No degree for deported Gazan Nov 2, 2009
Deportation could leave Gaza student without degree - CNN.com ... Deportation could leave Gaza student without degree ... Berlanty Azzam says she was blindfolded, handcuffed and sent back to Gaza by Israeli forces. (CNN -- World)
Soccer on Gaza's firing line Oct 30, 2009
Soccer in the firing line: Gaza Cup final - CNN.com ... Soccer in the firing line: Gaza Cup final ... Gaza City, Gaza (CNN) -- Terrace crowds are controlled by men wearing army fatigues and holding Kalashnikov rifles, players and press pray on the pitch at half-time and when the final whistle is blown, the trophy is handed to the winning captain by one of Israel's most wanted men. (CNN -- World)
Geek boutique Oct 26, 2009
Much more interesting is the piece on the underground railroad-like tunnels used to move commercial goods into the Gaza Strip ... Much more interesting is the piece on the underground railroad-like tunnels used to move commercial goods into the Gaza Strip. (New York Post -- News)
Increase in 'air rage' incidents Oct 23, 2009
Page last updated at 15:42 GMT, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:42 UK. The majority of flights are trouble free. (BBC News -- UK)
Low dose radiation 'harms heart' Oct 23, 2009
Page last updated at 23:03 GMT, Thursday, 22 October 2009 00:03 UK. Low dose radiation 'harms heart. (BBC News -- Health)
US town's oil boom Oct 23, 2009
Page last updated at 09:47 GMT, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:47 UK. Montana town revels in oil boom. (BBC News -- Americas)
U.N. Repudiates Obama Diplomacy Oct 22, 2009
The report, covering Israel s month-long incursion into the Gaza Strip late last year (Operation Cast Lead lasted from December 27, 2008 until January 18, 2009), puts on a thin veneer of even-handedness by accusing both Israelis and Palestinians of crimes, but contradicts so many of the facts that its conclusion -- that Israeli officials may be guilty of war crimes -- should be completely lacking in credibility ... For example, trying to prove repression of dissent in Israel, they say Hundreds... (Human Events Online)
Breakdancers in Gaza: Keeping It Real Oct 22, 2009
Marwan Salama, 18, also known as "Barwan B-boy" dances and flips for an audience of Palestinian school children in Khan Younis, a town in the Gaza Strip ... Mohammed al-Ghiez sets his laptop down on the concrete rooftop of a school in the central Gaza Strip ... This is hardly a typical Monday morning scene in the deeply conservative Gaza Strip, ruled by the Islamists of Hamas, and where Western pop culture is largely shunned. (Time.com)
Whose Internet is it, anyway? Oct 17, 2009
The possible fallout from a UN vote adopting the Goldstone Gaza report. . (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
U.N.'s Gaza Probe Becomes the New Battleground Oct 15, 2009
Palestinian children hold posters showing scenes from Israel's war on the Gaza Strip during a demonstration in Sidon, Lebanon, against a U.N. decision to delay a vote on a war-crimes report Anwar Amro / AFP / Getty ... Rarely does a human rights investigation cause the kind of geopolitical ruckus that has been generated by the U.N. probe into last winter's fighting in Gaza that left more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead ... Whatever happens to the Goldstone report, Israeli officials... (Time.com)
Remembering Congo's rumba king Oct 15, 2009
Page last updated at 07:07 GMT, Monday, 12 October 2009 08:07 UK. By Noel Mwakugu BBC News, Kinshasa. (BBC News -- Africa)
Friends No More? Why Turkey and Israel Have Fallen Out Oct 15, 2009
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said his country "was showing its sensitivity." "We hope that the situation in Gaza will be improved, that the situation will be back to the diplomatic track," he said. The friction is the latest in a relationship that has been worsening since last December, when Turkey predominantly Muslim but officially secular condemned Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip that left 1,500 Palestinians dead ... Another incident occurred at the U.N. General Assembly in New... (Time.com)
No easy Mideast peace Oct 12, 2009
The US envoy arrived in the region Wednesday and is pushing to get Israelis and Palestinians to agree to restart peace negotiations suspended in December after the start of the Gaza war ... Israel and the Palestinians relaunched their peace negotiations in November 2007 but the talks made little visible progress and were suspended in late December after the start of Israel's war in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. (iAfrica.com)
* World News Quick Take Oct 12, 2009
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply since the winter war in Gaza. Muslim Turkey was especially vocal in denouncing Tel Aviv conduct during the war. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Nobel Peace Prize for Obama met with cheers and jeers around the world Oct 10, 2009
In the Gaza Strip, leaders of the radical Hamas movement said they had heard Obama's speeches seeking better relations with the Islamic world but had not been moved ... In the Gaza Strip, leaders of the radical Hamas movement said they had heard Obama's speeches seeking better relations with the Islamic world but had not been moved. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Fat City: W.Va. Town Braces For TV Show Depiction Oct 10, 2009
Gaza City zookeepers have found a creative way of drawing crowds to their dilapidated zoo -- by painting their donkeys. The Marah Land Zoo's only two zebras died of hunger earlier this year when they were neglected during the Israel-Hamas war. (Click2Houston, TX)
Obama says Nobel an 'affirmation of American leadership' Oct 10, 2009
"There's a lot more that Obama needs to achieve for peace and for the Palestinian people in order to receive this award," Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, said in a telephone interview. The U.S., European Union and Israel brand Hamas, which controls Gaza, a terrorist organization. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Gasps as Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize Oct 10, 2009
In the Gaza Strip, leaders of the radical Hamas movement said they had heard Obama's speeches on better relations with the Islamic world but had not been moved. "We are in need of actions, not sayings," Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said. (USA Today)
Nato lorries torched in Pakistan Oct 9, 2009
Dye-job donkeys wow Gaza children ... Palestinian leaders face anger over UN report on Gaza. (BBC News -- South Asia)
* Palestinians in surprise UN resolution turnaround Oct 3, 2009
The Palestinian Authority, under heavy pressure from the US, has withdrawn its support for a UN Human Rights Council resolution on alleged war crimes in Gaza, diplomats said on Thursday ... Israel has dismissed the UN investigation into its winter offensive in the Gaza Strip as biased, but its latest moves show it is clearly concerned ... Most recently, British activists attempted this week to have Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak arrested during a trip to Britain for war crimes connected to... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Man charged with plot to bomb Ill. courthouse Sep 25, 2009
In talks with the informant, Finton said he wanted to fight with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and expressed an intense interest in the commando-style assault carried out by extremists that killed 166 people in Mumbai, India, late last year. "Finton stated that all the 'brothers' need that type of training," the affidavit said. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Entering Gaza: The Hard Way in from Egypt Sep 20, 2009
Palestinians wait at the Rafah border point to cross into Egypt from the Gaza Strip SAID KHATIB / AFP / Getty ... Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock is chaos at Rafah Crossing, the Egyptian-controlled entrance to the Gaza Strip ... Rafah is one of only two operating entry/exit points for human traffic into Hamas-held Gaza the other is Erez on the border with Israel. (Time.com)
* US envoy fails to break deadlock in Middle East Sep 20, 2009
Abbas is locked in a power struggle with the Islamic militant group Hamas, which overran the Gaza Strip in 2007, leaving him only in control of the West Bank ... In the Gaza town of Beit Lahia, Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri told a rally Friday that negotiations are a waste of time ... However, the West Bank and Gaza remain cut off from each other, and West Bank exports are hampered by slow movement at Israeli crossings. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Middle East peace effort's missing key: female negotiators. Sep 16, 2009
As in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, increased violence among men as seen among Israeli army combatants during intensified military operations can mean the home becomes more tumultuous and emotionally stressful, increasing the probability of domestic violence. Along national borders as well, poor women feel the greatest burden of rocket attacks. (Christian Science Monitor)
Shoe-thrower tortured? Sep 16, 2009
But there is talk of plum job offers from bigger Arab networks, lavish gifts such as sports cars from businessmen, guaranteed celebrity status, and reports that Arab women from Baghdad to the Gaza Strip want to marry him. Zaidi, from Iraq's Shiite majority, was kidnapped in Baghdad and held by unknown captors for three days in 2007 and then detained for one day by US forces at the beginning of 2008, according to his brother. (iAfrica.com)
More of this story Sep 14, 2009
Palestinian Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, who had lived there for generations, were confined to two parcels of land, the West Bank and Gaza, which are now referred to by Palestinians as the occupied Palestinian territories. A friend in San Francisco provides an introduction for me to visit a Palestinian peacemaker who lives in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Netanyahu: Schism With U.S. Grows Under Obama Sep 14, 2009
Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, is demanding hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier captured more than three years ago. 2009 Associated Press. (Newsmax)
Bin Laden warns US on Israel ties Sep 14, 2009
The speaker also appeared to refer to criticisms former U.S. President Jimmy Carter made in June of Israel's Gaza invasion earlier this year. Bin Laden's last apparent message was issued just before Obama's speech, where the president talked of a "new beginning" between the United States and the Muslim world. (India Times)
India lets Kashmir leader travel Sep 9, 2009
Gaza death toll 'was much higher. Pardon for football fan Shields. (Yahoo News -- Kashmir Dispute)
A green bigger Heathrow? Sep 9, 2009
Gaza death toll 'was much higher. Married woman faces deportation. (BBC News -- Europe)
UK 'must act' on planes Sep 9, 2009
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Tourism 'success' despite weather Sep 9, 2009
Page last updated at 05:51 GMT, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 06:51 UK. The 110m Bluestone attraction in Pembrokeshire said in June it had attracted 40,000 visitors. (BBC News -- UK)
Rice warns on Israel settlements Sep 5, 2009
She also said militants must stop firing rockets at Israel from Gaza. She spoke after meeting Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. (BBC News -- Africa)
Israelis, Palestinians hold economic talks Sep 3, 2009
Khoury said he also called for freer movement of goods into and out of the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the rival Hamas militant group and has been under Israeli blockade. Israel restricts access to more than half the West Bank and has ultimate control of roads, energy, water, telecommunications, and airspace. (Boston Globe)
What Gaza looks like through four Gazans' eyes Sep 3, 2009
A millionaire owner of Gaza's finest Arab stallions, a fluent English student, a farmer, and a respected human rights advocate share their views ... Abed Rabo, Gaza Strip - Gaza has known its fair shair of battles ... But in the eyes of Eyad Sarraj, an independent local politician and human rights advocate respected by both Hamas and Fatah, Israel's 2009 Gaza war was "unprecedented. It was comprehensive community terror.". (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Former Israeli PM Olmert charged Aug 31, 2009
He won back some support in the wake of the three-week war in Gaza this year. He also spent a good deal of his time in office in negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at the end of which there was no visible progress. (BBC News)
Profile: Ehud Olmert Aug 31, 2009
He unequivocally supported Mr Sharon through every step of the Gaza evacuation process when Israel withdrew from all its settlements in the territory and four others in the West Bank ... He caused uproar in political circles in December 2003, when he suggested Israel should pull out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ... Mr Olmert was a long-standing rival of Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he replaced as finance minister in August 2005 when the latter stood down in protest at the Gaza pull-out plan. (BBC News -- Africa)
James Murdoch condemns 'chilling' expansion of British state broadcaster... Aug 30, 2009
" so the consumer goes elsewhere . What Murdoch wants to do is to get rid of all these elsewheres . However even if he did that he would not get the customers because people would still not pay for crap . What's happening at the moment is that Murdoch's chickens are well and truly coming home to roost . Murdoch snr. has played a big part in the demise of the USA and elsewhere and , largely indirectly , in the economic crash . We are now at a time of massive paradigm shift - it's very much... (The Drudge Report)
* Trade revives as Palestinian cities try to reconnect Aug 30, 2009
Taipei Times - archives. Enter your search terms. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
CIA Program: Reckless or Tightly Governed? Aug 27, 2009
CIA Program: Reckless or Tightly Governed. CIA Program: Reckless or Tightly Governed. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Global food prices dip, not here Aug 22, 2009
Food prices have moderated sharply in most geographies, including West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sri Lanka which were witnessing violent anti-government movements. Sri Lanka saw food prices decline 1. (India Times)
Palestinian Leader Renews Vow to Destroy Israel Aug 18, 2009
Israel allowed participants from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and the United States to travel to the West Bank while Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, prevented Fatah members there from leaving the strip. The assembly, which was scantly reported in mainstream media outlets, ended late last week with militant statements and even a call from one member for the party to forge a strategic alliance with Iran. (Newsmax)
French academic free on bail Aug 17, 2009
He met with President Bashar Assad in January as part of an international bid at the time to stop an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, and Assad was a guest of honor at France's July 2008 Bastille Day parade. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- International)
Best from Sunday Aug 17, 2009
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - The leader of an al-Qaida-inspired group in the Gaza Strip blew himself up during a shootout Saturday with Hamas security forces. Trying to secure the services of Marlon Brown was at the top of the to-do list for Tennessee's new football coach when he was introduced on Dec. 1. (Athens Banner-Herald)
McKinney on activism, prison Aug 16, 2009
She s taken two tumultuous trips to Gaza, which she said were humanitarian missions ... Q: Your trip to Gaza in July wasn t your first attempt at trying to deliver humanitarian aid there, correct ... We were trying to deliver those medical supplies to the people of Gaza. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
US senator 'meets Burmese leader' Aug 15, 2009
Gaza Islamist leader dies in raid ... Gaza Islamist leader dies in raid. (BBC News)
Saudi Arabia wavers on Obama's plan Aug 13, 2009
The biggest problem there has been the stark conflict between the US-based Fatah party, which administers Palestinian institutions in some portions of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Islamist Hamas party, which governs in Israeli-besieged Gaza ... As a few thousand pious Muslims now prepare to leave both Gaza and the West Bank to travel to Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage, there is some expectation their Saudi hosts may be able to do some good reconciliation work while they are there.... (Asia Times Online)
Fatah holds key party congress Aug 8, 2009
An estimated 400 Fatah delegates who live in the Gaza Strip were banned from travelling to Bethlehem for the conference by the territory's rulers, Hamas ... Opinion polls still suggest that Fatah is currently more popular than its main rival - the Islamist Hamas movement which controls the Gaza Strip. (BBC News -- Africa)
Fatah congress focuses on split with Hamas Aug 7, 2009
Hamas defeated Fatah in Palestinian legislative elections in January 2006 and violently wrested control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah in June 2007 ... "Those divisions, however, were apparent at the congress. Earlier in his speech, Abbas referred to Hamas as "coup makers," and Hamas refused to allow 400 Fatah delegates in Gaza travel to the conference in the West Bank. But several snuck out via underground smuggling tunnels linking Gaza to Egypt, and some came by donkey. One woman even disguised... (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Tarheel Jihad Aug 6, 2009
Much later, in 2006, Boyd visited another jihadist hotspot, Gaza, along with one of his sons, in order to (according to the indictment) introduce the young man to individuals who also believed that violent jihad was a personal religious obligation ... How did a North Carolinian who converted to Islam get the idea that violent jihad was a personal religious obligation in the first place -- and that he had to travel to places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Gaza and Israel in order to fulfill that... (Human Events Online)
Give talks a chance, Abbas urges Aug 6, 2009
Some 400 Gaza delegates couldn't attend at all, barred from travel by the territory's Hamas rulers. In disarray typical of Fatah, organizers were still struggling Tuesday to find a way to let the Gazans participate in the voting. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Reinventing Fatah Aug 5, 2009
The other, Mohammed Dahlan, is the former head of a powerful security force in Gaza ... Mr Dahlan, however, as the leader of security forces in Gaza during street battles with Hamas in 2007, is at the forefront of the feud between the two factions. (BBC News -- Africa)
Abbas's big move to revamp Fatah Aug 5, 2009
Trounced by the militant Hamas organization in Gaza first in 2006 elections, then at gunpoint in June 2007 it now seeks to regain face ... But Hamas, which joined Fatah in a unity government for several months leading up to Fatah's June 2007 ouster from Gaza, no longer recognizes his presidency ... Meanwhile, about 400 Fatah members in Gaza are being denied permission to leave by Hamas. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Abbas seeks a 'new start' Aug 5, 2009
These faults, he said, were to blame for the long-dominant party's upset defeat at the polls three years ago and its routing from the Gaza Strip in 2007 ... Long-standing Hamas-Fatah tensions boiled over in June 2007 when the Islamists seized control of Gaza after a week of deadly street clashes, confining Abbas's power base to the occupied West Bank ... Preparations for the meeting had been marred by Hamas's refusal to allow some 400 Fatah delegates to leave Gaza for the West Bank, although... (iAfrica.com)
Palestinian leader seeks Fatah backing Aug 5, 2009
Some 400 Gaza delegates couldn't attend at all, barred from travel by the territory's Hamas rulers. In disarray typical of Fatah, organizers were still struggling Tuesday to find a way to let the Gazans participate in the voting ... The absence of the Gaza delegates highlighted the deepening Palestinian split between Hamas, which seized Gaza in 2007, and the Western-backed Abbas. (MSNBC -- International)
Abbas: Holding Fatah congress a "historic event" Aug 4, 2009
He also slammed Gaza-ruling Islamic Hamas movement for refusing to lift the travel ban on dozens of Gaza Fatah members ... "Not letting our people in Gaza to reach the West Bank had broken our hearts. We really hoped they (Gaza Fatah members) could be able to come to attend the conference," said Abbas, adding "in spite of this, we will hold the conference.". (Xinhuanet, China)
Fatah: Hamas travel ban undermines inter-dialogue Aug 3, 2009
RAMALLAH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party slammed a Hamas travel ban on 400 Gaza Fatah members to join their sixth general assembly to be held in Bethlehem as a move that would undermine the inter-Palestinian dialogue. "In case Hamas continues to prevent Gaza Fatah members from leaving Gaza to join the conference, this will be a declaration of death to all the previous rounds of inter-Palestinian dialogue we have had," said Azzam el-Ahmed, a senior Fatah... (Xinhuanet, China)
Jihad, USA (9) Aug 2, 2009
It also accuses Boyd of taking one of his sons to Gaza in March 2006 to introduce the young man to individuals who believed that violent jihad was a religious obligation. A year later, Boyd and several of the other defendants apparently went to Israel in an unsuccessful effort to wage jihad. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Fatah, West's Hope For Peace, Faces Critical Test Aug 1, 2009
Hamas emerged as a major spoiler, seizing control of the Gaza Strip, and this year a relatively moderate Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, was replaced by a hawk, Benjamin Netanyahu ... Shaath would not elaborate further on the program, but the Palestinians' chief demand has remained constant _ a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem ... Potential successors are not challenging Abbas now, but their relative strengths will be measured when the more than 1,500 delegates from the West... (CBS News -- World)
House Votes to Rein in Wall Street Pay Aug 1, 2009
But sending money to Hamas Group to rebuild Gaza Strip, was SOOOOOO much more important then the middle class in this country. by Berkeley_Skirt_Lifter July 31, 2009 12:09 PM EDT. (CBS News)
Gaza children go for kite-flying record Jul 31, 2009
Gaza children go for world record for kite flying - Wonderful World- msnbc ... Gaza children go for world record for kite flying ... Mohammed Abed / AFP - Getty ImagesPalestinian children fly kites along the beach during a U.N.-sponsoredcamp in Gaza City on Thursday. (MSNBC -- International)
Newsweek: Bush as Obama's Mideast envoy? Jul 31, 2009
The unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Stripfollowed by preparations to withdraw from large parts of the West Bank that were interrupted only by the Hizbullah war of 2006almost certainly would not have happened with anyone else in the White House less trusted to ensure Israel's safety. Neither Obama nor his proxies enjoy anywhere near the same level of faith. (MSNBC -- Politics)
RE: Religion, Politics And Ethnicity-1 Jul 30, 2009
Because it is an internal issue for Iranians, these are the words of president of USA. Anyway can Mr. Opare state categorically if any Reverend in Ghana condemned the killings in Gaza in January, when Red Cross International, Amnesty International Human Right groups called it GENOCIDE. The days of thinking that all Muslims are illiterate and cannot read nor write are over. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Terror allegations against NC man shock neighbors Jul 29, 2009
In an interview with the News ver of Raleigh, Boyd said her husband and sons' trips abroad were pilgrimages, specifically denying prosecutors' allegation that Daniel Boyd took a son to Gaza in 2006 to meet with others bent on violence. She told the newspaper on Tuesday that her husband took another son named Noah, who's not named in the indictment, to see Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem that year. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Hamas Threatens To Derail Fatah Conference Jul 28, 2009
Officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Monday they would only allow Fatah delegates to leave the territory and travel to the conference if Fatah's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, releases hundreds of Hamas detainees in the West Bank, where his Western-backed Palestinian Authority is based ... More than 1,500 delegates, nearly one-third of them from Gaza and the rest from the West Bank and the Palestinian diaspora, are to choose dozens of new leaders and vote for a fresh political... (CBS News -- World)
