Headlines for 09-11-07

French foreign minister says Israel and Palestinians on the right path to peace


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



Where the West Bank meets Bavaria


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


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


India's ties with Israel don't worry Arab world: envoy


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


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


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


Germany condemns rocket attack on Israeli army base


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



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


Qalqiliya, 29 August 2007: Extensive destruction of houses and gross humiliation of residents


Palestinian media publish Abbas-Olmert principles document


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


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



Abbas discusses Mideast peace in Saudi, rebuffs Hamas


Army attacks a mosque and several homes in Hebron


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


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


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


Hamas arrests 'collaborators' following Rafah kidnapping


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


The Wall turns Al Ezariyah into a jail


'War was Israeli-Iranian'


Architects protest Brown's JNF patronship


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


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


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


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


Jayyus Village Demonstrate Against Theft of Land, Life, and Culture


Reflections from an Irish Activist in Palestine (Part 1/3)


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


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


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



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


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


Israel lobby censors academic honesty


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


Al Mezan organizes a workshop on the environmental risks in Um An-Nasser


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


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


Syria visas 'halt fleeing Iraqis'


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


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


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


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


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


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


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