Headlines for 03-01-08

Palestinians' bloodiest day, Israel kills 61 in Gaza Almost half the dead were civilians, including children.


Scores killed in raids on Gaza Israel's military killed at least 60 Palestinians yesterday - almost half of them civilians, including four children - in its most violent assault on the Gaza Strip since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power last June.....The latest bloodshed comes as an Observer investigation revealed how Israel is again deliberately obstructing the transfer of urgent medical cases for treatment outside Gaza, in the latest extension of its policy of collective punishment of Palestinians.


2 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza Seven other soldiers were injured in the incident ? six suffering light wounds and one suffering moderate ones.


A Palestinian medical worker rushes a baby into the hospital in Gaza City.


U.N.'s Ban says Israeli force in Gaza is "excessive" "While recognizing Israel's right to defend itself, I condemn the disproportionate and excessive use of force that has killed an injured so many civilians, including children," Ban told an emergency session of the council.


UNICEF Statement on situation in Gaza UNICEF is deeply troubled that the current escalation of the conflict in Gaza is hurting a large number of children. Since the beginning of the current round of violence on Wednesday, 17 children from Gaza have been killed and over 200 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.


Gazans cower under fire, anger at Israel mounts In the past four days, 95 Gazans have been killed, dozens of them civilians, including children as young as six months. On Saturday alone, 30 civilians were among 60 people killed in the bloodiest day since a Palestinian uprising began in 2000.


Villagers of Al Khader near Bethlehem protest construction of Israeli Wall


Hamas responsible for civilian Gaza deaths- Israel Israel's defence minister on Saturday held Islamist Hamas responsible for civilian casualties during fighting in the Gaza Strip, and said Israel would press on fighting Mm k.


Libya urges Arabs to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza Libya on Saturday called on Arabs to halt what it called an Israeli military campaign aimed at "wiping out the Palestinian people".


Palestinian priest defends comments on Israel Ateek said the language and positions that have brought Sabeel its most virulent criticism were sermons in which he has compared the suffering of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation to the hardships of Jesus and the early Christians. The group has also called for U.S. churches to divest from companies doing business in the occupied territories.


Fatah lawmaker calls for reconsidering peace talks with Israel


Palestinian negotiator calls on Gaza factions to stop rocket attacks into Israel


Hebron Update: 01-07 February 2008 The shopkeeper told Martens the Palestinian children threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed on rooftops, who fired live ammunition at the children. The ammunition wounded some children, and an ambulance took them to the hospital.


The Second and Third Stations of the Cross in Occupied Palestine For 40 years, Palestinians have born the cross of military occupation. Palestinians have lost their land, their homes, their olive trees, their cultural traditions, and their lives. Throughout these 40 years, people around the world, but especially Christian Zionists, have offered their support to the Israeli military occupation of Palestine. Because the unconditional support our governments offer the state of Israel, we are complicit in the suffering of the Palestinian people.


Palestinians in Lebanon express outrage at Gaza violence Thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon expressed anger late Saturday at the Israeli government over its continued attacks against the Gaza Strip. "Death to Israel," shouted the angry crowd marching through the narrow streets of the Burj al Barajneh camp carrying black flags and pictures of young Palestinian children killed in the latest raids.


Hamas warns Israel against harming its leaders


US urges end to violence in Mideast: White House


Abbas calls for urgent Security Council meeting on Gaza


Hamas leader says armed resistance "only option" "No one in his right mind would like to see Israel invade Gaza, but the battle has been forced on us. The rockets are a reaction. Israeli aggression came first," Meshaal said.


Israel using Holocaust as pretext for Gaza killings: Hamas "If the world cannot end the occupation... then it is our right to defend ourselves,"


Abbas slams Israel's Gaza 'holocaust' "It's very regrettable that what is happening is more than a holocaust. We tell the world to see with its own eyes and judge for itself what is happening and who is carrying out international terrorism," Abbas told reporters in Ramallah.


Peace talks 'buried' by Gaza assault: Palestinian negotiator


She was a girl from small-town America with dreams of being a poet or a dancer. So how, at just 23, did Rachel Corrie become a Palestinian martyr?


Reporters on the Job "Munib al-Masri wears a finely tailored suit, speaks elegant English, and likes to kiss the hand of a lady when he bids he farewell, and somehow manages to do so without seeming chauvinist or dated," she says. " He told her that he's rarely slept more than four hours a day, so he feels he's already lived two lifetimes.


Local authorities blasted for polluting water sources The Environmental Protection Ministry harshly criticized local authorities all over the country on Monday for illegally dumping construction waste which threatens Israel's water sources.


McCain Gets Hell For Embracing Armageddon Sect


Australia's Government Continues Its Love Affair with Israel If Palestinians and their supporters had any hopes of a sympathetic hearing from the new Rudd government on the multiple human rights abuses being perpetrated by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, those hopes are now well and truly dashed.


Obama lays out plan for confronting Iran


Lebanese gov't denies U.S. warships presence


UN boss alarmed by Hezbollah's threat against Israel


Villagers of Bil?in hold funeral march for the children killed in Gaza


US warship worsens Lebanon crisis: Syrian FM


J'lem diplomats briefed on 'hasbara' Officials in Jerusalem began laying the grounds for a large hasbara campaign to try and show the world that Israel's actions in Gaza were "careful" and the harming of civilians was "impossible to avoid" when Hamas terrorists were using civilian grounds to launch rockets into Israel. BS.


Saudis urged to leave Lebanon


Jewish organizations react to controversial speaker Finkelstein is a supporter of the Palestinian cause and is the author of "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" and "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History."


Israeli Army Vets Speak Out The exhibit, which on March 1 will open at the Harvard University Hillel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, catalogs the daily routine of life in the West Bank city of Hebron, as seen through the eyes of Israeli soldiers who've been dispatched to serve in an occupation now in its forty-first year.



Government "deeply concerned" at Gaza violence The Swiss authorities have expressed "very deep concern" at the escalation of violence around the Gaza Strip and the consequences on the civilian population


Crisis in Gaza? Not for Obama or Clinton The next president will have to deal with the reality of a humanitarian, political and military crisis in the Middle East that grows worse with each passing year because of the internationally recognized reality that the United States -- while profoundly influential in the region -- fails to operate as an honest or effective player.


The Mughniyeh Enigma by Scott Ritter


Nonviolent Demonstration Opens Road in South Hebron Hills This roadblock has been a major impediment to travel for people in this area. This road is the only vehicle access for people in the South Hebron Hills to travel to and from the city of Yatta, which serves as the economic hub for the entire region.


When Conservatives Loved the Palestinians within the lifetime of our parents, conservatives were surprisingly pro-Arab. This was particularly true of the most salient issue in the Middle East, the Palestinian refugee problem. As surprising as this may sound, the mainstream consensus view of American conservatives from the late 1940s until well into the late 1960s was that the Palestinians had been deeply wronged by Israel and deserved restorative justice.