Israel plans air strikes on Iran's nuclear sites :

One of the Israeli pilots who bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981 says that knocking out Iran's atomic program could prove beyond even Israel's capabilities.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1359348.htm

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Israel Halts Plan to Transfer Control of West Bank Towns
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The government says Abbas must move to disarm militias before it removes any more troops. Soldiers kill two Palestinian youths.

By Laura King
Times Staff Writer

May 5 2005

JERUSALEM; Israel declared Wednesday that it would not hand over any more West Bank towns to Palestinian security forces until their government moves to disarm militant groups.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...headlines-world

http://www.forward.com/articles/2977

Pro-Israel Lobby Girding For Tough Battle on Aid
Up to $1.6B Sought for Gaza Pullout

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/572531.html

US blacklists charity as front for Islamic Jihad

Palestinians Give Fatah The Nod in Local Vote

By John Ward Anderson

GAZA CITY, May 5 -- Soheila Shaer's home in the southernmost reaches of the Gaza Strip is a concrete-block apartment house riddled with bullet holes, less than 200 yards from the volatile border with Egypt, where Israeli tanks and soldiers patrol each day.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...er=emailarticle

Hamas Makes Strong Showing in Palestinian Elections

http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=D5262E:2F72C9D

Preliminary results show Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's
ruling Fatah movement coming out ahead in municipal election

Palestinians walk past election banners Preliminary results show
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah movement coming out
ahead in the Palestinian municipal election despite a strong showing
by the Islamic militant group Hamas. Fatah won some 6 -percent of the
vote.

The Palestinian Election Committee says early results

show Fatah winning a substantial majority in elections for 84
municipal councils in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Smaller factions
took four councils, with four municipalities undecided. Hamas disputed
the figures and said it was not ready to concede defeat.

Exit polls revealed strong victories for Fatah in several Gaza Strip
authorities, including Rafah in the south, Beit Lahia in the north and
Absan in the center.

Hamas claimed victories in the El-Bureij refugee camp in

central Gaza and in the West Bank city of Qalqilyah, where it appears
to have won 12 of 15 city council seats.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the

PFLP, appeared to have won in the Christian towns of Beit

Sahur and Beit Jala. In Bethlehem, Hamas won six of seven

council seats allocated to Muslims, while Fatah and the

PFLP split the eight seats allocated to Christians.

Bethlehem Mayor Hanna Nasser called it a historical day.

"Today, we witness here in Bethlehem, elections after an

absence of 29 years," he said. " So the people, they are very anxious
to practice their right, their right to choose their representatives
and becoming Bethlehem councilors."

Hamas rejected the preliminary results and complained of voting
violations in some areas.



Hamas has only recently begun taking part in the electoral

process scoring a substantial victory against Fatah in an

earlier round of municipal voting in Gaza in January. They

also had a strong showing in West Bank voting in December,

although Fatah came out the winner. A final round of voting is planned
for later this year.

More than 2500 candidates vied for the council seats and turnout was
high, 80 percent in Gaza and 70 percent in the West Bank, officials
said. Some 400,000 Palestinians were eligible to vote.

Official results are expected to be announced on Sunday.

Bush Extends Sanctions Against Syria : -

President Bush on Thursday renewed economic sanctions on Syria implemented a year ago, saying its government still supports

terrorism and is undermining efforts to stabilize Iraq.
http://snipurl.com/eppt

Hundreds rally in Tel Aviv against IOF killing of 2 Palestinian teens : Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Thursday
evening against the Israel Defense Forces' killing Wednesday of two Palestinian youths in the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/572451.html

A Tool in the Hands of Zionism :

Like other Jewish leaders, Sharon is just a tool in the hands of international Zionism which uses him and others to consolidate its claims on a Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates
http://snipurl.com/epr2

Exiled Lebanese General Aoun Returns Home

http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=D59313:2F72C9D

General Michel Aoun went into exile after failing to evict Syrian
troops from Lebanon during some of the civil war's fiercest fighting
Lebanon's most prominent opposition leader has returned to Beirut
after a nearly 15-year exile in France.

Michel Aoun General Michel Aoun went into exile after failing to evict
Syrian troops from Lebanon during some of the civil war's fiercest
fighting. His return Saturday, comes less than two weeks after the
last Syrian soldier left Lebanese territory.

Hundreds of frenzied supporters greeted the general and his family at
Beirut airport. In the city's Martyrs' Square, where the biggest
anti-Syrian rallies of the last three months took place, supporters
began gathering hours ahead of his arrival. General Aoun will address
them later Saturday.

Meanwhile, opposition lawmakers have called for President Emile
Lahoud's resignation, saying he cannot remain because he is the head
of the security apparatus - which many Lebanese blame for involvement
in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination.

Hamas gains Palestinian political clout
The militant group won 28 municipal elections in the territories
Thursday. By Ben Lynfield
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0509/p01s03-wome.html?s=hns

Next for young Lebanese: politics
Young activists now face the challenge of turning their mass movement
into parliamentary power. By Nicholas Blanford
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0509/p06s02-wome.html?s=hns

Congress Channels US Aid to PNA through Israel, NGOs:

Instead of $200 million for the PA, as President Bush had requested, the measure earmarks $150 million for Palestinians, to be channeled through US aid agencies, non-government organizations and philanthropic groups, while $50 million would go to Israel
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.ph...050507050457252

http://snipurl.com/eqlk

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-05...prisoners_x.htm

Sharon: No more prisoner releases

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...ast_afp/mideast

Palestinian fury after Sharon freezes prisoner releases

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573378.html

PM leaning toward razing evacuees' Gaza homes

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Sharon Ends Prisoner Release, Tells Abbas to Curb Militants
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Amid the growing political clout of armed groups, Palestinian officials say Israel is reneging on promises it made at a summit.

By Ken Ellingwood
Times Staff Writer

May 9 2005

JERUSALEM; Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday that Israel would not free more Palestinian prisoners until the Palestinian leadership took tougher action against armed militants.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,1886006.story

Israel Halts Release of Palestinian Prisoners

http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=D5D061:2F72C9D

The decision poses a dilemma for the new Palestinian leadership

Ariel Sharon

Israel is ruling out the further release of Palestinian prisoners,
saying the Palestinians must do more to crack down on militants. The
decision poses a dilemma for the new Palestinian leadership.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet Israel will not release
more Palestinian prisoners until the Palestinian Authority cracks down
on militant groups.

Under a cease-fire agreement reached three months ago, Israel released
500 prisoners and was supposed to free 400 more. But Mr. Sharon put
that on hold after a wave of Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks in
the Gaza Strip rattled the truce.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom says Israel will keep its part
of the deal, when the Palestinians keep theirs.

"[The] time has come for the Palestinian leadership to take the
strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist
organizations, in order to bring peace and quiet here to our region,"
Mr. Shalom says.

Ghassan Khatib The Palestinians accused Israel of acting in bad faith.
Palestinian Cabinet Minister Ghassan Khatib said the prisoner issue
could blow up the cease-fire.

"Well, ultimately if this political process is going to revive
successfully, all Palestinian prisoners should be released," Mr.
Khatib says.

Israel's tough position could further weaken Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas, whose ruling Fatah faction is facing a growing
challenge from the Islamic militant group, Hamas. Hamas, which seeks
the destruction of Israel, made significant gains in Palestinian
municipal elections last week, and is expected to do even better in
parliamentary elections this summer.

Mr. Abbas says he needs Israel to release prisoners to strengthen his
grip on power and show his people the tangible benefits of peace. But
Mr. Sharon told the Cabinet that he would not strengthen Mr. Abbas at
the expense of Israeli lives.

Palestinian Protesters Clash with Israeli Police in East Jerusalem

http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=D5D062:2F72C9D

Palestinians gathered near compound after hearing that Jewish
extremists would try to enter site to spark violence in an attempt to
derail Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza A clash erupted between
Israeli police and Palestinian demonstrators Monday near an East
Jerusalem compound holy to both Muslims and Jews.

Several hundred Palestinians gathered near the compound after hearing
that Jewish extremists would try to enter the site to spark violence
in an attempt to derail Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip
later this year.

Jews revere the site as Temple Mount and Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif
(Noble Sanctuary).

Disturbances broke out when about 200 Palestinians tried to enter the
compound and were barred by Israeli police.

Several people, including seven policemen, were injured when
protesters hurled stones at Israeli police, who used stun grenades to
disperse the crowd.

The skirmishes broke out one day after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon said he is ruling out the release of more Palestinian prisoners
until the Palestinian Authority takes action against militants.

Israel released 500 prisoners shortly after the two sides declared a
cease-fire in February. Negotiators from both sides had planned to
discuss criteria for releasing 400 more prisoners as part of the
truce.

Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP, Reuters.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GE10Ak01.html

No room for political Islam in Syria
Sami Moubayed

Sharon Says Gaza Disengagement Plan Will Go Ahead

(http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=D624AB:2F72C9D

Israel's Prime Minister insists the withdrawal will take place in
mid-August

Arial Sharon Israeli officials, concerned about the rising power of
the militant Islamic group Hamas, are sending mixed signals about
whether Israel will go ahead with its planned withdrawal from the Gaza
Strip and small portions of the West Bank. But, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon insists the withdrawal will take place in mid-August.

The prime minister's closest allies are busy shoring up support for
the withdrawal plan among a divided populace, while others are
expressing doubts about going through with it.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz says the withdrawal must go ahead even if
Hamas were to score a significant victory in Palestinian parliamentary
elections July 17.

The militant Islamic group has done very well in recent local council
elections and emerged as a serious rival to Prime Minister Mahmoud
Abbas' mainstream Fatah faction.

Silvan ShalomBut some in the Israeli government see the gains by Hamas
as a warning and are publicly expressing doubts about the wisdom of
the disengagement plan. Among the doubters is Foreign Minister Silvan
Shalom who wonders how Israel would deal with a Palestinian leadership
that included members of Hamas.

"What would happen then? Do you think there is a way to negotiate with
them (Hamas) while their main aim and main goal is to destroy the
state of Israel," Mr. Shalom says.

Mr. Shalom has given only lukewarm support to the withdrawal plan from
the beginning.

But, the rising power of Hamas is of concern to others in Israel as
well. The group has claimed responsibility for hundreds of attacks
against Israelis and even though it has agreed to the current truce,
it is still considered a terrorist organization by Israel.

Despite those concerns opinion polls show that the majority of
Israelis support disengagement (withdrawal), while a very vocal
minority remains opposed.

Speaking on Israeli television late Monday, Prime Minister Sharon
repeated the plan's importance to Israel.

He said the decision to pull out of those specific Palestinian areas
is in Israel's interests and designed to improve Israel's situation.

He confirmed earlier reports that the withdrawal would start between
August 15 to 17 - almost a month later than originally scheduled. The
delay is to avoid conflict with a traditional Jewish mourning period
from late July to mid-August.

Tuesday, Mr. Sharon repeated his often stated belief that withdrawing
from Gaza will strengthen Israel's position to maintain control over
large Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank. He has already
secured American support for holding onto the main settlements under a
future final peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Palestinians reject that position, saying final borders and control
over land must be negotiated, not given away beforehand.

Egypt backtracks on reforms
In the past week, political opponents have been jailed and curbs have
been put on who can run for president. By Dan Murphy
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0511/p06s01-wome.html?s=hns

Hamas poll wins cloud pullout:

PLANS for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip have suffered a double setback, with Israel taking fright at the growing electoral strength of the Islamic militant group Hamas, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announcing he will postpone the pullout by three weeks.
http://snipurl.com/eski

Israel may reconsider Gaza withdrawal:

Israel's Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom says that Israel will reconsider its Gaza troop-pullout plan if Hamas wins the forthcoming Palestinian elections.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/86B...75AE5E577B1.htm

http://snipurl.com/esjd

Pro-Israel bias found in US TV news:

US television network coverage of the Middle East conflict slants news towards Israel's point of view by giving disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths, a journalist says.
http://snipurl.com/esje

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ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAYS HAMAS IMPERILS PULLOUT PLAN
By Fran Coombsand Willis Witter
THE WASHINGTON TIMES#
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JERUSALEM -- Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, despite a strong rebuff from Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, said yesterday that he favored sscrapping the withdrawal of Jews from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank if Hamas wins control of the Palestinian parliament.


"If Hamas will win, I personally think we should not do it," Mr. Shalom said of Israel's so-called "disengagement" plan.


The position, expressed in an interview with The Washington Times, puts him at odds with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has said the withdrawal will go ahead regardless of the outcome of Palestinian parliamentary elections in July.


Mr. Shalom's comments also included a warning to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to deal with the growing political popularity of Hamas, an Islamic militant group.


Although Mr. Shalom is seen in some circles as a potential challenger to Mr. Sharon in the next Likud Party primary, the foreign minister insisted that the highly emotional disengagement issue is "not something that we are fighting against one another." He also stressed that he supports the overall plan as a move toward peace.


Mr. Shalom caused a stir when he first suggested, in a television interview Monday, that the withdrawal be postponed.


Mr. Sharon has said the disengagement plan will proceed regardless of the winner of the Palestinian contest, and Mr. Mofaz was even more emphatic yesterday: "The disengagement will not be canceled," he said.


Mr. Shalom also said that Israel should be demanding that the Palestinian Authority help coordinate the Jewish withdrawal from occupied Palestinian land.


"What I think needs to be done is to move with the Palestinian Authority together to coordinate the disengagement plan. Unfortunately, they are not willing to do it now," he said.


Mr. Shalom also said Mr. Abbas should find a way to prevent Hamas from participating in the parliamentary elections or, failing that, delay the vote to give the Palestinian Authority more time to persuade voters to reject the group's candidates.


Elections in dozens of Palestinian cities and municipalities this month demonstrated Hamas' popularity with disillusioned voters throughout the West Bank and Gaza, many of whom hold Palestinian Authority officials responsible for the massive theft of public funds and the failure to provide schools, clinics, roads and other public facilities under leader Yasser Arafat, who died in November.


Hamas continues to call for the destruction of the Jewish state, unlike the Fatah group that dominates the Palestinian Authority, but recently has suspended its violent actions. However, the group has threatened a resumption of violence if the elections are postponed.


Hamas is "scoring points because their platform is very, very strong, very, very tough, and they can do it while Abu Mazen has to give more moderate statements because he is in power," Mr. Shalom said, using a popular nickname for Mr. Abbas.


"What I think is that Hamas should not run in the next election and that the Palestinian Authority will not let them run in that election," Mr. Shalom said. "It's not that I would like to intervene in their political system ... but I believe if they win, it will undermine the regime of Abu Mazen."


Mr. Shalom said he had voiced his concern to visiting ambassadors from the European Union.


"We can't allow Hamas to run for election and gain more power," he said. "After that, [the European Union] will be telling us to decide maybe to resume the dialogue with this organization by saying they are representatives of the parliament.


"It would be a catastrophe for the Palestinian Authority," Mr. Shalom said. "The fact that they are running for the parliament doesn't give them any right to have an open dialogue with the free world."


Although Hamas is best known in the West for its spectacular suicide bombing campaigns against Israeli civilians, it has won Palestinian supporters by providing social services such as schools, clinics and food subsidies that cushioned the effect of a collapsing economy during the final years of Mr. Arafat's rule.


When it comes to winning an election, said one Palestinian analyst with close ties to both sides, "Fatah is struggling for its life like a bleeding sheep."


But Mr. Shalom said a win by Hamas would be unthinkable to Israel.


"Can you think that we can live with the idea that Hamas will be a partisan organization ... that will have representatives in the parliament at the same time they will use their weapons against a neighboring country?"


After Hamas' strong showing in the municipal elections, Mr. Shalom said, he doubts that the Palestinian Authority "will let [Hamas] very freely run. I think they will postpone the elections," perhaps until after the Gaza withdrawal, which should give a popularity boost to Fatah.


In municipal elections held Thursday, Hamas won in roughly one-third of the races it contested, including Nablus, the largest population center in the West Bank. In Gaza, Hamas won control of Rafah city and the huge Al Bureij refugee camp, major population centers that together hold about one-fifth of the million or so Palestinians living in Gaza.


It was the third in a series of municipal elections that began late last year, and Hamas, which is contesting elections for the first time, has won huge victories each time.


Mr. Shalom said the plan to pull all Jews from Gaza and four West Bank settlements had created "a real crisis" within the Likud Party. "It's not so easy for me. I'm sure it's not so easy for the prime minister either. It took me a very long time to support it."


When asked whether he would challenge Mr. Sharon in a party primary, Mr. Shalom said, "I don't think it's the time to talk about it. The election is 2006. The election is a very long time from today. I never said 'no' and I never said 'yes.' "


Underscoring the turmoil within Likud, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, another potential rival to Mr. Sharon, told The Washington Times on Monday that he was unsure whether the government would survive until the end of the year.

(http://insider.washtimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050511-120104-1869r)

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Why the Gaza Pullout Matters
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By Aaron David Miller
Aaron David Miller was an advisor to six secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations. In January 2003, he became president of Seeds of Peace, a not-for-profit organization.

May 11 2005

On Thursday, Israel will celebrate its 57th Independence Day. Yet all these years after its creation; after five wars, two intifadas and the assassination of a prime minister ; neither its borders nor its identity are agreed upon by all of its citizens, let alone by the outside world.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commen...0,7623252.story

In case you missed it:

Robert Fisk : Bush is intent on painting allies and enemies in the Middle East as evil:

Only The Nation among all of America's newspapers and magazines has dared to point out that a large number of former Israeli lobbyists are now working within the American administration and the Bush plans for the Middle East
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8808.htm

http://snipurl.com/etjd

Israel Spys On U.S.? Ex-AIPAC man expects indictment:

Steve Rosen, recently terminated as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy director in the wake of an FBI investigation, expects to be indicted as soon as June, according to sources who know the case.
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?int...intcategoryid=3

http://snipurl.com/etjh

Man Arrested for Having Uzi :

An ex-Israeli army soldier living in Queens has been arrested for plotting to buy a half-dozen hand grenades. Police searching his Rego Park apartment found an Uzi submachine gun and ammunition.
http://snipurl.com/etji

King of Jordan to pardon Iraq's deputy PM over $300m bank fraud:

King Abdullah of Jordan has agreed to pardon Ahmed Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi political leader, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for fraud after his bank collapsed with $300m (£160m) in missing deposits in 1989.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8805.htm

http://snipurl.com/etjn

Gaza pullout diverting media gaze:

A top Palestinian official has told Aljazeera.net that while the world is focusing on the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from Gaza, Tel Aviv has strengthened its grasp on the West Bank.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9F9...EF02ACF88A2.htm

http://snipurl.com/etk5

Abbas questions Israel's belief in democracy :

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas questioned Israel's belief in democracy on Tuesday after an Israeli official suggested a victory for Hamas militants in Palestinian parliamentary elections could put Israel's pull-out from Gaza at risk.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574904.html

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?Stor...11-094754-3387r

Possible Hamas election victory splits Israeli officials
Fran Coombs and Willis Witter

Mofaz: Gaza plan 'to save W Bank' :

Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has said the withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza will allow Israel to extend its borders into the West Bank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4537229.stm

Two illegal settler marches pass through West Bank Palestinian towns :

Settlers entered two Palestinian villages on Thursday, then refused to leave when ordered to do so by the Israel Defense Forces.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574890.html

Arabs, S. Americans back Palestinians, condemn Iraq terror :

Israel should withdraw from all territories occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and dismantle settlements, including those in East Jerusalem, it said.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/05/13/wld04.htm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050513/wl_nm/...srael_shells_dc

Hizbollah, Israeli forces clash in border area

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050513/ap_on_.../lebanon_israel

Hezbollah Guerrillas Attack Israeli Posts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050513/ap_on_...l_rocket_attack

Israelis Retaliate for Lebanon Rockets

Hizb Allah, Israeli forces trade fire:

Israeli forces have retaliated with a barrage of artillery fire and an airstrike after Hizb Allah fired on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms border area, in the heaviest exchange in months between Israel and the Lebanese group.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AFA...BF9BE49EFA4.htm

http://snipurl.com/evdq

Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 05/12/05:

The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
http://snipurl.com/evds

Pimping a war:

Israel says Iran will have nuclear bomb know-how soon:

Iran will have the technological know-how within six to nine months to build a nuclear bomb, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said on Friday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HEL336081.htm

http://snipurl.com/eve2

Arming an Israeli Attack on Iran: Why the US should cancel "Bunker Buster" Bombs for Israel:

Faulty Intelligence, WMD Hype and a New Trigger for War
http://www.irmep.org/GBU.htm

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?Stor...13-123400-9598r

Israel, Palestine said to have 'failed marriage with no divorce'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050515/ap_on_...el_palestinians

Palestinians Mark Founding of Israel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/stor...5007543,00.html


Can you Imagine if someone stole your home, and the told millions of people , they have a "right of return" to your old house, but you don't.

And then just in case yoe were not feeling screwed enough, they do this...



A bit like Columbus day here in the USA, when we celebrate the Colonists victory over the natives.

To know more about how your tax dollars and support help the new militeristic colonists...

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

Palestinians mark day of catastrophe:

Palestinians have observed the blackest day in their history with warnings that there will be no Middle East peace until they get independence and the plight of their refugees is solved.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/13E...FC29FFA615A.htm

http://snipurl.com/eww9

What does Condoleezza know? :

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lavished praise on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in an interview she gave Larry King on the eve of Independence Day. Rice said Sharon was admirable for the leadership he is displaying in his willingness to divide the land of Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/575903.html

Early breaking news on CNN today:

Alqaeda claims responsibility for 3-4 missiles launched from a recently leased Jordan warehouse toward a US military ship docked in Jordan for joint military training. The missiles missed and the ship went out to sea for protection.

Alqaeda is now in Jordan, an ally country.