June '07 Archive
06-30-07 - Two civilians among seven killed in Israeli Gaza air strikes
06-30-07 - Hamas: Efforts to end Rafah terminal crisis continue
06-30-07 - US rules out mediatory role for Blair in Middle East he told the Northern Echo newspaper that his "huge challenge" was to "prepare the ground for a negotiated settlement". The Bush Administration quickly contradicted Blair's sweeping definition of his role
06-30-07 - Abbas advisor says Hamas fighting collaborators The Gaza events were not a war between Fatah and Hamas; but between Hamas and Fatah collaborators who served the Americans and the Israelis, said a senior Fatah advisor on Wednesday.
06-30-07 - Kidnapped BBC man's fate hangs on clan feud The arrest of two militants from the radical group holding BBC correspondent Alan Johnston hostage has put the journalist's life in great danger, according to sources in Gaza and within the group itself.
06-30-07 - Missiles, rockets waiting for int'l forces in Gaza: Hamas "The goal of these forces was to strengthen a party at the expense of the other party," Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam said in a press release. The group added that it will deal with them "as an occupation force and will receive them with missiles and rockets."
06-30-07 - 2 Qassams land in Sderot, cause damage
06-30-07 - Israeli brutality at a checkpoint near the Jordan Valley After holding and subjecting the farmers to various forms of assault for four hours, the soldiers left, offering no explanation as to why the group had been detained or why such invasive and brutal methods of interrogation had been used.
06-30-07 - Lieberman wants NATO troops in Gaza
06-30-07 - Blair must make up for failure in Palestine The road map to nowhere has been compounded by a lack of even-handedness, a want of political imagination and a subservience to Israel and the Bush administration. That has directly contributed to the tragic shambles that is Palestine today. The old Israeli right-wing policy of perpetual divide and rule is again triumphant.
06-30-07 - Hastings, Wexler to hold talks in Europe In his meetings with foreign officials, Wexler plans to focus on United States, French and European Union cooperation in the Middle East, specifically as it relates to the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas. "I believe America has an important new partner in President Sarkozy, and I look forward to working with his government to address common threats to the United States, France, Europe and Israel," Wexler said in a statement.
Hamas and Hezbollah are not a threat to the United States. For whom do Hastings and Wexler work?
06-30-07 - Hebron: Resistance to More Land Theft soldiers in Hebron will not beat a Palestinian if they know human rights workers are watching, so they try to sneak them away to someplace where we can?t see and as soon as they are discovered, they stop because they know what they are doing is wrong.
06-30-07 - No cleanup crew can fix the Mideast Israelis trying to evade hard choices have long complained that they had "nobody to negotiate with." It is about to become true.
06-30-07 - Finding Lessons in Gaza's Bloodshed Freedom for Palestinians is more precious than bread, no matter how irrational this may sound.
06-30-07 - Struggles in Susiya The Palestinian residents have suffered from the sabotage of their land and property by settlers and soldiers. The have had their houses and wells demolished, their goats killed and their roads blocked. The case of Susiya is especially important since it may become a precedent for other villages in A3.
06-30-07 - Palestinian family stranded after Iraq refuses re-entry
06-30-07 - Lebanese army stands accused as Palestinians bury their dead "The protesters were more than 10 metres (yards) away from the (army) checkpoint and there was gunfire," said Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish member of the Nahr al-Bared Relief Campaign, a non-governmental organisation.
06-30-07 - US turns to new faces, ideas to repair smeared image Overwhelming majorities throughout the Middle East believe American policy in the region favours Israel too much, according to the survey. Even in Israel, 42 percent of those polled say America is too supportive of their own country.
Even the Israelis think our government is too pro-Israel. That ought to tell you something.
06-30-07 - Israeli cabinet to weigh release of four Jordanians "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wishes to reply positively to Abdullah's request to allow the four prisoners to complete their sentence in a Jordanian jail. Our ties with Jordan are extremely important,"
06-30-07 - Coming September 2007: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover) in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds
06-30-07 - Syrian paper: Blair can't be peace envoy because "hands smeared with innocents' blood"
06-30-07 - Should Harvard Replace Dershowitz With Professor Finkelstein?
06-29-07 - Israeli troops continue Nablus raid, Palestinian taxi driver killed The soldiers shot dead an unarmed, 25-year-old taxi driver who failed to heed orders to stop in the northern West Bank city, hospital officials said
06-29-07 - Israel kills militant from Abbas's Fatah movement In response to Friday's killing, a spokesman for the militants, Ala Sanakeh, said the group would not honor Abbas's decree issued earlier this week to hand over their weapons. He said weapons were needed to respond to Israeli incursions.
06-29-07 - Lebanese troops kill 3 Palestinians Lebanese troops killed three protesters after firing on Palestinian civilians demanding to return to their homes at a besieged refugee camp.
06-29-07 - UNHCR calls for seriously ill Palestinian children in Iraq to be medevaced The Palestinians are being attacked or trashed in other states as well. They are the new Jews.
06-29-07 - Gaza voices: 'Trapped in a prison' At work we make Palestinian handicrafts and we ship our products to London, the US and Japan. We usually manage to get things out and to keep our business going, but for two weeks it's been completely shut.
06-29-07 - Palestinian PM gives incitement warning Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad delivered a stern warning to hundreds of Islamic preachers, including Hamas supporters, saying his government will not tolerate incitement in mosques and plans to collect the weapons of militants.
06-29-07 - New Swedish Aid to Palestine Sweden is to provide 2.9 million US dollars in financial aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian public sector, to help pay wages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
06-29-07 - We need hope, not just security, says Abbas What Palestinians now needed above all was hope, not just security, he told reporters after the meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy here Friday.
06-29-07 - France backs Abbas, hopes crisis nurtures peace
06-29-07 - Palestinian president urges Socialist leaders to help isolate Hamas
06-29-07 - Gaza gets supplies despite closures and bombs "There aren't enough supplies going into Gaza to stave off a humanitarian crisis," Gunness said on Friday, estimating only about half of a required 175 truckloads were getting across.
06-29-07 - Hamas TV kills off Mickey Mouse double In the final skit, "Farfour" was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli a "terrorist."
06-29-07 - Current aid will not stop Gaza humanitarian crisis: UN
06-29-07 - Al-Arian's wife bids goodbye before moving to Egypt in 1994, a documentary on public television alleged that Al-Arian was linked to terrorist activity in Israel.
06-29-07 - US Elites Can't Decide Who Should Rule Palestinians "We are enabling their hatred when we provide support without insisting that the Palestinian people - not just Abbas and Fatah, but the people -convincingly forswear revolution, terrorism, violence, ethnic-cleansing, and the goal of eliminating Israel." 200 + years later, we're telling another people to accept the harsh rule of an occupying power and all the atrocities that it entails. Further, the Palestinians were the ones that were ethnically cleansed from the region to make way for Israel - this Israeli policy still goes on to this day.
06-29-07 - Palestinians back Iran bomb The survey, taken by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, found that 58 percent of the Palestinian public are in favor of Tehran acquiring atomic weapons, making Palestinians the only Middle Eastern population not opposed to an Iranian bomb.
06-29-07 - Play set to open in West Virginia My Name is Rachel Corrie, which was adapted from Rachel?s writings by by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner will be part of the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Think Theater in Shepherdstown, West Virginia
06-29-07 - The real exodus The Zionist policy of illegal immigration was part humanitarian rescue mission, part political gerrymandering of the country's population. It gave Holocaust survivors hope of a new home, but was also designed to flood Palestine with Jews ahead of the UN partition vote expected in November 1947.
06-29-07 - Israeli president Katsav resigns Israeli President Moshe Katsav has formally submitted his resignation, a day after agreeing to plead guilty to several sexual offences.
06-29-07 - Senate appropriators nix ban on U.S.-P.A. meetings in Jerusalem U.S. Senate appropriators proposed removing a longstanding provision barring official U.S. dealings with Palestinians in Jerusalem.
06-29-07 - Bush proclaims some Syrians non grata President Bush banned travel to the United States for Syrian and Lebanese individuals deemed to support terrorism or the undermining of Lebanon's government.
06-29-07 - Son of Holocaust refugees U.K.'s new foreign secretary Last summer, he crossed Blair by criticizing Israel during the war against Hezbollah .
06-29-07 - Groups call on U.S. to press Israel on cluster data Thirty-three organizations are calling on the U.S. to obtain site information on Israel?s cluster bomb strikes against Lebanon last summer.
06-29-07 - Carter 'firm' on apartheid According to Cherwell, the Oxford student newspaper, a group of the college?s students had signed a petition protesting about the award. One of them, Daniel Brodie, said he was shocked that Mr Carter was to be honoured because of his "clearly antisemitic rhetoric". The truth is anti-Semitic to those who seek to subvert it.
06-29-07 - EMET honors five Arab Americans A Washington pro-Israel think tank honored five Arab-Americans who have spoken out against radical Islam.
Also honored at the June 20 Endowment for Middle East Truth dinner on Capitol Hill were Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), as well as counterterrorism investigative journalist Steven Emerson. Lackeys of the Israel lobby.
06-29-07 - Siege or no siege, Lebanon's Ziad and Amal wed "The Palestinians are an oppressed people... We have lived all our lives fleeing from one place to another and now it is the turn of the new generation. This is our fate," sighed Ziad's aunt, Khaldieh, 58.
06-29-07 - Three Houses Demolished in Nablus
06-29-07 - Olmert should forget about Saudi meeting - Egypt
06-29-07 - J'lem: Bolton is too pessimistic on Iran "It is possible that his comments were meant to expedite the process," the official said 'Pipe down, Johnboy! We didn't give you the cue yet!'
06-29-07 - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Welcomes Israeli Homeland Security Groups 6/28/2007 In an effort to continue building the Illinois Department of Homeland Security and the state?s partnership with Israel, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is welcoming a group of Israeli homeland security firms. 'Welcome to Israel! Err, I mean welcome to America!'
06-29-07 - Bantustans for the Palestinians Not surprisingly, neocons and other elements in the far right flank of the pro-Israel community are celebrating what they hope is the end of the two-state solution.
06-29-07 - UNICEF condemns attacks on schoolchildren in conflict areas
06-29-07 - Bil?in: 2 Israeli Demonstrators Arrested
06-29-07 - Exiled Palestinian militants sidelined in Ireland
06-29-07 - Senate considers cluster bombs restrictions The bill is likely to be referred to the full Senate sometime next week and includes $2.44 billion appropriated for Israel by the U.S. House of Representatives last week..... A standalone bill with similar restrictions, sponsored last year by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), who is Jewish, was defeated, reportedly after strong lobbying against by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
06-29-07 - Oxford academics voice hostility on boycott
06-29-07 - Carter Center, at 25th anniversary, has expanded global role "For most of the people that support our center, and there are almost 200,000 that do, one of the reasons they are attracted to the center is because we tell the truth," Carter said.
06-28-07 - ISRAEL-OPT: Some 600 villagers face prospect of new displacement Nearly all the Palestinian residents of al-Walaje village were displaced by the 1948 Israeli-Arab war or are descendants of those displaced, and many now again face the prospect of forced displacement, this time to make room for a possible new Israeli settlement and the construction of the Israeli West Bank separation barrier.
06-28-07 - Three civilians kidnapped as army invades Bethlehem city
06-28-07 - Main Gaza goods crossing reopened Israel has reopened part of the main commercial crossing with the Gaza Strip for the first time since Hamas seized control of the territory two weeks ago.
06-28-07 - Israelis wounded in Nablus raid Five Israeli soldiers have been hurt, two of them seriously, by a bomb detonated by Palestinian militants in Nablus in the West Bank, the army says.
06-28-07 - Australia commits $6 million to Palestinians Australia committed $6 million in aid to the Palestinians.
06-28-07 - Acting Minister of Health slams Israeli attacks in hospitals
06-28-07 - Settlers return olive trees stolen from Palestinian-owned grove The trees were returned to their Palestinian owner, a resident of Kafr Karyut, at the insistence of the Civil Administration.
06-28-07 - Israel rejects Hamas's request to open crossings
06-28-07 - Fatah leader slammed over statements release on Al-Jazeera Senior Fatah leader, Hani Al-Hassan, one of the founders of the movement and member of the central committee of Fatah was harshly slammed by other Fatah officials and leaders following an interview he gave to Al-Jazeera satellite channel during which he accused a group of Fatah leaders of being part of a plan set by an American general aimed at destroying Hamas.
06-28-07 - Iran says not favouring Hamas
06-28-07 - About 2000 trees perish in Yatta town near Hebron Local farmers and owners of the fields reported that the fire blazed in their fields located near Israeli military base "Zev" and said that more than 2000 olive and almond trees perished in the fire.
06-28-07 - Norway in talks with Hamas over captured Israeli soldier
06-28-07 - Israel fights Fatah militants in West Bank city The operation in Nablus indicated that Israel would continue to pursue Fatah militants in the occupied West Bank despite Israeli pledges to bolster the faction's leader, President Mahmoud Abbas, after Hamas seized Gaza two weeks ago.
06-28-07 - Millions of Palestinians are homeless
06-28-07 - Egyptian said to have spied for Mossad dies in fall from flat A multimillionaire Egyptian businessman who was accused of being an agent for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, has been found dead at the foot of the luxury apartment block in London where he had lived for more than 20 years
06-28-07 - Israel model for Iraq, says Bush LOL.
06-28-07 - Arabs doubt Blair can succeed in Middle East
06-28-07 - "Boycotting Hamas was a mistake," says legal expert "There are 1. 4 billion Muslims, but no more than 10,000 to 25,000 are fundamentalists," Bassiouni told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
06-28-07 - Sarkozy may turn his hand to Middle East Sarkozy is due to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Jordan's King Abdullah in the next week, and could decide as a result to help negotiate between Middle East factions, his spokesman said on Thursday.
06-28-07 - Israeli army forces women to strip at Bethlehem checkpoint "It seems that there are plans to topple the honor of Palestinian girls in the clutches of the Israeli intelligence through blackmail at checkpoints and military crossings, and I don?t doubt that inside the inspection rooms there are cameras video taping girls undressing."
06-28-07 - Seeds of Peace starts its 15th year
06-28-07 - Blair eyes 'huge challenge' as Mideast appointment slammed "He will not do anything to support the Palestinian interests but will do everything to support the Israeli occupation," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum told AFP in Gaza.
06-28-07 - From 1998: A pop quiz on the Middle East -- answers may surprise you Scroll down page for article.
06-28-07 - Lessons in counterterrorism This week, Zaryk and a dozen other law enforcement officers representing police departments from Maryland to California are here to learn from their Israeli counterparts about methods and techniques for preventing bombings, securing airports and border crossings and performing mass rescue operations. The trip is sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, a U.S.-based, pro-Israel, Jewish advocacy group that has trained hundreds of law enforcement officials about domestic and international terror.
The Israelization of America continues.
06-28-07 - Methodist Branch's Biased Divestment Report "Borders On Anti-Semitism" The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said a new United Methodist Church report recommending divestment from 20 companies that do business with the State of Israel "borders on anti-Semitism." The anti-Semite card has long been overplayed. Time for a new MO.
06-28-07 - Fresh fighting in north Lebanon Military officials say the clash occurred near the village of Qalamoun, five kilometres south of Tripoli.
06-27-07 - Twelve die in Israel raids on Gaza Three civilians were killed, including a 12-year-old boy.
06-27-07 - Child killed in Israeli raid as army tries to halt militants' rocket attacks The civilian deaths reported by Palestinian sources were in Shajaia, where Reuters said that the body of a 12-year-old boy lay in the street, his arms twisted, near a house which local residents said had been hit by a tank shell that killed him and two other civilians.
06-27-07 - Hamas criticises Blair envoy move
06-27-07 - Gunmen kidnap one Palestinian civilian near Bethlehem A group of unknown gunmen kidnapped a resident of Beit Sahour town, located near Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank, on Tuesday night.
06-27-07 - Gaza crossing closed for 2 days due to attacks The Kerem Shalom crossing, which had been opened to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in order to allow humanitarian aid to cross, has been closed for two days, local Ha'aretz said on Wednesday.
06-27-07 - Haneya rejects Olmert proposal, ready to reopen talks for unity Haneya said, "We warn the Palestinian and Arab leadership of danger beyond Olmert's policy, which aims to break the Palestinian people's unity by driving wedges among them. The decisions he made are just to throw dust in the eyes."
06-27-07 - More than half of Gaza factories non-operational Some 60 percent of Gaza factories are non-operational due to Hamas' takeover of the territory and the closure of crossings to Israel, according to a report published Wednesday by the Gisha Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement for Palestinians. The report stated that recent events have resulted in a total economic embargo of Gaza.
06-27-07 - Leftist DFLP leader calls on the international community to stop the Israeli attacks in Gaza
06-27-07 - 3 soldiers moderately injured in Nablus
06-27-07 - Hamas dismisses Abbas decree to ban all armed militia
06-27-07 - 4,000 Palestinians flee to Egypt
06-27-07 - UN rights expert calls for BBC journalist's release A UN human rights expert on Wednesday appealed for the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped by Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip in March.
06-27-07 - Neoconned Again? by Philip Giraldi ** Many of the advocates of a muscular policy against countries regarded as outside the pale or perceived as a threat to Israel come from the same circle of neoconservatives, "resident scholars," and sound-bite experts who move seamlessly from think-tank to advocacy group to academia and back again.
06-27-07 - UPDATE: At-Tuwani: 16-25 June 2007 The shepherds left the area. Again, the
CPTers explained to the soldiers this particular land is all they owned and
"going to the other side of the mountain" was not an option. The soldiers
listened but insisted since this was a military zone; the boys should not
come close to it, even if they owned the land.
06-27-07 - At-Tuwani Release: Israeli Military Denies Access to Susiya Land to Surveyors The landowner overheard the DCO officer telling the soldier the
Palestinians did have permission to be on the land. The soldier told the
DCO officer no one had informed anyone in the area (soldiers, police or
settlers). The soldiers then collected the ID's of all the Palestinians and
said the area was going to be a closed military zone.
06-27-07 - Israel urged to leave checkpoints Israeli peace activists are calling for dozens of military checkpoints and hundreds of unmanned roadblocks to be dismantled in the occupied West Bank.
06-27-07 - House panel wants information on Americans' killers A key Congressional committee approved a bill requiring regular reviews of Palestinian efforts to catch the killers of three Americans murdered on a diplomatic mission in Gaza. But they do NOTHING about those Americans that ISRAEL has killed.
06-27-07 - Jewish ophthalmologist helps Syrians improve their vision "I was worried that there would be a safety issue, and there wasn?t," said the doctor, whose wife, Tilly, accompanied him to the Middle East. "Truthfully, I would be more afraid going to Israel, where there is violence."
06-27-07 - AJCongress Releases Rhodes Scholars Statement Condemning Proposed British Boycott of Israeli Academics The silence by these outfits with regard to the denial of tenure to Norman Finkelstein because of his criticism of Israel is deafening. As they set about in their frenzy to defend Israel, their hypocrisy with regard to academic freedom in America (the lack thereof) is astounding.
06-27-07 - Lugar: Arab-Israeli conflict, oil, key in Iraq "Credibility and sustainability of our actions depend on addressing the two elephants in the room of U.S. Middle East policy: the Arab-Israeli conflict and U.S. dependence on Persian Gulf oil," Lugar said. "These are the two problems that our adversaries, especially Iran, least want us to address." Add Lugar to the list of true patriots.
06-27-07 - Congressional letter urges UNIFIL empowerment "We write with serious concern over the continuing illegal transfer of arms to the Hezbollah terrorist organization across the Syrian-Lebanese border," said the letter initiated by Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). Which has ZERO to do with American national interests.
06-27-07 - Mubarak sees no Israel-Syria war Hosni Mubarak played down speculation that a war between Israel and Syria could be imminent.
06-27-07 - Mixed response to Tony Blair as special envoy for Middle East
06-27-07 - Bush to name Muslim nations envoy The role of the envoy will be to bolster relations between the Muslim world and the US. The single greatest move toward that end would be getting the Israelis out of our government(foreign policy).
06-27-07 - Blair's Middle East role tainted by associations with Bush, say critics reservations continued about his ability to act as an honest broker in the Middle East because of his unequivocal support for George Bush in the war in Iraq, and failing to call for a halt to the Israeli bombing of Lebanon last summer.
06-27-07 - Scepticism hangs over Blair's appointment as quartet envoy Mr Blair is not being asked to run talks between the Palestinians and Israel, but he will seek Israel's cooperation in areas such as free movement and access. It was failure to make progress on these which led to Mr Wolfensohn's resignation.
06-27-07 - Bolton: Stop Iran by force ** The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said the American approach to Iran is doomed to failure and that force is necessary.
I'm afraid Bolton is under the impression that anyone actually gives a rat's about his opinion and his love for a nation other than this one.
06-27-07 - Excluding U.S. from peace process could help Middle East settlement - Zhirinovsky Someone benefits from this continuing conflict. "It mainly benefits the U.S. because it allows them to interfere in the situation. The point is that it is a region with enormous oil and gas deposits," he said.
06-27-07 - Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington." Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
06-27-07 - Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. failed Palestine once again The leading American economist Jeffrey Sachs criticized the U.S. and Israel for the collapse of the Palestinian government and the current unrest in Gaza in an opinion article he published in The Jordan Times over the weekend
06-27-07 - Does Tony Blair bring baggage or assets to his new role? some of Olmert's advisers are believed to see a Blair appointment as dangerous. Bush until now has been unquestionably pro-Israel, but he also trusts Blair implicitly. The worry is that Blair could nudge Bush into pressuring Israel into making security concessions to allow greater freedom of movement for the Palestinians......Although nominally answerable to the entire Quartet, Wolfensohn took his orders from Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state. That left him subject to the machinations of Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser who is the Bush administration's last word on Israel issues, and who has resisted any concessions to the Palestinians.
06-27-07 - Lebanese PM says Syria sending arms across border Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accused Syria on Wednesday of sending arms to Palestinian camps in his country and said he would raise the issue with the Arab League.
06-27-07 - Two-state solution only way for Mideast peace: Blair
06-27-07 - 'Safe haven' for trapped refugees in Lebanon battle camp A safe haven has been set up inside a bombed-out refugee camp in Lebanon for civilians trapped by almost 40 days of fighting between the army and Islamist militiamen, a Palestinian camp official said.
06-27-07 - Global opinion increasingly wary of major powers: survey Pew said support for the UN was strong in sub-Saharan Africa, but strikingly negative in the Middle East, especially Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, the Palestinian Territories and Israel. Nearly 70 percent of people in the Palestinian Territories, where the UN has long played a role, had a poor view of the institution, and 27 percent saw it favorably.
06-27-07 - After third Palestine visit, WB resident convinced U.S. must do more to help ?Our dollars are paying for a good portion of The Wall,? Minor said. ?The U.S. and Israel destabilize anything that Palestinians are able to accomplish and then ask why Palestinians can?t govern themselves.?
06-27-07 - Bethlehem children protest against internal clashes At least 300 children participated in the and marched after gathering in front of the Annexation Wall surrounding Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, and marched towards the Church of Nativity. The children then marched on Jerusalem-Hebron road, and headed towards Deheisha refugee camp.
06-27-07 - If asked, Russia to help secure Israeli military?s release - FM
06-27-07 - Giuliani: Retreat from Iraq will create Gaza situation Telling the audience at a Maryland synagogue that Israelis and Americans are now bound in the same war against Islamic militants, Giuliani stressed the need to be "on offense against terrorism" to warm applause.
06-27-07 - 11 int?l cos in Red-Dead Sea canal study tender Eleven international companies will participate in a tender to examine the possibility of digging a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, Jordan's Ministry of Water and Irrigation has announced.
06-27-07 - Former Ambassadors Call on DNC to Remove Jimmy Carter The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today sent a letter signed by six former U.S. ambassadors to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, asking him to remove former President Jimmy Carter from his position as Honorary Chairman of Democrats Abroad, an arm of the DNC.
06-27-07 - Silence Won?t End British Boycotts The Anti-Defamation League took out large ads in the Financial Times and in major American newspapers, calling the boycott motions antisemitic. Lawyer Alan Dershowitz got 100 of his colleagues to promise legal action against any lecturer boycotting Israel. And 2,000 American academics, including at least nine Nobel Prize winners, pledged to stay away from any event excluding Israelis.
06-27-07 - This is what US aid to Israel looks like
06-27-07 - Likud Leader Looks the Part of Prime Minister on Tour of Washington The discussions this week ostensibly focused on the need to block Iran?s nuclear program by using economic sanctions and divestment. But for Netanyahu, who is soaring in Israeli polls, the talks about divestment from Iran had a distinctly forward-looking bent. "It is important for Israel that whoever leads the United States in the future will be supportive of these actions," Netanyahu said following his meetings in Washington.
06-27-07 - Indonesia welcomes release of Palestinian prisoners Indonesia Wednesday welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to release 250 Palestinian prisoners but reminded that the move was only a small part of the complexity in the Israel-Palestine conflicts and Hamas should not be excluded from any conflict resolution plan.
06-27-07 - CIA, FBI documents provide clues to 1973 killing of Israeli diplomat
06-27-07 - AJC Welcomes UCC Policy Shift on Israel The UCC must've become more 'balanced'.
06-27-07 - Film review: "Occupation 101" The film explains that not only does the international community do nothing to hold accountable Israel, the US provides more aid to the state than all of sub-Saharan Africa and South America combined. "Everything Israel does in the occupied territories, US tax payers are paying for it," Noam Chomsky states.
06-26-07 - Palestinian killed as Israel raids West Bank camp Witnesses said troops surrounded the home of a wanted Palestinian militant in the camp, and that a relative of the wanted man was killed in an exchange of fire between the soldiers and gunmen hiding inside the house.
06-26-07 - Soldiers invade Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip
06-26-07 - Dying children among Palestinians trapped in Iraqi border camps: UN Children in need of urgent medical care were among more than 1,400 Palestinian refugees still stranded on the Iraqi- Syrian border after fleeing Baghdad, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday.
06-26-07 - Abbas outlaws unauthorised arms Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree banning people from carrying of weapons and explosives without a permit.
06-26-07 - BBC man's abductors renew threat The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have renewed their threat to kill him if their demands for Muslim prisoners to be freed are not met.
06-26-07 - Hamas to change British Gas contract over Gaza gas: report An official with the sacked Hamas-led Palestinian government on Tuesday revealed intentions to change a previous contract with a British energy group to sell offshore Gaza natural gas.
06-26-07 - Deposed Hamas PM warns of Israeli bid to divide Palestinians
06-26-07 - Egypt-Saudi ready to resume inter-Palestinian mediation
06-26-07 - Britain 'colluding' in Israel oppression Ms Short said Israel was creating an "apartheid" system that left Palestinians impoverished, and she urged ministers to use trade access as leverage. .....She said trade treaties with Israel included human rights clauses and complained: "Why are these not being enforced? "No action is taken to force Israel to adhere to international law. It is impossible now to believe that there could be such a peace, she said.
06-26-07 - Brussels urges Israel to reopen Gaza crossing to humanitarian aid EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Louis Michel on Tuesday called on Israel to reopen the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip to let vital aid in.
06-26-07 - Iran says new Palestinian government is a "lackey" regime
06-26-07 - Russians withhold approval of Blair envoy role
06-26-07 - Abbas seeks to bolster Fatah with Jordan-based force Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked Israel for permission to bring Fatah forces based in Jordan to the West Bank to try to shore up his control after Hamas's Gaza takeover, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.
06-26-07 - Israel moves closer to NATO missions
06-26-07 - Finkelstein - bruce lee, pt 2 Hilarious!
06-26-07 - Israel naturalizes soccer players Israel granted citizenship to two foreign-born players on its national soccer team so they could qualify for the Euro 2008 tournament.
06-26-07 - Israel weighs moving Sudanese to Kenya Israel may transfer its Sudanese refugees to Kenya, an Israeli minister said.
06-26-07 - Finkelstein - Bruce Lee I don't think I've ever seen Dershowitz so subdued. Finkelstein is - the Zionist Whisperer; he had him by the cojones and the Dersh knew it!
06-26-07 - Galloway on Israel and lebanon 06/08/2006 A rather comical interview.
06-26-07 - Jimmy Carter on Hardball Redouble your efforts, folks. Post all you got, as much as you can, everywhere you can. The Lobby is crapping in its astronaut diapers while the slur of anti-Semite is being furiously flung about. Let's really give them something to cry about (the truth!).
06-26-07 - If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED
06-26-07 - Israel's influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby Scott Ritter on BookTV.
06-26-07 - Turkey leases Israeli spy plane to combat PKK It will be stationed in Batman and operated by an Israeli squad, defense officials in Ankara said.
06-26-07 - Dems want payback for GOP vote against bill with Israel aid Behind the scenes, Democrats are pressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to make a case against Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who voted overwhelmingly last week against the foreign operations appropriations bill, which included $2.44 billion for Israel.......So far, the Republican explanations seem to be sitting well with AIPAC, which currently has no intention of making an issue of the vote. The sense at the pro-Israel powerhouse is that the wrangling over abortion is politics as usual and that further down the line, when the bill comes back from Senate-House conferencing, it will have massive bipartisan backing......."If there aren't going to be consequences on the single most important piece of legislation for Israel, when will there be consequences?" Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) told JTA. Listen, it's anti-Semitic to suggest that the Israel lobby has such power over our legislators. Don't you know?! Our legislators of one party go to AIPAC in order to get them to punish the legislators of the opposing party!
06-26-07 - Worried about Israeli intentions One can only admire the Warsaw Jews for rising up against the Nazi regime, but one can only be sickened by modern-day Israel for putting into practice so many lessons learned from the very people they despised. And one can only be saddened by our own nation's deliberate support of the same.
06-26-07 - 'Jews worldwide should fight back' People criticize Israel not for its apartheid-like policies but because of 'anti-Semitism'. For anyone else to mention the power of the Israeli lobby - despite the fact that this overwhelming influence has been duly noted by this community itself- it's anti-Semitism. For British institutions to boycott those of Israel due to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians - you guessed it, anti-Semitism. The anti-Semite cazd has been long played out. The lobby doesn't seem to understand that, to their own detriment. It's only going to get worse.
06-26-07 - Jimmy Carter on Israel's apartheid and Jewish lobby
06-26-07 - Israeli play 'serves Hamas propaganda' New play, 'Hebron', prompts right-wing protest, activists claim production unbalanced, portrays conflict only through eyes of Palestinians. Artistic director: Play depicts endless cycle of violence
06-26-07 - Iran says U.S. hurting Iran-Iraq ties Iran's supreme leader accused the United States of damaging relations between Iran and Iraq and charged that American and Israeli agents were behind the Iraqi insurgency, state-run Iranian television said Tuesday.
06-26-07 - UN refugee agency urges aid for Palestinians facing Iraq 'hell' "Several refugees begged our team not to forget them and leave them in this hell," said Jennifer Pagonis, a spokeswoman for the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
06-26-07 - Lebanon needs help to stop arms from Syria: UN In a report which UN chief Ban Ki-moon forwarded to the UN Security Council Tuesday, the team called for the deployment "of international border security experts" to back up a new Lebanese "multi-agency mobile force" that would be tasked with doing a better job of stemming the arms smuggling.
06-26-07 - Russian FM says weapons sales to Syria strictly controlled
06-26-07 - ADL Calls World Council Of Churches Anti-Israel Global Initiative "A Biased Action" The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called the decision by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to launch a global initiative against Israel, "a biased action and a moral outrage," saying the Church group "has abandoned the course of objective, credible advocacy." The WCC most likely got a very good look at the Holy Land and the effects of Israel's occupation thereof. These pro-Israel groups want organizations such as the WCC to overlook Israel's policies, and thus take a stance that is biased TOWARDS Israel. Not likely.
06-26-07 - Barghouthi: ?Israel wants to weaken all Palestinian factions? Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Minister of Information in the dissolved government, stated on Tuesday that Israel does not seek to make one Palestinian faction stronger that the other, but seeks to weaken all Palestinian factions, and create isolated cantons in the Palestinian territories.
06-26-07 - Palestinians Blame Fatah and Hamas for Violence Half of the people who reside in the Palestinian Territories believe the two main political factions are equally responsible for a recent outbreak of violence
06-26-07 - Masked, a Play about Palestinian Uprising, Begins 7/20 Masked depicts the tragedy of one family torn between obligations, kinship, principles and survival. It is the first play by an Israeli playwright about the Intifada (Palestianian uprising)," state press notes.
06-26-07 - Blair's commitment to Jews was strong; will his successor be as supportive? Jane Kennedy, a member of Parliament and chair of Labor Friends of Israel, told JTA that Blair has had enormous success in terms of Britain's relationship with Israel. "On a scale of 1 to 10, he scores a 12," she said.
Which is why Blair could never be an impartial UN envoy in the Middle East.
06-26-07 - Arabs call on Australia to do more for peace Arab nations want Australia to use its friendship with Israel to encourage it to re-engage in Middle East peace talks.
06-26-07 - Right-wing MKs criticize proposed prisoner release A number of right-wing legislators in the Knesset have criticized Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s proposal to release 250 Palestinian prisoners, all members of the Fatah movement, arguing that he has sacrificed Israeli security for personal publicity.
06-26-07 - Hezbollah probing attack on Lebanon peacekeepers The Hezbollah source said members of the movement were helping the Lebanese army seek information on a Mercedes car which was seen driving around the area the day before the booby-trapped Renault car was placed next to the roadside and detonated by remote control when the peacekeepers drove past.
06-26-07 - Report: Top official recommends halting arrests of Fatah militants A senior Israeli official Tuesday was quoted as saying that Israel should consider revising its policy of arresting wanted Fatah militants if Fatah stops receiving funding from Iran and refrains from attacking Israel.
06-26-07 - Extreme rightist convicted of supporting terror group
06-26-07 - Analysis: Four reasons why Blair is the perfect envoy As Israel bombed defenseless fleeing civilians in Lebanon, Blair stood by and took the US-Israel position and refused to back a ceasefire. For that and other reasons, Israel loves him. He simply would not be an impartial envoy.
06-26-07 - Divide and rule, Israeli style If they are all at each other's throats, how can they be a threat to poor lil Israel? Meanwhile, the settlement-building goes on. The Middle East needs its own William Wallace. Our policies therein do not serve to secure the American national interest. To the contrary - they've made us less secure. Our policies are being driven by a group of neoconservatives that have made their centcom in the office of the vice president. These policies are geared towards the security of a nation other than this one.
06-26-07 - Bill O'Reilly defends Jimmy Carter
06-26-07 - U.S. praises Siniora's resilience in face of crises
06-25-07 - One militant killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza At least one militant was killed and four people wounded in an Israeli air strike on a car driving through Gaza City on Sunday
06-25-07 - Palestine: Freedom Is What They Want The Palestinians don't deserve this. Their only sin was to be born in their own country, a country that was coveted by European Zionists and taken from them with the help of British colonialism. The fact that most American politicians prefer the indignity of acting like a crowd of timid foot-kissers for the Israeli lobby adds our own guilt to that of the Israelis. When a people are fighting for freedom versus an army - regardless of its size or might - that is fighting for empire, the people will eventually win in the end (just like Americans did). The drive for dignity, freedom, and their very lives is much stronger and it will prevail.
06-25-07 - Israeli forces kidnap one Palestinian civilian from Za'tara village near Bethlehem A massive Israeli force invaded the village of Za'tara, located east of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank, and kidnapped one civilian on Monday morning.
06-25-07 - From No 10 to the Middle East: Blair gets a new job Support from Bush leads to role as international envoy helping Palestinians
06-25-07 - 'Disaster for Palestinians' "We have been saying for a long time that Blair is nothing more than George Bush's poodle. We remember his stance on Iraq and Britain's lead role in imposing an embargo on the Palestinian Authority after we did not vote the correct way," he
06-25-07 - Captured Israeli soldier 'alive and well' If Israel wanted Mr Shalit freed, it should release Palestinian prisoners who were women, children, elderly, sick, leaders of factions and people serving long sentences, Mr Mujahid said.
06-25-07 - Hamas is 'ready to talk' to Fatah
06-25-07 - Hamas airs 'first Shalit message' The Palestinian captors of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have broadcast what they say is his first audio message since his capture a year ago.
06-25-07 - Iran says 'zero chance' of US attack ** An Israeli press report said that the Jewish state's army was in training for long distance missions, after agreeing a timetable with the US for sanctions against Iran's nuclear program to work. The Israelis are going to do their darndest (and that goes for their minions, the neocons, also) to get America to strike Iran.
06-25-07 - Israel continues construction of Alon Mureh settlement at the expense of Palestinian land The continued construction of the settlement has been made and continues to be made at the expense of farm land that belongs to Palestinian farmers from the city of Nablus and nearby towns and villages. This continued construction has caused the settlement to change its shape continuously.
06-25-07 - Gaza gas deal may proceed A British energy company still hopes to develop Palestinian off-shore natural gas deposits near Gaza despite uncertainty over the future of the Palestinian government.
06-25-07 - Interview: Hamas reasserts dialogue as only way out of Palestinian crisis A senior Hamas official reasserted here on Monday that dialogue between Fatah and his movement is the only way to get out of the current crisis in the Palestinian territories.
06-25-07 - Aid trickles into Gaza but basic shortages grow "Put simply, the noose is tightening at the moment," WFP Gaza emergency coordinator Kirsty Campbell told Reuters. "There is not enough getting in. We hope by the end of the week there may be. But it is quite an ambitious task."
06-25-07 - Abbas-Olmert meet at Mideast summit On Sunday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit called on Israel to allow aid to flow to the Gaza Strip, saying it was "not permissible to punish the Palestinian people."
06-25-07 - Dr.Barghouthi: Israel does not want peace Israel aims to shrink the Palestinian Authority to functional authority, limited to handling only mundane issues such as services and administration, and not involved in resolving political matters such as ending the occupation, removing settlements and dismantling the illegal wall, said Dr. Barghouthi.
06-25-07 - Al-Qaeda seeks unity with Hamas Hamas leaders, who espouse a more moderate brand of Islamist politics, have always shunned al-Qaeda advances.
06-25-07 - Spanish defence chief in Lebanon Hezbollah issued a statement describing the incident as very dangerous and said it was aimed at undermining the stability of southern Lebanon, a sentiment echoed by Lebanese President Emile Lahoud as he "strongly denounced" the blast.
06-25-07 - Johnston family distressed by 'bomb belt' video
06-25-07 - Gaza could become Al Qaeda refuge: US US policies helped create this mess.
06-25-07 - Lebanon points finger at Islamists over UN attack Information Minister Ghazi Aridi pointed the finger at the Islamists for the UN attack, based on confessions extracted from Fatah al-Islam gunmen captured during fierce fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp which is now in its sixth week.
06-25-07 - Baruch Kimmerling Kimmerling released his controversial Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War against the Palestinians. What began as a biography became an analysis of "a gradual but systematic attempt to cause Palestinians' annihilation as an independent social, political and economic entity".
06-25-07 - A thankless task with four bosses and no office
06-25-07 - Israel is determined to dig its own grave the trend to which Israel should perhaps pay the greatest attention is that its main ally, the US, is bogged down in an unwinnable war, waged in large part because Israel's American friends, the Washington neoconservatives, thought that if America smashed Iraq, Israel would no longer have anything to fear from the east.
06-25-07 - Finkelstein case: Academic freedom loses to Israeli lobby If a task force were formed to interrogate the faculty members who served on this year's committee, there is the possibility that someone would emerge to tell the truth about what influence, if any, was placed on the faculty members who served to vote in a particular way
06-25-07 - Marines to train at new Israeli combat center In a new, elaborate training center in the Negev desert, Israeli troops ? and someday, U.S. Marines and soldiers ? are preparing for the wide range of urban scenarios they may confront......Moskovich said Baladia City would eventually host Army and Marine Corps units for training before they head to Iraq. Why is it always only us? Not the British, French, Germans, Aussies, etc etc etc. It is always only the US involved in this shit because America is wholly Israeli-occupied territory.
06-25-07 - Rice: Democracy will come to Middle East Western and Arab reporters questioned Rice sharply Sunday about statements she made nearly a year ago, in which she referred to "the birth pangs of a new Middle East."
06-25-07 - Syria's alliance with Iran in the balance Syria has expressed readiness to help curb Middle East instability in exchange for peace with Israel but will not easily give up its alliance with Iran as demanded by the Jewish state
06-25-07 - Sudanese refugees in Israel to be jailed Israel renewed its policy of jailing Sudanese refugees crossing the Egyptian border illegally into Israel.
06-25-07 - Lantos: Include Israel in NATO The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee called for Israel's inclusion in NATO. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
06-25-07 - Letters from readers : Seek the truth It has been suggested that the attack on the USS Liberty was a deliberate plan to sink the ship and blame it on Egypt, which was under attack by Israel at the time. That the truth behind this 40-year-old tragic event has not yet been discovered is a travesty.
06-25-07 - Europeans Skeptical about Blair as Mideast Envoy
06-25-07 - Tel Rumeida: Breaking and Entering Palestinian Homes
06-25-07 - NASA MODIS Image of the Day: June 25, 2007 - Egypt and the Middle East
06-25-07 - Israeli to resume the trial on Chief Islamic Justice on Tuesday
06-25-07 - Sinai Bedouin demands justice
06-25-07 - Haneya welcomes Mubarak's call for Palestinian internal dialogue
06-25-07 - UN peacekeepers vow to stay in Lebanon
06-25-07 - United Church of Christ Chooses Fairness toward Israelis and Palestinians "In June 2006, the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly set an example by replacing a 2004 resolution that threatened anti-Israel divestment with a balanced resolution that seeks the welfare of both Palestinians and Israelis. Now such evenhandedness appears to be providentially contagious. First the United Church of Canada (later in 2006) and now the United Church of Christ have made similar turns toward fairness in their approach to the Middle East." Why should there be 'evenhandedness' at all when one side holds all of the power in this equation? The playing field is not level, so let's stop pretending that it is. Hamas, PIJ, and all of the rest of those groups, even taken together, could never wipe Israel out.
06-24-07 - Rockets wound three in Southern Israel
06-24-07 - Mid-East leaders gather at summit
06-24-07 - Oxfam warns of new Gaza "sewage tsunami" Aid agency Oxfam International warned Monday that the tight restrictions placed by Israel on goods passing into Gaza risk sparking another septic system collapse like that which killed at least five people in March.
06-24-07 - Israeli settlers burn agricultural land in Bethlehem A group of Israeli settlers set on fire a wide agricultural land that belongs to Palestinian farmers from the village of Tiqua, east of Bethlehem on Friday afternoon.
06-24-07 - Iran denies financial assistance to Hamas Iran on Sunday denied rendering any financial assistance to the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas and reiterated once again that its support for the group was merely of a 'spiritual' nature.
06-24-07 - King Voices Jordan's Full Support for the Palestinian National Authority
06-24-07 - Plight of Palestinian refugees worsening in most parts of Middle East
06-24-07 - Johnston in new 'bomb vest' video In the tape, Mr Johnston says his captors have said they will detonate the vest if force is used to try to free him.
06-24-07 - Abbas says he received U.S., Israeli promises of progress during Egypt summit
06-24-07 - EGYPT-OPT: Gazans stranded at Rafah border, North Sinai towns
06-24-07 - Haniya decries Israel 'blackmail' Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has attacked Israel's decision to release frozen tax funds to the new Palestinian government as "blackmail".
06-24-07 - Senior Iran envoy 'regrets' Hamas-Fatah conflict Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Rida Bakery following talks in Damascus on Sunday expressed "regret" over the situation in the Palestinian Territories.
06-24-07 - Saudi retreats from role as Palestinian mediator Saudi Arabia will no longer mediate between rival Palestinian factions after a unity government deal which it brokered collapsed in deadly violence, local media said.
06-24-07 - Israel cautious on West Bank moves ahead of summit Israel is reluctant to remove roadblocks and other West Bank restrictions to boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's new government until he does more to curb militants, officials said ahead of a summit on Monday. The gauntlets are already being laid down by Israel.
06-24-07 - Israel expels record number of east Jerusalem Arabs Expulsion is not a new Israeli policy. It's why there are so many Palestinian refugees scattered throughout the world.
06-24-07 - Captured Israeli in 'booby-trapped bunker'
06-24-07 - Israel releases £300m in tax revenues to Palestinians The release will take place gradually
06-24-07 - Hamas considers Sharm al-Sheikh summit bid to isolate it
06-24-07 - Hamas says Abbas forces detained 18 of its members in W. Bank
06-24-07 - Israel to use small crossings to get aid to Gaza
06-24-07 - Israel halts removal of West Bank roadblocks after army objects
06-24-07 - Hamas war chief reveals his plans for Gaza peace He said Israel 'forced us to this point, but we are not ready to do it again. People need help; they need jobs, money and police. They don't need fighting between brothers.'
06-24-07 - Franco-US differences crop up at Rice, Kouchner meeting Rice said Washington was "determined not to support Hamas, which is the core of the problem," but Kouchner regretted that France had wanted to "help the Palestinians directly but we were not backed."
06-24-07 - Australian cleric backs Hezbollah "If Australia supports Israel, they are defending terrorism because we believe terrorists come from Israel ? not from our people. I support Hezbollah," he said in the interview. "Our opinion is that Hezbollah is not a terrorist group."
06-24-07 - Israel needs 'complete disengagement' from Gaza The idea is based on an article by Dr. Robert Satloff, the executive director for the Washington Institute for Near East policy, who wrote that Israel failed to follow through on all political, economic, and security aspects of the 2005 disengagement, thus "denying itself the consequent diplomatic benefits" of the withdrawal.
That particular 'thinktank' is just another arm of AIPAC - as so many of them are.
06-24-07 - Blowback in Lebanon
06-24-07 - Lebanon blast kills UN soldiers Sunday's explosion took place between the towns of Khiyam and Marjeyoun, near the border with Israel in the area of operation of UN peacekeepers.
06-24-07 - Palestinian leader with Austin ties faces tough job
06-24-07 - Hamas Holds the High Cards
06-24-07 - Lebanon Islamist clashes spread Two civilians, one soldier, a policeman and at least six Islamist gunmen are said to have been killed in the fight.
06-24-07 - 3-state solution is whose idea? Divide and conquer.
06-24-07 - West Bank, Gaza almost strangers In an article just released, Jacob Savag, a graduate fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem research institute, argued "to a large extent, the residents of Gaza and the West Bank are two different people, and the idea of a three-state solution ? Israel, plus a Hamas-run Gaza and a Fatah-governed West Bank ? makes historical sense." Divide and conquer.
06-24-07 - Tel Rumeida: Palestinian and HRWs Home Attacked With Rocks
06-24-07 - Tel Rumeida: Prolonged Detention by Soldiers
06-24-07 - MEMRI Loss MEMRI, according to Norman G. Finkelstein, employs ?the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis. They take things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don?t like,? or people Likudniks and neocons want the United States military to mass murder.
06-24-07 - Leon accuses ANC of taking sides
06-24-07 - Al-Qaeda leader calls for attacks on Zionists A LEADER of al-Qaeda's Egyptian wing has called for attacks on "Zionist" and Western targets in support of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
06-24-07 - Tel Rumeida: Fear of Settlers Prompts Palestinians to ask for Escorts
06-24-07 - Opposition press criticizes upcoming Egypt summit supporting Palestinian leader
06-24-07 - With friends like these... The United States, the superpower with the lion's share of responsibility for the deteriorating situation in the Middle East. Another blame America article by Haaretz.
06-24-07 - Syria calls for dialogue among Palestinians to solve disputes
06-24-07 - Muslims uniting against Israel: report "I agree with (Mousselmani) that the state of Israel has ... consistently engaged in acts of terror which have brought a great deal of pain to the poor Palestinian population and the Lebanese population."
06-24-07 - Outsiders pull the strings in Lebanon, say analysts
06-24-07 - Tel Rumeida: Children Detained for Possession of a Butter Knife
06-23-07 - Army kidnaps three civilians from Hebron The Israeli army attacked several areas of the southern West Bank city of Hebron and kidnapped 3 Palestinian civilians on Saturday morning.
06-23-07 - Five injured at Bil'in demonstration
06-23-07 - Sheikh Salih Arori arrested by Israeli troops Occupying Israeli forces have arrested Sheikh Salih Arori, one of the most prominent Hamas leaders on Saturday at dawn, in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
06-23-07 - Russian FM calls for dialogue in Palestinian crisis settlement A dialogue between the legitimate president and the legitimate parliament is necessary for settling the Palestinian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on TV on Friday.
06-23-07 - Abbas to meet with Jordan's Abdullah ahead of summit
06-23-07 - Jerusalem Bishop appeals for emergency aid The Rt. Rev. Suheil Dawani, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, has issued an emergency appeal for humanitarian aid to Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, still reeling from fallout of recent violence and shortages of medical supplies.
06-23-07 - One Palestinian women injured by army fire in Jenin One Palestinian woman was shot and injured during an Israeli army invasion targeting Jenin refugee camp located in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday.
06-23-07 - Hamas calls on Egypt to reopen Rafah crossing
06-23-07 - Hamas war chief reveals his plans for Gaza peace 'We all understand that we need to wait until provoked. Maybe one week, maybe one month, but they will come and provoke us. But for now, we need to fix the economy, provide the security for the people of Gaza and the foreigners who want to come here, and fix the problems with the families. We can't do anything before we do that.'
06-23-07 - Few Gazans turn in weapons as Hamas deadline for arms collection expires
06-23-07 - A Hamas legislator: "If brought to Gaza International forces will be dealt with as occupation"
06-23-07 - Abbas plans to appoint Rajoub as internal security head in the West Bank Palestinian sources close to President Mahmoud Abbas stated on Saturday morning that the president plans to appoint Lieutenant JIbril Rajoub, member of the Fateh revolutionary council, as the head of the Internal Security department in the West Bank.
06-23-07 - With nightly invasions and kidnappings, Israeli military occupation makes its presence known
06-23-07 - Israeli soldiers arrest two at Umm Salamoneh Around 50 residents of the village of Umm Salamoneh, located to the south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, joined by international and Israeli peace activists, marched on Friday against confiscation of land by Israel for the purposes of the construction of the illegal wall.
06-23-07 - Interior Min. increasingly revoking E. J'lem Arabs' residency permits
06-23-07 - Egypt says Hamas takeover of Gaza was a coup The bloody takeover of Gaza by Hamas was a "coup against legitimacy," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Saturday, two days before he hosts a regional summit seen as an attempt to isolate the Islamist group.
06-23-07 - Serving America's 'Muslim army'
06-23-07 - Symbols to fear in Gaza
06-23-07 - Troops die in Lebanon camp clash Four Lebanese soldiers have been killed in fighting with Islamist militants in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon
06-23-07 - Freedom suffers in backlash to Bush agenda Summer 2005 was a high point in the Bush administration?s ?freedom agenda?, as stirrings of democracy appeared across the Arab world. Three examples were held up as models: Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
06-23-07 - IAF, USAF greatly upgrade cooperation The Israel Air Force has significantly upgraded the level of its cooperation with the United States Air Force and now receives regular updates on American procurement decisions, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
06-23-07 - Police uncover weapons lab in home of West Bank settler Police have uncovered a weapons lab in the home of a West Bank settler that they believe was used to illegally fix decommissioned guns, according to information made public Thursday.
06-23-07 - USA Today and the USS Liberty While AP did have a story on the Liberty on June 8th, the report, oddly, was filed from Israel and was sent out only internationally; US editors never saw it. Where the US media did produce stories, almost all (like the above AP story) gave the Israeli invention --that "investigations" showed it was accidental. Glad someone else picked up on this.
06-23-07 - U.S.-led move to back Abbas gov't blocked in Security Council UN sources in New York said that these countries' governments object to the anti-Hamas policy and to American and European efforts to isolate the group as a terror organization. They said that Russia and South Africa have questioned the legitimacy of the Palestinian emergency government and argued that a Palestinian unity government is not only still possible, but would be preferable to the emergency government headed by Fayad, which has authority in the West Bank only.
06-23-07 - Detainees in the Negev on Hunger Strike
06-23-07 - Hebron: Update 1st June - 7th June, 2007
06-23-07 - Report: Rice quashed Pollard release proposal "Pollard's release is out of the question," Maariv quoted her as telling Ayalon. "Danny, I'd advise you not to pursue this any further. Pollard betrayed his country and that issue is taboo in Washington."
06-23-07 - U.S., Egypt at odds on Gaza border curbs "The truth of the matter is that the problem is not nearly as large as the [U.S.] allegations imply, and we're doing quite a bit already," Nabil Fahmy, Egypt's ambassador to the United States, said in an interview.
06-23-07 - Syria closes Lebanon border post because of camp siege The closure decided by the interior ministry will stay in place "until calm has returned to northern Lebanon", it said late Wednesday. It was designed "to protect Syrian and Lebanese citizens".
06-23-07 - Israel discovers compassion When it comes to the good old suffering Israel has been bringing to Gaza residents for dozens of years now, we can continue remaining indifferent as we have done for many years.
06-23-07 - Abbas appoints panel of inquiry into failure of his security forces in Gaza, his office says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday appointed a panel of inquiry into the failure of his security forces to halt Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza, Abbas' office said.
06-23-07 - Lieberman slams planned Abbas aid Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman opposes Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to transfer an assistance package to the Palestinians, Army Radio reported Friday.
06-23-07 - El-Farra: Palestinians must have hope to move forward We, too, have the right to be free. But we must first free ourselves from fighting over the scraps of power.
06-23-07 - King stresses necessity of international community to intensify efforts for supporting Palestinian people His Majesty King Abdullah II and British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed during a telephone call on Saturday the latest political developments in the Middle East, especially the situation in the Palestinian territories.
06-23-07 - Olmert aides: Sharm summit is just start of process Officials in Olmert's office in Jerusalem said the goal of the Sharm e-Sheik summit Monday was to lay the groundwork for diplomatic negotiations with the Fatah government, rather than reach any final conclusions.
06-23-07 - 'Times' slammed over op-eds by Hamas official Several Jewish organizations expressed outrage following the publication of opinion pieces authored by a Hamas figure in two of the US's most prestigious newspapers on Wednesday.
06-23-07 - Sarkozy pressured to help free Schalit The Franco-Israeli community will open a public campaign on Sunday to get French President Nicholas Sarkozy to help bring about the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.
06-23-07 - Olmert shelves Rice's shelf agreement Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected, during his visit to the United States last week, a proposal by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Israel negotiate a permanent settlement with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
06-23-07 - Baraka: Gaza incidents are shameful, but Israel is ultimately to blame
06-23-07 - Thousands cycle for kidnapped soldiers
06-23-07 - Toby Keith's New Album Debuts at Number 1; Prince to Perform in London's New O2 Arena Three other albums debut in the Top 10 this week. Rapper Fabolous enters at Number 2 with "From Nothin' To Somethin'." Miami-based Palestinian-American-born DJ/producer DJ Khaled lands on the list at Number 8 with "We The Best."
06-22-07 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in Hebron-hospital Hospital officials identified the man as a 25-year-old civilian.
06-22-07 - Hashemite charitable convoys arrive in Gaza
06-22-07 - Report: Captors of BBC journalist demand safety guarantees Clan head Mumtaz Dughmush is refusing to release the correspondent for fear that Hamas would kill him and most of his clan members, the newspaper said.
06-22-07 - Evacuated Palestinians return to Gaza
06-22-07 - More WFP Trucks With Humanitarian Assistance Head For Gaza The United Nations World Food Programme has announced that nine trucks carrying 225 metric tons of food have begun to cross the border into Gaza today. The food convoy follows the arrival yesterday of seven WFP trucks carrying 200 metric tons of food assistance into the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
06-22-07 - Israeli forces invades Jabalia town near Gaza
06-22-07 - Israeli army kidnaps 13 Palestinian civilians from several West Bank areas
06-22-07 - The economist 'Omar Sha'ban says:Closure of Gaza not just a humanitarian crisis but also an economic disaster Israel is conducting punitive measures against the Gaza Strip, the most prominent of which is the cancellation of the commercial code of the Gaza Strip and the closure of the crossings through which food stuffs and other basic raw materials usually pass
06-22-07 - UNICEF responds to growing humanitarian needs in Gaza The conditions for children living in Gaza are incredibly poor. UNICEF?s work in the occupied Palestinian territory focuses on education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, child protection and adolescent participation.
06-22-07 - Interfax: Quartet envoys to meet Tuesday in Jerusalem Representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers will meet Tuesday in Jerusalem, a Russian envoy said Friday, according the Interfax news agency.
06-22-07 - Israel fails to stem Gaza food crisis: UN Aid agencies say food stocks could run out in the Hamas-held Gaza Strip within two weeks, creating a major humanitarian crisis if Israel does not ease a cargo blockade further.
06-22-07 - Egypt rejects any condition on U.S. aid program: FM Earlier this month, the appropriations committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved to withhold a 200-million-U.S.- dollar aid program to the Egyptian military in fiscal year 2008 until Egypt made some reforms in its judicial system and ended weapon smuggling into the Palestinian Gaza Strip via Sinai.
06-22-07 - Gaza's only Catholic priest says his people need peace "We cannot go. We cannot come. Everything is closed. It is a big prison. Fear, stress, hunger, lack of work, lack of electricity, lack of water. And more. Lack of police, lack of law, lack of justice, lack of freedom.
06-22-07 - Caritas says humanitarian access must be guaranteed in Gaza
06-22-07 - Living with Hamas in Gaza Things are quiet now, but this could mean two things. Either it really is calm, or it's the calm before the storm. You can't tell.
06-22-07 - Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills Need Your Help It is quite amazing that even though some of Susya's residents have been expelled by the military and the settlers several times, they have always managed to return to their lands. They continue to eke out a frugal living from their herds of goats and sheep and by farming the few fields that have been left to them.
06-22-07 - Report: IAF preparing for Iran strike **
06-22-07 - Hamas ex-minister kidnapped in West Bank The former justice minister in the Hamas-dominated government that held power for a year until March was kidnapped in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, witnesses said.
06-22-07 - Abbas dismisses head of security No reasons were given but Mr Shbak has faced criticism for failing to stop the takeover, which effectively split the Palestinian territories in two.
06-22-07 - Haniyeh calls for talks with Abbas's Fatah faction Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian government dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, called for renewed talks on Saturday between the factions, Haniyeh's office said.
06-22-07 - EU must act now on Palestine - de Brún ?The EU and the international community bear a heavy responsibility for the current tragedy in Palestine? according to Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún.
06-22-07 - Israel coy over help for Abbas ahead of Mideast summit Israel owes the Palestinians more than 600 million dollars in back taxes collected on their behalf, which remained frozen while Hamas-led governments were in power from March 2006 until last week.
06-22-07 - Gazans fear isolation as guns fall silent "It has been a very bad week for the Palestinian people. The Palestinian cause has never seen such a crisis," said Gaza physician Bassam Ismail of last week's rout by Islamist Hamas fighters of forces loyal to Abbas after six days of bloodshed.
06-22-07 - Robert Fisk: How can Blair possibly be given this job? And Israel likes Lord Blair. Indeed, Blair's slippery use of language is likely to appeal to Ehud Olmert, whose government continues to take Arab land for Jews and Jews only as he waits to discover a Palestinian with whom he can "negotiate",
06-22-07 - Wexler queries EU failure to ban Hezbollah A top Jewish congressman held hearings on the European Union's refusal to place Hezbollah on its terrorist list.
06-22-07 - Hebron Reflection: Checkpoints and Gates Another way in which 'freedom of movement and access" is restricted here in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories is through an Apartheid-type road system.
Israeli registered vehicles have yellow number plates; Palestinian vehicles
green or white. The Israeli authorities prevent Palestinian registered vehicles
from using many roads, forcing them to use poorly maintained roads and
circuitous routes
06-22-07 - Boycotting DePaul Officials at DePaul University caved to pressure from pro-Israel ideologues, denying tenure for Norman Finkelstein, an outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights--and then announced that they were withholding tenure for another professor who actively supported Finkelstein's cause.
06-22-07 - Jewish groups back travel insurance law "We urge you to act to protect travelers to lawful foreign destinations from unfair and discriminatory insurance practices," said the letter, signed by, among others, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and representatives of the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist streams.
06-22-07 - GOP writes AIPAC to explain 'no' vote The Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives is sending a letter to AIPAC explaining why the party voted against a foreign aid funding bill that includes $2.4 billion for Israel.
06-22-07 - Lebanese army rings refugee camp
06-22-07 - Jewish settlers fear Golan withdrawal A major water basin lies under the Golan Heights providing Israel with about a third of its water supplies. No kidding?!
06-22-07 - Senators ask Rice to press Egypt on smuggling A letter urging Condoleezza Rice to review Egypt's efforts to stop arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip garnered signatures from 32 U.S. senators.
06-22-07 - Jewish-Arab band to promote peace in Jerusalem
06-22-07 - Israeli attack was deliberate The order to abandon ship was given and life rafts were put over the side. The torpedo boats then closed and machine gunned all the rafts, sinking them.
06-22-07 - Clashes at Lebanon siege camp ease as clerics meet militants Lebanese troops used artillery, tanks and machine guns against Islamists holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp on Friday despite the government saying the offensive had ended.
06-22-07 - Hamas scores publicity coup in U.S. The New York Times and The Washington Post gave space to Ahmed Yousef, a senior Hamas figure, on Wednesday to argue that the United States should not interfere in Gaza, where Hamas took control after six days of bloody fighting against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah fighters.
06-22-07 - Romania to hire charter plane to repatriate its citizens from Gaza The Romanian government will hire a charter airplane to repatriate 31 Romanian citizens from the Gaza Strip whose security is endangered by the latest developments in the area, Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu- Tariceanu and Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu announced on Friday.
06-22-07 - Moment of Silence for Captive Johnston On Wednesday, June 20, thousands of BBC staffers around the world fell silent at festivals, in conferences and on air to mark the 100th day of captivity for BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
06-22-07 - Alcohol, Middle East, animal fur Equitable Life feature in June Plenary In other votes MEP supported a decision to restart direct aid to the Palestinian Authorities and insisted that Israel pay back the customs duties owed to the Authority - something President Pöttering has repeated called for.
06-22-07 - Acclaimed Palestinian Actor Mohammad Bakri Faces Trial in Israel for Documentary ?Jenin, Jenin? Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri is one Israel?s most well-known citizens. But since producing a documentary on Israel?s 2002 assault on the West Bank town of Jenin, Bakri has found himself virtually blacklisted in Israeli cinema, and now, he even faces possible jail time for making the film.
06-22-07 - Footlik gets Jewish backing in House bid Signatories include Mort Zuckerman and Shoshana Cardin, both former chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Alan Solomont, a backer of the Israel Policy Fund now leading fund-raising for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination; Steve Grossman, a past president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and now a lead-fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), also seeking the presidency; and Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and writer.
06-22-07 - Basketball Uniforms for Palestine The three teams with both Moslem and Christian Palestinian players are looking forward to the new threads, funding for which was raised by the Middle East Program of Santa Cruz's Resource Center for Nonviolence.
06-22-07 - Arab bourses "cautious" as investors monitor half-year results Palestinian stocks responded positively to the declaration by the United States and the European Union that they would be resuming financial aid to the Palestinian Authority after the formation of an emergency cabinet led by the US-educated economist Salam Fayyad
06-22-07 - USS LIBERTY - 'A lie told well is immortal' "If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of."
06-22-07 - Indonesia concerned about Palestinian conflict: spokesman The Indonesian government on Friday expressed a deep concern over the conflict situation in Palestine, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Kristianto Legowo said.
06-22-07 - Weiner: Cut Aid To West Bank And Gaza U.S Representative Anthony Weiner will introduce an amendment to the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, banning all aid, including humanitarian aid, from the United States to the Palestinian Authority
06-22-07 - Christians? ?salvation? requires peace in the Middle East
06-22-07 - Jewish groups slam U.K. boycott Jewish organizations slammed the decision by Britain's largest trade union to support a boycott of Israel.
06-21-07 - Four Decades of Twisting Facts About Israel?s Attack on the USS Liberty By James Ennes as preparations were being made to abandon ship, they machinegunned the ship?s empty life rafts which had been lowered into the water awaiting survivors?a clear violation of Geneva conventions.
06-21-07 - Unknown gunmen kill a Palestinian man in Nablus Rami Sariss, 32, was visiting family in Al Ein refugee camp near Nablus city, a group of unknown masked men opened fire at this and killed him.
06-21-07 - Gaza and West Bank? ICRC Bulletin No. 24 / 2007 "This is a medical emergency and we are doing what we can to cover the needs in Gaza's hospitals," said Christoph Harnisch, head of the ICRC's delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories. "But that is only part of the problem. Even before the events of last week, the situation in Gaza was difficult."
06-21-07 - Abbas demands final status talks or nothing as he heads to Egypt summit
06-21-07 - Settlers uprooted 300 Palestinian olive trees Residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers
06-21-07 - Israel opens contact with West Bank Livni told Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in a telephone conversation that the establishment of his emergency government, replacing one headed by Hamas, would allow "progress on various issues... as well as advance the political process".
06-21-07 - The Palestinian emergency government annuled all all passports issued in Gaza
06-21-07 - Aid to Palestine through the MEDA programme
06-21-07 - Desperate Gazans throng border fearful of new Iraq "What am I going to do there? I still don't know. I just want my wife and son to be safe," he said. "Soon we'll see car bomb attacks in Gaza. It'll be Iraq here soon."
06-21-07 - PLO recommends dissolving Fatah, Hamas militias
06-21-07 - PM to propose releasing 6 million dollars to PA Only 6? Ridiculous.
06-21-07 - OPT: UN warns of food shortages unless key crossing point reopened
06-21-07 - Open Bethlehem Exposes Israel?s Systematic Strangulation of the Holy City Sansour showed a photo of a terraced hillside that has been carefully tended for more than 2,000 years. The audience audibly gasped when he stated that it is destined to be dismantled for the establishment of yet another Jewish-only settlement. Palestinians are particularly alarmed by a new settlement being built in the heart of Bethlehem, Sansour said. It surrounds Rachel?s Tomb and its residents are militant fundamentalist Jews.
06-21-07 - Turkey begins evacuating citizens
06-21-07 - Hamas militia moves into captured Fatah security base, symbolizing its Gaza takeover
06-21-07 - Palestinian body calls to dissolve militia groups
06-21-07 - Abbas rules out dialogue with Hamas 'terrorists'
06-21-07 - 400 tons of food and medical aid delivered to Gaza Much of the food aid was donated by the Jordanian government
06-21-07 - Hamas requests Turkish mediation in dispute with Fatah
06-21-07 - France will give direct aid to Palestinians
06-21-07 - Top PLO body urges Abbas to call early elections A key body of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) urged President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to call early national elections, a move that would deepen his split with Hamas Islamists.
06-21-07 - Israel targets US lad mag market The pictures are part of a public relations drive to improve the image of the country within the US. Maxim said it was "pleased" with the result of its collaboration with the Israeli consulate in New York, which came up with the idea.
06-21-07 - The End of Dissent? With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Washington to ramp up the Lobby's ferocious campaign to get the US to attack Iran ? or at least credibly threaten to ? the pro-Israel forces on Capitol Hill were out in full force, herding their congressional supporters into a massive display of obedience with a whopping 411-2 vote in the House.
06-21-07 - Jewish spectrum of issues on display in meeting with Democratic senators Howard Kohr, executive director of the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who spoke about the threat that Iran and its nuclear program posed to the region;
06-21-07 - Sydney municipality drops plans to twin with Hebron Jewish leaders in Sydney welcomed a local council?s decision to drop plans to establish sister-city ties with the West Bank city of Hebron.
06-21-07 - Netanyahu pushes Iran isolation Netanyahu met Thursday with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), a leading candidate for her party's presidential candidacy, and Fred Thompson, a former Tennessee senator who is set to announce his bid for the Republican candidacy, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney.
06-21-07 - ZOA lobbies to isolate Iran, Abbas More than 300 ZOA activists from 20 states had almost 200 meetings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, and leading lawmakers -- including Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a long shot contender for the Republican presidential candidacy -- addressed the group. The lead item for the ZOA delegates was strengthening sanctions against Iran, the signature issue for many pro-Israel groups now that Israel assesses the Islamic Republic may be less than two years away from a nuclear weapon.
06-21-07 - Poet will speak about how she learned to listen One of her favorite memories of the trip includes the time she stayed with a family in a Palestinian refugee camp near Hebron in the West Bank. She saw the destitution firsthand.
06-21-07 - Lebanon army 'wins camp battle'
06-21-07 - Arrests at Jerusalem gay parade An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was arrested for planning to bomb the parade, Israeli police said.
06-21-07 - Israel?s Hush-Up Machine in Action: Denying Story Israel Executed Egyptian Prisoners
06-21-07 - Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup
06-21-07 - Mixed reaction for plan to make Blair Middle East envoy
06-21-07 - Nihilism and Neoconservatism With the presidential primaries of both parties effectively rigged against the possibility of a credible antiwar candidate arising to wrest the nomination from the pro-war front-runners, and the War Party's propaganda machine revving up its motors for another go, this time at Iran, we are in for a very explosive next couple of years. The reason is because the political system lacks any effective safety valves: there is no way for ordinary people to have any real impact, and therefore the special interests ? and the War Party is just a collection of very special ideological and corporate interests ? have taken over.
06-21-07 - U.S. to increase military aid to Israel in decade-long deal Olmert had persuaded Bush to announce the aid increase, senior political sources said Wednesday.
06-21-07 - Who runs American Foreign Policy?
06-21-07 - Lebanon: Rights group calls for probe into Palestinian abuse claims "It would be unfair to say all Palestinians who leave the camp are being beaten up, but there are enough cases to cause us to be very alarmed," said Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch, as he gathered testimony in Badawi camp.
06-21-07 - Family: Ex-professor to remain imprisoned for refusing to testify Nahla al-Arian said her husband will not bow to pressure to testify, and showed his resolve with a two-month hunger strike earlier this year.
06-21-07 - Keeping Talk Radio Pro-Israel whether talk radio, be it left or right, is fair to Israel, is, in fact, very important to Harrison. For the past five years, Harrison and his publication have been shepherding more than 50 talk show hosts to Israel in conjunction with America?s Voices for Israel (AVI), a group founded and presided over by Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Note the source.
06-21-07 - Brazil to resettle Palestinian refugees who fled Iraq About 100 Palestinians who fled Iraq more than three years ago and lived in squalid conditions at a refugee camp will be resettled in Brazil, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.
06-21-07 - Hamas suspects rounded up tell of treatment in Palestinian jail
06-21-07 - Column: Address real causes of terror The U.S. government needs to tell Israel they would receive no more of our billions in taxpayer money until they sit down with the Palestinians and work out a just, fair and reasonable relationship, and go back to the boundaries originally set
06-21-07 - Sailing down the Hudson with Hebron in their hearts Monday night's Cruise 'n' Shmooze, organized by the Hebron Fund, was the third of its kind. But this year the pitch was particularly timely. Profits will go to support families living in the disputed "Beit Hashalom" apartment building, Hebron Jews' most recent acquisition, whose purchase is currently being investigated by the government How delightful. Why not sail directly to Israel and be done with it? Leave America out of this BS.
06-21-07 - 300 olive trees replanted at outpost Residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers about a week ago, according to a source in the Civil Administration.
The source said the settlers planted some of the uprooted trees along the outpost's access road and some inside the community. But the regional council claims the orchard had been worked by Jews for years Thieves thieve some more.
06-21-07 - Split bodes ill for Palestinians "For me, Gaza and the West Bank are one unit. I don't accept the division. All of Palestine is Palestine,"
06-21-07 - Israel programs bolstered by $15 million gift to Brandeis In Chicago, the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago has raised more than $1 million to pay for Israel studies programs at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
06-21-07 - Prosecutor investigates Bildt's blog One of the comments being investigated called Palestinians 'spawn of Satan,' while another called them 'a bloody pack of murderers.' In one comment, a reader said: 'give us 24 hours and all Palestinians will be gone, and we'll have 100 percent of Israel.'
06-21-07 - Slain activist's legacy fulfilled as refugees from Iraq reach Ottawa Two Palestinian families fleeing war-torn Iraq via a Syrian refugee camp are finding refuge in eastern Ontario, fulfilling one of the last requests from a humanitarian worker taken hostage and slain in the Middle East more than a year ago
06-21-07 - Israel-Palestine: Churches launch peace advocacy forum Called the "Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum," the initiative intends to be an instrument to "catalyze and co-ordinate new and existing church advocacy for peace". While aimed at "ending the illegal occupation in accordance with UN resolutions," it will be an expression of churches' "commitment to inter-religious action for peace and justice that serves all the peoples of the region".
06-21-07 - U.S., Israel to blame for Palestinian crisis
06-21-07 - Let Egypt into Gaza please, let them fend for themselves or with their great Arab sister Egypt. If we retake responsibility over this Palestinian area, which is controlled by global radicalism, the entire painful episode of disengagement would have been wasted.
06-21-07 - US does not want Syria involved in Mideast peace: VP Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara charged on Thursday that the United States and Israel do not want Syria or the Palestinians involved in any Middle East peace settlement.
06-21-07 - Netanyahu calls for deployment of Jordanian troops in West Bank Netanyahu told reporters during a visit to Washington that he believes that Jordan and Egypt are the key to stabilizing the Palestinian government in the territories.
06-21-07 - Palestinians in Canada urge Israel to open borders
06-21-07 - The West Chooses Fatah, But Palestinians Don't
06-20-07 - Israeli troops kill six Palestinian militants An Israeli soldier was moderately wounded by Palestinian fire after troops moved several hundred metres (yards) into Gaza, west of the Kissufim border crossing, an army spokeswoman said.
06-20-07 - Israeli planes, tanks hit Gaza That didn't take long.
06-20-07 - Over 5,000 Palestinians stranded in northern Sinai A security source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that only 178 Palestinians, who were transferred based on court orders, were allowed to enter Gaza via the crossing.
06-20-07 - Netanyahu departs for U.S. in bid to increase pressure on Iran Opposition leader and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday will embark for the U.S. on a visit aimed at increasing financial sanctions against Iran to get it to drop its nuclear program.
06-20-07 - Hamas ready for dialogue with Fatah A senior Hamas leader in Gaza said today the movement wants to hold talks with the rival Fatah faction to heal the widening divisions between the Palestinian territories.
06-20-07 - Roundup: Egypt concerned about Palestinian national unity
06-20-07 - 3 Israelis injured in Qassam rocket attack
06-20-07 - U.N.: Food assistance delivered to Gaza
06-20-07 - Israel transfers 100 Palestinians to Egypt
06-20-07 - Recent violence in Gaza leaves many young people shaken "Last week, life wasn't going that well," recalled Julie, 17, one of several Palestinian youths who spoke to UNICEF Radio about their ordeal. "They were continuously shooting for five days," she continued. "The situation was really bad. Nobody was able to get out of the house, not even able to get near a window."
06-20-07 - 600 Gazans trapped at Israeli crossing Up to six hundred Palestinian refugees trying to flee Gaza have spent another night trapped in a tunnel at the Israeli border.
06-20-07 - The new Israeli roadblock in Al Thahriya near Hebron is a site of humiliation for laborers Palestinian laborers are exposed to humiliation on the new Israeli roadblock, located south of Al Thahriya near Hebron, on the borders of the West Bank and the 1948 lands.
06-20-07 - High Court approves State position on Gaza refugees The High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday afternoon that it would neither throw out nor get behind the petition filed by the "Physicians for Human Rights" organization on Tuesday night.
06-20-07 - Bush to send top diplomat to Israel for military aid talks "I am strongly committed to Israel's security and viability as a Jewish state, and to the maintenance of its qualitative military edge," Bush said in a statement after White House talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "During our meeting today, I told prime minister Olmert that I am committed to reaching a new 10-year agreement that will give Israel the increased assistance it requires to meet the new threats and challenges it faces," he said
06-20-07 - Middle East Quartet envoys set to meet soon
06-20-07 - EU will pay Palestinian Authority arrears The European Union will pay millions of euros of arrears amassed by the Palestinian Authority as part of moves to step up aid, a top EU official said on Wednesday.
06-20-07 - BBC man's captors again threaten to kill him The captors of BBC journalist Alan Johnston balked on Wednesday at demands by Hamas to release him and repeated their threats to kill him if Britain failed to free an Islamist prisoner, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
06-20-07 - U.N. envoy urges action to stop Palestinian split Williams urged Israel to make good on commitments to release Palestinian tax and customs receipts, evacuate settlement outposts, remove roadblocks and checkpoints and release prisoners. The Palestinian Authority, for its part, should thoroughly reform itself, he added.
06-20-07 - Abbas accuses 'foreign elements' over Gaza crisis He did not specify what foreign elements he was alluding to.
06-20-07 - After Iraq, Palestinian refugees find peace amid Indian squalor "Our parents were uprooted from Palestine in 1948 and settled in Baghdad thinking we would have a better future there,"
06-20-07 - Split Looming On Israel Pressure "Iran has been the No. 1 issue, but it was pushed down to No. 2 or 3 by the Gaza issue," said Foxman. "That has a significant cost for Israel.".....Instead of negotiating and pumping money into Fatah coffers, she said Washington and Jerusalem should work with Jordan to "rescue the Palestinian people, and to find ways of bringing about quiet on the West Bank until we figure what we are going to do long term."......Klein admitted that the deck is stacked against Jewish opponents of aid for Abbas forces ? in large measure because the major pro-Israel groups can?t be seen as opposing policy of the Israeli government.
Geez, I thought the Israel lobby wasn't acting on behalf of a foreign nation, lest they have to register as such? Really now. And who knew that the US Israel lobby gets to decide "what we are going to do long term"? Another very interesting article that details who pulls the strings with regard to US foreign policy in the Middle East. Note the source.
06-20-07 - Your move, U.S./Israel Our stated aim when we won the election was to effect reform, end corruption and bring economic prosperity to our people. Our sole focus is Palestinian rights and good governance. We now hope to create a climate of peace and tranquillity within our community that will pave the way for an end to internal strife and bring about the release of the British journalist Alan Johnston, whose kidnapping in March by non-Hamas members is a stain on the reputation of the Palestinian people.
06-20-07 - U.S.-born settler jailed Seth, a resident of the settlement of Tapuach, hinted in a media interview given after he was charged that he might have used the weapons in retaliation for Palestinian terrorism. It was not immediately clear if Seth would appeal the sentence.
06-20-07 - Olmert, Bush discuss Pollard "The Pollard issue came up," was all the Israeli prime minister would tell JTA after his meeting Tuesday with Bush.
06-20-07 - Gaza offers tough lessons for Mideast proxy wars While Hamas capitalised on Iranian funding and an extensive weapons smuggling and manufacturing network, Fatah was dependent on U.S. aid that was often fatally slow in coming.
Several arms shipments and cash transfers were held up by Israel and its U.S. lobbyists, who cited concern the weapons and know-how could be used against Israelis.
"held up by Israel and its U.S. lobbyists"
06-20-07 - British union passes anti-Israel motion Britain's biggest public services union called for international sanctions against Israel. The motion adopted by UNISON Wednesday at its annual conference wants the sanctions on Israel until it withdraws from all territories captured in 1967, removes the security barrier and establishes a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.
06-20-07 - Houses urges charges against Ahmadinejad ** "I am unequivocal in my support for the security and survival of Israel, and I do have serious concerns with the remarks made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran," said Kucinich, a long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. "But I object to resolutions that lay the groundwork for an offensive, unprovoked war." ...Kucinich and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a long-shot contender for the Republican presidential nomination, were the only votes against.
06-20-07 - Palestinian mediators bring hope of ceasefire to Lebanon
06-20-07 - As FBI fights terrorism, other prosecutions drop The drop in prosecutions has also caught Congress's attention. At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs in May, Sen. Joseph Biden (D) of Delaware said that since 9/11, the number of violent-crime investigations by the FBI has dropped 60 percent ? even though cities across the country are seeing an increase in murders and other violent crime, after a decade of steady declines. THe FBI is too busy chasing Israel's enemies (and that includes emigrants from the Palestinian territories) in the US who fall under the umbrella of the 'war on terror' to take care of OUR criminals.
06-20-07 - Palestinian refugees determined to rebuild Nahr al-Bared lives As ever in such a conflict, it is the civilians who suffer most. Of the camp's estimated 31,000 inhabitants before the conflict erupted on May 20, only about 2,000 have stayed put. Their fate remains unknown. Western (that includes Israel) policies have made millions of people in the Middle East refugees.
06-20-07 - Women soldiers in their underwear: Israel's image boost Women MPs in Israel's Knesset have criticised the foreign ministry for resorting to "pornography" to promote Israel abroad after a feature appeared in the men's magazine Maxim featuring four former soldiers photographed in their underwear. Americans don't have to go to Israel to find hot women - there are plenty of them right here. The Israelis have reached the bottom of the barrel in terms of PR (Hasbara).
06-20-07 - Blair could take up role as Middle East peace envoy
06-20-07 - Australian council denies funding Hamas The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies charged that Bethlehem's council was controlled by Hamas, whose fighters violently seized the Palestinian territory of Gaza last week.
06-20-07 - Sarkozy will invite Hezbollah to France
06-20-07 - Jews meet top Senate Dems Groups in the meeting included the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eurasia, Agudath Israel of America, National Jewish Democratic Council, American Jewish Congress, Americans for Peace Now, B'nai B'rith International, Chabad-Lubavitch, Orthodox Union, Union of Reform Judaism, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the Anti-Defamation League, United Jewish Communities and Hillel.
06-20-07 - MediaCentral combats bias about Israel ?It?s not enough to complain about inaccurate reporting about Israel,? Green said emphatically. ?We want to help reporters get the stories right in the first place.? .......Green said he believes the more journalists get to know Israel, the easier it will be for them to change their language and outlook on the state. In other words, this isn't about 'bias about Israel'. It's about getting those in the Canadian media to be more biased TOWARD Israel in their reporting (just like their American counterparts here in the US).
06-20-07 - Israel moves 100 Palestinians to Egypt The Palestinians were picked up from Erez Crossing, taken on buses to Kerem Shalom Crossing, and then dispatched to Egypt.
06-20-07 - U.N. Chief Shows Readiness To Side With Washington On Middle East less than a year into office, the former foreign minister of South Korea has raised more than a few eyebrows at the world body by exhibiting a notable sympathy toward Israeli interests. You don't say? Note the source. Also from the article: "De Soto has been replaced by Michael Williams, a British diplomat who previously worked in the U.N.?s department of political affairs and is perceived as being sympathetic to Israel." Also, see the last paragraph.
06-20-07 - Palestinian Christians Appeal for Long-Term Israel-Palestine Peace Efforts
06-20-07 - ADRA Observes World Refugee Day According to the UNHCR, in 2006 there were more than 14 million refugees, including those Palestinian refugees registered and assisted by the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA).
06-20-07 - Some uneasy with Palestinian aid policy President Bush's decision to resume U.S. aid to the Palestinian government has left some lawmakers uneasy, including at least one Republican who wants to pass a law that would reverse it.
06-20-07 - Hundreds of tons of fruit grown for Gaza destroyed as crossings shut The head of the Israel Fruit Growers association, Ilan Eshel, said the closure of Gaza to Israeli fruit has led to a severe drop in prices within Israel. Growers have suffered NIS 20 million in direct damages so far, said Eshel, and this amount is growing daily by millions.
06-20-07 - British gas deal seen delayed This is because of the uncertainty in the Palestinian Authority after the Hamas seizure of power in the Gaza Strip
06-20-07 - Religious leaders to fight extremism, violence Rabbi Menachem Fruman, who initiated the move, explained at the opening of the meeting that rabbis and Muslim clerics could play a vital role in promoting peace and reconciliation between Jews and Arabs.
06-20-07 - MK Taha: Lieberman threatened my life "Lieberman threatened my life in a clear and direct manner," Arab MK Wasil Taha of Balad wrote in a request to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz demanding he examine whether Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman held criminal liability for his comments.
06-20-07 - MK Slomiansky: Gaza refugees a potential threat Among those being evacuated are "yesterday's supporters of terror and potential terrorists of tomorrow," said Slomiansky.
06-20-07 - Letter blindly blames the Palestinians Too, as far as the letter's reference to the feelings of hatred most Palestinian children seem to possess vis-a-vis the occupier, it may be well to stress that it is chiefly a self-taught emotion that is deeply engrained in their formative minds by observing and experiencing the daily mental and physical humiliation -- better yet, dehumanizing debasement -- of their parents and other elders alike in the hands of the brutally uncompromising forces of occupation.
06-20-07 - U.N.'s Ban faults rights council over Israel Ban should fault Israel and its atrocious human rights record, NOT the rights council that calls them on it. See related article from the Forward in this news batch that spells out Ban's noted bias towards Israel.
06-20-07 - Lebanese army pounds Islamists after seizing key posts An AFP photographer said the Palestinian Red Crescent delivered a truckload of medicine and supplies to the southern sector on Wednesday.
06-20-07 - Palestine talk Saturday at Hoover House She will share pictures of her trip and sell Palestinian products that she purchased for resale specifically to aid Palestinians who make crafts in their homes. There will also be olive oil which is being distributed in this area by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) out of Des Moines.
06-20-07 - Jimmy Carter?s book a ?disgrace,? says Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz urged Canadian Jews to devote just one hour each week to ?do something in defence of Israel? at a time when anti-Semitic and bigoted ?fringe? groups have become ?mainstream? and Jews and Israel are continually demonized and delegitimized. ......?What we are saying by this is: ?We are also Israelis,?? Dershowitz said as the audience applauded. Never would've guessed that.
06-20-07 - Boycott of Israeli universities upsets Canadian academics
06-20-07 - ADL Calls On World Labor Leaders To Reject British Union's Anti-Israel Boycott
06-19-07 - Palestinian child health still suffers despite end of eight-month strike at clinics The current intra-Palestinian conflict and Israeli military incursions place their physical and mental well-being at risk, even as they suffer from the effects of an eight-month health workers? strike.
06-19-07 - Video: Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later
06-19-07 - Olmert to ask Bush to neutralize Hamas Olmert met with members of AIPAC and National Security Council advisor Steve Hadley shortly after his arrival in Washington.
06-19-07 - Food convoy finally enters Gaza The first food aid delivery for eight days has arrived in Gaza from Israel, following last week's fighting.
06-19-07 - Vigil for BBC captive's 100th day Thousands of BBC staff around the world will observe a vigil on Wednesday marking 100 days since the kidnapping of Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
06-19-07 - 42 thousand Arab homes in Negev threatened with destruction
06-19-07 - After Hamas victory, the priority in Gaza is 'food and peace' At the supermarket in Palestine Street, a middle-class woman who would give her name only as Mona, a member of Gaza's tiny Palestinian Christian minority, was stocking up against food shortages, now that Gaza faced being even more of a "big prison" than before, she said. She was afraid that Hamas internal control would now mean harrassment of those who, like her, did not cover their heads. No, she had not been threatened, neither in the year that the Hamas cabinet had been in office, not in the past few days. But she was fearful, despite denials by Hamas, that it would happen soon.
06-19-07 - Carter blasts US policy on Palestinians "The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people in Palestine and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and Fatah," he said.
06-19-07 - Soldier threatens left-wing activist 'We'll kill you and castrate you,' threatened an IDF soldier in a phone call to a left-wing activist who takes part in controversial protests against army checkpoints. Soldier now facing court martial
06-19-07 - For Brown, money is key to the Middle East Britain is giving full support to the new Palestinian emergency government and wants to help it make a success of running the West Bank despite the uncertainty following Hamas's armed takeover of the Gaza Strip, one of Gordon Brown's closest aides said today.
06-19-07 - Global vigil planned for Johnston
06-19-07 - Bush says all options on table on Iran ** At the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bush was asked if military action remained an option for dealing with Iran.
06-19-07 - Health Sector of Palestinian NGO?s voices an appeal to save the Gaza Strip
06-19-07 - Israeli forces bar ambulances from reaching Palestinian side of the Erez crossing
06-19-07 - Leftist PFLP clams attacks against a Church in Gaza, Statue of Unknown Soldier The Leftists Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) slammed on Tuesday an attack carried by unknown vandals against the Latin Church, and the Statue of the Unknown Soldier in Gaza
06-19-07 - Gaza hospital faces supply shortage
06-19-07 - Abbas cabinet a chance for Palestinian state: Bush, Olmert
06-19-07 - Hamas accuses West of playing politics with aid US and Israeli leaders pledged Tuesday to support the emergency Palestinian cabinet in the West Bank, as Hamas accused the West of playing politics with aid after the Islamist group ousted its rivals from Gaza.
06-19-07 - Hamas making 'intense efforts' to release BBC man
06-19-07 - Israel willing to negotiate with Abbas to shore up new Palestinian government Israel is willing to start talks on creating a Palestinian state if the new government of President Mahmoud Abbas demonstrates it is a "credible and serious administration" committed to defeating terrorism, Israel's prime minister said yesterday. And the conditions are already being placed on Abbas, once again.
06-19-07 - Hebron: Is this the way to peace? At about 1:45pm, after waiting for half an hour, an elderly Palestinian man
asked the Israelis why they were not returning his ID. A Border Policeman
laughingly said "Perhaps the computer is broken," and the small group of Border
Police beside him laughed too.
06-19-07 - Egypt says moving diplomats from Gaza to West Bank Egypt has decided to move its ambassador to the Palestinian Authority to the West Bank from Gaza, state media reported on Tuesday, in a snub to Hamas which seized control of the Gaza Strip last week.
06-19-07 - Quartet meet in Cairo called off: diplomat
06-19-07 - West restores direct aid to Palestinians as Abbas asserts control
06-19-07 - Red Cross evacuates six severely injured Palestinians
06-19-07 - The scene of Fatahland flowering as Hamastan wilts is sheer fantasy the whole idea rests on a series of faulty assumptions. First, it assumes that Israel will indeed come through with the goodies it promises. On this, the record is not encouraging. Ehud Olmert has repeatedly met Abbas and promised the release of tax funds or greater freedom of movement, only to do nothing. Second, even if Israel does hand over the cash, there is no guarantee that Abbas's Fatah-dominated administration could translate that into improvements on the ground. Again, past experience is not encouraging. Put crudely, Fatah has shown itself to be either corrupt or incompetent or both.
Which is exactly WHY Hamas was elected in the first place - the corruption of Fatah.
06-19-07 - Egypt and Jordan quietly back Abbas, too
06-19-07 - MEMRI is ?propaganda machine,? expert says
06-19-07 - Russian fighter planes sale to Syria alarms Israel
06-19-07 - Israel negotiating new U.S. aid package Israel is negotiating a 10-year extension to the annual assistance package it receives from the United States.
06-19-07 - Israeli chokehold on Gaza Israel plans to condition its release of frozen Palestinian Authority tax funds on the money not reaching the Gaza Strip
06-19-07 - New calls to free Barghouti An Israeli official called for a jailed Palestinian militia leader to be released in a bid to boost Mahmoud Abbas.
06-19-07 - Deal with Hamas
06-19-07 - Holy Land: world's churches say occupation hurts both sides
06-19-07 - Disenfranchised and Lost It is my sincere belief that we are not a stupid people. On the contrary, we are extremely intelligent ? just disenfranchised and lost. Right now, more than ever before, is a good time to take a step back and re-evaluate our circumstances ? and ask ourselves, ?How and why did we get here? Above all: how do we get out of here??
06-19-07 - UN rights council thwarts Canada bid to reopen rules deal Canada objected to the suppression of the independent rights monitors for Cuba and Belarus, as well as the permanent mention of the Palestinian Territories in forthcoming council agendas. These objections were shared by the United States, which is not a member of the council.
Canada - Israel's newest occupied territory.
06-19-07 - Olmert plays down prospects for Syria talks "I don't think that if someone wants to speak directly, he needs the involvement of America in order to allow these negotiations to take place," Olmert told reporters at the start of a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush. Why does Israel keep using the US as an excuse not to initiate peace negotiations with Syria?
06-19-07 - WCC general secretary to visit Palestine/Israel
06-19-07 - Real Madrid arrives in Israel for peace match Newly-crowned Spanish football league champion Real Madrid arrived in Israel on Tuesday for a friendly match against a mixed team of Israeli and Palestinian players.
06-18-07 - COUNTY HONORS SIX DAY WAR NAVY VETERAN FRANCIS BROWN, KILLED IN SERVICE ABOARD THE USS LIBERTY It was for Brown?s aggressiveness, composure under fire, and courageous actions in the tense waters off the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the early afternoon hours of June 8, 1967, an engagement which at the time was the second deadliest event impacting a United States warship since the end of World War II, that he was awarded the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart Medal. It is strange that nowhere in the article does it mention just who attacked the USS Liberty.
06-18-07 - Trapped families caught in Gaza firefight One man was killed and 10 wounded when Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen exchanged fire at a main border crossing between Israel and Gaza yesterday. Hundreds of Palestinians were trapped at the Erez crossing, hoping to escape through Israel to the West Bank, when fighting broke out.
06-18-07 - Red Cross transfers medical supplies to Gaza through Erez crossing
06-18-07 - Washington rallies behind Abbas with end to Palestinian boycott
06-18-07 - US, EU restore Palestinian ties The US and the EU are to normalise ties with the new Palestinian government, lifting embargoes on aid to support an administration without Hamas.
06-18-07 - Supplies 'urgently needed' in Gaza With the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip now relatively peaceful following last week's bloody fighting, the humanitarian situation has eased - at least for now.
06-18-07 - Hamas sets BBC reporter deadline
06-18-07 - Roman Catholic school, convent desecrated in Gaza
06-18-07 - Report: Israel plans Gaza invasion Britain's Sunday Times reported that Ehud Barak, Israel's incoming defense minister, has a plan to send 20,000 troops into Gaza "to destroy much of Hamas's military capability in days." Such a move would almost certainly unite the Palestinians once again.
06-18-07 - Jordan to dispatch 450 tons of aid to Gaza Strip Secretary General of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) Abdul Salam Abbadi said on Monday that the organization would send 450 tons of food and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip.
06-18-07 - Abbas dissolves Palestinian national security council Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday issued a presidential decree to dissolve the Palestinian Council of National Security.
06-18-07 - Emergency gov't only legal gov't of Palestinians: official
06-18-07 - Iran says U.N. ignores Israeli threats to Tehran Iran accused the U.N. Security Council of ignoring Israeli threats to attack the Islamic Republic and called on the body, in a letter made public on Monday, to demand that the Jewish state desist.
06-18-07 - Four Palestinians kidnapped as army invades Marda village near Salfit city
06-18-07 - ACT Alert: Gaza: State of Emergency
06-18-07 - As UN aid efforts in Gaza return to earlier strength, West Bank warehouse is attacked The United Nations agency tasked with helping Palestinian refugees says its operations in the Gaza Strip have returned to their levels before the recent outbreak of deadly fighting, but a warehouse on the West Bank housing stocks of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) was ransacked at the weekend.
06-18-07 - At Gaza hospitals, patients fear for worst
06-18-07 - Israel to pay outstanding taxes to Palestinians soon: Livni I'll believe when they actually DO it, and not simply TALK about it.
06-18-07 - Jailed PFLP secretary-general calls for forming a unified leadership
06-18-07 - Failing With Fatah The $86 million plan, masterminded by Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame, didn't work out as planned. Hamas easily routed Fatah in Gaza last week. It was both a diplomatic and military failure for the United States.
06-18-07 - Palestinian cabinet gets to work amid aid hopes Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's emergency cabinet met for the first time on Monday since Hamas's bloody seizure of Gaza, with signs a crippling Western aid freeze may soon be lifted.
06-18-07 - Israel blocks goods bound for Gaza
06-18-07 - Israeli firm resumes fuel deliveries to Gaza
06-18-07 - Israel seeks European support to isolate Gaza
06-18-07 - In the West Bank, Palestinians revive the 'Jordanian option'
06-18-07 - Three soldiers killed as Lebanese army battles militants
06-18-07 - Bethlehem link 'no political risk' Claims by the Jewish community that Marrickville Council could inadvertently fund the Islamic terror group Hamas through its sister city relationship with the Palestinian town of Bethlehem have been strongly rejected by councillors.
06-18-07 - Olmert, Giuliani meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Rudy Giuliani, a Republican candidate for the presidency.
06-18-07 - New Palestinian PM admits hurdles
06-18-07 - Israel could be responsible for a disaster, Meretz MK says While MK Gal-On warns of humanitarian crisis in Strip, National Union MK Eldad calls on government 'not to send them even one crumb of food'
06-18-07 - US-backed Abbas risks being tagged 'quisling'
06-18-07 - Olmert Seeking New Palestinian Policy With Bush In preparation for tomorrow's White House talks with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Olmert, 61, meets today with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley to develop a joint strategy aimed at strengthening Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. They orchestrated this coup in Palestine to bring about and 'make peace' with the Palestinians in order to win a US strike on Iran before Bush/Cheney leave office. My guess.
06-18-07 - Lebanese forces battle militants The Lebanese army has resumed shelling a besieged Palestinian refugee camp, a day after it said important militant positions had been destroyed.
06-18-07 - Russia backs Abbas' actions in Palestine
06-18-07 - Oprah: Visit Occupied Terrirtories & Support the Oppressed
06-18-07 - America's Guilty Silence To know about the economic siege against the occupied Palestinian territories and say nothing is to acquiesce in crippling collective punishment of millions of poor people, for the crime of holding a democratic election.
06-18-07 - France to assist Palestinian emergency gov't France will assist the newly established Palestinian emergency government in finding a solution to the "grave situation" in the Gaza strip, French ministry for foreign and European affairs said Monday.
06-18-07 - Neturei Karta International: The Wolf Visits President Bush to Advise on How to Save the Sheep Anti Zionist Orthodox Jews will demonstrate in front of the White House, to proclaim and clearly state that: Peace reigned for all the inhabitants of Palestine and their neighbors, prior to the advent of Zionism and the subsequent creation of the State of "Israel."
They are absolutely correct. Jews and Arabs (both Christian and Muslim) lived throughout Arab lands in peace before the advent of Zionism (1897).
06-18-07 - Feature: Pro-Fatah radio stations closed after Hamas' grip of Gaza
06-18-07 - Lebanese army says it prevented additional attack on Israel According to Lebanese army, its forces discovered rocket set to be launched at Israel and prevented it from being fired. Meanwhile, IDF, defense officials contemplate response to strike
06-18-07 - China says it respects legitimacy of Abbas & Palestinian National Authority
06-18-07 - Justice minister: Let refugees move from Gaza to West Bank Prof Daniel Friedmann calls on government to allow Palestinians wishing to leave 'Hamastan' to do so: 'The State of Israel must ease their passage, as long as they are not Hamas members or people jeopardizing our security'
06-18-07 - RCA to build school for Palestinian refugees in Syria
06-18-07 - Iran calls on comprehensive solution Palestinian crisis
06-18-07 - Gaza war urges World Vision to a Call to Cessation of Hostilities
06-18-07 - Russians prepare to evacuate Gaza Russian officials in Israel said they are preparing to evacuate Russian nationals from Gaza.
RIA Novosti reported 141 people on a Russian evacuation list are mostly women married to Palestinians and their children
06-18-07 - Boycott universities as we did to apartheid When Israel stops treating Palestinians as untermenschen (lower race) there will be no need for a boycott.
06-18-07 - Tears for crumbling dreams Hossam returned to his home and wept for his family, his city and his people
06-17-07 - New Palestinian govt paves way for peace talks: Israel Olmert said that he was ready to renew regular contacts with the Palestinian president in order "to resolve the outstanding daily issues and move forward to finding ways to solve grander issues."
06-17-07 - Israel plans attack on Gaza ISRAEL?s new defence minister Ehud Barak is planning an attack on Gaza within weeks to crush the Hamas militants who have seized power there.
06-17-07 - Olmert to tell Bush: We need to separate Gaza Strip, West Bank Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is planning to tell United States President George Bush at their meeting at the White House next Tuesday that there is an urgent need to view the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as separate entities and prevent contact between them, political sources in Jerusalem said Thursday.
06-17-07 - New Palestinian cabinet sworn in Israeli officials have called for steps to isolate Gaza, which they say will be considered a "terrorist entity".
06-17-07 - Plan to bolster Abbas leaves Gaza adrift
06-17-07 - Statement by Bishop Dr. Munib Younan, Evangelican Lutheran Church - Holy Land I speak today to urge leaders, combatants, ordinary people and the international community: for God's sake and the sake of all those suffering here from violence and oppression, stop the internal violence, end the international aid boycott and implement a serious plan to end the illegal, 40-year occupation of the Palestinian people.
06-17-07 - Renewed threat to kill abducted reporter "Freeing this detainee has not been part of any deal with any faction or organisation. What appears on television screens and through the media here and there are untrue," the Army of Islam spokesman, named as Abu Khatab, told al-Jazeera television last night.
06-17-07 - Gazans stock up on petrol and food as fuel supplies run dry Gazans rushed to stock up on petrol and food yesterday as Israel cut fuel supplies in its first concrete response to Hamas's seizure of power in Gaza.
06-17-07 - Arabs in despair at Palestinian crisis Muslims across the Middle East fear the Gaza bloodshed has set back hopes for a Palestinian state by several more years while their own regimes remain impotent faced with yet another regional crisis.
06-17-07 - At-Tuwani: Behind the Scenes of Civil War Cable news stations will
descend upon Gaza and Nablus like vultures, looking for sensational stories of
civil war. It is doubtful however that they will pause to consider any of the
underlying causes of the strife, such as the tightening Israeli noose that
reduces Palestinians to desperation, or the crippling international sanctions
levied upon them as punishment for their exercise of democratic choice. And
they surely will not take time to report on the people of At-Tuwani, Susiya,
Bethlehem, and Bil'in among many other places who carry the struggle forward
nonviolently. Their courage and commitment is on par with that of Mandela,
King, and Ghandi. Yet they do not ask for the fanfare these giants enjoyed, but
merely a little moral support from the outside world.
06-17-07 - New Palestinian govt eyes aid but Gaza cut off
06-17-07 - Israel's Olmert, UN's Ban discuss Palestinian crisis, Lebanon Ban expressed concern over the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the already-impoverished Gaza, where some 80 percent of the 1.5 million inhabitants depend on foreign aid.
06-17-07 - Red Cross says Gaza death toll at 116 HEAVY fighting in the Gaza Strip over the past week has claimed the lives of at least 116 people and injured more than 550, the International Committee of the Red Cross said today
06-17-07 - U.N. warns Gaza poverty may breed more violence "I think the situation is very grave," said John Ging, head of operations in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency which provides humanitarian services to most of the strip's 1.5 million Palestinians.
06-17-07 - Gaza Islamists uproot statue for Arab dead Radical Islamists in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip destroyed a cement statue, long considered a symbol of Palestinian hopes for statehood, because they see the depiction as a violation of strict religious laws.
06-17-07 - At-Tuwani Release: Palestinian Villagers from Susiya Face Threat of Fifth The Israeli military has evicted the Palestinian villagers from Susiya and
demolished their homes several times already in the last 20 years.
06-17-07 - Israel's Olmert begins U.S. visit to bolster Abbas
06-17-07 - Hamas conquers Gaza Strip The American administration is also interested in improving living conditions in the West Bank to demonstrate to the Palestinians that they are better off under Fatah than Hamas Not right to punish all of Gaza for Hamas. There are other people there that have nothing to do with them.
06-17-07 - Blair's zeal was not enough in February the Saudis brokered a deal in Mecca finally forming a national unity government. A British official close to the deal said: "We could never get enough buy-in for [national unity government] from the Americans and from Israel. It was a step forward and we could have started to make progress."
06-17-07 - Nancy Pelosi or Why War With Iran May Be Inevitable ** Hagee is probably the least known yet most dangerous man in America. He wields enormous political clout, using his powerful connections to encourage nuclear conflict with Iran, all for the ultimate goal of hastening End Times
06-17-07 - Only one Palestinian cause Palestinians everywhere still deserve a unified, independent state. The Middle East, too, deserves to see one created simply to remove the Palestinian diaspora as a reason for strife and terrorism. Israel won't allow the Palestinian refugees - who were expelled or temporarily (so they thought) fleeing the fighting - to return to that nation. Israel insists that they return to the future Palestinian state. Do you really believe that they will allow millions of Palestinians to settle across the border from them? I doubt it. The Israelis would be vastly outnumbered.
06-17-07 - CAIR reports bias rise
06-17-07 - The US role in Mideast travails For a growing number of analysts, if the past year has brought any clarity, it is that US policy has largely backfired and added to the region's downward spiral of violence and economic troubles. Divide and conquer.
06-17-07 - Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel The Lebanese group Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the attack. No-one has yet claimed responsibility for it.
06-17-07 - Hebron Reflection: Real Heroes don't Walk Away Recently the staff at Al-Ihsan Charitable Society invited CPT to visit their
facility, a rehabilitation center for mentally disabled children and adults in
Hebron.
06-17-07 - The people of Palestine must finally be allowed to determine their own fate
06-17-07 - A setback for the Bush doctrine in Gaza
06-17-07 - Kucinich blames Hamas takeover on Bush policies
06-17-07 - At-Tuwani update: 1 - 15 June 2007 Almost every day the team accompanied Palestinian harvesters or shepherds in
fields near Israeli settlements and settler outposts, mostly in two main areas.
The team accompanied Palestinian shepherds from At-Tuwani and Mufakara in
Khoruba valley near the Hill 833 settler outpost. Also, the team accompanied
Palestinian harvesters and shepherds from Umm Lasafa on their land north of the
317-bypass road across the entrance from the Ma'on settlement
06-17-07 - Israel Prison Service separates Hamas and Fatah inmates
06-17-07 - David Amadia: Amnesty International has much to say about Israel
06-17-07 - 1967 Attack Still Haunts USS Liberty Survivors NPR gives the Israeli side of the story a little too much airtime.
06-17-07 - Attack was 'intentional' A recent letter defending Israel's deliberate and unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty is full of distortions of recorded events and misrepresentation of facts
06-17-07 - Front Door Key: Palestinian Protest Through Pop Music The title of the CD, Front Door Key, refers to the key to the front door of their home in Palestine that Palestinian refugees (more than 800,000) were expelled from at gunpoint in 1948. This key often has remained the most important family heirloom among refugee families. It signifies their determination to hold on to their inalienable right of return to their homeland, Palestine.
06-17-07 - Palestinians long for battered camp "Over there we were living with our dignity intact. But is this a life?"
06-17-07 - Israel says Palestinian group fired rockets from Lebanon A Palestinian organisation in Lebanon fired the rockets which slammed into northern Israel on Sunday without causing casualties, Israeli radios quoted defence officials as saying.
06-17-07 - Israel shells south Lebanon after rocket attack Israeli troops fired five shells at south Lebanon where the army was searching for the guerrillas who fired rockets earlier Sunday on northern Israel, security forces said
06-17-07 - MacKay tells new Palestinian PM that Canada wants to help financially
06-17-07 - The Dershowitz-Finkelstein Debate Timelin
06-17-07 - Appropriators want UNRWA review Congressional appropriators want the U.S. Congress' investigative body to investigate whether UNRWA is paying terrorists.
06-17-07 - Rights groups seek lawyers' suspension over offensive talk
06-17-07 - Bush Met With Jewish Leaders: Session Was Unannounced The conversation touched largely on foreign policy issues, including the situation with Iran and Syria, the fight against Islamic extremists and -- especially -- the situation in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas's seizure of power this past week has further complicated Bush's faltering efforts to help settle the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
06-17-07 - Should Israel really be asking for an increase in US aid? since 1976, Israel has been the largest annual recipient of US foreign assistance. In the past 55 years, Israel has received more than $84b. in grants alone. Annual per capita American aid to Israel is more than $340, which is by far the highest in the world. Average global aid per capita is only $22.
06-17-07 - Switzerland calls for peaceful end to Gaza conflict
06-17-07 - EU foreign ministers to offer support for new Palestinian govt
06-17-07 - Appropriators commend MEMRI "The Committee notes the work of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) in providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis," the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee said in a report accompanying the foreign operations bill it passed last week. "The Committee urges support for the work of organizations which provide accurate translations and balanced analysis."
Oh you have got to be kidding me. MEMRI, a 'translator' for Arabic, is run by an Israeli. No conflict there.
06-17-07 - Appropriators downsize Bush's Palestinian request Congressional appropriators effectively cut $10 million from President Bush's request for funding for the Palestinians.
06-17-07 - White House had considered feasibility of ceding Gaza to Hamas
06-17-07 - Jewish groups rebuke United Church of Christ Eight Jewish groups rebuked the United Church of Christ for what they said was an imbalanced statement on Israel.... The UCC response to the Jewish letter said it was the church's position that Israel's actions are the "context for and, in many cases, a cause of" violence on both sides. Good for the UCC!
06-17-07 - Bush stresses Iran to Jewish leaders ** Bush emphasized the importance of containing Iran's nuclear ambitions through sanctions, participants said. Bush is to meet with Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday, and Iran will top their agenda. Israel wants to set an end of year deadline for Iran to retreat from its enrichment of uranium. The White House meeting followed discussions with congressional leaders. Conference representatives met with House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the House Republican leadership.
06-17-07 - Partners in peace: Palestinians to model college after Cal State
06-17-07 - AIPAC Buys Fred Thompson
06-16-07 - Gunmen kill a youth in Nablus
06-16-07 - Israeli settler kills Palestinian civilian near Nablus The resident was identified as Bassam Amirah, 46.
06-16-07 - Iran voices its readiness to help resolve Palestinian differences
06-16-07 - Israel praises Hamas-free cabinet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says prospects for peace could be boosted by the creation of a new Palestinian government without the Hamas party
06-16-07 - Palestinian police chief bans working with Hamas
06-16-07 - Hundreds flee Gaza as Hamas tightens grip
06-16-07 - Syrian-based Palestinian group criticizes Hamas, Fatah
06-16-07 - Hamas offices ransacked in West Bank Fighters loosely linked to the Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas ransacked dozens of offices linked to the rival Hamas movement in the West Bank on Saturday, in apparent revenge attacks after the Islamists seized power in the Gaza Strip.
06-16-07 - Those who denied poll result were the real coup plotters
06-16-07 - Arafat's former Gaza home looted A crowd looted the home of long-time Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today destroying one of the strongest symbols of the Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip, witnesses and Fatah officials said.
06-16-07 - Palestinian Security Forces arrests 14 Hamas members in Bethlehem
06-16-07 - Fatah in West Bank offers amnesty to Hamas activists
06-16-07 - Israeli settlers attack a civilian near Hebron Suleiman Abu Si'efan, 32 sustained moderate wounds due to the attack, Palestinian sources reported
06-16-07 - Seven bodies of Hamas members found in Gaza security compound Seven bodies of Hamas members were found at the basement of a pro-Fatah security headquarter in Gaza city, Hamas' military wing said on Saturday.
06-16-07 - Norway's FM: continued support for Palestinian people
06-16-07 - Palestinian police chief blocks Hamas plan to deploy police in Gaza
06-16-07 - US to continue training Abbas' guard
06-16-07 - New Palestinian cabinet set to be sworn in
06-16-07 - Hundreds of Palestinians looting the Erez crossing into Israel: witnesses Hundreds of Palestinians on Saturday looted Palestinian police positions at the Erez crossing into Israel, drawing Israeli warning fire, witnesses said.
06-16-07 - 50 senior Fatah activists and security officers from Gaza have reached West Bank: Fatah
06-16-07 - Abbas rejects request by Arab league chief to meet with Hamas leader Mashaal: aides
06-16-07 - In first Gaza order, Hamas bans masks for gunmen
06-16-07 - How Hamas turned on Palestine's 'traitors'
06-16-07 - Rafah crossing calm - Arish serves as refuge as Palestinians flee
06-16-07 - Hamas in talks for Johnston release
06-16-07 - Panic buying as Gazans fear increased isolation United Nations aid officials say there are several weeks worth of food supplies in the Gaza Strip, where much of the population depends on aid.
06-16-07 - Hamas acts against looting as Gaza tension eases
06-16-07 - UN urges Israel to re-open Gaza crossings "The borders need to be open, we cannot collectively punish 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip. They are already living in miserable conditions," John Ging, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), told AFP.
06-16-07 - Spokesman denies Palestinian deputy speaker kidnapped
06-16-07 - Quartet supports Abbas but is silent on aid ban The "quartet" of Middle East peace mediators voiced support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and concern about humanitarian conditions in Gaza on Saturday but did not say whether it will ease its ban on direct aid to the Palestinian Authority.
06-16-07 - New report warns against linking Gaza to West Bank Linking the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with a transportation system for goods and people would be dangerous and unnecessary, according to a new study by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
06-16-07 - Robert Fisk: Welcome to 'Palestine' I recall years ago being summoned to the home of a PA official whose walls had just been punctured by an Israeli tank shell. All true. But what struck me were the gold-plated taps in his bathroom. Those taps - or variations of them - were what cost Fatah its election. Palestinians wanted an end to corruption - the cancer of the Arab world - and so they voted for Hamas and thus we, the all-wise, all-good West, decided to sanction them and starve them and bully them for exercising their free vote.
06-16-07 - BBC sorry for calling Jerusalem capital of Israel The BBC apologized this week for referring to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and promised not to repeat "the mistake," following a complaint by four British organizations.
06-16-07 - US, Israel reach smart bomb deal Barring the implementation of these restrictions, Israeli officials have expressed interest in acquiring the F-22 stealth bomber - a plane that can avoid radar detection and is the world's most advanced fighter jet. The US has not yet agreed to sell this plane to any foreign country. Looks like they may have done just that.
06-16-07 - 'Hizbullah not rearming in S. Lebanon' Dismissing claims that Hizbullah has returned to its former strength in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL commander Maj.-Gen. Claudio Graziano told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the guerrilla group was practically non-existent south of the Litani River and that if the peacekeeping mission continued, the threat of war would be completely removed within three years.
06-16-07 - Syria condemns killing of Lebanese lawmaker "Syria strongly denounces this crime and condemns the campaign of lies by some Lebanese used to accuse Syria after any killing and before an investigation even starts," a statement by the Foreign Ministry said.
06-16-07 - In pictures: Ramallah residents concerned
06-16-07 - 40 years Later, Veterans of the USS Liberty Refuse to Give Up the Ship
06-16-07 - Brown in Middle East peace pledge Speaking at the final Labour leadership hustings in London, the Chancellor promised new investment for the Palestinian territories.
06-16-07 - Spain expresses support for Abbas's decisions
06-16-07 - Meet the new Godfather Belly ? a Palestinian born in the West Bank city of Jenin ? already has the endorsement of a few veteran hip hop artists south of the border, such as Scarface and Korrupt, who both appear on The Revolution.
06-16-07 - Dysfunctional Debate, Dysfunctional Policies The fact that his warnings hproved to be prescient will not earn Carter any forgiveness from his critics. Even the urgency of the moment is unlikely to bring much improvement in the quality of the debate within the U.S. about the Bush administration's failed Middle East policies. Carter tried, and he was ridiculed, smeared and dismissed for doing so -- not merely by sincere if misguided supporters of the Israeli right but by a media that polices rather than encourages meaningful dialogue regarding complex foreign-policy issues.
06-16-07 - Protesters take Rubber Bullets to Head and Stomach A 29 year old American journalist was hit in the stomach, while two Palestinians from Bil?in took rubber bullets to the head and stomach respectively.
06-16-07 - Police ban Hamas-organized east J'lem gathering The conference, which was slated to take place Saturday night in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Tsur Bahir, was banned on the order of Israel police chief David Cohen, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
06-16-07 - Charity blasts Britain's Hamas boycott the charity was swiftly rounded on by Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, who denied that British policy towards the Palestinians had helped to fuel the violence beseiging the Gaza Strip.
06-16-07 - U.S., Israel map Palestinian approach Hamas' bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip will dominate talks in Washington between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, with the two leaders coordinating a strategy to freeze out Hamas in Gaza and strengthen Fatah in the West Bank. Get Israel out of our government, and watch how fast peace descends upon the land.
06-16-07 - Lebanese army pounds Islamist positions as toll rises
06-16-07 - Jerusalem Church Leaders Issue Appeal for End to Palestinian Fighting
06-15-07 - U.S. policies on Palestinians may change
06-15-07 - Hamas 'working to free BBC man'
06-15-07 - Fatah starts detaining Hamas members in West Bank
06-15-07 - 'We couldn't leave our home. You don't know who is your enemy' They talk about victory; we talk about war crimes. And it's not just Hamas, but Fatah too. What's happened here is not so different to what is happening in Lebanon and Iraq. It is a tragedy, but because we love Gaza, we stay. I will never think about leaving.
06-15-07 - Hamas hints at talks as chaos reigns in divided Palestine
06-15-07 - Israeli Military destroy water pipe and blockade Beit Ummar road On the afternoon of Tuesday 12 June 2007, the Israeli military destroyed a main
water pipe in the town of Beit Ummar and left at least 10 houses in the village
without water. The military also reinforced an existing roadblock on the road
leading toward the wholesale vegetable market, closing the road to both
vehicular traffic and pedestrians.
06-15-07 - 'Multinational force must fight Hamas'
06-15-07 - Israel satellite sends images from space Israel launched the Ofek-7 satellite into orbit Monday, giving it a new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on Iran and other regional adversaries. Israeli space officials said the information gathered would be shared with the United States. Israel's images will no doubt contribute to the case for war (to be fought by the US - AGAIN).
06-15-07 - Why we must break with the American crazies ** While Mr Brown and the British media are still fretting about who said what to whom about WMD intelligence, the talk in American policy circles is about an article, The Case for Bombing Iran, published two weeks ago in Commentary and The Wall Street Journal and cited approvingly to anyone who cares to listen by officials close to Dick Cheney. Its author, Norman Podhoretz, is an intellectual mentor to the people who took America into Iraq......It is significant that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, travelled to Washington at about the same time as the article was published to plead with congressmen ?not to tie President Bush?s hands over Iran?. Why do you think Israel just launched that spy satellite (when we already have some that provide adequate intel, I'm guessing)? Paragraphs 2 and 4.
06-15-07 - On the escalator to war with Iran by Patrick J. Buchanan ** What is going on? The most logical explanation is that the White House is providing advance justification for air strikes on camps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that are allegedly providing training for and transferring weapons to Afghan and Iraqi insurgents. And if the United States conducts those strikes, Iranians will unite around Ahmadinejad, and Tehran will order retaliatory strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq and perhaps across the Middle East. President Bush will then have his casus belli to take out Natanz and all the other Iranian nuclear facilities, as the Israelis and the neocons have been demanding that he do.
06-15-07 - Abbas postpones visit to Moscow - source
06-15-07 - Johnston abduction has 'chilling effect' on Gaza
06-15-07 - Supply fears push up oil prices Instability in Gaza has raised concerns over wider conflict in the Middle East, which supplies a quarter of world oil. The Israel-driven policies in the Middle East are really costing the American people - in more ways than one.
06-15-07 - In pictures: Hamas storms Abbas office
06-15-07 - With Gaza lost, Abbas wins international support U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU officials held an hour-long teleconference.
06-15-07 - Looting spree after Hamas victory in Gaza
06-15-07 - EU suspends humanitarian aid project in Gaza
06-15-07 - All crossings into Gaza shut: Israel They were most of the time anyway (under Israel's direction).
06-15-07 - Fishing boat brings fugitive Palestinians to Egypt Ninety-seven Palestinians, most of them Fatah fighters fleeing the advance of their Hamas rivals, sailed into the Egyptian port of El Arish on Friday aboard a fishing boat, Egyptian police said.
06-15-07 - Egypt withdraws Gaza mission over Hamas takeover Egypt, a key Middle East peace broker and patron of the Palestinians, has withdrawn its envoys from Gaza in protest at the Islamist Hamas movement's violent ousting of its secular Fatah rivals, officials said on Friday.
06-15-07 - Britain 'very worried' over kidnapped BBC journalist in Gaza
06-15-07 - Almost 100 Fatah officials have crossed from Gaza into Egypt.
06-15-07 - Gaza relief crisis eases but funding worries rise Aid groups say an international boycott of direct funding for the Palestinian Authority was leading to social and economic collapse even before factional battles between Hamas and Fatah gunmen in Gaza effectively destroyed a fragile unity government.
06-15-07 - Palestinians divided as Hamas rules in Gaza Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal blamed the international community for the current Palestinian crisis, but said Hamas is not seeking to take power in the Palestinian territories. "We attribute to the international community, which has kept silent about the crimes of Israel, the primary responsibility for our internal crisis, although we acknowledge that we ourselves also have part of the responsibility,"
Divide and conquer.
06-15-07 - Quartet echoes world support for embattled Abbas
06-15-07 - US won't abandon Palestinians: White House The US abandoned Palestinians decades ago.
06-15-07 - Meshaal calls for dialogue after Hamas secures Gaza "The lack of security drove the crisis toward explosion. What happened in Gaza was a necessary step. The people were suffering from chaos and lack of security and this treatment was needed,"
06-15-07 - U.S. may focus on West Bank while isolating Gaza "It's tricky, I admit that. There's a fine balance," said the U.S. official. "Nobody wants to starve Gaza." Too late.
06-15-07 - Leading article: A struggle for power and a people betrayed The failure of the international community to engage with the Fatah and Hamas government has also contributed to the crisis. If the outside world had responded positively when the coalition was formed, the situation now could have been very different. This might have kicked off a new round of negotiations with Israel. Instead, the United States chose the disastrous policy of building up President Abbas's security forces in opposition to Hamas' militia. This has merely fed the flames of the deadly rivalry.
06-15-07 - Abbas tasks Fayyad with forming emergency govt
06-15-07 - Presidents conference meets with Bush Representatives from virtually all the umbrella group?s 50 member organizations met with Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and other top officials Thursday. The hour-long meeting included discussion of immigration, energy policy, the Iranian threat and deterioration in the Palestinian territories, according to participants.
06-15-07 - Israel faces stark Gaza reality One newspaper editorial said: "The internal Palestinian clashes that Israel so wanted for so many years, is finally happening, but oy, it's happening the wrong way around."...... Right-wing nationalist Avigdor Lieberman wrote in an article published in an Israeli newspaper that Gaza should be completely cut off from the outside world. It basically already is.
06-15-07 - Brit Tzedek to lobby during Olmert visit A dovish pro-Israel group will lobby Congress next week during the meeting between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
06-15-07 - Out of sight maybe, but not out of mind Up until a year and a half ago, the vast majority of visitors to Canada Park, one of the most popular hiking and picnic sites on the way to Jerusalem, had no idea that the park was built on the ruins of three Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were forced to leave in the wake of the Six-Day War. It was only after the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund agreed to the demands of the Zochrot non-governmental organization and posted signs in the park about two villages, Yalu and Emmaus, that their existence first became known to hikers. But since their posting, someone has already made sure to tear down one of the signs and vandalize the other.
06-15-07 - FINKELGATE.COM SUPPORT PROFESSOR NORMAN FINKELSTEIN!
06-15-07 - Prison memories haunt Palestinian
06-15-07 - Debate at DePaul Over Whether 2 Professors Can Appeal Tenure Denials
06-15-07 - Report: Jews behind campaign to boycott Israel
06-15-07 - PFLP and DFLP protests the violence in Gaza
06-15-07 - Sharansky loses a supporter; Palestinian self-destruction; Henchmen and separatists; Bush on tour since coming to Israel, and riding his refusenik celebrity to political power, Sharansky has stood for transcendent Jewish sovereignty in Greater Israel and East Jerusalem, denying civil rights to Palestinians. He's made common cause with theocrats, settlers and people who believe Israel's Arab citizens should be disenfranchised, if not expelled. He has justified the abuses of occupation - land grabs, house demolitions, pre-emptive fatal force, etcetera - and as an apocalyptic struggle against terror. He has never stood up for a single Palestinian democrat. Note the racist trash that immediately follows that letter.
06-15-07 - Bible Answer Man Opposes Christian Zionism He says the Zionism that's popular among Christians -- and which has influenced U.S. foreign policy -- is actually a form of racism that misinterprets the Bible.
06-15-07 - Gaddafi urges Arabs to leave Palestinians alone Gaddafi also played down fears that the fighting might lead to two separate statelets with Gaza controlled by Hamas and the West Bank under Fatah's rule and dash hopes for a future Palestinian state. "(Hamas leader Khaled) Meshaal phoned me a while ago today to tell me that Hamas has no such plan in the Gaza Strip. He said a state in Gaza would be treason and madness,"
06-15-07 - Finkelstein Draws Flood of Support in Wake of Tenure Denial Finkelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors, drew praise from his academic department and a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences tenure committee, but his tenure was denied as the result of political pressure, mostly from Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a rightwing scholar who infamously supported legalizing torture It evidently wasn't just Dershowitz. The ADL is as smug as a bug.
06-15-07 - Indians nationals in Gaza safe
06-15-07 - Thirty-One Groups Call for Israel to Release Cluster Bomb Data A coalition of 31 groups including the Council for the National Interest presented a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice this week calling for U.S. government intercession with Israel to obtain detailed site information on Israel's cluster bomb strikes in Lebanon in the summer 2006 war.
06-15-07 - GOP maverick pitches candidacy In a meeting with the editorial board of The Kansas City Star, Paul advocated many of the positions that have made him a heretic within the Republican Party. He blasted the war in Iraq, chided the government for its saber-rattling against Iran and criticized entitlement programs that both parties have supported. Paul scolded the government for interfering in Palestinian affairs and in relations between Israel and Syria
That's my guy, right there :)
06-15-07 - Israeli company wins Marine contract An Israeli armor protection manufacturing company won an international bid to supply the U.S. Marine Corps.
06-15-07 - Nonprofit security back in budget Jewish institutions got the bulk of the $25 million budgeted in 2005 and have applied for some of the $25 million in the 2006 budget.....The Bush administration has resisted such funding, preferring to focus spending on imminent rather than potential threats. That approach delayed the release of the 2006 funds and eliminated such funding in 2007.
06-15-07 - Agudath backs hate crimes law Agudath's endorsement is significant because it undercuts arguments that the bill impinges on free speech, said Michael Lieberman, the Washington counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, the lead Jewish group backing the bill.
"The Agudath endorsement shows speech is not an issue," Lieberman said. "Now we'll be able to reach out to a whole bunch of other groups because of Agudath's credibility
06-15-07 - Booby trap kills 6 soldiers at Lebanon camp Six Lebanese soldiers were killed on Friday by an explosion in a building booby trapped by Islamist militants at a Palestinian camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.
06-15-07 - Appropriators okay Israel aid The foreign operations subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee this week referred $2.4 billion in defense aid and an additional $40 million in refugee settlement assistance to the full committee. The bill has bipartisan support.
The 'refugee settlement assistance' - which is the US taxpayer-funded immigration of Ethiopians to Israel - was shot down some time back because it came on the heels of Katrina. Meanwhile, America's Katrina victims got shafted, and Israel gets its money after all. Looks like the Israel-firsters snuck it back into the agenda. Paragraph 6. Also, paragraph 3.
06-15-07 - Israeli, American air forces in joint exercises ** The weeklong exercises began Sunday in the southern Negev desert. Dozens of aircraft simulated bombing targets on the ground and dog fights.
06-15-07 - CP Records Announces Debut of Belly?s ?The Revolution? The Palestinian born Belly?s growing list of accolades includes four MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs) nominations, charting as the biggest new Canadian artist at Top 40 radio this year and becoming one of the highest charting Canadian urban artists in history. Belly is also the first Canadian hip-hop artist to go number one on MuchMusic with his debut video for ?Pressure.?
06-15-07 - Schusterman gives Brandeis $15 million for Israel studies
06-15-07 - Belly on Geraldo At Large
06-14-07 - Flag symbolizes freedom That large rip on my right side is also bothering. That's where one of the rockets from Israeli jets ripped through me as I flew from the stern of the USS Liberty on a clear and sunny day. The attack was called a mistake; yet it is no mistake to say that planes coming to our aid from a nearby carrier were twice recalled. I, and those brave sailors, still await a congressional investigation.
06-14-07 - School honors graduate killed at sea Smith and 33 other U.S. seamen were killed when Israeli forces attacked the Liberty in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with torpedoes and rocket fire during the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab nations. Israel claimed the attack was a mistake ? Israeli forces mistook the U.S. vessel for an Arab ship. The U.S. Navy has not made official comments on the incident, and no investigation was ever mandated by Congress.
06-14-07 - Gaza blast kills 4, Israel denies tank fire report Four young Palestinians died in an explosion in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, hospital officials said, and the Israeli army denied reports from residents that they were killed by an Israeli tank shell.
06-14-07 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian gunman in West Bank
06-14-07 - Hamas seizes Gaza, Abbas declares emergency Medics said at least 30 people were killed during the day, taking the death toll since Saturday to more than 110 in a conflict that has driven a wedge between Gaza and the West Bank and leaves an aggressive Islamist entity on Israel's borders.
06-14-07 - China urges restraint, promises support to Palestinians Chinese leaders urged Palestinians to exercise restraint as fighting escalated in Gaza Thursday but promised to continue their support for the "just cause of the Palestinian people.".....In Tokyo on Wednesday, Abu Amr urged Japanese and Western leaders to end the economic and political siege of the Palestinian people in order to help resolve the ongoing clashes in Gaza.
06-14-07 - Gaza-Westbank ? ICRC Bulletin No. 22 / 2007 Since the afternoon of 14 June, ICRC medical teams started visiting the hospitals to ascertain needs and discuss how further assistance can be provided. Contact with the hospitals and emergency medical services had been maintained throughout the week.
06-14-07 - Supplying water to the West Bank In June, the ICRC completed work on a new municipal reservoir and a seven kilometre distribution network for the village of Ar-Rehiyia, located south-west of Hebron.
06-14-07 - Continuing isolation of Gaza results in more violence Israel has closed Gaza?s borders, preventing the wounded from reaching medical care in Israel and the passage of aid supplies into Gaza. PHR says that Israel must provide direct aid to civilians trapped in Gaza, ?as part of its ongoing responsibility as the occupying power still legally in control of the Gaza Strip?.
06-14-07 - B'Tselem demands an investigation into beating of the organisation's field worker by a police officer B'Tselem has written to the director of the department for police investigations in the Israeli Ministry of Justice (DPI), to demand that it open a criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful use of force by a police officer who beat B'Tselem field researcher in East Jerusalem , Kareem Jubran
06-14-07 - 'EU Placing Palestinians in Debt' Oxfam alleges that the EU decision has indirectly provided political support for Israel's refusal to block transfer of the customs and tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. Israel has withheld 700 million dollars in such revenues from the Palestinians, a decision which Bailey called "arguably illegal".
06-14-07 - Tension in Gaza disrupts life at SOS Children's Village Dr Kamil Al-Shami, co-worker at SOS Children's Village Rafah, said that most SOS co-workers have been unable to leave their homes since the conflict started at the beginning of the week and some are stranded in areas of heavy fighting. Al-Shami said that the gates of SOS Children's Village Rafah have been shut to prevent anyone entering without authorisation.
06-14-07 - OFID approves US$15 million in fresh funds to Palestine During its 28th Annual Session, the Ministerial Council of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) today approved US$15 million to buttress its Special Grant Account for Palestine
06-14-07 - Joint Statement of United Nations organisations on the situation in Gaza United Nations organisations working in the occupied Palestinian territory, are gravely concerned about the spiralling violence in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed 59 lives and caused 273 injuries since 9 June.
06-14-07 - Israel to stay on sidelines as Palestinian civil war rages in Gaza This internecine warfare would not have happened had Israel (and then consequently the US) stayed out of Palestinian affairs in the first place.
06-14-07 - Russia Looking Into Detention Of Its Citizen By Israeli Forces In Gaza Russian diplomats are looking into the detention of a Russian citizen by Israeli forces in the Gaza strip, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
06-14-07 - Hamas attacks major Fatah security compound
06-14-07 - Police to restrict Muslims at Temple Mount Friday All Arab men under the age of 45 and women under the age of 35 will be barred from Friday midday prayers at the Jerusalem holy site due to security concerns, police said.
06-14-07 - Turkey expresses concern over violence in Palestinian territories
06-14-07 - U.S. backs Palestinian leader's state of emergency
06-14-07 - Arab League urges immediate Gaza ceasefire Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa called on Thursday for an immediate halt to deadly infighting in the Gaza Strip, warning of the danger it poses to the Palestinian cause.
06-14-07 - An Interview with Hedy Epstein I made a commitment to the Palestinians that I met, all of whom asked me "When you go back to the United States, please, tell the American people what you have seen and what you have experienced" Because the American people don't know. I made that commitment, so I take every opportunity to speak about what I have seen and what I have experienced. And, yes, there are people within the Jewish mainstream community who want to shut me up. But that is not going to happen. They may threaten me but I am going to honour my commitment to the Palestinians. Hedy Epstein is one of the most courageous people on the planet, IMO.
06-14-07 - June 10, 2007: People around the world participated in a global Day of Action -- "The World Says No to Israeli Occupation"
06-14-07 - It's All About Israel ** The United States should apply the same standards to Israel as it does to Iran. If the Iranians must disarm, then so must the Israelis. If nukes in the hands of the mullahs are threatening, then they are no less so when wielded by ultra-nationalistic Zionists of the Likudnik persuasion.
06-14-07 - Olmert has little progress to show ahead of his meeting with Bush The Bush administration has made it clear to Israeli officials that it needs progress on the Palestinian front if it is to progress in its efforts to isolate Iran. Bingo. Whole thing is a charade to get Europe/Arabs on board for Iran.
06-14-07 - Palestinian Conflict Could Hit Home -- From Oil Prices to War on Terror Naturally, ABC interviewed only Israel-defenders for this piece.
06-14-07 - We oppose Unison action against Israel In Britain, a boycott-Israel movement would, inexorably, become an anti-Jewish movement A weak attempt to again imply that boycotting Israel is anti-Semitic. It is not.
06-14-07 - Papers focus on violence in Gaza
06-14-07 - Voices of protest The most well-known speaker at the rally was comedian Roseanne Barr, who, via taped video, called for "the end of American taxpayer support of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands" and a "new policy based on equal rights for all." I always liked Roseanne. Not only is she funny, but she's smart to boot. And has grande cojones.
06-14-07 - Palestinian Journalist speaks on conditions in West Bank
06-14-07 - Egypt hits back at US for withholding military aid Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Thursday hit back at the United States for tying millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt's human rights record. Israel has one of the most atrocious human rights records of all times. Yet, our military aid to them has actually INCREASED last year.
06-14-07 - Support resolution?s call for two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, bishop urges U.S. senators In a letter to the Senate, Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, Fla., chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops? Committee on International Policy, urged congressional members to co-sponsor Senate Resolution 224 , which seeks to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
06-14-07 - Boycotters are 'bunch of loons' Conservative Party leader David Cameron this week branded those who describe Israel as a ?pariah state? as a ?bunch of loons.? Speaking at the Conservative Friends of Israel?s Annual Business Lunch at the Savoy Hotel on Tuesday, he said that boycotts of Israel are damaging and stated his support for the country.
06-14-07 - Laboratory for a Fortressed World Israel now sends $1.2 billion in "defense" products to the United States--up dramatically from $270 million in 1999. In 2006 Israel exported $3.4 billion in defense products--well over a billion more than it received in US military aid. That makes Israel the fourth-largest arms dealer in the world, overtaking Britain. Much of this growth has been in the so-called "homeland security" sector. Before 9/11 homeland security barely existed as an industry. By the end of this year, Israeli exports in the sector will reach $1.2 billion--an increase of 20 percent Cui bono - who benefits?
06-14-07 - Anti-Syrians bury slain Lebanese MP, blame Damascus Divide and conquer all.
06-14-07 - CHRISTIAN CHURCHES MAKE APPEAL TO HAMAS AND FATAH
06-14-07 - Coping with the Gaza fighting
06-14-07 - As Gaza unravels, Palestinians flee
06-14-07 - IPA Leadership Mission to Washington Among Republican leaders, Chief Deputy Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) praised the OU for its work in Washington as a moral compass to policymakers; Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) urged the OU to continue to work in partnership with her in support of the recognition of Jerusalem's unification, confronting Iran and denying a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority any U.S. support; Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) spoke of his deep commitment to Israel Read entire thing.
06-14-07 - Holy Land's Franciscans plead for peace The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land has made an appeal for prayers for peace and unity in the Holy Land.
06-14-07 - Gunfire resumes after quiet night at Lebanon siege camp
06-14-07 - A post-Howard era in Australia could mean shift in Israel ties "In terms of unconditional support for Israel, Howard will probably go down in history as Israel's greatest friend,"
06-14-07 - Pictures from StWC Palestine Demo A belatedly filed picture report from last Saturday's Stop The War Palestine Demonstration in Central London.
06-13-07 - Hamas tightens grip on Gaza, 33 dead
06-13-07 - Tutu urges justice for Gaza town attack
06-13-07 - Israel threatening to attack us, says Iran ambassador to UN ** The protest came in response to statements made by Mofaz during a visit to Washington last week, heading an Israeli delegation that held strategic discussions with the US dealing mostly with the Iranian nuclear threat.
06-13-07 - Fatah on the run as Hamas wages battle for control of Gaza's streets
06-13-07 - Palestinian mothers in bomb plot Is it more likely that they were damn near starving due to the Israeli-led boycott of all of the Palestinian people, and thus sought a way to get free food and shelter in an Israeli prison (as some of the children do)? Methinks so. We are talking about a heavily pregnant woman here. There's also the medical care angle as well. Sounds like they wanted out of Gaza either way, could be due to the conflict.
06-13-07 - Moscow calls on Palestinian politicians to stop bloodshed Moscow is concerned over the exacerbation of the situation in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories in general, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kamynin said.
06-13-07 - Hamas nearly wins control of Gaza Wait I know: let's boycott one side, cut off funds to all sides, and then arm the other side. 'Look, they can't get along with each other, how do you expect poor little Israel to make peace with them?'....
06-13-07 - Idea of international force for Gaza worth exploring: UN chief
06-13-07 - Hamas denies Gaza truce but leaders in talks
06-13-07 - In pictures: Gaza fighting worsens
06-13-07 - Gaza medics under fire as fighting goes on
06-13-07 - Gaza rivals 'agree on ceasefire' Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah say they have agreed to the terms of a new truce to end days of fighting in Gaza that has left 80 people dead.
06-13-07 - Palestinian fighting plays into hands of Israel: Syria
06-13-07 - Peres elected Israel's president
06-13-07 - A Grave Injustice at DePaul University By BILL CHRISTISON I plan to demonstrate publicly but without violence this coming Sunday (June 17, 2007) against the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Rome for condoning the actions of one of its subordinate units De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois, USA in denying tenure for Dr. Norman Finkelstein because of the latter,s criticism of the policies of the government of Israel and the government of the United States in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
06-13-07 - Vote to debate Israel boycott 'will be honoured'
06-13-07 - Former Jewish liaison announces run Footlik lived for a time in Israel, working for peace groups. He moved to northern Virginia upon his return to the United States in 2004, and now works as a consultant representing Israeli high-tech companies in the security sector.
06-13-07 - Bethlehem arrangement roils Aussies Australian Jews are upset that a Sydney council is planning to formally adopt the Arab town Bethlehem as its sister city.
06-13-07 - Jordanian military court sentences two men to life for plotting attacks on Israel
06-13-07 - B'Tselem calls on armed Palestinian groups to respect the rules of international humanitarian law
06-13-07 - Tory leader calls himself 'Zionist' The leader of Britain?s Conservative party called himself a Zionist and slammed the initiative for an academic boycott of Israel.
06-13-07 - No justice without right of return
06-13-07 - UN envoy: anti-Hamas rhetoric undermines democracy
06-13-07 - Catholic Action-run center offers Palestinians unique workout spot The sports center will be able to provide more organized training for the Catholic Action basketball, volleyball, table tennis and swim teams, and the new fencing team, Hazbon said. The center, which opened officially June 9, also planned to offer karate lessons.
06-13-07 - Documenta selects 113 artists for 100-day art expo Palestinian artist Ahlam Shibli told them that her theme was having a homeland: she creates her works in a refugee camp in Jordan. Other artists created on-the-spot works in spaces allocated to them in Kassel
06-13-07 - ?President? Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale This is the joker who bought the Ahmad Chalabi line that invading Iraq would result in a pro-West and pro-Israel democracy with Chalabi (who later failed to get 1 percent of the vote) playing Iraq?s George Washington
06-13-07 - Protestors disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting The protesters, who oppose Caterpillar's sale of tractors that are used by the Israeli Army to demolish the homes of Palestinian civilians, were quickly hustled out of the remote country club conference center 40 miles west of Chicago.
06-13-07 - 16 Palestinian children made homeless today Today, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 8:00am hundreds of police people, accompanied by a chopper and two bulldozers, came the village of Tarabin al-Sanaa, located by the affluent Jewish town of Omer in the Israeli Negev. They demolished two homes. 16 children are homeless today, one two months old, another nine months.
06-13-07 - British Jews launch campaign to fight academic boycott Under the umbrella of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center, and the Fair Play Campaign Group, set up by the Board of Deputies of British Jews last year to combat anti-Israel boycotts, the effort will be coordinated with both Jewish and non-Jewish trade union members and academics, the Israeli Embassy, and Israel advocacy and community organizations.
06-13-07 - Car bomb kills anti-Syrian MP, 9 others in Beirut A powerful car bomb killed anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker Walid Eido and nine other people on Wednesday in an attack his allies blamed on Damascus.
06-13-07 - US warns Palestinians over violence Our (pro-Israel) policies have directly contributed to this internecine warfare.
06-13-07 - Two more soldiers die in fighting at Lebanon camp
06-13-07 - Outing Israeli Crimes: June 1967 Arthur Forrest's book and Bamford's meticulous documentation are consistent with other witnesses to Israel's use of napalm against civilians in 1967
06-13-07 - Recipe for endless war All the Likud party speakers, from Benjamin Netanyahu down, reject any Palestinian state and believe Jewish settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories is their unassailable right. Arieh Eldad goes further in calling for the transfer of all Palestinians from all of historical Palestine - including Israel.
06-13-07 - Cold calculation teaches lessons Not the first letter by the evident Israel-apologist, but the second one down.
06-13-07 - Canadian Parliamentarian Rejected Offer to Join Tutu's UN Mission to Gaza Cotler said the Council, now meeting to wrap up a year's worth of reform negotiations, is about to "institutionalize the condemnation of Israel as a standing item on the agenda-the permanent singling-out of Israel for differential and discriminatory treatment, a permanent Alice-in-Wonderland situation." Cotler is evidently an Israel-firster.
06-13-07 - FBI in public appeal to Muslims, Arab-Americans
06-12-07 - Telegrams cast doubt on Liberty report In each of 25 telegrams seen by Navy Times, the Navy was calling the attack an accident well before its court of inquiry ever convened. The telegrams are dated as early as June 9 some four days before the official board heard from a single Liberty witness and June 13, two days before the board finished its report.
06-12-07 - PDF file from the VFW : In Awesome Heroism In Defense of the USS Liberty Suffice it to say
that crewmen have no doubt the attack
was deliberate. Unfortunately, the heroism
of the crew is far too often lost
amidst this controversy. Israel intended to sink that ship. It was due to the sheer heroic efforts of those on board that that ship stayed afloat. The survivors and the families of the victims that did not make it have been denied justice for 40 years now. Why not print out this piece by the VFW and show it to your friends and family (who likely have never heard of this ship and its fate)? It's time that all of America knows of this tragedy and properly honors all those aboard that fateful day.
06-12-07 - Violence-hit Palestinians face soaring debts - Oxfam Battered by spiralling violence, Palestinians are also facing soaring personal debts and three quarters have nothing left to sell to meet personal needs, aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday, urging donors to resume funding.
06-12-07 - Gaza hospitals turned into battlefields
06-12-07 - Poverty driving Palestinian children onto the streets In its report, DCI said poverty among Palestinians must be addressed if children are to avoid a childhood of labour. But there is little sign of an economic upturn any time soon. In addition to no longer being able to work in Israel, Palestinians are also getting poorer because the international community is boycotting the Palestinian Authority in a bid to force it to recognise Israel and renounce violence.
06-12-07 - Government employees on strike today and tomorrow over unpaid salaries Recently, one employee suffered a stress related heart attack after discovering that his salary was not deposited in his bank account for yet another month.
06-12-07 - Union of Muslim Women demands release of detained woman and her child
06-12-07 - Israeli Authorities refuse to release female Palestinian prisoner
06-12-07 - 100 news media around the world urged to support appeal on 100th day of Alan Johnston?s abduction in Gaza
06-12-07 - Hamas launches new Gaza attacks Heavy fighting has continued throughout the day in Gaza after militants of the Palestinian group Hamas attacked posts held by their Fatah faction rivals.
06-12-07 - UN was pummelled into submission, says outgoing Middle East special envoy American support for Israel has hindered international efforts to broker a peace deal in the Middle East, according to a hard-hitting confidential report from the outgoing UN Middle East envoy......He blames overwhelming influence exerted by the US and an "ensuing tendency toward self-censorship" within the UN when it comes to criticism of Israel.
06-12-07 - Israeli man injured by Qassam in western Negev An Israeli man was lightly injured as a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel's western Negev early Tuesday morning, local daily Ha'aretz reported.
06-12-07 - Abbas accuses Hamas of attempting coup
06-12-07 - Abbas forces ordered to suppress Hamas "coup"
06-12-07 - Palestinian foreign minister urges aid resumption
06-12-07 - Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures
06-12-07 - Fatah says to decide shortly whether to quit govt
06-12-07 - Palestinians dream of escape from Gaza fighting
06-12-07 - Palestinian construction worker quota increased
06-12-07 - LEAD: Japan mulls giving direct aid to Palestinian president's office
06-12-07 - Greece wants bigger EU role in Mideast peace
06-12-07 - $22mn for Palestinians The Arab League has received a cheque for $22mn from Qatar, the fifth instalment of its aid to the Palestinian people as part of a gesture by HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
06-12-07 - China hopes to further ties with Palestine during Abu Amer's visit
06-12-07 - UN warning on Lebanon arms flows The UN Security Council has expressed "deep concern" at new evidence that illegal arms are being smuggled into Lebanon from neighbouring Syria. Well whaddya know. I wonder who was just recently prodding the US to do something about these 'arms'.
06-12-07 - Israel critic denied post at university Mr Finkelstein, whose family survived the Holocaust, has been public enemy number one of the Israel lobby in the US for a number of years
06-12-07 - UCU vote gives the Palestinians a voice The pro-Israeli lobby, now deployed like a juggernaut against any rational discussion, threatens to drown out entirely the voices of our Palestinian academic colleagues and their students, who have called for just such a boycott as part of a wider campaign of boycott, disinvestments and sanctions.
06-12-07 - The false balance of the Zionists
06-12-07 - US damaging Israel's qualitative edge, warn officials In the unstable political atmosphere that characterizes much of the Arab Middle East, successive American administrations have vowed to help maintain Israel's qualitative military edge over its enemies. The current backtracking on that promise has elicited threats from Jerusalem to call into action the pro-Israel lobby on Capitol Hill in order to scuttle the Saudi arms deal.
Now, note the source. Israel is threatening to call it's pro-Israel lobby in America to change the behavior of our government. For others to suggest that there is a lobby, and that indeed it has the power to do so, is deemed the furtherance of an 'anti-Semitic canard'. Time and again, Israel and its US lobby openly discuss this overwhelming influence on our government.
06-12-07 - Gaza violence prompts call for outside help "They are executing American and Israeli policies," he says, "because the weapons and money for Dahlan and the Presidential guard come from those two parties." Bingo.
06-12-07 - DePaul U. Students and Alumni Stage Sit-In to Protest 2 Tenure Denials
06-12-07 - Lebanese commandos blow up Islamist chief's house Lebanese commandos have blown up the home of the Islamist militia chief in a besieged refugee camp where fighting flared again on Tuesday in the fourth week of a deadly standoff.
06-12-07 - Syria ready to renew peace talks with Israel without "conditions"
06-12-07 - Israeli universities unite against boycott The American supporters of seven major Israeli universities are uniting to fight a major British trade union's vote to consider a boycott of Israeli academics.
06-12-07 - Hebron settlers to appeal decision to seal off rooms A civil administration spokesman said Monday that the Jewish families had illegally expanded into the rooms, which were abandoned shops that had once been used by Palestinians. Psychos.
06-12-07 - Moving on: From Jordan to Palestine I was able to work inside of the Palestinian refugee camps, which are supposed to be a notorious breeding ground for terrorism and anti-Americanism. And in doing so, I was able to demonstrate that not all Americans are fearful of the Arabic population, nor do they support policies which perpetuate their plight.
06-12-07 - IPI Mission to Ramallah Says the Palestinian Authority National Unity Government Will Also be Judged by Ability to Resolve Alan Johnston?s Case The International Press Institute (IPI) carried out a four-day visit to the Palestinian Authority (PA) from 4-7 June, 2007 to advocate for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston.
06-12-07 - Deeply concerned at resurgence of intra-Palestinian violence, Secretary-General calls for immediate cessation, full support for President Abbas' efforts
06-12-07 - Syria denies UN claims of arms flow into Lebanon the Syrian foreign ministry spokesman, whose name was not given, said "Roed Larsen is making as his own information that Israel is spreading about arms trafficking", adding that "his claims made to the UN Security council (on Monday) are aimed at damaging Syrian-Lebanese relations."
06-12-07 - Settlers demonstrate at evacuated West Bank settlement The march, which was organized by a number of right-wing settler groups including ?Homesh first?, was given permission to proceed by the military and protestors were accompanied by the army and security forces on their procession to the area.
06-12-07 - Olmert will urge Bush to prevent smuggling of weapons to Hizbullah Israel will demand that Bush work toward the deployment of an international peace-keeping force along the Lebanon-Syria border to prevent the smuggling......Lacking the power to amend the decision, Israel will ask the United States to use its influence on Siniora to have him deploy peace-keeping forces along the border as one of the conditions of renewing the UNIFIL forces mandate in August Israel makes their problem our problem - ALL OF THEM.
06-12-07 - Time runs out on divestment vote at Methodist conference
06-12-07 - COSATU launches campaign to boycott Israeli products The Congress of South African Trade Unions, South Africa?s largest trade union federation, is demanding that the federal government impose a boycott of Israeli goods and cut off diplomatic relations with the apartheid state. It is a show of solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination.
06-12-07 - Book Review - Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire The South African boycott worked to a degree, but anytime an Israeli boycott is mentioned, it becomes an act of anti-Semitism, of academic freedom in relation to the universities, of keeping politics out of sports, of freedom to trade. While the Americans superficially sided with the boycott on South Africa, the likelihood of it doing so with Israel is extremely minimal (South Africa after all was not as important for geopolitical strategy).
06-12-07 - Jeremy Bowen diary: Kosovo v Palestine
06-12-07 - Council deal with Bethlehem under fire The Jewish Board of Deputies has condemned the plan.
06-12-07 - Israel-Palestine photography
06-11-07 - Top Fatah leader among 11 dead in new clashes Irbayea wasn't at home when his house was bombarded, but his family was. Medics at Shiffa Hospital said that a 75-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl were killed and a third woman critically wounded as a missile hit the house
06-11-07 - Palestinian schoolgirls enjoy a day of ?normal? childhood A new pilot psychosocial project in the village of Beit Rima near Ramallah is giving 205 Palestinian schoolgirls the opportunity to enjoy their childhood in the midst of increased insecurity among Palestinian children.
06-11-07 - No invitations yet for Quartet-sponsored meeting between Olmert, Abbas International mediators have not yet invited the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to a planned June 25 meeting, both sides said Monday.
06-11-07 - Gaza truce shaken by attack on Hamas ministry
06-11-07 - EU step to resume Palestinian aid The EU has signed an agreement to train officials in the Palestinian Authority's Finance Ministry, so that direct aid can resume in the future.
06-11-07 - Prince Rashid sees off aid convoy heads for Palestinian people HRH Prince Rashid Bin Al Hassan, the Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization (JHCO) on Monday saw off an aid convoy that headed to the Palestinian people upon directives of His Majesty the King.
06-11-07 - Palestinian students take exams amid fighting
06-11-07 - Israeli Army carries out military operations in Hebron area Local sources reported that a massive Israeli force, supported by armoured jeeps, stormed the area and deployed throughout the city. Eyewitnesses reported that the army searched scores of homes, removing families from their residences, randomly opening fire on locals and kidnapping four civilians.
06-11-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus city and nearby refugee camp, six civilians kidnapped
06-11-07 - Palestinian minister pledges probe into militants' use of TV sign
06-11-07 - Indonesia blocks UN statement on Iran A Foreign Affairs Ministry official said the Security Council was silent on what it called Israel's almost daily attacks on unarmed Palestinians, reported English daily The Jakarta Post.
06-11-07 - Jordan's king rejects idea of Jordanian-Palestinian federation Jordanian King Abdullah on Monday rejected the idea of forging a federation between Jordan and the Palestinian territories at this stage, according to an official statement.
06-11-07 - 6 Qassams land in Sderot area Monday morning
06-11-07 - Association battles to keep Hebron Old City Palestinian Physical and verbal abuse meted out by the 500 Jewish settlers who live in a heavily protected Old City enclave, Israeli army checkpoints, traffic bans and business closure notices have all forced Palestinians to flee over the years.
06-11-07 - U.S. gives nod to easing Palestinian embargo
06-11-07 - At-Tuwani Reflection: Harvesting in the South Hebron Hills From the spring of 2005 to the
fall of 2006 I have been present with Palestinians in Khoruba when settlers
harvested the crops with a combine, when soldiers arrested a shepherd for
refusing to obey an order to move his sheep from the valley, and when
soldiers stopped them from plowing and planting (the last occurred after the
Palestinians had won the court case proving ownership of the land.)
06-11-07 - The High Cost of Subservience to Israel For the first time in history, forces of the U.S. Navy were denied the right to defend a Navy ship under attack. Johnson said, "I don't care if the ship sinks, I am not going to embarrass an ally." Those were his exact words, heard by Navy personnel listening to radio relays. The ally Johnson refused to embarrass was Israel. To him, saving Israel from embarrassment was more important than saving the lives of the Liberty crew.
06-11-07 - Q & A: Eugene Bird: president of the Council for the National Interest (U.S. officials) have been permissive and completely lacking credibility in their statements about (United Nations resolution) 242 - that is, land for peace - and a two-state solution. As for Israeli settlement, (the U.S. government) has been spending, in the last 12 years, about $500 million per year. Before, it was probably a little over half that. In the last 25 years, they have spent on the West Bank - in roads, colonies and the wall - probably $30 or $40 billion of American aid
06-11-07 - Palestinian detainee dies of heart failure after being denied medical treatment Maher Ata Dandan, 38, a detainee in Israel's Jelbou'a prison, died early Sunday morning of heart failure, after having been repeatedly denied treatment for anemia.
06-11-07 - Protest marks 40th year of Israeli rule of West Bank About 20 people, some in Arab headdress, lined up before a cardboard checkpoint on the west steps of the Colorado statehouse Sunday, where a snarling man in an olive-drab military uniform barked orders at them
06-11-07 - Liberty incident recalled
06-11-07 - Lial: Bush to blame if there's war with Syria US President George W. Bush is to blame if Israel goes to war with Syria, former Foreign Ministry director-general Dr. Alon Lial charged on Sunday.
06-11-07 - Einstein raised concerns about forming a Jewish state in a speech on April 17, 1938, Einstein said (while acknowledging the possibility of an "external necessity" that would lead to the creation of a state): "I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. Apart from practical consideration, my awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain."
06-11-07 - Rice Urges Continued Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue
06-11-07 - Israel launches advanced spy satellite ** Israel successfully launched an advanced spy satellite into orbit Monday, giving it a sophisticated new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on archenemy Iran and other regional adversaries. Israeli space officials said the Ofek-7 satellite can pick up even small objects from space, and that information will be shared with the United States............Though the U.S. has its own spy satellites, Ben-Israel said it was in the interest of both Israel and the U.S. to exchange intelligence. "There is no country in the world, not us and not the Americans, that is able to obtain everything alone," he told Army Radio......"If you have something that they don't have and if they have something that you don't have, you make an exchange."
with the emphasis on : "that information will be shared with the United States.". To build the case for war, no doubt. Something tells me that our intel will be fed (more) BS as a result of this satellite.
06-11-07 - Lebanon camp battles kill relief workers, soldiers Four Lebanese soldiers and two relief workers were killed in fierce fighting on Monday between the Lebanese army and al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp
06-11-07 - UN chief vows to help Lebanon set up Hariri court UN chief Ban Ki-moon will help Lebanon set up "in a timely manner" the international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, his press office said Monday.
06-11-07 - Arab American Leaders Meet With Secretary of State Rice, Call for Easing of Plight of Palestinian, Iraqi Refugees
06-11-07 - American Jew finances anti-demolition campaign An Orthodox American Jew has donated $1.5 million to fund a campaign against the demolition of Palestinian and Beduin homes throughout Israel and the territories, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions announced on Monday. Aww.
06-11-07 - Army slated as Jews damage Muslim graves THE Israeli army is under fire after Jewish fundamentalists it escorted into an Arab village for a nocturnal prayer festival vandalised Muslim gravestones and wrote Death to the Arabs on walls.
06-11-07 - TA fountains painted red to protest killing of Palestinians Anarchist activists sprayed red paint on walls across Tel Aviv Sunday night and added red paint to the water in several fountains, as an act of protest against Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
06-11-07 - Sderot residents embark on U.S. tour FIve Sderot residents embarked on a U.S. tour to raise awareness of their plight.
06-11-07 - The price of British Jewish criticism of Israel . There is no significant British equivalent of AIPAC, for example, and many British Jews regard such overt pro-Israel pressure on government to be inappropriate and counter-productive. No sh$t?
06-11-07 - Jordan hopes differences with Greek Orthodox church will soon be resolved The church controversy was sparked in May 2005, when Irineos I was ousted over claims of being involved in the unsanctioned sale of church property in Jerusalem, including two hotels, to an Israeli company ? a move that would bolster the Jewish presence in east Jerusalem, a traditionally Arab quarter that Palestinians hope to make their capital. Irineos has denied the claims against him, saying a former aide signed the leases without his knowledge. Israel continues to recognize Irineos, despite his ouster
06-11-07 - Army aims to curb car accidents in West Bank "What they don't understand is that there is a bigger chance you will get killed in the West Bank in a car accident than by a terror attack," Really now. In light of this, has Israel stopped thieving Palestinian land in the name of 'security'? Won't hold my breath.
06-11-07 - Oprah criticized for pro-Israel stance The Joint Advocacy Initiative, a partnership between the East Jerusalem YMCA and the YWCA of Palestine, said in a June 8 letter that Winfrey?s willingness to visit Israel was "very shocking" considering her image as someone who ?stands with oppressed, marginalized people, fights racism, and works for justice and human rights.?
06-11-07 - Mayor of Palestinian village calls for end to Jewish pilgrimages after graves desecrated The mayor of a Palestinian village on Monday called for the end of pilgrimages by Jewish groups to a holy site in his village after the desecration of Muslim graves last week.
06-11-07 - AIPAC 'Spy' Trial Delayed Again "Anyone who cares about national security should be concerned about this," said Justin Raimondo, investigative journalist and co-founder of the libertarian Antiwar.com, who sees Rosen, Weissman and Franklin, the last now doing a 12-year sentence for disseminating classified information ? as part of a broader effort on behalf of pro-Israel forces in Washington to push the U.S. toward a confrontation with Iran. According to reports, the national defense information pilfered by Franklin and shared by Rosen and Weissman mostly concerned U.S. policy with Iran.
06-11-07 - Rally in London calls for end to Israeli occupation of Palestine Mairead Corrigan Maguire who recently visited Palestine spoke of the parallels between her own country, Northern Ireland, and Palestine. She reminded those listening that thirty years ago she stood at this same spot calling for peace, justice and human rights for the people of Northern Ireland. She made the same appeal for the people of Palestine.
06-11-07 - 66 percent of public dissatisfied with Israeli democracy Poll by Israel Democracy Institute shows only 21 percent of Israeli have faith in prime minister, most don?t trust military echelon. 73 percent of Jews say Arabs prone to violence, while 55 percent say Arabs 'will never reach Jews' cultural level'
Wow.
06-11-07 - Israel to respond to benchmarks before PM goes to US In its formal response to a US document on access and movement that will be presented this week, Israel will say that some of the measures called for in the plan have been carried out, others are in the process of being carried out, and still others cannot be implemented at this time because they would endanger Israelis, senior government sources told The Jerusalem Post.
06-11-07 - TALE OF 2 OSAMAS when his ninth-grade math teacher started calling the Muslim teen of Palestinian descent "bin Laden" - and a security guard told him "we don't want bin Laden's son in our school" - his cheery outlook began to change, she said.
06-10-07 - Fatah member thrown off from 15-story building in Gaza A Palestinian militant of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement was pushed off from a 15-story building and died immediately in Gaza city on Sunday by rival Hamas members, security sources said.
06-10-07 - Six killed in factional gun battles in Gaza
06-10-07 - UN Food Agency Helps Rush Aid To Palestinians
06-10-07 - Arab League denounces US Jerusalem resolution
06-10-07 - A Neo-Conservative International Targets Iran the conference constituted a kind of "Neo-Conservative International" designed to rally support for "dissidents," primarily from the Islamic world, and give them hope that "regime change" in their countries is possible much as it was in the former Soviet bloc almost 20 years ago.
06-10-07 - At-Tuwani Update: 19 - 31 May 2007
06-10-07 - Israeli bombers strike Gaza after kidnap attempt
06-10-07 - Gunmen in Gaza fire on PM's home
06-10-07 - 'Military plan against Iran is ready' ** A high-ranking American military officer told the Post that senior officers in the US armed forces had thrown their support behind Bush and believed that additional steps needed to be taken to stop Iran. Predictions within the US military are that Bush will do what is needed to stop Teheran before he leaves office in 2009, including possibly launching a military strike against its nuclear facilities. .......According to a high-ranking American military officer, the US Navy and Air Force would play the primary roles in any military action taken against Iran. Of course. You don't really think Israel is going to do it, do you (even though they are behind this push to war too)? Folks, we'll be going to war with Iran before Bush goes out of office.
06-10-07 - Israel, offering Golan, awaits Syria proposals Israel has told Syria it is willing to trade land for peace and is waiting to hear whether President Bashar al-Assad would cut ties with Iran and hostile guerrilla groups in return, Israeli officials said on Friday. Extortion. That land belongs to Syria in the first place.
06-10-07 - Journalists slam use of 'press vehicle' by Gaza militants
06-10-07 - Abbas to meet Sarkozy in Paris Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a visit to Paris in a week's time, a senior official in his office told AFP on Sunday.
06-10-07 - Israeli army to operate in Gaza if attacks on Israel continue: PM
06-10-07 - Dutch seek larger role in resolving Mideast conflict Last week, former Dutch prime minister Dries Van Agt, who co-signed the petition, demanded that Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen "denounce not only attacks by Palestinians on Israelis, but also terrorist actions by the Israeli occupation army, which result in the death of so many Palestinians."
06-10-07 - Palestinian rival factions of Hamas and Fatah agreed to a local ceasefire on Sunday, ending a two-day infighting that killed two in southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
06-10-07 - Poll finds depression among Palestinians The Near East Consulting poll found a 15 percent increase from a similar study last October and more than 100 percent jump since November 2005 in the number of those suffering anxiety linked to their depression, The Washington Times said Sunday.
06-10-07 - Israeli army chief supports wider operation in Gaza: report
06-10-07 - Gunfights in Lebanon siege camp after 15 killed
06-10-07 - High cost of militancy for Lebanon?s poor
06-10-07 - Lebanese man killed by leftover cluster bomb in southern village
06-10-07 - Hajbeh celebrates freedom after 4 years of immigration detention
06-10-07 - Scott Kennedy: Israel for 51st state Ironically, it has only been in vogue to publicly voice support for a two states solution since its practicality has been ruled out by Israeli "facts on the ground"
06-10-07 - Sheriff returns from training in Israel And what exactly are our law enforcement going to learn from Israel? How to shoot rockthrowing kids? How to level civilian housing sometimes with people inside, and for not having an ISRAELI permit to build on PALESTINIAN land? The last thing we need are lessons from Israel on how to provide security for this country.
06-10-07 - Perspectives on the boycott debate Alan Derschowitz and his colleagues are engaged in a blatant attempt to intimidate British academics critical of Israel's policies, (We will isolate them, June 9).
06-10-07 - To boycott or not - the new Israeli question The US Anti-Defamation League has been equally vigorous in its response, taking a half page advert in the Financial Times last week reading: '38 journalists arrested in Iran; 700 activists detained and tortured in Zimbabwe, 400,000 murdered in Darfur - but British unions have singled out Israel for boycott. That's anti-Semitism.' You keep telling yourself that, Abe, if it helps you sleep better at night.
06-10-07 - Israel, U.S. in air drill ** The joint drill, which began Sunday in Israel and was expected to last a week, drew attention in the Arab world given the expectation that Israel or the United States could bomb Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
06-10-07 - Letters in a batch for Monday, June 11 First two letters.
06-10-07 - Anti-occupation rally draws thousands in D.C.
06-10-07 - Report: Hezbollah digs in anew Citing Israeli intelligence sources, the Sunday Times reported Sunday that Hezbollah, whose front-line outposts were destroyed during the war with Israel last year, has returned and dug bunkers "under the noses" of a boosted U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
06-10-07 - Israelis oppose full Golan withdrawal Most Israelis would oppose handing over the Golan Heights in a peace deal with Syria, a survey found.
06-10-07 - Thousands rally for Palestine SOME 10,000 Indonesians held yesterday in Jakarta a demonstration against Israel's continued occupation of Palestine, calling on the government to continue its support for the struggle to liberate Al-Quds, and on the general public to boycott products supported by Israel.
06-10-07 - London: Pax Christi join national rally for justice in the Holy Land Around 20,000 demonstrators came to Trafalgar Square on Saturday, to show their support for the Palestinians living under occupation, in a rally marking the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War and subsequent occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Similar events took place in other cities around the world. The rally was organised by Enough! a coalition of over 50 charities, faith groups and trade unions.
06-10-07 - Christian Peacemaker Teams supports beleaguered farmers in Bethlehem The Israeli government, through the construction of the separation barrier and the building of illegal settlements on Palestinian land, denies many farmers access to their crops. The site of the action was an orchard of olive trees and grape vines.
06-10-07 - 'Israel is academically boycotting Palestinians'
06-10-07 - US awaits Israel on 'benchmark' plan Sources in the Prime Minister's Office could not say on Sunday night when a response would be forthcoming, although it is widely expected that Israel would respond before Olmert's visit to the US on June 17. Prime ministerial visits to the US are often accompanied by gestures or declarations aimed at creating a "positive atmosphere." Yes, they often are. And then as soon as the Israeli official returns home, they renege on the 'gestures' they've touted that they've made. Like clockwork.
06-10-07 - Desecrating graves and morality Israel will have difficulty from now on garnering support for its justified complaints against the desecration of Jewish graves in Europe.
06-10-07 - Bizarre Article of the Day
06-10-07 - Media group warns of Palestinian 'propaganda' on satellite TV LOL. A pro-Israeli 'media watchdog' complaining about 'propaganda', AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
06-09-07 - 40 Years Later...Still No Justice For The USS Liberty Member of that independent committee and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer made the following statement: "Congress has never investigate the recall by the White House of U.S. Navy aircraft sent to rescue the Liberty while the ship was still under attack. The White House cancellation of the Navy's attempt to rescue the Liberty is the most disgraceful thing I have witnessed in my entire military career."
06-09-07 - Was it fog of war, or an act of war, in '67 attack? Crew members said they later counted 821 large holes in the Liberty. "Their whole intent was to sink that ship because we were a perceived threat to their war plans," Gallo said.
06-09-07 - One killed as Gaza militants raid Israel 'in army jeep' Palestinian fighters reportedly drove a disguised Israeli army jeep into Israel from central Gaza on Saturday and attacked an army border post, leaving one militant killed in the first such raid in a year.
06-09-07 - Israeli helicopters strike on Gaza
06-09-07 - In a wide scale campaign Israeli army kidnaps 11 Palestinian from Hebron city
06-09-07 - Military option on table concerning Iran ** Military action is one of the options in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, Israel's deputy prime minister said Saturday, after discussing the issue with senior U.S. officials.
06-09-07 - Hebron: UPDATE: 24 May- 31 May, 2007
06-09-07 - Abbas tells his Fatah movement the alternative to coalition with Hamas is chaos: report Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told leaders of his Fatah movement that a collapse of Fatah's shaky coalition with Hamas will lead to more chaos, a newspaper reported Saturday.
06-09-07 - Israeli tanks roll into S Gaza, arrest residents The media office of the Palestinian National Security Forces added in a statement that the bulldozers destroyed farmlands and the Israeli soldiers occupied the roofs of three houses.The statement also said that the soldiers, covered by machine gunfire, used loudspeakers to call on people, aged above 16, to surrender themselves
06-09-07 - Gaza hospital medics walk out to protest abduction, shooting of doctor Medics at a northern Gaza Strip hospital walked off their jobs for a few hours Saturday to protest the kidnapping and kneecapping of a doctor by Palestinian militants, the first physician targeted in months of deadly infighting.
06-09-07 - Palestinian Hamas lawmaker blasts Blair's remarks Hamas lawmaker Yahia Mussa, based in Gaza, on Saturday slammed British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his remarks on Hamas, saying Blair was working to kill the Palestinian cause.
06-09-07 - Concerns about Israeli presence in Cairo meetings The Lebanese daily newspaper, Al-Akhbar, on Saturday quoted Egyptian and Palestinian officials as saying, "the Egyptian authorities have foiled an attempt by Israeli intelligence agencies to covertly listen in on the Cairo meetings between Egyptian officials and Palestinian factional delegations."
06-09-07 - Senior Hamas leader says Palestinians united in seeking state in West Bank, Gaza
06-09-07 - Detainees in Al Jalama on hunger strike
06-09-07 - ?Enough is Enough,? warns Morgantini On the occasion of ?40 years of occupation and no end in sight? for the Palestinian people, Luisa Morgantini, the Vice President of European Parliament last week spoke at length to Tejinder Singh (Tito), strongly denouncing the Israeli?s indiscriminate attacks against civilians as representing a serious breach of the principles of the Geneva Convention amounting to a war crime and called for an international UN force to protect civilians.
06-09-07 - Seven people wounded as Hamas-Fatah infighting renews in Gaza
06-09-07 - Information Minister slams Israeli invasion to Rafah Dr. Barghouthi stated that soldiers rounded all males aged 16-50 after breaking into dozens of houses on Friday at night and Saturday at dawn, interrogated them and kidnapped several residents.
06-09-07 - US House's Jerusalem resolution 'unacceptable': Egypt The resolution "not only contradicts international law and (UN) Security Council resolutions on Jerusalem, but also the position of the US administration itself over east Jerusalem," Hadidi said in a statement.
06-09-07 - Unknown gunmen injures one man destroy a car and blow up a shop in three attacks in Gaza strip
06-09-07 - Robert Fisk: Lies and outrages... would you believe it? Only the president of France, General de Gaulle, moved into political isolation by telling a press conference several months later that Israel "is organising, on the territories which it has taken, an occupation which cannot work without oppression, repression and expulsions - and if there appears resistance to this, it will in turn be called 'terrorism'". This accurate prophecy earned reproof from the Nouvel Observateur - to the effect that "Gaullist France has no friends; it has only interests". And Believe It or Not, with the exception of one small Christian paper, there was in the entire French press one missing word: Palestinians.
06-09-07 - Red Crescent team to tour Palestinian refugees camps A Red Crescent Authority (RCA) delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will fly Sunday to Jordan as part of a whirlwind tour which also takes them to Syria and Lebanon to inspect humanitarian conditions at Palestinian refugees camps there.
06-09-07 - 3,000 protest in Tel Aviv against 40 years of occupation About 3,000 people demonstrated in the heart of Tel Aviv on Saturday against Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
06-09-07 - Four decades later, an Israeli attack on a U.S. ship in the heat of battle won't go away Bias toward Israel is made quite evident in this piece by the Associated Press.
06-09-07 - Israeli-Syrian ?war? may be cover for peace
06-09-07 - Israel will pay the price for war in Iraq, former CIA official says ** ?It will be much more difficult to convince the American people of the wisdom of another military adventure in the Middle East after Iraq. Yes, a lot of American politicians are now saying ?we will not let Iran have nuclear weapons?, but it is very hard for me to believe that this Congress would authorize a military operation against Iran in the near future barring a clear provocation by the Iranians.? It's not hard for me to believe, given the power Israel and its lobby have over our Congress.
06-09-07 - Five Lebanese soldiers killed in refugee camps Five Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in the latest bout of heavy fighting against al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp, a military source said
06-09-07 - Jerusalem resolution sparks debate The resolution, which had only 14 sponsors, passed by voice vote, and Lantos and Ros-Lehtinen refrained from asking for a head count, which is unusual for pro-Israel resolutions. Israel's top two agents in Washington.
06-09-07 - Cost of occupation ? over $50 billion I'm sure most of that has been paid for by the unwitting US taxpayers - in more ways than one.
06-09-07 - Yonathan Shapira: Israel the real 'refusenik' - of peace Former pilot turned peace activist tells of experience at UN Palestinian rights committee meeting, says onus on Israel to bring change
06-09-07 - Prosecutors: Salah is a terrorist Following a six-month trial in Chicago, Salah was cleared Feb. 1 of federal racketeering charges alleging that he served as a high-ranking operative of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. He was convicted of a lesser charge of obstruction of justice for allegedly lying about his Hamas ties in a 2000 lawsuit. He's scheduled to be sentenced on that count next week.
Let's see how much time he gets in relation to what Libby got for the same crime.
06-09-07 - Report: Syria doubts Israel wants peace
06-09-07 - Pope tells Bush he backs regional Mideast solution Pope Benedict told U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday the Vatican would like a "regional and negotiated" solution conflicts in the Middle East, including the war in Iraq.
06-09-07 - SA protesters knock on Israel's door Bernard Sabella, a prominent Palestinian leader - who was a guest speaker at the rallies - said South Africa has a responsibility to assist the territory with what they say is the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Sabella addressed more than 800 people at City Hall in Johannesburg this afternoon.
06-09-07 - 1967: A birth in prison
06-09-07 - Murphy introduces pro-Israel resolution Steiner said support for Israel transcends political party lines for most Jewish voters and said a steadfast Jewish Republican would likely vote for a Democrat if he appeared to have better support for Israel. "Almost everyone in the Jewish community would do whatever it takes to support Israel," Steiner said......Asaf Romirowsky, manager of Israeli and Middle East affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, said Israel will play a "major" role in next year's elections.
06-09-07 - Controversial DePaul Professor Denied Tenure In an interview Friday, Finkelstein said he was "disappointed," but that the decision would not muzzle his views. "I met the standards of tenure required at DePaul, but it wasn't enough to overcome the political opposition to my speaking out on the Israel-Palestine conflict," he said. Israeli lobby wins.
06-08-07 - Time for the truth about the Liberty By Ward Boston Jr. I am certain the Israeli pilots and commanders who had ordered the attack knew the ship was American. I saw the bullet-riddled American flag that had been raised by the crew after their first flag had been shot down completely. I heard testimony that made it clear the Israelis intended there be no survivors. Not only did they attack with napalm, gunfire and missiles, Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned at close range three life rafts that had been launched in an attempt to save the most seriously wounded.
06-08-07 - Israel's Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited As the Liberty listed in the choppy seas, its deck aflame, crew members dropped life rafts into the water and prepared to scuttle the ship. Given the number of wounded, this was going to be a dangerous operation. But it soon proved impossible, as the Israeli attack boats strafed the rafts with machine gun fire. No body was going to get out alive that way.
06-08-07 - Former midshipmen honored in 1967 Israeli attack on spy ship Two years ago , the veterans association filed a war crimes report with the secretary of the Army against Israel for shooting the ship's life boats. The U.S. military declined to investigate further.
06-08-07 - Scars feel fresh, after 40 years As Weaver was treated below deck, a ferocious battle ensued for more than two hours. Israeli jets made more than eight strafing runs at the ship, shooting guns and dropping napalm on the Liberty. Israeli torpedo boats headed toward the ship and launched an attack, hitting the Liberty with a torpedo on its port side. The Israeli boats also strafed lifeboats deployed in the water with machine gun fire. The assault remains the only successful torpedo attack on an American ship since World War II.
06-08-07 - Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later One Liberty veteran, who asked me not to use his name in my story, told me he was below deck on the day of the mass killings by the Israelis. He said: ?When it was announced [on the intercom] to ?stand ready to receive a torpedo,? I chalked myself off. My whole life quickly passed before me. I thought for sure I was going to die. When the torpedo did hit, I thought it was going to sink the ship, it listed so badly.? He added, after pausing, ?I loved that ship!?
06-08-07 - Honoring those of 'Liberty' "The attack was deliberate, and we could prove it if we ever had our chance," Gallo said. And that's precisely why Israel and its lobby in America will see to it that they won't get one.
06-08-07 - Liberty survivors mark 40 years today Ironically, Liberty became the most decorated ship and crew in Navy history. Its skipper, Cmdr. William McGonagle, received the Medal of Honor even though his citation lengthily describes his heroism and wounding without once mentioning that the attack was by Israelis.
06-08-07 - Why did Israel attack USS Liberty?
06-08-07 - Fatah man shot dead in Gaza clash
06-08-07 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian hunter Israeli and Palestinian sources say Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian out hunting in the occupied West Bank, and wounded another
06-08-07 - Troops shot and injured a child in Jabalia, a deaf resident in Beit Hanoun Dr. Al Akhras stated that soldiers shot the child, bared Palestinian ambulances from reaching him, and kidnapped him. The child was playing along with several other children in the area.
06-08-07 - Gaza fishermen?s livelihoods in jeopardy Almost a year after Israel imposed harsh restrictions on fishing off the Gaza coast, the industry is in sharp decline and fishermen?s livelihoods are in jeopardy.
06-08-07 - Israeli army resumes razing trees in Bethlehem
06-08-07 - U.S. starts wrapping up war games off Iran's coast The U.S. show of strength began last month with a dramatic daytime crossing of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a major channel for oil shipments from the Gulf, raising pressure on the Islamic Republic and pushing up world oil prices.
06-08-07 - Gunmen abduct a Fateh member in Gaza City
06-08-07 - Palestinians face more restrictions than ever While it only concerns a single stretch of road, the petition from the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) in several respects goes to the heart of the heavy restrictions on Palestinian movement and access in much of the West Bank. This is graphically illustrated in a UN map showing road closures and territory - about 40 per cent of the West Bank- which are either barred or heavily restricted for Palestinians, severing the sectors of the West Bank from each other, and from Jerusalem.
06-08-07 - Non-violent protestors attacked at Ertas village
06-08-07 - Officer suspended after hurling grenade at Palestinian house Soldiers hurl grenade into house in village near Ramallah; mother and three children hurt after inhaling gas. IDF suspends force's commander, apologizes to family
06-08-07 - PNN launches a campaign for the release of Alan Johnston
06-08-07 - Detained Palestinian Judge continues his hunger strike
06-08-07 - A Palestinian youth injured in crossfire in the course of being used as a human shield by IDF soldiers, May 2007
06-08-07 - IDF curbs Palestinian travel to Jordan Valley despite directive
06-08-07 - Israeli security forces admit to 245 kidnappings in Gaza over the past year
06-08-07 - Coverup theory alive at USS Liberty reunion The USA Today covers the story, but they might as well be the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
06-08-07 - Muslim graveyard vandalized The worshippers broke some tombstones, and wrote ?Death to Arabs? on others. Noaf, a resident of a nearby village, said that the worshippers arrived at the cemetery escorted by soldiers. Again? This just happened some months back too. Disgraceful.
06-08-07 - Explain Palestinian travel ban on West Bank road the state is told
06-08-07 - EU weighs expanded aid plan for Palestinians One proposal under EU consideration calls for expanding the existing Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) to pay a portion of the Palestinian Authority's arrears to private Palestinian contractors, diplomats said.
06-08-07 - PM urges calm as Gaza factions clash again
06-08-07 - Top Israeli negotiator: Give Iran until December to back down ** Mofaz and Meridor each stressed, however, that all options should remain available. Meridor was pleased that virtually every major presidential candidate, Republican and Democrat, agreed. "I hope they listen to the debates in America," Meridor said of Iran's rulers, "because they will hear a message."
06-08-07 - The Israeli army attacks homes in Hebron and turns two into military posts
06-08-07 - Condemn Israel's 'apartheid' policies Gen Moshe Dayan sais that "many of the firefights with the Syrians were deliberately provoked by Israel". He said the kibbutz residents who pressed the government to take the Golan Heights "did so less for the security than for the farmland".
06-08-07 - Heavy shelling of Lebanese camp Troops backed by helicopters have resumed heavy shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon.
06-08-07 - RJD to world leaders: Lift sanctions on Palestinian govt-Rest of World-World-The Times of India
06-08-07 - Lebanese Islamists seek surrender of camp militants Lebanese Islamists sought the surrender of Al Qaeda-inspired militants locked in deadly battles with troops at a Palestinian refugee camp, but the group said it would not give itself up.
06-08-07 - Many thanks Just a quick note to thank The Sun and Mr. Shapiro for taking note of the fact that prominent U.S. citizens use slanderous statements to attempt to silence any of their fellow citizens who dare question the worth to America of the current U.S.-Israel relationship Scheuer's response to that article in the NY Sun.
06-08-07 - CNAC Distances Itself From Ex-CIA Official Over Israel Remark The taxpayer-funded Center for Naval Analyses is distancing itself from remarks made by a former CIA official, Michael Scheuer, in which Mr. Scheuer criticized "the U.S. citizen Israel-firsters who dominate the American governing elite." Scheuer is 100 % correct and should be commended for having the courage to speak the truth when so many others are cowed into silence.
06-08-07 - The Victory that Wrecked Israel
06-08-07 - Six Day War: Land Ownership Disputes Arise NPR conveniently omits what international law dictates with regard to building civilian settlements on occupied land; it's illegal.
06-08-07 - Children Still Caught in Crossfire at Refugee Camp in Lebanon
06-08-07 - theater festival under fire for 'rachel corrie' One of CATF's board members resigned in protest, revoking a $100,000 pledge, Herendeen said. He would not reveal the name of that person, and other board members either could not confirm the identity or did not respond to inquiries Oh grow up already. If you're using your donations to color the politics of the theater, then you're engaging in bribery.
06-08-07 - Gaza by boat - an activist project
06-08-07 - France condemns the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements
06-08-07 - A day at the Gaza seaside
06-08-07 - Ban products with a criminal flavour
06-08-07 - Burg: Defining Israel as a Jewish state is the key to its end Avraham Burg, former Knesset speaker and former head of the Jewish Agency says "to define the State of Israel as a Jewish state is the key to its end. A Jewish state is explosive. It's dynamite." In an interview in Haaretz Weekend Magazine, he said that he is in favor of abrogating the Law of Return and calls on everyone who can to obtain a foreign passport.
06-08-07 - Bomb kills one in Lebanese town A bomb has hit a Christian industrial area to the north of the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing one person and injuring several others, police say.
06-08-07 - Unexploded ordnance hampering aid deliveries to refugees
06-08-07 - Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation in nonviolent action in Bethlehem The nonviolent action supporters and members of the international press
accompanied the farmers as they walked across the construction site of the
future wall that will cut off their land entirely. Then they continued up a
rocky slope to the orchard.
06-08-07 - How would you grapple with Iran's nuclear drive? Our candidates must answer to Israel in order to succeed in any US presidential election. Fact.
06-08-07 - Olmert calls for peace with Syria as rumours grow of secret talks
06-08-07 - UN condemns Ahmadinejad comments UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said he was "shocked and dismayed" at recent comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel.
06-08-07 - Palestinian bombers appeal fails An appeal by two Palestinians convicted of conspiring to bomb the Israeli embassy in London has been dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights.
06-08-07 - It's not just the occupation
06-08-07 - Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee issues statement to mark 40 years of by Israel of Palestinian Territory
06-08-07 - Boycott will destroy British academia, warns US professor Mr Dershowitz, the prominent lawyer and Harvard law professor who is well known for the ferocity of his attacks on those he perceives as enemies of Israel, told the Guardian that if the boycott call is endorsed by the UCU branches there would be retribution, and that he had enlisted 100 lawyers to break the boycott.
06-08-07 - House considers anti-boycott resolution The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a resolution condemning Britain's University and College Union for their boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Saw that one coming from a mile away.
06-08-07 - My Turn: Clock ticking on Palestine Palestinians are the occupied, not the occupiers, yet they are being punished. It is their land that is being confiscated for Israeli settlements and an intricate system of roads for settlers only (all contrary to Geneva Conventions).
06-08-07 - Targeted killing won't bring peace
06-08-07 - Amnesty Ireland marks 40 years of Israeli occupation
06-08-07 - Palestinian man held in jail for nearly 4 years released on federal judge's order
06-08-07 - 'Israel dissolution rally' planned for Washington Pro-Israel group scrambling to organize last-minute counter-demonstration in Washington DC Lots of scrambling going on by the Israeli lobby these days. GOOD. Look at this statement from the article : ""This counter-rally truly is the product of a few citizens who are deeply outraged that Israel's opponents might have demonstrated in our nation's capitol without any patriotic opposing voices who will tell truth to counter these lies," . Patriotic? For which country, America? NOT.
06-08-07 - Syrians 'hate' Israel, not Jews "Israel is one thing, and Jews are something else,? Mahmoud Sharif, an English-speaking tour guide, told JTA in Aleppo. "We respect the Jewish religion and consider it one of God's religions, but we don't accept Israel."
06-08-07 - Hamas PM to address UK protest Protesters are to gather in London's Trafalgar Square for a demonstration against 40 years of Israeli control of the Occupied Territories.
06-08-07 - War's end marked beginning of a cruel occupation To divide and conquer, soldiers used to question our religious background. If we were Christians, we were allowed to pass; if not, they detained people for as long as they wanted. In my immediate family and neighborhood, my father was beaten, our 10-year-old neighbor Tony had his skull crushed, my cousin Musa was burned to death with his coworker. Our Catholic School was invaded several times.
06-08-07 - Jewish history crowds out Jerusalem Arabs "In the state of Israel today we have Jews and Arabs living side by side, and also in City of David are Jews and Arabs living side by side," said Doron Spielman, the project's international director of development. "However, we believe City of David -- biblical Jerusalem, this little 14 acres of land -- should be a project which is uniquely Jewish," he said. "The roots go back to King David."
06-08-07 - The Six Day War | Survivor bears the wounds of conflict and occupation Despite 40 years of media coverage about the Israeli occupation, many Americans seem not to know the story of the Palestinians or what the occupation means. Because misinformation about the humanity of others often fuels war, one of the ways we can heal is to share stories about our experiences. Here is my story:
06-08-07 - Conference-goers urged to pressure officials Conference speakers urged audience members to lobby their members of Congress on behalf of Israel and to work for withdrawal of U.S. investments in Iran, which is regarded by Israelis as an imminent threat to their security.Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese-American woman who founded the American Congress for Truth to educate Americans about the threat of radical Islam, suggested that citizens monitor the lectures of university professors and report the names of mosque owners to the FBI. The conference, organized by state Sen. Joe Zarelli of Ridgefield and his wife, Tani Zarelli, brought right-wing Israeli politicians to Vancouver to bolster local support among conservative Christians and Jews in the fight against global terrorism
06-08-07 - Lebanon army pounds Islamists as PM fingers Syria Lebanese tanks and artillery again pounded Islamists holed up inside a refugee camp on Friday, as Prime Minister Fuad Siniora accused neighbouring Syria of links to the militants.
06-08-07 - "Stop the bleeding of Bethlehem" campaign launched in Bethlehem
06-08-07 - APN Applauds Feinstein/Lugar Middle East Peace Resolution The resolution, cosponsored by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Lugar (R-IN), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Max Baucus (D-MT), Robert Byrd (D-WV), John Sununu (R-NH), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), reaffirms the Senate's commitment to a "true and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the establishment of 2 states, the State of Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, with recognized borders."
06-08-07 - PFLP meets with Egypt Intelligence Chief, calls for forming unified leadership
06-08-07 - WCC UPDATE: Week of church witness for peace in the Middle East Among events still to come are a candlelight march at a Bethelehem refugee camp and a Palestinian bishop addressing a rally organized by trade unions and Muslim, Jewish and Christian organizations in London, both on June 9.
06-08-07 - Blair sees 'not unhelpful' signs from Hamas
06-08-07 - Palestinians say fed up with gunmen
06-08-07 - MK: We must prevent Burg's burial in J'lem national cemetery MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) said Thursday that former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, after his comments about Israel and Zionism must be prevented through legislation if necessary from being buried in the section in the Jerusalem cemetery on Mount Herzl reserved for national leaders.
06-08-07 - Legendary Israel PM's grandson is barrier protester A grandson of Israel's legendary right-wing prime minister Menachem Begin is a regular protester against the country's controversial West Bank separation barrier, media reported on Thursday.
06-08-07 - Syria ceded part of Golan to Israel in peace talks: Netanyahu Wow.
06-08-07 - Peace Now in Hebron: Expel settlers from city
06-08-07 - Learning centres help restore hope for Palestinian adolescents
06-08-07 - Rapper Belly releases ?Revolution? Palestinian-Canadian rapper addresses issues of war, racial tensions, poverty, hypocrisy in politics
06-08-07 - Sri Lanka Expresses Support for Palestinian Statehood
06-08-07 - Rammell on trip to dampen boycott concerns
06-08-07 - On spy hill, old enemies could be looking at a new peace
06-08-07 - Viewers get whitewashed version of history "When I saw this destruction, there was a part of me that felt tremendous dread, that a whole new problem was going to be created,'' says Schleifer. He says this in the PBS version as well, but the horrifying context is stripped away for American sensibilities. "PBS is really not a liberal left-wing broadcaster," says Fichman. "It's subscription and sponsor-based, with members of the Jewish community among its supporters."
Do pro-Israel donors of PBS demand the politics thereof be colored in their favor?
06-08-07 - Diana lawyer vows to fight Israeli academic boycott Prof Dershowitz has threatened sanctions to "devastate and bankrupt" those acting against Israeli universities.
06-08-07 - Middle East inspires painting of peace sign "The idea came from speeches by two members of Combatants for Peace, one Israeli and one Palestinian, who used to be advocates for violence and are now advocates for peace," said Barrett, a student of Middle East history. "They both spoke at a synagogue in Orange in January.
06-08-07 - Pressure Mounts For Boycott Retaliation Many Israelis are accusing the British professional associations behind the strike of anti-Semitism A real shocker!
06-08-07 - Israeli "sources" Express Concern Over Expected Bush Speech On Mideast Israeli sources in Washington and American Jewish leaders are concerned that President Bush may criticize Israel in the speech in order to placate the Arab world and prove that the US Administration maintains a balanced policy The horror.
06-08-07 - Iran series depicts Holocaust truths "According to historical documents through the period of the birth of fascism in Europe and the Nazi policy of destroying lives of Jewish people, Iranian people have played an important role in saving the lives of hundreds of Jews from this Nazi hell," Fathi told Daily Variety.
06-08-07 - John Howard: Champion for Israel More importantly, the relatively small Jewish community in Australia - about 110,000 people, dominated by Shoah survivors - has succeeded in creating unique relationships with successive governments. Their lobbying efforts and unqualified support for Israel have been highly effective. Wait a minute now, I thought all of this talk about powerful Israel lobbies were just conspiracy theories?....
06-08-07 - Plans for Progressive Jewish Counter-AIPAC Lobby Proceed
06-08-07 - Fake Vancouver Sun distributed at transit hubs An organization describing itself as the Palestine Media Collective says it distributed 12,000 fake editions of The Vancouver Sun on Thursday to protest what it described as the paper's "anti-Palestinian bias".
06-06-07 - Men should be honored June 8 is the 40th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel during the Six-Day War. Here's the Google News search results for USS Liberty, on this, the eve of the 40-year anniversary of the attack. Nothing new in the mainstream media, save for an editorial - a testament to the power Israel and its lobby have over our country.
06-06-07 - Palestinian civilian shot dead in raid on family home "My father pushed some of the soldiers," said Salih al-Jabari, 19. "Then one of the soldiers pulled the trigger and shot him in the jaw." His father fell to the floor, bleeding heavily. Moments later, the mother, Fatima al-Jabari, 60, appeared and began screaming at the soldiers. "My mother tried to get them outside, but they said to her: 'Get away, get away.' And
06-06-07 - Israelis kill two Palestinian men
06-06-07 - Resident killed by gunmen fire in Rafah
06-06-07 - Palestinian side asks for postponement of Abbas-Olmert meeting: Israel
06-06-07 - In European Parliament, discontent with EU boycott of Palestinian government A growing number of European Parliament members are demanding the European Union recognize the Palestinian unity government and resume direct financial aid payments frozen more than a year ago.
06-06-07 - 8 mortar shells land near Erez crossing, no injuries
06-06-07 - Gaza journalists under attack
06-06-07 - Erekat says Abbas not invited to Quartet meeting in Cairo
06-06-07 - Suspected use of human shields may curtail officer's promotion The military?s criminal investigation division will examine the directions given by senior officers, as well as what was done to make sure the "the neighbor procedure" was not being used. Why is he still on the job? He broke the law.
06-06-07 - Settlements continue to be built "We are being sent abroad, quite simply, to lie," a senior Israeli diplomat serving in a foreign country said Wednesday morning, in response to a news report by Army Radio on continued building in West Bank settlements. ......"We meet foreign ministers around the world, tell them that building in the settlements has stopped, and it seems we are just lying to them," the diplomat said.
06-06-07 - 'The world will understand us more'
06-06-07 - Israelis expand West Bank settlements AN Israeli settler organisation has expanded several settlements in the occupied West Bank despite commitments by the Israeli Government against such moves, media and the settlers said today.
06-06-07 - Netanyahu: As long as we stay in West Bank we're unbeatable
06-06-07 - New UN map charts reality of West Bank The impact of Israeli civilian and military infrastructure is to render 40 per cent of the territory, which is roughly the size of the US state of Delaware or the English county of Norfolk, off-limits to Palestinians.
06-06-07 - Palestinians will sue Israel in U.S. if 'intifada law' repassed Palestinian residents intend to sue the State of Israel for damages in U.S. courts and in other countries if the Knesset repasses a law barring suits in Israeli courts over damages incurred in non-warfare incidents.
06-06-07 - Army kidnaps two children from Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem
06-06-07 - Israeli losing patience for Iran talks ** "I believe diplomatic efforts should bear results until the end of 2007," Mofaz added without elaboration.
06-06-07 - EU's Solana says Gaza force a possibility An international peacekeeping force for the Gaza strip is a possibility, even though it would probably be difficult for Egypt to accept, the European Union's foreign policy chief said on Wednesday.
06-06-07 - U.S. says Israeli, Palestinian leaders to meet despite postponement
06-06-07 - Israeli sources; Fateh asked Israel or ammunition to counter Hamas in the Gaza Strip
06-06-07 - Factional battles kill 616 Palestinians since 2006 An estimated 616 Palestinians have been killed in factional fighting since Hamas defeated Fatah in elections in January 2006, a leading Palestinian rights group said on Wednesday.
06-06-07 - Petition: Shin Bet investigators abused prisoner Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and The Public Committee against Torture in Israel petitioned the Tel Aviv Administrative Court on Wednesday, demanding an urgent court order allowing their physician to visit a minor Palestinian detainee at the Sharon Prison.
06-06-07 - Apartheid SA same as Palestine today: Kasrils Ronnie Kasrils, the intelligence minister, says the fate of the Palestinian people reflects that of South Africa's indigenous majority during colonial wars and the discrimination of apartheid.
06-06-07 - PA Cancels talks with Israel over its refusal to release funds and extend ceasefire to the W.B
06-06-07 - Egypt holds talks with Palestinian DFLP on Palestinian issue Egyptian officials and a visiting delegation of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) on Wednesday discussed means of reaching a ceasefire between the Palestinians and Israel, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported
06-06-07 - Envoy: Iran nearing nuclear capability Iran has not yet crossed the threshold of being able to make nuclear weapons but may be only two years away, Israeli ambassador Sallai M. Meridor said Wednesday.
06-06-07 - Camp in Lebanon slowly crumbles around them
06-06-07 - In south Lebanon, resistance from cradle to grave
06-06-07 - Israel wants nuclear deadline for Iran Israel will propose to the United States an end-of-year deadline for Iran to show it is backing down from its nuclear ambitions.
06-06-07 - Militants threaten to expand Lebanon camp war Al Qaeda-inspired militants in north Lebanon threatened on Wednesday to take their fight to other parts of the country and beyond if the Lebanese army did not stop attacking a Palestinian refugee camp.
06-06-07 - US, Israel: Time not ripe for talks with Syria
06-06-07 - Opposing Occupation
06-06-07 - Israel not seeking war with Syria
06-06-07 - Egyptian pilot: We felt humiliated Israel wiped out much of the Egyptian Air Force on the morning of June 5, 1967, the first day of the war. Egyptian pilot Mustafa Hafez was stationed at one of the 11 Egyptian air bases that were targeted.
06-06-07 - Israelis protest to mark Six-Day War "We want people to know that this occupation isn't just bad for the Palestinians, it's destroying Israeli society," says Chava Lerman, a middle-aged mother who is active in Machsom (checkpoint) Watch, an organization of women who go out to West Bank checkpoints to witness and record the treatment of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers
06-06-07 - Fred Thompson coming to Israel Of the dozen or so candidates contesting the nomination, Thompson is among the most supportive of Israel. Stay there.
06-06-07 - Jerusalem Embassy Pact Passes House Total waste of taxpayers' time and money.
06-06-07 - Blair blasts boycott call Tony Blair reassured Ehud Olmert over the proposed British boycott of Israeli academia.
06-06-07 - Rabbi: Darfur refugees not Israel's responsibility "We have enough poor people in Israel," Lior said. "There are plenty of nations that can help those refugees besides us."
06-06-07 - GOP hopefuls won't rule out nukes in Iran Later in the debate broadcast on CNN, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the single anti-war candidate, chided his colleagues.
06-06-07 - Sharing Jerusalem activist meets U.S. officials Senior administration and congressional officials met with an Israeli activist who advocates against settlement in sensitive parts of Jerusalem.
06-06-07 - Appropriators nix new Al-Hurrah funding Congressional appropriators turned down a request for more funds for a government funded Arabic broadcaster, citing anti-Israel rhetoric among other reasons.
06-06-07 - Small bomb defused in south Lebanon
06-06-07 - Bergen group wields a big stick for Israel An Englewood political action committee has emerged as one of the most powerful advocates for Israel, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash for U.S. congressional candidates. NORPAC doesn't look like much at first glance......The mostly volunteer group ventures far beyond the Northeast to back federal candidates, such as Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., whom it sees as supportive of the Jewish state. And it also helps defeat candidates, such as former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., whom it sees as hostile to Israel.
06-06-07 - PNGO to hold activities on Saturday to mark the 40 anniversary of occupation to Palestine
06-06-07 - Iceland?s Foreign Minister to visit Palestine Foreign Minister Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir announced in parliament yesterday that she found it important for Iceland to establish normal relations with the Palestinian government and that she would visit the country.
06-06-07 - Republicans discuss tactical nukes against Iran ** Two minutes following Gilmore it was Senator McCain mentioning Israel by way of explaining why the US should not abandon Iraq. Five minutes later, it was Senator Brownback reminding the viewers that Israel was the country threatened by Iran...
06-05-07 - Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in raid: medics The source told Reuters that soldiers came to a house in Hebron before dawn and shot a man who answered the door, killing him, then shot his wife, wounding her. Medics said the man was 67.
06-05-07 - Palestinians came together for Johnston
06-05-07 - Civil war warning to Palestinians The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that his people were on the brink of civil war as gunmen from the rival Hamas and Fatah factions fought each other in Gaza.
06-05-07 - 1967: Our rights have to be recognised When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences. At the time, they were driven by one strategic objective: to end the conflict by seizing all that remained of Palestine and complete the process of ethnic cleansing that started in 1948. They did not realise the resolution of this conflict would take much more than military superiority.....Israel's fateful error was to underestimate the resolve of the Palestinians They made the same mistake with regard to the men on board the USS Liberty, who heroically saved that ship, repeatedly strung the flag up and managed to send out an SOS. God bless 'em.
06-05-07 - Mid-East marks start of 1967 War Israel banned a Palestinian conference due to be held in East Jerusalem.
06-05-07 - War anniversary revives bitter Palestinian memories Now 84, Umm Ali finds it hard to conjure up images for her grandchildren at the United Nations' Beach Refugee Camp of the home village of Sawfeer that she fled from nearly 60 years ago, carrying her children in her arms. "I wish I'd died and never had to leave our land," she said.
06-05-07 - Civil Rights association protests Justice's revision of Basic Law The court overturned the Intifada Law, which exempts the state from
compensating Palestinians for damage caused in the course of noncombat
activities in the territories. Friedmann wants to reinstate it.
06-05-07 - UN chief marks 40th anniversary of 1967 Arab-Israeli war "On this day, the secretary-general remembers the men, women and children who have been killed or had their lives shattered by the tragedies of conflict in the Middle East, particularly the Palestinians who continue to live under an occupation that has lasted forty years," Ban said in a statement released by his press office.
06-05-07 - Israeli army preparing for escalation on two fronts: officer Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing for possible escalation on both Palestinian front and northern front, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Tuesday.
06-05-07 - Lost hope in the West Bank Studies have shown that when mice are put in overcrowded conditions they attack each other, and Gaza is sometimes described by Palestinians as a vast cage. Seventy-six percent of the population is under 30. Most are jobless. So effective have Israelis been in destroying their institutions, Palestinians say, that no one should be surprised when anarchy reigns and militant, Islamist Hamas fills the vacuum.
06-05-07 - One Palestinian security officer injured in renewed internal clashes in Gaza At least one Palestinian security officer was wounded on Tuesday morning during renewed Hamas-Fatah clashes that took place near the Karni commercial crossing, in the north east of the Gaza strip
06-05-07 - Forty kites mark Middle East war The event is organised by UK-based human rights campaign group Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
06-05-07 - Israeli forces surround Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem
06-05-07 - Israel masses military forces in northern, eastern Gaza Strip Israeli forces withdrew from southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Tuesday but reinforced military massing in the north and the east of the Strip, raising fears of a large-scale ground offensive.
06-05-07 - Detained Palestinian legislator sent to hospital due to serious health concerns
06-05-07 - Arab League holds minute's silence for victims of 1967 war
06-05-07 - Olmert to decline Abbas' requests regarding funds, prisoners
06-05-07 - Details of the Israeli invasion into Qabatia The Israeli army invaded on Tuesday at dawn Qabatia town, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin and kidnapped ten residents, mainly students
06-05-07 - Doctorate candidate from Gaza refused entry into Israel
06-05-07 - Olmert, Haniyeh write of path to peace in Middle East
06-05-07 - Israeli protestors demand end to 40-year occupation
06-05-07 - Four Palestinian wounded by Israeli fire in West Bank The four university students were wounded when troops fired rubber bullets to disperse a demonstration during an army incursion in Qabatiya, near the northern town of Jenin, they said.
06-05-07 - Intifada leader urges campaign against Israeli occupation Marwan Barghuti, the jailed leader of the second Palestinian uprising, called on Tuesday for a "vast popular campaign" against Israeli occupation on the 40th anniversary of the 1967 war.
06-05-07 - Mainstream churches oppose Jerusalem resolution A coalition of mainstream churches urged U.S. lawmakers to reject a resolution calling on the administration to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
06-05-07 - House passes Jerusalem resolution Capitol Hill pays homage to the nation to which it is most loyal, evidently.
06-05-07 - Islamic groups linked to Holy Land case Federal prosecutors named three prominent Islamic organizations among the co-conspirators in a criminal case against a defunct charity that allegedly helped fund Hamas.
06-05-07 - Movements prod U.S. on Mideast Leaders of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements joined an interreligious peace coalition in urging the Bush administration to make Arab-Israeli peace a priority.
06-05-07 - Syrian lawmaker talks of war "The Syrian street wants to restore the Golan," Habash said. But he noted recent peace overtures by Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus and said that if there is a new conflict, it would be Israel's doing
06-05-07 - Some Lebanon gunmen 'surrender' A commander of the Palestinian Fatah party in Lebanon says seven militants who were fighting the Lebanese army have now surrendered to his group.
06-05-07 - Syria draws distinction between Hariri murder trial and probe
06-05-07 - IDF okays Homesh mass rally for rebuilding of West Bank enclave Right-wing activists and settlers plan to hold a mass rally next week with the army's permission in Homesh - the site of a former West Bank settlement. The Yesha Council has taken the unusual step of calling for the rebuilding of evacuated settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
06-05-07 - Refugee Resentment Simmers as Fighting Escalates
06-05-07 - We should support the Arab peace offer The British government and the EU should throw their full weight behind the Arab peace plan that offers peace and normalisation in return for full Israeli withdrawal from Arab land before 1967.
06-05-07 - Detainee loses fingers as army break into detention facility
06-05-07 - Militants planned 9/11-style Lebanon attack
06-05-07 - Israel provoked Six-Day War, says former Dutch UN observer Speaking on a Dutch current affairs programme late Monday, Jan Muhren, who was stationed interchangeably at the Golan Heights and the West Bank in 1966-67, says neither Jordan nor Syria had any intention to start a war with Israel.
06-05-07 - Lebanese army shells camp for 5th day Fatah Islam has nothing to do with the Palestinians, Abbas said in a speech in the West Bank marking 40 years of Israeli occupation. He accused the militants of "abusing the camps" to carry out attacks on the Lebanese army and "endangering the lives of Palestinians."
06-05-07 - Ex-UN envoy questions int'l Hamas blockade "I can't help but wonder whether it would not have been more productive for the international community to take it that the new government, which took over in February of last year, is in effect bound by previous agreements rather than... setting the bar at a height which it was known that they could not clear, at least not explicitly."
06-05-07 - Italy calls on Syria to stop 'terrorist' infiltrations
06-05-07 - Israel wanted the dowry, not the bride
06-05-07 - Occupation blocks Palestinian potential I wonder what Americans would do if they lived for 40 years with every aspect of their lives controlled by a foreign army, or what members of Congress would do if they had to pass through a checkpoint on Capitol Hill. Revolt.
06-05-07 - U.S. shows signs of emulating controversial Israeli anti-terrorism policy Not a coincidence either.'See, the US does it too. Now you can't complain when we do it.'
06-05-07 - Israel to US: Limit Saudi missile deal Meanwhile, defense officials on Tuesday told the Post disagreements had emerged between Israel and the US over the installation of Israeli technology in the Joint Strike Fighter, also known as the F-35, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin.
06-05-07 - Hartwell's DVD tells a story of hope and hardship at Ahli Arab Hospital
06-05-07 - Evacuation of settlers in Hebron home unlikely in near future The evacuation of settlers from a Palestinian home in Hebron will be deferred for a long time, if it takes place at all, senior defense officials said on Tuesday
06-05-07 - Israel security cabinet to discuss Syria
06-05-07 - Nonviolent Demonstration in Bethlehem to mark 40 years of Occupation About 100 Bethlehem area residents demonstrated on Tuesday at the Nashash Israeli army checkpoint between Bethlehem and Hebron cities in the southern part of the West Bank, closing it down for 20 minutes and demanding an end of the illegal occupation of Palestine
06-05-07 - Syria denies connection with Fatah al-Islam fighting with Lebanese army "Fatah al-Islam militants are wanted in Syria and a number of this organization's members are detained in the Syrian prisons,"
06-05-07 - 40 years on, Israel remains a prisoner
06-04-07 - Two Palestinians killed in Gaza infighting
06-04-07 - Israel weighs benchmark plan ahead of meeting U.S Israel is planning to ask U.S. to slow down the implementation of the benchmark initiatives ahead of the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S President George W. Bush later this month Slow down? Has Israel taken any action at all yet?
06-04-07 - Statement by the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, following his visit to the Middle East The economic, social and humanitarian situation in the Palestinian Territories made a deep impression on me. We must ask ourselves what will become of those children growing up behind the wall, what kind of behaviour will this lead to? For this reason it is an essential measure that the Israeli Government releases the almost 700 million dollars of Palestinian monies in customs income to President Abbas, so that he can pay the salaries of the police and teachers.
06-04-07 - Israeli army launches limited invasion of southern Gaza
06-04-07 - A timetable of Demos and Activities Counter Israeli Occupation, Al Burgouti Says
06-04-07 - Hamas delegation rejects Gaza-specific ceasefire The Hamas delegation to Egypt has reportedly rejected any ceasefire with Israel which does not apply to both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
06-04-07 - All Palestinian factions to meet in mid June in Egypt Representatives of all Palestinian factions will meet in the Egyptian capital of Cairo in mid-June in a bid to put an end to Palestinian internal rifts, the official MENA news agency reported on Monday.
06-04-07 - '50% chance Iran sanctions will succeed' Mofaz's comments came a day before he was to leave for Washington to head up Israel's delegation at crucial US-Israeli strategic talks on Thursday that will center on the Iranian nuclear threat.
06-04-07 - 1967 Middle East War
06-04-07 - In pictures: Peacemakers: Palestinian conflict resolution
06-04-07 - Gaza TV women protest at threats Palestinian television journalists have protested for a second day in Gaza against threats by a shadowy Islamist group to decapitate female presenters.
06-04-07 - Israel keeps Hamas men in prison Two Hamas members of the Palestinian cabinet and another Hamas lawmaker will remain in detention without charge for six months, an Israeli court has ruled.
06-04-07 - Amnesty seeks Mid-East watchdog Amnesty argues that Israeli military measures appear to exist mainly for the benefit of settlements, not citizens living in Israel.
06-04-07 - Palestinian ceasefire plan agreed The plan calls for militants in Gaza and the Israeli military to end the cross-border attacks simultaneously.
06-04-07 - President Abbas asks Congress help to release PNA funds withheld by Israel
06-04-07 - Palestinian government backs Abbas ceasefire plan
06-04-07 - Palestinians want hardliners out of Lebanon camp
06-04-07 - WITNESS-40 years on, slow road across occupied West Bank When my son Amr, who's four, asks me why troops are blocking our way, I search for a proper answer to pacify the curious child. But in vain.
06-04-07 - Israel rejects Amnesty criticism over barrier Naturally.
06-04-07 - Israeli officials to US for talks on Iran, Syria ** An Israeli delegation will hold discussions in Washington this week focusing on Iran and Syria, including talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, an official said on Monday.
06-04-07 - Army kidnaps 3 civilians near Tulkarem; one civilian attacked and another kidnapped in Hebron
06-04-07 - Syria says return of Golan 'inalienable right'
06-04-07 - Bush discusses Lebanon with Hariri
06-04-07 - Islamic Jihad vows to work to end Gaza infighting
06-04-07 - Forty years later, two view from the West Bank's Road 60 "As a farmer, I have a lot of land I cannot reach," says Mr. Shabaneh, pointing to an olive-tree grove that belongs to his family and sits just outside an IDF camp on an adjacent hill. He also has trees due north, just outside the Israeli settlement of Maale Levona, to which he occasionally walks. "I go even though it's dangerous for me. But my land is more important than my life," says Shabaneh, a father of four. On many occasions, he says, he and other farmers have had their crops damaged by nearby settlers. They don't expect intervention on their behalf from the army, which remains in control of this area until further notice.
Prusher, like most of the other media covering the anniversary of this war, omits the attack on the USS Liberty in her timeline of the events.
06-04-07 - Saadeddin Malley A Palestinian-American businessman based in Chicago
06-04-07 - Senan Abdelqader No new Arab town has been built in Israel since the state was created. "Since 1948, the urban fabric in Palestine has been stopped. But it is more than stopped, it has been forced to take a kind of agricultural mentality." Arab towns in Israel are more like enlarged and overcrowded villages.
06-04-07 - Hala Hamdan "Ultimately the Israelis want to control the land. Their checkpoints are to make it harder for us to live here, until we're sick and tired and leave our land,"
06-04-07 - Palestinian Prisoner loses eye during interrogation in Israeli detention camp
06-04-07 - Gila Svirsky She joined the Women in Black protest movement 19 years ago and is now chair of B'Tselem, Israel's leading human rights group.
06-04-07 - Ahmad Shalabi "I tried once and the Israelis refused to let me in," he says. "And as long as Palestine is inhabited by the Jews I don't like to go back, because entering now is a humiliation. I'm not against the Jews themselves - they've lived with us for centuries, they were neighbours of my grandfather. But I'm against the Zionist movement."
06-04-07 - Daniella Weiss Weiss does not talk of an "occupation", but uses the word "liberation" for the territory captured by Israel in the six-day war. She talks not of "settlements" but "communities," not of "building anew" but of "resettling" on the land. To her the Jews have a historic right to the land stretching back thousands of years, while the Palestinians are a "new formation." How does she know that these Palestinians, some of them, do not themselves have ancestral ties to those that lived there during biblical times. Before Islam, there was Christianity. Before Christianity, there was? Hmm? And what right does anyone have to return to land their ancestors purportedly inhabited to demand ownership, by force?
06-04-07 - Reunited with images which defined the Six-Day War Mohammed Kardash, 73, was speechless yesterday as he examined for the first time in his life the pictures of him packing up for the hurried flight from the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza all those long years ago. After a very long pause, he said: "It brings back all the memories." And the images captured by a photographer from the UN's refugee agency UNRWA when Mohammed was too busy to notice certainly did that.
06-04-07 - Neocon drum beat ** "The Case for Bombing Iran," was the headline over Podhoretz's long piece in the June issue of Commentary, the magazine he edited for 35 years (until 1995) and where he serves as editor at large. "I hope and pray that President Bush will do it," Podhoretz wrote. His son-in-law Elliott Abrams is deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush. His son John is editorial page editor of the New York Post. ......The neocon concludes by reminding Bush of his pledge not to leave office before making sure Iran does not become a nuclear weapons power. Saving Israel from nuclear destruction would then become the president's historical legacy -- writ large. "As an American and as a Jew," concludes Podhoretz, "I pray with all my heart that he will (bomb)."
06-04-07 - Palestine needs a Gandhi to lead struggle: envoy
06-04-07 - We stand/stood behind Israel
06-04-07 - How many? It appears to me that Israel is continuing its illegal, insatiable acquisition of Palestinian land with the consequent annihilation of Palestine culture and identity. We all must be aware that the Israeli settlements are in total contravention of international laws.
06-04-07 - Judge to Court: No to settlement building in Bil?in
06-04-07 - Christian Aid sets out checklist for viable solution to Middle East conflict
06-04-07 - Israel allowed to flout international law: SA No country in the world has been able to flout international law as much as Israel in the four decades since the Six Day War, the South African government said on Monday.
06-04-07 - Fighting between Islamists and Lebanese spreads south Terrified residents from the Taamir area - a no man's land between Ain al-Hilweh and the southern city of Sidon where the camp is located - described how they were forced to flee the previous night as machine gun fire and mortar shells tore through the dusty main street leading into the camp.
06-04-07 - IPI Sends Mission to the Palestinian Authority to Advocate for the Release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston
06-04-07 - 2 Lebanese soldiers killed in fighting
06-04-07 - Charity faces chasm of need on West Bank
06-04-07 - Israel minister to discuss Syria peace ideas in U.S.
06-04-07 - Six days of war, 40 years of failure For Palestinians, 1967 was an extension of what began in Ottoman times, before they were a nation in the modern sense, when - half a century before the Nazi Holocaust - Zionists called for "solving" the Jewish problem in "a land without a people for a people without a land". If 1948 was their first nakba (catastrophe), the June war was the next devastating instalment
06-04-07 - Jordan pushes Arab peace bid on 1967 anniversary
06-04-07 - Looking Back on 40 Years of Occupation It is not in Israel?s interest?or our own?to continue to fuel increased Palestinian strife and rising militancy. Economic sanctions and an arms ban against Israel are our last hope. These were the tools that toppled the apartheid regime in South Africa. And it was, after all, the sanctions imposed by the first President Bush?he suspended $10 billion of loan guarantees for resettling Russian immigrants in Israel?that prodded right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to attend peace talks in Madrid.
06-04-07 - African Diaspora in the Holy Land "We are proud to be Palestinians of African descent," said Haithan Jaddah, a Political Science student at al-Quds University and a local boxing champion.
06-04-07 - Task force on Israeli Arabs brings their plight to mainstream "For the first time you have a broad range of American Jewish organizations working on addressing minority rights in Israel, and particularly Israeli Arab rights," said Larry Garber, president of the New Israel Fund and a member of the task force's steering committee. "And there are a number of specific events that have happened as a result." Supporting the Arab Israeli cause has not been an easy sell in Orthodox circles.
06-04-07 - Why Pick On Israel? Because Its Actions Are Wrong Academic freedom, it appears, applies to Israelis but not Palestinians, whose universities have been arbitrarily closed, Bir Zeit for a full four years. Students and teachers have been killed or imprisoned. Attendance at university is made hazardous or impossible by the everyday imposition of checkpoints. Research is blocked by Israeli refusal to allow books or equipment to be imported.
No, really, it's not that. It's anti-Semitism. Yeh yeh, that's it, that's the ticket!
06-04-07 - Germany's Jews warn PM not to promote immigration to Israel Stephan J. Kramer, who heads the Central Council of Jews in Germany, sent the warning following Israel's decision last week to extend the jurisdiction of Nativ , the government body in charge of promoting immigration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel.....Nativ also sought to extend its field of operations to North America, but the Foreign Ministry foiled this option, arguing it would jeopardize Israel's relations with Washington and with the U.S. Jewish community Really now?
06-04-07 - Who controls the U.S.?...Candidates grovel before Israel Am I alone in thinking it peculiar that a newspaper in a foreign country should think it both appropriate and possible to get all the leading candidates for the U.S. presidential nominations of both parties to compete, on a biweekly basis and in writing, in displaying the intensity of their allegiance to that foreign country -- and that all of these candidates should deem it both appropriate and essential to their hopes of remaining a leading candidate that they should participate in this degrading exercise in competitive obeisance? No, you're not.
06-04-07 - Dems favor Clinton as envoy Democratic candidates for president said they would use former President Bill Clinton as a peace envoy.
06-04-07 - Student group petitions against prof A pro-Israel student group delivered a petition to DePaul University requesting that it deny tenure to a controversial faculty member. Granting Norman Finkelstein tenure "would undermine those who support responsible and informed scholarship and debate," StandWithUs President Esther Rezner said in a statement
06-04-07 - OSCE advisers are mostly Jewish The delegation, which was named last Friday by the State Department, is headed by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
06-04-07 - Column a replay of tired lies Greenberg takes specific aim at Corrie's memory. Again, he repeats ridiculous claims -- that Corrie was "supporting terrorists," uninterested in protecting Israelis from Palestinian attacks (and thus a de facto anti-Semite) and preventing the destruction of weapons-smuggling tunnels.
06-04-07 - Poll: U.S. Arabs, Jews agree on peace Majorities of Arab and Jewish Americans want the U.S. government to press harder for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israel's occupation of the West Bank to end.
06-04-07 - Palestinian youth in northern Lebanon head back to school two weeks into refugee camp crisis As fighting continues in Nahr El Bared Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in north Lebanon, eight school buses are bringing some normalcy into the disrupted lives of youth affected by the conflict.
06-04-07 - Germany frees 500,000 euros for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
06-04-07 - U.S. considers additional aid to Lebanon
06-04-07 - Italian FM calls for strengthening cooperation for Mideast peace
06-04-07 - Bomb hits east Beirut business center, 10 injured A powerful bomb blast severely destroyed an empty passenger bus in a mainly Christian suburb in east Beirut on Monday evening, wounding 10 passers-by.
06-04-07 - Entebbe Conspiracy Report Roils Israelis
06-04-07 - Olmert hosts Lieberman The two also discussed U.S. policy toward Iraq and the West's capabilities for dealing with the Iranian threat.
06-03-07 - 'USS Liberty' veterans demand investigation danger to our national security exists whenever our elected officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel's interests when they conflict with American interests; this policy, evidenced by the failure to defend USS Liberty and the subsequent official cover-up of the Israeli attack, endangers the safety of Americans and the security of the United States.
I want every blogger in the free world to post this story on their blog. Maybe if we can make enough noise we can force the bastards in the mainstream media to cover the 40 year anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty. To date only 2 smaller sources have. It's a start.
06-03-07 - Questions remain over 1967 attack on U.S. intelligence ship 'Liberty' For 40 years, survivors and families of those lost aboard the USS Liberty have been waiting for their chance to sit at a congressional witness table.
06-03-07 - USS Liberty memorial this Friday @ 4 pm in Washington DC WHERE: United States Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. It is up to us ordinary American citizens to make sure that these men and the families of the victims get their day in court. It is the least we can do to help resolve a travesty of justice that has been going on for forty years.
06-03-07 - Israel/OPT: Forty years of occupation -- no security without basic rights In its report, Amnesty International acknowledges Israel?s legitimate security concerns and the government?s obligation to protect the population within its borders, but says this does not justify blatant violations of international law, such as construction of much of the fence/wall inside the West Bank on Palestinian land.
06-03-07 - RPT-Amnesty says Israel should tear down wall The barrier Israel is building in the occupied West Bank has caused deaths and suffering among Palestinians and should be torn down, rights group Amnesty International said in a new report on Monday.
06-03-07 - Hamas Fires Mortars After Palestinian Is Killed The military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for firing mortar shells at the Erez crossing on the Gaza-Israel border on Sunday, slightly wounding four Israeli soldiers, hours after Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Jenin.
06-03-07 - Israel: New report condemns Israel's 'blatant violation of International Law' in West Bank Amnesty International has today (4 June) criticised Israel's 'Blatant violation of international law' in the West Bank in a new report published ahead of the 40th anniversary (tomorrow) of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
06-03-07 - 'Wear a veil or we will behead you,' radicals tell TV women All 15 women presenters reported for work at the official Palestine Television station in Gaza yesterday, in defiance of death threats by a radical Islamic group that is believed to have links with al-Qa'ida. The Righteous Swords of Islam warned that it would strike the women with "an iron fist and swords" for refusing to wear a veil on camera. They should start carrying one of these under their robes. "No, it's not a falafel in my pocket, and I'm not glad to see you."
06-03-07 - Hebron Release: Israeli military inflicts collective punishment on Palestinians On the afternoon of Saturday 2 June, in a clear violation of international law1,
the Israeli military closed a gate in the H2 area2 of Hebron, preventing the
free movement of Palestinians and international tourists. The gate, which leads
from the Old City souk to the Ibrahimi Mosque area was closed for half an hour.
06-03-07 - Israel will continue military op in Gaza: Olmert
06-03-07 - Israeli offensive affects Abbas-Olmert meeting: Palestinian official Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territories could negatively affect an upcoming meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday.
06-03-07 - Man cleared of attempted murder for 2005 attack on Palestinian Citrin and another suspect were arrested after several television crews documented right-wing extremists attempting to lynch Hilal Majaydeh, 18, in the Gaza Strip I remember that attack. It didn't involve merely 'throwing a stone', as this Haaretz article implies. The man was viciously attacked by these settlers. If I'm not mistaken, an Israeli (soldier?) stepped in to save him. Here is an older BBC report on this incident.
06-03-07 - Gaza: Women news readers protest over beheading threat
06-03-07 - Egypt, Islamic Jihad achieve common view on Palestinian issue
06-03-07 - Why stakes are so high in solving Middle East conflict
06-03-07 - Illinois Methodists to consider divestment The Rev. Danita Parra, one of 15 resolution sponsors, said Caterpillar is "profiting from illegal demolition of Palestinian homes, destruction of Palestinian economy and confiscation of Palestinian land." Parra told the Peoria Journal Star that "to say we are standing for peace and justice in the Middle East conflict and to have our pensions invested in a way as to not support that position is wrong."
06-03-07 - Israeli ministers discuss British boycott threats amid plans for retaliatory action The counter-measures include an email campaign to convince North Americans to boycott British goods and services and a threat by union workers to refuse to unload British exports to Israel. But they never consider getting their govt to comply with international law. Rocket science.
06-03-07 - Lebanese accuse civilians of helping camp militants A senior Lebanese defence ministry source last night accused Palestinian civilians of helping Fatah al-Islam militants holed up in the Naher al-Bared refugee camp, and said it would take longer than anticipated to win the battle. Itching for another Sabra and Shatila?
06-03-07 - Ahmadinejad says clock ticking to Israel's 'destruction' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that a countdown has begun that will end with the "destruction" of Israel by the people of Lebanon and Palestine.
06-03-07 - Fighting at second Lebanon camp "We were able, with the help of the Palestinian organisations and with the help of larger Islamic groups in the camp, to subdue their activity and contain any action from getting even larger," he said.
06-03-07 - USS Liberty facts
06-03-07 - FM formally invites Jordanian, Egyptian counterparts for talks in Israel
06-03-07 - Churches Worldwide Mobilize for Peace in Palestine, Israel
06-03-07 - Bush extends Jerusalem waiver The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Tuesday on a non-binding resolution congratulating Israel on 40 years of reunifying the city and urging the president to make good on the 1995 law. The Senate is considering a similar resolution. Bush has consistently waived the law, as did his predecessor, Bill Clinton.
06-03-07 - House members thank Japan on Hamas Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives thanked Japan for continuing its isolation of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority
06-03-07 - Israeli irked by U.S. screening An Israeli doctor complained about a security screening she was forced to undergo at a U.S. airport.
06-03-07 - UC Irvine finds it's embroiled in Mideast debate A guest speaker at the University of California Irvine this year denounced compromise solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and declared that ?the Palestinians must have their will crushed.?
06-03-07 - Long trail of anti-Semitism in Europe, ministers say There's more anti-Semitism in Israel than all of Europe combined. Arabs are Semites too.
06-03-07 - 'They completely hated us' Jerusalem had been divided by a wall, and when the wall went down I found something completely different from what I expected. In 19 years there had been a change on the Israeli side. They were not the same Jews we knew [before]. They were more aggressive. And I don't know how to describe it: They completely hated us.
06-03-07 - As expected. Fox news run more MEMRI propaganda A prediction I made days ago. Fox News might as well be the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
06-03-07 - A fight that must go back to the land For the US, the war marked its move towards unconditional support for Israeli policy ? irrespective of its own, or Israel?s, national interest ? and the growth of a powerful lobby within the US political system that, despite the liberal instincts of many American Jews, is a bastion of Israel?s nationalist right ? more Likudnik than the Likud......Israel?s excuse that it has no interlocutor is unconvincing. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, was undermined from the first by Israeli assassinations and land annexations. Those who believe this is merely a response to terrorism need to explain why the land being annexed is identical to a map first drawn up by Mr Sharon in 1982.
06-03-07 - Israel threatens British boycott Israel?s parliament is to debate a draft law today that could lead to a consumer boycott of all British goods.
06-03-07 - USS LIBERTY Survivors need your help
06-03-07 - British academics show true colors Actually, in this piece, the editors at the Boston Herald show THEIR true colors - blue and white. You're on the wrong side of justice.
06-02-07 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank raid Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian civilian late on Saturday during a raid in the West Bank town of Nablus, Palestinian medical and security sources said.
06-02-07 - Palestinian shot dead in Nablus witnesses said the 26-year-old was a shopkeeper, who died in his shop. His brother was the other casualty.
06-02-07 - Israel wounds 2 Palestinians in Gaza: medical official Residents near the scene of the shooting and medical workers had said the two Palestinians were killed. They identified them as workers at a garbage dump near the Israeli-built frontier fence. But after entering the area near the fence to collect what had appeared from a distance to be bodies, a medical team found the men were still alive, the officials said.
06-02-07 - Palestinians hurt as Israelis demolish Nablus roadblocks Three Palestinians were injured and dozens of houses and other buildings damaged on Saturday when Israeli forces blew up concrete blocks barring their entry into part of the West Bank town of Nablus, medics and security sources said.
06-02-07 - Israeli Army kidnaps six Palestinian civilians in Hebron Troops attacked and searched homes in the old city of Hebron and the nearby Bani No'em village and Al Fouar refugee camp. Local sources reported that soldiers forced families out before ransacking their homes.
06-02-07 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers in a village near Ramallah A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and shepherds working on their land in the village of Dier Nitham, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Saturday afternoon.
06-02-07 - Israeli forces arrest four Palestinian brothers in Gaza
06-02-07 - Nablus blast leaves thousands without water, electricity Palestinians complained at the coordination headquarters accusing the IDF of exploding the barricades.
06-02-07 - Hamas may be open to truce with Israel The militant group says it has not launched any rockets since Wednesday. The Islamic Jihad militant group and others took responsibility for firing at least three rockets at Israel on Saturday. No injuries were reported.
06-02-07 - Palestinians 'united' on Johnston A senior Palestinian figure has said all factions are united in condemning the abduction of the BBC's Gaza correspondent, Alan Johnston.
06-02-07 - UAE gives Palestinians 80 million dollars in aid The funds have been transferred to the finance ministry and will go towards paying the salaries of state employees, the statement said.
06-02-07 - Mediterranean Forum concerned by Palestinian living conditions The forum -- which comprises Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey -- also discussed the current violence in Lebanon and expressed its support for the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
06-02-07 - Hebron Update 15th - 23rd May 2007 Benvie, Yoder, and Lynes along with other internationals joined Palestinians in
an action with a Palestinian family close to the Israeli settlement Kiryat Arba,
on the outskirts of Hebron. For years settlers have tried to prevent the family
from accessing their property. On April 26, settlers in a white jeep shot at
the father and his son as they were tilling their land. The Israeli Army heard
the shots and arrested the Palestinian father and son, rather than the settler......After afternoon patrol, when Benvie and Muehlsteph were passing through the
gates and into the souk at the Ibrahimi Mosque, a group of Israeli border
policemen came rushing and shouting after them. Two of the border police knelt
down and aimed their guns at the CPTers.
Psychos.
06-02-07 - 'Snatch squad' plan to rescue BBC hostage An adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas raised the possibility of a snatch operation by Palestinian forces as Mr Johnston endured his 82nd day in captivity.
06-02-07 - Hamas says ready to preserve ceasefire to enhance national unity
06-02-07 - Bush to revive democracy agenda at Sharansky event National Security Adviser Steve Hadley said Friday that Bush remained committed to the freedom agenda and wanted to use the Prague event to renew his call for others to join him. Bush's (got it from neocons/Israelis such as Sharansky)'democracy' defined: bomb the hell out of a country, and install America/Israel-friendly regime. All of this talk about bringing 'freedom' to Middle Eastern peoples is utter hypocrisy when we continue to allow Israel to deprive Palestinians thereof.
06-02-07 - This academic boycott is an empty gesture If British unions are in the business of solidarity, they might consider flinging gestures at Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria or Egypt where journalists and academics are imprisoned and tortured for expressing dissent. But they target only Israel. Whaa. As the Guardian UK turns ever more toward Israel.
06-02-07 - Ministers to be briefed on arming of Syrian forces The security cabinet will hear intelligence updates on the arming of Syrian forces in a briefing this week. Intelligence sources said they did not believe Syria was preparing for war, despite the fact it is rearming.
06-02-07 - Forty years later, Israelis and Palestinians still paying price for 1967 war "If you are going to oppress me, if you continue to humiliate me ... how am I going to love you, make peace with you? Everything is imposed on the Palestinians, but not the narrowest glimpse of hope is given to the Palestinians." Konstantin Dabbagh, a Palestinian Christian in Gaza, on what he sees as the cause of the conflict.
06-02-07 - Israel to draw up action plan to combat boycott threat In an indication that Israel is starting to take the threats of union boycotts against it more seriously, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is scheduled to hold an inter-ministerial meeting on the matter early this week.
06-02-07 - An iconic image... and a bloody legacy "Back then, we had no choice but to go to war as we were under attack from all of our Arab neighbours," said the 64-year-old gynaecologist who now lives near Tel Aviv. "Yet the time has come for us to give all those lands back, except for Jerusalem and the Wall." "I don't want to be an occupier or an oppressor,"
06-02-07 - Entebbe Debunked Yesterday's story,"UK Foreign Office: Israeli agents helped Entebbe hijackers (with docs)" has yet to be covered in American media.
06-02-07 - Harvard legal expert vows to sue lecturers boycotting Israel Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor renowned for his staunch defence of Israel and high-profile legal victories, including his role in the O.J. Simpson trial, vowed to "devastate and bankrupt" lecturers who supported such boycotts........He told the Times Higher Educational Supplement that these would include using a US law - banning discrimination on the basis of nationality - against UK universities with research ties to US colleges. US academics might also be urged to accept honorary posts at Israeli colleges in order to become boycott targets. The Israel-defenders are steamed over this British boycott!
06-02-07 - More perspectives on threats to academic freedom
06-02-07 - My search for the West Bank's 'invisible' town Not only can Israelis nowadays not 'see' Palestinians any more, but to all intents and purposes whole Palestinian cities have disappeared.
06-02-07 - Lebanese President, Hezbollah slam international tribunal as illegal
06-02-07 - Israel 3rd from bottom on Global Peace Index They're dragging us down with them (via wars in the region prompted by neocon BS). The US can't prop that nation up forever.
06-02-07 - Israel: Mythologizing a 20th Century Accident
06-02-07 - Kibush40: Six Days of Demonstrations and Events
06-02-07 - What if Israelis had abducted BBC man? Watching the horrible video of Alan Johnston of the BBC broadcasting Palestinian propaganda under orders from his kidnappers, I found myself asking what it would have been like had he been kidnapped by Israelis, and made to do the same thing the other way round. The first point is that it would never happen. There are no Israeli organisations - governmental or freelance - that would contemplate such a thing. That fact is itself significant.
Does this reporter not know his history? Israel has in fact abducted people in the past. Most notably, Mordechai Vanunu was abducted by the MOSSAD and brought back to Israel. The Daily Telegraph ought to hire someone who doesn't pull his 'facts' straight out of his ass.
06-02-07 - Obama: Bush neglected Israeli-Palestinian conflict In an attempt to attract Jewish voters, the senator from Illinois continues to use every opportunity to pledge allegiance to the State of Israel. Note the source.
06-02-07 - Deadly battle rages around Lebanon siege camp Troops were heavily pounding the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where the army has been besieging fringe militant group Fatah al-Islam for a fortnight, an AFP correspondent said.
06-02-07 - Kate Burton tells of her hostage ordeal
06-02-07 - 'Hamas visit undercut Turkish efforts to delegitimize PKK' Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official, claimed on Friday that Turkey caused radical Islamic organization Hamas to gain international legitimacy by inviting its leaders to Ankara in February 2006.
06-02-07 - What has Israel gained in the past 40 years? From the start, the Israeli- Palestinian dispute has been about two things: demography and land. If Israel was to be a Jewish state, then most of the Palestinian Arab population had to be removed, and that deed was accomplished during the independence war of 1948-49. Some of the Arabs fled and others were driven out, but by the end of the war the Arab population of the land under Israel's control, which had been close to a million, was only 200,000.
06-02-07 - SEEDS OF PEACE ANNOUNCES NEW PROGRAM INITIATIVES DEVELOPED AT ACTION SUMMIT
06-02-07 - MP failed to disclose gift A Conservative MP has admitted breaking conflict of interest rules after being caught failing to disclose a gift of more than $8,000 that she received last year for a trip to Israel. Joy Smith of Manitoba conceded yesterday to The Globe and Mail that she had failed to tell Parliament's Ethics Commissioner that she had received the free trip, which included accommodation and transport costs, from the Canada-Israel Committee. Canada's on a fast track at becoming the newest Israel-occupied territory. Its Israeli lobby rivals that of ours. My condolences.
06-02-07 - Europe is not necessarily against us most Europeans, even when they criticize Israel, see a conflict between an open and democratic society and an Islamic terror organization seeking to destroy it. This fact angers those who support the boycott, but it is a fact nonetheless. It is reasonable to assume that in the near future nothing will happen in Europe that will cause public opinion to identify with the Islamic terror organizations fighting against open and democratic societies. The real issue here is: that this Israeli and likely many others only see Palestinians as terrorists, all of them. Whereas the Europeans do not. Israelis such as this author are more than happy for Europeans to believe that all Palestinians are bloodthirsty Islamic terrorists (like most Americans do, evidently, and not by coinicidence) - that way Israel can continue to enjoy 'support' and other perks.
06-02-07 - Resolving The Arab-Israeli Conflict All Americans, whatever their ethnicity or religion, are deeply implicated in what happens in Israel/Palestine, given our government's identification with and massive aid to Israel. The conflict is a Middle East crisis, but whether we like it or not, it is very much an American dilemma. No issue inflames opinion against the United States more than its support for Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, Why America is involved in this conflict in the first place.
06-02-07 - Bahrain, Palestine assure all out operation: Faisal Palestinian team will undertake the tour of Pakistan in near future. The climate of both Palestine and Pakistan is similar but the game plan and techniques of both teams are different and Pakistani footballers will learn a lot from Palestine way of playing as currently they are 137th in FIFA World Ranking.
06-02-07 - From Jan 2003: Israel unleashes its death squads Israel has in the past sent hit squads to kill opponents in hostile countries such as Lebanon, and snatch squads have been used extensively throughout the world. Lebanon?
06-02-07 - Farmers, int?ls, to access farmland in settlement danger zone
06-02-07 - 'Israel doesn't want to bail Assad out' According to the officials, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continues to believe the Syrian regime is not genuinely interested in peace, but rather in a peace process that would improve its international standing.
First they try to say that the US is blocking them from making peace with Syria, now they're saying, 'Well, they don't really want peace anyway'. Excuses, excuses.
06-02-07 - 'The Times Are Different' With 19 months left in her term as secretary of State, Rice has no major deal to her credit. What can she accomplish now? Rice could accomplish much if she told Israel and its lobby in the US to go f itself, guaranteed. The whole world would stand up and applaud - to boot. America's image would be restored almost to what it once was.
06-02-07 - Lebanon PM gives fighters warning Fouad Siniora described Fatah al-Islam as a "terrorist gang" and called on its fighters in the Nahr al-Bared camp near Tripoli to surrender or be crushed.
06-02-07 - A musical response to conflict YOU HAVE to be careful and curious, explains noted pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim -- careful and curious to see what happens if you create an orchestra with young Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, and other Arab musicians.
06-01-07 - Betraying the Sailors of the USS Liberty What would be the charge against McNamara? He denied aid to American troops when they were under deadly attack and as a result 20 some men died and many more were injured. I'm no lawyer, but I've been told that the applicable crime is treason. But the order came down from Johnson himself. You can read more information about the attack on the official USS Liberty website run by the survivors at http://www.ussliberty.org. There is also a History Channel DVD on the attack available to purchase here. The British did a documentary called "Dead in the Water", a clip of which is available to watch from the lower right corner of this page. So many Americans have never even heard of the USS Liberty. That would be because somebody does not want you to know. The survivors filed a War Crimes Report with the Secretary of the Army TWO YEARS ago. No action has been taken yet by our government, to my knowledge. That's all the proof anyone needs of the power that Israel has over our government.
06-01-07 - Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinian teens Ahmed Abu Zeibeida and Zaher al-Majdalawi, both 13, were shot in the chest and stomach by Israeli troops, rescue workers said.
06-01-07 - Gaza boys 'shot dead by Israelis' Medical staff at a Gaza hospital said they had been hit in the chest.
They said the children had reportedly been scouring the area near the border fence for scrap metal, Reuters reported.
06-01-07 - Israeli strike kills Islamic Jihad man in Gaza Strip witnesses added that an Israeli drone fired a missile at a motorcycle in the west of the city and killed rider.
06-01-07 - Palestinian boy dies from wounds sustained in Israeli attack Al Masri suffered extensive wounds last month when Israeli military forces fired at his family house in Beit Lahia near Gaza, causing injuries to many family members.
06-01-07 - Video released of abducted BBC man 'in good health' Alan Johnston, the kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent, appeared in a video released by his captors yesterday, nearly 12 weeks after he was seized, in which he says he is healthy and being well treated.
06-01-07 - Egypt asks Palestinian factions for proposals Egypt has asked rival Palestinian factions for written proposals on how best to prevent internal fighting in the Gaza Strip, to be discussed by the factions in Cairo sometime in July, a source close to Hamas said.
06-01-07 - Seven injured at weekly demonstration in Bil?in On Friday, the villagers of Bil?in, located near the central west bank city of Ramallah, side by side with Israeli and international supporters conducted their weekly protests against the construction of the illegal Wall that is being built on village land.
06-01-07 - Barghouthi welcomes Norway?s decision to resume Palestine aid Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Palestinian Minister of Information welcomed on Friday Norway?s decision to resume direct aid to the Palestinian people.
06-01-07 - Palestinian PM demands release of BBC reporter Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh demanded the release of kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston after his abductors released a video of the journalist on Friday.
06-01-07 - Israeli army and settlers attack a non-violent protest in Hebron Dr. Barghouthi reported that Israeli forces and settlers assaulted women, land owners and a number of Journalists, kidnapping 6 persons, among them a journalist identified as Abed Al Hafez Al Hashlamoun.
06-01-07 - Jerusalem goes on strike A general strike was implemented on Thursday in east Jerusalem in protest against the killing of three Palestinians at the site of the illegal wall earlier this week.
06-01-07 - Israeli army closes the local vegetable market in Beta town near Nablus The municipal government of Beta town has condemned the procedures of the Israeli army after the local vegetable market was closed, causing huge problems for local merchants.
06-01-07 - Israel, Syria breach disengagement deal Israel and Syria both violate the agreement to separate forces on the Golan, but the infringements are minor, according to the United Nations.
06-01-07 - Gov. Charlie Crist gets Israeli military, security assessment Crist was greeted by visiting Floridians. "He's doing a great job," said Ellen Miller, 75, who was there with her husband, Ralph, 78, from Palm Beach Gardens. For whom?
06-01-07 - Artas Demonstrate nonviolently against the Wall A non-violent demonstration took place on Friday midday in Artas village, in the southern part of the Bethlehem district. roughly sixty Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered in an area where, two weeks ago, a demolition executed by the Israeli military had taken place and trees belonging to the Abu Swai family had been demolished.
06-01-07 - Rice names OSCE delegation Condoleezza Rice named the U.S. delegation to next week's follow-up conference on European anti-Semitism And what of European xenophobia, no delegation for THAT?
06-01-07 - About a dozen U.S. lawmakers in Israel Hastings, a past president of the OSCE parliamentary assembly and a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, also met with top Israeli intelligence officials Keep all but Hagel there. Let Tel Aviv start paying their salaries. A note on Hastings.
06-01-07 - Rice: difficulties won?t get in the way Condoleezza Rice said clashes between Israel and the Palestinians should not obstruct peace negotiations.
06-01-07 - US can't get its propaganda straight Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program. That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces. It's reminiscent of a recent US trial coming up here in America, whereby an alleged terrorist purportedly went on anti-Jewish tirades but the defense lawyers could find no such thing in the transcripts of the phone call intercepts in which they allegedly took place.
06-01-07 - More propaganda coming our way. The video clip and translation were provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute on Friday. (See MEMRI video) Legislators, msm will soon pick it up. MEMRI is run by a former IDF colonel. 'Palestinians bad, Israel good' - a view that must be reinforced to Americans by way of the Israel lobby to keep up our 'support' of that country.
06-01-07 - More perspectives on threats to academic freedom Professor Norman Rose's implication of Israeli support for Palestinian higher education is misleading (Letters, June 1): to interfere with the cultural development of an occupied territory is a breach of the fourth Geneva convention.
06-01-07 - Recruited To Die [upcoming propaganda film] In addition to the children, Ms. Goldstein interviewed Mr. Zubeidah, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin. At the time, the Israel Defense Forces had made five attempts to assassinate him. In person, Mr. Zubeidah was not the harsh figure she had expected. "It was like talking to any other kid, about 27 years old," she said. "He was smiling. My translator told me, ?He's talking about killing Jews. Which is why he DIDN'T kill his Israeli Jewish friend Tali Fahima? Was the 'translator' from MEMRI?....
06-01-07 - US strongly backs Lebanon assault on militants A Palestinian official in Lebanon, Abbas Zikki, said the situation for some 5,000 civilians still in the camp which normally houses some 31,000 people had become "desperate," with corpses "rotting in the streets."
06-01-07 - Top Israeli rabbis advocate genocide This kind of genocidal hatred of Palestinians is not unusual in Israel. What used to be unusual was for it to be spoken so brazenly and openly. Here is an older example of this by yet another rabbi.
06-01-07 - 'Israel a Jewish state first' And America is a state for ALL of its peoples, the difference.
06-01-07 - Research foundation blocks new grants for Britons UK academic boycott of Israel prompts US-based Goldhirsh foundation to cancel plans to open grant application process for British research institutions. Immigration Minister Ze'ev Boim announces intention to propose counter-boycott
06-01-07 - Syria will not cooperate with UN's Lebanon court UN Resolution 1757, adopted on Wednesday by the Security Council, "has no bearing on Syria, and we have informed the Security Council that we will not cooperate with this tribunal," Muallem told a news conference in Damascus with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
06-01-07 - More Palestinian workers hide in Israel "They can't take showers for days and weeks, and they live in inhumane conditions," said Hanna Zohar, founder of Israel's Kav La'Oved workers hot line. "They are not criminals, but they are frightened like hunted animals." The workers risk arrest, jail sentences, expulsion and even beatings. Dozens are caught everyday by border police as they try to get to work.
06-01-07 - Arabiya TV says Lebanese troops assault cameraman Lebanese soldiers assaulted a Palestinian cameraman working for Al Arabiya television as he was filming clashes between the army and al Qaeda-inspired militants on Friday, the Dubai-based channel said.
06-01-07 - Palestinians worried battles spread to other camps "Palestinian forces have all decided that the battles will not be transferred to Ain al-Hilweh and to tighten security in the camps," said Muneer al-Maqdah, a Fatah military commander.
06-01-07 - The Bigot and the Boycott When I read Steven Weinberg's assertion that those supporting a boycott of Israel suffer from a "moral blindness" that could only be explained by anti-Semitism, I wondered how he squared that claim to the moral high ground with a comment he once made to me that smacked of anti-Palestinian bigotry.
06-01-07 - Lebanon army storms militant posts at camp, 18 die More than 25,000 of Nahr al-Bared's 40,000 Palestinians have fled to the smaller Beddawi camp nearby. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on all parties to spare civilians and to refrain from attacking civilian infrastructure.
06-01-07 - Beyond friendship For Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, going to Israel is about building friendships with a vital U.S. ally, an essential stepping stone for any ambitious American politician......To Wexler, an 11-year veteran of Capitol Hill, one of the larger meanings of Crist's trip to Israel is obvious. It should disgust you that our politicians have to kowtow to a foreign nation in order to be a serious candidate for high office here.
06-01-07 - Israeli police confiscates Palestinian video evidence
06-01-07 - ANOTHER ISRAELI "FALSE-FLAG" OPERATION The alleged motive behind the Lavon Affair was very similar to the one behind this incident - to torpedo warming relations between the US and Egypt. Could very well be the real motive behind the Hariri assassination as well; poison relations between US and Syria, get the Syrians out of Lebanon, turn Lebanese against Syria, etc. Had Israel succeeded in its efforts to totally sink the USS Liberty, I wonder how that would have been portrayed? Who would have been implicated? Certainly not Israel (likely why it used unmarked aircraft during the attack). If it weren't for the survivors of the attack, we may never have known who did it. Somehow most Americans are not aware of this attack, which is a little strange, don't you think?
06-01-07 - MSM ignores British report of Israel's possible involvement with the PLO hijacking of Air France The story was from yesterday's news and widely reported in Britain.
06-01-07 - FM to U.K. counterpart: Israel views boycott calls with severity The Brits were among the first victims of Jewish terrorism (can't say Israeli terrorism, because Israel hadn't yet been established). Methinks this is why they are not so keen to support Israel's policies against the Palestinians.
06-01-07 - Three Lebanese troops killed as army tightens siege Three Lebanese soldiers were killed Friday as the army tightened a noose around Islamist militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp, where the humanitarian situation was described as desperate.
06-01-07 - BOOK REVIEW: A path to Mideast peace? this Harvard-trained scholar seems to revel in radical ideas and fairy tales ? such as peace and Palestine. Hence the title, "Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life."
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