Sharon Says He Plans to Remove 17 Settlements From Gaza

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said today that he had given an order to plan for the removal of all 17 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip, causing consternation among settlers and politicians.
“I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be [...]

Israel announces Golan expansion
Israel announced plans today to double the number of Jewish settlers living in the Golan Heights, a disputed region captured from Syria in 1967.
In a move which could derail talks with Damascus, the Israeli agriculture minister, Yisrael Katz, told the daily Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the government wanted to consolidate its hold [...]

The Geneva Accord has become an interesting part of the Israel/Palestine debate recently. The Sharon government has rebuked Powell for his fairly warm attitude to it, and the accord seem to be accepted by many on the center-left. A recent article on ZNet interested me because of this statement:
Under the accord, Israel is [...]

From Salon. Clever name, I think.
Pretty interesting article. There aren’t any groups I know of that operate around here. Well, probably in Missoula. But the only political group I know of on campus (from a quick scan of the ones listed on the MSU website) is College Democrats. I think [...]

Hammerdown gives us the articles we need to realize that was a stupid idea.
And this article comes from Maxpeak, a blog I should have started reading earlier.
Israel said the airstrike target, which it identified as the Ain Saheb camp, is about 10 miles northwest of Damascus, and had served as a training ground for several [...]

U.S. Uses Its Veto to Block Anti-Israel Measure in U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 16 � The United States today vetoed a Security Council resolution, backed by Islamic and nonaligned nations, demanding that Israel back off its threat to deport the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. Eleven Council members voted in favor of the measure, while Britain, Germany [...]

Rivals Criticize Dean For Mideast Comment
Howard Dean came under fire yesterday from two rivals for the Democratic nomination for saying the United States should not “take sides” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Five days after Dean told supporters in New Mexico that “it’s not our place to take sides” in the conflict, Sen. Joseph I. [...]

Only in this conflict would the release of prisoners harm the potential for a peaceful resolution
Joy and anger as Israel frees 339:
Mr Sharon released 339 security prisoners, convicted of crimes such as throwing stones and membership of banned organisations, and “administrative detainees” who rarely even know what it is they are accused of - only [...]

From an article in Ha’aretz by Ze’ev Schiff:
One topic mentioned over and over, however, was the war against international terror. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is considered marginal in the eyes of American strategists. This is an erroneous approach because the continuation of this conflict, including the Israeli occupation, will most certainly lead to new waves [...]

Does Israel target Children?
The numbers are staggering; one in five Palestinian dead is a child. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) says at least 408 Palestinian children have been killed since the beginning of the intifada in September 2000. Nearly half were killed in the Gaza strip, and most of those died in two [...]