Headlines for 03-15-08

Four Palestinians killed as Israel targets militants An Israeli air strike on Saturday killed three Islamic Jihad militants readying to fire rockets from Gaza, medics and the radical Palestinian group said, while a fourth Palestinian died from tank shelling.


Palestinians Want Ceasefire with Israel The vast majority of people in the Palestinian Territories would support a truce with Israel, according to a poll by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO). 73 per cent of respondents are in favour of a truce. Somebody needs to tell that to the rabid pro-Israel supporters over at CAMERA. It tends to blow their propaganda right out of the water.


Al Khader village near Bethlehem holds it weekly anti-wall protest Around 100 Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by Israeli and international peace activists staged a protest on Friday midday against the illegal Wall Israel is building on the village land.


The army attack Bil'in non-violent protest: six injured, one kidnapped Dozens of residents of Bil?in, a village near Ramallah, took to the streets on Friday in their weekly demonstration protesting against the illegal confiscation of village land through Israel's continued expansion of the wall.


AT-TUWANI REFLECTION: The Stations of Shaadi Settlement outposts extend the
reach of these settlements, and confiscate increasingly more
Palestinian land exclusively for Israeli use. Religiously zealous,
ideological and violent settlers threaten and attack anyone who dares
draw near. Palestinian shepherds here find they have less and less
land to graze their flocks, and must take grave risks when they do.


Militant's death unites Bethlehem


Ramon: We must crack down on outposts "Unfortunately, we are not meeting our commitments, and this hurts us internationally and compromises our ability to continue with negotiations," Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio on Saturday. Ramon had this to say about settlements in December: Speaking with IDF Army Radio on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Chaim Ramon acknowledged that Israel would continue construction within some of the larger Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.


Palestinian Forces' Training Marred by Delays, Politics A U.S.-funded program to train and equip Palestinian security forces is mired in delays, a shortage of resources, and differences between Israelis and the Americans over what military capabilities those forces should have once deployed in the territories. ......."Underfunded, underequipped, under-everything," said one of the two Americans with close knowledge of the program. "It is grossly negligent in what it needs." One of our guys over there allegedly killed himself recently.


Fatah and Hamas delegations to visit Yemen this week To bridge the gap between the two rival Palestinian factions, delegations from Fatah and Hamas will visit Yemen in the middle of this week for dialogue aimed at unifying the Palestinian ranks to face the continued Israeli aggression.



Hamas says it can hit Israeli helicopters with seized guns


China to supply crime-fighting gear to Palestinians "What we signed today will give the Palestinians some emergency assistance for the security branches," Yang Wei Guo, the Chinese envoy to the Palestinian territories, told AFP.


Voice SMS launched for Palestinians Jordan's pioneering provider of telecommunication services, Umniah, recently announced the launch of its innovative International Voice Short Message service (SMS) to Palestine.


Mauritania's relations with Israel a 'sovereign matter': Abbas


Gaza militants claim to hit Israeli army bases with rockets


Mideast Players Differ On Approach to Hamas Rice's predecessor, Colin L. Powell, last year told National Public Radio that some way must be found to talk to Hamas, arguing, "I don't think you can just cast them into outer darkness and try to find a solution to the problems of the region without taking into account the standing that Hamas has in the Palestinian community." An aide said last week he retains that view.


Shadowplays The recruitment and deployment of Palestinian collaborators is not a new phenomenon. It is a longstanding Zionist practice, almost as old as Zionism itself


Death threats to Arab MKs increasing Arab MKs have been receiving death threats in the mail nearly every day, said representatives from the three Arab parties Thursday.


Talk to Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas: former top Blair aide


Rachel Corrie play debuts in Israel Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, was (deliberately run over and) killed by an Israeli soldier in a bulldozer on March 16, 2003. No one was ever held accountable for that murder, and our government has never demanded the such.


Virginia inmate moved amid hunger strike Former University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian stopped taking food or water last week to protest a third attempt by prosecutors to compel his testimony.


Hindsight is 20/20 - how israel duped US into fighting their wars


Two Kiryat Ata men arrested for attacking Arab workers Police suspect the two, aged 19 and 25, arrived Thursday afternoon at a construction site in the town's center where the victims worked. They launched insults of racist nature at them, cursed Prophet Mohammed and later physically attacked them and damaged their car. One victim received medical treatment.



Merkel says threats to Israel are threats to us "The threats to which the Israeli state is exposed are also threats to us," Merkel said in her weekly podcast.


ISRAEL: Facebook face-off Palestinian members in the West Bank were recently outraged to discover their hometown in their Facebook biographies had been changed from Palestine to Israel. After a brief outcry, the change was reversed. But now Israeli residents in settlements throughout the West Bank are outraged that THEIR hometown has been changed from Israel to Palestine. The legal status of Israeli settlers in the West Bank is one of illegal squatters in occupied territory. TS if they can't handle the truth.


'J'lem attacker targeted rightist rabbi' The target of last Thursday's shooting attack in Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva was a far right-wing rabbi, the Hizbullah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Akhbar reported Friday.


Living Experience: The enemy within While conflict rages around them, one Israeli woman has taken a bold step by welcoming into her household a Palestinian man and his sick son