Headlines for 01-17-08

01-17-08 - Seven Palestinians die in Gaza as Olmert vows "war"


01-17-08 - IDF kills senior al-Aqsa Brigades' operative


01-17-08 - Israel blocks access to Gaza A strike on Thursday night targeted a car in the northern Gaza Strip that was carrying members of the radical Islamic Jihad movement, killing two of them, medical sources said. However the blast also hit a cart travelling behind the car, killing the woman who was driving it and seriously wounding her passenger, a child. Two pedestrians were also hurt.




01-17-08 - Gaza: Palestinian cancer sufferers denied safe passage Thirteen Palestinians in Gaza with cancer and other life-threatening conditions are being denied safe passage out of the beleaguered territory by Israeli military authorities, Amnesty International warned today, as it launched an 'urgent action' appeal on behalf of the group


01-17-08 - Israeli wounded in shooting attack near Modi'in


01-17-08 - Palestinians urge US to intervene over Israeli raids


01-17-08 - Israel's foreign minister: Iran nuclear controversy should be solved via sanctions


01-17-08 - Neturei Karta decry 'Gaza massacre'


01-17-08 - Israeli military kidnaps one Palestinian near Ramallah


01-17-08 - Israel says arrested militants planning train attack Israel said on Thursday it arrested four members of a Palestinian militant group last month and accused them of planning to attack an Israeli passenger train.


01-17-08 - Abbas may quit over Gaza violence Mahmoud Abbas may resign in protest of Israel's recent raids on the Gaza Strip, aides said....."Israel's actions undermine the Palestinian Authority and drive more Palestinians into the open arms of Hamas and Islamic Jihad," one aide said.


01-17-08 - Ahmadinejad scorns US and Israel The Iranian leader also dismissed US ally Israel, saying: "The Zionist regime... would not dare attack Iran.
"It knows that any attack on Iranian territories would prompt a fierce response," he added.



01-17-08 - At-Tuwani Release: Olive trees destroyed in the night In the days preceding and following the incident, Israeli settlers and
soldiers have threatened and harassed Palestinian shepherds grazing
their flocks nearby. On Saturday, 12 January, a group of settlers from
the illegal settlement outpost of Havat Ma'on approached shepherds
grazing their flocks and fired six shots in the air. The Palestinian
shepherds and their flocks scattered. On 15 January, Israeli soldiers
threatened to arrest Palestinian shepherds if they continued to graze
their sheep in the adjacent valley.


01-17-08 - At-Tuwani Release: Cistern contaminated in Humra Valley On 9 December, a group of Israelis, apparently visitors to the nearby
settlement of Ma'on, or the illegal settlement outpost Havat Ma'on,
walked through Tuwani. CPTers observed the group stop next to a
cistern in Humra Valley, open the lid and raise the bucket


01-17-08 - Israel plans to resume its settler-only road which will surround Jerusalem


01-17-08 - Israeli army kidnaps at least 24 from Nablus


01-17-08 - Hamas investigates Gaza failures


01-17-08 - Shalit's father consoles Hamas official The father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit extended condolences to a Hamas official bereaved by Gaza fighting


01-17-08 - Canada places U.S., Israel on torture watch list Canada's foreign ministry has put the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured and also classifies some U.S. interrogation techniques as torture, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Thursday.


01-17-08 - Israel "would not dare attack Iran": Ahmadinejad


01-17-08 - Four injured, among them a journalist in Hebron city during clashes with the Israeli army


01-17-08 - US urges ally Israel to show restraint in Gaza The United States urged Israel Thursday to avoid the loss of innocent life in the violence-wracked Gaza Strip, but defended the Jewish state's right to strike against rocket and mortar attacks from Islamic militants.


01-17-08 - Iran defiant after Israeli missile test


01-17-08 - Egypt seizes explosives in Sinai: security official


01-17-08 - Aid pledges to Palestinians increased International donors have pledged $7.7 billion (3.9 billion pounds) in aid to the Palestinians over the next three years, more than initially reported, a Palestinian government minister said on Thursday


01-17-08 - Israeli FM calls for division of Palestine political forces


01-17-08 - Troops break into the headquarters of the Popular Resistance Committees in Hebron


01-17-08 - Israel FM urges firmer stance from Russia on Iran


01-17-08 - Ban raises concern over Israeli-Palestinian violence


01-17-08 - Jordan urges EU help to stop Israeli attacks in Gaza, push peace


01-17-08 - Israel test-fires ballistic missile after Iran warning


01-17-08 - NYC jeweler sentenced in bogus bomb plot Alkatri also faces deportation to his native Syria as a convicted felon. One of his lawyers, Michael L. Soshnick, argued that a return to that country could be fatal because Alkatri is Jewish.


01-17-08 - US to set up cluster bomb clearance team The United States will create a team of experts to defuse cluster bombs and other explosives that pose a threat to civilians after the end of a conflict, U.S. officials said Wednesday.


01-17-08 - Pentagon's Islam "Expert" Hoisted by His Own Jihad Over the weekend, the Fox News Channel spun the centrifuges of Islamo-hysteria faster, featuring an interview with self-declared "terrorism expert" Steve Emerson, who alleged that radical Islamists had infiltrated the U.S. government and had gained enough clout to manipulate who gets hired and fired Emerson is quite wrong. To the contrary- the US government was infiltrated long ago by those other extremists - pro-Israeli ones. And they have proved far more costly to the American people in terms of blood and treasure than any of their Islamic counterparts. 0


01-17-08 - Three-way checkmate George Bush's visit to the Middle East has failed to loosen a Gordian knot of Hamas, Fatah and Israel


01-17-08 - Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims The US is at war in Iraq, because the neoconservatives want to rid Israel of the Muslim governments ? Iraq, Iran and Syria ? that are not American surrogates and, therefore, are willing to fund Palestinian and Lebanese resistance to Israeli aggression. Israel, protected by the US, has disobeyed UN resolutions for four decades and has been methodically squeezing Palestinians out of Palestine.


01-17-08 - Lieberman, GOP seek out Jewish vote Lieberman told about 200 Republican Jewish activists that he's backing John McCain because his fellow senator and Iraq war hawk best understands the nature of the radical Islamic threat faced by ''our ally Israel'' -- while much of the Democratic Party has forsaken it......While Jews overwhelmingly vote Democratic on social issues year after year, the Republican presidential candidates this year have gone to great lengths to out-Israel each other -- from using Israeli newspaper email lists to traveling to Israel to addressing myriad Jewish groups.


01-17-08 - Dying to be heard When Rachel Corrie died under a bulldozer in 2003 - while protesting Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip - she was immediately elevated to martyrdom by some, smeared as a meddler by others.


01-17-08 - Students win cash award to help reduce waste in Palestinian territories


01-17-08 - Israeli sources: seven Israeli soldiers injured, one seriously, at an Israeli naval base Israeli media sources reported that an artillery shell exploded onboard an Israel Navy missile ship at the Haifa naval base on Wednesday morning injuring seven soldiers, one critically.


01-17-08 - Congressman says church, state should be separate Ackerman said he regretted that some constituents had misconstrued his vote and went on to say that his record reveals him as a man who has always supported religious freedom for all groups, including Palestinian Christians, whose particular plight has long been overshadowed by the overarching Jewish-Muslim tensions between Israel and its neighbors.


01-17-08 - Mid-East suffers rare cold snap In Syria, temperatures have dropped to minus 16 degrees Celsius. There has been widespread damage to crops in Syria, Jordan and Israel.