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 plainly wanted to demonstrate that it would not tolerate acts of bigotry aimed at Arab Americans. It asked Kennelly to sentence Nix to as much as 87 months in prison but the judge refused.
If it was an Arab that was the perpetrator, you had better believe he would've been given the maximum.
08-22-06 - Fleischer rips Carter in letter President Bush's former press secretary lambasted Jimmy Carter for saying Israel's military response to Hezbollah attacks had no legal or moral basis.
08-22-06 - U.S. lawmaker drops links to Arab sites A U.S. lawmaker removed links to anti-Israel Arab American sites, the Detroit Jewish News reported. Lawmaker falls under the influence.
08-22-06 - Sligo SF hand deliver letter to NY Mayor Bloomberg Sinn Fein believe "the root cause of the conflict in the Middle East is the ongoing long-term failure to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict".
08-22-06 - Group: Israel should protect its own The Israeli army ethical? What kind of drugs is this Rabbi smoking? Did he not see the unusually high civilian-to-Hezbollah death toll, or how about the total destruction of civilian infrastructure? These people are deluded.
08-22-06 - the world avoids Israel like the plague
08-22-06 - Gladwin man helps rebuild Palestinian homes While in Israel, O?Rourke worked with the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions.... "We walked by some of the settlers, who were throwing trash at us," he said. "Just out of hate, because they feel this is their land and we shouldn?t be there."
08-21-06 - Israeli strike on Gaza militant Israeli aircraft have destroyed a house in the Gaza Strip belonging to a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group.
08-21-06 - Palestinian drowns trying to save Israeli teenagers Ahed Tamimi, from Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem, was on the Rishon Le Tzion beach with his relatives when he heard four teenagers in the water cry for help,the Maariv daily reported Monday.
08-21-06 - Four civilians, including two children, injured in Rafah Eyewitnesses said that the source of explosion is an unidentified object that was located near the Israeli settlement of Badlowa, which wasevacuated during the Gaza disengagement plan.
08-21-06 - Israeli warplanes roar over Lebanon
08-21-06 - Lebanon: UNRWA Situation Report 19 - 21 Aug 2006 Latest official toll: 1,287 killed (1140 of them civilians 30% children under 12); 4,054 wounded, according to the state Higher Relief Committee.
08-21-06 - Dangers await Lebanon returnees When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.
08-21-06 - Aid teams demand building supplies Relief teams in Lebanon say many of the damaged buildings can be salvaged and want the United Nations to send more supplies for repairs and to restore electricity and water services.
08-21-06 - Hizbollah fighters killed by Israelis Hizbollah yesterday denied that any of its fighters had been killed and said it would continue to adhere to a ceasefire, which requires the Lebanese army to spread to the south to replace Hizbollah fighters. Hizbollah's deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said the group would not stand down until the Lebanese army was ready to defend the country.
08-21-06 - In the shadow of war: Wave of violence by security forces against Palestinians in the West Bank B'Tselem's research indicates that, since the beginning of Operation Summer Rain in the Gaza Strip, on 25 June 2006, there has been a substantial increase in cases in which soldiers and Border Police officers in the West Bank beat, abuse, and humiliate Palestinians
08-21-06 - Israeli tanks enter Gaza, clashes - witnesses Witnesses said several Israeli tanks, supported by unmanned drones in the sky, entered Gaza near the Karni crossing, the main terminal for goods entering and leaving the densely populated strip, but it was not clear what their objective was.
08-21-06 - Bush pledges $230m in Lebanon aid The money would be used to help rebuild Lebanese homes and infrastructure, he told reporters at the White House So, let me see here. We send Israel the bombs and the jet fuel to destroy Lebanon's civilian infrastructure to get the Lebanese people to turn against Hezbollah - and then afterward, we send over millions of US taxpayer dollars to rebuild what Israel destroyed. Hardworking Americans are left - yet again - to pick up the tab for Israel's failed destructive policies. Deduct the money from the aid we give to Israel , and see how they like them apples.
08-21-06 - Israel: Lebanese border troops must be accompanied Asked why Israel did not complain to the Security Council instead of acting unilaterally, Regev said the world body would not have acted fast enough to keep the arms from being transferred into Lebanon.
08-21-06 - UNIFIL troops permitted to open fire on armed Hezbollah militants The UN spokesman said that if the international troops encounter armed individuals who refuse to lay down their weapons, they are permitted to use force. UN peacekeepers will be expected to disarm Hezbollah, something that neither Israel nor the Lebanese people could do.
08-21-06 - Europe balks at Lebanon troop commitment
08-21-06 - How war against drugs may have helped Hezbollah BRITAIN?S attempts to counter heroin traffickers may have provided Iran with the opportunity to supply Hezbollah with British military equipment.
08-21-06 - After Lebanon, Israel Looks for More War Is there not a danger that Hezbollah fighters may now fire on Lebanese troops fearing that they are undercover Israeli soldiers? Does Israel's deceit not further weaken the standing of the Lebanese army, which under Resolution 1701 is supposed to be policing south Lebanon on Israel's behalf?
08-21-06 - What Does Israel Want? - It isn't just Lebanon? Lebanon is just a pawn in the game: Israel's real objective is toppling Bashar al-Assad and militarily confronting the Iranian mullahs ? using U.S. troops, of course.
08-21-06 - Israeli general says armed forces guilty of arrogance One of Israel's top generals says the country's armed forces have at times been guilty of arrogance in the conduct of the war in Lebanon. Arrogance? Now there's a word never conjured up when one thinks about the Israeli government...Ahhh...
08-21-06 - War on Terror Futile for 79% in Britain Terrorism is a weapon of the weak. It is crafted in such a way that it cannot be defeated militarily. Each time nations try (either the US or Israel), a new more potent terror group rises from the ashes.
08-21-06 - Lebanon sees two-year reconstruction effort French military engineers have started building temporary bridges on highways south of the capital.....The US aid package includes 25,000 tonnes of wheat and more money to rebuild bridges, roads and schools.
08-21-06 - Politician wants Hezbollah dropped from terror list The Liberal Party's Borys Wrzesnewskyj told the Toronto-based National Post newspaper that the terrorist label makes it harder to negotiate with Hezbollah.
08-21-06 - Olmert rules out Syrian talks
08-21-06 - Scientists suspect Israeli arms used in South contain radioactive matter Mohammad Ali Qobeissi, a member of the National Council for Scientific Research, said on Sunday that a crater caused by an Israeli munition in Khiam contained "a high degree of unidentified radioactive materials."
08-21-06 - Israeli minister calls for talks with Syria Avi Dichter, the Internal Security Minister, told the army radio station that, in exchange for peace, Israel could return the strategic Golan Heights, conquered in the 1967 war. He noted that Israel had paid similar territorial prices for treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Israel must win Syria back from Iran.
08-21-06 - Multinational force 'can shoot' At whom? You know they won't be shooting at the IDF.
08-21-06 - The ADL runs commercials to keep the sheep in line The Anti-Defamation League's new TV campaign has helped persuade Americans to blame Hezbollah for the conflict in Lebanon, a survey suggests.
08-21-06 - Israel okays flights to survey Lebanese oil spill: UN Israel has given approval for aerial UN surveillance missions over the Lebanese coast to determine the scope of a massive oil spill caused by Israeli bombing, the United Nations has said. Wasn't that nice of them? < / sarcasm >
08-21-06 - Israel humbled for the first time in Mideast: Iran FM Israel has been humbled for the first time in nearly six decades in the Middle East during its recent 34-day conflict against Lebanon, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mattaki has said.
08-21-06 - Italy offers to lead UN force in Lebanon
08-21-06 - Palestinian Companies Forced to Buy Israeli Products By adding these fees for foreign imports, Israel is in fact forcing Palestinian companies to buy Israeli.
08-21-06 - The Arab world's silence has left the last word to those we call extremists Hamas began in Gaza in 1987, after 20 years of Israeli occupation, surfing on the tidal wave of the first intifada. Hizbullah emerged from the fight against occupation forces after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. What new extremist organisation will rise from the fresh ruins of Lebanon? Hamezbollah. Hezbamas. Al Qaehamezbollah. Lil extremist humor there. It's late. I'm entitled.
08-21-06 - UN force must be deployed immediately, says Bush
08-21-06 - US wants UN resolution on disarming Hizbollah The United States wants a new U.N. Security Council resolution on disarming the Hizbollah militant group, but this should not hold up the quick dispatch of U.N. troops to Lebanon, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Monday.
08-21-06 - Army closes the main Nablus road
08-21-06 - Gunmen attack a PA Officer and steal his car, two guards injured
08-21-06 - SA slams arrest of Palestinian deputy PM South Africa has warned the arrest of senior Palestinian politicians by the Israeli military could result in escalating hostilities in the occupied territories.
08-21-06 - Woman hurt as Israelis fire at demo A SCOTS peace protesters was injured when Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets during a demonstration in the West Bank.
08-21-06 - Papal nuncio visits Gaza After celebrating Mass at a convent in Gaza, the Pope's representative met with Christian community leaders in Gaza, assuring them of the solidarity of the Holy See. He later visited an archeological site, at which relics of the early Church are being discovered; and he stopped at the town of Beit Hanoun, which was severely damaged by recent Israeli shelling.
08-21-06 - Turkey halts Iranian and Syrian planes Turkey prevented five Iranian airplanes and a Syrian aircraft from flying into Lebanon because of suspicions they were carrying weapons for Hezbollah.
08-21-06 - Saudi urges US to restrain Israel Saudi Arabia urged the United States on Monday to prevail on Israel to change the policy of "war" and "kidnappings" it is practicing in the Palestinian territories.
08-21-06 - Lebanese Christians hold Sunday mass in damaged churches
08-21-06 - Yousuf returns to beach with new lease of life For his entire life, this young Palestinian has been prevented from reaching the sea due to the widespread closures imposed by the Israeli military, barring access to the beach for most Palestinians in the West Bank.
08-21-06 - McNaught told husband safe Kidnapped New Zealand cameraman Olaf Wiig is alive and well, his wife has been assured by the Palestinian president.
08-21-06 - Israel's Double Standard If the United States wants to win this war on terrorism then getting tough with Israel would be the best step they could take.
08-21-06 - Two senior Palestinian militants escape Israeli arrest attempt
08-21-06 - Palestinian PM urges Christian leaders to help release Hamas officials
08-21-06 - Abbas' Fatah movement to meet in Jordan on Palestinian coalition government Meanwhile, the Israeli troops have recently arrested many Hamas ministers and lawmakers in the West Bank, which was slammed as an Israeli attempt to pile pressure on the Hamas-led government which has vowed not to change its position of resistance against Israeli occupation.
08-21-06 - Anti-Olmert protests grow Dozens of Israeli reservists marched to Jerusalem demanding the Israeli prime minister?s resignation because of his management of the war.
08-21-06 - Israel in no rush to use US loan guarantees "I'll ... work closely with Congress to extend the availability of loan guarantees to help rebuild infrastructure in Israel, infrastructure damaged by Hizbollah's rockets," Bush told a news conference.
08-21-06 - Jordanian, Portuguese FMs hold talks on Mideast developments Khatib affirmed on the need to stimulate the role of the EU and the international community to assist the Palestinian and Israeli sides to revive the peace process and to return to the negotiating table.
08-21-06 - Prime minister's pro-Israel stance lures some Canadian Jews to Tories High-profile defections by two other prominent Jewish Canadians soon followed, as powerful business couple Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz, both long-time Liberal activists, were among eight signatories to a newspaper ad thanking Harper for "standing by Israel." Canada's neocons
08-21-06 - Pakistan will not establish ties with Israel Pakistan said Monday it would not establish diplomatic ties with Israel until the solution of the Middle East problem and creation of an independent Palestinian state.
08-21-06 - Right move by church Boycotts and similar campaigns are invariably controversial. But when they are unfair or vastly one-sided, they need to be reconsidered. THat's only if we are dealing with two parties that are of equal stature. We are not. One side has all of the control, and the fourth best military in the world. It's preposterous to hold Palestinians - many of whom live on $2 a day - up to that standard.
08-21-06 - Who benefits from kidnapping journalists in Gaza?
08-21-06 - Non-Jewish pro-Israel students steel selves for a tough semester In January, AIPAC underwrote a mission to Israel to educate 43 non-Jewish students, including the presidents of the National College Democrats and College Republican National Committee. Why is it all necessary, is the question.
08-21-06 - Five arrested in 'blockade' of Foreign Office Five demonstrators were arrested this morning after staging a two-hour "blockade" of the Foreign Office in protest against the government's stance over the Israel-Lebanon conflict.
08-20-06 - Resident killed, three injured in Nablus
08-20-06 - Israel defiant on Lebanon raid, prepares for 'next round' Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the Jewish state would examine mistakes that it made during the Lebanon war in preparation for the "next round" of war.
08-20-06 - Israeli officer: No solution for Nasrallah, he must die Israel intends to ensure that Hizbullah is not rearmed by Syria and to continue in her efforts to assassinate Hizbullah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah .
08-20-06 - Woman dies of wounds sustained earlier this month
08-20-06 - Several residents injured east of Dir Al Balah
08-20-06 - Israel detains another Hamas MP This comes a day after the army detained Palestinian deputy prime minister Nasser al-Shaer....Four other ministers and a number of top Hamas officials are being held by Israel following the capture of one of its soldiers by militants in Gaza in June.
08-20-06 - Israel's raid in the Bekaa Valley AFP said the men were dressed in Lebanese army uniforms. The unit was said to have been intercepted by Hezbollah guerrillas who questioned the men briefly. But when they responded in Arabic, the guerrillas were said to have become suspicious of their identity because of the men's accents.
08-20-06 - Unexploded cluster bombs prompt fear and fury in returning refugees "We already had a major landmine problem from previous Israeli invasions, but this is far worse,"...Strolling through the village he pointed to yet another tiny black canister perched under a tree. "You see what America is sending us," he said bitterly. "This is their idea of democracy.".....The US halted cluster bomb exports to Israel in 1982 after indiscriminate use against civilians but rescinded the ban in 1988. Cluster bombs made in the USA.
08-20-06 - US extends credit line to Israel Bush administration agrees to extend by three-year loan guarantees for Israel given to Israel in 2003; Israel has used USD 4.9 billion of a total USD 9 billion That war on Lebanon sure cost us, ahem, I mean Israel a pretty penny, eh?
08-20-06 - Lebanon sounds ceasefire warning Lebanon's defence minister says anyone firing rockets at Israel from the south will be considered a traitor and be firmly dealt with by the army.
08-20-06 - Lebanon ceasefire under threat, UN warns France and other European nations have been reluctant to commit substantial contingents to the international force, which is supposed to total 15,000 troops, until its mission and rules of engagement are clarified. Wonder why Europeans are reluctant to send in their forces as peacekeepers. They would be human shields for Israel as it continues to violate the ceasefire. Why buy the cow (send in IDF forces) when you can get the milk for free (UN peacekeepers as buffer zone).
08-20-06 - Hamas forms team to discuss forming coalition government
08-20-06 - Hebron Update July 25-31, 2006 Settler youth attacked Hughes and Brendan with large
stones near Beit Hadassah Settlement. CPT and other international groups have
noted an increase in settler violence towards Palestinians and internationals in
Hebron. (See news release: 'Settler youth attack Christian Peacemaker /team
member and visitor in Hebron.')
08-20-06 - Lebanese ministry, Israel prevent oil-spill clean-up
08-20-06 - Hebron Update August 1-7, 2006 At 10:30 pm a CPT neighbor (different than those above) reported that Israeli
settlers broke the water main to her apartment
08-20-06 - Hebron Update July 11-17, 2006 During these days there seems to be an increase in violent behavior by the
Israeli soldiers toward the Palestinian community. Team members and the neighbor
discussed the idea that Israeli soldiers are letting out their frustration and
anger, over the capture of three Israeli soldiers and the deaths of some of
their comrades in northern Israel, onto the Palestinians. The team is monitoring
checkpoints and the streets of the Old City more regularly.
08-20-06 - Israel and the US are still focused on the wrong issues While the American-Israeli effort to disarm Hizbullah aims mainly to protect Israel, the fact is that Hizbullah has developed its military capability primarily in response to a need to protect Lebanon from repeated Israeli attacks in the past four decades
08-20-06 - Shock and awe failed to destroy Hezbollah
08-20-06 - Peacekeeping reinforcements arrive
08-20-06 - Israeli calls Hezbollah war a victory The Israeli army's chief of staff declared Israel's war with Lebanon a victory.
But Cabinet members suggested the results were murky at best.
08-20-06 - Poll: Majority wants neutrality The Zogby International telephone survey, conducted Aug. 11-15, shows that 52 percent think the United States should remain neutral and 34 percent believe it should support Israel in its fight against Hezbollah forces. Interesting. The cyberarmy failed?
08-20-06 - Sweden blasted for donors conference The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized Sweden for planning an international aid conference that would focus on Lebanon.
08-20-06 - Lamont dines with deputy Israeli prime minister Lamont "is clearly committed to trying to figure out how as a senator he can be supportive of Israel and help to bring about a lasting peace in the region," In other words, Lamont is kissing the necessary Israeli arse to win the election.
08-20-06 - Palestinian forces to redeploy in northern Gaza Strip: Daily
08-20-06 - Enforcing the ceasefire The risk now is that the UN, France and Germany may try to restrain Israel from any further action while Britain and the United States remain silent. Such an international split over the interpretation of the UN resolution will greatly weaken efforts to implement it, even if a force can be assembled. Unless the US is willing to restrain Israel from carrying out more raids, and make its view clear in public, it is unlikely other nations will want to expose their troops and the peacekeeping force may collapse through international inertia.
08-20-06 - 'British' night vision goggles found in Hezbollah command bunkers
08-20-06 - A broken statue of Virgin Mary is seen at the backyard of the St. Joseph's Christian Maronite church, moved there according to residents, from inside the church by Israeli forces
08-20-06 - Israeli jets fly over Lebanon after truce strained Witnesses and Lebanese security sources said high-altitude flights covered virtually all of the country, from its volatile south to close to the border with Syria in the north and east.
08-20-06 - Israel warns Fatah could vanish from Gaza And here is the supreme irony: Israel helped Hamas along in its infancy because it was seen as a counter to the secular PLO (Fatah).
08-20-06 - Arab envoys urge Israel to lift Lebanon blockade
08-20-06 - 1000 Palestinians arrested in Israel Israeli border guards end of this week arrested more than 1000 Palestinian workers on the excuse that they were in Israel without the proper documents
08-20-06 - Jewish campus groups gear up for major Israel advocacy push "It's going to be very challenging, not like the past four years," says Jonathan Kessler, leadership development director at American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the main pro-Israel lobby in the United States.....AIPAC brought more than 350 pro-Israel student activists to Washington in late July for four days of advocacy training at the Saban National Political Leadership Training Seminar. The agenda was retooled at the last minute to focus on Israel's right to defend itself, and the students were urged to meet with their congressional representatives, pass pro-Israel resolutions in their student governments, circulate petitions and write Op-Ed pieces. Alert: major propaganda effort coming to a campus near you.
08-20-06 - JHCO Sends Relief for Palestinians
08-20-06 - Jewish Greeks go Israeli: U.S. campuses gear up for fall "Greeks are able to mobilize for a cause better than any other group on campus," AEPi staffer Colin Sutker told some two dozen students during a workshop in Louisville. "Take that power," he urged the students, "and harness it for Israel advocacy." Everyone must be propagandized in America, even the college kids, by golly. It's like putting a bandaid over a crack in the Hoover dam.
08-20-06 - 2,545 Palestinians cross Rafah crossing on border The Rafah crossing on the southern Gaza border with Egypt remained open Sunday since its reopening on Saturday morning, allowing a total of 2,545 Palestinians to cross it, Egypt's MENA news agency reported.
08-20-06 - Israel lifts closure on W.Bank Israel on Sunday lifted a full closure it imposed on the West Bank nearly one month ago and allowed some 25,000 Palestinian laborers to enter Israel for jobs.
08-20-06 - Palestine appeals for Nigeria's involvement in Mideast peace process The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria Azmi Al Daqqa at the weekend appealed to Nigeria to be involved in the peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestine crisis.
08-20-06 - Report: Blair feels let down by Bush The newspaper said the reported rift between London and Washington is based on British anger over Bush's handling of the "road map" to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, which Bush agreed to just before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Blair got suckered by Bush, and yet he still sucks up to him.
08-20-06 - Israel warns of strengthening Iran-Hamas ties Shin Beth chief Yuval Diskin told the Cabinet that Iranian influence was growing with Gaza and that several tonnes of explosives and weapons had been smuggled into Gaza in recent months via the border with Egypt. ROFLMAO. So unbelievable it's comical.
08-20-06 - Sinn Fein leader to visit Israel and PA Adams is a well known international figure who tours many conflict areas around the world in an attempt to export his model of conflict resolution as it happened in Northern Ireland
08-20-06 - Diaspora money heads North World Jewry is expected to contribute about $344 million to rehabilitating Israel?s northern towns and cities.
08-20-06 - Washington Post rebukes writer for Katyusha allegation Ricks had already retreated from the remarks, telling JTA that all he was doing was repeating what analysts had told him. He learned later from other sources that the allegation was "bogus." Suurrre.
08-20-06 - Open door - The readers' editor on ... a sense of proportion in covering the Middle East An accusation of disproportion in the use of pictures, with particular reference to the image of the dead baby, was one of the elements in a complaint from the Israeli embassy in London. The British MSM, unlike their American counterparts, by and large, does not kowtow to Israel.
08-20-06 - Iran blasts Canada for remark "Canada's hands are smeared with the blood of the Palestinian and Lebanese people because of its support to this (Israeli) regime. By helping the Zionist regime, they are also responsible for this situation," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
08-19-06 - Palestinian farmer killed in Gaza; Friday's death toll rises to seven
08-19-06 - Palestinian shoots dead Israeli soldier in West Bank A Palestinian militant killed an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint in the northern West Bank before being shot dead himself, the Israeli army and Palestinian sources said....In a separate incident, five Palestinians were wounded in the village of Tell, south of Nablus, when Israeli soldiers in five vehicles responded to stone-throwing by opening fire, Palestinian medical and security services said.
08-19-06 - Lebanon gives warning after Israeli raid Israel said the raid was launched to stop arms smuggling from Iran and Syria to the militant Shiite fighters, while Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Saniora called the operation a "flagrant violation" of the U.N. truce. An Israeli officer was killed during the raid, and two soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
08-19-06 - Jerusalem's Shu'fat Refugee Camp residents appealing for water Without prior warning thousands of camp residents lost their water supply 10 days ago
08-19-06 - Israeli aircraft attack eastern Lebanon: source Israeli aircraft fired several rockets at a Hizbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon early on Saturday, a Lebanese security source said.
08-19-06 - Israel kills 3 Hizbollah fighters in Lebanon raid
08-19-06 - Gaza border crossing re-opens for humanitarian cases The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt re-opened in both directions for humanitarian cases, European observers said.
08-19-06 - Emergency aid for Gaza's Palestinians held up in Israel due to Lebanon conflict ? UN Hundreds of containers full of food for Palestinians in Gaza are still being held up in the Israeli port of Ashdod because of a backlog caused by the recent conflict in Lebanon that closed the port of Haifa, the United Nations said today.
08-19-06 - Israel violated Lebanon ceasefire: Annan Israel has violated the terms of a UN-mandated halt to fighting in Lebanon, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said, calling on all parties to respect an embargo on unauthorized arms shipments to Lebanon. Israel violate a ceasefire? Say it ain't so...
08-19-06 - Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war Some 160 infantry reserve soldiers are accusing their commanders of preventing them from participating in a demonstration against the war in Lebanon, which they called a "debacle." The soldiers said they had been used as "sitting ducks."
08-19-06 - Hamas plea over seized deputy PM
08-19-06 - Robert Fisk's Beirut Diary: A land reduced to rubble
08-19-06 - Egypt denounces Israel's arrest of Palestinian deputy PM
08-19-06 - Annan says U.N. won't 'wage war' A key concern of many countries is whether the U.N. force will be called on to disarm Hezbollah fighters, as called for in a September 2004 U.N. resolution. They want to study the rules of engagement and concept of operations for the force, which were distributed Friday, before making a decision on troops.
08-19-06 - Journalists in Gaza protest kidnapping Palestinian journalists on Saturday protested the kidnapping of a Fox News correspondent and cameraman, as concern about the men's safety grew.
08-19-06 - Israelis Back Attack on Iran Reactor Many Israeli adults would support a pre-emptive strike against a nuclear facility in Iran, according to a poll by Teleseker published in Maariv. 63 per cent of respondents think Israel should bomb the Iranian nuclear core.
08-19-06 - Army storms charitable society offices in Hebron
08-19-06 - Chavez launches fundraising drive for Lebanon, Palestinians President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela is carrying out a nationwide fundraising drive to raise money for rebuilding Lebanon and for the Palestinian people.
08-19-06 - Israeli soldiers attacking Palestinians with Nasrallah screen savers on their mobile phones
08-19-06 - Lebanese army says its citizen kidnapped by Israeli forces Lebanese army said Friday that Israeli forces has abducted a Lebanese youth from southern Lebanon. Abdullah Malak, 22, was kidnapped from the southern village of Beit Leif, the army said in a statement, quoted by media reports.
08-19-06 - Israel arrests Palestinian who stabbed tourist to death in J'lem The Shin Bet security service announced Saturday that it had apprehended a Palestinian youth, a resident of the West Bank village of Kabatiya south of Jenin, who confessed to the stabbing death of an Italian tourist in Jerusalem last Thursday.
08-19-06 - Blair Middle East mission snubbed Tony Blair's bid to revive the Middle East peace process has received a rebuff from Israel, The Observer has learned, placing in doubt his plans for a high-profile diplomatic mission to the region.
08-19-06 - War Stirs Worry in Israel Over State of Military "For four weeks we failed to defend ourselves against daily bombardments against our cities. This is a failure that never happened before,"
08-19-06 - Clean-up crews recover some of massive Lebanon oil spill Clean-up crews have recovered about 100 tonnes of oil along the coast of a historic Lebanese port city after a massive spill caused by Israel's bombing of a power plant.
08-19-06 - Israel warns it will enforce arms ban In a boost for Israel, the U.S. declined to criticize the Israeli campaign, noting the U.N. resolution's arms ban on Hezbollah. According to the AFP report, this raid was not in fact about preventing Hezbollah from getting arms. Nevertheless, our government is a stoolie for Israel.
08-19-06 - Hezbollah supporters tell of bold Israeli raid gone wrong Israel said its raid, which drew harsh criticism from Lebanon's premier and threatened to throw off course a six-day-old truce, was aimed at preventing weapons shipments to Hezbollah from Syria and Iran. But villagers in Buday, nearly all of them self-described supporters of Hezbollah which in recent days has doled out thousands of dollars in cash to those whose homes have been destroyed in southern Beirut, see a different motive. "They came to capture Sheikh Yazbek,"......The vehicles were painted in Lebanese army colors and the Israeli soldiers were wearing Lebanese army uniforms, so the Israeli soldiers were able to move freely for several hours, residents say.
I wonder how the Lebanese government feels about Israel pulling that one.
08-19-06 - Arab nations urge new Israeli peace plan
08-19-06 - Bush should listen to elders instead of neocons Leaked information that the operation had been planned for over a year by Israel and the United States lays bare any pretense that pursuit of democratic reform in the Middle East is his goal -- a goal buried in the smoking ruins of a small but beautiful country used as a testing ground for future attacks on Syria and Iran, in line with neocon fantasies of hegemonic control of the Middle East.
08-19-06 - Russia says counting on Palestinian promise to end attacks on Israel
08-19-06 - Israeli Apartheid: The striking parallels to South Africa
08-19-06 - Intelligence Test by JAMES BAMFORD the commission discovered that the original plan for 9/11 envisioned an even larger attack. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the strategist of the 9/11 plot, "was going to fly the final plane, land it and make 'a speech denouncing U.S. policies in the Middle East,'" Kean and Hamilton say, quoting a staff statement. And they continue: "Lee felt that there had to be an acknowledgment that a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was vital to America's long-term relationship with the Islamic world, and that the presence of American forces in the Middle East was a major motivating factor in Al Qaeda's actions."
08-19-06 - France condemns arrest of Palestinian deputy PM by Israel
08-19-06 - Islamic Jihad rejects to join Palestinian coalition cabinet
08-19-06 - IDF troops suspected of Gaza looting
08-19-06 - Historic Byblos polluted by war Berj Hatjian wants to know why Israel attacked oil storage tanks right by the sea. He thinks they must have known what the effect would be, that it would punish whole communities that had nothing to do with the conflict.
08-19-06 - Middle East in pivotal moment, says Bush He says the US and its allies "will defeat the terrorists by strengthening young democracies across the broader Middle East". Haha HAHAHAHAHAHA. When Hamas representatives were democratically elected in Palestine, the US - at the behest of Israel - CUT OFF FUNDING to this already impoverished land.
08-19-06 - Policy on Middle East Divides Americans 35 per cent of respondents say U.S. policy is as fair with the democratic government of Lebanon as it is with the democratic government of Israel, while 37 per cent disagree.
08-19-06 - Palestinians Wait to Cross Into Gaza
08-19-06 - To Israel with love "Thank God we have AIPAC, the greatest supporter and friend we have in the whole world," says Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister The Israeli lobby endangers Americans, and this bothers the AIPACers not one iota. Americans are so 'pro-Israel' because the mainstream media in America fail to present the other side of the story - which gets airtime in Europe. And THAT'S the difference.
08-19-06 - Our foreign policy is just plain wrong As long as the Palestinians are subject to daily humiliations and settlements are expanded on the West Bank, all in breach of international law, and denied a viable homeland, Israel's legal and moral right to live in peace behind secure and recognised borders will be undermined. Israel/Palestine should become not a cause but an obsession. If it redefines our relationship with the United States, so be it.
08-19-06 - Memorial Honors Woman's Non-Violent Efforts The Rachel Corrie exhibit opens Saturday night at the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno.
08-19-06 - Chicago feds outline case against alleged Hamas fundraisers
08-19-06 - Earlham grad studies Israeli, Palestinian conflict "For me, it's very important as a Jew to reach out to Palestinians and understand who they are and how they feel about their lives and about their national conflict with Israel," Leader said. "There's not really a lot of energy right now in the Jewish community to understand Palestinian politics and society. There's a lot of pressure to stand with Israel in a very blind way and I think that's a really dangerous and unfortunate phenomenon."
08-19-06 - Ad pitch for Israel aimed at Christians the pitch goes beyond mere sympathy. The scenes are interspersed with biblical passages that suggest a divine calling to help the cause. And here's the supreme irony - Israel leveled Lebanon - a nation that is 40 % Christian. THOSE Christians won't be getting squat from the Christian Right in this country.
08-18-06 - Militants killed in W Bank raid Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian militants during a raid near the West Bank town of Bethlehem
08-18-06 - Three residents killed in Dier Abu Da'eef village near Jenin According to local sources the explosion happened in the village swimming pool while the reasons behind it remain unknown. Palestinian police initiated an investigation of the incident.
08-18-06 - Lebanon aid appeals: where you can donate The following major agencies have launched appeals to help those affected by the fighting:
08-18-06 - Hamas sets conditions for forming coalition
08-18-06 - Israeli Army sprays protestors in Bil'in with unknown blue chemical Seven residents who were hit with the full blast of the dye began screaming and shaking when the dye hit them. The soldiers then fired rubber-coated bullets, and an Associated Press photographer named Rami Abdu was injured when one of the rubber-coated bullets hit him in the back.
08-18-06 - Israeli soldiers seize Palestinian deputy prime minister, wife says
08-18-06 - Fears over cluster bomb clean-up the New York-based group Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of acting outside the rules of war by firing cluster bombs into civilian areas.
08-18-06 - UN plea for European peacekeepers
08-18-06 - Palestinian man tortured and killed by an unknown group in Iraq
08-18-06 - A Lebanese woman bursts into tears as is calmed by her relatives during a mass funeral
08-18-06 - Relatives of the Lebanese victims of the July 30 Israeli forces' attack, holding pictures of their loved ones, participate in a mass funeral procession
08-18-06 - Relatives holding portraits of some of those killed grieve at a mass funeral procession in Qana, southern Lebanon
08-18-06 - France Declines to Contribute Major Force for U.N. Mission
08-18-06 - Mass funerals in southern Lebanon
08-18-06 - Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 10 ? 16 Aug 2006
08-18-06 - Israelis arrested in Samaná are taken to Dominican capital they are being questioned as to the origin of their military equipment. including communications geographic location, and night viewing.
08-18-06 - Israeli jets circle over Bekaa Valley The reporter said military jets, helicopters and drones had circled over the area and had come under anti-aircraft fire but had not been hit and had not opened fire themselves.
08-18-06 - Abbas announces Palestinian cease-fire However, some of the factions' representatives said the cease-fire would be implemented only if Israel halted it s military attacks in the Gaza Strip.... According to one aide, Abbas even turned down a request from Washington to dismiss the Hamas government and to reinstall his Fatah party.
08-18-06 - Lebanon's devastation sightseers "Hezbollah may have kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, but Israel kidnaps Lebanese and Palestinians when it likes," he says. "No-one comes to bomb essential roads and bridges in Israel."
08-18-06 - In pictures: In the rubble of southern Beirut
08-18-06 - Wife plea for missing journalist The British wife of a Fox News cameraman has made an emotional plea to his kidnappers to release him and a fellow journalist.
08-18-06 - Hizbollah hands out cash for Lebanese war victims Lebanon's reconstruction chief said Israeli bombardment had inflicted a "disastrous" $3.6 billion worth of physical damage on Lebanon from which it could take years to recover. The United States, via Cheney and the neocons, gave Israel the greenlight to attack Lebanon earlier this year.
08-18-06 - Mixed UN commitments from Europe European governments are mixed in their support for an enhanced United Nations mission in Lebanon.
08-18-06 - Syrians demand military action to reclaim Golan Heights Pressure is mounting on Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, to follow Hizbollah's example and consider force to eject Israel from Syrian land that it has occupied for nearly 40 years.
08-18-06 - South Africa: South Africa is Best Qualified to Help the Middle East Today, it is the controversial policies of Israel towards its occupied, militarily weak and poor neighbouring countries that continue to prick the conscience of those who know what it means to be subjected to such dehumanising policies. Like the former white-minority governments of southern Africa, Israel believes that its military might and the (LMM1)concrete wall that it is erecting between itself and the Palestinian territories are enough to ensure its security indefinitely.
08-18-06 - Soldiers Detain Palestinian Kids for getting hit with Settlers? Rocks B'tselem reported that the Palestinian boys were walking down the steps near Shuhada Street, and settler boys were throwing rocks at them. The settler boys then told the soldier that the Palestinian boys were throwing rocks at them
08-18-06 - The Headlines is BACK The fellow that runs that site lives in Lebanon, and had to flee the area for over a month. It is good to know that he survived.
08-18-06 - Olmert 'suspends' withdrawal plan Mr Olmert was elected on a platform of withdrawal from some of the West Bank, while tightening Israel's hold on large settlements and the Jordan Valley.
08-18-06 - Teenage Settlers Hurl Glass Bottles at Human Rights Workers
08-18-06 - Hezbollah's transformation is a case study "Everybody is going to be much more aware and much more willing to let Israel take action precisely to prevent a situation where Gaza turns into south Lebanon."
08-18-06 - A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag as he is sprayed with a colored liquid from a water canon by Israeli border police during a protest
08-18-06 - A Letter from 18 Writers The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner--and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis--there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.
08-18-06 - A man holding up a Palestinian flag resists a spray of coloured water shot by an Israeli police water cannon vehicle used to disperse demonstrators
08-18-06 - End the taboo on challenging Israel He gets points for even raising the issue, but the author is wrong: the US owes Israel nothing.
08-18-06 - Jewish man wanted to help Palestinians Edmund Hanauer, a Jewish man who devoted his life to promoting justice for Palestinians, died last week after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 68.
08-18-06 - Israel ? Our Delinquent 'Ally' Ken Silverstein cites a "well-connected former CIA officer" who claims an American role in the peacekeeping force is being actively considered by the Bush administration ? and, as the prospects of an international force seem to wilt on the vine, the likelihood of direct American intervention grows. Huge mistake. If you think our guys are sitting ducks in Iraq, try sending them to Lebanon, where people are openly blaming the US for the devastation that Israel rained down on them.
08-18-06 - Israeli forces arrest 30 Palestinians
08-18-06 - Despite the bombing, Hizbullah appeals to Arab-Israelis
08-18-06 - Judgment Day coming ? for the neocons by Patrick J. Buchanan With some of us, the tutoring never took, but the neocons surely did convert George W. How's your boy doing, Irving?
08-18-06 - To engage or not to engage? Groups ponder approach as U.N. disappoints Evidently the UN, unlike the US, refuses to bow down to Israel. This infuriates the likes of the ADL and other organizations dedicated to and based on the supremacy of Israel.
08-18-06 - Officials: U.S. helped stop Iranian shipment Officials from two different U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed to USA Today that U.S. diplomats persuaded Turkey and Iraq to deny an Iranian plane laden with sophisticated missiles and launchers access to their airspace en route to Syria.
08-18-06 - A foretaste of larger furies to come Israel and the US have shown they are prepared to destroy an entire country to assert their interests if not also their dominance in this region
08-18-06 - Israel: Hezbollah used Russian missiles And Israel uses US-made weaponry - and killed mostly civilians in Lebanon, as well as destroyed civilian infrastructure.
08-18-06 - Invest in peace, United Church urges members proposal had been before the council that, if adopted, would have seen the church boycott any Canadian or international firm involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. But the church moved away from the idea after intense lobbying from Jewish leaders.
08-18-06 - Accused Israeli minister to quit This is the latest in a series of cases of alleged impropriety involving Israeli ministers and senior figures.
08-18-06 - Laborites slam Defense Minister for supporting talks with Syria
08-18-06 - AJCommittee: Consider war?s impact on Israel The American Jewish Committee wants international human rights groups to consider the Lebanon war's impact on Israel.
What chutzpah. Israel inflicted billions of dollars in damage in Lebanon in a war that was planned a year ago, and that which was a disproportionate response to the abduction of the IDF soldiers. The 1000+ Lebanese victims' families should sue Israel though the US would end up paying (as it always does for Israel's intransigence).
08-18-06 - View of common fears drives US-Israel policy "The president doesn't see any difference between American interests and Israeli interests with regard to the Middle East now," And that is the problem. For, our interests are NOT the same. And where they diverge, America's interests MUST come first. And secondly, America has been involved in Israel's war on the Arabs in the first place because of Israel's lobby in the US. The support this lobby garners has endangered America to the detriment of US citizens.
08-18-06 - Reports: Clarett has ties to Israeli mob
08-18-06 - The border of loyalty The relationship between the State of Israel and its minorities is currently at a crossroads. The Arab community must decide where its loyalties lie - to those who are willing to live in the state of the Jews as a loyal minority with full rights and obligations I say "Welcome". To those who tied their fate to that of the Palestinian people I say that this country may be too small for both of us.
08-17-06 - Teen boy killed in Hamas-Fatah clashes Palestinian gunmen from the rival Hamas and Fatah militias clashed Wednesday in southern Gaza, killing a 14-year old boy in the crossfire and injuring four others, security and hospital officials said.
08-17-06 - Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in Gaza
08-17-06 - Israeli air strike in Gaza destroys building
08-17-06 - Lebanese army crosses key river Lebanese troops have crossed the strategically important Litani river, moving into some areas of southern Lebanon for the first time in decades.
08-17-06 - States pledge troops for Lebanon Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal have pledged troops, while Germany offered a maritime task force
08-17-06 - UN agrees Med oil spill plan The plan calls for immediate aerial surveys to assess the extent of the damage and a workforce of 300 people to tackle the worst-affected sites.
08-17-06 - Robert Fisk: Lebanon's pain grows by the hour as death toll hits 1,300
08-17-06 - LEBANON: Toxic air a major health hazard Chemicals and dust from the buildings hit during Israeli air strikes on Lebanon have badly polluted the air and land, local nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and government officials have warned.
08-17-06 - Palestinian factions agree on ceasefire with Israel: Abbas
08-17-06 - Israel to expropriate 275 acres near Hebron The Israeli government issued a military order on Thursday to expropriate some 275 acres of farmlands that belong to Palestinian farmers near Hebron, Palestinian sources reported.
08-17-06 - Soldiers attack, injure a Palestinian worker
08-17-06 - Israeli forces occupying Hebron severely beat Palestinian teenager near Ibrahimi Mosque
08-17-06 - Army bulldozes farm lands near Beit Iba checkpoint west of Nablus
08-17-06 - Rights groups warn of danger of unexploded cluster bombs UN officials reported yesterday that two children were killed by a cluster bomb explosion in the town of Naqoura.
08-17-06 - Peacekeeper deployment in the balance Jacques Chirac, France's president, set a disappointing tone for the day when he said France would only be sending an extra 200 troops to southern Lebanon
08-17-06 - New stature for Lebanese military? "There will be no confrontation between the Army and brothers in Hizbullah," said Information Minister Ghazi Aridi, after the Lebanese cabinet decided Wednesday to deploy its troops across the south. The Army would not "chase" Hizbullah, he said. "There will be no authority or weapons other than those of the state. If any weapons are found, even the brothers in Hizbullah have said 'let it be in the hands of the Army, no problem.' "
08-17-06 - Hamas government interferes into talks on coalition: Official Chief of Fatah's parliamentary bloc Azzam al-Ahmad on Thursday criticized the Hamas-led government for intervening in talks of forming a coalition government, Palestinian radio Voice of Palestine reported.
08-17-06 - Border Police unit firing on demonstrators from close range. The video clearly shows the commander of the unit saying, "This is Lebanon!" as he orders his force to fire on retreating demonstrators, and "I will not allow a demonstration during wartime!"
08-17-06 - Iranian planes grounded in Turkey for weapons search Turkey has grounded two Syria-bound Iranian planes over the past month to search for weapons following Israeli intelligence that Iran is supplying rockets to Hezbollah, officials and media reports have said.
08-17-06 - Lebanese Deaths, and Israeli War Crimes, Kept Off the Balance Sheet if we concentrated on the tally of war crimes, Israel would come out the undoubted winner in both Lebanon and Gaza.
08-17-06 - First commercial air flight arrives at Beirut airport, signaling end of Israeli blockade
08-17-06 - A Lebanese woman throws rice and rose petals at Lebanese soldiers after their arrival to the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon
08-17-06 - South Lebanon Christians bitter over Israeli attack When Israeli troops invaded Lebanon last week and occupied the Christian villages of Marjayoun and Qlaiah -- once home to the defunct pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army militia -- they went from house to house, locals say, hammering down doors, breaking glass and trashing the contents for no reason they could fathom. They do the same thing to the Palestinians.
08-17-06 - US to have behaviour officers at airports Taking a page from Israeli airport security, the US transportation agency is experimenting with new squads whose members do not look for bombs, guns or knives but keep an eye on anyone with evil intent.
08-17-06 - Israel wants Turkish embargo on Iran Israel reportedly wants Turkey to impose an air and ground embargo on Iran to prevent weapons from flowing through Turkish territory to Hezbollah
08-17-06 - King endorses ethnic profiling Declaring that airport screeners shouldn't be hampered by "political correctness," House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has endorsed requiring people of "Hebrew" descent to undergo additional security checks because of their ethnicity and religion. Imagine the uproar. (I changed what group was being profiled to make a point).
08-17-06 - Representative reassures angry Jewish leaders Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told the leaders in a Maryland suburb last week that he still supported Israel despite his July 30 letter to the U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, arguing that a "continuation of the bombing campaign as it is being carried out is against the interests of Israel and the United States." This man's crime? He dared to consider the interests of the UNITED STATES, the country he was elected to represent.
08-17-06 - Amid a fragile cease-fire, family's ordeal begins
08-17-06 - His Heart Was Full for Lebanon and U.S. two weeks ago, as Hammoudi sat down to a meal in the hilltop house in southern Lebanon that he had inherited after his father died, an Israeli bomb struck, destroying the stone structure and killing Hammoudi.
08-17-06 - Hariri in bitter attack on Syria Mr Hariri accused the Syrian president of inciting conflict in Lebanon.
08-17-06 - Labour MPs come out in support of Prescott's US view John Prescott was riding a wave of support from Labour MPs last night after privately attacking the Bush administration for being "crap" on the Middle East peace process.
08-17-06 - Hollywood stars blast Nasrallah Heads of the film industry in Hollywood and prominent movie stars have signed a statement blaming Hamas and Hizbullah for terror activities in the Middle East, the war in Lebanon, and for harming innocents....The Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles has been active since the start of fighting with an aim of drafting Hollywood stars to back Israel Hollywood royalty, like Congress, must now bow down to Israel.
08-17-06 - Lebanese general held over Israeli video A Lebanese general was ordered arrested Wednesday for appearing in a videotape drinking tea with Israeli soldiers who had occupied his south Lebanon barracks during their incursion of the country.
08-17-06 - Halutz to officers: Don't talk to media without authorization it may be that this is also an attempt to silence internal dissent.
08-17-06 - Resistance and Collective Punishment in Beit Furik and Salim In the village of Salem, a Palestinian farmer attempted to travel up a mountain to farm olive trees planted on his land. On his way up the mountain, he was detained by Israeli soldiers who told the man that he was not allowed to travel to his land without permission from the Israeli D.C.O.
08-17-06 - Petition wants U.N. reparations for Israel Pro-Israel advocates launched a petition calling on the United Nations to provide reparations to Israel for damage caused by Hezbollah. Unbelievably audacious.
08-17-06 - Lebanon toll shows pioneer spirit According to the study published Thursday, 42 percent of the 116 soldiers killed in the war on Hezbollah were from kibbutzim, moshavim or West Bank settlements, even though these communities constitute only 11 percent of Israel?s general population.
08-17-06 - Costa Rican decision on embassy leaves supporters of Israel angry In 1980, the United Nations passed Resolution 478, calling for the removal of all embassies in Jerusalem Why? Because it was a violation of international law. Supporters of Israel want nations to break the law and recognize Israel's unlawful annexation of Jerusalem.
08-17-06 - In Austria, the war in Lebanon provided fodder for anti-Semites ?People are very critical of Israel,? said Markus Bernath, foreign politics editor of Der Standard, one of Austria?s biggest dailies. "They don?t understand why this huge-scale war started." This 'huge-scale war' was in the works for a year and was given the go ahead by Cheney months ago.
08-17-06 - Malaysia defies Israel over U.N. force in Lebanon Malaysia said on Thursday it wanted to send peacekeepers to Lebanon despite Israel saying it might oppose the inclusion of nations that do not have diplomatic ties with the Jewish state.
08-17-06 - Senior Palestinian lawmaker condemns Israel's trial of parl't speaker
08-17-06 - Jewish board slams ANC resolution on Middle East The resolution -- in the name of ANC chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe -- on the order paper for Thursday's National Assembly plenary, notes, among other things, Israel's military aggression against civilian targets. It further states "the actions of Israel are against international law and the Geneva Convention". Methinks the truth doth hurt.
08-17-06 - US tries to counter Hizbollah rebuilding efforts
08-17-06 - Peres: Syria talks a no-go Shimon Peres expressed skepticism that Israel's war with Hezbollah would open the door for renewed negotiations with Syria.
08-17-06 - Palestinians thank Moroccan king for aid
08-17-06 - A Shaken Landscape Hot Zone Senior Producer Robert Padavick spoke with Yahoo! News consultant Milt Bearden. In a career spanning three decades, Bearden headed the CIA's Soviet and Eastern Europe Division and served as station chief in places like Pakistan and Sudan. He also ran the CIA's covert war in Afghanistan from 1986-1989.
08-17-06 - Israel extends remand of Palestinian parliament speaker
08-17-06 - Barenboim's East-West Divan Orchesta in Istanbul
08-17-06 - Chief Joseph in Palestine "My children are all gone; I will fight no more forever,"
08-17-06 - Palestinian Artists Call for Cultural Boycott Against Israel
08-17-06 - Hatred contradicts core values of our tradition One pro-Israeli protester yelled out to a Palestinian woman ?Go back to your country! Oh wait, you do not have one!? Hateful, antagonizing rhetoric such as that statement not only diminishes the message of the pro-Israel protest, but also diminishes our integrity as Jews who support fair treatment for all.
08-17-06 - Claims of anti-Semitism fuel city arts-fund feud "Is it anti-Semitic to present another point of view besides that of the Israelis as viewed by Rabbi Block?" asked Graciela Sanchez, the center's executive director. The great silencing mechanism in the US: the charge of "anti-Semite!".
08-17-06 - Was Israel being pushy by fighting back? the world might indeed be a better place if "Israel" were "wiped off" the map and another name found for the land. This would accord with the aspirations of the more spiritually minded pioneers of Zionism
08-17-06 - Everything Old Is New After George W. Bush occupied the Oval Office, however, the paper was given new life. Richard Perle became chairman of the powerful Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith became Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; and David Wurmser became a senior State Department official before becoming Middle East Adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
08-17-06 - Arafat widow denies reports she remarried
08-16-06 - Four Hezbollah fighters killed in ceasefire breaches: UN UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have said they had recorded three breaches of a deal ending fighting between Israel and Hezbollah over the past 24 hours which left four Hezbollah guerrillas dead.
08-16-06 - A 42-year old worker severely beaten by troops in Hebron He was on his way to work when he was stopped by an Israeli military jeep, soldiers claimed that the man was attempting to enter Israel without permission".
08-16-06 - Hezbollah Balks At Withdrawal From the South Israeli officials have declined to say how many of their soldiers are inside Lebanon. Strugar said that whatever the number, their withdrawal has to be coordinated with UNIFIL and Lebanese army officers in the coming days. "This is a complicated issue," he said.....Nasrallah, in his television address, suggested that for the time being the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon is the only way to defend Lebanon's sovereignty against Israel.
08-16-06 - Israel urges UN action on arms embargo Israel's Foreign Minister is urging UN peacekeepers to enforce an arms embargo to prevent Hezbollah militia from getting weapons from their backers in Iran and Syria.
08-16-06 - Halutz: Deploy Lebanon army to south or IDF will halt pullout Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Wednesday that the IDF would halt its withdrawal from southern Lebanon if the Lebanese army did not deploy in the area within days.
08-16-06 - Palestinian President expresses sympathy over kidnap of NZer Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has expressed his sympathy over the kidnapping of a New Zealander.
08-16-06 - Crisis talks on Lebanon oil spill Officials from the UN, the EU and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are meeting to agree a way to halt the spread in the Mediterranean.
08-16-06 - WFP operational update: occupied Palestinian territories Despite the relative reduction in hostilities in Gaza over the past week, WFP food remains a vital "band aid" for oPt's stricken economy.
08-16-06 - Palestinians agree to unity talks
08-16-06 - Many Iraqis See Lebanon as Mirror Image New frustration is rife within Baghdad. The United States response in support of Israel has further sharpened opposition to the U.S.-led occupying army.
08-16-06 - Palestinians stranded at the borders appeal the international community to end their suffering Thousands of Palestinian residents stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing and at Al Areesh airport in Egypt since several weeks have voiced an appeal to the international community to end their suffering and practice pressure on the Israeli authorities to allow them back in the Gaza Strip.
08-16-06 - Gaza communities face further economic decline Hundreds of families that fled from the village of Shokeh in the Gaza Strip have returned home to discover extensive damage. Israeli forces pulled out of the village on 5 August after an eight-day incursion that left 30 houses, 500 greenhouses and more than 5,000 dunums (1,250 acres) of agricultural lands demolished.
08-16-06 - Abbas Zein carries the body of his wife who was killed in an Israeli air strike, during a funeral in Burj al-Shemali
08-16-06 - Lebanese hospital struggles to cope with the dead
08-16-06 - Israel sends mixed signals on pullout Israeli forces prepared to make way for U.N. peacekeepers in parts of south Lebanon on Wednesday, but their commander said troops could stay for months if it takes that long for a bigger U.N. force to deploy.
08-16-06 - Hamas contacts groups in bid to free Western reporters The head of the Fox bureau in Jerusalem, Eli Fastman, on Tuesday met in Gaza with Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, of the Islamist Hamas movement, saying afterwards that Haniya had condemned the kidnapping.
08-16-06 - Syria warns Israel over occupation of Golan Syria has warned Israel that the occupation of the Golan Heights "cannot last forever" and said Syrians would emulate Hezbollah to recover their land.
08-16-06 - South Lebanon littered with war's lethal leftovers "These things are tiny, really hard to see, and very sensitive. You just accidentally kick one and it will go off.".....The U.N. estimates Israel fired 2,600 artillery rounds, missiles and bombs into Lebanon each day of the five-week war, which killed more than 1,100 people in Lebanon and 157 Israelis.....U.S. rights group Human Rights Watch has urged the United States not to send cluster munitions to Israel, saying their use in civilian-populated areas violates international law.
08-16-06 - France calls for end to Lebanon blockade The French foreign minister on Wednesday called for Israel to lift its air, naval and land blockade of Lebanon, saying it was unnecessary with the U.N.-imposed cease-fire holding.
08-16-06 - Lebanon army set to move to south Bulldozers are now being used to clear away debris from the highways. The UN found 200 cluster bombs near a hospital, in the village of Tebnin.
08-16-06 - Red Cross: Explosives hinder Mideast aid
08-16-06 - For stoic Lebanese, a cycle of rebuilding "We were angry with both sides," Shaalan says. "But mainly with the Israelis because they did not differentiate between Lebanese civilians and Palestinian fighters."
08-16-06 - Rice: Not U.N.'s job to disarm Hezbollah That "political agreement" will be the responsibility of the Lebanese, Rice said in an interview with USA TODAY
08-16-06 - FBI: Ex-Comverse chief now a fugitive Alexander, a native of Israel, has dual American and Israeli citizenship, according to federal authorities. I'll give you three guesses as to where he probably is.
08-16-06 - About Those 'Birth Pangs' - They're really death throes? The president parrots the Israeli line that Hezbollah is a "terrorist" organization that represents a mortal threat to Americans worldwide, but the reality is quite different, as the U.S. intelligence community recognized in a National Intelligence Estimate prepared in April, which, according to Laura Rozen, "says that Hezbollah is the only major terrorist group with global reach currently not trying to kill Americans."
08-16-06 - Costa Rica to move Israel embassy out of Jerusalem Costa Rica will move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, its new president said on Wednesday, in a move that pleases Arab nations and is a blow to the Israeli government.
08-16-06 - How Reports of the July 12th Capture of IDF Soldiers Soon Shifted From Lebanon to Israel On the matter of exactly where the Israeli soldiers were abducted (in Lebanon or in Israel), the author did their homework.
08-16-06 - Poll: 70 Percent of Israelis Oppose Cease-Fire
08-16-06 - An outburst that shows Labour's true feelings towards America The Prime Minister has been frustrated by the lack of progress on the road map by the Bush administration and Mr Prescott's alleged remarks that the "Bush administration has been crap" on the issue are widely shared in Labour ranks at Westminster. Recall that Blair was led to believe by the Bush administration that, for his participation and support of the US invasion of Iraq, the issue of Palestine would get resolved. Clearly, he was deceived.
08-16-06 - Canada can do more, Israeli ambassador says Mr. Baker also said he hopes to arrange a visit to Ottawa by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to thank Canada for its support.
08-16-06 - 2400 detainees in the Negev on Hunger Strike The incident took place on Tuesday when soldiers tried to force mothers, sisters and wives of detainees from Qalqilia, Salfit and Bethlehem districts in the West bank, to remove all of their clothes under the pretext of searching them.
08-16-06 - Reconstruction alone estimated at $7bn in Lebanon
08-16-06 - International jurists group to probe Israel-Hezbollah conflict
08-16-06 - Israel to keep up blockade but permit civilian cargos: Peres
08-16-06 - Israel wants UN to patrol Syrian border for weapons She said Lebanese monitoring of borders was "not enough" and U.N. peacekeepers, known as UNIFIL, had to help "prevent rearmament." UN is being charged with the task of providing Israel security. The real irony is this: had Israel been implementing the scores of UN resolutions that ~it~ is in violation of - we likely wouldn't be at this point today.
08-16-06 - Hezbollah 'victory' boosts Palestinian radicals: analysts "What happened in Lebanon has strengthened the belief among Arab people that resistance is more effective than negotiations with Israel,"
08-16-06 - Peace in Lebanon requires Israeli-Palestinian peace: Finland A lasting peace in Lebanon can only be attained once the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the European Union presidency, has said.
08-16-06 - Pak FM calls for Palestine solution before another round of war
08-16-06 - Israeli bulldozers raze Palestinian farm land in northern Gaza Strip for military installations Israeli forces imposed a military installation for itself east of Beit Lahia in the Abu Safia neighborhood, with another imposed on East Street between Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun.
08-16-06 - Palestinian camp under Lebanon control
08-16-06 - Retaliation against Fox possible kidnap motive Dr Nigel Parsons from Massey University's politics department, says Fox is rampantly pro-Israel and if the kidnappers are aware of that, it is a possible motivation. He says the group may also have taken the pair hostage in an attempt to embarrass Hamas, by showing how it is failing to provide security.
08-16-06 - Italy says Lebanon war shows futility of military force "The war in Lebanon has proved to all that military force will solve nothing. The use of military force leads to nothing except the rise of extremism and terrorism,"
08-16-06 - Terror charges dropped against men arrested with 1,000cell phones Maruan Muhareb, 18; Adham Othman, 21, and Louai Othman, 23, all of the Dallas area, face new charges of conspiracy to defraud consumers and telephone providers by trafficking in counterfeit goods -- so-called "unlocked" cell phones.
08-16-06 - Hamas leader missed again? Israel reportedly botched a second attempt to assassinate Hamas' supreme leader.
08-16-06 - It's Left to Bashar al-Assad to Tell the Truth there is no more sign that Hizbollah intends to "disarm" under the terms of UN Security Council resolutions 1559 and 1701 than Israel is prepared to abide by UN Security Council Resolution 242 and withdraw from Arab territories it occupied in 1967
08-16-06 - Israel, U.S.: Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah Israel and the United States expect Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.
How did Israel's problems become OUR problems, I wonder?
08-16-06 - Robert Fisk: Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel's failure
08-16-06 - Israel humbled by arms from Iran The discovery of the origin of the weapons proved to the Israelis that their enemy was not a ragged and lightly armed militia but a semi-professional army equipped by Syria and Iran to take on Israel. So says Israel.
08-16-06 - Conflict hits home Smith was connecting with people in the Palestinian territories to the south, working at a refugee camp and living with a Palestinian family. ...Yet, despite political rhetoric on both sides, Smith said many Palestinians greeted their young American guests with warmth and friendship.
08-16-06 - Russia calls for resumption of Palestine-Israel dialogue
08-16-06 - UK-Palestinian charity probed Interpal was cleared of any wrong doings during an investigation by the CC in 2003, which was launched after the organization was branded a terrorist organization and had its funds frozen by the US treasury.
08-16-06 - Israel allowed Arab overflights The deputy prime minister, on a U.S. tour to raise funds for reconstruction in the North, said Wednesday in Washington that he could not name the countries.
08-16-06 - In Congress, Lonely on Lebanon If you're trying to quantify the U.S. policy in the Middle East, here's a useful statistic: Since the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah started, 22 members of Congress have flown to Israel. Only one went to Lebanon.
08-16-06 - AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon "AIPAC meets with every candidate running for Congress. These candidates receive in-depth briefings to help them completely understand the complexities of Israel's predicament and that of the Middle East as a whole. We even ask each candidate to author a 'position paper' on their views of the U.S.-Israel relationship--so it's clear where they stand on the subject."
08-16-06 - ADL: Campus Newspaper Editors In Israel To Gain Firsthand Experience Of The Region The mission first went to Poland, where the students visited the concentration camps Auschwitz and Majdanek and the areas once occupied by the Warsaw and Krakow ghettoes Immediately, the pro-Israeli camp plays the Holocaust card to gain the sympathy of these editors, much like they shepherd foreign nationals to the Israeli Holocaust museum as soon as they step off the plane.
08-15-06 - Israeli air strike hits house in southern Gaza Strip kills 2, wounds 4 Also Wednesday, the Israeli army said it shot and hit two Palestinians trying to infiltrate Israel from Gaza. But the army could not confirm if they were killed and Palestinian officials said ambulances could not reach the area.
08-15-06 - Lebanese villagers return to corpses, devastation
08-15-06 - Returning, Lebanese find shattered homes and villages Ali Bakri, a local businessman who stayed, says that about 10 elderly people who were unable to leave had been killed when Israeli bombs flattened their homes.
08-15-06 - Gaza militants get new proposal over Israeli soldier A source close to the negotiations said the proposal called for Hamas to transfer Corporal Gilad Shalit to Egyptian authorities in return for Israel's release of up to 600 Palestinian prisoners, including women and minors. Another group of Palestinian prisoners, including many who have served longer sentences, would be freed by Israel at a later date
08-15-06 - Army Demolishes Homes in Askar Refugee Camp During the early hours of the operation, and elderly woman of the Tibi family had a heart attack, and because her ambulance was prevented from reaching the hospital in a timely manner, she died upon reaching al-Watani hospital.
08-15-06 - Nonviolent Palestinian farmer resistance as Israeli settlers destroy trees, land and horse fields The oldest of many settlers in the settlement of Ornit, south of Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, is among those Israeli settlers destroying Palestinian trees. In yet another act of nonviolent resistance to the continual onslaught, Palestinian farmers appealed to the International Red Cross to intervene.
08-15-06 - Gaza ceasefire hopes dwindle the situation in Gaza has been completely overshadowed by the Lebanon war. People here regard the international community as having turned away and ignored their suffering.
08-15-06 - UNICEF: Children at risk in Mideast "In July alone, 38 kids have been killed" in Gaza, Bociurkiw said. "This has almost been the highest number since the beginning of the intifada," or Palestinian uprising, in 2000. He said the toll included all children killed, including those by unexploded ordnance, but he did not have a breakdown.
08-15-06 - Gaza marks first year of Israeli withdrawal in despair .."We are in a new prison called Gaza."
08-15-06 - Lebanese youth stand on a banner in protest against the United States in the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli bombardment
08-15-06 - Palestinians watch as an Israeli army bulldozer demolishes a structure
08-15-06 - UN aims for advance Lebanon force BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall, at the UN in New York, says there is clearly concern at the apparent reluctance by so many countries to sign up. Who can blame them? Israel killed those UNIFIL officials despite repeated contacts between them and Israeli officials to stop firing on the marked UN post.
08-15-06 - Olmert's War, and the Next One by Patrick J. Buchanan With our War Party discredited by the failed policies it cheered on in Lebanon and Iraq, there will come a clamor that Bush must "go to the source" of all our difficulty ? Iran. Only thus can the War Party redeem itself for having pushed us and Israel into two unnecessary and ruinous wars. And the drumbeat for war on Iran has already begun....Bush is on notice from the neocons and War Party that have all but destroyed his presidency: Either you take down Iran, Mr. Bush, or you are a failed president. See my previous post about the next war: Iran.
08-15-06 - "The US and Israel Stand Alone" Former US president Jimmy Carter: "I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon."
08-15-06 - Israeli forces kill Hezbollah leader Israel's military officials also made a first gesture at possible post-conflict negotiations. They said 13 Hezbollah prisoners and the bodies of dozens of guerrillas could be offered in exchange for two captive soldiers, who were taken in a cross-border raid July 12 that touched off the worse Arab-Israel battles in 24 years.
Israel took the bodies of Hezbollah men to use as bargaining chips.
08-15-06 - Fragile truce holds as Israelis withdraw All Israeli troops are expected to have moved out of southern Lebanon by the start of next week at the earliest, although other estimates suggest a two-week withdrawal.
08-15-06 - Hard road back for displaced Lebanese In a televised address on Monday night, Hassan Nasrallah said the movement would put the same energy, planning and dedication into the reconstruction effort as it had into fighting the Israelis. He said Hezbollah would pay for the rebuilding of the 15,000 homes it estimates have been totally destroyed, and in the meantime, would pay for the homeless to rent properties for a year.
08-15-06 - Lebanon pact disappoints U.S. As it became clear that the Israelis were not going to wipe out Hezbollah, support in the White House shifted from the hard-liners, typically led by Vice President Dick Cheney, to the advocates for more diplomacy. Cheney runs the show in the Bush admin.
08-15-06 - Peretz: We should create conditions for talks with Syria Germany's foreign minister canceled a trip to Syria on Tuesday in protest over Assad's speech. Assad said that the United States' plan for a "new Middle East" has collapsed after what he described as Hezbollah's successes in fighting against Israel, and warned Israel to seek peace or risk defeat in the future.
08-15-06 - Iran and Syria applaud 'victory'
08-15-06 - A Defiant Hezbollah Rises From the Rubble Nasrallah scoffed at the idea that the "resistance" should lay down its guns in order to build a strong Lebanon. It should be the other way around, he argued. "First you have to build a strong, capable, just and secure country for all Lebanese, so that you can tell the people, 'We can protect your dignity and honor, and there is no need for the weapons of the resistance,' " he said.
08-15-06 - Hizbullah doesn't speak for Lebanon As a Palestinian, an American, and a rational being, I can confidently say that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, which occurs in violation of numerous UN resolutions and is upheld through gross human rights abuses, is now, and has always been, the root cause of conflict between Israel and Hizbullah
08-15-06 - Lebanese anger at both US, Hizbullah grows after truce
08-15-06 - Hizbullah shifts focus from war front to home front Even critics of Hizbullah in Lebanon often say they respect the group's integrity, efficiency, and commitment to helping its followers. Nasrallah promised to pay a year's rent for those with destroyed homes, saying Monday night that "we can't wait for the government."
08-15-06 - Aid diary: The rush for home A little girl says: "I want to go back to my toys and see my friends again."
08-15-06 - Rebuilding Lebanon's shattered economy Well we know who WON'T be helping to do that. The world is expected to clean up another one of Israel's messes.
08-15-06 - Bush Defends U.S. Handling of Lebanese Conflict, Asserting That Hezbollah Is the Loser Mr. Bush spoke as he and his advisers sought to portray the cease-fire deal that was established under a United Nations Security Council resolution as an affirmation of American foreign policy.
08-15-06 - Sharon suffering from pneumonia
08-15-06 - Peres confident in cease-fire Shimon Peres said Israel would not use force against Hezbollah unless the militia used force against Israel.
08-15-06 - Iran displays Holocaust cartoons Organisers of the exhibition say they are testing the West's commitment to freedom of speech.
08-15-06 - Israeli military chief draws fire for selling shares after soldiers' kidnap Dan Halutz, head of the Israel Defence Force (IDF), was reported by the Israeli newspaper, Maariv, to have instructed his investment manager on 12 July to sell his personal portfolio, just as senior military and political figures were discussing the military response to the raid, in which two soldiers were abducted.
08-15-06 - Update on CPTers detained on Friday Just before four pm, Avshalom Tasha, the "investigator with the key" returned
the video camera to Roe, but did not return the tape of the August 11 home
invasion. "The tape must remain in police custody as evidence," he told her.
He did not know if she could get it back when the case was closed.
08-15-06 - 'Blame war' looms for Israel leaders
08-15-06 - Army bulldozes Palestinian land to construct the annexation wall near Qalqilia
08-15-06 - Benn family at odds over Middle East "While this slaughter was going on, with 1,000 people killed and a quarter of the Lebanese population homeless, we were not only supplying weapons ourselves to Israel, but we were making it possible through Scottish airports for the Americans to arm Israel with the weapons that were being used to kill the Lebanese. It was an absolute disgrace."
08-15-06 - Global donors to tackle Lebanon reconstruction Lebanon had been expecting its best tourism season for more than 30 years, exports were up 100% on the previous year and the economy had been expected to grow by 5%. The post-bombing projections are now for either zero or negative growth.
08-15-06 - West Bank pullout may be next casualty Mr Olmert's hopes of pursuing his realignment policy appeared to have been delivered a fatal blow yesterday, with the leak of a government-appointed panel's report on its consequences. According to Ha'aretz newspaper, the committee found that a withdrawal would leave cities such as Tel Aviv vulnerable to rocket attacks from the West Bank.....Mr Khatib said there were growing fears among Palestinians that Mr Olmert and the Israeli army might try to rescue their reputations with a broad offensive against Hamas in Gaza. "People are worried because Israel might try to create victories on the Palestinian front after its difficulties on the Lebanese front," he said.
08-15-06 - "Star Wars" agency helps Israel on rocket threat The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has begun working with Israel to help find ways to counter enemy rockets, a much shorter-range threat than the "Star Wars" mission to block ballistic missiles for which is it known, the head of the agency said on Tuesday.
08-15-06 - Jackson seeks Mideast prisoner exchange On several occasions, Jackson has successfully intervened on behalf of Americans and others held hostage or prisoner in foreign lands
08-15-06 - Arabs predict guns won't be silent long in Lebanon "The war in Lebanon may stop, but I doubt it, for never in history has Israel respected a single resolution issued by the Security Council,"...."This resolution was an expensive gift for Israel from America and France via the U.N.," he wrote. "It gives Israel permission to play with Lebanon and attack it again."
08-15-06 - US blacklists two Syrian spy chiefs linked to Lebanon The US Treasury blacklisted two senior Syrian intelligence officials, accusing them of sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing Lebanon. Destabilizing Lebanon? What kind of sick joke is that? Israel just DESTROYED large parts of Lebanon. Hypocrisy.
08-15-06 - Fatah, Hamas may join forces "The two sides believe that in the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah war, the best thing for the Palestinians at this stage is to be united,"
08-15-06 - Livni heads to New York Israel?s foreign minister was scheduled to travel to New York to lobby for Israel?s interests in the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire.
08-15-06 - Perpetual Limbo: Report of B'Tselem and HaMoked a report on 's policy freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories
08-15-06 - Palestinians seek 2 kidnapped reporters Palestinian security forces hunted for two abducted Fox News journalists Tuesday, and the Palestinian president and prime minister intervened in an attempt to gain their release.
08-15-06 - Politicking over Israel: Jewish state becomes fodder in congressional war "I think it's a good thing to have members of Congress outdo their colleagues by showing that their pro-Israel credentials are stronger than the next guy's," said William Daroff, vice president of public policy at United Jewish Communities and a former Republican activist. America's interests never figure in.
08-15-06 - Israeli defense chief talks peace Israel?s defense minister called for peace talks with Lebanon, the Palestinians and eventually Syria.
08-15-06 - A Lebanese who had left the country for Syria during the conflict between Israel and Hizbollah, returns with her family following the ceasefire
08-15-06 - Americans Reject Peacekeeping Role in Lebanon Few adults in the United States believe their country should deploy soldiers to the Middle East
08-15-06 - Derry Antiwar Activists Face Terrorism Charges The activists knew that, despite the line of the main parties, there is real anger in the town at the idea of software developed in Derry helping to murder people in Lebanon and Gaza.
08-15-06 - Muslim groups decry cell-phone arrests
08-15-06 - Israelis arrested as prostitution ringleaders Two Israelis were arrested on suspicion of running a U.S.-based prostitution ring.
08-15-06 - Arab Americans to lobby Congress Arab Americans are slated to meet with congressional representatives to press for U.S. involvement to bolster the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire.
08-15-06 - Lebanon war cost Israel $1.6bn However, the total bill is unlikely to exceed the approximately $2.5bn Israel receives each year in aid from the US - $2.2bn of that in military grants.
08-15-06 - Blair's Middle East policy has driven me to return my MBE
08-15-06 - Democrats dispute Bush assertion that Israel defeated Hezbollah
08-15-06 - Israelis hack Ahmadinejad's blog Israeli bloggers claim to have overloaded website of Iranian president, causing it to crash
08-15-06 - Unadilla takes on controversial play Theater premieres tragic story of Rachel Corrie
08-14-06 - Three killed in Gaza on eve of pullout anniversary The three, a 14-year-old boy, and two men aged 45 and 50, were killed after a tank shell hit their house in Beit Hanoun in an attack that wounded four others, hospital officials said.
08-14-06 - 6 guerrillas killed after cease-fire There were no reports of Israeli strikes on cars Monday - a sign Israel did not want to risk rekindling the conflict. But at least one child was killed and 15 people were wounded by ordnance that detonated as they returned to their homes in the south, security officials said.
08-14-06 - Israeli Airstrike Injures 8 in Gaza
08-14-06 - A man walks past destroyed buildings in the heavily-bombed town of Aita Ech Chaab, near the Israeli border, in southern Lebanon Lebanon's 911.
08-14-06 - U.S. Denies Role in Attacking Hezbollah Appearing Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition," Hersh alluded to his early reporting on detainee abuses at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "When I did Abu Ghraib, the same kind of stuff was thrown at me ? that I'm fantasizing," he said.
08-14-06 - Palestinian Refugee Killed, another Wounded in Baghdad
08-14-06 - Refugees find widespread devastation A Greek Orthodox Church was punched through with holes in the room and all the buildings were smashed in Yaroun, a mainly Christian village a few miles south of Bint Jbail. Jamila Marina screamed and collapsed when she saw her destroyed home in Yaroun.
08-14-06 - Two journalists abducted in Gaza Gunmen have abducted two journalists working for the US Fox News television channel in the Gaza Strip
08-14-06 - Palestinian lawmaker seeks Rafah Crossing deal modification
08-14-06 - Ceasefire broken in less than four hours A spokesman for the Israeli Army said soldiers had shot and killed a Hezbollah militant. The spokesman said the soldiers opened fire at a group of militants who approached a patrol about 11am.
08-14-06 - 500,000-liter delivery puts off fuel crisis - for now Several shipments of fuel imported from Syria arrived in Lebanon over the past week, partially alleviating some of the pressure on the country's hospitals and water-pumping stations that are suffering under the Israeli blockade.
08-14-06 - OPT: In response to statement by EU observers at Rafah International Crossing Point, PCHR condemns re-closure of the Crossing Point after reopening it for less than 7 hours in two days
08-14-06 - Israeli soldiers raid three Palestinian hospitals
08-14-06 - Unexploded munition lethal obstacle for Lebanon's displaced "On average, 10 percent of artillery shells and mortars, and other projectiles did not explode on impact. These unexploded munitions... remain extremely dangerous,"
08-14-06 - Army detains PA police officers in Tubas
08-14-06 - Israeli soldiers destroy home in Tel Rumeida in search of nothing
08-14-06 - President Abbas receives British envoy
08-14-06 - Palestinian cabinet minister freed ISRAEL released Palestinian cabinet minister Mohammad al-Barghouthi today after detaining him for about six weeks, the minister said.
08-14-06 - Hamas slams lawmakers' calls for replacing current cabinet
08-14-06 - AIPAC judge won't broaden case From previous reporting, JTA has learned that the document was a draft of the Bush administration?s Iran strategy. It?s the only document that Weissman or his former boss, Steve Rosen, actively solicited, according to their August 2005 indictment.
08-14-06 - 'The Best Guerrilla Force in the World' Analysts Attribute Hezbollah's Resilience to Zeal, Secrecy and Iranian Funding
08-14-06 - Updated post: Israel's attack on Lebanon was a dry run for America vs. Iran
08-14-06 - Israel to negotiate captured soldiers' release Israel will negotiate for the release of two soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah militants on July 12 sparked the offensive in Lebanon, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Sunday.
08-14-06 - Donors say Lieberman will be well-funded The three-term Democrat will turn to donors to his previous Senate campaigns and his 2004 presidential bid. He?ll also get some money from Republican and independent donors, especially those who agree with Lieberman?s support of Israel and continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq. The day we abolish campaign financing will be one of the most momentous in American history. Our government was supposed to be by the PEOPLE for the PEOPLE, and NOT for WEALTHY individuals and special interest groups. The founding fathers are rolling in their graves.
08-14-06 - Report: US helped Israel plan Lebanon offensive
08-14-06 - FBI: No terror groups in cell phone case The release also said the FBI had no information indicating that the men, Palestinian-Americans living in Texas, had any direct links to any known terrorist groups or to the alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic jetliners that was announced in London last week.
08-14-06 - Baalbek's Roman caves offer shelter from Israeli bombs
08-14-06 - Conflict in Lebanon reaches Afghanistan Some observers here worry that Washington's support of the Israeli government is actually playing into the hands of the Taliban-led insurgents in the southern part of the country...."America is acting contrary to its stated principles. It proclaims it supports human rights yet it supports the violation of the rights of Lebanese civilians. Afghans now realize that America is lying,"
08-14-06 - America's one-eyed view of war: Stars, stripes, and the Star of David It is not just the US media which tilts in a pro-Israeli direction. Congress, too, is remarkably unified in its support for the Israeli government, and politicians more generally understand that to criticise Israel is to risk jeopardising their future careers This is the second article in a major British publication in a week's time that discusses the pro-Israeli influence in America. Unfortunately, the people that need to know about it the most - Americans - don't.
08-14-06 - Ahmadinejad tells UN Iran ready to help foster peace
08-14-06 - Qalqilia farmers refuse to give up in the face of Israeli restrictions and land confiscation In the northwestern West Bank, Qalqilia District farmers are still trying to care for their crops and land, despite being encircled by the Wall. This is their act of nonviolent resistance.
08-14-06 - Palestinian nonviolent activism at the White House Palestinian nonviolent activist Mubarak Awad has reached his thirteenth day of hunger striking in front of the White House in Washington DC.
08-14-06 - Lebanese return home during fragile cease-fire UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for a cessation of hostilities in south Lebanon, permits Israel the right of self-defense while remaining on Lebanese territory. But some diplomats are concerned that Israel may be overly liberal in its interpretation of what self-defense means on the ground. Some Israeli commanders have talked about clearing out pockets of Hizbullah behind its forward lines, a move that would guarantee a continuation of fighting.
08-14-06 - Buoyed Hezbollah plans next move As a member of Lebanon's multi-confessional government, the militant Shia Muslim movement Hezbollah is formally committed to its own removal as a military presence in south Lebanon. The goal of this operation by Israel was to remove the threat of Hezbollah rockets being fired into Israel - so that phase 2 can come into play: the upcoming attack on Iran (by the US).
08-14-06 - War claims Israeli author's son The son of David Grossman, a prominent Israeli author and peace activist, has been killed fighting in Lebanon.
08-14-06 - Ariel Sharon's condition worsens A new brain scan shows a deterioration in his brain function, a spokeswoman for the Sheba Medical Center told the Associated Press on Monday.
08-14-06 - Israel warns foes despite truce Israel will pursue Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon despite the ceasefire ending the month-long conflict, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told parliament.
08-14-06 - Israel's verdict: we lost the war Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival. Somebody forgot to tell Bush.
08-14-06 - President Receives Delegation of World Council of Churches President Mahmoud Abbas received Monday, in Ramallah, a delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC), headed by the President of Conference of European Churches, Revd Jean-Arnlod de Clermont.
08-14-06 - Lebanon needs 13,000 troops 'as soon as possible' Under the provisions of a UN resolution adopted on Friday night, the Lebanese army is supposed to dispatch 15,000 troops to the south. The same number of blue-helmets are to "accompany and support the Lebanese armed forces" who are to ensure that southern Lebanon will be "free of armed personnel". So that they can be sitting ducks for Israel's army?
08-14-06 - IDF general: Troops lacking food can steal from Lebanese stores According to Mizrahi, the logistics branch is prepared for the possibility that combat soldiers will have to remain in Lebanon during the winter.
08-14-06 - A Lebanese man reacts as he looks at destruction of his parents home in the rubble of several collapsed apartment buildings
08-14-06 - Israel will not allow Hezbollah to return to south Lebanon Israel will evidently now control southern Lebanon.
08-14-06 - A Shiite Lebanese woman is seen through the front windshield of a car in awe as she looks at destroyed buildings
08-14-06 - Bush says Israel defeated Hezbollah President Bush said Monday that Israel defeated Hezbollah's guerrillas in the monthlong Mideast war and that the Islamic militants were to blame for the deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians. If Bush thinks this was a victory then we may really be attacking Iran soon, if we are to believe the recent article by Seymour Hersh. Nobody buys that the killing of civilians by Israel is anyone else's fault BUT that of Israel, except for of course the Israel-apologists.
08-14-06 - Israeli protested on Capitol Hill Speakers at Monday afternoon's protest, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Justice & Accountability, accused Moshe Ya?alon of war crimes for his involvement in the 1996 bombing of a United Nations compound in Kana, Lebanon, that resulted in 106 civilian deaths.
08-14-06 - Local Jews Protest Against War and Stand With Humanity "We are demonstrating to show that many members of the Boston Jewish community, as throughout the world, in fact, oppose Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories and massive human rights abuses against the Lebanese and Palestinian people. We shall gather in mourning for all victims of the conflict -- in Lebanon, Gaza and Israel." the group of demonstrators said in a statement on Thursday.
08-14-06 - Ahmadinejad On '60 MInutes' Leads Some To Protest A dozen members of a militant fringe Jewish group picketed outside CBS Television City Sunday to denounce the network and newsman Mike Wallace for interviewing the president of Iran.
The JDL is a terrorist group, not a "militant fringe group".
08-14-06 - Israel, Defeated As usual, Seymour Hersh has the inside dope, and he depicts Israel's failed blitz as a dress rehearsal for the main event: an American confrontation with Iran. Once again, as in the run-up to American's war with Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney and his office were among the chief instigators.
08-14-06 - The De-Zionization of the American Mind - How to Deal with The Lobby
08-14-06 - Lebanon's middle class is disillusioned with America
08-14-06 - Jewish Greeks advocate for Israel Jewish fraternities and sororities are launching an Israel advocacy push on college campuses this fall. Thus do American universities continue to be Ziogandized.
08-13-06 - US involved in planning Israel's operations in Lebanon "When they grabbed the soldiers in early July, that was then a pretext" for Israel's assault on Hezbollah, Hersh said Sunday on CNN television...."This White House will find a way to view what happened with the Israelis against Hezbollah as a victory, and they'll find a way to see it as a positive for any planning that is going towards Iran," he told CNN.
08-13-06 - Thirteen killed as Israel keeps up strikes on Lebanon Thirteen civilians, including a mother and three children, were killed as Israel pounded targets across Lebanon despite expectations of an impending ceasefire...Israeli raids killed two Palestinians and wounded seven others in the Tyre area as well as in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon, police said. Three civilians were killed and 15 others wounded when Israeli war planes destroyed a house and a prayer building in the village of Ali an-Nahri east of the ancient city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. Two civilians were killed and six others wounded in Israeli bombardments on a pick-up carrying gas canisters at the entrance of Baalbek.
08-13-06 - Israeli missile kills three members of one Lebanese family The search for the remaining victims had to be called off because of renewed Israeli raids on the city Sunday that targeted petrol stations, sparking a huge fire that threatened to engulf a nearby hospital.
08-13-06 - Suspected Palestinian collaborator executed Witnesses say gunmen from a Palestinian militant group have shot dead a man suspected of collaborating with Israel in front of a crowd of people in the West Bank city of Jenin.
08-13-06 - Hezbollah fires 250 rockets into Israel Hezbollah fired more than 250 rockets into Israel on Sunday, the fiercest attack against northern Israel since the fighting began more than a month ago, the Israeli army reported. One Israeli man was killed.
08-13-06 - Ongoing heavy civilian toll in Lebanon 'unacceptable': Red Cross The humanitarian agency highlighted an Israeli air strike Friday on hundreds of people fleeing the area of Marajayoun by car, in which six were killed and 32 were wounded.
08-13-06 - Tyre bombing fires threaten hospital Israeli warplanes have bombed five petrol stations in Lebanon's southern port city of Tyre, sparking a huge fire that threatens to engulf a nearby hospital, the hospital director says.
08-13-06 - Annan says Lebanon fighting to end but Israel pushes assault Israel carried out waves of deadly bombing raids on Lebanon, flattening homes, bridges and setting petrol stations ablaze even after UN chief Kofi Annan said a ceasefire in the devastating month-old war would take effect on Monday.
08-13-06 - Bush 'viewed war in Lebanon as a curtain-raiser for attack on Iran' Note - I saw this article AFTER I had already made my blog post on the same topic.
08-13-06 - Nervous wait for aid agencies Four weeks of fighting have seen the deaths of more than 1,000 people in Lebanon - most of them, civilians - and more than 120 Israelis - most of them, soldiers.
08-13-06 - Lebanon falters over truce detail
08-13-06 - Gazans see no end to Israeli occupation a year after pullout "We had the withdrawal, but we don't have freedom."
08-13-06 - OPT: Patients pay the price of embargo
08-13-06 - Israel's attack on Lebanon was a dry run for America vs. Iran New article by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. When he writes, get ready to sit on the edge of your seat.
08-13-06 - Members of the Lebanese Red Cross carry the coffin of their colleague Mikaeil Georges Jbaili, who was killed during an Israeli air raid
08-13-06 - A Lebanese firefighter extinguishes a fire at a destroyed building after an Israeli airstrike attacked a complex of eight residential buildings
08-13-06 - Lebanon war a 'total defeat' for Israel: Iran Reacting to the UN Security Council resolution unanimously adopted Friday calling for an end to hostilities in Lebanon, Asefi said Iran considers it "unbalanced" but is nevertheless "satisfied" because the text took into account Lebanese demands and did not result in the United States and Israel "completely imposing their will."
08-13-06 - Lebanon UN resolution not enough: Saudi FM
08-13-06 - In pictures: Renewed violence
08-13-06 - Why Bush embraces Israel's hard line A recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found that 59 percent of respondents judged Israel's actions in the current conflict "justified." That's a stark contrast to opinion in Europe. In Britain, a Daily Telegraph poll found that only 17 percent of respondents agreed that Israeli attacks were "appropriate and proportional." In Germany, a similar survey found only 12 percent approval. And therein lies the reason why Americans 'support' Israel: our media does not portray any part of Israel's behavior in both Lebanon and Palestine in any truthful way. In Europe, you have an entirely different story - which is why I read mostly the British coverage of the events in the Middle East. Americans are being deceived - in a BIG way.
08-13-06 - Fleeing Lebanese Christians See Town Forever Changed
08-13-06 - Israel urges firm application of Lebanon resolution
08-13-06 - Israel Seeks Hint of Victory Israel's move to greatly increase its ground forces in Lebanon a day before it is expected to accept a cease-fire has two goals: to damage Hezbollah as much as possible and to conclude the conflict with something that could be called a victory for an Israeli government under domestic pressure. Israel needs to save face and will take advantage of the ceasefire to attempt to claim victory.
08-13-06 - Hamas-led cabinet condemns Israeli control over Rafah crossing
08-13-06 - American support may no longer be enough Israelis typically regard themselves as superior to their neighbours, and the root cause of this mentality lies in their sense of racial superiority. Indeed it is impossible to explain Israel's attitude towards the west on the one hand and its Arab neighbours on the other without understanding its racial character and motivation. Israelis aspire to be treated on a par with westerners - that is, of course, white westerners; by the same token they have contempt for Arabs, including those who are citizens of Israel, whom they look down on as less civilised than themselves. Israel behaves in the manner of a settler colony whose people do not believe they are of the region but who none the less think they have every right to be there.
08-13-06 - Canadian organization aids Palestinian farmers
08-13-06 - 'Arms tunnel' destroyed
08-13-06 - Iran leader says US and Europe face backlash from supporting Israel Commenting on the Israeli-Hezbollah war, the conservative leader said US support for Israel "threatens the future of all peoples, including the American and European peoples.
08-13-06 - Truce will be Israel's last, Lebanon envoy declares "Lebanon will be, I think, the last state to sign a peace treaty with Israel," UN ambassador Nouhad Mahmoud told CNN television's "Late Edition" program, without explaining the remark.
08-13-06 - Israel says it can target Hizbollah arms despite truce "The ceasefire is not a cessation of Israeli army activity in the Lebanon arena ... It will protect its troops and civilians."
08-13-06 - Venezuela won't push for Israel boycott Venezuela said Sunday that it does not back an OPEC oil boycott to protest Israel's military offensive in Lebanon but warned the conflict would continue "pressuring" world oil prices.
08-13-06 - Resistance agrees truce, can it now resist a fight?
08-13-06 - Analysts fear truce will be trapped in Catch 22
08-13-06 - Bush's belief in a worldwide Islamist conspiracy is foolish and dangerous Bush - the great uniter (of Muslims worldwide vs. the US).
08-13-06 - RCS delivers urgent aid to Palestinians
08-13-06 - Spot the difference More than one mainstream media journalist feels the debate over Qana is part of a wider campaign by Israeli sympathisers to discredit journalism that shows Lebanese victims. In other words, blogs are now part of an old-fashioned propaganda war. Well yeh. But this is really nothing new. For as long as I've studied the ME conflict online, there has been no shortage of Israel-defenders in cyberspace.
08-12-06 - Israeli raid damages Roman temple ISRAELI air raids in the eastern Lebanese region of Baalbek killed one child and caused damage to the ancient Roman temple of Bacchus overnight, the town mayor said.
08-12-06 - 24 IDF soldiers killed Saturday in south Lebanon
08-12-06 - Israel suffers highest 1-day toll of war Israel's military said 19 soldiers killed, five more were missing and more than 70 were wounded after first day of the expanded offensive....At least 19 Lebanese civilians were killed in Israeli air raids Saturday. In the deadliest strike, Israeli missiles killed at least 15 civilians in the southern village of Rachaf, Lebanese security officials said. Notice the Lebanese civilians killed by Israel on Saturday don't get a mention until the end of the article. That's the Associated Press for you - the mouthpiece of Israel.
08-12-06 - Hezbollah downs Israeli helicopter in Lebanon
08-12-06 - Israel attacked convoy after approving it, UN says Israeli forces launched an air strike on the convoy on Friday, killing a Lebanese Red Cross worker and six other civilians and wounding 36 people, among them members of the Lebanese security forces, and destroying a number of vehicles. "It's against the Geneva Conventions, attacking civilians and vehicles with Red Cross symbols," the head of the Lebanese Red Cross, George Kettani, told Reuters on Saturday
08-12-06 - Israel informs Palestinians to close Gaza-Egyptian border until further notice
08-12-06 - Fatah, Hamas head for national reconciliation: official
08-12-06 - Cluster bombs add to terror Because of the high proportion of civilians that have been killed or injured by these weapons, many organizations such as the Red Cross, the Cluster Munition Coalition and the United Nations oppose their use. An international consensus is building against them.
08-12-06 - Muhamed Sameer Moussa ,11, whose legs were amputated after he was injured in an Israeli air strike in al-Daheera, lies on a hospital bed
08-12-06 - Youth suffers serious injuries in Nablus
Israeli soldiers stationed at Za'atara military checkpoint, at the Nablus-Salfit junction, opened fired at a Palestinian youth seriously injuring him in his back.
08-12-06 - ICRC aid ship finally arrives in Lebanon A ship chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross and unloaded 200 tonnes of urgent humanitarian aid in the Lebanese port of Tyre after its arrival had been delayed by Israel.
08-12-06 - Leaders agree to UN truce timing A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah will come into force at 0500 GMT on Monday, the UN Secretary General has said
08-12-06 - Red Cross volunteer cries, in the town of Zahle, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, next to a poster of his colleague Mickael Jbeili who was killed late Friday, while his Red Cross team was escorting a convoy of refugees, which was hit by an Israeli drone near the Bekaa Valley town of Chtaura
08-12-06 - U.S. assures Israel it will not be forced to withdraw from Shaba A senior government source said that Israel would not be obligated to withdraw from Shaba Farms, even if Annan's investigation determines that they belong to Lebanon.
08-12-06 - UN says 'peace tomorrow' despite Israeli attack
08-12-06 - IDF Causes Serious Head Injury to Israeli Lawyer In total 9 people were shot with rubber bullets in a non-violent demonstration in Bil'in. Those shot included 2 villagers of Bil'in as well as citizens of Denmark, France, USA, Japan and Israel. Other people from United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark were beaten, struck with rifle butt or injured by sound grenade fragments.
08-12-06 - Tragedy mars escape from besieged Lebanon village Violette, her daughter and her brother-in-law were part of a convoy of vehicles carrying 4,000 mainly Christian refugees fleeing their village of Marjayun when they were attacked on Friday by Israeli air strikes..."I had the feeling of being crushed, then being ejected into the air and finally being shattered by a shockwave," said Violette's daughter Abir, 29, lying in the bed next to her mother's at the Farhat hospital in Jeb Jannin...."We followed the road they (the Israelis) chose. We didn't deviate by one bit. We had been authorized to go. No one was armed, since they confiscated all our weapons before leaving the barracks," said Daoud. "I don't understand anything. All I know is that innocent people died," he said.
08-12-06 - Hard-Line Neocons Assail Israel for Timidity These public attacks are widely believed to reflect the positions of hard-line neoconservatives within the administration of President George W. Bush, centered, in particular, in Cheney's office and that of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
08-12-06 - Were Bush and Blair the Targets? by Patrick J. Buchanan Had the plot not been aborted, the War Party ? Newt and the neocons ? would have seized on the slaughter over the Atlantic to stampede America into a new war on Iran, as they seized on 9/11 to stampede us into the war on Iraq. Excellent point from my favorite political commentator.
08-12-06 - AIPAC Points to Legion of Doom in Bekaa Valley Much of the material cited by AIPAC to back up the press release is of dubious veracity, and the information that links these terrorist groups to the Bekaa Valley region is years or even decades old (as is evident if one reads though the release) AIPAC is of course reaching for straws to downplay/deflect attention away from Israel's destruction in Lebanon.
08-12-06 - CPTers monitoring home invasion detained for five hours
08-12-06 - Israeli troops reach Litani River - here's the real motive A report on Debka File, a website often described as reflecting the thinking of Israeli intelligence, described "Israel's recovery of control over its main sources of water" at Wazzani as "the most important gain from the crisis" in Lebanon.
08-12-06 - Nations offer to send troops to Mideast Australia - France, New Zealand and Italy said Saturday they are ready to send peacekeeping troops to help Lebanon regain control of its south, as governments around the world welcomed a U.N. resolution calling for an end to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
08-12-06 - Peres says U.N. resolution "vindicates" Israel "Without the military pressure we would not have had the diplomatic deal," elder statesman Peres told Israel radio. The "military pressure"? Is that Israel-speak for wholesale destruction of civilian life and infrastructure?
08-12-06 - Buchanan slams Israel on Lebanon War - MUST SEE God bless him.
08-12-06 - Senior source: IDF to withdraw in week or two
08-12-06 - The Semantics of Terror Israel claims that the civilian deaths are collateral damage of attacks on Hezbollah, but apart from the morality and legality, the math defies these excuses. Current Israeli deaths run roughly one civilian dead for two military dead. The far higher Lebanese casualties are running at around ten civilian dead (including three children) for every claimed Hezbollah victim. The continuing nature of those casualties suggests, as Kofi Annan told the Security Council last week, that there is a "pattern of breaches of international law." His view was backed up even forcefully by NGOs like Human Rights Watch.
08-12-06 - A Letter from 18 Writers Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation.
08-12-06 - Hezbollah's welfare services ensure grass-roots support
08-12-06 - The land of the free - but free speech is a rare commodity The demented, bullying tone of the websites is another symptom of the descent of public discourse in America and, frankly, one can easily see the attractions of self-censorship on the question of Middle East and Israel. Read David Horovitz for longer than five minutes and you begin to hear Senator Joseph McCarthy accusing someone of un-American activities.
08-12-06 - Nobody's victory, but in the end Israel could not defeat Hizbollah The nature of the Israeli campaign in Lebanon, with its scorched-earth policy designed to drive out local populations, its mendacious claim that it had allowed humanitarian corridors when it had not, its lack of concern for the killing of civilians (and callous explanation that dead civilians should have fled when threatened) has amplified the increasing sense abroad that this is a country which does not care about international law.
08-12-06 - Safe play areas offer some relief for children caught in Gaza conflict zone
08-12-06 - Bush phones Siniora on UN resolution "The president stressed the need to dismantle Hizbollah's state within a state in order to build Lebanese democracy," Jones said. "He expressed his view that Iran and Syria were arming Hizbollah in order to exert unwanted influence over Lebanon."
08-12-06 - The Israeli Master Plan: Jerusalem 2000 Despite all the United Nations? resolutions on the illegality of the Israeli occupation?s actions in Jerusalem since 1967, the Israeli government proceeded to redraw the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem to include ?Jordanian? Jerusalem and land adjacent to it in the West Bank. This is the area which came to be known as East Jerusalem. Some 70,000 dunams (17,500 acres) owned exclusively by Palestinians, including the lands of 28 villages (excluding its inhabitants) were annexed de facto to Israel. Since then, the government of Israel and the Israeli municipality have been systematically expropriating land and confining Palestinians to ever smaller areas in East Jerusalem so that today only 7,000 dunams, or 10% of the land, are used by its Palestinian owners
08-12-06 - Arab League criticizes U.N. resolution Arab countries criticized a U.N. Security Council resolution for not clearly labeling Israel the main aggressor in the conflict with Hezbollah, but expressed cautious hopes that an end to the monthlong conflict could be nearing.
08-12-06 - Analysis: Pact won't improve U.S. image "The U.S. reputation as an honest broker has been eroding under this administration for some time. This just crystallized what the Arabs thought," said Jonathan Clarke, a former British diplomat now at the Cato Institute. He said the Arabs had grown to believe "the U.S. and Israel had become one country." And here's who is responsible for THAT.
08-12-06 - Blair plans to visit Israel and Palestine Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday he plans to visit the Middle East soon to search for ways to address the continuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
08-12-06 - FEATURE-Former Gaza settlers feel vindicated as war rages The descent into conflict has also set back, if not wrecked, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan for a withdrawal from some of the settlements in the occupied West Bank if peacemaking with the Palestinians remains frozen.
08-12-06 - After beating Lieberman in primary, Lamont turns attention to November
08-12-06 - Protesters march for the end of the war in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine
08-12-06 - Evangelicals quiet about war in Lebanon Haggard said Israeli embassy officials called him several times a day during the first two weeks of the conflict, asking for a public expression of support. He declined. These idiots are hypocrites. Israel has destroyed Lebanon - a country with a population that is 40 percent Christian.
08-12-06 - Antiwar Camp in Israel Comes Out of Bunker
08-12-06 - Thousands protest Lebanon war outside White House In Los Angeles, the local coordinator of ANSWER blamed the United States for sponsoring the Israeli invasion by providing it with financial and military support.
08-12-06 - Bolton Gets Sandbagged? While Bonkers was busy (a) preventing the UN Security Council from calling for a temporary lull in the killing of Lebanese civilians by Israelis in "self-defense" and (b) strong-arming the Security Council into calling on Iran to give up its IAEA Safeguarded nuclear programs, Joe Lieberman, Bush's favorite Democrat and arguably the strongest supporter of Israel in the U.S. Senate, went down to defeat in a Democratic primary election.
08-12-06 - Bush links Hezbollah and 'plot'
08-12-06 - Building bridges for peace
08-12-06 - Israeli Mourns by Donating Brother's Eyes to an Arab
08-12-06 - Thousands rally under Lebanese and Palestinian flags to protest in Toronto "I think there's a lot of rage across Canadian society," said protester Dan Freeman-Maloy, 24. "Not only for the terrible atrocities that Israel is committing right now . . . but also for the support at every level of Canadian government."
08-11-06 - Israel blasts key bridge to Syria Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded Hezbollah positions Friday in attempts to gain unchallenged command of strategic high ground and disrupt guerrilla rocket attacks across the border. In far north Lebanon, Israeli jets blasted a key bridge to Syria and killed at least 12 people.
08-11-06 - Israeli drone strike on convoy kills 7 An Israeli drone fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Lebanon on Friday night, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, an Associated Press photographer said.
08-11-06 - UN rights body backs Israel probe Addressing the emergency session in Geneva, the UN's human rights chief, Louise Arbour, chided both sides for inflicting suffering on civilians. "Israeli attacks affecting civilians continue unabated," she told a special session of the UN Human Rights Council.
08-11-06 - Food running out in south Lebanon "We have not received any aid since the last route was cut off. We have enough food supplies for no more than two days," Tyre's mayor, Abdel-Mohsen al Husseini, told a news conference.
08-11-06 - US mulling Israeli request for M-26 rockets with cluster munitions The senior official said there was discussion to block the sale because during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon civilians were killed with the weapon, but added that the rockets would likely be delivered and that Israel would be told to "be careful." They hate us for 'our freedom', I bet.
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08-11-06 - 16 Israeli soldiers wounded in south Lebanon
08-11-06 - Italian aid worker killed in Israel Frammartino, a law student from the town of Monterotondo near Rome, was working as a volunteer at a summer camp for Palestinian children run by Italian trade union CGIL
08-11-06 - Lebanese Red Cross workers search for bodies under the rubble of building destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Maarub
08-11-06 - UN vote backs Lebanon ceasefire Some 15,000 peacekeeping troops for the existing UN Interim Force in Lebanon, Unifil, which will receive a beefed-up mandate to monitor and enforce the ceasefire
08-11-06 - Peace deal at UN is clouded by Israeli ambiguity Olmert appears to accept text hours after shocking security council by insisting on going ahead with Lebanon offensive
08-11-06 - Gaza border opens for three hours Israel is able to block the opening of the crossing by closing the Israeli-Egyptian crossing point at Kerem Shalom. This prevents European monitors from reaching their posts
08-11-06 - Put an end to the aggression by Fouad Siniora Israel says this war is against Hizbullah, not Lebanon. But the Israeli terror is inflicted on all Lebanese. The indiscriminate murder of more than 1,100 Lebanese civilians (a third of them children), the massacres and "cleansing" of villages and the wanton destruction of our infrastructure are nothing short of criminal.
08-11-06 - 'Hot air pushed me off my chair. I was on the ground. I thought I was dead' The attack, which claimed the lives of at least 61 people, has become the single greatest loss of life since the conflict began. The Lebanese health minister, Mohammed Khalifa, said a third of those killed were children under 13.
08-11-06 - OPT: PRCS receives humanitarian aid from the Indian people and Government
08-11-06 - Israel presses on with offensive despite deal Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert endorsed last night's ceasefire deal at the United Nations but its military campaign in Lebanon will continue until he has put the terms to a cabinet meeting tomorrow....In Lebanon, meanwhile Israel continued areial strikes against south Beirut and border crossings to Syria, killing at least 15 people as fighting continued in the south of the country.
08-11-06 - Benn sends first UK contribution to Palestinian fund
08-11-06 - The dying breaths of Tyre's last bakery
08-11-06 - From 2005: Senate Probes Bolton's Pro-Israel Efforts Late one evening, U.S. News reported, Bolton recalled the report, just as it was about to make its way to Powell's office, and allegedly replaced it with a new memo. That memo supposedly did not mention the assessment that Israel may have violated American laws. As a result, Powell never learned that some of his staffers disagreed with Bolton, officials told U.S. News. ....In Israel, Bolton reportedly met with officials of the Mossad intelligence agency without seeking "country clearance" from the State Department's Office Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
08-11-06 - Palestinian teenager stabs Israeli prison guard as guards begin attacking political prisoners
08-11-06 - Israeli strikes deal major blow to Bekaa's working class Maliban was one of five Bekaa factories destroyed in the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon. The attacks have been at their most ferocious in Shiite regions, and the Bekaa, with its mixed population of Shiites, Sunnis and Christians, hasn't been spared.
08-11-06 - Timmerman: Hezbollah Ties to British Plot "Hezbollah operatives had tried to bring in liquid explosives to launch terrorist attacks,? Timmerman said. "The French caught them and the explosives, which were brought in inside little liquor bottles. This is the kind of thing that has Hezbollah?s fingerprints all over it.? Here we go...
08-11-06 - Olmert thanks Bush for U.N. resolution The eight-minute phone call with Bush at his ranch in Texas was initiated by Olmert, said Frederick Jones, spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House "Thanks for being our puppet, Georgie"
08-11-06 - John Bolton, Israel's ambassador to the UN U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in meetings with Israeli officials on Monday that he has no doubt America will attack Iraq, and that it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterwards.
08-11-06 - Hezbollah claims sinking of Israeli gunboat
08-11-06 - Egeland: Mideast anger worst in 20 years "People were enraged collectively in Lebanon, everybody against the Israeli indiscriminate onslaught," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "In Israel, they were a united front to support the strong military measures. In the Palestinian areas, I've never seen them as full of hatred collectively as now. It has to be defused."
08-11-06 - Lebanese mayor says he's seen it before As Israeli shells and bombs exploded on the other side of the hill, the 72-year-old mayor of this south Lebanon village said he'd seen it all before
08-11-06 - Rice expects Israel, Lebanon to accept UN deal
08-11-06 - UN force tries to evacuate Lebanese troops detained by Israeli forces But the UN unit, which made it to the Marjayoun barracks, was unable to leave with the Lebanese force because the roads out of the region were either blocked or destroyed. And that's the same convoy that came under fire by the Israeli drone that killed 7 people.
08-11-06 - Israeli Arabs worry after Hezbollah leader warns them to flee Haifa
08-11-06 - Old Feud Over Lebanese River Takes New Turn Israeli bombing has knocked out irrigation canals supplying Litani River water to more than 10,000 acres of farmland and 23 villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, prompting accusations here that Israel is using its war against Hezbollah to lay claim to Lebanon's prime watersheds....Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, who would become the first president of Israel, in 1919 included the Litani valley among the "minimum requirements essential to the realization of the Jewish National Home."....A report on Debka File, a website often described as reflecting the thinking of Israeli intelligence, described "Israel's recovery of control over its main sources of water" at Wazzani as "the most important gain from the crisis" in Lebanon.
That's quite interesting.
08-11-06 - Analysis: IDF fumes over denied victory Senior officers said they had been looking forward to the fight. Reaching the Litani and eliminating Hizbullah from the villages on the way could have provided, senior officers believe, the victory that Israel has been trying to obtain since July 12
08-11-06 - Bush and Condi clash over Israel; president overrules her for the first time "The United States and Israel must understand that it is not in their long-term interests to allow themselves to become isolated in the Middle East and the world," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Rice ally and senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Both Damascus and Tehran must hear from America directly."
08-11-06 - Bush vs. Condi - The neocons versus America The mere suggestion of dealing with Tehran had the neocons in a lather well before the Israelis launched their campaign of destruction, and neocon "Dark Prince" Richard Perle struck back with an op-ed piece in the Washington Post that accused Condi of an "ignominious retreat" in the face of Iran's nuclear sword.
08-11-06 - Lisbon tight-lipped about Israeli aircraft BEIRUT: Portuguese officials refused to comment Thursday on the details of an Israeli military cargo plane that was given government clearance to land at an airport on a mid-Atlantic archipelago for refueling last week...The head of Amnesty International called on the UK specifically to suspend the sale or transfer of all arms and military equipment to Israel.
08-11-06 - Olmert orders expansion of ground offensive Israel needs to make the ceasefire. But they also need to save face. Hence the reason Olmert orders this expansion. It's like the obstinate snotty kid that says 'There will be a ceasefire not because I have to or because you want me to, but when ~I feel like it~.'
08-11-06 - Iraq: Amnesty International greatly concerned by rising toll of civilian killings, including for discriminatory motives Others, however, appear to have been targeted on account of their gender, sexual orientation or national origin, including women, Palestinian refugees who are long term residents of Iraq, and gay men or men imputed to be gay.
08-11-06 - Pro-Israel pressure strong in US But that mood is not necessarily shared by all Americans. A recent poll in the New York Times suggested that a slight majority of Americans feel their government should not be unquestioning in its support for Israel's war against Hezbollah.
08-11-06 - Liam's Israel ordeal A student's summer mission to coach football to Palestinian children turned into a nightmare after he became the innocent victim of heightened security in the Middle East.
08-11-06 - Anglican Bishop is Harassed Leaving Israel
08-11-06 - Intellectuals appeal for Mideast calm Seventy Jewish and Muslim artists and intellectuals issued an appeal for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon.
08-11-06 - New Mexico rabbis sign cease-fire statement Jewish, Muslim and Christian clerics in New Mexico signed a statement urging a cease-fire in the Middle East.
08-11-06 - 5 jailed for refusal Five Israelis have been jailed for refusing to serve in Lebanon and another 12 reportedly are ready to refuse.
08-11-06 - AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails . The 1996 neoconservative "Clean Break" document outlines one group of Israel lobby operatives' coordinated plan with Benjamin Netanyahu to trade missile-defense contract pork for U.S. congressional support for moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
08-11-06 - Extraordinary Precision - The logic of Israel's war on civilians The second claim, that Israel strives to obtain high-tech (American) weapon technology to minimize civilian casualties, is also fraudulent. Once again, the numbers indicate the precise antithesis, denoting that either the "fifth strongest army in the world" is so horribly inept that most of its military strikes result in blunders, or that the killing of civilians is in reality part and parcel of Israel's military strategy. This latter assertion, in my opinion, is the truth, but why?
08-11-06 - Gallup: Many Americans Harbor Strong Bias Against U.S. Muslims And a certain camp would have it no other way.
08-11-06 - Leading Israeli commentator breaks ranks to urge caution
08-11-06 - Left-wing activists protest against 'war crimes' at IAF base
08-11-06 - Barenboim leads concert for Mideast peace
08-11-06 - Cutting through Israel's propaganda war in the US Notice that in the UK, television journalists don't automatically defer to Israeli government represenatives the way US news people do. Why is that?
08-10-06 - Hezbollah fights Israeli push, UN deal seen close In the latest attacks, Hezbollah has fired nearly 70 rockets into Israel, killing a woman and a toddler in an Israeli Arab village. The army is reporting that an Israeli soldier has been killed by an anti-tank missile in fighting in southern Lebanon.
08-10-06 - Israeli air strike kills 7 in north Lebanon Israeli planes struck the area of Balenat al-Hissa, near Lebanon's northern border with Syria
08-10-06 - Lebanon: 350 soldiers, police detained
08-10-06 - Palestinian militant's house destroyed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza No casualties were caused as the militant received a phone call from the Israeli army that warned of an imminent strike, they added.
08-10-06 - Palestinian deaths rise amid fear of worse to come From late June, when Israel launched its offensive, until August 8, at least 170 Palestinians were killed, of whom 138 were civilians and a quarter children, the monitoring group said. Other reports have put the death toll at 200.
08-10-06 - Israeli bombardment wears on fraught Lebanese nerves UNICEF, the United Nations children's agency, said on Wednesday it was trying to help displaced children cope with memories that may prompt them to wet their beds, cry at the sound of bombing and cling fearfully to their parents.
08-10-06 - Israel warns south Beirut residents to leave
08-10-06 - Lebanon Prepares 35,000 Reserve Troops The Lebanese army called on its 35,000 reserve soldiers to prepare for duty after nearly a month of debilitating attacks by Israel.
08-10-06 - More Homes Destroyed In Gaza
08-10-06 - Israel 'seizes Lebanese towns' A Reuters journalist said Israeli troops were moving on foot through Marjayoun, a Christian town about eight kilometres inside Lebanon
08-10-06 - Russia loses patience over Lebanon resolution "We can't sit there and keep discussing and wait for something to happen," said the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin. " There is a humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Lebanon. We have to stop the killing."
08-10-06 - Gaza girl 'not killed by strike' The head of the Palestinian ambulance service, Muawiyah Hassanein, said the girl fell from a swing at her home near the scene of the attack that killed two gunmen. He believed the girl had fallen because of the sound of the blast.
08-10-06 - Tourist stabbed to death in Jerusalem: Israeli police
08-10-06 - Lebanese Red Cross volunteers transfer medical supplies and food by hand intended for southern Lebanon across the Litani River
08-10-06 - EU commissioner urges respect for humanitarian rules in Mideast conflict
08-10-06 - Israeli airstrike damages mixed area of Beirut "You see what they did, the Israelis?" asked Tony Haddad, a Christian who lives down the street. "There is no Hezbollah here. No offices. No armed men. Just residential apartments. Women and children."
08-10-06 - Israel struggles to capture strategic hills There were reports of deaths and casualties in the fighting around Metulla but the Israeli army refused to comment until relatives had been informed
08-10-06 - Palestinian deaths rise amid fear of worse to come
08-10-06 - Israel's misguided strategies The United States, in turn, miscalculated Israel's abilities and the damage done to its own interests in the Middle East by blocking a quick cease-fire and allying its policies so closely to those of Israel. As the destruction of Lebanon continues unchecked, with America's support, even such friends of the United States and Israel as Jordan's King Abdullah are talking in terms of "victims of Israeli aggression." And the angry reaction among Iraq's Shiites will further imperil America's ever-deteriorating chances of success.
08-10-06 - MSNBC POLL: Who is most to blame for civilian casualties in Lebanon? Down a bit, on the right.
08-10-06 - Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionism Brog explains that CUFI has become a valuable ally of AIPAC, which helps them coordinate lobbying efforts. "They have a great research staff," he said. Brog has also earned the confidence of the Jewish Federation by making sure to elicit the cooperation of its local chapters before initiating a recruitment drive in the federation's area
08-10-06 - Conservative magazine: Bush, Rice at odds over Israeli war The disagreement between Mr. Bush and Ms. Rice is over the ramifications of U.S. support for Israel's continued offensive against Lebanon.
08-10-06 - Get the flag off your head And then we wonder why they hate us. But then, we've just sent them more bombs and jet fuel so that they can continue to bomb the defenseless civilians in Lebanon, what really is the diff?
08-10-06 - Finnish FM: Israel destroying Lebanon, not Hizbullah "The real worry ... Is if you (Israel) set out to destroy Hizbullah, you may end up destroying Lebanon but leaving Hizbullah intact. Unfortunately that seems to have happened,"
08-10-06 - Hizbullah's resilience built on years of homework In the current war, Hizbullah has used for the first time the Russian Metis-M, which can be fitted with an anti-armor warhead for destroying tanks, or a fuel-air explosive warhead to use against troops or bunkers. ...."These are probably the best trained and most highly-motivated Arab fighters we've ever faced.''
08-10-06 - Israel holds off on new push into Lebanon "The sacred cow in Israel is the life of the soldiers, not of the citizens," says Daniel Ben Simon, a columnist with the Ha'aretz daily newspaper
08-10-06 - Walking in fear in Lebanon's no-drive zone
08-10-06 - Defiant Nasrallah rallies support
08-10-06 - Gaza-Egypt border briefly reopens But the crossing was closed hours again hours later, for security reasons....The Rafah crossing is Gaza's only gateway to the outside world that bypasses Israeli territory.
08-10-06 - Iran wants 'religious empire' in Middle East: Israel "Pot, this is the kettle calling."
08-10-06 - War With Iran 'Inevitable,' Former Israeli Defense Chief Says Now go back and read the this article again, it is a very important read.
08-10-06 - Israel suspends Lebanon offensive for talks: paper
08-10-06 - Arab-Israelis caught in middle Like many Israeli Arabs, Dr Bishara believes that there will be repercussions for the community when the war ends. "We will have to pick up the bill on this," he says. "If they lose they will turn against us, if they win they will turn against us." For Ms Sheikh, the war has made it clear "that there is no illusion of co-existence any more."
08-10-06 - United States Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Ca., right, listens to aid workers at a school, used as a temporary shelter for displaced Lebanese people, in a predominantly Christian area of Beirut
08-10-06 - Rice?s Hurdles on Middle East Begin at Home Mr. Welch represents the traditional State Department view that the United States should serve as a neutral broker in the Middle East. Mr. Abrams, a neoconservative with strong ties to Mr. Cheney, has pushed the administration to throw its support behind Israel. During Ms. Rice?s travels, he kept in direct contact with Mr. Cheney?s office....Several State Department officials have privately objected to the administration?s emphasis on Israel and have said that Washington is not talking to Syria to try to resolve the crisis.
08-10-06 - Israeli settlers divert Nablus village water for their own use
08-10-06 - Computerised weaponry and high morale Troops have found air-conditioned bunkers 40 metres (125ft) below the ground and anti-tank weapons that originate in France, the US and Russia in southern Lebanon.
08-10-06 - Demand an end to this violence The Israeli government's collective punishment of the civilian populations of the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon is clearly in contravention of international law
08-10-06 - Hezbollah visitors arrive with questions The two men complain that Israel is waging an unfair war by targeting civilians and, especially, children. But they reject criticism of their own Haifa-bound rockets, refusing to admit the similarities. Well that's just plain BS. It's no excuse.
08-10-06 - Iran says West dragging feet on Middle East truce
08-10-06 - Judge in AIPAC case allows trial to proceed, but sets tough standard
08-10-06 - Israeli army detains senior militant in Ramallah
08-10-06 - Lebanon aid boosted AUSTRALIA will give another $2 million in humanitarian aid to help Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hizbollah.
08-10-06 - Malaysia urges MidEast countries to cut off ties with Israel
08-10-06 - Arab Bedouins living under Israeli control in the Negev Desert take their case to the UN
08-10-06 - 'New Mideast' may see stronger extremists "The Americans are shooting themselves in the foot," Abdel Moneim Said, head of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, based in Cairo, said. "The only beneficiaries of the ongoing conflict are the fundamentalists." Israel, and consequently the US, has done all it could to isolate and neutralize moderates (such as Abbas) in the region. The policies of Israel and the neocons further radicalize the Middle East. Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it is all part of the plan; to then turn around and say "see, look at these barbarians! How can we be expected to make peace with them?" ....
08-10-06 - The height of American stupidity, LIVE on FOX "(Arabs) have made up a lot of stories. I don't think Israel is really bombing Lebanon. I think it's faulty construction that's causing these buildings to fall."
08-10-06 - 53 U.S. Generals & Admirals Speak Out For Israel We have traveled to Israel over the years with The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). We brought with us our decades of military experience and came away with the unswerving belief that the security of the State of Israel is a matter of great importance to U.S. policy in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. A strong Israel is an asset upon which American military planners and political leaders can rely. Israel shares our commitment to democracy, freedom, personal liberty and rule of law.
The fact that JINSA got a hold on them explains a lot. But that paragraph is hilarious and yet tragically sad (for America) at the same time.
08-10-06 - For a lasting Middle East peace, look back to 1967 UN plan
08-10-06 - US slammed for backing aggression "We ask and wonder: how could you sleep with an easy and clear conscience, and cuddle your children, and the children of American citizens while knowing about these massacres that are being committed against the Lebanese and Palestinian children who are being mercilessly killed by weapons manufactured by US factories and companies?"
08-10-06 - Serve U.S. first How is it that at this time of national peril, these young men can turn their backs on their fellow Americans and cast their lot in the services of a foreign army? I find nothing laudable or commendable about Americans being raised to place the needs of a foreign nation before the land that provided their ancestors shelter, dignity and a chance at a better life! And the fact that there are recruitment shortcomings in the US military can be added on to that statement.
08-10-06 - U.S. Undermines Its Own Freedom There may be a few reasons for some nations to want to fight the United States and Israel. But actually the United States endangers its own security, according to the logic of Lincoln: ?Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
08-10-06 - Group wants U.N. council to probe Lebanon The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate Lebanon for war crimes. Israel has leveled Lebanon. This move is the very definition of chutzpah.
08-10-06 - Russian Jewish group protests Muslim comments Muhammad Karachai, deputy head of the Union of Muftis of Russia, earlier this week said Israel's war on Hezbollah has revealed "the aggressive nature of the Zionist state that organized a real holocaust in Lebanon."
08-10-06 - Poll: Jews backed Lieberman Jews in Connecticut gave U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman more than 60 percent of their vote in his unsuccessful bid to gain the Democratic nomination. I thought Jewish groups were anti-war. So, if the reason that Lieberman has fallen out of favor with Democrats was because of his support for the Iraq war, what gives?
08-10-06 - AIPAC case judge denies dismissal
08-10-06 - Why Do They Hate Us? The argument of the "freedom and values" crowd boils down to this: "The decades of U.S. supplying of advanced weaponry and foreign aid to the Israeli government, which is now being used to kill people in Lebanon, and the U.S. government's obeisance and submissiveness to the Israeli government, have had no adverse effect on how Arabs and Muslims feel about the United States. Their anger and hatred is caused by America's freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and rock and roll." Dah. They hate us for our freedom.. dahh..
08-10-06 - Defence firm protesters arrested The protesters claimed "weapons manufactured by Raytheon were being used by Israel to bomb Lebanon".
08-10-06 - Brazilian synagogue attacked "Lebanon, the True Holocaust" was painted on the sidewalk outside the synagogue, Brazilian officials said.
08-10-06 - McKinney loses again in Georgia, but this time she can?t blame Jews Before the June 18 primary, Jewish money accounted for some $20,000 of the $160,000 Johnson raised. The Jewish contribution for the runoff was about $100,000, about one-third of the new money Johnson raised. The author of this article claims that McKinney can't blame the 'Jews' for losing this election, but then goes on to describe all of the money Jews poured into the campaign of Johnson, McKinney's opponent. Since they funded McKinney's opposition, it is difficult to lend any weight to their claim that they did not influence this defeat. Why did they feel the need to in the first place (if McKinney was on her way out, as they allege), is the question that must be asked.
08-10-06 - Norwegian writer blasts Israel "We do not recognize the State of Israel. Not today, not as of this writing, not in the hour of grief and wrath. If the entire Israeli nation should fall to its own devices and parts of the population have to flee the occupied areas into another diaspora, then we say: May the surroundings stay calm and show them mercy."
08-10-06 - Anti-war protesters rally in Israel Some 600 protesters rallied in Tel Aviv against Israel's offensive in Lebanon.
08-09-06 - Death toll rises to 3 in Israeli airstrike in Gaza two Palestinian militants and a 2-year-old baby girl were killed and three wounded in the Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza City.
08-09-06 - Israeli air attacks kill nine in Lebanon Israeli warplanes killed nine people, including five children, in raids on Lebanon as the Jewish state showed no sign of easing its blistering air campaign in which over 1,000 people -- mostly civilians -- have died
08-09-06 - Child dies in attack on Beit Lahia
08-09-06 - Two militants killed in Israeli raid on Jenin refugee camp
08-09-06 - RCA helps 400 families in West Bank Dubai: Responding to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine, the UAE Red Crescent Authority yesterday launched an urgent relief effort for 400 families in the West Bank.
08-09-06 - US says Iran may use Lebanon war to hurt Iraq
08-09-06 - Lebanese direct growing anger at US "Thank you, George Bush. Thank you for those 'smart' bombs," says Dirani, whose wife and surviving son were injured in the attack. "I want to ask George Bush: 'What did our children do to him?' "
08-09-06 - Annan warning over Gaza situation The killing of civilians, including children, in Gaza was "utterly unjustifiable", his spokesman said.
08-09-06 - Fadi Dahaineh embraces the wrapped body of his 20 month-old son Mohammed who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building
08-09-06 - Was Israel's Aim to Clear Path for US War on Iran? In planning for the destruction of most of Hezbollah's arsenal and prevention of any resupply from Iran, Israel appears to have hoped to eliminate a major reason the George W. Bush administration had shelved the military option for dealing with Iran's nuclear program ? the fear that Israel would suffer massive casualties from Hezbollah's rockets in retaliation for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Excellent point.
08-09-06 - Israel rejects reopening of Rafah crossing despite agreement Israel backed down on Wednesday from its decision to temporarily reopen Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza Strip due to security reasons, a spokeswoman for the European Union monitoring team said. The prison called Palestine.
08-09-06 - A Lebanese injured woman lies in a hospital bed in the southern port city of Sidon
08-09-06 - Mourners gather around some of the Lebanese flag-draped bodies of citizens, killed when an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building
08-09-06 - Crisis worsens Gaza's already severe water shortage
08-09-06 - Future of Palestinian Authority in doubt: Haniyeh Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas questioned on Wednesday whether the Palestinian Authority can continue to function with key lawmakers and ministers in Israeli jails. That was Israel's objective.
08-09-06 - 15 Israeli Soldiers Killed - Reports Israel has lost 15 soldiers and killed 40 Hizbollah guerillas, including some Iranians, in a day of battles in southern Lebanon, Israeli television has reported. The news comes after Israeli troops opened a new front in the region by pushing ground forces further in a bid to gain a secure zone along the border.
08-09-06 - 15 members of Lebanese family killed
08-09-06 - Pessimism on deal amid clashes at UN Mr Chirac warned the Bush administration that an immediate ceasefire was the only solution to the conflict and said giving up on this was "immoral". He urged the US to speed up its response to Arab nations' demands for changes to the ceasefire plan.
08-09-06 - Middle East Delegation Demands Freedom for Political Prisoners and Freedom of Movement for Palestinians
08-09-06 - Fox Military Analyst on Syria: 'We Can Talk To Them When We Line Them Up and Kill Them'
08-09-06 - Taiwan confirms FM visited Hezbollah chief, sparking US and Israeli concern Taiwan's foreign minister James Huang visited the leader of the Hezbollah guerrilla group in a controversial clandestine trip earlier this year, triggering concern from the United States and Israel, the foreign ministry has said.
08-09-06 - US neocons hoped Israel would attack Syria Read the bit by Daniel Levy of Haaretz. These folks would have Americans believe that it's the neocons that are pushing Israel to act and not Israel via the neocons pushing America to act. In his view, Israel is exonerated from all blame. What a crock of BS.
08-09-06 - U.S. directs criticism at Israel The White House said Wednesday neither Israel nor Hezbollah should escalate their month-old war, a pointed comment after Israel decided to widen its ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
08-09-06 - In pictures: Lebanon conflict
08-09-06 - Report: US sailor spied for Israel
08-09-06 - Israel set to invade Lebanon despite lessons of 1982 war On 6 June 1982, on the pretext that Palestinian fighters had attempted to assassinate Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to London, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sent 30,000 soldiers into Lebanon. He told the Israeli cabinet that the PLO was behind the attack, withholding the fact that it had been carried out by Arafat's sworn enemy, Abu Nidal, on the orders of Saddam Hussein.
08-09-06 - Uproar: Chávez equates Nazis, Israelis
08-09-06 - Lebanese Hizbollah denies Iranians among its fighters
08-09-06 - MP resigns post over Middle East He voiced concerns over the use of UK airports like Prestwick to refuel US aircraft travelling to Israel.
08-09-06 - Hezbollah vows Lebanon will be Israel's 'graveyard'
08-09-06 - Nasrallah urges Arabs to leave Haifa
08-09-06 - Displaced children given the opportunity to play Lebanese children forced to flee their homes in recent weeks are being provided with essential physical and psychological help by humanitarian groups funded by The Independent's Save the Children appeal.
08-09-06 - IFJ condemns Israeli 'secret war' tactic after threat to media Israeli forces put out a press statement on Wednesday that says it is limiting 'travel in any kind of vehicle in all areas south of the Litani River in Lebanon', adding that 'these limitations apply to journalists as well'.
08-09-06 - Palestinian patients to be treated in Jordan Jordanian government decided to treat employees of the Palestinian Prime Minister's office who fell ill as a result of a suspicious envelope sent to the Premier's office.
08-09-06 - Israeli army detains 21 Palestinians in West Bank
08-09-06 - Palestinian official calls for dissolving PNA
08-09-06 - It is Lebanon, not Israel, that faces a threat to its existence in this war The Franco-US resolution is an absurdity: it would give Israel immunity while denying Lebanon the right to defend itself
08-09-06 - Palestinians Want Ceasefire with Israel
08-09-06 - First aid supplies arrive in Chouf mountains
08-09-06 - Pregnant refugee punched in stomach as gang attacks family Hiba Bidwan, a Palestinian national, said up to 20 adults and teenagers started punching, hitting and hurling abuse at her family, who came to Glasgow five years ago.
08-09-06 - Jewish leader in Canada wants crack down on Hezbollah demonstrations in Canada The Christians United for Israel coalition and Jewish groups are calling for a national day of prayer on Aug. 20 in support of Israel and peace in the Middle East.
Charles McVety, president of the Canada Christian College, said it's time for Christian leaders to drop their neutral stances and stand by Israel, the birthplace of their religion
As Israel indiscriminately bombs Lebanon - a country that is 40 percent Christian.
08-09-06 - Alleged spy's target 'not Israel' CNN named the country as Russia.
08-09-06 - Support for Hezbollah strengthens with every bombed Beirut building If Israel thought that by slowly strangling the life out of the Lebanese capital, by blockading it from land, sea and air, it would turn Christians against their Muslim neighbours it appears to have miscalculated.
08-09-06 - Unexploded ordnance a threat to returning Lebanese It is estimated that around 10 per cent of these munitions have not exploded, so it is likely there are more than 7,000 unexploded munitions across the conflict zone.
08-09-06 - Israel's Military Invincibility Dented by Hezbollah "They have stood their ground against Israel longer than any combination of Arab armies in 1967 or 1973, and inflicted heavy casualties,"
08-09-06 - How the US fired Jack Straw The Foreign Secretary spoke his mind on the Middle East ? and became a target in Washington
08-09-06 - Baruch Requires Students Read Book Some Are Labeling Anti-Semitic Mr. Hedges describes the actions of Israeli soldiers in a Palestinian refugee camp as follows: "I had seen children shot in other conflicts I had covered ? but I had never watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport."
That's the REAL reason these folks are labeling the book 'anti-Semitic'. They cannot have anyone reading that passage or what Hedges witnessed firsthand. You can read about it here from the Internet Archiver. And the NY Sun is a mouthpiece for Israel, in case you hadn't figured it out.
08-09-06 - Former Carter adviser: U.S. losing sight of role as Mideast peacemaker
08-09-06 - Israel offers to pay for those fleeing More than 300,000 residents of northern Israel already have left the region - which has been pummeled by thousands of Hezbollah rockets - and are staying in hotels or with relatives farther south. Most of those who remain in the danger zone are poor, infirm or elderly, who have nowhere to go or no way to leave.
08-09-06 - Forced ceasefire would be defeat for democracy Jonathan Freedland (Comment, August 2) denounces Hizbullah for embedding its fighters in Lebanese villages, next to schools, hospitals and refugee centres. But where does he think Israel's weapons factories, army camps and military airfields are to be found?
08-09-06 - Hackers post anti-Israel message on local Web sites The hackers posted a page stating, "FOR PALESTINIAN AND LEBANESE CHILDREN!!! NO WAR! NO ISRAEL!"
08-09-06 - Judge denies jury anonymity for man accused of funding Hamas
08-09-06 - Lebanese Christians Caught in Political Crossfire
08-09-06 - Navy says sailor in brig stole laptop, gave out classified info After refusing to release full details on a pending espionage case involving a petty officer held in the Norfolk brig, the Navy on Tuesday provided some specifics about the charges.
08-09-06 - AT&T Adds Designation for Palestinians The company also is raising the rates sharply for calling the West Bank and Gaza, citing the rising fees AT&T needs to pay other carriers in that region to connect calls.
08-09-06 - Pat Robertson reports from Israel The evangelical Christian leader and strong backer of Israel told his ?700 Club? audience Wednesday that he traveled to northern Israel in a show of support for the Jewish state
08-09-06 - Gadhafi?s son seeks to sue Israelis A Libyan state charity demanded that Israeli leaders be tried in connection with the Lebanon offensive.
08-09-06 - Options Charges The Justice Department says Alexander wired $60 million from his own brokerage account to Israel "in an attempt to conceal the proceeds from the U.S. authorities."
08-09-06 - But the "Israel Lobby" Doesn't Exist
08-09-06 - Israel's Conspiracy Theories Israel often constructs a mythical puppeteer, far bigger than the opponent it is fighting, to either exaggerate its victories or minimize the meaning of its defeats. That was perhaps the point I was getting at in one of my rants from last night's news. If Israel hadn't killed all of those Lebanese civilians, than its own death count would seem more signifcant. In other words, Israel feels the need to inflict losses greater than its own in order to claim victory. Or so it would seem.
08-09-06 - Southern Jews and evangelicals: Coming together
08-08-06 - Israeli gunboats hit Palestinian camp Israeli gunboats shelled Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp early Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, Lebanese and Palestinian officials said.
08-08-06 - Israeli strike kills 14 Israeli air raids killed 14 people and wounded 23 in the southern village of Ghaziyeh, rescue workers and hospital officials said. The bombs fell as mourners elsewhere in the village were burying 15 people killed by a raid there on Monday.
08-08-06 - 3 Palestinian Refugees Killed in Baghdad
08-08-06 - Jews suspected in drive-by killing of West Bank Palestinian The son said that settlers had opened fire on the car. Palestinian witnesses said that the assailants' car bore Israeli license plates.
08-08-06 - Lebanese oil spill could rival Exxon Valdez disaster: UN
08-08-06 - The father of Lebanese Hadi Jaafar, 2, kisses his son's wrapped body during the mass funeral of Lebanese civilians
08-08-06 - A Lebanese Red Cross worker (bottom) signals to colleagues that he found three bodies under the rubble after an Israeli air strike
08-08-06 - Surgeon Hassan Nassar examines injured Lebanese boy Hassan Al Raai, 13, in the intensive care unit
08-08-06 - Bloody night in Beirut as Israel intensifies aerial bombardment Israel also threatened to attack UN peacekeepers if they attempted to repair bomb-damaged bridges in southern Lebanon. UN officials contacted the Israeli army to inform them that a team of Chinese military engineers attached to the UN force in Lebanon intended to repair the bridge on the Beirut to Tyre road to enable the transport of humanitarian supplies.
According to the UN, Israeli officials said the engineers would become a target if they attempted to repair the bridge.
Read that again.
08-08-06 - Israel isolates Tyre with threat to bomb all traffic The travel ban had no time limit and mentioned no exceptions, even for ambulances and humanitarian convoys
08-08-06 - Robert Fisk: Israel's promise of humanitarian corridors is exposed as a sham Requests from humanitarian organisations for clearance from the Israelis are now being refused. Even the Red Cross admits there is now, in effect, a blockade on a vast area along the Lebanese border where thousands of civilians are still cowering in their homes.
08-08-06 - UN hears plea to amend resolution The delegation wants to add demands for an Israeli pullout from Lebanon. But France and the US, which thrashed out the text, do not want major changes.
08-08-06 - Israel widens targets to hit civilian sites ISRAEL plans to ramp up its offensive in Lebanon by attacking the nation's strategic civilian infrastructure to make Beirut more amenable to ceasefire proposals acceptable to Jerusalem. Israel has already been attacking civilian life and infrastructure, quite obviously so.
08-08-06 - A Lebanese civil defence worker removes the body of a toddler from the wreckage of a building
08-08-06 - Crisis worsens Gaza's already severe water shortage People in Joret al Lout have not had drinkable running water in their homes since 28 June, when the region?s only power plant was bombed
08-08-06 - UN relief aid for south Lebanon frozen UN relief aid in southern Lebanon has been completely frozen despite Israeli assurances that humanitarian convoys would be excluded from attack warnings on any moving vehicle south of the Litani River, aid agencies have said.
08-08-06 - Almost half the fatalities in the Gaza Strip in July were civilians not taking part in the hostilities The IDF did not issue a statement regarding any of these cases, nor acknowledge that these civilians had been killed. It is unclear why, in these four cases, the Israeli military fired at unarmed civilians and at residential apartments. According to B'Tselem's investigation, there were no armed Palestinians or weapons stored in any of these locations
08-08-06 - 'We are ready to fight, we are ready to die' "All children now want to grow up to fight Israel. It's shameful how we are being treated. What have we as children ever done to them? Nobody cares what happens to us, nobody will do anything if we don't defend ourselves." The world does nothing for the victims of Israel's violence.
08-08-06 - Jenin Mayor in dire health in Israeli jail, family asks for help to bring his medication - An urgent appeal was issued Monday for the release of Jenin?s Mayor from Israeli prison where he is held without charge. His health situation is rapidly deteriorating. The appeal, penned by local humanitarian organizations, is intended to garner international intervention in the case. They hope that someone other than themselves can successfully pressure the Israeli government to release the ailing Mayor.
08-08-06 - UN "stands by" while Lebanese die: Arab League "What is happening will sow the seeds of hatred and extremism in the area and provide a pretext for those who feel that the international community is taking sides and lacks fairness as to this dispute,"
08-08-06 - Indonesia says can't keep militants out of Mideast Indonesia has no way to prevent Muslim militants travelling from its shores to the Middle East or elsewhere to wage war against Israel, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said on Tuesday.
08-08-06 - Annan: Israel raid may be part of pattern Annan said that the July 30 attack was sufficiently serious to merit a more comprehensive investigation
08-08-06 - Suddenly, Washington sees that Iraq, Lebanon issues are linked More substantially, the policy-maker suggested the administration's policies of bolstering Iraq and pulling Arab moderates out of the fire were at risk because of Israel's policies, adding that the Israelis "won't like" aspects of the U.N. Security Council resolution the United States and France proposed this weekend as a way out of the conflict. I saw this one coming from a mile away - and I'm no military planner. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when you arm and back Israel's wanton destruction of Lebanon, it's a sure bet you'll piss off her neighbors. But that fact matters not to the Bush administration, evidently. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and our guys are trapped in the middle like sitting ducks. It's BS of the highest order. And it's exceptionally hard to believe that those in the Bush administration who saw fit to rush Israel bombs and jet fuel did not think of the consequences of these actions beforehand.
08-08-06 - Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong On May 26 this year, two officials of Islamic Jihad - Nidal and Mahmoud Majzoub - were killed by a car bomb in the Lebanese city of Sidon. This was widely assumed in Lebanon and Israel to be the work of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. In June, a man named Mahmoud Rafeh confessed to the killings and admitted that he had been working for Mossad since 1994
08-08-06 - Angry MPs demand recall of parliament Up to 100 MPs, most of them Labour, are to demand an immediate recall of parliament to debate the crisis in Lebanon because of growing fears about the government's strategy.
08-08-06 - U.N. rights council to discuss Israel
08-08-06 - Jordan's king fears for Mid-East King Abdullah of Jordan has criticised the international community for only offering a piecemeal way of dealing with the crises in the Middle East.
08-08-06 - Norwegian delegation stopped from entering Gaza
08-08-06 - Kidnappers want to exchange Israeli soldier for 12 Palestinian prisoners
08-08-06 - Ultimate act of Palestinian nonviolent resistance: We refuse to leave our home
08-08-06 - Daily Harassment at Beit Iba Checkpoint
08-08-06 - Damages on Gaza agricultural sector during latest Israeli attacks Must of the destruction was concentrated east of Gaza City, in the Shafa Saurani region, including destroying 540 dunams of citrus and olive trees, several water wells and 400 dunams of trees planted to protect the area.
08-08-06 - Israeli minister says Russian weapons arming 'terrorists' Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter has said in an interview that "all the terrorists surrounding Israel" are using Russian weapons.
08-08-06 - Synod urged to follow ACC steer on Palestine/Caterpillar As detailed in War on Want?s recent ?alternative report? on Caterpillar, thousands of Palestinian homes and vast swathes of agricultural land have been destroyed by the Israeli military using armoured Caterpillar D9 bulldozers. Caterpillar bulldozers have also been used in the construction of Israel?s Separation Wall, ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice one year ago, in July 2004.
08-08-06 - Settlers Attack Internationals in Suseya A woman from Sweden and a man from Austria were kicked, pushed, jumped on, and bitten by settlers while they walked on Palestinian farmland earlier this evening.
08-08-06 - In Hebron, a South African Compares Israeli Occupation to Apartheid I have been here only three and a half weeks--but in my opinion, it is worse than apartheid.... "Israelis don't know about this, they don't want to know. And if you tell them about it, they say, Well there must be a good reason for it, and that is the end of it." ....Israelis have generally blinded themselves to the apartheid in the back yard because if they did acknowledge it they would have to do something.
08-08-06 - Poisoned substance sent to Haneya's office in Ramallah: spokesman
08-08-06 - Israeli army detains 21 Palestinians in West Bank
08-08-06 - Aiming for Iran As Professor Ali Ansari argues in his forthcoming book, American neo-conservatives helped Iranian neo-conservatives consolidate their position
08-08-06 - Palestinian Authority - Annual report 2006
08-08-06 - Protesters board another US plane at Prestwick
08-08-06 - The End of Illusions Israel submitted to the U.S. a list of requests for amendments to the resolution. When Israel agrees to forgo these amendments, it will, of course, be able to take credit for its flexibility and desire to compromise; Lebanon and Hezbollah, on the other hand, will be cast as villains, rejecting international peacemaking efforts.
08-08-06 - Activists trickle to Lebanon to protest Israel war "We hope this will be the first of what will become continuous convoys to show that there are civilians being killed and affected by this war," Adam Shapiro, an American documentary filmmaker and human rights activist, told Reuters. "If governments are failing to act, we as citizens will."
Ordinary US citizens are taking on the role that our government fails to - to uphold what this country really stands for as put forth by the founding fathers.
08-08-06 - Lutheran, World Church Leaders Join in Call to End Middle East Violence
08-08-06 - Peace-ing it together Surrey family hosting teens living in middle of Palesinian-Israeli conflict
08-08-06 - Bank 'bombers' indicted Two Israelis are suspected of robbing a bank by pretending to be Palestinian suicide bombers
08-08-06 - British Jews warned of rise in hate crime When Olmert claims that this is a war fought 'by all Jews' he has just put all Jews the world over in danger.
08-08-06 - 9/11 Commission Chairmen Admit to Whitewash Some commissioners wanted to cover up the link between the 9/11 attack and U.S. support for Israel because this might imply that the United States should alter that policy and lessen its support for Israeli actions.
08-08-06 - Public Sees Blame to Share in Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Just 38 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll said Israel is "doing all it reasonably can" to avoid civilian casualties in Lebanon, while 54 percent say it should do more
08-08-06 - Echoes of South Africa?
08-08-06 - Condi's 'New Middle East' by Patrick J. Buchanan If neither U.S. party is willing to show any independence of Israel, if America will not address the root causes of Arab animosity, and if we will not even negotiate with our enemies, we should probably pack up and get out of the Middle East. Before we are thrown out.
08-08-06 - 'Did you know' that Israel . . "I don't think that our viewers know that Israel actually occupied Lebanon for 18 years and that in the past 6yrs years alone it's launched 11,782 missiles over the Lebanese border. In comparison, Hizbullah has launched 100 missiles over the border. Did Americans know that? Did they know???"
08-08-06 - DeLay to withdraw from congressional race Speaking of End Times believers, looks like SOMEBODY will now have more than enough time on his hands to pay Israel a visit.
08-08-06 - For some evangelicals, Mideast war stirs hope Believing the Mideast conflict is a sign that Christ will return soon, some evangelical groups have cheered Israel's military actions. What better way for these raving fanatical morons to show their devotion to Israel than to move their and act as human shields for them?
08-08-06 - Roger Waters joins the War on Want The campaign focuses on poverty and marginalisation caused by the dividing wall which separates Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine.
08-08-06 - Encounter at an Israeli Checkpoint
08-08-06 - PM launches UJC campaign: This war fought by all Jews Israel needs the world to believe that it is in a much bigger fight ('for its very existence') than it actually is, hence the reason it routinely claims it is fighting Iran and Syria. Israel does so to win backing from its support base and to justify its utter destruction of civilian life and infrastructure in Lebanon.
08-08-06 - WorldPride supports gay Palestinians Israel-based Palestinian lesbian activist Rauda Morcos said, ?We don't agree to participate in a WorldPride that does not take a political stand against the occupation?.
08-07-06 - Lebanon pleads for ceasefire as Israeli blitz kills 69
08-07-06 - Israeli airstrikes kill 15 in Lebanon Seven people were killed when a missile hit a house in Qassmieh on the coast north of the port city of Tyre, civil defense official Youssef Khairallah said. A woman and her daughter were killed in an attack near a Lebanese army checkpoint between the villages of Harouf and Dweir, security officials said. Four other people were killed in a raid on that destroyed a house in Kfar Tebnit....Air raids on the town of Ghaziyeh also destroyed several buildings, killing at least one person and wounding 14, hospital officials said. A building collapsed on its residents in the village of Ghassaniyeh, and at least one body was retrieved from under the rubble. Witnesses and civil defense workers at the scene said six more people were buried under the rubble but that could not be confirmed
08-07-06 - Red Cross: Israel denying safe passage The Israeli military has denied permission for aid groups to move food and medicine to besieged villages in southern Lebanon for two days, the Red Cross said Monday.
08-07-06 - Israel cuts main aid artery into south Lebanon They said they faced increased danger after separate Israeli air strikes hit two vehicles within meters of a U.N. World Food Programme convoy on Sunday, killing at least two civilians....."The deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure is a violation of international law," U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon David Shearer told reporters in Beirut. Israel doesn't now nor has it ever abided by international law.
08-07-06 - Workers from the aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres,or Doctors Without Borders, transfer medical supplies from a truck by hand intended for southern Lebanon
08-07-06 - American Red Cross Commits $500,000 for Humanitarian Assistance in Lebanon Web Site Established to Help Families Restore Contact Lebanon's 911.
08-07-06 - Arab nations demand UN shift to end Lebanon war Israeli air raids killed more than 50 people on Monday, making it one of deadliest days for Lebanon in the war
08-07-06 - A Lebanese civil defense rescuer touches the hand of a dead woman who was found under the rubble of a collapsed building
08-07-06 - Lebanese civilian Sahar Zabad is carried away by civil defence workers after being pulled out alive from a destroyed house
08-07-06 - A Lebanese injured baby cries while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in the suburbs of Beirut,
08-07-06 - Cabinet will send army to South - if invaders leave Defense Minister Elias Murr said Monday night after a Cabinet session that the government would deploy 15,000 troops along the UN-demarcated Blue Line as soon as Israeli forces withdrew.
08-07-06 - Some victims' progressive lesions mystify doctors "It is an injury by an explosion of what appears to be a non-conventional weapon that aims to make burns on the skin with maximum level of penetration," I've seen many Lebanese victims, including children, afflicted with these types of marks from Israeli munitions.
08-07-06 - Lebanese civilians attempt to reach an elderly woman, illuminated with a search light, trapped on the top floor of a heavily damaged apartment building
08-07-06 - A young injured Lebanese girl cries as she is comforted by a medic at a hospital in the suburbs of Beirut
08-07-06 - A Lebanese fisherman inspects his damaged fishing boat at the port of the southern suburb of Ouzai, in Beirut
08-07-06 - A Lebanese civilian calls for help standing with others on top of rubble that used to be a multi-story apartment building which collapsed after an Israeli air strike
08-07-06 - Israel: U.N. deal must disarm Hezbollah A U.N.-declared cease-fire to stop the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas must ensure that the militant Shiite group cannot be rearmed by Syria and Iran, a senior Israeli official said Sunday.
08-07-06 - Israel threatens wider conflict as diplomacy stalls
08-07-06 - Lebanese Khadijeh Saleh and her son, bottom, react after a building collapsed on their relatives, in the town of Ghassaniyeh
08-07-06 - Palestinians Probe Suspicious Envelope Palestinians launched an investigation Monday after seven people were hospitalized when one of them opened a suspicious envelope addressed to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, officials said.
08-07-06 - Legislators call for dissolving Palestinian National Authority: report
08-07-06 - Baby winning fight for life in Lebanon
08-07-06 - No political upside in criticizing Israel by Robert Novak Such critics of Israel inevitably are taken to task, sooner or later -- usually sooner
08-07-06 - Chavez accuses Israel of 'new Holocaust' Chavez's comments in his weekly radio and TV broadcast came three days after he said he was recalling Venezuela's top diplomat to Israel to express his government's indignation over Israeli attacks in Lebanon and its actions toward Palestinians.
08-07-06 - Israel shoots down Hizbollah drone
08-07-06 - Lebanon fighting must stop now, Putin tells Blair Russian President Vladimir Putin has told British Prime Minister Tony Blair "of the need for an immediate halt to hostilities" in Lebanon, the Kremlin has said.
08-07-06 - Arab anger at their governments grow As their anger against Israel and America swells, protesters across the Middle East are also increasingly venting their frustration at their Arab rulers, especially in moderate countries whose governments have been reliable U.S. allies.
08-07-06 - Legislators call for dissolving Palestinian National Authority: report
08-07-06 - Nearly all Palestinians back Hezbollah: poll
08-07-06 - US evangelist leads the millions seeking a battle with Islam Americans and their foreign policy are held hostage by religious fanatics.
08-07-06 - Iran says US or Israeli attack will face "raging sea" Any U.S. or Israeli attack against Iran will be returned by a force 100 times stronger, the head of the Revolutionary Guards said on Monday, as pressure mounts on Tehran's atomic work and its support for Hizbollah.
08-07-06 - UN general warns against 'Iraq situation' Any attempt to deploy international troops to disarm Hizbullah by force would turn Lebanon into another Iraq, according to the head of Unifil, the UN's monitoring mission in Lebanon.
08-07-06 - Toll of a war that shames the world 29 Lebanese Army soldiers have been killed. 3,293 Lebanese have been wounded. 45 per cent of the casualties have been children. 913,000 Lebanese have been displaced (300,000 of whom are children). 94 Israelis have been killed and 1,867 wounded.
08-07-06 - Tape shows Hezbollah 'confession' The videoed interrogation appears to have been heavily edited. They cut out the parts where they tortured him into admitting he 'trained in Iran', no doubt.
08-07-06 - Another Hamas politician seized Fadl Hamdan, who is from the governing Hamas movement, was seized when troops raided his house in Ramallah. Israel has not said why it took him.
08-07-06 - Rockets hit Israeli-Arabs, too Many residents of Wadi Nisnas, one of the best-known Arab neighborhoods in a city often celebrated as a model of peaceful Jewish-Arab coexistence, expressed frustration Monday that the Israeli municipality had not built any shelters here or found other solutions for the residents....."It's not only that there are no shelters in this neighborhood, but that there is a system of discrimination in all kinds of services," says Jafar Farah, the director of the Mossawa Center, a local Arab rights organization. "We were asking them since the second day of the war open something and they have refused." Israel uses its Arabs, like it does the Palestinians, as human shields?
08-07-06 - Israel, not Hizbullah, is putting civilians in danger on both sides of the border The impression that Hizbullah is using civilians as human shields has been reinforced, according to HRW, by official Israeli statements that have ?blurred the distinction between civilians and combatants, arguing that only people associated with Hezbollah remain in southern Lebanon, so all are legitimate targets of attack
08-07-06 - Rice rejects storm of criticism of US Mideast policy Rice also took aim Sunday at former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, quoted last week in the Financial Times as criticising Rice's previous statement that the Lebanon conflict represented the "birth pangs of a new Middle East."
08-07-06 - Canada falls in line with Washington on Mideast policy A recent poll by the Strategic Counsel survey found only 32 percent of Canadians backed Harper's view while some 45 percent opposed it, and 77 percent said Canada should remain neutral in the current conflict.
08-07-06 - Solidiers Steal Palestinian Flags from the Outpost
08-07-06 - A group of Orthodox Jews take part in a demonstration protesting the war in Lebanon, in Montreal
08-07-06 - Amnesty International Holds Vigils Calling for Ceasefire; More than 50 Events Planned Across the U.S.
08-07-06 - 'No ban on Arab channels in India' The Indian government Monday clarified there was no ban on any news channel based in the Middle East from telecasting its programmes in India - a fact some media representatives from the Gulf nations here confirm.
08-07-06 - National Council of Churches of S'pore concerned over Mideast crisis
08-07-06 - Palestinians may be the big winners of the Lebanon conflict.
08-07-06 - Israel withdraws Venezuela envoy Israel is withdrawing its ambassador to Venezuela as a row grows between the two countries over the war in Lebanon.
08-07-06 - Galloway Rips Skynews a New One
08-07-06 - The New Munich Lebanon, 2006, and Czechoslovakia, 1938 ? the historical parallels American appeasement of Israel, against all moral and practical considerations, has resulted in the weakening of Israel, Levy argues, and ratcheted up hostility to the Jewish state in the region to a fever pitch. I agree with Levy's analysis, and would add that American interests aren't too well served by this "symmetry," either. Why does America ALWAYS get blamed for Israel's problems by these Israeli commentators? It's like laying all blame on the coerced enabler of a drunken individual. Is it fault of the enabler that's been coerced (by the Israeli lobby), or is it the fault of the drunk himself, who can't rein in his own behavior?
08-07-06 - Reuters withdraws all photos by freelancer "This doesn't mean that every one of his 920 photographs in our database was altered. We know that not to be the case from the majority of images we have looked at so far but we need to act swiftly and in a precautionary manner." It looks like some of that photographers photos were removed from the Yahoo photos database as well. I just checked this last night and there were far more in there than there is now.
08-06-06 - Israeli missile kills Palestinian in Gaza Medics said the Palestinian killed in the latest air strike was a civilian and that four other unarmed people were wounded
08-06-06 - Israel destroys Gaza house after phoning residents Shurafa said the family left the house but thought the call was a joke. He returned a few minutes later and immediately the telephone rang again.
"He (the army official) said: 'Why did you return? This is not a joke,"' said Shurafa......Earlier on Monday in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian man was shot dead while driving with his son near Nablus, Palestinian security sources and medics said.
An unidentified gunman opened fire on their car, killing the 47-year-old man and wounding his 17-year-old son.
Witnesses said the gunman was in a car with yellow Israeli plates. An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was not aware of the incident.
08-06-06 - Palestinian boy killed in Israeli airstrike on Rafah
08-06-06 - Deaths mount in Israel and Lebanon Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest rocket attack on northern Israel on Sunday, killing 12 reserve soldiers with a single missile at this kibbutz and killing at least three people and wounding dozens more with a barrage that battered Haifa.....Israeli airstrikes killed a Lebanese army intelligence officer and wounded seven soldiers at Mansouri and wounded five other soldiers in Debbin. Israeli missiles also flattened a house in Ansar village, killing a man and four of his relatives....Other attacks killed three people in the frontier village of al-Jibbain, the driver of a bread van near Tyre and a third person in Naqoura, near the border on the Mediterranean coast
08-06-06 - Palestinian militant killed in Israeli army raid
08-06-06 - Israel moves to isolate Lebanese region Six civilians were killed and five wounded in an Israeli air raid in south Lebanon as Israel turned its attention to the area surrounding Lebanon's third largest city, Sidon.
An air-to-ground missile destroyed a house in Ansar, to the east of Sidon, killing six people. Half-an-hour later, as rescue teams searched through the rubble, the warplanes returned to attack the town again.
08-06-06 - Israel and Hezbollah faces UN spotlight over child deaths She said the number of deaths of women and children in Lebanon was "very high because civilian institutions and infrastructure have borne the brunt of some of those attacks both by Hezbollah rockets as well as Israeli bombardments." One side is no better than the other. The US should support neither.
08-06-06 - An Israeli Arab man is rescued from the rubble at the site of a Hezbollah rocket attack in the northern Israel coastal town of Haifa
08-06-06 - A Palestinian boy walks among the remains of his family home after it was demolished by Israeli troops at Rafah refugee camp
08-06-06 - Israel's mighty army powerless against Hezbollah rockets: military
08-06-06 - China demands better security for peacekeepers after 3 wounded in attack
08-06-06 - Syria ready for regional war, blasts UN resolution "If Israel attacked Syria by any means from the ground or the air, our leadership has ordered the armed forces to reply immediately," he said Sunday, after meeting with pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud...."The American-French draft totally favors Israel."
08-06-06 - Crude oil covers the historic port of Byblos in Jbeil, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Much of Lebanon's coastline is now awash with crude oil
08-06-06 - Soldiers had early warning of rockets, but 'didn't seek shelter' "This shouldn't have happened," said Giladi, who arrived at the scene with firefighters from the kibbutz. "We sounded the alert several minutes before the rocket hits, but they stayed in the area and didn't seek shelter."
08-06-06 - Key Gaza crossing fails to reopen despite agreement
08-06-06 - Lebanon Demands Resolution Changes The Lebanese government is calling for Israeli forces to immediately withdraw from Lebanon after any halt to fighting, its UN representative said. The UN Security Council is considering the draft resolution, hammered out on Saturday.
08-06-06 - Animals also suffering in Lebanon conflict: rights group "There are places we couldn't reach but Lebanese soldiers would take dog food from us and go feed the dogs themselves," said Rokke who plans to take cats and dogs out of the country and re-house them with new owners abroad.
08-06-06 - Israeli offensive in Gaza turns school into temporary home Hundreds of Palestinian families moved into classrooms of a primary school in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip
08-06-06 - Rapping the misery and suffering of Gaza Farra and his friends stopped going to the beach after Israeli army fire killed eight civilians there in early June. Walking around at night is not recommended either, since the coming of darkness often heralds Israeli attacks.
Ordinary Palestinians are not safe anywhere - not on the beach, not at night, not in their own home. Israel's guns are always turned on them whether or not they've committed any crime.
08-06-06 - Settlers attack Palestinians and Human Rights Workers
08-06-06 - Weddings from the heart of Gaza
08-06-06 - Israeli Arabs get cold greeting from Palestinians The rockets have killed 48 people inside Israel in less than four weeks of fighting, many of them residents of Arab villages.
08-06-06 - Robert Fisk: This draft shows who is running America's policy... Israel A close analysis of the American-French draft - the fingerprints of John Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, were almost smudging the paragraphs - showed just who is running Washington's Middle East policy: Israel.
08-06-06 - Besieged Lebanese turn to Internet Hanady Salman, managing editor of the As-Safir newspaper, said she never had the time or interest to keep a diary. But when Israeli missiles struck a convoy of Lebanese villagers fleeing the southern village of Merwaheen on the third day of the war, killing at least 15 people and blowing children into nearby ravines, the 38-year-old mother was galvanized.
08-06-06 - Egypt condemns Israel's arresting Palestinian parl't speaker
08-06-06 - Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war," between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win.
08-06-06 - Beirut fishermen devastated by Israeli port attack The pair are originally Palestinian. The father fled Gaza in 1948 to find refuge in Lebanon. But now everything they owned in Lebanon, a home overlooking the port and two fishing boats, has been destroyed by the Israeli raids.
08-06-06 - CNN RELIABLE SOURCES I think civilian casualties are also part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon. KURTZ: Hold on, you're suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed Hezbollah to retain some of it's fire power, essentially for PR purposes, because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations war here?
RICKS: Yes, that's what military analysts have told me. Maybe that's why the Israeli Arabs, who have been taking the brunt of the Hezbollah rockets of late, have been left to fend for themselves in Israel, while other Israelis go to the West Bank settlements. I wonder if any West Bank settlements, all of which are Jewish, have taken in any Israeli Arabs.
08-06-06 - India Bans Arab TV Channels Under Pressure From Israel
08-06-06 - Lebanon seeks Pakistani troops: report
08-06-06 - The Reuters photo scandal, a photo comparison Photo comparison: One by now infamous photo doctorer, Adnan Hajj and another of same scene by an AP photog
08-06-06 - Olmert tells Europe to stop preaching to Israel "Where do they get the right to preach to Israel?" Olmert said when asked about criticism from European capitals of Israeli military operations that have led to a heavy civilian toll.
08-06-06 - Protesters invade runway used by US arms flights to Israel
08-06-06 - Israelis differ on missile defense a military analyst said the system only would have offered a very limited shield against the more than 3,000 rockets fired on northern Israel in nearly four weeks of fighting that so far have killed 33 Israelis.
08-06-06 - 'Moment of opportunity': yes, but only if the US asks Israel the hard questions Who knows what new Hizbullah is rising from the dust, amid the survivors at Qana? ...All Israel and the US have gained from this brutal pounding, and the deaths of hundreds of innocents, is increasing enmity and further isolation from the Arab world. Indeed, in their tacit and lonely support for Israel's bombing of Lebanese ambulances, homes, roads, airports, and state infrastructure, US officials have done the Jewish state no favors.
08-06-06 - Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image "The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," The Israel-supporters are all up in arms over this photo. First of all, the photo, even doctored, doesn't really add anything to the scene or make it appear any worse. So, it is unclear how this is some kind of conspiracy. Secondly, this will now be wielded as 'evidence' that all photos of Lebanon's devastation are doctored, no doubt. Since one photo was doctored, then all photos that damage Israel must be doctored too; the 'logic' of the Israel-defender. One remedy: look for similar photos of the same scene that were taken by different press agencies.
08-06-06 - DeLay, Coulter, Kristol Defend Lieberman A Christian Zionist, a panderer to the extreme right, and a neocon all endorse Lieberman. Say, I wonder why?
08-06-06 - Is Israel Good for the Jews? A Jewish state was supposed to protect the Diaspora, but now it is the Diaspora that protects the Jewish state.
08-06-06 - Saudis to sue Israel over $14 billion Lebanon invesments Saudi businessmen are contemplating a lawsuit against Israel for damages over their $14 billion of investments in Lebanon. If they do and they win, it will be the American taxpayers that get to pick up the tab, no doubt.
08-06-06 - Indonesia anti-Israel rallies draw wide spectrum
08-06-06 - A tale of two failed Mideast states Failed states in general, and particularly those in the Middle East, represent potential threats to the US because they could be transformed into terrorist bases. The United States, through its unconditional support of Israel and its policy of collective punishment, has helped further the rapid deterioration of two states - Lebanon and Palestine (not really a state, yet).
08-06-06 - Bush Backing Israel Despite Divisions "The crisis in the Middle East today has brought us to one of those rare moments that transcend party and ideological lines. There is no daylight at all between the government of Israel, the Bush administration, Congress and the American Jewish community," said William Daroff, director of the Washington office of United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish charitable federations. That's a "rare moment"? Hardly. It is official Congressional and White House policy to pander to Israel.
08-06-06 - Thousands of Montrealers demonstrate against ongoing war in Lebanon Police said more than 15,000 people participated in the rally, making it one of the largest that took place around the world over the weekend
08-06-06 - Moroccans, Indonesians, Belgians march for Lebanon Security sources put the number at the march at about 70,000. Organizers said up to one million people attended
08-06-06 - Jews, Palestinians seek conflict answers in Bosnia
08-05-06 - Five Palestinians killed as Israel presses Gaza offensive Omar al-Nuri, 17, and his 15-year-old sister Kiffah were killed by a missile fired from a drone as they fled an Israeli tank near their house in the Egyptian border town of Rafah, hospital officials said. Their mother Huda, 45, and another unidentified family member were in critical condition after being wounded in the strike...A hospital source said that a 65-year-old Palestinian, wounded in an Israeli air attack on July 13, died on Saturday Israel's killing of women, children and the elderly continues in Palestine too.
08-05-06 - Israel continues bombardment of Lebanon Two Israeli commandos were wounded in a fierce exchange with the guerillas. A Lebanese soldier was killed at an anti-aircraft emplacement after it was hit by a missile from one of the Israeli helicopters during the assault.
08-05-06 - Lebanon says fuel shortage may shut hospitals treating wounded "Hospitals only have fuel for one more week, some even less. Many of them will have to close if fuel shipments continued to be blocked,"
08-05-06 - The sons and daughters of Syrian worker, Ahmad Jamil Rashid, mourn their father and one of their elder brothers
08-05-06 - An Israeli-Arab woman holds her child and weeps as she reacts to a rocket that killed a woman and her two daughters
08-05-06 - Syrian village buries airstrike victims The farm workers were loading vegetables and fruits onto trucks bound for the Syrian market, when four missiles blasted the warehouse in the Lebanese town of Qaa. The Syrian dead included 18 men, two elderly women and three young girls
I guess the Syrian civilians are all now guilty too, just like those of Lebanon - according to the Israeli governnment.
08-05-06 - NEW ISRAELI BARRIER SEEKS TO CIRCUMVENT SUPREME COURT RULING, CLAIM ADVOCATES The Israeli army has built an "inner" barrier in the southern Hebron hills of the West Bank in an attempt to circumvent a major ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court and prevent Palestinian villagers from using agricultural land, according to Israeli and Palestinian advocates.
08-05-06 - Hezbollah will stop fighting if Israel does so, pulls out: minister
08-05-06 - Hezbollah 'repels' Israeli commandos The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says it has repelled a raid by Israeli naval commandos on the coastal city of Tyre.
08-05-06 - France and US present resolution to end Lebanon war Lebanon rejected the draft. Hezbollah reaffirmed that there could be no ceasefire while Israeli troops remain in Lebanon. There was no immediate approval or rejection from Israel. Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Siniora told CNN television the draft was "not adequate". Acting foreign minister Tarek Mitri has been sent to the UN headquarters with an amended version, a government source said.
08-05-06 - Abbas discusses Mideast crisis with Yemen president Abbas is continuing an Arab tour to seek support as Israel wages a massive onslaught in the Gaza Strip in parallel with a devastating offensive against Lebanon.
08-05-06 - Tens of thousands in Britain, South Africa, Egypt, protest Israeli attacks Veteran peace campaigner Bianca Jagger, former wife of rocker Mick Jagger, said the British protest was not anti-Israel. "I support the existence of Israel and I think we are wrong to say otherwise," she said.
"But watching the images of innocent children dying as we have been for the last 24 days does not promote a peaceful solution in the region."
08-05-06 - Iran calls for international probe into 'Zionist crimes'
08-05-06 - Lebanese families torn apart by war
08-05-06 - Military Matters: Hezbollah traps Israel In no previous Israeli-Arab war has the United States revealed itself so nakedly as a de facto political satellite of Israel.
08-05-06 - U.S. Treads Softly Over Iran?s Role in Crisis "Far from Israel being the American proxy in a war against Iran, we've become Israel's proxy in its war against Hezbollah," he said. "Israel's miscalculations have been so serious that its only hope for victory is to have the United States and the international community do for Israel what it can't do militarily, which is defeat Hezbollah, assemble an international force in Lebanon and bring some sort of end game to all this."
08-05-06 - Syria demands compensation for 26 citizens killed in Israeli air raid In Damascus, Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said the United States shoulders "direct responsibility for the massacres committed in Lebanon" because of its reluctance to call for an immediate ceasefire, despite the worldwide demand for a halt to the three-week Israeli assault on Lebanon.
08-05-06 - US says wants Lebanon violence over 'forever' Visiting Beirut in the midst of bitter Arab criticism of Washington's support for the Israeli offensive, US envoy David Welch told the government that Israeli troops should stay in south Lebanon until a multinational force was in place on the ground, sources said
08-05-06 - Hezbollah not under Iran's orders: Tehran's envoy to France the ambassador later added: "We don't have the slightest desire for a military option on a regional level. Support given to Hezbollah does not give Israelis the right to act against Syria or Iran.
08-05-06 - Border Police search Israeli Arab homes without warrants Border Police officers searched the homes of Israeli Arabs in Umm al-Fahm without search warrants Friday, residents said. They were looking for Palestinian workers staying in Israel illegally.
08-05-06 - Robert Fisk: A Nato-led force would be in Israel's interests, but not Lebanon's
08-05-06 - Indonesia anti-Israel volunteers show martial skills About 200 men in black masks said to be ready to die in anti-Israeli actions around the world demonstrated martial arts skills on Saturday on Indonesia's part of Borneo island, witnesses and TV reports said.
08-05-06 - Israel holds Palestinian Speaker
08-05-06 - Palestinian militants decline Red Cross request to visit Cpl. Shalit
08-05-06 - Beirut Theater Opens Doors to Refugees
08-05-06 - Lebanon government joins forces with bid to have Blair tried in Scotland for war crimes THE Lebanese government is working behind the scenes to bring Tony Blair before the Scottish courts, charged with war crimes for aiding and abetting the Israeli onslaught against Lebanon.
08-05-06 - Abizaid: U.S. should arm Lebanese army
08-05-06 - What we still don't understand about Hizbollah What these suicide attackers - and their heirs today - shared was not a religious or political ideology but simply a commitment to resisting a foreign occupation. Nearly two decades of Israeli military presence did not root out Hizbollah. The only thing that has proven to end suicide attacks, in Lebanon and elsewhere, is withdrawal by the occupying force. Here is an article of Buchanan's that discusses some of Pape's findings.
08-05-06 - Israeli pilots 'deliberately miss' targets 'If we have such good information in Lebanon, how come we still don't know the hideout of missiles and launchers?... If we don't know the location of their weapons, why should we know which house is a Hizbollah house?'
08-05-06 - Bush gives ground as UN pushes Israel peace deal The Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, also told The Observer she was pushing Israel for the urgent creation of 'humanitarian corridors' in Lebanon to let food and medical supplies through to stricken civilians, with the offensive scaled down at least enough to give safe access to aid workers.
08-05-06 - Weeks of bombing leave nation in ruins Israel says it is fighting the Islamist Hezbollah militia, not Lebanon. But Israel has repeatedly struck targets that appear to have little to do with Hezbollah and plenty to do with the daily life of the Lebanese -- many of whom oppose Hezbollah
08-05-06 - Israel admits air war has failed to end the Hezbollah rocket threat The dispatch of thousands of Israeli soldiers to retake as much as one-fifth of Lebanon - the operation must still be approved by the Israeli Cabinet - would mark a major expansion in Israel's Lebanon campaign and would reverse Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon six years ago after a troubled 18-year occupation.
08-05-06 - Where the shepherds tend guns by night I won't fight without a reason. But because I have a reason I will fight. Because this is my land, I am prepared to die for it. How could you stay silent when you see your land burn and your children get killed? The whole population here is now resisting.'
08-05-06 - Critics Cite 'Constrained' Mideast Policy Syria provided intelligence about radical extremist groups after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Leverett said. The CIA praised the quality of the information, he said, but a State Department effort to build on that relationship was thwarted by the Pentagon and Vice President Cheney's office. No sh*t? Would that be because Cheney's office is filled with neocons, perchance?
08-05-06 - Officials' deception vexed 9/11 panel The book, a behind-the-scenes look at the investigation, recounts obstacles the authors say were thrown up by the Bush administration, internal disputes over President Bush's use of the attacks as a reason for invading Iraq, and the way the final report avoided questioning whether U.S. policy in the Middle East may have contributed to the attacks. US policy in the Middle East WAS the key motive for 911.
08-05-06 - Primary foe rips Hil on Israel "Rather than call for restraint, Hillary Clinton stopped just short of declaring, 'Let the bombs fall.'"
08-05-06 - Poll: Majority of Americans Support Mideast Cease-Fire; CAIR Launches 'Not in America's Name' Online Petition Drive
08-05-06 - Children join anti-Israel protests in New Delhi
08-05-06 - Analysis: Lebanon war hurting U.S. goals
08-05-06 - More than 100 MPs sign petition attacking PM The extent of the Labour backbench unrest over Tony Blair's handling of the Middle East crisis is laid bare for the first time today in a petition calling for an immediate ceasefire
08-05-06 - War: The Great Clarifier The neoconservative claim to the legacy of the American Right is tenuous, and one could easily imagine these consummate opportunists attaching themselves to yet another unlucky host ? say, the Democratic Party ? if that is where their eternal quest for Power draws them
08-05-06 - Israelis from north seek safety with West Bank settlers Hundreds of residents in northern Israel have fled cross-border rocket salvos from Hezbollah militants in Lebanon for the relative safety of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. which may be another reason why the Israeli Arabs are left to fend for themselves - those settlements are populated with Jews only.
08-05-06 - Israel underestimated Hezbollah: British analyst "Even if Hezbollah stands for the elimination of Israel, that is not a grievance of their supporters. The plight of the Palestinians, the occupation or the use of military force against Israel's neighbours, the seemingly double standards by which Israel is allowed to flout international law and others are not... You have to address all of those things
08-05-06 - Palestinian rights Margaret Grotzinger speaks of zero tolerance for terrorism (Letters, July 23). Is she aware that it was the Zionists who introduced terrorism to the region? I was working in Beirut in 1946 when I heard that a terrorist gang, led by Menachem Begin, blew up the Jerusalem King David Hotel. In 1948, his gang perpetrated the Deir Yassin massacre
08-05-06 - The underground voice of Hezbollah that Israel is still unable to silence
08-04-06 - Israeli airstrikes kill 4 in Gaza town In the first airstrike a 16-year-old girl, Kifah Natour, and her brother, Amar, 15, were killed said Dr. Ali Musa, the director of the local hospital. Their mother, Huda, 50, later died of her wounds. Four other people, including their 13-year-old brother, were seriously wounded when the missile hit.
08-04-06 - Hezbollah rockets hammer northern Israel Israel - Hezbollah rockets hammered northern Israel on Friday, including a half-hour barrage of 45 missiles that killed four Israelis, three of them Arabs.
08-04-06 - Israeli air raids kill 40 civilians in Lebanon One air strike hit a farm near Qaa, close to the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley where workers, mostly Syrian Kurds, were loading plums and peaches on to trucks, local officials said. They said 33 people were killed and 20 wounded....Another air strike on a house in the frontline Taibeh village in south Lebanon on Friday killed seven civilians and wounded 10, a security source said. The source said the civilians had sheltered in the house during fierce battles. Israel kills civilians because it's easier to kill them than it is to kill Hezbollah - or so it would seem.
08-04-06 - Gunmen kill six Palestinians in prison PALESTINIAN gunmen dressed in police uniforms broke into a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho today and shot dead six Palestinian inmates, security sources said.
08-04-06 - Israeli strikes reportedly bury dozens Israeli airstrikes flattened two southern Lebanese houses Friday and more than 50 people were buried in the rubble, security officials and the state news agency said. Israel denied attacking the villages.
08-04-06 - Israeli missiles target Lebanon bridges Four civilians were killed and 10 wounded in the air raid, the Lebanese Red Cross said. A Lebanese soldier and four civilians were also killed in air raids near Beirut's airport and southern suburbs, security officials and witnesses said....."This is Lebanon's umbilical cord," Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program told AP. "This (road) has been the only way for us to bring in aid."
08-04-06 - A Palestinian carry the body of Shahd Shaikh el-Eid, a 3-day-old baby, during her funeral after she was killed during an Israeli raid
08-04-06 - An Israeli Arab relative reacts during the funeral of Shnati Shnati, Amir Naim and Muhamed Faor, three Arab shepherds killed by a Hezbollah rocket
08-04-06 - A resident of the Israeli-Arabic village of Tarshiha cries next to the body of a person who died on Thursday after a rocket attack
08-04-06 - The bodies of Syrian kurd farm workers lie on the ground after an Israeli air raid on a farm in northeastern Lebanon
08-04-06 - Iran to supply Hezbollah with surface-to-air missiles Iran will supply Hezbollah with surface-to-air missile systems in the coming months, boosting the guerrillas' defences against Israeli aircraft, according to a report by specialist magazine Jane's Defence Weekly, citing unnamed Western diplomatic sources.
08-04-06 - Bridge bombing paralyses Lebanon aid pipeline
08-04-06 - Lebanon: Israel Wages War of Starvation Israel is waging a "war of starvation" on Lebanon's civilians in an effort to force the government to agree to Israel's demands, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said in a statement issued Friday.
08-04-06 - Crisis in the Gaza Strip deepens And alongside the dead, the kinds of injuries being seen here are worrying doctors. Surgeons at one hospital said in 100 consecutive operations, a third were amputations. Many of those affected are children.
08-04-06 - Missiles neutralizing Israeli tanks In the last two days alone, these missiles have killed seven soldiers and damaged three Israeli-made Merkava tanks - mountains of steel that are vaunted as symbols of Israel's military might, the army said. Israeli media say most of the 44 soldiers killed in four weeks of fighting were hit by anti-tank missiles.
08-04-06 - Syria Blames US Admin For Israeli Missile Attack Deaths Syria blamed the U.S. administration late Friday for the deaths of 23 Syrians from four Israeli missiles that slammed into a refrigerated warehouse where farm workers were loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border.
08-04-06 - Gaza hardship forgotten, says UN The United Nations says it is "deeply alarmed" that the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is being forgotten due to Israel's ongoing offensive in Lebanon.
08-04-06 - On Talking With Terrorists by Patrick J. Buchanan Time to recognize reality - and stop isolating America
08-04-06 - Israel struggles "to compete" w/ dead babies Having dismissed outright the possibility that Israel stop killing babies, - its supporters are instead looking for ways to compete with images of their lifeless little bodies.
08-04-06 - A word from the Zionist entity Israeli military intelligence hacked into the Hezbollah TV station to tell its viewers that the terrorist group was lying.
08-04-06 - Groups lobby for cease-fire The Council for the National Interest, United for Peace and Justice and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, groups that lobby for sharp reductions in U.S. assistance to Israel, joined for the appeal.
08-04-06 - Robert Fisk predicts another 9/11 Since America gave the green light to Israel in its wanton destruction of civilian life and infrastructure in Lebanon, Israel and its lobby here in the US have made Americans a party to the destruction of yet another Arab nation - to the detriment of Americans. It really is a matter of WHEN, not IF we will see another 911 on US soil, IMO.
08-04-06 - Israeli forces announce plan to uproot hundreds of olive trees near Wall in Jenin Dozens of Palestinians farmers living adjacent to the Israeli Wall in Jenin have been issued warnings saying that Israeli forces will soon come to uproot hundreds of olive trees on their land. The Israeli military claims that the action is for security purposes.
08-04-06 - Cut Off Four bridges in Lebanon were destroyed by Israeli air strikes on Friday, breaking up the last major roadway from Beirut to Syria. Kevin Sites reports from the scene.
08-04-06 - Indonesia studies suicide bomber claim Indonesian police said they would look into a radical group's claim that hundreds of Southeast Asian suicide bombers had been sent to attack Jewish interests in countries that support Israel.
08-04-06 - Iraqi Shiites chant 'Death to Israel' Hundreds of thousands of Shiites chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" marched through the streets of Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Friday in a show of support for Hezbollah militants battling Israeli troops in Lebanon.
08-04-06 - Book: Sept. 11 panel doubted officials Unidentified members believed that "listing U.S. support for Israel as a root cause of al-Qaida's opposition to the United States indicated that the United States should reassess that policy," which those commission members did not want. I wonder why someone would not want us to reassess our foreign policy with regard to Israel?
08-04-06 - Open Bethlehem calls for end to EU sanctions as Bethlehem "faces disaster" Christian group Open Bethlehem has called on church leaders, clergy, lay Christians and "all who care about peace and justice" to "speak out against the EU sanctions and support the people of Bethlehem at this critical time."
08-04-06 - The neocons' next war In order to try to understand the neoconservative road map, senior national security professionals have begun circulating among themselves a 1996 neocon manifesto against the Middle East peace process. Titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," its half-dozen authors included neoconservatives highly influential with the Bush administration -- Richard Perle, first-term chairman of the Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense; and David Wurmser, Cheney's chief Middle East aide. Bring back Bush the 1st and James Baker. They could turn this thing around, and turn America back towards American interests for a change.
08-04-06 - Palestine, in spirit
08-04-06 - Hizbullah offers to spare civilians if Israeli military does the same
08-04-06 - These two satellite images provided by GeoEye show the same area of Beirut, Lebanon before and after Israeli bombardment.
08-04-06 - Hizbullah rockets cannot be fired from buildings (ie the one bombed in Qana) The type of missiles being fired by Hizbullah at Israeli cities cannot be fired from within houses, mosques, hospitals or even UN facilities as has been suggested by the IDF
08-04-06 - Bush's attachment to Israel started with trip to the Holy Land President George H.W. Bush angered pro-Israel activists in 1992 by threatening to withhold U.S. loan guarantees for Israel if its leaders continued to permit new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israel responded by ordering a freeze on new settlements. Unfortunately for America, Bush is nothing like his old man.
08-04-06 - Bridging the gap The US has little international support for its contrasting view, that a cessation of hostilities must be immediately followed by steps towards a multinational force, except Israel That's because Israel is calling the shots here.
08-04-06 - In pictures How aid is reaching people living in Lebanon
08-04-06 - Northern Israel exodus leaves old, weak and poor to face rockets Nor can local councils afford to pay to move Israelis to the south. So the less well off either have to stay put or, for the more fortunate, escape with the help of charity....most of the calls she gets were from people asking to be taken out of the town.
"They get angry when I tell them we usually can't arrange that. They're very angry that we're leaving them here to suffer," she said. "I get a lot of mothers on the phone crying. They want to get out." Which explains why those being hit by Hezbollah rockets have lately and mostly been Israeli ARABS. See related photos in this news batch.
08-04-06 - The family forced to flee Iraq is on the run again Merriam's story is now a double tragedy. Two years ago his family were forced to flee another conflict zone, Iraq, and they now find themselves refugees for the second time in as many years. "I wish I could go back to my home. I miss my father, my relatives, and playing with my friends. I ask the world to stand beside us and ask to stop this violence."
08-04-06 - Irish cancel Israeli sponsorship Two Irish cultural festivals canceled sponsorship by Israel?s Foreign Ministry to protest the war in Lebanon.
08-04-06 - STANFORD IDEOLOGICAL WAR LEADS TO SUIT "Horowitz is -- if not a coordinated part -- part of a broader attack against people who speak out against Bush's Middle Eastern policies Horowitz is the Israel shill that runs the campus 'watchdog' Campus Watch - which monitors the Middle Eastern studies at US universities. Campus Watch goes on the attack if the studies are not pro-Israel enough to its liking.
08-04-06 - Lobbying for Armageddon
08-04-06 - Jewish groups back Bolton as confirmation is back on agenda John Bolton's tough pro-Israel rhetoric at the United Nations during Israel's recent crisis has galvanized Jewish support for the once-embattled nominee - and may have helped secure his nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations....Jewish leaders have agreed to make clear to senators that they would like to see Bolton approved. John Bolton - bad for AMERICA, good for ISRAEL. The latter nation can have him.
08-04-06 - Terrorists on both sides Acts of terror need to stop on both sides of this conflict, or I doubt they will ever stop on either side.
08-04-06 - Judges in Egypt: Scrap peace deal with Israel
08-04-06 - Letters: Israel's 'right to return' policy needs revision Even though ethnic and religious Jews get to legally set up residence in Israel, ironically the original Palestinian inhabitants are either being relegated to refugee camps or are not given full citizenship rights and are under an occupation by the Israeli government. Where's their "automatic right to return?"
08-04-06 - US policy in the Middle East unravels Expressing the sense of frustration and desperation, Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze group and a driving force behind the Cedar Revolution, told the FT this week that today's Middle East is one of "darkness everywhere" with "failure in Palestine, failure in Iraq and now this failure in Lebanon". And if that weren't bad enough, the neocons want us to attack Iran and Syria too.
08-04-06 - 70 M Ps Resign From Turkey - Israel Friendship Group So Far 70 MPs have resigned from Turkey-Israel Interparliamentary Friendship Group so far, reacting to recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine.
08-04-06 - FOX News airs Most Important Interview on Earth Cavuto: Let me ask you this, Rabbi, was life better for the Jews prior to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel? Weiss: 100%. In Palestine, we have the testimony of the Jewish community living there and other lands that they were living in harmony and they pleaded with the United Nations, in the documents we have, the chief Rabbi of Jerusalem said we do not want a Jewish state. The Muslim, Christian and Jewish inhabitants were ignored with the creation of the State . . .
08-04-06 - The Establishment vs. the Neocons if neocon policies continue to be pursued, the United States will be expelled from the region and that will be the beginning of the end for Israel as well.? Again, neocons are ideologues and their policies, along with those of Israel, are not rooted in reality.
08-04-06 - Amnesty International to Hold Worldwide Vigils Calling for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Lebanon/Israel Conflict
08-04-06 - Americans split on Bush handling of Israeli-Hezbollah conflict
08-04-06 - Arabs and Muslims from All Over Texas are Expected to Converge in Crawford, TX This Sunday Where President Bush Begins His Summer Vacation "We are outraged that the U.S. can't stop Israel's relentless bombardment of Lebanon and military siege of Gaza. Arabs and Muslims from all over Texas are expected to converge in Crawford, TX this Sunday,"
08-04-06 - Bush Asked to Condemn Latest Israeli Massacre in Lebanon; CAIR Asks 'How Many More Innocent Lives Must Be Lost Before America Acts?'
08-04-06 - Middle East policy won't change because of polls or protests, says PM Harper Speaking Friday after a party caucus meeting, the prime minister said his government doesn't make decisions based on polls. 'Public opinion? Constituents? What's that?' Government by the lobbies, for the lobbies.
08-04-06 - Israeli Soldier Incarcerated for Refusing to Fight Israeli authorities have sentenced an army officer to 28 days in a military prison for refusing to serve in the ongoing Israeli campaign in Lebanon
08-04-06 - Hezbollah and terrorism are manifestations of deeper political injustices, say Jens Hanssen and Paul Kingston A close reading of the apologetic statements from British and American officials about Israel's second massacre at Qana shows what Arabs have known all along: Israel is pushing U.S. and U.K. Middle East policy under the mantra of the war on terrorism. The result has been a score-sheet of horror.
08-04-06 - Beleaguered community torn by a distant war The actor Miriam Margolyes robustly defended the opposite perspective. "Israel must stop bombing Lebanon," she said. "It is both morally and strategically wrong ... I am very disappointed at the response from English Jews who regard people like me as traitors when in fact they are the traitors because they are betraying the high ideals of our faith."
08-04-06 - Militants merge with mainstream Anger at Israel's actions unites Shias and Sunnis
08-04-06 - My Fellow Targets Slavish devotion to Israel will make Americans the target of hatred and violence for generations. So stay alert, my fellow targets.
08-03-06 - Eight Palestinians killed as Israel presses Gaza offensive Israel pressed its month-long offensive into the Gaza Strip with eight Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy being killed..... Twenty-six other people -- six of them children -- were wounded in the Israeli operations around Rafah, hospital officials said, adding that seven of the injured were in a critical state. Several women were among the wounded....Another tank shell killed a member of Islamic Jihad, while a 50-year-old man died late morning when Israeli soldiers fired in a Rafah neighborhood....Two youngsters, Muhamed Abu Hassan, aged 4, and his six-year-old sister Rihem, were wounded late on Wednesday by Israeli tank fire during an incursion in the area of the Dahaniya airport
08-03-06 - Palestinian security officer assassinated
08-03-06 - Israeli air raids kill 15 civilians From Aug 02.
08-03-06 - Three killed in air raids on Lebanon, police say Three civilians have been killed when Israeli warplanes hit several regions of Lebanon including southern Beirut....Two civilians were killed near Jwaya in the southern Tyre region when an Israeli fighter-bomber fired a missile at their car. Six civilians had been wounded on Thursday in earlier air raids, police said.....
A girl was killed and three other civilians were wounded in a raid on Budai,
08-03-06 - Morocco sends second aid shipment to Palestine
08-03-06 - Olmert declares the enemy tamed but rockets keep pounding villages For the second straight day, Hizbullah fighters launched a barrage of rocket fire into northern Israel. Eight civilians were killed and dozens injured
08-03-06 - Lebanon counts human cost of 23 days in firing line "Israeli forces have fired with war planes and artillery on dozens of civilian vehicles, many flying white flags,"
08-03-06 - Traumatised and afraid - 300,000 children who want to go home
08-03-06 - Lebanon death toll 'reaches 900'
08-03-06 - Almost half the fatalities in the Gaza Strip in July were civilians not taking part in the hostilities Of the incidents B'Tselem investigated in Gaza over the past month, the organization has identified four cases in which Israel may have committed grave breaches of the laws of war
08-03-06 - Most Gaza children experience war trauma "Gaza has been an occupied territory for a long time, and still is; Israel controls its borders, its air and water access. It has been described as a vast open-air detention center,"
08-03-06 - Rights group slams Israel for bombing civilians Israel's military appears to have deliberately bombed civilians in Lebanon and some of its strikes constitute war crimes, U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. Why should this come as a surprise? Israel has a history of terrorizing civilians.
08-03-06 - HealthWrap: The psychic costs of warfare "It seems the international community is neglecting them, that somehow Palestinian children don't deserve the protections guaranteed under the Geneva Convention and humanitarian law,"
08-03-06 - Syria promises to use all its influence on Hezbollah: Moratinos In particular, he said he and the Syrians had agreed a common position on a French proposal calling for an immediate ceasefire and the subsequent deployment of an international peacekeeping force.
08-03-06 - U.S. to Help Train, Equip Lebanon Army The program was approved by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to take effect "once we have conditions on the ground permitting," said department spokesman Sean McCormack.
08-03-06 - Buried in rubble, mother saved lives in Qana "We say to Israel; 'You killed us on purpose' and America gave cover to the killers."
08-03-06 - Nasrallah is a bad name to have in Lebanon, youngster finds
08-03-06 - Iraq's Shiites gather for march as coalition warns of civil war Shiite protesters were summoned to the capital by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in order to protest Israel's attacks on Lebanon but also as a show of force by a leading opponent of the US-led coalition force in Iraq. Israel is uniting the whole Middle East against it.
08-03-06 - Israel accepts principle of prisoners' swap Hamad, however, told reporters in Gaza that until now, "nothing has been reached yet on the specific numbers of Palestinian prisoners that would be freed from the Israeli jails, in case Israel and the Palestinians agree on the swap."
08-03-06 - Israel responsible for 'massacre' of civilians: Pakistan Pakistan has described the killing of civilians in Israel's offensive in Lebanon as a 'massacre' that could provoke a clash of civilisations.
08-03-06 - Olmert retreats from political firestorm after linking Lebanon to West Bank plan Right wingers accused him of risking the lives of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon in order to uproot Jews from their homes. Some West Bank settlers were so outraged they said they would refuse to fight.
08-03-06 - A protester holds a couple of doves tied with anti-war messages prior to releasing them at an almost daily rally outside the Israeli Embassy
08-03-06 - Eliminating Zionist regime, cure for conflict: Ahmadinejad
08-03-06 - Hizbollah offers Israel end to rocket attacks The leader of Hizbollah warned Israel on Thursday it would fire rockets at Tel Aviv if Israel targeted central Beirut, but offered to stop its rocket barrage if Israel ended attacks on civilian areas in Lebanon.
08-03-06 - Lebanese displaced hang on as aid trickles in "Between 800,000 and 900,000 (people) have been displaced from south Lebanon and we've only been able to deliver food for 80,000 for one week. So we are nowhere near our targets."
08-03-06 - A Lebanese girl plays with balls next to a poster in the background, showing an injured boy after he was injured following an Israeli attack
08-03-06 - Hizbollah heroes to Arabs: Jordan king "Unfortunately Israeli policy ... has contributed to the rise in the wave of extremism in the Arab world and this war has come to weaken the voices of moderation,"
08-03-06 - Venezuela recalls ambassador from Israel Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he has withdrawn his country's ambassador from Israel to show his "indignation" over the military offensive in Lebanon
08-03-06 - Anglican bishop shares in solidarity visit to Gaza The solidarity visit began with the delegation seeking to enter the Gaza Strip from the Erez crossing point, but they were delayed for two and one half hours even though the religious leaders had secured entry permits in advance.
08-03-06 - US supplying Israel with NSA signals intelligence
08-03-06 - GOP wants representative reprimanded Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) was asked on a Detroit TV station why he was among only eight lawmakers who voted against a resolution supporting Israel in its action against Hezbollah; 410 lawmakers voted in favor.
08-03-06 - Letter asks Bush to enforce Syria legislation The American Israel Public Affairs Committee praised the letter. "Damascus must be held accountable for its actions, and the United States has the necessary diplomatic and political tools to do just that," spokesman Josh Block said. AIPAC pleased with two of its top agents in Congress - Ros-Letinen and Engel.
08-03-06 - U.N. meeting on Lebanon protested Jewish groups protested the focus on the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon by a U.N. committee against racism
08-03-06 - China flies aid to Lebanon The first batch of Chinese emergency relief items have been loaded onto a specially-chartered cargo plane in Beijing
08-03-06 - UNITED CHURCH URGES OTTAWA TO CALL FOR A MIDDLE EAST CEASEFIRE
08-03-06 - Israeli aircraft drop flyers over Gaza against Hamas chief Israeli aircraft dropped on Thursday thousands of flyers over Gaza City to incite the Palestinians' discontent with politburo chief of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Khaled Mashaal, Palestinian witnesses said.
08-03-06 - U.S. providing Israel with intelligence? The NSA routinely provides Israel with some intelligence, but this is an expansion directed by Vice President Dick Cheney and Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser, and approved by President Bush, Salon said. A National Security Council official had no comment. We give them everything else - money, weapons, carte blanche via the UN veto - so why should this be a surprise? Hey, I wonder why Iraqi Shiites today would be marching and chanting 'Death to Israel' AND 'Death to AMERICA'?
08-03-06 - Senate urges 'cessation of hostilities' The resolution notes at length the suffering of Lebanese civilians during the fighting, after some senators had expressed concern that an earlier resolution supporting Israel did not adequately address the need to safeguard civilians on all sides.
It's about time.
08-03-06 - Govt: Arms licences carefully considered He added that British embassies in Israel monitored "all developments which might impact on our foreign policy", including uses of military equipment that might be "inconsistent with our export criteria" not to supply arms for "aggressive" use in the Palestinian territories
08-03-06 - Don't forget us Gazans speak out about the Israeli offensive in the strip
08-03-06 - Fearing Violence, Jerusalem Police Close Temple Mount to Non-Muslims Talab El-Sana, an Israeli Arab lawmaker, warned that the visit would ignite a "third intifada," and two other Arab lawmakers, Ibrahim Sarsur and Abbas Zkoor, wrote to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, asking him to intervene.
08-03-06 - Blair admits to cabinet splits over his support for Bush on Israel
08-03-06 - Israel extends Lebanon occupation plan Israel today threatened to reoccupy most of the strip of southern Lebanon it withdrew from in 2000, as Hizbullah recorded its most deadly day of attacks on Israel since the start of the 23-day conflict.
08-03-06 - The Association of United Arab Nations and Panamanians protest against the war in Lebanon in front of the Israeli embassy in Panama City
08-03-06 - US rebukes UN No. 2 for criticizing Mideast policy
08-03-06 - Filmmakers bring Palestinian struggle to London Hayden noted that the proceeds from the evening will go to support children in Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus.
08-03-06 - Judge Says No To Leaving Bridgeview Hearing U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve denied recusing herself from the case of Palestinian-American Mohammed Salah after his defense attorneys filed papers stating she has acted biased in court
08-03-06 - U.S. needs new policy on Israel
08-03-06 - The Great Game
08-03-06 - Thousands of Muslim students join anti-Israel march in southern Indian city
08-03-06 - Letter demands funding for nonprofits Wednesday?s letter cited last week's attack on the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle that killed one woman and injured five others, and critiqued the department's policy of reserving the funds, earmarked by Congress, only for "credible threats."
08-03-06 - Faces of US Muslim and Jewish dissent In Boston this week, some two dozen Jews wore black clothes and lay motionless at the South Station train terminal to protest Lebanese civilian losses from Israel's bombing campaign. The signs on their chests read: "Not all Jews support Israel's actions!"
08-03-06 - American Jewish Committee Urges UN to Condemn Iran's Renewed Threat to Eliminate Israel
08-03-06 - Moroccan Jews: Peretz a 'war criminal' Three Jews in Morocco asked a Moroccan court to charge Israel's defense minister with war crimes.
08-02-06 - Israel mounts new Gaza incursion Two of the people killed by Israeli missiles were Palestinian militants, security sources said. The identity of the other was unclear.
08-02-06 - Israel resumes bombardment of southern Beirut At least seven people were killed, including an 80-year-old couple, as Israel renewed its air, sea and land bombardment of the southern Tyre region, police said. All died when their homes collapsed.
08-02-06 - Daring Israeli raid provokes rain of Hezbollah rockets; UN meets Police said the Israelis snatched five people in the raid, carried out within sight of three ancient Roman temples that rise dramatically from the valley floor. Eleven civilians, one of them a Syrian, died in the attack, they said.
08-02-06 - Israeli air raids resume in Tyre A couple in their 80s died when their house at Tair Harfa collapsed after being hit and five people were crushed to death under the rubble of a three-storey house in the village of Yarun.
08-02-06 - Hizbullah rockets threaten West Bank as Israeli troops pour into Lebanon One Israeli riding his bicycle was killed near Nahariya and another 21 were injured. Forests blazed on the hillsides near the border.
08-02-06 - Israel admits mistakes in deadly raid The Israeli military's inquiry on the bombing of a building in the south Lebanese village of Qana that killed 56 civilians admits a mistake but charges that Hezbollah guerrillas used civilians as human shields for their rocket attacks, a statement early Thursday said. This after they tried to claim the photos were faked. 'Yes we did it, but but but, it's really all Hezbollah's fault for using civilians as human shields!'
08-02-06 - Ali Bajouk, 39, lies in a Beirut hospital bed, his body wrapped in bandages to cover the burns caused by an Israeli air strike
08-02-06 - Aid convoys head to Lebanon's needy
08-02-06 - The south Lebanon town where 'we are all terrorists' Half of its inhabitants have fled northwards, Badreddin says.
The remainder opted to stay so they could "die with dignity rather than die on the roads" in Israeli attacks
08-02-06 - Israeli forces storm humanitarian and media organizations in Tulkarem ?By ransacking media centers, the forces are trying to discourage journalists from telling the truth and exposing the Israeli crimes against humanity to the international community.?
08-02-06 - Gaza 'crisis as bad as Lebanon' Thirty aid agencies backed the appeal, and one charity spoke of a sense among aid agencies that Gaza's population was being terrorised.
08-02-06 - Believing bombing over, Lebanese paid high price Ali Bajouk set off to deliver supplies to elderly relatives in the village of Aita al-Shaab thinking Israel had suspended its aerial bombardment of southern Lebanon. He was wrong. Bajouk now lies in a hospital bed in Beirut, his body, head and face wrapped in bandages to cover the burns caused by an air strike which scorched half his skin.
08-02-06 - Help save the children, victims of war Donate by visiting www.savethechildren.org.uk/independent
08-02-06 - World has forgotten about Gaza suffering, UN says Aid agencies say that the food supplies allowed into Gaza by the Israelis are barely enough to prevent starvation for the population of 1.5 million. The UN says Israel is firing 150 shells into Gaza every day.
08-02-06 - UN calls for action after Lebanese slick spreads to Syria
08-02-06 - Khamenei says Iran will continue to support Lebanon
08-02-06 - In Land of Jesus, Christians Struggle "Beit Jala is a small town, mostly Christian, and we own most of the undeveloped land," he said. "That is our only chance to flourish and develop, but now it is under confiscation because of the wall. If you lose all opportunities, what will happen? You will go."
08-02-06 - US, Britain should take back seat over Lebanon: Annan deputy
08-02-06 - A Christian Jordanian holds a candle during a vigil, held in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people
08-02-06 - Did Israel really need to savage the beauty of Beirut? The long-term trend should be obvious: Israel's violence, no matter how its leaders justify it, fails to provide its citizens with a sense of security. The Israeli army might beat back Hezbollah temporarily, only to create more numerous and radicalized foes than had existed before.
08-02-06 - Police brace for clashes in Jerusalem over shrine visit The Israeli High Court has allowed these Jewish extremists to visit this place in the first place. Why? This is reminiscent of Ariel Sharon's September 2000 visit to the same place, which sparked riots during witch Israeli forces gunned down a dozen unarmed Arabs. This is what sparked the second intifada. Israel is quite possibly looking to start the third intifada.
08-02-06 - Tens of thousands call for immediate ceasefire An urgent petition signed by over 35,000 people and backed by 16 leading agencies, including War on Want, was handed in today to Tony Blair, pressing him to call for an immediate ceasefire in the current Middle East crisis.
08-02-06 - Palestinian militants launch rockets at Israel Israeli sources said that at least one rocket landed in Sderot, causing damage but no casualties.
08-02-06 - Widening war complicates US policy goals The war is also raising questions about the limits of U.S. support for Israel.
08-02-06 - Saudi Arabia criticizes US policy over Lebanon He said Washington was morally obliged to prevent Israel from using U.S.-made weapons in attacks against civilians
08-02-06 - Lebanon crisis deepens Israeli Arabs' rift with the state
08-02-06 - Bush's Embrace of Israel Shows Gap With Father "There is a danger in a policy in which there is no daylight whatsoever between the government of Israel and the government of the United States," said Aaron David Miller, an Arab-Israeli negotiator for both Bush administrations, who has high praise for James A. Baker III, the first President Bush's secretary of state. "Bush One and James Baker would never have allowed that to happen." Put Bush Sr. and Baker back into the White House. We could turn this thing around right now.
08-02-06 - Palestinian gunmen clash in Gaza hospital Gaza - Gunmen clashed with members of the Hamas-led police force in a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday, wounding at least five people, medics and witnesses said.
08-02-06 - Detainees accuse Israel of abuses
08-02-06 - Bombing damage worth billions, says Lebanon The Lebanese Government says three weeks of Israeli bombardment has inflicted $US2 billion ($2.6 billion) of damage on Lebanon's infrastructure.
08-02-06 - Human Rights Watch puts Qana death toll at 28 The group said its own researchers who visited Qana on July 31 did not find any destroyed military equipment in or near the home. "Rescue workers recovered no bodies of apparent Hezbollah fighters from inside or near the building," Human Rights Watch said.
08-02-06 - Why Do They Hate Us? All morning when Arab channels were showing the crushed building in Qana, and the Red Crescent workers extracting from under it more than 60 bodies, mostly children, embalmed in blood and dust, Israel was showing family movies on its main television networks.
08-02-06 - War crimes and Lebanon
08-02-06 - MPs attack government for breaking its own guidelines on arms sales to Israel Margaret Beckett was yesterday threatened with legal action unless she bans the supply of British military equipment to Israel. Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, has written to the foreign secretary saying the sale of arms to Israel is unlawful and makes Britain complicit in breaches of international law by Israel.
08-02-06 - UN on brink of brokering ceasefire agreement
08-02-06 - Blair: You've misunderstood me over the Middle East
08-02-06 - US feels the pressure for quick ceasefire in Lebanon US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who since the start of the fighting has opposed calls for an immediate ceasefire, indicated some impatience with the Israelis late Tuesday when she insisted an end to the fighting should be achievable within "days, not weeks". Condi grows a cojone, albeit an embryonic cojone, but a cojone nonetheless. Congratulations.
08-02-06 - Syrians Give the Lebanese VIP Treatment Bouthaina Shaaban, the government's minister for expatriates, said her son broke his piggy bank to buy 22 shirts for Lebanese families, and her daughter's friends have postponed their wedding this month to offer their newly furnished apartment to a Lebanese family.
08-02-06 - Israel and 'Moral Equivalence' - The Qana massacre reveals the true face of Israel's aggression
08-02-06 - Rafah crossing with Egypt to reopen for two days A spokesman for the European Union monitors who observe the terminal also confirmed that the crossing would be reopened on Wednesday.
08-02-06 - Legal action plan over arms flights Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar said he was pursuing six different options to stop weapons flights from the US to Israel being routed through British airports. He said that by doing so the authorities were allowing the indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians in Lebanon, thereby making them complicit in war crimes.
08-02-06 - Rumsfeld decides to testify on Iraq war In other comments, Rumsfeld and Pace, citing intelligence concerns, sidestepped a question about whether they have seen evidence that Iran is supporting Hezbollah in its fight against Israel.
08-02-06 - Pope Benedict, 'full of pain,' renews appeal for peace in Middle East Clenching his fist and his voice filled with emotion, Benedict said: "Our eyes are filled with the chilling images of torn bodies of so many people, especially children - I am thinking in particular of Qana."
08-02-06 - Diplomat offers friendship of Palestinians No protest targeted the appearance, and the audience listened intently and applauded his words.
08-02-06 - Chuck Hagel: Opposition Senator Hagel offered one of the sanest statements heard on the floor of the Senate in the whole debate over the Middle East crisis: "Our relationship with Israel is special and historic," the Nebraskan said. "But it need not and cannot be at the expense of our Arab and Muslim relationships. That is an irresponsible and dangerous false choice."
08-02-06 - Israel bombs buildings in Gaza, no casualties
08-02-06 - At-Tuwani Update: 18 - 31 July 2006 During this period on several occasions (22 and 27 July), Israeli soldiers
responded to settler invasions of Palestinian land by removing or trying to
remove the Palestinians from their own land.......The soldier acknowledged that the shepherd was on Palestinian land but
thought that the Palestinians should leave because their presence made the
settlers upset. The soldier said that the Palestinians should avoid the
area because the settlers may hurt them These Christian Peacekeeper Teams report on just who is terrorizing whom.
08-02-06 - Islamic Charity Fundraiser Released Hamdan, who was convicted of overstaying a student visa issued 27 years ago, has acknowledged traveling around the country as a Holy Land fundraiser. But "I was never a terrorist fundraiser," said Hamdan, who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank.
08-02-06 - ANALYSIS - U.S., Britain risk much in Lebanon gamble Bret Stephens, editorialist at the conservative Wall Street Journal, said: "If it (the war) continues as it is, Israel is headed for the greatest military humiliation in its history."
08-02-06 - Christian Arabs Announce Press Conference Regarding Recent Crisis in the Middle East A group of Christian Arabs from the greater Detroit Arab American community is calling a press conference to express its outrage and address the horrific events and injustices in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.
08-02-06 - World Jewish Congress Protests Abuse of Human Rights Body in Geneva How dare that human rights organization criticize Israel! The audacity!
08-02-06 - Going the Distance - A longtime CIA official says Hezbollah wins the battle with Israel simply by surviving.
08-02-06 - 'If It Bleeds, It Leads' Approach Skews Media Coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict, Say a Panel of Experts on KRLA's Newsroom Confidential Panel of Israel-defenders bemoan the fact that Israel's atrocities in Lebanon are reaching American audiences and they can't propagandize enough to cover it up. Americans have a right to know what Israel is doing with their hard-earned tax money. That's TS if these folks don't like it.
08-02-06 - A Palestinian holds goats with portraits of U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, during a protest
08-02-06 - America will attack Iran, Syria in October: Gul The former chief of ISI, Maj. Gen (R) Hameed Gul has "predicted" that America would definitely attack Iran and Syria simultaneously in October.
08-02-06 - Arab, Jewish women unite to call for peace in Mideast
08-01-06 - Two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza Two Palestinians, one of them a 16-year-old boy, have been killed and four wounded by an Israeli tank shell in the northern Gaza Strip.
Ahmed Abu Qaida and Mervat Abu Sharekh, a 24-year-old woman, were killed Tuesday by the shell....Also Tuesday, a 15-year-old Palestinian girl, Sumaya Okal, died from injuries that she received from an Israeli tank shell in Jabaliya in northern Gaza on July 27
Seems like every other day now Israel is killing women, children and the elderly in Palestine.
08-01-06 - Girl, 3, killed in Israeli Gaza strikes
08-01-06 - Lebanese residents walk through the rubble from Israeli strikes after emerging from shelter as they leave their homes during a lull in the shelling
08-01-06 - Stop the Band-Aid Treatment - We Need Policies for a Real, Lasting Middle East Peace Former president Carter is the founder of the nonprofit Carter Center in Atlanta.
08-01-06 - EU ministers water down call for ceasefire European Union foreign ministers called on Tuesday for an immediate end to hostilities in Lebanon but dropped a demand for an instant ceasefire at the insistence of the United States' closest allies in the bloc.
08-01-06 - Israel preventing aid convoys reaching southern Lebanon: WFP
08-01-06 - International Humanitarian Organizations to Discuss Protection of Civilians in Lebanon-Israel Conflict Aug. 3 in DC
08-01-06 - Lebanese race to save lives, but find death "I saw a mother, clutching her son, covering him to protect him," said Mokdad, who pulled 10 bodies from the remains of a building hit by an Israeli air strike on the village.
08-01-06 - Lebanese residents walk through the rubble from Israeli strikes after emerging from shelter as they flee their homes during a lull in the shelling
08-01-06 - Power Plant Airstrike Leaves a Noxious Mess Hatjian estimated the loss from the strike on Jiyah to be about $210 million, in addition to about $2 billion worth of damage that Israeli airstrikes have caused to Lebanon's bridges and roads. Israel - a weapon of mass destruction.
08-01-06 - Emerging from Bint Jbeil's rubble "Tell the UN to come and see the hungry women and children, the bodies under the rubble being eaten by dogs. There's no conscience left in this world,"
08-01-06 - Israel ready for massive invasion
08-01-06 - 'You go a bit crazy when you see little body after little body coming up out of the ground' What is obvious to everyone covering this conflict is that children are bearing the brunt of it.
08-01-06 - Israel 'holds' Hezbollah fighters The Israeli army gave few details of the operation, but a spokeswoman told Reuters news agency that the captured militants had been taken to Israel.
08-01-06 - Delays hit Lebanese relief effort Israeli bombardment has "systematically destroyed almost the entire road network", Mona Hammam, United Nations resident co-ordinator for Lebanon, told BBC News.
08-01-06 - The IDF's "Human Shield" Defense Blows Up It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.
08-01-06 - News agencies stand by Lebanon photos Three news agencies on Tuesday rejected challenges to the veracity of photographs of bodies taken in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, strongly denying that the images were staged. Israel's defenders are getting desperate.
08-01-06 - Mid East planes 'can land in UK' US military planes en route to the Middle East can land at UK airfields "as long as the proper procedures are followed", the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has said.
08-01-06 - Ahmadinejad: Throw Britain and U.S. off Security Council The United States and Britain are responsible for Israel's killing of civilians in Lebanon and should not be trusted with seats on the U.N. Security Council, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
08-01-06 - Few Canadians back Harper's pro-Israel stand A whopping 77 percent said Canada should remain neutral in the current conflict. "The position Canadians want us to take is decidedly neutral," pollster Allan Gregg told the Globe and Mail newspaper. A poll published in the Jerusalem Post in September of 2004 said as much about the American public; only 17 percent of Americans said we should support Israel in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Canada, like the US, has a powerful pro-Israel lobby that gets to decide its foreign policy to the detriment of the respective citizens.
08-01-06 - Canada says Hizbollah is "a cancer," raps Israel Still, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay also for the first time indirectly criticized Israel, saying its decision to bomb Beirut airport had complicated the task of evacuating thousands of Canadian citizens.
08-01-06 - Bush says support of Israel still unshaken Bush made it clear that the U.S. position in firm support of Israel had not changed.
08-01-06 - Israel court allows Jewish hardliners to enter mosque compound The Israeli high court has upheld a request by far-right Jewish activists to enter Islam's third holiest shrine, the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, which is also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount. This can't be good.
08-01-06 - Demonstrators protest in San Francisco, California against Israel's air strikes on Lebanon and the Gaza
08-01-06 - US stance delights neo-cons after months of disillusionment, America?s neo-conservatives have fallen in love again with the Bush administration because of its support for Israel?s bombardment of Lebanon.
08-01-06 - Israeli Arabs flee north, take refuge in Bethlehem
08-01-06 - Fight in Lebanon galvanizing Shiites Surprisingly, 73.1 percent of Sunnis also supported the Hezbollah operation, perhaps a nod for growing calls across the Arab world for Muslims to put aside their differences to focus on fighting Israel.
08-01-06 - Bombing on Israeli patrol road in Golan: military
08-01-06 - The Moral Culpability for Qana by Patrick J. Buchanan hen a few congressmen sought to moderate a pro-Israeli resolution by adding words urging "all sides to protect innocent life and infrastructure," GOP leader John Boehner ordered the words taken down. Why? Because, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, had prepared the resolution and wanted it passed the way they wrote it. Our Knesset complied. It sailed through the House 410-8.
08-01-06 - Vigil Calls for End to Civilian Deaths in Lebanon
08-01-06 - Out of the Rubble "We wished we were dead," she says, "so we could at least get a rest from these horrible crimes."
08-01-06 - Christian victims of 'someone else's' Lebanon war
08-01-06 - Annan tells major powers to agree on Lebanon plan
08-01-06 - Muslim humanitarian groups discuss aid for Lebanon, Palestinians About a dozen Muslim humanitarian groups from around the world met to coordinate their aid efforts for Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, shattered by a massive Israeli offensive.
08-01-06 - Children are paying the price in Lebanon
08-01-06 - 'We are winning this war ... Israel couldn't do what it said' "All our fighters are uniformed and equipped with armour; when we are in the field we dress as soldiers, but when we are with civilians we dress normally,"
08-01-06 - The refugees' fury will be felt for generations to come
08-01-06 - 'Oops, Sorry' Doesn't Let Israel Off the Hook Rather than limiting its strikes to key Hezbollah positions and pursuing all available diplomatic channels, as might be expected of a mature regional power with nuclear weapons, Israel launched a vengeful war on Lebanon, which, it has since been reported, was planned over a year in advance. It has displayed a callous disregard for human life, for Lebanon's infrastructure (which only in recent years had begun to recover from Israel's 1982 invasion), for the stability of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's fragile government and for the country's natural environment, now facing an ecological catastrophe from an oil spill caused by the bombing.
08-01-06 - Blair warns of 'arc of extremism' Mr Blair told the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles that Syria and Iran had to stop supporting terrorism or they would "be confronted".
08-01-06 - Israel's Latest Massacre in Qana: Racist Jewish Fundamentalism a Factor
08-01-06 - U.S. is turning its back on civilians in Lebanon
08-01-06 - Israeli opinion after Qana - MIND BOGGLING
08-01-06 - Wooing Lebanese hearts, one leaflet at a time "If we saw Israel just (striking at) the Hizbullah positions, fine," he says. But when civilians and civilian infrastructure are hit, "the public doesn't blame the Hizbullah for it - they simply hate Israel more."
08-01-06 - Why the Middle East Crisis Isn't Really About Terrorism To understand why all of the enemies of Israel are suddenly included in our 'war on terror' you need to read this.
08-01-06 - Greece withdraws from Israeli film festival in protest over Lebanon crisis
08-01-06 - Shooting suspect's parents offer sympathy
08-01-06 - Lebanon withdraw from Asian Cup The head of the Lebanon Football Association, Rahif Alameh, said the fighting had forced several players to leave their homes to evade the war.
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