Headlines for 09-05-07

Hamas denies accusations that it arrested two officials in Khan Younis


Israel/Occupied PalestinianTerritories: Cutting vital supplies to Gaza would amount to collective punishment


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


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


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


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


Jailed Palestinian died due to negligence, family claims


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


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


Israeli army attacks the northern Gaza strip Tanks and gunboats of the Israeli army attacked the northern area of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.


IMEMC Exclusive: Hamas?s spokesman asserts the group never represses freedoms


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


Israeli army carries out operation in Hebron, kidnapping one Palestinian


Three Israeli soldiers wounded in W. Bank bomb explosion


Appeal for children of Gaza


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


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


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




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


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


Call to halt EU trade with Israel


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


Qana, Derry


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


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


Hamas: ?Israeli Prison Authorities attack detained Hamas leader and 16 other detainees?


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


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


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


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


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



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


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



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


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


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


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


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


Howard and Bush discuss Israel during Sydney meeting


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