Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Headlines for 02-25-08

Four Palestinian gunmen killed in Israeli operations in Gaza Four Palestinian militants were killed overnight Sunday in several Israeli army missile attacks and ground operations in the Gaza Strip, medical and factional sources said Monday.


Gazans link hands in protest at Israeli blockade yesterday's protest in Gaza was largely peaceful except for a group of young Palestinians who broke away at the end and hurled stones at the Israeli army, who fired their guns into the air in retaliation. The army detained 49 people.


Official: Egypt frees 21 arrested Gazans, some Hamas activists Egyptian security on Monday released 21 Palestinians, many of them detained carrying weapons and explosives during the two weeks when the border with Gaza had been breached, and sent them back into the strip, a local security official said.


Abbas likely to ask Fayyad to expand acting gov't


Hamas studies Yemeni plan to reconcile with Fatah


Israel: Hamas to blame if civilians hurt in Gaza border march


Israeli PM calls for new sanctions against Iran


Qassam lands near Sderot school; child seriously injured


Gazan protesters form human chain


Qatar willing to broker cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas


Man murdered in Tira; residents say he was a collaborator


Israeli army kidnaps at least six Palestinians across the West Bank Israeli army invaded three West bank cities,in the early hours of Monday morning. Illegally arresting around six Palestinians from;Nablus, Jenin and Bethlehem in separate operations, carried out in the early hours of Monday morning.


Fuel shortages affecting Gazans at all levels Fuel shortages and power outages in the Gaza Strip continue to affect civilians and institutions such as hospitals, and remain a part of daily life.


Ereikat denies Palestinian-Israeli experts talks regarding water and economy


Bethlehem petrol stations continue their strike; the city is running out of fuel


Gazans form human chain along Israeli border in protest at blockade About 5,000 people, many of them women, schoolchildren and university students, joined the chain outside the town of Beit Hanoun, about four miles from the border


Fateh accuses Hamas security forces of attacking a female university student in Gaza


Palestinians plug Jericho into Jordan's power grid The West Bank town of Jericho was connected to the Jordanian power grid on Monday in a move a Palestinian official said was meant to reduce dependence on Israeli electricity supplies.


Bush, Jordan's king to hold White House talks in March


Barak rejects PM call to ease rules of engagement at border


Abbas urges US to play more active role in Palestinian-Israel talks


Gazans discuss human chain protest


Egypt starts controversial gas exports to Israel


Hezbollah and the 'Unknown Knowns' the internal disunity and open hostility ? notwithstanding the political impasse over the future of the country?s parliamentary and governmental organisation -- all point at the readiness of Lebanon to descend into chaos. This is good news for Israel and the Bush administration. A civil war could achieve what Israel?s botched, illegal war of 2006 could not.



AJC Criticizes Costa Rica Recognition of Palestinian State "The timing of this decision is both odd and painful," said AJC
Executive Director David A. Harris. "Odd because there is not yet a
Palestinian state. Painful because this action comes less than two years
after President Oscar Arias moved his country's embassy out of Jerusalem,
ending Costa Rica's longstanding and courageous example of maintaining its
embassy in Israel's capital city."
Declare Palestine. Most of the world would immediately recognize it.


Obama: Don't equate 'pro-Israel' and 'pro-Likud' "I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt a unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you're anti-Israel and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel,"


Nader enters race, rejecting label of potential 'spoiler' Nader praised Obama as "a person of substance" and "the first liberal evangelist in a long time," but accused Obama of leaning "toward the pro-corporate side of policy making" and of keeping silent about Palestinian suffering because criticism of Israel "is a real off-the-table issue for the candidates."


'Terrorism is the lousiest shortcut to failure' There was great brutality committed against the Palestinians ... which led me to say what I said. I clarified and, as a matter of fact. I apologized for the tone, not for the principle.


Hamas' Haneya receives message from AL chief


In Japan, Israeli PM calls for action on Iran


Beverly: Camp seeks to bring together Israeili and Palestinian teens


IPI calls on the Hamas-led government in Gaza to unequivocally lift the distribution ban on Al Ayyam newspaper


Palestinian Professor released after two years in detention


Popular Committees appeals the release of an ailing detainee imprisoned by Israel


EU condemns 'uncivilised' Iranian comments on Israel: statement The European Union condemned "in the strongest terms" Monday remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials about Israel, after the killing of a top Hezbollah commander.


Obama Worked with Terrorist, Expert Says Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line. The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.
Oh dear.


German development minister visits Israel, Palestinian territories

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