Headlines for 11-24-07

Two Palestinians 'job seekers' killed by Israeli fire: medics Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces overnight in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian hospital sources said Saturday. They said the two brothers in their forties, Talal and Rafat Abu Shrena, were trying to cross into Israel in search of work.




Israeli army attacks a peaceful demonstration in a Bethlehem village Dozens of residents of al Me'sarah village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem were joined by a group of Israeli and International peace activists on Friday at noon to protest the confiscation of their land. The Israeli army installed road blocks to prevent the peace activists from reaching the village.


A series of internal attacks rip through Gaza, one boy injured


Summit Terror Threat Advisory Issued Federal authorities have advised local law enforcement agencies to be alert to possible terrorism threats because of the Middle East peace conference next week in Annapolis, Homeland Security and FBI officials said Friday.


Israeli settlers assault Palestinian young men on al Hamra checkpoint


Report: US will not force Israel's hand in Annapolis According to senior White House staffers quoted in the report, US President George W. Bush feels "the war on terror makes for a special bond between the US and Israel......On Monday, Olmert and Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Livni are scheduled to meet with Bush, Rice and US Vice President Dick Cheney in an attempt to finalize the details before heading out to Annapolis. That's like saying bears sh#t in the woods; it goes without saying. It also means that any agreement therein will not be fair or just for the Palestinians, as has happened several times in the past. But they will naturally get blamed for it. This whole affair is a dog and pony show to get the Arab nations on board for US military action vs. Iran.


Hamas, Hezbollah lambast Mideast peace conference "The Annapolis conference has two objectives: to help shore up (Israeli Prime Minister) Ehud Olmert after his defeat in the south of Lebanon and secondly to cover up for American plans of a war against Iran,"


Mideast meet should help create Palestinian state: Jordan king


Hamas "shocked" at Arab endorsement of Annapolis


Six wounded, five detained in Bil'in's Anti-wall protest Residents of the village of Bil?in near the West Bank city of Ramallah organized their weekly Anti-Wall nonviolent protest this Friday, and were joined by a number of international and Israeli peace activists


Hamas warns of violence after talks Yossi Alpher, an Israeli strategic analyst and former adviser to Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister, when he was Prime Minister, said he had no expectation of anything of importance happening in the US. 'There will be the ritual speeches and a celebration of the fact that they are both going back to phase one of the road map. Everything has been rigged to call it a success, but the problems start the day after the conference,'


Third earthquake in a week shakes Israel


Briefing: Middle East peace conference begins in Annapolis


Amazon.com has just reclassified "The Israel Lobby" by Harvard and Chicago U profs as a "conspiracy theory" book They played similar nasty games with Carter's book about Palestine not so long ago.


Backers, opponents of Annapolis see Iran looming in background For now, the Saudis appear to prefer informal alliances as a means of heading off Iran, but pro-Israel groups in the United States are saying Israel needs formal relations with the Saudis if the process is to work


Suicide bombers are not psychologically unstable: Research The analysis also revealed that for such bombers the conflict was mainly about politics, not religion. Despite its frequent religious trappings, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not religiously inspired, and suicide bombing is fundamentally the expression of a territorial dispute.



A different view from a Jewish woman She calls for Americans - especially Jewish Americans - to do their own research on the Middle East on how Israelis are treating Palestinians beyond what's reported in the mainstream U.S. media.


Rachel Corrie play will feature at B.C.'s PuSh fest Next year's edition of Vancouver's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will feature two high-profile works: the performance-art phenomenon Haircuts by Children and the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie, which has attracted controversy since it was first staged in London in 2005.


Salaam Bethlehem - looking beyond the wall Jonathan Brown, Riding Lights General Manager said about the reason for the visit ?To help Riding Lights bring this message to the UK in a creative way, we wanted to find out at first hand more about the Palestinian Christians and ways of supporting them.?


67% - Can Israeli and Palestinian Rights Coexist? Ahead of the approaching Middle East conference scheduled to be held in Annapolis, Maryland, fully 67% of Americans say they believe a way can be found for the state of Israel to exist so that the rights and needs of the Palestinian people are taken care of, according to a May 2007 survey.


Palestinian Authority gets approval for communication satellite orbit


Alan Johnston: Picking up the pieces


Aharon Barak: Israel tops US at protecting human rights A sick joke.


Think tank: East J'lem withdrawal expensive An Israeli pullout from Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem as part of a peace accord with the Palestinians is likely to have serious economic repercussions on both Jewish and Arab residents of the city, according to a new study on the future division of Jerusalem prepared by a Jerusalem think tank. Mm k.


Detained Palestinian Professor hospitalized Lawyer of the Nafha Society which defends the rights of Palestinian political detainees imprisoned by Israel reported on Saturday that Professor Isam Al Ashqar, 50, a Palestinian Physics Scientist imprisoned by Israel since 20 months, was moved to Al Ramala Prison Hospital after his health condition had sharply deteriorated.


Israeli peace demo wishes Olmert well Israeli pacifists demonstrated Saturday in front of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Jerusalem home to support him as he heads for a meeting in the United States aimed at reviving peace talks with the Palestinians, organisers said.


US suggests Moscow follow-up to Middle East peace conference: diplomat Washington has proposed that Arab states attending next week's US-sponsored Middle East peace conference hold a follow-up meeting in Moscow next year, an Arab diplomat said on Saturday.


South Africa will attend Middle East peace talks


RSF Calls On Israel To Release Journalist, Cameraman International press rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israel to release a reporter and cameraman of Al Aqsa television station.