Headlines for 10-25-07

Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant in Gaza Israeli troops killed a Palestinian gunman belonging to the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip on Friday, militants and hospital officials said.


An elderly Palestinian refugee waits to receive a ration of food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees


Olmert: No peace deal at Annapolis Strange that this comes on the day that the US government does this.


Gaza residents unable to get medical care, aid workers say "At least three patients denied exit permits have died since June, and others have lost limbs or sight," Human Rights Watch reported. The Palestinian organization Al Mezan in Gaza said a fourth man, Nimir Muhammad Shuheibar, aged 77, died on 23 October while awaiting treatment.


Palestinian cancer patient denied entry from Gaza into Israel for hospital care The patient turned back from Erez on Monday, Mahmud Kamal Abu Taha, was sent back to hospital in Khan Yunis after waiting two-and-a-half hours in an ambulance at the Erez crossing while he was receiving oxygen and on an intravenous drip. Shin Bet agents also arrested his father at the crossing even though he had also been told he had permission to accompany his son to a hospital in Tel Aviv.


Activist protest closes settler road near Ramallah Five years ago the Israeli army closed the road to Palestinians and is now only open to Israelis living in illegal settlelments.



Palestinian negotiation team fully authorized on agreement with Israel: official Palestinian negotiation team is fully authorized by President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to reach a framework deal with Israel, a Palestinian official said on Thursday


Members Take up Issue of Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Resources in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syrian Golan


Israel approves Gaza power cuts the position accepted by the international community is that Israel remains legally responsible for the coastal strip, despite withdrawing two years ago, because it still controls Gaza's borders, airspace and territorial waters.


Elderly Palestinian dies at Erez crossing after Israeli forces leave him on the ground to die


Fatah security officials on trial Security officials from the Palestinian movement, Fatah, have gone on trial in the West Bank for failing to stop Hamas from seizing control of Gaza in June.


Palestinians must first follow Road Map security principles: Israel FM Hypocrisy.


PLO disputes Jerusalem rail plan the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which is bringing the court case, through its delegation in Paris, argues that the railway will breach the fourth Geneva convention by providing infrastructure to Jewish settlements on occupied land.


Palestinian policeman dies of wounds sustained in earlier internal clashes Hamas media sources reported that one Palestinian police officer, died on Thursday at night of wounds sustained during clashes with gunmen east of Gaza City last week.


Cutting Palestinian forces poses challenge for PM Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has begun to act on a plan to shrink the security forces by about a third, a move that may fuel tensions in the Fatah faction that runs the Palestinian Authority.


US general tours West Bank troublespot "My mission is to work with the Palestinian security forces to ensure a more secure future for Palestinians," said Dayton, in an Arabic statement handed out to reporters.


Gaza Christians fear 'those more extreme than Hamas' What scares them is a new generation of shadowy extremist movements that have crept from the rubble of a seven-year uprising, months of internal bloodletting and decades of conflict with Israel.


Israel holding talks with Hamas: Abbas


Report: Sixty-eight Palestinians imprisoned in their village


In pictures: Palestinians turn to a West Bank rubbish dump for livelihood


Syria 'air strike site removed' The images, though, were far from conclusive.


Report: Israel to get F-35s early Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has persuaded the Pentagon to supply the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a supersonic stealth jet that is still under construction, to Israel ahead of schedule.


AZ Attorney General Travels To Israel Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard left Wednesday for Israel as part of a legal exchange program between the National Assocation of Attorneys General and the Israel government, in cooperation with the American-Israel Friendship League.


US to speed up stealth fighter delivery to Israel "We asked that for every two jets manufactured for the US, one be manufactured for Israel," a senior defense official said, adding that acquisition of the aircraft would greatly increase Israel's deterrence as Iran races toward nuclear power.


The Israel Lobby Targets Haaretz Isn't that amazing and scandalous? Levin is explaining why there is a free debate in Israel and not here. Because of the lobby and its "unwritten contract." Because U.S. support is crucial to Israel's existence. And so Americans, who supposedly so love the Middle East democracy that they support it out of the goodness of their hearts, must not read the news from Israel.


Lebanese troops fire on Israeli planes Lebanese troops today fired on Israeli warplanes flying low over southern Lebanon, security officials in the country said.


Australia would send troops to West Bank Australia would send troops to the West Bank to support an Israeli withdrawal, an official told Jews in Sydney.


House aims to curb Iran's sway in West ?Argentines are still waiting for justice, and warrants are out for the arrests of several Iranians and members of Hezbollah.?


Israel reissuing gas masks ** Israel plans to reissue gas masks to its citizens. 3 guesses why.


Syrian official: Mideast peace conference won't tackle major issues in region Syrian Minister of Expatriates Buthaina Sha'aban asserted on Wednesday that a peace conference sponsored by the U.S. administration would not tackle the essential issues in the Arab-Israeli conflicts, the official SANA news agency reported.


More Evidence That Critics of Israel Are Gaining in the U.S.


Paparazzi, Beware! Hollywood Stars Have a Secret Weapon: Israeli Commandos A native of Beverly Hills, Cohen has parlayed his service in Duvdevan ? an elite Israeli commando unit responsible for capturing, and sometimes killing, Palestinian militants in the West Bank ? into a lucrative, niche business back in his hometown.


Medved Takes On Israel's Foes Radio talk show host and Philadelphia native Michael Medved spoke to hundreds at Bala Cynwyd Middle School Tuesday evening to debunk what he considers calumnies against Israel.
Pro-Israelis seem to have embarked on a full out frontal propaganda assault on America. This is probably due to the recent release of the Mearsheimer and Walt book among other things. They cannot seem to grasp the notion that true patriots will win out in the end. The Israel narrative is a house of cards based on myths. Debunk one, and the whole thing comes into question. Unfortunately for us white hats, pro-Israelis have our media sewn up lock, stock and barrel. No matter. Soldier on.


Dr. Duwiek: Israeli prison authorities spy on legal consultations


This week: IPOs and a brewery MME also visits the village of Taybeh, one of the few Christian villages left in the West Bank and home to the only Palestinian brewery. We meet with Nadim Khoury to talk about his mini-brewery and how despite political and economic instability, the beer keeps on flowing during Oktoberfest.


Palestinian Strengthened by Tough Exchange Student Experience Nasser?s experience shows the value of foreign studies as a strategy for building the Palestinians? capacity to run their own state and to revive their economy.


Pro-Israel rally to demonstrate against weekend Sabeel event The conference, ?The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel: Issues of Justice and Equality,? will feature Sabeel leaders and the Reverend Desmond Tutu, who, along with Sabeel, has been criticized for his portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. More than 50 organizations plan to join in Friday?s demonstration. Holy moley, the truth might get out! The efforts by the Israel lobby to smear Sabeel are unprecedented. And that's because they are a Palestinian CHRISTIAN group, speaking to ordinary average Americans; the most dangerous of propositions to the Israel lobby.


Influence for Israel Indeed, the fact that their book has encountered such outrageous abuse surely vindicates one of their central arguments: that pro-Israel lobby groups are so one-eyed that they toss accusations of anti-Semitism around like balloons at a birthday party.
The point cannot be made too strongly: this is not an anti-Semitic book. It's a work of scholarly analysis, and it deserves to be taken seriously.
An unusually unbiased piece in the Telegraph (UK).


Israel to halt large Golan manoeuvres: reports


Hate at the altar Dexter Van Zile is the Christian media analyst at CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. Another witchhunt led by pro-Israeli who relies heavily on smearing (go figure).