Headlines for 10-13-07

Surviving Gaza strike, father and daughter fear for future Hamdi is working with a group of Israeli volunteers and lawyers to appeal his daughter's case before the Israeli supreme court, arguing she must remain in Israel where she has constant access to emergency care......"If they send her to Ramallah she will find it difficult to go to the hospital because of the Israeli roadblocks -- we will be sending her to her death,"


Israel largely drawing its own border with Palestinians, despite upcoming peace conference First a sprawling police headquarters went up, now bulldozers are leveling ground for a highway, and by year's end Israel will have laid claim to another strategic West Bank hill, taking one more chunk out of a future Palestine even as Israel says it wants to negotiate its borders. Israel's notion of 'peace' is 'piece' - as in, another piece of Palestine.


Palestinian security forces raid several West Bank mosques


Iran leader urges summit boycott He said the aim of the meeting was to bolster Israel's position at the expense of the Palestinians...."This US-proposed move is in fact an initiative of the United States of America's regime to save the Zionist regime," he said.


Israeli Army Deputy Chief: Gaza invasion "a matter of timing"


As the olive harvest begins... Eight thousand dunams, or 2,000 acres, some 80 percent of all the farmland owned by Jayus villagers, is located on the Israeli side of the barrier.


Counterpoint: The Coming Third Intifada The issue at stake is not only the fair treatment of Israeli Arabs, but the character of a Jewish state. Israel cannot maintain any semblance of moral authority based on an ideology of oppression


3-Minute Interview: Aaron Shneyer I'm creating an ensemble of about 10 Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians from high schools in East and West Jerusalem called Heartbeat Jerusalem. Each week, the group will come together to learn, write and play music, eventually creating a performance and recording that will be shared with the larger community.


Inside the Boston Palestine Film Festival


Israeli strike was on Syrian nuke reactor: New York Times


Do the Goyim Get to Register an Opinion Re Walt/Mearsheimer?


Peace concerts off in security row