PCHR weekly report: "16 Palestinians, including four children and one woman injured by Israeli fire"
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories in the period between August 30 and September 5, 2007.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50294

Report: Israel plundering the Jordan Valley
Agrexco has become a target in international campaigns for a boycott of Israeli goods. Fruit and vegetable exporter Agrexco is fifty-percent owned by the Israeli state, and is responsible for the export of 60-70 percent of all settlement produce, including that from the Jordan Valley. The report "To exist is to Resist, Eye on the Jordan Valley" was recently published by MA'AN Development Center and the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and offers detailed information on the ongoing Israeli colonization of the highly fertile lands of the Jordan Valley.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7142.shtml

Take action against the Occupation
The local committees of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti Apartheid Wall Campaign in Qalqiliya district (Falamya, Jayyous and Kufr Jamal), today released a call for Palestinians to take action against the Occupation on Saturday 9 August in protest at the Occupation's continuing attacks on Palestinian farmers.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1522.shtml

ISM-Member Akram killed during clashes in Jenin
Akram Ibrahim Abu Sba', member of the ISM regional committee Jenin and co-founder of one of ISM's first permanent presences was killed by members of Islamic Jihad in the north Palestinian city of Jenin. Akram was killed on duty, when he tried to smooth tensions between members of Palestinian security forces and members of Islamic Jihad.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/07/ism-member-akram-killed-during-clashes-in-jenin/

Two schoolkids injured, one men abducted by Israeli Military in Jenin
Eye witnesses and the Palestinian police reported that approximately at 3 o"clock am the Israeli Army, coming from Naaser street, entered the city of Jenin. About 13 Israeli military vehicles, including one Caterpillar bulldozer, were seen, as they approached to the eastern part of the city.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/07/two-schoolkids-injured-one-men-abducted-by-israeli-military-in-jenin/

Palestinian woman gives birth at Israeli checkpoint
Israeli sources revealed that a Palestinian woman from Al 'Ezariah gave birth at the military checkpoint near Abu Dees just north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning.  The same sources said that an Israeli border policeman prevented the woman from passing through the checkpoint on her way to a hospital in Jerusalem leaving her to give birth in the street.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50300

COMING SOON: THE IDF IN GAZA
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened his security cabinet on Wednesday afternoon, to discuss Israel's response to the ongoing Qassam attacks by Palestinian factions on towns and communities in the western Negev. Rather than approve the wide-scale military operation that some ministers had been advocating, the cabinet authorized the IDF, the Foreign Ministry and the Justice Ministry to examine the option of taking punitive action again against the civilian population of Gaza any time a Qassam is launched or a mortar fired.
http://www.ariga.com/2007-09-06.shtml

Israeli army invades Nablus; two charitable societies closed
On Wednesday, only days after the decision of the Palestinian caretaker cabinet to close some of the charitable societies in the West Bank, the Israeli army invaded the city of Nablus.The soldiers broke into the offices of a number of charities and other organizations searching them thoroughly.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50303

Mass Detentions and House Searches in the Old City of Hebron
6th September 2007, Hebron Last night at 9.30pm dozens of soldiers were in the old city of Hebron. They called on loud speakers for all the men aged 18 to 35 to come out of the houses and then they detained them.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/palsolidarity/%7E3/153168017/

Popular Committees appeal for release of dying detainee
The Palestinian Popular Committees issued a press release Thursday appealing to human rights groups to act immediately for the release of detainee Shadi Ghawadra, who is imprisoned by Israel and is suffering from life-threatening health conditions.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50293

Gaza fishermen risk becoming quarry
AS Abdullah Assi tethered his fishing nets on Tuesday, his son Ahmed was tending to more important repairs, plugging the bullet holes in the hull of the family's weathered skiff. The damage had been done the night before after a run-in with the Israeli navy, west of a buoy that marks the Gaza fishing fleet's de facto outer limit. It is here, at the apex of a triangle demarcated by the Israeli Defence Force, that many Gazan fishermen run the gauntlet of patrol boats, risking life and livelihoods for the lure of waters not fished for years.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22380817-15084,00.html

Tear Gas and Sound Grenades replaced with Music and Dancing
Bilin Celebrates: On Friday, September 7th, the villagers of Bil'in were joined by international and Israeli comrades. Normally they come together every Friday to express their outrage of the unacceptable Apartheid Wall. Normally the day is filled with military violence, tear gas, sound bombs, and billy clubs are common. Once the military begins to fire gas into the crowds, the non-violent protesters tend to back off eventually leaving only the Palestinian children throwing rocks in anger. A mild response in comparison to the rubber coated steel bullets used against them.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/07/tear-gas-and-sound-grenades-replaced-with-music-and-dancing-bilin-celebrates/

Meron Rapoport: A victory for the anarchists
Anyone who went to demonstrate in Bil'in knew that he stood more than a small chance of getting hurt somehow by "his" army: by clubs, tear gas, rubber bullets. Undoubtedly, there were a few who sought out this violence, but it also befell those who did not seek it out. It was part of the deal. The violence that the soldiers and Border Police officers employed against the Israeli demonstrators on an average Friday in Bil'in surpassed that used against the settlers during the entire evacuation of Gush Katif. Nevertheless, a few hundred Israelis made this trip every Friday, without fail, for the last two and a half years.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901786.html

Report: Ramon offers PA West Bank pullout, territory exchange
A confidant of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has offered a broad West Bank pullout in talks with Palestinian leaders on a final-status peace deal, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=902018&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Hamas forces clash with Gaza protesters
Hamas security men beat protesters, hurled stun grenades and fired in the air to disperse open-air prayers the rival Fatah faction held in the Gaza Strip on Friday in defiance of the territory's Islamist rulers.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07882358.htm

"PA wil resume payments to Gaza employees"
PA wil resume payments to Gaza employees accused of disloyalty. Palestinian Authority Spokesperson Riyad al-Maliki called on government employees who have gone unpaid to complain to government officials, especially in Gaza.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=48280

Britain's Prince Edward arrives in Israel for first royal visit in over a decade
Prince Edward, the earl of Wessex and the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth, arrived in Israel Wednesday, marking the first royal visit here in more than a decade. But despite his high-profile four-day tour, the prince's visit has been categorized as "private" and so the situation remains unchanged: not a single member of the British royal family has ever been to Israel on an official visit.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901234.html

A royal insult
Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, is visiting Israel this week as the guest of a Jewish-Arab youth organization. But, like previous visits by the royal family here, this one was also defined as 'private.' The 43-year-old prince met with neither the president nor the prime minister. In the 21st century, there is no diplomatic significance to royal visits, and princes do not negotiate on behalf of their governments. But there is symbolic importance in showing respect for the host country. That is certainly the case when it comes to Britain, an important power and the largest surviving kingdom. Britain played a decisive historic role in the Middle East in general and in Zionism in particular, and wants to take the lead in bringing about a solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict. Its former prime minister, Tony Blair, now represents the international community in its efforts to establish a Palestinian state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901851.html

Stateless democracy
Palestinian sectarian violence looks more and more like Iraq.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/861/re5.htm

Ignorant thieves-by Azmi Bishara
If the US proceeds on the basis of the conviction that, after its failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, it needs to score a success in Lebanon by rolling back the opposition through the application of international resolutions, and another success in Palestine by feeding the West Bank and starving Gaza in the hope of compelling the Palestinians to accept anything Israel offers, the only thing it will accomplish will be to propel these two countries to civil war and destruction.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/861/op12.htm

An option that doesn't really exist
In the wake of reports of new negotiations on a permanent status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, Prof. Gideon Biger is once again suggesting the transfer of areas populated today by Israeli Arabs to the Palestinian state that will arise, in exchange for the transfer of some of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank to Israeli sovereignty. This would ensure a Jewish majority in the State of Israel and increase the area of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel. However, when we examine the details of this proposal from a practical point of view and from the perspective of both international and Israeli law, it is revealed to be an impractical and dangerous idea.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901833.html

Israel Is Officially Silent on Syrian Report It Entered Airspace
Israeli officials were tight-lipped on Thursday after Syria said that Israeli planes had violated its airspace early that morning and that Syrian air defenses had confronted the planes and repulsed them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/world/middleeast/07mideast.html?ex=1346817600&en=00975b87d529112d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Israel Lobby Makes Tactical Retreat
Considering the attacks that pro-Israel advocates mustered against the authors when their article, of which the book is an expanded version, appeared in The London Review of Books in March 2006, it is startling that the criticism has been so muted.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-090607113854.htm

Behind the Wall: 'Rabbits and Fried Chicken'
I myself slowly follow the two women back through the tunnels; I can do nothing to help them. Their determination and spirit is inspirational, the situation forced upon them is nothing short of inhuman.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-090607112836.htm

The Weeping Olive Trees of Palestine
The irony of it all is that Israel's uprooting of olive trees is contrary to the Jewish halakhic principle whose origin is found in the Torah: "Even if you are at war with a city ... you must not destroy its trees".
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-090607113343.htm

Good News: Edward Said Mural to Go Up
This mural is the product of a few dedicated activists with a supportive community. They overcame tremendous odds to get this mural up -- from Zionut opposition to a resistant administration. They went through the official channels with persistance, planning and saavy. This is a model for other student activists to emulate. Bravo to GUPS for this fitting tribute to a great intellectual and his dispossessed and besieged people.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/09/good-news-edward-said-mural-to-go-up.html

US professor who says Jews abuse Holocaust to curb critics resigns from university
"for everybody's sake."  Finkelstein said in the statement that he believes the tenure decision was tainted by external pressures, but praised the university's "honorable role of providing a scholarly haven for me the past six years."  The school denied that outside parties influenced the decision to deny Finkelstein tenure. The school's portion of the statement called Finkelstein a prolific scholar and an outstanding teacher.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901583.html

Quarter doubt Israel will exist long-term
poll: A quarter of Jewish Israelis doubt that Israel will exist long-term and more than 70 percent have a bad assessment of the country's security situation, an opinion poll revealed on Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070907/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictisrael_070907100055