Monthly Archives: February 2007

Israel does have The Basic Law, which guards the rights and dignity for all of its citizens, and which gives all citizens the right to sue the government in the Israeli citizens court - the Israel High Court of Justice. Experience has it in Israel that when a citizens group needs budget to protect a fundamental need, that citizen group simply sues in the Israel High Court of Justice and the court often orders the government to find a way to protect human rights, and to find the necessary funds for that purpose.

The scene at the Jerusalem High Court of Justice on Thursday morning, February 8, 2007 was surreal. Three members of the Sderot Parents Association had petitioned the Israel High Court of Justice to ask for...

Mecca - Ma'an exclusive - Fatah and Hamas have signed the Mecca agreement. The media advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil 'Amr, read the text of the agreement and the letter of assignment...

Any Palestinian government that adopts the conditions of the Quartet and the international community will be acceptable to Israel, Olmert said, and Israel will cooperate with it. Yet until then Israel would do everything in its power to prevent terrorism. He said in recent months Israel had exercised absolute restraint, but the Palestinians had not honored the cease-fire for even one day.

With everything else, the calls by Arab leaders for a new intifada and the need for all Palestinians to unite against the "outrage" of what Israel is purportedly doing to Islamic holy places is...

Despite Israeli appeals, Egypt has failed to halt the weapons tunnel infrastructure in the eastern Sinai Peninsula. Israeli officials said Egyptian security forces have bolstered troops along the border with Israel to prevent weapons smuggling....

--Israelis and Palestinians are making the final preparations for the expected summit in the last week of February with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Abu Mazen and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. That summit is supposed to be the launching point of negotiations between the two sides, which will be defined as a framework of meetings and reciprocal examination--Hezbollah Bombs--Israeli Foreign Ministry And Security Officials: 'Nasrallah Will Take Over Lebanon'

In a letter that 40 members of the ruling UMP party in France sent to President Jacques Chirac, they wrote that "with financing and support from Iran and Syria, the organization (Hezbollah) constitutes a grave threat to the possibility of a peaceful solution in the region. Hezbollah is responsible for the attacks and for the taking of the captives."

Last Monday's suicide terror attack in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, which resulted in the murder of three civilians in a bakery, should end the perception that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

Fateh Revolutionary Council: National Unity Our Shield against Foreign Conspiracies http://wafa.ps/english/body.asp?id=9172 The Fateh Revolutionary Council said Sunday that the national unity is the shield against those who conspire against the Palestinian people. During its meeting in...