High Court: Controversial settlement neighborhood to remain in place
The High Court thus rejected a petition filed against the Matityahu-East neighborhood a year and a half ago by Peace Now and Bili'in Council. Residents of the West Bank village of Bili'in own some of the property on which the neighborhood was built.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901229&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Israeli Police demolishes Arab-owned home in the Majd Al Korom area
Bulldozers of the Israeli Ministry of Interior demolished an Arab-owned house in the Majd Al Korom area, located in the Western Galilee, inside the lands of 1948, claiming the owners lacked the necessary construction license.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50262

OPT-ISRAEL: Weak Palestinian economy having direct humanitarian impact - UN official
The Palestinian economy is "totally dependent on political considerations" of outside powers, and its "development prospects are bleak under the Israeli internal and external movement restrictions," a new UN report says.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74096

Israeli army carries out operation in Hebron, kidnapping one Palestinian
Israeli military forces kidnapped one Palestinians after invading the southern West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby village of Athana on Wednesday afternoon.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50264

Palestinians say child seriously wounded in IDF raid in Nablus
Israel Defense Forces troops seriously wounded an 8-year-old Palestinian boy during a military operation early Tuesday, Palestinian hospital officials said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/900720.html

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT : Israeli government: the Gaza strip must be punished for home-made shell attacks
Israeli government sources reported on Wednesday that the Israeli cabinet agreed to step up pressure on the Gaza strip after Palestinian resistance fighters continued to launch home-made shells at the Israeli town of Sderot.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50265

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT : Israel mulls Gaza power cuts over rocket attacks
Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday against a broad offensive in Gaza to curb cross-border rocket attacks but did not rule out cutting off Israeli-supplied power to the territory, a government official said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05876167.htm

Israeli army attack Azon village near Qalqilia, injuring two civilians
A number of Israeli armored vehicles stormed the village of Azon, east of Qalqilia city in the northern part of the West Bank, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, injuring two civilians.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50260

Barghouthi: "Israel's ruling to shift Bil'in Wall route is result of non-violent resistance
Palestinian Legislator, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, stated on Tuesday that the ruling of the Israeli High Court ruling to halt the construction of the Annexation Wall on the orchards of the village of Bil'in, near Ramallah, and to shift the route of the Wall, is a victory of the three-year long nonviolent resistance campaign carried out by the villagers and their international supporters.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50249

Palestinians celebrate rare victory over hated barrier
From the front door of his single-storey stone house Waheed Suleiman Yassin has an enviable view over the surrounding hills and a compelling vantage point in front of one of Israel's most controversial projects in the occupied West Bank.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2162386,00.html

Arabs are poorer: Of 550,000 children who occasionally go hungry in Israel, 400,000 are Arab
According to the comprehensive poverty report published Tuesday by the National Insurance Institute, the number of poor Jewish families dropped from 16 percent in the years 2004 and 2005 to 14.7 percent last year, and their numbers have dropped by some 15,000. At the same time the level of poverty among Arab families rose from 50 percent to 54 percent, and the number of poor Arab families grew by 20,000.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3446076,00.html

International Federation of Journalists slams interference with the press
This is a statement issued and published on Wednesday by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemning the Gaza government of Hamas over the revival after 10 years of a media law and a governmental media committee, claiming this signals new threats to press freedom.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50247

Sheikh Tamimi: "Public prayers are allowed by Islamic law and Sonna"

In an interview with the Palestinian Radio, sheikh Taiseer Tamimi, chief Islamic Justice in Palestine, said that holding prayers in public places and yard s is allowed by the Islamic law. The statements of Tamimi came in response to a decision by the Hamas-government in Gaza barring public prayer rallies organized by its rival, Fateh movement.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50248

Full salary and part of the overdue payments to be delivered for PA public servants

Bassam Zakarneh head of the Union of public servants said Tuesday that the government will deliver a full salary for the state employees in addition to delivering part of the of the overdue payments.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50244

PM Haniya of Gaza proposes a five-point solution to current political turmoil

Palestinian Prime Minister of Hamas in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, proposed on Tuesday, during a regular weekly meeting of his cabinet, five-point solution out of current Palestinian political turmoil.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50243

Haniyeh: No state can be established without Gaza

Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister, Isma'il Haniyeh said on Tuesday that the de facto government in Gaza believes that there is no state in Gaza, yet no state can be established without Gaza.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=48082

Fatah regroups in Gaza, raising tension with Hamas

Men keep watch from windows, others guard the street as members of Fatah gather discreetly at a comrade's home in the Gaza Strip to discuss the movement's fate since Hamas seized control of the enclave. They dominated Palestinian politics for decades under Yasser Arafat and are led by his successor as president, Mahmoud Abbas.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04838616.htm

Mofaz bars Islamic Movement head from road safety campaign

Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) on Wednesday to exclude the head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch in a public relations campaign on road safety.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901206&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Arab League chief: Mideast summit shouldn't favor Israel

Arab League chief Amr Moussa warned Wednesday that the Mideast fall peace conference proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush should not favor Israel in its pursuit of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901226&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

More Money for Israel?

They're richer than ever, and they don't need it – so why are we giving it?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11554

Born in Lakeland; detained by Israel

A large Lakeland family has been split in two temporarily by complex Israeli travel restrictions that forced the mother to leave seven of her children behind when they attempted to fly home.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/05/State/Born_in_Lakeland_deta.shtml

Lebanon camp refugees in despair over ruins

The Lebanese may be rejoicing at the crushing of an Islamist militia after three months of fighting at an impoverished refugee camp but the massive destruction inflicted during the standoff has left its Palestinian residents in utter despair.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20070905132323310C266199

The Candidates on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

http://www.cfr.org/publication/13579/

Shooting the messengers

One reason that the US government, politicians and people don't have a clear idea of the situation in Israel/Palestine is that any criticism or complaint about Israel, no matter how well-researched and moderate, is swiftly attacked by lobbies in the US as being anti-semitic.

http://mondediplo.com/2007/09/06carter

The Politics of Blind Hatred: Who Are the Fanatics?

President Jimmy Carter was demonized for pointing out in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, that there are actually two sides to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Distinguished American scholars, such as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have suffered the same fate for documenting the excessive influence the Israel Lobby has on US foreign policy.

http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts09052007.html

Iraq, Israel, Iran
When John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's article on the Israel Lobby appeared in the London Review of Books, after having been commissioned and killed by the Atlantic Monthly, neoconservative publicists launched an all-out campaign to slander the authors as anti-Semites. Now that their book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy has appeared--a work of considerable scope, carefully documented, and not just an expanded version of the article--the imputation of anti-Semitism will doubtless be repeated more sparingly for readers lower down the educational ladder. Meanwhile, the literate establishment press will (a) ignore it, (b) pretend that it says nothing new or surprising, and (c) rule out the probable inferences from the data, on the ground that the very meaning of the word "lobby" is elusive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/iraq-israel-iran_b_62995.html

New York's first Arabic school opens under police guard

Under police guard, about 60 pupils at New York's first Arabic bilingual school turned up for classes on Tuesday amid accusations the institution is a potential breeding ground for Islamic extremists.  "This is absolutely not a religious school. The kids are here to be citizens of a school committed to excellence," Garth Harris, head of development for New York City's Education Department, told a crowd of reporters gathered outside the school building.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/New_York_s_first_Arabic_school_open_09042007.html