Headlines for 09-25-07

Hamas slams Israeli disconnection with Gaza banks


At-Tuwani Update: 21 August - 14 September 2007


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


Israeli High Court will hear petition against Israel's policy of dividing families in West Bank


Israel arrests 15 Palestinians in West Bank


Hamas says release of jailed Fatah lawmaker separated from Shalit's case


In Gaza, 3 grieving fathers recall strike that killed their children


Seven Palestinian civilians kidnapped in Hebron and nearby village


Israel constructs 40 new roadblocks in the West Bank despite repeated promised to reduce their numbe


Indonesia calls for dialogue between Palestinian factions


Gaza must be part of future Palestinian state: Fayyad


Army invades Bethlehem town; resident abducted


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


Holy Land Church workers refused re-entry visas The Israeli Government has rescinded its policy of granting re-entry visas to Arab Christian ministers, priests, nuns and other religious workers who wish to travel in and out of the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


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


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


Rabbis Say Iran Seeks Peace, Respects Judaism - Calls for True Dialogue With Ahmadinejad


Israeli bank cuts ties with Gaza banks


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


West Bank: A walkers' paradise?


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


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


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


Ben-Eliezer: Continued neglect of Israeli Arabs may spark 'internal Intifada'


Detainees in Huwwara and Salem detention facilities facing bad health conditions


Israel's leading writers demand talks with Hamas on a ceasefire


Israeli in Lebanon jail not a spy-family