Monday, April 21, 2008

Headlines for 04-20-08

Israeli air strikes kill two in Gaza: medics Israeli air strikes killed two Palestinians, at least one of them a Hamas militant, and wounded eight others in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Islamist group and medical staff said.


3 Palestinians killed in Gaza crossing raid The Palestinians were killed in the blast and exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and several militants who entered the crossing in a second bomb-loaded vehicle


Eight killed in Israeli raids after Gaza crossing attack Palestinian medical sources said one of the dead was a civilian


Two teens die from injuries sustained in Gaza's deadliest day of fighting in a month The two, ages 16 and 17, died on Sunday.
A Palestinian health official says both boys were wounded Wednesday, by an Israeli tank shell that also killed a
Reuters TV cameraman. That would bring the total number of Palestinians killed in that shelling to six.


Hamas car bomb injures 13 Israelis Hamas suicide bombers in two military-style Jeeps yesterday blew themselves up at a Gaza border crossing, wounding 13 Israeli soldiers. The irony here being that Hamas has been targeting Israeli soldiers of late, and Israel responds by killing many civilians. They've always done so- since the beginning.


IDF launches formal probe into Gaza killing of Reuters cameraman Two Gaza teenagers who sustained wounds during Wednesday's IDF ground operation died on Sunday, raising the death toll from that incident to six, Palestinian hospital officials said. The two boys were 16 and 17 years old. They were reportedly hit by a shell fired from an IDF tank that immediately killed Shana and three other civilians in Gaza.


Israeli troops may have targeted Gaza newsman: watchdog A Palestinian cameraman killed by tank fire in the Gaza Strip along with five other civilians this week may have been deliberately targeted by Israeli forces, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.


Due to lack of fuel Palestinian medics will stop working in the Gaza Strip


Eleven injured in the weekly Bil'in protest


Three people feared buried in collapsed Gaza tunnel


Hamas open to peace deal with Palestinian backing: Carter "They said that they would accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians and that they would accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbour, next door, in peace,"


No Peace Without Hamas By Mahmoud al-Zahar The U.S.-Israeli alliance has sought to negate the results of the January 2006 elections, when the Palestinian people handed our party a mandate to rule. Hundreds of independent monitors, Carter among them, declared this the fairest election ever held in the Arab Middle East. Yet efforts to subvert our democratic experience include the American coup d'etat that created the new sectarian paradigm with Fatah and the continuing warfare against and enforced isolation of Gazans.


Abbas to discuss Israel-Palestinian peace with Bush Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he would consult President George W. Bush this week on ways to advance peace talks so that a deal with Israel can be reached by the end of the year.


Carter presses Hamas to back Gaza peace talks


Erekat: Settlements weaken efforts to make peace this year


Body of 15 year old Palestinian boy found mutilated in Israeli settlement


Abbas to pay official visit to Tunisia


Meshal to announce decision over Carter truce proposals Sunday Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal said Saturday that he will announce his organization's decision over former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's truce proposals on Sunday


The village of Al Khader protest the Israeli illegal wall


Israel Would Trade 400 For Soldier, Egypt Says


Nine-year old child assaulted by Israeli Troops


Putin meets Palestine counterpart Abbas


Collective Punishment Breeds Collective Rage


Palestinian detainees in Majiddo to wage a one-day hunger strike


Arab Israelis to get apartheid lessons in South Africa An official Arab-Israeli delegation will head to South Africa over the weekend in order to learn about the local population's struggle with apartheid and the killing of citizens by the government.


The Israeli 'settler' serving in Italy's parliament "I ran for a place in parliament as a representative of the Liguria district. I held rallies in Genoa and other cities in the region," she recounts. "But I didn't talk with the people about local problems. I told them that the most important thing for their Italian identity is to stand by Israel's side."


Tunnels bring life to Gaza, and make a select few rich Despite the risks, 16-year-old Yihya, from the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip, says building tunnels to Egypt is the only job he knows that puts food on the table.


Obama Channeling Cheney Can there be any doubt that the premeditated destruction of dozens of IAEA Safeguarded facilities in Iran ? which the Likudniks again claim to be a threat to Israel ? will be anything less than cold-blooded murder of the IAEA-NPT nuke proliferation regime?


PA rally in east Jerusalem dispersed The Jerusalem police broke up an east Jerusalem gathering Saturday, in which 100 people attended a rally protesting the incarceration of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.


Born to Demolish The Israeli authorities responsible for demolishing Palestinian homes ? the municipality and the Ministry of Interior in Jerusalem, the ?Civil? Administration in the West Bank and the army ? do not provide advanced warning to us or, indeed, to the families themselves. Tens of thousands of Palestinian families live with demolition orders on their homes, some 22,000 in East Jerusalem alone, where fully a third of Palestinian homes face demolition at any time


Carter discusses Iraq, Gaza developments with Syria's Assad (Extra)


Palestinian detainees demand proper medical attention, direct treatment to urgent cases


Mideast peace prospects Ziad Asali is president of the American Task Force on Palestine


Few Clear Wins in U.S. Anti-Terror Cases Jurors appear to be particularly troubled by a controversial element in the Miami case, part of several other early prosecutions, in which FBI informants encouraged others to perform acts they otherwise may not have done.


First, refute the defamation One day perhaps journalists will interject a caveat whenever writing about a UN study on Israel cautioning readers that the contents are very likely propagandistic and unreliable. THis coming from a propagandist from CAMERA, the pro-Israel media 'watchdog'. If the 'defamation' fits...


Israeli Arab students take to the fields to learn green activism "We shall remain put, just as the olive trees and zaatar shrubs do," goes a famous Palestinian idiom. But now, even the zaatar shrubs are in danger of disappearing, as the herb is quite popular. Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority inspectors may now fine people caught picking the fragrant plant.


Barenboim slams Israel's treatment of Palestinians


Record surge in U.S. tourists to Israel During January and February, 85,000 American tourists landed in Israel, up 23% from the same period in 2007, which was itself a record year.


Melbourne surgeon on Gaza mercy mission Dr Dewan, the director of surgery at Melbourne's Sunshine Hospital, makes regular visits to Gaza for his foundation, Kind Cuts for Kids


Matt Rees: how I found peace in Gaza I found the Middle East a lot funnier than you might think, too. To the amusement of Palestinian friends, I perfected my impersonation of Yasser Arafat and I also did a pretty good Ariel Sharon. The first Hamas man I met wasn't a stereotypical bloodthirsty fanatic. He was a comically tubby man with a grey beard circling his jaw and a clean upper lip, who spoke English like a suave 1950s character actor and drew his vocabulary from a calendar designed to teach a new word each day


Fight erupts in Jerusalem church Israeli police had to break up a fist fight that erupted between Greek and Armenian Orthodox clergymen at one of Christianity's holiest sites


Saleh renews Yemeni support for Palestinian rights President Ali Abdullah Saleh reiterated on Saturday Yemen's stance on supporting the Palestinian rights to establish its independent states of Palestine on its national land with Quds as its capital.



Pummeled with palm fronds In the latest ironic chapter in the bitter relations between the feuding sects that have carved up Christianity's most revered site, Armenian and Greek worshipers got into a brawl on Sunday inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.


Murdoch Firm Accused of Sabotage On the hot spot is NDS Group, a UK-Israeli firm that makes smartcards for pay-TV systems like DirecTV. The company is a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation. The charges stem from 1997 when NDS is accused of cracking the encryption of rival NagraStar, which makes access cards and systems for EchoStar's Dish Network and other pay-TV services. Further, it?s alleged NDS then hired hackers to manufacture and distribute counterfeit NagraStar cards to pirates to steal Dish Network's programming for free......The list of witnesses in the case includes EchoStar's founder and CEO Charlie Ergen; several hackers and pirates; and Reuven Hazak, an Israeli who heads security for NDS and is a former deputy head of Shabak, or Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency (the equivalent of Britain's MI5).


37 Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq fly to Chile A group of Palestinian refugees stranded on the Iraq-Syria border since 2006 flew to Chile Sunday under a resettlement plan sponsored by the Catholic Church in the South American country and the U.N. agency for refugees.



Carter Briefs Jordan's King on His Mideast Peace Mission


Efforts under way for Israel-Syria talks: Assad


Riad Hamad: A Death in Austin Wednesday, April 16, 2008, the Austin Police Department announced Riad Hamad's death as a 'suicide,' despite his body being discovered gagged and bound with duct tape. Hamad had claimed he was being targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement.

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