August '06 Archive
08-31-06 - Israeli army kill senior Palestinian militant in Nablus: witnesses
08-31-06 - Palestinian militant commander in Gaza assassinated by unknown gunmen
08-31-06 - Palestinian despair as donors meet The administration is so broke that it has been able to pay its workers almost nothing for six months. The entire civil service - which normally supports a quarter of the population - is being forced into poverty...The United Nations puts the poverty rate in Gaza at close to 80%
08-31-06 - Annan prods Israel to lift Lebanon siege Annan described Israel's 7-week-old blockade of Lebanon as "unsustainable," saying: "It is important that it is lifted and not be seen as collective punishment of the Lebanese people."
08-31-06 - UN chief in Syria, blasts Israel over cluster bombs
08-31-06 - Ruin, despair in Gaza neighborhood after Israeli incursion "My husband is abroad. We were so afraid. My youngest daughter, four years old, could not stop crying. She thought she would never again see her father. She kept repeating 'we are going to die, we are going to die.'"
Even worse, she says, is the fact that the Israeli army razed the family's nearby olive orchard.
08-31-06 - Donors make huge Lebanon pledge The Lebanon donor conference in Stockholm has raised more than $940m in pledges of new money, Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson has said.
08-31-06 - B'Tselem to Defense Minister: Stop using Rafah Crossing to pressure Gaza civilians
08-31-06 - Palestinian woman injured by US-troops fire in Iraq
08-31-06 - OPT: Oxfam calls on world leaders to lift Palestinian aid freeze at Stockholm conference
08-31-06 - Crisis in Gaza deepens
08-31-06 - Experts clearing cluster bombs from Lebanese villages Masche has found so many of the American-made M-42 cluster munitions that he named them "bomblet of the month" on his personal website, which he uses to educate others.
08-31-06 - Palestinians fire rockets; defy Abbas The Israeli army said four of the rockets landed near the southern border town of Sderot, while the fifth landed near the city of Ashkelon. There were no injuries, it said
08-31-06 - Garbage rots in Gaza as workers walk out Municipal workers responsible for garbage collection, water treatment, and sewage processing went on strike in Gaza City and two other southern towns three days ago. The action - along with a broader strike threat by other unions linked to the opposition Fatah Party - has been widely viewed as a tactic to force Hamas to give in to demands to form a national unity government.
08-31-06 - Commandos storm Tel Aviv embassy Israeli police commandos have stormed a British embassy compound in Tel Aviv to capture a man who broke in and demanded asylum in the UK.
08-31-06 - Hope for women in war-torn countries "In Palestine, for instance, there's a woman who is handicapped. Through my collection, she was able to buy a wheelchair. It's a huge thing for her. She can now move around."
08-31-06 - Holy Land churches attack Christian Zionism "We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that facilitate and support these policies as they advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war," the declaration added. I have a page of related articles here.
08-31-06 - Deception as a Way of Life - Israeli Myths the government has been embarrassed by reports that nearly half of the civilians killed by rockets were Arab, and by suggestions that the reasons for this were the state's long-standing failure to protect Arab communities by building public bomb shelters, providing air raid sirens and disseminating advice from the civil defence authorities in Arabic.....the government is amassing huge sums of money for the reconstruction effort from Jewish groups in America and Europe and is looking for an excuse not to fund work in Arab communities Racism.
08-31-06 - Israeli diplomat arrested on suspicion of pedophilia An Israeli diplomat, Yosef Sagiv, was arrested Friday in the American city of Atlanta on suspicion of computer related offences linked to pornography and the sexual exploitation of children.
08-31-06 - Protests against Khatami US visa "It is mystifying that we should roll out the red carpet to a person who has incited violence against civilians and who has expressed incendiary rhetoric against the United States and our allies," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Israel's head agent on Capitol Hill - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
08-31-06 - Merkel Soothes Jewish Ire After Minister's Cluster Bomb Remark A cabinet minister recently ruffled feathers in the Jewish community by calling for a UN investigation into possible Israeli "carpet bombs." Merkel and the Jewish council president met Wednesday to clear things up.
08-31-06 - Golan Syrians make rare visit to their homeland Every house in Qunaitera was demolished by Israeli forces before they withdrew under a truce in 1974
08-31-06 - War cost Lebanon millions in lost crops -Oxfam Potatoes, tobacco, melons and citrus fruits have been left to rot in Lebanese fields because farmers were unable to harvest them during the war between Israel and Hizbollah, aid agency Oxfam said on Thursday.
08-31-06 - US wheat heads to Lebanon from Jordan The US government has donated 700 tonnes of wheat to Lebanon as part of a "goodwill" gesture to help relief efforts, with the first trucks heading for Beirut from Jordan, the US embassy has said. It would have been MUCH more helpful if the US government had instead NOT supplied Israel with cluster bombs. Ronald Reagan banned supplying Israel with these same bombs in the 80s because Israel was using them AGAINST CIVILIANS THEN (too).
08-31-06 - Annan to meet Assad to bolster Lebanon truce
08-31-06 - The Lobby, the US and the Israeli War on Hezbollah The destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure, the bombing of areas not associated with Hezbollah, and especially the killing of almost 1,600 civilians, many of them women and children ? which constitutes an international war crime according to Amnesty International and other organizations ? had no effect whatsoever on either the U.S. executive branch or Congress This conference can be viewed here.
08-31-06 - Crayons and glass litter Lebanese school
08-31-06 - U.N. force in Lebanon getting weaponry The U.N. force in Lebanon will soon receive the first real boost in weapons and manpower: one battalion each of Italian and French troops with heavy armor, including tanks and artillery, officials said Thursday.
08-31-06 - Blinded by a concept By George Soros Israel has been a participant in this game, and President Bush bought into this flawed policy, uncritically supporting Israel. Events have shown that this policy leads to the escalation of violence...the United States has become less safe since Bush declared war on terror.
08-31-06 - Suspect in invasions is familiar to victims
08-31-06 - Italy coming out of Washington's shadow Long considered something of a junior partner among Europe's elite nations, Italy is carving out a hefty role in world affairs. Rome is contributing the largest contingent to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, has claimed a role in negotiations with Iran and is rallying European governments around the idea that Italy can form a counterweight to American might.
08-31-06 - Fox Journalist Says He's 'Sympathetic' to Captors "In some ways, I feel such sympathy for the Palestinian cause. You know, in my heart. You know, I can't hate them for what they did. I resent on behalf of my family what they did. But there's a funny bit of me that's sympathetic to them still."
08-31-06 - Russian expert says Hamas not a terrorist organization
08-31-06 - Palestinian denies Israeli allegation of uncovering tunnel in eastern Gaza
08-31-06 - Palestinian gov't denies there are obstacles to form coalition government
08-31-06 - EU to seek new Mideast talks based on 1967 borders The European Union is set to launch a drive this week to revive long-stalled Middle East peace negotiations based on the principle of a return to Israel's 1967 borders, EU officials say.
08-31-06 - Abbas sides with angry civil servants
08-31-06 - Bush: Hezbollah plays terrorist role Hezbollah plays a central role in international terrorism, President Bush said. We are now being led to believe that Hezbollah is on par with Al Qaeda to justify US support for Israel's wanton destruction in Lebanon - including war crimes committed by cluster bombing civilian areas. Pure BS.
08-31-06 - 4 Israelis beat IDF soldier, break through West Bank checkpoint
08-31-06 - S. Africa: Union Pres. Adds Israel's Diamond Industry to Boycott Call
08-31-06 - In Pro-Israel Circles, Doubts Grow Over US Policy A growing debate within Israel over whether United States President George W. Bush's Middle East policies really serve the interests of the Jewish state has spread to Washington, where influential voices within the U.S. Jewish community are questioning the administration's hard-line positions in the region. US policy? The US does not make Israeli policy. It's quite the opposite.
08-31-06 - Galloway says Israel poisoning West-Islam ties
08-31-06 - Transcript: the Israel Lobby and the US Response to the War in Lebanon (pdf)
08-31-06 - Writer barred from reading 9/11 novel at Concordia The novel's plot deals touches on such controversial events as the university's decision to deny the student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights permission to hold a bazaar and rally on school property on Sept. 15, 2001.
08-30-06 - Nine Palestinians killed in Gaza Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on the international community to "halt Israeli aggression" after nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops....They included a 14-year-old boy shot in the chest, two men in their 30s also shot and five others who died from tank fire, medical officials said.
08-30-06 - Israeli fire kills six Palestinians in Gaza Strip According to witnesses, all five were civilians.
08-30-06 - Israeli snipers shoot dead two Palestinians in eastern Gaza
08-30-06 - Israel spewed cluster bombs over Lebanon in last days of war : UN UN Mine Action Coordination Center had assessed "nearly 85 percent of bombed areas in south Lebanon" and identified "359 separate cluster bomb strike locations that are contaminated with as many 100,000 unexploded bomblets." "What's shocking and I would say completely immoral is that 90 percent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict when we knew there would be a resolution, when we knew there would be an end,"
08-30-06 - Annan urges Israel to stop killing Palestinians United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has said the suffering of the Palestinian people must not be forgotten during attempts to end the crisis between Israel and Lebanon...."The closure of Gaza must be lifted, the crossing points must be opened."
08-30-06 - Pressure for ban on cluster bombs as Israel is accused of targeting civilians Simon Conway, director of the British charity Landmine Action, condemned Israel's "cynical" use of the weapons. He said: "The premeditated targeting of residential areas with high failure-rate cluster munitions in the final days of the conflict means that the rubble-filled villages of southern Lebanon have been deliberately turned into minefields that will indiscriminately kill civilians for years to come."....Frank Cook, Labour chairman of the Commons all-party Landmine Group, added: "These weapons are totally indiscriminate. For them to be used by Israel among a civilian population is quite outrageously inexcusable."
08-30-06 - Islamic Jihad military chief dies A top Palestinian militant leader has died after being shot in the head by Israeli troops last week, Palestinian officials said.
08-30-06 - UN denounces Israel cluster bombs The UN's humanitarian chief has accused Israel of "completely immoral" use of cluster bombs in Lebanon.
08-30-06 - OPT: Gaza siege causing major health crisis Gaza hospitals are facing a crisis because of a western and Israeli economic boycott, and an Israeli military offensive. The United Nations has warned of an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation.
08-30-06 - International blockades threaten Palestinian schools With an alarmingly high unemployment rate of 40 per cent and most civil servants, including most teachers without paychecks for five months now, few households can afford the expense of sending the students back to school when the summer holidays end. Salaries have not been paid for MONTHS - and that includes the salaries of TEACHERS, folks. It's not right to punish an entire people for the actions of a few. Collective punishment was SUPPOSED to have gone out with the Nazis.
08-30-06 - Pregnant women must get urgent access to health care in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Says UNFPA UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, expresses its deep concern about recent reports of delays at Israeli checkpoints of women in labour, which have resulted in forced roadside births, and even death of some women and infants
08-30-06 - Settlers uproot scores of olive trees in Yatta near Hebron A group of right wing Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Sousa uprooted on Wednesday scores of olive trees that belong to Palestinian farmers from the nearby village of Yatta south of the West Bank city of Hebron.
08-30-06 - UNICEF action in Gaza - update as of 29 August 2006
08-30-06 - Israel rejects U.N. blockade appeal Israel rejected a call by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon, saying it would end the seven-week-old siege only when all aspects of a ceasefire were in place.
08-30-06 - Lebanon refuses contact with Israel
08-30-06 - Lebanese gov't to compensate war victims Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has said his government would pay 40,000 dollars in compensation to families whose homes were destroyed in southern Lebanon during the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
08-30-06 - UN humanitarian chief to attend Palestinian aid conference "You cannot seal off an area which is a litlle bigger than the city of Stockholm (and has) 1.4 million people, of whom 800,0000 are youths and children and then have hundreds of artillery shells (fired) in there every day, seal off the borders, crippling the economy," he said, warning of a "social explosion".
08-30-06 - No security in Mideast without Palestinian state: Abbas "Continued occupation of the Arab and Palestinian territories will not achieve peace," he said after holding talks with Annan in Ramallah.
08-30-06 - OCO health centre, school in Palestine
08-30-06 - The Enemy of My Enemy While it may not sit well with the U.S. public discourse, neither Hezbollah nor Hamas are enemies of the U.S. other than by inferred extension of their enmity with Israel.
08-30-06 - ADL Calls Amnesty International Report "Bigoted, Biased, And Borderline Anti-Semitic Pro-Israeli outfit smears human rights watchdog for daring to tell the truth. Next someone will discover whale feces at the bottom of the ocean.
08-30-06 - Freed Gaza journalist speaks out Gaza is now a no-go area and I think for the people of Gaza that's just such a tragedy because their story needs to be told and the best way of telling that is to have international journalists walking the streets and being able to tell the story of everyday people in Gaza and the minute that story is not being told, then I think that's a great tragedy.
08-30-06 - Voices: A year after Gaza withdrawal
08-30-06 - Lama Hourani NGO worker This collective punishment against the Palestinians is not just from the Israelis, but the international community.
08-30-06 - Russian FM, Hariri discuss Lebanon ceasefire Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reiterated Russia's call for all sides to meet their obligations under the UN-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon during a telephone conversation with Lebanese parliamentary leader Saad Hariri
08-30-06 - Lebanon war emboldens Palestinians-security chief
08-30-06 - Israel sidesteps calls to end blockade Syria has said it would consider the presence of international troops on its border a hostile act and Lebanon has said it would deploy its own forces there, but bar international troops. Annan has backed Lebanon in the dispute.
08-30-06 - Israel Cause Of Corruption In Palestine, Says MP "Israel took away 83 per cent of our available water, 86 per cent of our land, destroyed 90 per cent of our infrastructure and left three million of our people under siege,"
08-30-06 - Two Elephants in the Room - Israel and its amen corner Mearsheimer, the dean of American foreign policy "realists," and Walt, former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a distinguished member of the faculty, are not easily brushed aside, so the Lobby resorts to a smear campaign
08-30-06 - Led by unidentified relatives, Lebanese girl Lara Abdallah, 6, cries as she walks in the funeral procession Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006 for her mother, sister and four brothers
08-30-06 - Selective Prosecution of War Crimes In fact, the main difference between Saddam's war crimes and Israel's is that while Saddam denies them, Israeli officials indirectly admit them. Amnesty cites a comment by Israel's top uniformed military official that implied that Israel was trying to punish the Lebanese population and government to get them to oppose Hezbollah.
08-30-06 - Chavez: Venezuela, Syria united vs. U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in Damascus on Wednesday that he and Syrian President Bashar Assad shared a "decisive and firm" stance against U.S. "imperialism" and "domination."
08-30-06 - Livni spared lawsuit Danish authorities turned down a request to prosecute Israel's visiting foreign minister for alleged war crimes.
08-30-06 - Saudi urges world to help Lebanon Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, which has provided a 1.5-billion-dollar aid package for Lebanon, will present to the diplomatic missions a list of the country's needs in terms of rebuilding its infrastructure and rehabilitating its armed forces, the statement added.
08-30-06 - Ottawa pledges to help Lebanon's battered fishing industry Ottawa pledged two million Canadian dollars (1.8 million US dollars) to clean up oil spills caused by war off the coast of Lebanon and to help its fragile fishing industry recover.
08-30-06 - Jackson has plan for soldiers' release
08-30-06 - Annan to press Jordan and Syria on Lebanon truce U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan holds talks with Jordan on Thursday in a drive to cement a Hizbollah-Israel ceasefire before travelling to Damascus to press Syria to help stop arms smuggling across its border.
08-30-06 - RI lawmakers want Palestinians freed
08-30-06 - Source: Israel delaying deal on Shalit Israel and Hamas have agreed on the principle of exchanging Shalit for Palestinian prisoners, but that the two parties have not yet decided the exact nature of the deal or how it will be carried out.
08-30-06 - Journalists blame Israel for war coverage "Journalists' access to the battlefield is controlled exclusively by the IDF," said Simon McGregor-Wood, Chairman of the Foreign Press Association, and Bureau Chief of ABC News. ....The New York Times bureau chief also said that Israelis "were not interested in whether 1,000 Lebanese civilians needed to die," adding that the question of "whether Israel fought a proportional war is not much of interest here (in Israel)." I had noticed that myself. The debate in Israel has not once covered the utter destruction that Israel did to civilian life and infrastructure in Lebanon. Some felt that Israel did not do enough damage. Preposterous.
08-30-06 - ADL blasts Annan for Iran visit The national director of the ADL, Abraham Foxman, said Wednesday that the U.N. secretary-general?s talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran this weekend would be akin to meeting with Hitler.
08-30-06 - Hezbollah firm on swap Hezbollah says it won?t relent on its demand to release two captive Israeli soldiers only as part of a prisoner swap.
08-30-06 - U.S. Policies Hurt War on Terrorism, Say Americans
08-30-06 - Report: U.S. Secretly Negotiated with Gaza Kidnappers
08-30-06 - Israel using Rafah crossing to pressure PA on Shalit release The document reveals for the first time that the IDF and the Shin Bet are calling for a closure on grounds other than intelligence on pending terrorist attacks.
08-30-06 - Analysts see 'disaster' in U.S. position "It wasn't what we said" that sparked a firestorm, he said yesterday. "It was the fact that two card-carrying members of the American intellectual establishment finally pointed out the elephant in the room."
08-30-06 - Lebanese Have Little Faith in Peacekeepers 77.3 per cent of respondents think the soldiers will be unable to act as a deterrence force against a possible Israeli attack.
08-30-06 - IDF examining alternative technologies to U.S.-made laser gun
08-30-06 - Israeli Arabs: Israel committed war crimes in Lebanon
08-30-06 - Hizbullah's victory has transformed the Middle East
08-30-06 - Palestinian learns from Northside host Ursula visited Palestine some years ago to experience the difficulties there. "The biggest thing that hit me when I was there and what still makes me shiver, is the complete lack of freedom they have,"
08-30-06 - More U.S. Adults See Israeli Government as an Ally or Friend Than They Do Twelve Other Middle Eastern Countries, According to The Harris Poll Good little sheepies.
08-30-06 - The Five Morons Revisited The "cakewalk" war has now lasted longer than World War II with Nazi Germany, and no end is in sight. It has cost the U.S. taxpayers $310 billion in out-of-pocket costs, with many additional hundreds of billions coming due in veterans' medical bills and other expenses yet to be paid. See last night's news (Neocon Watch) for story on Americans in poverty.
08-30-06 - Calif. mayor won?t apologize Santa Cruz Mayor Cynthia Mathews provoked the ire of local Jewish leaders earlier this month when she presented a key to the city to Afif Safieh, a longtime member of the PLO, at a talk in front of 250 people
08-30-06 - Other 6-year-olds worthy of coverage, too Are the uncounted 6-year-old Lebanese, Palestinian and Iraqi girls needlessly and violently killed just this year less deserving of our attention and focus than JonBenet?
08-30-06 - Syrian group threatens abductions An obscure Syrian terrorist group threatened to abduct Israeli soldiers.
08-30-06 - Aliases, disguises OK'd for witnesses at Chicago terror trial The ruling came in the case of Muhammad Salah, 53, of suburban Bridgeview and Abdelhaleem Ashquar, 48, of Alexandria, Va., both accused of funneling money to Hamas to pay for murders, kidnappings and other acts of terrorism aimed at the Israeli government. Here in the United States of Israel, you don't have the right to know your accuser.
08-30-06 - Palestinian Activists with International and Israeli Supporters Picket Kofi Annan?s Visit
08-30-06 - Has the Hegemon Been Humbled in Lebanon?
08-30-06 - Former PLO terrorist will speak in area No 'former PLO terrorist' - particularly one that has done jail time in Israel - is going to be allowed access to the US, that is unless he is a propagandist for Israel. Which is exactly what he appears to be. Israel is evidently sending this guy to every major city in the country, to keep the American sheep in line.
08-29-06 - Israeli troops kill more civilians in Gaza
08-29-06 - Palestinian resident killed in Beit Lahia
08-29-06 - Fresh Israeli airstrike kills 3 Palestinians in eastern Gaza
08-29-06 - Nine Palestinians wounded in Israel raid on Gaza Among the wounded were militants and a 10-year-old child in serious condition, the medical source said Tuesday
08-29-06 - Palestinian Children Assaulted by Israeli Army
08-29-06 - Annan urges Israel to end siege Mr Annan also said Israel had committed most of the violations reported in the two-week-old truce with Hezbollah.
08-29-06 - US: Settlers assaulting American citizens "In recent months, citizens of Western nations, including Americans, involved in pro-Palestinian volunteer efforts were assaulted and
injured in the Occupied Territories by Israeli settlers and harassed by the (Israeli army). Those taking part in demonstrations, nonviolent resistance, and direct action are advised to cease such activity for their own safety," it said.
08-29-06 - UN faces rising anger in Lebanon
08-29-06 - Lebanese father mourns loss of family "The Lebanese people, the civilians, we are the losers," Abdallah said softly. "We have lost everything." And unfortunately, that was not a coincidence.
08-29-06 - UN chief calls for end to 'humiliating' Lebanese blockade
08-29-06 - Thousands of Lebanese unable to go home Michael Bociurkiw of the U.N. Children's Fund said four children were injured by previously undetonated explosives over the weekend.
08-29-06 - Annan meets families of abducted Israeli soldiers
08-29-06 - Health Ministry, WHO begin effort to disinfect ravaged neighborhoods
08-29-06 - TV star Nasrallah impresses people on all sides in hopeful Lebanon
08-29-06 - Sinai advisory reissued Israel reissued a warning to its citizens not to travel to the Sinai Peninsula.
08-29-06 - Bush Goes Retro to Avoid Prosecution Bush blocked the attempt to stop Israel's aggression and is, thereby, equally responsible for the war crimes. Indeed, a number of reports claim that Bush instigated the Israeli aggression against Lebanon
08-29-06 - US targets Hezbollah fundraising arm The US government blacklisted a fundraising arm of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah which it said makes no pretence of hiding the deadly aim of its activities.
08-29-06 - Religion in public life: Americans yearn for a middle way strong majorities of white Evangelicals believe God gave Israel to the Jewish people and that the state of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, views not shared by majorities of the rest of the public A bible is not a land deed.
08-29-06 - 'Missing Israeli pilot' on film Lebanese television has broadcast footage of what it says is Israeli pilot Ron Arad, missing since he was shot down over Lebanon in 1986
08-29-06 - Italian troops head for Lebanon
08-29-06 - Poll says Lebanese are spilt over Hezbollah disarmament
08-29-06 - Middle East peace process must be revived -Chirac The war in Lebanon flared partly because of deadlock in the Middle East peace process, French President Jacques Chirac said on Monday, urging world powers to revive talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
08-29-06 - Attorney: Justice Min. plan would 'launder' illegal West Bank outposts the proposal would allow "reasonable and immediately adjacent" expansions of existing settlements without any approval from the central government, meaning that only the approval of local or regional councils in the territories would be needed...the proposal makes no mention of evacuating illegal outposts, thereby "undermining the principle of enforcing the law and allowing those who broke the law to benefit from doing so."
08-29-06 - U.N. hopes to double Lebanon force
08-29-06 - Iran president wants TV debate with Bush The Iranian president also called Israel a threat to peace and stability in the Middle East. "The Zionist regime has deprived the Palestinian nation and other nations of the region of a single day of peace. In the past 60 years, it has imposed tens of wars on the Palestinian nation and others," he said.
08-29-06 - ADL: U.S. papers back Israel U.S. newspaper editorials and political cartoons backed Israel in its recent war against Hezbollah, the Anti-Defamation League found.
08-29-06 - Jesse Jackson: Kidnapped Israeli Soldiers Are Alive The Reverend Jesse Jackson says he's been told that the 3 Israeli soldiers captured this summer by Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants are alive.
08-29-06 - Aliases, disguises OK'd for witnesses at Chicago terror trial Two Israeli security agents expected to testify at the trial of two men accused of fundraising for the Palestinian militant group Hamas may wear disguises and use aliases on the witness stand, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Welcome to the United States of Israel.
08-29-06 - Holy Land: children go back to school as humanitarian crisis deepens "People are seriously depressed," said Mervat Naber, head of Caritas Jerusalem's Social department. "They are going into their sixth month without government wages. What would any of us do under these circumstances? The mood in Palestine is simply awful and morose
08-29-06 - Palestinians: No 'Freedom Of The Press' In Gaza
08-29-06 - Israeli Army Destroying Olive Trees in Jenin
08-29-06 - Hillel activists gear up for Israel debate this fall Jewish groups formed the Israel on Campus Coalition, which today comprises some 30 organizations with a campus presence, to coordinate Israel advocacy.....The American Israel Public Affairs Committee even has begun training non-Jewish pro-Israel activists at historically black colleges and Christian universities.....Jewish groups had trained armies of pro-Israel student activists. College students beware. You're the next target for Israelization.
08-29-06 - 'Lebanon will be rebuilt before New Orleans is'
08-29-06 - Good deed meets cross-border challenge
08-29-06 - The stories they can tell The words of a cold-hearted conservative doing the automatic bidding of the Bush administration? Yeah, we didn?t think so. Mea culpa.
08-29-06 - Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby Criticize someone that is Jewish - automatically get labelled an anti-semite in an article that actually PROVES the study by Walt and Mearsheimer is correct.
08-28-06 - 64-year old man killed by Israeli military fire in Jenin Local sources reported that Sabri Abdul-Ghani, 64, works as a guard at a school which is still under construction near a Palestinian town near Jenin.
08-28-06 - Israel forges ahead with deadly two-month Gaza offensive Four Palestinians, including two militants from the ruling Islamist Hamas movement and two members of president Mahmud Abbas's presidential guard, were killed in an eastern district of Gaza City....22-year-old civilian Sabet Edwan was killed by Israeli tank fire in the southern city of Rafah, hospital officials said.....Back in eastern Gaza City, medics also found the body of another Palestinian, Fathi Abu al-Qumbarz, 50, who had been wounded by automatic gunfire during Israeli operations two days ago
08-28-06 - WFP warns of deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza Gaza's infrastructure lies crippled, affecting the lives of the 1.4 million population on a daily basis, WFP said, adding that power and water supplies remain low and unreliable.
08-28-06 - Captured Israeli soldier safe: Hamas
08-28-06 - Not So Clean Break ** the U.S. had given Israel a green light to attack Hezbollah and push its troops into southern Lebanon. There was an agreement between Israel and Uncle Sam that Iranian nuclear plants would eventually have to be bombed. Once this was done, Iran would most likely order Hezbollah to attack Israel. Thus the U.S. and Israel agreed in secret that at some point before the attack on Iran, Hezbollah would have to be disarmed and that as soon as a pretext became available, Israel should use force.
08-28-06 - Annan asks Israel to end blockade United Nations chief Kofi Annan has called on Israel to lift its blockade of Lebanon and urged Hezbollah to free two captured Israeli soldiers.
08-28-06 - Plan for 90 peacekeepers presented to Israel The United States has proposed a force of international observers be stationed in Karni, Gaza.
08-28-06 - EU channels funds to pay some Palestinian employees' salaries: sources The EU payments would cover about 50,000 employees whose salaries are less than 450 U.S. dollars a month. The payees will get about 350 dollars under the EU payments, said the governmental source on the condition of anonymity.
08-28-06 - Ahmadinejad says Holocaust 'made up to embarrass Germany' Merkel on July 21 indicated that she would not formally respond to the letter, saying it contained "totally unacceptable" criticism of Israel and "constantly put in question" the Jewish state's right to exist.
08-28-06 - Ezra says Arab towns should not receive aid intended for north Education Minister Yuli Tamir slammed Ezra for his comments, saying "I can't believe that a minister in Israel would dare say such a thing regarding Israeli citizens."
08-28-06 - AIPAC urges U.S. to shut Iranian Web site The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is urging the United States government to disconnect an Iranian news site from American Internet servers, charging that the site has ties to terrorist organizations. The allegation is based on a report published by Haaretz last month.
08-28-06 - Hamas figure slams Gaza 'anarchy'
08-28-06 - Lebanon's fishermen crippled by wartime oil spill "It's been almost two months since any of us worked," said Mohammed Kniwa, head of the fishermen's union at the Raouche port in Beirut, where an estimated 150 tonnes of oil is trapped.
08-28-06 - French troops aid in Lebanon rebuilding
08-28-06 - IDF replaced officer during fighting after he expressed doubts over operation The commander of an armored battalion of reservists was relieved from command during the fighting in Lebanon at his own request. Senior IDF officers are set to discuss whether he should remain in his post.
08-28-06 - Olmert: We could have only dreamed of such a scenario ** Prime minister says that if someone would have told him a month and a half ago about the current situation, he would said he was dreaming of unrealistic goals. Says cautiously, 'could be deterioration'
08-28-06 - Beckett plays down Hezbollah cache find The letter concluded: "The equipment found by the IDF was not exported to Iran, as the media have speculated. Nor does it include night vision goggles."
08-28-06 - Israel urges Iran sanctions ** Israel's foreign minister urged the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran.
08-28-06 - Olmert orders limited war probes
08-28-06 - "All I Have": UNRWA?s World Refugee Day 2006 UNRWA Commissioner-General Karin Koning AbuZayd related the desperate situation facing Gaza?s refugee population
08-28-06 - Abbas welcomes French call for quartet meeting
08-28-06 - Palestinian issue at root of violence, says ex-Lebanon hostage
08-28-06 - Needs are huge for displaced families in Lebanon
08-28-06 - Israeli Apartheid: Striking parallels to So. Africa
08-28-06 - Cleveland Examines Issues Facing Christians in the Holy Land
08-28-06 - Israel carries out large-scale detention in West Bank
08-28-06 - After a 19-Year Battle, Judge Rules L.A. 8's Aiad Barakat Deserves U.S. Citizenship
08-28-06 - UK-based Christian organisation involved in negotiations to free Fox News pair Canon White said the pair's conversion to Islam was his idea. Before they were released, a video was shown in which the pair said they had converted to Islam. Canon White said this was his suggestion, as a way of finding a "face saving" way out of the situation.
08-28-06 - Lebanese army deployed to Syrian border Palestinian refugees in camps in the Litani area have refused the Lebanese government's instructions to disarm in accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701
08-28-06 - State Department surprised by Hezbollah "It was a surprising statement for somebody who launched a war to say that he regretted launching that war," department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday. Israel launched that war, Sean, it was in the works for a year.. Sean McCormack is either a moron or a liar.
08-28-06 - Greece pledges to commit to Middle East peace process Bakoyannis also briefed Sharma over her recent trip and contacts in the Middle East, noting that "the time has come for vigorous diplomacy, both in terms of Lebanon as well as over the Palestinian issue."
08-28-06 - Harris clarifies statements on religion In Congress, Katherine Harris has consistently supported pro-Israel legislation
08-28-06 - Mearsheimer and Walt on C-SPAN John J. Mearsheimer and Steven M. Walt, authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy made an appearence on C-SPAN Monday to discuss those very things.
08-28-06 - Where is the Israeli Gandhi?
08-28-06 - Jewish groups blast Israeli actions Some U.S. Jewish groups signed onto a letter calling Israeli military actions in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip "vastly disproportionate."
08-28-06 - The Israel Lobby Stifles Another Israel-Questioner
08-28-06 - Danish festival leaves out Israel A cultural festival on the Mideast in Copenhagen has drawn criticism for failing to include Israel
08-27-06 - Fighting in Gaza kills four Palestinians, wounds journalists On Sunday afternoon, a 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot in the head by a sniper in the Shajaiyeh neighbourhood of Gaza City, hospital officials said. The army said the man approached troops while he was carrying an anti-tank missile. A six-year-old boy was shot in the chest and critically wounded in the same area later Sunday outside his home
08-27-06 - Second Palestinian killed in Israeli offensive in eastern Gaza
08-27-06 - Syria will talk peace 'when Israel is ready' "Peace would involve Israel returning occupied lands to their owners and restoring their rights," Assad said. "Israel is an enemy founded on the basis of aggression and hegemony.
08-27-06 - Nasrallah sorry for scale of war Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.
08-27-06 - Key US legislator says will block aid to Lebanon A key U.S. legislator said in Israel on Sunday he would block aid President George W. Bush promised Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria Lantos is, not surprisingly, an Israel-firster.
08-27-06 - Israel deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure in both Palestine and Lebanon
08-27-06 - Israeli Siege Leaves Gaza Isolated and Desperate More than 200 Palestinians, at least 44 of them children, have been killed in the past 8 weeks. 44 kids killed in 2 months' time. Had they all been killed at once, it may have made the headlines in America. But it's the slow methodical mode of killing that the IDF enjoys the best - so that it slips under the radar.
08-27-06 - Soldiers break into a physicians' home in Hebron, attack him and his family Dr. Zahda added that soldiers and settlers have carried repeated attacks in the area, and that his house was repeatedly occupied by soldiers and settlers in separate incidents.
08-27-06 - Soldiers violently attack older Palestinian man in his home
08-27-06 - Israel detains Palestinian Hamas MP in West Bank
08-27-06 - Mother, her child, injured east of Gaza City Sunday at dawn, a Palestinian mother and her child were injured in an Israeli shelling that targeted an area east of Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources reported.
08-27-06 - Tearful Western journalists freed after Gaza kidnap ordeal "We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," he said. "I have the highest respect for Islam, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns and we didn't know what the hell was going on," he said....Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, who met with the pair after their release, said the mysterious group behind the kidnapping was not linked to the global Al-Qaeda network as rumored.
08-27-06 - Wounded cameraman tells of Gaza blast "This car was not identified by the army as a press vehicle," said army spokeswoman Captain Noa Meir. "If journalists were hurt, we regret it." Uhh.. they might want to take a gander at this picture then. Dahh..
08-27-06 - Fox News crew freed after Gaza ordeal "I want to thank everybody. I am happy to be here. I hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story because the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kind-hearted," Centanni told reporters. "The world needs to know more about them. Don't be discouraged."
08-27-06 - Displaced Lebanese race bulldozers to recover keepsakes In the ruins of Haret Hreik, a southern Beirut suburb, Shiite families tried to save keepsakes before they were lost amid debris being cleared away by bulldozers and dump trucks.
08-27-06 - Israelis still occupy nine positions in south Lebanon: military Israeli troops still occupy nine positions in southern Lebanon two weeks after a ceasefire between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah ended more than a month of heavy fighting
08-27-06 - UN peacekeeping force not to destroy Hezbollah: Italian FM
08-27-06 - Israeli general plots war with Iran "Everyone is playing with dates and time frames, but the list of options is becoming shorter," he added. "I think we have one year open (to launch military action). Israel will have to decide." Israel will not launch a war on Iran. America will on her behalf - like it did with Iraq.
08-27-06 - Humbling of the supertroops shatters Israeli army morale ?For the last six years we were engaged in stupid policing missions in the West Bank,? he said. ?Checkpoints, hunting stone-throwing Palestinian children, that kind of stuff. The result was that we were not ready to confront real fighters like Hezbollah.?
08-27-06 - Lebanese offical blasts NYC man's arrest "As a Lebanese citizen first, and as an official in the Lebanese government and information minister of Lebanon, I find this to be unacceptable," Ghazi Aridi told reporters in Beirut.
08-27-06 - Canadians divided over Middle East conflict Almost half of Canadians blame the on-going conflict in the Middle East on Iran and Syria, and such groups as Hezbollah and Palestinian militias, according to a new national poll that says 19 per cent point the finger at Israel.
Good little sheepies.
08-27-06 - I Want to Represent Israel in Congress California?s Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) asked himself how to better serve Israel and overlook American interests? Out of no where, the savior emerged as a hero: he suggested withholding aid from Lebanon.
08-27-06 - At-Tuwani Update 1 August - 13 August The soldier explained that the settlers believe that there is a clear
delineation between the Palestinian side of the Khoruba valley and the settler
side. Eventually, the soldier admitted that it was all Palestinian land but was
concerned that no one gets hurt. He then told the settlers to go back to the
woods.
08-27-06 - Israeli military abducts Palestinian mayor; CPT visits family Three weeks earlier, August 3, 2006, at CPT's request, Mayor Farhan had hosted
thirty internationals representing several different Christian organizations
visiting Israeli and Palestine. Tracy Hughes, CPT member who brought a
delegation from Common Global Ministries, expressed shock when she heard of the
arrest. ...At the time of his arrest Mayor Alqam was in the process of inviting former
President Jimmy Carter to visit Beit Ommar Now you know why he was arrested.
08-27-06 - "THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM" - Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem This is where we take our stand. We stand for justice. We can do no other. Justice alone guarantees a peace that will lead to reconciliation with a life of security and prosperity for all the peoples of our Land. By standing on the side of justice, we open ourselves to the work of peace - and working for peace makes us children of God.
Hallelujah.
08-27-06 - Missing facts may have changed Israel/Lebanon poll results If you knew that Israel?s attack on Lebanon had been planned for over a year, and that the capture of two Israeli soldiers was just their excuse, would you still think their attack was justified?
08-27-06 - Hezbollah says won't resist UN troops
08-27-06 - Trickle of supplies reaches Lebanon Israel has blocked commercial cargo flights, letting about three planes carrying relief supplies land daily at the country's only international airport, along with seven passenger flights, airport officials said.
In a prison called Lebanon. How many Arab nations can Israel imprison at once?
08-27-06 - Annan to visit Beirut U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will discuss the deployment and role of a planned 15,000-strong peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon when he visits Beirut on Monday for the first time since the Israel-Hizbollah war.
08-27-06 - Jesse Jackson says Syria backs prisoners' release Syria backs efforts to free captured Israeli soldiers and Arab prisoners held by the Jewish state, U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said after meeting President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday.
08-27-06 - US Fox news 'grateful' for release of reporters
08-27-06 - US support for Israel soars after Hizbullah war Support for Israel was highest in the US South, where 56% said the Land of Israel was given to the Jews by God and 45% said the state of Israel fulfilled biblical prophecy. The comparable figures for the Northeast region were 24% and 22%, respectively.
The south is chock full of Christian fundies.
08-27-06 - Campaign to raise funds for children starts today A CAMPAIGN by Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) to assist Lebanese and Palestinian children affected by the recent crisis in the region will be officially launched at the City Center today
08-27-06 - Hezbollah 'in talks' on prisoner exchange Sheikh Nasrallah has told a Lebanese television station that prominent politician Nabih Berri is acting as a middle man in negotiations aimed at exchanging the two Israeli soldiers for Lebanese prisoners held in Israel.
08-27-06 - Islamic Jihad supports coalition, but not to join
08-27-06 - Cluster bombs leave 'toys' that kill children The US State Department opened an investigation last week into whether Israel?s use of American-made cluster bombs violated an agreement that they would not be used in civilian areas.
And a US official stated that this investigation is just for show. The cluster bombs are courtesy of the United States of America.
08-27-06 - Haredi writer accused of racism, slander In the article, published in the ultra-Orthodox newspaper "Hassidic World", author Yitzhak Ben-Zvi writes that "the Arabs are a people
similar to donkeys? they are a vile nation of savages? they have a great desire to murder and are even worse than the Nazi enemy." He's just saying what most Israelis think. See yesterday's news.
08-27-06 - Flights bring bridges to Lebanon Two aid flights are due to take off from RAF Brize Norton for Lebanon, with bridges to replace crossings bombed in recent Israeli air raids.
08-27-06 - Berlin demands to board Lebanese ships Germany is offering to patrol Lebanon's coast rather than send ground troops as part of a UN peacekeeping force after the conflict between Israel and Lebanon-based Hizbullah.
08-27-06 - U.N. plans Lebanon 'exclusion zone'
08-27-06 - UN will not stop Syria sending weapons to Lebanon Speaking in Brussels before heading to the region, Kofi Annan, pictured below, the UN Secretary-General, confirmed that the 15,000-strong force will not meet Israeli demands to police the routes used by the militia to smuggle missiles from Syria. "Troops are not going in there to disarm - let's be clear,"
08-27-06 - Palestine, justice still the issue
08-27-06 - Law Put to Unusual Use in Hezbollah TV Case, Some Legal Experts Say
08-26-06 - Medics: 1 Palestinian killed, 20 wounded in Nablus Palestinian medics at Nablus Rafidia Hospital reported that a 19-year-old young man was killed and 20 others were wounded by Israeli troops who opened fire to stop them throwing stones
08-26-06 - Teenager killed in Israeli West Bank incursion Muntasseir Suleiman Okkeh, 16, was shot in the back
08-26-06 - Twelve Year Old Boy Shot in the Back in the Name of "Security" Earlier in the day, a 12-year old boy was, for no apparent reason, shot in the back with live ammunition. He is now being treated at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, where they report that the bullet narrowly missed his kidney. An older man was also shot in the foot by a ricocheting bullet, right in front of the eyes of human rights workers.
08-26-06 - Settlers in West Bank kill Palestinian man returning to his home
08-26-06 - Israeli Army Kills 15 year old Demonstrator, Injures 12, and Demolishes
08-26-06 - Israeli Army Shoots Civillians at Checkpoint, Destroys Houses in Nablus
08-26-06 - Abbas cleared for unity talks with Hamas
08-26-06 - Italy says international force possible for Gaza
08-26-06 - Gaza's border with Egypt reopens for one day Gaza militants protesting the nearly two-month closure on Wednesday tried without success to use explosives to blow open the gate.
08-26-06 - Israeli rocket hits Reuters car The Reuters armoured car was reportedly clearly labelled as a media vehicle, with signs on all sides, including the roof. Which is probably why it was targeted in the first place."Israeli regret" - now there's a laugh.
08-26-06 - 4-year old Palestinian girl killed in Iraq
08-26-06 - UN welcomes Lebanon force pledges A senior UN spokesman says it is now close to achieving firm promises of troops to make up the full peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon
08-26-06 - Hizbollah vows self-restraint "We see how Israel is violating resolution 1701," Hizbollah deputy Secretary-General Naim Kassem said in a statement. "Despite that, we as a party have decided to exercise self-restraint during this period to expose more of the U.S. and Israeli misdeeds."
This will prompt Israel to provoke them twice as much to try and get a response (something they do to the Palestinians all the time).
08-26-06 - Hopes rise for Gaza hostage pair Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has indicated that two foreign journalists kidnapped in Gaza City on 14 August may be freed soon.
08-26-06 - Ahmed Taher - Palestinian refugee - Sunni The Palestinian Christian Slater?
08-26-06 - Lebanon's war may put Palestine on the agenda again The United States could solve this right now if it would withhold all support for Israel - both at the UN and financially - to force Israel to the negotiating table. Bush the first did the latter, though unsuccessfully, to force Israel to halt its illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Bush the second is unfortunately not like his old man.
08-26-06 - Friday, August 25 1996 - Israel moves trailers into Jewish West Bank settlements, the first step of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward expanding settlements
08-26-06 - Palestinian Sense of Place - You Can't Bomb It Away The Israelis have tried to erase the Palestinian history in any number of ways.
08-26-06 - Love, Hamas style: For hundreds of newlyweds, life goes on
08-26-06 - Israeli views on Shebaa Farms harden There is an abundance of water in the area, from the melting snows of Mount Hermon to the tributaries which flow into Israel from Lebanon, accounting in part for the farms' importance.... "What is unique in this specific area is that the Shebaa Farms has a strategic viewpoint over the water sources of the Jordan River in Israel, like the Wazzani and the Banias,"
08-26-06 - Bending it like West Bank resistance fighters "Palestinian children watch what is going on around them. This affects their behaviour, be it on the street, at home or at school," said sociologist Abdelrahman al-Turk
08-26-06 - Iran opens nuclear reactor, defying U.N. A senior Israeli lawmaker warned in a statement that the plant inauguration marks "another leap in Iran's advance toward a nuclear bomb." Israeli legislator Ephraim Sneh of the Labor Party, a partner in the ruling coalition, said that the Jewish state must "prepare itself militarily."
Why, if they (via the neocons) can get America to do it for them?
08-26-06 - Disarming Hezbollah put on hold ISRAEL has dropped its demand for the immediate disarming of Hezbollah and begun to focus on persuading UN forces to stop the flow of weapons into Lebanon...."It is not that we have given up on disarming Hezbollah in Lebanon, but we see it as a process and the most important thing is ? to prevent their strategic rearmament," So that the US can attack Iran and not have fear that Hezbollah will in turn fire volleys of rockets at Israel?
08-26-06 - Peace Demonstrators Beaten in Bil'in Demonstrators attempted to sit down but the soldiers' repeated beating led them to disperse. An Italian and an Israeli activist were beaten so badly they had to be stretchered off to the ambulance to receive medical attention.
08-26-06 - Palestinians in Al Khader Village nonviolently resist the Israeli Wall, despite violent response Signs painted with messages against occupation and for international law were held high amid Palestinian flags and hundreds of people shouting for justice.
08-26-06 - Report on Israeli settlement in the occupied territories
08-26-06 - 'We Palestinians should lay down our arms. We don't know how to use them' With tactical, military, and intelligence supremacy, Israel is able to eliminate Palestinian fighters almost at will, suffering few casualties thanks to their enemy's primitive equipment.
08-26-06 - Cleanup of Lebanon's massive oil spill has barely begun
08-26-06 - Iran opens nuclear facility saying no threat to Israel
08-26-06 - Hizbollah expected "limited damage" Kassem told an-Nahar daily that Hizbollah had expected an Israel attack at some stage as part of a joint plan with the United States but it had no indication it would come in July.
08-26-06 - Army invades, attacked residents houses Israeli army troops and bulldozers stormed the West Bank city of Nablus, Saturday at dawn, attacked residents' houses and destroyed two residential buildings.
08-26-06 - Hamas to lead future coalition govt: spokesman
08-26-06 - Army bars workers from reaching their work places in the Jordan valley Israeli troops stopped on Saturday scores of Palestinian workers from arriving to their jobs in the Jordan valley area in the West Bank.
08-26-06 - Yemen allocates 5% of fishing export profits to Lebanon and Palestine
08-26-06 - Week-long campaign to support Lebanese and Palestinian children
08-26-06 - Appeasement and War on Iran If Israel failed, the risk was that Hizbullah would be strengthened and Israel weakened. Now that Israel has lost and Hizbullah won, the loss has exposed Israel?s weak and vulnerable position. Israel is surrounded by foes with renewed spirit and hope. That fact alone may ensure some blitzkrieg type of attack by the US and/or Israel on Syria or Iran - in an attempt to restore the image of military might and dominance in the region. Neither Israel nor this administration can accept an image of weakness in that part of the world.
08-26-06 - Abbas: Pleased that Israelis prefer negotiations
08-26-06 - How Washington Goaded Israel Into War A July 23 article in Haaretz about an anti-war demonstration in Tel Aviv noted that "this was a distinctly anti-American protest" that included "chants of 'We will not die and kill in the service of the United States," That's rich, ain't it? Because they demand we do the such when they continuously lobby and even demand that our government take out their enemies for them. Steve Zunes is a known apologist for Israel, despite the fact he is a critic thereof. He still refuses to lay any blame on that nation.
08-26-06 - German sub delivery postponed Two new submarines which Israel would receive under a deal it signed with Germany last month, will only start being delivered in 2010, German government spokesman Thomas Steg said Friday.
08-26-06 - Lebanese recover from Kafkaesque trip to Israel
08-26-06 - Report says Lebanon's GDP will fall 10-percent The cost of material damages to Lebanon is not clear, the Council for Development and Reconstruction estimates losses at more than $3.6 billion. They should take it out of the billions we give to Israel in foreign aid each year.
08-26-06 - Lebanese optimism begins to evaporate People are greeted with daily headlines about the continued Israeli blockade of the port and airport, reports of Israeli threats of a new round of fighting, and warnings that the security vacuum in Lebanon may not be filled for months.
08-26-06 - US hopeful of quick end to Lebanon blockade The United States wants a quick end to Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon but blames Syria and Iran for delaying the process by helping the Hezbollah militia, a US official said.
08-26-06 - Israel 'not fooled' by Iranian nuclear assurances
08-26-06 - Gaza: 'why demolish the olive trees'?
08-26-06 - The Washington Post publishes an unbelievably long piece of apologentsia featuring the 'agonizing' of the IDF over targeted killings 5 pages of BS.
08-26-06 - Fr Jaeger: Christians and Jews supporting Church-Israel relations it must be admitted that neither Agreement has been made into Israeli law, and specifically, most of all, that the "Fundamental Agreement" itself - in spite of the many years that have passed since its signature and ratification - has not been made into Israeli law. Even more perplexingly, the government itself - as is well known by now - has officially informed Israel's Supreme Court that it did not recognize the "Fundamental Agreement" as binding. This has made the Agreement useless in practice, since the Church and Catholic organisations cannot rely on it in their day-to-day dealings with the State and society In short, Israel failed to stick to the agreement with the Catholic Church, among others. What a surprise.
08-26-06 - Pressure on Olmert as poll shows Israelis want him to quit over Lebanon 'failure'
08-26-06 - Filmmaker Ken Loach Joins the Cultural Boycott of Israel I support the call by Palestinian film-makers, artists and others to boycott state sponsored Israeli cultural institutions and urge others to join their campaign.
08-25-06 - Children pay the price as UNRWA operations in Gaza are grinding to a halt UNRWA warned on Thursday that the Agency's Gaza operation is grinding to a halt because of the lack of access in and out of Gaza. The principal goods terminal, Karni, remains closed for the seventh consecutive day
08-25-06 - Govt says forcibly disarming Hezbollah 'suicidal' Lebanon's government says it would be suicidal trying to disarm the Shiite militia Hezbollah by force.
08-25-06 - OPT: USAID repairs damaged water networks in Gaza The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched an emergency assistance program to repair damaged water pipelines and sanitation services in the West Bank and Gaza. USAID's $12 million Emergency Water and Sanitation program, which is implemented by the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), aims to restore the availability of water and sewage services for thousands of Palestinians currently without them.
08-25-06 - Israel feels US will not attack Iran There is growing consensus within the defense establishment that the United States will not attack Iran, and that Israel might be forced to act independently to stop the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, a high-ranking defense official told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. ...The defense official blasted the US for "not doing enough" to stop Teheran's race to the bomb. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he said, was leading the State Department in the direction of "appeasement." Where does it say in the American Constitution that we must wage war to please Israel? On behalf of the American people: GFY.
08-25-06 - Inquiry Opened Into Israeli Use of U.S. Bombs Several current and former officials said that they doubted the investigation would lead to sanctions against Israel but that the decision to proceed with it might be intended to help the Bush administration ease criticism from Arab governments and commentators over its support of Israel's military operations. Our government cares not for Arab civilians killed by these bombs, let there be no doubt.
08-25-06 - Hezbollah warns Blair: you're not welcome in Beirut TONY BLAIR?S peace mission to the Middle East appeared in jeopardy last night after Hezbollah declared that the Prime Minister would not be welcome in Lebanon because of his support for Israel during the war.
08-25-06 - Israel Prepares for the Next War Akiva Eldar has apparently heard the news about 2008 too. He sees a real possibility of ?an accelerated preemptive war against Syria, before Iran is equipped with a nuclear bomb and before Tehran completes the transformation of the Syrian army into a modern army rich in new types of weaponry
08-25-06 - Halutz names officer to prepare for possible war with Iran
08-25-06 - Chavez says Israel's action in Lebanon "worse" than Hitler "Israel often criticizes Hitler ... but they have done the same thing, perhaps even worse," Chavez told reporters Friday in a briefing during his six-day visit to China.
08-25-06 - Hamas sees progress in bid to free Gaza hostages
08-25-06 - US probes Israel cluster bomb use A congressional investigation after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 found Israel guilty of intentionally dropping cluster bombs in civilian areas. A six year ban was imposed on further sales of the weapons to Israel.
But a senior White House official told the BBC that the current investigation is unlikely to lead to any serious repercussions.
Ronald Reagan imposed that ban. They don't make Republicans like they used to anymore. Those days went out with Bush the first.
08-25-06 - Russia denies Hezbollah arms link Last week Israeli officials said they had provided Moscow with proof that Hezbollah had been supplied with Russian weapons delivered to the Syrian Army. Mr Ivanov said that it was "laughable" to call the anti-tank weapons he understood to have been used by Hezbollah modern.
08-25-06 - Israel May Help Build U.S. Border Wall
08-25-06 - Germany confirms sale of two submarines to Israel The German government confirmed reports that two German submarines have been sold to Israel, but said the vessels are not equipped to carry nuclear weapons.
08-25-06 - Lebanese oil slick hits ancient Phoenician port
08-25-06 - Chirac doubts Lebanon force size French President Jacques Chirac has said sending 15,000 peacekeeping troops to southern Lebanon is "excessive".
08-25-06 - Syria cuts off power flow, denies political message Syria announced on Thursday it had suspended the flow of electricity it supplies to Lebanon, citing technical problems with its own power grid. Syria's state-owned electricity company issued a statement which said it could no longer provide electricity through two separate lines.
08-25-06 - Egypt, Pakistan point to Israeli Occupation of Palestine as root cause of Mid-East conflict
08-25-06 - Christian Peacemaker calls for release of Gaza hostage
08-25-06 - First positive signs for kidnapped NZ cameraman
08-25-06 - El Salvador moves embassy in Israel The decision comes a week after fellow Central American nation Costa Rica - the only other country that had an embassy in Jerusalem - announced it was moving its diplomatic mission to Tel Aviv, which is used by other countries because of Jerusalem's disputed status.
08-25-06 - Hezbollah might "respond" to Israeli ceasefire breaches, says MP
08-25-06 - At Funeral, a Sunni Village Condemns Hezbollah?s Presence
08-25-06 - IRC distributes needed supplies to displaced Lebanese at Shatila camp
08-25-06 - Let UN Handle Middle East, Say Americans 29 per cent of respondents think the U.S. should not become involved in the matter at all, while 14 per cent want their federal administration to take the leading role in the issue.
08-25-06 - Italian FM: Harsh U.S. approach to Mideast failed D'Alema said that America's aggressive approach to the Middle East, which Israel shares, has failed, and has caused serious damage. Now, he said, Italy and Europe must prove to Israelis that only international intervention can bring them security. .....There was talk in the past about deploying a multinational force to the Gaza Strip as well.
08-25-06 - Pakistan bigger threat than Hezbollah: Senior Israeli leader In a candid admission of churning that is taking place inside Israel, Dr Shlomo Ben Ami, foreign minister in Prime Minister Ehud Barak cabinet in 2000-2001, said Israel should not take on the burden of global war on terror waged by the United States and the West....he advised his country's leadership to separate its war against militant organisations Hamas and the Hezbollah and the global war on terror, headed by the United States and the West.....Ben Ami, however, claimed that Israel achieved its purpose after the war in Lebanon -- deployment of an international force and application of the UN Resolution 1559 of 2004.
08-25-06 - Hezbollah's War Wins Support Among Arab Pro-Democracy Reformers Where the U.S. sees in Hezbollah a front for Iran's theocratic government, though, pro-Hezbollah advocates see it as altering the Middle East's political and military balance to Israel's disadvantage.
08-25-06 - Poll: 18% of Israeli Arabs backed Hezbollah in war In regards to Jewish-Arab relations, the poll found that some 62% of the Jewish Israeli public would be unwilling to rent an apartment to Arabs prejudice: preconceived judgment or opinion (2) : an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge b : an instance of such judgment or opinion c : an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics
08-25-06 - US charges Hezbollah TV provider Javed Iqbal, originally from Pakistan, is accused by prosecutors of doing business with a terrorist entity.
08-25-06 - Most Israelis oppose Olmert: poll A newspaper poll shows 63 per cent of Israelis want Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign, in a sharp public backlash over his handling of the war in Lebanon.
08-25-06 - Hezbollah launches boy band to stardom Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said the song is considered inflammatory and that tapes and CDs containing it will be confiscated. He said police in and around Jerusalem have found no copies of the song so far, but that officers have searched music stores and are on the lookout for contraband.
08-25-06 - Neocons attack Rice (again)
08-24-06 - Israel raids Gaza, civilian and two militants killed
08-24-06 - Israeli air strikes wounds 8 Palestinians in Gaza A first strike just after midnight Thursday destroyed the home of a local commander from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in the Jabalya refugee camp. Five civilians near the home at the time of attack where hurt. Three more Palestinians were injured when Israel bombed a building in Gaza City a short while later, setting it ablaze, medics and witnesses said
08-24-06 - Abbas chagrined at futile Gaza tour: paper
08-24-06 - Unpaid Palestinian employees demonstrate against Hamas government in Ramallah
08-24-06 - Amid ruin in Lebanon, families find aid
08-24-06 - EU countries under pressure for Lebanon troops
08-24-06 - France boosts Lebanon peace force President Jacques Chirac has pledged an additional 1,600 French troops to the UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon.
08-24-06 - U.S. warns Syria to observe arms embargo
08-24-06 - Washington takes aim at Iran as destabilizing force in Mideast ** One Washington analyst said Barbero's comments were part of a move by the US administration to prepare the US public for war on Iran. Iran is next in the Clean Break strategy imposed by the neocons onto the United States. See the related articles from today's and yesterday's (Neocon Watch) news about troop call-ups.
08-24-06 - Cluster bomb toll mounts as displaced return to south Lebanon Israeli cluster bombs dropped during a month-long blitz against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon are taking an increasing toll on civilians trying to return home more than a week after the fighting ended, the UN and rights groups say.
08-24-06 - Israel/Lebanon Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
08-24-06 - Israelis keep civilians way in village At another house, a Star of David was spray-painted across an outer wall beside a slogan praising a Jewish sage. A skull and crossbones cardboard sign on the front steps warns people not to enter. It's unclear if Israelis wrote it, or if it was meant to point out unexploded ordnance. On an upper floor of Fares' house, family and marriage photos lay shredded. Fares said Israeli soldiers destroyed them. "Why?" he asked, holding a picture torn in two that showed him with his bride in her white wedding dress
08-24-06 - Time To Change the Tune And that raises the third wild card: whether the current President Bush is willing and able to do what has to be done. Right now he?s torn between the pragmatists in his administration, who favor dialogue, and the ideologues, who insist on seeing the world in blacks and whites and are willing to keep fighting to the last Israeli. Bush's own instincts are with the ideologues, though he's shown himself capable of acting pragmatically when he sees the need. The 'ideologues' are neoconservatives, and none of their policies benefit America in any way - in fact, they've achieved just the opposite effect. They should be run right out of our government, in the very least.
08-24-06 - Palestinian PM calls for kidnapped reporters to be released
08-24-06 - Lebanon plays down Israel-Syria dispute over troops Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, in an interview broadcast on Thursday, said the cabinet would have to discuss the matter but Lebanon had no intention of showing hostility towards Syria.
08-24-06 - Abbas pays salaries of 5,000 members of Hamas' operational force
08-24-06 - Israel slams Amnesty International report on Lebanon conflict Israel's protests are for show. They (paragraph 21) deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure because they mistakenly believe that it will turn the public against Hizbullah. They do the (paragraph 3)same thing with the Palestinians - and it doesn't work there either.
08-24-06 - Gaza hostage wife in new appeal The wife of a journalist seized in the Gaza Strip has issued a fresh plea for him and his colleague to be freed.
08-24-06 - Robert Fisk: Hizbollah's reconstruction of Lebanon is winning the loyalty of disaffected Shia Hizbollah has made it clear that it has no intention of disarming under the UN Security Council's 1701 ceasefire resolution and yesterday afternoon, Major-General Alain Pellegrini, the commander of the UN Interim Force in southern Lebanon - which the Americans and British are relying upon to seize the guerrilla army's weapons - personally confirmed to me at his headquarters in Naqoura that "the Israelis can't ask us to disarm Hizbollah".
08-24-06 - Lebanon holds train bomb suspect A second suspect in last month's alleged plot to blow up German trains has been arrested in Lebanon, prosecutors in Germany say.
08-24-06 - Annan plans Mideast trip to push Lebanon cease-fire
08-24-06 - Israel army chief admits failures
08-24-06 - A weaker US hand in the Mideast Some specialists in the region say the brief but devastating Israel-Hizbullah war leaves the United States even more tarnished, particularly among moderate Arabs, because America was seen to be either ineffectual or snail-paced by design at stopping the fighting and destruction in southern Lebanon.
08-24-06 - Shebaa farmers present deeds in new hopes of reclaiming land After the 1967 war, Israel began to occupy their land, part of a 20-square-kilometer territory that rises from 400 to 2,000 meters in altitude, the farmers said.
08-24-06 - Syria: Israel should admit defeat Syria has called on Israel to acknowledge defeat against Hezbollah and seek a just peace settlement with Arabs based on trading land for peace.
08-24-06 - Wasp bound for Lebanon The amphibious assault ship Wasp is set to begin an unscheduled ?surge? deployment to the waters off Lebanon, where its sailors will support the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and Pentagon-approved humanitarian assistance efforts. Message to our guys : watch your back!
08-24-06 - Palestinians Denounce Fox Kidnappers
08-24-06 - Full Account of Israeli Army House Invasions in Hebron
08-24-06 - Icelandic citizen arrested at Israeli border, denied entry They also found fault with his place of birth, which according to his passport is Jerusalem. His passport was subsequently confiscated and stamped as void. He was then made to leave the country without his luggage, with only the clothes he was wearing and his cellular phone.
08-24-06 - PA officials say Shalit's fate is in the hands of Syria
08-24-06 - US stands idly by applauding the despicable actions of Israel: Paper
08-24-06 - India cautious about joining UN force in Lebanon Given its commitment to the Palestinian cause and its stable ties with Israel, India has to be extremely cautious before making any troops commitment to the new force, official sources told IANS.
08-24-06 - Lebanese PM says army can patrol border Lebanon's prime minister sought Thursday to sidestep conflicting Israeli and Syrian demands over the deployment of international troops along his border with Syria, saying Lebanese soldiers already there pose no threat to the prickly Arab neighbor.
08-24-06 - US civil rights leader aims to broker Israeli prisoner swap On Tuesday Jackson, who has previously negotiated the release of US and foreign nationals being held in Cuba, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, took up the case of the Israeli soldiers by speaking with Israeli and Syrian diplomats in Washington.
08-24-06 - Embattled Liberal MP resigns critic post The Liberals? deputy foreign affairs critic has resigned after an uproar over his statements that Canada should negotiate directly with Lebanon?s Hezbollah, which is on Canada?s list of terrorist organizations.
08-24-06 - Comment: Center's events teach that Palestinians, Jews dream of the same peace
08-24-06 - Israeli president questioned over sex claims
08-24-06 - Cairo mocks Damascus over comments by Assad
08-23-06 - At least ten Palestinians of Israel killed in bus accident in Sinai
08-23-06 - Israel troops shoot key W.Bank militant: witnesses An Israeli army undercover unit shot and seriously wounded a senior Palestinian militant leader in the West Bank town of Jenin on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said.
08-23-06 - Israeli Army bulldozers level a house in Jerusalem
08-23-06 - LEBANON: Drinking water severely lacking "I have never seen destruction like this," said Unicef water and sanitation specialist Branislav Jekic in the statement. "Wherever we go, we ask people what they need most and the answer is always the same: water."
08-23-06 - Israel signs contract for nuclear capable submarines: reports Israeli newspaper reports say Israel has signed a contract with Germany for two new U-boats capable of launching nuclear weapons.
08-23-06 - More lands annexed near Jerusalem to install "fortified checkpoint" Israeli soldiers confiscated nine Dunams of Palestinian land from Shu'fat village, north of Jerusalem, in order to expand a military checkpoint located on the western entrance to Shu'fat refugee camp.
08-23-06 - Israeli soldiers harass families, human rights workers in Hebron to facilitate Jewish 'tour' group Israeli settlers were freely roaming around the streets of the Palestinian neighbourhood. As is common, some were armed openly with fully-automatic assault rifles. The HRWs pointed out that any Palestinian ever seen carrying a gun in the same manner would be instantly shot by the army.
08-23-06 - Jewish Settler Runs over 2 Citizens in Hebron
08-23-06 - Robert Fisk: Untold story of the massacre of Marjayoun leaves blame on both sides of the border Who flew the drones? An Israeli soldier of the invasion force? A nameless officer in the Israel Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv? The Israelis knew a civilian convoy was on the road. Yet they sent their pilotless machines to attack it. Why? Last night, the Israeli Defence Ministry had not responded to inquiries from reporters who asked for the answer last Friday.
08-23-06 - Army attacks a police station and a Library in Hebron
08-23-06 - Government studies options to sue Israel for war crimes The Lebanese state has started to study the possible legal procedures to sue Israel and its political and military leaders within the international legal arena for crimes committed by Israel against Lebanon
08-23-06 - Israeli Flights Over Lebanon Violate Terms of Truce, U.N. Says Ongoing flights by Israeli warplanes over Lebanon drew rebukes Tuesday from international and local officials who said the sorties violated this nation's sovereignty and undermined its government.
08-23-06 - Three Lebanese soldiers killed by cluster bomb blast Three Lebanese soldiers were killed trying to defuse an unexploded Israeli cluster bomb as the Jewish state lost a soldier to one of its own mines in Lebanon.
08-23-06 - UN force will police Lebanon arms embargo: France One of the main tasks facing a U.N. force in Lebanon will be to ensure that no arms are smuggled across the borders to Hizbollah, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Wednesday.
08-23-06 - Israel buys upgraded subs to counter Iran threat The report of the sub purchase came a day after a cabinet minister and former Mossad spy warned Israel should prepare for a ballistic missile attack by Iran, its arch enemy and one of chief supporters of Hezbollah, against whom Israel waged the month-long war in Lebanon.
08-23-06 - WFP revises down Lebanon appeal target
08-23-06 - LEBANON: Oil clean-up small comfort for fishermen Hundreds of Lebanese families depend on the fishing industry and comprise one of the poorest sections of society, according to Jamal Alameh, president of the Fishermen COOP in the Ouzaei fishing port, south of the capital.
08-23-06 - Cabinet divided over audacious plan to challenge blockade
08-23-06 - Reservists: Lebanese POWs were kept in bus for 4 days Five Lebanese citizens, including two elderly men, were imprisoned for four days in a bus, reserve soldiers serving in the Military Police told Haaretz Monday.
08-23-06 - Assad rejects Israel's demand for UN troops on Syria-Lebanon border Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday rejected Israeli demands for the deployment of international troops on the Lebanese-Syrian border to stop what Israel says is the smuggling of arms to Hezbollah.
08-23-06 - Max Boot: Israel Should Hit Syria First Shlomo Avineri, a former director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, argues that his country fought the wrong war: Instead of targeting Lebanon, it should have gone after Syria. The Syrian armed forces are less motivated than Hezbollah, and they offer many more targets for Israeli airpower.
Max Boot = neocon.
08-23-06 - Israel rejects Amnesty's war crimes allegations Naturally since the Israeli government feels it is above the law - and because of our government, they get away with it. Won't last forever.
08-23-06 - Seized Gaza journalists in video Correspondents say the previously unknown group could be a an offshoot of one of the existing Palestinian militant groups, but it could also be a group that identifies itself more with the agenda and aims of al-Qaeda. They point to the religious language in the video, and the fact that it contains few references to the Palestinian cause, but refers to the evil powers which it says are fighting Islam.
08-23-06 - Lebanese see scant hope in peacekeepers Youssef, the Naqoura resident, said peacekeepers would be "welcome - as long as they don't try to disarm Hezbollah."
08-23-06 - China denies Hezbollah arms export Sun Bigan, China's special envoy to the Middle East, was asked to respond to media reports which alleged Hezbollah used weapons from Iran, whose technology originally came from China....The Los Angeles Times reported that the US and Israel had launched a diplomatic effort to prevent other countries from helping rearm Hezbollah.
08-23-06 - Israeli arrested for spying for Hezbollah An Israeli Arab living in the North was arrested on suspicion of spying for Hezbollah, Ha?aretz reported.
08-23-06 - Peretz backtracks on proposal for talks with Syria
08-23-06 - US rejects Gaza kidnappers' demands The State Department spokesman replied that the US Government "strongly condemns the kidnapping of these independent journalists, who were in Gaza to tell the Palestinian story to the world". No Fox journalist is in Gaza to "tell the Palestinian story". Fox news is Israeli-occupied territory.
08-23-06 - New ruling in AIPAC case raises questions about 'foreign agents' Ruling on whether a wiretap order was legal, Judge T.S. Ellis III said there was "ample probable cause to believe" that two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee were "agents of a foreign power." ..........Forcing AIPAC to register under the act, which has notoriously burdensome reporting requirements, would considerably restrict the group's ability to lobby and maintain its formidable reputation for secrecy. AIPAC IS a foreign agent and should register as such - something it is very much afraid of doing. "Reputation for secrecy"? Why is that? GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE?
08-23-06 - A Lebanese boy stands in his parents' house, which was damaged during the recent conflict
08-23-06 - Lebanon stresses sovereignty in Syrian border issue "I have heard the remarks of the Syrian president and I respect his opinion but Lebanon acts with all means at her disposition to preserve her sovereignty, her independence and her interests," Siniora told a press conference.
08-23-06 - UN calls for new ME peace effort Declaring that the Middle East peace process has reached "a sorry juncture," the UN political chief called for a new international effort to settle decades of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.
08-23-06 - Resolving Palestine issue would cut terrorism: Indonesian minister
08-23-06 - Moderate Fatah meets over unity government with Hamas
08-23-06 - Fourth National Child Conference starts in Bethlehem Children from several west Bank areas, villages in the occupied Golan Heights are participating in the activities of the conference, yet, Gaza children could not participate as a result of the Israeli restrictions on movement in an out of the Gaza Strip.
08-23-06 - Schools shelter Palestinian families displaced by violence in Gaza Among the approximately 300 people who now live in this school, there are more than 100 children. Most of them, like 14-year-old Iman Jubara, have been exposed to continuous violence and trauma for several weeks.
08-23-06 - U.S. aids weapons-clearing effort The U.S. State Department plans to provide an emergency grant of $420,000 to help clear explosives remaining from the war in southern Lebanon. Again, we sent Israel these bombs knowing that Israel was targeting civilian infrastructure, and like many times in the past - the US, NOT ISRAEL, is cleaning it up.
08-23-06 - N. Texas men allege racial profiling They're Palestinian. And any Palestinian in this country should rightly feel concerned, since most of these 'terror' arrests seem to be targeting them. Why is THAT?
08-23-06 - UK cleared of aiding Israeli 'terrorism' A high court judge today dismissed a legal bid by a Muslim group to block the use of UK airports by American planes to supply weapons to Israel as "hopeless" and "misconceived".
08-23-06 - Iran wants Italy as go-between on soldiers Iran wants Italy to help negotiate the release of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in Lebanon.
08-23-06 - Hope and anger fill Arab street in wake of Israel-Hezbollah war There is anger at Israel for laying waste to Lebanon and bombarding its civilians. There is anger at the United States for giving Israel a green light and providing it with weapons used to devastate Lebanon. And there is anger at Arab governments for standing by while Lebanon was being destroyed.
08-23-06 - Israel flights challenge in court The British government is facing claims it "aided and abetted" violations of international law by allowing US arms flights to Israel to use UK airports.
08-23-06 - Egypt's Muslim authorities disown fatwas on killing Jews Egypt's Muslim authorities have stepped in to keep a wave of anti-Semitic sentiment from getting out of control, disowning an edict by a firebrand cleric calling for Israeli Jews to be killed.
08-23-06 - British group works for Israel's image A group aiming to improve Israel?s image in the British media is set to launch in September. Britains beware.
08-23-06 - U.S. Jews protest Israeli actions Jewish protesters in the United States held small "die-ins" against Israel's actions in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
08-23-06 - Bloomberg protested in Ireland Protesters in Ireland demonstrated against visiting New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for supporting Israel?s war against Hezbollah.
08-23-06 - Canadians pray for Israel Millions of Canadians participated in a national day of prayer for Israel and peace in Jerusalem.
08-23-06 - Ooops, AP got it right the first time (?), pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' then forces a correction.
08-22-06 - Israeli tanks enter Gaza A 14-year-old boy suffered head wounds during an Israeli tank raid, medics said. Several other civilians were also hurt.
08-22-06 - Three Islamic Jihad militants killed in central Gaza (Roundup)
08-22-06 - Israel: No plans to end Lebanon blockade Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel has no plans to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon takes up positions along the Syrian border and at Beirut's airport.
08-22-06 - Lebanon truce 'fragile', warns UN The security situation in Lebanon is likely to remain "fragile" for the next two or three months, a senior UN envoy has warned.
08-22-06 - Palestinians: Soldiers more violent due to war In the past few days, more and more Palestinian testimonies have amassed that claim that IDF soldiers humiliated them at checkpoints in Judea and Samaria. The same Palestinians say that the soldiers are taking the frustration created by the war in Lebanon out on them.
08-22-06 - Amnesty slams Israel 'war crimes' Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon...."The pattern, scope and scale of the attacks makes Israel's claim that this was 'collateral damage', simply not credible," said Kate Gilmore, Executive Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International...."Many of the violations identified in our report are war crimes, including indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks," said Ms Gilmore. Look at this before and after photo.
08-22-06 - Hezbollah official discusses blockade A Hezbollah Cabinet minister on Tuesday said the government may try to break the Israeli naval and air blockade of Lebanon by calling on ships and aircraft to travel to Lebanese ports without prior Israeli approval.
08-22-06 - Israel must be ready for any Iranian attack: minister
08-22-06 - Israel must respect ceasefire if Italy to join UN force: D'Alema "From Israel, we expect a renewed commitment... to respect the ceasefire," D'Alema told the newspaper, la Repubblica. "It is right to demand that Hezbollah gives up its weapons but we cannot send our soldiers to Lebanon while the Israeli armed forces continue to fire."
08-22-06 - Lebanon's development 'annihilated': UN Lebanon's 15-year economic and social recovery from civil war was wiped out in the recent Israeli offensive against Hezbollah, the UN development agency has said.
08-22-06 - Hizbollah eyes recovery, not new war with Israel Israel, for its part, lost military prestige and credibility but got a U.N. resolution to end the war that implicitly allows it to take defensive actions in Lebanon. With no clear winner and an uneasy truce, that is a recipe for future escalation, analysts say.
08-22-06 - Lebanon spy agency led Germans to bombmaker Lebanon's military intelligence agency gave German authorities information that led to the arrest of a Lebanese man the Germans suspect planted suitcase bombs at two train stations, German prosecutors said on Monday.
08-22-06 - Kidnapping signals rising threat in Gaza They have not been heard from in more than a week. And in an unprecedented turn for journalists covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza, no group has stepped forward to claim responsibility or to set conditions for release..."Gaza needs journalists here," says Anita McNaught, the wife of Wiig and herself a broadcast journalist for the BBC. "These two men were here by choice and working very hard to tell the Palestinian story to a wider audience. I cannot for the life of me see what gains anyone makes by this. It's tragically misguided." Was it a case of the duvdevan, the elite Israeli forces that pose as Arabs? Nahh. Why would they do that?
08-22-06 - A month of living dangerously in south Lebanon we watched as the dusty bodies of children were extracted from a half-collapsed house struck hours earlier by aerial bombs. For those that believe that those pictures of the children being pulled out from the rubble were 'faked'.
08-22-06 - Hamas speaker charged in Israel An Israeli court has charged the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Abdel Aziz Dweik, with being a member of the militant group Hamas.
08-22-06 - Former Mossad boss steels West for 'third world war' "This is a third world war," Efraim Halevy, Mossad director from 1998 to 2002, told The Globe and Mail in an interview yesterday. "International Islamic terror has made its objectives and aims very clear." Islamic terrorists learned well from their Jewish counterparts. (Can't call them Israeli, because Israel didn't yet exist.)
08-22-06 - Gul: Tragedy Will Go On If The Issue Of Palestine Is Not Resolved ''The roots of all clashes in the Middle East are connected to the Palestinian issue. Tragedy will go on if the issue of Palestine is not resolved,'' Turkish FM Abdullah Gul said on Sunday.
08-22-06 - Israel to US: Fund Gaza sewage treatment And the US response to Israel should be : "Great. We'll just deduct it from the billions in foreign aid we already give you each year."
08-22-06 - Leverage for a Prisoner Swap The events were seen as more evidence that Israel may try to win the release of its soldiers abducted to Gaza and Lebanon through a prisoner exchange, an idea once firmly opposed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
08-22-06 - Lebanon Diary: Holding a Rock
08-22-06 - Archbishop tells church to stay in Lebanon: 'You'll make it'
08-22-06 - Qatar hails Lebanese for 'first Arab victory' over Israel
08-22-06 - Troops install cameras at the Gaza International Airport Monday, Israeli troops occupying the Gaza International Airport in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, installed surveillance cameras in the airport's high buildings, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported.
08-22-06 - Soldiers arrest a child in Tulkarem, 450 are currently imprisoned by Israel Meanwhile, Defence For Children International ? Palestine Branch, reported that since the outbreak of the Al Aqsa intifada in September 28, 2000, until August 16, 2006, Israeli troops arrested at total of 803 children.
08-22-06 - Lebanon oil spill cleanup may take a year: Greenpeace The watchdog released pictures it said showed oil that had sunk to the seabed, pointing to the urgent need for an immediate and comprehensive assessment of the pollution.
08-22-06 - Palestinian teachers to strike over wage arrears The Palestinian teachers' union has said that its members would not return to their classes at the start of the new school year on September 2 in protest at six months without pay.
08-22-06 - 1,300 Egyptian police beef up Gaza-Egypt border Egypt has deployed 1,300 civilian police officers to beef up security along the Gaza-Egypt border over fears Palestinian militants might attempt to breach the frontier,
08-22-06 - Abbas favors forming Palestinian technocrat gov't: sources Abbas believes that a government made up of independent Palestinian experts will be more capable of convincing the international community to resume aid to the Palestinians, according to the sources.
08-22-06 - Palestinian official says Israel immoral to keep women and children in jails
08-22-06 - Army attacks several stores and shops in Hebron
08-22-06 - Palestinian Authority: Fear for safety -- abducted journalists Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of journalist Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig, who were abducted by Palestinian gunmen on 14 August in the Gaza Strip.
08-22-06 - ANALYSIS: Policing in Gaza has blunted IDF fighting abilities
08-22-06 - Israeli Bulldozers Swallow more Palestinian Lands in WB
08-22-06 - Second-class compensation A fourth petition, submitted by attorney Samuel Dahwar from the Arab village of Fassouta in Galilee, reveals the fact that no Arab communities are included on the full-compensation list even though Arab towns and villages were in the range of the Katyushas and were hit by them.
08-22-06 - U.N. Envoy: Israel May OK Prisoner Swap A senior U.N. envoy said Tuesday that efforts were continuing to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah and that Israel may be warming to the idea of trading Lebanese prisoners it holds in exchange.
08-22-06 - Who leaked the leak case? The judge in the classified information case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists ordered an investigation into the leak of the investigation two years ago
08-22-06 - Hezbollah kit still a mystery One source at the company, which is a distribution firm, not a manufacturer, said: ?The kit we supplied was actually made in Russia, which makes some pretty rugged equipment. But they were not the sort of systems which the Israelis seem to be talking about.?
08-22-06 - Man Sentenced After Blowing Up Van A man who went to jail for six months for setting off an explosive device that wrecked a van belonging to a Palestinian American family was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to an additional 15 months in prison....the federal government plain