1: Common Dreams 2: CounterPunch 3: Electronic Intifada 4: Ha'aretz 5: IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center) 6: Reuters 7: The Glasgow Herald 8: The Guardian 9: The Independent
#79745 Hamas 1988-2008: between negotiation and resistance
by Agustín Velloso Santisteban, 10 March 2008
This is the sad reality of justice in the world. Hamas, as the Palestinian people's representative, is the legitimate party to decide on the national
liberation strategy. The international community, responsible for upholding
international l ...
#116658 There is hope for anti-Zionist Jews
10 March 2008
Nathan Weinstock is not the man he once was. The iconoclastic Trotskyist of the 1970s has had a change of heart about Israel and the Jews, claiming to have ordered all unsold copies of his controversial book, Zionism: false Messiah, to be destroyed. ...
#79772 The World As It Is
by Chris Hedges in Common Dreams, 10 March 2008
»War creates a world without empathy. Those who have empathy cannot, as did Palestinian gunman Alaa Hisham Abu Dheim, coldly murder students in a Jerusalem library. Those who have empathy
cannot drop tons of iron fragmentation bombs on crowded ...
#78119 The One-State Illusion: More is Less
by Michael Neumann in CounterPunch, 10 March 2008
The one-state solution is an attractive ideal mistaken for a live option.
Most of the arguments for the one-state solution are not arguments about whether it’s possible. They are arguments about whether the solution is just, and the two-state sol ...
#79749 Italian solidarity with Palestinian filmmaker on trial in Israel
by Nicola Perugini in Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2008
»At the end of last November, filmmaker Mohammad Bakri furiously left a press conference organized at the Library of the Auditorium of Rome. He was present because of the performance of the
opera Al Kamandjati based on the story of Palestinian ...
#79750 The Nakba generation
by Ziad Abbas in Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2008
This year, it will sixty years since the Nakba, the catastrophe of expulsion of Palestinians from historic Pale ...
#79747 Israeli sniper bullet takes 12-year-old girl's life
by Sami Abu Salem in Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2008
"I put my hand on her chest to stop the streaming blood. She told me that she could not breathe, her body tremb ...
#79748 Hegemony through free trade: Interview with Daoud Hamoudi
by Stefan Christoff, Daoud Hamoudi (interviewee) in Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2008
In this interview by EI contributor Stefan Christoff, Daoud Hamoudi of the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Aparthei ...
#79809 Israel's ultimate plan for Gaza
by Jonathan Cook in Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2008
Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai's much publicized remark last week about Gaza facing a "shoah ...
#79751 Junior faculty union warns of looming university strike
by Ofri Ilani in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Junior faculty say spring term won't open unless negotiations begin on better employment conditions. ...
#79706 Amos Oz: Left wing can return to power in next elections
by Mazal Mualem in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»The Israeli left wing has a chance to win the next general elections, Israeli author Amos Oz told attendees at a rally for MK Haim Oron, who is running for the chairmanship of the left-wing
Meretz Party. Oz stated that the greatest challenge ...
#79707 IDF asked to curb strikes against Hamas
by Barak Ravid, Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
The government recently ordered the Israel Defense Forces to exercise restraint in operations in the Gaza Strip, pursuant to what a senior government official termed new rules of the game forged in the aftermath of last week's military operation ...
#79708 Three days after attack on Gaza border, Liran Banai loses struggle for life
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
At first glance, the hundreds of mourners gathered at the Ashkelon military cemetery yesterday for the funeral of Israel Defense Forces Staff Sergeant Liran Banai seemed to display both agility and morbid curiosity as they climbed every available sur ...
#79709 A lull in Gaza?
by Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
The statistics are not lying: Since last Thursday, there has been a lull in the fighting in the Gaza Strip. It is quite certain that this will be a short break. But it is also hard to argue with the data: At its peak, on February 29, some 50 rockets ...
#79710 Ultra-Orthodox women make up in private
by Tamar Rotem in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
In Bnei Brak there is a woman who wears too much makeup. Bright red lipstick that can be seen from a distance, eyes emphasized with dark eye shadow. For years they've been gossiping about her as she walks down the street.
Her husband, on the ...
#79711 Family threatens to blow up home if Amidar evicts them
by Ruth Sinai in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
A woman in her sixth month of pregnancy, along with her two toddlers, is threatening to blow up their public housing apartment in Petah Tikva if the Housing and Construction Ministry carries through with its plan to evict the family this morning.
...
#79712 For German media, Gaza is not an issue
by Assaf Uni in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»No one mentioned the Gaza Strip. The eight senior reporters of Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting) sat Tuesday facing Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yoram Ben-Ze'ev. They asked
him about the special relationship between th ...
#79713 At Mercaz Harav, Tamir branded 'murderer,' Olmert told not to visit
by Yair Ettinger in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
"Our strength is in our togetherness, and by one person giving strength to the other. Together is something very, very, very deep. It holds us together, to help and be helped. We all need help, you and me," said Rabbi Yerahamiel Weiss, the head of th ...
#79714 Police probe why first cop on the scene did not fire
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Jerusalem police are looking into the actions of the first patrolman to arrive at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva following reports of shots fired, to determine whether his decision not to engage the terrorist was reasonable. The patrolman, a sergeant, is s ...
#79715 With just 50 takers in 6 months, national service option fails to attract yeshiva students
by Shahar Ilan in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Only 50 yeshiva students have opted for civilian national service since this option was made available to them about six months ago, according to data provided by the head of the National Civilian Service Administration, Dr. Reuven Gal.
This is le ...
#79716 Olmert approves construction of 750 new homes in Givat Ze'ev
by Barak Ravid, Agencies in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved the renewed construction of an estimated 750 new homes in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze'ev near Jerusalem, the Housing Ministry said yesterday.
The project approved for the settlement's Agan ...
#79717 Turkish Cypriots planning to open trade office in Israel
by Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»The breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will open a trade office in Israel in the coming weeks, with the assistance of the law office of Dov Weissglas, the former bureau chief of
prime minister Ariel Sharon. The office will hold no ...
#79718 Softening Shas / Low-cost housing
by Nadav Shragai in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Ehud Olmert managed to curb pressure from Shas to release suspended state construction in and around East Jerusalem at a relatively low cost, and without any real change to the general picture of frozen construction in these areas.
The Agan Ayalot ...
#79719 AJC leader urges Israel to give conference 'Durban 2' a chance
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»The "Durban 2" anti-racism conference can still be salvaged, despite recent decisions by Israel and Canada to boycott the gathering, according to David Harris, the executive director of the
American Jewish Committee (AJC). Visiting Israel as ...
#79720 Attorney kills man in forest showdown
by Eli Ashkenazi in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
An attorney was arrested before dawn yesterday on suspicion of having shot and killed a man some hours earlier.
Sami Shibli is suspected of killing Munir Madi and wounding two of Madi's friends - one seriously, in the neck and chest, and one ...
#79722 In show of love for Israel, Sarkozy makes Peres his first official visitor
by Adar Primor in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»That statement was written in these pages in February 2004, during the visit of president Moshe Katsav to Paris, the last official visit of an Israeli president in France, and the first
since 1988. Then-president Jacques Chirac received his I ...
#79723 Most new conversion court judges will be ultra-Orthodox
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
At least eight out of 10 new judges to be selected today to serve on the rabbinical courts for conversion will come from the strict ultra-Orthodox sector.
Leading officials involved in the conversion process said the original objective was to cho ...
#79724 Dichter slams move to expunge criminal records after 7 years
by Shahar Ilan in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter (Kadima) wants to quash an amendment that would automatically expunge a criminal record after seven years, according to a letter Dichter sent to the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee recently.
Kne ...
#79725 Pageantry and pomp in Paris
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»President Shimon Peres is to leave this morning on a five-day official visit to France. It is the first visit by a foreign leader to be hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy since he took
office. Peres is to thank France for the defense assista ...
#79726 Internet, where do hamster babies come from?
by Tamar Winfeld in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Does a whale have a belly button? If identical twin women have sex with identical twin men, will they bear identical children? Why do dead cockroaches lie on their backs? And why don't we feel anything when we grow? Dr. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari expl ...
#79727 Green Cities / Green-thumbed in Bat Yam
by Zafrir Rinat in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Atemporary but important change will take place in Bat Yam next month. The city's residents as well as visitors will be given a map by the organizers of this year's biennale, which identifies 18 new sites that are also called "outdoor rooms ...
#79728 Real estate in the shadow of the Qassams
by Ranit Nahum-Halevy in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
The first Grad missile that fell on Ashkelon scored a direct hit on the real estate sector. Deals that were about to be signed were stalled, and buyers who did agree to continue negotiations demanded 10% price reductions.
"Since the rockets began ...
#79729 Good quality, great value
by Guy Lieberman in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
The sky-high price of property in central Israel tends to make people forget, perhaps because of the shock, that it doesn't have to be that way. There is perfectly affordable housing available, and new apartments at that, just not in the country ...
#79730 Illegitimate use of mourning
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
We can assume that the young people who harassed Education Minister Yuli Tamir outside the Mercaz Harav yeshiva as she emerged from there yesterday after consoling the mourners, were not sent to do so by the rabbis who head the yeshiva. And neverthel ...
#79731 Neither God, nor Judea and Samaria
by Tom Segev in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»The terrorist who murdered eight students of the Mercaz Harav yeshiva last week could not have picked a more symbolic target. Naturally, the yeshiva students expressed their pain and anger
in very political language. The incident was not yet ...
#79732 No discounts and no installments
by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
When soldiers fell in defense of the settlers in Gush Katif, the Jewish brain invented the patent of unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. When a terrorist from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebel Mukaber murders yeshiva students in the wes ...
#79733 The wrong man for the ILA
by Alexandre Kedar in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»The appointment of a new director of the Israel Lands Administration could very rapidly go from being a bureaucratic issue that primarily concerns land experts to a ticking bomb for
society, due to the sensitivity of the matter of land and it ...
#79734 Meretz needs Gal-On's moral compass
by Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Israel needs Meretz more than ever. With prospects for peace receding on the horizon, Israel needs a peace party like Meretz. When the rule of law is under attack, Israel needs a party of law like Meretz. When the rich do as they please in this count ...
#79735 'Collateral damage'
by Catrin Ormestad in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
There were still mourning tents in almost every street in Jabalya on Thursday, a few days after the Israel Defense Forces pulled out, but life was slowly returning to normal. Repair work was already underway. Tanks had chopped up the streets, houses ...
#79736 The road to Gaza runs through Tehran
by Amir Oren in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
"Anyone who says that a big operation in Gaza will be 10 times as complicated, complex and dangerous as Operation Defensive Shield" - the West Bank incursion of spring 2002 - "doesn't know what he is talking about," a senior security expert who ...
#79737 Majority of judges in new conversion courts to be Haredi
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Officials say original objective was to choose liberal judges who would make conversion easier. ...
#79738 Three wounded, two seriously, in Netanya restaurant shooting
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Gunman opened fire, wounding owner and two employees; restaurant located next to restaurant owned by reputed underworld figure. ...
#79743 State Prosecutor: Israel's civil service is plagued by corruption
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Moshe Lador addresses a Knesset panel, says more funds should be allocated to law enforcement system. ...
#79744 Supreme Court set to discuss connecting unrecognized Bedouin towns to water
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»The Supreme Court is set to discuss Monday whether unrecognized Bedoiun villages in the Negev should be connected to water infrastructure. Haifa District Court ruled in September that
courts should not intervene in the water commissioner' ...
#79746 Jerusalem plans 400 new homes for Jews in eastern part of capital
by AP in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»The Jerusalem municipality plans to build 400 new homes in the eastern part of the city, a spokesman for the municipality said Monday. "The plan has been completed and is waiting the final
approval of a regional planning committee before cons ...
#79757 Yeshiva gunman's family say funeral will be at dawn to avoid media frenzy
by Jonathan Lis, Avi Issacharoff, Shahar Ilan in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
Police say family yet to accept conditions to allow release of attacker's body for burial. ...
#79758 Lieberman to Arab MKs: One day we will 'take care of you'
by Shahar Ilan in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
»Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman said at a Knesset plenary meeting on Monday, addressing Arab MKs, that "a new administration will be established and then we will take care of
you." The statement came three days after Lieberman ...
#79775 Knesset speaker calls for demolition of Jerusalem yeshiva terrorist's home
by Shahar Ilan in Ha'aretz, 10 March 2008
In speech urging national unity gov't, Itzik says 'we mustn't politicize mourning' for victims of Yeshiva terror attack. ...
#79753 Israeli army kidnaps five teenagers from villages near Tulkarem
by Ghassan Bannoura in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 10 March 2008
»The Israeli army attacked several villages near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, abducting five teenagers on Monday at dawn. Local sources stated that troops searched and ransacked
homes in the villages of Attel, Qafeen and Al Sharawi ...
#79754 Bethlehem: Eight Palestinians including journalist kidnapped by Israeli army
by Najeb Faraj in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 10 March 2008
»The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and the nearby town of Beit Sahour on Monday at dawn, kidnapping at least eight civilians, including a journalist. At
4:00am on Monday, 10 army vehicles carrying at least 40 so ...
#81013 "Facing Tomorrow:" The Israel Presidential Conference 2008
by Reuters in Reuters, 10 March 2008
JERUSALEM, Israel, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Facing Tomorrow, the first
annual conference of Shimon Peres' presidency will take place in Jerusalem
May 13-15, marking Israel's milestone 60th anniversary, at the International
Convention Center.
...
#79752 150 protest as Hawn arrives at JNF dinner
by Alison Campsie in The Glasgow Herald, 10 March 2008
»Goldie Hawn received a hostile reception in Glasgow last night from protesters opposed to her involvement in a fundraising dinner for the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Police said that around
150 people joined the demonstration outside the Hilt ...
#79739 Israel expands settlements in blow to peace process
by Toni O'Loughlin, Ian Black in The Guardian, 10 March 2008
Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, embraced the rightwing settler movement yesterday by saying he shared their pain in the wake of last week's killings at a Jewish religious school and by approving 530 new settler homes in the West Bank.
The de ...
#79812 Israel suspends Gaza air strikes
by Haroon Siddique in The Guardian, 10 March 2008
The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has called a halt to air strikes and raids into the Gaza Strip in response to a drop in rocket fire from the territory, his officials said today.
Israeli defence officials and Hamas, which controls Gaza, sa ...
#79813 Drawing defiance
by Ian Black in The Guardian, 10 March 2008
It is now almost 21 years since a middle-aged man was shot and fatally wounded in broad daylight by unknown attackers in a London street. But the memory of Naji al-Ali, one of the most talented cartoonists the Arab world has ever known, lives on.
...
#79740 Israel defies freeze on illegal settlements
by Eric Silver in The Independent, 10 March 2008
Israel approved plans yesterday to build 330 new homes in a suburban West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem. The move was denounced by the Palestinian Authority as "a slap in the face of the peace process" and called on the Quartet of the United Sta ...