Thursday, March 27, 2008

Headlines for 03-26-08

McCain: Israel would suffer in Iraq pullout A premature withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel, John McCain said.......Top Israeli officials have also said that a hasty U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel.
Note the source.


Israelis Blocking Medical Care in Gaza Yassir Abu Aayya, 37, suffering from heart troubles, told TIME he was turned back after refusing to reveal the whereabouts of his militant brother. "They told me I should go back and die in Gaza," he says. If these accounts are true, say human rights activists, the withholding of medical care for non-medical reasons is a form of torture.


Israeli army denying cancer patient vital treatment 'Denying passage to patients in desperate need of medical care serves no legitimate security purpose, as all patients undergo strict security checks at the crossing, and are generally gravely ill,' said Amnesty International. "Israel, as the occupying power, is responsible for the right to health and access to health care for Karima Abu Dalal and all 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip."


Arab summit to adopt Yemeni proposal on Palestinian reconciliation


Israel rejects Carter-Annan mediation Israel turned down an offer by Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan to mediate a cease-fire with Hamas.


Olmert cool to Moscow summit idea Ehud Olmert played down the prospects of Israel attending a Middle East peace summit that Russia wants to host.


U.S. Navy secretary visits Israel Dr. Donald C. Winter came to Israel this week as a guest of Defense Minister Ehud Barak. He visited Israeli naval bases and Yad Vashem, and held high-level strategic discussions. This comes after a recent visit by U.S. Air Force chief. Odd.


The Israeli army kidnaps three civilians from Bethlehem


Israel Passover bomb suspect held Israeli security forces have arrested a key suspect in a suicide bombing which killed 30 mainly elderly people at a festival meal in 2002.


Palestinian rescue crews dig up bodies of two smugglers killed in Gaza tunnel collapse Palestinian rescue crews have dug up the bodies of two smugglers killed in a tunnel collapse in the southern Gaza Strip.


Update on Egnabi family and video link Following their eviction from their Hebron Old City dwelling (CPT Hebron: Israeli soldiers and settlers invade Palestinian home in Old City, 20 March, 2008), the Egnabi family has been living in one room in their building.


Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late At one point, however, the garrulous former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage did allude to one of the largest elephants in the living room-Israel?s far-right Likudniks-and their close alliance with the so-called neo-conservatives running our policy toward the Middle East. But Armitage did so only tangentially, referring to the welcome (if totally unrealistic) promise by Ahmed Chalabi that, upon being put in power in Baghdad, he would recognize Israel. Not surprisingly, the interviewer did not pick up on that comment; indeed, I?m surprised the remark avoided the cutting room floor.




An elderly Palestinian woman dies due to Israeli siege on Gaza


A Palestinian sniper shoots at an Israeli farmer near the border with Gaza Israeli media sources reported that a Palestinian sniper shot and wounded an Israeli farmer from the Ein Shlosha Kibutz (farm settlement) near the Gaza borders with Israel, Israeli media sources reported


Police station to be inaugurated in West Bank A new Israel Police station will be opened next week in E-1, an area that has been the site of a bitter land dispute between Israelis and Palestinians, officials said Wednesday


Gaza bakeries strike over bread prices Bakers in Gaza refused to bake bread Wednesday, charging that Hamas is keeping prices artificially low to head off unrest among their sanctions-weary people.


Fatah says Hamas must cede Gaza before talks


Olmert vows to press on with settlements


Israeli Rabbi: Seminary Shooter's Family Should 'Hang' A prominent rabbi on Wednesday called on the government to avenge the shooting attack that killed eight Jewish seminary students earlier this month, saying members of the Palestinian gunman's family should be hanged "from a high tree."


Palestinian sources: Israel pardons 36 wanted suspects Israel granted a full pardon to 36 wanted Palestinians who are members of the Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Palestinian sources said Tuesday.


Israel to approve security equipment for Abbas


NOAL Denounces Israeli Aggression against Palestinians Rodrigo Malmierca, the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations and president of the Coordination Bureau of the Movement of Non Aligned Countries (NOAL), denounced on Tuesday before the UN Security Council the recent aggressions of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.



Dissolved government in Gaza decides to reappoint its ministers


Olmert threatens "painful" measures against Hamas Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday threatened "painful" measures against Hamas and ruled out talks with the Palestinian Islamist group on a possible truce.


Israeli settlers open fire at Palestinian shepherds near Hebron, injuring three sheep. A group of Israeli settlers from illegal settlement of Havet Ma'on south of Hebron city, in the southern West Bank, opened fire at Palestinian shepherds and their sheep on Wednesday midday injuring three sheep.


Blair: Middle East peace process is a race against time


Powerful lessons: Ultra-orthodox awkward squad Having threatened to walk out of the government if the negotiators so much as discussed the future of Jerusalem ? the division of which into two capitals is a sine qua non of such an agreement ? the Shas leader Eli Yishai has claimed credit for the decision to build more than 300 new homes in the West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev. This has not only infuriated moderate Palestinians who thought that settlement building would be frozen in accordance with the internationally agreed road map, but has drawn a sharp rebuke from the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.


Israel denies knowledge of imminent Pollard release Eitan, who headed the secret Bureau of Scientific Relations that recruited and handled Pollard in the 1980s, said Monday that Pollard will be released soon.


1979: Israel and Egypt shake hands on peace deal


From 2006: CIA role claim in Kennedy killing Witnesses placed Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy but the autopsy showed the fatal shot came from one inch behind. Weird.


Experts: Sirhan Sirhan Did Not Kill RFK New forensics evidence presented Tuesday during a symposium at Foxwoods suggests Sirhan Sirhan did not fire the fatal shots that killed Sen. Robert Kennedy in 1968.


Egypt to snub Syria's Arab summit


Dovish PAC in place by April The effort will be headed by Jeremy Ben Ami, a Clinton administration official who was behind an effort last year to unite dovish pro-Israel groups into a lobby that would compete with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.


Jewish groups placed on security alert Citing an increase in threats and attacks, a U.S. Jewish security network warned its members to be alert to a "new set of circumstances."


Canada, Israel sign security declaration In a statement released by Canada?s Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Day said the declaration would help both countries address "common threats" to national security. THus does Canada further fall to the clutches of its own Israeli lobby. My condolences.


Prof taking music therapy to Palestinian children Behrens, a professor of music therapy at Elizabethtown College, is traveling to the Palestinian territories today to help children affected by war and violence cope through music therapy.


Israel probes efforts to free spy in US jail State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, who leads the probe, has scheduled meetings with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his predecessors, Ehud Barak -- now defence minister -- and Benjamin Netanyahu.


Sign of Jewish weakness The police discounted the possibility of a Palestinian attack or the settling of scores between criminals. It tied the assassination attempt to the religious beliefs of family members. Neighbors noted that the family has been holding odd ceremonies at home and the mayor was quick to clear his town of the terrible suspicion that a missionary sect got a foothold there.


Engage Israel, Hamas in two-state solution


A Devastated Town Recovers, In A Way Mohanna's house was bombed by Israel during the 34-day conflict in 2006, as were houses of most residents of Siddiqine -- an impoverished village of 6,000, about 10km inland from the coastal town Tyre. Siddiqine resembled a flattened moonscape in the bitterly cold and damp winter that followed, with more than 700 homes out of a total 1050 hit, and half that number completely destroyed.


Jail for thug who hit man with crutch Palestinian Mohammed Al Delishari was left scarred and had difficulty breathing following the assault which was captured on a security camera.


Swiss expert voted-in as human rights expert, despite controversy Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, one of Ziegler?s most persistent and vocal critics, says his appointment is a dark day for human rights. Ziegler calls the situation in the Middle East as he sees it. The pro-Israelis don't like it.


Jordan MPs introduce bill for abrogation of peace pact with Israel


Canada disputes UN's choice for Israeli monitor Some of Falk's anti-Israel writing is contained in an essay he wrote last summer. "It is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust' . . ." he wrote.

Oh the horror that somebody dare speak the truth about Israel.


McCain promises personal engagement in Middle East


You hear a banging noise? Armed with sticks and a broom, Palestinian boys challenge Israeli armor raiding the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank.

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