In Nablus on Huwwara checkpoint in the evening, a 20-year-old, shot with three pipe bombs tipped Palestinians by soldiers. A group membership is not yet known. According to Ryad al-Maliki, the preparations for which are held in Bethlehem on Wednesday to end investor conference are completed. As a side program is the opening of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet the Austrian Minister of Defense. The official website is here . [Something even older: the international Aachen Peace Prize is awarded to the Israeli women's organization MachsomWatch and the evangelical pastor of the Christmas Church in Bethlehem, Mitri Raheb . The winners were involved in an exemplary manner "bottom" for peace in the Middle East, it is in support. ... The Aachen Peace Prize is endowed with 1,000 euros and is 1 September awarded. The award ceremony - as every year - all citizens Citizens invited to attend. Portrait: MachsomWatch + + + Portrait. Mitri Raheb ]
About the de facto truce between Israel and Gaza, the fighting spirits. Unconfirmed details are plans to have occurred from the afternoon to either four Qassam firings, two mortar or grenade attacks, or an exchange of fire in Rafah. Or nothing at all. Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday said that there can be no truce or cooling off period between Israel and Hamas unless there is an end to rocket attacks on civilians. Barak spoke to reporters following his meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, to whom he outlined Israel's concerns and conditions over any possible truce deal with Hamas. As I said yesterday, the Premier only representative in office and sent simultaneously to Barak's visit to his Doberman before the press: Vice Premier Haim Ramon on Monday acknowledged that Israel was holding talks with Hamas, not in violation of a government decision to conduct talks with The Palestinian Islamist group until it complies with the demands of the Quartet. .. Ramon, a Kadima faction meeting at speaking, criticized Israel's negotiations with the militants group and voiced hope that the cabinet would soon make a strategic decision not to accept the Hamas presence along Israel's southern border. [First, Israel has been a Cabinet decision for this strategic decision made-enemy entity, wherein the second there is not in it you can not negotiate. . Third, the Lord Premier personally never Go granted for a military extensive solution to the Hamasfrage and now needs rumgreinen here today not] Meanwhile wedges Egypt back to Bush: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit says that the presence of Israeli and U.S. tanks on Arab soil is leading to more instability in the region. Aboul Gheit's made his remarks at a panel Monday on regional stability during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. + Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office announced Monday he will undergo a routine test as part of his treatment for prostate cancer. In a statement, Olmert's office said the two-hour magnetic imaging test would monitor the tumor and take place Monday evening. [After my original Spekualtion that Olmert will therefore resign after Winograd was indeed for the garbage. Now I hold back.]
Israel release Palestinian prisoners in exchange not for two soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah , it recently informed the Lebanese organization wants. And if Hezbollah continues to insist that Palestinians be included in the deal, Israel may break off the negotiations, a senior official familiar with the talks told Haaretz. [...] Qatari-led Arab mediators stepped up efforts to salvage talks aimed at ending Lebanon's crisis on Monday after negotiations between the U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition suffered a setback. Rival leaders appeared back at square one on the fourth day of intense bargaining in Doha but mediators managed to get the talks going and maintained hope that a deal could still be reached to pull Lebanon back from the brink of a civil strife. [...] Hopes for a breakthrough to solve Lebanon's 18-month-old political deadlock dimmed considerably on Monday with neither camp willing to make concessions at talks being held in Qatar's capital, Doha. An indication of how convoluted the talks were came late Monday evening, when Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani joined talks with the rival leaders for the second day in a row in a bid to help break the impasse - or at least to keep the talks going. [...] Editorial : Among Lebanon's diverse (and sometimes highly divided) communities, it is somewhat rare to find a political stance or position upon which large majorities can wholeheartedly agree. But the prevailing sentiment in Lebanon right now is one that is shared by opposition supporters and government loyalists alike: The leaders who are gathered in Doha for talks on the Lebanese crisis should not return until they have reached a settlement to all of the outstanding issues that have needlessly plagued this country - and even threatened to bring about its demise. [...] another editorial: Most of Lebanon's top political figures are on an excursion to a foreign country in hopes (one assumes) of improving the situation in their own. The dazzling Doha hotel serving as their venue happens to have the shape of a stylized pyramid, a convenient reminder that taking inspiration from outside one's homeland is not necessarily a bad thing. It should be recalled, too, that it was the ministrations of the Arab League and the Qatari government - not any demonstration of visionary leadership in Lebanon - that got our feuding political parties to start negotiating again. Nonetheless, it is the Lebanese who have to seal the deal, and they cannot so unless and until they put their own country's interests above those of all others.
Normalerweise bin ich kein Freund von Texten von Party book writers, no matter what foundation they earn the bread. Today is one exception: Here is a fascinating personal account of recent events in Lebanon from Heiko Wimmen , a German journalist and political analyst who resided in Beirut for the better part of the past fourteen years. He would like to share it with readers of Syria Comment. Here is his German-language text on the Böll Foundation Website . "Core cause of the crisis in Lebanon", an external. Based on the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1976, there are two models of the "root causes". The Böllstiftung like the "U.S. imperialist influences" cause at work does, of course. A historical overview finds sich hier, zB auf den Seiten vor 290.
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