At-Tuwani: Clearing the Land The Israeli government has simply taken Palestinian land for Israeli settlements and roads. As in the Highlands, the ?victors? have used pseudo legal means to steal land.
Ayalon, Mofaz favor truce talks Two Israeli Cabinet ministers said the government should consider holding truce talks with Hamas.
Palestinian shepherds forced to move on Several weeks earlier he and all his fellow villagers, 37 families numbering 272 people, were evacuated by the Israeli military from Qassa and told to find a new home somewhere else........Some villagers noted that Qassa sits between Israel's Separation Barrier and the pre-1967 Green Line border, and felt this was a factor in the eviction.
"Hamas reached 'secret deal' with Israel" Senior Fatah officials claimed Tuesday that a "secret deal" was keeping Israel from killing top Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian Patient dies due to the Israeli siege on Gaza
Israel considers new settlement The Haaretz newspaper said the Atarot plan - south of Qalandia checkpoint which controls access to East Jerusalem from Ramallah - envisaged construction of 10,000 flats, making it the largest housing project for Jews
Bush to make first presidential visit to Israel Bush will find a receptive audience in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states over his concerns about Iran's increasing dominance in the region. Bush insists that Iran remains a potential threat to world peace in spite of a US intelligence analysis that it had stopped a nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
Hebron Update: 10-16 December 2007
Hamas offer for peace rejected by Israel The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who just hours earlier declared ?war on Gaza?, refused to acknowledge an offer for peace made by the deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya.
Hamas seeks truce talks with Israel Gaza's embattled Hamas leaders are seeking a cease-fire after months of Israeli attacks and sanctions, going so far as to make an unprecedented appeal through the Israeli media, a Hamas official confirmed Wednesday.
Donors' Palestinian budget aid short of target Fayyad had asked for $3.9 billion in budget aid to cover running costs, such as civil servants' salaries, and the foreign ministry said only $1.54 billion of the funds pledged were in the form of budget aid.
Mideast Catholic leader says peace depends on Israel "The strong party, the one with everything in hand, the one who is imposing occupation on the other, has the obligation to see what is just for everyone and to carry it out courageously."
State to reconsider cutting electricity and fuel to Gaza
Catholic leader rejects Israel's Jewish identity ''If there's a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against,'' Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah told reporters at the annual press conference he holds in Jerusalem before Christmas
Is charity Peace Oil really the best way to help the Middle East?
Assassination Jars Nascent US Détente With Syria it seems that Washington's move toward détente with Damascus is being strained again, and as usual, the latest flashpoint is Lebanon, or rather, the assassination of a political figure in Lebanon. Awful strange, that.
Israel worried about Hamas hajjis Israel believes that hundreds of Palestinians who left on the pretext of a pilgrimage will receive military training in Iran.
Congress approves extra anti-terror funds Jewish groups have received a lion?s share of the funds since the program was instituted by the Department of Homeland Security in 2005. Last year they received 251 of the 308 grants awarded.
Report: Bush snubs Knesset U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly turned down a request to address Israel's Knesset during his visit next month.
Assad: We rejected nukes in '01 The Syrian president said in an interview published Wednesday that in 2001, his regime was approached by Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's atomic architect, who offered in a letter to sell Damascus nuclear missiles. "We do not know if the letter was authentic or if it was an Israeli trap,"
Jerusalem: What's in your fridge? Khalil Abu Arqub is a 50-year-old Palestinian headmaster who lives in Jerusalem.
Israeli Consulate in L.A. evacuated
Palestinian refugees from Iraq stranded in desert camp Many have known no home outside Baghdad ? they're the offspring of parents who settled in Iraq in 1948 after being driven from Haifa as when Israel became an independent nation
Mazuz: Int'l law not broken in Kfar Kana Israel exonerates itself from blame for another war crime.
The Wages of Intervention Turkish-Syrian-Iranian rapprochement has provoked the wrath of the Israel lobby in Washington, and this was a key factor in getting the Armenian genocide resolution through Congress, which further alienated Ankara.
Ministers discuss Palestinian refugee situation with Commissioner General of UNRWA
Foreigners head to Syria to learn Arabic Syrians point to the young foreigners in the capital as proof that their country ? which is under U.S. sanctions and on its list of state supporters of terrorism ? is not the closed, anti-American rogue nation often depicted in Western media.
Sarkozy demands Syrian action on Lebanon: report
Mideast peace in 2008 unlikely due to U.S. vote: Assad Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said achieving Middle East peace in 2008 looked unrealistic because the United States would be preoccupied with the presidential election.
For Israel's Arab Citizens, Isolation and Exclusion "Inside the Green Line, people have not awakened to their role of the last 100 years," Stern said, referring to the 1949 armistice line that marked Israel's boundary until it seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East war. "If we fall asleep here, we will wake up to an Arab majority.".......The rejection letter followed a conversation the Zubeidats had with an official from the Misgav Regional Council, which oversees Rakefet and dozens of other nearby towns. He told them, Fatina recalled, that although they were "very nice people," he would have to begin marketing Rakefet as a "mixed community" to possible buyers in Tel Aviv if they moved in. The designation would hurt sales.
A prayer from Bethlehem In Bethlehem this December, there will be Santas handing candy out in the streets, markets selling toys and decorations, and a Christmas Eve procession to the Church of the Nativity, honored as Jesus' birthplace. Palestinian Christians will go to midnight Mass, eat a festive meal with their families and sing Christmas carols.
West Bank villagers celebrate St. Nicholas as protector, miracle man Because of Israeli checkpoints and closed roads, the cousins get to see each other only a few times a year, although they live less than an hour apart.
Israel sets up wartime liaison unit The authority is an outcome of an interim report issued by Israel's commission of inquiry into the 2006 Lebanon war, which found that the offensive against Hezbollah and efforts to control damage caused by its rockets were stymied by poor government oversight.
Israel's Olmert: 'There is a war in Gaza'
Israel tests advanced Patriot Israel tested an advanced version of the U.S.-supplied Patriot missile.
Israel Recognised by Govt, Not By People
Cost stalls West Bank wall Work on Israel's separation barrier has virtually halted as the country's attention ? and budget funding ? have shifted away from the threat of Palestinian suicide bombers from the West Bank
Corrie play not helpful to dialogue, QIC director says The politically charged play My Name is Rachel Corrie, which is now playing in Montreal, is not a basis for discussion on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, says the director of the Quebec-Israel Committee (QIC).
Well hello, dolly! At a landfill in the West Bank town of Yata, a young Palestinian dump scavenger holds up his latest find, which he will try to sell.
Mizrahi staying at The Israel Project The Israel Project also announced that five U.S. senators and one member of Congress have joined its board of directors. They are Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and Susan Collins (R-Me.), and Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.). Americans beware. The Israel Project is a pro-Israeli outfit which was behind some of the campus witchhunts of recent years.
Report: Palestinian NGOs pull plug on Madrid forum
Russia, Israel agree to be visa-free Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Zeev Bielsky welcomed the agreement between Moscow and Jerusalem, saying it would encourage more young Russian Jews to visit their ancestral homeland.
Ex-CIA man predicts U.S. war with Iran ** Those who hope to prevent a military conflict in Iran should make their voices heard, he said......He cited the close American relationship with Israel, which he said considers Iran a threat, as a driving force behind a potential strike.
A dove departs A politician who paid the price for telling Israelis unpalatable truths
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