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2010-07-31: Headlines

Winnipeg Free Press: Index 2010-07-31
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones describes rookie receiver Dez Bryant as being disappointed and bothered that he could miss the entire pre-season. | Jones says Bryant has a "typical" high right ankle sprain that should heal completely without surgery, and he could be back on the short side of the anticipated recovery period of four to six weeks.
Palestine Note: UN calls for Israel to freeze Jlem settler construction 2010-07-31
In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
Nerdles: New York Knicks Star Amare Stoudemire in Israel 2010-07-31
Amare Stoudemire is presently in Israel. As you might now, he has a tattoo of a Star of David and actually knows some Hebrew phrases. And now he wants to explore his potential Jewish roots.
Lufkin Daily News: Church news 7/31 2010-07-31
Keywords: call 631-2673 for more information. | department at 631-2673. | through the month of August on a mission trip to Vermont, Dr. | clothing and shoes will go to various charities throughout Lufkin. | The church is located at 4707 FM 843. For info: 853-4242. | festival. A family fellowship night is planned for 6 p.m. Aug. | Christie St., 634-4555. | Calvary Baptist, Nogalus Prairie. Revival. Aug. | for more info: 634-7304.
Living in Peru: Cesar Sopli,Fernando Paredes,Erik Beltran, Gustavo Centeno: Paraglider from Israel dies during a competition in Peru 2010-07-31
Peru's official news portal, directory and classifieds for foreigners or expats living in Peru, business travelers and local individual...
GlobalPost: IOF shoots 2 Palestinian workers in Gaza 2010-07-31
The Director of Emergency unit in Gaza's Ministry of Health, Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, said that Khalid Mahdi Alhmadden (16 years) and Mohamed Shalabi (25 years) were wounded by Israeli fire in the lower limbs. | Hassanein added that ambulance crews rushed the injured to Kamal Adwan Hospital north of the Gaza Strip, describing their condition as moderate.
OpEdNews: Mary Magdalene, Antichrists and Christian Zionism 2010-07-31
Tag(s): Antichrist; Christian Values; Christianity; God; God; Goddess; Ideology; Israel; Jesus; People Jesus Christ; (more...) | not follow Jesus that closely, for Jesus treated women as fully equal. | has said, "My ways are not your ways. My thoughts are not yours." | churches became the fastest growing sector of American Christianity. | what they are doing and,
Biddeford Journal Tribune: Hussey marks 175 years in the business 2010-07-31
For 175 years, one family has been at the helm of Hussey Seating Company in North Berwick, and as it sought to remind people on Friday, that's a long time.Friday evening marked the 175th anniversary celebration of the seating manufacturer, and as throngs of media, employees and others flooded the company gates to take part in the day's events, President and Chief Executive Officer Tim Hussey reveled in the atmosphere.
Winnipeg Free Press: Index 2010-07-31
A swollen knee has kept Albert Haynesworth from taking his conditioning test, sidelin... - Football - .
Los Angeles Times: The LACMA-Israel Museum connection 2010-07-31
Geographically isolated from the Western art world, the Israel Museum has thrived, in part, by developing support groups and cultivating relationships with museums worldwide. In the case of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, there's a special twist. The...
Veterans Today Network: Formation of Al Qaida: US-Israel Collaboration 2010-07-31
Press clips gathered by the CIA and discovered in the National Archives' stored CIA files point to an agency keenly interested in any leaks about the highly-classified CIA-Mossad program to establish Osama Bin Laden and the most radical elements of the Afghan Mujahidin as the primary leaders of the anti-Soviet rebels in the 1980s. | WMR [Wayne Madsen Report]
The Palestine Telegraph: Omar Ghraieb: Israel raids Gaza by air, 1 dead and 17 injured 2010-07-31
Gaza, July 31, (Pal Telegraph) A leader of the Qassam Brigades was killed last night and seventeen other civilians were wounded - including children - during a series of raids carried out by Israeli warplanes on targets across the Gaza Strip, the heaviest was the shelling of a security headquarter in Gaza City.

2010-07-30: Headlines

ISRIA: Palestine 2010-07-30
The Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khouloud Daibes-Abou Dayyeh, and the Consul General of France in Jerusalem, Frédéric Desagneaux, signed yesterday, in the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Bethlehem, a 700 000 euro financing agreement for the “Palestinian heritage preservation and promotion” project.
Al-Ahram Weekly: Abdel-Moneim Said: From Boston on Palestine 2010-07-30
Amid the numerous solutions proposed and discussed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, few note the default solution: managing the worst of what is intractable, writes Abdel-Moneim Sai...
NTDTV: Israel: Saving Butterflies from Extinction 2010-07-30
Butterflies are disappearing. | NTD News, Jerusalem, Israel.
ISRIA: Palestine 2010-07-30
Keywords: 'I miss my friend, the late President Yasser Arafat in this day', said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Miguel Angel Moratinos at a ceremony of receiving an honorable doctorate from Al-Quds University.
New Jersey Jewish Standard: Israel under the radar 2010-07-30
Ynet reported earlier this month that the Council of the Chief Rabbinate agreed to strip rabbis who incorporate song and musical performance into the marriage ceremony of their authority to officiate at weddings. | A similar decision was announced a year ago, but with the recent decision the rule will be enforced more vigilantly, according to Ynet.
org.au: Thailand: No justice for Red Shirt detainees 2010-07-30
Links needs your support! Donate what you can! | July 30, 2010 -- Pro-democracy movement Red Shirt political prisoners, detained by the Abhisit Vejjajiva military junta after the bloody crackdown against unarmed demonstrators in May are facing a total lack of justice with internationally recognised legal standards being blatantly ignored.
Hindustan Times: Two Indian movies to screen at Venice film festival 2010-07-30
Keywords: to the Filmmaker Award, has already has premiered his movie in India, though to poor box-office returns and unflattering reviews. Both Abhishek Bachchan and wife Aishwarya Rai were panned for their below average performances. | It is the Tamil version of Ratnam€™s work, Raavanan, that attracted somewhat kinder reviews and also did commercially better than the one in Hindi.
AFP: Gaza rocket hits southern Israel: army 2010-07-30
A rocket fired by militants in the Gaza Strip slammed into the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Friday, causing minor damage but no casualties, a military spokeswoman said. | She said the 122 mm Katyusha-type rocket damaged a car and smashed windows in houses in the port city about 10 kilometres (six miles) north of the Hamas-run territory. | Sirens sounded a few minutes before the blast, warning residents to take cover.
Reporters without borders: Investigation into Spanish cameramans death revived 2010-07-30
The court issued the new warrants in response to a supreme court ruling at the start of July ordering it to reopen the case, which has been closed twice. The supreme court€™s ruling was the result of an appeal by the Couso family. | At least 77 journalists and media assistants have been kidnapped in Iraq since March 2003. Twenty-three of them have been murdered, 40 have been released and 13 are still being held by their abductors.

2010-07-29: Headlines

Earthtimes: Israels Peres to discuss peace process with Mubarak on Sunday 2010-07-29
Israeli President Shimon Peres is scheduled to discuss the efforts to revive direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak on Sunday, a spokeswoman from Peres' office in Jerusalem confirmed.
Israel 21C: Administrator: Israels hard-won disaster expertise reaches South America 2010-07-29
Israeli experts in disaster response stress communication and infrastructure planning when teaching Chilean professionals how to cope with mass casualty situations.
TwoCircles.net: German daily highlights Israels systematic misuse of Holocaust 2010-07-29
Submitted by admin4 on 29 July 2010 - 12:49pm. | Berlin : The German daily Die Tageszeitung (taz) on Wednesday highlighted Israel's systematic instrumentalization of the Nazi-era Holocaust for its own political goals. | "Israel's right-wing government is instrumentalizing the Holocaust for its policy. No Israeli government has ever misused the Holocaust as much as the present one to justify its policies,"
Chico News Review: Letters for August 5, 2010 2010-07-29
This article was published on 07.29.10. | Ventura's "Screenworld" article hit the nail on the head. Our generation is so fixated on iPhones and Facebook that we literally forget we can actually talk to people … face to face! | As much as I love my random texting, it's annoying when people cop out of serious conversations by texting them instead. Texting is fun, until people start using it as a crutch.
Detroit Free Press: Helen Thomas statue campaign stirs controversy 2010-07-29
Keywords: window.yahooBuzzBadgeType= 'text'; | On Tuesday, the museum started a 45-day campaign to raise the remaining $10,000 for the roughly $30,000 statue. Some in the Jewish community are wary of honoring Thomas. | "I just hope that the support for this memorial is there despite her anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views and not because of them," said Richard Nodel, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council.
AFP: Arabs meet on Palestinian peace talks with Israel 2010-07-29
Arab foreign ministers will hold crucial talks with Palestinian Mahmud Abbas on Thursday to decide whether he will begin direct negotiations with Israel amid pressure from the United States. | Abbas has accepted holding only indirect talks with Israel, which has rejected his conditions for face-to-face negotiations.
World Jewish Congress: OPINION 2010-07-29
A fluttering Palestinian flag in Washington may help convince some that direct talks will lead to peace. | A new fluttering Palestinian flag in Washington may help convince some in the Beltway that long awaited direct talks will finally lead to an elusive peace agreement. However, it seems more likely that American and Israeli goodwill are fuelling Palestinian plans to establish a state unilaterally on the 1949 armistice lines –
Arutz Sheva: The Earthtimes: Agreement Reached: Only “Made in Israel” IDF Uniforms 2010-07-29
Israeli President Shimon Peres is scheduled to discuss the efforts to revive direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak on Sunday, a spokeswoman from Peres' office in Jerusalem confirmed.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Group has ties to terrorists 2010-07-29
Does it matter if a candidate for U.S. Senate served as a keynote speaker for an extremist group? Does it matter if he hired one of the group's staff to serve on his staff? These are some of the questions being asked about Rep. Joe Sestak as voters learn about his ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. | CAIR's representatives have not been shy about saying how they feel about Hamas, which the U.S.
World Jewish Congress: Paris and Washington upgrade status of Palestinian representative offices 2010-07-29
Last week, he signaled France's readiness to engage in direct dialogue with Hamas, "if France receives an official request from the Palestinian Authority." The Islamist movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, is listed by the United States and Europe as a terrorist organization. | Last week, the US State Department gave the Palestinian office in Washington the right to hoist the Palestinian flag.
Haaretz: IAF servicemen's remains to be flown to Israel, following Romania search-and-rescue mission 2010-07-29
Israel, Romania to hold memorial for IAF soldiers, Romanian liaison officer who lost their lives when a helicopter crashed in the Carpathian Mountains.
Haaretz: Disengagement, despite everything 2010-07-29
The 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip was problematic, but strategically, it was and remains crucial.
Israel 21C: Administrator: Israel high up on happiest country list 2010-07-29
To determine just who are the happiest people in the world, researchers at the Gallup World Poll surveyed thousands of respondents in 155 countries between 2005 and 2009 and found that "by and large, rich countries are happier."According to their poll, the five happiest countries in the world are Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands. All are clustered in the same region, and all enjoy high levels of prosperity.

2010-07-27: Headlines

Palestine News Agency: Upgrading the Status of the General Delegation of Palestine in France to Mission 2010-07-27
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Reuters Africa: INTERVIEW-Gaza smuggler set up for life thanks to Israel 2010-07-27
Keywords: letting more goods in. | acting as a lifeline for the otherwise sealed-off territory. | made," the Palestinian said. "I have more than one bank account. | Nothing is in my name in case one day I go to jail." | telephone interview. "Under international law, I am a smuggler." | On a good day, he said his tunnel would make $100,000. | Powered by Reuters AlertNet."
Palestine News Network: Ghassan Bannoura: US Gives Palestine An Ultimatum 2010-07-27
Palestine News Network (PNN) covers the latest political, civil news. Depends on a unique network of journalists spread in Palestine.
Delaware County Daily Times: Pro-Israel group targets Sestak in commercial 2010-07-27
Delaware County Pennsylvania daily newspaper covering local, regional, and national news including local sports, video and multimedia coverage, and classified advertising.
Al-Arabiya: George Semaan: If you want to know…then all roads lead to Baghdad? 2010-07-27
The developments seen in several Arab countries these days do not need elaborate analysis to understand their causes. When it comes to the internal ones, they are known, inherited or emerging.
GulfNews: Israel sends plane to help search for Israeli helicopter crash victims in Romania 2010-07-27
Bucharest: The Israeli air force is sending a transport plane to Romania to help search for missing bodies from an accident involving a military helicopter which crashed near Brasov in central Romania on Monday. | There were six Israelis and one Romanian on board the craft, which was on a joint military exercise with the Romanian Air Force, the ministry said.
Palestine Think Tank: Nima Shirazi – When the Truth is Inconvenient: A Preview of Countdown To Zero 2010-07-27
When the Truth is Inconvenient: A Preview of 'Countdown To Zero' | A new documentary, directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Lawrence Bender, entitled Countdown To Zero, is set for wide release on July 23, 2010. The film has been heavily publicized and promoted for many months now and is surely already a heavily-favored Oscar contender.
Hudson New York: Khaled Abu Toameh: Arabs and Muslims Run to Israel 2010-07-27
Many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have a dream: to work or live in Israel. Some even say they are prepared to pay large sums of money to obtain Israeli citizenship.
Arutz Sheva: Gallup Poll Suggests: Move to Israel and Be Happy 2010-07-27
Those who scored high on the poll were considered to lead thriving lives.
Reuters India: FEATURE 2010-07-27
A Palestinian man takes part in a protest in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, July 25, 2010. Demonstrators are calling for the international community's help in rebuilding houses that were destroyed during the three week offensive that Israel launched in Gaza in December 2008. | GAZA (Reuters) - Wael El Wadiah's Gaza snack food factories once employed 250 people.
Reuters Africa: FEATURE-Gazans want 'Marshall Plan' , Israel policy falls short 2010-07-27
Keywords: what is left of a business built up over 25 years. | "I am right back to square one," he said. | Jamal Basala once employed 20 people on his fishing trawler. | university fees. "I suffer depression," he said. | Powered by Reuters AlertNet. AlertNet provides news, images and insight from the world's disasters and conflicts and is brought to you by Reuters Foundation.
Globes: Citi: Bank of Israel worlds most credible central bank 2010-07-27
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AFP: Israel investigators sent to Romania crash site 2010-07-27
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Palestine Think Tank: Raid Khoury – On Ramzy Barouds 'My Father was a Freedom Fighter' 2010-07-27
On Ramzy Baroud's "My Father was a Freedom Fighter" | Ramzy Baroud€™s books attempts and succeeds not only in telling the story of the Palestinians, but in presenting a new look at the history of the 20th century as it was experienced by the Palestinians themselves.