Saturday, November 24, 2007

Headlines for 11-22-07

Israeli troops kill Palestinian man in Gaza


UN official says Israel's siege of Gaza breeds extremism and human suffering A senior United Nations official has issued an unprecedented appeal to British MPs to use their influence to try to alleviate the impact of "indiscriminate" and "illegal" Israeli sanctions in Gaza which display "profound inhumanity" and are "serving the agenda of extremists".


Egyptian, Jordanian leaders meet to prepare for Annapolis conference


US limits hopes for Mideast conference to opening Palestinian state talks


Israeli army hands out demolition orders to Palestinian homeowners near Bethlehem


Israel increases restrictions on occupied Palestinians in preparation for summit


Israel arrests more than 20 Palestinians in West Bank


Action promised on IDF officers The British government is taking action to stop arrests of IDF generals in the UK, David Miliband reportedly revealed during his first trip to Israel as Foreign Secretary


The Israeli army invades several part of the West Bank and kidnaps seven civilians


A Palestinian police vehicle in Gaza blown off Unknown assailants detonated on Wednesday night an explosive device in a Palestinian police vehicle, to the west of the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, causing no injuries but damages to the vehicle.


The youngest Palestinian political detainee leaves the detention camp


Arabs debate stance for US summit The US and Israel want the widest possible Arab participation, and have been pressing in particular for the Saudi Foreign Minister to attend. But the Arabs remain deeply sceptical about Israel's willingness to make concessions for a peace agreement.



Hamas accused P.A security forces of arresting 13 supporters


In Gaza: a Palestinian dies of wounds and four others injured by Israeli army fire


Palestinian negotiator: Israel, PNA can achieve joint document before peace conference


Arabs to further coordinate positions ahead of Mideast conference


Palestinian security on order reinforcement campaign in Nablus


Israel May Reduce Power to Gaza Dec. 2 Gaza is dependent on Israel for all its fuel and about half its electricity.


Iran a driving force for Mideast meeting According to U.S. and other Western intelligence, Iran has helped establish what amounts to a client state in the Gaza Strip, the smaller of two Palestinian territories that would make up an eventual independent nation. Pure BS.


Egypt finds tonne of explosives in Sinai


David Miliband denies visiting family in West Bank settlement Mr Landau added that most of Mr Miliband?s relatives in Israel are Orthodox, including some West Bank settlers.


'WIPED OFF THE MAP' rumor is totally false, so why lie?' Whether or not Ahmadinejad said or meant that Israel should be 'wiped off the map', there is a cold hard fact that cannot be contested: look at the maps of the region from 100 years ago, what happened to Palestine? Israel wiped Palestine off the map.


Report of the distribution of the food baskets in the Gaza Strip during the summer of 2007


ZOA Opposes Secretary Rice's Promotion Of A Palestinian State & Abbas' "Moderate" Leadership


Police vigilantes busted Israel's Northern Police District announced Thursday that five of its personnel, one of whom is an officer, were arrested this month for planting two bombs on property belonging to major crime figures. No one was hurt.


U.S. advised Israel on Syria radars The United States reportedly assisted Israel's September air strike in Syria with information on enemy air defenses.


Israeli: Syrian site hit not a reactor A Syrian site bombed by Israel in September was probably a plant for assembling a nuclear bomb, an Israeli nuclear expert said Thursday, challenging other analysts' conclusions that it housed a North Korean-style nuclear reactor.



Likudnik Hawks Work to Undermine Annapolis Despite near-universal skepticism about the prospects for launching a serious, new Middle East peace process at next week's Israeli-Palestinian summit in Annapolis, a familiar clutch of neoconservative hawks close to the Likud Party leader, former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, isn't taking any chances.


US storm over book on Israel lobby Mr Judt himself is not afraid to speak out, but he has to tread more carefully when he criticises Israeli policies in the US than he does in Israel itself. "I have written articles in Haaretz that no American newspapers would touch," he says.



Five reasons to bomb Iran now ** Note the source.


ADL, AIPAC endorse Annapolis The Anti-Defamation League's national director, Abraham Foxman, said Israel could rely on the Bush administration's established record of good will not to push the Jewish state into a corner.


Teaching on the frontline in Gaza and Israel


Egypt, Jordan, Palestinians try to sell skeptical Arabs on Annapolis conference


Donor representatives visit UNRWA installations in Syria Delegates from 19 of UNRWA's major donor countries arrived in Damascus yesterday to begin a two-day tour of Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. UNRWA Syria Director, Panos Moumtzis, welcomed them, noting that their presence demonstrates a strong and on-going commitment to the welfare of the Palestine refugees.


Nehaia Abu-Nahla: Life as head of WFP's Gaza sub-office


Palestinian cell phone company Jawwal says it signed up millionth customer The eight-year-old Palestinian cellular phone company Jawwal announced Thursday that it has signed up its one-millionth customer, presenting it as a sign of Palestinian economic potential in sectors not hampered by Israeli travel restrictions.


Hamas's Haniya says US peace meeting 'stillborn'


?We can learn from Palestine kids? ? exchange trip teachers


Hamas operative sues Shin Bet for abuse Young Palestinian said to be involved in suicide bombing attempt says prolonged confinement in handcuffs left his arms paralyzed


Palestinian youth see little hope in upcoming summit Mr Dawahik is worried about where his family?s next meal is coming from. ?We have no livelihood, no work, no nothing,? says the teenager, who was jailed for eight months for throwing stones at soldiers.


Debate rages across US on academic freedom At the University of Michigan, a vocal pro-Israel lobby is campaigning to prevent the university?s publishing house from resuming distribution of Overcoming Zionism, by Joel Kovel, an author and anti-war activist.


Airtime for Israel's Arabs


Pact Unlikely Before Talks in U.S., Palestinian Insists A senior Palestinian official said here on Thursday that it would be a ?miracle? if the Palestinian and Israeli negotiating teams agreed on a joint document, as they had hoped, to present at the American-sponsored Middle East peace gathering set to start Tuesday in Annapolis, Md.



What about Israel as a Jewish state don?t the Palestinians understand? that it's a supremacist notion, perhaps?


Senior CPC official meets Palestinian guests Senior Chinese Communist Party leader He Yong met on Thursday with a delegation from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), led by Abdallah Alfranji, member of Fatah Central Committee and director-general of Fatah International Department.



A taste of Palestine in London

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