Saturday, March 1, 2008

Headlines for 02-29-08

Killed while they played football, the child victims of Israel's revenge on Gaza While the Israeli military said it had been targeting militants and rocket-launching squads, the officials said the boys were playing football close to their homes in Jabalya, northern Gaza.


Settlers dig tunnels around Jerusalem Jewish settler groups are digging an extensive tunnel network under Muslim areas of Jerusalem's Old City while building a ring of settlements around it to bolster their claim to the disputed city in any future peace deal, anti-settlement campaigners have told The Times.


King calls for US help in Middle East


US refuses to intervene in Palestinian damages suits


Thousands of Gazans protest over deadly Israeli rai


Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group German officials have identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation. There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad.......The fact that the agency could not rule out the possibility of fabrication, according to Ritter, indicates that it had either chosen not to do such tests or that the tests had revealed fraud.



Israeli minister warns of Holocaust for Gaza if violence continues Israel's deputy defence minister yesterday warned his country was close to launching a huge military operation in Gaza and said Palestinians would bring on themselves a "bigger shoah," using the Hebrew word usually reserved for the Holocaust.


Israel Prepares International Opinion For Assault on Gaza


Gaza Strip/Israel: Civilians Bear Brunt of Attacks Following the Hamas rocket barrage, an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza on Wednesday evening killed three Palestinian children


Palestinian political detainee dies in Israeli detention camp due to medical negligence


Hamas: Israel will flounder in Gaza like it did in Lebanon


Hezbollah says US ship is threat A Hezbollah MP has condemned the deployment of the USS Cole warship off the coast of Lebanon as a threat to Lebanese sovereignty and independence.


More Americans turning to Web for news Once Americans (such as myself five years ago) turn away from our mainstream medium such as TV and newspaper, and turn toward sources from such countries as say, Britain, they will realize just how badly they are being deceived about some topics.


Jewish Dems praise McCain for rejecting GOP flier The release also described Obama's past membership on the board of a non-profit that donated money to an Arab American group as "disturbing evidence of Obama?s anti-Israel leanings."



Wexler: Obama might not mean Ahmadinejad Wexler told JTA that Obama would meet with Iranian leaders as a means of reducing its threat to Israel For which country is Obama seeking the presidency?


House committee nods to Jewish refugees The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution calling for equal treatment of Jewish refugees in any peace deal.


When McCain and Obama face off, Israel may find itself in the eye of the storm


Donald Macintyre: To be in favour of peace is not anti-Israeli In a Haaretz article this week Akiva Eldar pointed out that AIPAC "does not really bother to rally in favour of a two state solution". While those it sees as "friends of Israel" certainly include hardliners who believe in a greater Israel stretching from the Mediterranean to Jordan, those who criticise Israel for not moving fast enough in its own long-term security interests towards the just two state solution it says it wants, are enemies.


Barack Obama's Israel Bond Speaking to a group of 100 pro-Israel supporters in Cleveland this week, Obama assured the crowd that as president he would keep Iran in the crosshairs to protect Israeli interests.


Arbour to leave U.N. post In a statement, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Arbour's most acerbic congressional critic, called her departure "the first step toward saving the broken UN human rights infrastructure from itself."
Ros Lehtinen is Israel's top agent on Capitol Hill. Most of what she does therein has seemingly nothing to do with AMERICAN interests.


Israel remains #1 with Jewish voters Concerns for Israel stem not just from the Palestinian crisis, but are intertwined intertwined with future dealings with Iran.


Obama ?passionate? about Israel being a Jewish state the Illinois senator has ?specifically and unequivocally rejected the notion? of a Palestinian right of return to lands that are now part of Israel.




Rift in Israel over military's big purchase


Football is politics when Arab Israeli town meets Jerusalem


Palestinian diplomat to speak at Cornell


Scholar banned by US to speak here CONTROVERSIAL Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was refused entry into the US over alleged links to terror networks, is due to deliver a lecture on Islam at a conference sponsored by the Queensland Government on Monday.




Arabs protest ban on Habash memorial


Academic Freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel


Church Leaders Ask Condoleezza to Address Gaza Crisis


UAE CONTRIBUTES US$50 MLN TO PALESTINE BUDGET


One Palestinian billionaire's vision of unity


Sudan welcomes the arrival of Palestinian refugees The irony.


Photo essay: McMaster?s Israel Apartheid Rally

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