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Wanted: Ehud Barak : "Ehud Barak In June 2007, the suspect imposed a siege on 1.5 million residents of Gaza. The siege, which is ongoing in 2009, is collective punishment according to International Law. The year and a half long siege caused severe food and fuel shortages, intermittent drinking water and electricity supply, disruption to sewage treatment plants and shortages of medicine and essential medical equipment, affecting the lives of 1.5 million people - a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and Rome Statute."

Islamist leader wins Somali presidency | International | Reuters : "Moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed won the Somali presidency on Saturday in a parliamentary vote in Djibouti under a U.N.-brokered plan to broker a unity government for the conflict-torn nation. Applause broke out among legislators when Ahmed passed the majority of votes needed, 213, just before 4 a.m. local time (0100) during a run-off vote in an all-night parliament session. The Islamist, who headed the sharia courts movement that ruled Mogadishu and most of south Somalia in 2006 before an Ethiopian military intervention, defeated Maslah Mohamed Siad, son of ex-dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, in the second round of voting."

AFP: Soldier suicides hit record in 2008: US Army : "WASHINGTON (AFP) — Suicides among active duty soldiers hit a record high last year for the second year in a row, the US Army reported Thursday, acknowledging that stress on the war-time force was a major factor. The number of soldiers who took their lives in 2008 rose to as many as 143 from 115 the previous year, the army said."

For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel - Haaretz - Israel News : "'As educators of conscience, we have been unable to stand by and watch in silence Israel's indiscriminate assault on the Gaza Strip and its educational institutions,' the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel stated in its inaugural press release last Thursday. Speaking in its mission statement of the 'censorship and silencing of the Palestine question in U.S. universities, as well as U.S. society at large,' the group follows the usual pattern of such boycotts, calling for 'non-violent punitive measures' against Israel, such as the implementation of divestment initiatives, 'similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.'"

US lawmakers urge Clinton to aid Gaza - Yahoo! News : "WASHINGTON (AFP) – Sixty US lawmakers have urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to give emergency funds to the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after its war with Israel. In a letter dated Tuesday, the House Democrats also said Israel should allow critically ill patients to be transported out of Gaza and into Israel, the West Bank and Jordan for treatment. 'We therefore urge you to express this concern directly to Israeli government officials,' they said in the letter, which was obtained by AFP. The representatives focused in their letter on worries about the flow of food and humanitarian goods into Gaza as well as medical services and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by Israeli strikes."

Livni, Netanyahu Both Declare Olmert’s Positions Meaningless | News From Antiwar.com In a speech at Tel Aviv-Jaffa College, Livni condemned reports of concessions she and Olmert allegedly jointly made during the peace process . “The headline does not represent me or what I am advancing,” Livni insisted, saying that her agenda was to maximize the number of Jewish residents in the West Bank and “not allowing the return of a single refugee.” Livni has also reportedly accused Prime Minister Olmert of deliberately undermining her campaign by trying to link her to the peace process.