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The Answers Have Changed
By Miko Peled, Electronic Intifada 1/29/2007
   It is said of Albert Einstein that he gave a particular exam to a class that had already been given that exam. Alarmed at what he saw and thinking it to be the result of the professor’s absent-mindedness... more..

’We didn’t believe it would happen in our town’
Ha’aretz 1/30/2007
   Hani Azoulay works at a small grocery store in the strip mall where the attack occurred. Yesterday she arrived, as usual, at 8:30 A.M. Three workers from the Lehamim bakery - owners Emil Almaliakh and Michael Ben Sa’adon... more..

Eilat operation intended to stop Palestinian internal fighting, says Islamic Jihad leader; warns of more to come
Ma’an News Agency 1/30/2007
   Gaza - The deputy secretary-general in the Islamic Jihad movement, Ziyad Al-Nakhaleh, has stated that the bombing in the Israeli city of Eilat on Monday was intended to drop "the flaming ball" in the Israeli court and, therefore, keep internal fighting... more..

Bedouins to be made homeless for fourth time
International Solidarity Movement 1/30/2007
   Early this morning Israeli bulldozers accompanied by the IOF started demolishing Palestinian houses in two East Jerusalem neighbourhoods, Issawiya and Attur, and the village of Eizariya, east of Jerusalem. Eizariya is having its land stolen, houses demolished and olive trees... more..

Prayer and March on Bulldozed Land in Bethlehem Village
International Solidarity Movement 1/29/2007
   This Friday, at noon, villagers in the South Bethlehem region will gather for a prayer and march on the bulldozed land of Umm Salamuna. The action is part of the nonviolence resistance to the annexation and confiscation of their land... more..

Defense minister vows to boost security on southern border
YNetNews 1/30/2007
   Peretz visits Eilat day after deadly suicide bombing in town, promises decisive action in response to attack. Defense officials warn against lack of security along Israeli-Egyptian border --The defense establishment will boost operations along the border with Egypt in order... more..

Call to honor ICJ ruling against Wall and fight land confiscation in western Salfit
Palestine News Network 1/30/2007
   The Popular Committee to Resist the Apartheid Wall is calling for the implementation of the Hague’s decision of two years ago. The International Court of Justice ruled that the Israeli Wall being built inside the West Bank was... more..

Displaced from Aqaba as Israeli forces confiscate Jordan Valley village
By Ali Samoudi, International Solidarity Movement/PNN 1/28/2007
   The President of the Aqaba Village Council says the small community in the Jordan Valley is facing a new scheme which includes demolishing the village mosque, kindergarten, clinic and rural women’s center. Israeli forces issued 19 more demolition orders for... more..

Photo Exhibition Against Checkpoints at Huwwara
International Solidarity Movement 1/29/2007
   This Saturday, 3rd February, from 12 pm. Palestinian photographer Khaled Jarrar will exhibit his photos at Huwwara checkpoint, outside Nablus. These photos show the daily suffering of Palestinians at checkpoints and the Wall. The exhibition, entitled “At the Checkpoint”, is... more..

VIDEO - Channel 4: "Pushing the barrier"
International Solidarity Movement 1/27/2007
   Video - One village spilt in two by Israel’s controversial wall has been staging a non-violent protest for two years.To Israel it is a security fence - the Palestinians call it the “apartheid wall”.It is more than three years since the... Watch the video more..

Eight civilians injured in the weekly non-violent protest in Bilin
International Middle East Media Center 1/26/2007
   On Friday Palestinian villagers from Bilin village near the central west bank city of Ramallah along with international and Israeli peace activists conducted the weekly non-violent demonstration against the wall in the village. The main focus point of today’... more..

IDF destroys 2 Hezbollah bunkers on Israeli side of Lebanon border
Ha’aretz 1/27/2007
   Israel Defense Forces troops on Friday destroyed two Hezbollah bunkers discovered during searches in the area around the Lebanese border fence. The IDF was combing the Katamon valley in the western part of the area surrounding the Lebanese border with... more..

Taken for a Ride by the Israeli Left
By Steven Friedman and Virginia Tilley, Electronic Intifada 1/26/2007
   strong>A Response to Uri AvneryUri Avnery is a human rights crusader of venerable standing. He has fought, written, published and campaigned for Palestinian rights for some sixty years. He has stood on the political barricades... more..

The Art of War
By Eyal Weizman, Frieze.com 1/26/2007
   strong>The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schoolsThe attack conducted by units of... more..

International NGOs call on UN to reassess the ’Register of Damage’
Ma’an News Agency 1/26/2007
   Eighteen international non-governmental organisations and humanitarian agencies have come together to jointly call on the United Nations to reassess its so-called ’Register of Damage’. This ’Register of Damage’ is intended to work as a mechanism for... more..

West Bank villagers celebrate wedding on land threatened by the Wall
Ma’an News Agency 1/26/2007
   Bethlehem - At 3pm on Friday 26th January, two young Palestinians, from villages south of Bethlehem, were expected to poignantly take their marriage vows on land that is threatened by Israel’s ongoing, illegal construction of the separation wall on... more..

Israeli army arrests the wives of two imprisoned brothers from Hebron
Ma’an News Agency 1/25/2007
   Hebron - The Israeli forces arrested on Thursday morning two women who are wives of two brothers imprisoned in Israel. The Israeli forces broke into the village of Beit Awwa, situated west of Hebron city and adjacent to the separation wall... more..

Israeli forces shoot a young shepherd boy in northern West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 1/24/2007
   Nablus - A young Palestinian shepherd boy was injured in his abdomen on Wednesday when Israeli forces opened fire on him as he tended his sheep.Our correspondent in the West Bank city of Nablus reported that Maher Hajja, 15, was tending...

Youth killed, two residents injured and abducted in the Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center 1/24/2007
   Dr. Khalid Al Najjar, head of the Al Aqsa Hospital told the Maan News Agency that the youth Mahran Zakariyya Abu Al Maseer, 17, died of a gunshot injury in his stomach. The youth was shot by troops stationed east...

Al-Quds Brigades attack Israeli military engineers as they repair border fence
Ma’an News Agency 1/25/2007
   Gaza - The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, have on Thursday claimed responsibility for targeting an Israeli engineering unit which was mending the electric fence east of the village of Al-Qarara, located north east...

Jerusalem municipality demolishes two Palestinian houses in Jerusalem
International Middle East Media Center 1/24/2007
   The Palestine News Network reported on Tuesday evening that Israeli bulldozers belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality demolished two Palestinian homes in Al Sawahra Al Sharqiyya town, east of Jerusalem after claiming the they were illegally constructed. The houses belong to... more..

IDF troops kill Palestinian trying to sneak into Israel from Gaza
Ha’aretz 1/24/2007
   Israel Defense Forces troops shot dead a Palestinian early Wednesday and arrested two others, as the men tried to sneak into Israel from the Gaza Strip, the army said. Palestinian security officials in Gaza said the Israeli had informed them... more..

Israeli settlers overtake houses in close proximity to Al Aqsa Mosque
International Middle East Media Center 1/23/2007
   Abdel Halim lives as a prisoner, within dark rooms that sun does not reach, behind bars and high walls. But this is not a prison, it is an Israeli military compound and one of the hundreds of militarized settlements Palestinians... more..

Impossible travel
By Amira Hass, Ha’aretz 1/20/2007
   i>All the promises to relax restrictions in the West Bank have obscured the true picture. A few roadblocks have been removed, but the following prohibitions have remained in place. (This information was gathered by Haaretz, the United Nations Office... Machsom Watch more..

Solana shocked at growth of Israeli settlements in West Bank
Ha’aretz 1/22/2007
   EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana Sunday urged Israel to freeze West Bank settlements and stop constructing the security fence. He hoped "the realities on the ground" brought about by Jewish settlement building would not "prevent a two-state solution from... more..

The hate that dare not speak its name
By Eoin Murray, Electronic Intifada 1/20/2007
   i>West Bank, occupied PalestineTopography here is in constant fluctuation. From one visit to the next a whole area, or just a small street, can look completely different. In Gaza, maybe it has been destroyed or, sometimes, rebuilt.In... more..

Israeli separation barrier is cutting off Palestinians from their livelihood
The Independent 1/22/2007
   A British government-funded report says the route of Israel’s separation barrier is trapping 250,000 Palestinians in enclaves designed to protect Jewish settlers in the occupied territory. It says that creation of the enclaves cutting Palestinian communities off from... more..

Hebron Occupied, And Deserted
By Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada/IPS 1/22/2007
   i>HEBRON, Occupied Palestinian West BankAs the illegal Israeli occupation grinds on, the daily situation for Palestinians worsens by the day. Hebron presents a vivid picture of the cumulative face of this colonial project.Hebron, about 35km south of... more..

A Freedom Ride
By Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom 1/20/2007
   Mahatma Gandhi would have loved it. Nelson Mandela would have saluted. Martin Luther King would have been the most excited - it would have reminded him of the old days.Yesterday, a decree of the Officer Commanding the Central Sector, General Yair... more..

Israeli PM grants license to build Jewish synagogue at door of Muslim Quarter near Al Aqsa Mosque
Palestine News Network 1/22/2007
   The current Israeli Prime Minister and former Mayor of Jerusalem is achieving his dream to further Judaize the Palestinian capital. Ehud Olmert has granted a license for a Jewish synagogue to be built 40 feet from Al Aqsa Mosque.The Israelis... more..

Palestinian militants in Gaza fire three Qassam rockets at Israel
Ha’aretz 1/22/2007
   Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired three Qassam rockets at Israel on Monday.One of the rockets was fired in the afternoon at strategic facilities located in the southern city of Ashkelon, but it could not be determined exactly where... more..

Anti-Wall demonstration in Um Salamonah village near Bethlehem
International Middle East Media Center 1/19/2007
   At least 1500 Palestinian and international peace activists gathered in Um Salamonah village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday to protest the construction of the illegal Israeli wall on the village land. Before the demonstration Friday... more..

The Israeli army abducts a Palestinian child from Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 1/20/2007
   Israeli soldiers stationed at the entrance of the Ibrahimi mosque ( or tomb of patriarchs) in the old town of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, abducted a Palestinian child on Saturday midday. Eyewitnesses said that soldiers forced the small...

Cabinet approves plan to fortify homes in area of Gaza border
Ha’aretz 1/21/2007
   The cabinet on Sunday approved the "Gaza Envelope" plan to fortify all homes and buildings located within seven kilometers of the border with the Gaza Strip.According to the plan, which was presented by the director-general of the Prime Minister’... more..

We, the Jewish state
By Jonathan Cook, Al-Ahram Weekly 1/18/2007
   i>The state of Israel seems poised to impose its Zionist character using the force of the law. With this legislating of loyalty, it reveals its racism.Nazareth -- When I published my book Blood and Religion last year, I... more..

Bethlehem villagers to hold protest prayers in fields destined for destruction
Ma’an News Agency 1/18/2007
   Bethlehem - Villagers in the south Bethlehem region will symbolically carry out their Friday prayers on land that has been slated for annexation by Israel in order to make way for Israel’s ever-advancing separation wall.According to a press release... more..

Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 11 - 17 January 2007
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 1/18/2007
   Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) --Two members of the Palestinian resistance were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip. * A Palestinian detainee died in an Israeli prison... Full Report (PDF) more..

Demonstration against the critical injuring of a 10-year-old girl
Ma’an News Agency 1/18/2007
   The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has announced that a demonstration is planned for 10 am on Thursday 18 January at the Girls School in Anata, located near the Wall in north Jerusalem, in protest against the killing of... 10 year old Abir Aramin dies two days after shooting more..

Prayer against Wall in Bethlehem village
International Solidarity Movement 1/17/2007
   This Friday at 11, villagers in the South Bethlehem region will gather on the land of Umm Salamuna village to pray. After prayers they will tend to their olive trees and grape vines which are threatened with destruction for the... more..

Farmers lands are on one side of the Wall and house is on the other: Israelis ban cars & horse carts
Palestine News Network 1/17/2007
   Qalqilia -- The Israeli government already will not issue permits for Palestinian farmers to use their cars, or any type of motor vehicle, to reach their lands now on the other side of the Wall, but horse drawn carriages have just... more..

Tunnels for hire as Gaza’s smugglers risk their lives
By Conal Urquhart, The Guardian 1/17/2007
   i>Young men of Rafah dig their way to Egypt to bring out arms and cigarettesThe sun has dropped below the horizon and the muezzins in Gaza and Egypt produce two distinct walls of sound at either side... more..

PA minister: Israel plots to annex more Palestinian lands
Palestinian Information Center 1/17/2007
   Gaza - Mohammed Al-Agha, the PA minister of agriculture, has denounced the Israeli occupation forces’ repeated closure of the gates of the "racist wall" in the West Bank, which prevented Palestinian farmers from properly attending to their farmlands that are... more..

Chief Justice of Palestine warns of repercussions of Israeli excavations near Al Aqsa Mosque
Palestine News Network 1/17/2007
   Chief Palestinian Justice and Chair of the Supreme Council for Preserving Islamic Holy Sites, Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, warned Wednesday of repercussions due to extreme Israeli excavations in close proximity to Al Aqsa Mosque.This is not the first attempt the... more..

Hamas and Islamic Jihad members arrested in Jerusalem for allegedly opening fire at Israeli border guards
Ma’an News Agency 1/17/2007
   Jerusalem - Israeli sources have announced on Wednesday that the Israeli forces have exposed a Palestinian cell which Israel accuses of opening fire at Israeli border guards stationed near the separation wall in the Dahiat Al-Barid neighborhood in north Jerusalem.Israeli radio...

Bill Moyers: "This is the moment freedom begins"
Information Clearing House/Democracy Now! 1/16/2007
   strong>"Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial." "Virtually everything the average person sees or hears outside... more..

Diverse allies in Lebanon
By Maria Abi-Habib, Electronic Intifada/Montreal Gazette 1/14/2007
   i>Beirut, LebanonIbtisam Jamaleddine stood in the room of her dead son, Maxim. Maxim was 18 years old when he was mistaken for a fighter and killed by an Israeli missile during this summer’s war between Israel and... more..

Israeli troops and bulldozers attack a village near Bethlehem and injure one farmer
International Middle East Media Center 1/15/2007
   Ali Issa, 38, a farmer from the village of Um Salamoneh, located south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, was injured on Friday morning when a group of villagers tried non-violently to stop Israeli army troops and bulldozers from... more..

Bethlehem Villagers Resist Occupation Bulldozers
International Solidarity Movement 1/15/2007
   Around 9 this morning IOF bulldozers and dozens of soldiers invaded the land of Umm Salumuna and Wadi Annis villages south of Bethlehem to raze land for the Apartheid Wall. The wall is being constructed east of the illegal Efrat... more..

East Jerusalem home demolitions expected to rise in 2007
Palestine News Network 1/15/2007
   The Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions issued its annual report for 2006 expressing concern that Israeli forces will destroy more of Palestinian East Jerusalem this year. The Wall has already cut-off thousands of Jerusalem residents from the city and that... more..

Palestinian cemetery off-limits as Israelis say it is too close to settlement
Palestine News Network 1/15/2007
   At first glance it might be part of the Israeli settlement along the Green Line in the northwestern West Bank, with the wall beside seven graves and a mosque there to divide the settlement from the rest of the village... more..

Bedouin home near Jerusalem saved from demolition by presence of international activists and press
Ma’an News Agency 1/15/2007
   A shack belonging to one of the Jahalin Bedouin, southeast of Jerusalem, was to be demolished on Monday morning but the Border police and bulldozers arrived to do so without a demolition order and due to the presence of international... more..

President Abbas rejects ’temporary solutions’ during meeting with US Secretary of State
Palestine News Network 1/14/2007
   President Abbas met with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in his Ramallah offices this afternoon. The President said that he discussed a number of issues with Rice, at the top being the peace process, which in order to be... more..

Senior officer ignores order to stop acting for state on fence
Ha’aretz 1/15/2007
   The specific orders issued by Defense Minister Amir Peretz forbidding Colonel (res.) Danny Tirza from representing the defense establishment at the Supreme Court on matters relating to the separation fence are apparently being ignored. Tirza appeared in uniform on Sunday... more..

Bilen Weekly Demonstration, army injures at lest 11 protesters among them a journalist
International Middle East Media Center 1/12/2007
   Approximately 150 Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators, accompanied by several journalists participated in a demonstration, on Friday midday, against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall in Bil’in village near the northern West Bank city of Ramallah. The procession approached an access... more..

People of Izbet al Tabib are threatened with expulsion and house demolition
Stop The Wall 1/9/2007
   Izbet al Tabib, east of Qalqilia has had its application to build houses for its 217 inhabitants denied yet again. The Occupation forces all Palestinians within the West Bank area demarcated as “C zone” by the Oslo process to apply... more..

IOF beat peaceful demonstrators in Bil’in
International Solidarity Movement 1/12/2007
   Today in Bil’in one hundred internationals and local villagers gathered to protest the apartheid wall running through the village. The theme of today’s demo was solidarity with Maan News Agency photographer Fadi Arouri who was shot in the stomach with... more..

OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 3 - 9 Jan 2007
ReliefWeb/OCHA 1/12/2007
   Of note this week - In the Gaza Strip: - Ceasefire: (1) 8 Palestinians were injured inside the Gaza Strip by IDF gunfire fired from northern areas along the border fence; (2) 12 homemade rockets were fired by Palestinians towards Israel; (3... more..

A Ghetto Called Israel
By Rev. Joyce Antila Phipps, International Middle East Media Center 1/11/2007
   As the taxi sped from Tel-Aviv towards Jerusalem, I was struck by the vast open spaces between towns.Occasionally small olive groves and a cluster of small stone houses appeared.Stopped at a checkpoint by the police about 10 km. before reaching... more..

Human Rights Watch: 85 percent of the Wall is inside the West Bank, not on the 1967 boundaries
Palestine News Network 1/12/2007
   The organization Human Rights Watch issued some of its annual findings for the year 2006. The list of Israeli infractions of international standards and law is lengthy. Eighty-five percent of the Wall goes further into the West Bank than the... EU Should Fill Leadership Void on Human Rights more..

UN denies media reports of Israeli incursion
Electronic Intifada/UN News 1/12/2007
   The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon today denied media reports claiming that the Israeli military forces recently carried out an incursion over the Blue Line separating the two countries. "There was no violation of the Blue Line," UN Interim...

Hezbollah arms cache found on border, near abduction site
Ha’aretz 1/12/2007
   An arms cache was discovered Thursday approximately one kilometer from where Hezbollah ambushed an IDF patrol last July, abducting two reservists and sparking last summer’s war.A Golani Brigade patrol discovered the cache on the northern side of the... more..

Condoleezza Rice launches new peace initiative for an interim Palestinian state with the Wall as its borders
Ma’an News Agency 1/11/2007
   Bethlehem - The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, is expected to propose a new peace initiative in the Middle East. According to this initiative, a Palestinian state is to be established within interim borders based on the route of Israel... more..

Israeli army critically injures a Palestinian youth in Gaza
International Middle East Media Center 1/9/2007
   Samir Al Madhon, 17, was critically wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him near the borders in the eastern side of Gaza city on Tuesday afternoon. Medical sources reported that the young man was moved to a nearby hospital...

Money constraints could halt fence
Jerusalem Post 1/11/2007
   For the first time, monetary constraints rather than legal problems could halt work on the security fence in 2007, defense officials on Wednesday told the Knesset group that lobbies for the barrier."We would have to stop working," a defense... more..

West Bank wall imposes special difficulties on technical school in East Jerusalem
Daily Star 1/11/2007
   JERUSALEM: A Palestinian technical school on a hill in occupied East Jerusalem has been repeatedly hit by conflict in the past four decades, but the rise of Israel’s separation barrier has stifled attendance like never before. The erection... more..

Remember Do`a, martyred by the Occupation on her way from school
International Middle East Media Center 1/9/2007
   Do’a Abdel Khader Naser, a 13 year old girl from Izbet Naser close to Fara’on village south of Tulkarem, was killed on December 20th, 2006, by bullets from the Israeli occupation. Do’a was shot... more..

Israel’s Purging of Palestinian Christians
By Jonathan Cook, Palestine Chronicle 1/9/2007
   strong>From Israel’s point of view, the loss of Palestinian Christians is all to the good. It will happier still if all of them leave, and Bethlehem and Nazareth pass into the effective custodianship of the international Churches.more..