Headlines for 03-08-08

Gaza women rally to mark International Womens' Day


Peres says Israel will not act alone on Iran: report Asked if Israel would act alone to stop Iran getting the bomb, Peres, a former prime minister who currently holds no executive power, replied: "Under no circumstance. We are not so imprudent as to concentrate the Iranian danger on Israel."


Israeli attacker's family held Israeli police early on Friday arrested more than 10 relatives and friends of a Palestinian suspected of gunning down eight students at a Jewish religious school, witnesses said.


Feature: Palestinian women pay higher price in face of Israeli actions Um Yehia said she doesn't care about the International Women's Day which falls on Saturday, adding that her only concern is Yehia, her nine-year-old boy who survived an Israeli airstrike near herhouse on Feb. 28. He was playing football when the attack happened, and four of his friends were killed in the strike



Official: Israel is weakening the Palestinian Authority


Israeli army invades Bethlehem, four Palestinians wounded Four Palestinian youth were injured by Israeli army gunfire on Saturday at dawn in the village of Beit Fajjar, located west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.


Settlers vow revenge over Jerusalem massacre Hamas, which had vowed to avenge the more than 125 Palestinians killed in a recent Gaza offensive by Israel, at first claimed responsibility, then backtracked. Hamas's claim came as the spokesman for Israel's right-wing settlement movement said that he believed the attack on the religious college was aimed at his movement.



Cut 'Sovereign' Israel Loose by Charley Reese The Israelis are to the Palestinians like a 250-pound wrestler assaulting a 4-year-old child. Without pressure from the U.S., the Israeli government will go right on killing Palestinians, taking their land and expanding Israeli settlements. And Palestinians, weak as they are (they have no army, no air force, no navy, no country and no international help because the U.S. blocks all such attempts), will go right on resisting as best they can. Right on, Charley.


Abbas demands peace after killings "We condemn all the attacks, we demand peace and we are determined to make peace, and there is no other path but the path of peace based on international justice," Abbas told a rally at his headquarters.


World disgusted by attack on Jerusalem school Human rights group Amnesty International also condemned the school attack as "a gross abuse of international humanitarian law" but urged Israel not to react with more military action in the Palestinian territories. "The lives of Palestinian civilians, who bear no responsibility for yesterday's attack in Jerusalem, should not be put in jeopardy as a result," said Malcolm Stuart, Amnesty's chief for the Middle East and North Africa.



Abbas calls for end to conflict by creation of Palestinian state


Open Letter to our Israeli brothers and sisters Hebron CPTers offer our deepest sympathy to our Israeli friends and wish to express our deep sorrow for the violent deaths of the 8 students and those injured from the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem


Hezbollah denies involvement in yeshiva attack Israeli security officials said the Lebanese militia may have ordered Thursday night's attack, in which eight students were killed, though initial indications were that gunman Ala Abu Dhaim, who was himself shot dead, acted alone.


Jordan curbs terrorist's mourners Jordan blocked relatives of the suicide terrorist who carried out the Jerusalem shooting spree from publicly mourning him.


Y.U. rabbi apologizes for remarks Rabbi Hershel Schachter apologized for saying Israel's prime minister should be shot if he gives away Jerusalem.


It's Iran vs. Israel Thursday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem in which eight seminary students were killed by a Palestinian gunman, and the latest fighting between between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, are more than new chapters in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: They are part of a much larger struggle underway between Iran and Israel. Oh what a load of BS being peddled from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, err, I mean the Washington Times.


Getting to know Ralph Nader He wants to crack down on corporate crime and predatory lending. Also, he will pull US troops out of Iraq, address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and would move to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney.



Dr. Al-Arian's Third Strike The Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, imprisoned for five years despite a jury?s failure to return a single guilty verdict against him, has gone on a hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va. Al-Arian, who has abstained from food and water since March 3, began his hunger strike after being informed he would be called before a third grand jury.


Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus


Students return from West Bank Shouster, a Neve Shalom resident herself, said this trip proved the violence in the Territories portrayed in the media was only a vocal minority, whereas the majority were "people who are struggling to live a normal life. [While] nothing in life is really objective[,] people don't even have an idea of the [Palestinians' situation]." If only all Americans could see that. We are being deceived.


MK Yatom: Must be division between east, west Jerusalem Yatom addressed Thursday's terrorist attack on the Mercaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem that left eight dead saying: "(Israeli-Arabs) can get to any town in Israel. We must ensure some sort of supervision so those who live in east Jerusalem and have blue identity cards can't cross into Israel without regulation and monitoring.


The Silent Violence of Gaza's Suffering That Candidates and Congress Ignore By RALPH NADER


MK demands dismantling of mourning tent for Jerusalem terrorist In response the Arab-Israeli lawmakers said the right-wing MK's were making cynical use of the attack to vilify the entire Arab sector. Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta'al) told Ynet that MKs Effie Eitan (National Union-NRP) and Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu) are "fascists who have set out to harass the Arab citizens.


Interview: Israeli intelligence bracing up for renewed escalation of planned attacks


Self-defense vs. slaughter There is every reason to suspect, moreover, that this particular religious school was more than a target of opportunity. Mercaz Harav is Israel's leading "Hardal" seminary, the Harvard of a movement that blends strictly Orthodox Judaism with a militant and messianic religious Zionism. Its graduates are the theorists and the shock troops among West Bank settlers. Its adherents also are the segment of Israeli popular opinion most inclined to demand that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert -- who they regard as a quisling -- suspend talks with the Palestinians.