The 40/60 committee has created this beautiful commemorative calendar to honor both Palestinian poets and the ancient Palestinian olive trees in this the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba, celebrating the richness of Palestinian cultural and natural heritage.

Purchase of one of these calendars will help support education and commemorative events of the 60th anniverary of the Nakba to be hosted throughout 2008.

An advocacy group is hiring students as on-campus promoters of Israel.

StandWithUs is offering up to $1,000 a year this semester to 38 Emerson fellows, Jewish student leaders at key colleges and universities targeted by the organization. Their duties will include bringing in speakers and films that show Israel in a positive light.

Officials from StandWithUs told reporters that they gave particular consideration to applicants from “problem campuses” such as Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan, which the organization identifies as hotbeds of anti-Israel sentiment.

More than 100 students applied for the fellowships, funded by California-based philanthropists Rita and Steven Emerson.

StandWithUs is an international pro-Israel education organization founded in 2001.

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· Farmers say problems lie with politics not crops

 "The crisis in Jiftlik is stark. The village sits in the Jordan valley, one of the most fertile regions of the West Bank, where the warm winter sun provides unusually long planting seasons and high-quality crops. Jewish settlers run large farms which dominate huge tracts of the Jordan valley and are thriving. The Palestinians, whose land is shrinking, struggle to survive. "