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Dahlan: “No Good Will Come Out From Talks With Israel”
IMEMC - Friday March 05, 2010 - 02:54, Mohammad Dahlan, member of the Central Committee of the Fateh movement, told the Maan News Agency that direct or indirect peace talks with the current Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu are fruitless.
Israeli Military Detains Eight Palestinian Residents From The West Bank
IMEMC - Thursday March 04, 2010 - 16:19, Eight Palestinian civilians were detained, on Thursday, by Israeli troops during morning invasions targeting West Bank communities.
Israeli Tanks Open Fire At Residents' Homes And Farmlands In Northern Gaza
IMEMC - Thursday March 04, 2010 - 16:05, Israeli tanks stationed at the boarder of Israeli and the Gaza Strip shelled, on Thursday at midday, residents homes and farm lands at the Beit Hannon town in northern Gaza Strip.
Fundamentalist Settlers Praise Goldstein, Celebrate His Massacre
IMEMC - Thursday March 04, 2010 - 13:15, Israeli Ynet News obtained a video showing fundamentalist Jewish settlers celebrating the memory of terrorist Dr. Baroch Goldstein, and praising his crime that targeted Muslim worshipers at the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron in February 25, 1994, killing 46 worshipers and wounding dozens.
Anti Wall Protest Continue At Beit Jala Town, Southern West Bank.
IMEMC - Thursday March 04, 2010 - 13:07, Residents of Beit Jala town, southern West Bank, along with Israeli and international supporters chained themselves to olive tree in protest of the Israeli built wall on their land.
Indirect Palestinian-Israel Talks Could Resume As Early As Sunday
IMEMC - Thursday March 04, 2010 - 10:09, Israeli paper, Haaretz, reported Thursday, that indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks could be resumed as early as this coming Sunday.
Israel to raze 8 family homes near Hebron
3/4/2010 - Hebron - Ma'an - Israeli soldiers handed over house demolition orders to eight families in the West Bank village of Beit Ar-Rush Al-Fauqa, southeast of Hebron, on Thursday, onlookers said. Palestinians in the town said the orders were issued on the grounds that the structures were built without Israeli permission in Area C, a part of the West Bank under full Israeli military control. The homes slated for demolition belong to Ibrahim Taha Fayyad Al-Ihriebat, Tawfiq Mohammad Fayyad Al-Ihriebat, Amjad and Sami Mohammad Abed , Husein Al-Ihriebat, Munir Hassan Ismail, Zayed and A'ef Omer Ihreibi Kashur, Nasser Ihreibi Kashur, and Ra'fat Nasser Kashur. According to a detailed United Nations report released in December, Israel's planning regime makes Palestinian construction effectively prohibited in about 70% of all of Area C, or about 44% of the total West Bank.
Rights group: Israel penalizing Nakba commemoration
3/4/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - An Israeli parliamentary law committee has approved a proposal for a bill that would impose economic sanctions on organizers of Nakba commemorations. The term, meaning catastrophe in Arabic, describes the displacement of some 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled by Zionist militias during the founding years of the State of Israel. Nakba commemorations are important events in Israel, where some 335,000 Palestinian citizens continue to be denied their right to return to their original homes, lands and communities, or receive compensation for their losses, and are forced to live as internally displaced persons within their own country. " Palestinian citizens of Israel have experienced the Nakba not only in 1948 but every day since then," the human rights group Badil said in a statement on Wednesday.
Three injured by Gaza security forces
3/4/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Three members of the Al-Khaldi family were wounded by a security officer in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a personal dispute. According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), based on statements by eyewitnesses, a member of the An-Namrouti family, who works as a bodyguard for a Hamas leader, fired at members of the Al-Khaldi family who were near their house in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. As a result, three members of the family were wounded. They were identified as: Rami Abdul Rahim Al-Khaldi, 35, wounded in the feet; Wajdi Rasmi Al-Khaldi, 24, wounded in the left elbow; and Mousa Mohammed Al-Khaldi, 24, wounded in the right shoulder. The injured were evacuated to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, and medical sources described their wounds as moderate.
UN chief: Gaza blockade must end
3/4/2010 - Ramallah - Ma'an - The UN's top humanitarian relief coordinator and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad jointly urged an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza during a meeting on Thursday with high-level UN officials in Ramallah. Following his visit to Gaza, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem where UN coordinator John Holmes spoke pointedly about the effects of the siege on the coastal enclave, Fayyad asked the official to encourage more pressure to ensure Israel obliges by international law. "We hope to achieve our goals [of a state] and boosting the credit of the political peace process via indirect negotiations with Israel," Fayyad told Holmes, "but the process requires more intervention from the international community to force Israel to keep up its commitments. " He added that Palestinians still need to see a "total and comprehensive halt of settlement construction especially in Jerusalem a halt to West Bank invasions, and a break of the siege on Gaza. "
Israeli contractor revokes hundreds of work permits
3/4/2010 - Nablus - Ma'an - More than 400 Palestinian work permits were revoked by a private Israeli security company that operates guard posts in a number of settlements throughout the occupied West Bank, officials said Thursday. The General Federation of Workers' Unions in Palestine accused the company, which it did not name, of confiscating permits from Palestinians working in the illegal settlements of Kiryat Sefer, Modi'in, Benyamin, and Karkur, all west of Ramallah. Hussen Khalifa, a member of the union in Ramallah, said the unnamed Israeli company confiscated the permits as a penalty for the Palestinians' supervisors, who apparently failed to pay fees on time. Shaher Sa'd, secretary-general of the federation, condemned the move. Sa'd demanded that private contractors "stop pursuing Palestinian workers," whom he said are continuously exploited and suffer daily abuse at crossings.
Israel high court: Sa’adat to stay in solitary confinement
3/4/2010 - Chicago - Ma'an - Israel's Supreme Court rejected a motion on Thursday asking for Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Secretary-General Ahmad Sa'adat to be moved from solitary confinement in prison. The Israeli news website Ynet reported that the judges accepted the prosecution's claim that Sa'adat, when he is not held in solitary confinement, passes messages to the PFLP's armed wing. Sa'adat is serving a 30-year prison sentence for a PFLP gunman's assassination Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001. He has been in solitary confinement since last year. In June he staged a nine-day hunger strike in protest of this treatment. After being jailed by the Palestinian Authority in connection with the killing, Sa'adat was seized by Israeli commandoes in a raid on a prison in Jericho in 2006. Sa'adat is now one of several senior prisoners Hamas is demanding released. . .
Arab League backs return to peace talks
3/4/2010 - Chicago - Ma'an - The Arab League gave its blessing on Wednesday for President Mahmoud Abbas to begin indirect peace negotiations with Israel mediated by the US. At a meeting in Cairo requested by Abbas, the council of Arab foreign ministers gave the talks a four-month time limit to achieve results. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) must now accept the proposal. The group's leadership is expected to meet later this week to discuss the issue. " The committee [of foreign ministers] does not object to indirect negotiations and, if nothing is achieved four months from now, the issue will be taken to the UN Security Council," said Yusef Ahmed Syria's ambassador to the Arab League, as quoted by the BBC. US-backed peace negotiations were broken off in late 2008 as Israel launched a war on the Gaza Strip that left some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.
Nativity Church deportees seek Abbas support
3/4/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - President Mahmoud Abbas should do more to alleviate the plight of Palestinians who were deported during the Second Intifada, a spokesman for a group of exiles said Thursday. Fahmi Kan'an, speaking on behalf of the so-called Nativity Church deportees, said Abbas and other Fatah leaders ought to intervene. In a phone interview, Kan'an added that it had been nine years since the move, and that the issue should be resolved immediately, particularly in light of reports that indirect peace negotiations were set to renew. The deportees, exiled to Europe following a standoff between the group and Israeli forces in 2002 that saw negotiations mediate their release and expulsion, face increasing difficulties in their host countries, some of which have threatened to expel them over the years. On 10 May 2002, Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Palestinian operatives had taken shelter.
Report: Peace talks to begin this week
3/4/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Peace talks between the PLO and Israel could begin on Sunday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported a day after the Arab League threw its support behind a US initiative to restart negotiations. The Americans are reportedly hoping both sides will agree to talks ahead of US Vice President Joe Biden's arrival on Monday, which is the same day the country's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, will arrive in Ramallah, chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat told the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds. The US also applauded a vote by the foreign ministers of the Arab League in Cairo on Wednesday that they would support the American initiative for indirect negotiations, but on a four-month deadline. President Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, said the Arab world only supported talks on the condition that the US would offer certain guarantees, interpreted as agreeing to restrain its use of vetoes at. . .
Dahlan: Talks will waste time while settlements expand
3/4/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Fatah Central Committee member Muhammad Dahlan cast doubt on the benefits of resuming peace talks between the PLO and Israel after reports that US-mediated "proximity talks" could start on Sunday. "There is no benefit from either direct or indirect negotiations with the Israeli government as it continues settlement construction and attacks the holy sites of Palestine," Dahlan said in an interview on Thursday. On Wednesday the Arab League gave its blessing to renewed peace negotiations at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas. US Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who offered to shuttle between the two sides in the talks is expected in the region within days. US Vice President Joe Biden is also scheduled to visit on Monday. Dahlan's comments indicate a split within Abbas' own party on the decision to resume talks with Israel.
Gaza fighters claim cross-border shooting
3/4/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Fighters affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said they fired on Israeli farmers north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday. In a statement, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades said their snipers fired on "a group of settler farmers north of Beit Hanoun. "The leftist group said the cross-border attack was "in response to [Israel's] repeated crimes against Jerusalem and Hebron. " An Israeli military spokesman said he was not aware of an attack on soldiers or civilians, after an initial inquiry. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. On Monday, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees said a fighter was killed by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza. The army confirmed the shelling, which it said came after PRC fighters attempted to plant an explosive device near the border. . . . .
Rafah crossing open for 4th consecutive day
3/4/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Egyptian authorities announced on Thursday that the Rafah crossing would remain open an extra day, as Palestinians traveled in and out of the Gaza Strip for the fourth consecutive day. The de facto government crossings authority said in a statement that the terminal would be open on Thursday starting with bus 22. This week's opening was the first in two months, as a joint Israeli and Egyptian blockade has locked down the besieged enclave since 2007, preventing its residents from traveling. On Wednesday, some 1,100 travelers departed the coastal strip and 207 entered, while 60 were refused entry, authorities said. Patients, international passport and visa holders were given priority on Tuesday. On Monday, 13 buses left Gaza, with 11 passing through into Egypt, and two sent back from the border for reasons that were not clear.
Exile in Rome: Waiting to feel alive again
3/4/2010 - Rome - Ma'an - Former Palestinian intelligence officer Khalid Abu Nijmeh lives in exile following his deportation after the Nativity Church standoff in 2002, he sat with Ma'an Chief Editor Nasser Lahham in Rome on Thursday, to discuss as a deportee. In an Italian coffee shop, where Khalid never quite looked at home in, he spoke about the three years it took him to learn to speak the language. "When I first came to Italy, I was surrounded by guards and translators, I was hardly allowed to mingle with the people of the city," he said. Khalid spent the first years after the standoff at the Nativity Church alone in Rome, thinking about the 40 days he and 38 other resistance fighters sought sanctuary in the Bethlehem church while Israeli forces tracked the men down in the thick of the Second Intifada. The Palestinian Authority negotiated a deal, seeing 13 of the men sent to Europe and another 26 marooned in Gaza.
Parents of prisoner with cancer appeal for release
3/4/2010 - Nablus - Ma'an - The family of a 27-year-old Palestinian prisoner suffering from leukemia appealed to the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday to pressure Israel to release him. Tareq Mahmoud Al-Asi's medical condition has deteriorated rapidly, his parent's said, since he was diagnosed in prison. He is serving a 20-year sentence that began in 2005. Al-Asi's lawyer said his case was "dangerous" and that he is not getting adequate treatment at the Ramla prison Hospital. [end]
In photos: Protests continue in Beit Jala
3/4/2010 - MaanImages / Luay Sababa - 1-6: Palestinians and foreign activists replant uprooted olive trees during a protest against Israel's separation wall in the West Bank village of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, on 4 March 2010. Israeli forces were uprooting the trees to extend Israel's contentious West Bank separation wall. 7-17: A day earlier, Israeli border police clashed with Palestinian protesters as bulldozers continued work near Route 60 on the edge of town. The area includes over 2,000 olive trees, all owned by Palestinians in the predominantly Christian town between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. [end]
Number of Erez travelers inches up from February
3/4/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an- The Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel opened on Thursday, to allow a limited number of permit and passport holders into Israel, the Gaza border administration said. For the past year, the crossing has been open once a week or less, with international aid workers, and patients being transferred to West Bank and Israeli hospitals the only travelers permitted through the terminal. The crossing was shut during Israel's War on Gaza last year. The border administration counted 194 individuals leaving Gaza Saturday, 128 of them residents (22 for treatment, 15 companions, 2 visitors, 11 workers, 78 others) 52 international passport holders and 14 Palestinian citizens of Israel. The total number of those returning to Gaza reached 196, 133 of them residents (24 returned from treatment with 22 companions, 1 visitor, 2 workers, 84 other), 48 of them international passport holders and 15 Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Hebron police seize unexploded ordnance
3/4/2010 - Hebron - Ma'an - Palestinian police in Hebron were called to the scene where a suspicious object was found on Thursday, later determined to be a tear-gas canister apparently left behind by the Israeli army. Colonel Ramadan Awad, the Hebron police chief, said reports of suspicious objects and weaponry discovered by civilians in the southern West Bank city have increased in recent weeks due to increased efforts to recycle scrap metal. Colonel Awad urged residents who find similar objects to continue alerting police, whose sappers are trained to handle abandoned ordnance. [end]
Blast kills 1 in northern Israel
3/4/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - A large explosion in northern Israel killed one person and injured 10 others, news reports said. Initial reports indicated that the explosion was linked to Israeli criminal groups, rather than a politically motivated attack. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that a bomb placed in a motorcycle exploded in a suburb near the coastal city of Haifa. [end]
Hamas: Return to talks a betrayal of the nation
3/4/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Gaza's deputy Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) speaker Ahmad Bahar called a return to negotiations with Israel a "waste of the Palestinian cause," saying the outcomes of any talks would "not meet any standards of legitemacy. " The statement on Thursday followed rumors that indirect talks with a US envoy shuttling between Israel and the PLO could start as early as Sunday, after the Arab League gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for talks within a four-month timeframe. Bahar said a return to talks before Palestinian unity is achieved would be tantamount to "eliminating national rights," and would not be recognized by Palestinians. " Returning to the negotiations is a violation of the promises President Mahmoud Abbas made, he vowed to not return to negotiations until settlement construction freezes," Bahar said.
UK mulling curb on war crimes arrest warrants
3/4/2010 - Chicago - Ma'an/Agencies - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown plans to block private groups from seeking the arrest of foreign officials for war crimes following a diplomatic dispute with Israel, he wrote in the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper. In November, a London magistrate's court issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at the request of lawyers representing Palestinians killed in Israel's recent war on Gaza. The warrant was withdrawn when Livni canceled a planned trip to the UK. She has not attempted to visit Britain since. Livni was foreign minister during the 2008-2009 war which left some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. A UN-mandated fact finding mission to Gaza led by renowned South African judge Richard Goldstone found evidence that Israel and Palestinian militias committed war crimes during the conflict.
PA police go in print and online
3/4/2010 - Jericho - Ma'an - Police with the Palestinian Authority launched Field Magazine Monthly in Jericho on Thursday, a publication and companion internet site designed to spur communication between the public and the forces, officials said. The public relations department at the Jericho police facility said the publication would highlight articles by officers working at the Al-Karamah border (Allenby Bridge). Following the start of circulation, police said, www. palpolice. ps will open a comments section for citizens, where complaints and suggestions can be submitted, and will be reviewed and addressed by trained officers. The magazine and its website will offer advice on smooth passage through the Allenby Bridge, hours, regulations and an overview of security procedures, officials explained. It will also have information on the training of officers, and on how to apply for the academy.
PA sends medicine to Gaza
3/4/2010 - Ramallah - Ma'an - The Palestinian Authority (PA) Health Ministry in Ramallah successfully arranged a delivery of badly-needed medicine to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, a Thursday report said. The International Committee of the Red Cross coordinated the entry to Gaza with the Israeli military, he said, noting the shipment will be followed by 16 truckloads of medicine and laboratory medical equipment to Gaza, for which arrangements were being made. Ministry spokesman Omar An-Nasser said the delivery included Anti-D Immunoglobulin, antibodies that prevent an immunological condition in infants, as well as specially requested medicine for a Gazan child named Anas Abu Arabia, following an appeal from the boy's father. Gaza's hospitals and health sector have suffered under two and a half years of an Israeli-led blockade that has prohibited shipments of dozens of types of medicine and equipment.
Top Fatah official visits Gaza
3/4/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Senior Fatah leader Sakher Bseisu returned to the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip on Thursday, from his West Bank residence in Tulkarem, a spokesman said. Fatah official Salah Abu Khaltah said this will be Bseisu's second visit to Gaza since the Sixth Fatah Conference, held in Bethlehem during the first weeks of August 2009, where he was elected to the party's Central Committee. Bseisu will hold talks on "organizational affairs" while in Gaza, Abu Khaltah said, though it was not clear whether he would meet any officials from Hamas or the Gaza-based government. Abu Khaltah denied reports that Hamas and Fatah are engaged in secret negotiations to end their deadlocked three-year power struggle. " The Fatah movement has no information on media reports on meetings to be held away from media outlets," he said. "The movement and its Central Committee did not designate anyone in Fatah to hold any such talks. "
PA minister vows to continue radio clampdown
3/4/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian Authority (PA) Telecommunications Minister Mashhur Abu Daqa vowed on Thursday to continue an apparent clampdown on unlicensed local radio stations in the West Bank. " The ministry will close any unlicensed local station," Abu Daqa said in a phone interview. Daqa's ministry stirred controversy by urging police to enforce a ban on unlicensed broadcasters, closing two such stations in Hebron on Wednesday. He said the owners of local stations are obligated to get their legal affairs in order and pay fees to the PA, or face a shutdown. "Any station that does not cooperate will be closed without any exception. "He also dismissed statements from Information Ministry officials who said they opposed the clampdown on free speech grounds. Daqa said his ministry is in charge of the airwaves, not the Information Ministry.
Report: Dead Sea water level rose 8 cm this year
3/4/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - For the first time in years, the water level of the Dead Sea rose eight centimeters in a matter of months, the Israeli Water Authority announced on Wednesday. According to the report, published Thursday by the Israeli daily Haaretz, years of drought-like conditions saw the water level of the Mideast landmark plummet some 15 meters. But thanks to heavy rains this winter, levels rose back to the "red line," a measure used by subterranean aquifers, for the first time in years, as mountain and coastal aquifers regained prior levels. The Dead Sea, famous for its unusually high salt and mineral content, sits between the West Bank, Israel, and Jordan. [end]
Israel, Yemen, the Gold Watch and Everything!
Uruknet March 4, 2010 - So what’s the hubbub, bub? Why all this activity concentrated in and around Yemen? Well, Israel has always salivated over controlling that region. In an article appearing in "The Yemen Times" on October 26, 2008 titled "Israeli Strategy to occupy Al-Mandab Strait" Najeeb Al-Ghurbani writes: "The first President of the Zionist government David Goryon expressed his...
Moment of truth: time to boycott Israel's entire range of injustice
Uruknet March 4, 2010 - Words always matter, and names always have a life of their own. But perhaps Palestine and Israel form a context in which words become positions more dramatically than in many others. The authors of the "Moment of Truth" Kairos document, which is the Christian Palestinians' statement to the world about the occupation of Palestine and a...
Fundamentalist Settlers Praise Goldstein, Celebrate His Massacre
Uruknet March 4, 2010 - Israeli Ynet News obtained a video showing fundamentalist Jewish settlers celebrating the memory of terrorist Dr. Baroch Goldstein, and praising his crime that targeted Muslim worshipers at the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron in February 25, 1994, killing 46 worshipers and wounding dozens. The setters were dancing and singing a special song meant to praise Goldstein and...
Israeli Tanks Open Fire At Residents' Homes And Farmlands In Northern Gaza
Uruknet March 04, 2010 - Israeli tanks stationed at the boarder of Israeli and the Gaza Strip shelled, on Thursday at midday, residents homes and farm lands at the Beit Hannon town in northern Gaza Strip. Residents said that they had to leave their farms during the attack. They reported damage to property but no injuries. In other news in Gaza,...
Opposing Israel Lobby is Not Same as Supporting Palestinian Rights
Uruknet March 4, 2010 - ...A political program based on the premise that the Lobby determines U.S. foreign policy "against our vital national interests" starts off badly and gets worse. It is misguided not only in the assertion that Israel’s interests have undermined U.S. interests, but in the realist manner in which "national interests" are understood from the perspective of economic...
Human rights groups condemn Israel for blackmailing patients
4 Mar 2010 - Gaza, March 3, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - In a message to Israel's attorney general, three human rights organizations criticized Israeli intelligence agencies for blackmailing Palestinian patients in Gaza, exploiting their vulnerability in order to pressure them into collaborating with the occupation authorities. According to the organizations, a number of patients have been given false promises that they would be allowed...
UN official arrives in Gaza
4 Mar 2010 - Gaza, March 4, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived in Gaza today, as part of his four-day visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. Mr. Holmes witnessed firsthand the conditions in Gaza, one year after the end of operation "Cast Lead," which ran from 27 December to 18 January,...
Gazan dies in Rafah tunnel collapse
4 Mar 2010 - Gaza Strip, March 4, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- A young Palestinian was killed Wednesday evening when a tunnel collapsed in south Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Muhammad Subhi Al-Najjar, 18, was killed in a tunnel collapse near Alqeshout neighborhood in Rafah. It was reported that the young man, living in Al-Brazil neighborhood, was dead by the time he was taken...
Maariv: Israel wants US to apply ‘Cuban model’ to Iran
Palestine Note 4 Mar 2010 - The goal: Adopting the Cuban model Eli Bardenstein, Maariv, March 4 2010 [page 6 | Hebrew original here ] Israel is concerned that the UN Security Council decision on intensifying sanctions against Iran will be postponed, and the...
Israeli heritage, Jewish heritage or both?
Palestine Note 4 Mar 2010 - The most worrisome aspect of the decision by the Israeli government to recognise various West Bank-based sites as part of Israel's heritage is the continuous mix and duplicity between the state of Israel and the Jewish...
The problems of the Middle East
Palestine Note 4 Mar 2010 - What's Really Wrong With the Middle East It's not a question. It's a statement of fact. Brian Whitaker spills the beans and explains why in his book of the same title, with an emphasis on "really."...
Livni arrest warrant prompts UK law change
Palestine Note 4 Mar 2010 - British PM Gordon Brown has announced a proposal to stop political groups from securing arrest warrants for visiting foreign officials, reports Haaretz . His announcement comes after a pro-Palestinian group secured an arrest warrant in December for...
Even the best laid plans: Ex-CIA operative discusses the failings of the Dubai assassination
Palestine Note 4 Mar 2010 - Robert Baer, former CIA field officer and writer, offers his musings on the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai to the Wall Street Journal . According to Baer, political assassinations aren't nearly as simple as...
Abbas' consequential choices
Palestine Note 4 Mar 2010 - Ask Mahmoud Abbas, the beleaguered Palestinian president, about the law of diminishing returns and he would probably explain it far better than an experienced economist! And he should. The past year has seen his political fortunes...
Egypt orders retrial in diva murder
AlJazeera 4 Mar 2010 - Appeals court orders retrial for businessman convicted of Lebanese singers' murder.
The Israeli Occupation as an Apartheid System
Alternative Information Center - Wednesday, 03 March 2010, During the sixth International Israeli apartheid week, the Alternative Information Center is hosting events and lectures. On 2 March, Hazem Jamjoum of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights...
Israel Penalizing Nakba Commemoration
Alternative Information Center - Thursday, 04 March 2010, The Israeli Parliamentary Law Committee has recently approved a law proposal the (“Nakba bill”) that, if passed by the Knesset, would impose economic sanctions on the organizers of Nakba commemorations. Every year...
Italian Professors Call for Academic Boycott of Israel
Alternative Information Center - Thursday, 04 March 2010, A group of Italian professors recently published a letter calling for the academic boycott of Israel “against university and cultural discrimination of Palestinians.” The document—called “Right to study and academic freedom in...
Raid aborted after soldier leaks it on Fbook
PNN - Thursday, 04 March 2010
Palestinians suspect Israel's hand behind double scandal
PNN - Thursday, 04 March 2010
'Son of Hamas' who spied for Israel
PNN - Thursday, 04 March 2010
ElBaradei gains momentum in Egypt
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - He’s not yet declared presidential candidacy, but state media is already critical.
Lieberman: There was no illegal Belarus tip-off
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - FM rejects latest claims against him, slams cops.
'My party stays in gov't if I'm indicted'
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - Lieberman defiant; Likud source: FM’s pledge ends chances of Kadima joining gov’t.
Talks won’t start where they left off
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - On eve of Biden’s visit, J’lem concerned Iran will use Hizbullah to distract from nukes.
FM: Illegal tip-off suspicions baseless
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - Lieberman: "Nothing to come out" of reports Belarus envoy told him of investigation.
Syria: Israel trying to frame us
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - Damascus blames Israel for uranium traces; US, EU, urge Syria to drop nuclear secrecy.
What did Teheran ask of Hizbullah?
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - To complement its upgraded arsenal, Hizbullah recently spelled out a new military posture toward Israel.
Bashar Assad: What you see is what you get
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - Syria’s president is not a ‘pragmatist’ but fiercely anti-Israel, which is why efforts to lure him out of Iran’s orbit aren’t working.
Hamas spy unafraid, criticizes Islam
Jeruslalem Post 4 Mar 2010 - Mosab Hassan Yousef, disowned by father for helping Shin Bet, is unafraid of death.
WFP Launches Food Security Atlas of OPT
WAFA 4 Mar 2010 - RAMALLAH, March 4, 2010 (WAFA)- The United Nations World Food Programme has released a socio-economic and food security atlas of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) which maps out Palestinians’
Exchange of Notes for CEGA to Palestinian Territory
WAFA 4 Mar 2010 - RAMALLAH, March 4, 2010 (WAFA)- The Government of Japan has decided to extend a community empowerment grant aid (the Project for Support for the Public Activities of the Communities in Jordan
EU Launches Training Programme for Palestinian Assistant Prosecutors
WAFA 4 Mar 2010 - RAMALLAH, March 4, 2010 (WAFA)- Today the European Union (EU)-funded project for Empowering the Palestinian Judicial System, Seyada II, announced the launch of a one-year training programme aimed at
MIDEAST: Occupation Turns Palestinian Women Into Breadwinners
IPS RAMALLAH, Mar 4 (IPS) - Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, with its ubiquitous closures, checkpoints, military raids and arrests, has decimated the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Gaza.
Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory( 24 Feb.- 03 Mar. 2010)
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Small group of U.S. Jews fights for right to bear arms
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Increasing number of Jewish Americans buying guns amid fears of growing anti-Semitism.
If Netanyahu wants peace, he knows what to do
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - It will be fatal to new peace talks if understandings between the PA and the previous government are ignored.
UN official: 'Israel creating a generation nourished on despair'
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Outgoing relief coordinator leaves Gaza dejected over Israeli 'collective punishment'.
U.S. House panel votes to recognize Armenian genocide
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Non-binding resolution passes 23-22, despite pressure from the Obama administration and Turkey to drop the matter.
Lieberman to U.S.: Embargo Iran like Cuba
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Foreign Minister's initiative, which his deputy will present next week, not coordinated with Netanyahu.
Hamas bans men from working in women's hair salons in Gaza
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Campaign to impose strict Islamic customs on 1.5 million Gazans ignites controversy among citizens.
U.S. Jewish leaders: Israel's envoy to UN should stay on another term
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - ADL director Abe Foxman and AJC chair David Harris among figures publicly calling to renew Shalev's term.
UN official: Israel siege on Gaza encourages Hamas smuggling
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - In an exclusive interview with Haaretz, John Holmes pessimistic about future of change for Gaza.
Hamas: Abbas selling Palestinians illusions of peace with Israel
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Hamas official calls on PA leader to 'step aside' and stop offering 'compromise after compromise.'
U.K. to change law in wake of warrants against Israeli officials
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Move follows pro-Palestinian group's attempt to arrest MK Tzipi Livni in U.K. for alleged war crimes.
Syria hints Israel planted nuclear traces on its territory
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - U.S. and EU urge Syria to grant IAEA access to officials and sites that may shed light on nuclear activities.
Polish activists use Hitler poster to warn against abortion
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Anti-abortion group Pro said it was entirely legitimate to make a link between abortion and Nazi crimes.
Six essential cookbooks every Jewish kitchen must have
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Dalia Carmel's two-bedroom home is filled with 1,500 volumes of cookbooks - just a fraction of the 10,000 she once had.
China rejects Iran sanctions, pushes for diplomatic solution
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - China Foreign Ministry spokesman: Diplomatic efforts on Iran nuclear standoff haven't been exhausted.
Anti-Islamist leader scores major win in Dutch polls
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Wilders, who compares Islam to fascism, the Koran to Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf,' could be next Dutch PM.
Hamas bans men from working in female hair salons
The Guardian 4 Mar 2010 - Police announce latest move in campaign to impose strict Islamic rules on Gaza residents Gaza's Islamic Hamas government has banned men from working in women's hair salons. It is the latest step in a campaign to...
The lingering of an absurd imperial reflex | Pankaj Mishra
The Guardian 4 Mar 2010 - The west's moral didacticism now grates more than the realpolitik of China and the east There were chuckles and sniggers in Qatar last month when Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, warned that a military...
How to handle Hamas | Adam Ingram
The Guardian 4 Mar 2010 - The Northern Ireland peace process will be relevant to the Middle East only if Hamas recognises Israel and puts aside arms The recent assassination of a founder of Hamas' armed wing, allegedly involved in the smuggling...
Hopes high for an Oscar as'Ajami' crew heads for Hollywood
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - The Israeli filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated picture "Ajami" arrived in Los Angeles yesterday to attend this Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theater. ...
Jewish residents of East Jerusalem home offer trade-off
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - The Israeli activists who settled recently in a disputed building in East Jerusalem on Thursday offered a compromise to the State Prosecution, according to which they would seal off the top levels of the building they claim is theirs in exchange for the right to live there. ...
Person killed when motorcycle explodes in Haifa suburb
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - One person was killed on Thursday evening when a motorcycle exploded next to a bus in the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Ata. ...
Israeli abuse survivor speaks out and finds a save haven
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Basima (not her real name) is a 26-year-old maid at a Jerusalem hotel frequented by western tourists. She's been on the job for only three days, and already her bubbly demeanor has earned her many friends. In an assertive tone, Basima shares her story of surviving domestic abuse, but her body stiffens as she sees another employee approaching. "Don't tell him about my children," she whispers. ...
Head scientist vows to toe the line on Darwin and global warming
Ha'aretz 4 Mar 2010 - Education Ministry chief scientist Dr. Gavriel Avital has committed to toeing the line set by Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar as to how evolution and global warming are taught in schools. ...
OPT: Protection of Civilians Weekly Report, 24 February - 2 March 2010
Relief Web 4 Mar 2010 - Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF URGES CHANGE OF POLICY ON THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Relief Web 4 Mar 2010 - Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights: report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/13/26)
Relief Web 4 Mar 2010 - Source: UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Council
"Better Lawyers, Better Justice": European Union Launches Training Programme for Palestinian Assistant Prosecutors
Relief Web 4 Mar 2010 - Source: European Commission, European Union
Dahlan against talks: Israel just wants to gain time
YNet News 4 Mar 2010 - Palestinian opposition to PA president's intention to renew dialogue mounts. Fatah spokesman: It suits Netanyahu's strategy of stalling while appearing to negotiate
Turkey to recall US envoy following 'genocide' bill
YNet News 4 Mar 2010 - Despite Clinton's efforts, congressional panel votes to label as 'genocide' World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces. Erdogan: Turkey blamed for crime it didn't commit
Lieberman: Gov't to vote on civil marriage bill Monday
YNet News 4 Mar 2010 - Foreign minister addresses criticism against his reforms in marriage, conversion, and voting abroad
Hamas bans men from women's hair salons
YNet News 4 Mar 2010 - Ban part of ruling group's campaign to impose strict Islamic customs. 'Next thing you know, they will ban doctors from treating women,' hairdresser says
Beit Yonatan residents offer to seal off part of building
YNet News 4 Mar 2010 - Jews living in east Jerusalem building offer to voluntarily seal off top floors if they are allowed to remain in bottom ones. 'Issue has become a national one,' they say
Hamas: Abbas has no mandate for talks with Israel
YNet News 4 Mar 2010 - Senior Hamas figure: Resuming talks is selling illusions to Palestinians, legitimizes settlement; 18 years of talks achieved nothing
Change in UK arrest warrant law far off
YNet News 4 Mar 2010 - Guardian says amendment to law which allowed for issuing of arrest warrant against Livni postponed until after general election. Israeli ambassador to London: Change needed to solidify Britain's role in Mideast peace process
Early Iraq voting shattered as series of deadly blasts kill 17 people
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 BAGHDAD: A string of deadly blasts shattered an early round of voting in Iraq Thursday, killing 17 people and highlighting the fragile nature of the country’s security gains ahead of crucial parliamentary elections this Sunday. Iraq security forces were out in full force, trying to protect early voters in an election that will determine who will lead the country through the crucial period of the US troop
Iran threatens to withdraw nuclear counter-offer
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 Iran may withdraw a counter-offer it made to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in response to proposals from the major powers for the supply of nuclear fuel, its IAEA envoy warned on Thursday. “Iran’s proposal for a simultaneous exchange on Iranian soil of our low-enriched uranium for fuel enriched to 20 percent is still on the table but it will not stay there forever
Egypt appeals court overturns death sentence of suspects in Tamim murder
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 CAIRO: An Egyptian appeals court overturned Thursday the convictions of a leading ruling party member and a former policeman sentenced to death for the murder of a Lebanese pop diva. The cassation court ordered a retrial for ruling party member Hisham Talaat Mustafa and Mohsen al-Sukkari, the ex-policeman, who had both been convicted by a lower court
Syria accuses Israel of planting traces of uranium at site of air strike
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 VIENNA: Syria suggested on Thursday that Israel dropped uranium particles onto Syrian soil from the air to make it look as if a covert nuclear weapons plant was being built there, officials at an IAEA meeting said.Damascus has strongly denied US intelligence that a complex in the Syrian desert bombed to ruins by Israel in 2007 had been a nascent nuclear reactor
Israelis, Palestinians set for indirect negotiations
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday Israel hoped to begin indirect talks with the Palestinians next week during a visit by Washington’s Middle East envoy.Palestinian officials said they wanted the US-mediated talks to focus initially on defining the borders of a state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Yemen arrests 11 Al-Qaeda suspects in Sanaa raid
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 SANAA: Yemeni security forces arrested 11 men in the capital Sanaa on suspicion of plotting attacks for Al-Qaeda, killing one man during the operation, a security source said on Thursday.“The 11 men are currently under interrogation. They were planning to assassinate security officials and target interests in Sanaa,” the source told AFP,
Cabinet approves draft municipal electoral law
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 BEIRUT: The Cabinet endorsed Thursday the amended municipal electoral draft law and transferred it to Parliament as ministers concluded another round of administrative appointments, this time nominating the Banking Control Commission’s members. Wednesday’s approval of nominations by only one tipping vote in favor helped ease rising tensions among political parties
Cash inflow leads ABL to slash interest rates
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 BEIRUT: The Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) decided to slash interest rates on the Lebanese pound to 6.5 percent and is expected to make similar steps on other currencies. The move is part of a bid to absorb the excessive cash and deposits which flooded into Lebanon the past two years and experts believed that Lebanese banks can no longer digest
Mediterranean Union signals potential
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 The newly created Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), a regional body which counts Lebanon among its ranks, took a decisive step on the path to its edification on Thursday by naming the Jordanian Ahmad Masa’deh as its first secretary general. Observers are perplexed by the fact that the UfM’s first leader should come from a country that has no access to the Mediterranean.
LAU creates web database of prominent women
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 BEIRUT: In a move aimed at bridging Lebanon's notable divide between the genders, a database providing biographical information about influential Lebanese women was launched on Tuesday. The "Who is She in Lebanon" database was created by the Lebanese American University's Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW)
Amr Moussa visits Al-Taif Forum for award ceremony
Daily Star 4 Mar 2010 BEIRUT: During his recent tour of Lebanon, Amr Moussa found time to visit the Al-Taif Forum headquarters on Riad al-Solh Square, where Bahia Hariri and the Forum’s advisory committee bestowed upon him the Arab-Lebanese Friendship Trophy. Among the hundreds gathered on February 17 for the ceremony and ensuing reception were Ali Saade,
Israeli prison guards launch larges search operation in Hadarim
PIC 4 Mar 2010 - Special forces affiliated with the Israeli prisons authority launched the biggest search operation of a number of prisoners' cells in Hadarim jail for many years..
Khafsh: IOA deliberately detains intellectuals
PIC 4 Mar 2010 - Fuad Al-Khafsh has charged the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) with deliberately arresting Palestinian intellectuals and scientists to force them leave the country.
IOF round up 8 Palestinians, renew administrative custody of Jihad leader
PIC 4 Mar 2010 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed a number of villages and cities in northern West Bank at an early hour on Thursday that ended with rounding up eight Palestinian citizens.
Nunu: Abbas wants to offer concessions with Arab cover
PIC 4 Mar 2010 - Mahmoud Abbas is pressuring Arab countries to support negotiations with Israel without halting settlement activity and without any commitment to Palestinian rights, Taher Al-Nunu said.
Haneyya: No cover for negotiations
PIC 4 Mar 2010 - Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said that his government would not support any negotiations with the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) whether secret or public and whether direct or indirect.
Khudari calls for practical steps to end the siege
PIC 4 Mar 2010 - MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti siege committee, welcomed the statement by John Holmes, the UN coordinator of humanitarian affairs, that demanded an end to the siege on Gaza.
Hamas bans men from women's hair salons
LA Times 4 Mar 2010 - Gaza's Islamic Hamas government on Thursday banned men from working in women's hair salons, the latest step in its campaign to impose strict Islamic customs on Gaza's 1.5 million people.
Egypt Overturns Death Sentence in Star’s Murder
New York Times 4 Mar 2010 - The retrial of a wealthy former legislator over the murder of a Lebanese pop singer raised questions about what role political connections played in the appeal.
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