Headlines for 10-10-07

Israelis kill militant in West Bank Israeli forces killed a gunman from a group linked to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's party during a series of shootings and arrests in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, officials said.....Israeli soldiers also shot a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in the head with a rubber bullet after youngsters threw stones at forces operating in Qalqiliya, another town in the northern West Bank, medical and security officials said.


US silent on Israel grab of Arab land Washington's silence contrasts with the reaction by France, Egypt and Jordan, all of which have denounced the land grab.


Israel detains 15 Palestinians in West Bank


Israel's Strike On Syrian Facilities Was a Dry Run - Philip Giraldi **


Neocons Acquire Another Front Group by Philip Giraldi The neocon domination of the editorial pages of most major newspapers and magazines continues, and even the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a board controlled by five Republican appointees chaired by Cheryl Feldman Halpern, who, prior to her appointment in 2005, complained that public television and radio exhibited an anti-Israel bias. The neocons, much more than traditional conservatives and liberals, continue to be adept at networking and getting their message across, even if that message has frequently been mugged by reality. If you turn on a television and are invited to learn the views of an "expert" on foreign policy, that expert is likely to be a neocon. Philip Giraldi - a former CIA counterterrorism official - one of the good guys.


HEBRON UPDATE: 25-30 September 2007


Israeli army invades several West Bank cities; 5 Palestinians kidnapped


Jordan rejects Israel's appropriation of land east of Jerusalem


Israel allows 3,500 Palestinians to stay in West Bank The Israeli government has granted official residency status to 3,500 Palestinians who in the last decade entered the West Bank on Israeli-issued visitors' visas but never left, Palestinian officials said Wednesday. It's strange to me that Israel decides who is a resident of another peoples' territory.


November Talks Must Be Inclusive, Urge U.S. Graybeards "It is impossible to conduct a serious discussion on ending the occupation while settlement construction proceeds apace," the letter stated. "Efforts also should focus on alleviating the situation in Gaza and allowing the resumption of its economic life."


Palestinian takes on UK in court A 60-year-old Palestinian will begin a case against the UK government in the High Court later when he will say that sales of arms to Israel are illegal. Saleh Hassan, who lives on the West Bank, says his land was confiscated by Israel to make way for its barrier.


Israel quadruples building permits in West Bank: report Israel's Lands Authority issued permits for the construction of 6,100 new apartments in the West Bank in the first three quarters of 2007, some four times as many as during the same period in previous years, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.


Holy Land: Private security firms take over on checkpoints They say that the civilian guards are much rougher and more aggressive. The worst complaints, he writes, relate to 'Room 3' - a small sealed room at one checkpoint, where, according to several testimonies, Palestinian men and women have been made to strip completely, and sometimes wait for hours.


'US support for Israel spurred 9/11' Bin Laden's concern had been reflected in his public statements throughout the 1990's - "well before 9-11." Citing the 9-11 Commission report, Mearsheimer and Walt argued that Bin Laden wanted to make sure the attackers struck Congress because it is "the most important source of support for Israel in the United States," adding that Bin Laden twice tried to move up the dates of the attacks because of events involving Israel...... Mearsheimer said there was "no question" that the "neo-conservatives were the main driving force behind the war, but they where supported by the main constituents in the [Israel] lobby, such as AIPAC."


Erekat condemns Israeli decision to confiscate Palestinian land Erekat described this recent Israeli move as "destructive to all the efforts led by the international community to revive the peace process and to realize the two-state solution by having a viable contiguous Palestinian state."


Report: Washington split on Syria WMDs Israel presented the Bush administration with intelligence meant to justify its Sept. 6 airstrike against a suspected nuclear facility in northern Syria, but some in Washington remain unconvinced, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Well shiver me timbers, we've still got some good guys in there, hallelujah!


Hamas ready for talks with rival


Abbas lays out territorial demand The area is the sum of territory of the West Bank and Gaza which Israel conquered in 1967, and which the Palestine Liberation Organisation has argued should be set aside for a Palestinian state.....The president often points out that the 2,400 sq miles relates to 22% of the British-controlled Palestine from which Israel emerged in 1948. The Palestinians, he says, have already given up 78% to Israel. Israel took most of that land by force which is illegal under international law. How much seized land was Hitler's Germany allowed to 'keep' after WWII? How much Japanese land did the US 'keep'?


EU: Israel added new roadblocks


Israeli incursion in Qalqilia leaves 3 Palestinians wounded


Hebron: American arrested for assaulting Palestinians Hebron District Police arrested a Jewish United States citizen on suspicion of attacking and beating a number of Palestinians during a Simchat Torah celebration in the West Bank city last week. Israeli settlers from America are some of the most violent of all.


EU official: Peace talks must include right of return


The Popular Committees Slam attacks against medical facilities, residents The Palestinian Popular(Folk) Committees slammed on Wednesday an attack carried by Hamas members against the Medical Council in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip, a statement by the Committees said.


Brownback endorses call for Israeli annexation of West Bank Such an arrangement would essentially allow Israel to keep the entire West Bank while taking little responsibility for its Arab residents. In the past, Israeli hard-liners have made similar proposals suggesting that a Palestinian state be established in neighboring Jordan while Israel remains in control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.




Palestinian state important for Mideast peace: Blair


U.S. should deal with Hamas, say ex-officials


Haifa man convicted of planning to sell explosives to Islamic Jihad


Israeli army invades northern Gaza Local sources indicated that at least 10 tanks and some bulldozers invaded Palestinian farm lands located around the town of Beit Hannon. Eyewitnesses stated that army helicopters alsio took part in the attack. While bulldozers razed arable land in the area, no injuries were reported.



Hamas official warns of consequences of any agreement with Israel " No one can impose the American-Israeli agenda on the Palestinian people. The people will reject such an agenda practically not verbally"


Qurei seeks U.S. pressure on Israel to stop settlements


Israel labour laws apply to Palestinian workers Israel's highest court ruled on Wednesday that the country's labour laws must apply to thousands of Palestinians who work for Israeli bosses but who were previously subject to discrimination.


Israeli bulldozers attempt to annex land near Palestinian kindergarten Local sources reported that the bulldozers attempted to move the route of the wall 2.5. Meters closer to the kindergarten than had been previously stated.


Land grabs make Palestinians' lives a misery


Horowitz's Latest Hate Campaign Heads for Campus Hyping up the threat of 'Islamofascism' to America is the MO of the Israeli lobby and in particular, the neocons. I give you Patrick Buchanan's retort to this 'theat', paragraph 10 in particular.


Tutu reinvited to Minnesota college On Tuesday, Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman wrote to Dease urging him to reconsider his decision about disinviting Tutu.
University officials did not say whether Foxman's letter affected Dease's decision, but they said Dease received a steady stream of phone calls and e-mails when the story broke last week. Only proves Mearsheimer and Walt right again by showing how powerful the Israeli Lobby (this time, the ADL, an important part thereof) really is. Durrr....


Second Israeli bank shuns Gaza


Genocide measure passes in tight vote The only Jewish member to vote against was Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), who cited among other reasons Turkey's close relationship with Israel.


Far Right Israelis Get Boost From Senator Elon, who supports the transfer of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza, and considers the Palestinian Authority a ?danger to the region,? represents the far right of Israeli politics. By endorsing him, Brownback seems to be placing himself to the right of other Republican candidates on Israel policy.


Families return to Lebanon camp "I'm so happy about going back, even if it's to just one inch of what's left of my home. It's as symbolic as returning to Palestine," Um Akram Awdeh, 60, told the Reuters news agency, as he waited in a bus to enter the camp.


Israeli envoy to New Zealand blunders Rotem?s gaffe comes less than two years after his predecessor, Naftali Tamir, was recalled from his post early after he was quoted in Ha?aretz as saying Australia and Israel were like sisters in Asia "because we don't have yellow skins and slanted eyes."


Geopolitical Diary: A New Shield for Israel Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday that Israel will soon be able to intercept 90 percent of the missiles launched at it, from Iran's Shahab-3 missiles to Palestinian Qassam rockets.


Where Did AIPAC Come From? Testimony would also reveal a direct connection between the nascent lobby and a little-known Israeli false-flag terror attack against the United States in Egypt. One board member of the Jewish Agency responsible for "colonization" in Israel and financing the startup of Israel's lobby in America was instrumental in engineering a cover-up of the terror bombing campaign codenamed "Operation Susannah." .....Decades after Fulbright's investigation, the Jewish Agency and its U.S. partners would be found by Israeli prosecutor Talia Sason to have engaged in laundering $50 billion toward numerous illegal overseas activities.


'I didn't suggest we kill Palestinians' This article is an exercise in vile racism.


Palestinian refugees turn down Sudanese asylum offer "They think Sudan is too risky and that after a few months there may be a war there. They want to go somewhere safe where they can work and live in peace,"


A Walk Through Old Hebron No Palestinians are allowed to drive in this area - not even a taxi or an ambulance - all the shops, clinics and businesses have been closed down for ?security? reasons and are shuttered and padlocked, few people were walking (the settlers are allowed to drive). It was like a ghost town.


Land of the free? Not when Israel is the topic the Israel lobby has so conditioned American organisations to its wrath that the latter won't even touch certain speakers for fear of stirring it once again.



Palestinian orphans under UAE sponsorship to increase to 20,000


Bipartisan Heavies Call for Engagement


Visiting professors launch Palestinian debate in dialogue "It's not just a lecture, it's between the students and the two professors that are coming to speak about the issues that are happening in Palestine," said Natasha Dossa, a Weinberg sophomore. "Not just on a governmental level, but how it affects the people living in the West Bank and Gaza."


The Tutu Heave-Ho The files indicated that Tutu had called Israel racist and compared it to Hitler. The president got the message and Tutu got the heave-ho.
Awkwardly enough, an examination of Tutu?s actual remarks (the text can be accessed via a link on the Web version of this editorial) shows that Tutu said nothing of the sort......According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the transmutation was the handiwork of the Zionist Organization of America
Witness how the pro-Israeli community is fed utter BS by the extremists in their midst - and they lap it up without so much as a blink of an eye.