2/1/08

Israel: West Bank roadblocks will remain
MLive.com – MI,USA
The Israeli army conducts almost nightly raids into the Gaza Strip against Palestinian militants who launch rockets into southern Israel. …
www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international
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Death Toll in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Falls in 2007
Voice of America – USA
The group also criticized the behavior of Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, saying restrictions in the form of 459 roadblocks and 66 manned …
voanews.com/english/2008-01-01-voa23.cfm

The occupied Palestinian territories: Dignity denied
Tehran Times – Iran
The dignity of the Palestinians is being trampled underfoot day after day, both in the West Bank and in Gaza. Israel’s harsh security measures come at an …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=160463

Olmert says Israel must make concessions to Palestinians; share …
The Canadian Press –
Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians want those territories for an independent state, …
canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeq
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Israeli defense minister: West Bank roadblocks to remain despite …
China Post – Taipei,Taiwan
Before dawn Wednesday, five Hamas militants were killed in an Israeli operation in the central Gaza Strip, Hamas and Palestinian medical officials said. …
www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2008/01/02/137418/Israeli-defense.htm

Israel: West Bank Roadblocks Will Remain
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) – Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
About 5.4 million Jews live in Israel alongside 1.4 million Israeli Arabs. Another 3.9 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. …
www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20080102/API/801020519

PA say foiled Hamas-planned suicide attack
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Palestinian seen approaching the fence. The soldiers said he was hit. At least one Qassam rocket and several mortars were fired at Israel from the Gaza …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/940967.html

Has Israel given up on reciprocity?
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Do they really think that a full Israeli withdrawal from the “West Bank” will put an end to the threat of terror? Israel’s number one soldier-statesman, …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517266
757&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

An Unholy Land Grab: The Story of a Palestinian Farm and Settlers
Palestine Chronicle – Mountlake Terrace,WA,USA
Since the West Bank and Gaza Strip only amount to 22% of the historical land of Palestine – it means that, in the current Two State negotiations, …
www.palestinechronicle.com/story-010108174759.htm

Bethlehem: Aida camp residents say wall harming their livelihoods
By via the Electronic Intifada(SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay))
AIDA REFUGEE CAMP, BETHLEHEM, 31 December (IRIN) – Behind a luxurious five-star hotel and close to Bethlehem, yet unknown to most visitors who converged on nearby Manger Square for the recent Christmas mass, residents of Aida refugee …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/01/18469520.php

Pollution without borders : Report, The Electronic Intifada, 1 …
By annie(annie)
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9190.shtml. Pollution without borders Report, The Electronic Intifada, 1 January 2008. The polluted Hebron River inside Israel. (Shabtai Gold/IRIN). BEER SHEBA/RAMALLAH, 30 December 2007 (IRIN) …
annies-letters.blogspot.com/2008/01
/pollution-without-borders-report.html

1/1/08

Israeli PM Orders No New West Bank Settlement Construction Without …
FOX News – USA
Israel and the West, labeling Hamas a terrorist organization, cut off vital foreign assistance, plunging the West Bank and Gaza into an economic abyss. …
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319271,00.html

Number of Israeli-Palestinian fatalities dropped in 2007, says report
Christian Science Monitor – Boston,MA,USA
But the situation in Gaza worsened and intra-Palestinian killings reached a record high, the human rights report adds. By Arthur Bright According to a new …
www.csmonitor.com/2007/1231/p99s01-duts.html

Hamas trying to develop W. Bank Kassam
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Most of the money went to finance terror activity in the West Bank. The report said Hizbullah continued to finance Palestinian terror activity against …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517258
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Israel is taking seriously a renewed threat by Osama bin Laden to …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – New York,NY,USA
After Al-Qaida issued a recorded message this week vowing to “liberate Palestine” – a reference to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip – Israel stepped up …
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106172.html

Palestinians Today 123107
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
The Israeli army kills a Palestinian woman in Gaza and kidnaps 9 others in the West Bank, these stories and more coming up stay tuned. One Palestinian woman …
www.imemc.org/article/52160

6 killed in Gaza infighting despite conciliatory Abbas speech …
International Herald Tribune – France
He also complained about Israeli army checkpoints in the West Bank. “There are 640 Israeli checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank and Israel did not …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/01/
africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Palestinians.php

Hope and dream deleted from Palestinian dictionary
GulfNews – Dubai,United Arab Emirates
We have been through elections to a national war to a separation to a possible peace move here in the West Bank, and a destructive Israeli war in the Gaza …
www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10178609.html

Hamas claims West Bank shootout
The Times – Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
GAZA CITY – The armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement has claimed responsibility for an attack in the West Bank that left two Israeli settlers dead. …
www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=670703

Al-aqsa allegdly wants to ‘eliminate’ PM
Earthtimes – London,UK
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 31 A leaflet allegedly from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades called for the assassination of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister …
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/166905.html

How Barack Obama learned to love Israel
By shergald
Ali Abunimah, cofounder of the The Electronic Intifada, on March 4, 2007 wrote this personal essay about Obama’s newly discovered dedication to the Israel Lobby. The title is Abunimah’s. Yes, Obama is now a committed supporter …
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www.mydd.com/section/Diary

Democracy: An Existential Threat?
By tim(tim)
By Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti, Electronic Intifada, 30 December 2007. As two of the authors of a recent document advocating a one-state solution to the Arab-Israeli colonial conflict we emphatically intended to generate debate. …
demleft.blogspot.com/2007/12/democracy-existential-threat.html