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Israel kills Fatah man in Nablus, steps up pressure on Gaza Strip   18 Jan 2008  Israeli troops killed a fighter from the armed wing of Fatah movement in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medical officials and the group said. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades confirmed one of its members was killed by undercover Israeli troops who…

One woman killed and forty injured in an Israeli air strike on Gaza city  Friday 18 Jan 08 16:49 by Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News  Israeli jet fighters attacked the Palestinian Ministry of Interior building located in Gaza city; one woman and ten other civilians had been reportedly killed in the attack that took place…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) Israeli air strikes killed at least seven Palestinians, including a mother and child, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to wage a “war” to stop rocket attacks on the Jewish state. The escalation in violence prompted Palestinian leaders to warn that renewed peace talks…

Israel’s Quiet War Fred Schlomka in URUKNET January 05, 2008 “Bedouin citizens of Israel are under siege as acute as Palestinians in the occupied territories.” While Ehud Olmert and Abu Mazen were wheeling and dealing at Annapolis, several Israeli government ministries and security agencies were deploying their combined resources in a massive operation aimed at…

1- There is no free debate in the USA on foreign policy issues. The existing debate is narowly defined, and is based in the implicit assumption that the US owns the world. Unless this assumption is in place, the discussions taking place in the media are crazy sounding, and don’t make the least bit of…

Date: 14 January 2008 Dear Councillor I am writing to you as an East Renfrewshire Councillor to express alarm at a report that the Council may officially endorse a planned event in May to celebrate the founding the State of Israel, and to urge you to avoid any entanglement in an event such as this.…