Saturday, August 9, 2008

Headlines for 08-08-08

Israeli settlement building undermines peace process: EU The EU presidency said: "The construction of settlements anywhere in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including east Jerusalem, is illegal under international law."


Cherie Blair's sister joins battle to break Gaza blockade A group of activists including Tony Blair's sister-in-law Lauren Booth plans to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip by sailing into the Palestinian territory.


Military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities may not be effective "Following an attack, Iran could quickly rebuild its centrifuge program in small, easily hidden facilities focused on making weapons grade uranium for nuclear weapons," principal author David Albright, ISIS president and a former UN weapons inspector, was quoted as saying. Albright gets something right?


Soldiers beat and shoot at nonviolent demonstrators; CPTer lightly injured


IDF fatally shoots seventeen-year-old Palestinian youth in


Israeli military issues demolition orders and again blocks main access On 26 June, 2008, the Israeli military issued a demolition order on the
partly constructed water cistern in the village of At-Tuwani. The cistern
is being built with financial support from a Spanish NGO. If completed
the cistern will provide a vital additional water source in the arid
region of the South Hebron Hills.


Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Children, Internationals on Journey Home from Summer Camp


Israeli settlers inflict injuries requiring hospitalization on shepherds


Israeli soldiers charged over shooting of Palestinian prisoner


Palestinian forces shut "Hamas fronts" in Hebron Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces shut down four Islamic charities and two photocopying shops in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday for alleged ties to the rival Hamas faction, a security source said.


EU expands Iran nuclear sanctions


Gaza students ask Rice to help them enter U.S. Three Palestinian students from Gaza made a personal appeal to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday to allow them to study at American universities after their student visas were revoked.


Israel to build new homes on occupied land


Hamas frees 150 prisoners from Gazan jails


Shortage of cash in Gaza threatens salaries Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad plans to pay salaries to public workers on Thursday, but the officials said Israel has yet to allow the banks to bring 100 million Israeli shekels into the Gaza Strip for payday.


Gaza activists fear Israeli sabotage of anti-siege bid


Iranian diplomat warns of harsh response to any strike "If Israel were to do something stupid ? it will face a shocking response the likes of which it has never encountered before,' Bashtestani told the Nazareth-based 'al-Sinara' newspaper.


Fury after Israeli officer in charge of prisoner's shooting is 'reassigned' Outraged Israeli human rights organisations have united in challenging the military's decision to invoke only minor penalties against a senior officer over the shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner by a soldier under his command.


Israeli officer admits ordering West Bank shooting: report An Israeli army commander confessed to ordering a soldier to shoot a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian with a rubber-coated bullet, Israeli television news channel 10 reported on Thursday.


Families in Wadi Nasara under attack from two sides


Israel: Lebanon is responsible for Hezbollah's actions This decision on Wednesday by the security cabinet represents a change in Israeli policy, after always firmly separating Hezbollah and the Lebanese government.


Invitation to overnight stays at Hebron Orphanages


Hebron settlers decry "Activities of Leftist Orgaizations." Recently, settlers in Hebron have increasingly demanded thatthe Israeli police remove Israeli and international peace and human rightsorganizations from the H-2 area of the city. Soldiers and settlers have succeeded in preventing two Israeli Breakingthe Silence tours


Israeli Settlers Pursue Palestinian Children on Their Way to Summer Camp; Israeli Military Fails to Escort Children


The Father of Lies by Philip Giraldi compared to the Israelis, the American neocons are neophytes when it comes to reshaping the past. Israel has long funded major archaeological projects intended to emphasize the Jewish presence in Palestine while minimizing or even denying the presence of others in the region, an attempt to demonstrate that Jews have a historical legitimacy that Arab inhabitants lack......In spite of views about Arabs and Muslims that most would consider extremist, Morris has been provided a bully pulpit by The New York Times to urge the United States to attack Iran before Israel is forced to stage a preemptive nuclear attack that would turn the country with its eighty million inhabitants into a "nuclear wasteland." .....the purpose in writing the piece is clearly to frighten the rest of the world into doing the dirty work so that Israel will not have to act. Obviously, the only country that can carry out the mission in a thorough fashion using non-nuclear weapons is the United States That's former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Giraldi breaking down Benny's BS for you.


Israel protests to Ankara over Ahmadinejad Israel formally complained to Turkey about the coming visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


Palestinian protests against barrier turn savvy Six years after Israel began building the barrier, Palestinian villagers march almost daily in an attempt to halt construction work that threatens to swallow up thousands more acres of West Bank land.


USAID Partners with Charity to Expand Assistance for Palestinians The American Charities for Palestine (ACP) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to offer a secure and efficient means of transferring charitable donations from individuals and entities in the U.S. to USAID-managed programs for the Palestinians. USAID and ACP will work closely together in order to achieve this goal.


Australian ire after rejected refugee dies in Gaza A refugee advocate attacked Australian authorities on Saturday for rejecting the application of a Palestinian asylum seeker who returned to the Gaza Strip and was killed as part of a clan rivalry.


Iceland, Sweden to take in Iraq's Palestinian refugees


Israeli-Palestinian hatreds envenom West Bank city "What is totally lacking is a determined will to act against the settlers in terms of arrest and prosecution,"


Al-Arian trial postponed as judge questions case The trial of a former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist was postponed Friday after a judge raised new doubts about whether prosecutors have been overzealous. The Lobby's going to be PISSED! How dare anyone ask questions?!


UK MPs call for talks with Hamas A UK parliamentary committee has called for dialogue with Hamas, as a UN report says poverty has reached an unprecedented high in the Gaza Strip.


Egypt stops 600 Africans from entering Israel Israel has pressed Egypt to stem the flow of Africans across its border. On Friday, Egyptian forces shot and wounded a Sudanese man attempting to enter Israel.


The refuge that allows Gaza to reflect on past glories Professor Dothan was not the first Israeli to excavate the treasures of Deir el-Bala. That was a privilege reserved for Moshe Dayan, after Israel's seizure of Gaza in 1967. The former defence minister is now acknowledged to have been a robber of antiquities on a spectacular and largely unchecked scale.


US to help Israel develop Arrow-3 Head of US Missile Defense Agency to recommend to Congress that America finance development of modern version of anti-ballistic missile system As if we American taxpayers don't give ENOUGH to Israel - a most unworthy nation - as it is. While you're struggling to pay your food and gas bills, Israel - a nation whose economy is booming - is being given $1.5-2 million per Arrow missile.


Jewish Media Group, SITE, is the first to release another Islamic threat video


Up in smoke Many Israeli politicians are acquainted in one degree or another with the 70-year-old Silverstein Now that's interesting, and yet, not surprising.


Israel warns girls not to "sleep with enemy" Israel's Haaretz TV has a story about a new program in one Israeli city that warns Jewish girls not to date Israeli Bedouin boys.


After eight years, Gaza student walks to freedom and an education


Academics protest at army bar on Palestinians


Aaron Klein now taking to issuing press releases to peddle the BS Yeh yeh, that's it, Hamas was contributing to Obama's campaign, therefore Obama is a Hamasestinian!!! That's it, that's the ticket!

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