"A United Nations committee has called on Israel to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their property and land in Israel and to ensure that the bodies responsible for distributing property, such as the Jewish National Fund, not discriminate against the Arab population." (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/835430.html)
"Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank have pushed on with their search for militants, trading gunfire with Palestinians in the town of Nablus."
"The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is home to about 2.5 million Palestinians, land occupied by Israel during the 1967 war.
There are also more than 100 Israeli settlements housing about 400,000 Jews."
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6415365.stm AND http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6407295.stm)
Reportered on July 25th, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5212870.stm
"The Israeli army has been accused of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in an operation in northern Gaza."
Reportered on March 8th, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6432133.stm
"An Israeli human rights group has accused Israel's army of using two young Palestinians as human shields during a recent raid in the West Bank."
I was just letting everyone catch up to the news, and I know some of it's couple of weeks old, but the news is still important. Starting off with the UN calling Israel to allow the Palestinians to return to their homes, I think Israel is just going to ignore their request because they've been doing that for about 40 years now, so I see no change. As for Israel's aggressive actions in Nablus, I think they're just trying to add fuel to the fire between HAMAS and Fatah. The situtation is a win-win for the United States and Israel because for one, what's better than the Palestinian government having problems internally and then adding Israel to that equation (not saying that they've haven't been in it) and two, Israel moved it's spotlight from Gaza, in which they've been threatening Gazan Fishermen (http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36556), to West Bank in the last week, which is an interesting move because the United States has been funding Fatah, and the West Bank is a well-known Fatah Stronghold.
To get off topic, a bit, I ran into this interesting website a couple of days ago. World Mapper shows a map of the world and depending on the subject, for example weapons exporting, the countries on the map will become more "fat/obese" depending on how much they contribute to it.
That is all for now,
Peace!
