Headlines for 03-28-08

Israel says two Palestinians killed in Gaza


Hamas urges Arabs to back reconciliation push Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in exile in Syria, was also quoted as urging Arab leaders at their Damascus summit to support its fight with Israel. But he reiterated the Islamist group was open to a conditional truce with the Jewish state.


Terrorism judgment against P.A. vacated A U.S. federal judge vacated a $174 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority.


Waste dumping threatens West Bank Residents of Jima'in in the district of Nablus have cited concerns about Israeli vehicles unloading garbage on Palestinian grounds, al-Jazeera reported


Anti Wall protest in Al Khader village near Bethlehem


Tony Blair?s Palestine


Meshaal would consider ceasefire Hamas' leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal, said he would consider a truce with Israel.


Israeli Arabs mark Land Day Chanting "We are here to stay," more than 1,000 Israeli Arabs on Friday marched through Jaffa to commemorate the killing of six people during a 1976 protest against land confiscations.


The Gaza I live By Tom Garofalo Catholic Relief Services


Obama's Pandering to Israel; The Audacity of Hypocrisy


Palestinian, Israeli kids are cannon fodder for Rapture


Egypt upset at US over seaman shooting


Jitters over new Israel-Hezbollah war Adding to the jitters, U.S. warships recently deployed off Lebanon and Saudi Arabia advised its citizens to leave Lebanon.


UN says 'network' killed Hariri


Syria brushes off low summit turnout amid Arab rift fears Jordan on Friday became the latest US ally to announce it would send a low-level delegation to the Damascus summit, following the example of Saudi Arabia and Egypt which blame Syria for the political crisis crippling Lebanon.



PA to probe ex-Arafat aide over multi-million dollar Aqaba project


Israel seeking peace talks with Syria: minister An Israeli minister said on Friday that the Jewish state was trying to revive peace talks with Syria and that the price of a deal was the occupied Golan Heights.


Stop Using Israel As a Bludgeon Another would-be victim of this McCarthyist campaign is General Merill McPeak. He is the former Air Force chief-of-staff who said Bill Clinton was engaging in McCarthyist attacks by seeming to imply that Obama -- unlike Hillary and McCain -- is less than a loyal American. Almost immediately, McPeak was smeared as an anti-semite. The evidence: on occasion, he has suggested that Israel return to the pre-'67 lines. That's it.


Israeli-Palestinian trade suffers


Palestinians, Israelis React Differently to Saudi Plan While most Palestinians support a peace agreement proposed by Saudi Arabia, the majority of Israelis reject it, according to a poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusale


Publisher, Middle East expert remembered "My dad always wanted Americans to hear the Palestinian side of the story," George Joseph said.


Corrie's story


Retired general: ?On the fly? response strategy must change The United States is going to be in the Middle East for a long time, retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid said Thursday.


Rice to meet Netanyahu during visit Netanyahu visited the controversial E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim and called upon Olmert to start building there immediately despite fierce American opposition. The building plans in the area were approved when Netanyahu was prime minister but have been frozen since due to American pressure. Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
"All of Israel has been built, not because of the approval of the Arabs and the international community, but despite their opposition," Netanyahu told reporters atop a dusty hilltop. "We need the kind of leadership that would insist on this."



Clinton says would consider limited talks with Hamas


Lebanon refugees see long wait to raise camp from ashes One man was able to recover only a family photo album. Another desperately sought the key to his home in what was once Palestine. And one woman sifted for hours through the rubble but, like most others, could not salvage anything. They are among thousands of families allowed to return to the old part of the devastated Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon to recover what belongings they can before the bulldozers move in.