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Palestine: Opinion/Editorial:

ONE WEEK IN  JULY
By Sonja Karkar, The Electronic Intifada, 31 July 2007

Despite  the media's fixation on Hamas and Bush's renewed
interest in "peace," the  truth of the matter is that
nothing has changed on the ground for the  Palestinians.
Each week Israel rolls its tanks into the West Bank  and
fires its missiles on Gaza. These are specific attacks on
people that  will be recorded as statistics; the stories of
those affected will never be  told. Sonja Karkar comments for
EI.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7140.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7140.shtml)   

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Palestine:  EI in the Press:

ALI ABUNIMAH DISCUSSES HAMAS AND FATAH ON  WORLDVIEW
Interview, Worldview, 31 July 2007

On Friday, 27 August  2007, EI's Ali Abunimah appeared on
WBEZ Chicago's Worldview, on which he  discussed with host
Jerome McDonnell the events that have transpired  since
Hamas routed Fatah in the Gaza Strip last month. Since
then,  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has
created a new government of  dubious legality with
technocrat and US darling Salam Fayyad. The US and  Israel
have offered aid money and sent 1,000 M-16 weapons through
Jordan  to bolster Abbas's forces while Fatah security head
Mohammad Dahlan has  resigned.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7139.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7139.shtml)   

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Palestine:  Diaries: Live from Palestine:

THE CLOSED GATES TO GAZA
By Laila El  Haddad, Live from Palestine, 31 July 2007

We had planned to leave Gaza  around the beginning of June,
with tickets booked out of Cairo 7 June. My  parents were
to come along with us for a visit. As is often the case  in
Gaza, things don't always go according to plan. Rafah was
open  erratically during the month of May, and closed
entirely the week prior to  our departure. Wonderful, we
thought -- at least we could make our flight, if  only
barely. Laila El Haddad recounts barely squeezing out of
Gaza early  June only to have the gates to the Strip lock
behind her and the thousands of  other Palestinians
currently stranded in Egypt.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7136.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7136.shtml)   

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Palestine:  Action Items:

OPEN LETTER: SUSPEND ISRAEL FROM EURO 2008  COMPETITION
Open letter, Various undersigned, 31 July 2007

The  Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) urges the Football
Association (FA), the  Union of European Football
Association (UEFA) and the International  Federation of
Association Football (FIFA) to take appropriate measures
to  suspend the national Israeli football team from all
international fixtures  until the state of Israel entirely
complies with international law and  relevant United
Nations resolutions to end Israeli occupation. This  should
include a suspension of the Israeli team from the current
Euro 2008  qualifiers. 

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7137.shtml_ 
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