Headlines for 11-17-07

Thousands of Palestinians hemmed into Israel seperation barrier face hardship: U.N. report Only 18 percent of some 30,000 West Bank farmers who used to work the lands cut off by Israel's separation barrier now have Israeli permits to reach their fields, the U.N. said in a report on the lives of some 230,000 Palestinians in 67 communities close to the barrier. How Palestinian land gets stolen by Israel, folks.


Troops invade Al Ein refugee camp, impose curfew Israeli military forces carried a pre-dawn invasion in al-Ein Refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday morning, and enforced house arrest for several hours in the area.


Troops bar international supporters from entering Jenin


Different beliefs, same cause Wejdan Jaber, a 39-year-old Muslim Palestinian from Gaza; Abir Kopty, a 32-year-old Christian Palestinian citizen of Israel; and Hagit Ra'anan, a 57-year-old Jewish Israeli born in Tel Aviv, took turns speaking to the crowd. Jaber said most of her people are not radical suicide bombers intent on destroying Israel."Not all the Palestinian people are terrorists," Jaber said. "We are normal people who want to go to work and school and to parties."



Erekat: "Israel can define itself as it likes"


Palestinian village loses half its land for Israeli Wall construction


PNA condemns Israeli incursion into Nablus despite deal


Gaza Palestinian militants fire rockets into S Israel


Palestinian minister says planned Israeli prisoner release unilateral step Palestinian minister of prisoners' affairs, Ashraf al-Ajrami, said Saturday the planned release of a number of Palestinian prisoners by Israel was "a unilateral step."


Fatah supporters attack leftist rally in Ramallah, six injured


UNRWA disappointed over Israeli approval of Gaza power reduction The United Nations' Agency for Palestine refugees expressed concerns on Saturday over Israeli Attorney General Menahem Mazuz's approval of reducing electricity supplies to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.


South Hebron Hills: Settlers interfere with Palestinians plowing Police did not immediately arrest or detain these individuals. They were released at the edge of the field, and the same individuals returned to the land repeatedly to interfere with Palestinians plowing. Several times, Israeli police had to remove the settlers by force from the Palestinians? fields.


Israeli army closes Nablus checkpoint Israeli soldiers stationed at the Huwwara checkpoint, located near the the northern West Bank city of Nablus' southern entrance, on Saturday closed the checkpoint, barring residents from crossing


Blair hopes Palestinian employment projects ready soon Blair told France's Journal du Dimanche that the projects would represent tens of thousands of jobs for Palestinians who have faced widespread unemployment since Israel closed the border to most workers following the launch of the second intifada in 2000.




Cut Israel Off by Charley Reese Israel's goal is and always has been to take all of Palestine and to get rid of the Palestinians.


Palestinian detainees to hold a one day hunger strike Palestinian detainees will hold a one day-long hunger strike in protest against their ongoing poor treatment, the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees on Saturday stated.


Hamas warns Abbas: No peace concessions


Under Siege, Life in Gaza Just Shrinks "At least in prison, and I've been in prison, there are rules," he said. "But now we live in a kind of animal farm. We live in a pen, and they dump in food and medicine."


Palestinians demand halt to Israeli settlement expansion The Palestinians have written to the US government demanding a complete freeze on the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a senior official said on Saturday


Human Rights Watch urges independent probe into Gaza killings


Congress asks government to aid Palestine Noting that the Congress has remained 'unwavering' in its support to the Palestinian cause right from the days of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) resolution said:


MTV launches new Arabic service


Condoleeza Rice's Middle East Photo-Op


One-woman play at Mars Hill College Admission is free for Mars Hill students, faculty and staff, $8 for adults and $5 for students who do not attend Mars Hill.




Kouchner to Haaretz: Not ruling out strike on Iran In an interview with Haaretz, Kouchner, who along with President Nicolas Sarkozy is leading the European hard-liners against Iran, described the crisis over Iran's nuclear program "as extremely serious," adding that France "will never compromise on Israel's security."


Shimon Peres feels way to peace with heels Last week Peres put the finishing touches to an unprecedented agreement with the Turkish and Palestinian presidents that will see the creation of an industrial park in the occupied West Bank funded by Turkish businessmen.


Controversy over iconic images of Palestinian deaths ends up in court For Karsenty - whose numerous Jewish and Israeli supporters swarm over the blogosphere - the pictures have to be exposed as fakes because of the enormous damage they have done. "People have died because of these images," he says.


PCHR holds Gaza workshop Raji Sourani, the Director of the Gaza-based Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), on Saturday hosted a workshop with 27 European Diplomats, designed to inform them of the previaling situation in the coastal region.


Lies his fathers told him A whole generation of Jews under 50 are discovering that they've been lied to about the State of Israel. They were told that Israel had been created in a land largely empty of Arabs, but are discovering there were hundreds of thousands of Arabs living there when the big aliyot (Jewish immigration) began in the early 20th century. They were told that Palestinians voluntarily left their homes in 1948 in order to create space for the Arab armies to wipe out the Jewish state, and are discovering that some of that exodus was caused by Jewish terrorism against Arab villagers and by forced evacuations ordered by David Ben Gurion and carried out by young soldiers of the Israeli Defence Forces.