Saturday, April 12, 2008

Headlines for 04-10-08

Israeli strikes kill two Hamas gunmen in Gaza-medics


Nine killed in Gaza border violence Two Israeli civilians and seven Palestinians were killed in violence on the Gaza border on Wednesday after a Palestinian commando raid into Israel.



U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.


Netanyahu: 'We won't be able to deter nuclear Iran' "Nothing will stop the Iranians - not the use of force and not a fear of being hit in retaliation," he said, adding that "every Israeli withdrawal from territories it controls leaves room for Iranian terror to enter." Riiight.


The Popular Committees slams Israeli plan to build 983 home for settlers in Abu Ghneim


Soldiers bar farmers from harvesting their lands west of Jenin


Tulkarem: the Israeli army kidnaps nine civilians among them a disabled man


Palestinian negotiator says W Bank becomes prison like Gaza


Israeli army kidnaps one civilian from a village near Hebron


Five Palestinians die due to the Israeli Siege imposed on the Gaza Strip


Egypt beefs up Gaza border force


Training in a war zone: Gaza's running man


U.S., Israel criticize Carter plans to see Hamas


Hebron Update: 16-22 March 2008


Youth injured by Israeli gunfire near Ramallah


Egypt warns Gaza militants not to breach border Egypt warned Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Wednesday against any attempt to breach its border with Gaza or take advantage of "fabricated" domestic problems in Egypt.


Local security officer: Palestinians warned of infiltration Palestinian fuel coordinators alerted Israelis manning the Nahal Oz fueling terminal that Palestinian terrorists had infiltrated Israel prior to the terror attack that left two Israeli civilians dead, Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council chief security officer Yoav Peled said Wednesday.


Israeli army kidnaps the total of 50 Palestinians from the West Bank on Wednesday


Special Report: ?On World Health Day; Palestinian detainees still facing slow death Palestinian researcher and specialist in the detainees affairs, Fuad Al Khuffash, prepared and published a comprehensive report on the Palestinian detainees and the conditions they are facing in Israeli prisons, as the world marks April 7; the World Health day.


Sixty years after Deir Yassin


Statement: Gaza's agriculture on the verge of collapse


Parents of Briton shot by Israeli soldier seek talks with ambassador Five years after their son was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier in Gaza, the parents of the British student Tom Hurndall are still pressing the Israeli government for compensation and a formal apology as they try to build a criminal case against senior Israeli army officers.



Petraeus points to war with Iran by Patrick J. Buchanan Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East.....Israel has been hurling invective at Iran and conducting security drills to prepare its population for rocket barrages worse than those Hezbollah delivered in the Lebanon War. Adm. William "Fox" Fallon, the Central Command head who opposed war with Iran, has been removed.




Nablus reporter mugging shows anarchy still lingers


Palestinians held in 'poison plot' Israeli security forces arrested two Palestinians suspected of planning to poison patrons of a Tel Aviv-area restaurant.




Iran FM backs Yemen effort to broker Fatah-Hamas thaw


The Economist: Let there be justice for all Five years of work by Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, a lobby group based in Washington, paid off earlier this month in the form of a resolution passed by America's House of Representatives, which calls on the government to make a policy of insisting on restitution for Jewish refugees as well as Palestinian ones.....the fact that a resolution of doubtful value even to Israel's government, let alone American foreign policy, passed with bipartisan support shows once more the power of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington.


Ahmad Quriea' denies delaying, settlement of Jerusalem and refugee issues


Hamas denies beefing up forces, weapons in Gaza


Israeli army detains 21 Palestinians in West Bank


U.N. Official Urged Commission To Study Neocon Role in 9/11 "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don?t think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."


Israel sends tanks, bulldozers into Gaza


Olmert vows to strike Hamas as Gaza fuel cut off


Israel champion Robert Wexler says Obama is a friend of Israel "And I can unequivocally say that Senator Obama has an A-plus record on Israel. If he didn't, I would not be supporting him."


Jordan's King Abdullah II donates land to Jerusalem diocese King Abdullah II of Jordan has given a plot of land to the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem for construction of a church and retreat center at the Jordan River location traditionally believed to be the baptismal place of Jesus.


Two cheers for the Administration's flawed anti-Semitism report One great virtue of the report is that it rejects the purported distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism Note the source (horse's mouth).


Families of detained legislators hold a protest in Nablus


Palestinian Billionaire Sinks Riches into Philanthropy


UN humanitarian chief calls for coordination between Gulf countries and the United Nations in addressing global humanitarian challenges


Hamas Signals Compromise, But No One's Watching


Protesters disrupt Israeli ambassador's speech In spite of security precautions, some 25 pro-Palestinian demonstrators pushed their way into a major midtown hotel to disrupt a luncheon speech by Israeli ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker.


Keeping US on our side Israel must find way to maintain American support in wake of Bush era


Syria: UNRWA opens new educational facilities in Khan Dannoun, Damascus


For asking legit questions about Israel, the State Dept. wants to toss you in jail


Barak: We have our eyes on Syria, Lebanon


Palestinian Olympic hopeful leaves Gaza to train for Beijing games Nader Masri is one of four Palestinian Olympic hopefuls. But he had been unable to leave for the games because Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza's borders after Hamas militants took
over the territory in June.


UAE Red Crescent kick-starts ambitious Palestinian refugee camp redevelopment project in Syria


Swedish FM likens Netanyahu to Hamas


AT-TUWANI REFLECTION: Shanti?s Shot Sheep Despite the trauma of the day before Shanti joined them. Of all the
shepherds in the valley, Shanti was the shepherd grazing his sheep nearest
to the illegal Israeli Havat Ma?on settlement outpost, nearest to the risk
of danger and attack from settlers. Like the prophets of old, on that day
(and in the days that have followed), Shanti put himself in a place of
danger to nonviolently resist the Powers that Be.


Olive trees used by Jerusalem Lutheran bishop as bridge to Muslims


LA Times Revives Obama Smear Does being friends with Palestinians make one anti-Israel? Peter Wallsten of the LA Times apparently thinks so. His latest piece about Barack Obama's past ties to pro-Palestinian activists in Chicago is certainly meant to give the reader that impression


Jewish leaders back Hagee in Times A letter from U.S. Jewish leaders to The New York Times offers support for the Rev. John Hagee.


Bush, Obama: Carter should not meet with Hamas officials The Bush administration has counseled Jimmy Carter not to meet with Hamas officials.


Holy Land: Christian, Jewish groups support Islamic orphanages threatened with closure


Italian imam will speak at UAlbany Outspoken Sunni cleric says he supports Israeli control of Jerusalem


Palestinians say Bush will meet Abbas in Egypt


New town aims to cement Palestinian presence A Palestinian company will this year start building the first of several new towns in the West Bank intended to cement the Palestinian presence on land dissected by Jewish settlements.


Israel concludes largest civil defence drill


UN troops erect barbed wire on Lebanon-Israel border UN peacekeepers in Lebanon began on Friday erecting a barbed-wire fence along the border with Israel to prevent breaches of the "Blue Line" aimed at keeping peace between the two neighbours


Barak: Up quota for Palestinian workers The move is part of the gesture package presented by Barak to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad during their meeting in Jerusalem two weeks ago

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