Friday, May 16, 2008

Headlines for 05-15-08

Four Palestinians killed in Gaza Palestinian medics say at least three militants and a civilian have been killed in two Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip


Jimmy Carter: A human rights crime The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.


Palestinians Mark ?Catastrophe? of Israel?s Birth The commemoration of the Naqba, or ?catastrophe? ? the defeat of invading Arab armies and the expulsion or flight of about 760,000 people ? came as US President George W. Bush was to mark the creation of the Jewish state with an address to the Israeli parliament.


Hamas condemns the Holocaust We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression



Iran: Will it be jaw-jaw or war-war? by Patrick J. Buchanan With Israel, the Israeli lobby, the neocons and Dick Cheney insisting on air strikes, and even Hillary Clinton talking about Iran being "obliterated," the last course would seem the least probable.


Israel: Bush means business on Iran nukes Israel is fully satisfied with the results of the visit of George W. Bush, including policy on Iran's nuclear program, senior officials in Jerusalem said Thursday.


Inside a Palestinian refugee camp Sixty years ago, the Diab family swapped the simple life of Palestinian peasants in western Galilee for an existence of displacement, dispossession and exile.


Abbas pledge on 'catastrophe' day


Bush hails Israelis as ?chosen people? but ignores Palestinians on ?catastrophe? day


Armed Settlers Invade Palestinian Village, Attacking Palestinians and Internationals While Soldiers and Police Stand By


Expulsion and dispossession can't be cause for celebration


Siege Hits Palestinians Before They Are Born "Premature babies born dangerously underweight is a daily and increasing phenomenon in Gaza's hospitals,"


Official: Israel to expand West Bank settlements


Palestinian refugees in Gaza still dream of going home When Israeli soldiers razed his village of Najd during the Jewish state's independence war, Yussef Abu al-Jidyan fled to a Gaza refugee camp where he has now lived for 60 years. But he has never lost hope of returning.


Bush: Allowing Iran to Obtain Nuclear Weapons Is 'Unforgivable Betrayal of Future Generations' In a speech to the Knesset, or parliament, Bush took special aim at Iran, saying the United States stands with Israel in opposing moves by Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons.


Condi Stomps the Mullahs by Philip Giraldi The war drums are again beating. It's beginning to look like the neocons have cranked up their useful idiots in the Bush administration for a fall offensive, target Iran. And maybe also Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians. The bad guys' list, which is remarkably similar to a roll call of Israel's enemies, seems to have expanded both vertically and horizontally at a time when the U.S. military is using paper clips and chewing gum to hold together its efforts in Iraq.


Gaza's children suffer as conflict enters the classroom


China's Middle East special envoy to attend Palestinian investor's conference


Reuters demands answers from Israel over journalist death


Israel warns of Gaza assault after rocket attack


Israeli military kidnaps 19 Palestinians across the West Bank


Police detain 50 Palestinians staying in Israel illegally


Report: Palestinian youths wounded by IDF fire near Erez Earlier in the afternoon sources reported that soldiers had used tear gas and fired warning shots in the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd.


Use of torture on 17-year-old boy by Israeli security service


Three journalists arrested in West Bank Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of three Palestinian journalists by the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence services in separate incidents a week ago in the West Bank. Two of the journalists, employed by news media affiliated to Hamas, the Islamist party that controls the Gaza Strip, have already been detained in the past.


Abbas: End of occupation only way to ensure Israel's security


B'tselem: The Gaza Strip - Grave dearth of medical supplies and lifesaving treatments


The Israeli army kidnaps a Palestinian journalist from the city of Hebron


U.S. envoy cuts short Hebron trip after clash with settlers


Arab minority has lower life expectancy - new report


Bush Speech Criticized as Attack on Obama President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to denounce those who would negotiate with ?terrorists and radicals? ? a remark that was widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential contender, who has argued that the United States should talk directly with countries like Iran and Syria.


Bush says Iran uses Hezbollah to upset Lebanon


Obama vs. The Lobby


Palestinian refugees in Lebanon mark 60 years in exile


Finding Obama Guilty of Insufficient Devotion to Israel


US victims of attacks in Israel sue Swiss bank American victims of bombings and rocket attacks in Israel have sued Swiss bank UBS AG for more than $500 million, accusing the bank of helping fund the militants behind the attacks through dealings with Iran.


Rosen lawyer wants Jews to 'rise up' U.S. Jews should "rise up" against the classified information case the government has brought against two former AIPAC employees, the lawyer for one of them said


Inside a Palestinian refugee camp


True Torah Jews: Zionist ?Rabbis? Falsify Torah


Sixty Years After the 1948 War Ben-Gurion's chilling ratio was useful in casting Israel as a fragile island in a sea of well-armed Arabs, but it didn't describe the actual fighting conditions on the ground. In fact, in 1948, Israel had more soldiers than all of the invading Arab armies combined.


OPT: UNRWA open day showcases youth and economic development initiatives UNRWA's Open Day at the Damascus Training Centre today, 14 May, showcased its youth and economic development initiatives in support of Palestinian refugees, focusing on employment, vocational education and the microfinance and microenterprise.


Solidarity with Palestinian people


Syrians stage protests to mourn Naqba


Frank Israeli film examines 1982 Beirut massacres


Hamas Hysteria


Responses to retrospectives on Israel's 60th anniversary


Failed war on terrorism on display Human Rights Watch and two Israeli groups, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, have just made the same points Carter did and asked Bush to stop backing the Gaza closure. Canadians should demand the same of Harper.


The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has rapped the world community for failing to implement various resolutions on the long-standing Palestinian issue.


U.S. looks set to offer Israel powerful new radar


Israeli fund raising in U.S. provides context for Olmert case


Australia to take Ahmadinejad to court Kevin Rudd made a pre-election pledge in October that a Labor government would use the 1948 genocide convention to take legal action against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for threatening to ?wipe Israel off the map.?



Library cancels Palestinian exhibit "It's the censorship of Palestine," she said. "Apparently the anti-terrorism squad decides what we can see on the public walls of a library."


International NGO?s Rally to Rescue Hebron Orphans Representatives from CPT, UNICEF, UNOCHA, Save the Children UK, Defense for Children International, the YMCA, Relief International and other human rights organizations met in Hebron on 8 May to help Hebron?s orphans and students now living with the fear that the Israeli military will close their homes and schools.


Village's battle against Israel's fence Every Friday for more than three years, schoolteacher Abdullah Abu Rahma has grabbed a bullhorn and a Palestinian flag and marched a few hundred yards from his West Bank village to a 10-foot-tall mesh fence and an inevitable confrontation with the Israeli army.


Olmert to hand Bush a weapons wish list During U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Israel, which is scheduled to begin this morning with the American president landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to ask Bush to upgrade substantially the security relationship between Israel and the U.S., according to sources close to Olmert.



Urgent Action: Israeli Military Raid Hebron Girls' Orphanage Sewing


Israel at 60: The Cost of US Support Israel?s 60th anniversary is an opportune occasion to question why the U.S. government offers unlimited support to a country that persistently and routinely violates principles that Americans hold sacred.


Gaza runner faces hurdles on the long road to Beijing

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