Palestinians 'may declare state' "If things are not going in the direction of actually halting settlement activities, if things are not going in the direction of continuous and serious negotiations, then we should take the step and announce our independence unilaterally," They should. Most countries of the world would immediately recognize it save for the few that are under the influence of the Israeli lobby (America included).
Israel arrests 6 Palestinians in West Bank
Israel blocking Gaza kids from joining parents in Ramallah Israel is preventing four children in the Gaza Strip from joining their parents in Ramallah. The children, aged 3 to 16, have been alone in the Gaza Strip since September 2007 when their mother went to the West Bank for medical treatment and did not return.
Envoy: Egypt won't blockade Gaza Egypt will not allow the Gaza Strip to remain sealed, Egypt's ambassador to the United States said.
Abbas cool to unilateral Palestinian independence
Hebron Update: 16-31 January 2008
Closed hearing and a secret ruling: how the word Israel was deleted When a researcher first applied to the Foreign Office for the release of the draft dossier, it turned the request down. The ministry then failed to conduct the required internal appeal against its decision. Its next move was to try to persuade the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, that the document - including the word "Israel" - was exempt under section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act, concerning free and frank discussion.
How Labour used the law to keep criticism of Israel secret The document reveals how the Foreign Office successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier. At the heart of it was nervousness at the top of government about any mention of Israel's nuclear arsenal in an official paper accusing Iraq of flouting the UN's authority on weapons of mass destruction.
Saudi minister calls for Israeli response on talks Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said overnight that a lack of positive response from Israel to initiatives for Middle East peace would make Arab nations review their position.
Palestinian seductress gets 15 years An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian woman to prison for planning to lure an Israeli man to his death.
PM meets Abbas, but Jerusalem not on agenda A senior Jerusalem source said Monday that Olmert and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had agreed to defer talks on Jerusalem to the final stage of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
Israel holds talks with Egypt over Rafah crossing
Palestinian man critically wounded as he was attacked by loose pigs from a nearby Israeli settlement Pigs that belong to settlers from the Israeli settlement of Areil near Salfit in the West Bank attacked a Palestinian elderly man and critically injured him.
Attack on Christian library in Gaza prompts heightened security fears
Israeli soldiers severely beat a Palestinian boy in Tulkarem city
Hamas shaken by pounding of Israeli bombs, but still in control of Gaza
Ahmadinejad in new attack on 'savage animal' Israel
Palestinian Territories - Ismail Haniyeh urged to lift ban on newspaper's distribution in Gaza Strip
P.A security arrests six Hamas supporters
Several children recently injured by military fire in villages north west of Jerusalem
Sick, injured detainees continue to be barred from medical treatment
Palestinians to report Israeli roadmap violations to US: official The Palestinians will present monthly reports to the US listing any Israeli violations of the international roadmap peace blueprint, prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday.
Israelis seize 12 Palestinians in West Bank
Abbas cool to unilateral Palestinian independence
Hamas arrests suspect in 'plot' to kill Haniya
An Israeli-Arab odd couple seek peace in Hebron
MKs to fan out globally to warn of Iran threat Israel's stepped-up lobbying effort is in part a response to the release by the United States late last year of a new National Intelligence Estimate, which claimed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program.
'Maybe they'll build it on moon' Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi said that "an Arab town will not be established, because the Israeli government is uninterested in it."
Reflection Hebron Occupation: Then and Now Something happens to people?s
hearts,to people?s consciousness, when they control others. I see it daily
in the Israeli soldiers who call the Palestinians animals and consider as less than human.
Gays rock the Middle East
Finkelstein gives Israeli-American relations lecture
The FO's case to the information tribunal I believe that if these comments were released into the public domain, this would seriously damage our bilateral relations with Israel. In my view, Israel will, in seeing these comments believe that the FCO has firstly, compared the Israeli regime to that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and secondly, suggested that Israel has flouted the authority of the United Nations in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Although the author of the marginal notes is unknown, I believe that the Israeli government would consider it likely that they would have been written by a senior figure. The assumption could, and I believe would, easily be made that these marginal notes represent the views of the FCO in relation to Israel.
Palestinian woman impersonates Israeli to undergo surgery
Israel's weapons - a diplomatic no-go area Israel, unlike Saddam Hussein's Iraq, never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the 1970 agreement which allows countries to develop civilian nuclear power in exchange for forgoing weapons. These are supposed to be the preserve of the five permanent members of the UN security council. In recent years India, Pakistan and North Korea have swelled the ranks of the weapons states, but unlike them Israel has never come out of the nuclear closet
Washington rejects Palestinian-Kosovo comparison
Israel sure of its military strength - Olmert Israel's armed forces are ready for a new war, should one erupt, Ehud Olmert said.
?Nuke Mom? Charged With Smuggling She is believed to be working for and with Asher Karni, owner of Top Cape Technology company in South Africa.
Nexus between economic development, statehood is focus of United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People
Hidden words The word "Israel" was written in the margins of the draft document by an unknown - but presumably senior - hand. It referred to a sentence which said of Saddam's Iraq: "No other country has flouted the UN's authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction." The implied meaning of the margin note was well articulated by a senior Foreign Office official, Neil Wigan, in trying to argue for its suppression - that "the person who wrote it believes that Israel has flouted the UN authority similar to that of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein".
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