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2010-03-14: Headlines

• Al-Jazeerah.info: Israeli Occupation Forces Aggression Against Palestinians in the West Bank 2010-03-14

  In nearly every case, the trees destroyed have been located on land that the Israeli settlers hope to acquire and absorb into the state of Israel.

• Al-Jazeerah.info: Israeli occupation forces clash with Palestinian protestors in West Bank 2010-03-14

  Following the tension, Israel sealed off Qalandia crossing before Palestinian travelers. Meanwhile, witnesses said that Israeli soldiers stopped three ...

• Al-Jazeerah.info: Argentina Slams Israeli Building of 1600 Housing Units in an Illegal ... 2010-03-14

  The statement added that the Argentine government calls on Israel to halt the construction of the illegal settlements in the occupied Palestini ...

• Palestine Herald Press: Sheriff's Office gets crime scene van to help with investigations 2010-03-14

  PALESTINE — Thanks to the generosity of some local entities, the Anderson County Sheriff's Office now boasts ...

• Palestine Herald Press: Animal seizure hearing set 2010-03-14

  Anderson County Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace James Westley signed the seizure warrant and the animals were picked up Wednesday, according to Taylor.

• Ha'aretz: Israel's Arabs have been misbehaving lately 2010-03-14

  A devilish act took place the same day the Knesset remembered the Olei Hagardom, one of whom fired on a bus and killed several passengers: the Palestini ...

• Ha'aretz: Health Min., Israel Medical Association probing whether physicians failed ... 2010-03-14

  He is currently serving a prison sentence for unlawful entry into Israel and is slated for release in two months. On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Esther ...

• Ha'aretz: High Court rejects petition to stop building in West Bank outpost 2010-03-14

  Sfard said the decision "does not protect the rights of Palestinians from the ideological criminality of the builders of settlement outposts.

• San Angelo Standard Times: Another held in terror probe 2010-03-14

  Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, said the agency was aware of the arrests in Ireland but had no comment on the identities of those taken ...

• Jewish Action: Biden/Bibi Fallout…“How Did it Happen” & More… 2010-03-14

  Last year, the gay community in the US was enraged at the Obama White House because the Department of Justice filed a legal brief in federal court defending ...

• New University Online: Stand With the Eleven Answers Ambassador Oren's Open Letter 2010-03-14

  This wall (not fence) annexes 80 percent of the most fertile Palestinian land to Israel and separates tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians ...

• Birmingham Star: Clinton accuses Israel of insulting US 2010-03-14

  We know this housing project in East Jerusalem is an American-Jew billionaire behind the whole stealing Palestinian lands, American-Jew billionaire ...

• Today's Zaman: Alternative reading of the al-Mabhouh murder 2010-03-14

  His family? Hamas? The Palestinian media? No, none of these. The creator of this biography is Israel, the very country that assassinated him.

• AFP: Irish police free fourth suspect in cartoonist plot probe 2010-03-14

  Those originally arrested were three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian, a Croatian and a US national, a police source told AFP on Thursday.

2010-03-13: Headlines

• US Department of State: Interview With NBC'S Andrea Mitchell 2010-03-13

  But we expect-- Israel and the Palestinians-- to do their part, and not to take any action that-- will undermine the chance that we can achieve the two ...

• DemocracyArsenal.org: Israeli Settlements -- Food for Thought 2010-03-13

  As a general matter, I'm way too smart (or cowardly or prudent or chicken) to say very much publicly on Israel and the Palestinians.

• Amnesty International USA: Palestinian journalists targeted 2010-03-13

  Paul Martin was held for more than three weeks after travelling to Gaza to testify at the trial of a Palestinian accused of collaborating with Israel.

• GlobalPost: Rachel Corrie case stirs fresh pain and hope 2010-03-13

  HAIFA, Israel — Shortly before Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, she said in a video interview ...

• The Guardian: Breaking the Gaza deadlock 2010-03-13

  Hamas has watched while concessions from the Palestinian Authority presidency of Mahmoud Abbas and Yasser Arafat before him have been taken without ...

• The Guardian: An Unfinished Business by Boualem Sansal 2010-03-13

  Hans Schiller, a chemical engineer who made Zyklon B for the gas chambers, had escaped justice via Turkey and Egypt – where he worked for Colonel Nasser' ...

• Hagada Hasmalit: Israeli Settlement Expansions Continue 2010-03-13

  Never mind Israel's history of past peace process futility because all previous efforts were more pretense than real, or as some Palestinians say – How c ...

• ReliefWeb: Women's Commission Forwards Draft Resolution on Assistance to Palestini ... 2010-03-13

  The Council would call on Israel to facilitate the return of all displaced Palestinian women to their homes, and on the global community to continue ...

• Radio Netherlands: Dutch rights prize for Uganda's Betty Bigombe 2010-03-13

  ... honours people who fight for democracy or against dictatorship, discrimination and racism. Last year, the medal went to the Palestinian human right ...

• EuropeNews: Waltzing at the Waldorf: Israeli Solders Face Another Kind of War 2010-03-13

  They are marching, carrying carefully printed signs which read: "Palestinians Hunger for Justice” and 'Stop Israeli War Crimes.” The forces of darkness (so ...

• Emirates News Agency: UAE fully committed to protecting its territory : Sheikh Abdullah on Mabhouh ... - WAM 2010-03-13

  "We are going to do our very best to bring these criminal to justice in the UAE," he stressed. "We are going to be extremely aggressive in showing our right ...

• CRIENGLISH.com: PNA Condemns Israeli Closure of Jerusalem Schools 2010-03-13

  Taysir Tamimi, the Palestinian chief of justice, said in a press statement sent to Xinhua that "the Israeli actions of closing two schools as well as ...

• Ventura County Star: Religion briefs: March 13 2010-03-13

  He was on the board of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom — the Jewish Alliance for Peace and Justice — which recently merged with nonprofit advocacy group J Street.

• Reuters: Second US woman probed in plot to kill Swede: report 2010-03-13

  The US Justice Department said on Tuesday it had charged a Pennsylvania woman, Colleen LaRose, who went by the pseudonyms "Fatima LaRose" and "JihadJane," ...

• The Associated Press: AP Source: Colo. woman held in terror probe 2010-03-13

  Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, said the agency was aware of the arrests in Ireland but had no comment on the identities of those taken ...

• CTV.ca: US woman held in Ireland in alleged terror plot 2010-03-13

  Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, said the agency was aware of the arrests in Ireland but had no comment on the identities of those taken ...

• Ireland Online: Police release three held over cartoonist 'death plot' 2010-03-13

  Those arrested included a Libyan couple and a Palestinian woman – who were earlier freed – a second Libyan man, one Algerian man, a woman from the US and ...

• Brunei News, Brunei Headlines from Brunei fm: GOV”TS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN WOMEN GAIN POLITICAL RIGHTS — CLINTON 2010-03-13

  One resolution, on Palestinian women, had to be put to a vote. It was adopted by 31 in favour to two against (US, Israel), with ten abstentions.

• Brunei News, Brunei Headlines from Brunei fm: GOV”TS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN WOMEN GAIN POLITICAL RIGHTS — CLINTON 2010-03-13

  One resolution, on Palestinian women, had to be put to a vote. It was adopted by 31 in favour to two against (US, Israel), with ten abstentions.

• US Department of State: Interview With CNN's Jill Dougherty 2010-03-13

  SECRETARY CLINTON: Because, by definition, the denial of women their rights means that you don't have a democracy. One of the things we've learned is th ...

• Today's Zaman: Observers probe where to next in Turkey-Israel relations 2010-03-13

  The last-minute snub was in reaction to Israel's Gaza assault in late 2008 and early 2009 when about 1400 Palestinians were killed, including many civili ...

• Yahoo! Tech: Australia and Indonesia Find It Hard to Make Up 2010-03-13

  ... Companion of the Order of Australia, the highest civilian honor in Australia, for encouraging democracy and economic ties between the two countries.

• Salem-News.Com: Amy Goodman Interviews the Parents of Rachel Corrie 2010-03-13

  They are currently in Haifa, Israel for the civil case involving the death of their daughter. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, talked to Cindy and Craig Corrie ...

• TMCnet: RIGHTS: US NOTES RISE IN FOREIGN CURBS ON NGOS, NET, PRESS 2010-03-13

  It also cited the situation in the Palestinian territories, notably in Gaza where Israel's Operation Cast Lead in which more than 1000 Palestinian civili ...

• Sri Lanka Guardian: War Crimes, Human Rights: A home Grown Solution 2010-03-13

  This having been said, it is also necessary to draw attention to the fact that in no civilised democracy is the allegation of war crimes or human right ...

• National: Europeans doubt Mitchell's success 2010-03-13

  The answer is Mahmoud Abbas, the president of Palestinian Authority, who has incessantly requested Europeans not do so until the whole peace process take ...

• Las Vegas TSG: Remarks by Vice President Biden speech Tel Aviv University 2010-03-13

  Building peace and security between a Jewish democratic state of Israel and a viable, independent Palestinian state is profoundly in Israel's interest ...

• Journal of Turkish Weekly: [Opinion] View From Inside the White House Press Room 2010-03-13

  The top priority item for the Obama administration in foreign affairs, the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, took another heavy blow th ...

• Aljazeera.net: The undoing of Obama's Cairo speech 2010-03-13

  Unfortunately, such perspective sees peace between Israel and Palestinians as a long term goal that could wait while Arab regimes and Israel could ...

• Journal of Turkish Weekly: Turkey Supports Palestine as Arab World Comatose, Says Druze Leader 2010-03-13

  The Arab League gave the green light to Palestinians on March 3 to enter indirect talks with Israel; the motion, however, was tabled after Israel announced ...

• GulfNews: Egypt-Palestine friendly match gets too hot for footballers 2010-03-13

  By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent Cairo University students shout anti-Israel slogans as they burn an Israeli flag during a rally earlier this month ...

• New Haven Register: Israeli-Palestinian conflict has vast impact 2010-03-13

  DURING a short trip last month to Israel and occupied Palestine, my wife, Matiniah, and I visited Jerusalem and Ramallah on the West Bank.

• Walpole Times: Resident's daughter to participate in fifth 'Follow the Women' ride 2010-03-13

  Many women found the crossing from Israel into Palestine very emotional. “We were just all in tears, we just couldn't believe we did it,” said McGuire ...

• The People's Voice: Palestinian Dispossession in East Jerusalem 2010-03-13

  As for the 28 Palestinian families, they're an impediment to Israel's aim. The solution then is remove them with the help of obliging courts that usually ...

• Forexyard: Reuters World News Highlights at 1800 GMT, Mar 13 2010-03-13

  JERUSALEM - Israel's relationship with the United States, a defining feature of the troubled Middle East, was under severe strain as diplomats scrambled ...

• Weekly Blitz: US State Department affirms support for Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury 2010-03-13

  It was much harder on the Palestinian Authority section; and in almost every single category that it covers, the report exonerated the State of Israel.

• Ma'an News Agency: Hamas: 4 years since electoral victory - Ahmad Yousef 2010-03-13

  Yet, when Hamas' Change and Reform swept electoral victory, those calls for Palestinian democracy among and within the US government were silenced ...

• Islam Online: EU Muslims Press For Gaza Siege Lift 2010-03-13

  Israel has clamped a siege on the Gaza Strip since Hamas was voted to power in the 2006 legislative elections. It further tightened the blockade after Ham ...

• Ottawa Citizen: The sad state of 'human rights' organizations 2010-03-13

  The intense debate on the activities of government-funded groups like Rights & Democracy is ...

• Pacific Free Press: Law as Warfare: Israel, Cheney and 'Lawfare' Attack Human Rights NGO's 2010-03-13

  Desmond Travers of Ireland, addressing allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in ...

• Radio Sweden: Three Suspects in Vilks-plot Released - SR International 2010-03-13

  A police source told AFP on Thursday that - apart from an American national - the group consists of three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestini ...

• Momlogic.com: Small-Town Mom Second American Woman Arrested in Terror Plot on Swedish Cartoonist 2010-03-13

  Irish authorities this week announced the arrest of seven Muslims in the alleged plot, only identifying them as three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestini ...

• The Associated Press: Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot 2010-03-13

  Irish authorities this week announced the arrest of seven Muslims in the alleged plot, only identifying them as three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestini ...

• Ethiopian Review: EU applauds voter turnout in Iraq election 2010-03-13

  “The EU continues to support Iraq in its efforts to reconstruct the country and rebuild its political system – including its transition to democracy.

• Sydney Morning Herald: Three freed in Ireland after Swedish cartoonist plot arrests 2010-03-13

  Those arrested were three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian, a Croatian and a US national, a police source told AFP on Thursday.

• Auburn Citizen: Amy Goodman: Student's (posthumous) day in court over killing 2010-03-13

  An unusual trial begins in Israel this week that people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of ...

• National: Irish police hold four allegedly for links with Jihad Jane 2010-03-13

  Three of the seven people taken into custody in raids on homes in the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday – a couple originally from Algeria and a Palestini ...

• North County Times: LETTERS: NCT, March 13, 2010 2010-03-13

  Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from their homes, and thousands were killed and many ended up in Gaza or the West Bank. In 1967, Israel ...

• Winnipeg Free Press: Absorbing Koestler biography good place to start 2010-03-13

  ... history and especially the struggle between Nazism, Communism and liberal democracy that shaped his life and work from the 1920s into the 1950s.

2010-03-12: Headlines

• Los Angeles Times: Middle East peace efforts: lessons from healthcare reform 2010-03-12

  Although the moratorium is rife with exceptions -- as this week's announcement showed -- Palestinians assume Israel will launch into an even greater frenzy ...

• CounterPunch: US Foreign Policy and Post-Election Iran 2010-03-12

  Some preach it in the name of Justice. In the great events of man's history, in the unwinding of the complex fates of nations Justice is not so simple.

• CounterPunch: Relax, the Empire's in Safe Hands 2010-03-12

  Consistent US policy has been to advocate a couple of mini-Bantustans for the Palestinians and, under Obama, the US has endured no substantive opposition ...

• International Middle East Media Center: Two Injured, Dozens Suffer Effects Of Tear Gas Inhalation At The Bil'in Weekly 2010-03-12

  The Palestinian Minister of Culture, Siham Al Barghouthi, joined the protest on Friday at the village of Bil'in. Two year ago In September 2007 ...

• American Muslim: Israel – will it ever change its apartheid character? 2010-03-12

  In an interview with the Democracy Now, her family says that Israel may not allow Rachel Corrie's Palestinian doctor and the witnesses in Gaza to testify ...

• ReliefWeb: Secretary-General, in Women's Commission, Calls for End to One of Most Brutal ... 2010-03-12

  During the afternoon, the Commission held a panel on the evolving status and role of national mechanisms for gender equality. One panellist, Rounaq Jah ...

• ReliefWeb: United States to Assist Palestinian Refugees 2010-03-12

  The announced contribution of $55 million includes $30 million to UNRWA's General Fund, which provides core services to Palestinian refugees across ...

• Veterans Today Network: Is Palestine Dead? The Slow Methodical Ethnic Cleansing Continues! 2010-03-12

  No no, they will never allow a democratic Israel to be run by an Israeli non-jew Prime Minister or a non-jewish Knesset. No way! It's democracy ye ...

• Firedoglake: Cindy Corrie reaches out to Middle Easterners who have lost family members ... 2010-03-12

  Their beloved daughter Rachel was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer and they are now in Israel seeking the truth and justice.

• Foreign Policy: The Charm Offensive Winds Down 2010-03-12

  It's just the kind of pragmatic and sensible solution that America could expect from that reasonable oasis of democracy in the region, Israel. Phew.

• Foreign Policy: Joe Biden Got What He Deserved 2010-03-12

  But it is also possible that the Palestinians really want a deal this time. If so, how about they put a deal on the table and put the ball in Israel's court ...

• Lebanon: US rights report: corruption still plagues Lebanon - Daily Star 2010-03-12

  BEIRUT: The Lebanese government is riddled with corruption and while human-rights abuses are not as flagrant as elsewhere in the Arab ...

• Free Speech Radio News: 9/11 responders health care suit settled for $657 million 2010-03-12

  FSRN's Ghassan Bannoura reports: Israel deployed police in the old city of Jerusalem and around all Palestinian neighborhoods. Despite their heavy presence ...

• Irish Times: Suspects in Swedish cartoonist case have periods of detention extended 2010-03-12

  The suspects – aged from their mid-20s to mid-40s – are being held for questioning under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007 at stations ...

• Yeshiva World News: Young Israel Movement Responds to Vice President Biden's Comments About Jerusalem 2010-03-12

  Yet, the Vice President ignored our American values of equality and justice and had no compunction condemning Israel for permitting Jews to build homes ...

• The Brown Daily Herald: Letter: Group's use of 'apartheid' appropriate 2010-03-12

  The guest column by Roberta Goldman '13 (“Brown Students for Palestine (and Israel),” March 4) misrepresents Brown Students for Justice in Palestine ...

• Daily Californian: Resolve, Don't Repeat 2010-03-12

  Here in Berkeley, however, extremist and immature members of the student groups Tikvah: Students for Israel and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

• Electronic Intifada: Flouting its own laws, EU accommodates "Made in Israel" 2010-03-12

  Yet EU officials have not only failed to defend international law, they have accommodated Israel's abuse of it. Last month, the European Court of Justice ...

• UT The Daily Texan: Fair unites UT human rights groups 2010-03-12

  Colorful handprints, peace signs and hearts decorated a mural advocating peace, justice and equality outside Gregory Gym on Thursday ...

• Los Angeles Times: 'American Radical': Norman Finkelstein fights how he sees fit 2010-03-12

  ... takes the predicament of a fiercely devoted single mother (Kim Hye-ja, in an Oscar-caliber portrayal) determined to get justice for her simple-minded ...

• Belfast Telegraph: 'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie' 2010-03-12

  Mr Corrie said the family had been seeking justice for seven years. "I think when the truth comes out about Rachel, the truth will not wound Israel ...

• Kingston Daily Freeman: EDITORIAL:Around the world 2010-03-12

  The ad demands that Attorney General Eric Holder release the names of Department of Justice attorneys who have represented or advocated in the past ...

• Palestine Herald Press: Authorities investigate construction worker's death at PHS 2010-03-12

  Anderson County Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Gary Thomas pronounced the victim dead at the scene. The superintendent said preliminary investigati ...

• GulfNews: Transforming an ethic of fear 2010-03-12

  An electoral commission, sporting the lofty name of the Justice and Accountability Commission, headed by none other than the mercurial and divisive Ahmad ...

• Americans for Peace Now: APN Leadership Meets with Fayyad, Livni 2010-03-12

  ... to stay focused on the two-state solution, the best hope for Israel and the for the Palestinians to live in peace, security, democracy and independence.

• Scoop.co.nz: FPI Overnight Brief 2010-03-12

  “An already poor human rights situation rapidly deteriorated after the June elections,” said Michael Posner, assistant secretary for democracy, human right ...

• Palestine News Agency: Dozens Injured in Weekly Demos against the Wall - WAFA 2010-03-12

  A long standing affair that will continue to see the local community and its international supporters stand together in the pursuit of freedom and equality.

• Petoskey News-Review: Peace Team to host 'Developing a Culture of Nonviolence' workshop 2010-03-12

  Her recent travels have revolved around efforts for peace in Palestine and Israel. She seeks to educate US senators and representatives about the situati ...

• Palestine Note: Anna Baltzer, a Jewish-American witness for Palestinians 2010-03-12

  It also stilled her to educate others about how Israel actually treats Palestinians and how gross violations of human rights and international accord go ...

• California Independent Voter Network: Marcy Winograd faces tough road ahead in challenging Democratic incumbent ... 2010-03-12

  Winograd called for a single state in which Israel and Palestine would coexist. This prompted Waxman to release a letter harshly criticizing Winograd ...

• Palestine Note: The decline of Israel 2010-03-12

  Israel was also considered a democracy in the 1950s and early 1960s - before the occupation began - when a fifth of the populace, the Palestinian minority ...

• Manila Bulletin: Daunting US foreign agenda 2010-03-12

  Also Sunday and after months of frustration, Palestinians said they were ready for indirect negotiations with Israel. Obama had put a resumption of peace ...

• phillyBurbs.com: 'I found that the enemy doesn't exist' 2010-03-12

  After their sessions in the US, the girls do follow-up meetings in Israel with the group. Creativity for Peace obtains permits for the Palestini ...

• Middle East Online: The Decline of Israel and the Prospects for Peace 2010-03-12

  Israel was also considered a democracy in the 1950s and early 1960s – before the occupation began – when a fifth of the populace, the Palestinian minority ...

• The Baltimore Chronicle: Israeli Settlement Expansions Continue 2010-03-12

  Never mind Israel's history of past peace process futility because all previous efforts were more pretense than real, or as some Palestinians say - How c ...

• Arab News: All our wars are down to Arab-Israeli conflict, says Hariri 2010-03-12

  BEIRUT: The failure of the international community to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the heart of Lebanon's tense ...

• Australia.TO: RIGHTS: US Concerned Over Curbs on NGOs, Press, Internet 2010-03-12

  It also cited the situation in the Palestinian territories, notably in Gaza where Israel's Operation Cast Lead in which more than 1000 Palestinian civili ...

• Montreal Gazette: 'The destruction of a great Canadian institution' 2010-03-12

  It was, therefore, very difficult for me to resign in protest from Canada's leading international human rights agency, Rights and Democracy, because of ...

• Novinite.com: US Department of State 2009 Human Rights Report on Bulgaria* 2010-03-12

  The Republic of Bulgaria is a parliamentary democracy with a population of approximately 7.6 million. Legislative authority is vested in the unicameral ...

• Politics.co.uk: British politicians who raised Paul Martin's detention with Hamas welcome h ... 2010-03-12

  "Only by engaging with organisations such as Hamas, who after all are the elected representatives of the Palestinians, will we see progress in the Middle ...

• DeHavilland: MPs hear Business Statement 2010-03-12

  Ms Harman: There will be an opportunity following the Budget debate to raise the question of our support for Palestinians and for a middle east settlement.

• Winnipeg Free Press: Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION 2010-03-12

  David Matas is being disingenuous in asserting that when comparing apartheid in South Africa with Israel for its treatment of Palestinians "there is no ...

• New Jersey Jewish Standard: Speaker analyzes Middle East 'identity crisis' 2010-03-12

  Criticizing the Goldstone report, which faulted Israel's role in its conflict with Hamas, Melamed said it did a disservice to democracy.

• Jewish Chronicle: David Cameron: The full JC interview 2010-03-12

  We need a State of Israel, with her existence recognised by all her Arab neighbours, living alongside a sovereign and viable Palestinian State.

• The Spokesman Review: Parents sue Israel over death 2010-03-12

  The ISM defines itself as “a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-acti ...

• Investor's Business Daily: Reality Sets In, So US Policy Is 'Reset' Again 2010-03-12

  A year ago, he thought new outreach to the Palestinians and rebuke to the Israelis might lead to a breakthrough. It did not. In a Time magazine interview ...

• Minneapolis Star Tribune: Something WRONG with this picture 2010-03-12

  All Muslim Middle East countries display no pretense of religious equality with only one state religion. “The current “Israel Apartheid Week”  ...

• Gulf Times: Arab-Israeli conflict root of all our wars: Hariri 2010-03-12

  The failure of the international community to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the heart of Lebanon's tense relationship with the Jewish state ...

• Pacific Free Press: Reply to Mr. Shurman, Ontario MPP 2010-03-12

  I tell you, as the victim of Israeli discriminatory polices, Israel is an apartheid state, Israel is not a democracy and exposing Israeli ethnic cleansing ...

• Arab Times: Americans shaken by Main Street JihadJane reveal 2010-03-12

  The seven are three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian, a Croatian and a US national, a police source told AFP on Thursday. LaRose was monitored with ...

• RIA Novosti: What the Russian papers say 2010-03-12

  Russia sees itself as an independent power hub in a multi-polar world, while NATO, for all the formal equality of its members, has one dominant country: ...

• Birmingham Star: Ahmadinejad and Gates accuse each other of interference 2010-03-12

  The USA wants to rid the middle east of all enemies of Israel ruled by gangsters. It will be tough for the Palestinians to get a seperate state.

• Ventura County Star: Hate, heart and self-worth get the spotlight at the Jewish Film Festival 2010-03-12

  "The Case for Israel: Democracy's Outpost," and guest speaker Shahar Azani of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles, 1 pm at Temple Beth Torah. Rated PG.

• TheDay.com: Syrian ambassador welcomes US engagement 2010-03-12

  The "solution" he refers to is finding a way to end the longstanding hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians. There is no question any Middle East ...

• International Solidarity Movement: Family Appeals Decision to Close Investigation on Shooting of US Citizen ... 2010-03-12

  Tristan's case is actually not rare; it represents hundreds of other cases of Palestinian victims whose investigations have also failed.

• Corvallis Gazette Times: Da Vinci Film Festival: The 2010 Films 2010-03-12

  In the Gaza Strip, a young Palestinian man is enticed to follow a blue bird, only to have his way blocked by a giant human hand. Further efforts to follow ...

• Jewish Herald-Voice: Israel singled out for demonization at UH demonstration 2010-03-12

  He then said he personally has never been to Israel or to the Palestinian territories. Rob reiterated that he opposes all forms of nationalism.

• Hurriyet Daily News: Israeli Turkish Tensions and Beyond 2010-03-12

  The Palestinian issue has gained greater resonance, particularly after the AKP came to power and yet, as noted, the tensions with Israel largely reflect ...

• Fresno Bee: New pastor begins at Peoples Church 2010-03-12

  The film “Strangers” will be presented at 7 pm March 13 at Temple Beth Israel, 6622 N. Maroa Ave. It is part the the Fresno Jewish Film Series.

• Student Operated Press: Once More Israel`s Fundamentalists Call The Shots, Grabbing More Land 2010-03-12

  By Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor) Israel is like a rose. The scent of democracy is sweet, the appearance reassuring, but the thorns draw blood ...

• AFP: US slams rights abuses in China, N.Korea and Iran 2010-03-12

  "Traditional and new forms of anti-Semitism continued to arise," particularly after Israel launched its three-week offensive against Palestinian militant ...

• Dallas Morning News: Government wants heightened monitoring of some Holy Land defendants 2010-03-12

  ... of using what was once the largest Muslim charity in the US to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas and families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

• Yahoo! Tech: Eminent Pakistani Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Terrorism 2010-03-12

  The Grand Sheik of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has seemed to flip-flop on whether Palestinian suicide bombing is terrorism, or legitimate martyrdom.

2010-03-11: Headlines

• Lebanon: Netanyahu wants a piece of Palestine, but not peace - Daily Star 2010-03-11

  The Arabs and Palestinians will ostensibly give Israel a four-month window of opportunity at the negotiating table before taking the case to the United ...

• RTE.ie: Alleged plot suspects have detention extended 2010-03-11

  The three Algerians, one Libyan and one Palestinian were brought before a special sitting of Waterford District Court this evening.

• ReliefWeb: Council holds interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteurs on human right ... 2010-03-11

  The Palestinian tragedy began to unfold with the creation in 1949 of the State of Israel, and, 60 years later, the only people who were still paying for ...

• Free Speech Radio News: Powerful aftershocks in Chile as new president ushered in 2010-03-11

  The Palestinian Authority today reaffirmed its position that there will be no direct or indirect talks with Israel as long as settlement constructi ...

• Al-Jazeerah.info: Israel Planning to Change Arab Landmarks in Occupied East Jerusalem, a Jewish ... 2010-03-11

  Reuters said that the Palestinians living in the Old City of Jerusalem are increasingly worried about the possibility to leave their homes when Bab Al-Amud ...

• Al-Jazeerah.info: Biden Condemns Israeli Decision Saying New Constructions in Jerusalem ... 2010-03-11

  Biden said that he condemns the plan especially since its timing came with the launching of proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

• Independent: 'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie' 2010-03-11

  Mr Corrie said the family had been seeking justice for seven years. "I think when the truth comes out about Rachel, the truth will not wound Israel ...

• Irish Independent: Suspect in cartoonist death plot spent two weeks here 2010-03-11

  The suspects also include two other Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian and a Croatian. Officers are still carrying out background checks on the suspect ...

• Washington Post: Updated: Protestors oppose Northern Virginia imam who gave House's opening prayer 2010-03-11

  However, while he was a prayer leader at Dar al-Hijrah, Awlaki declared that Palestinians who killed Israeli civilians were freedom fighters, claimed th ...

• Washington Post: Reid's wife and daughter sent to hospital after car accident 2010-03-11

  Given the fact that this was the very CENTER of the Iranian, Afghani, Jordanian, Iraqi, Saudi and Palestinian population in the Washington DC ...

• Palestine Chronicle: Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder 2010-03-11

  His family? Hamas? The Palestinian media? No, none of these. The creator of this biography is Israel, the very country that assassinated him.

• The AtlanticWire: Carlo Strenger on Peace Talks 2010-03-11

  Israel and Palestine are still struggling over their identities, and both sides have strong factions pushing incompatible theocratic aims: Israel is in ...

• LA Weekly: Movie Reviews: Children of Invention, Mother, The Art of the Steal 2010-03-11

  Directors David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier mean to redress calumnies heaped on Finkelstein, author of the book The Holocaust Industry, which accuses Israel ...

• Moroccan American News Source: Morocco: US Department of State 2009 Human Rights Practices 2010-03-11

  In January the government temporarily blocked four Islamist-oriented Web sites after they were used to mobilize protests in support of Palestinians during ...

• Twin Cities Planet: Inside the Daily Planet, 03/11/10 2010-03-11

  Many IAW events are taking place on university campuses, which have become surrogate battlefields in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Aljazeera.net: Indirect Israel talks 'called off' 2010-03-11

  The Palestinian president appears to have called off indirect talks with Israel after the Israeli interior ministry announced it would build 1600 new ...

• Ha'aretz: 'The ladder to climb down from the tree' 2010-03-11

  Benvenisti cites the ruling of Israel's High Court of Justice on the petition by the Gush Katif evacuees, which stressed that they had settled temporarily ...

• Today's Zaman: Turkey critic's ties to US State Department questioned 2010-03-11

  For the US government to allow a known Turkey-bashing analyst who recently increased his unwarranted attacks on the country's ruling Justice and Development ...

• Stoney Creek News: Veil finally lifted on IAW 2010-03-11

  This year, IAW at McMaster was marked March 1-5 with a number of events, organized by McMaster Muslims for Peace Justice, Solidarity for Palestinian Hum ...

• KLTV: Man dies after being pinned beneath portable building 2010-03-11

  Judge Gary Thomas, Anderson County Justice of the Peace, Pct 1 responded to the scene, and ruled on the death. An autopsy has not been ordered at this time.

• Gulf Times: Qatar-France legal ties reviewed 2010-03-11

  HE the Minister of Justice Hassan bin Abdullah al-Ghanim yesterday met French Ambassador to Qatar Gilles Bonnaud. Talks dealt with relations of co-operati ...

• Financial Times: Obama's lack of Mideast muscle 2010-03-11

  That would end the hope for justice for Palestinians, security for Israelis, and Mr Obama's goal of unclenching fists across the wider Middle East.

• National Post: Joe Biden: I went to Israel and all I got was this black eye 2010-03-11

  That would end the hope for justice for Palestinians, security for Israelis, and Mr Obama's goal of unclenching fists across the wider Middle East.

• The Herald: It is time to get tough with the bully Israel has become 2010-03-11

  That maybe so, but what is at stake here for Obama is the entire credibility of his claims to see justice done when it comes to the Israeli/Palestini ...

• Ha'aretz: Acting like they own the place 2010-03-11

  This is not a warning from the Palestinian Authority or Peace Now about a Jewish settlement in the West Bank: It is a petition, submitted in September 2009 ...

• Shalom Life: Coalition of Women for Peace Sides with Female Terrorists 2010-03-11

  While Jewish women celebrate International Women's Day and [proudly] mark their progress towards equality, Palestinian women suffer behind jails' fences.

• Ha'aretz: State to reinvestigate wounding of US activist 2010-03-11

  The state this week agreed to reinvestigate the 2009 near-fatal wounding of American pro-Palestinian protester Tristan Anderson in ...

• Ha'aretz: 'She said nothing,' Bedouin women lament as Jill Biden comes to visit 2010-03-11

  Biden toured a compound belonging to the nonprofit organization Sidreh, where dozens of Bedouin women have sought empowerment and equality in recent year ...

• Ha'aretz: A mess no ritual bath could cleanse 2010-03-11

  The basic fact remains, the Israeli in the street may say in surveys that they are in favor of civil marriage, equality for all religious streams ...

• The Associated Press: Pa. suspect: Caretaker by day, 'Jihad Jane' online 2010-03-11

  Irish police disclosed, though, that they had arrested two Algerians, two Libyans, a Palestinian, a Croatian and an American woman married to one of ...

• Orangeville Citizen: Legislature never looks at the real issues 2010-03-11

  New Democrat Cheri DiNovo, a minister in the United Church, which has led charges that Israel mistreats Palestinians, would be highly critical of Israel ...

• Financial Times: Israel indicts two soldiers 2010-03-11

  The three-week war, launched in response to regular rocket attacks on southern Israel, claimed the lives of about 1400 Palestinians, including many ...

• Eureka Street: Leading Muslim thinker's non-violent activism 2010-03-11

  His appeal to overturn the decision failed, but it revealed the only specific charge against him was that he had made a few donations to Palestini ...

• News24: Ireland: 'JihadJane' plot foiled 2010-03-11

  The seven are three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian, a Croatian and a US national, a police source told AFP on Thursday. LaRose was monitored with ...

• CBS 11: Officials: 'Jihad Jane' The New Face Of Terrorism 2010-03-11

  Irish police said Wednesday those arrested were two Algerians, two Libyans, a Palestinian, a Croatian and an American woman married to one of the Algeri ...