Headlines for 01-25-08

Israel kills 4 in Gaza as Egypt begins closing border


Israeli air strike kills Hamas commander Mohammed Harb was killed along with one of his lieutenants when an Israeli missile struck their car, medical sources said.


Israel kills Palestinian in West Bank clash, medics say Witnesses said troops opened fire at local residents who hurled rocks at troops in the village, killing the teenager.


'Breakout into Israel' ahead A SENIOR Hamas official warned yesterday that the next breakout from the Gaza Strip could be into Israel, with 500,000 Palestinians attempting to march towards the towns and villages from which they or their parents fled or were expelled 60 years ago.


US still blocks UNSC vote on Gaza while the new draft makes mention of rockets targeting Israelis, it strengthened its condemnation of Israel, according to officials in the Israeli Mission, who said the current draft was "very bad" for Israel.


To avoid fence, Jerusalem Arabs are making move to Jewish areas This shift, wrought by the security fence, is profoundly changing the city?s character. In some cases it is prompting Jewish Jerusalemites unhappy with the changes to talk about leaving their neighborhoods or the city entirely......Jerusalem?s Jews seem to have mixed feelings about the changing demographics of their neighborhoods. Jews in some neigborhoods are setting up committees to prevent Arabs from moving in, and some are circulating fliers in synagogues against selling or renting homes to Arabs, according to Israeli media reports.
This racism is truly the heart of this conflict; from the beginning the plan has been to be rid of as many Arabs as possible from the region in order to further the defining characteristic of Israel, the Jewish State. All manner of Israeli government policies are put forth (and have been since before the inception of Israel, really) in an effort to achieve this end.


Israeli cop killed A Palestinian group claimed responsibility for killing an Israeli border guard in a shooting attack near Jerusalem.



Hamas: ?P.A security arrested five Hamas members in the West Bank on Thursday?


Qurea meets EU envoy for Middle East Peace Process, slams settlements, siege


Fearing Palestinian unrest, Jerusalem police limit access to Moslem shrine


Hamas says its members carried out WBank attack Hamas's armed wing said in a statement on Friday that its members were responsible for an infiltration into a West Bank settlement that ended with the death of the two Palestinian militants.


Israel refuses to rule out retaliatory attack ISRAEL is still considering a large-scale military operation to stop rocket attacks from Gaza, according to defence minister Ehud Barak.


A Palestinian boy helps his sister as they make their way to Egypt after


Palestinians profit from breach Faced with constant economic challenges and hardships, Gazans are used to using their wiles to keep bread on their tables.


Hamas challenges Egypt's bid to close Gaza border Egyptian security forces greatly reduced their presence along the breached Gaza border late on Friday after Palestinian militants defied their attempts to seal the gaps by bulldozing a new opening.


Gazans scramble to Egypt in supply rush Gazan men heaved sheep and mattresses over a concrete wall at one border point. Young men helped women and the elderly scale the wall to buy food or medicine.


Egypt struggles to herd Gazans back to confinement


Hamas accepts Egypt invitation to meet Fatah


Jordanians rally in support of Hamas in Gaza The demonstrators lambasted Arab rulers, without naming them, accusing them of standing idly by as ordinary Gazans suffer and called on Egypt to allow freedom of movement for Palestinians.


Israeli-Turkish relations tense as Erdogan says Qassams don't kill Relations between Israel and Turkey have become very tense in the last two days, after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that no Israelis have been killed by Qassam missiles, while every Israel Defense Forces attack in the Gaza Strip kills dozens of Palestinians.


Blockade can't divide some Israeli, Palestinian friends


Security chief assassinated in Lebanon bomb A senior Lebanese police officer and 10 other people were killed this morning when a powerful car bomb exploded in an east Beirut suburb.


Ambassador vs. Ambassador: Is Obama good for Israel? A couple of weeks ago, the Israeli tabloid Maariv ran a leading headline claiming that Israeli officials do not want Obama to be elected. They don't think he will be good for Israel.


U.N. aide played down attacks on Israel, envoy says Only one of the 15 council members -- the United States -- opposes the Arab draft. A senior U.S. envoy said Washington was unhappy with it because it fails to condemn the "terrorism" against Israel and ignores the causes of the problem.


Neocons Shaken, But Not Deterred While battered, however, neoconservatives have not yet been forced from the field. And while their hopes that President George W. Bush would "take out" Iran's nuclear program before leaving office appear to have diminished substantially, their hawkish voice is still heard loud and clear both in the White House ? courtesy of Vice President Dick Cheney's office and Deputy National Security adviser Elliott Abrams ? and in this year's Republican presidential race, where neoconservative favorites include former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, and, until earlier this week, Fred Thompson......neoconservatives, both Jew and gentile, are bound by a "shared commitment to the largest, most important Jewish cause: the survival of Israel."


Anderson: Palestine needs our help Israel receives more money than the Caribbean, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa combined. By some estimates the U.S. sends $22 million to Israel a day. Pinch this pipeline?even for a moment?and the entire occupation would grind to a halt.


Circuit judge resigns to do religious work A lifelong Tampa resident, Sierra is giving up her $145,000-a-year job to bring food and Bibles to Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank.


U.S. Arabs protest Israeli blockade of Gaza Friday?s protest outside the offices of Israel?s consulate and U.N. mission was organized by groups including the Arab Muslim American Federation, the National Council of Arab-Americans, the Palestinian American Congress and Jews Against the Occupation.


Candle procession in Kafer Kanna Arab town in solidarity with the Gaza Strip


Gandhi grandson leaves peace center He apologized "for my poorly worded post," saying he shouldn't have implied that Israeli government policies reflected the views of all Jewish people.


The agony of Gaza The highly publicized breakout of those Gazans also made it impossible to ignore the collective punishment being imposed on them by Israel's policy of closure and economic blockade. Hard to believe that this came from The Boston Globe.


Montreal Palestinians urge Harper to intervene in worsening situation in Gaza


Court denies Al-Arian's appeal in contempt case


BBC bids to suppress study on Middle East 'bias' In 2006, however, a study for the BBC governors led by Sir Quentin Thomas, the president of the British Board of Film Classification, found that the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict implicitly favoured the Israeli side. It concluded that the deaths of Israelis received greater coverage than Palestinian fatalities and made reference to "identifiable shortcomings".


Panel discusses integration of Arabs citizens in Israeli media


Israeli, Palestinian influences in Middle Eastern cooking


U.S. Jews working toward peace a sign of hope The voices of U.S. Jewish peace groups like Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, of which James and Jack are members, and Jewish Voice for Peace, which calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, are rarely heard in the U.S. mainstream media.


(By MJ Rosenberg)Gaza: Frozen and dark


Diplomats: EU foreign ministers to focus on Gaza The European Union's foreign ministers are set to focus on the situation in Gaza when they hold a regular meeting in Brussels on Monday, diplomats said.


The enemy within The Chicago Tribune justifies collective punishment by blaming the victims thereof.


Interview of Under Secretary Burns and Consul General Walles by Palestinian Media I want to say first of all, how much we support the United Nations and what UNRWA is doing in this camp as it does throughout the West Bank and Gaza, in Syria, in Jordan and in Lebanon. I think we all, members of the United Nations, have a responsibility to support the Palestinian people who are living under occupation and living in such hardship......We will in the next few weeks be providing more money, because we believe in the work that UNRWA is doing and we believe that Palestinian children should be educated. We believe that Palestinians should have dignity.



Shameful denial of Palestine holocaust


Israeli Initiative campaign spotlights Palestinian refugee problem The Israeli Initiative said it was due to launch a massive advertising campaign "that seeks to place the solution to the problem of the Palestinian refugees at the center of the political agenda".


WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Palestinians in Lebanon Seek Right of Return There will be a demonstration in Jerusalem around the right of return for Palestinian refugees and the Nakba, or 'catastrophe', when they were forced out of the land that became Israel in 1948. Palestinians in Lebanon are some of the worst off -- having been displaced up to five times from fighting and the civil war since then.


A rough guide to Hebron: The world's strangest guided tour highlights the abuse of Palestinians


Israel-Lebanon war sparks "human" films at Sundance