Headlines for 10-24-07

Israel kills two Palestinian boys in Gaza Israeli forces killed two Palestinian boys in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, hospital officials in Gaza said.


Hamas militant killed in Gaza tunnel collapse


Army kidnaps one Palestinian from Hebron; attacks Nablus and Jenin


Rice says 2-state solution in the Mideast in jeopardy A hearing on Capitol Hill today, Rice told lawmakers that moderate Palestinian leaders need to be able to show their people that a Palestinian state is on the horizon. She said a planned peace conference next month in Annapolis, Maryland, needs to produce a "serious political prospect" for the Palestinians.


Israeli seeks Hamas participation Minister without portfolio Ami Ayalon said any invitation would be conditional on Hamas pledging to accept agreements reached at the summit.


Dozens of East Jerusalem leaders protest against home demolitions Muslim and Christian leaders from East Jerusalem joined with Palestinian-Israeli members of the Israeli Knesset and members of the Palestinian legislative council in a demonstration Tuesday challenging the Israeli policy of home demolitions in East Jerusalem.




PFLP rejects fall summit for peace, calls for boycotting The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) rejected on Tuesday the peace summit due to beheld on fall in Annapolis in the United States and called for boycotting it.


Israel proposes cutting power to Gaza to deter attacks Israeli officials said electricity would be cut at first for 15 minutes after each rocket attack and then for longer and longer periods. They already do that now. Doesn't work. This is Nazi mentality at work here (collective punishment). The 4th best military in the world cannot stop the Qassem rockets, and they expect the civilian population to do so.


Israeli soldier wounded in West Bank attack An Israeli soldier was wounded in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday as he waited at a bus stop in the West Bank near a Jewish settlement, Israeli radio and police sources said.


Hebron Update: 8-13 October 2007 A Palestinian woman had misunderstood an Israeli Border Police who
told her she could not pass to go up to the mosque. The Palestinian continued
on, and the Border Police restrained her. When the Palestinian woman struggled,
Israeli authorities beat her with their batons. She was released. The Red
Crescent gave her First Aid, but moments later she lost consciousness. Hebron resides inside of the West Bank - which is Israeli-OCCUPIED territory, not Israel. Israel occupies the area mainly to protect a small group of militant settlers implanted in this area. The presence of these settlers in occupied territory is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49). Say, I wonder what Americans would do if a foreign nation took their property by force and occupied their cities. We already know that answer to that question (Americans would rise up in arms).


Israeli military abducts four Palestinians from Bethlehem area


U.S. team to look at Gaza smuggling A U.S. team will travel to the Middle East to address arms smuggling between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Condoleezza Rice said.


21 members arrested across West Bank, Hamas claims Sources in the Hamas movement on Wednesday stated that Fatah-allied security forces had kidnapped least 21 members of the Hamas movement during dawn attacks in several parts of the West Bank.


US to transfer $410 million to PA This is the largest aid program ever given to the Palestinians by the US. In Washington, sources say the aid underlines the high importance attached by the Bush administration to the need to support Abbas and Fayyad and their efforts to reach tangible goals on the ground for the Palestinian public.


Palestinians say denial of supplies to Gaza is a war crime A decision by Israel to cut back on electricity and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip was a 'war crime' and 'collective punishment,' Palestinian officials said Wednesday.


ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: Sep 2007


Squeezing the Life out of Bethlehem


40 Years of House Demolitions


Israeli police attack mosque near Haifa


Meridor: We must be ready to preempt threats "This will take a united United States on this matter, that they would not have the illusion today that come January '09, they [Teheran] have it their own way," he said, referring to the inauguration of President George W. Bush's successor, who could potentially change US policy on Iran. Why is ISRAEL'S problem now OUR problem, by their own admission? Their lobby (which includes the neocons) here in the States makes sure that this is the case, that's why.


Israel pressuring ill Palestinians to be informers, activists say Since June, at least five Palestinians have died after being denied permits to leave Gaza for emergency medical treatment, according to Physicians for Human Rights, an Israeli human-rights group that's working to help patients in Gaza


Report: Iran acquiring fighter jets that are based on Israeli technology Iran has signed a deal with China to purchase 24 J-10 fighter jets between 2008 and 2010, Russian news agency Novosti reported. The jets were developed based on the technology of Israel's Lavi fighter jet, whose technology was sold to China against the wishes of the US. Israel gets a taste of its own medicine.


Abbas wants India in proposed peace conference India should be invited to the proposed international peace conference on the Middle East, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said here Wednesday.


U.S. will cut off Iran's 'malignant' actions Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said the Bush administration appeared to be taking a "slow, deliberative course" on Iran and should designate the entire Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist group."Why not put the whole corps on the list?" Ros-Lehtinen asked.
Ros-Lehtinen - one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.


Negev prisoners enter second day of hunger strike Palestinian prisoners in the Negev detention center on Wednesday entered their second day of hunger strike in protest against their treatment by Israeli prison authorities.


The Oxford Union's cowardly action Alan Dershowitz, an American pro-Israeli academic, was invited to oppose the motion and said he would not speak on the same platform as another American academic, an anti-Zionist, Norman Finkelstein. This was, of course, his right. But having decided not to take part, he has now attacked the Oxford Union for inviting Finkelstein rather than a pro-Israel speaker, and succeeded in getting the debate cancelled. The (American)Israeli lobby wins again.


Alan Johnston: My kidnap ordeal And through the radio I became aware of the extraordinary, worldwide campaign that the BBC was mobilising on my behalf. It was an enormous psychological boost. And, most movingly, I realised that the vast majority of Palestinians were condemning the kidnappers.
An excellent read.


Arab Case The Zionist dream of making Palestine a Jewish State is doomed to failure, says Mr. Antonius, if for no other reason than that the Arab peasantry prefers death to giving up its land. Disgraceful as he considers the German treatment of Jews, the "cure for the eviction of Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland. ... No code of morals can justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another." This article was published in Time in 1939.


Zionists scramble to repair growing Christian/Jewish divide


With blunt talk on Israeli Arabs, NIF showcases its vision in US "You talk about compromise," he said, turning to his Jewish co-panelists. "I'm supposed to forget about 1948? I'm supposed to forget about the 70 percent of confiscated Arab lands?"


Giuliani appears to be front-runner among top GOP Jewish donors "There's not one thing wrong with Rudy Giuliani's position on Israel, but in John McCain's history you can see that support," he said. "I think we're not picking the lesser of evils. I think we're picking the greater of greats."


Israeli premier praises enhanced France-Israel relationship Olmert said "we are reassured of our security" and "something had changed in relations" between France and Israel.



Grieving Mothers on 2 Sides of a Suicide Bombing


Press delays decision on U.K. publisher The press came under attack in August from pro-Israel group Stand With Us Michigan for distributing "Overcoming Zionism," a book published by Pluto Press.



Horowitz spins ?facts? aimlessly Another favorite of Mr. Horowitz?s was that all Arabs carry a gene of anti-Semitism. He has made claims like this before. On his website, Frontpagemag.com, he wrote, ?The sick Palestinian culture of hate is a veritable assembly line for the production of future Jew-killers.? On Monday, he informed the audience that Israel is surrounded by ?300 million Arabs who hate Jews? and that the ?Palestinians want to get rid of the Jews.? Didn?t you say it was only a minority of Muslims who are the problem, Mr. Horowitz?


CAIR: Giuliani Advisor Supports Terror Group In 2001, Pipes claimed the "presence" and "enfranchisement" of American Muslims present "true dangers to American Jews." He recently renewed a call to "raze" Palestinian villages from which anti-Israeli attacks are launched.


Arsonists attack Jerusalem church Arsonists burst into a Jerusalem church and set the building on fire, church officials said Wednesday, raising suspicions that Jewish extremists were behind the attack. The church in west Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood was rebuilt after it was burned down 25 years ago by ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists.



Kuwait's Wataniya gets frequencies from Israel Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications Co. has won Israeli frequencies to operate in the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian telecommunications and economy minister said on Wednesday.


Holy Land trial notes reveal jury in turmoil "Attacks on each other happen often," she wrote. "Opinions, not facts, are discussed. Some are closed to deliberations, which shuts off conversations that are meaningful."
On Monday, four days after handing in a verdict that was then sealed until the presiding judge came back to town, some jurors shocked courtroom observers by then telling the judge that they no longer agreed with what the panel had decided.
Must have been a few pro-Israelis on the jury, from the sounds of it.