News from Palestine.

Maybe this will be a good way to get me back into the swing of writing...

Every few day's I'll post a couple of the headlines news stories from the Occupied Territories. Here are today's:

Ma'an is reporting that there is a leaked document from Shin Bet that states that Israel has drawn up an assassination list of Palestinians officials... Including the democratically elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. The plan would become effective should Palestinian Groups RESUME attacks "in the heart of Israel".

Ma'an is also reporting that Fatah and Hamas are once again close to a "national accord government" and that it will be announced "within days".

Haaretz is reporting that Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz (Israel's version of a center-left politician... Hahaha) has no intention of uprooting illegal West Bank Outposts.... we're not even talking about Settlements here... Outposts are the campers and shipping containers housing some of the most radical Settlers.

3 Palestinian men were killed in two separate invasions by the Israeli Army in the northern West Bank. (Haaretz and Ma'an)

Anyway, those are some of today's stories in the Palestinian and Israeli press. You can read them both online: hit the Ma'an News link to the right and this link to Haaretz:

www.haaretz.com

By the way... a great deal of the "comments" in Haaretz's Talkback section are filled with anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian Racism if you ever need to be reminded that those "anti-Semitic Palestinians" are not alone in their bigotry.

How Embarrassing!

I feel slightly embarrassed that I can't or have not been maintaining the blog - and giving you the stories from my last few days in the Middle East. I'm working full-time now that my thesis is finished and in fact I don't have much of an excuse... other than my laziness.

Just to keep you updated: as I said, I'm working full-time at U of T. Office life is a totally different experience from what I've been doing and I'm taking to it shamefully! But I'm also in the process of applying to do PhD's starting in September 2007. I'm just compiling my packages that I'm sending out to my referees for both schools and funding. I'm going to be applying to three schools in the States (two in NY, one in Cambridge Mass.) and to U of T. And I have an appointment on Tuesday to meet a Professor here who could turn out to be my Doctoral advisor - so I'm excited about that!

Other than that I haven't been up to much. Playing Hockey twice a week... Going to Ottawa this weekend for my Mother's 60th birthday celebrations... Wedding planning...

So I'll try and get back into the swing of this and start posting things asap. How about a Slide-Show! That's what I'm going to work on!