Headlines for 01-26-08

The Israeli army attacks a non-violent protest near Bethlehem On Friday midday the villagers of Al Khader village located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem protested today against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the villagers lands.


Egypt watches Gaza traffic go on On Saturday, the governor of the Egyptian border province of North Sinai said that Egypt would continue allowing Palestinians to come across the border, and that it would help them stock up on supplies.


Palestinian radical founder dies Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called three days of national mourning


2 children die in Gaza after Israel denies them travel approval


Gaza's falling wall changes Middle East map for ever For the first time in years Gazans feel free 'Free at last. Free at last. Are we finally free at last?'.....


Jordanians protest Gaza siege, call for UN intervention


Israeli police shoot Palestinian after stabbing Israeli police shot a Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli border policeman near Jerusalem, Israeli police and ambulance workers said.


Houstonians protest Gaza blockade Raw video from the scene


Hundred thousands of Yemenis hold demonstration supporting Palestinian people The Capital Sana'a witnessed on Saturday the greatest demonstration of hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people in support to the Palestinian people against the barbarian aggression of Israeli army on Gaza Strip.


Gaza families flock across border amid continued chaos Early Saturday, many Egyptian-owned stores were shuttered, with groups of Palestinians gathering outside and pleading with shopkeepers to allow them to purchase food and supplies in anticipation of a more heavy-handed effort to re-seal the border. By nightfall, however, the security presence largely had disappeared, the throngs were back and sidewalk trading was brisk....."They were choking in a prison and now that prison is open," Ibrahim said. "To be honest, it's not just about profit. It makes me feel good to sell to them."


Abbas calls on militants to halt Gaza rocket fire In a speech from the presidential headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Abbas also accused Israel of imposing collective punishment on the Gaza population by barring the transfer of food and medical supplies.




Border town united by Gaza border breach After the towering border wall slicing through Rafah was toppled earlier this week, long-separated relatives, friends and even former soccer buddies just had to walk a few yards to embrace and reminisce.


Fistfights as Gazans clear Egyptian shelves "Where are the Arab countries that should have sent food aid immediately as soon as they heard the border was open?"


Abbas to press Olmert to end Gaza blockade


A Palestinian Christian girl with a Palestinian flag painted on her face, prays during a mass service in support of Gaza


Israel suspects Iranians already working on nuclear warhead Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, in an interview published Saturday, that Iran is "quite advanced" in its work on atomic weapons and may already be fashioning a nuclear warhead.


Soldiers attack underage Palestinian detainees during interrogation


Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, there is a vast black market for nukes, and certain U.S. officials have been supplying sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and Israeli interests through its conduits.

Found in Translation by Philip Giraldi if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani, and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments......Edmonds also claims that Grossman was instrumental in seeding Turkish and Israeli Ph.D. students into major American research labs by godfathering visas and enabling security clearances.......She further reports that beginning in 1999, the FBI was investigating senior Pentagon officials who were assisting agents of foreign governments, including Turkey and Israel. Edmonds has not publicly named names at the Pentagon, but a website linked to her appears to be a non-incriminating instrument for identifying suspects without doing so directly. Its ?rogues gallery? includes photos of Richard Perle and Douglas Feith........?If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials,? Edmonds told the Times...... Edmonds?s claims that the section was infiltrated by translators who should never have received security clearances and who were deliberately failing to translate incriminating material are supported by the Justice Department inspector general investigation and by an FBI internal investigation, which concluded that she had been fired after making ?valid complaints.?........Edmonds?s revelations have attracted corroboration in the form of anonymous letters apparently written by FBI employees. There have been frequent reports of FBI field agents being frustrated by the premature closure of cases dealing with foreign spying, particularly when those cases involve Israel, and the State Department has frequently intervened to shut down investigations based on ?sensitive foreign diplomatic relations.?.......Curiously, the states-secrets gag order binding Edmonds, while put in place by DOJ in 2002, was not requested by the FBI but by the State Department and Pentagon?which employed individuals she identified as being involved in criminal activities.......It is generally believed that Waxman, a strong supporter of Israel, is nervous about exposing an Israeli lobby role in the corruption that Edmonds describes. Wow.


The Biggest Jailbreak in History


The Gaza 'tea party' Gaza is the Massachusetts of 2008. The "Intolerable Acts" of 1774 are a child's birthday party compared to the "Intolerable Acts" of 2008, committed by Israel. The Crossing of Rafah is the Port of Boston, 234 years later.
We went to war over much much less than what these people have had to suffer - for sixty years.


This exodus presents us Egyptians with a threat - and an opportunity


The Arab American News: New York activists take on Israeli settlement builder A network of pro-Palestinian organizations in New York is working hard to expose Israeli businessman Lev Leviev?s sponsorship of Israeli settlement construction. The groups have engaged in creative protests and organized boycotts and pressured those linked with Leviev. Their boycott campaign is gaining strong momentum.


Rice decries 'foreign interference' after Lebanon bombing


Middle East peace deal possible this year: Blair


Hospitality in a suspicious world Palestinians were generous despite their bleak, constrained lives. Lives which, they were usually too polite to point out, my country was historically, partly responsible for.




McCain is using support for Israel to court Jews - and Christians


Letter: Resist Israel lobbyists The drums for war with Iran are getting louder, and overpowering calls for restraint and negotiation. The only country advocating, in fact demanding, that the United states attack Iran, "regime change" is the euphemism used, is Israel......I cannot stand idly by and watch special interests, such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and their neoconservative partners, browbeat our leaders in Congress and the White House into actions that may well result again in Americans' lives being wasted in more unnecessary Mideast wars.


The Long Fuse to the Iraq War He talks about a parallel establishment and "an elite caste," but doesn't do anything to explore the huge pots of money available to the neocons and to politicians who stick by Israel. There is no follow through because all these ideas are close to anti-Semitic "canards," the word the pro-Israel crowd likes to use when anyone tries to address Jewish influence in public life......... If Heilbrunn doesn't believe this, he ought to state why not. As it is the reader is left with the shadowy sense that the neocons have a pro-Israel agenda that they are not upfront about. But it isn't a conspiracy, Heilbrunn warns. The neocons have convinced themselves that the U.S. and Israel have congruent interests.


Time to change direction The prime minister and his people apparently realized that the Israeli public loves to hate Olmert, but it hates the Palestinians even more. The tough position presented by the prime minister vis-à-vis the besieged Gazans instantly turned him into the crowd favorite. The public likes to see its prime minister being indifferent to Palestinian suffering. This trick helped Ariel Sharon in the past, and now it serves Olmert.


Dutch Jewish group slams card of Anne Frank in kaffiyeh A Dutch Jewish organization last week condemned the distribution of a postcard showing a manipulated image of Anne Frank wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh, calling it "a tasteless falsification of history." The company that published the postcard described it as "an idyllic image of peace."


Christian Zionists Feel "Betrayed" by Bush's Road Map "Hagee's injection of the charged rhetoric of biblical prophesy into contemporary foreign policy," Posner writes, "has catapulted him to the forefront of an American Christian Zionist movement that has become the darling of conservative Israel hawks in Washington and neoconservatives yearning for regional war in the Middle East."


Demonstrations "for Gaza and Sderot" on both sides of the fence A convoy of about 100 private cars and 25 buses is currently on its way to the Erez crossing in a demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and the residents of Sderot, under the slogan: "Stop the siege on Gaza: A demonstration for Gaza and for Sderot."