Monthly Archive for April, 2007

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Israel Intensifies WB Operations

Published on April 7, 2007

Israel continues their aggresive behaviour and continue their terrorist actions by attacking the Palestinians. Resistance forces are fighting back.

Israel Intensifies WB Operations
Mohammed Mar’i, Arab News

RAMALLAH, West Bank, 6 April 2007 — The Israeli Occupation Forces escalated yesterday their military operation and hostilities against Palestinians in several cities in the West Bank. They raided the Jenin refugee camp, north of West Bank with more than 20 military vehicles and clashed with Palestinian fighters, but no casualties were reported on either side.

After withdrawing from the camp, the Israeli forces later returned and raided the camp again. The Palestinian citizens then confronted the invading forces with stones and empty bottles; the Israeli soldiers retaliated with tear gas bombs and live ammunition.

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Israel’s Protests Are Said to Stall Gulf Arms Sale

Published on April 7, 2007

It reeks of hypocrisy.

Israel’s Protests Are Said to Stall Gulf Arms Sale
By DAVID S. CLOUD and HELENE COOPER
Published: April 5, 2007

WASHINGTON, April 4 — A major arms-sale package that the Bush administration is planning to offer Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to deter Iran has been delayed because of objections from Israel, which says that the advanced weaponry would erode its military advantage over its regional rivals, according to senior United States officials.

Israeli officials, including the former defense minister, Shaul Mofaz, have come to Washington in recent months to argue against elements of the planned sales. In particular, the Israelis are concerned about the possible transfer of precision-guided weapons that would give Saudi warplanes much more accurate ability to strike targets, officials said.

The United States has made few, if any, sales of satellite-guided ordnance to gulf countries, several officials said. Israel has been supplied with such weapons since the 1990s and used them extensively in its war against Hezbollah last summer.

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Palestinian FM: Israel not ready for peace talks

Published on April 7, 2007

Palestinian FM is only stating the obvious. Israel is not ready for peace talks at all. They can only talk about peace but things on the ground, in the West Bank and Gaza, are very much the opposite of the reality Israel is talking about.

Palestinian FM: Israel not ready for peace talks
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:14:12

The Palestinian foreign minister says Israel’s prime minister is not going to start “serious negotiations” with Arabs to find a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict.

“I think Olmert is not prepared to take part in serious negotiations with the Arab side,” Abu Amr told a press conference after meeting his Austrian counterpart Ursula Plassnik in Vienna on Wednesday.

“Whoever does not accept this initiative is not really interested in peace in the Middle East,” Abu Amr added.

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Israel Says Action Needed From Syria for Peace Talks

Published on April 7, 2007

Israel says that action is needed from Syria for eventual peace talks. What about Golan Heights which Israel occupied in 1967? Where is the action to give it back to Syria?

Israel Says Action Needed From Syria for Peace Talks
Huliq.com

A senior Israeli official says Syria needs to take concrete actions to reduce tensions with Israel if peace talks are to resume. VOA’s Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem the Israeli comments follow those by U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, who said Wednesday in Damascus that Syria’s president is ready to negotiate with Israel.

Israeli Cabinet member Zeev Boim, a close associate of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, told Israel Radio that if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad really wants peace with Israel he should take some actions, even minor ones, to prove his intentions.

Boim says just because Bashar Assad is offering an olive branch, that does not mean he really wants peace. The Israeli politician says the Syrian leader should act on his intentions.

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Israelis want rematch in Lebanon

Published on April 7, 2007

Round 1 went to Hizbullah, with the shameful defeat of the Zionist forces by giving them a bloody nose. Now the IAF (Israeli Aggression Forces) are itching for a Round 2. It seems that they have not learnt their lesson!

Analysis: Israelis want rematch in Lebanon
Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
April 4, 2007

WASHINGTON — It seems as though some Israeli military and political leaders are champing at the bit for a rematch with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon after the bloody nose the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) got there last summer.

The difference this time around? The IDF will go into Gaza, too – and it is all part of a plan to neutralize Iranian proxies on Israel’s borders, one element of a strategic effort to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons and overthrow the mullahs in Tehran.

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