Headlines for 04-04-08

04-04-08 - U.K. Foreign Sec.: Israel's future depends on Palestinian statehood British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday praised Israel's achievements over the 60 years of its existence, but said the "small country's" future depends above all on "the creation of a new and viable Palestinian state, alongside a secure Israel."


04-04-08 - Hamas says its gunmen wound Israeli minister's aide Hamas said its gunmen wounded an aide to Israeli Interior Security Minister Avi Dichter on Friday when they opened fire from the Gaza Strip on an Israeli kibbutz that the minister was visiting.


04-04-08 - Palestinian civil servants challenge PM Fayyad


04-04-08 - Canadians come under fire near Gaza Strip


04-04-08 - Israeli military abducts 17 Palestinians across the West Bank


04-04-08 - Sderot and Gaza: Second letters Why should we Palestinians have to pay the price of others' crimes? If the Nazis killed your grandmother's family, why do you kill us in return?


04-04-08 - Settler arrested for throwing dung at Palestinians Police detain for questioning man who fired into air next to Palestinian farmers working near illegal outpost. 'He came over with a jug, told us it was tea and poured urine,' human rights group volunteer recounts


04-04-08 - Two cigarette dealers from J'lem assaulted by Palestinian mob near Ariel According to reports, the two arrived in the village to peddle their goods when they were approached by a number of Palestinians who fired in the air and chased them away.


04-04-08 - Mysterious explosion south of Gaza Strip, two Palestinians injured


04-04-08 - Gaza siege claims the life of another infant, woman Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that an infant and a woman died in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Authorities barred their transfer to hospitals outside the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.


04-04-08 - Report: Barghouti's son lightly injured from IDF fire in Ramallah


04-04-08 - DFLP leader meets with Arab League Secretary-general


04-04-08 - Bedouin in unrecognised villages struggle to get water to their home


04-04-08 - An Appeal to release a sick Palestinian detainee Several Human Rights groups and the family of detainee Yousef Al Shomaly,48, from Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, voiced an appealed to release Al Shomaly after his health condition had sharply deteriorated in Israeli prisons.


04-04-08 - Israel's Tehran connection


04-04-08 - Gov't: bar classification czar Prosecutors in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers want to keep the defense's most potentially damaging expert witness from testifying.


04-04-08 - ICAHD founder Jeff Halper arrested for attempting to stop house demolition in Jerusalem


04-04-08 - Israel: Iran listening in on IDF communications from Syria Iran has set up sophisticated listening stations in Syria in recent months to intercept Israeli military communications, Israeli security officials said Tuesday


04-04-08 - Israel, U.S. to coordinate on boycott of Durban II conference Israel and the U.S. decided a few weeks ago to boycott the Durban II conference scheduled for early 2009 and likely to harshly criticize Israel's human rights record unless they receive firm guarantees that the event will not turn into anti-Israel festival.



04-04-08 - UNRWA commemorates 1948: Abu-Yaser recalls life in Tel el-Safi


04-04-08 - Lebanon PM wary of Israeli manoeuvres Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora warned on Friday that Israel could exploit major military exercises to exacerbate tensions along the volatile border between the two countries.


04-04-08 - UN officer reported Israeli war crimes before deadly bombing: widow A United Nations military observer sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging "a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people" shortly before he was killed by an Israeli bomb in Lebanon, said his widow.


04-04-08 - Should the U.S. End Aid to Israel? Funding Our Decline


04-04-08 - Wiesel, Dershowitz want U.S. to boycott Durban conference Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, law professor Alan Dershowitz and former CIA Director James Woolsey are urging the United States to skip next year's United Nations anti-racism conference in a full-page advertisement appearing Thursday in four newspapers.


04-04-08 - German Jews push for government firing In a 2004 article entitled, "An Israelization of the World?" Watzal implied that attacks on civilians can be justified: "If the USA further Israelizes its domestic and foreign policy, conflicts a la Palestine will become globalized." I fail to see how that statement justifies attacks on civilians.


04-04-08 - Iran cleric says Israel behind anti-Islam Dutch film


04-04-08 - China to build oil refinery in Syria near alleged nuclear plant bombed by Israel


04-04-08 - Syria: We choose peace, but we're ready for Israeli attack


04-04-08 - Candidly Speaking: Hillel goes post-modern In another statement, which will undoubtedly return to haunt him in the future, Firestone told the JTA that he denied any relationship between anti-Israeli activity and anti-Semitism and said that bracketing the two together was like "mixing apples and oranges."


04-04-08 - First: Muslim woman joins highly elite Israel Air Force rescue unit


04-04-08 - Open hearts In the rural hospitals of Tanzania and Zanzibar, Israeli and Palestinian doctors fight for the lives of African children. In a place like this, they say, all conflicts are put aside


04-04-08 - Tree planting in Beita Today approximately twenty residents from the village of Beita near Nablus, as well as international human rights workers (HRWs), took to the mountain of Jabal al Arma to plant 200 trees in order to prevent the encroachment of nearby settlement Itamar.




04-04-08 - The Next President and Israel Although most voters, and certainly most voters who care about Israel, favor active diplomacy to end the conflict, the loudest voices on this issue tend to be fervent supporters of the status quo. They are single-issue voters and single-issue donors and, accordingly, they have disproportionate influence despite their decided minority status.


04-04-08 - Gaza?s Crushed Childhoods Ayman, his siblings, and all Gaza?s children are finding their lives diminished each day ? a cruel, slow suffocation of their spirit and their dreams. Instead of enjoying expanding horizons, they are trapped in a virtual prison, where things that every child should be able to take for granted are instead being taken away: the right to play, to go to school, to have enough to eat, to have light to study by at night, and to feel safe in their own homes.


04-04-08 - Gifts for the Palestinians, and Questions Here's a question for The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: for whose national security are you working?


04-04-08 - In hospice, Arabs, Jews spend last days It's not that the hospital has suddenly made best friends out of wary Arabs and Jews. But in the last days of their lives, the facility's patients and their families find themselves on equal ground, getting a rare glimpse of each other's worlds.


04-04-08 - The value of empowering tomorrow's Jewish leaders ?I think the level of knowledge about the Israeli conflict is high, and people tend to be more outspoken on the anti-Israel side on college campuses,? he said. ?AIPAC does a great job of combating that by bringing together Jewish youth, Evangelical Christians and Muslims, building coalitions and continuously broadening Israel?s base of support.? The Israeli lobby in action brainwashing kids in order to get future propagandists for Israel.


04-04-08 - Gazans eat endangered turtle "as good as Viagra"


04-04-08 - Israeli journalist puts blame on nation Israeli journalist Amira Hass said Israel?s treatment of Palestinians amounts to apartheid in front of a full room Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin Pyle Center.


04-04-08 - Speaker defends Palestine Finkelstein, an American political scientist and prominent scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, spoke to students last night as part of the Palestine Awareness Week.




04-04-08 - Poll: McCain Backers Friendliest to Israel


04-04-08 - New global push sought to scrap chemical weapons Nations including Syria, Iraq and Israel should join a landmark pact for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons as they serve hardly any security or strategic purpose, a watchdog agency said on Friday.


04-04-08 - 40 killed by Israeli cluster bombs in Lebanon Forty people have been killed and 252 wounded by Israeli cluster bombs dropped during the 2006 war in Lebanon, the UN demining organisation said on Friday.


04-04-08 - Palestinians to deploy to West Bank proving ground


04-04-08 - FACTBOX: Jenin and the Palestinian security campaign The United States wants Palestinian security forces deployed in the northern West Bank city of Jenin to combat militant groups as well as lawlessness to bolster prospects for reaching a peace deal with Israel.