Sunday, March 30, 2008

Headlines for 03-27-08

Israeli troops kill Hamas gunman in Gaza - medics


Demands for inquiry into Israeli shootings A criminal investigation was demanded yesterday into whether the killing of four Palestinian militants in a Bethlehem street earlier this month was an "extra-judicial execution" in violation of a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court.


Secret tunnel unearths new Jerusalem conflict Amin al-Siyam says he is awakened nearly every night by the sound of Jewish settlers tunneling under his east Jerusalem house towards the Old City's deeply sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound.


MK Elon: Palestinian refugee issue fuels terrorism


Bush invites Abbas to Washington US President George W Bush has invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to visit Washington towards the end of April.


Grave suspicion of extra-judicial execution in Bethlehem killings


Palestinians Fear Two-Tier Road System "They took our land to build this road, and now we can't even use it," Mr. Abu Safia says bitterly, pointing to the highway with one hand as he drives with the other. "Israel says it is because of security. But it's politics."


Palestinians discuss proposal for Israel cease-fire in Egypt


West Bank Faces Toxic Waste Crisis Several weeks ago, villagers from Jima?in in the Nablus district complained that Israeli trucks were again dumping waste on Palestinian land.


Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Egypt truce "Any truce with Israel must include the West Bank, the lifting of the siege and the opening of the border crossings,"


Palestinians protest Israeli charity closures Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron protested on Thursday against Israeli raids and closures of orphanages and charities linked to Islamist group Hamas....."I deserve to be treated like any other child around the world," said 14-year-old orphan Rani Hasan during the protest. "My father is dead. Who will take care of me?"


Arab foreign ministers agree to relaunch Mideast peace plan


Palestinians puzzled by Israeli gesture for West Bank city Palestinian officials, however, said the town, Jenin, does not require additional forces. And they said Israel is still not doing nearly enough to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his life-and-death showdown with the militants of Hamas - such as removing roadblocks, dismantling illegal West Bank outposts or releasing prisoners


The Israeli army attacks a village near Hebron and kidnaps a school boy


Wounded Palestinians hospitalized in İstanbul grateful to Turkish nation


Union committee to reconsider Israeli academics boycott The University and College Union (UCU)'s national executive committee (NEC) has agreed to reconsider a boycott of Israeli academics at its annual congress in May.


Barenboim to lead concert for peace in Jerusalem Daniel Barenboim, the Israeli conductor and, since January this year, honorary Palestinian citizen, will lead 33 young Israeli and Palestinian musicians in a special "concert for two peoples" in Jerusalem today.


Migrants killed on Egypt's border Egyptian border guards have shot dead two African migrants, as they tried to cross the frontier into Israel.


UC Irvine students: Jews are safe Chancellor Michael Drake has been criticized by the Zionist Organization of America for failing to condemn specific acts of anti-Israel rhetoric on his campus as well as his appearance at this week's Hillel summit in Washington.


Boycott backer says he was threatened Gianni Vattimo, an author and philosopher, told the Italian media he had received an anonymous letter urging him to "remember" the Palestinian activist and writer Waed Zuaiter, who was killed by Israeli agents in Rome on Oct. 16, 1972.


AJC Outraged by UN Human Rights Council Election of Ziegler, Falk Oh dear.


Controversial history prof alleges Israeli ethnic cleansing Ilan Pappe, who teaches history at the University of Exeter in England, told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview from Montreal that he hopes to rouse public opinion to persuade the Canadian government to ?exert pressure? on Israel ?to end the occupation as a first step towards a lasting peace in Israel and Palestine?.


IDF: Islamic Jihad producing Grad-like rockets


Flowers, Strawberries, and Missiles Just 300 yards from the hidden eyes in the Israeli tank, Ahmed Felfel picks his strawberries. But it isn't the Israelis in the tank who worry him as much as those others who will not let him sell them.


Israeli military kidnaps two from Qalqilia


Avraham Burg, Israeli Political Leader, to Speak Here April 2


Palestinian, Jewish Friends Forge Bonds ?Walking the Walk? in Holy Land


Speaker Argues That Israel's Now Fighting Two Wars at Once The Israel Project is now successfully pitching three to four stories per day about Sederot to news outlets, he said. One way they have gotten the attacks into the news is by helping to place reporters for overnight stays with families in the town, so they can experience what happens when parents and children are awakened late at night, then forced to rush into a bomb shelter within a matter of seconds


UK group tackles anti-Israel media bias A new organization seeking to promote accurate and responsible media coverage of Israel in the UK is to be launched in London on Friday. Here we go. The UK news media are not biased. They report the situation accurately, unlike their American counterparts. That is why this group seeks to change it.


Progressives to urge Mazuz to charge Safed rabbi with incitement


Acknowledging the Past/Imagining the Future: Palestinians and Israelis on 1948 and the Right of Return


Reuters Removes Anti-Israel Blog Link The blog was removed after protests from the HonestReporting organization


Israel: Hezbollah increases rocket range Israel says Hezbollah's Iranian and Syrian patrons have steadily provided the group with large amounts of rockets since then, many of them capable of hitting central Israel. However, it has not revealed the evidence for its claims Sounds like somebody is itching to start a war.


Israel to supply cattle to Gaza amid contagion fears


Meeting Palestinian prime minister, Israel's Barak promises new gestures for Palestinians

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