Headlines for 06-09-08

Israeli troops kill Gaza militant A Palestinian medical official says Israeli troops have killed a Hamas militant on the Gaza-Israel border.


Palestinians say attacked by masked settlers near Hebron


Abbas says settlements main obstacle to peace


Israel delays payments for Palestinian civil servants: Fayyad Israel has delayed transferring tax funds used to pay Palestinian civil servants, Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad said on Monday, citing a reported link to his call for the EU not to boost ties with the Jewish state.


Abbas popularity rises as Hamas's drops: poll


Tensions mount in Gaza 4 days into fuel blockade


Iran vows 'painful response' if Israel attacks


Hamas meets with Palestinian factions, preparing for resuming national dialogue


Hamas armed wing seriously deals with threats of Israeli invasion


West Bank: 2 injured, 4 arrested in protest against fence A reported 150 people participated Sunday afternoon in a demonstration near the West Bank village of Naalin, west of Ramallah to protest the security fence being built in the area. The protestors accused IDF soldiers of using tear gas to disperse them while the latter claimed that rocks were thrown in their direction.


Man lightly wounded by Qassam rocket


Israel removes 10 roadblocks in West Bank


Palestinian salaries delayed as Israel blocks funds


U.S. Consulate employee dies of heart attack at Israeli checkpoint


Israel tries to play down minister's warning of attack on Iran Defence officials criticised Mofaz, saying his comments would make it more difficult for Israel to convince the international community to intensify its efforts. Political rivals accused him of exploiting Israel's fear of Iran for political gain.


World Bank Extends a $40 Million Grant for PA Budget Support


Jordanian king: preserving Arab identity of Jerusalem top priority


UNICEF Regional Director visits Palestinian children bearing brunt of conflict The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that military incursions continue to claim a disproportionately high toll of young lives. As of 26 May, 64 children had been killed in the conflict since the beginning of the year ? more than the total child death toll for all of 2007. Fifty-nine of the deaths were in Gaza and another four victims were Israeli children.


Gaza op likely before J'lem signs truce In response to the recent string of fatal Hamas rocket attacks, Israel is likely to conduct a medium-size military operation against the Islamist group before agreeing to a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, senior defense officials told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday.




Israel hints a Jerusalem deal might not be possible by deadline


A village in its death throes There was nothing we onlookers and reporters could do but record the events in our notebooks and cameras; our roles no different to that of medical staff witnessing the slow deaths of terminally ill patients. In this case, the patients were the villagers of Nilin, the disease they were vainly fighting was the ever-spreading cancer of Israeli settlements across the corpus of their ancestral land.


Egyptian-Palestinian summit to discuss dialogue with Hamas


Rice to hold talks with Israeli, Palestinian teams


Hamas: arrangements underway with Egypt to open Rafah crossing


Israel sends reduced fuel to Gaza


1967 attack shows how U.S. goes too easy on Israel While the loss of life is tragic, the total failure of the U.S. government and the U.S. Navy to pursue this matter and assess blame proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the nation of Israel is free to take any action it deems necessary, and the U.S. government will raise no objection, even when American lives have been lost.


The Right--This Time the 'Washington Times'--Identifies Pro-Israel Agenda for Iraq War


Israeli ambassador says Britain 'hotbed of anti-Israeli sentiment'


The Iran Trap Obama, in a miscalculation that will have grave consequences, has given his blessing to the widening circle of violence and abuse of the Palestinians by Israel and, most dangerously, to those in the Bush White House and Jerusalem now plotting a war against Iran.


Tough Words From This Cheney on U.S. Mideast Policy Cheney also made clear her view that the recent efforts by Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal are taking resources away from dealing with Iran


How will Britain respond to being slapped in the face by Israel? The fact that President Michel Sleiman had asked Williams on Wednesday to help end Israel's serial violations of Lebanese sovereignty - and its continuing occupation of the Shebaa Farms and other areas - cannot have been lost on Israeli commanders.


Lost months slip away for Gaza scholars


Iran's Lebanese 'aircraft carrier' "Israel is a fact now. And we are acting with this fact. Our border is the Lebanese border". He told me Hezbollah has no desire to conquer Israel, just to recover Lebanese prisoners and land they say is still occupied by the Israelis.



Jon Stewart makes fun of Obama and Aipac


Hundreds rally in Tel Aviv against killings in Gaza, Sderot 'A country that controls another nation by force is not normal,' demonstrator says. Protestors wave signs reading 'Children in Gaza and Sderot want to live' and 'End the siege on Gaza'


U.S. Rebuked for Leaving UN Rights Body In electing the first Council members two years ago, the United States chose not to contest elections because it was almost certain to have lost the vote, largely due to its unconditional support for Israel in that country's ongoing conflict with the Palestinian people.


US professors face hostile reception in Jerusalem "Israelis are much better able to talk about Israeli policy and the US-Israeli relationship in a critical way," said Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. "They have a much more open and vibrant debate in Israel."


Summer camp of love This summer, Kent will award scholarships to a Palestinian Christian, a Palestinian Muslim and a Jewish Israeli to fly to America and attend Camp Susquehannock in upstate Pennsylvania, where he is the program director.


A divide even among Israel's supporters AIPAC is the most formidable foreign policy lobbying group in the United States, as evidenced by the desire of all the presidential candidates to address its meeting.


Arab towns to distribute 'Nakba' alternative history booklet outside schools Israeli Arabs will distribute 20,000 booklets on the Nakba - the "catastrophe," what happened to the Palestinians after 1948 - outside of schools in Arab settlements throughout the country.



Water crisis in Tel Rumeida


Pledging Allegiance to AIPAC


Israel and Syria talks set to resume: Israeli officials


Palestinian Endowments Minister hails Saudi facilities for Pilgrims Jamal Mohammed Bawatna, the Palestinian Minister of Endowments and Chairman of the Hajj and Umrah commission, has hailed the great efforts being exerted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for ensuring comforts of pilgrims and providing them with gigantic facilities.


What does Palestinian youth think?


The fallacy of Islamic 'national suicide' "National suicide" will soon be an incantation by neoconservative and other pro-Israeli pundits and politicians on the "bomb Iran" bandwagon.


Captive Israel soldier writes to parents The parents of Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held by Gaza militants for two years, were passed a handwritten letter from their son on Monday, the foundation of former US president Jimmy Carter announced.



Walls designed to separate rarely stand test of time Nations are always building walls. In order to better monitor border crossings, Israel has for several years been building a concrete barrier on the Green line separating itself from the Palestinian West Bank. Israel calls this wall the "West Bank Barrier." Palestinians call it "The Apartheid Wall." The International Court of Justice declared in 2004 that the wall was illegal. The construction continues. Estimates by Amnesty International indicate that when finished there will be more than 100 miles of concrete walls, ditches, trenches, razor wire and electronic fences with 550 checkpoints. Eighty percent of the barrier is on Palestinian territory. Thousands of Palestinians are being walled off from their own lands.



McCain calls for moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem Move McCain to Jerusalem instead. If the foo sh$ts....


IAEA chief hits out at Israel again over Syria attack


Britain's foreign secretary visits West Bank


Israel's Messianic Jews Under Attack It would seem some other extremists in the Holy Land do not like Christians either and will not hesitate to use violence against them.


Would-be Lebanon bomber probably Saudi: Fatah official A would-be suicide bomber who was shot dead last month outside a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon was "probably" a Saudi national, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday.


Family brewery keeps head up despite political, religious obstacles "Many people thought we were crazy," says Maria Khoury, communications manager for an enterprising Palestinian business venture called the Taybeh Brewing Co., now in its 14th year. "But beer is not against our religion."