Headlines for 04-03-08

Three gunmen killed in deep IDF incursion


Hamas man 'killed' in PA custody


Israel wounds 3, arrests 12 in Gaza raids


Israel fears Syrian army moves may signal Hezbollah attack According to defense sources in Israel, the Syrians are preparing for the likelihood that Israel's response to a Hezbollah attack will be severe and may result in a regional confrontation.


Hebron orphanage video added to youtube


Israel army dismantles 10 West Bank roadblocks The measure affects a fraction of the more than 500 roadblocks and checkpoints the army operates across the occupied West Bank, according to a UN tally.


Meshal: Hamas backs Palestinian state in '67 borders Hamas supports the united Palestinian position calling for the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, including Jerusalem, and the right of return for refugees, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshal told the Palestinian daily Al-Ayam.


Egypt allows Palestinians to cross back into Gaza Egypt temporarily opened a border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Thursday to allow around 200 Palestinians stranded in Egypt to return home, Egyptian security sources said.


Hamas urges Israel to respond to ceasefire efforts


Palestinian PM warns civil servants he'll dock pay for each strike day The Palestinian prime minister has taken on the powerful civil servants' union, saying he'll dock the pay of striking union members.
The union has held repeated warning strikes in recent months, calling for wage increases.


Let Israel offer justice to Palestinians Israel allocates 80 percent of available water from aquifers in Palestinian land for its own use. Every Palestinian home has one or more water tanks on its roof. Since Palestinians receive water only one or two days per week, the tanks are used to store water for the rest of the week. Israeli settlers receive six times more water per person than do Palestinians in the occupied territories.


Hebron: Palestinian shot after trying to snatch rifle from IDF soldier


Gunmen blow up British cemetery monument in Gaza Palestinian gunmen blew up a monument in a British-run cemetery for foreign soldiers in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses and British diplomats said.


Tibi's Beirut stop angers rightists An Israeli-Arab lawmaker stirred up right-wing ire by flying to Lebanon.


Order: Spot Arab MK at restaurant? Curse him Extreme right-wing activists issue 'operation order' for events of encountering senior Arab officials in Jerusalem


Arab envoy: Bush at critical point in Israeli-Palestinian talks


New bill prohibits economic ties with Iran


Are You Listening, Joe Lieberman? Sen. Joe Lieberman, another McCain backer, not only spoke to Christians United for Israel's big gathering last summer, he compared Hagee to the biblical Moses as someone who "has become the leader of a mighty multitude in pursuit of and defense of Israel."


Hillary Clinton's Little-Noticed Israel Problem Her vow of support for Israel's claim on an "undivided Jerusalem," if enacted, would mark a major?and problematic?break with longstanding U.S. policy.


20 questions with John McCain "Look," he cut me off, "I just have to tell you that we should be so grateful for the support of the evangelical movement for the state of Israel, given the influence that they have, beneficial influence that they have over millions of Americans, and then we'll worry about a peace process later on, but I know that they are committed to peace between Palestinians and Israelis as well."


Protest Over West Bank's Apartheid Road System


Israel dismisses "tensions" following Syrian reserve call-up Israeli government and military officials unanimously rejected speculations that Syria was preparing for an offensive against Israel, and said Israel was not preparing one either.


Yoffie blasts Palestinians, Christian Zionists Rabbi Eric Yoffie objected to Jewish cooperation with some Christian Zionists, and also called the Palestinian movement one of the "ugliest and stupidest" in modern history.



Palestinian conflict comes to Fulton Anna Baltzer brought her personal experience with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to town in her presentation ?Life in Occupied Palestine? at Westminster College.


Resolution would target Hamas Two Democrats in Congress are asking colleagues to sign on to a resolution that condemns Hamas incitement.
Why is this a matter for the US Congress?


US Should Press Opposition to New Israeli Settlements


New warnings on boycott bids The Scottish Trades Union Congress will debate a motion from Kilmarnock and Loudon Trades Council at its conference on April 21, calling for a consumer boycott of Israeli goods and disinvestment of pension funds in firms that supply arms to Israel.


Over 100 organizations call for boycott of "Israel at 60" celebrations


The dysfunctional Jewish state Israel's settlers in the West Bank have woven such tight alliances with various parties that they have made themselves effectively untouchable, even though they are only a tiny proportion of Israeli society. As a result, the government is incapable even of enforcing Israel's own laws in the West Bank.


Ramon: No retaliation for Mugniyah due to Lebanon war


Peretz to begin 'free Barghouti' drive


Aussie unions accused of anti-Semitism Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Jewish Labor Committee and of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, last week accused the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union and the Maritime Union of Australia of "anti-Semitism cloaked under the veil of anti-Zionism" following their endorsement last month of a newspaper ad accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing."