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Despite construction freeze, winery rises near W. Bank outpost
HAARETZ Mon, 12 May 2008 02:49:30 GMT+03:00
A new winery is currently being set up in the West Bank, in an area three kilometers from Migron, an outpost that the state promised the Supreme Court would be removed by August. The establishment of the winery contravenes the promise made by the State of Israel to U.S. President George W. Bush, to freeze all construction outside recognized settlements. ...
Egyptian mediator to meet Israelis after Hamas agrees ceasefire plan
GUARDIAN Sun, 11 May 2008 23:03:10 GMT
Initiative comes two days before George Bush is due to visit the region to discuss flagging Gaza peace talks
Free Palestine Demonstration - Central London 10 May 2008
FLICKR Sun, 11 May 2008
Thousands of British Muslim and Palestinian solidarity groups marched today on the street of London, on the 60'th of anniversary of the creation of the state Israel, calling for an end of the blockade of Gaza, for the right of return of refugees and for the end of the occupation of Palestine. The organisers put estimate number of participants at 15.000. Amongst the speakers addressing the rally, at end of the of the demonstration in Trafalgar Square was the Palestinian politician Moustafa Bargouti, the Respect MP George Galloway, and the veteran British politician Tony Benn.
Gaza blackouts as fuel runs low
BBC Sun, 11 May 2008 18:47:22 GMT
Electricity blackouts hit Gaza as the territory's only power station shuts down, with officials citing lack of fuel.
'Gaza power plant runs out of fuel'
PRESSTV Sun, 11 May 2008 21:13:05 GMT
Gaza City residents have coped with closed bakeries, no water and stalled elevators after the territory's only power plant ran out of fuel.
Israeli jets overfly Lebanon again
PRESSTV Sun, 11 May 2008 12:18:59 GMT
More than four Israeli warplanes have overflown southern Lebanon in violation of the country's airspace, a security official says.
ISRAEL’S 60 YEAR OLD LEGACY TO IT’S ARAB CITIZENS IS RACISM
WORDPRESS Sun, 11 May 2008
Arabs Say Racism on Rise as Israel Turns 60
San Francisco: 20 Jews Arrested in protest of 60th Anniversary Event
WORDPRESS Sun, 11 May 2008
Yesterday 20 of us were arrested in the lobby of the San Francisco Jewish Community Center at an event organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council’s “Israel @ 60″ Educational Symposium. Many other Jews and allies joined us inside as well as outside to voice our opposition to an organization that continually claims to speak in our name as it supports the continued project of Israeli colonialism.
Iran urges fight against Zionist crimes
PRESSTV Sun, 11 May 2008 10:37:03 GMT
Iran has called on the international community and Islamic countries in particular to fight against the crimes of the Zionist regime.
Gaza blacked out yet again
PRESSTV Sun, 11 May 2008 05:41:36 GMT
The Gaza Strip's only power plant has shut down due to fuel shortages caused by Israel, cutting electricity to some 800,000 people.
Free Palestine Demonstration - Central London 10 May 2008
PRESSTV Sun, 11 May 2008
Thousands of British Muslim and Palestinian solidarity groups marched today on the street of London, on the 60'th of anniversary of the creation of the state Israel, calling for an end of the blockade of Gaza, for the right of return of refugees and for the end of the occupation of Palestine. The organisers put estimate number of participants at 15.000. Amongst the speakers addressing the rally, at end of the of the demonstration at Trafalgar Square was the Palestinian politician Moustafa Bargouti, the Respect MP George Galloway, and the veteran British politician Tony Benn.
Thousands demand justice for Palestine in London demonstration
MAANNEWS Mon, 12 May 2008
Thousands attended a rally in London to mark the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and call for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land on Saturday.

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr Mustafa Barghouthi, spoke at the rally, which called for the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in historic Palestine.

"Israeli citizens make 30 times what Palestinians do, settlers take 48 times the water of Palestinians, Palestinians are denied entry to Jerusalem," Barghouthi said.

Respect MP George Galloway spoke about Britain's historic responsibility for the tragedy inflicted on the Palestinian people, from the time of the Balfour Declaration onwards, and remembered the "thousands upon thousands of martyrs" created over decades; he also demanded the release of Marwan Barghouti and other political prisoners, and declared: "If there is no justice in Palestine there can be no peace in Palestine, and peace in Palestine is the key to peace throughout the Middle East."
Israeli air raids kill 5 Palestinians
PRESSTV Sat, 10 May 2008 11:01:26 GMT
Israeli airstrikes on Hamas military posts have left five Palestinians killed in two southern Gaza towns, medics and Hamas sources say.
A rare insight into Saudi Arabia's approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
GUARDIAN Sat, 10 May 2008 00:28:20 GMT
Ian Black on a rare insight into Saudi Arabia's approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Two Hamas fighters killed in Gaza raids
PRESSTV Sat, 10 May 2008 02:50:33 GMT
Three Palestinians including two Hamas fighters are killed and four others injured in Israeli air raids on Gaza, health officials say.
PALESTINE SPORTS PROGRAM - NIKE PRODUCT HELPS KIDS PLAY
INNOVATEFORABETTERWORLD Fri, 09 May 2008
As part of Nike’s Let Me Play programming and our commitment to provide access to sports for children around the globe, we have worked with Mercy Corps to donate Nike product to the Palestinian organization, PACES. According to their website (www.pacescharity.org) PACES, which stands for Palestine Association for Children’s Encouragement of Sports, was founded in June of 2006 with the central aim of providing sports programs to Palestinian girls and boys as a means of getting them off the streets and away from violence.

In 2007, Nike and Mercy Corps, another key Nike partner, worked together to secure a product donation for PACES. The package, valued at more than $400,000, went to support 16 PACES sport clubs and community centers throughout much of Palestine. The contribution of equipment and uniforms helped provide kids with access to sports, part of Nike, Mercy Corps and PACES’ mission.

"There is not one child taking part in the PACES program that has not benefited from the Nike/Mercy Corps contribution,” said Hani Qattan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for PACES. “Thanks mainly to the donated material from Nike/Mercy Corps and the rapid expansion of our donor-base, we were able to provide programs for many more children this year.”

In the future, PACES hopes to expand its program base and its accessibility by setting up programs in more cities. The organization cites Nike and Mercy Corps’ participation as key factors in PACES exponential growth. Just two years ago when it was created, PACES set out to support about 700 kids. In 2008 alone, more than 1,500 youth have been helped and given the opportunity to play sports through the organization.
The Gaza Bombshell
VANITYFAIR Fri, 09 May 2008 20:00:38 GMT
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
Obama: McCain losing his bearings
PRESSTV Fri, 09 May 2008 20:00:38 GMT
Senator Barack Obama suggests that John McCain's smear campaign against him over remarks by Hamas proves the Republican to be confused.
Obama pledges allegiance to Israel, but what about the US constitution ?
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Fri, 09 May 2008
Where would Obama stand when the commitments to the constitution and the interests of the US people conflict with Israel's security and prosperity ?
SIGNS OF RAPPROCHEMENT - Leaders within Fatah are waking up to the dangers of the present course charted by Abbas
WORDPRESS Fri, 09 May 2008 13:46:40 GMT
With the US and Israel telling Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas that keeping away from Hamas is a sine qua non for the continuation of the “peace process,” many in Fatah are now realising that Israel and its US guardian-ally are only utilising Palestinian national disunity to further weaken the Palestinian negotiating position.
US professor wants to represent Iran
PRESSTV Fri, 09 May 2008 13:46:40 GMT
A leading American professor of international law has voiced readiness to represent Iran in an international court on Israeli crimes.

"I am ready to represent Iran in an international tribunal for trying the Zionist regime on charges of genocide of Palestinians and the blockade in the Gaza Strip," Francis Boyle, professor of law at the University of Illinois, told Fars News Agency.

According to the news agency, Boyle demanded his proposal to be submitted to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Professor Boyle accuses Israel of committing 'Nuremberg offenses' against the Palestinians.

Boyle has recently been calling for the impeachment of US President George W. Bush.

Boyle is author of Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy, Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations 1898-1921, and The Bosnian People Charge Genocide.
Obama: I pledge allegiance to Israel
PRESSTV Fri, 09 May 2008 17:56:05 GMT
Democratic White House contender Barack Obama says the US would be fully committed to Israel's security if he is elected president.
The Terror that begot Israel - “We committed Nazi acts” Israel’s first Agriculture Minister
WORDPRESS Fri, 09 May 2008
“There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were committed by the attacking Jews. Many young (Arab) girls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested.” General Richard Catling, British Army Assistant Inspector after interrogating several female survivors (The Palestinian Catastrophe, Michael Palumbo, 1987)
European campaign: Death of Gaza patients "cold-blooded execution"
URUKNET Fri, 09 May 2008
The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza has charged that the rising number of patients who die in Gaza as a result of the Israeli occupation authority's siege was "cold-blooded execution".
PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL ARE NOT CELEBRATING TODAY
WORDPRESS Fri, 09 May 2008
Today, May 8th is the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. Fireworks were shot up last night…. costing the Israeli taxpayer a fortune (as well as the American taxpayer)…. but still no great excitement from the people… they just don’t give a damn.
Settlers enter ruins of W. Bank settlement in bid to rebuild it
HAARETZ Fri, 09 May 2008 10:51:14 GMT+03:00
Some 100 settlers on late Thursday infiltrated the ruins of the evacuated West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur, in a stated attempt to rebuild it. ...
Academics 'trying to revive Israel boycott'
GUARDIAN Thu, 08 May 2008 23:45:39 GMT
UCU conference asks members to 'consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions'
Arab leaders split on Lebanon; Abbas: Palestinians should not get involved
HAARETZ Fri, 09 May 2008 17:06:53 GMT+03:00
Syrian and Qatari leaders said Friday that the current crisis in Lebanon is an "internal affair," while Egypt and Saudi Arabia called for an emergency Arab foreign ministers' meeting to discuss the situation, media reports said. ...
Iran: US, Israel sparked Lebanon crisis
PRESSTV Fri, 09 May 2008 16:12:22 GMT
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini says Washington and Tel Aviv are fomenting the current violence in Lebanon.
OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITORS AND WRITERS OF THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
WORDPRESS Sat, 10 May 2008
We have to find an effective way to stand together on this, because we are all going to find out on a personal level the penalty for having such contrary beliefs.
More Fake Al Qaeda
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Sat, 10 May 2008
It now seems that every enemy of the Neo-cons (whether it is Iran or Hezbollah or the 911 truth movement) is turning out to be also an enemy of "Al Qaeda". If "my enemy's enemy is my friend", then "Al Qaeda" (even if it exists) is back in bed with its creator and financier.

As background, we should read WhatReallyHappened's expose on Fake Al Qaeda - "The Phony (Mossad) Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine" and Peter Chamberlin's "Unraveling the Myth of Al Qaida".

Recently we had Al Qaeda pursuing a Neo-con agenda by first attacking Iran for the mess in Iraq, then denouncing the 911 truth movement, as reported in : "Unbelieveable! "al-Qaeda" Dismisses Conspiracy Theories, Defends Israel, Attacks Iran and Hizbollah!"

But to top it off, just as the pro-western puppet regime in Lebanon is routed, comes this latest report that Al-Qaeda 'declares war on Hezbollah'.
Apartheid Wall : What would you think?
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Tue, 6 May 08
This was done by a fourteen-year-old (Adam) after hearing stories of the difficulties of life in Abu Dis in Palestine.
Olmert to address media amid rumors over probe against him
HAARETZ Thu, 08 May 2008 22:32:14 GMT+03:00
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened a late-night news conference at short notice on Thursday as speculation swirled that a police investigation into his affairs would increase pressure on him to resign. ...
Israel 'reeks of innocent blood'
PRESSTV Thu, 08 May 2008 22:32:56 GMT
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says no commemoration ceremony can save the Zionist regime from the harbingers of doom.
Accident mars Israel anniversary
ALJAZEERA Thu, 08 May 2008 16:57:05 PM
Many injured as parachutist crashes into crowd celebrating Israel's creation.
Ahmadinejad: Israel is a 'stinky corpse' doomed to disappear
HAARETZ Thu, 08 May 2008 18:42:48 GMT+03:00
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called Israel a "stinking corpse" which is doomed dissappear, as the state celebrated 60 years of independence. ...
'Siniora fighting on Israel side'
PRESSTV Thu, 08 May 2008 19:12:29 GMT
Hezbollah's Secretary General says Lebanon's crisis could only be solved if the government agreed to resume the national dialogue.
Johann Hari: The loathsome smearing of Israel's critics
INDEPENDENT Fri, 09 May 2008
In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to describe the plight of the Palestinian people. It is an attempt to intimidate and silence – and to a large degree, it works. There is nobody these self-appointed spokesmen for Israel will not attack as anti-Jewish: liberal Jews, rabbis, even Holocaust survivors.
Israeli prime minister Olmert under renewed pressure to resign
GUARDIAN Wed, 07 May 2008 17:13:27 GMT
Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is coming under pressure to resign after an American millionaire was reported to be embroiled in a high-level bribery investigation involving him
Olmert 'to quit over bribery scandal'
PRESSTV Wed, 07 May 2008 19:27:32 GMT
Israeli political sources believe that prime minister Ehud Olmert is likely to step down as bribery charges against him are probed.
Olmert 'may quit over scandal'
ALJAZEERA Wed, 07 May 2008 09:40:48 AM
Israeli prime minister expected to step down amid probe into bribery charges.
Sfeir opposes Palestinian naturalization
PRESSTV Wed, 07 May 2008 06:07:17 GMT
Lebanon's Christian Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir has repeated his opposition to the naturalization of Palestinians in Lebanon.
Details trickle out of Olmert's case
PRESSTV Tue, 06 May 2008 20:31:20 GMT
An American businessman at the center of a police probe into Israeli premier Ehud Olmert's corruption case has been named by a US daily.
7 Palestinians wounded in West Bank
PRESSTV Tue, 06 May 2008 17:27:16 GMT
Seven Palestinians have reportedly been wounded in a clash between PA security forces and Palestinian activists in the occupied West Bank.
7 Palestinians wounded in West Bank
PRESSTV Tue, 06 May 2008 17:20:35 GMT
Seven Palestinians have reportedly been wounded in a clash between PA security forces and Palestinian activists in the occupied West Bank.
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