The collapse began today
Gershom Gorenberg - Haaretz - They did not wear skullcaps and they did not speak of the imminent Redemption. Secular kibbutz members from the Upper Galilee were behind the settlement initiative. They believed that the "Syrian Heights" must remain in Israeli hands for reasons of security, and that the best way to guarantee this was by creating facts on the ground in the tradition of Labor Zionism.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27969

 Peace Now protests Ariel settlement`s 27 new factories
Tovah Lazaroff - The Jerusalem Post - "Everyday, the Annapolis process is becoming more virtual than it was before," said Peace Now executive director Yariv Oppenheimer. "This is yet another surrender of the government to the demands of the settlement leadership," said Oppenheimer. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27962

 Hamas and Israel: strange bedfellows
Paul Scham - Common Ground News Service - Paradoxically, this cease-fire (tahdiya, or “calming” in Arabic), which was met by much scepticism, may actually have a better chance of survival than did failed previous agreements hailed by shouts of joy and quotations from Koran and Bible. There is no other option. Both sides are convinced that the other only understands the language of force - and both may be right.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27967

 Three more patients die due to siege of Gaza
Rula Shahwan - IMEMC - The death of three more patients who were not allowed to leave the Strip for medical treament outside has now risen to 208. The long-awaited permit for Latifa Kafina to undergo treatment for leukemia arrived only after her death. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27968

 Blair visit to Gaza cancelled due to `specific threat against him`
Haaretz/News agencies - Mideast Quartet envoy Tony Blair was due to visit the Gaza Strip today. This would have been the highest-level diplomatic visit to the territory since Hamas took control a year ago. Though Blair had not planned to meet any Hamas leader, Hamas was to have provided security for Blair`s trip, and its officials regarded the intended visit as a sign of their group`s emergence from Western isolation. The visit was, however, cancelled "due to a specific security threat against Blair", though the possibility of its taking place on a later date was left open. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27966

 Ni`lin demo against the wall 13-7-08
Israel Puterman (film)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANIDxLfrHrQ

 Breaking the Silence`s Hebron tour disrupted
Anne Paq - The Electronic Intifada (EI) - The visitors in this, as in many other tours of Hebron, did not see all that was on the scheduled route - but the settlers gave ample exhibition of their violent attitude and behaviour, and the police - of its inability and/or unwillingness to restrain them. This was, in fact, the main thing which the Israeli and international visitors came to see. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27964

 Amateurs` video keeps watch over West Bank
Oakland Ross - Toronto Star - The violence of the Hebron settlers towards their Palestinian neighbors is hardly unknown. But the fact that Palestinians, provided with video cameras by B`Tselem, can now provide the police and media with hard evidence of what the settlers are doing makes some difference. 
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 The `Israel-Syria Peace Society` makes it into the media
Abe Selig - The Jerusalem Post - "We need to change the image of Syria as an enemy to one of a neighbor," said Prof. Moshe Maoz, one of the event`s keynote speakers.
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