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Catholic Nobel peace laureate shot in nonviolent West Bank rally
Northern Ireland's 1976 Noble Peace Prize laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, was injured in the leg by a rubber bullet while taking part in a nonviolent demonstration against the Israeli separation wall.
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=23862
Tree Planting in Biddu
Today the people of Biddu marched to the site of the annexation wall to plant trees in a nearby military area. Biddu has been the site of one of the longest struggles against the wall and has been successful in moving the route of the wall through popular struggle
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/04/23/tree-plant-biddu/
Israeli Settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Hebron and injure two
Illegal Israeli settlers attacked and injured Palestinian farmers from the village of Halhol north of Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank, while they were working on their land on Monday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/47952
House Demolitions Planned in Jordan Valley, Palestine
Whilst there, they visited several Bedouin villages in the Jordan Valley, and heard of the plight of the people of Al Hadidi. Only a week ago there were 200 people living in the village. They lived in shacks made of wood and fabric and had metal animal sheds for their sheep and other livestock. They have been moved four times by the Israeli Army since 1999 under threat. They live 3km from the nearest water supply, and have no electricity or sanitary facilities.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368533.html
Israeli administration imprisoning mothers and wives of political prisoners to pressure confessions
Kawthar Nofal told PNN that Israeli intelligence has taken to arresting the mothers and wives of Palestinian political prisoners in order to extract confessions. Nofal, known as Umm Said for her eldest son, said that the idea is to threaten the prisoners by harming their loved ones. Israeli intelligence wants information, and will take what they can get, real or fabricated, the northwestern West Bank woman said candidly on Saturday.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2235
Seeing an opening, Israeli settlers reassert themselves
Political analysts say the settlers see an opening. "They finished licking their wounds," said Akiva Eldar, a columnist for Haaretz. "They feel much stronger because there is a kind of consensus that the disengagement was a mistake. They paid the price for the mistake, they are the underdogs, and everybody in the Israeli mainstream has to ask for their forgiveness. The government will be very careful not to touch."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/23/news/settlers.php
Ceasefire under threat after Israeli killings in West Bank
The five-month old ceasefire between the Israelis and Palestinians appears under threat today following Israeli raids over the weekend that killed nine Palestinians... The victims of the West Bank raids included a 17-year-old youth
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/middle-east/article2474788.ece
Several detainees confined to solitary for objecting to collective punishment
The administration of the Ofer Israeli detention facility, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, confined several detainees to solitary for objecting to the violations against them and to the collective punishment policies.
http://www.imemc.org/article/47957
Israeli army continues to enforce curfew on Howwara town near Nablus
For the second consecutive day the Israeli army continued to enforce a curfew on the town of Howwara, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, leading to the confinement of hundreds of Palestinian families to their homes.
http://www.imemc.org/article/47949
Former Arab Israeli MP to whip up support campaign
"He will stay abroad to mobilise an Arab and international solidarity campaign to prepare to confront" the Israeli authorities, the secretary general of his National Democratic Assembly party, Awad Abdelfattah, told AFP. Abdelfattah said that Bishara, who in 1999 became the first Arab Israeli to run for prime minister, would still lead the party
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070423/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpoliticsbishara_070423151517
Olmert Stresses 'Concessions' for Peace
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert marked Israel's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers Monday with a new call for peace with the Palestinians, saying his country was prepared to make "far-reaching compromises" and "very painful concessions." But he also said Israel would hit militants "until they are destroyed," following a weekend of fighting that left nine Palestinians dead.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301046.html
Leftist leader: “Abbas must stop his meetings with Olmert, due to military escalations”
Mansour stated that the Israeli leadership must realize that “there cannot be talks about peace while the army continues its attacks and crimes against the Palestinian people”.
http://www.imemc.org/article/47956
Lebanese soldier shot dead at Palestinian refugee camp
According to the "popular committee" of Palestinian organisations in Nahr al-Bared, the camp's dispensary was unable to treat the woman and her family then decided to take her to an outside hospital. It said the family had been held up by searches at the checkpoint, and that she was dead on arrival at the hospital.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/04/17/freedom-summer-2007/
PA Interior Minister rescinds resignation at Haniyeh's request
Officials said Kawasmeh has grown frustrated over the delays in moving forward with his plan, which the cabinet approved early this month. The plan called for reforms in the numerous Palestinian security forces, which have been plagued by corruption and infighting, and appealed to gunmen not to flaunt their weapons in public.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851726.html
Haneya to start Arab, Asian tour in early May
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas is likely to embark on an Arab and Asian tour at the beginning of next month, an aide said on Monday. It will be his first tour to Asia since Haneya took office as prime minister of the national unity government in March.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/23/content_6016613.htm
U.S. had emergency plan for attacking Israel in 1967
The basis for the directive was Washington's policy of support for the existence, independence and territorial integrity of all the states of the region. This translated into adherence to the Israeli-Arab armistice lines of 1949. The policy was not to allow Egypt, or any combination of Arab states, to destroy Israel, but also not to allow Israel to expand westward, into Sinai, or eastward, into the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851708.html
Itzik to PA: Replace Qassams with computers
"Our advice to you is replace your Katyushas and Qassams with computers and loving education, the smile of a boy that has a future, and neighborliness," Itzik said during his speech... ( Replace Qassams with Freedom and Justice!? )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851650.html
Leftist lights torch for Fatah commander at alternative ceremony
Just like in the formal state ceremony, 12 torches were lit. In this case, they were meant to serve as a reminder of "violence and occupation" as well as the "injustices against the 'other' in Israel".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3391384,00.html
'Bedouins only good in uniform'
"We have always done so willingly, never asking for land in return. It is a shame the country has chosen not to integrate us in society. A young Bedouin soldier can command troops, but cannot be an executive in Israeli society".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3391303,00.html
A war in the summer?
When the Syrian president says that if there is no peace there will be a war, he is responding to incessant mumbling from our side. This is where the dynamics of another war start. In a situation as explosive as that in the Middle East, the sparks can be ignited even when no one really wants that to happen.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851488.html
Khalidi: Constraints on Palestine fueled conflict
In the talk, he chronicled the history of Palestine after World War I, when a League of Nations mandate established British control over Palestine. Britain, Khalidi said, had promised self-determination to the Palestinian Arabs, who comprised 90 percent of the area's population. The mandate, however, only formally granted mandatory rights to the Jewish minority. "For decades," he said, "Britain twisted and turned over pressure from contradictory poles of respect for self-determination ... and its faithfulness to create a Jewish national home."
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/23/news/18213.shtml
'Not the Israel we dreamed of'
"Compared to any potential enemy around us, technologically, militarily, and scientifically, we have nothing to worry about," said Amir. "The problem is with our value system. We have been fed these socialist messianic visions about the kind of just society we should form here. These visions are obsolete, and we live in a capitalistic, bourgeois society instead".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3391328,00.html
Yemen renews its support for the Palestine people entire rights
He called on Palestinian factions to align themselves and reinforce the internal front for fighting the Zionist occupation and to build the Palestinian independent state. He said that Palestinians should exploit their media to endorse the Palestinian issue.
http://www.sabanews.net/view.php?scope=f9129&dr=&ir=&id=130040
Winograd report to slam pre-war conduct
Committee members have said recently that they will not make the same mistake as the Agranat Committee on the Yom Kippur War, which mainly blamed the military.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851070.html
Hezbollah: Prisoner exchange talks with Israel are 'serious'
Sheikh Naim Kassem also stressed that the two Israeli soldiers, whose capture by Hezbollah last summer triggered a 34-day war between the two sides, would be freed only in exchange for the freedom of all Lebanese prisoners held in Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851461.html
U.S. imposes sanctions on Iranian, Syrian weapons
The 14 - which also include Lebanon's radical Hezbollah movement and firms from China, Malaysia, Mexico and Singapore - are accused of selling to or buying from Iran or Syria missile technology or material to make weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851747.html
US urges Iran to join Iraq talks
In an interview with the Financial Times, the US secretary of state said it would be a “missed opportunity” if Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's foreign minister, did not attend the minister-level meeting to be hosted by Egypt.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3f96545e-f0f9-11db-838b-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=
fc3334c0-2f7a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html
Iraq will have to learn to live with attacks, says general
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said the ongoing increase of nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in Iraq has achieved “modest progress” but has also met with setbacks.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21611145-663,00.html |
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