Headlines for 04-30-08

Israeli strike kills Gaza militant They said the militant was killed when an Israeli missile slammed into a metal foundry in the southern town of Rafah. Two other militants and a child were wounded in the attack


Lawyer: Israel orders demolition of 35 homes in West Bank village Israel has ordered the demolition of 35 homes in a West Bank village for being


Human rights groups call on Israel to stop limiting fuel to Gaza


Israeli president urges world to control Iran, dreads results if Nazis had nuclear bombs The world could have faced destruction if Hitler had succeeded in acquiring nuclear weapons, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday at a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, calling on the world to shoulder today's responsibilities ? a reference to Iran's nuclear program.


Carter: Israel rejected Hamas truce offer Former US President Jimmy Carter says that following his meetings with Hamas leaders the group offered a truce in Gaza but Israel rejected the offer. During an interview with NBC, Carter also blamed Israel for denying the citizens of Gaza basic supplies such as water and food.


Carter: Israel rejected Hamas truce offer


Hamas warns Israel of alternative to truce Senior Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar warned on Tuesday that Palestinian armed groups would use "every means" against Israel if it does not accept a proposed truce in and around the Gaza Strip.


Abbas urges leaders avoid WBank in Israel festivity Presidents, prime ministers and other dignitaries who attend Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations next month will be shunned by Palestinian leaders if they visit the occupied West Bank.


Palestinian patient dies as a result of Israeli siege imposed on Gaza


Gaza 'on point of explosion' warns UN In testimony via videolink to the Commons International Development Committee, Mr Ging said the main problem was access in and out of Gaza.


Israel told to tackle West Bank plight Israel is coming under concerted international pressure to give swift agreement to specific measures to improve Palestinian life in the West Bank which senior diplomats believe could eventually make or break negotiations between the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.




Olmert expresses 'deep regret' over killing of Gaza children "Although we do not wish to hurt innocent people, but unfortunately this happens. We must improve our PR efforts to present Israel in a better way."


Israeli High Court of Justice rules against villagers in the northern West Bank The Israeli army issued orders two years ago restricting the area to be used for building homes in the village from 3000 dunums of land to 100 dunums of land. The villagers took the matter to the Court, and today the Court ruled in favour of the Israeli army.


PA negotiators furious over Israeli proposal Worrying strife breaks out between top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia and Israeli counterpart after latter presents proposal of regional division in which Israel maintains claim to large settlement blocs, Jordan River Valley and Jerusalem


Rights groups: Israel violating international law Joint statement issued by Palestinian, Israeli organizations calls on Jewish state to immediately lift all restrictions imposed on transfer of fuel, goods into Gaza Strip 'for which is it responsible by proxy of the occupation laws'


Palestinian leader undergoes angioplasty in Jordan An aide says the Palestinian president has successfully undergone an angioplasty at a Jordanian hospital.


Abbas meets Saudi king ahead of Bush visit "There is a feeling that the US administration is still not willing to take a decisive position towards the Israeli government," to push for an agreement over a Palestinian state, he added.


The Gaza shooting gallery The grim images are all-too-familiar: From Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 war with Hezbollah to the killing of eight Palestinians on a beach picnic in 2006 to the killing of 18 Palestinians hit by Israeli artillery in 2006 to the recent killing of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana by an Israeli tank shell, time and again, Israel has been forced to defend its questionable military actions.


Settlers attack Palestinian homes near Hebron


Inquiry clears army in death of Gaza children, mother: radio A military probe shows the death of a woman and her four young children in Gaza this week was caused by explosives carried by a militant and not by an Israeli missile, Israeli public radio reported on Wednesday. Naturally.


Egypt to take Palestinian truce offer to Israel


Israel arrests 30 in West Bank refugee camp


Hamas are Iran's proxy warriors: Rice In a speech Tuesday to the American Jewish Committee in Washington that underscored growing US concerns about Tehran, Rice mentioned Iran as not just a threat in the Palestinian territories, but also in Lebanon, Iraq and even in Afghanistan.


Russia will keep ties with Hamas: minister


Israeli PM talks peace process with Jordan king


"Falafel fuel" powers cars in petrol-starved Gaza


Support the Canadian Union of Postal Workers' campaign against Israeli apartheid


MK Ariel: Arabs should be urged to willingly emigrate from Israel MK Uri Ariel on Sunday called on the government to encourage Israeli Arabs to "willingly emigrate" from Israel and from large cities within it, so as to solve the problematic situation of the country's minorities.



Rabbi: Revoke citizenship of non-Jews


John McCain's Bid For American Jewish Votes


We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation. This authorised the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating.


Israel Could Make Orphans Homeless Again


John McCain's Serious Foreign Policy Is there anyone who thinks that Hamas has tried to, will try to, or ever could attack the U.S.? Hamas is an enemy of Israel, not the U.S. Is that a distinction we even recognize any more?


UNIFIL denies Israeli charges it ignores Hezbollah activity


Barbican's tribute to 1948 accused of demonising Israel Jonathan Hoffman, of the Jewish umbrella group the Zionist Federation, has complained to the London arts venue's director Nicholas Kenyon about captions accompanying the photos, which state that the 800,000 Palestinians who left their homes were "uprooted" and "dispossessed". The truth hurts.


The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War Under cover of the mayhem and propaganda, Israel can grab the remains of the West Bank and have another go at grabbing the water resources of southern Lebanon.


60 MINUTES: NEWS PROGRAM OR ARM OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY?


Rice talks to pro-Israel group Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told an American Jewish audience yesterday that young Palestinians are losing hope for an agreement with Israel.


Blood and Sand The book features a map that shows three hundred and eighty-nine Arab villages, from upper Galilee to the Negev Desert. Morris revealed that in forty-nine of these villages the indigenous Arabs were expelled by the Haganah and other Jewish military forces; in sixty-two villages, the Arabs fled out of fear, having heard rumors of attacks and even massacres; in six, the villagers left at the instruction of Palestinian local leaders. The refugees, who probably expected to return to their homes in a matter of weeks or months, went to Gaza and the West Bank, and also to surrounding Arab countries?Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria?where, to this day, they have never been fully absorbed.



Leading article: Intelligence or propaganda? There is no independent way to verify any of this, especially since the installation has now been destroyed. We must rely on the integrity of the Israeli and US intelligence services. That is where we hit a problem.


Jailed former professor ends hunger strike in Va. jail A former professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group but has refused to testify in a related investigation has ended a nearly two-month hunger strike, his supporters said Wednesday.


Jewish group drops out of racism meeting after Iran objects A Canadian Jewish community advocacy group withdrew its application to attend the United Nations conference on racism after objections by Iran, UN Watch said Wednesday.


Palestinian newspaper banned in Gaza appears again


Israel: Soldiers didn't know they were firing at journalist Riightt.


Israel pullout risks Iran foothold on Golan: minister Next we'll hear Iran was behind the grassy knoll. Israel and its minions in the US seek to scapegoat Iran for just about all of the ills in the Middle East.


How Daniel Pipes Destroyed a New York City Principal Pipes began his efforts to kill the school with an op/ed in the neoconservative New York Sun