Humanitarian Issues

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May 5, 2011 13:10:24 GMT 4 @caspa said:

ADMINISTRATORS NOTE:

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THE PUBLIC SECTIONS OF THE GT ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR MEMBER'S POSTING, AND SESQ HAS BEEN GIVEN SPECIAL ORDERS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE "HUMANITARIAN" THREAD, RUN BY "NINATHEDOG" WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR CONSTANT UPDATES. THE ETM's, INCLUDING D AND M, FEEL THAT THE THREAD IS A "CRITICAL FOUNDATION" TO THE GT, SO SESQ AND HIS TEAM HAVE BEEN GIVEN BROAD ORDERS BY "D" TO DEFEND THE THREAD AND ACOOUNT SHOULD "TECHNICAL ISSUES" OF THE KIND WE ARE SEEING COME NEAR THEM.

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WE ARE WORKING TO BRING ALL INFORMATION TO CLARITY AND APOLOGIZE FOR THE TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF THE 2 LOCATIONS. WITHIN THE LAST HOUR, THE NUMBER OF CYBERSECURITY PERSONS WATCHING THE GT AND EAGLES DISOBEY HAS RISEN FROM 4 TO 17. DIAGNOSTICS, CYBER-RESPONSES AND APPROPRIATE OTHER REAL-WORLD ACTIONS ARE UNDERWAY OR BEING PREPARED AT THIS HOUR.



FRANCES M.G. ORTIZ, SoF
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, EAGLES DISOBEY

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Local runner wins
Gaza Strip's first marathon race

5 May 2011
Medical Aid for Palestinians

Local runner wins Gaza Strip's first marathon race

Reuters- Palestinian runner Nader al-Masri, who trained on pot-holed roads and past bombed-out buildings, won the Gaza Strip's first marathon on Thursday.

Masri, who represented Palestine in the 5,000 metres at the Beijing Olympics, was one of nine runners along the full 42.2-km (26-mile) distance. He completed the course in two hours, 42 minutes, 47 seconds.

The course started in the northern town of Beit Hanoun, a border area where Israel and Palestinian militants have frequently clashed, and ended in Rafah, to the southeast, on the Gaza-Egypt frontier.

"We have championships coming up and I hope to be selected for the London Marathon in 2012," Masri said as supporters heaped congratulatory hugs and kisses on him at the finish line.

Masri cut a lonely figure in the Gaza Strip, territory controlled by Hamas Islamists hostile to Israel and blockaded by Israeli forces, as he trained for the local marathon.

He often ran past structures damaged in fighting, many of them in a three-week war that Israel launched in the enclave in December 2008 with the declared aim of halting cross-border rocket attacks.

His winning time was some three-quarters of an hour slower than the official world best of 2:03:59 held by Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie.

Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that cares for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, said the run had raised more than $1 million in sponsorship for children's summer camps in the territory.

"You have the London Marathon, the Sydney Marathon, the New York Marathon and now the Gaza Marathon, it just shows that Gaza could be a normal place if it got the chance," Gunness said.

Seven Palestinians and two foreigners living in the Gaza Strip took part in the full marathon. Some 1,300 schoolchildren joined the marathoners for the last kilometre of the run and 150 ran an eight-km course.

The event was the idea of Gemma Connell, a Gaza-based Australian UNRWA staffer, who ran in the race and said the money raised would help to send 250,000 children to UN-run summer camps in the enclave.

map-uk.org/regions/opt/news/view/-/id/974/

(many thanks to Medical Aid for Palestinians)



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Gaza Strip hosts its first marathon

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 05, 2011

More than 1,000 runners have participated in the Gaza Strip's first official marathon, a landmark recreational event in the wartorn territory.

The tiny Palestinian enclave on the Mediterranean shores happens to be 26 miles, or 42 kilometres, long — just the right length for an official marathon.

Palestinian athletes training for next year's Olympics ran alongside international aid workers from the northernmost tip of Gaza to its southern edge. Children ran in shorter races.



UNRWA, the U.N. body that aids Palestinian refugees, organized the event as a fundraiser. It said about $1 million in proceeds from international donors would go to U.N. summer camps.

Just nine people ran the full distance. The winner was a 31-year-old Palestinian training for the 2012 Olympics.

www.metronews.ca/ottawa/world/article/851610--gaza-strip-hosts-its-first-marathon

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Palestinian wins
Gaza's first-ever marathon

france24.com
05 May 2011


Map showing the route of the first Gaza marathon on
Thursday, organised by the UN Relief and Works Agency

AFP - More than 1,400 Palestinians were up before dawn on Thursday to take part in the Gaza Strip's first-ever marathon which runs the entire length of the coastal enclave.

As the sun rose, around 50 runners gathered at the start line at the entrance to Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, bouncing nervously as they waited for the starting whistle.

Just nine people signed up to run the full 42-kilometre (26-mile) stretch that ends at the southern city of Rafah on the Egyptian border.

Most of the other competitors were school children in brightly-coloured T-shirts, who ran short stretches of the race in a relay format, with more than 1,200 taking part through the morning, each one covering between one and four kilometres.

Half-way through, another six Palestinians began the 13.1 km half marathon and towards the end, 150 runners from the Gaza Athletics Federation joined in for the last eight kilometre (five mile) stretch.

Organised by UNRWA, the runners have collectively raised more than $1 million (672,000 euros) in sponsorship which will go towards the Palestinian refugee agency's Summer Games programme held every year in the Hamas-run territory, spokesman Chris Gunness told AFP.

There were no surprises when it came to the race's winner, 31-year-old Nader al-Masri, a Gazan from Beit Hanun, who entered the 5,000 metres at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and who is hoping to enter the 2012 Games in London.

"This is a very happy day for me because it is the first-ever marathon in Gaza," Masri told AFP before the race.

Masri had hoped to complete the course in two hours 30 minutes, and came in just a little over his target, at two hours, 42 minutes and 47 seconds, he said.

There were just two international participants -- Frenchman Sebastien Trives, who is deputy director of UNRWA's Gaza operations, and and his colleague Gemma Connell, an Australian who organised the event.

Both are first-time marathon runners.

"This is a very important day for Gaza. It's a message for freedom," Trives told AFP.

"The marathon is the maximum length you can run in Gaza but they hope one day to be able to run further," he said of the territory which is exactly 42 kilometres in length and has been under an Israeli blockade since 2006.

"I'm incredibly excited and buoyed by the enthusiasm of all the Palestinians who have been involved," said Connell, 28. "It is very exciting to be here for it. I just hope I can make it to the end."

The Hamas-run security forces provided security for the entire event, which is taking place just three weeks after the kidnap and murder of Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni by radical Islamist militants.


A Hamas policeman talks on the phone as Palestinian Olympic athlete
Nader Masri (L) and a fellow runner speed along the waterfront in Gaza City, on
May 5, as they compete in the Gaza Strip's first-ever marathon which (ran)
the entire length of the coastal enclave.

"We've been working with the local authorities to make sure the route is secure," Gunness said. "They are providing full security all along the route."

In addition to security concerns, organisers had to consider the sensitivities of male and female athletes running side-by-side.

Last year, masked gunmen set fire to two UN summer camps, apparently angered over the fact that girls and boys were mingling freely.

www.france24.com/en/20110505-palestinian-wins-gazas-first-ever-marathon#


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Jul 28, 2010 4:08:13 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

Gaza runner sets sights on 2012
Keeping pace with Nader el Masri

By Tim Franks
BBC correspondent, Gaza

Again and again, Nader el Masri ran for us. We were filming a number of different mini-features with him. Sometimes, he just had to run a couple of hundred metres, over and over. At other points during the day, he had to put in a 20-minute stretch.

VIDEO HERE:
news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/world_olympic_dreams/8746369.stm

Each time, his running style appeared nothing short of perfect: a picture of symmetry, his upper body still, his eyes cast downwards in imperturbable concentration.

He could no more bodge his running - however meaningless that little sequence for the camera - than a concert pianist could slouch at the keyboard. But it was not just that he was acting professionally. It was the singular importance, to him, of where he was doing what he was doing.

"I feel a freedom when I start running," he explained. "If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip."

NADER EL MASRI - THE FACTS
Region: Gaza
Born: 1980
Discipline: Athletics
Career highlights: Only athlete from Gaza Strip and one of the four athletes to represent Palestine at 2008 Beijing Olympics
Personal best: 14 min 21s in 5,000m

Life is heavily constrained in the territory. After the Islamist Hamas movement took control of Gaza three years ago, Israel and Egypt tightened their blockades.

The one-and-a-half million inhabitants are squeezed into a small strip of land. Most cannot leave. Nor can many goods come in, unless they are smuggled, prices inflated, through the tunnels from the south.

This is why Nader is running in the same old trainers he has been using for a year. He puts in 150km a week. At that rate, according to the training manuals, he should be changing shoes every four to six weeks. Nader has no choice. But that, he says, is the least of it.

"I don't have proper places to run," he says. Rather, he must make do with the congested roads and uneven sandy tracks. And sometimes, he cannot venture out at all.

Nader's home is in the Beit Hanoun district, nestled in the north-eastern corner of the Gaza Strip. (Wikipedia -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Hanoun)

You can clearly see the Israeli town of Sderot, a couple of kilometres away. Sderot has, for years, been the target of missiles fired by Palestinian militants. The Israelis say they instituted the border restrictions because of this.

Beit Hanoun has often been the first place that Israeli forces crossed into.

"If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house," Nader says. "If anything happens, it happens here."

He finds it a challenge to eat the right things. His salary of 2,000 shekels ($530) a month comes from the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, on whose books he appears as a "government security officer".

But he has a family of six to feed. Meat is a rarity, and he has no access to vitamin pills and supplements.

And yet, Nader counts himself lucky. His talent was spotted by his Arabic and sports teacher, Saoud Hamed, at the Beit Hanoun Preparatory School. When Nader was 14, he and his classmates ran a 1500m race along the streets around the school. Nader won by 100m.

The prizes that followed now clutter his front room. But perhaps his proudest moment was to carry the flag for "Palestine" at the Beijing Olympics. Nader's 5000m personal best, of 14 minutes, 24 seconds is about a minute outside Olympic qualification standard.

The International Olympics Committee handed out a number of Beijing places to athletes from disadvantaged places. Nader was one to benefit.

He is a quietly-spoken man. But there is a flicker of fire and frustration when he speaks about how much faster he believes he could become. A few months of training "outside", he says, "and I could lose a minute or more from my time."

Nader says that Chinese experts in Beijing watched him run and told him that if he stayed a year, perhaps two, with them, he could run a marathon in (a world record time of) two hours and five minutes.

He is 30 now, and cannot wait too long for the Israeli-Arab, the Israeli-Palestinian, and the intra-Palestinian conflicts to resolve. In the meantime, he will continue to run, because running is a release. On one point he is just like any other top athlete around the world.

Few of them may understand the particular privations of Gaza. But, just the same as all of them, Nader describes the prospect of competing in London in 2012 as a "dream".

Nader el Masri is one of the athletes being tracked for World Class 2012 in partnership with the British Council.

news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/world_olympic_dreams/8746369.stm

(many thanks to Medical Aid for Palestinians)

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4zSSbGJ-x4

(many thanks to Gaza TV News)

May 3, 2011 21:44:04 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

Barenboim conducts
classical concert in Gaza Strip

* First classical concert in Gaza in memory
* Conductor enters Gaza Strip from Egypt

Tue May 3, 2011 1:49pm GMT
By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA, May 3 (Reuters) - Classical musician Daniel Barenboim, a supporter of Palestinian rights, broke new ground on Tuesday when he travelled to the Gaza Strip to conduct a concert.

Musicians from some of Europe's top orchestras entered the coastal enclave from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing amid tight security, to form the "Orchestra for Gaza" and play Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and the Symphony No. 40.

Barenboim's appearance with the orchestra, players of the Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and La Scala of Milan, was a first in recent memory in Gaza where traditional Arabic music is more common.

The hour-long concert at the plush al-Madha centre along the beachfront in the northern Gaza Strip was organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that cares for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.

When introducing the event, Barenboim said the concert was taking place because "these are people who care about you, this is why we are here today."

Barenboim has become a controversial figure in Israel for his vocal opposition to its occupation of the West Bank, where he has performed on several occasions.

Since 1999, he has promoted Arab-Israeli cultural contacts and he leads the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up of young Israeli and Arab musicians which is based in Seville, Spain.

In 2008, Argentine-born Barenboim, 68, also took Palestinian citizenship and said he believed his status could serve as a model for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

"As you know I am Palestinian ... not (just) because I have a Palestinian passport and I am also Israeli, so you see it is possible to be both, but in order ... to have justice and peace we have to do many things.

"Our conflict is a conflict of two peoples who are convinced they have the right to live in the same little piece of land, therefore, our destinies are linked," he said.

"No people should be expected to live under occupation," Barenboim added as he received a standing ovation from some 700 members of the audience of academics, foreign guests and schoolchildren.

GAZA POLITICS

The concert comes a day before Islamist Hamas, who rule the Gaza Strip, and the more secular Fatah faction that controls the occupied West Bank, were due to sign a reconciliation agreement they hope will heal a political rift between them.

Israel maintains a blockade of Gaza because it is run by Hamas, who unlike Fatah, are hostile to the Jewish state and refuse to recognise interim peace accords or renounce violence.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, once the dominant Palestinian party, was driven out of the Gaza Strip by Hamas in a brief civil war four years ago.

Barenboim, today considered one of the world's leading conductors of the operas of Richard Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, has further damaged his reputation in Israel where he has tried unsuccessfully to break an unofficial taboo on playing the music of the German composer.

(Writing by Ori Lewis)

af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE7420HU20110503?sp=true

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Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT7_Y1pIBb4

Mozart's Symphony No. 40

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45DAuXYSIs

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Conductor Daniel Barenboim holds
Gaza 'peace concert'

3 May 2011 Last updated at 09:26 ET
BBC.com


Daniel Barenboim was forced to enter the Gaza Strip through
Egypt's Rafah crossing

Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim has led an orchestra of European musicians in a "peace concert" in Gaza.

Hundreds of Palestinians, many of them schoolchildren, attended the first performance in the coastal territory by an international classical ensemble.

Israel forbids its civilian citizens from travelling to Gaza, so Barenboim entered via Egypt with 25 musicians.

For years, Barenboim has used music to try to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

The conductor, who accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship in 2008, famously set up an orchestra made up of young Arab and Israeli musicians, known as the East-West Divan orchestra. In 2005, it performed in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

But Tuesday's concert in Gaza City was one of his most ambitious moves, says the BBC's Jon Donnison in Ramallah.

'Not political'

Barenboim was greeted with thunderous applause as he entered the hall of the al-Mathaf Cultural House.

He said the members of the orchestra had two things in common.

"They are tremendously good musicians... and they are musicians who care about humanity," he explained.

"This is a unique gesture from the whole of Europe for you, Gaza."

The so-called Orchestra for Gaza includes musicians from five leading European orchestras, including the Berlin and Vienna philharmonics.

The programme included pieces by Mozart including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the G minor symphony.

"This visit is very important to us for many reasons, both cultural and civil," Ibrahim al-Najjar, director of al-Qattan music school, the only such establishment in Gaza, told the AFP news agency.

"And from a political perspective, it is important to show that Gaza is a safe place," he added.

Gaza is governed by the Islamist group Hamas, which Israel regards as a terrorist organisation.

The impoverished coastal strip has been subjected to a crippling Israeli blockade since 2006. The embargo was eased somewhat last year following international outrage over the killing of Turkish activists on an aid flotilla.

The Israeli government has previously blocked attempts by Barenboim to perform in Gaza, and Israeli law bans citizens from entering the territory.

The concert was therefore co-ordinated in secret with the United Nations until invitations were distributed earlier this week.

Barenboim's entry through Egypt's Rafah crossing comes amid Israeli criticism of plans by Egypt's new military rulers to open up the border, our correspondent says. Former President Hosni Mubarak tacitly supported the blockade.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13264688

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Audio slideshow:
Gaza music school

20 April 2011
BBC.com

(Please click link underneath the photos posted below for additional images and audio presentation.)

The al-Qattan Music School in Gaza is a unique project. It is the only place for children to learn music in the Gaza Strip. The school specialises in Arabic instruments such as the Kanoun and the Oud.

The academy was destroyed during the conflict with Israel in January 2009 - but under the leadership of its director, Ibrahim al-Najjar, it has now been rebuilt and the lessons have resumed.

Gaza Music School —


Ibrahim al-Najjar — Al-Qattan music school























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Recorded by Jon Donnison.
Photos by Jon Donnison and courtesy of the al-Qattan Gaza Music School.

Slideshow production by Paul Kerley.
Publication date 20 April 2011.

AUDIO AND ADDITIONAL PHOTOS —
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13035704

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Gaza Music School 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPBpYhekno0


Gaza music school reopens after
being burned by Israel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzsiE5gqZkg


Gaza Music School 1

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IHH to send 1000-ton-capacity
aid ship to Gaza

Posted on 06 May 2011.
Gaza TV News

IHH to send 1000-ton-capacity aid ship to Gaza

The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation is to send a new aid ship with a capacity of 1000 tons to Gaza. The ship will be taking construction materials, textile products and medicine to Gaza and will set sail on May 31, the 1st anniversary of an Israeli attack on the “Freedom Flotilla,” which killed nine peaceful activists.

The ship will be sent to Gaza before the departure of the 2nd “Freedom Flotilla” and will dock at Egypt’s Al Arish Port. Aid supplies will be loaded to trucks here which will then be transported to Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing which was opened to Gazans after the public revolution in Egypt.

A serious humanitarian crisis is still taking place in Gaza. Although the Rafah border was opened to Palestinians, the goods which are allowed from the border are not sufficient to meet the needs of Gazans. Approximately 20,000 buildings which were damaged by the Israeli attacks in 2008 have not yet been repaired. These buildings include schools, houses, hospitals and even ministry buildings. The construction materials to be sent to Gaza by the IHH will be mostly used for the maintenance of these buildings.

The IHH expects support from charity givers for the aid ship that will be sent to Gaza on May 31. We hope that the Turkish people who have always extended their helping hand to Gazans will also help the loading of this ship with their donations. We will once again show that we are beside the Gazan people by loading this aid ship.

source: www.ihh.org.tr/gazze-ye-1000-tonluk-yardim-gemisi/en/

gazatvnews.com/2011/05/ihh-to-send-1000-ton-capacity-aid-ship-to-gaza/

(many thanks to Gaza TV News)


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Canadian Boat “Tahrir” Will Sail to
Help End Israel’s Illegal Siege of Gaza

Posted on 05 May 2011.
Gaza TV News

Canadian Boat “Tahrir” Will Sail to Help End Israel’s Illegal Siege of Gaza

The Canadian Boat to Gaza campaign announces today the successful conclusion of arrangements to purchase and register a boat to carry the Canadian delegation to Gaza. The boat’s name Tahrir (Liberation in Arabic) has been chosen to honour the square in Cairo that was the focus of the democratic uprising that has spread hope across the Middle East.

The Tahrir will sail with vessels from France, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, and other countries, as part of the Freedom Flotilla II. This international movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people turns the spotlight on the blockade of Gaza and its 1.6 million residents whose access to resources and ability to travel has been unilaterally impeded by the illegal Israeli blockade.

Fundraising for this campaign has been shared by thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to coast, and with the momentum building for this project we expect to secure the remaining amount needed over the next few weeks of fundraising. “We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of individuals and groups across the country” said Wendy Goldsmith of the Canadian Boat to Gaza Fundraising Committee, adding that “we are sure that with our boat now a reality, the community support will come through to raise the remaining funds needed.”

The 25-metre Tahrir will carry approximately 45 people: delegates from across the country, high profile Canadians plus journalists. As well, the Canadian campaign has partnered with campaigns from other countries and will carry delegates from Australia, Belgium and Denmark. A new website www.tahrir.ca was launched today to coincide with news of the boat’s purchase and will be the site for online donations.

Despite news that Egypt plans to open the Rafah border crossing, the maritime blockade by Israel remains a major obstacle to achieving normal life in Gaza. The Canadian Boat to Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla movement will continue our work until the Port of Gaza is opened to ensure free circulation of goods and people. “Gaza is the only port on the Mediterranean which is closed to shipping and the only coastal area in the world which cannot access its own territorial waters,” points out David Heap of the CBG steering committee. “Until the Palestinians of Gaza can travel freely and trade with the world, we will continue to challenge this illegal military blockade.”

As the Israeli government continues to threaten the use of force against the Freedom Flotilla II, we call on all Canadians, including Members of Parliament from all parties, to join with us in demanding that the Canadian government take concrete steps to guarantee the safety of humanitarians headed to Gaza. “My heart is with the participants in the Canadian boat to Gaza in this important initiative for freedom and justice for Palestine. I urge the Canadian government to do all it can to prevent Israeli aggression against the flotilla and the activists aboard the boats,” said Jewish Holocaust survivor and Palestine rights activist Suzanne Weiss in Toronto.

The world is watching: we will not be intimidated and we will not forget the Palestinians of Gaza.

gazatvnews.com/2011/05/canadian-boat-tahrir-will-sail-to-help-end-israels-illegal-siege-of-gaza/

(many thanks to Gaza TV News)

[ninathedog]

Palestine bracing for new govornment

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6uhXhxcF-U

(many thanks to Yousef al-H and Gaza TV News)

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Both France and England may
recognize Palestinian state

Thursday May 05, 2011 10:23
by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
International Media Center

The French and British Prime Ministers both gave interviews Thursday morning that indicated their willingness to recognize a Palestinian state if peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians result in failure. The statements came in the midst of a diplomatic visit to both countries by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

British Prime Minister David Cameron told Netanyahu that unless Israel engages in a real and meaningful peace process with the Palestinians, Britain would consider backing the declaration of a Palestinian state that the Palestinian President plans to make at the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Nicholas Sarkozy, the French Prime Minister, spoke to reporters with the French weekly L'Express in advance of a meeting with the Israeli leader. Sarkozy told the reporters that he hoped the peace process would resume over the summer, but added that, “If, conversely, the peace process remains stalled in September, France will take responsibility on the central question of recognizing a Palestinian state.”

Neither the British nor the French Prime Ministers publicly rejected the Palestinian unity government, as requested by Netanyahu, and Nicholas Sarkozy voiced his outright support for the unity deal made between rival Palestinian factions on Wednesday.

A number of other states, including Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Chile have recognized the Palestinian state, and have called on the United Nations to do the same. Britain and France have both been strong supporters of Israel, and their recognition of a Palestinian state could have serious implications for their relationships with the Israeli state.

www.imemc.org/article/61180


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Merkel warns against
unilateral recognition of Palestinian state

By DPA
21:10 05.05.11
Haaretz.com

German chancellor pushes for an 'urgent' return to negotiations between
Israel and the Palestinians after meeting with Palestinian President Abbas,
who said peace process will continue despite Palestinian reconciliation.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state during talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin on Thursday.

"We do not think that unilateral steps are helpful," the chancellor said, while encouraging an "urgent" return to peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.


German Chancellor Angela Merkel with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin on May 5, 2011.
Photo by: Reuters

"Given the very changed situation across the entire North African region, I think a peaceful solution is even more urgent ... than it has been for a long time," Merkel said.

Following Wednesday's reconciliation between Abbas's Fatah and Islamist Hamas, Merkel warned that the Palestinian authorities must respect three criteria - the recognition of Israel's right to exist, a rejection of violence and a commitment to the negotiation process.

Abbas insisted that he remained the president of all Palestinian people - including Hamas - and would continue to conduct the political process on all their behalf.

"Signing the reconciliation between the Palestinians will have no effect on the peace process, quite the opposite," Abbas said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier told French daily l'Express, "If the peace process is still virtually dead in September, France will take its responsibility on the issue of recognizing the Palestinian state."

More than 110 states have recognized an independent Palestinian state, including several eastern EU members as well as Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa.

Should the United Nations Security Council veto a request for recognition, Abbas plans to put the question to the UN General Assembly in September.

"We cannot tell the United Nations, 'You have to accept this.'," Abbas said.

"We are telling the world, this is the situation. We want to be an independent state, what do you think? Can you accept that the Palestinian people remain occupied? That is the question."

www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/merkel-warns-against-unilateral-recognition-of-palestinian-state-1.360065

(many thanks to Hamde A)

[ninathedog]

EU approves $124 million in aid to PA after
Israel blocks transfer of Palestinian funds

The European Union agrees to provide extra money to cover the salaries of
essential workers and support families in need; move comes after Israel blocked
transfer of 105 million dollars in tax funds to PA due to Hamas-Fatah reconciliation.

By Reuters
Published 18:50 06.05.11

The European Union said on Friday it would provide an extra 85 million euros (124 million dollars) to the Palestinian Authority to help pay salaries of essential workers and to support vulnerable families.

The move was decided on after Israel on Sunday blocked the transfer of 105 million dollars in customs duties and other levies it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, following a deal to reunite the two rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.

Israel has explained the withholding of funds, saying it refuses to let revenues flow to Hamas.

A European Commission statement said the EU funds were being advanced under an accelerated procedure at the request of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to meet urgent financial needs.

The statement said 45 million euros would go toward salaries and pensions of vital workers, mainly doctors, nurses and teachers. A further 40 million would go to social allowances for vulnerable Palestinian families.

"It is important that access to essential public services remains uninterrupted and the right to social services is respected," EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said.

The EU funds are in addition to 100 million euros already approved for 2011.

The money will be channeled through an EU mechanism which has provided 762 million euros in aid to the Palestinian Authority since 2008, in addition to 276 million from EU states.

Palestinians see reconciliation between the secular Fatah and Islamist Hamas as crucial for their drive for an independent state in Gaza and the West Bank. The two groups had been at odds since a brief civil war in 2007, after which Hamas seized control in Gaza, and Fatah was left to administer the West Bank.

Israel has condemned the unity pact as a "tremendous blow to peace", with Netanyahu refusing to negotiate with Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction.

www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/eu-approves-124-million-in-aid-to-pa-after-israel-blocks-transfer-of-palestinian-funds-1.360273

(many thanks to Gaza TV News)

[ninathedog]

[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1374

Fri May 6, 2011 9:08 pm (PDT)

***Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*

*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*Local Leader, Mahmoud Zwahre, Arrested At Weekly Protest Against The
Wall At Al Masara* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61189>
IMEMC - Friday May 06, 2011 - 16:30, The weekly protest against the wall
in Al Masara was today disrupted by the Israeli military.

*Hamas And Fatah To Meet Soon Over Unity Government*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61188>
IMEMC - Friday May 06, 2011 - 14:21, Delegations from the rival Fatah
and Hamas parties will meet in the coming few days in Cairo to make
final arrangements for the new unity government, Azzam Al-Ahmad, head of
Fatah's parliamentary bloc said on Friday.

*Netanyahu Fails In Bid To Lobby Allies Into Rejecting Unity Deal*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61187>
IMEMC - Friday May 06, 2011 - 11:16, The US, Italy, Britain and France
have refused to rule out negotiations with the unity Hamas-Fatah
government despite intensive lobbying by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

*Army Demolishes Ten Homes Near Hebron* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61186>
IMEMC - Friday May 06, 2011 - 06:07, Israeli soldiers demolished on
Thursday ten Palestinian homes in the Hebron district, in the southern
part of the occupied West Bank.

*Russia Welcomes Palestinian Unity Deal*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61185>
IMEMC - Friday May 06, 2011 - 05:25, In a statement made by the Russian
Foreign Ministry, the Russian government welcomed the Palestinian
national unity and reconciliation agreement which includes forming a
transitional government run by technocrats.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Fatah official prevented from leaving Gaza*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385239>
5/6/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities on Thursday
prevented Abdullah Abu Samhadana, secretary of Fatah, from leaving Gaza
to attend a Fatah revolutionary council meeting in Ramallah. Abu
Samhadana said Israel's decision amounted to an attempt to separate Gaza
from the West Bank, part of a policy of enforcing division that the....

*Gaza crossing closed for weekend*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385242>
5/6/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israel shut down the Karem Shalom
crossing Friday and Saturday for the weekend, a crossings official said.
On Thursday, Israel allowed 238 truckloads of aid in including 102 for
the commercial sector, 46 for animal feed, 29 for agriculture, 34 for
aid workers, and 20 from the Turkish aid convoy....

*5 Palestinians arrested in Jenin operation*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385283>
5/6/2011 - JENIN (Ma'an) -- Israel's army arrested five Palestinians
from the northern West Bank early Friday, residents said. An undercover
unit raided Jenin refugee camp and seized Islamic Jihad leader Bassam
As-Saadi, who had recently been released from Israeli prison after
completing an eight-year jail term. Soldiers forced family members into
one room....

*Anti-wall protests celebrate national unity*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385364>
5/6/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinians celebrated national unity at
anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank on Friday.
Protesters in Al-Ma'sara and Bil'in carried coffins to symbolize the
death of the division, after Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation
agreement in Cairo last week. In Bil'in, near Ramallah....

*Hamas implies acceptance of Israel*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385374>
5/6/2011 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Even as Israel slammed the door on any
dialogue with the Palestinians after a unity deal with Hamas, the
Islamic group has been slowly inching its way toward a tacit acceptance
of Israel. Despite being officially dedicated to "liberating all of
Palestine," in recent days Hamas leaders have spoken of accepting a
Palestinian. ...

*Activists: 15-year-old arrested at West Bank protest*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385318>
5/6/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Soldiers arrested a 15-year-old
Palestinian boy during a demonstration against Israel's wall and
settlements in the central West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah,
protesters said Friday....

*Cairo to oversee Palestinian security talks*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385335>
5/6/2011 - GAZA CITY (AFP) - A senior Egyptian intelligence official
will oversee talks between Hamas and Fatah on reshaping their security
forces, a Palestinian official said Friday. The unity agreement signed
this week called for a security oversight committee to work out the
details of the thorny issue of reforming the partisan security forces
who have battled....

*Palestinian youth rally in Ramallah*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385381>
5/6/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian youth demonstrated in
Ramallah's Al-Manara square on Monday to celebrate national unity and
call for elections. Following the signing of a reconciliation agreement
by Hamas and Fatah in Cairo last week, protesters rallied to pressure
leaders to implement the deal. Palestinian youth held mass protests in
Gaza and....

*Israel minister rejects Palestinian unity govt*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385280>
5/6/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israel's finance minister said Friday
that he rejected any Palestinian government that seeks peace on one hand
while on the other it continues to acquire weaponry with money from
Israel. Yuval Steinitz told Israel Radio that the the entire Palestinian
unity government, including Hamas representatives, must recognize the
conditions.. ..

*Cyprus upgrades Palestinian delegation to mission*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385370>
5/6/2011 - NICOSIA, Cyprus (AFP) - The Palestinian delegation in Cyprus
has been upgraded to the status of "Diplomatic Mission of Palestine,"
delegation head Walid Hasan told AFP on Friday. Hasan, who recently took
up his post in Cyprus, said his delegation had received written
notification of the upgrade from the Cyprus government. The change meant
that he....

*Report: Man jailed over mistaken identity*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385258>
5/6/2011 - TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Taxi driver Fadel Tamimi says he
was arrested by Israel in a case of mistaken identity. The 52-year-old
father of nine has been held in detention for the past two weeks on
allegations by a soldier that he had thrown stones that struck the
soldier in his leg....

*Hamas flags fly across West Bank*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385325>
5/6/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Hamas flags are flying across the West
Bank for the first time in years. Palestinians rallied Friday to
celebrate last week's signing in Cairo of a reconciliation agreement by
Hamas and Fatah. The unity deal ended years of hostility, during which
the Hamas-run government in Gaza and the Fatah-led... .

*18 dead in Syria 'Day of Defiance'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385376>
5/6/2011 - DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syria's security forces shot dead at least
13 people Friday as thousands rallied on a "Day of Defiance" against the
autocratic regime of President Bashar al-Assad after tanks converged on
protest centres. At the same time, armed criminals gangs killed one
officer and four policemen, state news agency SANA said. In....

*Aljazeera* <http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/>

*Deaths reported as thousands protest in Syria*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115661 63239760. html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Protesters reportedly killed in the cities of
Homs and Hama, as people across the country take to the streets.

*Tunisian police clash with protesters*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ africa/2011/ 05/2011561356273 60322.html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Police break up protests in central Tunis as
dozens call for "a new revolution" after politician warns of risk of coup.

*Ahmadinejad row with Khamenei intensifies*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115611 3955925329. html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Iranian president said to be considering
resignation after intelligence chief he fired was reinstated by supreme
leader.

*Al-Qaeda vows revenge for bin Laden death*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ asia/2011/ 05/2011561257294 67729.html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Group confirms death of its leader in an online
posting and says it will continue attacks on the West.

*Saleh defiant as GCC exit deal stalls*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115611 1244659925. html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - GCC-brokered exit deal on hold as Saleh resists
calls to quit and pro- and anti-government crowds return to the streets.

*Police block protests in Maldives*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ asia/2011/ 05/2011569493145 4154.html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Government calls demonstrations "politically
motivated" as island braces for a seventh night of protests.

*Crackdown reins in Bahrain activists*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//video/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115685 17662401. html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Massive pro-democracy protests reduced to small
skirmishes with security forces in predominantly Shia villages.

*Gaza hosts first-ever marathon*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115523 2718678281. html>
AlJazeera 5 May 2011 - The event was organised by UNRWA as a fundraiser
to fund its summer camps for Gazan children.

*Palestine News Network* <http://english. pnn.ps/>

*Three Injured, Four Arrested as Troops Attack West Bank anti-Wall
Protests*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9999&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Ramallah - PNN - Three civilians, including a child, were injured,
four arrested as Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti-wall protests
taking place in Bil'in, Nil'in, al-Nabi Salleh, central West Bank, as...

*Seeing With Their Hearts*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9998&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Gaza -- ANERA TO PNN - "These children can see with their hearts.
They feel things. They have a very powerful sense of touch. They ask
very detailed questions. I admire their...

*The Elders Welcome Palestinian Reconciliation*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9996&Itemid= 61>
PNN - Ramallah -- PNN - The Elders announced their support to the
signing of an agreement between the rival Palestinian factions, Fatah
and Hamas this week. The agreement, brokered by Egypt, unites the...

*PCHR Weekly Report: Seven Palestinians Wounded by Israeli Gunfire Since
Last Thursday*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9995&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Gaza -- PNN/PCHR -- Last week's Israeli military attacks targeting
Palestinians in the Gaza strip and the West Bank left seven Palestinians
injured, according to the weekly report of the Palestinian Center...

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*The European Commission approves additional amount of EUR 85 million in
support for the Palestinian people in 2011*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400391>
Relief Web 6 May 2011 - Source: European Commission Country: occupied
Palestinian territory IP/11/547 Brussels, 6 May 2011 The European
Commission has today decided to provide an additional financial package
worth EUR 85 million for the occupied Palestinian territory under the
2011 budget. This comes in...

*Anuario 2011 de procesos de paz* <http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400138>
Relief Web 5 May 2011 - Source: School for a Culture of Peace Country:
Afghanistan , Angola , Armenia , Azerbaijan , Central African Republic
(the) , Chad , Colombia , Cyprus , Democratic Republic of the Congo
(the) , Ethiopia , India , Israel , Mali , Moldova , Myanmar , Niger
(the) , Nigeria , occupied Palestinian territory , Pakistan ,
Philippines (the) ,...

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Report: Seven Palestinians Wounded by Israeli Gunfire Since Last
Thursday*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9100-report- seven-palestinia ns-wounded- by-israeli- gunfire-since- last-thursday. html>
6 May 2011 - Gaza, (Pal Telegraph) - Last week's Israeli military
attacks targeting Palestinians in the Gaza strip and the West Bank left
seven Palestinians injured, according to the weekly report of the
Palestinian Center of Human Rights (PCHR).

*Ha'aretz* <http://haaretz. com/>

*Al-Qaida confirms death of Osama bin Laden*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ al-qaida- confirms- death-of- osama-bin- laden-1.360258>
Ha'aretz - In an internet statement posted on militant websites,
al-Qaida terrorist group says bin Laden's blood 'will not be wasted' and
that it will continue to attack Americans and their allies.

*Syria security forces kill six as protests erupt across the country*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ mideast-in- turmoil/syria- security- forces-kill- six-as-protests- erupt-across- the-country- 1.360250>
Ha'aretz - Human rights activist says six pro-democracy demonstrators
shot dead, five in Homs, one in Hama; opposition leader Riad Seif
arrested at demonstration in Damascus.

*Report: Khamenei tells Ahmadinejad, reinstate intelligence chief or
resign*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ report-khamenei- tells-ahmadineja d-reinstate- intelligence- chief-or- resign-1. 360267>
Ha'aretz - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final
say on all state affairs, issues ultimatum after vetoing President
Ahmadinejad' s decision last month to dismiss Heydar Moslehi; according
to website Ayandeh the president is yet to respond.

*Palestinian official calls on EU to continue support for police in wake
of reconciliation*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/palestin ian-official- calls-on- eu-to-continue- support-for- police-in- wake-of-reconcil iation-1. 360270>
Ha'aretz - Senior West Bank police official implores European Union to
continue program to help Palestinian police forces even after Fatah and
Hamas join forces; EU official says must see 'facts on the ground'
before details of support can be discussed.

*Noam Shalit: Hamas dominates talks to secure Gilad's release*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/noam- shalit-hamas- dominates- talks-to- secure-gilad- s-release- 1.360245>
Ha'aretz - Father of abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit responds to
remark by Defense Minister Barak concerning mistakes Israel had made in
talks to release his son, says the only one paying the price for those
mistakes is Gilad.

*Despite fuel crisis, Israel has enough supplies to renew all flights*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ despite-fuel- crisis-israel- has-enough- supplies- to-renew- all-flights- 1.360204>
Ha'aretz - Head of Ben-Gurion International Airport says all grounded
flights are set to take off using fuel from Israel's emergency supplies,
following a mysterious contamination that brought Israel's air traffic
to a grinding halt on Thursday.

*Finance Minister: Ridiculous to give PA money days before signing deal
with Hamas*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ finance-minister -ridiculous- to-give-pa- money-days- before-signing- deal-with- hamas-1.360089>
Ha'aretz - Steinitz defends move, says freezing assets ahead of unity
accord is meant to act as a warning to PA.

*Yossi Melman / Israel was of little interest to Bin Laden*
<http://www.haaretz. com/weekend/ week-s-end/ still-a-rough- neighborhood- 1.360173>
Ha'aretz - Bin Laden is dead, and in Gaza and Sinai, Al-Qaida is not yet
a significant threat to Israel. But what was Israel to Osama bin Laden,
and what was he to Israel?

*Donniel Hartman: J Street and AIPAC: Unite*
<http://dclk. themarker. com/event. ng/Type=click& FlightID= 208313&AdID= 288802&TargetID= 13947&Segments= 39,9809,9998, 10009,10078, 10413,10438, 10443,10558, 11189,11379, 11539&Targets= 7003,13601, 13947&Values= 44,72,85, 334,1595, 1637,1711, 3194,3485, 4910,4912, 4913&RawValues= &Redirect= http%3A// www.hartman. org.il/Opinion_ C_View_Eng. asp%3FArticle_ Id%3D671>
Ha'aretz - We cannot afford the casualties the self-righteous would
inflict on us

*Woman, 28, shot dead in front of her two children in Kalansua*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ woman-28- shot-dead- in-front- of-her-two- children- in-kalansua- 1.360211>
Ha'aretz - Killing is the third shooting death in 'triangle' of Israeli
Arab towns and villages north of Tel Aviv in the last 24 hours.

*U.S. drone strike kills eight in Pakistan; Islamists protest bin Laden
killing*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ u-s-drone- strike-kills- eight-in- pakistan- islamists- protest-bin- laden-killing- 1.360252>
Ha'aretz - Friday's drone strike was the first since U.S. special forces
killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden earlier this week.

*U.S. officials: Al-Qaida plotted rail attack on 9/11 anniversary*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ u-s-officials- al-qaida- plotted-rail- attack-on- 9-11-anniversary -1.360163>
Ha'aretz - Evidence found in Osama bin Laden's hideout indicates that he
or his associates had discussed a possible attack on a train inside the
United States on September 11, 2011, say U.S. government officials.

*'Teva overpaid for Cephalon by $880m'*
<http://english. themarker. com/teva- overpaid- for-cephalon- by-880m-1. 360104>
Ha'aretz - Sanford Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal says the Cephalon
purchase was a good move.

*Sale of Tnuva to Leumi postponed yet again*
<http://english. themarker. com/sale- of-tnuva- to-leumi- postponed- yet-again- 1.360105>
Ha'aretz - The deal is still waiting for regulatory approval.

*Blinded by the price*
<http://english. themarker. com/blinded- by-the-price- 1.360106>
Ha'aretz - Stores have discovered the group-buying game.

*EU approves $124 million in aid to PA after Israel blocks transfer of
Palestinian funds*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/eu- approves- 124-million- in-aid-to- pa-after- israel-blocks- transfer- of-palestinian- funds-1.360273>
Ha'aretz - The European Union agrees to provide extra money to cover the
salaries of essential workers and support families in need; move comes
after Israel blocked transfer of 105 million dollars in tax funds to PA
due to Hamas-Fatah reconciliation.

*Seeing the West Bank for the first time, in a tour bus*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/seeing- the-west- bank-for- the-first- time-in-a- tour-bus- 1.360201>
Ha'aretz - Settlers are promoting tourism to draw Israelis who might
otherwise never set foot in the West Bank, an occupied area Palestinians
want as part of a future state.

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*'This is a people worth having a dialogue with'*
<http://www.jpost. com/Features/ InThespotlight/ Article.aspx? ID=219533& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Argentinean- Israeli conductor Daniel
Barenboim reflects on his recent, unprecedented UN-sponsored concert in
the Gaza Strip.

*'Syrian forces kill 5 protesters in Homs as unrest spreads'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219528& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Rights campaigner in city says
pro-democracy demonstrators shot at during large protest, scores
injured; forces arrest opposition leader Seif during Damascus protest,
his daughter says; violence erupts around country.

*'Forces fire at protesters as unrest spreads in Syria'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219519& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Witness says several hundred protesters
attacked in city of Tel; Assad deploys tanks in central, coastal areas
ahead of Friday prayers in test of will for anti-gov't demonstrators
calling for "day of defiance."

*Katz: Palestinian state will be Iranian foothold*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219512& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - On visit to site of Itamar massacre,
Transportation Minister says Israel should annex settlements if PA
unilaterally declares state.

*Ahmadinjead allies arrested on suspicion of sorcery*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219508& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Arrests come after Iranian president's
strained relationship with Ayatollah leads him to boycott cabinet meeting.

*Tanks take up position around Syria ahead of protests*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219507& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Assad deploys forces in central, coastal
areas before Friday prayers in test of will for anti-gov't demonstrators
calling for "day of defiance."

*Police reconstruct Joseph's Tomb shooting*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219504& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Palestinian policemen do not take part in
the reconstruction of the incident in which Ben-Yosef Livnat, 24, was
killed.

*France expels 14 Libyan diplomats for loyalty to Gaddafi*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219502& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - "Many of these people were using their
status as diplomats as a cover," French diplomat says; move follows
decision to help fund Libya rebels.

*Assad deploys his troops before Friday prayers*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219482& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Tanks take up positions near urban centers,
Damascus suburbs; protests expected to increase "incrementally, not
massively."

*Beit Hanassi goes global for Independence Day*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219480& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - A significant segment of the celebrations
taking place at Beit Hanassi on Tuesday morning will be webcast from
9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Israel time.

*Noami Shemer song inspires Remembrance Day stamp*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219479& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - A stamp on the theme of "We're from the
Same Village" has been issued by the Israel Postal Company's Philatelic
Services to mark Remembrance Day.

*Austria's Jews sue Israeli Central Archives*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=219474& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Community demands return of texts detailing
centuries of Jewish life in Central Europe, says they were sent to
Israel "temporarily. "

*Obama-1, Osama-0*
<http://www.jpost. com/Features/ FrontLines/ Article.aspx? ID=219450& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 5 May 2011 - The decision to take out bin Laden deals a
severe blow to the narrative of Obama as weak and without true guts..

*So targeted killings do work, after all*
<http://www.jpost. com/Features/ FrontLines/ Article.aspx? ID=219439& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 5 May 2011 - The killing of Osama bin Laden shows the US
recognizes the importance of a type of attack Israel is very familiar with.

*A touch of class*
<http://www.jpost. com/ArtsAndCultu re/FoodAndWine/ Article.aspx? ID=219413& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 5 May 2011 - For those seeking a fine kosher dining
experience, Angelica in Jerusalem more than fills the bill.

*A beautiful new world*
<http://www.jpost. com/ArtsAndCultu re/Entertainment /Article. aspx?ID=219404& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 5 May 2011 - In the Israel Opera's production of
Mozart's 'The Magic Flute,' the story is seen as a marvel through the
eyes of a child.

*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>

*The malaise behind CUNY's affront to Tony Kushner | Sarah Wildman*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/commentis free/cifamerica/ 2011/may/ 06/tony-kushner- israel>
The Guardian 6 May 2011 - CUNY's withdrawal of Kushner's honorary degree
exposes the widening rift within American Jewry over attitudes to Israel
Tony Kushner may be many things. An American playwright. An instigator.
A prodder. A gay man. A Jew. What...

*Tony Kushner's degree snub puts playwrights in their place*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/stage/ theatreblog/ 2011/may/ 06/tony-kushner- degree-snub- cuny>
The Guardian 6 May 2011 - Academia should be a bastion of intellectual
freedom, but this retraction shows writers are expected to keep the
status quo Playwrights who speak out often suffer a backlash. It
happened to Harold Pinter in Britain, and...

*Inter Press Service* <http://ipsnews. net/middle. asp>

*Radio Free Libya Transmits Live from Misurata*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 55518>
IPS For residents of besieged Misurata, all it takes is a flick of the
dial to tune into freedom.

*Former Minister Warns of Tunisia Coup Risk*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 55516>
IPS Tunisia's former interior minister has warned that lingering members
of the country's former political elite may carry out a coup d'etat if
Islamists win a majority in the upcoming election.

*Arab Spring Comes in Western Arms*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 55513>
IPS Global spending on arms in 2010 were an estimated 1.6 trillion
dollars, with governments in the Middle East dishing out more than 111
billion for weapons - raising questions as to whether Western arms
suppliers circumvented international treaties by exporting to repressive
regimes.

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*[uruknet.info] "Team Syria" get a boost from Spin-Doctor*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77464>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - The underlying message that Camille want's to
deliver is as follows: that not all Syrians approve of the revolt; that
the grievances are legitimate; that the government is honest about its
intentions to reform; and that there are foreign elements, from
billionaire Syrian business men such as Khaddam and Ribal al Assad,
Bandar bin...

*[uruknet.info] Iraq snapshot - May 5, 2011*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77460>
Uruknet May 5, 2011. Chaos and violence continue, Hilla is slammed with
a suicide bombing, Baghdad's cultural scene gets some good news, Iraqi
activists gear up for tomorrow, news emerges of more money wasted by
Nouri al-Maliki's government, fingers are pointed at US official Paul
Bremer over missing money in Iraq, US Senator Patty Murray leads on
providing veterans...

*[uruknet.info] Israel's Separation Wall - the death of Palestinian
statehood* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77459>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - The Wall facilitates the achievement of Zionism's
primary objective-the establishment and maintenance of an exclusivist
Jewish state in Palestine-by separating Palestinians from the Jewish
population and aiding in the slow ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. This
occurs by confiscating Palestinian land, restricting the free movement
of Palestinians, preventing growth and expansion, and breaking up the...

*[uruknet.info] Both France and England may recognize Palestinian state*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77458>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - The French and British Prime Ministers both gave
interviews Thursday morning that indicated their willingness to
recognize a Palestinian state if peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinians result in failure. The statements came in the midst of a
diplomatic visit to both countries by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu. British Prime Minister David...

*[uruknet.info] Osama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden
compound* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77455>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there
was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted
on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off. A photograph
released by the White House appeared to show President Barack Obama and
his aides in the situation room watching the...

*[uruknet.info] Giving frozen assets to rebels is piracy--Libya*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77454>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - The Libyan government rejected on Thursday U.S.
plans to unblock its frozen assets and give them to rebels fighting
Muammar Gaddafi, saying such a move was piracy and would undermine the
global financial system. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told
anti-Gaddafi countries meeting in Rome that Washington would try to pass
legislation to...

*[uruknet.info] Dial M' for murder* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77453>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - The US corporate media and members of US Congress
and Senate have brazenly advised Obama administration to assassinate
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and members of his extended family.
Senator Lindsey Graham, member of the Senate Armed Services committee,
said on CNN: "My recommendation to Nato and administration is to cut the
head of the...

*[uruknet.info] Palestinians hail rapprochement*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77452>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - Having been taken by surprise by the
Egyptian-brokered reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas,
Israeli leaders nearly lost their composure, threatening the Palestinian
Authority (PA) with "grave consequences" if the agreement went through
and materialised on the ground. Israeli officials argued, rather rudely,
that perpetuating Palestinian disunity was an uppermost Israeli national
interest and...

*[uruknet.info] The Politics of Revenge and Submission "When the
individual feels, the community reels"* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77451>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - ...Osama bin Laden was taken out by a rival gang
of terrorists: And, across the land, the parade of death-reveling fools
prattles onward. Hence, the desperate, diminished souls of the empire
are driven to contort themselves, collectively, into all manner of
positions of casuistry, in a vain attempt to rationalize being complicit
in the...

*[uruknet.info] Bin Laden death: Call it execution, not 'justice'*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77450>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - Asked about the killing of Osama bin Laden, the
human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson called President Obama's
statement about "justice" a perversion of the term. "Justice means
taking someone to court, finding them guilty upon evidence and
sentencing them," Mr. Robertson told an Australian television network.
"This man has been subject to summary execution,.. .

*[uruknet.info] Osama bin Laden's Death, and the Unjustifiable Defense
of Torture and Guantánamo* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77445>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - With the reported assassination of Osama bin
Laden, one of the most alarming responses has been a kind of casual and
widespread acceptance that the death of America's number one bogeyman
would not have been achieved without the use of torture, and without the
existence of Guantánamo. This is wrong on both fronts, as...

*[uruknet.info] Palestinian Unity: Done Deal or Wobbly? -*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77444>
Uruknet May 5, 2011 - In late April, Fatah and Hamas announced a
reconciliation draft agreement, including a transitional government and
planned presidential and legislative elections within a year. It
signaled hope for rapprochement between the two sides, as well as better
prospects for Palestinian independence within 1967 borders, UN
membership, achieving peace, and ending Israel's 44 year occupation.. ..

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*Learning the ways of CSI ... at AUST*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-06/Learning- the-ways- of-CSI--at- AUST.ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 The American University of Science and Technology
will be launching this fall a degree in forensic science, the first of
its kind in Lebanon, the institute said this week.

*Three separate protests in Downtown Beirut*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/May- 06/Three- separate- protests- staged-Downtown- Beirut.ashx>
Daily Star 5 May 2011 With no acting executive branch in power, the area
surrounding a statue of the country's first Independence- era prime
minister has become the go-to place to air grievances.

*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>

*Joseph's Tomb shooting reenacted*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065409,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - Convoy of police vehicles enters Nablus under
tight security with three of....

*Info shows Qaeda has US trains in sights*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065375,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - Some of first information gleaned from Osama bin
Laden's compound indicates his....

*Israel to honor its 22,867 fallen Monday*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065366,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - With 183 Israelis killed in line of duty or
terror attacks over past year,....

*'Bin Laden shoved his wife at soldiers'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065340,00. html>
YNet News, 5 May 2011 - Sources involved in covert operation shed light
on last moments of al-Qaeda....

*B-G Airport reeling from fuel hitch*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065337,00. html>
YNet News, 5 May 2011 - Israel's international airport slowly returns to
normal activity after fuel....

*Aerial firefighting squadron holds first drill*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065286,00. html>
YNet News, 5 May 2011 - Unit formed after devastating Carmel fire holds
first exercise in Golan Heights....

*US: Republican, ADL butt heads over Shoah remarks*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065296,00. html>
YNet News, 5 May 2011 - Anti-Defamation League Director Abe Foxman slams
presidential candidate Mike....

*PM: Peace with PA only via negotiations*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065299,00. html>
YNet News, 5 May 2011 - Benjamin Netanyahu meets with French President
Sarkozy, says Palestinian. ...

*Fuel contamination halts flights*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065059,00. html>
YNet News, 5 May 2011 - Air traffic at Ben Gurion International Airport
halted after contamination is....

*Gaza Strip hosts its first marathon*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065203,00. html>
YNet News, 5 May 2011 - Over 1,000 runners participate in
first-of-its- kind 26 miles running event....

*Palestinian Information Center* <http://palestine- info.co.uk/ en/>

*Israeli occupation steps up measures in the W.B. in response to
reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7rDK1WE5Ny5 ageWUkVg6N0eanbe BQo0OrjmdDm58Z3j gRLiN9gMLfTp5jsS 3WP6zL3Fefpx1TH9 LFea8Ak1b6ZUpWlI rIjLpJvxPljIKMYJ 8%3d>
PIC - The Israeli occupation has stepped its military measures in the
West Bank, through reinstating road blocks and repeated raids of
Palestinian villages and towns over the past few days.

*Netanyahu's military secretary skips UK visit fearing arrest*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7uXspBVuWls QHTHxshD% 2fvcG8AQJeoG6rSd 6s0RUbOEmJcJdOxZ pmcg03cONqczxQa8 uvKfxsuL2pEd11gM 1Y%2famgAnOfucO% 2fl6MzoPnBPhBY% 3d>
PIC - The Israeli Prime Minister's military secretary, Gen. Yohanan
Locker, decided not to accompany Benjamin Netanyahu on his trip to
London fearing arrest, according to Israeli army radio.

*Qassam Brigades mourn a field commander*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7rhha5slWTX jXpWSKbhFhqyXlNQ ddyRZRJlcRERG823 P3ALB0FCN% 2b8tfRp0xqiYYmBS QBEoWgN8ev2ZiPzv V%2fvKygJY2zIkB4 xNPX4psLDoA% 3d>
PIC - The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, mourned on Thursday
field commander Shadi al-Zatmah.

*Beitawi: national reconciliation and security coordination with IOF
incompatible*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7HOlxExPmzV X1qYGR5V2lb18vAB 0ot0vUrHlTc35yrm otTTuyzhtO9wOjkI BMj1jxDtBDN% 2bVVNq20DuocgXkY kfng5GWYXkF6XtXz Z96VDlQ%3d>
PIC - MP Hamid Al-Beitawi, a prominent Hamas figure in Nablus city, has
underlined Thursday that Palestinian national reconciliation and
security coordination with the Zionist enemy are incompatible.

*Hamas supporters demonstrate in Nablus in support of national
reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7jheqRw79qR 6HiVNQMFiQQqvSpT iePTxZRUS7ELlGss nJ03L%2fIdp% 2bqu9CaFw70zld% 2bZGbifAh% 2fe8ATtjkdDJ7rR5 d8fbZX7MBdbli233 59cY%3d>
PIC - Thousands of jubilant Hamas supporters demonstrated in the
northern West Bank city of Nablus Thursday in support of the Palestinian
reconciliation that Hamas and Fatah signed in Cairo.

*WAFA - Palestine News Agency* <http://english. wafa.ps/>

*Media Breathes Again in Gaza*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16058>
WAFA

*Israel Raids Hebron and Arrests Palestinians*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16056>
WAFA

*Palestinians in Ramallah Celebrate Agreement*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16050>
WAFA

*
*Intifada Palestine* <http://www.intifada -palestine. com/>*

*SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a
US-NATO "Humanitarian Intervention" *
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ Z1OMIgDa5QY/>
Intifada-Palestine: 6 May 2011 - Syrians display a giant national flag
with a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a
pro-government rally at the central bank square in Damascus March 29,
2011. (Reuters Photo) by: Prof. Michel Chossudovsky There is evidence of
gross media manipulation. ..more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ Z1OMIgDa5QY/>

*Los Angeles Times* <http://latimes. com/news/ nationworld/ world/middleeast />

*In Libya, a long-dead hero rises again in east*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/WmXwUXFUucM /la-fg-libya- hero-20110506, 0,4260985. story>
LA Times 5 May 2011 - Omar Mukhtar, a resistance fighter executed by
Italian occupiers 80 years ago, has become the spiritual leader of the
Libyan revolution. In eastern Libya, the spectral image of an elderly,
bearded man in a skullcap or Bedouin cloak is everywhere --- on bumper
stickers and...

*Suicide attack kills 16 at Iraqi police station*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/fSU1iwLrCs8 /la-fg-iraq- bombing-20110506 ,0,937031. story>
LA Times 5 May 2011 - The car bombing during a police shift change in
the city of Hillah comes as the country braces for retaliatory attacks
from Al Qaeda in Iraq over the killing of Osama bin Laden. Dozens are
injured. A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people in...

*New York Times* <http://nytimes. com/pages/ world/middleeast />

*Al Qaeda Confirms Bin Laden Death*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=fa94eb6e2c155f ad37e92128144b83 7a>
New York Times 6 May 2011 - Al Qaeda released a statement on militant
Web sites Friday confirming the death of Osama bin Laden, news agencies
reported.

*Protests Across Syria Despite Military Presence*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=5037f699c1a11f d6a2ff849cb579b8 3a>
New York Times 6 May 2011 - Thousands of protesters gathered in dozens
of cities and towns as the government deployed security forces.

*Once Feared Egypt Official Gets 12 Years and Fine*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=a4f70e700dba1d 5ad71ab4aa0f295c e6>
New York Times 6 May 2011 - The sentencing of Habib el-Adli, the
once-feared former interior minister, ended the first in a series of
corruption trials of top figures in the government of Hosni Mubarak.

*Syria Arrests Scores in House-to-House Roundup*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=5405a98a3f0a57 570d9ce854783a0e 3b>
New York Times 6 May 2011 - Syrian forces arrested scores of people in a
broad campaign against men between the ages of 18 and 50, rights groups
said.

*Accord Brings New Sense of Urgency to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=dcfbffa0977c7e 2012df17e2057be8 63>
New York Times 6 May 2011 - A day after Palestinian factions signed a
unity deal, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton strikingly refused
to rule out further negotiations with a Palestinian side that includes
Hamas.

*Misc* <http://vtjp. org/aboutus/ aboutus.htm>

*PALESTINE: Hundreds celebrate popular struggle at 6th Bil'in
conference*
<http://www.cpt. org/cptnet/ 2011/05/06/ palestine- hundreds- celebrate- popular-struggle -6th-bil% E2%80%99- conference>
Christian Peacemaker Teams - Palestine - On April 20, Christian
Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove accompanied members of the South
Hebron Hills Popular Committee to the 6th Bil'in Conference on Popular
Resistance. The delegation, representing the whole South Hebron Hills
community, was composed by about 50 people from 12 different villages.

*Wiesenfeld says his mother would call Kushner a Nazi collaborator*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 05/wiesenfeld- says-his- mother-would- call-kushner- a-nazi-collabora tor.html>
Mondoweiss - From Jeffrey Goldberg's interview with Jeffrey Wiesenfeld ,
who is the child of Holocaust survivors. More evidence of the deep
damage to the American Jewish community of the Holocaust, and the crazy
projection of Nazis on to Arabs. Maybe this will get the Nakba ball
rolling in...

*Palestinians are not 'human,' says CUNY trustee who rejected Kushner*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 05/palestinians- are-not-human- says-cuny- trustee-who- rejected- kushner.html>
Mondoweiss - The shoe is finally on the other foot. The pro-Israel folks
have overplayed their hand. Or one of them anyway-- so how long before
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, the CUNY trustee who helped to kibosh the Tony
Kushner honorary degree out of concern that he had hurt Israel,...

*The European Union must support the Palestinian reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1797>
Palestine Monitor - The ECCP calls upon the EU to firmly support the
inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, and
its fundamental rights as enshrined by the UN Charter and UN relevant
resolutions. - Press release / 4th-col-1st- article , International
solidarity

*Unification: Hamas rallies in Ramallah*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1796>
Palestine Monitor - For the first time in four years, Hamas members
waved their green flags in the West Bank without persecution. - In
pictures / photostory , Non-violent resistance , Youth , Gaza ,
Palestinian unity

*Israeli Prime Minister's Military Attache Stayed Home for Fear of
Arrest in Britain*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/gBjRzQuoiPo />
Tikun Olam - Maj. Gen. Yochanan Locker, commanded Israeli air force
during Cast Lead Bibi Netanyahu's military attache, Maj. Gen. Yochanan
Locker, decided not to join the prime minister on his visit to Britain
because there is an arrest warrant waiting for him there. Locker is one
of the...

*Protest CUNY's Rejection of Kushner Honorary Degree*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/KjCHMSLzSnY />
Tikun Olam - Lots of fallout from the CUNY board of trustees vote to
reject an honorary degree for Tony Kushner, a campaign spearheaded by
noted far-right pro-Israel Republican fixer Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a board
member. CUNY has issued a mealy-mouthed statement telling the world
that its atrocious treatment of...

*Confronting Islamophobia: Major Seattle Conference Promotes Religious
Tolerance*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/heXaw7my0Xo />
Tikun Olam - Tomorrow begins a major Seattle conference, Confronting
Islamophobia: I am My Brother's Keeper , to be held at St. Mark's
Cathedral and sponsored by a host of Christian, Muslim and Jewish
groups. The keynote speaker is Imam Faisal Rauf, founder of Cordoba
House and the former religious...

*Misc 2* <http://vtjp. org/news/ news.php>

*Popular Committee Member, Two Others Arrested at Al Ma'asara
Demonstration*
<http://palestinesol idarityproject. org/2011/ 05/06/popular- committee- member-two- others-arrested- at-al-maasra- demonstration/>
Palestine Solidarity Project 6 May 2011 - On Friday, May 6th, Al
Ma'asara Popular Committee member Mahmoud Zwahre was arrested during a
peaceful demonstration organized by the village's popular committee.
Around twenty international and Israeli solidarity activists joined with
about thirty Al Ma'asara residents in a march towards the proposed site
of the...

*What the Tony Kushner Affair Says About the Changing Discourse on
Israel in the United States*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/jeremiahhab er/PcEx/% 7E3/P2dK6- SyuDI/what- tony-kushner- affair-says- about.html>
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Kushner believes that Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing at...

*Morocco's Vision Forward*
<http://www.middleea stmonitor. org.uk/articles/ middle-east/ 2312-moroccos- vision-forward>
Middle East Monitor 6 May 2011 - The fatal terrorist bombing of a
tourist cafe in Marrakech that took the lives of 16 people makes it more
urgent for Morocco to implement its vision, which is a new social
contract. In a rapidly transforming North Africa and Middle East whose
people are demanding...

*Gaza Strip holds first marathon*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13298231>
BBC 5 May 2011 - The Gaza Strip holds its first-ever marathon, with
money being raised to send children in the Palestinian territory to
summer camp.

*Obama Pressed to Take Stronger Action Against Assad*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/antiwar- original/ %7E3/L86cUQY9TGk />
Antiwar.com 6 May 2011 - Amid a continuing crackdown against opposition
forces, U.S. President Barack Obama is coming under growing pressure to
impose tougher sanctions against the government of Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad. Two key lawmakers with close ties to the powerful
"Israel Lobby" on Capitol Hill called Thursday for Obama...

*Oppressing West Bank Palestinian Children*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/SabbahsBlog /%7E3/I3MTy9twTx s/>
Sabbah report 6 May 2011 - Under military occupation, Palestinian
children are treated like adults. Each year, about 700 are arrested,
brutally interrogated, and prosecuted in military courts, denying them
justice.

*New Israeli Discriminatory Laws*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/SabbahsBlog /%7E3/MOleOH8VnL Q/>
Sabbah report 6 May 2011 - Arab minority in Israel are treated like a
fifth column, denied equal rights as Jews in a country just as much
theirs. More so, in fact, as their forebears lived there for centuries
or longer.

*Return to Palestine*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/SabbahsBlog /%7E3/PY2ObWrHNg 4/>
Sabbah report 6 May 2011 - On the 15th of May of every year,
Palestinians and the whole world remember how it all started. How the
Israelis' ethnic cleansing of a people and the destruction of a society
- the Nakba - was met with global indifference.

*Articles*

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*Palestinian unity and the new Middle East*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385051>
Ramzy Baroud, Ma'an News Agency 5/6/2011
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to the
Hamas-Fatah deal in Cairo was both swift and predictable.
"The Palestinian Authority must choose either peace with Israel or
peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both," he said,
in a televised speech shortly after the Palestinian political rivals
reached a reconciliation agreement under Egyptian sponsorship on April 27.
Despite numerous past attempts to undercut President Mahmoud
Abbas, stall peace talks and derail Israel's commitment to previous
agreements, Netanyahu and his rightwing government are now arguing that
Palestinians are solely responsible for the demise of the illusory
"peace process."
Israeli bulldozers will continue to carve up the hapless West Bank
to make room for more illegal settlements, but this time their excuse
may not be "natural expansion." The justification might instead be
Israel has no partner. US and other media will merrily repeat the
dreadful logic, and Palestinians will, as usual, be chastised.
But frankly, at this juncture of Middle East history, Israel is
almost negligible. It no longer has a transformative influence in the
region. When the Arab people began revolting, a new dimension to the
Arab-Israeli conflict emerged.
As the chants in Cairo's Tahrir Square began to adopt a pan-Arab
and pro-Palestinian language, it became obvious that Egypt would soon
venture outside the political confines of Washington's patronizing
labels, which divide the Arabs into moderates (good) and radicals
(bad).more..
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*Jeff Goldberg vs Ma'an News: Media Bias Obsession*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/05/05/ jeff-goldberg- vs-ma-an- news-media- bias-obsession. aspx>
Mitchell Plitnick, Palestine Note 5/5/2011
In the latter part of the 20th century, trying to uncover bias
became all the rage. Once it was acknowledged that news, history,
academic papers, and all sorts of information sources reflected the
inherent bias of the author, de-construction became a full-time job.
As with most such things, it got taken to an extreme. The result,
in its worst form, was the ability of a right wing, massively funded
news network to call itself "fair and balanced" as juxtaposed against an
allegedly liberal media.
Nowhere is this dissection of alleged bias more visible than in
the Israel-Palestine conflict. Both sides complain endlessly about the
bias against them in media and academia. And both sides are right, to
some extent. One should, indeed, read a history book or news report with
a consciousness about who is writing it and what the publication that is
dispersing it might have invested in it. If you do that, there is only a
very small, and easily spotted, amount of material that needs to be
summarily dismissed.
Not everything written by a Jew who supports Israel is necessarily
false or misleading, or that everything written by an Arab is false or
misleading in the opposite direction.
There are huge strains of this on both sides: on the
pro-Palestinian side, we have the "Zionist-controlled media" canard, as
well as more serious examinations that look at how a close US ally might
be given quite a few breaks in the media. On the "pro-Israel" side there
is a virtual industry (populated by such well-heeled organizations as
CAMERA and Palestinian Media Watch [PMW]) built around it.more..
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*Britain's Jewish 'anti-Zionist' pretenders lose another battle*
<http://www.redress. cc/zionism/ gatzmon20110506>
Gilad Atzmon, Redress 5/6/2011
/Gilad Atzmon considers the failure of "anti-Zionist" pretenders
embedded in the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK to prevent a
recent public debate in London on the subject of "Jewishness, Zionism
and Israel", including the use by the fake anti-Zionists of tactics that
included bullying and harassment of panelists./
Despite relentless underhand efforts by Israeli operators in the
UK and their close allies in the Jewish "anti-Zionist" network to block
a public debate on "Jewishness, Zionism and Israel", the event went
ahead as scheduled on 3 May.
In fact, the event was a tremendous success.
Speaking to a full hall, Alan Hart, Karl Sabbagh, Sameh Habeeb and
I elaborated on the meaning of "Jewishness" and the essence of Zionism.
We also tried to understand once and for all why it is that some
Jews who claim to be the most sincere "supporters of Palestine" are
always among the first to stifle debate on such crucial issues. Stifling
debate
Six years ago, I was shocked to learn about the destructive impact
of elements within the UK Jewish "anti-Zionist" network. At the time
they were intent on burying Deir Yassin Remembered (DYR), probably the
most significant Nakba memorial group in the Palestinian solidarity
movement. Unfortunately, they succeeded: by putting into action the most
repulsive Zionist tactics, the Jewish "anti-Zionists" eventually managed
to bring down DYR.more..
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*Egypt breaks from US, Israel by brokering unity deal*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/_Fkqq_ k02Bw/9918>
Electronic Intifada: 5 May 2011 - Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa
al-Omrani The Electronic Intifada Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and
Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo on Wednesday, paving
the way for the formation of a Palestinian national unity government.
The move, say local analysts, reflects the changing political equation
in the Middle East amid the ongoing wave of Arab popular uprisings.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/_Fkqq_ k02Bw/9918>

*Unification: Hamas rallies in Ramallah*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1796>
Palestine Monitor: 6 May 2011 - For the first time in four years, Hamas
members waved their green flags in the West Bank without persecution. -
In pictures / photostory , Non-violent resistance , Youth , Gaza ,
Palestinian unitymore
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1796>

*The Assassination of bin Laden: Its Use and Abuse*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16846>
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2011 - By James Petras The assassination of
bin Laden has been celebrated as a great strategic victory by the White
House, the European capitals and all the major mass media outlets
throughout the world. The killing has served as a major propaganda tool
to enhance the standing of the US military in the eyes of the domestic
public and to serve as a warning to overseas adversaries. Contrary to
this immense propaganda campaign and despite whatever symbolic value the
killing may have in the eyes of his executioners, there is no evidence
that the death will have any impact on the deteriorating military and
political position of the US in South Asia, the Middle East, North
Africa or elsewhere. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda Even in terms of weakening,
let along defeating Al Qaeda, the killing will have minimal effect. Al
Qaeda is a highly decentralized organization, a loose collection
of...more <http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16846>

*Egypt and Israel Headed for Crisis*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16845>
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2011 - By Jonathan Cook -- Nazareth Israeli
officials have expressed alarm at a succession of moves by the interim
Egyptian government that they fear signal an impending crisis in
relations with Cairo. The widening rift was underscored yesterday when
leaders of the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a
reconciliation pact in the Egyptian capital. Egypt's secret role in
brokering the agreement last week caught both Israel and the United
States by surprise. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
called the deal "a tremendous blow to peace and a great victory for
terrorism". Several other developments have added to Israeli concerns
about its relations with Egypt, including signs that Cairo hopes to
renew ties with Iran and renegotiate a long-standing contract to supply
Israel with natural gas. More worrying still to Israeli officials are
reported plans by Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah crossing into
Gaza, closed for the past...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16845>

*'Jewishness' , Scare Tactics, and a Sense of Humour*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16844>
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2011 - By Lauren Booth -- London Cloak and
dagger antics outside a campus in central London, Tuesday night, as the
University of Westminster, caved into threats of disturbance, from UK
based Zionists. Why? Because, Gilad Atzmon, world renowned saxophonist,
author and anti Zionist racconteur had put together a panel to debate
the following; 'Jewishness and Israeli criminality. ' To a packed venue
just round the corner from the campus the discussion began with
breathtakingly robust opening statements. Consider, as you read, the
immense pressure not to take part placed on each panelist and the
threats against the university of Westminster of disturbance or even
violence if the talk took place. Alongside Gilad Atzmon, the panel
consisted of Alan Hart, author, former Middle East Chief Correspondent
for Independent Television News and former BBC Panorama presenter,
specialising in the Middle East. And Karl Sabbagh, author, TV producer
and publisher. Gilad began his talk by...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16844>

*Americans May Trust In God, But Not Government*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16843>
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2011 - By Lina Sawan As the Arabs watch, with
justified trepidation, how their efforts to change regimes and establish
better lives unfold in the hands of those currently in charge; it may be
helpful to consider trust issues ascending on the opposite side of the
Atlantic. Within three days of the announcement of Barack Obama that
Osama Bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan by American forces in an
authorised operation, American officials had revised the original
storyline and changed essential details. Obama has also announced that
the eagerly-awaited photos of Bin Laden's body, which we are told has
been hurriedly buried at sea, will not be released. Suspicions that the
truth may never be revealed are spreading worldwide, and despite their
determination to celebrate, even the American people are doubting that
their government is coming clean. It is easy to understand that the
Americans distrust their government, including the President,.. .more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16843>

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OccupationNews] Digest Number 1374
Fri May 6, 2011 9:08 pm (PDT)

*Erasure -- A Poem*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16842>
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2011 - Erasure -- A Poem Translator's note:
My father Abdul Karim Sabawi never published this poem before although
he did publish countless of books of poetry. He said this one he kept in
his heart like a blade that pierced him and released a bitter poison of
doubt that he too would become part of a nation ethnically cleansed and
driven into extinction. By Abdul Karim Sabawi When you were parched We
quenched your thirst With our blood Now We carry your burden Disgraced
We cry in shame When asked Where do you come from? Dishonoured we die If
only the stray bullets From the occupier's guns Were merciful That they
pierced through our legs It only they tore through our knees If only we
sunk in your soil Deep to our necks If only we got stuck And became the
salt of your earth The nutrients in your fertile soil...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16842>

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Sat May 7, 2011 7:57 pm (PDT)

*Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*

*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*Dozens Wounded By The Army in Silwan* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61192>
IMEMC - Friday May 06, 2011 - 23:49, Palestinian medical sources in
occupied East Jerusalem reported Friday that dozens of residents were
injured after Israeli soldiers and policemen attacked a protest in
Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem. Two homes caught fire after soldiers
fired teargas bombs into them.

*Extremist Israelis Disrupt Talks for Palestinian Nonviolent Leader In
Paris* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61191>
IMEMC - Friday May 06, 2011 - 22:48, A group of extremist Israeli
youths, members of the outlawed Kach Movement, tried to prevent
Palestinian nonviolent resistance leader, Abdullah Abu Rahma, from
speaking at a forum in Paris, by creating chaos, acting in a violent way
and trying to physically attack him.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Israeli forces evacuate Khirbet Umm Nir*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385319>
5/7/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces evicted around 110
Palestinians from a small village south of Hebron on Thursday, residents
said. Usama Al-Habour told Ma'an that soldiers demolished 12 tents and
barns from Khirbet Umm Nir, east of Yatta, for the third time in two
months. The residents had been given a deadline....

*Soldiers arrest Hamas leader at Jenin checkpoint*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385640>
5/7/2011 - JENIN (Ma'an) -- Israel's army arrested a Hamas leader
Saturday in the occupied West Bank, prisoners advocates said. Khaled
Al-Haj, 45, was passing through a military checkpoint at the entrance of
Araba when he was arrested, the Ahrar prisoners center said. Al-Haj
served as a spokesman for Hamas, and he was recently....

*Clashes reported in village near Nablus*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385631>
5/7/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Clashes erupted in the northern West Bank
late Saturday at a weekly rally against settlements. Residents of Iraq
Burin, south of Nablus, suffered tear-gas inhalation as soldiers fired
gas canisters and stun grenades. Palestinian official Ghasan Doghlas
said soldiers deployed to prevent the march from reaching an area slated
for confiscation. ...

*Man shot dead in Ramallah refugee camp*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385416>
5/8/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- A man was shot dead Friday by
unidentified gunmen in Al-Jalazun refugee camp in the central West Bank.
The body of Muhammad Yahya Khawaldah, 30, was brought to the Palestine
Medical Compound in Ramallah. Medics said the body was riddled with at
least 10 bullets. Local sources told Ma'an....

*UN chief urges Israel not to withhold tax revenue*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385439>
5/7/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday told
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to withhold the
Palestinian Authority's tax revenue over its reconciliation with Hamas.
The UN secretary-general phoned the Israeli premier and urged him to
"make decisive moves towards a historic agreement with the
Palestinians, " a statement from....

*Hamas: We will consult Fatah on resistance*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385467>
5/8/2011 - CAIRO (Ma'an) -- Hamas will decide whether or not to use
violence to resist Israel in consensus with Palestinian factions, the
movement's leader told The Wall Street Journal." How to manage the
resistance, what's the best way to achieve our goals, when to escalate
and when to cease fire, now....

*Campaign 'to bring Nativity deportees home alive'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385497>
5/8/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) - A spokesman of the Palestinians deported
to Europe in 2002 on Saturday urged Palestinian leaders and institutions
to support a campaign "to bring Nativity Church deportees back home
alive."Jihad Ja'arah told Ma'an that he and other deportees support the
national campaign, which is led by Kifah....

*Prosecutor files amended indictment in Hariri probe*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385466>
5/7/2011 - THE HAGUE (AFP) -- The prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for
Lebanon filed an amended indictment on Friday based on further evidence
in the probe into the 2005 killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq
Hariri, the office of the prosecutor said. The findings of the tribunal
have been the subject of wide speculation in Lebanon and....

*Israel official: Hamas 'weakness' led to unity deal*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385538>
5/8/2011 - TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israeli vice prime minister and
minister of strategic affairs Moshe Ya'alon said Saturday that "If
Israeli forces disengage from the West Bank, Israel will have a second
Hamastan" the Israeli daily Maariv reported."Hamas is an organization
whose ideology is to establish an Islamic state extending from....

*Hamas leader condemns 'extra-judicial' killings'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385440>
5/7/2011 - RAMALLAH (AFP) -- Hamas leader Khalid Mash'al on Friday
condemned "extrajudicial executions", in the wake of the killing of
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden." While we disapprove of the methods of
Al-Qaeda, particularly actions directed against innocent civilians, we
are opposed to the United States or any other party having recourse to
extrajudicial executions.. ..

*DFLP officials discuss unity with Egypt FM*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385302>
5/7/2011 - CAIRO (Ma'an) -- Representatives of the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine met Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Arabi
Thursday to discuss the formation of a Palestinian unity government. The
meeting followed the signing of a reconciliation agreement between Hamas
and Fatah in Cairo, ratified by Palestinian factions. Under the deal,
factions agreed to....

*36 killed in Syria 'Day of Defiance'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385443>
5/8/2011 - DAMASCUS (AFP) -- Syrian security forces shot dead at least
26 protesters as thousands rallied on a "Day of Defiance" against the
Syrian regime, a rights group said, with authorities accusing
"terrorists" of killing 10 security personnel. The violence came as the
European Union agreed to impose sanctions on 13 Syrian officials
involved in the regime....

*4 killed in sectarian violence in Cairo*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385660>
5/8/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Clashes between Muslims and Christians in the
Egyptian capital Cairo on Saturday left four people dead and about 20
others injured, hospital and security officials said. The two groups
clashed in the northwestern district of Imbaba after Muslims attacked
the Coptic Saint Mena church to free a Christian woman they alleged was
being....

*Libyan tribal chiefs urge amnesty to all fighters*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385468>
5/7/2011 - TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) -- Libya's tribal chiefs urged a general
amnesty for all fighters engaged in the oil-rich nation's civil war, as
Amnesty International said the regime's siege of Misrata could be a war
crime. Rebels, meanwhile, braced for a new ground assault by Moammar
Gadhafi's forces on....

*Palestine Note* <http://palestinenot e.com/cs/>

*Gaza hosts first-ever marathon*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ theater/archive/ 2011/05/06/ gaza-hosts- first-ever- marathon. aspx>
Palestine Note 6 May 2011 - Al Jazeera- Around 1,500 people, including
hundreds of school children, have taken part in the Gaza Strip's
first-ever marathon. (Please visit the site to view this media)
Organised by UNRWA, the event has raised more than $1 million in
sponsorship, ...

*More deaths on Syria's 'day of defiance'*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/06/ more-deaths- on-syria- s-day-of- defiance. aspx>
Palestine Note 6 May 2011 - Al Jazeera - Activists claim that up to 30
people have been killed in Syria where thousands have taken to the
streets for another day of anti-government rallies, dubbed a "day of
defiance". (Please visit the site to view this...

*Palestinian youth: New movement, new borders*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/06/ palestinian- youth-new- movement- new-borders. aspx>
Palestine Note 6 May 2011 - Noura Erakat , Al Jazeera - Reconciliation
between Hamas and Fatah may present the first victory of a nascent
Palestinian youth movement, which earned its moniker, the March 15th
movement, from the first day of its mass protests in the Occupied...

*Factions Begin Groundwork for Political Unification*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ topnews/archive/ 2011/05/06/ factions- begin-groundwork -for-political- unification. aspx>
Palestine Note 6 May 2011 - Meshal calls for two-state solution, refuses
to renounce violence The National - Now that the unity accord has been
signed, Hamas, its new friends in Fatah and a dozen other Palestinian
factions must begin laying the groundwork for political reunification. ...

*Aljazeera* <http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/>

*Deaths in Egypt's sectarian clashes*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115722 2446186609. html>
AlJazeera 7 May 2011 - At least six dead as Muslims and Christians clash
in neighbourhood near the capital.

*Al-Qaeda denies role in Morocco cafe blast*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115721 1841813188. html>
AlJazeera 7 May 2011 - North African offshoot denies responsiblity for
bomb blast at a cafe in the city of Marrakesh.

*Violence and censorship fuel Tunisia tensions*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ africa/2011/ 05/2011571823360 3222.html>
AlJazeera 7 May 2011 - Journalists beaten during protests calling for a
"new revolution" and online censorship makes a comeback.

*Deadly robbery shakes Iraqi city*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/video/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115715 5516934407. html>
AlJazeera 7 May 2011 - Attackers make off with $3.4m in raid on currency
traders in Baquba, highlighting rise in criminal activity.

*Deaths reported as Syrian forces storm city*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115715 242900404. html>
AlJazeera 7 May 2011 - Four women among six civilians killed in a
tank-backed army raid on besieged coastal city of Baniyas, activist says.

*US drone attack in Yemen 'missed' al-Awlaki*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115723 42146775. html>
AlJazeera 7 May 2011 - Officials say raid targeted but failed to kill
US-Yemeni religious leader, who is said to be linked to al-Qaeda.

*Yemen youth call for withdrawal of GCC plan*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115710 409316818. html>
AlJazeera 7 May 2011 - Groups leading protests to oust president Saleh
call for an end to initiatives that 'alienate' the Yemeni people.

*UN urges Israel to unfreeze Palestinian funds*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115622 4318541202. html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Israel blocked transfer of $105m in customs
duties and other levies it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.

*Dubai tackles wildlife trafficking*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/video/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115616 1036467290. html>
AlJazeera 6 May 2011 - Dubai's financial crisis has delayed plans to
build a bigger facility for rescued animals.

*Palestine News Network* <http://english. pnn.ps/>

*Award Winning PNN Editor: I Hope We Will Have More Freedom of Speech*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10002& Itemid=56>
PNN - Ghassan Bannoura -- PNN Exclusive -- PNN Arabic Department News
Editor, Hiba Lama was the only female journalist to hold the third
possession in a competition organized by the Palestinian Journalists
Union...

*In Weak of IsraelâEUR^(TM) s Decision to Withhold Palestinian Taxes; EU
Sends 85 Million EUR*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10001& Itemid=61>
PNN - Brussels -- PNN - The approved 85 Million EUR package by the
European Commission on Friday will be added to the 100 million EUR
approved for the 2011 Palestinian Authority's budget approved...

*UN Chief Calls on Israel to Release Palestinian Taxes and Take Decisive
Moves for Two-Stat Solution*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10000& Itemid=56>
PNN - New York -- PNN -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to
not stop transferring tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority.Mr. Ban
remarks came during a telephone conversation with Israel's Prime
Minister Benjamin...

*Christian Peacemaker Teams* <http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 05/18189/>
5/7/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - On Friday, May 6, the
Israeli military declared the area of Amniyr, a Palestinian village
south of Yatta, a closed military zone and chased away the families who
own the land, after demolishing structures and trees on the land the day
before. The demolitions at 5 a. m. on Thursday, May 5, when the military....

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*Ban calls on Israel to take 'decisive moves' towards two-state
solution* <http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400507>
Relief Web 6 May 2011 - Source: UN News Service Country: Israel ,
occupied Palestinian territory 6 May 2011 -- Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon voiced hope today that Israel will make "decisive moves towards
a historic agreement" with the Palestinians, telling the country's Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that...

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Israel to demolish electric line near Nablus*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9111-israel- to-demolish- electric- line-near- nablus.html>
7 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli occupation authorities
handed Saturday a notice to a village mayor for the removal and
demolishing of an electric powerline that provides seven houses in
Jaloud village, in the south-west of Nablus. Local sources confirmed
that Israeli officials handed the military order to Abdallah Al-Haj
Mohammed, the head of Jaloud village council, for the demolition of a...

*Injuries reported in Silwan clashes*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9106-injuries- reported- in-silwan- clashes.html>
7 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph) Several cases of suffocation
were reported yesterday as Israeli soldiers intensively fired tear gases
at Palestinian residents during clashes took place in Silwan town, in
the occupied east Jerusalem.

*Israeli forces storm villages in WB*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9101-israeli- forces-storm- villages- in-wb.html>
7 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- Israeli occupation forces
invaded on Saturday the east part of Nablus city and Azzoun village, in
the east of Qalqilya city, in the occupied West Bank.

*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>

*Give Palestinians their tax cash, Israel told*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ give-palestinian s-their-tax- cash-israel- told>
The National 7 May 2011 - Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli finance minister,
said last week he would suspend payment of customs duties and other
taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which
amounts to more than $1 billion (Dh3.67bn) in annual revenues for the
West Bank¿s governing body.

*Drone strike misses Al Qa'eda suspect*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ drone-strike- misses-al- qaeda-suspect>
The National 7 May 2011 - The US drone attack in Yemen on Thursday was
an attempt to kill Anwar Awlaki, an American-born militant suspected of
involvement in multiple terrorist plots against the United States, but
he eluded the missiles

*Gaza militia 'in grab for power'*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ gaza-militia- in-grab-for- power>
The National 7 May 2011 - Palestinian leaders, political analysts and
human rights groups in Gaza say the powerful Qassam Brigades have grown
unwieldy, increasingly defiant of Hamas political leaders and brutally
repressive towards public dissent.

*Syrian tanks storm flashpoint city of Banias*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ syrian-tanks- storm-flashpoint -city-of- banias>
The National 6 May 2011 - Heavy gunfire was heard in the port city's
south, where most of the protesters live, as President Bashar al Assad
ignores growing international outcry over the government's violent
response to anti-regime demonstrations.

*Activists say Syrian troops killed 25 protesters*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ activists- say-syrian- troops-killed- 25-protesters>
The National 6 May 2011 - In response to Syria's use of force, the
European Union followed the United States, announcing it has agreed to
impose targeted sanctions against 14 leading members of the Syrian
regime, though not against President Bashar al Assad.

*Forget the blockade, eat at Abu Hassira*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ forget-the- blockade- eat-at-abu- hassira>
The National 6 May 2011 - The family-owned restaurant in Gaza has
managed has a loyal clientele spanning all political stripes and most
income brackets, as well the handful of foreigners working in this
Palestinian enclave.

*Ha'aretz* <http://haaretz. com/>

*Source: Hamas raised price for Shalit due to Barak's irresponsible
behavior*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ source-hamas- raised-price- for-shalit- due-to-barak- s-irresponsible- behavior- 1.360413>
Ha'aretz - Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud
Barak blame each other for failing to manage the contacts with Hamas
over the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit.

*Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran 'stupidest thing I have
ever heard'*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/former- mossad-chief- israel-air- strike-on- iran-stupidest- thing-i-have- ever-heard- 1.360367>
Ha'aretz - In first public appearance since leaving post as Mossad
chief, Meir Dagan warns of regional war if Iran is attacked; says fall
of Assad regime would benefit Israel.

*VIDEO / Captured footage shows bin Laden watching himself on TV*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ video-captured- footage-shows- bin-laden- watching- himself-on- tv-1.360384>
Ha'aretz - U.S. intelligence officials release videos seized from
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

*Report: CUNY to rescind decision withholding honor from Kushner over
anti-Israel views*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ report-cuny- to-rescind- decision- withholding- honor-from- kushner-over- anti-israel- views-1.360375>
Ha'aretz - Following backlash, executive committee of CUNY board will
nix earlier decision and grant honorary degree to playwright Tony
Kushner, the New York Times reports.

*Nuclear whistle-blower Vanunu requests revocation of citizenship*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ nuclear-whistle- blower-vanunu- requests- revocation- of-citizenship- 1.360386>
Ha'aretz - Mordechai Vanunu sends letter to Interior Minister Eli Yishai
asking for his citizenship to be stripped based on new Citizenship
Revocation Law.

*On Israel's Memorial Day, families of Carmel firefighters battle for
recognition*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ on-israel- s-memorial- day-families- of-carmel- firefighters- battle-for- recognition- 1.360418>
Ha'aretz - Israel to mourn 22,867 fallen soldiers, including 37 prison
guards and three police personnel who were killed in the Carmel Fire;
also commemorated are 2,443 civilian victims of terror.

*Photos by Mandate policeman who guarded Jewish fighters go on display*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ photos-by- mandate-policema n-who-guarded- jewish-fighters- go-on-display- 1.360415>
Ha'aretz - A picture album, on display for the first time in the Museum
of Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem, dramatically documents the end of
the British Mandate and the beginning of the War of Independence.

*Airlines weigh legal action against Israel over tainted fuel crisis*
<http://english. themarker. com/airlines- weigh-legal- action-against- israel-over- tainted-fuel- crisis-1. 360436>
Ha'aretz - Cost to airlines of last week's canceled flights due to fuel
contamination could reach tens of millions of dollars.

*Maccabi Tel Aviv to play Panathinaikos in Euroleague final*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ sports/maccabi- tel-aviv- to-play-panathin aikos-in- euroleague- final-1.360295>
Ha'aretz - The Israeli basketball team pulls through with a victory in
the semifinal against Real Madrid 82-63.

*Al Qaida denies involvement in Morocco cafe attack*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ al-qaida- denies-involveme nt-in-morocco- cafe-attack- 1.360404>
Ha'aretz - A Maghreb-based branch of the jihadist organization releases
statement saying it was not behind last week's attack where 16 people
died; Organization says targeting 'Jews and crusaders' is one of their
priorities.

*Cannes film festival honors jailed Iran directors*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ cannes-film- festival- honors-jailed- iran-directors- 1.360371>
Ha'aretz - Films by Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, both sentenced
to twenty years in prison in December 2010, will be screened at this
year's Cannes film festival in honor of their 'courage.'

*Report: Gamal Mubarak suspected of profiting from gas deal with Israel*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ report-gamal- mubarak-suspecte d-of-profiting- from-gas- deal-with- israel-1. 360366>
Ha'aretz - Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that son of the
former Egypt president Hosni Mubarak is suspected of receiving five
percent of the earnings from Egypt's deal to export natural gas to Israel.

*More questions in jet-fuel crisis*
<http://english. themarker. com/more- questions- in-jet-fuel- crisis-1. 360432>
Ha'aretz - The source of the black sludge isn't the only unknown factor
in airport shutdown.

*My flight was held up, do I get a refund?*
<http://english. themarker. com/my-flight- was-held- up-do-i-get- a-refund- 1.360435>
Ha'aretz - If you were one of the 1,500 passengers affected by the
jet-fuel crisis, you might like to know what your legal rights are
regarding compensation.

*Why the markets are like an epileptic brain*
<http://english. themarker. com/why-the- markets-are- like-an-epilepti c-brain-1. 360434>
Ha'aretz - An Israeli study shows that the stock market's behavior
leading up to the 2008 financial crisis resembled the human brain during
an epileptic seizure.

*Hamas police break up pro-bin Laden rally in Gaza*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/hamas- police-break- up-pro-bin- laden-rally- in-gaza-1. 360382>
Ha'aretz - Dozens of Salafists gather in Gaza City's main square holding
posters of slain al-Qaida leader and chanting 'We warn you America, we
warn you Europe'.

*Hamas chief: We will coordinate all decisions regarding Israel with
Fatah*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/hamas- chief-we- will-coordinate- all-decisions- regarding- israel-with- fatah-1.360332>
Ha'aretz - In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Hamas leader
defends his organization' s right to wage an armed struggle against Israel.

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*The US goes after epicenter of al-Qaida's online network*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219663& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Analysis: Target of strike, Anwar
al-Awlaki, providing lethal online advice to jihadis in West.

*NY Hassidic paper 'deletes' Clinton from iconic photo*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=219660& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Brooklyn newspaper altered photograph of
Obama and staffers watching raid on Osama bin Laden's compound to remove
all females.

*German mayor takes heat for 'Hamas' European event*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=219659& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - City-funded hall in Wuppertal to be used
for "Palestinians in Europe" conference, at which Hamas fundraiser will
speak, sparking criticism.

*Beauty of Rosh Hanikra Islands belie complex reality*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219658& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Pirates, illegal fishermen, offshore
development taint otherwise idyllic nature reserve on Israel's northern
border.

*Prison officers killed in Carmel fire recognized*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219657& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Firefighters, however, will not be
mentioned at official events on Remembrance Day; Yad Labanim opposes
honoring firefighters.

*Five dead, 23 wounded in Egyptian sectarian clashes*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219656& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Salafists surround Coptic Church outside of
Cairo demanding the release of a Christian woman who had converted to Islam.

*Top US senators call on Obama to halt funding for PA*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=219654& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Israel rejects UN request to release
withheld tax money; Days after Fatah-Hamas unity deal, EU transfers 85
million euros to Ramallah.

*Syria army attacks Banias, raising sectarian tension*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219650& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Assad's forces shoot dead six civilians in
port city; activists say civilian death count passes 800, a figure the
regime disputes.

*Livni: Settlement freeze could have stopped PA deal*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219646& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Opposition leader to Channel 2: Israel
needs PM who can persuade world not to allow a Palestinian state to be
declared unilaterally at UN.

*Dagan: Israeli airstrike on Iran nuclear plant 'foolish'*
<http://www.jpost. com/Defense/ Article.aspx? ID=219637& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Former Mossad chief warns attack on Iranian
reactors would cause regional war in which missiles from Iran, Hezbollah
would be fired.

*US: Bin Laden compound was al-Qaida command center*
<http://www.jpost. com/VideoArticle s/Video/Article. aspx?ID=219632& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - US intel releases videos of bin Laden, most
of them showing al-Qaida leader rehearsing videotape messages he
distributed to his followers.

*Hamas forces breaks up pro-bin Laden rally in Gaza*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219627& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Dozens of Salafists gather in Gaza City's
main square holding up posters of bin Laden and chanting "We warn you
America, we warn you Europe."

*'Mubarak's son stole profits from gas sales to Israel'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219623& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Egyptian newspaper reports Gamal Mubarak
being investigated for allegedly pocketing five percent of revenues from
gas deal with Israel.

*Police added in Triangle region amid anarchy concerns*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219618& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Move follows two "related" drive-by
shootings and death of mother of two in crossfire in Arab area east of
Netanya.

*'Civilian killings in Syrian demonstrations rise to 800'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219606& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Syrian rights group says 220 among those
dead were killed in tank attack on Deraa; Clinton: "Assad must respond
to the people's call for change."

*'Khamenei to Ahmadinejad: Accept intel chief or quit'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219589& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Tensions intensify after ayatollah
reportedly gives ultimatum to Iranian president to reinstate Heydar
Moslehi or resign.

*Mashaal: 'Hamas to consult factions on moves toward Israel'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219587& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - Gaza authorities break up Salafist protest
lamenting bin Laden's death; Steinitz: Israel cannot accept 'terrorist
Palestinian gov't.'

*US mulls more sanctions against Syria in face of crackdown*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219586& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - US Secretary of State says "violence will
not answer protesers' call"; Syrian army storms Banias Sunni districts;
30 protesters killed across country in latest day of unrest; EU agrees
to freeze Syrian assets.

*Attempted US strike on Yemen's Anwar Awlaki fails*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219576& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 7 May 2011 - After taking out Osama bin Laden, US forces
say Awlaki now represents the gravest danger to the US and other Western
nations.

*US threatens new action unless Syria stops killings*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219572& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - 30 protesters killed as unrest continues;
EU agrees to freeze Syrian assets; tanks are deployed in Homs, Damascus.

*Hariri Tribunal prosecutor amends indictment*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219547& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - UN-backed court looking into 2005 killing
of former Lebanese prime minister expands indictment to include
"substantive new elements."

*'Syrian forces kill 27 protesters as unrest continues'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219544& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - 15 protesters, 5 security men killed in
Homs; EU agrees to freeze assets, ban travel of Syrian leaders; tanks
deployed in Homs, Damascus.

*Egyptians denounce 'normalization' at embassy in Cairo*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219543& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2011 - Demonstrators praise bombing of gas
pipeline in Sinai, demand Egyptian government end all cooperation with
Israel, open Gaza crossing.

*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>

*'Terrorist Nelson Mandela' portrayal in film by Peter Kosminsky*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2011/may/ 08/kosminsky- makes-film- on-mandela>
The Guardian 7 May 2011 - Peter Kosminsky, who made the controversial
Israel-Palestine drama The Promise, is to make a film about Nelson
Mandela's early life in South Africa Peter Kosminsky, the British writer
and director who made The Promise , a controversial. ..

*The photographs that never were - video*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/global/ video/2011/ may/06/libya- israel>
The Guardian 6 May 2011 - Livedraw: Patrick Blower creates the
photgraphs that didn't happen this week Patrick Blower

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*[uruknet.info] Video: Pentagon releases new Osama bin Laden footage*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77507>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - The US has released five video clips of Osama bin
Laden that it says was taken from the Pakistani compound where the
leader of al-Qaeda was reportedly killed last week. The videos mainly
show him rehearsing taped remarks, but there is also video showing him
watching news coverage of himself on TV. Al Jazeera's...

*[uruknet.info] Deaths in Egypt's sectarian clashes*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77506>
Uruknet 07 May 2011 - At least six people have been killed and 75 others
wounded in clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian
capital Cairo, hospital and security officials said. Saturday's clashes
erupted after a group of Muslims attacked the Coptic Saint Mena church
in the northwestern district of Imbaba to free a Christian woman they
alleged...

*[uruknet.info] The Cairo Agreement and Palestinian statehood*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77505>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - After protests calling for the removal of
dictatorial regimes broke out across the Arab world, Palestinians echoed
them with their own protests. However, they were not calling for the
removal of any government but rather they wanted the two largest
Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, which had been in a state of
conflict since...

*[uruknet.info] Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran
'stupidest thing I have ever heard'* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77503>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan referred to the
possibility a future Israeli Air Force attack on Iranian nuclear
facilities as "the stupidest thing I have ever heard" during a
conference held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Friday. Dagan's
presentation during a senior faculty conference was his first public
appearance since leaving his...

*[uruknet.info] Italy To Provide Weapons To Libyan Rebels Within Days*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77502>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - A SENIOR Libyan opposition figure said yesterday
that Italy has agreed to send weapons to the under-equipped rebel
forces, in an apparent serious breach of the United Nations arms
embargo. If confirmed by Rome, the weapons shipments are likely to cause
consternation at the UN where China and Russia have already expressed
doubts about...

*[uruknet.info] Israeli government quietly funds KKK-like organizations*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77501>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - The LHVH ("Preventing assimilation in the Holy
Land") organization made a lot of headlines in recent months, much due
to the very active MK Tzippi Hotovely (Likud). It is hyperactive in
preventing "miscegenation marriages" and preventing the pure daughters
of Israel from soiling themselves in contact with non-Jews. It is also
rather quick to...

*[uruknet.info] The weight of nationalism in Nabi Saleh*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77500>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - Getting to Nabi Saleh is not easy. The army closes
all entrances very early on a Friday, the day which has seen
demonstrations taking place for the past two years. This forces Israeli
and international activists that wish to join the unarmed and largely
nonviolent demonstrations to park kilometres away and hike through
valleys...

*[uruknet.info] U.S. tries to assassinate U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77499>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - That Barack Obama has continued the essence of the
Bush/Cheney Terrorism architecture was once a provocative proposition
but is now so self-evident that few dispute it (watch here as
arch-neoconservativ e David Frum -- Richard Perle's co-author for the
supreme 2004 neocon treatise -- waxes admiringly about Obama's Terrorism
and foreign policies in the Muslim...

*[uruknet.info] Deaths reported as Syrian forces storm city*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77498>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - Syrian security forces have conducted a raid on
Baniyas, a hub of anti-government protests, amid demands by opponents of
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, that he offer elections to end
the crisis. A Syrian rights campaigner told the AFP news agency that
security forces killed four women who were among about 150 people
demonstrating. ..

*[uruknet.info] Saudi Arabia stops Libyan rebel from visiting Qatar*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77497>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - The acting foreign minister of Libya's rebel
government has canceled a visit to key ally Qatar after failing to get
approval from Saudi Arabia to fly over its airspace. Cairo airport
officials say Ali al-Issaoui and three other officials from the rebels'
National Transitional Council waited for 20 hours at the airport before
flying...

*[uruknet.info] Libyan rebels pass on Turkey's revised road map*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77496>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - Turkey's expanded road map for a cease-fire and
transition in Libya was rejected by a Libyan opposition spokesperson
following a meeting Thursday of the Libya Contact Group in Rome. Turkish
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutog(lu said after the meeting, however, that
there was a "certain agreement" on the road map, and that a plan
announced...

*[uruknet.info] In wake of Bin Laden killing: US targets American
citizen in Yemen* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77495>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - Barely five days after the commando raid that
killed Osama bin Laden, the US launched a Predator drone strike aimed at
assassinating an American citizen in Yemen. The May 5 drone attack,
which took place in Yemen's Shabwa province, was planned as a targeted
assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born Islamic cleric with...

*[uruknet.info] Hamas: We will consult Fatah on resistance*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77494>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - Hamas will decide whether or not to use violence
to resist Israel in consensus with Palestinian factions, the movement's
leader told The Wall Street Journal. "How to manage the resistance,
what's the best way to achieve our goals, when to escalate and when to
cease fire, now we have to agree on all those...

*[uruknet.info] Statehood Declaration or Anti-apartheid Struggle?*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77493>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - The business of seeking UN membership is once
again heating up-with a fury. While the PA threatens this diplomatic
move, the Obama administration, in desperation, announces a new
initiative to end what it portrays as a merely diplomatic stalemate.
(Obama's speech, it is rumored, may be a vision that includes
Palestine-Israel peace in the...

*[uruknet.info] "The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today"*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77492>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 --The greatest threat to Libyan sovereignty and
independence is the United States of America. Nothing else comes close.
Gaddafi hasn't been targeted because he's a tyrant, but because he sits
on an ocean of petroleum. That's what this is all about, right? If
Libya's main source of wealth was car parts or coconuts, there never...

*[uruknet.info] Iraq snapshot - May 6, 2011*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77491>
Uruknet May 6, 2011. Chaos and violence continue, the protests continue
in Iraq, Nouri makes some nominations, and more. Protest continue in
Iraq. They've been taking place every Friday in Iraq since February.
Today is Situation Friday. The Great Iraqi Revolution reports, "Tahrir
[Square], Baghdad reflects an amazing community -- one watches and
listens to a young man, a...

*[uruknet.info] Israeli Prime Minister's Military Attache Stayed Home
for Fear of Arrest in Britain* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77489>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - Bibi Netanyahu's military attache, Maj. Gen.
Yochanan Locker, decided not to join the prime minister on his visit to
Britain because there is an arrest warrant waiting for him there. Locker
is one of the infamous Cast Lead Dirty 200 (number 182 on the list),
suspected of possible war crimes during Israel's Operation Cast...

*[uruknet.info] Dozens Wounded By Israeli Army in Silwan*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77488>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - alestinian medical sources in occupied East
Jerusalem reported Friday that dozens of residents were injured after
Israeli soldiers and policemen attacked a protest in Silwan, in occupied
East Jerusalem. Two homes caught fire after soldiers fired teargas bombs
into them. Jawad Siyam, head of the Wadi Hilwa Information center,
reported that the protest started...

*[uruknet.info] Dozens Wounded By The Army in Silwan*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77487>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - alestinian medical sources in occupied East
Jerusalem reported Friday that dozens of residents were injured after
Israeli soldiers and policemen attacked a protest in Silwan, in occupied
East Jerusalem. Two homes caught fire after soldiers fired teargas bombs
into them. Jawad Siyam, head of the Wadi Hilwa Information center,
reported that the protest started...

*[uruknet.info] Filling in the Gaping Holes in WikiLeaks' Guantanamo
Detainee Files* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77486>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - Imagine that the more than 700 Guantanamo files
released two weeks ago by WikiLeaks contained information explaining how
interrogators obtained "intelligence" from "war on terror" detainees
captured or sold to US forces after 9/11, such as this firsthand
account: "On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a
detainee chained hand...

*[uruknet.info] After Bin Laden - will Gaddafi be next?*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77485>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - ... Evidently, when Barack Obama said that Gaddafi
must go, he expected that the latter would obsequiously follow his
order. But no such luck. "The Obama administration imagined that a taste
of the lash would put Gaddafi in his place," writes US columnist Steve
Chapman. "Either he would stop his attacks, or he would be...

*[uruknet.info] Statement of Principles and Call for International Trade
Union Support for BDS* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77483>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - In commemoration of the first of May - a day of
workers struggle and international solidarity - the first Palestinian
trade union conference for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against
Israel (BDS) was held in Ramallah on 30 April 2011, organized by almost
the entirety of the Palestinian trade union movement, including
federations, professional unions,...

*[uruknet.info] Palestinian factions pushed together by regional events*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77481>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - Much uncertainty still surrounds the outcome of
yesterday's signing in Cairo of a reconciliation accord between
Palestinian factions. However, there is no question that the arrangement
was facilitated by the dramatic recent developments in the Arab world.
The regional constraints faced by the main Palestinian organisations,
Fatah and Hamas, are likely to reframe the...

*[uruknet.info] Amid Iranian power struggle and arrests for sorcery, a
thwarted Iranian channel to the U.S.?* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77480>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - ...But now come a series of reports about
Ahmadinejad' s trusted adviser and chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim
Mashaei. The reports say associates of Mashaei have been arrested in
recent days on charges of sorcery -- and not in the metaphorical sense.
Ahmadinejad and Mashaei--who are related through the marriage of their
children--have a close...

*[uruknet.info] Ahmadinejad allies charged with sorcery*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77477>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - Close allies of Iran's president, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further
his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and
the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Several people
said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar
Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested...

*[uruknet.info] Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 April - 04 May 2011)*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77478>
Uruknet May 6, 2011 - Israeli violations of international law and
humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (28
April - 04 May 2011): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF wounded
seven civilians, including five children and a woman, in the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip. Three of the children were wounded in Bil'ein
village,...

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*At least five dead in Egyptian sectarian clash*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-08/At- least-five- dead-in-Egyptian -sectarian- clash.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 The strife represents another challenge to Egypt's
military rulers who are trying to restore law and order after President
Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down in a popular uprising in February.

*Libyan forces destroy Misrata fuel tanks: rebels*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-08/Libyan- forces-destroy- Misrata-fuel- tanks-rebels. ashx>
Daily Star 7 May 2011 The bombardment of the western city came as
artillery rounds fired by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fell in
Tunisia in an escalation of fighting near the border with rebels trying
to end Gaddafi's rule of...

*Bellemare submits new indictment, U.N. warns of tensions*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/May- 07/Bellemare- submits-new- indictment- UN-warns- of-tensions. ashx>
Daily Star 7 May 2011 U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned Friday of rising
political tensions in Lebanon over the international court probing the
assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, after the court's
prosecutor submitted an updated indictment in the case.

*Libya planes destroy Misrata fuel tanks: rebels*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-07/Libya- planes-destroy- Misrata-fuel- tanks-rebels. ashx>
Daily Star 7 May 2011 Libyan government forces bombed large fuel storage
tanks in the contested western city of Misrata, destroying the tanks and
sparking a huge fire, rebels said Saturday.

*March 8 renews attack on March 14 over Syria unrest*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/May- 07/March- 8-renews- attack-on- March-14- over-Syria- unrest.ashx>
Daily Star 7 May 2011 Hezbollah accused the March 14 coalition Saturday
of instigating chaos in Syria and Lebanon over the past six years.
Meanwhile, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's top aide warned there would
be repercussions on wagering on instability in...

*Libyan shells fall in Tunisia in renewed fighting*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-07/Libyan- shells-fall- in-Tunisia- in-renewed- fighting. ashx>
Daily Star 7 May 2011 Schools were evacuated and residents scurried for
safety in the Tunisian frontier town of Dehiba, which has been hit
repeatedly by stray shells in recent weeks as the Libyan rivals fight
for control of a nearby...

*Libya tribal meeting calls for general amnesty*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-07/Libya- tribal-meeting- calls-for- general-amnesty. ashx>
Daily Star 7 May 2011 Libyan tribal leaders meeting in Tripoli Friday
called for a general amnesty law for those who have fought in Libya's
ongoing civil war, a statement said.

*Syrian tanks enter coastal town in new crackdown*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-07/Syrian- Army-attacks- Banias.ashx>
Daily Star 7 May 2011 Troops entered a key oil-industry city on Syria's
Mediterranean coast Saturday, taking up position in a hilltop Crusader
castle and cutting off power and phone lines. An activist said three
women protesting the crackdown were shot...

*US drone in Yemen missed al Qaeda's al-Awlaki-report*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-07/US- drone-in- Yemen-missed- al-Qaedas- al-Awlaki- report.ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 The U.S. drone aircraft attack that killed two
midlevel al Qaeda militants in Yemen on Thursday was targeting the
leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a U.S.-born radical known
for encouraging attacks on the...

*Gadhafi regime hits out over rebel war chest*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-07/Gaddafi- regime-hits- out-over- rebel-war- chest.ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 Meanwhile, rebels were bracing for a ground
assault by Gadhafi forces on the besieged western port city of Misrata
as NATO warplanes struck regime targets further to the west.

*U.S. warns Syria to halt violence against protesters*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-07/US- warns-Syria- to-halt-violence -against- protesters. ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 The United States and its international partners
will take "additional steps" against the Syrian government unless it
stops killing its people, the White House said on Friday.

*Two wounded Syrians flee to Lebanon*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/May- 07/Two-wounded- Syrians-flee- to-Lebanon. ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 Two badly injured Syrians cross into Lebanon and
receive medical treatment as Syrian forces step up a crackdown against
anti-regime protests.

*UN chief warns political tension growing in Lebanon*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/May- 06/UN-chief- warns-political- tension-growing- in-Lebanon. ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 The UN secretary general warned in a report Friday
of rising political tensions in Lebanon over the country's special
tribunal and its probe of the 2005 killing of former prime minister
Rafik Hariri.

*Prosecutor files new indictment in Hariri probe*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ 2011/May- 06/Prosecutor- files-new- indictment- in-Hariri- probe.ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 The Lebanon tribunal, the world's first
international court with jurisdiction over the crime of terrorism, was
set up to try those accused over the 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and
22 others.

*U.N. says swift Lebanon Cabinet needed*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-06/UN- says-swift- Lebanon-Cabinet- needed.ashx>
Daily Star 6 May 2011 Following a meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih
Berri, U.N. Special Coordinator Michael Williams urged Lebanon to form
its new government sooner rather than later.

*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>

*'Hamas signed unity pact from position of weakness'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065670,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon
says reconciliation agreement... .

*What's in store for bin Laden's hideout?*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065649,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - While hundreds of reporters, curious neighbors
continue to gather around estate....

*Hungary: Israeli flag set on fire during protest*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065627,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - Some 3,000 public sector employees protest
against government cutbacks in....

*Mashaal: Violent resistance by consensus*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065607,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - Head of Hamas politburo says in Wall Street
Journal interview that nature of....

*Report: US drone missed al-Qaeda leader in Yemen*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065597,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - Less than a week after killing of bin Laden, US
launches three missiles at....

*EU to transfer funds to PA*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065512,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - Foreign policy chief says $124 million transfer
meant to pay workers' salaries....

*Suspected collaborator shot dead in West Bank*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065570,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - Palestinian sources say masked gunmen shot man
thought to be working for Israeli....

*Police: 2 caught smuggling 4.5 kilos of cocaine*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065564,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - Officers stake out airport, arrest two men in
their twenties upon return from....

*Syrian forces kill 30 protesters*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065535,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - EU to impose sanctions on Syrian officials seen
as responsible for deaths of 580....

*Protest at Cairo embassy calls for intifada*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065520,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - Hundreds rally at Israeli embassy to call for
annulment of peace, Jews to....

*Firefighters to be recognized as Israel's fallen*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065506,00. html>
YNet News, 6 May 2011 - Names of three firefighters killed in Carmel
blaze to be read out at Memorial....

*Palestinian Information Center* <http://palestine- info.co.uk/ en/>

*IOF troops arrest two teens in WB village*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7wHBgvg5eD1 euSnluSaiw6gc3u8 q7XeJrgsgl1C16X3 %2blVR%2fzVQiK% 2fgmjHK7NuFSIXTU M7h6l2YTs6CrhSiC yH0NdL3g1r% 2fW91p1xkKb6a9Y% 3d>
PIC - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested two Palestinian teenagers
in Azun village, to the east of Qalqilia city, after storming the
village and breaking into a number of its houses.

*Sit-in outside PA jail to demand release of political detainees*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7EnRYwpnten iQZ%2fGmw9FHLsIT giwcV2XQMAw6Wc4K iWcRdFH%2fsjxMR3 4IW6vTJlmm5TjGc% 2b3EgDQD5zO1k% 2bXCrqagKyZWqshz Ss9M5lhWPi0% 3d>
PIC - Palestinian families of political detainees staged a sit-in on
Saturday morning outside Al-Juneid military prison in Nablus city.

*Gaza ministry calls for release of West Bank political prisoners*
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PIC - The ministry of prisoner affairs in Gaza called Saturday for the
release of all ex-prisoners and resistance fighters from the Palestinian
Authority prisons in the West Bank.

*Once again, Israel threatens to raze wells, structures in Ramadin
village*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7j%2f1hS84G mMaYw3JnJtNhYqF0 N0GJ%2fUHDm5fh4v CetEFXBW2Z% 2ffSH9YA% 2fR4riGHRopNAsyp lM%2bPgRWvB9oUpj dOZObSocWxIxJkRO NWjuIuU%3d>
PIC - Israeli civil servants escorted by Israeli troops stormed Ramadin
village in Wadi Attina area and handed its residents military orders to
demolish nine artesian wells and a number of barns and homes.

*Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 2nd day in some Israeli
jails*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7ueQ% 2fRGSfNTwGw5g1IW 17KQ2P1rl1LLizkN k5s3sF9XTzke8N8a PldENWOY95qzdf6S wttmdn1yJdi2ndrl %2bJjQat2MIrynqv nFQGK1m8TCU% 3d>
PIC - The ministry of prisoners' affairs in Gaza said the Palestinian
prisoners in some Israeli jails went on hunger strike for the second
consecutive day on Saturday.

*Conferees in Gaza urge Arabs to save O. Jerusalem*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7nAc6gxMbwf fP7%2fIT9SkRwKCU 2eQ6aD2aj8D68nMV LI9E1kJvqnAN1Ooy U1HAVnP0PfcDzDFi TdHLdKEVTSE1PTra 7pmk4snKMZX% 2fXpqjhDk% 3d>
PIC - Political and academic figures called on the Arab nations to pay
attention to Jerusalem and help its people to stay steadfast in the face
of Israel's Judaization and fait accompli policies.

*Political detainees in PA prison start gradual hunger strike*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7TUTUuVOnqa a%2bnPfozt2Y4Kay MzaPoecePvaSL8TE QyfAbApl7XESTsXI 6OsUQlyU5PDyQInm o6aHnWl%2fchRV0p GgVkLVzTrmzy7VPr befQE%3d>
PIC - Political detainees in the PA Junaid prison in Nablus started on
Saturday a gradual hunger strike and refused to be served breakfast,
sources inside the prison said.

*Israeli minister calls for re-occupying West Bank*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s79mChxWnHNu GnNII9KTsdA4CDi6 vc%2fUk6YWw1lC06 I91P%2bTSghzPfaL w1tsF1mmnFGzM9bI w8SuPrNwgWo1% 2fdOEkmsEzaTXXfZ Yzbd8Fgxok% 3d>
PIC - An Israeli minister has called on his government to re-occupy the
West Bank in the event the Palestinians declared their state
unilaterally without coordination with Israel.

*Palestinian conference sees heavy turnout in Germany*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7Eiz2i2pw% 2f%2bdFF0oYDil% 2fQvjdGep9Ja0hgf hztT%2fYi9etybaU BR%2bwFM75NfmwIB HkG%2bg3qtU% 2bVBjF0xXoFlR3ST nlpva9TwokkcAal0 E38CA%3d>
PIC - The 9th Palestinians in Europe Conference commenced in Wuppertal
city of Germany on Saturday morning.

*Haneyya: Gaza reconstruction kicked off, security chaos finished*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7FKqHdvsh1s %2bCF6CUZCUbeH3M devbVX6OayFVEyy4 QYpbDDhr2R47Fm7q T2UBIiW7BicXEiVc tmz3MaMKM24m% 2buR2%2b% 2f%2bt%2f52pYD5k %2bw6TwA4% 3d>
PIC - Ismail Haneyya has confirmed that the reconstruction of what
Israel destroyed during aggression has already begun, and that the page
has been turned on the "security chaos" once and for all.

*Mishaal: reconciliation requirements must be implemented immediately*
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PIC - 06/05/2011 - 05:39 PM

*Occupation security men raid Mosque and arrest two worshipers in
Jerusalem*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7%2bCuwMFk6 1fhbE7hmLXZ0auak xeajv5eFi9uxOmen Mj%2f3a9kltZ0YcH JRhU8kOUUJJuysPM mNx9wvFTYeE1STNm 3crDilK%2fxcH9v1 uoYlp7M%3d>
PIC - 06/05/2011 - 06:09 PM

*IOF troops arrest Islamic Jihad leader Bassam al-Saadi and four others*
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PIC - 06/05/2011 - 06:53 PM

*IOF troops arrest Hamas leader Majed Hasan*
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PIC - 06/05/2011 - 07:32 PM

*Occupation gives notice to 50 Palestinian families to leave Jerusalem*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7diLZ% 2fLA98kQ3E1Rhtah cyVLJ3HAuI% 2fQbMBV5LCqJmo4R hO2MtR5GCK9l1sIo yEhrrE8XmYkcHcFh cou7UGqHCxEHShMJ utuhyIO13YQ8h1s% 3d>
PIC - 06/05/2011 - 09:17 PM

*Jerusalemite youths wounded in Silwan confrontations*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7aUBU6yjRXw hwo9%2f5NF3rl% 2fMRodpnZqf4XjVr rnaizAt8BNBEgq3Z v0DW2piCcF1lEwhD QhXAjwNFzVw9u% 2fEoqXJJwnev61Gc wLPyvu8XOzg% 3d>
PIC - 07/05/2011 - 06:48 AM

*Salame, Ghunaim urge Shalit captors to insist on demands*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7FdHMgCFekP DWzjy%2bbhrfTmqF BCzqn61b0migg2Du 8lVB9drO60uEreBz icC%2fgRcZfAsTtn qU3fSGWELHgfGRhE NLQR0yib9Ydx3paO HizxI%3d>
PIC - 07/05/2011 - 07:13 AM

*Israel confiscates Al-Khalil village*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7JopkXxciY% 2bH%2fYRziQbgub5 EgBUNQwaEJeICLPG A2Hy42RJANTLavrA VHlsF7X%2bwq0YFh LfYDon8bGrO% 2fG48YDN4640g68z oQ%2fhGI1hDb0V4% 3d>
PIC - 07/05/2011 - 07:41 AM

*Mishaal meets with Egyptian elites in Cairo*
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PIC - 07/05/2011 - 08:16 AM

*Arab marches marking Nakba to head to Palestine borders*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s70s3eKUeZfe q4%2f6z%2fCMSEpq YaMpxcOBc888YVat LBcwSdH%2bwScJfq DX7wxEvQfgjfUPpC OsGHgWYs3FH28Ex7 VMgnwlxEOEKJn1xF IJ3dqXw%3d>
PIC - 07/05/2011 - 09:32 AM

*WAFA - Palestine News Agency* <http://english. wafa.ps/>

*Israeli Military Demolishes, then Evacuates Village of Amniyr*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16066>
WAFA

*Jalloud Council Told to Remove Power Lines*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16065>
WAFA

*Israel Arrests Palestinians in West Bank*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16064>
WAFA

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1375
Sat May 7, 2011 7:57 pm (PDT)

*EU says 85 million euros fund to PA is part of an already agreed on aid
package* <http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16063>
WAFA

*Newspapers Review: Events in Syria Featured in Dailies*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16062>
WAFA

*West Bank Weekly Anti-Fence Protests Celebrate Reconciliation*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16061>
WAFA

*UNRWA Announces Results of 2011 Refugees' Photo Competition*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16060>
WAFA

*EU Heeds Fayyad's Appeal, Approves Additional 85 million euros for PA*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16059>
WAFA

*Media Breathes Again in Gaza*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16058>
WAFA

*Intifada Palestine* <http://www.intifada -palestine. com/>

*Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ WdL8LC4kIlE/>
Intifada-Palestine: 7 May 2011 - "We might ask ourselves how we would be
reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound,
assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic". By: Noam
Chomsky/ Guenica Magazine It's increasingly clear that the operation was
a planned...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ WdL8LC4kIlE/>

*EGYPT AND ISRAEL HEADED FOR CRISIS*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ OUpyWpXwD- 8/>
Intifada-Palestine: 7 May 2011 - By: JONATHAN COOK Nazareth. Israeli
officials have expressed alarm at a succession of moves by the interim
Egyptian government that they fear signal an impending crisis in
relations with Cairo. The widening rift was underscored yesterday when
leaders of the rival...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ OUpyWpXwD- 8/>

*KILLING UNARMED OSAMA BIN LADEN 'DOESN'T SERVE JUSTICE' -- ARCHBISHOP
ROWAN WILLIAMS*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 6mdq1ZLSLOI/>
Intifada-Palestine: 7 May 2011 - The Archbishop of Canterbury is at the
centre of a row after he criticised the United States for shooting dead
the unarmed Osama bin Laden. By Tim Ross, Steven Swinford, James Kirkup
and Caroline Gammell Dr Rowan Williams, spiritual head of...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 6mdq1ZLSLOI/>

*EGYPTIANS HOLD MASSIVE ANTI-ISRAELI RALLY*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 0u_fPMkXu2c/>
Intifada-Palestine: 6 May 2011 - Thousands of Egyptian protesters have
gathered outside the Israeli embassy in the capital, calling for an end
to Cairo's relations with Tel Aviv. Several hundred angry protesters
also gathered in Cairo's historic Liberation Square following the Friday
Prayers. Protesters voiced their...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 0u_fPMkXu2c/>

*Los Angeles Times* <http://latimes. com/news/ nationworld/ world/middleeast />

*Young men of Misurata feel the rush of war*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/4t9LReuXrPc /la-fg-libya- young-rebels- 20110507, 0,5730189. story>
LA Times 6 May 2011 - The Libyan rebel fighters are living as if in an
action movie, dismayed when their friends are killed but getting a kick
out of wielding weapons and explosives. They moved through the night
with names like "the Birds." The fight was primal, about survival from...

*Egypt's new foreign policy moves test old alliances*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/V0eSXL1OP04 /la-fg-egypt- diplomacy- 20110508, 0,4841600. story>
LA Times 7 May 2011 - Cairo is reaching out to Iran and the militant
group Hamas, a new agenda that angers Israel and will pose a challenge
to U.S. ties as it threatens to upend the balance of power in the Middle
East. Egypt's new government has embarked on adventurous. ..

*U.S.-born cleric was target of Yemen drone strike*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/4Qitk5e- lUw/la-fg- yemen-drones- 20110507, 0,1770626. story>
LA Times 6 May 2011 - The special operations mission targeted Anwar
Awlaki, a cleric suspected of involvement in terrorist plots. He escaped
but two other terrorist suspects were killed. A U.S. drone attack in
Yemen was an attempt to kill Anwar Awlaki, an American-born militant
suspected of involvement in multiple...

*Tens of thousands protest across Syria*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/SASxRxpyv- 0/la-fg-syria- protests- 20110507, 0,5413069. story>
LA Times 6 May 2011 - Despite a security crackdown, demonstrators hold a
'day of defiance' against President Bashar Assad in a dozen cities after
Friday prayers. Witnesses, online videos and tweets report gunfire by
government forces. Demonstrations spread to numerous Syrian cities
Friday, with thousands braving a security crackdown in...

*New York Times* <http://nytimes. com/pages/ world/middleeast />

*Libya Strikes Fuel Supply in City Held by Rebels*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=d3fe118673730b 31363d663a6441ad 9a>
New York Times 7 May 2011 - An attack has threatened Misurata's energy
stores, but it's unclear how much was lost.

*As Syria Steps Up Efforts to Crush Unrest, Dissidents Report Attack on
a City*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=90c4672d70bff5 c0f75592b53b38e5 27>
New York Times 7 May 2011 - Troops backed by tanks stormed Baniyas, a
city on Syria's Mediterranean coast, on Saturday besieging neighborhoods
and cutting electricity and phone lines.

*Face That Screamed War's Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=370e6c3c866036 4d0e9006dd83199b ed>
New York Times 7 May 2011 - At 5 years old, photographs of Samar Hassan,
screaming and splattered in blood, illuminated the horror of civilian
casualties in Iraq.

*Land Mines Descend on Misurata's Port, Endangering Libyan City's Supply
Route*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=ecfed20b1bc22a 6c42fe1f479b1ba5 db>
New York Times 7 May 2011 - Forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi
scattered land mines on the city's port, threatening once more to close
the only route for evacuation and supplies.

*A Scattering of Protests Honoring Bin Laden*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=7f0e5200b92051 c00faa474486f3bb e8>
New York Times 7 May 2011 - About 200 demonstrators gathered outside the
United States Embassy Friday to protest manifestations of what they
called American hostility to Muslims.

*Al Qaeda Confirms Bin Laden's Death*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=fa94eb6e2c155f ad37e92128144b83 7a>
New York Times 7 May 2011 - Al Qaeda released a statement on militant
Web sites Friday confirming the death of Osama bin Laden, news agencies
reported.

*Misc* <http://vtjp. org/aboutus/ aboutus.htm>

*Washington funnels confiscated Libyan assets to "rebel" leadership*
<http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2011/may2011/ liby-m06. shtml>
WSWS - The illegality of the Obama administration' s moves to use Libya's
national wealth to keep the so-called rebel leadership afloat
underscores the colonial character of the US-NATO war to oust Muammar
Gaddafi.

*Petition launched in support of Tony Kushner at CUNY*
<http://jewishvoicef orpeace.org/ blog/petition- launched- in-support- of-tony-kushner- at-cuny>
Jewish Voice for Peace -

*Jewish groups unite to call for open debate at CUNY, US campuses*
<http://jewishvoicef orpeace.org/ blog/jewish- groups-unite- to-call-for- open-debate- at-cuny-us- campuses>
Jewish Voice for Peace -

*'Geronimo EKIA'-- as Indian wars continue in Palestine*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 05/geronimo- ekia-as-indian- wars-continue- in-palestine. html>
Mondoweiss - When U.S. military officials chose the code name Geronimo
for Osama Bin Laden-- and then bulletined his death as Geronimo EKIA
(Enemy Killed in Action)-- they unwittingly cast a harsh historical
light on the United States, its ally Israel, and both states' deplorable
treatment of their...

*Obama's to-do list: Free Pollard in May so he can travel safely to
Israel in June*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 05/obamas- to-do-list- free-pollard- in-may-so- he-can-travel- safely-to- israel-in- june.html>
Mondoweiss - Yesterday Weiss had breakfast in Berkeley with Jeff
Blankfort, who laid out the following scenario. Weiss's notes. I
generally do not make predictions. Though I do have a check from a
former CIA guy for $10 because I said there would be no attack on Iran....

*From Tahrir Square to Palestine*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1798>
Palestine Monitor - Demonstrators in Cairo call for a free Palestine. -
News / 2nd-col-1st- article , International solidarity , Right to entry ,
Gaza , Palestinian unity

*Former Mossad chief says 'Atlantic Magazine' Iran scenario is stupidest
idea he ever heard*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 05/former- mossad-chief- says-atlantic- magazine- iran-scenario- is-stupidest- idea-he-ever- heard.html>
Mondoweiss - Last fall the Atlantic Magazine ran a piece titled The
Point of No Return, stating that an Israeli attack on Iran was a likely
scenario. It was written by Jeffrey Goldberg, who once served in the
Israeli military, and was a transparent effort to pressure the...

*'FT' architect says Israeli intolerance has 'spoilt' Jerusalem*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 05/ft-architect- says-israeli- intolerance- has-spoilt- jerusalem. html>
Mondoweiss - Changing discourse. Financial Times architecture columnist
Edwin Heathcote on the "best and worst" cities in the world to live in,
today's paper. Thanks to Irma: Jerusalem I know, I know -- beautiful,
holy, history lingers in its every shady corner. Yet the treatment of
Arabs as...

*Israelis violently break up unity rally on occupied land*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 05/israelis- violently- break-up- unity-rally- on-occupied- land.html>
Mondoweiss - From the Palestine Project: Hebron: Three members of the
Beit Ommar National Committee against the Wall and Settlements were
injured this afternoon in a demonstration near the Israeli Karmei Tsur
settlement. Yousef Abu Marya, age 36, (holding up his right arm in photo
above) had his...

*Hamas' Meshal Offers New Pragmatism, Renounces Violence (For Now)*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/rhAnZjpZIZs />
Tikun Olam - Khaled Meshal discusses Palestinian unity agreement and
Hamas approach toward resisting Occupation (David Degner/WSJ) In an
interview with the Wall Street Journal , Hamas' Khaled Meshal offered a
newly pragmatic, consensus-driven Hamas approach to its Fatah
collaborators and to Israel. Of course, the proof is in the...

*CUNY Trustee Chair Confirms Kushner to Receive Honorary Degree*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/kHQphqtB9pE />
Tikun Olam - Benno Schmidt: CUNY board to do right thing (finally) by
Kushner The NY Times reports as of an hour ago, that Dr. Benno Schmidt,
chair of the CUNY board of trustees, is moving to reinstate Tony
Kushner's honorary degree. In the story, Schmidt acknowledges that a...

*Wiesenfeld Calls Kushner 'Kapo,' 'Jewish Anti-Semite' *
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/PkC17B- xLYw/>
Tikun Olam - UPDATE : The NY Times reports that Dr. Benno Schmidt, chair
of the CUNY board of trustees, is moving to reinstate Tony Kushner's
honorary degree. In the story, Schmidt acknowledges that a wrong was
done to Kushner, that the board made a "mistake of principle," and that...

*Misc 2* <http://vtjp. org/news/ news.php>

*Three Injured in Demonstration near Karmei Tsur*
<http://palestinesol idarityproject. org/2011/ 05/07/three- injured-in- demonstration- near-karmei- tsur/>
Palestine Solidarity Project 7 May 2011 - Three Popular Committee
members were injured in a demonstration near Karmei Tsur on the
afternoon of Saturday, May 7th. A small group of international and
Israeli solidarity activists had gathered in Beit Ommar to join village
residents in a nonviolent protest organized by the Popular Committee... .

*Egyptian court postpones hearing of lawsuit against Olmert*
<http://www.middleea stmonitor. org.uk/news/ middle-east/ 2314-egyptian- court-postpones- hearing-of- lawsuit-against- olmert>
Middle East Monitor 6 May 2011 - The Compensations Department of Cairo
North Court has postponed the hearing of a lawsuit filed against former
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the head of Israeli television,
to June 27th. The lawsuit has been filed by families of Egyptian
prisoners of war killed by the Israeli...

*Palestinian youth form coalition to protect reconciliation agreement*
<http://www.middleea stmonitor. org.uk/news/ middle-east/ 2313-palestinian -youth-form- coalition- to-protect- reconciliation- agreement>
Middle East Monitor 6 May 2011 - A Palestinian youth group has launched
a campaign aimed at protecting the Palestinian national reconciliation
agreement signed in Cairo on Wednesday, May 4th, during a ceremony
attended by all Palestinian factions. The campaign organizers have said
that they decided to form the 'Coalition for the Protection.. .

*The weight of Jewish nationalism in Nabi Saleh*
<http://josephdana. com/2011/ 05/the-weight- of-jewish- nationalism- in-nabi-saleh/ ?utm_source= rss&utm_medium= rss&utm_campaign =the-weight- of-jewish- nationalism- in-nabi-saleh>
Joseph Dana 7 May 2011 - Palestinians suffer from Tear Gas in Nabi
Saleh. Photo: Joseph Dana Getting to Nabi Saleh is not easy. The army
closes all entrances very early on a Friday, the day which has seen
demonstrations taking place for the past two years. This forces Israeli
and international. ..

*Ehud Barak acknowledges the impact of BDS*
<http://josephdana. com/2011/ 05/ehud-barak- acknowledges- the-impact- of-bds/?utm_ source=rss& utm_medium= rss&utm_campaign =ehud-barak- acknowledges- the-impact- of-bds>
Joseph Dana 7 May 2011 - In an interview yesterday with the liberal
daily Haaretz (Hebrew), Defense Minister Ehud Barak acknowledged the
impact of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement on Israel
and the unsustainable nature of Israeli Occupation. Barak believes that
a UN declaration of Palestinian statehood without a prior Israeli
political initiative will paint Israel into a...

*Syrian tanks 'enter protest city'*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13320326>
BBC 7 May 2011 - Troops and tanks are reported to have moved into the
Syrian city of Baniyas, a centre of anti-government protests, with
reports of six people killed.

*Egypt groups hold first meeting*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13319696>
BBC 7 May 2011 - More than 2,000 political activists meet in Egypt to
try to create a unified, secular movement to press for deeper democratic
reforms ahead of an election scheduled for September.

*Row at the top*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13312907>
BBC 7 May 2011 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes on Iran's clerics

*Changing times*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13293264>
BBC 6 May 2011 - Arab Spring poses challenges for Israeli leader

*Israel's Future*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/SabbahsBlog /%7E3/mHd- rma4bOg/>
Sabbah report 7 May 2011 - Ending the occupation doesn't mean anything
if it doesn't mean upending the Jewish State itself. Democracy in
Palestine/Israel and the realization of full human and political rights
there for Palestinians means the end of Jewish privilege in my birth
country.

*As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Does Not Speak For Me*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/SabbahsBlog /%7E3/39frpNKdVR k/>
Sabbah report 7 May 2011 - Members of Congress will converge to hail
AIPAC and Israel. It helps to keep the Middle East in a perpetual state
of war. AIPAC pretends to speak for all Jews, but it certainly does not
speak for me or other members of the Jewish community in...

*Articles*

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*Government quietly funds KKK-like organizations*
<http://972mag. com/government- quietly-funds- kkk-like- organizations/>
Yossi Gurvitz, +972 Magazine 5/7/2011
/The government funds an ultra-racist organization, which campaigns
against "miscegenation" and assimilation/
The LHVH ("Preventing assimilation in the Holy Land") organization
made a lot of headlines in recent months, much due to the very active MK
Tzippi Hotovely (Likud). It is hyperactive in preventing "miscegenation
marriages" and preventing the pure daughters of Israel from soiling
themselves in contact with non-Jews. It is also rather quick to support
the lynching of non-Jews (Hebrew), even if the lynching has nothing to
do with assimilation/ "miscegenation" .
In this weekend's Haaretz supplement, Uri Blau and Shay Greenberg
show (Hebrew) that LHVH, which is an admittedly Kahanist organization,
receives indirect funding from the government. It is funded by the
Khemla association, which in turn receives funds from the Welfare Ministry.
Originally, note Blau and Greenberg, Khemla was in fact a welfare
association, but in 2002 it amended its goals and added two new
articles: "Aiding girls from broken homes who are facing the danger of
forced conversion (i.e., assimilation; U.B. and S.G.) and falling into a
life of crime, by rehabilitating them in an apartment and by providing
them with sociological and psychological help to re-enter Jewish
society"; the other was "Aiding the hill people [i.e., extreme settlers
-- YZG] in Judea, Samaria and Gaza".
The leaders of Khemla are prominent Kahanists. One of them, Levi
Hazan, spent six months in prison -- a rather severe sentence when it
comes to Jewish terrorists -- for his part in an attack on a Palestinian
bus, which wounded six. Others of Khemla's leaders were held in
administrative detention, which is rather unusual for Jews....more. .
<http://972mag. com/government- quietly-funds- kkk-like- organizations/>e-mail
<mailto:?subject= Government% 20quietly% 20funds%20KKK- like%20organizat ions%20&body= Government% 20quietly% 20funds%20KKK- like%20organizat ions%20-- %20http://972mag. com/government- quietly-funds- kkk-like- organizations/ %20--%20link% 20courtesy% 20www.vtjp. org>

*The rights of Israel*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 05/2011568421853 3873.html>
Joseph Massad, Al Jazeera 5/6/2011
/Israel's "lawfare" against the Palestinian people is rooted in a
ficticious narrative of having a "right" to exist./
The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, now entering their twentieth
year had been hailed from the start as historic, having inaugurated a
"peace process" that would resolve what is commonly referred to as the
"Palestinian- Israeli conflict". For the Palestinians and the
international community, represented by the United Nations and the
myriad resolutions its Security Council and General Assembly issued
since 1948, what was to be negotiated were the colonisation of land, the
occupation of territory and population, and the laws that stipulate
ethnic and religious discrimination in Israel, which, among other
things, bar Palestinian refugees from returning to their land and
confiscate their property. In their struggle against these Israeli
practises, Palestinian leaders, whether in Israel, the Occupied
Territories, or the diaspora, have always invoked these rights based on
international law and UN resolutions, which Israel has consistently
refused to implement or abide by since 1948. Thus for the Palestinians,
armed by the UN and international law, the negotiations were precisely
aimed to end colonisation, occupation, and discrimination.
On the other hand, one of the strongest and persistent arguments
that the Zionist movement and Israel have deployed since 1948 in defence
of the establishment of Israel and its subsequent policies is the
invocation of the rights of Israel, which are not based on international
law or UN resolutions. This is a crucial distinction to be made between
the Palestinian and Israeli claims to possession of "rights." While the
Palestinians invoke rights that are internationally recognised, Israel
invokes rights that are solely recognised at the national level by the
Israeli state itself. For Zionism, this was a novel mode of
argumentation as, in deploying it, Israel invokes not only juridical
principles but also moral ones.more..
<http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 05/2011568421853 3873.html>e-mail
<mailto:?subject= The%20rights% 20of%20Israel% 20&body=The% 20rights% 20of%20Israel% 20--%20http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 05/2011568421853 3873.html% 20--%20link% 20courtesy% 20www.vtjp. org>

*Tony Kushner and the changing discourse on Israel in the US*
<http://972mag. com/tony- kushner-and- the-changing- discourse- on-israel- in-the-us/>
Jerry Haber, +972 Magazine 5/7/2011
/Acclaimed playwright was denied an honorary degrees from CUNY due to
his views on Israel, but the decision generated a fierce backlash/
Tony Kushner believes that Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing at
the founding of the state. He is an advisory board member of Jewish
Voice for Peace, which has shown solidarity with the Global Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions, a movement that has been painted by its
critics as aiming to destroy the State of Israel. JVP has endorsed a
partial BDS campaign, focusing on the settlements. Kushner says that he
opposes BDS, but he supports (and has gathered support for) the Israeli
artist boycott of the settlement Ariel, together with other
distinguished artists in this country. This partial boycott is taboo in
the organized Jewish community and is not endorsed by the liberal
Zionist group, J Street.
Because of Kushner's views, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a CUNY trustee,
who views himself as moderate on Israel, willing to support honorary
degrees to moderate critics of Israel, opposed awarding Kushner an
honorary degree. The other trustees, not wishing to engage in
controversy, and probably looking at their watches, voted to table (in
the US, that means to postpone) a decision on Kushner, effectively
denying him the award this year.
The only people who have rallied so far to Wiesenfeld's support
have been hardline rightwingers like Jonathan Tobin of Commentary and
Andrea Levin of CAMERA. Liberal hawks like Jeffrey Goldberg have blasted
Wiesenfeld, and former New York mayor Ed Koch, who once was liberal, has
called upon Wiesenfeld to resign from the Board of Trustees. And the New
York Times has, in effect, started a campaign on behalf of Mr.
Kushner.more. .
<http://972mag. com/tony- kushner-and- the-changing- discourse- on-israel- in-the-us/>e-mail
<mailto:?subject= Tony%20Kushner% 20and%20the% 20changing% 20discourse% 20on%20Israel% 20in%20the% 20US%20&body= Tony%20Kushner% 20and%20the% 20changing% 20discourse% 20on%20Israel% 20in%20the% 20US%20-- %20http://972mag. com/tony- kushner-and- the-changing- discourse- on-israel- in-the-us/ %20--%20link% 20courtesy% 20www.vtjp. org>

*In Gaza, hope that words of unity will become real*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/H4RdhSwQhg8/ 9920>
Electronic Intifada: 6 May 2011 - Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada
Gaza City Palestinians in Gaza poured into the streets of Gaza City on
Wednesday to celebrate the signing of a national reconciliation
agreement in Cairo that same day. But amidst the high hope was
trepidation that unity aspirations would not be realized on the
ground.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/H4RdhSwQhg8/ 9920>

*Bin Laden and the Palestinians*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/mkaiwTny- Dc/9922>
Electronic Intifada: 6 May 2011 - Ghada Karmi The Electronic Intifada
Killing Osama Bin Laden might have been sweet revenge and given a boost
to President Obama's re-election chances. But the US ' disregard for the
consequences its actions have recalls the Palestinian example to
mind.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/mkaiwTny- Dc/9922>

*From Tahrir Square to Palestine*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1798>
Palestine Monitor: 7 May 2011 - Demonstrators in Cairo call for a free
Palestine. - News / 2nd-col-1st- article , International solidarity ,
Right to entry , Gaza , Palestinian unitymore
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1798>

*The European Union must support the Palestinian reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1797>
Palestine Monitor: 6 May 2011 - The ECCP calls upon the EU to firmly
support the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to
self-determination, and its fundamental rights as enshrined by the UN
Charter and UN relevant resolutions. - Press release /
4th-col-1st- article , International solidaritymore
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1797>

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1376

Sun May 8, 2011 8:19 pm (PDT)

***Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*

*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*Detained Legislator Receives Extended Administrative Detention Order*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61199>
IMEMC - Monday May 09, 2011 - 02:23, The Israeli Prison Authorities
decided to renew the administrative detention order against elected
legislator, Dr. Mahmoud Al Ramahi, for additional six months. Al Ramahi
was placed under administrative detention, without charges, six months
ago and was supposed to be released on Monday.

*Settlers Attack Wadi Al Hilwa, Demand Bedouin Residents To Leave*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61198>
IMEMC - Monday May 09, 2011 - 02:01, A group of extremist armed Israeli
settlers attacked, on Sunday evening, Wadi Al Hilwa area in the northern
plains of the West Bank, and demanding local Bedouins to leave the area.

*Haniyya: "Gaza Reconstruction TO Start Under Qatari and Egyptian
Support"* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61197>
IMEMC - Sunday May 08, 2011 - 13:19, Prime Minister of the deposed
government in Gaza, Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyya, stated that his
government was made by the Prince of Qatar and the Egyptian leaders, and
that the reconstruction will start as soon as possible.

*Masked Gunmen Execute A Suspected Collaborator Near Ramallah*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61196>
IMEMC - Sunday May 08, 2011 - 09:56, A group of gunmen killed on
Saturday at night a resident from Al Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the
central West bank city of Ramallah, believed to be a collaborator with
Israel's army and its intelligence services.

*Palestinian Territories Placed Under Strict Siege*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61195>
IMEMC - Sunday May 08, 2011 - 09:28, The Israeli Authorities placed the
occupied Palestinian territories under a full and strict closure as it
marks its "Memorial Day", an official day in Israel dedicated for
Israeli soldiers killed due to the Palestinian- Israeli and Arab-Israeli
conflict.

*Israeli Officials Call For "Reoccupying" the West Bank*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61194>
IMEMC - Sunday May 08, 2011 - 09:14, As the Palestinian leadership is
gaining momentum among the international community in its intention to
declare an independent state at the United Nations, several Israeli
leaders started calling for isolating President Mahmoud Abbas and for
redeploying the Israeli forces in Palestinian areas controlled by the
Palestinian Authority.

*Palestinian Detainees To Start Escalating Hunger Strike*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61193>
IMEMC - Sunday May 08, 2011 - 09:03, Palestinian Detainees imprisoned in
four Israeli detention facilities held a hunger strike on Saturday, as
part of the gradually escalating hunger strike demanding the prison
administration to release several detainees from solitary confinement.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Beit Ummar: Residents celebrating unity say attacked by soldiers*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385885>
5/8/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces violently shut down a rally
celebrating Palestinian national unity in Beit Ummar near Hebron on
Saturday, injuring several protesters, locals said. During the
celebration, demonstrators held signs stating "Unity is our strength"
and "Unity = Liberty" in an event marking the signing of an agreement in
Cairo reconciling Hamas and....

*Detainees protest solitary confinement*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385577>
5/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinians detained in Israeli jails
declared a hunger strike Saturday to demand the release of prisoners
from solitary confinement, the Ministry of Detainees in Gaza said. The
ministry said detainees would go on a two-day hunger strike every week
until Israeli prison authorities released Palestinians from solitary
confinement, some of....

*Israel seals West Bank for national holiday*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385685>
5/8/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli troops will seal off the West
Bank for three days starting Sunday as Israel celebrates the 63rd
anniversary of its founding, the army said Saturday. The Israeli
military said the closure was imposed "in accordance with the directives
of the Minister of Defense," in a statement. Israel routinely imposes
tight....

*Young Palestinians to form 'shadow cabinet'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385800>
5/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip say
they will form a "shadow cabinet" once the transitional government has
been formed. The group is consulting with youth organizations in Gaza
and the West Bank to form the cabinet, which it says will mirror the
cabinet in the technocratic government currently being....

*Independents: 'Huge' efforts to stop political arrests*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385884>
5/8/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- There are "huge" efforts being made by
leaders of the Palestinian factions involved in the Cairo reconciliation
deal, independent delegate Khalil Asaf told Ma'an on Saturday. The
officials spoke while on a visit to the government-run Al-Junied Prison
in Nablus, where many of those said to be political prisoners... .

*PA condemns demolition of Bedouin village*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385956>
5/8/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority demanded Sunday
the "immediate end to the continued acts of violence, displacement, and
destruction carried out by the Israeli forces against Susiya
residents."Referrin g to the demolition of 12 tent homes in the village
of Amniyr, a tiny herding hamlet of Bedouins south of Susiya in the
Hebron....

*One killed in a Jerusalem gunfight*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385968>
5/8/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Four armed men opened fire on an East
Jerusalem resident near a restaurant in the town Al-Eizariya on Sunday,
witnesses said. The target, Samir Muheisen, sustained ten gunshot wounds
to the torso and medics said he was declared dead in hospital. Clashes
erupted in an area east of the incident, in....

*Egypt studies reopening consulate in Gaza, official says*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385951>
5/8/2011 - RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Ma'an) -- Gaza's caretaker Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Planning Mohammad Awad told Ma'an on Sunday that
Egypt's transitional leadership was seriously studying the option of
opening a consulate in Gaza City to facilitate communication with Gaza
officials. An office in the coastal enclave, the....

*Haniyeh plans to revive building projects*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385612>
5/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh said
Saturday that his administration would continue to work in the service
of Palestinians until the appointment of a transitional government.
Speaking at the opening of a new health center in Gaza City, Haniyeh
said his government planned to revive building projects, part of the
administration. ...

*Rights group calls for end to executions in Gaza*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385955>
5/8/2011 - GAZA CITY -- The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights called
Sunday for an end to executions carried out without due judicial
process, and urged "respect for the law" in a statement. The statement
said the Wednesday execution of a man identified only as AS, "violates
Palestinian Criminal Procedures, (Law 3/2001), which stipulates that the
Palestinian. ...

*Islamic Jihad accuses PA of targeting members for arrest*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385992>
5/8/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Five Islamic Jihad affiliates were
detained for political reasons, officials from within the movement
accused Palestinian Authority officials in a statement released on
Sunday."Such arrests are poisoning the conciliation atmosphere," a
statement said, adding that a continuation of political arrests in the
wake of the signing of a unity deal....

*Limited goods to enter Gaza via Kerem Shalom*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385690>
5/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities opened the Kerem
Shalom crossing for limited imports into the Gaza Strip on Sunday,
officials said. Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said Israeli
would permit around 280 truckloads of goods, including humanitarian aid,
to enter the coastal enclave. Ten trucks would bring cement for
construction projects sponsored by....

*Sources: Iranian former defense minister in Israeli jail*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385674>
5/8/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Former Iranian deputy defense minister
Ali Riza Asghari has been detained in Israel since his abduction by the
Mossad in 2006, sources told Ma'an. The sources said Israeli authorities
had imposed a gag order on the country's media forbidding them from
reporting details of the case. Iranian....

*European Commission to allocate EUR85 million for PA salaries*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385332>
5/8/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The European Commission Friday announced
the approval of a $121. 85 million financial package for the Palestinian
Authority, said to be for the salaries and pensions of PA civil
servants. The decision comes as Israel continues to withhold tax
revenues paid by Palestinians for goods imported into Palestinian areas,
which are....

*West Bank-Jordan crossing to see reduced hours Mon.*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385993>
5/8/2011 - JERICHO (Ma'an) -- The Allenby Bridge border crossing between
the West Bank and Jordan will be open from 8:00 a. m. until 4:00 p. m.
on Monday, closing early as Israel observes its Independence Day,
Palestinian officials said. The Palestinian police department in Jericho
announced the curtailed hours on Sunday, noting that....

*Study: EU aid policy on Arab world failing*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385707>
5/8/2011 - BRUSSELS (AFP) -- The EU must offer more trade incentives to
Arab nations in exchange for true democratic progress after its aid
system proved a failure, a study said Sunday just as the EU eyes a
policy overhaul. After giving billions of euros to authoritarian regimes
for years, the European Union should threaten to suspend aid....

*Convicted Iranian film-makers to feature at Cannes*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385721>
5/8/2011 - PARIS (AFP) -- Films by two convicted Iranian directors,
Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, made in "semi-clandestine
conditions," will be shown at this month's Cannes film festival,
organizers said Saturday. Panahi's "In Film Nist" ("This is not a
Film"), will be included in the official selection and screened on May
20, a....

*Syrian forces launch deadly raid on hotbed city*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385728>
5/8/2011 - DAMASCUS (AFP) -- Syrian forces rained gunfire on Banias as
they pushed ahead with an assault on the restive port, killing six
people, activists said, as President Bashar Al-Assad's opponents called
for elections to end the crisis. Activists said dozens of tanks and
armored vehicles entered Banias, on the Mediterranean coast, from three
directions.. ..

*Gadhafi steps up assault on rebels across Libya*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385735>
5/8/2011 - BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) -- Moammar Gadhafi's troops unleashed a
salvo of Grad rockets on towns in Libya's western mountains, and
destroyed key fuel supplies in a move that could aggravate a desperate
humanitarian crisis. At least nine rebels were killed and 50 others were
wounded in fierce clashes in the northwestern town....

*Crisis talks in Cairo over sectarian strife*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385828>
5/8/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt's cabinet was in crisis talks on Sunday
and the prime minister delayed a Gulf visit after Cairo clashes between
Muslims and Christians killed 10 people, injured at least 100 and set a
church ablaze. Prime Minister Essam Sharaf had called the meeting to
discuss "the regrettable events in Imbaba", Ahmed....

*Bin Laden's Pakistan 'farm' had rustic charm*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385833>
5/8/2011 - ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AFP) - Three women, 12 children, cows,
rabbits and chickens all hid behind the high wall where Osama bin Laden
carved out a family life, set to the gentle rhythm of changing seasonal
crops outside his gate. Mobile phone video footage taken Tuesday by a
Pakistani soldier offered a final glimpse into a life....

*Egypt says 'iron hand' to halt religious unrest*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385995>
5/8/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt's government warned Sunday it will use
an "iron hand" to ensure national security after clashes between Muslims
and Christians in Cairo killed 12 people and injured scores. Authorities
would "strike with an iron hand all those who seek to tamper with the
nation's security," Justice Minister Abdel Aziz....

*Aljazeera* <http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/>

**
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ asia-pacific/ 2011/05/20115905 314956874. html>*Syria
blames 'armed gangs' for deadly attack*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115821 4750476376. html>
AlJazeera 8 May 2011 - Government says 10 people were killed in bus
ambush near central city of Homs.

*Egypt vows to tackle interfaith violence*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115818 418692384. html>
AlJazeera 8 May 2011 - Tough measures promised following
Christian-Muslim clashes that have killed 12 people and led to scores of
arrests.

**
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ europe/2011/ 05/2011582034995 543.html>*Police
kill demonstrators in Yemen*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115819 716561359. html>
AlJazeera 8 May 2011 - Toll rises as groups leading protests call on
Gulf Arab states to pressure Saleh to step down as president.

*Scores held in Egypt after sectarian clashes*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115722 2446186609. html>
AlJazeera 8 May 2011 - At least 230 people injured in violence between
Muslims and Christians that has left 12 people dead in Cairo.

*Bahrain's king orders end to emergency rule*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115813 42480276. html>
AlJazeera 8 May 2011 - Royal decree, due to take effect on June 1, comes
as 21 opposition activists appear in a special security court.

*Iraqi al-Qaeda leader killed in jail fight*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115873 348375189. html>
AlJazeera 8 May 2011 - Abu Huzaifa Al Batawi and up to 15 others shot
dead after prisoners try to overpower their guards in Baghdad prison.

*Tensions rise amid Iran political feud*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115862 15573920. html>
AlJazeera 8 May 2011 - Dispute between president and country's supreme
leader intensifies, amid reports of Ahmadinejad' s possible resignation.

*24 year old man from Iraq Burin shot by teargas canister at close
range* <http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 05/18197/>
5/8/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - Yesterday afternoon, 24
year old Abdalah Aadus from the village of Iraq Burin was taken to
hospital after being shot in the side by a teargas canister which was
fired from close range. Abdalah had been participating in a
demonstration against the theft of his village's agricultural land by
settlers. At 15. 00.... Related:Iraq Burin <http://iraqburin. wordpress. com/>

*Alternative Information Center* <http://alternativen ews.org/>

*Concluding Declaration of the Conference: A Joint Struggle for an End
to the Occupation and Racism*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ news/3578- concluding- declaration- of-the-conferenc e-a-joint- struggle- for-an-end- to-the-occupatio n-and-racism->
Alternative Information Center - Towards ending Israeli occupation and
the racist policies Towards a strategy of joint solidarity work to
support the struggle of the Palestinian people

*AIC Video: Interview with Hamas on Palestinian Reconciliation*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ news/3575- aic-video- interview- with-hamas- on-palestinian- reconciliation>
Alternative Information Center - As Fatah and Hamas officials signed a
reconciliation agreement on May 4 in Cairo, the AIC spoke with
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Muhammad Totah from Hamas.

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*Egypt follows up Palestinian reconciliation deal*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400569>
Relief Web 8 May 2011 - Source: Government of Egypt Country: occupied
Palestinian territory Egypt is closely eyeing the implementation of the
Palestinian reconciliation agreement that was signed in Cairo on
Wednesday, a high-level Egyptian official said on Saturday 7/5/2011.
Egypt is holding contacts with all...

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Israel arrests Palestinians in Hebron*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9114-israel- arrests-palestin ians-in-hebron. html>
8 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal telegraph)-Five Palestinians were detained
Sunday after raiding their homes in the towns of Deir Samt and Tarqumia
in the West Bank city of Hebron.

*Settlers attempt to abduct 2 Palestinian children in Hebron*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9113-settlers- attempt-to- abduct-2- palestinian- children- in-hebron. html>
8 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-About 20 Israeli settlers
attempted yesterday to abduct two Palestinian children who were playing
in front of their homes central Hebron.

*Israel injures 4 Palestinian protestors in Beit Ummer*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9112-israel- injures-4- palestinian- protestors- in-beit-ummer. html>
8 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- At least, four Palestinians
including a child were injured yesterday as Israeli forces attacked the
weekly protest held in Beit Ummer town in the north of Hebron, in the
occupied West Bank.

*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>

*Ex-Mossad chief sparks furore by calling possible Israeli strike in
Iran 'stupid'*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ ex-mossad- chief-sparks- furore-by- calling-possible -israeli- strike-in- iran-stupid>
The National 8 May 2011 - Statement by Meir Dagan that it would be
difficult for Israel¿s air force to carry out an effective attack on
Iran¿s nuclear programme, and any such strike was likely to trigger a
regional war, is blasted by Israeli ministers.

*Violence and killings continue to drive Iraq's academics away*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ violence- and-killings- continue- to-drive- iraqs-academics- away>
The National 8 May 2011 - More than 300 academics have been killed in
Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, while more than
30,000 attacks against educational institutions have occurred.

*Osama bin Laden's mother-in-law 'collapsed and died on news of his
death'*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ osama-bin- ladens-mother- in-law-collapsed -and-died- on-news-of- his-death>
The National 8 May 2011 - Nabiha Ossman, mother of Najwa Ibrahim Ghanem,
the girl bin Laden married when he was 17, and grandmother to 11 of his
children, who lived in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, was in her
early 70s and said to have been healthy.

*Anti-terror chief among 18 killed in attempted Baghdad jail escape*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ anti-terror- chief-among- 18-killed- in-attempted- baghdad-jail- escape>
The National 8 May 2011 - Top al Qa'eda militant Abu Huthaifa al Battawi
shot dead trying to flee in stolen police car after killing Brigadier
Muaeid Mohammed Saleh, who led an anti-terrorism and organised crime
division in eastern Baghdad,

*Military prosecutor charges 21 with attempt to overthrow Bahrain
monarchy*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ military- prosecutor- charges-21- with-attempt- to-overthrow- bahrain-monarchy>
The National 8 May 2011 - Those charged include Shiite opposition
leaders such as Hassan Mushaima, the leader of Al Haq movement, and some
of its senior members , including Abdul Jalil al Sangaece.

*Pirates' shift north means good business for Salalah*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ pirates-shift- north-means- good-business- for-salalah>
The National 8 May 2011 - Somali pirates are increasingly venturing
north to the Omani coast and the key shipping lanes of the northern
Indian Ocean, and the Omani port of Salalah has seen record numbers of
visitors as pirate hunters and security firms use it as a base

*Egyptian government pledges 'iron hand' after churches firebombed*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ egyptian- government- pledges-iron- hand-after- churches- firebombed>
The National 8 May 2011 - Clashes between Muslims and Christians leave
at least 10 people dead and hundreds injured amid rising concerns that
security vacuum in Egypt after the removal of Hosni Mubarak has left
Coptic minority vulnerable to assaults from Islamists.

*Government tanks and troops storm into Syrian cities*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ government- tanks-and- troops-storm- into-syrian- cities>
The National 8 May 2011 - 'Total blackout on numbers of dead and
injured', with telecommunications and electricity repeatedly being cut
within districts targeted by military, human rights group says.

*Kuwait swears in new government after weeks of political paralysis*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ kuwait-swears- in-new-governmen t-after-weeks- of-political- paralysis>
The National 8 May 2011 - Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al Sabah choosese six
new faces out of 16, as opponents complain that ministers that caused
trouble which led to last government's resignation have been brought back.

*Ahmadinejad support under threat*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ ahmadinejad- support-under- threat>
The National 7 May 2011 - President's backing of Mashaie ends friendly
relationship with the ayatollah as allies are arrested for 'supernatural
and occult powers'.

*Ha'aretz* <http://haaretz. com/>

*Egypt pushing Hamas to soften stance on Shalit deal*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ egypt-pushing- hamas-to- soften-stance- on-shalit- deal-1.360607>
Ha'aretz - Report: Hamas agrees in principle to new proposal; Hamas
expected to compromise in order to gain popularity ahead of Palestinian
elections.

*Peres at official Memorial Day service: Israel is as strong as ever*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/peres- at-official- memorial- day-service- israel-is- as-strong- as-ever-1. 360553>
Ha'aretz - Speaking at the official Memorial Day ceremony at the Western
Wall in Jerusalem, the president says that Israel hasn't had the
possibility to lose 'even one war.'

*Report: Bin Laden warned U.S. over security of Palestine in final tape*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/report- bin-laden- warned-u- s-over-security- of-palestine- in-final- tape-1.360595>
Ha'aretz - AFP, quoting an Islamist website, says the al-Qaida chief
condemned U.S. support for Israel in his final audio recording before he
was killed.

*Hamas leader urges West to back Palestinian unity deal*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/hamas- leader-urges- west-to-back- palestinian- unity-deal- 1.360587>
Ha'aretz - Khaled Meshaal says in interview that Palestinians need
'resistance in all forms, armed and public ones' and that recognizing
Israel could only be addressed after an independent Palestinian state is
set up.

*Israel considers seeking foreign assistance for jet fuel contamination
crisis*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ israel-considers -seeking- foreign-assistan ce-for-jet- fuel-contaminati on-crisis- 1.360612>
Ha'aretz - Israel contacts three chemical laboratories abroad after U.S.
Air Force laboratory in Frankfurt refused to test material sent to them
by Israeli firm Paz Oil.

*Bereaved families petition for break between Memorial and Independence
days*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ bereaved- families- petition- for-break- between-memorial -and-independenc e-days-1. 360620>
Ha'aretz - On their way home from cemeteries and memorial ceremonies,
the bereaved encounter roads closed due to preparations for Independence
Day, says petition, adding that these families cannot make the quick
switch from mourning to celebration.

*State expected to oppose Katsav request to put off jail time for rape
conviction*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ state-expected- to-oppose- katsav-request- to-put-off- jail-time- for-rape- conviction- 1.360615>
Ha'aretz - Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein meets with senior officials
to debate whether Katsav deserves an exemption from the general policy
regarding convicted criminals who appeal their sentence.

*Israel's textbooks in Arabic are full of mistakes, study finds*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ israel-s- textbooks- in-arabic- are-full- of-mistakes- study-finds- 1.360617>
Ha'aretz - A new study finds more than 16,000 mistakes; now the authors
want to see the Education Ministry after school.

*J Street: Israel must move on peace or face prospect of fresh violence*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/j- street-israel- must-move- on-peace- or-face-prospect -of-fresh- violence- 1.360596>
Ha'aretz - Jeremy Ben Ami tells Reuters that only way to delay
Palestinian plan to seek UN backing for statehood is for Netanyahu to
chart clear path to two-state deal.

*Netanyahu at Memorial Day service: We continue to work for Shalit's
return*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/netanyah u-at-memorial- day-service- we-continue- to-work-for- shalit-s- return-1. 360542>
Ha'aretz - Speaking at a special Memorial Day address, the prime
minister says efforts are constantly being made to return kidnapped and
missing soldiers, 'including in ways that may be hidden from view.'

*Report: Hamas agrees to new Egyptian draft for Shalit deal*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/report- hamas-agrees- to-new-egyptian- draft-for- shalit-deal- 1.360519>
Ha'aretz - Citing Palestinian sources, Al Jazeera reports that Egyptian
authorities will present the draft to a new negotiator -- presumably
Israel's -- set to visit Cairo in the coming days.

*Defense officials weigh in after former Mossad chief brands Iran strike
a 'stupid' idea*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/defense- officials- weigh-in- after-former- mossad-chief- brands-iran- strike-a- stupid-idea- 1.360497>
Ha'aretz - Two other former Mossad chiefs back Meir Dagan for expressing
his opinion publicly, while other senior officials say not all points of
view need to be expressed.

*Israel's population stands at 7.746 million on its 63rd birthday*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ israel-s- population- stands-at- 7-746-million- on-its-63rd- birthday- 1.360533>
Ha'aretz - Central Bureau for Statistics reports 2% rise in Israel's
population since last Independence Day.

*On eve of Memorial Day, Barak equates firefighters who died in service
with fallen soldiers*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ on-eve-of- memorial- day-barak- equates-firefigh ters-who- died-in-service- with-fallen- soldiers- 1.360513>
Ha'aretz - Families of the three firefighters battle for recognition of
their relatives in Memorial Day ceremonies; Netanyahu sets up committee
to probe the matter.

*Israel domestic flights resume use of suspect jet fuel after tests show
no danger*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ israel-domestic- flights-resume- use-of-suspect- jet-fuel- after-tests- show-no-danger- 1.360488>
Ha'aretz - Discovery of 'greasy' liquid in fuel had led to mass
disruptions at Ben-Gurion last week, with takeoffs halted and incoming
flights diverted.

*Obama: Bin Laden likely had some support in Pakistan*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ obama-bin- laden-likely- had-some- support-in- pakistan- 1.360583>
Ha'aretz - In an interview with CBS, the president said the Pakistani
government had indicated that it had 'a profound interest in finding out
what kinds of support networks bin Laden might have had.'

*Libya rebel spokesman: NATO troops hit government weapons depots in
Zintan*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ libya-rebel- spokesman- nato-troops- hit-government- weapons-depots- in-zintan- 1.360570>
Ha'aretz - Spokesman also says that rebels in the city of Misrata were
engaged in intense fighting with government forces near the airport,
while fighting in other parts of Libya have reached a stalemate.

*U.S.: No evidence Pakistan knew of Osama bin Laden's presence*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ u-s-no-evidence- pakistan- knew-of-osama- bin-laden- s-presence- 1.360536>
Ha'aretz - Obama administration' s national security adviser says there's
no sign Pakistan's political, military, or intelligence leadership knew
where bin Laden was hiding but says the matter needs to be further
investigated.

*Cleanup to take weeks / State considering using dirty, but filtered jet
fuel*
<http://english. themarker. com/cleanup- to-take-weeks- state-considerin g-using-dirty- but-filtered- jet-fuel- 1.360629>
Ha'aretz -

*Leviev's grand opening for flagship AFI Moscow project to feature
half-empty mall*
<http://english. themarker. com/leviev- s-grand-opening- for-flagship- afi-moscow- project-to- feature-half- empty-mall- 1.360635>
Ha'aretz -

*Fired CEO of Africa Israel USA suing for 2010 bonus*
<http://english. themarker. com/fired- ceo-of-africa- israel-usa- suing-for- 2010-bonus- 1.360634>
Ha'aretz - Richard Marin wants $1.25m; Africa says he owes them money.

*Toward his natural base*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ israel-s- population- stands-at- 7-746-million- on-its-63rd- birthday- 1.360533>
Ha'aretz - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be shifting
rightward as elections approach. In the meantime, though, he has a
speech to deliver in Washington.

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*Schechter staff declares open-ended strike*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219831& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Salaries restored, but workers want lost
pay at Conservative stream facility.

*Police presence boosted following bin Laden death*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219828& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Concerns over potential revenge attacks
motivate state police to implement heightened security plan for
Memorial, Independence days.

*Galilee Arabs to hold 'Nakba march'*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219825& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Over 1,000 Arab Israelis expected to hold
protest march in Galilee to mourn 63 years since exodus that accompanied
the founding of state.

*Gov't delays decision on recognition for firefighters*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219823& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Yishai had pushed for cabinet to include
the firefighters with a last-minute vote, but was told that there would
be no vote.

*Abbas 'absolutely' still our partner, Peres tells 'Post'*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219822& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Fatah-Hamas accord is "a temporary bridge,"
says president; if world recognizes Palestinian state without addressing
Israel's security needs, "that will mean a continuation of the conflict."

*Man who posed as doctor indicted for hospital rape*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219821& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - While waiting her turn for an ultrasound
examination, Kawasmi allegedly saw the woman and decided to rape her,
according to the indictment.

*Domestic air travel resumes after fuel problem*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219818& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Source and composition of what's found to
be harmless contaminant still unknown.

*PM to US: Send clear message to PA not to join Hamas*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219817& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - In meeting with visiting J Street
delegation, PA president says his preference is for a peace process, not
unilateral declaration.

*The IDF's three (top) amigos*
<http://www.jpost. com/Defense/ Article.aspx? ID=219816& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Trio of Spanish-speaking immigrants are
among 120 soldiers to receive presidential citations of excellence.

*Anglos honor their fallen in battles and terror attacks*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219813& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Hundreds of English speakers attended
evening memorialized Michael Levin, who was killed in the Second Lebanon
War on August 1, 2006.

*PM: We're working in 'unseen ways' to return Schalit*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219812& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - At Remembrance Day ceremony, Netanyahu says
amid Middle East turmoil, "Israel is an island of freedom, democracy and
progress."

*Moussa vows tough Israel policy if elected president*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219811& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Cairo's FM says Egypt gas agreement intact,
but price negotiable; Netanyahu reportedly meets with Qatari PM on new
gas deal

*Baby steps for Israel's birthday*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=219810& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Nefesh B'Nefesh holds a party for 45 little
ones, all born to immigrants from English-speaking countries.

*Moti Fogel attends TA ceremony with Israelis, Palestinians*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219809& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - I "can't use the loss of my brother as a
platform to advance peace," Fogel says at event where victims of both
sides are mourned.

*Analysis: Can Palestinians separate peace, statehood?*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219808& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - The argument that peace and statehood go
together increases the pressure on Netanyahu to find a miracle solution
to the impasse.

*Syrian tanks enter Homs, southern towns*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219807& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Machine gun fire is heard throughout the
city of 1 million; rights groups say at least 800 civilians killed in
seven-week uprising.

*Armed gang kills 10 Syrian civilians*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219802& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Workers were ambushed near Homs while
returning from Lebanon by bus; doctor tells state news agency they were
shot at close range.

*Ovadia Yosef calls on faithful to quit smoking*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=219787& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Shas spiritual leader stresses the
importance and plausibility of quitting if one is already addicted.

*Jabotinsky Institute chairman Tamir dies at 83*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219785& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Receives burial in the Etzel (Irgun) and
Lehi (Stern Group) section of Haifa Cemetery.

*'Bin Laden warned US not to support Israel in last tape'*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=219784& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Islamist website posts purported final
audio recording made by al-Qaida leader: Attacks will continue until
Palestine knows security.

*Hamas's Mashaal urges West to back Palestinian deal*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219783& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - In Reuters interview, Hamas political
leader calls on US and EU to back Hamas-Fatah deal, says resistance
against Israel will continue.

*Peres, Gantz honor nation's fallen soldiers*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219776& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - At Kotel ceremony , President Peres says:
"Our sacrifice has transformed our grief and bound us together into an
exceptional family."

*Nation mourns 22,867 fallen soldiers as siren sounds*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219765& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Remembrance Day for servicemen and women
who lost their lives defending Israel opened by President Peres at
Western Wall; In the past year, 183 soldiers and security personnel died
while serving the state.

*Angeleno launches drive for Schalit billboard near UN*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=219764& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Gal Sitty, 28, campaigns to reach United
Nations policy makers with the story of Gilad Schalit; sets fundraising
goal of $10,000 for placard.

*An Independence Day gift from Canada*
<http://www.jpost. com/Magazine/ Features/ Article.aspx? ID=219763& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - This Independence Day, there is at least
one country that Israel can show gratitude to for making pro-Israel
positions both respectable and electable.

*Israel's population hits 7.7 million on 63rd birthday*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219755& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - In time for its 63rd Independence Day,
statistics show that Israel's population has grown 2 percent since last
year; 75 percent are Jews.

*Egypt to grant citizenship to kids of Palestinian dads*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219754& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Move marks victory for human and women's
rights, but deals possible blow to national identity.

*Egypt to toughen security after 12 die in church clashes*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219744& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Shots fired, firebombs thrown as Salafists
surround Saint Mina Church in Cairo demanding the release of Christian
woman who converted to Islam.

*Syria tanks enter southern town, Homs neighborhoods*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219732& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - Tanks, troops also storm residential
neighborhoods in Homs, Tafas, Dael; mass arrests continue in Banias as
soldiers raid homes.

*Yom Ha'atzmaut 2011: Events in and around Jerusalem*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219730& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 May 2011 - The capital will be alive with events
ranging from street parties to open mic nights as well as museums
opening their doors for free.

*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>

*UN chief presses Israel to release Palestinian funds*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2011/may/ 08/israel- palestinian- authority- funds-un>
The Guardian 8 May 2011 - Ban Ki-moon and Norway lead calls for Israel
to hand over tax revenues withheld over Palestinian reconciliation
agreement Israel is under pressure to release tax revenues belonging to
the Palestinian Authority (PA) which it has blocked...

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*[uruknet.info] Egypt studies reopening consulate in Gaza, official
says* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77531>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Gaza's caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Planning Mohammad Awad told Ma'an on Sunday that Egypt's transitional
leadership was seriously studying the option of opening a consulate in
Gaza City to facilitate communication with Gaza officials. An office in
the coastal enclave, the official said, would help smooth communications
between Palestinian leaders and factions...

*[uruknet.info] 17 killed in Baghdad prison escape attempt*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77529>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Reporting from Baghdad- The suspected mastermind
of October's gruesome massacre at a Baghdad church attempted a daring
jailbreak Sunday and killed several police officers before he and his
accomplices were shot dead. The running battles inside a detention
facility on the grounds of the Interior Ministry ended with 11 detainees
and six officers dead,...

*[uruknet.info] Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and
thirst* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77528>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Dozens of African migrants were left to die in the
Mediterranean after a number of European and Nato military units
apparently ignored their cries for help, the Guardian has learned. A
boat carrying 72 passengers, including several women, young children and
political refugees, ran into trouble in late March after leaving Tripoli
for the...

*[uruknet.info] Palestinian Detainees To Start Escalating Hunger Strike*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77526>
Uruknet May 08, 2011 - Palestinian Detainees imprisoned in four Israeli
detention facilities held a hunger strike on Saturday, as part of the
gradually escalating hunger strike demanding the prison administration
to release several detainees from solitary confinement. The strike will
be held twice each week, and will be gradually escalating until the
Israeli Prison Administration (IPS) fulfills their...

*[uruknet.info] Syria shelling kills boy, 12, and sees 10-year-old
arrested ?* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77525>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Gunfire and shelling rattled a city in central
Syria today and killed a 12-year-old boy, as President Bashar Assad's
autocratic regime expanded its military crackdown on a seven-week
uprising by sending tanks and reinforcements to key areas, activists
said. Authorities also reportedly arrested a 10-year-old boy, apparently
to punish his parents, and filed charges...

*[uruknet.info] UN official: Israel killed 1,300 Palestinian children
since 2000* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77524>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Israel directly killed more than 1,300 Palestinian
children since the onset of the millennium, a UN official said in a new
report. They shot those children dead those children during direct
military operations, said Richard Falk, the UN's Special Rapporteur on
the occupied Palestinian territories. He said seventeen Palestinian
children were killed in 2010...

*[uruknet.info] Qatar's PM holds secret meeting with Netanyahu: Israel
Radio* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77523>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Israel Radio has reported that Qatar's prime
minister, Sheikh Hamad Ben Jassem, held a secret meeting with his
Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, in London. Diplomatic sources
in London said that the Qatari prime minister arrived in his private jet
from Paris and met with Netanyahu. "The meeting lasted for an hour and
was held...

*[uruknet.info] New York Times Attempts to Stifle Torture Debate It
Helped Spark in the Wake of Osama bin Laden's Death*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77522>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - On Thursday, the New York Times, having played a
major part in creating a buzz in the United States about the role that
torture and the existence of Guantánamo played in locating Osama bin
Laden, with an article on Tuesday entitled, "Bin Laden Raid Revives
Debate on Value of Torture," resolutely stepped back from...

*[uruknet.info] Iran's Ahmadinejad affirms Khamenei decision, tensions
remain* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77520>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from
Iran's clerical establishment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed an
intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet
meeting on Sunday. While Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had
publicly reinstated intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi following his
dismissal by Ahmadinejad, it took more than three weeks for the...

*[uruknet.info] Report: Qatar offering Israel gas Below Cost Price'*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77519>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Several newspapers and Internet forums in the Arab
world are reporting that Qatar has expressed its willingness to supply
natural gas to Israel instead of Egypt. The reports' sources have not
been disclosed. According to the reports, Qatar's Industry and Commerce
Minister Hassan Abdulla Fakhro told his Israeli counterpart in a phone
conversation that...

*[uruknet.info] Phantom Jobs and Economic Recovery in America*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77517>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - On May 6, headlines cheered the new jobs report,
New York Times writer Motoko Rich headlining, "Payrolls Show Strong
Growth but Jobless Rate Rises," saying: "For three straight months, the
nation's employers have delivered solid job growth, easing some concerns
that the economy could be slowing." Bloomberg.com' s Timothy Homan said:
At 244,000, "American employers...

*[uruknet.info] Scores held in Egypt after sectarian clashes*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77516>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Egypt's military rulers have detained 190 people
in connection with the clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo
in which at least 12 people were killed and more than 230 wounded. The
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ordered "the transfer of all those
arrested in connection with (Saturday's) events, and they number 190,...

*[uruknet.info] Soldiers arrest Hamas leader at Jenin checkpoint*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77515>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Israel's army arrested a Hamas leader Saturday in
the occupied West Bank, prisoners advocates said. Khaled Al-Haj, 45, was
passing through a military checkpoint at the entrance of Araba when he
was arrested, the Ahrar prisoners center said. Al-Haj served as a
spokesman for Hamas, and he was recently released from prison. Soldiers
had...

*[uruknet.info] Troops kill two students south of Yemeni capital*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77512>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - Troops opened fire to break up a Yemeni student
demonstration Saturday demanding the postponement of exams and killed
two students and wounded 15 others, a protest organiser told AFP.
Hundreds were taking part in the protest at Al-Maaf, a village in Taez
province, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of the capital Sanaa,
when...

*[uruknet.info] Syrian Human Rights: Over 800 killed in Syria so far*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77511>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a
statement that security forces have killed at least 800 civilians since
protests erupted in Syria, Reuters reported on Saturday. The
organization also said that it has the names of the 800 people, adding
that 220 of them were killed in attacks by the Syrian army...

*[uruknet.info] Libyan tribal chiefs urge amnesty to all fighters*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77509>
Uruknet May 7, 2011 -- Libya's tribal chiefs urged a general amnesty for
all fighters engaged in the oil-rich nation's civil war, as Amnesty
International said the regime's siege of Misrata could be a war crime.
Rebels, meanwhile, braced for a new ground assault by Moammar Gadhafi's
forces on Misrata, the main bastion of the insurgents in western Libya....

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*Egypt to use iron hand to halt religious unrest after 12 die*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Egypt- to-use-iron- hand-to-halt- religious- unrest-after- 12-die.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Egypt's government warned Sunday it would use an
iron hand to ensure national security after clashes in Cairo between
Muslims and Christians killed 12 people and injured scores.

*Gunmen kill 10 Syrian workers on way back from Lebanon: SANA*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Gunmen- kill-10-Syrian- workers-on- way-back- from-Lebanon- SANA.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 An armed gang shot dead 10 Syrian civilian workers
on their way back from Lebanon in a bus ambush near the city of Homs
Sunday, the official state news agency said, as Damascus intensified a
bloody...

*Syrian woman in Tripoli falls to her death*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/Syrian- woman-in- Tripoli-falls- to-her-death. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 A Syrian woman was killed Saturday in a fatal fall
from a building in Tripoli.

*Heart failure kills daughter of Turkish diplomat*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/Heart- failure-kills- daughter- of-Turkish- diplomat. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 The 19 year-old daughter of a diplomat died of
heart failure Saturday, according to the National News Agency.

*Weekend sees numerous thefts across country*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/Weekend- sees-numerous- thefts-across- country.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 A man stole a black bag containing LL43 million
from a parked car in a series of robberies that took place over the weekend.

*Remains of two women found in Baalbek, Koura*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/Remains- of-two-women- found-in- Baalbek-Koura. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 The remains of two women were found in separate
incidents over the weekend, according to the National News Agency.

*Hand grenade detonates behind Tripoli mosque*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/Hand- grenade-detonate s-behind- Tripoli-mosque. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 A hand grenade exploded behind a mosque in Tripoli
and another was deactivated by the army Sunday.

*Nurses' order looks to promote profession as shortage looms*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/Nurses- order-looks- to-promote- profession- as-shortage- looms.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 The Lebanese Order of Nurses will launch a
campaign this week to promote the profession on the occasion of
International Nurses Day Thursday, as the order's president Claire
Zablit warned that the country will face a...

*South Lebanon man kills relative, injures 4 in shooting*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/South- Lebanon-man- kills--relative- injures-4- in-shooting. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 A man killed his relative and injured four others,
including a police sergeant, in a shooting that took place Saturday
afternoon in the south Lebanon village of Zrarieh, in the qada of Sidon.

*More than 90 percent of Beirut residents exposed to air pollution*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/More- than-90-percent- of-Beirut- residents- exposed-to- air-pollution. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Almost all Beirut residents are exposed to high
and dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a study released by
American University Beirut.

*AUB meeting gathers region's medical experts*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/AUB- meeting-gathers- regions-medical- experts.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 One of the Middle East's leading medical
assemblies, which attracted over 100 regional health experts, concluded
in Beirut Sunday.

*Activists conduct beach clean-up campaigns*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-09/Activists -conduct- beach-clean- up-campaigns. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Even beach clean-up efforts have sought to
capitalize on unrest sweeping the Arab world, with Big Blue Association
environmental activists claiming that the people want a clean beach in
Lebanon, echoing calls elsewhere of the people...

*EU increase in Palestinian aid draws Israeli criticism*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/EU- increase- in-Palestinian- aid-draws- Israeli-criticis m.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Israel Sunday accused the European Union of a
certain incoherence over its decision to boost aid to the Palestinians
after Israel halted the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian
Authority.

*Libya's revolutionaries remake schools for Gadhafi-free thought*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Libyas- revolutionaries- remake-schools- for-Gadhafi- free-thought. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 How do you teach in schools where history books
omitted revolutions, geography books had few maps and children learned
never to question authority?

*Al-Qaeda leader, 17 others killed in Iraq jail*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Al- Qaeda-leader- 17-others- killed-in- Iraq-jail. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Eighteen people, including an Al-Qaeda leader and
a senior Iraqi counter-terrorism official, died in a battle between
inmates and security officers during a jailbreak attempt in Baghdad
Sunday, security officials said.

*Kuwait replaces oil minister but Cabinet mostly intact*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Kuwait- replaces- oil-minister- but-Cabinet- mostly-intact. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Kuwait named a new oil minister in a Cabinet
formed Sunday to replace one that quit rather than allow lawmakers to
question three ministers from the ruling family amid calls for economic
and political reforms.

*Iran leadership row weakens Ahmadinejad camp as president cautioned*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Iran- leadership- row-weakens- Ahmadinejad- camp-as-presiden t-cautioned. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 A power struggle between Iran's top leaders could
shake the Islamic Republic to its foundations, with no sign that its
hard-line president can regain the trust of conservative politicians and
clerics, analysts say.

*Bahrain's king orders end to emergency law*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Bahrains- king-orders- end-to-emergency -law.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Bahrain's king ordered an end to the emergency
rule imposed in mid-March to quell a wave of anti-government protests as
leading opposition figures went on trial Sunday for plotting against the
Gulf state's monarchy.

*Tunisian police break up fourth day of protests*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Tunisian- police-break- up-fourth- day-of-protests. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Tunisian police used tear gas Sunday to break up a
fourth day of anti-government protests by scores of youths in the center
of Tunis.

*NATO strike hits government weapons depot: rebels*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/NATO- strike-hits- government- weapons-depot- rebels.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 NATO launched airstrikes Sunday against a Libyan
government weapons depot near the rebel-held town of Zintan and heavy
fighting was reported near Misrata airport in western Libya, rebel
spokesmen said.

*Yemeni security forces fire on protesters, 3 dead*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-09/Yemeni- security- forces-fire- on-protesters- 3-dead.ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Security forces backed by army units opened fire
Sunday on protesters demanding the ouster of Yemen's longtime president,
killing three, an opposition activist said.

*Iran foreign minister in UAE over Gulf tension*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-08/Iran- foreign-minister -in-UAE-over- Gulf-tension. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Iran's foreign minister held talks Sunday with top
officials in the United Arab Emirates amid tension between Gulf Arab
states and Tehran over trouble in Bahrain, Emirati state news agency said.

*Hezbollah voices optimism over Cabinet formation*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-08/Hezbollah -voices-optimism -over-Cabinet- formation. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 New proposals that have surfaced could help speed
up Lebanon's Cabinet formation process, Hezbollah's deputy
secretary-general said Sunday.

*Bahrain to lift state of emergency June 1*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-08/Bahrain- to-lift-state- of-emergency- on-June-1. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Bahrain's Sunni king has ordered a state of
emergency to be lifted from June 1, after imposing it following weeks of
Shiite-led street protests in the Gulf Arab kingdom, the state news
agency said on Sunday.

*Gadhafi "shoot 'n scoot" frustrates NATO in Misrata*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-08/Gaddafi- shoot-n-scoot- frustrates- NATO-in-Misrata. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Despite repeated bombing raids by the Western
alliance, Gadhafi loyalists continue to lay siege to the city and its
vital port -- making it one of the bloodiest battlefields of the
two-month-old conflict.

*Berri: Resistance's arms not in way of forming state*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-08/Berri- Resistances- arms-not- in-way-of- forming-state. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said that it was
the clinging to privileges and a lack adherence to the Taif Accord, not
Hezbollah's weapons, that were preventing the establishment of the state.

*Egypt says 190 face army court over church clash*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-08/Egypt- says-190- face-army- court-over- church-clash. ashx>
Daily Star 8 May 2011 Egypt's army said on Sunday it would try 190
people in a military court over clashes between Muslims and Christians
near a Cairo church that left 10 dead.

*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>

*US official: Al-Zawahiri is no bin Laden*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4066281,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Obama's security aide Tom Donilon says huge
intelligence cache seized from....

*PM: We're constantly working to free captives*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4066280,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Israel launches Remembrance Day events for
Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Victims....

*Israel at 63: Population of 7,746,000*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4066247,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Independence Day 2011: Central Bureau of
Statistics data indicate 75% of....

*Report: Hamas agrees to Egyptian draft on Shalit deal*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4066170,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Al Jazeera claims Cairo's intelligence services
have been able to formulate... .

*'Airport fuel crisis far from over'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065846,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Days after fuel contamination effectively
suspends Israel's air traffic....

*Report: Abbas wants Fayyad to head unity gov't*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4066058,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Palestinian president attempts to convince Hamas
to keep Salam Fayyad as PM of....

*Barak, Steinitz condemn Dagan remarks on Iran*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4066034,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Foreign, Finance ministers criticize ex-Mossad
chief's remarks on Iran as....

*Syrian city of Homs under siege*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065985,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Violence continues: At least a dozen killed in
Syria's third largest city is....

*Cabinet defers vote of fallen firefighters*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065911,00. html>
YNet News, 8 May 2011 - Government Secretariat informs Interior Minister
Yishai that cabinet will not....

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1376
Sun May 8, 2011 8:19 pm (PDT)

*Democrat senators to Obama: Cut PA aid*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065802,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - Dozens of senators urge president to end aid to
Palestinians if Hamas joins....

*Syrian tanks storm Sunni districts*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065621,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - A day after Syrian security forces kill 30
protesters, army units encircle city....

*US releases bin Laden videos*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4065768,00. html>
YNet News, 7 May 2011 - Videos seized in terror chief's hideout show bin
Laden watching himself on TV....

*Palestinian Information Center* <http://palestine- info.co.uk/ en/>

*Mishaal: Detentions in West Bank contrary to spirit of reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7tHi% 2f%2bklXYhV8124S 8UpNdN7z% 2b%2baAtQE7S5BwN gN3PJB7v9XZnpqqd QvPBS64ZciD9HBZU B%2bk5hPwWQpLbI2 npGmZGjiRRj5htOn R4gydoD8% 3d>
PIC - 08/05/2011 - 09:16 AM

*Ahrar: Israel blocking prisoner from seeing his little daughter*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s79V3iyP9VVt 4cw7HGdWSky8MCYA 2KZsFUP0YcwEC1m3 2DVGAAQyPI% 2fSUYZc9IjGrWBtV uCKylLlLD4% 2fO6IIyUn% 2ftGTBpB1e6fDlpJ hVKq85M%3d>
PIC - 08/05/2011 - 09:22 AM

*Muslim brotherhood head meets with Mashaal, other factions in Cairo*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7xco1y2mbHr NN6HKmFgY5% 2fPPWgx7ppalHypF tmOYK2fbHmFTHhIe 70O6ZULDdtmWK5s1 g07P5ddy6hfw5h6% 2blsB%2f7mOB7oUQ b4iOs9Q2kCes% 3d>
PIC - Secretary-general of the Muslim brotherhood Mohamed Badi'a met on
Saturday head of Hamas's political bureau Khaled Mashaal and all the
Palestinian delegations that signed the reconciliation deal.

*Israel closes West Bank for three days*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7eqcUxbvePk n580oDCR27Yxtm4z dIN%2fK%2fRIC1N1 9hTL9Ro7M0hk5CEi %2btbX2WkwTwM9mm aYmEcXURd0jfVYjU 15HFcLelSsQVR99u fqmFMRQ%3d>
PIC - The Israeli occupation authority imposed a hermetic closure on the
West Bank as of midnight Saturday and for three days, the Hebrew radio
reported on Sunday.

*Israeli troops attack Palestinians in O. Jerusalem, W. Bank*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7Pqw4WeXL1A Yi6%2baMDCB% 2bgPX%2f5fFqIwPZ V6iAaLwqQN9LTTb% 2fGw8F7zD0Tx4kSq 31gSk5riTVpo4kuH V9%2b%2fq1% 2bUEboh%2fgY1QOG FJTfrnlrlQ% 3d>
PIC - Many Palestinians sustained injuries on Saturday when they were
attacked by Israeli troops in Jerusalem and some West Bank villages
during rallies in protest at settlement and Judaization activities.

*IOF troops turn Ramallah village into military barracks*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7xvCniLV6q8 pmfQ4z%2ftvmhiV5 mhFp7D9kZhjp8xVw gTppM%2fKXR5lDrw 3Q3B%2brgvk829jV ROpsLvDTJ6FahM4f vryTLSkehZHShcj9 Ze9NlSk%3d>
PIC - The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) clamped a curfew on the
Ramallah village of Nabi Saleh on Sunday, local sources reported.

*Two Hamas officials kidnapped in Jenin and Ramallah cities*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7UNM6tpqLXT te6mfRZT9w2e9% 2b2TFlrdj95ca2bA XmvEEJ%2bfWaIORc 7Q9HSjATTkKNjy7I qlhIXZ%2bniEKFSv nU2asrtriRzCq0jD eiS9O6PdY% 3d>
PIC - The Israeli occupation forces kidnapped on Saturday senior Hamas
official Khaled Al-Hajj in an ambush south of Jenin city as well as
Sheikh Majed Hasan after a raid on his home in Ramallah city.

*Egyptian moves to refresh prisoner swap talks between Hamas, Israel*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7dd9VS6xULP OV37nfW28BvRcEve rF5AFoQ%2bSSKZPF TcPSvcoDWLeJXyk3 kEXtQmjXp8ZG81Sz lyyw0X7hS0IT6hqM LOrPe5LcFSWgPdVN MJY%3d>
PIC - An informed Palestinian source revealed that the Egyptian ministry
of foreign affairs is working nowadays on reviving the stalled prisoner
swap talks between the Israeli occupation state and Hamas.

*IOA extends administrative detention of MP Ramahi*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7XXXQ% 2b8vodRSwQKdIXyZ XgIozaxAb6EABpZB SvLiLm30bEbZcgtG %2bFDBCgai42% 2bkuR8UeNyacAV% 2fm3De%2bFKbiv8z ayJ2LQcXidyVqnTk sPBA%3d>
PIC - The IOA extended the administrative detention, without trial, of
MP Dr. Mahmoud Al-Ramahi for six more months, the international campaign
to release detained lawmakers said on Sunday.

*Nassif: Danger threatening reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7j0xAN8f7wq VKlk%2beT0nHM9VF EtF5GJT%2bUYvg2% 2be5jKy6c2PknKFc 5JlF6QcwAjfnua3b ahcOP%2bcp4AYiE7 TulPUk%2fj17ymNb sUDAFIr9UwQ% 3d>
PIC - Detained Hamas leader Ra'fat Nassif has said that the continued
detention and summonses in the West Bank posed as dangers threatening
the national reconciliation that was signed only a few days ago.

*Khater warns of Israeli revenge measures in O. Jerusalem*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7cdN9H7Ugfi iw2djPfnAHHHB6Hf raW5F6kyEOknz% 2bCIzcv%2fafrb4z fLj3QFr%2bTzpZ6c buMeW%2faiadtq4q TQg4gjm%2bMvUUN% 2fVfvs7FzxOU470% 3d>
PIC - Dr. Hassan Khater, the secretary general of the Islamic Christian
society for the support of Jerusalem and holy shrines, warned of Israeli
revenge measures in occupied Jerusalem.

*29 Democrat senators tell Obama to cut aid to PA*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7a1JBSLg8nY wOWFzHLxdBP1zEW2 XDpJt0ExIfVGY5z% 2fGIJTG7rsACS3j5 YBVMiqTveY23WEVI EG0Tzf6FO4NvJZTG kDV8QZkZIyQOW% 2btY8L8%3d>
PIC - 29 US Democrat senators told president Barack Obama he should cut
aid to the Palestinian Authority in the event Hamas joined its
government following the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.

*WAFA - Palestine News Agency* <http://english. wafa.ps/>

*Erekat: Recognition of Palestinian State is Not Unilateral Step*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16075>
WAFA

*Qaraqe: Prisoners' File Needs Immediate Political Intervention? *
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16073>
WAFA

*Palestinian Prisoners Continue Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16072>
WAFA

*Fatah: Israel Interferes in Palestinian Internal Affairs*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16071>
WAFA

*Adalah-NY: New Yorkers Protest Settlement-Builder Leviev, Call for
Mother's Day Jewelry Boycott*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16070>
WAFA

*Israel Takes Forceful Measures in Jerusalem for Celebration*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16069>
WAFA

*Fatah: Israeli Instigation against Abbas and Reconciliation is
Terrorism* <http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16068>
WAFA

*Israel Imposes Total Closure on Palestinian Territory*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16067>
WAFA

*Jalloud Council Told to Remove Power Lines*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16065>
WAFA

*Intifada Palestine* <http://www.intifada -palestine. com/>

*Rebuilding Gaza: O'Keefe and Survivors of Cast Lead 'Massacre' Join
Forces in Safe-Trade Project*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ DDtPTGrQ5Uc/>
Intifada-Palestine: 8 May 2011 - As the door to the outside world
gradually opens... Samouni Family in Gaza with Ken O' Keefe by: Stuart
Littlewood No fewer that 29 members of the Samouni family, including
many of the women and children, were callously slaughtered by
Israeli...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ DDtPTGrQ5Uc/>

*THE ROLE OF JEWS IN THE PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ TLd2nrdCHNA/>
Intifada-Palestine: 8 May 2011 - Peaceful protesters hold weekly vigils
in front of Ann Arbor's Beth Israel Congregation. (Henry Herskovitz) By:
HENRY HERSKOVITZ and MICHELLE J. KINNUCAN After Malcolm X returned from
his epiphanic trip to Mecca, he was asked if White people could join
his...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ TLd2nrdCHNA/>

*U.S. Support for Brutal Dictators is a Source of Frustration in the
Middle East: Anthony DiMaggio*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 4UOy1rqW3s0/>
Intifada-Palestine: 8 May 2011 - An in-depth interview with Anthony
DiMaggio on Middle East, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Egyptian
Revolution Interview by Kourosh Ziabari / STAFF WRITER Anthony DiMaggio
is a university professor, writer, political commentator and media
expert. He is the author of numerous books, including... more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 4UOy1rqW3s0/>

*MARCH TO RETURN TO PALESTINE

[ninathedog]

CAUTION: the following story is utterly heartbreaking so
please be prepared for that.

The comments at the end will give you a quick synopsis of the
story without the details, and are really interesting to read.

Police:
Details of honor killing 'shocking'

By Muhammad Oweiweih
Ma'an News Agency
Published today (updated) 09/05/2011 18:44

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Police identified the remains of a 20-year-old woman found in a well near Hebron on Friday, over a year after her disappearance.

Her uncle and three other relatives were detained and questioned. Police told Ma'an on Sunday that the death was an honor killing, to which her uncle confessed, and revealed the grim details about the woman's murder.

Local prosecutor Ashraf Mash'al identified the woman as Ayah Ibrahim Barad'iyya from the southern West Bank town of Surif. Her body was found in a deserted well by Israel's separation wall in fields three kilometers from her home. It took two days to retrieve her remains from the well.

Mash'al said the woman was wearing a necklace inscribed with her name, and that a handbag containing personal documents was also retrieved from the well.

The facts of the case were "shocking," director of Hebron police Ramadan Awad told Ma'an. "As we interrogated her uncle, the people in the room could hardly hold back tears."

According to Awad, Ibrahim Baradh’iyya and his wife reported their daughter missing in 2010 saying she had left home on April 20, heading to Hebron University where she was studying, but never returned. They said they feared she had been kidnapped, and wondered if she had run away.


A class photo of Ayah given by her family to police
during the search [MaanImages/Baradh’iyya, HO]

Classmates described the young woman, an English major, as "chaste and noble-minded," in her second year of university. Investigators found students liked and respected her.

Several witnesses and friends had been summoned during the investigation, Awad said, including one man who had proposed marriage to Ayah and spoken with her family. The young man had been summoned, and was interrogated for 35 days.

According to the man, Ayah had been in love with him, and he with her. He had sent his relatives to visit her parents, trying to win them over in an effort to propose marriage, but the family had refused.

"Police never stopped their investigation" the Awad said, noting that the case ran cold until Friday when police were notified that a body was floating in a well near Surif.



"Police and the prosecutor general, civil defense crews and an ambulance headed out to the area and retrieved the body. It took two days to retrieve all of the parts from the well," Awad said.

Awad said they found the body in the 30 cubic meters of water at the bottom of the unused well. Police also found a handbag with Ayah's identity card, clothing and two photos of brothers studying in the Ukraine.

"Once we had identified the remains, we summoned several suspects," the police director said.

One of the suspects was Ayah’s 37-year-old uncle. He admitted that he murdered Ayah with help of three friends.

A confession

"On Tuesday, 20 April 2010, when Ayah was heading to Hebron University, we took her in the trunk. She was shouting loudly, so one of my friends sprayed her with gas and she fainted. I drove to the Khallat Salman area where we tied a rope around her body and dropped her into the well," Ayah's uncle told Awad.

Before she was drowned, the uncle said she had briefly regained consciousness, shouting and pleading with him not to take her life.

The uncle recalled her pleas:

"For God's sake uncle let me go. Please don't throw me into the well. What did I do to be killed? Uncle! Please help, help … don't kill me."

The would-be fiance, who spoke with Ma'an on condition on anonymity because he had recently married, was devastated by the news.

"This is not an uncle, neither is he a human being even. He is brutal. How did he imagine that bluff about an [improper] relationship between me and her? What baseless imaginations led him to that conclusion? How can a sensitive, mature and educated girl meet such an end? May God take revenge for her!" he said.

The would-be fiance told of the efforts he had made to win over Ayah's family. He sent friends and relatives to the parents and to siblings and uncles, finally winning the approval of the young woman's father. "But the next day an uncle opposed the agreement," he recalled, saying that despite his best efforts the uncle would not give his consent.

Honor killings and the law

Several laws passed between 1948 and 1967 - during Jordanian jurisdiction -- remain in place today in the West Bank. Some earlier penal codes dating back to the British Mandate and the Ottoman period are also still active.

The laws have not been repealed by the Palestinian court or the Palestinian Legislative Council - which has been defunct since 2007 following the internal division - despite requests that law changes be pushed through by presidential decree.

The section of the penal code affecting honor killings is also still operating in Jordan and several women's rights groups have been pressing for its repeal.

Palestinian courts commute sentences for men who kill or attack female relatives accused or suspected of "dishonoring" their families.

On International Women's Day in March 2009, President Mahmoud Abbas signed the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

However, more than two years later, the president has still not amended domestic laws addressing women's rights, and the Jordanian penal code of 1960 remains in place.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says the recurrence of murders of women may be due to the "relative impunity" men are granted when murdering in the name of "honor."

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COMMENTS—[/size][/b]

1 ) Rami / Palestine 09/05/2011 11:41
This uncle and his friend who did this to Ayah are scum. They make me ashamed of being a Palestinian. I hope they and their families will feel God's wraith for the crime that they have comitted.

2 ) obs / Sweden 09/05/2011 12:12
Things will not change as long you take money for girls. I can suspect the rejected guy was poor to pay for her asked. She was very pretty, peace upon her, so her father liked large cash. Regardless of religione you have to put limites how much mahr can be. All over limite should be punished by jail with hard laboure. Mahr was meant to help woman not became her burden and death penalty.

3 ) Tobias / US 09/05/2011 14:18
Maureen, Marge, Nour (1 state), and women in general, I hope you are reading this !! The Itamar murders, were shocking - stabbing babies, but this story is common in the Arab world, Jordan, and the West Bank !!! - Both I and the police knew what is was immediately. "The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says the recurrence of MURDERS OF WOMEN may be due to the "relative IMPUNITY" men are granted when murdering in the name of "HONOR."

4 ) BIG MIKE / ANTI ZIONIST 09/05/2011 14:31
It's this type of thing that gives the Arabs and Islam a bad name. Religion is the most d**ning thing under the sun if it's any kind Islam Jewish or Christian or any other. Religion is not the right path to deliverance because it sets standards by someone that thinks they are right and if you fail you are punished. Religion is IGNORANCE by man,TRUTH AND UNDERSTANDING COMES BY GOD. Love & honor God and do to others as to yourself is the whole law of God. anything else is by mans designs for evil

5 ) ronen / israel 09/05/2011 14:50
big mike why wont you stand in a palestinian town and preach this opinion of yours.

13 ) BIG MIKE / ANTI ZIONIST 09/05/2011 18:23
(moved from end of list) 5 ) ronen, same goes for self righteous jews and christian alike so why just in a Palestinian town ronen ? You think there are no self righteous Jews ? how about the same Pharisees that rejected Messiah and still to this day do the same. Hypocrites !!!

6 ) Merlot / US 09/05/2011 17:02
This crime is horrific. However, the killing of young women by family members over issues of sex and or honor is not a phenomena that is limited to the Arab world, we just call it familial and domestic abuse in the US as opposed to honor crimes. Homicide is one of the leading causes of death among women ages 20 to 24 in the US and the majority of homicides are committed by a person related to or intimate with the woman who is killed. To try to make this a cultural issue is wrong.

7 ) Orhan / Australia 09/05/2011 17:26
Big Mike, This has nothing to do with religion, and all to do with people's stupidity! Islam does not teach such rubbish, in fact it teaches quite the contrary. Let us not bungle such horrendous acts with a religion, when millions of innocent babies are killed yearly due to human choice of aborting unwanted babies - and this is done by atheists, agnostics, satanists, Christians, Jews, Muslims and others. Stupidity and ignorant people exist in all cultures and in all faiths (or lack there of).

8 ) Another voice / Palestine 09/05/2011 17:29
"He without a sin to cast the first stone" The girl was killed by her uncles, who is a murderer. murderers exist everywhere, east, west and center, the motivation for the murder is irrelevant, killing a girl for knowing a boy is not worst than killing a girl for not accepting to sleep with you Tobias, the latter is well known motivation for murder in your country! "relative impunity" is a discriminatory law in Jordan and not in the OPTs! this murderer will be brought to Justice!

9 ) abc / d 09/05/2011 17:35
I guess the uncle rather wanted to hide some dishonorable behavior of his own....and thus opposed the marriage and killed his niece! May Ayah rest in peace and may her dishonorable uncle receive the punishment he deserves!

10 ) Salma / Palestine 09/05/2011 17:55
Oh My God. This is so Sad and horrible . heartless uncle, you are scum and you will be punished now and then.

11 ) Omar / Amman 09/05/2011 17:56
RIP Ayah.

12 ) Sahal / UK 09/05/2011 17:57
Stupid uncle! may he rot in hell! it was non of his business to get involved in his niece's life in the first place, its her family's issue not his... honor I disagree, this is just one of those pre islamic cultural things that arabs havent goten rid of yet....disgraceful to all palestinians, no, Humanity, may he rot in hell, ameeeeeen....


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(Many thanks to Tom V via Hamza E)

[ninathedog]

[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1377

Mon May 9, 2011 9:44 pm (PDT)

**
*Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*

*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*Army Starts Wall Construction Around Palestinian Town North of
Jerusalem* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61209>
IMEMC - Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 03:23, Local sources reported that the
Israeli Authorities started the construction of a segment of the illegal
Israeli Annexation Wall, around Qalandia Palestinian town, north of
occupied East Jerusalem.

*Army Invades A Village Near Jericho* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61208>
IMEMC - Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 03:15, Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday
the Fasayel village, north of the West Bank city of Jericho, broke into
a home and installed a roadblock.

*Soldiers Kidnap Four Palestinians In the West Bank*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61207>
IMEMC - Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 02:49, Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on
Monday at dawn, four Palestinians during a number of invasions and
attacks targeting several areas in the occupied West Bank.

*Army Invades Jenin* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61206>
IMEMC - Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 02:27, Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday
afternoon the southern area of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and
surrounded the Jenin branch of the Al Quds Open University.

*Decision To Hold Criminologists Conference In Israeli Settlement
Criticized* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61204>
IMEMC - Monday May 09, 2011 - 17:38, The Israeli peace group, Gush
Shalom, has sharply criticized a decision to hold a criminologists'
conference in the settlement of Ariel, deep inside the West Bank.

*EU Undermines Israeli Government Efforts To Drain Palestinian Finances*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61203>
IMEMC - Monday May 09, 2011 - 11:15, The EU has undermined efforts by
Israel to stop the flow of money into the Palestinian Authority's budget
through an 85 million euro payment to the Palestinian administration.
The payment is in addition to the 100 million euro payment approved
earlier this year as part of funding for Palestinian state building efforts.

*Mashal: "Recognizing Israel Cannot Be Done Before The Palestinians
Establish Their State"* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61202>
IMEMC - Monday May 09, 2011 - 10:48, Head of the Political Bureau of the
Hamas movement, Khaled Mashal, urged the United States and the European
Union to support the Palestinian Unity Agreement, and added that a
Palestinian recognition of Israel cannot be conducted before an
independent state is established.

*Sarkozy Proposes A Peace Conference To End the Palestinian- Israeli
Conflict* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61201>
IMEMC - Monday May 09, 2011 - 10:18, Israeli paper, Maariv, reported
that French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, presented during his last week
meeting with Israeli prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a proposal for
a peace conference in France aiming at signing a final peace agreement
between Israel and the Palestinians by the end of this month.

*Israel Plans More Settlement Construction In Occupied East Jerusalem*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61200>
IMEMC - Monday May 09, 2011 - 06:01, The Islamic-Christian Committee for
Defending Jerusalem and the Holy Sites, warned on Sunday of a new
Israeli plan to build 386 units for Jewish` settlers in Sheikh Jarrah
Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Deportation hearing set for Jerusalem PLC members*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386239>
5/9/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israel's Supreme Court will meet on May
17 to discuss deporting four Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Legislative
Committee members from Jerusalem. The elected officials, who were
ordered to leave the city by Israeli authorities in June 2010, said they
received a letter informing them of the next hearing in their case....

*Gaza locked down as Israel marks Independence Day*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386032>
5/9/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The sole operating crossing between
Israel and the Gaza Strip was shut down Monday as Israel observed a
national holiday marking first "The day of the fallen soldier," and then
its independence. Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said Israeli
forces told him the crossing would remain closed on Tuesday, and....

*Family said detained near Bethlehem*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386103>
5/9/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained a Beit Sahour
couple and the husband's elderly mother during a raid on their home
overnight Sunday, witnesses said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said
there were no detentions in the Bethlehem area overnight. The
Palestinian Prisoners' Society in Bethlehem said Assi Qassis, his wife
Rose....

*Report: Israel compensates Nablus business*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385978>
5/9/2011 - TEL AVIV (Ma'an) -- An Israeli court in Haifa agreed to the
suit of a Nablus man seeking compensation for damages to his restaurant
during an Israeli operation on Jabal Jerzim in 2003, Israel's daily
newspaper Haaretz reported Sunday. Said Mesbah, the owner of the
restaurant and a Nablus resident, filed the....

*France ups PA aid as Israel holds tax funds*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386252>
5/9/2011 - RAMALLAH (AFP) -- France on Monday announced it would donate
10 million euros ($14. 3 million) to the Palestinian Authority after
Israel froze tax revenue transfers following a Palestinian unity
agreement. The aid infusion came as Palestinian Authority Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad told reporters his government was unable to pay employees
because of Israel's....

*Palestinians to meet again in Cairo next week*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386044>
5/9/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Representatives of Palestinian factions
will meet in Cairo next week, where committees of delegates will be
appointed to see through the implementation of a unity deal signed in
the Egyptian capital last week. Head of the coalition of independent
figures Abdul-Aziz Shiqaqi said in a statement Monday that the first....

*Shtayyeh: Fatah recommends postponing local elections*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386274>
5/9/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Fatah will recommend postponing local
elections scheduled for July 9, Central Committee member Mohammad
Shtayyeh said Monday. The reconciliation of Fatah and Hamas in Cairo
last week created a new situation where all decisions must be made by
national consensus, the Fatah official said. Elections were set for July
by the....

*Jenin woman enters 10th year in Israeli jail*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386224>
5/9/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian detainee Qahira Al-Sadi
entered her 10th year in an Israeli jail on Sunday, the Ministry of
Detainees' in Gaza said. Al-Sadi, 35, was sentenced to life imprisonment
accused of affiliation to Islamic Jihad and aiding a suicide bomber, the
ministry said. Al-Sadi, from Jenin, has four children, but....

*Man found stabbed to death in Jericho*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386245>
5/9/2011 - JERICHO (Ma'an) -- Police found the body of a 50-year-old man
who had been stabbed to death on a road in Jericho early Monday. The
body of Khader Suleiman Abu Kharabish was discovered at dawn near his
house on the main street of Ein As-Sultan refugee camp, north of
Jericho, local police said....

*Abbas meets J Street delegation in Ramallah*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386114>
5/9/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- President Mahmoud Abbas met with
Washington-based Israel advocacy group J Street in his Ramallah office
Monday, the organization said. Abbas told the delegation he was willing
to start negotiations with Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
would freeze illegal settlement building for two or three months, J
Street said in a....

*Peres: Abbas still 'partner' for peace*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386240>
5/9/2011 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- President Mahmoud Abbas is still a partner
for peace with Israel, the country's President Shimon Peres said in an
interview published on Monday. The president's stance is at odds with
that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has told Abbas to choose
between peace with Israel or peace with....

*Fatah: Party has right to restore institutions in Gaza*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386160>
5/9/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Buildings and institutions in Gaza
formerly used as Fatah institutions should be rebuilt and restored for
use by the party, Fatah lawmaker in Gaza Faysal Abu Shahla told Ma'an on
Monday. The legislator and member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council said
several buildings in Gaza had been....

*PFLP meets with leftist parties in Egypt*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386193>
5/9/2011 - CAIRO (Ma'an) -- Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine delegates met officials from Egyptian leftist parties in Cairo
on Saturday. PFLP official Maher Al-Taher, in the Egyptian capital for
the signing of a Palestinian unity deal, met Amin Iskandar, a leader in
the leftist Karama party. The Front said in a statement that....

*Police: Details of honor killing 'shocking'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=385727>
5/9/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Police identified the remains of a
20-year-old woman found in a well near Hebron on Friday, over a year
after her disappearance. Her uncle and three other relatives were
detained and questioned. Police told Ma'an on Sunday that the death was
an honor killing, to which her uncle....

*Israel shuts down to commemorate fallen, independence*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386131>
5/9/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an/AFP) -- Sirens wailed across Israel, as
millions bowed their heads in silence to mark the country's Memorial Day
on Sunday evening, commemorating fallen troops and civilian deaths. The
commemoration comes a day ahead of celebrations marking Israel's
independence, and saw West Bank checkpoints shut down and Gaza....

*Egypt sectarian deaths slammed amid civil war fear*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386242>
5/9/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Egyptian media have accused
"anti-revolutionari es" of trying to trigger sectarian conflict after
twelve people were killed in clashes between Christians and Muslims. The
government has vowed to use an "iron fist" to ensure national security
after Saturday's deadly clashes in Cairo, branded by Nobel peace
laureate Mohamed ElBaradei as "religious extremism... .

*Rebels: 'Raped' Libyan woman escapes to Qatar*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=386314>
5/9/2011 - DOHA, Qatar (AFP) -- A woman who accused soldiers of Libya's
leader Moammar Gadhafi of having raped her has escaped to Qatar with the
help of rebels, a Libyan rebel official told AFP on Monday." Iman
al-Obeidi was able to leave Libya through Al-Jabal al-Gharbi with the
help of rebels," the official said, asking....

*Palestine Note* <http://palestinenot e.com/cs/>

*The differences between Obama and Bush*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/05/09/ the-differences- between-obama- and-bush. aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Had Osama Bin Laden been killed or even
captured during the administration of former President George W. Bush,
there would have been celebrations the likes we have never seen. Bush
would have been hailed as one of the greatest American...

*Forget the blockade, eat at Abu Hassira*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ theater/archive/ 2011/05/09/ forget-the- blockade- eat-at-abu- hassira.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - The National - Newcomers could be forgiven
for being confused by the half dozen or more seafood restaurants on Abu
Hassira street, all bearing a variation of the same name: Abu Hassira.
But only this one venerable seafaring family has...

*Gaza militia 'in grab for power'*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ gaza-militia- in-grab-for- power.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - The National - They are supposed to function
as Hamas's military: an enigmatic commando force carrying out attacks
against Israel and protecting the Islamist group's political leadership.
But Palestinian leaders, political analysts and human rights groups in
Gaza say the...

*29 senators: No U.S. aid for a Palestinian unity government*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ 29-senators- no-u-s-aid- for-a-palestinia n-unity-governme nt.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Foreign Policy - 29 U.S. senators have asked
President Barack Obama Friday to cut off aid to the Palestinian
government if it joins with Hamas, in a previously unreported letter (
PDF ) obtained by The Cable . "The decision of Palestinian Authority (...

*Give Palestinians their tax cash, Israel told*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ give-palestinian s-their-tax- cash-israel- told.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - The National - World leaders have opposed
Israel's decision to withhold nearly $90 million in tax revenue owed to
Palestinian officials, in response to a recent unity deal with Hamas.
Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli finance minister, said last week he...

*Hamas police break up pro-bin Laden rally in Gaza*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ hamas-police- break-up- pro-bin-laden- rally-in- gaza.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Haaretz - G aza's Islamist rulers Hamas on
Saturday broke up a Salafist protest against the killing of al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in Pakistan this week. Dozens of
Salafists - conservative Islamists who have clashed...

*Fatah: Party has right to restore institutions in Gaza*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ fatah-party- has-right- to-restore- institutions- in-gaza.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Ma'an - Buildings and institutions in Gaza
formerly used as Fatah institutions should be rebuilt and restored for
use by the party, Fatah lawmaker in Gaza Faysal Abu Shahla told Ma'an on
Monday. The legislator and member of Fatah's Revolutionary. ..

*Peres: Abbas still 'partner' for peace*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ peres-abbas- still-partner- for-peace. aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Ma'an - President Mahmoud Abbas is still a
partner for peace with Israel, the country's President Shimon Peres said
in an interview published on Monday. The president's stance is at odds
with that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has...

*Religious conflict becomes the Egyptian revolution's biggest enemy*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ religious- conflict- becomes-the- egyptian- revolution- s-biggest- enemy.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Los Angeles Times - The clashes between
thousands of Muslim extremists and Coptic Christians that left 12 people
dead, more than 200 injured and a burned church on Sunday rings yet
another alarm to the threat Egypt faces over deepening...

*German company pulls out of Israel rail project because it cuts through
West Bank*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ german-company- pulls-out- of-israel- rail-project- because-it- cuts-through- west-bank. aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Washington Post - Israel Railways says a
German company has quit a project to build a high-speed rail link
between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem because the line cuts through the
occupied West Bank. Spokeswoman Liran Gordon says German railway operator...

*Young Palestinians to form 'shadow cabinet'*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/05/09/ young-palestinia ns-to-form- shadow-cabinet. aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Ma'an - Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip
say they will form a "shadow cabinet" once the transitional government
has been formed. The group is consulting with youth organizations in
Gaza and the West Bank to form the cabinet, which...

*"I Want My Ball Back": My Visit To Israel and the West Bank*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/05/09/ quot-i-want- my-ball-back- quot-my-visit- to-israel- and-the-west- bank.aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Osama Bin Laden paid his Pakistani neighbors
for their balls when they ended up on his side of the wall. All the
better to avoid notice. Of course, when it's simpler to just give the
cricket balls back that tends...

*Syrian tanks move into city of Homs*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ topnews/archive/ 2011/05/09/ syrian-tanks- move-into- city-of-homs. aspx>
Palestine Note 9 May 2011 - Authorities broaden crackdown on protesters
The Guardian - President Bashar al-Assad has sent tanks deep into
Syria's third city, Homs, escalating a military campaign to crush a
seven-week-old uprising against his autocratic rule. Syrians demanding
political freedom and an end...

*Aljazeera* <http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/>

*NATO air strikes target Gaddafi's compound*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ africa/2011/ 05/2011510214314 31264.html>
AlJazeera 9 May 2011 - Witnesses say NATO pounded Libyan leader's
residence and state television offices in capital, Tripoli.

*EU imposes arms embargo on Syria*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115919 3031782763. html>
AlJazeera 9 May 2011 - Union bans shipment of "arms that could be used
for internal repression", as armed forces arrest hundreds of protesters.

**
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ europe/2011/ 05/2011591934346 61514.html>*Cairo
tense after religious clashes*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115991 758111146. html>
AlJazeera 9 May 2011 - Troops patrol streets as Copts camp out in
Egypt's capital, calling for justice after 12 killed in weekend clashes.

*More subsidy cuts in Iran budget*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115918 112150438. html>
AlJazeera 9 May 2011 - New $508bn budget is 40 per cent bigger than
previous year's because of dropping subsidies on energy and food items.

*Libyan delegates back rebel council*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115910 5950729624. html>
AlJazeera 9 May 2011 - Representatives from 25 Libyan towns meet for the
first time in Abu Dhabi in a show of unity.

*NATO denies failure to save African migrants*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ europe/2011/ 05/2011591453544 00783.html>
AlJazeera 9 May 2011 - Bloc rejects report that migrants were left to
die on board stranded boat, despite distress calls.

*Yemen security forces fire on protesters*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/05/20115981 031268455. html>
AlJazeera 9 May 2011 - At least three persons reported dead and others
injured as crackdown on anti-government protests in Taiz continues.

*Palestine News Network* <http://english. pnn.ps/>

*Uncovering the Future*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10012& Itemid=63>
PNN - ANERA -- PNN - In the early morning, the spring sun warms the
fertile fields of Gaza. It's time for planting but first it's time for
cleaning. Wearing hats against the hot...

*PM Salam Fayyad: We CanâEUR^(TM)t Pay Salaries Because IsraelâEUR^(TM) s
Decision of withholding Tax Money*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10011& Itemid=56>
PNN - Ramallah- PNN - The Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
announced on Monday evening that the Palestinian Authority will not be
able to pay salaries to its employees this month for the first...

*USPCN Call for Action Against U.S. Attorney decision to Halt Activist
Bank Account*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10010& Itemid=61>
PNN - Chicago -- PNN -- The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
called on Monday people to call .S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to
protest his decision to freeze the bank accounts of US Palestinian. ..

*When you are United, How can we Rule you?*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10009& Itemid=58>
PNN - By Adam Keller - These Europeans - are they so very generous, or
what? Urgently forwarding a sum to pay the salaries of the Palestinian
Authority employees, because our minister of finance...

*Nuclear Whistle-Blower Vanunu Demands his Israeli Citizenship be
Revoced*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10008& Itemid=56>
PNN - I have no interest in Israeli citizenship; I don't want to go on
living here . Said in a letter addressed to Eli Yishai, Israeli Interior
Minister. PNN got a copy of the...

*Gush Shalom Warns Participants of a Conference in West Bank Settlement
from Violating International*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10006& Itemid=56>
PNN - Tal Aviv -- PNN -- The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, sent on
Sunday letters to Israeli and international criminologists who are to
lecture at a conference due to be held later...

*Israeli troops arrest four civilians during morning invasions targeting
West Bank communities* <http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 05/18221/>
5/9/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - Palestine News Network -
Four Palestinian civilians were arrested by Israeli soldiers, three from
the same family, during morning invasions targeting West Bank
communities. In Beit Sahour, a town in southern West Bank near
Bethlehem, soldiers stormed and searched the house of Assi Kassis
arrested his wife and mother in addition to him. Kassis, who works....
Related:Palestine News Network <http://english. pnn.ps/>

*Settlers attack a school in northern West Bank*
<http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 05/18227/>
5/9/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - Palestine News Network -
A group of Israeli settlers attacked on Monday morning a Palestinian
school in the southern part of Nablus, northern West Bank. Witnesses
told local media that the settlers smashed windows and put-up a banner
and wrote slogans on the outer wall of the school calling for the
killing of Arabs. Israeli soldiers.... Related:Palestine News Network
<http://english. pnn.ps/>

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*Press Conference on 'East Jerusalem: Key Humanitarian Concerns' Report*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400830>
Relief Web 9 May 2011 - Source: UN Department of Public Information , UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: occupied
Palestinian territory Presenting a new report on East Jerusalem at
Headquarters today, its author, Ray Dolphin, said the separation barrier
under construction there not...

*Arab Spring Inspires Palestinian Protesters*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400829>
Relief Web 9 May 2011 - Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Country: occupied Palestinian territory New impetus given to non-violent
campaign against Israeli occupation. By Aziz Abu Sarah - The Arab Spring
Arab Spring Issue 14, 9 May 11 Right from the beginning of...

*France ups Palestinian aid as Israel holds tax funds*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400816>
Relief Web 9 May 2011 - Source: Agence France-Presse Country: France ,
occupied Palestinian territory RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories ---
France on Monday announced it would donate 10 million euros ($14.3
million) to the Palestinian Authority after Israel froze tax revenue
transfers following a Palestinian unity agreement. The...**
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400700>

*Protection of Civilians in 2010: Facts, Figures, and the UN Security
Council's response* <http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400699>
Relief Web 9 May 2011 - Source: Oxfam Country: Afghanistan , Central
African Republic (the) , Chad , Colombia , Côte d'Ivoire , Democratic
Republic of the Congo (the) , India , Iraq , Israel , Kyrgyzstan ,
Myanmar , occupied Palestinian territory , Pakistan , Philippines (the)
, Somalia , Sudan (the) , Thailand , Turkey , Yemen In 2010, millions of
men,...

*This family would rather not need assistance*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400675>
Relief Web 9 May 2011 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East Country: occupied Palestinian territory May
2011 Gaza Just a few years ago, Mr Al Fayoumi and his family lived as a
working-class family in Gaza. The 35-year-old. ..

*Violations Bulletin - Issue 8 - April 2011*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400671>
Relief Web 9 May 2011 - Source: Defence for Children
International/ Palestine Section Country: occupied Palestinian territory
April 2011 - overview During the month of April, DCIPalestine documented
the killing of a nine-year-old boy during an Israeli attack in Gaza City
on 8 April 2011; an incident...

*Palestinian Authority can't pay salaries in May*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 400668>
Relief Web 9 May 2011 - Source: Reuters - AlertNet Country: occupied
Palestinian territory RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 9 (Reuters) - The
Palestinian Authority said on Monday it had not been able to pay
salaries for the first time since 2007 because of Israel's decision to...

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Israeli Soldiers attacks civilians in Jerusalem*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9132-israeli- soldiers- attacks-civilian s-in-jerusalem. html>
9 May 2011 - Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli soldiers Monday
clashed with Palestinians around the checkpoint near the entrance of
Shuafat, a refugee camp north of the Old City.

*Israel cuts off Palestinians from healthcare*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9121-israel- cuts-off- palestinian- from-healthcare. html>
9 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph) - Fuad Ahmed Jabo's mother was
70 when she died of a heart attack at their home in the Palestinian
village of Tantour in Beit Jala, between Israeli-controlled Jerusalem
and the Palestinian city of Bethlehem.

*Palestinian family arrested by Israeli army near Bethlehem*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9119-palestinian -family-arrested -by-israeli- army-near- bethlehem. html>
9 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal telegraph)- Israeli occupation forces
detained Monday three Palestinian citizens form the same family
including an elderly woman. All detainees were from Qassis family.

*Settlers attempt to seize farmlands near Nablus*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9118-settlers- attempt-to- seize-farmlands- near-nablus. html>
9 May 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Dozens of settlers attempted
Monday to seize agricultural lands near Burin village in the south of
Nablus city, in the occupied West Bank.

*Israel targets farmers in southern Gaza Strip*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 9117-israel- targets-farmers- in-southern- gaza-strip. html>
9 May 2011 - Gaza strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli forces stationed at the
military control towers opened fire at a number of international
activists and Palestinian farmers in Khozaa town in the east of Khan
Younis city, without causalities reported.

*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>

*Syrian troops round up thousands in Banias*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ syrian-troops- round-up- thousands- in-banias>
The National 9 May 2011 - Protest leaders call for day of solidarity
with those held as Syrian officials claim terrorist gangs and foreign
hands are behind the unrest.

*Egyptians warned of 'anti-revolutionari es' after clashes leave 12 dead*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ egyptians- warned-of- anti-revolutiona ries-after- clashes-leave- 12-dead>
The National 9 May 2011 - Remnants of the old regime are alleged to be
trying to trigger sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians, as
a top cleric warns that the country could be engulfed in civil war.

*Iran conducts final tests at Bushehr nuclear power plant*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ iran-conducts- final-tests- at-bushehr- nuclear-power- plant>
The National 9 May 2011 - Troubled Russian-built plant is expected to
start generating electricity in the next two months, Iranian media say,
after long delays and amid fears that Iran secretly aims to refine
uranium to the high degree suitable for atomic bombs.

*Al Qa'eda 'making a comeback', security forces in Iraq warn*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ al-qaeda- making-a- comeback- security- forces-in- iraq-warn>
The National 9 May 2011 - As critics say Baghdad has lost skills to
fight militants, Islamist group has been recruiting, carrying out
bombings and killings, and damaging infrastructure such as electricity
supplies to increase dissatisfaction with the Iraqi government.

*Does Arab Spring pave way for success of bin Laden's ideology?*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/thenation alconversation/ comment/does- arab-spring- pave-way- for-success- of-bin-ladens- ideology>
The National 9 May 2011 - LETTER FROM CAIRO The secularist uprisings in
Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere in the Middle East have been disorganised
and led by political novices, opening the door, liberals fear, to
long-suppressed Islamist groups

*Three killed in protest by Yemeni teachers after troops open fire*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ three-killed- in-protest- by-yemeni- teachers- after-troops- open-fire>
The National 9 May 2011 - Security forces use tear gas and live
ammunition against demonstration in Taiz demanding delay to exams.

*World watches to see how far Hamas will compromise in peace with Fatah*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ world-watches- to-see-how- far-hamas- will-compromise- in-peace- with-fatah>
The National 9 May 2011 - After the deal struck last week between the
Palestinian factions, the eyes of the political world now look at
whether they can work together successfully to achieve the mutually
beneficial goal of statehood for their people.

*Six arrested in Oman as jobs protests turn violent*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ six-arrested- in-oman-as- jobs-protests- turn-violent>
The National 9 May 2011 - Demonstrators throw stones and rock cars,
witnesses say, as protesters demanding jobs and higher wages broke into
private properties and government buildings,

*Ha'aretz* <http://haaretz. com/>

*Obama offers best wishes to Israel on its 63rd Independence Day*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ obama-offers- best-wishes- to-israel- on-its-63rd- independence- day-1.360827>
Ha'aretz - U.S. President sends holiday greetings as he prepares to
engage in new round of Mideast diplomacy with upcoming meetings with
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah.

*'On its 63rd birthday, Israel is a shining beacon in the Middle East'*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ on-its-63rd- birthday- israel-is- a-shining- beacon-in- the-middle- east-1.360780>
Ha'aretz - Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin kicks off 63rd Independence Day
ceremony in Jerusalem; the theme of this year's ceremony is 'Looking
after one another -- the year of mutual care.'

*Shalit's brother shouts at Independence Day ceremony: Gilad is still
alive*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ shalit-s- brother-shouts- at-independence- day-ceremony- gilad-is- still-alive- 1.360791>
Ha'aretz - Yoel Shalit and his girlfriend clash with police after being
escorted from the Mount Herzl ceremony for disruption; Tzipi Livni
leaves ceremony to speak to the two.

*A brief history of fireworks in the Holy Land*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ a-brief-history- of-fireworks- in-the-holy- land-1.360622>
Ha'aretz - From French visitors marking Israel's 10th Independence Day
to today's million-shekel pyrotechnics.

*U.S.: Israel's decision to withhold PA funds 'premature'*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/u- s-israel- s-decision- to-withhold- pa-funds- premature- 1.360803>
Ha'aretz - State department deputy spokesman Mark Toner says the U.S. is
waiting to see how the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal will pan out
before making decisions.

*Bradley Burston / Israel at 63: What part of Shut Up do you not
understand?*
<http://www.haaretz. com/blogs/ a-special- place-in- hell/israel- at-63-what- part-of-shut- up-do-you- not-understand- 1.360754>
Ha'aretz - When, I wonder this Independence Day, did Israelis lose their
nerve? These people, who used to be all nerve. When did they opt to be
led by sheep?

*Reuven Rivlin / Israel's declaration of a dream*
<http://www.haaretz. com/weekend/ week-s-end/ reuven-rivlin- israel-s- declaration- of-a-dream- 1.360696>
Ha'aretz - Israel's Declaration of Independence was the formative
document of the state, but that doesn't mean it is immune to criticism
or that it didn't demand additional work of its creators or their heirs

*EU gives green light to Syria arms embargo, sanctions*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ eu-gives- green-light- to-syria- arms-embargo- sanctions- 1.360798>
Ha'aretz - Rights groups say more than 600 people have been killed and
8,000 jailed or gone missing in Syria as part of a crackdown on
protesters since March.

*American Orthodox newspaper sorry for altering White House photo*
<http://www.haaretz. com/jewish- world/american- orthodox- newspaper- sorry-for- altering- white-house- photo-1.360824>
Ha'aretz - The Yiddish weekly Di Tzeitung explains that it edited U.S.
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton out of the picture because it does not
publish images of women, believing it to be immodest.

*PA can't pay salaries in May due to Israel halting funds transfer*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/pa- can-t-pay- salaries- in-may-due- to-israel- halting-funds- transfer- 1.360752>
Ha'aretz - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says Israel's
decision to block funds puts the government in a 'very difficult'
position as PA employee salaries go unpaid for first time since 2007.

*Hamas: We have no information on report of new Shalit deal*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/hamas- we-have-no- information- on-report- of-new-shalit- deal-1.360749>
Ha'aretz - Al Jazeera had reported on Monday that Hamas agreed in
principle to a new Egypt-formulated proposal aimed at securing Gilad
Shalit's release.

*Ben Gurion Airport to resume normal fueling procedure at 8 P.M.*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ ben-gurion- airport-to- resume-normal- fueling-procedur e-at-8-p- m-1.360759>
Ha'aretz - Departing flights were temporarily halted last week after
signs of contaminated jet fuel were discovered at the airport; incoming
flights were diverted to Cyprus.

*Commemorating Israel's fallen, Netanyahu vows, 'we won't give in to
fear'*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ commemorating- israel-s- fallen-netanyahu -vows-we- won-t-give- in-to-fear- 1.360758>
Ha'aretz - Netanyahu stresses about Hamas' recent reconciliation deal
with Fatah that Israel does not believe the 'leopard has changed its spots.'

*Israel Airports Authority inquiry finds bacteria, mold in contaminated
fuel*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ israel-airports- authority- inquiry-finds- bacteria- mold-in-contamin ated-fuel- 1.360725>
Ha'aretz - Airports Authority demands that Paz Oil explain why they sent
documents saying fuel was fine when it in fact turned out to be
contaminated.

*Syrian forces arrest dozens of protesters in Baniyas, Homs*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ syrian-forces- arrest-dozens- of-protesters- in-baniyas- homs-1.360768>
Ha'aretz - Syrian rights group says 621 civilians and 120 soldiers and
security personnel have been killed since demonstrations first broke out.

*Security forces fire on Yemen protest, killing one*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ security- forces-fire- on-yemen- protest-killing- one-1.360746>
Ha'aretz - At least 10 protesters were also wounded when Yemen security
forces, some in armored vehicles, tried to quell rally in city of Taiz,
south of the capital Sanaa.

*Clinton: Regional turmoil an opportunity for Israel on its 63rd
birthday*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ clinton-regional -turmoil- an-opportunity- for-israel- on-its-63rd- birthday- 1.360686>
Ha'aretz - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wishes Israel well
for Independence Day, showing faith in U.S.-Israel ties, stresses
Israel's security is top priority; U.S. committed to 'comprehensive
peace' for Israel and its neighbors.

*Israel stands still to commemorate fallen soldiers on Memorial Day*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ israel-stands- still-to- commemorate- fallen-soldiers- on-memorial- day-1.360711>
Ha'aretz - Memorial ceremonies taking place at the country's 44 military
cemeteries, to commemorate the 22,867 Israelis killed in service to the
state; they began shortly after the Memorial Day siren sounded, at 11 A.M.

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*'House' stars celebrate Independence Day in Israel*
<http://www.jpost. com/ArtsAndCultu re/Entertainment /Article. aspx?ID=219918& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Stars of hit TV show land in Ben-Gurion
Airport in time for celebrations; actors plan to visit Jerusalem, Dead Sea.

*Schalit's brother storms Independence Day ceremony*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219912& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Yoel Schalit and several other activists
interrupt Jerusalem torch lighting ceremony, waving signs reading,
"Gilad is still alive."

*Ahmadinejad: Iran to attend new nuclear talks in Turkey*
<http://www.jpost. com/IranianThrea t/News/Article. aspx?ID=219910& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - After previous talks with world powers
ended with no progress, Iranian president says "I hope this important
issue will reach its final result."

*Mashaal: Schalit negotiations stalled; Netanyahu to blame*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219909& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Hamas leader warns more Israeli soldiers
will be kidnapped if Palestinian prisoners not released; says US had no
right to kill bin Laden.

*Glenn Beck of Fox News to meet with Netanyahu, Danon*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219903& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - US TV personality visits Israel; Danon: He
has proven himself to be a true friend of Israel who is willing to speak
out when so many are often silent.

*Israel kicks off 63rd Independence Day celebrations*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219902& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Torch-lighting ceremony on Jerusalem's
Mount Herzl marks transition from Remembrance Day to Independence Day;
Rivlin dedicates torch to Jonathan Pollard and captured IDF soldiers
including Ron Arad and Gilad Schalit.

*Ben Gurion Airport resumes normal fueling procedures*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219900& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz
decides fuel supply safe; grounding of int'l air traffic believed to
have cost economy tens of millions of shekels.

*PA: We can't pay salaries for first time since '07*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=219894& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Fayyad says Israel's decision to withhold
transfer of tax funds to W. Bank following Palestinian unity puts PA in
dire financial situation.

*'Syrian forces arrest scores in Banias, Homs'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219892& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Restive cities on Mediterranean coast
latest focus of Assad's escalated crackdown against protesters; more
than 7,000 believed detained.

*Iran conducting final pre-start tests at nuclear plant*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219887& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - After many delays, the Russian-built
Bushehr complex is expected to start generating electricity in the next
two months.

*Bereaved parent tells nation 'this is our homeland'*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219885& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Tzvika Shahak, who lost daughter in terror
bombing, speaks at Remembrance Day event, tells audience "We have no
other country."

*PM: 'We will strike down terrorists with determination' *
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219882& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - At official Remembrance Day ceremony for
terror victims, Netanyahu says they died for one reason: "Because they
were Jews."

*Livni to bereaved families: Gov't owes you better future*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219873& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - At Afula ceremony for Israel's fallen,
opposition leader says "We are obligated to remove trauma of war and
terrorism and to bring peace."

*PM at Mt. Herzl: 'Israel's fallen live on in our hearts'*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219867& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - At official Remembrance Day ceremony in
Jerusalem, Netanyahu identifies with families who have lost loved ones,
says "we take comfort in better days"; air-raid sirens sound throughout
country in honor of fallen.

*Humous, café hafuch and spy sharks*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219859& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Soon after making aliya 5 years ago,
American immigrant Benji Lovitt began compiling slightly warped, but
endearing aspects of what he loves about his adopted country. Here is
his fourth annual list.

*Remembering the birth of the state*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219857& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - The dizzying, fateful days when Israel came
into being resulted in eloquent and passionate support from American
commentators across cultural and political spectrums.

*From New Jersey to Mount Herzl*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219855& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Veteran American immigrant and longtime
Hadassah woman Barbara Goldstein is being honored at tonight's
Independence Day ceremony.

*In Australia, using Facebook to share Israel pride*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=219854& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Leibler Yavneh College in Melbourne, a Bnei
Akiva academy, challenges students to get online to spread Yom
Ha'atzmaut message.

*A 50-year aliya process bears fruit*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219852& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - 90-year-old British businessman and
philanthropist Fred Worms has played a huge role in the development of
many of Israel's hallowed institutions.

*A class of her own*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219851& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Einat Wilf has cultivated a rich pedigree
on her way to the Knesset, where she's proving that a woman can have it all.

*Flying high with the Air Force's 105 squadron*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219850& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Celebrating its 60th birthday this year,
the IAF's cream of the crop has adapted to changing needs and technology
to remain the country's chief line of defense in the sky.

*Analysis: Iran leadership row weakens Ahmadinejad*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=219849& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Supreme leader at odds with Ahmadinejad;
conservatives reported to back Khamenei; dispute may be linked to fear
of Arab revolts

*An Israeli in Sri Lanka*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219847& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Sarvodaya is the largest grassroots
organization in the country -- devoted to developing "the spiritual,
moral, cultural, social, economic and political spheres of local life."

*Hands-on skills*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219844& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 -

*Give the gift of Israel to the world*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219843& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - An innovative British NGO founded by an
enterprising rabbi is harnessing distinctive Israeli and Jewish
expertise around the world.

*Israel at 63 -- a celebration for every day*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219841& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - The true Israel Prize is to be given to the
one who experiences Israel in one's heart and spirit all of the days of
the year.

*1.5 million to visit soldiers' graves after 2-minute siren*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=219840& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 9 May 2011 - Air-raid sirens sound throughout country in
honor of Israel's Remembrance Day; ceremonies set to begin at Mt. Herzl
military cemetery, 43 additional cemeteries throughout country.

*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>

*Tony Kushner and the corporatisation of CUNY | Kristofer
Petersen-Overton*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/commentis free/cifamerica/ 2011/may/ 10/tony-kushner- new-york>
The Guardian 9 May 2011 - My parallel experience of being smeared by
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld has convinced me of the very real threat to academic
freedom The taboo surrounding critical discussion of Israel in the
United States never ceases to amaze me....

*Tony Kushner's honour restored by university board's unanimous vote*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/stage/ 2011/may/ 10/tony-kushner- honour-reinstate d>
The Guardian 9 May 2011 - City University of New York board overturns
attempt to block prize-winning playwright's award because of his views
on Israel The trustees board of the City University of New York (CUNY)
brought to an end an embarrassing. ..

*Tony Kushner snub over 'anti-Israel' views reconsidered by university*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/stage/ 2011/may/ 09/tony-kushner- snub-reconsidere d-university>
The Guardian 9 May 2011 - City University of New York committee attempts
to repair damage done by veto of playwright's honorary degree The
trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) are meeting on Monday
night to try to repair...

*Budrus: A West Bank village's emblematic struggle for its land*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ view-from- jerusalem- with-harriet- sherwood/ 2011/may/ 09/palestinian- territories- israel>
The Guardian 9 May 2011 - Powerful movie about Palestinian protests
against Israel's separation barrier is now available on DVD I'm finally
back in Jerusalem after almost two months away, much of it in Tripoli,
which was weird and fascinating . But it's...

*Tony Kushner row deepens as supporters renounce honorary degrees*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/stage/ 2011/may/ 06/tony-kushner- supporters- renounce- degrees>
The Guardian 9 May 2011 - Pulitzer-winner playwright was removed from
honour list for his critical views on Israel after CUNY trustee lobbied
against him A row over the decision by a leading New York university to
refuse playwright Tony Kushner an...

*Inter Press Service* <http://ipsnews. net/middle. asp>

*Calls Mount to Push U.S. Troop Presence in Iraq Past 2011*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 55555>
IPS Amid high-level U.S. congressional delegations to evaluate
developments in Iraq, a growing number of voices here, from both the
Barack Obama administration and members of Congress, are concerned about
a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country by December 2011
-- a deadline set forth in the supposedly inviolable.. .

*Fatah and Hamas' Honeymoon Could Face Problems*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 55549>
IPS Despite the euphoria surrounding the recent signing in Cairo of the
groundbreaking unity accord between Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas,
ending their four-year feud, numerous obstacles remain which could
impinge on the implementation of a unity government.

*MIDEAST: The Indigenous Become Squatters*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 55538>
IPS As plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village to make way for a
new, Jewish-only town move forward in Israel's Negev desert, the Bedouin
residents have submitted a motion for the right to appeal to the Israeli
Supreme Court.

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*[uruknet.info] Secret State's Domestic Spying on the Rise*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77559>
Uruknet May 9, 2011 - Despite last week's "termination" of America's
bête noire, Osama bin Laden, the reputed "emir" and old "new Hitler" of
the Afghan-Arab database of disposable Western intelligence assets known
as al-Qaeda, Secrecy News reports an uptick in domestic spying. Never
mind that the administration is engaged in an unprecedented war on
whistleblowers, or is systematically. ..

*[uruknet.info] Israeli Army Starts Wall Construction Around Palestinian
Town North of Jerusalem* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77557>
Uruknet May 9, 2011 - Local sources reported that the Israeli
Authorities started the construction of a segment of the illegal Israeli
Annexation Wall, around Qalandia Palestinian town, north of occupied
East Jerusalem. The sources said that several army bulldozers supported
by armored military jeeps invaded the area and started leveling
Palestinian lands to prepare them for Wall construction. ..

*[uruknet.info] Hollow 'reconciliation' in Palestine*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77553>
Uruknet May 9, 2011 - By deciding to join the US-backed Palestinian
Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas risks turning its back on its role
as a resistance movement, without gaining any additional leverage that
could help Palestinians free themselves from Israeli occupation and
colonial rule. Indeed, knowingly or not, Hamas may be embarking down the
same well-trodden path...

*[uruknet.info] Troy Anthony Davis: Unjustly Sentenced to Death*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77552>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Capital punishment is barbaric, unjust, and
unacceptable for any reason in modern societies. No wonder Amnesty
International (AI) calls it "the ultimate denial of human rights. It is
premeditated and cold-blooded killing of a human being by the state.
This cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment is done in the name of
justice." In fact,...

*[uruknet.info] Tunisian regime imposes curfew amid protests over coup
threat* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77551>
Uruknet May 9, 2011 - Demonstrators gathered in the Tunisian capital,
Tunis, from Thursday to Sunday to protest against the transitional
government that has ruled the North African country since the fall of
the Western-backed dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January.
Protesters defied a government curfew, imposed on Saturday to stamp out
growing opposition to the interim regime....

*[uruknet.info] Fatah calls Israeli incitement against the
reconciliation deal "political terrorism"*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77549>
Uruknet May 9, 2011 - A spokesman for Fatah has described as "political
terrorism" the incitement by Israel against the Palestinian
reconciliation agreement and national unity. In a press statement, Fayez
Abu Eita said: "The incitement campaign, statements by rogue Israeli
officials, calls for the reoccupation of the West Bank and demands to
cut-off aid to the Palestinian people...

*[uruknet.info] Syria between repression and revolution Yusef Khalil and
Lee Sustar analyze the latest phase of the upsurge in Syria*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77548>
Uruknet May 9, 2011 - THE SYRIAN regime continues to claim that the
unrest is a conspiracy of "traitors" and Sunni Islamist groups. The
government maintains that the opposition movement is being
manipulated- -if not directly controlled-- by outside forces. It does
appear that Western powers tried to get involved by taking up the issue
at the UN Security Council last...

*[uruknet.info] US freezes Chicago Palestinian leader's bank accounts*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77547>
Uruknet May 9, 2011 - The US government has frozen the bank accounts
belonging to Hatem Abudayyeh, a Palestinian community organizer and
director of a social service organization serving the Arab community in
Chicago, and his wife, Naima. Meanwhile, several members of Congress
have written to the Obama administration to express their concerns about
violations in civil liberties as...

*[uruknet.info] U.S. Attorney Escalates Attacks on Civil Liberties of
Anti-War, Palestinian Human Rights Activists*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77544>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - On Friday, May 6, the U.S. government froze the
bank accounts of Hatem Abudayyeh and his wife, Naima. This unwarranted
attack on a leading member of the Palestinian community in Chicago is
the latest escalation of the repression of anti-war and Palestinian
community organizers by the FBI, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, and
U.S. Attorney...

*[uruknet.info] Nuclear Whistle-Blower Vanunu Demands his Israeli
Citizenship be Revoced* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77536>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - I am Mordechai Vanunu, who was kidnapped in Rome
on September 30, 1986, by the security services of Israel. I was tried
by the Jerusalem District Court, convicted of espionage, treason and
assistance to the enemy and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment,
following a newspaper interview to the London "Sunday Times" where I told...

*[uruknet.info] The Unthinking Immorality of the United States*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77542>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - While decorating the men who assassinated Osama
bin Laden, President Obama said that the bin Laden raid was one of the
most successful intelligence and military operations in America's
history. "This week has been a reminder of what we're about as a people,
The essence of America, the values that have defined us for...

*[uruknet.info] Dick Cheney says Obama should reinstate waterboarding
program* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77535>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that
President Barack Obama should put waterboarding back on the table.
Intelligence derived from the Bush-era enhanced interrogation program
"probably" contributed to the of death Osama bin Laden, Cheney told Fox
News' Chris Wallace. "Which raises the question, if we were to now
capture another new high...

*[uruknet.info] Military Resistance 9E 7 : "Parents Of Our Dead"*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77534>
Uruknet March 8, 2011 - What began on Thursday as a few hundred silent
walkersheading out from the city of Cuernavaca today entered the
metropolis of Mexico Citythousands strong. At the entrance to
Insurgentes Avenue they stopped and an organizer with a bullhorn
provided instructions to the marchers, more in the voice of a
Broadwaytheater director than of a...

*[uruknet.info] Libya-France: French lawyer to prosecute NATO for
'crimes' in Libya* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 77532>
Uruknet May 8, 2011 - French lawyer to prosecute NATO for 'crimes' in
Libya - A complaint will be filed in the coming days in Brussels,
Belgium, against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for
'crimes' committed in Libya, including the killing of the Libyan
leader's son and his three grandchildren, French lawyer Philippe
Missamou, announced Thursday to PANA. '...

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*Syrian authorities detain hundreds in fresh raids*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-10/Syrian- authorities- detain-hundreds- in-fresh- raids.ashx>
Daily Star 9 May 2011 Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of
activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids across
the country Monday, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at
stamping out a revolt engulfing the country.

*NATO hits Libyan weapons depot as West faces rebel-aid dilemma*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ May-10/NATO- hits-Libyan- weapons-depot- as-West-faces- rebel-aid- dilemma.ashx>
Daily Star 9 May 2011 NATO planes pounded Libyan government targets
Monday but stalemate in the rebel war to unseat Moammar Gadhafi has
presented Western powers with a dilemma over whether to offer covert aid
to the rebel cause.

*Jumblatt says enough is enough*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/May- 10/Jumblatt- says-enough- is-enough. ashx>
Daily Star 9 May 2011 Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid
Jumblatt issued a stern warning Monday to the Hezbollah-led March 8
alliance, accusing it of failing to form a new Cabinet and signaling he
might withdraw his parliamentary bloc's support...

*Business leaders urge Berri to speed up Cabinet formation*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/May- 10/Business- leaders-urge- Berri-to- speed-up- Cabinet-formatio n.ashx>
Daily Star 9 May 2011 Leading businessmen in Lebanon Monday warned of
grave consequences to the economy if the government is not formed soon.

*Rai puts blame on state for Cabinet formation delay*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-10/Rai- puts-blame- on-state- for-Cabinet- formation- delay.ashx>
Daily Star 9 May 2011 Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai blamed the delay in
the Cabinet formation on Lebanese state officials Monday.

*Angry mob blocks road around Sports City*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ May-10/Angry- mob-blocks- road-around- Sports-City. ashx>
Daily Star 9 May 2011 Angry crowds blocked a road parallel to the
highway leading to the Rafik Hariri International Airport near the
Camille Chamoun Sports City.

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