Occupiers attack Palestinians

HEBRON: Jewish occupiers attacked a Palestinian photographer who was taking pictures of Palestinian farmers picking olives in the West Bank yesterday.

The incident, filmed by AP Television News, shows four Jewish thugs passing through an orchard in this West Bank town. They are then seen punching and kicking the photographer, Abed Hashlamoun of the EPA photo agency.  >>>>>

If it was flipped, the soldiers and/or police involved would have handled things differently, and the Palestinians would be viewed not as settlers, victims of an occupation; but rather terrorists.

Fatah student leaders in Gaza Strip announce ’state of alert’

Students called upon the Palestinian people to “stand together” to protect the university in Gaza City from “attacks by the Islamic bloc.”

The Fatah students also accused Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, of being responsible for attacks against students and workers at the university earlier this week, according to the statement.  >>>>>

It seems as if the pitting against a people against themselves is working.  Unless there is truly representation of honest-brokering, the fear is that the Palestinians will be doing the Israelis a favor by destroying themselves.

Celebrating criminality

“He’s the man who has only done good deeds… He’s the person who is famed for cutting off Palestinians’ heads with a Japanese knife… He’s the man who was born with a knife between his teeth… He’s the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan!” The hall thundered with applause when Rozin announced Dagan as man of the year…

All the journalists who have written on Mossad under Dagan have told how taken Olmert is with the list of operations executed by Mossad. These journalists report that Dagan goes to Olmert’s office every Thursday carrying a list of operations he wants Olmert to approve, and that Olmert approves all of Dagan’s proposals. There is consensus in Israel that Dagan is currently the most influential personality among decision-makers in Tel Aviv, and that due to his achievements, Olmert has twice insisted that his term as head of Mossad be extended.  >>>>>

“WE CAN HAVE PEACE IN TWO DAYS TIME” ~~ ABBAS

One question comes to mind, how can Peace be achieved between Israel and Palestine within two days if the elected representatives of the Palestinian people are not a part of the process? There is only one answer to that question….. IMPOSSIBLE! >>>>>

Palestinian nonviolent activist wounded in Ni’lin

According to a press release by the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign sent to IMEMC Ahed Al-Khawaja sustained serious injuries as one of the grenades hit him in his face causing him a fracture in the nose and burns and bruises in the face and eyes. >>>>>

Olmert indicted as deputy is accused of war crimes

The Israeli Attorney General has been urged to launch a criminal investigation into whether Shaul Mofaz, a leading prime ministerial candidate, ordered “war crimes” to be committed when he was the military’s chief of staff.

A leading Israeli law professor has written to justice officials, calling for the investigation into claims – highlighted by The Independent last month – that during a briefing to army officers in May 2001, after the start of the second Palestinian uprising, Mr Mofaz ordered a daily “quota” of Palestinian deaths. >>>>>

Israel plans for war with Iran and Syria

Advocates of political engagement believe a war with Syria could unleash Islamic fundamentalist terror in what has hitherto been a stable dictatorship. Some voices in the Pentagon are not impressed by that argument.

“If Syria spirals into chaos, at least they’ll be taking on each other rather than heading for Jerusalem,” said one insider.  >>>>>

Why was al-Arian Imprisoned?

He said today: “Why and when was al-Arian important? Why did a rogue prosecutor in Virginia seek to keep him in jail? The answers go back more than a decade, when Israel’s Likudniks in the United States, such as [journalist] Steve Emerson, were working feverishly to undermine the Oslo peace process. … Al-Arian (unlike any terrorist I’ve heard about) was vigorously trying to communicate with our government and its leaders. He was being successful, making speeches to intelligence and military commanders at MacDill AFB’s Central Command, inviting the FBI and other officials to attend meetings of his groups. People were beginning to listen and to wonder why only one side of the Middle East debate was heard here. >>>>>

Palestinian police arrest 10 in Hamas mosque raids

HEBRON, West Bank – Palestinian police raided two mosques linked to the Islamist Hamas movement in the West Bank, seizing weapons caches and arresting more than 10 people, an official said on Saturday. >>>>>

Bush’s double standard

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Rice Presses Israelis to Ease Limits on Palestinian Movement

…While the Israeli government has removed some significant checkpoints, “obviously there’s more that needs to be done,” Rice told reporters on her plane to Tel Aviv today. “Both sides continue to have work to do” to meet pledges they made under the 2002 “road map” for Middle East peace, she said.  >>>>>

Islamic Jihad delegation in Cairo for talks on Palestinian crisis

GAZA, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — Sources from the Islamic Jihad said Sunday that its delegation arrived in Cairo earlier in the day, inaugurating a series of talks that Egypt will hold separately with the Palestinian factions to end their crisis. >>>>>

“We’ve entered Gazan waters!”

A Message to All from the SS Liberty: “We’ve entered Gazan waters. We’re flying the Palestinian flag, and we now believe that we’re going to reach the shores of Gaza very soon. I missed the start of the Berlin Wall coming down by just a few days, but now I know how people felt when they tore down those first few bricks. Today is a huge victory of people over power.”  –Yvonne Ridley, aboard the SS Liberty, bound for Gaza, 23 Aug. 2008  >>>>>

Congratulations to the activists, the Palestinians and the Israelis!

Pro-Palestinian Activists Expected to Reach Gaza

…Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh welcomed the activists. “We call for more activities to break the unfair siege imposed on our people,” Haniyeh said.  >>>>>

 

For the moment, we can continue to allow the world to know – and more importantly, keep your people in our prayers.

War-scarred children begin to heal in Gaza

Huda Ghalia, still haunted by the explosion on a Gaza City beach that killed most of her family, has found a place to heal at a new UN-run summer camp along with other war-scarred Palestinian children.   >>>>>

Israeli Terror Victims Sue Bank of China for Millions

Israeli victims of terror demand millions from the Bank of China claiming it knowingly funded Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists responsible for their losses.  A lawsuit representing a hundred victims of terror in Israel and their families was filed in Los Angeles on August 21 against the Bank of China for knowingly funding Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist activities. The plaintiffs are demanding a compensation of hundreds of millions of dollars.  >>>>>

Millions is an understatement….it’s ‘hundreds of millions.’  Can we speak about reparations for Palestinians; Iraqis, Afghanis and other Muslims who were killed due to their terrorism?  I’d be satisfied with settling with the USS Liberty sailors and their family members.

Standing up for justice in the Middle East

The Free Gaza Movement, a diverse group of international human rights activists from 17 different countries, will soon set sail from Cyprus to Gaza in order to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. I’m proud to stand with them. Over 170 prominent individuals and organizations have endorsed our efforts, including the Carter Center, former British Cabinet member Clare Short, and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Desmond Tutu.  >>>>>

Reconsider truce, says Jihad leader

GAZA: Israel is winning “collective gains” from the ceasefire with Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, the most significant of which is border security and maintaining the inter-Palestinian rivalry, Islamic Jihad leader Ibrahim An-Najjar said yesterday.  In a statement carried by the Palestinian News Agency (Ma’an), An-Najjar expressed his hope that Palestinian resistance factions would soon reconsider the “humiliating” ceasefire.  >>>>>

Israel wants defenseless Palestine

An Israeli security plan presented to the United States demands that any future Palestinian state not have defense forces or weapons. >>>>>

Shouldn’t the government of the sovereign state be the one that decides whether to have defense forces or weapons?  Doesn’t Israel have nuclear weapons?  Wasn’t the world on an anti-nuclear kick when Israel started producing these weapons?

‘Al-Aqsa in danger of collapse’

 A Palestinian Member of Parliament says the Israeli tunnel project has reached to the foundations of al-Aqsa mosque in al-Quds. >>>>>