11/1/08

“Injustice every day”: An interview with Leila Khaled
By cassel
ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Recently the US, Israel and the Palestinian Authority met in Annapolis, Maryland to try and advance the “peace process.” However, the fate of Jerusalem, the occupation and the right of return for Palestinian …
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Bush’s “vision” is Palestine’s nightmare
By via the Electronic Intifada(SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay))
Thursday, January 10, 2008 : US President George W. Bush landed in Israel yesterday on his first presidential trip to the country. He participated in a press conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, what both men …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/10/18471559.php

An Israeli and a Palestinian from Gaza and the West Bank give …
BBC News – UK
We are just as much Palestinians as people in the West Bank. By discussing a solution without including Gaza, Bush is giving Israel a green light to attack …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7180884.stm

Reporter offers Bush a Gaza, West Bank misery tour
CNN International – USA
I spend a lot of my time covering the West Bank and Gaza: here’s what I see, and he won’t. He won’t be going to Gaza, the Palestinian territory that is …
edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/btsc.wedeman.bush/

Core issues at the heart of conflict
Gulf Daily News – Manama,Bahrain
Israel and the Palestinians agree on the principle of physically linking the Gaza Strip and West Bank through Israeli territory, but disagree over who …
www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?
Article=205483&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30297

Bush expects to see Palestinian state before he leaves office
USA Today – USA
USA TODAY’s Richard Wolf reports that President Bush predicted today that a deal can be reached within a year to turn the West Bank and Gaza Strip into a …
blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/bush-expects-to.html

Official: Israel to Move Toward ‘Road Map’ Goals
NPR – USA
Mr. REGEV: Correct. We make a clear distinction between Jerusalem and the West Bank. SIEGEL: How far can this process between Israel and the Palestinians go …
www.npr.org/templates/transcript/
transcript.php?storyId=17970211

SF Chronicle Submissions
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
Any peace accord will oblige Israel to pull back settlements on the contested West Bank, and Palestinian leaders must rein in terrorist strikes. …
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/
c/a/2008/01/10/EDL4UD1OS.DTL

Bush: Israel, leave West Bank
MiamiHerald.com – Miami,FL,USA
Calling on Israel to end occupation of the West Bank, President Bush said painful compromises would be needed to bring peace to the region. …
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/375029.html

Bush ends first Israel, West Bank visit in footsteps of Jesus
AFP –
“There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967,” he said on his return to Jerusalem from the West Bank, where he held talks with Palestinian …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTMmD_sqzOdkUahsaBf8ORJBjG6g

Bush Sees ‘Signed Peace Treaty’ for Mideast
NPR – USA
MONTAGNE: Now, because of heavy fog today, Mr. Bush had to travel part of the time by land from Israel to the West Bank. And you also made that journey. …
www.npr.org/templates/transcript/
transcript.php?storyId=17984525

10/1/08

An American President and the outposts of Zion
By atheo
The Electronic Intifada, 9 January 2008 A Palestinian printing press prepares an anti-Bush banner for demonstrations in the Gaza Strip agains US President George W. Bush’s visit to the region, 8 January 2007. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=153059

Diaries: Live from Palestine
By nemo
UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA (more…) [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google]
darwiniana.com/2008/01/10/diaries-live-from-palestine/

Only pressure will lift Gaza medical siege
By rj
Electronic Intifada. A delegation of four Israeli members of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel), including three doctors and PHR-Israel’s Clinic Manager, entered Gaza this morning. At the same time, an emergency dispatch of …
www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/
2008/01/10/only_pressure_will_lift_gaza_medical_sie

Boston Palestine Film Festival submission deadlines
By admin
Entries sought for 2008 Boston Palestine Film Festival Electronic Intifada – Chicago,IL,USA The early submission deadline is 15 February 2008, with an extended submission deadline of 20 March 2008. …
listenandbeheard.net/2008/01/10/submission-deadlines-4/

Protest in Gaza against Bush visit
By Kangaroo Brisbane Australia(Christy)
Ben White, The Electronic Intifada. This week US President George W. Bush embarks on a tour of some of the US’ Middle East allies, including his first visit while in office to Israel. The trip has been presaged by a lot of media …
rebellenation.blogspot.com/2008/01/pro
test-in-gaza-against-bush-visit.html

Security Tight For Bush West Bank Visit
Sky News – United Kingdom
President Bush will meet his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on the West Bank today on the latest leg of his Middle East peace tour. …
news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1300099,00.html

Bush Faces Obstacles in Mideast
The Associated Press –
At the same time, Bush said, “illegal” Israeli settlement outposts in the West Bank have got to go. Bush’s goal of forging an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUhlgpT
BdHJv3BW-haLPElbnxOaQD8U2IFP00

Abbas Has People’s Mandate
NPR – USA
And he counters the Israeli point of view that East Jerusalem — and its settlements there — are different from the West Bank. Israeli settlements must be …
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17970215

Israel and Palestine strive to rescue stalled peace talks
Scotsman – United Kingdom
But negotiations have made little headway, marred by Israeli building plans in disputed territory and Palestinian militant attacks in the West Bank and Gaza …
news.scotsman.com/world/Israel-and-Palestine-strive-to.3653138.jp

Bush to Visit Abbas in West Bank
Voice of America – USA
By VOA News US President George Bush will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank Thursday in an attempt to move the Mideast peace …
voanews.com/english/2008-01-10-voa6.cfm

Bush to meet with Palestinian leaders on Gaza violence
WYMT – Hazard,KY,USA
The president is asking Israel to remove a key sticking point in peace talks by getting rid of West Bank outposts built by Jewish settlers.
ww2.wkyt.com/global/story.asp?s=7603618

President seeks end to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Jamaica Gleaner – Kingston,Jamaica
Palestinians say Israel’s refusal to freeze settlement activity in the West Bank sours the atmosphere for peacemaking. Israel says it can’t abandon more …
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080110/int/int2.html