1: Ha'aretz 2: Irish Independent 3: Palestine Chronicle 4: Sunday Tribune 5: The Observer 6: The Peoples Voice
#77610 Excerpts from a sermon delivered in Minneapolis
by Anna Baltzer, 27 January 2008
Today in Gaza, Palestinians demanded freedom from the Israeli siege that has endured for years since the so-called "disengagement" and before. After several days under even tighter isolation by Israel, which had sealed the borders of the small strip ...
#170880 Food Consumption in the Gaza Strip – Red Lines, version 2
by Israeli Ministry of Defense, 27 January 2008
#77444 Livni to meet with protesters who seek PM's resignation
by Mazal Mualem, Barak Ravid, Lily Galili in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Kadima sources oppose meeting, to be held ahead of release of Winograd report this week. ...
#77445 Ahead of Winograd report, reservists plan rally; Livni to meet with protesters
by Mazal Mualem, Barak Ravid, Lily Galili in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The reservist protest groups and bereaved parents have reserved Rabin Square in Tel Aviv for a rally on Saturday night, after the release of the final Winograd report.
Rally organizers said they are calling on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to quit. ...
#77446 New labor bill puts workers' rights in companies' hands
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
#77447 Abbas to ask Olmert to transfer border control to PA
by Avi Issacharoff in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will ask Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting in Jerusalem today to consider transferring control of the Gaza Strip border crossings to the Palestinian Authority.
Abbas adviser Yasser Abed Rabbo says ...
#77448 PFLP's Habash dies at 81
by AP in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
AMMAN - George Habash, whose radical PLO faction gained notoriety after the simultaneous hijackings of four Western airliners in 1970 and the seizure of an Air France flight to Entebbe, Uganda, died yesterday in Jordan. He was 81.
The former guerr ...
#77449 Olmert's war policy / What did Olmert and Peretz discuss?
by Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The transcripts that people close to the prime minister gave Nahum Barnea of Yedioth Aharonoth - and used in his story on Friday - represent the most extensive defense published to date of Ehud Olmert's reasons for embarking on a large ground op ...
#77450 2007 sees increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Germany, Australia
by Anshel Pfeffer, Asaf Uni in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The annual global report on anti-Semitism being presented to the cabinet this morning points to a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Germany, Australia, the United States and Ukraine together with an overall decrease in Western Europe. The largest num ...
#77451 Yeshiva counselor who killed terrorists lives to tell the tale
by Nadav Shragai in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Elyakim Kovatch, a 10th-grade counselor at the Mekor Haim yeshiva in Kfar Etzion, says he does not remember the sound of shots from his gun, which killed the two terrorists who broke into the institution Thursday evening. "In my memory, the incident ...
#77452 Mixed response to planned Haifa port facelift
by Fadi Eyadat in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Yosef Pincus, 80, of Haifa, was sitting Friday in the new square in front of his veteran restaurant, Ha'ogen, in Haifa's lower city, reminiscing about his days as a sailor, when when the port's main Palmer Gate was open to tourists. "F ...
#77453 As Palestinians continue to pour into Egypt, IDF steps up its border security
by Agencies, Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
While Palestinians from the Gaza Strip continued to pour into Sinai for the fourth consecutive day yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces stepped up security along the border with Egypt, fearing that Israel would be infiltrated by militants seeking to ...
#77454 Air strikes leave 5 Palestinians dead in Rafah; Jerusalem policeman stabbed
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Five Palestinians were killed early Friday in air strikes near Rafah, including a leading Hamas militant involved in rocket and mortar attacks against Israel. Yesterday, in the third violent incident in the Jerusalem area over the weekend, a Palestin ...
#77455 TAU musicians to play at UN for Holocaust Day
by Cnaan Liphshiz in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Three years after the United Nations inaugurated International Holocaust Memorial Day, the General Assembly in New York has invited 90 musicians from Tel Aviv University to perform in a special ceremony to take place tomorrow.
The orchestra, condu ...
#77456 One step forward, two steps back?
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The bill for increased supervision of labor-law compliance is based on a historic agreement between the Histadrut labor federation, private employers' organizations and the government, as the country's largest employer. Its goal is to set p ...
#77457 Dutch Jewish group slams card of Anne Frank in kaffiyeh
by Cnaan Liphshiz in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
»A Dutch Jewish organization last week condemned the distribution of a postcard showing a manipulated image of Anne Frank wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh, calling it "a tasteless
falsification of history." The company that published the postcar ...
#77458 Two days before the Florida primary, Rudy seeks solace in football
by Shmuel Rosner in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
MIAMI - Rudolph Giuliani is scheduled to appear today before a sympathetic crowd at a synagogue in Boca Raton. Many reporters will be there, most of whom, judging by a random survey, think their main object is documenting the final collapse of a once ...
#77459 Double threat to peace
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
For 34 years, since the separation of forces after the Yom Kippur War, the Israel-Egyptian front has been quiet. The peace agreement signed by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin has been stable and firm for more than a quarter of a century, despite fluct ...
#77460 Whose monopoly now?
by Zvi Bar'el in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
First there was delight. Senior officials in Israel said that Egypt had taken on this trouble called Gaza. You could almost hear the chadenfreude in their voices. After not wanting to hear about Gaza or its refugees for a generation, Egypt received b ...
#77461 Why the mighty fell
by Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Here they are again, the protesting officers. After their failure in the wake of the Second Lebanon War, they have returned to us on the eve of the release of the final Winograd Committee report. Now, as then, their protest is hollow. They are crying ...
#77462 Manipulating bereavement
by Ehud Asheri in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The scene caught on the Knesset's television cameras was very brief, but loaded with meaning. MK Arye Eldad approached the prime minister's table, stood behind Ehud Olmert and tried to hand him a pamphlet. "Mr. Prime Minister," he called in ...
#77463 Setting the tone
by Uzi Benziman in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The growing tumult around the Winograd Committee's report has brought to a new zenith the cynical manipulation of public opinion: The public is being blatantly and unfairly affected in ways that are meant to manipulate its attitude to the commit ...
#77464 Operation: Silence Olmert
by Lili Galili in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
At the end of the charged press conference at which the bereaved parents presented their alternative report to the upcoming final Winograd Committee report, Yakir Segev sank heavily onto his chair in the Knesset hall and said: "I always considered my ...
#77465 Tales of Black September
by Cnaan Liphshiz in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The United States' actions in the 1970 Black September clash in Jordan might have spelled death for David Raab, who at 17 was held hostage by the Palestinian militants who tried to overthrow the Hashemite monarchy. Raab, who has just published a ...
#77468 NASA delegates to visit Israel to remember astronaut Ilan Ramon
by Zohar Blumenkrantz in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
U.S. astronauts to participate in ceremonies marking five years since Columbia space shuttle crashed. ...
#77473 20 centuries-old oak trees found chopped down in Galilee
by Eli Ashkenazi in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
There have been many trees cut down this winter, including many rare and special trees, especially around the Miron Mountain forest preserve. ...
#77474 Gov't approves plan to reduce number of students per classroom
by Or Kashti in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
The government also approved that as of the next school year, first and second graders will be divided into classes of 20 in certain important subjects. ...
#77475 Israeli suspected of dealing in arms with Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
by Eli Ashkenazi in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
»An Israeli resident of Kfar Kara is suspected of having sold weapons to the heads of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a violent offshoot of the Palestinian Fatah movement. The gag order on the
investigation was lifted Saturday, revealing that 20 ...
#77476 AG: No cops will be indicted for involvement in October 2000 riot deaths
by Yuval Yoaz, Yoav Stern in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Mazuz decision follows recommendation to close probe into riots, in which 13 Israeli Arabs were killed by police fire. ...
#77484 Shas rabbis: Party will quit coalition immediately if J'lem discussed
by Yair Ettinger in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
Party leader Eli Yishai briefs Council of Torah sages on latest meeting with Olmert over settlement freeze, peace talks. ...
#77524 Court convicts IDF officer who led troops in W. Bank rampage
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 27 January 2008
An Israel Defense Forces officer who commanded troops implicated in a West Bank rampage that led to the wrongful shooting of a Palestinian civilian last July was convicted on Sunday of a string of serious charges.
Deputy Lieutenant Yaakov Gigi wa ...
#77721 Look Mary, just don't mention the war
by Eilis O Hanlon in Irish Independent, 27 January 2008
If President McAleese and her defenders really think she can venture into this territory without stirring up a few uneasy ghosts, then they're welcome to try. Many well-meaning people before them have come a cropper in exactly the same way.
The Si ...
#78295 Look at the implications and join sceptics in my bed
by Ruth Dudley Edwards in Irish Independent, 27 January 2008
'So you're going to bed with neo-Nazis," said Henry, with whom I talk politics several mornings a week, and who was referring to Sinn Fein. "And the Socialist Party," I said, "and some Greens who haven't had their principles reversed by association w ...
#77623 Farewell Hakeem, George Habash
by Yousef Abudayyeh in Palestine Chronicle, 27 January 2008
»With the passing of Dr. George Habash, the Arab people as a whole along with peoples of the world struggling for liberation have painfully lost one of the towering legends of
decolonization. Dr. Habash, popularly known as Al-Hakeem in dual re ...
#78297 'Each turn of the screw inflicts deeper indignity on Palestinians'
by Karen Koning AbuZayd in Sunday Tribune, 27 January 2008
GAZA is on the threshold of becoming the first territory to be intentionally reduced to a state of abject destitution, with the knowledge, acquiescence and, some would say, encouragement of the international community. An international community that ...
#77466 Gaza's falling wall changes Middle East map for ever
by Peter Beaumont in The Observer, 27 January 2008
They came and went in lorries and gas tankers, in flatbed trucks loaded with cattle and sheep, in coaches and mini-buses, loaded by the dozen in the backs of trucks, all shuttling across Gaza's southern border. Four days ago they went on foot li ...
#77467 This exodus presents us Egyptians with a threat - and an opportunity
by Ahdaf Soueif in The Observer, 27 January 2008
In a letter sent out last Tuesday, Iyad Sarraj, the Palestinian doctor who for many years has run the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, warned that the aim of the current Israeli policy is to push Egypt to open its Rafah border. 'Israel wi ...
#77808 Gandhi Chased Out By Jews In Denial
by Elaine Meinel Supkis in The Peoples Voice, 27 January 2008
»The Washington Post has this 'On Religion' column that is supposed to talk about religious matters. Most often, this means some sort of story about how wonderful Judaism is and how nice it
is for other religions to get along with each other a ...