart crooks?now they go by the name oligarchs?grabbed most of the state assets and moved their ill gotten gains to Britain and Israel, where they laundered their billions by buying football teams, palaces, yachts, planes and what have you. (Ninety percent of the oligarchs are Jewish). They charge that Putin has appealed to voters through tacit anti-Semitism. This is a blatantly false accusation, but it plays well among the neocon crowd  

9/13/2007 - THEATRE-US: Palestinian Martyrs and Traitors    

9/13/2007 - Home-grown Nazis Arab-Israelis, meanwhile, compare the fuss over the neo-Nazis with the indifference to another extremist minority?those among the right-wing Jewish settlers in the Palestinian territories who have spread hate and carried out attacks against Palestinians but are rarely punished  

9/13/2007 - Rice to lay groundwork for Mideast peace conference    

9/13/2007 - Peace Now asks High Court to order immediate eviction of Hebron squatters Peace Now petitioned the High Court of Justice on Tuesday, demanding the immediate evacuation of Hebron settlers who illegally seized four Palestinian shops in the city's Al Hisbeh market.  

9/13/2007 - Chile accepts 100 Palestinian refugees displaced from Iraq    

9/13/2007 - Radio Monte Carlo helps to train Palestinian students Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya has joined forces with Birzeit University Radio to train Palestinian journalists and help improve the media scene in the territories.  

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9/12/2007 - Israel resists Palestinians on peace talks    

9/12/2007 - U.S. says Palestinian leader "a man of peace"    

9/12/2007 - Saudis question Middle East talks    

9/12/2007 - U.S.-proposed Mideast conference should tackle all issues: AL official A senior official of the Arab League (AL) said Wednesday that the U.S.-proposed international conference on Mideast peace should tackle all issues  

9/12/2007 - Kouchner against meddling between Palestinians and Israelis    

9/12/2007 - Blair calls for expanding Palestinian forces    

9/12/2007 - Small Israeli force enters Gaza after rocket strike    

9/12/2007 - Senate letter presses Rice on Mideast Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are soliciting colleagues' signatures for a letter to the U.S. secretary of state. The letter has the support of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.  

9/12/2007 - Report: Israel spots nuclear installations in Syria Washington official says Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installation stocked by North Korea, Israeli Arab newspaper claims target of alleged raid last week was Syrian missile base financed by Iran Suurrre.

9/12/2007 - Whose Human Rights Matter? NYT on Hezbollah and Israeli Attacks On Civilians The Times' news judgment also fails to reflect the civilian death toll on each side. Human Rights Watch estimated that Israel killed about 900 Lebanese civilians, out of about 1,200 total Lebanese deaths, while Hezbollah killed 43 Israeli civilians along with about 80 Israeli military personnel. It is difficult, then, to avoid the conclusion that Israeli lives are considered significantly more important by the Times than Lebanese lives.  

9/12/2007 - AIPAC lobbies for Iran sanctions About 100 top AIPAC activists lobbied Congress to pass Iran sanctions bills.  

9/12/2007 - U-M Press resumes distributing controversial book Joel Kovel, the author of "Overcoming Zionism" and a distinguished professor of social studies at Bard College, said he didn't hear of problems with the book until the pro-Israel group, Stand With Us-Michigan, attacked it in an August newsletter. Encouraging supporters and members to call U-M, the group described the book as a polemic against Israel and a "collection of anti-Israel propaganda, misquotes, and discredited news stories."  

9/12/2007 - MySpace Teen Flies To West Bank For Palestinian Man Now at 18 years-of-age, She obviously can legaly fly alone anywhere she wants. Lester was at the airport ready to fly and there wasn't a thing her parents could do to stop it from happening.  

9/12/2007 - The 25th Anniversary of the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla I am sorry to report that today in Lebanon, the families of the victims of the Massacre daily sink deeper into the abyss. No where on earth do the Palestinians live in such filth and squalor. ?Worse than Gaza!? a journalist recently in Palestine exclaims.  

9/12/2007 - Remembering Sabra and Shatila We might have accepted evidence of a few murders; even dozens of bodies, killed in the heat of combat. Bur there were women lying in houses with their skirts torn torn up to their waists and their legs wide apart, children with their throats cut, rows of young men shot in the back after being lined up at an execution wall. There were babies - blackened babies babies because they had been slaughtered more than 24-hours earlier and their small bodies were already in a state of decomposition - tossed into rubbish heaps alongside discarded US army ration tins, Israeli army equipment and empty bottles of whiskey. ......When is a massacre not a massacre? When the figures are too low? Or when the massacre is carried out by Israel?s friends rather than Israel's enemies?  

9/12/2007 - From politics to philanthropy, time of transition for U.S. Jews the most pronounced and alarming development was the mainstream frontal assault on the pro-Israel activism of Jewish organizations, led by Carter in conjunction with the November release of his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.".....Carter also took aim at the pro-Israel lobby and Jewish organizations, accusing them of conspiring to stifle debate over America's foreign policy. Plenty of fringe figures have pressed this argument in the past, but suddenly this past year a former president of the United States was leading the charge, with several other respectable figures right behind him.  

9/12/2007 - For Ramadan, a show of mercy in Gaza And as part of an ongoing public relations blitz to prove to the world that the Islamist movement has brought stability in the wake of its violent June seizure of Gaza, they wanted everyone to see.  

9/12/2007 - Israel, China form strategic forum    

9/12/2007 - UN experts enter Lebanon battle camp The group visited Nahr al-Bared refugee camp to assess damage to buildings of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) inside the shantytown still off-limits to civilians and the media, Hoda Samra said.  

9/12/2007 - Advocacy Corner the Jewish Policy Center has organized a panel of experts -- including Daniel Pipes, Cliff May and David Horowitz, and moderated by radio commentator Michael Medved -- to address "The Fight Against Radical Islam and the New Anti-Semitism on Campus." The event will take place at 7 p.m.Wednesday, Sept. 19, at Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El in Wynnewood.  

9/12/2007 - Bethlehem Pastor Seeks Baptist Support for Palestine Though the move may initially raise eyebrows ? given that many evangelicals are strong supporters of Israel ? the Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, senior pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, said he hopes to reach out to U.S. Baptists for support after attending the fourth annual Human Rights Defenders Policy forum last week at The Carter Center in Atlanta.  

9/12/2007 - Rice to head to Jerusalem, Ramallah September 18-20    

9/12/2007 - U.S. officials confirm Israel strike on Syria "They saw a weapons flow," one official said, referring to weapons caches intended for Hezbollah, which fired thousands of rockets into Israel during a 36-day conflict last year.  

9/12/2007 - Israel keeps up blackout on mystery Syria air strike    

9/12/2007 - Israel snubs Tony Blair in new envoy role    

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9/11/2007 - French foreign minister says Israel and Palestinians on the right path to peace    

9/11/2007 - Israeli-Palestinian declaration calls for West Bank pullout The document calls for the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state whose borders will be based on the armistice lines which existed before the outbreak of the 1967 Middle East war, but which will take into account "demographic reality."  

9/11/2007 - Hamas arrests 'collaborators' following Rafah kidnapping    

9/11/2007 - Palestinian child political prisoners: Semi Annual Report 2007 The arrest, interrogation and imprisonment of Palestinian children in the West Bank , by Israeli military forces, police officers and other Israeli security personnel, is not a new phenomenon. Israel has been continuously arresting and prosecuting children since its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967  

9/11/2007 - Army attacks a mosque and several homes in Hebron    

9/11/2007 - Qalqiliya, 29 August 2007: Extensive destruction of houses and gross humiliation of residents    

9/11/2007 - Palestinian rocket injures 50 Israeli soldiers Also this morning, four members of the same Palestinian family, aged between five and 21, were wounded by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza, the Gaza health ministry spokesman Muawiya Hassanin said. Two were treated briefly and released, and two remained in hospital. The army confirmed that ground forces had attacked the area from where militants earlier launched the rocket that hit the base.  

9/11/2007 - Israel to retaliate after army base rocket attack The health ministry in Gaza said two Palestinian girls aged seven and 17 were in hospital last night after being wounded in an Israeli missile strike that followed the attack.  

9/11/2007 - Germany condemns rocket attack on Israeli army base    

9/11/2007 - Israel may cut Gaza electricity after rocket strike Israel is considering a plan to cut electricity to the Gaza Strip for up to three hours at a time as punishment for a rocket strike which injured 69 soldiers yesterday.  

9/11/2007 - US cautions Israel of any retaliatory attack on Gaza The United States urged Israel Tuesday to consider the consequences of any retaliatory attack after the bloodiest Palestinian rocket strike from Hamas-run Gaza in months.  

9/11/2007 - Fayyad fires imams The Palestinian Authority prime minister fired 250 imams and shut down 110 charities for affiliating with Hamas.  

9/11/2007 - Abbas to reaffirm power-sharing plan Mahmoud Abbas will support sharing power with Hamas if Hamas cedes control of the Gaza Strip, a Saudi report said.  

9/11/2007 - Portugal FM now opposes Hamas talks Portugal's Foreign Minister Luis Amado, one of 10 EU foreign ministers who signed a letter hinting at the need to engage Hamas, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that the initiative "was in the past."  

9/11/2007 - Al-Quds Brigades fire a barrage of homemade shells on Israeli positions The Al-Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, on Tuesday claimed responsibility for attacking the Kerem Shalom and Sofa crossings, located in the southern Gaza Strip, with six homemade shells.  

9/11/2007 - Abbas discusses Mideast peace in Saudi, rebuffs Hamas    

9/11/2007 - Israeli authorities demolish tin houses, tin-houses and hothouses near Jerusalem Bulldozers belonging to the so-called Israeli Civil Administration Office demolished on Tuesday afternoon a numbers of tin houses, agricultural hothouses and a wall in Anata Palestinian town, south of Jerusalem.  

9/11/2007 - Where the West Bank meets Bavaria    

9/11/2007 - The Wall turns Al Ezariyah into a jail    

9/11/2007 - New UN report highlights conflict over resources in West Bank Israeli settlements in the West Bank are having a severe humanitarian impact on rural Palestinian areas, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on 30 August.  

9/11/2007 - Hamas government slams Abbas-Olmert meeting Sacked Hamas administration criticized President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meeting on Monday, terming it as "obscure."  

9/11/2007 - India's ties with Israel don't worry Arab world: envoy    

9/11/2007 - Palestinian media publish Abbas-Olmert principles document    

9/11/2007 - 9-11, Six Years Later   Contrary to popular belief, we were not attacked because of our freedoms, because we're 'infidels' or because of our lifestyle/clothing. Our unconditional support of Israel's policies against the Palestinians was the primary motivation behind the attacks of September 11.

9/11/2007 - Architects protest Brown's JNF patronship    

9/11/2007 - Suicide attack film a 'cultural bomb' for Israel The movie is based in part on accounts divulged by Israeli security agents, following several thwarted bombings in which suspects have said their motives were more personal than ideological.  

9/11/2007 - Obama: Walt-Mearsheimer 'dead wrong' "Although Mr. Obama had not read the book, he was familiar with its arguments and disagreed with them," a statement from the campaign said, referring to the book "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University. What an utter ass-kisser.

9/11/2007 - CNN: U.S. pleased by Israel's Syria flyover The United States reportedly is pleased by Israel's alleged incursion of Syria last week.  

9/11/2007 - U.S. Supports Israel Because Of Americans, Not Lobby   The Lobby is crying long and hard over the new book by Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt.

9/11/2007 - German official downplays Iranian threat ?The key interest of Iran is not destroying Israel,? said Roland Koch, president of the German state of Hesse. ?They want to be a respected member of society.?  

9/11/2007 - Chile and Brazil to receive Palestinian refugees UNHCR welcomes a decision by the Chilean government to receive 100 Palestinian refugees who had been living in Iraq, and who have been forced to live in destitute conditions on Iraq's borders over the past few years.  

9/11/2007 - Israel tried to attack ground targets in Syria, says Bishara "This could also have been an attempt to expose a breach in Syrian radar, allowing somehow to make way to Iran. This, of course, was impossible without Turkey's cooperation which the Israelis didn't seem to have. Either that or Turkey was flustered when IAF fuel tanks were found in its territory, prompting it to ask for an official explanation.  

9/11/2007 - Reflections from an Irish Activist in Palestine (Part 1/3)    

9/11/2007 - Jayyus Village Demonstrate Against Theft of Land, Life, and Culture    

9/11/2007 - Henry Kissinger: Realist, or Neocon? by Philip Giraldi One of the most disturbing attributes of the neoconservatives is their willingness to subordinate the United States' national interests to those of Israel. To be sure, the attempt is frequently made to demonstrate that the two nations' interests are identical, but a careful analysis of the impact of Israel's domestic and foreign policies can only conclude that the relationship has been detrimental to the United States.  

9/11/2007 - Wife of Islamist chief in Lebanon insists he is dead The wife of Fatah al-Islam chief Shaker al-Abssi insisted on Tuesday that her husband is dead and that a body she viewed at a morgue was his, despite DNA tests that have proved otherwise.  

9/11/2007 - Jimmy Carter steps into the Hollywood spotlight Taking part in the film festival's first geo-political talk, taped for television, Carter called for Washington to hold "direct talks" with Iran, laid out his vision for Mideast peace and lamented the "unwarranted and unprecedented" religious fundamentalism that has crept into US politics. In a stinging attack on US President George W. Bush and his Christian supporters, he said: "I worship Christ who was the prince of peace, not pre-emptive war."  

9/11/2007 - AT-TUWANI Reflection: What's the point? After waving a pick-up truck along, one soldier pointed the laser guide of his automatic weapon at the abdomen of the young boy riding in the back of the truck. The boy said something, and then the laser point moved, appearing next on the child's face. It was then I thought I could see the point, tragic and awful as it is. It isn't about finding weapons or stolen cars. It's not about finding the bad guy. It's a display of power. Checkpoints are a way of reminding everyone, even the kids, who's in charge. If that's the point, then these flying checkpoints certainly do that.  

9/11/2007 - Syria complains to U.N. Syria filed a complaint with the United Nations over Israel's apparent violation of its airspace.  

9/11/2007 - Syria struggles with Iraqi influx what the United Nations calls the biggest refugee crisis in Middle East since the flight of the Palestinians is still getting little attention from the outside world. Western (including Israeli) policies have made millions of Arabs refugees.

9/11/2007 - Syria visas 'halt fleeing Iraqis'    

9/11/2007 - Al Mezan organizes a workshop on the environmental risks in Um An-Nasser    

9/11/2007 - US says Israel jets struck Syria ** Israeli jets carried out an air strike in Syria last week, a US defence official has said. Dry run.

9/11/2007 - Israel lobby censors academic honesty    

9/11/2007 - 'War was Israeli-Iranian'    

9/11/2007 - Local people against rebuilding of Palestinian refugee camp problems of unexploded ordnance, unsafe buildings and the danger of disease inside the devastated camp will take many months to overcome before reconstruction can even begin, and the government is now facing a growing chorus of anger from local residents such as Rawa Fiyad, who say they do not want to see Nahr al-Bared rebuilt at all.  

9/11/2007 - Democratic Party Arm Calls Walt & Mearsheimer's Ideas 'Downright Dangerous' According to the JTA (my favorite wire service), the National Jewish Democratic Council has said that Walt and Mearsheimer's ideas are "irresponsible" and "downright dangerous."  

9/11/2007 - Right wing MKs threaten to leave Olmert's gov't Right wing MKs are threatening to leave Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition if concludes a deal with the Palestinians would include dividing Jerusalem and relinquishing exclusive Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, according to Haaretz.  

9/11/2007 - UK Jews slam magazine for camp article In a statement released on Tuesday, the Board accused the New Statesman, a weekly journal published in London, of again demonstrating its "hostility to Israel" and of being "mischievous" and "irresponsible."  

9/11/2007 - Vandals Damage Local Muslim Activist's Car Hussein, a Palestinian-American, and her family have been targeted by hate a number of times in recent years. According to reports, an 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with a hate crime for vandalizing two cars owned by Hussein's family in 1998. Other incidents included family vehicles being marked with graffiti such as Nazi swastikas, "go home" and "pig."  

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9/10/2007 - Two Palestinians drown near Tel Aviv on Saturday    

9/10/2007 - Teenager shot by Israeli army dies from wounds The boy, Wadee Samara, was shot in the head by a rubber-coated steel bullet when Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank City of Jenin.  

9/10/2007 - Dozens hurt by rocket in Israel More than 30 Israeli soldiers have been injured, three seriously, in a rocket attack from Gaza, reports say  

9/10/2007 - Drowned Palestinian student's body found in river in Tomsk region The body of a Palestinian student of the Siberian State University has been found in the river Tom.  

9/10/2007 - Netanyahu: We can't wait for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons    

9/10/2007 - The third Taybeh Oktoberfest The Festival provided food, music, local produce and crafts and, of course, the wonderful Taybeh beer, the first beer to be produced in Palestine and which is now exported around the world.  

9/10/2007 - Olmert lauds IDF over arrest of top Hamas commander in Gaza    

9/10/2007 - Gaza sees a strike against Hamas    

9/10/2007 - 'No difference between life and death' inside Gaza's fence    

9/10/2007 - Hamas forces storm home of caretaker gov't minister in Gaza Dozens of Hamas security forces stormed on Monday afternoon the home of Ashraf el-Ajrami, Minister of Prisoners' Affairs in Salam Fayyad's caretaker government in Gaza City, his neighbors and witnesses said.  

9/10/2007 - Border Police officer sentenced to jail for ordering Hebron robberies Jerusalem District Court sentenced a Border Police officer to 20 months in prison Monday for ordering several armed robberies of Palestinian shops in Hebron four years ago.  

9/10/2007 - Israeli army invades Nablus, kidnapping 4 Palestinians    

9/10/2007 - Israel says Hamas captive may be "bargaining chip" A Hamas militant seized by Israel in the Gaza Strip last week could be a "bargaining chip" in any prisoner exchange deal for a missing Israeli soldier, an Israeli minister said on Monday.  

9/10/2007 - Promising Freedom, Hamas Pressures Journalists Hamas seems confused about how to quash Fatah protests and simultaneously deal with the news media. Trying to nurture a reputation for honesty and legal behavior since they conquered Gaza in bloody fighting in June, Hamas?s leaders promise journalists freedom of action while the police intimidate them.  

9/10/2007 - Palestinians call for France to join international conference Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Monday for France to take part in the proposed international conference on the Middle East, in talks with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.  

9/10/2007 - Hamas leader asks to meet with Abbas The head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, proposed Monday that he meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Saudi Arabia, Haniyeh's office said.  

9/10/2007 - French FM starts Mideast tour in West Bank French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank on Monday, at the start of his first major tour of the Middle East.  

9/10/2007 - Olmert, Abbas agree on teams to tackle statehood Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Monday to create teams to tackle Palestinian statehood issues, a move both sides described as a step towards more substantive talks.  

9/10/2007 - Saudi says Israel future hangs on Palestinian state Saudi Arabia said on Monday Israel was increasing tensions in the region and its future hinged on recognising Palestinian rights to statehood.  

9/10/2007 - Israeli PM pledges to free Palestinian prisoners for Ramadan Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas during talks on Monday to release prisoners as a gesture of goodwill for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  

9/10/2007 - Khan Younis governor: "damages in the eastern neighborhoods are crisis-inducing? Osama Al Farra, the governor of Khan Younis, reported during a press meeting in his office in the Governorate of Khan Younis that the Israeli invasions to the eastern neighborhoods of Khan Younis have caused the partial destruction of more that 70 Palestinian homes and agricultural damages estimated at almost $4 million.  

9/10/2007 - Lebanon militant 'escaped siege'    

9/10/2007 - Hezbollah could attack US if it felt threatened: spy chief ** "We assess Lebanese Hezbollah, which has conducted anti-US attacks outside the United States in the past, may be more likely to consider attacking the homeland over the next three years if it perceives the United States as posing a direct threat to the group or Iran," Doubtful. Hezbollah only attacked US forces when we were on Lebanese soil, as horrible as that attack was. Hezbollah, like Hamas, is largely a territorial-based organization. I think that this may be an effort to set the stage for the three-pronged US attack on Iran/Syria/Lebanon(South).

9/10/2007 - Norway gives 1.46 million dollars to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Norway said Monday it would give 10 million kroner (1.26 million euros, 1.46 million dollars) to help Palestinian refugees who have fled a camp destroyed by fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamists.  

9/10/2007 - Donors offer $20m to Palestine refugees International donors have pledged about $20 million to help Palestinian refugees made homeless by a 15-week battle between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants holed up inside their refugee camp.  

9/10/2007 - Life Sentence Urged in Hamas Funding Case Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, who once ran for unsuccessfully for president of the Palestinian Authority while under house arrest in Virginia, was convicted of criminal contempt and obstruction of justice earlier this year following a trial in Chicago.  

9/10/2007 - Why Did Israeli Planes Enter Syria? "There seems to be a consensus here that the Israelis were testing Syrian air defense systems," Andrew Tabler, Damascus-based editor of Syria Today, told TIME.  

9/10/2007 - On two fronts, Israel faces prospect of military escalation In the North, Syria has warned that it will retaliate at a time of its choosing against the alleged Israeli penetration of its airspace on the night between Sept. 5 and 6. In the South, Defense Minister Ehud Barak says a major Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip is "only a matter of time."  

9/10/2007 - Rabbis see Clinton as top Israel backer A plurality of rabbis named Hillary Clinton as the presidential candidate most supportive of Israel.  

9/10/2007 - Turkey demands Israeli answers on flyover Israel agreed to investigate charges that its air force illicitly entered Turkish territory.  

9/10/2007 - Jewish-American Anna Baltzer Reports on the Israeli Occupation    

9/10/2007 - US aid to Israel clears Senate Moran reportedly told Tikkun Magazine that the pro-Israel lobby pushed for the war in Iraq, saying, "AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning ? because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful - most of them are quite wealthy - they have been able to exert power." Forman called on Moran to retract the "irresponsible" and "dangerous" false statements. Go get 'em, Moran.

9/10/2007 - Manufacturers seek enhanced bilateral trade with EU During their visit to Brussels, Shraga Brosh, president of the Manufacturers Association of Israel and chairman of the Federation of Israeli Economic Organizations, and Gad Propper, chairman of the Israel-European Union Chambers of Commerce, will call on senior European Commission officials to multiply European investments into Israel by as much as 10 times to approach and even match the level of US investments.  

9/10/2007 - Israel wants US pension funds to shun Iran-linked firms: Netanyahu Israel is aiming to get powerful US pension funds to sell their holdings in European companies doing business with Iran as a way to pressure Tehran over its nuclear programme, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.  

9/10/2007 - Activists Gather in Arlington    

9/10/2007 - Seven IDF troops suspended over refusal to evacuate Hebron settlers The IDF suspended seven soldiers from service for refusing to take part in the eviction of Jewish settlers from the Hebron marketplace last month, the army said Monday.  

9/10/2007 - Clinton commits on borders, Jerusalem Hillary Clinton committed to an Israel with "defensible borders" and "an undivided Jerusalem as its capital" in her Israel position paper......Clinton also said the United States should "do everything it can to deny nuclear weapons to Iran" and that "no option can be taken off the table."  

9/10/2007 - Palestinian woman sent to Jordan Within the space of twenty four hours Dialaia Basheer's life was changed ? instead of going to Jerusalem to visit her daughter in hospital she ended up in Amman. This happened when Israeli soldiers at the nearby military checkpoint of Al Zea'im detained her and forced her to leave for Jordan because she did not have a permit to enter Jerusalem.  

9/10/2007 - Syrian paper says U.S. silence over Israeli overflight encourages Jewish state A Syrian government newspaper accused the U.S. on Saturday of encouraging Israel's reported violation of Syrian airspace by remaining silent on the issue.  

9/10/2007 - Carter hits big-screen with 'Plains' pic Earlier Monday, Carter and his wife received a standing ovation at the start of a discussion on the film, the book and their work on behalf of peace and health issues with the Carter Center. Carter received a second standing ovation before "Man From Plains" debuted.  

9/10/2007 - Fracas Erupts Over Book on Mideast by a Barnard Professor Seeking Tenure At DePaul University in Chicago, a tenure fight led to the resignation last week of an assistant professor, Norman G. Finkelstein. He has written that Israel and Jews have used the Holocaust for their own purposes, including to oppress Palestinians.  

9/10/2007 - Israeli Arabs outgrowing Jews Israeli Arabs are reproducing well above the rate of their Jewish compatriots.  

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9/9/2007 - Abbas and Saudi king to discuss Hamas crisis Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will visit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and tell King Abdullah that he still backs a Saudi-sponsored power-sharing deal with Hamas provided it cedes control of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian ambassador in Riyadh said on Sunday.  

9/9/2007 - Gazans strike in defiance of Hamas Defying Hamas, scores of schools and shops shut their doors in Gaza on Sunday, observing a PLO-called strike to protest at violence by the Islamist movement ruling the Palestinian territory.  

9/9/2007 - At-Tuwani Release: Demolition in South Hebron Hills word of a house demolition reached Tuwani later in the evening. The demolition took place in the nearby village of Ad Deirat at 11:30 am.  

9/9/2007 - Israel's release of Palestinian prisoners delayed Israel is unlikely to release from prison 100 members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, an Israeli government official said on Sunday.  

9/9/2007 - Abbas security forces clash with Hamas Hebron students Clashes erupted at Hebron University on Sunday as Fatah-allied Palestinian National Authority (PNA) security services attempted to break up an outdoor rally held by Hamas-affiliated students, witnesses said.  

9/9/2007 - Fatah strongman denies "seeking Hamas love"    

9/9/2007 - Israeli troops nab youth with explosives The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday apprehended a Palestinian youth carrying three explosive devices at a West Bank checkpoint, thwarting a potential suicide bombing attack targeting Tel Aviv, local daily Ha'aretz said.  

9/9/2007 - Hebron: Water from the Israeli Army CPT had learned [from an authoritative source with the Hebron Land Defense Committee] that, earlier in the year, Israel had diverted most of the West Bank water supply from the Bethlehem area to an Israeli settlement bloc, known as Gush Etzion, and from there on to Israel. The diversion has severely affected farm areas, especially in the Wadi Al-Ghroos Beqa'a valley region, near Hebron, this summer.  

9/9/2007 - Qaeda penetrating Gaza via clans: Israeli expert    

9/9/2007 - Syria threatens Israel over sortie Syria hinted at imminent retaliation for an alleged Israeli violation of its airspace.  

9/9/2007 - Israeli minister accuses Syria of encouraging terror An Israeli minister accused Damascus of "encouraging terrorism" on Sunday, three days after Syria said Israeli warplanes violated its airspace. Just who is terrorizing whom?

9/9/2007 - Israeli settlements in Hebron make life nearly impossible, Palestinians say Israeli policy in Hebron city centre has led thousands of Palestinians to leave their homes and some 1,829 businesses have been shut down since 1994, a report by the Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights has charged.  

9/9/2007 - Army: Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese air space    

9/9/2007 - It?s Lobbying, But Is It Really Pro-Israel?    

9/9/2007 - Will the US Really Bomb Iran? ** Israel wants an attack on Iran, and the Israel lobby calls the shots in US foreign policy. What Israel wants, Israel gets.  

9/9/2007 - Young Democrats, Republicans agree on two things: Israel and drink specials Calls for a proactive approach against a nuclear Iran was a common theme at the conference. AIPAC listed Iran mobilization as one of its fall 2007 campus initiatives, encouraging students to emphasize to their peers what a nuclear Iran means for the Middle East and the world.  

9/9/2007 - 'US needs face-to-face talks with Iran' The former NATO commander said he was intimately aware of Israel's security needs, an awareness gained through frequent visits.  

9/9/2007 - Domestic terror linked to our Mideast policies The hostility that leads to terrorism is not a product of personal difficulties in which individual Muslims may find themselves. It is more plausibly explained as a response to our own policies in the Middle East ? what we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what we have done over the years on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That hostility is widely shared through the Middle East and leads some to resort to violence.  

9/9/2007 - Poisoned by war, Lebanon reaps meagre harvest "Look at this field, Israeli planes dropped 30 bombs on it," said the elderly man. "Seventy years of work destroyed.".....This year, the family was forced to abandon part of its land because of the cluster bombs dropped by the Israelis, which spread more than a million bomblets  

9/9/2007 - Art Exhibit Draws Fire Several dozen people filled a room in an old vacant building, wanting to learn more about the work of an artist who depicted the plight of the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.  

9/9/2007 - Jewish, Arab groups launch joint internship    

9/9/2007 - Pardoned PA terror suspects to get professional training The United Nations and the Palestinian Authority are launching a placement project to provide professional training for Palestinian terror suspects recently pardoned by Israel, Ynet has learned.  

9/9/2007 - Va. congressman accuses AIPAC on Iraq "AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning," U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said in this month's Tikkun magazine. "Because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -- most of them are quite wealthy -- they have been able to exert power."  

9/9/2007 - Dichter criticizes Ramon's plan to cede nearly all of West Bank to Palestinians    

9/9/2007 - Israeli neo-Nazi ring caught after attacks on synagogues The group of eight Russian immigrants aged between 18 and 21 appeared in court following an 18-month investigation into attacks on two synagogues in which swastikas were painted on the walls of the buildings  

9/9/2007 - Senate to Egypt: Stop Gaza arms flow The U.S. Senate unanimously urged the Egyptian government to stop arms from crossing the Egyptian-Gaza Strip border.  

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9/8/2007 - Israeli troops kill teenager near Gaza border Israeli troops have shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian who was placing bird traps along Gaza Strip's northern border with the Jewish state, medical sources said Saturday.  

9/8/2007 - ISM-Member Akram killed during clashes in Jenin    

9/8/2007 - Mideast envoy Blair to meet king of Jordan Jordan's King Abdullah II will meet the Quartet's Middle East envoy Tony Blair in Amman on Sunday for talks on peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel.  

9/8/2007 - Israelis 'don Hamas uniforms' for Gaza raid Israeli special forces disguised as Hamas gunmen abducted a field commander from the ruling Palestinian Islamist group in the southern Gaza Strip, Hamas said.  

9/8/2007 - Israeli Jets Run Iran Attack Drill ** Israeli warplanes may have been testing air routes for a possible attack against Iran when they were fired on by Syrian forces, experts said yesterday. Israeli psyops.

9/8/2007 - Families of Palestinian prisoners attacked by prison guards Family members who came to visit their loved ones at the Ramon Prison in Israel were attacked by prison guards on Thursday, and prevented from visiting their loved ones.  

9/8/2007 - Abbas: Elections not to held until Gaza coup ends    

9/8/2007 - Palestinian PM: conference must lead to statehood Fayyad said a successful conference should produce a "clear agreement" on a sovereign Palestinian state based on Israel's withdrawal from land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, and a "binding timeframe" for its implementation.  

9/8/2007 - Israeli army invades Jenin city, refugee camp and Qabatiya town An Israeli military force invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Jenin refugee camp and Qabatiya town in the early hours of Saturday morning.  

9/8/2007 - Disabled Gaza evacuee sues police commander Petition filed by Human Rights Organization in Yesha accuses police superintendent of punching handicapped man at Kissufim crossing; demands NIS 2 million in compensation  

9/8/2007 - Mashaal: US trying to divide Palestinians    

9/8/2007 - PM aides douse hopes for Abbas meeting    

9/8/2007 - Turkey quizzes Israel on warplane fuel tanks Turkey has asked Israel for clarification after finding two fuel tanks on its territory near the Syrian border allegedly belonging to Israeli warplanes, a diplomatic source said on Saturday.  

9/8/2007 - Report: Israel plundering the Jordan Valley    

9/8/2007 - 6 of 7 Lakeland Youths Leave Israel, Arrive in Orlando Although the Yacoubs are in the congresssional district of U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, the office of U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Bartow, took an interest in the case and stayed in touch with the Yacoubs. But Putnam's aides did not press upper-level State Department officials to look into the case, said Keith Rupp, a spokesman for Putnam.  

9/8/2007 - Mideast conference 'disaster' without goals: Dahlan Former Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan warned Saturday that a Mideast peace conference later this year could turn into a disaster if Israel and the United States approached it as a public relations exercise.  

9/8/2007 - Good News: Edward Said Mural to Go Up    

9/8/2007 - At-Tuwani: The tiger and the deer.    

9/8/2007 - Donors to meet on rebuilding of destroyed Lebanon camp Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is to chair a meeting of donors on Monday for the reconstruction of a Palestinian refugee camp destroyed in 15 weeks of battle between the Lebanese army and Islamists.  

9/8/2007 - Celebration replaces weekly protest in Bil'in    

9/8/2007 - Bedouin threaten to block Egypt border with Israel    

9/8/2007 - Taybeh, or not Taybeh; that is the question    

9/8/2007 - Lebanon tensions rise as siege ends most Lebanese see the fight in Nahr al-Bared as a betrayal of support for Palestinian rights and expect the long-simmering tensions to reignite.  

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9/7/2007 - Fatah accuses Hamas of killing abducted activist in Gaza Palestinian ambulance services said they found the body of 24- year-old Tarazan Dughmush at the Gaza beach near the Nusseirat refugee camp. He had been snatched by masked gunmen along with his cousin Ibrahim Dughmush the previous night.  

9/7/2007 - Iran: Israel will be responsible for escalation in region Tehran's ambassador to Damascus says violation of Syrian airspace by Israeli aircraft is 'intolerable attempt to create tension in the region'. He adds that 'Israel must act reasonably and not cause another war'. Syrian vice president: Israel proves it does not want peace  

9/7/2007 - Russia calls on Israel to honor int'l law The country expressed "exteme concern" in the wake of Syrian claims that its military fired on an Israel Air Force warplane that had entered its airspace and "dropped munitions."  

9/7/2007 - Palestinian woman gives birth at Israeli checkpoint Israeli sources revealed that a Palestinian woman from Al 'Ezariah gave birth at the military checkpoint near Abu Dees just north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning.  

9/7/2007 - An International Conference of Christian-Islamic Relations at Bethlehem University    

9/7/2007 - Nine Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces    

9/7/2007 - Israeli army invades Nablus; two charitable societies closed On Wednesday, only days after the decision of the Palestinian caretaker cabinet to close some of the charitable societies in the West Bank, the Israeli army invaded the city of Nablus.The soldiers broke into the offices of a number of charities and other organizations searching them thoroughly.  

9/7/2007 - At least 40 injured in Fatah-Hamas clashes in Gaza At least 40 people were injured in clashes between Hamas security personnel and supporters of the rival Fatah movement, as tens of thousands took to the streets throughout Gaza, heeding Fatah calls to hold Friday's prayers outdoors despite a Hamas ban on doing so.  

9/7/2007 - Restrictions on entering Jerusalem for some Palestinians during Ramadan    

9/7/2007 - PLO calls on Gazans to protest against Hamas in Gaza    

9/7/2007 - ?Israeli terror activated against Syria? Thousands gather at Islamic Movement?s northern branch rally, witness Sheikh Raed Salah speech criticizing ?Israeli, American terror?. Movement leader says, ?Israel and occupation will disappear, Jerusalem and al-Aqsa will remain forever?  

9/7/2007 - Israel Keeps Yacoub Children Off Plane Again The ordeal continues for the children of a Lakeland family, stranded for almost three weeks in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. They were not permitted to board a plane in Israel to the United States on Thursday and apparently will try to return home by traveling through Jordan.  

9/7/2007 - Ramon, Fayyad outline peace terms Haim Ramon reportedly offered the Palestinians most of the West Bank, parts of eastern Jerusalem, and land swaps from Israel.  

9/7/2007 - Hamas vows to deal with incidents of attacks against reporters in the Gaza Strip Ayman Taha, one of the leaders of Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, stated on Friday that the movement rejects all attacks against reporters and media outlets, and added that Hamas does not silence the media.  

9/7/2007 - Gaza outdoor prayer ban enforced    

9/7/2007 - Violence in Gaza as Hamas breaks up Fatah demonstrations    

9/7/2007 - Hebron Update: 25-31 August 2007    

9/7/2007 - MK Nafaa ignores gov't travel ban, arrives in Syria for a visit MK Said Nafaa (Balad) on Thursday ignored a ban on Israeli lawmakers from traveling to enemy states and arrived in Syria as part of a delegation of Druze religious officials.  

9/7/2007 - Hamas accuses PNA of supporting Israel's Gaza offensive    

9/7/2007 - Israeli army attacks on West Bank towns of Tulkarem and Nablus ; 6 civilians kidnapped.    

9/7/2007 - Barak threatens to reoccupy Gaza Strip after November Washington meeting Israeli media sources revealed that Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, was involved in overnight discussions with army leaders to try to find ways of putting an end to rocket-fire from Palestinian fighters on to Israeli towns in the southern part of the country.  

9/7/2007 - Victory protest at Israel West Bank barrier village Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad took part in a victory march at Bilin in the West Bank on Friday after the Israeli Supreme Court's ruling that a section of its controversial separation barrier there must be rerouted.  

9/7/2007 - Gaza fishermen risk becoming quarry    

9/7/2007 - Ford Foundation gives NIF $20 million The Ford fund has three stated goals, according to the NIF Web site: Promoting civil and human rights in Israel, promoting equality for the Palestinian minority in Israel and promoting a peacful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has financed 40 organizations.  

9/7/2007 - Lebanese army kills militant near battle camp    

9/7/2007 - Senate passes bill on cluster bomb use The U.S. Senate has moved to restrict the sale or transfer of U.S. cluster bombs, the munitions blamed for the deaths of Lebanese civilians in a conflict with Israel last summer.  

9/7/2007 - The Occupation Within    

9/7/2007 - Above and 'Beyond Chutzpah'    

9/7/2007 - Al Mezan Center slams using of force, arrests of residents and attacks on reporters in Gaza    

9/7/2007 - Jewish group lends support to former Gibran principal    

9/7/2007 - AL chief says alleged Israeli violation of Syrian airspace "unacceptable"    

9/7/2007 - German unions reject boycott An umbrella organization for German unions rejected calls to boycott Israel.  

9/7/2007 - Syria-Israel bombing incident shrouded in mystery "This is the beginning of a Syrian-Israeli conflict," said Sateh Noureddine, columnist with Lebanese newspaper as-Safir. He saw it as a follow-on from Israel's war in Lebanon a year ago.  

9/7/2007 - Foxman, Eizenstat spar over Carter Eizenstat, who has strongly criticized the title and content of Carter's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," insisted that Carter was not an anti-Semite and praised the former president for several steps he took on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people.  

9/7/2007 - Soccer: Anti-Israel protest causes concern in London The UK-based Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC), in association with the Friends of Al-Aqsa, will set up a vigil on Olympic Way, the road leading up to the stadium, from 3-5 p.m. Saturday afternoon, under the title "Kick Israeli Apartheid out of Football."  

9/7/2007 - Indonesia may allow Israeli businessmen to invest in bio-fuel Indonesian may allow Israeli investor to invest in bio-fuel sector in the country, but it would not change its political stance on Israel, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.  

9/7/2007 - Finding peace through art On display now is a mini-retrospective of the work of Palestinian artist Sharif Waked, whose work touches upon not only the occupation of the West Bank but also Palestinian loss of homeland at Israel's creation in 1948.  

9/7/2007 - Court Circular The Earl of Wessex later met Palestinian youth groups at the Residence of Her Majesty?s Consul-General in Jerusalem.  

9/7/2007 - Shimon Peres: Within a year the most important Israel-Holy See problems resolved    

9/7/2007 - U.S. may cut off aid to UN rights group Since its creation last year, the council has only criticized one country ? Israel, for its military actions in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon  

9/7/2007 - Some militants take break    

9/7/2007 - Tear Gas and Sound Grenades replaced with Music and Dancing: Bilin Celebrates?    

9/7/2007 - Introducing Palestine-Family.Net: Making Memory Matter Palestine-Family.net (PFN) is a cultural archive Web site for the world-wide Palestinian community. It is designed to allow Palestinians living locally as well as from the entire Diaspora to contribute their stories, historical photographs, family trees, oral histories, biographies, historical documents, recipes, home remedies, customs, maps, legends and myths, songs and poems, and more.  

9/7/2007 - Carter documentary debuts in Venice "He is tireless in his efforts to do as much as he can in his allotted time to improve the world around him."  

9/7/2007 - Israeli Bedouin research centre gets second chance It focuses on the research and development of the Arab Bedouin, the indigenous people of the Negev desert, who represent approximately 12 per cent of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel.  

9/7/2007 - Senate approves aid package The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a foreign aid package that included $2.4 billion in military assistance to Israel.  

9/7/2007 - Muslim groups want off of indictment Muslim groups asked to be removed as unindicted co-conspirators in the U.S. case against the Holy Land Foundation.  

9/7/2007 - Peace settles on Gaza, but economy crumbles    

9/7/2007 - Kucinich tours south Lebanon Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) toured areas of south Lebanon marked by Israeli cluster bombs that fell in last year's war. ....The candidate, who met with Lebanese and Syrian leaders during his trip this week, also called for a more "even-handed" U.S. approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  

9/7/2007 - US markets slump amid job losses US stocks have fallen sharply in response to news that American employers shed 4,000 jobs last month. Let's attack Iran. While we're at it, let's give Israel another 30 billion. Brilliant!

9/7/2007 - New twist to Syria-Israel tension That it apparently happened in the country's north, close to the Turkish border - and not in the south, where Syria and Israel share a border - has taken many people here by surprise.  

9/7/2007 - A pitch for Palestine   Look at the list of signatories.

9/7/2007 - In aftermath of Nahr al-Bared battle, Palestinian refugees despair over ruined lives    

9/7/2007 - Syria and Iran: The Threats That Aren't by Michael Scheuer our Israeli friends and their Israel-first American supporters have long harped on the idea ? and thereby have misled Americans ? that Syria is a military threat to the United States..... the threat to the United States comes from two sources. First, the relentless "Iran is the new Nazi Germany" propaganda pushed by Israel and the American citizen Israel-firsters, and, second, the multi-decade failure of the U.S. Congress to seriously address the national-security issues of energy, borders, and immigration. Michael Scheuer - former CIA counterterrorism official.

9/7/2007 - UN cartographer to plot disputed Shaba Farms' border boundaries    

9/7/2007 - Third town severs ties with ADL "If you have an organization that states that their purpose is to defend people, you can't choose only one," said Janet Boswell, a commission member.  

9/7/2007 - Criticism of PM led Tories to kill Khan report, MPs say "The report would be critical of Mr. Harper's policies in the Middle East, and Mr. Harper doesn't want to share an adviser's report that would criticized his policies. And I believe that's purely a political consideration," Liberal foreign affairs critic Ujjal Dosanjh said.  

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9/6/2007 - Militants killed in Gaza clashes    

9/6/2007 - Four Hamas charities in Nablus stormed by Israeli forces    

9/6/2007 - Palestinians say child seriously wounded in IDF raid in Nablus    

9/6/2007 - Arabs are poorer Of 550,000 children who occasionally go hungry in Israel, 400,000 are Arab  

9/6/2007 - Israeli army attack Azon village near Qalqilia, injuring two civilians A number of Israeli armored vehicles stormed the village of Azon, east of Qalqilia city in the northern part of the West Bank, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, injuring two civilians.  

9/6/2007 - Full salary and part of the overdue payments to be delivered for PA public servants Bassam Zakarneh head of the Union of public servants said Tuesday that the government will deliver a full salary for the state employees in addition to delivering part of the of the overdue payments.  

9/6/2007 - Jordan's king urges U.S. to intensify efforts on Mideast peace Jordan's King Abdullah II on Thursday called on the United States to intensify diplomatic movements in the Middle East ahead of an international peace conference scheduled for November.  

9/6/2007 - Hamas downplays Blair Mideast peace mission, warns of war    

9/6/2007 - Hamas denies receiving Israeli prisoner exchange offer The Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas) has denied on Thursday receiving an Israeli proposal to renew talks on prisoner exchange swap to free a captive Israeli soldier held in Gaza.  

9/6/2007 - Jenin: Child critically hurt by IDF fire The child, Mustafa Abu Srur, was wounded when soldiers fired gunshots and mortar shells at a house where a member of the Islamic Jihad's al-Quds brigades was hiding.  

9/6/2007 - Abbas asks Blair to press Israel on checkpoints    

9/6/2007 - Three Palestinian youths kidnapped by Israeli Special Forces in Jenin Undercover forces of the Israeli army kidnapped three Palestinians youths from the northern West Bank city of Jenin earlier on Thursday morning.  

9/6/2007 - Militants claim attack on Israeli post Palestinian militants said fighters in a pickup truck and jeep crashed through a fence on the Gaza-Israel border on Thursday and attacked an Israeli army post.  

9/6/2007 - Israeli army conducts military training near Palestinian village.    

9/6/2007 - Syria Says Israel Bombs Territory Another Syrian official said: ?They dropped bombs on an empty area while our air defenses were firing heavily at them.?  

9/6/2007 - Syrian fire at Israeli aircraft ratchets up tensions, fears Alon Ben-David, Israel analyst for Jane's Defence Weekly, a United Kingdom-based defense magazine, suggested that Thursday's incident might have occurred when a routine Israeli surveillance flight over Syria encountered an unexpected sophisticated radar system.  

9/6/2007 - Israeli Police demolishes Arab-owned home in the Majd Al Korom area    

9/6/2007 - Born in Lakeland; detained by Israel The children say they were told they must get Palestinian IDs and depart through Jordan because their Palestinian heritage trumped their American citizenship. If they are not permitted to fly from Tel Aviv, the children will forfeit their $9,100 in tickets and face the prospect of buying tickets from Jordan for $16,800.  

9/6/2007 - Putting a face on the need for peace One weekend I visited Hebron, a city one hour south of Bethlehem, where ideological Israeli settlers have established themselves. The settlers, deemed extreme even by much of Israeli society, harass the Palestinian population to the point that Christian peacemaker teams have to escort local children to their schools.  

9/6/2007 - Israel furious over Norway torture claim The Norwegian state radio network NRK reported Thursday it had obtained a secret diplomatic document from the embassy urging action by "expressing our concern that torture is still practiced in Israel."  

9/6/2007 - Popular Committees appeal for release of dying detainee    

9/6/2007 - Study finds U.S. Jews distance selves from Israel    

9/6/2007 - A package holiday in the West Bank    

9/6/2007 - U.S. is party to ethnic cleansing in Palestine    

9/6/2007 - BOOKS-US: Outing the "Israel Lobby"    

9/6/2007 - More Money for Israel? They're richer than ever, and they don't need it ? so why are we giving it?  

9/6/2007 - Jewish diplomat appointed Blair aide Bandler, the scion of a Philadelphia Jewish family, most recently worked for the Kissinger McLarty consulting firm headed by Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state. The Quartet's other members must affirm Bandler, but that is believed to be a formality.  

9/6/2007 - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy official web site    

9/6/2007 - Israel Urged to Prepare for Iranian Nuclear Attack Former Israeli Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit said the big question facing Israeli intelligence and other Western intelligence agencies is whether Iran would use nuclear weapons if it acquires them. Nevertheless, he said, Israel must be prepared, although he did not offer specifics on what kind of preparations Israel should take.  

9/6/2007 - Hizbollah 'did not use civilians as cover' In its strongest condemnation of Israel since last summer's war, Human Rights Watch said yesterday that most Lebanese civilian casualties were caused by "indiscriminate Israeli air strikes".  

9/6/2007 - A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its Supporters Uncritical American support for its closest Middle East ally has damaged American credibility in the Arab world, encouraged terrorism, stymied the search for a solution to the Palestinian problem, and in every way made America?s international position weaker and more dangerous.  

9/6/2007 - Israel censured over Lebanese civilian toll In a scathing report issued Thursday, the New York-based watchdog said its investigators had determined that Israeli air force and artillery shelling caused most of some 900 Lebanese civilian deaths during the July-August conflict. It rejected Israel's argument that Hezbollah invited the heavy toll by operating among non-combatants and thus turning them into "human shields".  

9/6/2007 - Pentagon praises Israeli arms controls Pentagon official Beth McCormick said Wednesday that Israeli defense officials, after suffering several spats with U.S. counterparts over attempted arms deals with China in recent years, have satisfactorily tightened up export policies.  

9/6/2007 - Wiesenthal Center pushes Web battle on Hill The presentation on Capitol Hill Wednesday was sponsored by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), its ranking member.  

9/6/2007 - Israel accused of indiscriminate attacks during Lebanon war Although it found some instances where Hizbullah fired rockets from civilian areas, or mixed with the civilian population it said: "Such violations, however, were not widespread: we found strong evidence that Hizbullah stored most of its rockets in bunkers and weapon storage facilities located in uninhabited fields and valleys, that in the vast majority of cases Hizbullah fighters left populated civilian areas as soon as the fighting started, and that Hizbullah fired the vast majority of its rockets from pre-prepared positions outside villages."  

9/6/2007 - Israeli officers warn against invading the Gaza Strip High-ranking Israeli officers have warned the Israeli government against invading the Gaza Strip in response to the continuing Palestinian projectile bombardment of Israeli targets, the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reported on Wednesday.  

9/6/2007 - Iraq, Israel, Iran the chief orchestrater of the second neoconservative war of aggression is Elliott Abrams. Convicted for deceptions around Iran-Contra, as Lewis Libby was convicted for deceptions stemming from Iraq--and pardoned by the elder Bush just as Libby had his sentence commuted by the younger--Abrams now presides over the Middle East desk at the National Security Council.  

9/6/2007 - Lebanese army kills two militants near battle camp Lebanese soldiers killed two Fatah al-Islam militants and captured seven near a bombed-out refugee camp on Thursday, as they hunted down other Islamists on the run, an army source said.  

9/6/2007 - Six Palestinians charged in attack on UN Six Palestinians were charged on Thursday for their alleged role in a roadside bombing against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, the official news agency ANI reported.  

9/6/2007 - PFLP praise steadfastness of Bil'in villagers    

9/6/2007 - Burglar Strikes Dallas Convenience Store The Palestinian brothers are disappointed with the thousands of dollars of damage, but are not deterred. "We're here in America to make a living. We're going to continue making our living."  

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9/5/2007 - West Bank village hails victory The international and Arab media poured into Bilin as soon as the surprise court decision was announced to witness the first spontaneous celebrations.  

9/5/2007 - Hamas seeks 'religious hegemony' in Middle East "The suffering of the people of Gaza is caused by the actions of Hamas, whose acts are based on a purely negative ideology. He's kidding, right? Hypocrisy.

9/5/2007 - Israeli forces detonate two rooms of a house in Balata refugee camp Palestinian sources in Balata refugee camp, in the northern West Bank City of Nablus, reported on Wednesday that Israeli forces invaded the camp, broke into the house of As?ad and Amjad Abu Gush, and demolished two rooms in the third floor.  

9/5/2007 - Israel/Occupied PalestinianTerritories: Cutting vital supplies to Gaza would amount to collective punishment    

9/5/2007 - Hebron: Hebron Update: 18-24 August 2007 Uhler took an eleven-year-old Palestinian boy from Beit Ummar into Jerusalem for a worship service. He was not stopped at the two checkpoints into the city, but a Border Policeman at The Church of the Holy Sepulchre stopped him. The officer said to Uhler, "He is not your son, right?" Uhler said he was a friend and that she was staying with his family and wanted to bring him into Jerusalem. Then, the policeman said, "He is a Palestinian and Palestinians are not allowed in here."  

9/5/2007 - Hamas denies accusations that it arrested two officials in Khan Younis    

9/5/2007 - US envoy meets Palestinian premier ahead of Rice visit A US envoy for Middle East affairs met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to discuss a planned peace conference and a visit by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice later this month, an official said Wednesday.  

9/5/2007 - Three Israeli soldiers wounded in W. Bank bomb explosion    

9/5/2007 - European Union announces continued cooperation with Palestinian Ministry of Finance. The European Union on Wednesday announced that it would transfer 21 million Euros to the Palestinian Ministry of Finance so that the salaries and pensions of public servants can be paid  

9/5/2007 - High Court: Controversial settlement neighborhood to remain in place The High Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that dozens of existing buildings built in a controversial neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Modi'in Ilit will not be demolished, despite the fact that they were built illegally and partially on private Palestinian land.  

9/5/2007 - Blair developing plan of Israeli-Palestinian steps Middle East envoy Tony Blair is developing a plan that would spell out practical steps that Israeli, Palestinian and business leaders would gradually take to try to boost peace prospects, officials said on Wednesday.  

9/5/2007 - Appeal for children of Gaza    

9/5/2007 - Iran to host Palestinian talks The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday that a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates named those expected to attend the Thursday talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  

9/5/2007 - Israeli army attacks the northern Gaza strip Tanks and gunboats of the Israeli army attacked the northern area of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.  

9/5/2007 - Israeli army carries out operation in Hebron, kidnapping one Palestinian    

9/5/2007 - Jailed Palestinian died due to negligence, family claims    

9/5/2007 - IMEMC Exclusive: Hamas?s spokesman asserts the group never represses freedoms    

9/5/2007 - Israel doesn't enrapture all evangelicals Perhaps you've heard about some of the prominent ministers, particularly several high-profile televangelists, who have sworn allegiance to the state of Israel because of their views on biblical prophecy. They include Pat Robertson, John Hagee and the late Jerry Falwell.  

9/5/2007 - CNN Comes Under Unprecedented Attack ?This was not an average show,? said Jennifer Laszlo-Mizrahi, founder of The Israel Project. ?CNN bought full-page ads promoting the show and ran it on prime time. The perspective the show left the viewers with is that Israel doesn?t want peace and that Israel?s friends in the United States don?t want peace.? Holy sh@t, the truth got out! Attack, attack!!

9/5/2007 - Support Needed: Settler to face court for Assaulting HRWs: Septmeber 6th 1pm On the 6th September 2007, 1:00pm, a court will convene at the Israeli Peace Courts to bring to trial a mature Israeli Settler who attacked two international human rights workers on the 27th July 2007.  

9/5/2007 - 'Medical Conditions caused by Political Decisions' Palestine in 2007 is geographically hardly recognizable from Palestine in 1952. Go back a further five years and 'historical Palestine' still existed. Now only around 12% of 'historical Palestine' is accessible to Palestinians. Caritas cannot even cater to all of this 12%. Children from Jenin, Nablus, and other cities in the northern section of the West Bank cannot get to the hospital due to travel restrictions, checkpoints, and the series of Bantustans which the Occupation is dividing the country into.  

9/5/2007 - Red Cross prods Hamas on access to Israeli soldier The International Committee of the Red Cross stepped up pressure on Hamas on Wednesday to allow it to see an Israeli soldier held captive by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip for more than a year.  

9/5/2007 - Hapoel TA to open soccer schools in Palestinian villages near Nablus In hopes of giving Palestinian children a better future, Hapoel Tel Aviv will begin operating soccer schools next month in villages outside Nablus.  

9/5/2007 - Film delivers impact of West Bank wall ?We had 600 injured,? said Mr. Bornat, who said he was clubbed in the head, jailed and two of his cameras were broken by Israeli soldiers during his filming of ?Bilin My Love,? a documentary he screened at Clark last night.  

9/5/2007 - Carter Center human rights conference focuses on faith Israel is building its 24-foot-high security wall around and through Bethlehem on Palestinian land.  

9/5/2007 - Detainees in Ofer Subjected to escalated attacks A report prepared and published by the Mandela Institute which defends the rights of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons revealed that the prison administration of Ofer detention facility had escalated its attacks against the detainees over the last two days  

9/5/2007 - Open door to boycott debate and uphold academic freedom We appeal to our American and Canadian colleagues to challenge what appears to be an organized effort to stifle debate in the academy, and to urge their presidents, faculty associations, professional bodies, and colleagues at large to follow the example of British academics and initiate a robust debate about Israel's military occupation and other forms of oppression of the Palestinians and the most effective ways to counter them  

9/5/2007 - Peace and human rights workers welcome Israeli ruling on partition wall The wall around the West Bank has cut through schools, hospitals, homes and large sections of farmland, cutting people off from their livelihoods and separating communities and families.  

9/5/2007 - Lebanese troops scour refugee battle camp for fugitive fighters Lebanese soldiers are continuing to hunt down fugitive fighters after crushing their Islamist militia in fierce gunbattles that ended a 15-week standoff, military sources said Wednesday.  

9/5/2007 - Qana, Derry    

9/5/2007 - MIDEAST: Hamas Flag Goes Up in Lebanon Camps many Palestinians here are angry with Fatah and the PLO for failing to protect civilians.  

9/5/2007 - Who Are the Fanatics? Think tanks have well-funded Middle East programs, the purpose of which is to spread Islamophobia. Fear and loathing pour out of the Middle East Forum and the American Enterprise Institute.  

9/5/2007 - Hamas: ?Israeli Prison Authorities attack detained Hamas leader and 16 other detainees?    

9/5/2007 - Troubled by crisis in Gaza The sight of thousands of men women and children sleeping in the hot sun on the Egyptian side of the Gaza crossing is a blot on all our humanity. These Palestinians must wait no longer.  

9/5/2007 - Howard and Bush discuss Israel during Sydney meeting    

9/5/2007 - Call to halt EU trade with Israel    

9/5/2007 - Hebron: Exodus and Exile: Too Close to Home The nuns of the monastery face the real possibility of exile and exodus, caught as they are in a political situation that rewards the ethnic cleansing of all but Israeli/Jewish peoples in the land.  

9/5/2007 - Israel to accept Darfur refugees "Israel, with its history, must offer assistance," said Mr Sheetrit. "It can't stand by and shut its eyes. But a quota must be set".  

9/5/2007 - Norman Finkelstein resigns Finkelstein had drawn ire for his trenchant criticism of Israel and suggesting that the legacy of the Holocaust has been exploited. Earlier this year Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul after a public campaign waged against him by Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz.  

9/5/2007 - Shultz in Foxman book slams Carter Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz blasted ex-President Jimmy Carter for "damaging the well-being and security of the Jewish people and the State of Israel." The actions of the state of Israel have done FAR more damage to the 'well-being and security of the Jewish people and the State of Israel' than Jimmy Carter could ever do. He merely just pointed out those actions. Shooting the messenger again.

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9/4/2007 - Gunmen shot and killed one resident near Nablus The Maan News Agency reported on Tuesday at night that unknown gunmen shot and killed one resident in Einabous village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.  

9/4/2007 - Explosion destroys Hamas member jeep in Gaza On Saturday, a similar explosion had occurred and it targeted a car for another Hamas member in the same area. No one has claimed responsibility for it at the time.  

9/4/2007 - Israel to declare "special situation" in Gaza periphery to respond to rocket attacks Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided on Tuesday evening that he would declare a "special situation on the home front" in the Gaza vicinity area for 48 hours, said a spokeswoman of the Defense Ministry.  

9/4/2007 - 'IDF youth programs like Jihad camps' A British current affairs magazine has compared the Marva and Gadna IDF youth summer programs to Islamic Jihad "summer camps," and questioned what the difference would be if the participants were British Muslims.  

9/4/2007 - Israeli court orders West Bank barrier diversion The deputy prime minister, Haim Ramon, said denying resources to Gaza - where the majority of 1.4 million Palestinians live in poverty - would force Hamas Islamists to stop the daily rocket fire on southern Israel. Actually genius, denying the Palestinians in the past was what made Hamas so popular in the first place.

9/4/2007 - Abbas condemns Palestinian rockets squads in Gaza    

9/4/2007 - United Nations International Civil Society Conference ends with call to oppose Israeli military operations In his closing statement, he also called for the removal of the roadblocks installed since September 2000, an end to the extension of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and to the building of the wall beyond the 1967 borders, the immediate release of all imprisoned former Palestinian ministers, legislators, mayors and many others, including minors, and the release of the withheld Palestinian tax and customs revenues.  

9/4/2007 - Blair begins fact-finding mission Blair's brief is to draft recommendations for how the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia might promote efforts to found a peaceful Palestinian state against the backdrop of Hamas' recent takeover of the Gaza Strip.  

9/4/2007 - Jimmy Carter calls for 'balanced' Middle East debate In a new afterword to his controversial "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," former President Carter criticizes the lack of "balanced debate" in the US about the Middle East. Carter warns officials against being "seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action and policy" of the Israeli government.  

9/4/2007 - Sheikh Tamimi: ?Public prayers are allowed by Islamic law and Sonna?    

9/4/2007 - International Federation of Journalists slams interference with the press This is a statement issued and published on Wednesday by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemning the Gaza government of Hamas over the revival after 10 years of a media law and a governmental media committee, claiming this signals new threats to press freedom.  

9/4/2007 - Palestinian firefighters go on strike in Gaza, deepening Hamas-Fatah tensions Saker Mujahed, commander of the Civil Defense Force, ordered his men to stop work early Tuesday, claiming Hamas has taken over its buildings and equipment.  

9/4/2007 - Abbas pledges no elections before Gaza, West Bank reunited    

9/4/2007 - In poor countries, spinal injury still means death A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries  

9/4/2007 - Egypt wary of 'missed opportunity' at Mideast conference Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met a string of foreign dignitaries and diplomats on Tuesday in a bid to avert what he called "another lost opportunity" at a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference in November.  

9/4/2007 - Israeli troops injure 4 Palestinians, arrest Hamas member Israeli troops wounded four Palestinians and arrested a Hamas member Tuesday in a ground operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian witnesses and paramedics said.  

9/4/2007 - Fatah regroups in Gaza, raising tension with Hamas    

9/4/2007 - PM Haniya of Gaza proposes a five-point solution to current political turmoil Among Haniya?s points were, a solution lies in dialogue, respect of the contiguity of the Palestinian territories, commitment to unity of the political system, no state in or without Gaza, respect of institution and law.  

9/4/2007 - Israeli pullout means ceding land to Iran's extensions - Netanyahu    

9/4/2007 - The next war? ** the Bush administration and Israel are painstakingly fashioning a casus belli with Iran.  

9/4/2007 - Palestinians celebrate rare victory over hated barrier Although not the first such decision by the court, the ruling stands out for its tough language and the fact that Bil'in, almost alone among Palestinian villages, has mounted over the past two-and-a-half years a successful campaign of peaceful resistance to the barrier. "Weapons were forbidden from the start," Mr Yassin said. "People decided we should take a prominent role with a peaceful movement because we knew that with an armed struggle we were not capable of taking back one inch of land. If we had fired one bullet, the Israeli army would have found an excuse to kill the whole village."   Victory at last. Congrats!

9/4/2007 - Dr. Barghouthi: ?Israel?s ruling to shift Wall route in Bil?in is a fruitful outcome of nonviolent r    

9/4/2007 - Abbas warns major peace summit could fail Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned Tuesday that a major Middle East peace summit called by US President George W. Bush could fail without adequate preparation.  

9/4/2007 - Army demolishes two Palestinian homes near Ramallah and Jerusalem    

9/4/2007 - Mearsheimer, Walt and the Erudite Hysteria of David Remnick Like the tech-bubble and real estate-bubble, Washington?s ?Israel bubble? is unhealthy and dangerous ? in fact, it not only jeopardizes U.S. interests throughout the region and beyond (by serving as Exhibit A for any anti-American element anywhere in the Islamic world to win the political contest with America?s friends), but it is also exceedingly bad for Israel: Particularly over the past decade, the U.S. has essentially enabled Israeli behavior so self-destructive that it may have already precluded any chance of it being able to live at peace with its neighbors.  

9/4/2007 - Palestinian government: one Million USD for university students The government will grant those Palestinian students who passed the high school exams with high marks financial aid to study at university. This aid will constitute a total of one million USD, divided equally between the West Bank and the Gaza strip.  

9/4/2007 - Underage detainees in Israeli prisons facing abuse, medical negligence    

9/4/2007 - Lebanon army 'killed 222 rebels' Lebanese troops killed at least 222 Islamist militants in three months of fighting at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the defence minister says.  

9/4/2007 - America's Craig-like credibility gap What further widens the credibility gap is the United States' strong support for authoritarian governments in places such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. As a result, many Muslims around the world are justifiably cynical when they hear Americans exhort them to become more democratic.  

9/4/2007 - Danoch makes historic TV outreach to Iranians in Iran Los Angeles' Israeli Consul-General Ehud Danoch made history on Sunday, Sept. 2, by becoming the first Israeli official in more than 25 years to directly address the people of Iran via live television.  

9/4/2007 - Russia condemns rocket attacks against Israel    

9/4/2007 - Ex-diplomat testifies for Muslim charity Edward Abingdon, who served as U.S. consul-general in Jerusalem during the 1990s, said the Israelis had an "agenda" and provided "selective information to try to influence U.S. thinking."  

9/4/2007 - Arabic school opens in New York amid controversy Critics gathered later on the steps of City Hall. Groups including the Catholic League and Stop the Madrasa accused authorities of stonewalling about the school's curriculum. "At the moment, we have to go on the basis on what we know about the people who have brought us this institution," said Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, adding that those involved included imams, or Muslim religious leaders.  

9/4/2007 - Ankara Forum For Peace Convenes In East Jerusalem    

9/4/2007 - Israel town anger at school attack Three such strikes within 10 minutes seemed precisely designed to catch children on their way to school, rendering the elaborate protective measures useless. To the Islamic Jihad militants who fired them, the rockets were pay-back against Israel for the deaths of a number children in Israeli air strikes in Gaza in the past week. Israeli missiles are far more accurate, evidently.

9/4/2007 - Shooting the messengers    

9/4/2007 - EU wants Lebanon presidential poll free of interference European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Tuesday Syria should stand well back from Lebanon's upcoming presidential election which he hoped would be held in line with the constitution.  

9/4/2007 - Cabinet backs 'punishing' Gaza civilians over Qassams Government sources believe most Security Cabinet members will support increasing financial pressure on the Gaza Strip during the cabinet's meeting in Jerusalem today, in response to the ongoing rocket fire at Israel.  

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9/3/2007 - U.N.: Gaza students lack textbooks because of shortages from crossing closures Three days into the new school year, Gaza students have to make do without 30 percent of their new academic textbooks because of the closure of commercial crossings, a U.N. official said Monday.  

9/3/2007 - A Fresh Israeli air strike on Khan Younis leaves five bystanders injured In a new fresh Israeli air strike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, five bystanfers were reportedly injured as resistance fighters of the Al-Quds brigades, an offshoot of the Islamic Jihad, escaped the attack.  

9/3/2007 - Israel to renovate armed forces The United State recently pledged that it would provide Israel with 30 billion dollars in military aid over the next decade.  

9/3/2007 - Israel threatens Gazans over rockets Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, meanwhile, suggested that Israel should retaliate by disrupting the lives of Palestinians in Gaza, though she did not elaborate on what this might entail......"There is no equation in which Israel's children will be under attack by Kassam rockets on a daily basis while life in the Gaza Strip continues as usual."  

9/3/2007 - Olmert says unclear if Abbas deal possible by November    

9/3/2007 - Defense Min. sitting on plan to lift W. Bank roadblocks for a year Brig.-Gen. (res.) Baruch Spiegel, who until eight months ago was responsible for examining the checkpoints and outposts, said he hoped that Barak will adopt the proposal, which he said was drafted with the full cooperation of the army. He said the plan presented to Israeli and U.S. officials includes the construction of pillboxes that could be manned on short notice and employed as roadblocks  

9/3/2007 - EU emphatic on no Hamas contact EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana insisted during a visit to the Middle East on Monday that the 27-nation bloc would have no contact with radical Islamist movement Hamas.  

9/3/2007 - Will President Bush bomb Iran? ** for those who fear war with Iran, the less happy news is that the officials were real. The simulation, which took four months, was run by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with close links to the White House. Its conclusions, drawn up last month and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, have been passed on to military and civilian planners charged with drawing up plans for confronting Iran......Mr Bush's escalation of the rhetoric was deliberate. A former White House aide said that the reference to a "nuclear holocaust" was a precise attempt to bracket Mr Ahmadinejad's quest for nuclear weapons and stated desire to wipe Israel off the map with Hitler's destruction of the Jews. Neocons (Heritage Foundation) and Israel are behind this charade (too).

9/3/2007 - Israeli military abducts 24 Palestinians across the West Bank.    

9/3/2007 - PCHR wants a probe on Fridays? clashes in Gaza    

9/3/2007 - Hamas demands clerks in Gaza to prohibit prayers in public    

9/3/2007 - Legal Unit of the Palestinian Prisoners Society hosts Red Cross Representatives in Ramallah Red Cross representatives stated that the Red Cross is following the cases of sick detainees, and the detainees who are confined to solitary and barred from their visitation rights.  

9/3/2007 - Israeli aircrafts maintain heavy presence over Gaza as homemade shells land in Sderot Israeli aircrafts intensified their presence over the northern parts of Gaza Strip, in a bid to strike against what Israel states are launching-pads for home-made shells. Meanwhile, a number of homemade shells landed earlier in Sderot, an adjacent Israeli town.  

9/3/2007 - Israel party chafes at Olmert's Palestinian talks    

9/3/2007 - India's voice carries weight in international community: Israel   Thus the reason for this.

9/3/2007 - Increased signs of anti-Hamas 'intifada' in Gaza There are increasing indications that Fatah is trying to organize an intifada against Hamas, as Fatah members in the Gaza Strip try to snap out of what one commander termed a state of "depression" following their defeat at the hands of Hamas in June.  

9/3/2007 - UK ambassador, settlers meet The meeting, which took place last Wednesday, did not presage any reassessment of Britain's policies toward the settlements, according to British officials. Rather, the meeting, initiated by Phillips, was an attempt by the British Embassy to develop a relationship with the settlers.  

9/3/2007 - Humanitarian aid to the Palestinians - walking the tightrope    

9/3/2007 - Leaving their Home Gaza At present 129 Russian citizens have left their home in Gaza and have come to Russia. Most of them are Russian women with children who are married Palestinians.  

9/3/2007 - Heritage uprooted Under the pretext of "redeeming" the land the Jews claim God gave them and the trees they are supposed to preserve, Israel continues to violently expropriate Palestinian land.  

9/3/2007 - WZO 'sponsored' Rubinstein despite the ZF's cancellation of Rubinstein's appearance, the Haaretz columnist will appear as scheduled at a talk in a London synagogue on Monday evening, organized by the British branch of the New Israel Fund (NIF).  

9/3/2007 - Law of Karma & The Israel Lobby the Israel lobby has extended its tentacles to its own disadvantages. The more they fight to suppress the sane voices, the more they will sink in the quick sand. It is yet to be known whether they schemed in defaming President Carter on his book, if they are involved in belittling the Jewish warriors of God documentary or if they attempted in blocking Passion of the Christ movie. There is a concerted effort out there to quell any dissent and the Australians have a word for it; Boomerang.  

9/3/2007 - Succesful Road Block Removal ends in Arrests    

9/3/2007 - Elderly woman harrassed by settlers on quad bike night and day These attacks are cowardly and designed to drive the elderly woman from her insubstantial and precarious living on the hill with her flock. This has been the way of life to her and her ancestors for hundreds of years  

9/3/2007 - Checkpoint checking what makes the work Mahsom Watch does so crucial to breaking the silence. These women and their colleagues are all Israeli Jews, and their publicizing via the Israeli media the atrocious conditions for Palestinians means that their message reaches parts that international activist groups can't reach. At the same time, "we show the Palestinians that not all Israeli [Jews] are enemies, and that's a vital part of our work," said Ruti.  

9/3/2007 - American Jews owe unions extra 'thank you' on this Labor Day The fact that unions representing everyone from teachers to truck drivers bashed the Israel-bashers is no small thing. Just ask Kenneth Stern, the director of the American Jewish Committee's department on Anti-Semitism and Extremism, who described it as "an important milestone in the fight against attempts to demonize Israel and Israelis."  

9/3/2007 - Vanunu appeals new prison sentence Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu appealed a prison sentence he received for unauthorized contacts with foreigners.  

9/3/2007 - Speaker proposes dialogue in Holy Land struggle ?The Palestinians see the Israeli destruction of their homes and olive groves, but no one calls it terrorism. Historically, the lands holy to Jews, Muslims, and Christians have always had armed factions and terrorism. Hamas refuses to recognize Israel and Israel refuses to recognize Palestine?s right to exist. Since 1967, 467,000 Israelis have moved into the Occupied Territories, and no one calls it terrorism.  

9/3/2007 - New explosions rock Lebanon camp    

9/3/2007 - Landowner visits land for the first time in years Access to this land by its owners has been restricted since 1984 when the Palestinian residents of Susya were forcibly evicted by the Israelis to form a colony. The visit was the first time the owner had been able to access the land for 7 years. The problem here is that the Settlers interfere violently with the Palestinians when they visit their land even though they carry their legal papers which show their title to it in both Hebrew and Arabic.  

9/3/2007 - Ex-US diplomat pleads not guilty to threatening Lebanese, Arabs "This is Patrick Syring," he said in a voicemail to the AAI on July 17, 2006, at around 11:17 p.m., according to the indictment. "The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab. Long live the IDF. Death to Lebanon and death to the Arabs." US diplomat? Or Israeli?

9/3/2007 - The Wrong Way to Debate In the book, Walt and Mearsheimer submit that the enormous, and enormously effective, pro-Israel lobby is ultimately harmful to U.S. foreign policy. Already, the two men have faced a backlash. A number of the authors' events have been cancelled. As in President Carter's case, there have been requests that someone with an opposing view be present to rebut the scholars' positions, as if the authors were running for public office and their opponents deserved equal time.  

9/3/2007 - Azerbaijan and Israel pursue partnership While Israel sees Azerbaijan as a potential ally among Muslim countries and a key energy supplier, Azerbaijan is interested in investments by Israeli companies and in support from Jewish communities abroad to promote Azerbaijani interests with Western governments.  

9/3/2007 - Fatah al-Islam leader killed in gun battle: Report The leader of militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam has been killed in a Lebanese Army attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, reports said.  

9/3/2007 - Lieberman: All outposts in W. Bank approved by the gov't "These aren't illegal outposts," claimed Lieberman. "Everything was done with the government's permission, even if it was with a wink; therefore everything is legal. You can't pave roads and transfer water and electricity lines in the dead of night. It is inconceivable that today, people are suddenly denying this."  

9/3/2007 - Bush to Bomb Iran to Distract World from Sub-Prime Mess "The Iran war will also distract people from my failed oil wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Zionists and Big Oil and Halliburton and Carlyle had ordered me to do. We will murder at least another 100,000 ragheads in Iran."  

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9/2/2007 - One Palestinian killed in Khan Younis Witnesses said that a group of masked gunmen opened fire at Qaider, while the latter was driving in the Hadidiya quarter in Khan Younis city.  

9/2/2007 - Life in the West Bank The Palestinians we met react to this life of deprivation, fear and humiliation with quiet resignation, saying, "The situation is very bad, and this is how we must live." Many seem clinically depressed. Were it not for strong family ties and support, they could not manage. Despite their hardship, they treated us with overwhelming kindness and generosity. We never felt threatened or afraid.  

9/2/2007 - Livni, Lieberman spar over outpost evacuation The move comes amid reports that Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, in their ongoing meetings, have put Israel's final borders, Palestinian refugees and sovereignty over Jerusalem on the table as they debate the principles of a Palestinian state.  

9/2/2007 - Hamas accuses PLO of inciting Gaza people    

9/2/2007 - Imprisoned Fatah leader scolds Hamas; urges it to accept early elections Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti harshly criticized Hamas for what he called a "bloody coup" with its takeover of Gaza in remarks released Monday, urging the Islamic group to accept early elections to settle internal Palestinian differences.  

9/2/2007 - Palestinian fugitive cuts flowing locks, weds longtime fiancee after Israel ends pursuit    

9/2/2007 - Palestinians demand Hamas release detainees Several dozen Palestinians rallied in front of a Hamas headquarters in Gaza on Sunday, demanding the Islamists release political foes arrested during demonstrations two days ago.  

9/2/2007 - Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Stop putting children at risk Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups continue to endanger children and should immediately halt practices risking children's lives, Human Rights Watch said today.  

9/2/2007 - Jordan's king urges Europe to do more for Middle East peace Jordan's King Abdullah II urged European nations on Sunday to do more to help Palestinians and Israelis return to the negotiating table, a palace statement said.  

9/2/2007 - Two blasts hit Gaza city Two blasts ripped through Gaza city yesterdaa night with no causalities reported, Palestinian security sources reported.  

9/2/2007 - Abbas wants framework accord at Mideast conference    

9/2/2007 - Abbas makes election law changes Under the new law, Palestinians will vote solely for party lists, while voting by district will be eliminated.  

9/2/2007 - Armed Palestinians open fire at an Israeli warplane in central Gaza Witnesses said that Palestinian fighters opened machine guns at an Israeli warplane, while hovering-in a low altitude -over the Nuseirat refugee camp.  

9/2/2007 - If not attacked by Israeli soldiers, journalists are attacked by Palestinian security forces Palestinian journalists were this week attacked three times by Palestinian Authority forces in the Gaza strip.  

9/2/2007 - Exclusive: Abbas wants Orient House reopened    

9/2/2007 - Any chatter about Jordanian-Palestinian confederation is humbug - King    

9/2/2007 - Children of war The IDF explains that the Palestinians make a practice of sending children to collect the Qassam launchers. However, in this case, the children killed were not collecting launchers. The first two were killed while collecting carob fruit and the next three - according to the IDF's own investigation - were playing tag  

9/2/2007 - Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent Regarding whether Israel would join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Peres responded: "Well, that?s another story. Israel never said we should detonate a nuclear bomb in the Middle East, but people are suspicious. And if the suspicion is a deterrent, it?s good enough. We are satisfied with the suspicion. We don?t want anything more."  

9/2/2007 - The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy Reviewed by Max Hastings ?Although we deplore the Palestinians? reliance on terrorism and are well aware of their own contribution to prolonging the conflict, we believe their grievances are genuine and must be addressed. We also believe that most Americans would support a different approach . . . if they had a more accurate understanding of past events and present conditions.?  

9/2/2007 - Report: Israel plans blitz on outposts Israel reportedly plans to remove more than 1,000 settlers from illegal West Bank outposts after the High Holy Days.  

9/2/2007 - Militants try to flee Lebanon camp, 31 killed    

9/2/2007 - Bush Plans War on Iran ** Lieberman is closely affiliated with American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. ?AIPAC leverages its power by an alliance with the Christian Right, which has adopted a bizarre ideology of ?Christian Zionism,?? according to University of Michigan professor Juan Cole. ?It holds that the sooner the Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, the sooner Christ will come back. Without millions of these Christian Zionist allies,? Cole added, ?AIPAC would be much less influential and effective.?  

9/2/2007 - BMD Focus: Israel's BMD two-front war The Jerusalem Post reported Aug. 24 that the country's Air Defense Forces were also carrying out exercises with the U.S. armed forces "in an effort to increase coordination between the two countries and to prepare for the possibility that Washington will send U.S. missile defense systems to Israel if and when they are needed."  

9/2/2007 - Inside Track: Stifling the Debate? Mearsheimer and Walt pay special attention to the events of 2002, when the Bush Administration?supported by neoconservatives, the Christian Right and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)?advanced its argument for war with Iraq. The authors believe that just when ?one would have expected the United States to focus laser-like on al-Qaeda, the author of 9/11, the Administration chose to invade a deteriorating country that had nothing to do with the attacks.?  

9/2/2007 - Settler Aggression at the Jabri Family Farm    

9/2/2007 - Right-wing group announces 5 new planned outposts In response to the renewed government talks regarding the evacuation of illegal outposts, the right-wing Ne?emanei Eretz Israel movement announced Sunday that it would establish five new outposts in the West Bank during Sukkot.  

9/2/2007 - A New Motto for America Isolationism, as defined by George Washington, is an exceedingly good policy. Washington warned us in his "Farewell Address" to steer clear of entangling alliances, foreign quarrels and feuds. They don't concern us, he said. Our only concerns, vis-à-vis foreign powers, should be friendship and commerce. We should treat all countries equally, granting neither favors nor trying to harm anyone.  

9/2/2007 - Lebanon PM welcomes end of siege Thousands of people flocked to the camp after news of the end of the siege broke.  

9/2/2007 - Palestinian construction endangers settlers' lives - Lieberman    

9/2/2007 - Egyptian police find 2.75 T of explosives in Sinai    

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9/1/2007 - Palestinian killed in Gaza border protest One Palestinian was killed and six more were wounded when Hamas paramilitaries opened fire to disperse protesters trying to dash across the border into Egypt, witnesses said.  

9/1/2007 - Bomb blows up car of Hamas member in Gaza    

9/1/2007 - SMS warns Gazans not to pray with Fatah    

9/1/2007 - Livni warns Rice over unreasonable expectations of summit Jerusalem officials say Rice seems to be taking the opposite approach, believing that setting the bar high will lead to greater achievements. Livni warned Rice against acting too hastily, saying that expectations must be in keeping with developments on the ground.  

9/1/2007 - The U.S.-Israeli Draft In a recent press release, PNAC called on the U.S. government to institute the military draft, and induct U.S. servicemen and women directly into the Israeli Defense Force.  

9/1/2007 - Four injured in Wall protest south of Bethlehem Four Palestinians were injured after Israeli troops attacked a non- violent protest against the Annexation Wall in Al Ma?sar village, south of Bethlehem on Friday. Dozens of international peace activists also participated in the protest which also marked the six anniversary of the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).  

9/1/2007 - RIGHTS: Call to Halt EU Trade with Israel Trade between the European Union and Israel should be halted in protest at human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, a United Nations conference has heard.  

9/1/2007 - Doubts over 'second temple remains' in Jerusalem Israeli officials cast doubt Friday over claims that remains of the second Jewish temple might have been found during work to lay pipes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.  

9/1/2007 - DFLP media office slams attacks carried by the Executive Force in Gaza The Media Office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) slammed attacks carried by members of Hamas? Executive Force against residents and journalists in the Gaza Strip. The attacks also included confiscating cameras and arrests.  

9/1/2007 - OPT-OCHA Special focus: Israeli-Palestinian fatalities since 2000 - Key trends* Amongst the most notable trends are: - the continuing high rate of fatalities amongst civilians who account for more than half the total of all those killed (p1); - the declining number of Israelis killed (p2); - a continuing high death rate for Palestinian adults and children particularly in the Gaza Strip (p2);  

9/1/2007 - Journalists Union slams attacks against reporters, residents in Gaza    

9/1/2007 - aL-Aqsa foundation: Israeli parties block maintenance works at the aL-Aqsa mosque aL-Aqsa foundation revealed on Friday that some Israeli parties have been attempting to block maintaniance works of the holy mosque of aL-Aqsa and that they are embarking on a related widespread campaign against the Islamic Waqf committee.  

9/1/2007 - Egyptian man hit by stray bullet from Fatah-Hamas fighting in Gaza An Egyptian man was shot and wounded in the border town of Rafah on Friday, hit by a bullet that strayed across the border from Gaza during a clash between Hamas and Fatah gunmen, Egyptian security sources said.  

9/1/2007 - Anti-Hamas rallies staged in Gaza Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have taken part in protests against the territory's Hamas rulers, despite a ban on public gatherings.  

9/1/2007 - Palestinian caretaker government pledges economy enhancement for Gaza The caretaker government, ruling from West Bank, will allocate 40 percent of various incomes to support the Gaza Strip where economists estimate the unemployment rates have reached at around 80 percent.  

9/1/2007 - Gaza students back to schools after miserable summer    

9/1/2007 - West Bank Boys Dig a Living From Settler Trash This dump has become a lifeline, and informal workplace, for them and for the children helping to support poor families in the southern West Bank. The scene is reminiscent of the third world, of places like Manila?s notorious garbage mountain, but this desperate place is next door to a country with the highest per capita income in the Middle East: Israel.  

9/1/2007 - Rice, Hadley subpoenas resisted in AIPAC case Two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists facing espionage charges have subpoenaed Miss Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams and several others to testify at their trial next year. If their testimony is allowed by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, the trial could offer a behind-the-scenes look at the way U.S. foreign policy is crafted.  

9/1/2007 - UN: Peace is hampered by West Bank growth The United Nations has issued a stark warning on the eve of Tony Blair's first full working trip as international Middle East envoy that the steady growth of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is undermining the prospects for peace.  

9/1/2007 - For Palestinians, municipal service a do-it-yourself project "This is the first time that anyone has ever repaired anything for us,'' said Imad Abu Rumeillah, the owner of a grocery store along the Jerusalem Ramallah road.  

9/1/2007 - Mideast conference should revive all peace tracks: GCC Pro-Western Gulf Arab states on Saturday reiterated their backing for a planned US-sponsored Middle East peace conference, but insisted it should revive the peace process on all tracks.  

9/1/2007 - Israeli settlers threaten land, injure non-violent activist HEBRON: Palestinian non-violent activist Issa Amro was released from Alia hospital around noon today after Israeli settlers attacked him as he helped harvest hay in the Al Ja'abari fields across from Kiryat Arba settlement.  

9/1/2007 - Israeli army kidnaps 7 Israeli peace activists    

9/1/2007 - Pentagon 'three-day blitz' plan for Iran ** THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians? military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.....Israel, which has warned it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, has made its own preparations for airstrikes and is said to be ready to attack if the Americans back down.  

9/1/2007 - Muslim group hacks Likud website Writing in Arabic and poor English, the group "sanctified" the hacking to Palestinian and Lebanese children, and called for an end to the killing of Palestinian children. The page was signed by a hacker by the name of Cold Zero.  

9/1/2007 - Judge wants speed in citizenship case A federal judge in Colorado says he may personally take action on a Palestinian immigrant's citizenship application.  

9/1/2007 - Denial of tenure defended    

9/1/2007 - Photo of the Day 09-01-07 Maria Amin, who turns six on Thursday, reacts as she struggles to breathe through a respirator after undergoing hydrotherapy in a rehabilitation hospital  

9/1/2007 - Ha'aretz columnist dropped by British Zionists The British Zionist Federation canceled a London appearance by Ha'aretz columnist Danny Rubinstein the day after he called Israel an ?apartheid state? at a United Nations conference on Palestinians.  

9/1/2007 - International Human Rights Workers Try to Enforce Israeli Court Order When the Military Will Not    

9/1/2007 - Bethlehem finds a Sydney sister city The mayor of Marrickville, Morris Hanna, and his Bethlehem counterpart Dr Victor Batarseh signed a sister city agreement at a civic reception at the Petersham council chambers.  

9/1/2007 - 'A Night to Honor Israel': Christian Zionist group, founded by TV evangelist, raises political profile Christian Zionists embrace the Hebrew roots of Christianity and believe Jews have a God-given right to the land of Israel. For many, that means supporting Jewish settlements in Israel's occupied territories, opposing Middle East peace plans that involve Israel ceding any land to Palestinians and urging U.S. lawmakers to adopt pro-Israel foreign policies.  

9/1/2007 - Walt & Mearsheimer's Proof That 'Tail Wagged the Dog' Points American Jews to a Universalist Ethos    

9/1/2007 - Strange Goings-On Here in Lebanon .. Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah's leader, boasts of new weapons. The Lebanese suspect that these include anti-aircraft missiles. If this is true ? and many Lebanese who have spent their lives under Israel's cruel air attacks, assaults which have often been war crimes, hope it is ? then the next war will be anticipated with dark but keen anxiety. Since the Israeli army is incapable of fighting the Hizbollah on its own ground ? its collapse when faced by Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon last year proved this ? what happens if their awesome air power is also neutered?  

9/1/2007 - Call for a Coalition Against Arming Theocratic States By Lenni Brenner In 1948, Democrat Harry Truman, needing campaign funds from wealthy pro-Zionist Jews, recognized officially Orthodox Jewish Israel. He loaned it money used to buy weapons to drive hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians into exile.  

9/1/2007 - Editor's Notes: Jeopardizing American interests   This clearly pro-Israel writer states that the work of Mearsheimer and Walt works against US interests, a laughable notion, and that Iran is a threat to America (which it is not).

9/1/2007 - Lebanon refugees yearn to return home once fighting ends Nahr al-Bared was home to 31,000 Palestinian refugees when the fighting broke out but most residents fled the camp shortly afterwards, mostly to Beddawi camp.  

9/1/2007 - Palestinian divisions threaten peace: Prodi    

9/1/2007 - Israeli CEO who built illegally in West Bank arrested in Italy Italian police have arrested the owner of an Israeli construction company, which has collapsed after being found involved in widespread illegal building in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police announced Friday. The affair has caused a storm in Israel, as the company, Heftsiba, has left thousands of Israelis who bought newly-built apartments robbed of both their apartments and their mortgage money.  

9/1/2007 - Memorable Osaka experience for Palestine's lone entry Ghrouf It?s a long way from Gaza to Osaka as 16-year-old Gharid Ghrouf can attest. The sole member of the Palestine team arrived in Japan with her coach last Sunday after enduring three days of travel from her homeland.  

9/1/2007 - Palestinians can benefit from conference: Jordan king    

9/1/2007 - Occupation is the key    

9/1/2007 - Musicians get back to basics as record sales plummet The Palestinian-born rapper included one of his signature bandannas in the first 10,000 copies of The Revolution as an incentive for people to buy the album, rather than download it for free from any number of unauthorized file-sharing sites.  

9/1/2007 - Israeli fund aids Palestinian director    

9/1/2007 - Crowds flock to Suirki play 'Nation' With no cultural life in the Gaza Strip to speak of, Palestinian crowds are flocking to the Shawa cultural centre to watch dramatist Said Suirki's satirical play, "The Nation", which puts rulers from both Islamist Hamas and their secular rivals Fatah in the dock.  

9/1/2007 - Former Israeli prisoner lands in Montreal    

9/1/2007 - Interfaith delegation plans Middle East peace mission    

9/1/2007 - Moscow denies involvement in Israel-Syria tensions "The Israeli government knows very well that in our dealings with Syria and Israel we invariably follow the line of reducing tensions in the region, preventing a new conflict and re-launching the peace process,"  

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