Headlines for 01-07-08

Israeli Troops Kill 3 Armed Palestinians


IDF launches probe into Palestinian's injury Ynet obtains x-ray images of Nablus resident critically injured after being hit in head by three metal bullets during IDF raid in West Bank city. Eyewitnesses say he did not endanger forces operating in area. Army: Incident being investigated thoroughly




Israeli army arrests 11 Palestinians in West Bank


Israel delays return of head of Palestinian negotiating team Israeli authorities at Allenby Bridge between Jordan and the West Bank delayed Monday the entry of Ahmad Qureia, head of the Palestinian negotiating team, who was returning to the West Bank to attend a scheduled meeting with his Israeli counterpart Foreign Minister Tzepi Levni.


Israel lacking proof on nukes


Bush: Israel no factor in Iraq "My decision was based upon U.S. intelligence, based upon the desire to provide security for our peoples and others," Bush said.



Egypt To Catch Gaza Smugglers With U.S. Funds Egypt also has accepted an American offer to send experts from the Army Corps of Engineers to train Egyptian border guards in the technology, Rep. Steve Israel, a Democrat of New York, said.


Salem man works the world's hot spots Right now, he is working for the U.S. State Department surveying Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The survey focuses on refugee resettlement, one of the key questions underlying the recent Middle East peace conference in Annapolis.


Gaza: Sniper fires at Israeli photographers


Israel accused ahead of Bush trip


Construction to start in area Palestinians want for corridor Construction is to start soon on 60 new housing units in the Jewish section in East Jerusalem's Ras al Amud neighborhood. The Jerusalem municipality has approved the project, which sources on the right have said could impede the creation of a Palestinian corridor between the eastern West Bank and the Temple Mount.


Palestinians urge Bush to press for settlement halt The Palestinians on Monday called on US President George W. Bush to press Israel to freeze settlement activity when he visits the region this week in a bid to bolster the peace process.


Outlines of Palestinian state by end of year: Bush Even if Israeli and Palestinian leaders do not reach a peace deal by the end of 2008, there could be 'an agreement on what a Palestinian state will look like', US President George W. Bush told Israeli television.


Israel's richest man emigrates to Britain - and buys a £35m, bullet-proof mansion Lev Leviev, who until a week ago was classified as the richest man in Israel, has joined the growing list of Israeli billionaires who have made their homes in London, where wealthy foreigners are not asked to pay tax on income earned overseas.


Israeli official: Swap Pollard for prisoners The Bush administration should swap Jonathan Pollard for Palestinian prisoners, an Israeli Cabinet member said.


Nukes, Spooks, and the Specter of 9/11 Edmonds draws a picture of a three-sided alliance consisting of Turkish, Pakistani, and Israeli agents who coordinated efforts to milk U.S. nuclear secrets and technology, funneling the intelligence stream to the black market nuclear network set up by the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan.


From Suha embrace to Iran hawk, Clinton now most favored by Jews "Iran is seeking nuclear weapons," she said in an Oct. 30 MSNBC-sponsored debate. "And the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is in the forefront of that, as they are in the sponsorship of terrorism." She added: "I prefer vigorous diplomacy, and I happen to think economic sanctions are part of vigorous diplomacy." It was straight from the pro-Israel playbook, and it illustrates what has attracted not only Jewish voter support but, perhaps even more substantively, Jewish fund-raiser support.



Edwards' openness to Iran worries some pro-Israel Jews Edwards' stance is anathema to much of the pro-Israel establishment, which views direct negotiations as a means for Iran to buy time and develop a nuclear weapons program.


On U.S., Israel and Syria, Sarkozy cheers French Jews ?We have rarely heard such words of support for Israeli security from a French president,? said Meyer Habib, the vice president of the CRIF umbrella organization of French Jewry.


Ron Paul to Haaretz: Israel can get by without American aid


Indian military, Israel to develop weapons The head of India's navy is the latest of his country's military leaders to visit Israel, despite testy diplomatic relations.


Peace mission ?The make-up of the busload of olive-pickers was different on each morning of my stay. There are Israelis who come regularly, perhaps once a week. They are committed to justice for the Palestinians, and their reasons for coming perhaps summarised by one who said that he came so that he could look at his reflection in the mirror in the morning without feeling totally guilty.


TV comedy depicts world of the Arab Israeli A study published in 2006 by the Second Authority for Television and Radio, which regulates commercial broadcasts in Israel, showed that 50 percent of the characters appearing on prime-time commercial television were secular Jewish Israeli males with standard accents. Arabs accounted for 2 percent of the remaining 50 percent and were portrayed negatively.



Israel's Barak says Hezbollah stronger than ever: report


An Urgent Appeal From Jewish Rabbis, to the Candidates Running for the Presidency of the United States of America A group of
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish Rabbis will, with the help of the Almighty,
tour several New Hampshire sites, where candidates are campaigning for the
primaries, in order to deliver the following message.



U.S. academic Finkelstein meets top Hezbollah official in Lebanon


IDF raid in West Bank draws concern The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by the Israel Defense Forces? (IDF) raid on the offices of three Palestinian media outlets in the West Bank city of Nablus last month.


Second conviction in Ze'evi slaying Israel convicted a second Palestinian in the 2001 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.


Ending the Occupation of Palestine: The Verbal Obstacles Consider this fact: Under the United Nations charter, armed occupation is illegal; armed resistance to an occupation is recognized as legitimate.


New UN Mideast envoy arrives Serry is expected to spend his first week getting acquainted with the UN apparatus in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and next week will begin talks with Israeli officials. He is expected to make a trip to Sderot one of his first high-profile acts in Israel.



Ex-NBA star spreads message of peace Monday's event was run as part of the Peres Center's Twinned Peace Sports Schools project and more than 100 boys, about half Israeli and half Palestinian, couldn't wait to get on the court with Armstrong, a three-time NBA champion with Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, and show him their moves.




Fatah al-Islam chief warns of attacks on Lebanon army


Yemeni-Palestinian economic cooperation discussed