Sunday, October 28, 2007

Headlines for 10-27-07

Palestinian children and woman killed in Gaza blast Two Palestinian children aged two and 13 and a woman were killed on Saturday in an explosion of unknown origin affecting two houses in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and a medical source said.


Hamas sources: Fatah supporters bomb police car southern Gaza


Israeli Army invades two West Bank towns


Bargouthi warns of humanitarian disaster in Gaza caused by embargo


Hamas legislature criticizes attacks against students by P.A security and Fateh


Hamas: No pre-summit attacks on Israel "Actually, those interested in such a thing are the Israeli Labor and Likud Parties," the Hamas leader said, "who are searching for a way to hamper Olmert and are also looking for a reason to attack Hamas."


Egyptian Humanitarian mission calls for solution to crisis of stranded Palestinians


Israeli army hands out military orders to demolish Palestinian homes near Salfit


Israeli says Gaza cuts will begin Sunday "The reduction in fuel supplies will be felt from Sunday and we will carry out electricity cuts beginning in the coming days,"


Nazis plans to 'isolate Warsaw 100 percent': minister Israel plans to paralyse the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip in every possible way and separate itself completely from the Palestinian territory in the long term, a minister said on Saturday. If the shoe fits.


Israeli FM to China for Iran sanctions talks Israel has previously described Iran as its principal strategic threat, and earlier this month US President George W. Bush warned of a possible World War III if Tehran acquired nuclear weapons.


Committee formed to combat embargo on Gaza


Corner of a Gaza field 'forever England' The close-cut grass, the blossoming trees, and the row after row of austere white chiseled tombstones evoke the famed war cemeteries of northern France rather than the chaos of the Gaza Strip.


UAE urges UN to boost awareness on Palestinian issue UAE has reiterated that the UN and its specialised agencies need to keep the international community posted about the developments in the Palestinian issue and the Middle East in line with the UN's General Assembly resolutions in this respect.


Israel restricts Christian clergy travel Israel has rescinded some travel privileges for Arab Christian clergy traveling to and around the West Bank because of security concerns, an Israeli spokeswoman said Friday.


Orthodox rabbi breaks with norm Since 1967, when Israeli troops captured the eastern sector of Jerusalem from Arab forces, Israel has claimed all of the city as its eternal capital, never to be redivided. The United States does not recognize Israel's claim and, along with most other nations, has declined to move its embassy to Jerusalem E. Jerusalem is Israeli-occupied territory; Israel does not own it.


Palestinian rights meeting is protested Ateek, who was singled out by the pro-Israel demonstrators as an "extremist anti-Zionist," was unstinting in his criticism of Israel, insistent that the Israeli government is creating a form of apartheid by its actions toward Palestinians. He said that conditions in the Israeli-occupied territories may be worse than conditions for blacks during apartheid in South Africa.


Israelis arrest three Brighton protesters Three women from Brighton have been arrested while protesting in Palestine


Tony Blair is Shocked - And So Are We Angela - an Israeli for 26 years - described what was happening as a system of ?apartheid? in which the Palestinians are being forcibly confined in ever more crowded, destitute ?bantustans.?


Three international figures to receive Palestinian awards The group, the trustees of the Palestine International Award for Excellence and Creativity, said in a press conference in Ramallah that the awards were aimed at showing a different side to Palestinian society than is normally portrayed worldwide.


Remove religion from Mideast negotiations


Palestinians help Zionists keep kosher A Jewish agricultural law that crops up every seven years is prompting Israel's most fervent Zionists to turn to Palestinian farmers for food.


Q & A: Abraham Foxman Do I want to confront Jimmy Carter? No, but he's a former president of the United States, he's not any jerk who calls Israel apartheid. He's a former president of the United States. You can't ignore what he says about Jews. This guy cannot seem to make the distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. Case in point: what exactly did Carter 'say about Jews'? I read the book. This is the heart of the problem: someone criticizes Israel, and they hear 'Jews' somehow. And then the kneejerk cry of anti-Semitism is heard throughout the land. It is deliberate, these people are not dumb. This article would appear to be a portrait of rambling mass hysteria over what? People dare to speak out about Israel. The jig is up, and they (in the Lobby) know it.


Perestroika: James Fallows Says "Mainly... Jewish" Faction Pushes for Iran Showdown


Middle East families united by grief


In pictures: Jewish-Arab circus


The New McCarthyism This is the modus operandi of the New McCarthyism. It targets a new enemy for our era: Muslims, Arabs and others in the Middle East field who are identified as stepping over an unstated line in criticizing Israel, as radical Islamists, as just plain radical or as in some way sympathetic to terrorists. Just who is behind this new McCarthyism: the Israeli Lobby.


Protest by UNRWA employees in Bethlehem

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