December '06 Archive
Happy New Year, all.
12-31-06 - Politics in Palestine in 2006 The year 2006 was one of the most dramatic in the internal Palestinian arena in recent history. Amid a rash of political and economic transformations of most aspects of Palestinian life, the United States wielded the most control.
12-31-06 - Independent Appeal: Victims of a terrible war receive pioneering help in Gaza - and across the Israeli border
12-31-06 - Hamas and Israel 'close to deal' on prisoners
12-31-06 - Al-Qaeda leader urges Palestinians to turn against Abbas The Fatah-linked militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said "these declarations sow division and serve the purpose of the Zionist (Israeli) occupation and have nothing to do with the fight against the occupier."
12-31-06 - Charities hard at work during Eid Al Adha in light of continued US-led blockade
12-31-06 - Israeli forces take12 year old and 14 year old brothers from their home for midnight interrogation Israeli forces besieged the southern Jenin home of Ahmed Mahmoud Saleh Al Shayeb. They detained the 13 member family in the rain and cold. Two children, 14 year old Nur and 12 year old Mahdi, were taken
12-31-06 - Christian Palestinians keep the faith in Levittown - and keep their homeland in their hearts Before May 1948, when Israel was created, more than 20 percent of the Palestinian population was Christian. But listen, it's really Islam that drove the Christians out. Or so the Israeli Foreign Ministry would have you believe.
12-31-06 - Peace Now: 12 new caravans set up at Amona settlement outpost
12-31-06 - Israeli Navy Boats Abduct Three Palestinian Men Near Rafah Beach Majied Farahat, his two brothers Mohamed and Ahmad were fishing on their boat when Israeli war ships surrounded them and abducted them to unknown destination, eyewitnesses reported.
12-31-06 - Deputy Defense Minister: Israel worried about post-Saddam Iraq Saddam's final words were reportedly, "Palestine is Arab."
12-31-06 - More than 1,000 West Bank Palestinians mourn Saddam Carrying a symbolic coffin for Saddam Hussein, more than 1,000 Palestinians demonstrated in Jenin in the northern West Bank, in response to the ex-Iraqi president's execution.
12-31-06 - Dr. Nazzal Calls on Palestinians to Ignore Zawahri's Incitement Commenting on the statements made by the third man in al-Qaeda Organisation Dr. Ayman Zawahri, Dr Nazzal said in a press release that such statements aim at deepening the rift between Fateh and Hamas, affirming that the Palestinian factions can infuriate by unifying under one program.
12-31-06 - Eid Al Adha messages from political prisoners call for unity
12-31-06 - Special needs families and organizations honored in northern West Bank The Health Care Committees in Jenin held a ceremony to honor the parents of children with special needs.
12-31-06 - Israel is the Only Middle East Ally for Americans Yeh. Look at the list that they offered to choose from. Somebody at Angus-Reid there is reaching for straws.
12-31-06 - Canada probing abuse claims of asylum seekers from Israel
12-31-06 - Israelis Oppose Negotiations with Syria The area of the Golan Heights?approximately 1,860 square kilometres of land?was seized by Israel during the 1967 war, and annexed to its territory in 1981. 66 per cent of respondents reject returning the Golan Heights to Syria within the framework of a real peace agreement. (Stolen)land or peace - which is it? History has proven that Israel can't have both.
12-31-06 - Christian public library opens in Gaza
12-31-06 - Israel plays down letter from Assad to Olmert
12-31-06 - A dictator's Mideast legacy
12-31-06 - Should DailyKos ban all discussions of Israel and Palestine? After one short month here, it has become abundantly clear that this site, perhaps this country, is not capable of rational discourse on the topic. Briefly, comments that are pro-Palestinian, or are in way critical of Israel's policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians, are characterized as anti-Semitic My advice (based on years of personal experience with these types): ignore the personal attacks, but stand your ground. Most importantly, stay on message - do not let them succeed in taking you so far off message that nobody wants to sift through all of the BS to get to the point. If it gets to the point to where it's one big p'ing match - then cut them right off. People have plenty of other places for that. They can start their own diary/blog. That is your best course of action.
12-31-06 - ASIO 'tricked on Hawke plot' AUSTRALIA'S spy agency was tricked by Israel into believing Bob Hawke was the target of a Palestinian assassination plot, the former Palestinian ambassador to Australia said today.
12-31-06 - Israel glad Germany will head EU Israeli diplomatic officials are breathing a sigh of relief that Germany, considered one of Israel's strongest supporters in Europe, will be taking over the rotating presidency of the European Union on Monday for the next six months.
12-31-06 - America, the Betrayer: The Fulfillment? America has failed to topple the Iran and Syria regimes, to stem the Iraqi insurgency or to smother Iran's nuclear weapons development program. Another blame-America article from the usual corners.
12-31-06 - Tomb-raiding tradition thriving in West Bank
12-31-06 - Hebron Reflection: On Coming Home to Hebron
Happy New Year, all. My New Year's prediction: There will be a MAJOR PR effort on the part of Israel and its agents in the US to try to undo the grave damage inflicted this past month on Israel's image.
12-30-06 - Abbas arrives in Gaza for Eid celebrations Just before he left Ramallah, president Abbas slammed the decision of Israel?s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, not to release Palestinian detainees before the Muslim holiday.
12-30-06 - Northern West Bank journalist spending his third Eid Al Adha in Israeli prison without charge Israeli forces took him from the northern West Bank in April 2004 and have held him under Administrative Detention in Israeli prison since then. He has never been charged with a crime or been afforded a trial.
12-30-06 - Israel says 'justice done' with Saddam execution "Saddam Hussein brought about his own demise. This was a man who caused a great deal of harm to his people and who was a major threat to Israel," Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told public radio Saturday.
12-30-06 - What to do with Iran? ** As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and US newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure.....We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential candidates in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate action by Bush against Iran.....We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi Arabia so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran.....The Americans must act. Yet if they don't, we'll do it ourselves
12-30-06 - Book: Israel, Lobby Pushing Iran War ** Later in the book, Ritter adds: "Let there be no doubt: If there is an American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and nowhere else." Hmm.
12-30-06 - 'More options needed against Kassams' The officer said that IDF soldiers rarely succeeded in thwarting Kassam attacks before the rockets were fired, and generally had an opportunity to attack the terrorists only after they launched rockets.
12-30-06 - Israel announces new restrictions on foreigners in West Bank will be required to obtain visas from embassies and consulates inside Israeli boundaries before entering the ?Palestinian territories,? as the Israelis put it
12-30-06 - US welcomes Saddam hanging, Europe opposes execution "Saddam Hussein was a prisoner of war," a Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhum, told AFP. The "hanging ... is a political assassination that violates all international laws that are supposed to protect prisoners of war."
12-30-06 - Interrogators torture and attack a detainee with metal chains The center is in Maali Adumim settlement block near the occupied Jerusalem and extends on vast areas that were annexed and seized from the Palestinians.
12-30-06 - Mashal: "Fateh and Hamas talks are the only way out of the current crisis" Hamas political bureau chief, Khalid Mashal, stated on Saturday that the only way to end the current Palestinian crisis is to return to a direct and unconditional dialogue between all Palestinian factions.
12-30-06 - Leftist women's nonviolent resistance for Eid Al Adha
12-30-06 - The problems that face Bethlehem
12-30-06 - U.S. Catholics All for Disinvestment
12-30-06 - A challenge to newly elected Speaker of the House Pelosi In 2001, Pelosi told a pro-Israeli conference the real issue surrounding the Palestinian/Israeli problem is not the occupation, but Israel's right to exist. She added the occupation argument is "nonsense."
12-30-06 - Mubarak: Israel, Palestinians both losers without direct peace negotiations
12-30-06 - Dear Santa, or Someone Dear Abby,I am a Jewish freethinker in Israel. (Sometimes I write "in Israel/Palestine" because it seems to make more sense, but we won't go into that now.) I have a question. If Jewish renewal in Palestine after a thousand generations is visionary and noble, why is the idea of repatriating the displaced Palestinians after a mere fifty or sixty years seen as delusional? I don't get it.
Happy Eid Al-Adha to my Muslim friends
12-29-06 - Flooding cuts Gaza in two The bridges spanning the riverbed, which runs from Israeli territory into the Mediterranean Sea, were bombed by Israeli jets in June after Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, sparking fierce fighting. Makeshift tracks used by Palestinians drivers instead were rendered impassable by the water, which rushed down the riverbed after heavy rains swept Israel and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday and Thursday.
12-29-06 - The Rafah border crossing to open nine hours on Saturday
12-29-06 - Despite promises to ease passage, Israeli military increases restrictions on travel in the West Bank
12-29-06 - Hamas: ?We will not remain idle as Israel constructs a new settlement in the Jordan Valley? Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Thursday that it cannot stand idle as Israel continues its settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem, adding that the new approval of a settlement construction in the Jordan Valley aims at creating realities imposed by Israel.
12-29-06 - No plans for immediate Palestinian prisoner release: Israel Israel is not planning to release Palestinian prisoners ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid Al-Adha, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office has told AFP.
12-29-06 - Turkish Delegation To Travel To Palestine To Deliver Humanitarian Aid
12-29-06 - Local anti-Wall organizers shot with rubber-coated bullets and beaten in Bil'in protest
12-29-06 - Army denies Israeli settlement report Israeli settlers have set up 200 mobile homes in the West Bank without official approval during the past six months, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday, citing military documents. But both the army and a settlement watchdog group disputed the report.
12-29-06 - Israel controls water resources in Gaza, West Bank -- report Moreover, it said despite limited water resources in the Palestinians territories, Israel took over more that 80 percent of them, noting that large Israeli water projects counted on drawing water from Arab sources.
12-29-06 - How a spy was caught and why he still stands to profit From his prison cell, an unrepentant Pollard still claims a double-cross by U.S. prosecutors who had promised not to seek a life sentence. Mr. Olive dashes this protest: The government did not recommend the term. It was meted by U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr., after reading a still-secret memo from Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger detailing the grave damage Pollard caused to national security
12-29-06 - Minister of Planning: "I have no problem in meeting with my Israeli counterpart"
12-29-06 - Message from US Consul General Jerusalem on Occasion of Eid al Adha
12-29-06 - World Responds to Palestinian Family's Jailing Despite Media Blackout There is an America that Ibrahim loves. In the New Year we resolve to live there with him.
12-29-06 - 140 residents transferred to Egypt for treatment The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Thursday that 140 residents suffering from heart problems and cancer were allowed through the Rafah border crossing on their way to Egyptian hospitals for treatment.
12-29-06 - Gazans fear influential radios will lead them to civil war
12-29-06 - Rabbi calls Carter an anti-Semite What a surprise.
12-29-06 - Will Israel honor its peace agreement?
12-29-06 - Finding resolution in Iraq
12-29-06 - Israeli journalist reveals the secrets of the assassination of Arafat by Ariel Sharon
12-29-06 - Hezbollah involved in Lebanon assassinations: Jumblatt
12-29-06 - Slime Throwing as "Debate"
12-29-06 - Greens, settlers work together to fight West Bank fence route Environmental activists and settlers in the Hebron region have set up a joint operation to stop the construction of a section of the separation fence in the Judean Desert.
12-29-06 - Who's afraid of a Christmas tree? The explanation provided on behalf of the public authority - published in the press - was based on the fact that more than 80 percent of the housing project's immigrant residents are Jewish. Complaints showed that the bearded character of Santa Claus, dressed in a red coat and carrying a bundle of toys for the youngsters, is offensive to religious residents. Very offensive.
12-29-06 - Belgian troops wounded in Lebanon Two Belgian soldiers on a mine-clearing operation in south Lebanon have been wounded after stepping on a cluster bomb, a UN spokesman has said.
12-29-06 - A New Roadblock to Mideast Peace (6 Letters)
12-29-06 - Israelis Disagree with Olmert on PA Gestures 49 per cent of respondents oppose the gestures that Ehud Olmert granted to Mahmoud Abbas in their meeting. Then they will be pleased to learn that Israel hasn't implemented any of them.
12-29-06 - Probe 'finds Israeli army deficient in summer war' There is no probe into Israel's conduct of the war that included the wholesale bombing of civilians (including those in the process of fleeing), and the firing of thousands of cluster bombs into civilian areas.
12-28-06 - Egypt sends weapons through Israel Egypt has sent a large shipment of weapons through Israeli territory to shore up forces loyal to the embattled Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli security officials said Thursday - an extraordinary show of support by both countries for his efforts to renew peacemaking with Israel.
12-28-06 - Gaza militants fire two rockets into Israel
12-28-06 - Palestinian deaths 'rose in 2006' B'Tselem, which monitors human rights in the occupied territories, said the figure included 141 children.
12-28-06 - 683 people killed in the conflict in 2006
12-28-06 - Israeli forces detain scores of Palestinians at Al Karamah border crossing
12-28-06 - Israeli foreign minister: West Bank barrier can be basis for border of Palestinian state Totally outrageous. Remember the claim by Israel that the barrier's route was not a border? The wall where it is presently built is illegal under international law.
12-28-06 - Water supply restored to W. Bank residents after 48 hour shortage Mekorot Water Company workers repaired a faulty water pipeline Wednesday that has failed to supply water for the past 48 hours to tens of thousands of residents of settlements and Palestinian villages in the Dolev-Talmonim and Nili Na'aleh areas in the West Bank.
12-28-06 - Israeli roadblock pledge derided "We are justifiably sceptical. Nothing has happened yet and we do not know if these roadblocks are important or peripheral ... If it is true then it will be too little too late. The only thing that will help Mahmoud Abbas is serious substantive measures accompanied by a serious and substantive peace process,"
12-28-06 - Russia calls to fulfill Olmert-Abbas agreements Russia ?hopes Israel and Palestine will not resort to unilateral actions, which would anticipate the solution of the issue of the final status of Palestinian territories,? Russian foreign ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said Thursday.
12-28-06 - Israel hopes May elections will change UN Human Rights Council "I'm not optimistic," Levanon said, but he added that it was one of the few possibilities which existed for changing the attitude of the Human Rights Council when it came to Israel and making it a more effective vehicle to advocate for victims of injustice around the world. Israel is one of the biggest human rights violators on the planet. But we aren't supposed to know that or condemn it.
12-28-06 - Palestinian Immigrant Jailings in Texas Ahmad Ibrahim says his 5-year-old niece shares her cell with her pregnant mother, Hanan Ahmad, while the 7- and 12-year-old girls share a cell with each other. The 15-year-old boy is in a third cell. All of them are incarcerated at the T. Don Hutto jail in Taylor, Texas.
12-28-06 - Israeli forces expanding Wall in West Bank's Jordan Valley
12-28-06 - AG to Eitam: Repeating anti-Arab comments may lead to charges Eitam, leader of the Religious Zionism faction in the National Union party, said at a September 10 memorial ceremony in the West Bank settlement of Eli: "The vast majority of West Bank Arabs must be deported ... all these Arabs cannot stay there and that territory cannot be forsaken. Most of them would have to leave."
12-28-06 - Mandela Institute: Palestinians taken to Israeli prison hospital are not given medical treatment A Mandela Institute lawyer, Buthaina Dukmak, visited with several of the political prisoners. She reports that 13 Palestinian political prisoners are in the Ramle Hospital suffering from paralysis or such severe disability that they cannot move without either human or wheelchair assistance.
12-28-06 - Israel to impose limits on bank accounts of security prisoners
12-28-06 - Abbas phones PM Haniyeh in sign of easing tension Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Thursday in a sign of rapprochement between the two men as the Islamist premier set off on a tour of Arab countries.
12-28-06 - Palestinian journalists caught in the Gaza crossfire Reporters Without Borders today released the report of a visit it made to Gaza and Israel from 4 to 7 December to investigate the disturbing situation of journalists working in the Gaza Strip, to meet with the authorities and to propose ways of improving the security of the media.
12-28-06 - Editorial: Settlements make bad neighbors
12-28-06 - Israel admits it may have hit ambulance ONLY after they got caught in another lie.
12-28-06 - UAE rejects US criticism on export of sensitive material The United States is "increasingly disturbed by the diversion of goods to Iran and Syria through various ports in the UAE," Chicken Little/boy who cried wolf (Israel), who's hiding behind Uncle Sam, is the one behind it.
12-28-06 - Russia fingers Israeli fugitive in radiation poison probe
12-28-06 - His term was short, but Gerald Ford left mark on Soviet Jewry movement
12-28-06 - Lebanon sees more than 1,000 war deaths None of the counts of war dead include Lebanese killed since the fighting ended by exploding land mines or Israeli cluster bombs scattered around southern Lebanon. Such blasts have killed 27 people and wounded 167, according to the National Demining Office. No Israelis have been killed by war-related blasts since then.
12-28-06 - The Ludicrous Attacks on Jimmy Carter's Book Carter's real sin is that he cut to the heart of the problem: "Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law." Amen. And they wouldn't be violating international law if our country wasn't letting them get away with it (and funding it, to boot). You can thank the Israeli lobby for that.
12-28-06 - U.S. Embassy Is Warning Beijing on Iran Gas Deal Tom Lantos, said his panel will "closely examine" the deal next week to see if the sanctions would apply. The ranking Republican on that committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Florida, said she will also be looking closely at the deal. Israel's top two agents on Capitol Hill, what a coincidence.
12-28-06 - Growing up angry in Gaza
12-28-06 - Muslims claim police bias Aisha Pritchard and her husband, Sadi Elhaloul, a Palestinian, were trying to board their flight from Cardiff International Airport to Dubai on 14 December. The couple claim officers from South Wales Police questioned them for around 20 minutes and then decided to remove their luggage and search it.
12-28-06 - ANALYSIS-Lebanon conflict overlaps with Mideast turmoil "The Middle East's next era promises to be one in which outside actors have a relatively modest impact and local forces enjoy the upper hand -- and in which the local actors gaining power are radicals committed to changing the status quo," he wrote in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs. In Iraq and the Palestinian territories, Islamists have already displaced secular elites, militias eclipse government authority and leaders linked to the West are on the defensive. And why is that? What has allowed these radical groups to rise in power? Moderates have for years sought justice through the proper channels - only to be denied by an America that is heavily biased in favor of and influenced by Israel. Our own national interest has never been considered. Neither have the human rights of the people in that region. As long as Israel's minions in the US tie the hands of our government, radical groups will continue to gain popularity.
12-28-06 - Jimmy Carter's Sin Against Israel
12-28-06 - Rice Told Lieberman: ´Choke Hamas´
12-28-06 - British watchdog probes charity over possible links with Palestinian militants The Charity Commission has investigated reported links between Interpal and terrorist groups on two previous occasions, but found no evidence.
12-28-06 - A sweet tradition in the Middle East, and the US
12-28-06 - Analysis: Syria, Iran won Lebanon war
12-28-06 - Israel and Apartheid: In Defense of Jimmy Carter
12-28-06 - Non-cooperative housing The assignment was to create a jointly-owned building, with four apartments, for Israeli and Palestinian residents
12-28-06 - Immigration to Israel falls to 18 year low
12-28-06 - Oh! Little Town of Bethlehem.... Where Art Thou? This lack of recognition in the West for the plight of Bethlehem?s people is a metaphor for the entire Palestinian situation. When Americans think at all about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they do so through the prism of the Israeli narrative. They either do not see the Palestinian side of the story, or see a Palestine gutted of its human content.
12-28-06 - Muslims are Americans, too
12-28-06 - Asa Kasher attacks 'brutality' of radical rabbis Radical rabbis in Judea and Samaria and their students have increasingly been calling to replace the IDF's principle of purity of arms with a brutal and vicious military strategy, Prof. Asa Kasher said this week in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post. That's already the case NOW. The myth of 'purity of arms' is just that.
12-28-06 - Palestine's Resiliant, Dignified, and Courageous Voices
12-28-06 - Israeli activists against the Wall block downtown Tel Aviv
12-27-06 - Israel PM orders resumption of Gaza strikes
12-27-06 - B'Tselem and al-Haq warn about killing of children playing with toy guns During Muslim holidays, Palestinian children and youths play with toy rifles. According to B'Tselem's figures, in recent years, IDF soldiers have killed five Palestinian children and youths who were playing with toy weapons or fireworks.
12-27-06 - Rocket attacks on Israel continue "Stop the attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip immediately or expect more rockets on Sderot and on Ashkelon and beyond," the Saraya al-Quds said in a leaflet sent to Xinhua by e-mail.
12-27-06 - Hebron: Israeli army attacks medical center, abducting residents,while settlers destroy farm lands In Al Thahria town south of Hebron, right wing Israeli settlers living in an illegal Israeli settlement near the village attacked and destroyed Palestinian farm land.
Eyewitnesses said that the settlers bulldozed farm lands utterly destroying crops over an area of 40 donums (10 acres). According to local farmers the settlers are trying to take over this land to enlarge the settlement.
12-27-06 - Hamas fighter injured by unknown gunmen near Jenin Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that an unknown armed group fired rounds of live ammunition at a member of Hamas near Borqeen village, west of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, the member was seriously injured.
12-27-06 - Successful Israelis relinquish citizenship "..they are required to relinquish their citizenship in order to work in Capitol Hill or serve in prestigious positions in the American military or the White House," Relinquishing their Israeli citizenship does not remove the security threat.
12-27-06 - US raps West Bank settlement plan But what will the US do about it? Zero.
12-27-06 - Hebron Update: Dec. 17-25, 2006 Amy Peters and John Lynes attended a meeting in Jerusalem with a member of
International Committee Against Home Demolitions. He described the current
Israeli policy on house demolitions and suggested that international groups can
be most effective in mobilizing international and getting media attention. The
situation in East Jerusalem is critical where 10 000 out of 40 000 Palestinian
homes may face demolition.
12-27-06 - 2 Palestinian prisoners escape from jail, caught by security forces One of the prisoners was sentenced to seven years in prison for damaging security, and the other was sentenced to three for illegally staying in Israel. They got more time than those settlers that beat the crap out of the Palestinian farmers did (see today's news batch).
12-27-06 - Two settlers given jail terms for attack on Palestinian shepherds
12-27-06 - Knesset education panel: Let Palestinian students attend Israeli universities The Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee on Tuesday called on Defense Minister Amir Peretz to overturn the sweeping policy of denying Palestinian students entry to study at Israeli universities.
12-27-06 - 'Palestinians' call on Israelis to evacuate Negev Right-wing activists print, distribute leaflets pretending to be al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which declare: In light of ceasefire, which we are successfully taking advantage of for massive armament, and after huge success in expelling Zionist settlement, our organization will soon start shooting missiles at settlements of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Kiryat Gat
12-27-06 - IDF offered to 'transfer' 2 W. Bank villages, court told Meanwhile, authorities on Tuesday ordered settlers to evacuate four homes in a heavily guarded enclave in the West Bank city of Hebron, saying the structures were illegally built.
12-27-06 - Israel delays humanitarian measures It was decided Tuesday that the army would not begin removing roadblocks until the beginning of next week, partly due to weather conditions. They got what they wanted(from the US and also the EU - see today's news). It's doubtful that these measures will go in effect at all, and if they do - history has shown that it won't last long.
12-27-06 - Checkpoints within the West Bank: Israeli PM's words belie reality When media monitors went to check the results of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's pledge to make significant changes in West Bank checkpoints following the meeting with President Abbas, they were unpleasantly surprised. Within two hours of the announcement, the Yitzhar Checkpoint was reimposed after having been removed in the past.
12-27-06 - European Investment Banks ends Israel 'freeze' The European Investment Bank has announced that it would fund hundreds of environmental projects in Israel and provide loans to small businesses there, ending an 11-year investment "freeze". What's the occasion? Israel's 'humanitarian gestures'?
12-27-06 - Jerusalem turns white as first snow falls A dusting of snow covered Jerusalem for the first time this winter as foul weather caused an upsurge in accidents in Israel and the Palestinian areas.
12-27-06 - Captured Israeli still alive: minister
12-27-06 - Army detains international volunteers in Hebron The two volunteers, one Spanish and one South African, were on their way to Tal Al Ruida neighborhood to escort Palestinian schoolchildren from school back to their homes, in an attempt to stop illegal Israeli settlers living in that neighborhood from attacking the schoolchildren.
12-27-06 - Rafah crossing open for Palestinian traffic in both directions Wednesday
12-27-06 - Members of the Palestinian Presidential guard play in the snow
12-27-06 - Finland condemns Israel's new settlement construction in West Bank
12-27-06 - Even day of trading on the Palestinian Stock Exchange
12-27-06 - Prison visit registration for 2007 Families who are allowed to visit their children, fathers, husbands, wives and daughters in Israeli prisons must submit a schedule. The International Red Cross announced on Wednesday that the new dates for prison visits for the year 2007 have been issued and families must now register.
12-27-06 - Egypt reports third bird flu death in a week
12-27-06 - Abbas advocates intensive talks ahead of Rice visit Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has called for intensive talks to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians ahead of a visit to the region by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice next month
12-27-06 - Increasing numbers of Palestinians leaving Baghdad The number of Palestinians stuck on the Iraq-Syria border after fleeing violence in Baghdad has risen to 80, with more reported on the way.
12-27-06 - The Embarrassment of the Wretched
12-27-06 - Egypt wants end to 'nuclear double standards'
12-27-06 - Israel's mixed messages Unfortunately, it has become traditional in Israel to balance constructive gestures with sops to the politically potent settlers movement. The settlers' agenda is not supported by a majority of Israelis. But no recent government has felt strong enough to resist their demands.
12-27-06 - HEBRON: Learning to Love My Enemies
12-27-06 - A Palestinian view of Jimmy Carter's book
12-27-06 - Outside View: What happened to the Arabs? Reaction to the Baker-Hamilton report showed that Israel is defending certain policies that Americans do not agree on. Israel declared that occupying Iraq is in the Israeli strategic interest and that dividing Iraq is an Israeli target, while the Iraq Study Group report insisted on the need of keeping Iraq united and that war in Iraq damaged the U.S. status, interests and reputation
12-27-06 - Carter Receives Cold Shoulder "True sensitivity to Israel and American Jews would be demonstrated by ceasing these one-sided attacks and apologising for damaging the good name of the State of Israel and the Jewish people" News flash: neither the Jewish people nor the state of Israel are above criticism. Nobody is. Deal with it.
12-27-06 - In defense of Palestinians
12-27-06 - Palestinians depicted unfairly in strife with Israel But where in this imbalanced and disingenuous editorial is mention made of a far greater number of civilian Palestinian fatalities - men, women and children, victims of home demolition and reckless reprisal attacks against Israel's many political enemies? To omit this part of the dark chapter in the Israeli/Palestinian story is to go beyond racism to a "place" where Arabs in that region are reduced to evil figures in a video game or, perhaps worse, human pestilence.
12-27-06 - U.S. finally admits Arafat murdered American officials Now go to the PDF file and read it (it's only 2 pages long). Where in that document from the State Department does it prove Joe Farah's (a known Christian Zionist) allegations? Here is the only pertinent information from the PDF file "but when they
became convinced that their demands would not be met and after
they reportedly had received orders from Fatah headquarters
in Beirut, they killed the two United States officials and
the Belgian Charge". THAT'S Farah's proof? Why does it say 'REPORTEDLY'? The NSA should release the tapes - it's strange that it chooses not to, given that it WOULD release tapes that allegedly exonerate Israel in its attack on the USS Liberty ( the tapes did no such thing in that case).
12-27-06 - Unlike America, writer has no conflicts
12-27-06 - In football match, Israelis and Palestinians lose to Andalusia The proceeds from the match were to go toward financing schools in Palestinian territories in a project sponsored by the Andalusian regional government.
12-27-06 - Egyptians Question Israel's Claim to Eilat
12-27-06 - Nevzlin named in poison probe Russian authorities said an Israel-based business oligarch could be a suspect in the murder of a former Russian spy in Britain.....Nevzlin, who is involved in several Jewish charities, was one of several business moguls forced out of Russia in what many see as a deliberate corporate takeover campaign masterminded by President Vladimir Putin. Hmm.
12-27-06 - Video game lets you join the Palestinian intifada A warning - blog is from Israeli-run MEMRI.
12-27-06 - He's back: Redmond returns from Hebron What we witness we will be writing in a report, and we will release a report. There are three important issues we observed: 1) the wall, 2) the roads Palestinians can't drive down without being arrested and only Israelis can travel, and 3) school patrols-in Hebron they have built these settlements. they resemble upscale condos you might see here in the states. Next to the settlements are the Palestinian neighborhoods, and these neighborhoods are not as nice. One of the things happening is the Israeli adult settlers attack the children, and nothing is being done. I personally escorted children, and the settlers would yell, "Go back to USA, this our land!"
12-27-06 - The new refugees During the past two weeks, officials continued to prevent the entry even of those who are married and have children here and those who came on a visit.
12-27-06 - Neocons Endanger the Sixth Amendment Obviously, the demands of Israel trump the rights of American citizens, as America is now, and has been for some time, Israeli occupied territory.
12-27-06 - Israelis, Palestinians Find No Accord on Jerusalem I could do without the commentary with regard to Angus-Reid's version of Middle East history. Thanks.
12-27-06 - Gaydamak boosts Bibi A Russian-Israeli billionaire endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu?s bid to retake the Israeli premiership.
12-27-06 - Israel approves U.S. extradition The man, who changed his name after moving to Israel two years ago, is believed to have been convicted in California of drugging and raping two women in the late 1980s
12-27-06 - Hezbollah rises from ruins of its Beirut home
12-27-06 - Where's Bethlehem?
12-26-06 - Palestinian farmer shot by Israeli troops near Gaza fence A Palestinian farmer was shot and seriously injured on Tuesday in the northern Gaza Strip as he was working near the fence separating Gaza and Israel, Palestinian officials said
12-26-06 - Israel plans W.Bank homes for Gaza settlers: report Israel's defense minister has approved plans to turn a former army base in the occupied West Bank into a settlement for 30 Jewish settler families evacuated from the Gaza Strip last year, Israel Radio said on Tuesday. As predicted, and under the cover of the 'peace gestures' with regard to dismantling checkpoints and etc., Israel is moving the settlers that were evicted last year from illegal Gaza settlements to new illegal settlements on the West Bank. The world is not blind to their ongoing double dealings.
12-26-06 - Abbas gives Hamas ten-day ultimatum to prepare for unity gov't talks: report
12-26-06 - Palestinians protest West Bank barrier Dozens of Palestinian farm workers have protested south of Bethlehem against the construction of Israel's controversial West Bank separation barrier. Six people were slightly injured when scuffles broke out after a dozen bulldozers, protected by the military, started to tear down trees and raze the ground near the village of Umm Salamona on Tuesday.
12-26-06 - Israel settlement breaks promise to U.S. Israel has approved a new settlement in the West Bank to house former Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, breaking a promise to the U.S. to halt home construction in the Palestinian territories. Cut them right off the dole (per Bush the first), and see how they like them apples.
12-26-06 - UAE RCS distributes food parcels in KhanYounis
12-26-06 - Israel to weigh Gaza truce stance A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday injured two teenage Israeli boys in the southern town of Sderot. Defence Minister Amir Peretz said Israel must reconsider its "restraint". The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group said it carried out the Sderot attack in retaliation for recent Israeli military raids in the West Bank.
12-26-06 - Palestinian Election Could Be Very Close
12-26-06 - Israeli spies divided over Syria's peace overtures
12-26-06 - Palestinians say soldiers threw rocks, destroyed property Palestinians living south of Mount Hebron on the West Bank say that they have been harassed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers over the past month.
12-26-06 - Acting Finance Minister: salaries finally being paid The Acting Minister of Finance and Minister of Planning, Dr. Samir Abu Eisha, began disbursing salaries to public sector employees who had not received funds provided by the European Union for those who receive more than 2,500 shekels per month
12-26-06 - Intel. tribunal urged to try killers of journalists in Iraq, Palestine The Arab Journalists Federation (AJF) called on the U.N. Security Council on Sunday to take more decisive steps to stop the serial killing of journalists in Iraq and Palestine.
12-26-06 - My mother gave birth to me here 80 years ago. I prefer death than to see the Wall eat this land
12-26-06 - Palestinians skeptical about checkpoints
12-26-06 - Agricultural Relief workshops for remaining farm land Palestinian Agricultural Relief's North Branch is implementing a project to support agricultural lands in villages impacted by the Wall. The work is being done in concert with people of Nazareth, a city still populated by Palestinians, but inside Israeli boundaries
12-26-06 - Hamas PM to Saudi, Kuwait and Jordan Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas will leave for Saudi Arabia this week to continue a tour of Arab states that he interrupted a week and a half ago to deal with an internal crisis.
12-26-06 - Mazuz won't investigate illegal outposts built on Palestinian land Attorney General Menachem Mazuz ruled Tuesday that a criminal investigation will not be opened against settlements and outposts that were built on privately-owned Palestinian land. This is a ROGUE nation.
12-26-06 - A permit will open the gate in the Wall that imprisons Bethlehem The Israeli government has taken 15 percent of Bethlehem into Jerusalem, a city which it has already annexed. In past years the 70 year old Patriarch could travel along the Jerusalem ? Hebron Road within the West Bank from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to deliver Mass for the Western Christmas. But each year the route becomes more difficult.
12-26-06 - Top army judge criticizes detention of Palestinians without trial A top Israeli military judge disclosed that 2,700 Palestinians have been detained without trial this year, criticizing the military prosecution for not filing charges against some of them.
12-26-06 - Petition: Fence route forcing 'transfer' The state is hoping that Palestinians living in two villages inside the Alfei Menashe enclave will move deeper into the West Bank after allegedly being put in an impossible situation by the proposed new route of the separation barrier that traps them on the "Israeli" side, a High Court petition filed Tuesday charged.
12-26-06 - Gaza's only Catholic priest says Palestinians need peace Msgr. Musallam said that when innocent people are punished for the conflict "by hunger, by thirst, by lack of food, by lack of medicine, by lack of care," it is a "crime of war."
12-26-06 - Palestinians demand prisoner release
12-26-06 - Scandal Could Derail New York Comptroller Many states maintain similar portfolios, but Israel constitutes a cause for Hevesi. For many years, Hevesi served as the president of B'nai Zion, a fraternal organization, and several times ran to be a delegate to the World Zionist Congress. As head of B'nai Zion, he served as a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ? and some years ago even briefly considered serving as the group's chairman, a post colloquially called "King of the Jews."
12-26-06 - 'Corrie' canceled in Canada in a situation eerily similar to the one that faced Nicola, it appears that Bragg faced pressure from some of his board members not to alienate Toronto's Jewish community.
12-26-06 - Mubarak, Olmert to meet Ehud Olmert is scheduled to meet Hosni Mubarak next week.
12-26-06 - U.N. Chief Pressured To Bypass Businessman South Korea?s Ban-Ki Moon, who will begin his term January 1 with little experience regarding Israel and its supporters, is coming under fire for his team?s relationship with a little-known Orthodox businessman and activist named Michael Landau. The head of a local Orthodox group in Manhattan, Landau has been actively courting the new secretary-general?s entourage and presenting himself as a go-between to help Ban navigate the U.N.?s notoriously fraught relationship with Jewish groups....Landau is reportedly backed by Malcolm Hoenlein, the influential executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Well well well. Caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
12-26-06 - Jordanians to visit their relatives at Israeli jails
12-26-06 - Israel's economy on the rise Israel's economy rose 12 places in an international listing. Good, now they no longer need our tax money. In fact, they should start paying it back.
12-26-06 - Heeding a call to duty, Jews move to Israel Yonatan Cooper had a hot new sports car, a swank apartment near Beverly Hills and a job he loved in politics. But this week, the 24-year-old New Jersey native plans to trade it all in for a choice that has startled some of his closest friends and family:
He has decided to emigrate to Israel and aims to serve as a paratrooper with the Israel Defense Forces. Because the armed forces of THIS COUNTRY aren't hurting for troops or anything. Something wrong with serving AMERICA?
12-26-06 - I Witness the Israel Lobby in Action This chilling statement was a candid expression of the goals of the Israel lobby. A member of a Jewish organization was saying that it's OK to have a wide-open discussion of these issues in Israel, but it's dangerous to have such a discussion here. Why?
12-26-06 - Report: Israeli mob boss negotiating plea bargain Rosenstein, 51, was extradited nine months ago to American authorities after an indictment was issued against him in Miami after a police operation revealed that he allegedly headed a drug ring that pushed millions of ecstasy pills from Israel to the United States and Australia, through Europe.
12-26-06 - Cases to test secret witnesses In three pending high-profile criminal cases, including one in Dallas, federal prosecutors have asked that the identities of Israeli government witnesses be withheld from defendants and their attorneys -- a move some legal scholars see as a highly unusual end run around the Sixth Amendment.....But University of Michigan law school professor Richard Friedman, a Sixth Amendment expert, said Israel's concerns about the security of intelligence and law enforcement officials should not be allowed to trump the Constitution.
"Israel doesn't conduct our criminal procedures, and there is no reason why a defendant's rights in court should be determined by Israeli criminal procedure," he said.
It should alarm American citizens that agents - whose identities are allowed to be kept secret - of a FOREIGN GOVERNMENT should be allowed to testify against you. But that is the nature of the beast. These agents are of a foreign government that does not now nor has it ever abided by international law; a rogue state.
12-26-06 - Yad Vashem: Why no brochure in Arabic? "If the Arabs had known about the Holocaust and studied about it, the Israeli-Arab conflict could have been solved a long time ago," Why? Does the Holocaust excuse this? Why do Zionists routinely rely on and exploit the Holocaust for political gain (as the Holocaust survivors sit in poverty in Israel)?
12-26-06 - No comparison
12-25-06 - Soldier shoots and kills construction worker in Kufr A-Dik village, northern West Bank, 14 Dec.
12-25-06 - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah, the top Catholic Clergyman in the Holy Land, right, greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas prior to the Christmas Mass
12-25-06 - Israeli police officers stand guard as a bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian house in the village of Issawiya, on the edge of Jerusalem, December 25, 2006
12-25-06 - Palestinians watch as bulldozers demolish a Palestinian house in the village of Issawiya, on the edge of Jerusalem, December 25, 2006
12-25-06 - Near Jenin, Israeli troops abduct ten Palestinians, including a senior fighter Several members of the Islamci Jihad were also taken prisoner during the invasion
12-25-06 - Israeli shot, wounded in West Bank
12-25-06 - Armed wing of Islamic Jihad shells southern Israel In a statement sent to reporters, the brigades said that a group of its fighters fired one mid-range homemade missile into Sderot city in southern Israel in response to the Israeli army raids in the West Bank.
12-25-06 - Jordan to host Palestinian talks
12-25-06 - 200 Israelis, Palestinians protest new Israeli-only W. Bank road Roughly 200 Israelis and Palestinians turned out for a protest march Saturday against the construction of a new West Bank viaduct that will be open to Israeli traffic only.
12-25-06 - Re-Tracing Mary's Footsteps Through Check Points, Visas and Borders
12-25-06 - W. Bank prisoner expelled to Gaza
12-25-06 - A letter from Bethlehem at Christmastime It is unbelievable that such outrageous racial discrimination exists in the 21st century
12-25-06 - Internet cafés in the front line of new Gaza violence
12-25-06 - Pope urges Mid-East peace efforts
12-25-06 - Palestinian state in 2 years 2 years? Why not NOW? This again leads me to believe that this is another attempt to appease Europe and get their support for another Middle East war (Iran). If Bush had wanted to help create a Palestinian state, he would have done so in 2005, per the Road Map. Not so. All of these recent gestures lately are awfully reminiscent of the runup to the Iraq war. And this all comes JUST as the UN slapped Iran with sanctions.
12-25-06 - Israel moves to ease restrictions on Palestinians
12-25-06 - Israeli army erects military checkpoints around Tubas The Israeli army erected several military checkpoints around the northern West Bank city of Tubas on Sunday morning.
12-25-06 - Call for peace in Bethlehem Life in Bethlehem has deteriorated, with residents finding it difficult to reach jobs in Jerusalem and West Bank towns like Hebron due to Israeli checkpoints and an Israeli barrier that cuts into West Bank land that Palestinians want for a state.
12-25-06 - Israel ministers: respond to missiles "The State of Israel must act against the Qassams in a well-planned and organized manner," said Avigdor Lieberman, the country's minister of strategic affairs. "We must not respond merely in order to appease the public."
12-25-06 - Pope calls for 'just and lasting peace' in Middle East
12-25-06 - Peace activists and local residents of Beit Sahur, a Palestinian town near the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem, attend a torch march
12-25-06 - Poverty-struck Palestinians turn to drugs
12-25-06 - U.S., European officials visit Fatah base in Jordan
12-25-06 - 'O little ghetto of Bethlehem' The wall effectively annexes Israeli West Bank settlements, although they are considered illegal under international law. The settlements are fast-growing Israeli enclaves built on Palestinian land, their close-packed dwellings marching up once-forested hillsides like monochromatic Lego blocks. Bethlehem is surrounded by 27 settlements containing 73,000 people, according to Open Bethlehem, a local advocacy group. The settlements are connected by bypass roads that are off limits to Palestinians.
12-25-06 - Olive wood carvers under siege The handicraft has been native to the town of Bethlehem, and the predominantly Christian villages of Beit Shahour and Beit Jala in Palestine, ever since the fourth century when Catholic monks associated with the Church of the Nativity, introduced it to the local population
12-25-06 - Candle Light Procession calling for the end of Infighting At least 2000 Palestinians and Internationals joined the Candle Light procession in the town of Beit Sahour on Christmas Day to light a candle for the End of Violence, Unity of the Nation and the Lifting of the Blockade imposed on the Palestinian people.
12-25-06 - Israeli defense minister supports Palestinian prisoner release
12-25-06 - Israel to UN: Qassams unacceptable Gillerman sent the harshly worded letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the current president of the UN Security Council.
12-25-06 - Bethlehem students' art graces church
12-25-06 - Israel - Part 3 If jewish people in America could ever clearly be shown the level of hatred that is committed by the most zealous and hateful of jews in their names, they would be ashamed, and they would demand immediate change. Unfortunately, the right wing fascists in israel have infiltrated the united states government, and we are not hearing the truth about the apartheid system they are forcing on the arab people called "palestinians". Yes, that's Roseanne Barr speaking there.
12-25-06 - Cluster bombs injure 5 in Lebanon
12-25-06 - MK Bishara in Ghajar: We won't let you become refugees "The Arab village of Ghajar was conquered in '67 along with the Golan Heights and is an inseparable part of Syria . Its status must not be changed until the Golan Heights is discussed," MK Bishara told Ynet.
12-25-06 - Pessimistic view of the Mideast Max Boot = neocon.
12-25-06 - Carter wants debate? He's got it Last week, with Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman accusing Carter of "anti-Semitism," the book hit No. 5 on the New York Times best-seller list, up from No. 11 in three weeks. The league's response has been to take out ads in major newspapers, claiming, "there's only one honest thing about President Carter's new book: the criticism."
The ADL is taking out ads in major newspapers as a response to Carter's book. Priceless! Go Jimmy, Go Jimmy, Go Jimmy!
12-25-06 - Time to seek peace In his Christmas homily, the Archbishop of Westminster has said that the key to a peaceful Middle East is peace in the Holy Land, and has asked for a "conversion of heart" of everyone involved in the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
12-25-06 - Israelis seek peace with Syria, want to keep Golan Most Israelis want peace talks with Syria, but not at the cost of giving up the Golan.
12-25-06 - Serious leaders doing serious work we must also recognize that if it was us under occupation, we too would not accept being denied our freedom for 40 years,and would use every means possible to secure it.
12-25-06 - Likud May Propose Limited PA State Who are you to relegate statehood to another people? Get bent.
12-25-06 - Olmert ready to open Syria talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday said he would like to renew peace talks with Syria, but insisted that Damascus first end its support of anti-Israel militant groups in the Palestinian areas and Lebanon.
12-25-06 - U.S. Republican senator arrives in Syria for talks U.S. Republican Senator Arlen Specter arrived in Syria on Monday for talks with Syrian leaders on bilateral relations and situations in Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, according to the independent Syria-News website.
12-25-06 - Dor Alon to continue fuel supply to Gaza Palestinian Minister of Energy Samir Abu Issa has told the Paz energy company Sunday that he wishes to continue doing business with Dor Alon who will continue to supply fuel to the Gaza Strip.
Merry Christmas all!
12-24-06 - Gaza middle class struggling through Western aid freeze
12-24-06 - Palestinian girls dressed as Santa Claus watch the traditional Christmas procession outside the Church of the Nativity
12-24-06 - Palestinian children dressed as Santa Claus ring bells as they ride on a car during Christmas celebrations
12-24-06 - Palestinian Christians pray in the Deir Al Latin Catholic Church during the Christmas Mass in Gaza City
12-24-06 - Palestinian alter boys and men line Manger Square in front of the Nativity Church in the Biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem
12-24-06 - A Palestinian man on stilts, dressed as Santa Claus, greets a young boy during the annual Christmas procession in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
12-24-06 - A priest prays in the Grotto at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ
12-24-06 - Announcements of Israeli Change of Policy Unfounded in Reality
12-24-06 - Israeli Army Tightens Military Measures Ahead of Holidays in Palestine The Israeli army tightened military measures on Sunday in different areas of the West Bank, ahead of the Muslim holiday Aladha Eid and the Christian holiday Christmas.
12-24-06 - Palestinian bagpipers march past the Church of the Nativity
12-24-06 - Muted Christmas for Gaza Christians amidst violence Several hundred people usually participate in the annual Gaza parade. Muslim clerics and government representatives have taken part in previous years. The tree is traditionally decorated with multi-coloured lights.
12-24-06 - Roundup: Israeli officials' responses differ on Olmert-Abbas summit The Israeli cabinet on Sunday unanimously approved the release of part of withheld Palestinian funds, but various views were voiced during the cabinet meeting regarding Saturday's Olmert-Abbas summit.
12-24-06 - Egypt promises continued contacts for Israeli-Palestinian truce Egypt promised Sunday its continued contacts with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to cement the recent ceasefire between the two sides, the official MENA news agency reported.
12-24-06 - Olmert says Israel may release some Palestinian prisoners next week
12-24-06 - FEATURE - Anti-Israel "rabbis" face fallout from Jewish world Neturei Karta, Aramaic for "guardians of the city", was formed in Jerusalem in the 1930s as a bulwark against the growing Zionist movement in what was then British Mandate Palestine.
12-24-06 - Abbas in festive Bethlehem visit
12-24-06 - Bethlehem on Christmas Eve: Where are all the Christians? both Palestinian Christians and Muslims celebrated the day together, and the recent civilian violence in Gaza did not seem to affect the festivities, local sources added.
12-24-06 - Palestinian Organization for the Right of Return opens Beirut headquarters The Palestinian Organization for the Right of Return, or FIRM, its Arabic acronym, opened its headquarters in Leb-anon on Friday in the presence of former Premier Salim Hoss who was the guest speaker.
12-24-06 - Supreme Court compels finance ministry to explain exclusion of Arab villages
12-24-06 - Diskin: "Fateh chances of winning new elections, close to zero" Head of the Israeli Security Agency, Shabak, Yuval Diskin, said during a cabinet session on Sunday that if Palestinian general elections are to be held today, the chances of Fateh movement in winning them are close to zero, and that Hamas movement will achieve a bigger victory that than the recent elections the movement overwhelmingly won.
12-24-06 - Israel praises U.N. Security Council decision to impose sanctions on Iran Israel's Defense Ministry said the international community "will need to continue to show determination to reach the goal of blocking Iran's nuclear plan."
12-24-06 - Teen's death prompts commander's dismissal An Israeli platoon leader was dismissed Sunday, five days after a soldier from his unit killed a 14-year-old Palestinian girl in West Bank, officials said.
12-24-06 - UAE to transfer $30 mln to Palestinian Authority "The President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan has ordered the transfer of $30 million to the Palestinian Authority as support from the United Arab Emirates to the brotherly Palestinian people and to help reduce their suffering,"
12-24-06 - Bethlehem tries to stem exodus of Christians Over the weekend, dozens of Bethlehem's poorest children will receive the gifts they requested from the man in the white beard and red suit. But few people know the real identity of the Secret Santa of Bethlehem.
12-24-06 - Bethlehem hears calls for peace In an address, the Roman Catholic Church's leader in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, called for an end to fighting between Palestinian factions and for the revival of long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
12-24-06 - World must not ignore Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Anglican leader The world should not ignore the problems facing Israelis and Palestinians who fear being forgotten, the leader of the world's Anglicans will say in his Christmas Day sermon, according to excerpts of the speech.
12-24-06 - Israeli delegation visits Oman in Persian Gulf This time, the Omani organizers of the conference purposely did not invite any representatives from the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas, in order to allow the participation of both Israeli and American representatives.
12-24-06 - Born in Shepherd's Field Israel's desire to acquire maximum geography with minimum Palestinian demography is the root of the suffering afflicting the Holy Land. Amnesty International has observed that the peace processes failed because Israel has ignored human rights, including the right of native Palestinians to return to their homes and lands.
12-24-06 - Iran sanctions ?very good for israel?
12-24-06 - Hindsight is 20/20 - how israel duped US into fighting their wars
12-24-06 - Egyptian woman dies of bird flu She is the eighth person to die of bird flu in Egypt. The positive tests raise to 17 the total number of human cases.
12-24-06 - Christmas trees become political symbols in Beirut "The opposition has succeeded in creating a brotherhood between Shiites from the south and Christians so that together they can demand an end to Western tutelage,"
12-24-06 - The Muslim prophet born in Bethlehem For centuries Muslims cherished the figure of Jesus, who is honoured in the Qur'an as one of the greatest of the prophets and, in the formative years of Islam, became a constituent part of the emergent Muslim identity.
12-24-06 - Fresh from the horse's ass Another ridiculous article by Aaron Klein of WND (owned by Christian Zionist Joseph Farah).
12-23-06 - Senior Palestinian official shot in Gaza Jarbouh was in critical condition. His bodyguard and the girl, a bystander, suffered moderate wounds.
12-23-06 - Palestinian Fatah, Hamas committed to cease-fire deal A Palestinian factional committee announced on Saturday that rival Fatah and Hamas groups are holding on to an internal deal of cease-fire in spite of sporadic violations
12-23-06 - Fateh, Hamas fighters engage in renewed clashes
12-23-06 - Palestinian militant group threatens to drop ceasefire with Israel On Thursday, two Islamic Jihad militants were killed in northern West Bank by Israeli special forces. The group's militants in Gaza responded by launching several homemade rockets at southern Israel.
12-23-06 - Israel blocks another UN fact-finding mission With Beit Hanoun, Israel followed a playbook similar to the one it used in 2002 regarding the killing of Palestinians in Jenin: Delay, delay, delay. Israel's deputy UN ambassador, Aaron Jacob, used language in 2002 strikingly similar to that employed last week by Regev. "We did not decide to reject the team. But the government of Israel decided that the time was not ripe." Why change what works? .....A decision evidently has been reached that it is better for Israel to appear to be hiding something than to have its abuses fully brought to light. Of course, Israeli officials have little to worry about when The New York Times and Washington Post fail to even cover the inability of Tutu's team to enter the area Jenin
12-23-06 - Surprise Gaza talks raise hope for peace By coincidence, it happened on a day when the UN voted to sanction Iran.
12-23-06 - Mass goers to hear of Bethlehem plight The Irish Bishop's Conference (IBC) circulated a Christmas statement to priests saying that the birthplace of Jesus has been transformed from a "bustling cultural and spiritual centre" to "a big prison".
12-23-06 - Christmas Tourism Lags in Bethlehem
12-23-06 - Father of 14-year-old girl killed by IDF released on bail to mourn
12-23-06 - Agreement On Revitalizing Palestine Industrial Free Zone
12-23-06 - Target Iran: Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh on White House Plans for Regime Change ** So if you read the Azeri press, for instance, you?ll find out that the Israeli Mossad has upped its efforts to build a station in Azerbaijan. And the Azeri press will delve into that more. Why does the Mossad want to build a station operating? There?s a couple reasons. One, the Mossad is working with the Azeri population. You know, there is a Jewish minority in Azerbaijan that has emigrated to Israel. And so, there?s a number of Azeri Israelis that the Israeli government now is bringing back to Azerbaijan to work on this issue.... we're not allowed to do is discuss the notion that Israel and the notion of Israeli interests may in fact be dictating what America is doing, that what we're doing in the Middle East may not be to the benefit of America's national security, but to Israel's national security. But, see, we don?t want to talk about that, because one of the great success stories out there is the pro-Israeli lobby that has successfully enabled themselves to blend the two together, so that when we speak of Israeli interests, they say, "No, we're speaking of American interests."....The bottom line is, within two days of our decision to initiate an attack on Iran, every single one of you is going to be feeling the consequences of that in your pocketbook. And it?s only going to get worse. This is not something that only I recognize. Ask Dick Lugar what information he?s getting from big business, who are saying, ?We can?t afford to go to war with Iran.? SEYMOUR HERSH: Final question: given all this, are we going to do it? SCOTT RITTER: Yes, we're going to do it.
Read the entire thing.
12-23-06 - Report: Direct flight from Tel Aviv to Beirut Hizbullah television station Al-Manar claimed Wednesday that the organization is in possession of documents proving that a Portuguese military plane carrying 11 unidentified passengers flew directly from Israel?s Ben-Gurion Airport to Beirut.
12-23-06 - Bethlehem - the last place you would want to be for Christmas "Bethlehem is the last place in the world where I would want to be for Christmas," he said. "Hamas and Fatah should remember the enemy is not each other but Israel, and the longer they fight one another the better it will be for the Israelis."
12-23-06 - O little town of Bethlehem
12-23-06 - Death of a student stirs revolt in Gaza
12-23-06 - Hamas denies it preparing five-year truce with Israel
12-23-06 - Palestinian police arrest thieves of human skulls "The gang used to unearth human skulls in Khan Yunis city, Gaza Strip, and use them in narcotic industry,"
12-23-06 - PALESTINIANS IN CHILE DENOUNCE MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE About 450,000 Palestinians live in Chile, making it the largest and one of the strongest expatriate communities in the world.
12-23-06 - West Bank town of Bethlehem experiences little peace - or commerce
12-23-06 - Wall gate delays transfer of body of a deceased resident for three hours
12-23-06 - 30 village councils in Bethlehem voice appeal for ceasefire Thirty village councils in Bethlehem voiced an appeal to all Palestinian factions in order to stop the internal clashes and solidify the ceasefire between the armed groups, especially Fateh and Hamas who engaged in violent clashes.
12-23-06 - Palestinian dressed as Santa Claus walks past the Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem
12-23-06 - Palestinian Christian children gather by a shop selling Christmas ornaments
12-23-06 - Bethlehem Group Re-Enacts Walk of Mary, Joseph At White House Descendents of first-century Christians from the land of Jesus' birth led a candle-lit procession Saturday evening from Lafayette Park around the Ellipse and National Christmas Tree, according to a spokesman for the Ad Hoc Committee For Bethlehem, which organized the event.
12-23-06 - First for Israeli-Arabs: Campaign against underage marriage
12-23-06 - Israel's Move to Destroy the Palestinian Authority was a Calculated Plan, Long in the Making
12-23-06 - On Israel's "Right to Exist"
12-23-06 - World's biggest ecstasy dealer nabbed in Rio Yoram is alleged to have been behind the largest-ever shipment of the club drug ecstasy, a stimulant with the chemical name methylenedioxymethamphetamine, into the United States.
12-23-06 - Syria building 'death trap' villages While for years it was assumed that Israel had a major edge against Syria's military with regard to a conventional war - tank versus tank, jet versus jet - in an urban setting, the Syrian military would be able, the officer said, to wreak havoc against IDF infantry and armored units like Hizbullah did.
12-23-06 - Lebanon seizes explosives from pro-Syrian group
12-23-06 - Abraham Fund launches program to encourage Arab women to work The Abraham Fund Initiatives is a non-profit organization based in Jerusalem and New York City. It is dedicated to advancing the coexistence and cooperation between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens.
12-23-06 - Jewish leaders: Bush finds Iran election results encouraging Bush gathered Jewish education leaders and students at the White House to discuss the role of religion in schools. The closed-door discussions also touched on other issues including the war in Iraq, spreading democracy and the crisis in Darfur.
12-23-06 - Mainstream journalist defends western bias "There was a statement issued today by Hezbollah that they would support a UN Tribunal if it is "fair, just and nonpolitical", so what about the Israeli Mossad spy ring that was uncovered in Lebanon that outside investigators claim is linked to the Hariri killing? What is the UN doing in this regard to investigate?" Mossad in Lebanon caught before this year, same story, also in 1998.
12-23-06 - Watching Christmas Midnight Mass from Bethlehem in real time
12-23-06 - Photo expo focus on Palestine
12-23-06 - Four reasons for ranting ** The ideal scenario, from Israel's point of view, would be an American military attack that would destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and remove the threat. "We have to get the United States to carry out what it promised to do, and to create the proper international climate," explains a senior official. It is not clear what President Bush told Olmert in private talks that had him leaving Bush's office feeling so satisfied. We can only presume that Olmert is depending on Bush's religious faith and obstinacy, which will lead him to attack Iran, even in light of American public opposition to military adventures in the Middle East.
12-23-06 - Calls for a ?Gate of Hope? in Bethlehem? wall
12-23-06 - Jimmy Carter, on Mission Carter is taking on the orthodoxies in his own culture, with the same sense of all or nothing. The venom he is encountering on the Jewish right is staggering.....we're getting closer and closer to the Elian Gonzales moment, the moment when the American people wake up and realize that a fanatical lobby is not representing America's best interest.
12-23-06 - Lanka mends fences with Palestine as UN envoy lashes out at Israel
12-23-06 - Israel's cost on fence route may reach 238 mln USD Israel's cost on changing route of the West Bank security fence have reached approximately NIS 700million (166.67 million US dollars) and it may rise to as much as NIS one billion (over 238 million dollars) in the near future, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Thursday. It would have saved them (and consequently us American taxpayers) lots of money had they built the fence on the Green Line in accordance with international law. This is not rocket science.
12-23-06 - Making a buck and a point in West Bank Don't exploit the poor people, please.
12-23-06 - Teens face charges after puzzling message spray-painted at Ontario Arabic school
12-22-06 - One dead in inter-Palestinian clashes in Gaza City A civilian, Ayman al-Girgawi, was mortally wounded in the clashes, emergency services director Dr Moawiya Hassanen told AFP.
12-22-06 - Independent Appeal: 'What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?' Since Fadia's delivery, in 2002, the United Nations confirms that a total of 36 babies have died because their mothers were detained during labour at Israeli checkpoints. All across Bethlehem - all across the West Bank - there are women whose pregnancies are being disturbed, or worse, by the military occupation of their land....."Recently, two of our pregnant patients here were tear-gassed in their homes ... The women couldn't breathe and went into premature labour. By the time we got there, the babies had been delivered stillborn."
12-22-06 - Gaza gripped by gun battles between factions
12-22-06 - Peretz approves Wall route around Maali Adumim Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, approved the original route of the Annexation Wall that surround Maali Adumim settlement by annexing more Palestinian lands and placing them inside the settlement?s enclave. The Israeli Jerusalem post reported that 64.000 Dunams of Palestinian lands will be inside the Israeli side of the Wall.
12-22-06 - Jordan's king warns window for peace fading in Mideast
12-22-06 - Robert Fisk: Banality and barefaced lies But in this context, why, I wonder, didn't The New York Times and the other gutless mainstream newspapers in the United States mention Israel's cosy relationship with that very racist apartheid regime in South Africa which Carter is not supposed to mention in his book? Didn't Israel have a wealthy diamond trade with sanctioned, racist South Africa? Didn't Israel have a fruitful and deep military relationship with that racist regime? Am I dreaming, looking-glass-like, when I recall that in April of 1976, Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa - one of the architects of this vile Nazi-like system of apartheid - paid a state visit to Israel and was honoured with an official reception from Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, war hero Moshe Dayan and future Nobel prize-winner Yitzhak Rabin? This of course, certainly did not become part of the great American debate on Carter's book.
12-22-06 - Old allegiances crumble in battle for Palestinian hearts and minds
12-22-06 - State Department Weighs Plan for Palestinian State The Bush administration is considering a plan to declare an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders by the end of 2007. It will no doubt be Israel's version of a Palestinian state. It also could be seen as a way to win support (from those who need to be swayed) for a possible attack on Iran.
12-22-06 - Palestinian Christians seek end to infighting
12-22-06 - Syrian daily hits out at US terms for dialogue "You cannot tackle the Iraq question independently of the other issues in the region, because the root cause of all the problems is Israel's occupation of Arab lands," the paper said.
12-22-06 - Appeal from a bereaved Palestinian family
12-22-06 - Palestinian aid plan is extended The United States says agreement has been reached on extending aid to the Palestinians while bypassing the Hamas-led government.
12-22-06 - More Palestinians arrive at Iraq-Syria border to escape violence in Baghdad The latest group has been stranded on the Iraqi side of the border with Syria since last Saturday, UNHCR's chief spokesperson, Ron Redmond, told reporters in Geneva, adding that Iraqi border authorities initially refused to allow them to leave Iraq, citing a lack of proper documentation
12-22-06 - Pray for the little town of Bethlehem
12-22-06 - Be'lin Weekly Demonstration Against Illegal Israeli Seperation Wall Today, like the past 2 years, the demonstrations in Be'lin started after Friday prayers with participants including residents of the village, Internationals and Israeli activists participating. This week there was a high percentage of International demonstrators, in which the majority came from the countries of Poland and Spain.
12-22-06 - Palestinian Muslims Wait at Rafah Crossing to Participate in the Hajj Today was the first day in over a week that the Israeli border guards have opened the crossing and allowed individuals to pass, the Associated Press reported today.
12-22-06 - Palestinian Lawyer Manages to Meet Detainees Confined to Solitary
12-22-06 - To live and let live, among the olive groves Israel's wall will cut off Aboud from an additional 440 hectares, or 1,100 acres, of village land. I deeply understand Israel's security needs, and its obligation to protect its citizens. I doubt, however, whether separating villages like Aboud from their land, olive trees and water will improve Israel's security, and whether the wall's route in Aboud was truly chosen for security purposes.....Since 1967, Israel has severely restricted Aboud's use of the West Bank's richest aquifer, preventing the drilling of wells to access fresh water beneath the village. Therefore, Aboud's residents must purchase their water from Israel's national water company.....the barrier is destroying acres of Aboud's olive groves, uprooting more than 10,000 olive trees and cutting residents off from many more trees
12-22-06 - Israeli Army attacks several West Bank areas and abducts 24 Palestinian men
12-22-06 - As year nears end, a call for a 'just peace on equal footings' Among the ACT-supported programs in Gaza through ACT appeal MEPL61 (Emergency Assistance to the Palestinian Population) are one-time cash grants to families to assist with food purchases. Another program is providing people with various medical services, including medical treatment at its Gaza clinic, provided at a minimal fee.
12-22-06 - PCHR Weekly Report on Israeli Violations in the Occupied Territories
12-22-06 - Israeli think tank says only military strike will stop Iran: Report ** And they want US to do it as history repeats itself.
12-22-06 - Carter uniquely qualified to write about Israel-Palestine It was predictable that in a country that systematically suppresses any information contrary to Israel, it would be attacked.
12-22-06 - Face to faith "As the world continues to talk peace, Israel continues to build the wall and while Christians continue singing 'O little town of Bethlehem', Israel makes sure that this town stays as 'little' as possible. As 'little' as 2 square miles of open-air prison, surrounded by walls, fences and trenches, with no future expansion possibilities."
12-22-06 - Meeting between Israeli religious leaders ends with spat over occupation "Are you prepared to fundamentally condemn the occupation?" the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, asked Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar. Evidently he was not. Therein lies the principle obstacle to peace between the two parties - one side believes it has divine right at the expense of the other.
12-22-06 - Ratings of Israel's right surge Israel's main right-wing opposition party, Likud, has seen its ratings surge on the back of disappointment with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition and would win an election should one be held now, according to an opinion poll.
12-22-06 - Professor: Carter will hurt center Although the book has gone through several printings and is on several best-sellers lists, it has been skewered by Jewish organizations and scholars as being anti-Semitic, inaccurate, misleading and absent of key facts. There also have been new charges that Carter promotes terrorism. The damage control by the usual suspects is in full swing. I would expect there may even be some black ops to get the American sheeple back in line. Israel (and consequently its minions in the US) cares more about its image than about int'l law (and other things). Carter and his book have done a world of damage to the Hasbara machine.
12-22-06 - What Price a Retirement Made in Hebron? When Israel sowed division rather than talk to the PLO they eventually got a Hamas government. Many fear that repeating the process now will lead to an Al Qaida-style Palestinian Jihadist opposition in the years to come
12-22-06 - "Corrie" Kerfuffle in Canada! Yes, just when we thought "My Name is Rachel Corrie" had come and gone without incident, and proved New York Theatre Workshop wrong for canceling it, the CanStage company in Toronto has now nixed it off their season
12-22-06 - Theatre scraps play on Mideast 'martyr' "I was asked what I thought, and I told them I would react very badly to a play that was offensive to Jews," says veteran cultural activist Bluma Appel, whose name is affixed to the theatre where CanStage presents its mainstage productions. "I would react just as badly to a play that was offensive to blacks or Muslims or white Christians," Appel said from her winter home in Florida..... Developer Jack Rose, a member of the CanStage board who, like Appel, has not read or seen the play, says: "I had one phone conversation about this. There was a question whether it would be a mistake to proceed with it, and my view was it would provoke a negative reaction in the Jewish community."
12-22-06 - America's Double Standard on Democracy in the Middle East while the Bush Administration continues talk the talk of promoting democracy in the Middle East, many in the Arab world have a jaundiced view of Washington's intentions: Democracy, yes, but only when the outcome serves the interests of the U.S.
12-22-06 - ZOA Criticizes President Bush For Again Refusing To Move U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem - Reneging On Campaign Promise Maybe they can get their man Bolton on the case?....
12-22-06 - That story from yesterday smearing Carter was originally published on this extreme rightwing Israel 'news' site and the Washington Times saw fit to print it. Imagine that.
12-22-06 - A little town oppressed by military occupation
12-22-06 - Bible College in Bethlehem Now Using Media to Combat Violence, Bring Light and Hope to Palestinians
12-22-06 - Neocons: Fighting To Prevent Our Exit From Iraq
12-22-06 - Army sets sights on missile defense Defense Ministry officials are pinning their hopes on a joint venture between Israel's Rafael Armament Development Authority and Raytheon Co.
12-22-06 - Israeli killer commits suicide A Jewish settler jailed for life for killing four Palestinians in a shooting spree in the occupied West Bank committed suicide on Friday.
12-22-06 - Israel barrier saddens Archbishop
12-22-06 - A look at charges of anti-Semitism In your paper every day, there is either an opinion or article about anti-Semitic beliefs. Jimmy Carter writes a book? Anti-Semitic. Iran holds a conference? Anti-Semitic. Professors write a paper condemning Israel's foreign policy? Anti-Semitic.
12-22-06 - Rate of cluster bomb casualties falling However, with at least 900,000 bomblets still contaminating southern Lebanon, according to MACC, there is still a high risk to inhabitants of the area.
12-22-06 - Custos Invites Palestinian Leader for Christmas Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Franciscan minister provincial in the Middle East, traveled to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday to invite the Palestinian representative to dine with the Franciscan community on Christmas Eve in the Bethlehem convent, and then to attend Midnight Mass.
12-22-06 - Future House power says Dems back a dialogue with Iran, Syria U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said both parties? support for Israel would remain unstinting..... Hoyer scored a decisive win in a caucus vote last month to become majority leader. Jewish groups watched the race closely, since Hoyer has proven to be one of Israel's best friends in Congress, leading multiple delegations to the Jewish state and isolating the caucus' few anti-Israel voices.
12-22-06 - Stalin's Jews In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, "Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed internally.
12-22-06 - Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews attend conference: "The Holocaust - Global Vision"
12-22-06 - ADL Lists Top 10 Issues Affecting Jews in 2006 The Anti-Semitic Myth of the "Israel Lobby"
That is hilarious. Maybe if the gloating about how much power the pro-Israelis have over both houses of Congress wasn't coming from THAT VERY COMMUNITY, maybe THEN these people would have a leg to stand on. That it IS happening only proves this 'anti-Semitic myth' is a charge leveled by the aforementioned in order to SHUT PEOPLE UP. Not working anymore. Come back 10 year!
12-22-06 - Israel, Palestine display damaged
12-21-06 - A Palestinian civilian from Rafah dies of injuries sustained earlier The young man was injured when Israeli boats opened fire at a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Rafah City a week ago, the sources added.
12-21-06 - Heavy gunfire in Gaza City near minister's home Gunmen exchanged fire in Gaza City early on Friday close to the home of the foreign minister in the Hamas-led government, Palestinian witnesses said.
12-21-06 - Homemade Shells Injure Three Palestinians Including a Pregnant Woman in Gaza A Palestinian home made shell landed on Thursday morning on a Palestinian house wounding three Palestinians including a pregnant woman in the northern Gaza strip.
12-21-06 - Palestinian militants fire more homemade rockets at Israel The rocket attack came in response to the Israeli attacks in West Bank where three Palestinians were killed over the past three days.
12-21-06 - Gaza's residents rally for peace
12-21-06 - Rights groups reject travel ban on West Bank hitchhikers
12-21-06 - Bush OKs Law Blocking Aid to Hamas Gov't Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., ranking member on the House International Relations Committee after Congress reconvenes Jan. 4, said she was pleased the president signed the bill she sponsored in the House.
12-21-06 - 'Bethlehem wall' shock for Williams
12-21-06 - Jordan tourist attacker to hang
12-21-06 - Japan reaffirms Mideast commitment to Jordan's king Foreign Minister Taro Aso told the king -- in Tokyo to discuss the chaos in the Palestinian territories and Iraq -- that Japan would keep supporting initiatives such as the "peace and prosperity corridor", a statement said Thursday. Under the "corridor" proposed by then prime minister Junichiro Koizumi on a visit to the Middle East in July, Japan would help develop the West Bank and build an agro-industrial park there in cooperation with Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority
12-21-06 - Report: Arabs in north get 10% of budget for rebuilding region A new report released on Wednesday accuses the government of allocating Arab communities only 10 percent - instead of the 30 percent pledged - of the budgets for rebuilding Israel's north in the wake of the war in Lebanon.
12-21-06 - Gaza ? Latest Report on ICRC Activities in the Field
12-21-06 - Asia-Africa Countries to Assist Palestine
12-21-06 - US compensation lawsuit against Ya'alon dropped In the United States last week the Washington DC District Court threw out a civil lawsuit against former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (res) Moshe Ya'alon demanding compensation on behalf of the families of those killed in the Lebanese village of Qana in 1996.
12-21-06 - Misuse of Weapons by Armed Groups and Security Personnel
12-21-06 - Religious leaders arrive in Bethlehem for three-day pilgrimage
12-21-06 - Bnei Brak rabbis: Don't rent to Arabs
12-21-06 - Palestinians have become targets in Iraq's chaos It was the bloodiest assault so far in what has become a long stream of attacks on Palestinians, whose community has been here since the establishment of Israel in 1948 but who've never been granted Iraqi citizenship.
12-21-06 - Canadian PM calls Hamas 'genocidal' genocide def - the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group . Who has driven nearly 3/4 million people from their homes, who has wiped Palestine off the map, who continues to squeeze a people into smaller and smaller areas of land by unlawful land confiscation (this includes by way of the wall)? Is it the Palestinians?
12-21-06 - Israeli confiscation of Jerusalem includes 100,000 Jewish settlers per year The Israelis are bringing 100,000 Jewish settlers to Jerusalem every year. The Director of Mapping in Jerusalem's Arab Studies Society said that the Israeli plan to Judaize the city will accommodate 500,000 more settlers by 2010.
12-21-06 - After 17 years Israelis demolish Palestinian home in East Jerusalem
12-21-06 - A somber Christmas for Gaza's Christians Pointing out the window to the Catholic school's playground, he says that just 100 of the school's 650 students are Christians. The rest are Muslim. At Christmastime, a Muslim often volunteers to dress up as Santa Claus and passes out gifts to all children, he said.
12-21-06 - High Court approves cutting off a-Ram from East Jerusalem This section of the barrier will surround a-Ram on three sides. The barrier's route will separate a-Ram from its last land reserves, and leaves this area on the Israeli side of the barrier. The barrier also separates a-Ram from three villages lying west of it.
12-21-06 - No escape for Palestinians locked in Gaza violence
12-21-06 - First Arab peacekeepers deploy in Lebanon
12-21-06 - Text of the patriarch of Jerusalem's 2006 Christmas message
12-21-06 - Jesus is a Terrorist
12-21-06 - EU Parliament member: Syria's peace intentions genuine
12-21-06 - Jailed Syrian dissident prods Bush on Palestine, Iraq In his December 13 statement, Bush called on Syria to free all political prisoners and to halt "intimidation and interference" which, he alleged, had been hurting Lebanon's embattled democracy.
12-21-06 - Music Review | 'West-Eastern Divan Orchestra'
12-21-06 - Harper?s ill-informed pronouncement on Hamas threatens peace in the Middle East says McDonough NDP Foreign Affairs and International Development Critic, Alexa McDonough (Halifax), today condemned Stephen Harper?s pronouncement on Hamas and Hezbollah as inflammatory and destructive to any advancing of peace in the Middle East.
12-21-06 - Another sad attempt by an Israel-defender to smear Carter Note the tone of the rhetoric that that author alleges as fact, and you'll see the hidden agenda. The Bush family ties to the Saudis are well known, yet are not given the same amount of time and attention by the pro-Israel camp for one reason - (this)Bush is an Israel-defender.
12-21-06 - OPEC Fund approves over USD 8 million for development projects Up to USD 2.5 million would support the second phase of financial aid for Palestinian civil communities as OFID provides assistance to food-insecure communities and severely affected households and people in hospitals, orphanages and homes for the elderly, Al-Herbish said.
12-21-06 - Protests result in ousting of Cambridge anti-Israel group Jewish activists are at the forefront of ousting a series of Palestinian advocacy groups held at a cluster of churches in Cambridge. To suggest that Jewish groups conspire to silence opposition is, according to the ADL and like orgs, the furtherance of an 'anti-Semitic canard'.
12-21-06 - Academic group seeks to make Jerusalem a violence-free city
12-20-06 - Two Fatah policemen killed in Gaza Hamas gunmen killed two Palestinian policemen loyal to the rival Fatah movement early Wednesday, hours after the sides agreed to a new cease-fire meant to end more than a week of factional fighting.
12-20-06 - Two Islamic Jihad militants killed by Israel in West Bank
12-20-06 - Israeli settler Runs over 72-year-old Palestinian man near Bethlehem An Israeli settler ran over an elderly man Wednesday midday in Al Khader village south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
12-20-06 - Israel denies airstrike against Palestinian gunmen in Gaza
12-20-06 - Rival forces withdraw from Gaza streets
12-20-06 - Israel 'used chemical weapons in Palestinian lands': minister
12-20-06 - Detained father of girl shot dead by IDF blocked from her funeral Al-Qadr's daughter Da'ah tried to cross the separation fence near the village of Faroun adjacent to Tul Karm to visit the family's plot of land, says her mother.
12-20-06 - Two Israeli troops suspended
12-20-06 - Israeli Air-force targets fighters in Gaza Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that an Israeli war-jet fired a missile at a group of fighters in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported.
12-20-06 - Gaza truce holds despite violence
12-20-06 - Israel may retaliate for rocket attacks
12-20-06 - Person of the Year: Ahmadinejad by Patrick J. Buchanan His trip to the United Nations, where he ran circles around U.S. journalists, was a diplomatic triumph. And he has done it all not with military power ? Iran would not last a week in an all-out war with the United States and has no defense against Israel's nuclear weapons ? but with theatrics and rhetoric.
12-20-06 - Palestinian viewpoints
12-20-06 - 'We are facing the hardest Christmas yet'
12-20-06 - Hebron Update 06-12-10 to 06-12-16 Roe, Uhler and Peters walked down Shuhada Street and were stopped by soldiers at
Gross Square. When told CPT was not allowed to pass, Dianne asked the soldiers
who was allowed. They replied that only Israeli soldiers, members of the Jewish
Community (the Hebron settlers), and guests of the Jewish Community were allowed
to pass.
12-20-06 - Reiterating the keys to peace By Jimmy Carter For 39 years, Israel has occupied Palestinian land, and has confiscated and colonized hundreds of choice sites.
Often excluded from their former homes, land, and places of worship, protesting Palestinians have been severely dominated and oppressed. There is forced segregation between Israeli settlers and Palestine's citizens, with a complex pass system required for Arabs to traverse Israel's multiple checkpoints....an examination of the book reviews and published comments reveals that these points have rarely if ever been mentioned by detractors of the book, much less denied or refuted. Instead, there has been a pattern of ad hominem statements, alleging that I am a liar, plagiarist, anti-Semite, racist, bigot, ignorant, etc. There are frequent denunciations of fabricated "straw man" accusations: that I have claimed that apartheid exists within Israel; that the system of apartheid in Palestine is based on racism; and that Jews control and manipulate the news media of America. Carter has visited the region many times, he knows of what he speaks.
12-20-06 - Al-Zawahiri: U.S. Talking to Wrong People in Iraq, Urges 'Holy War' Against Israel In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum brushed off al-Zawahiri's criticism and defended the party's electoral policy.
12-20-06 - Part two ? The long walk to class
12-20-06 - End of the strongmen - Do America and Israel want the Middle East engulfed by civil war? All of these outcomes in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq could have been foreseen -- and almost certainly were. More than that, it looks increasingly like the growing tensions and carnage were planned. Rather than an absence of Western intervention being the problem, the violence and fragmentation of these societies seems to be precisely the goal of the intervention. Would there be near-civil wars in those three areas if we hadn't meddled therein? DOUBTFUL.
12-20-06 - America's Original Foreign Policy by Rep. Ron Paul It is time for Americans to rethink the interventionist foreign policy that is accepted without question in Washington. It is time to understand the obvious harm that results from our being dragged time and time again into intractable and endless Middle East conflicts, whether in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Palestine. It is definitely time to ask ourselves whether further American lives and tax dollars should be lost trying to remake the Middle East in our image.
12-20-06 - The illegal rezoning of Jerusalem's Al Ram
12-20-06 - Israeli PM willing to meet Abbas as soon as possible
12-20-06 - US official implicitly confirms Israeli PM met Saudis
12-20-06 - US policy under challenge as Palestinian violence flares
12-20-06 - Palestinian nonviolent protest at checkpoint as Israeli soldiers beat student On Wednesday Israeli forces occupying Al Hamra Checkpoint in Jenin confiscated the identity cards of hundreds of Palestinians, detaining them for five hours. While the soldiers were confiscating identification and detaining citizens, a young man spoke to the soldiers while others shouted to stop oppressing students.
12-20-06 - 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' ? Barrier Wall choking Palestinian community in birthplace of Christ
12-20-06 - Court mulls Hamas lawmakers? Israeli citizenship It was correct to strip four Hamas lawmakers of their Israeli citizenship, state representatives told Israel?s highest court.
12-20-06 - Bethlehem now place of death, says patriarch, calling for occupation end
12-20-06 - Americans clueless about Bethlehem While the Christians of Bethlehem overwhelmingly (78%) blame the exodus of Christians from the town on Israel's blockade, Americans are more likely (45.9%) to blame it on Islamic politics and are reluctant (7.4%) to blame Israel.
12-20-06 - Israeli torture of captives alleged Yuval Ginbar, a researcher with the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, took the stand on behalf of Muhammad Salah, a Bridgeview man accused of supporting terrorism as a member of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas.....he said that accounts from Palestinian detainees and Israeli agents, as well as documents from Israel and the U.S. State Department, confirmed that torture was commonly employed in Israeli interrogation centers.
12-20-06 - Palestinian in Israeli Knesset: What is happening has nothing to do with Israeli security
12-20-06 - Abbas calls for further restraint
12-20-06 - Palestinians refusing to donate blood
12-20-06 - Lights of hope shine out in Bethlehem, thanks to Hamas
12-20-06 - The question remains, why was the mother murdered? I spoke to the WP author in question, Scott Wilson, regarding this interchange with Weir, and his response was: "No, I do not feel the Post needs to run a correction because our report was not wrong. Ms. Weir is citing a human-rights organization that was not at the scene; we used witness statements and medic on the scene to say she was killed by tank fire. I'll stand by our version.", if we are to believe him.
12-20-06 - Bush "proud" of Lebanese PM Siniora US President George W. Bush said he was proud of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, praising his tenacity in resisting "enormous pressure" from Syria and Hezbollah.
12-20-06 - Iran wants Israel to return Golan to Syria
12-20-06 - Mazin Qumsiyeh: Holocaust Deniers and the Iraq Study Group
12-20-06 - Jimmy Carter's Apartheid Charge Rings True Many of the very individuals and institutions that are so vociferously denouncing President Jimmy Carter would not for one moment tolerate such glaring injustice in the United States. Why do they condone the naked racism that Israel practices?
12-20-06 - Sheep provide a lifeline on West Bank
12-20-06 - Bush appropriates Chanukah moral in depicting current threat from Iran
12-20-06 - Proposed travel limits on Congress don't faze Jewish nonprofit groups The consensus among Jewish groups is that the new legislation would be an inconvenience, but wouldn't seriously hamper the trips to Israel that are considered a critical component of congressional support for Israel. ...Trips must be preapproved by the House Ethics Committee, a process that U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said would guarantee a continuance of the Israel tours.....Insiders said the impact was likely to be minimal. In Israel trips, the key relationship is not between the lawmaker and the lobbyist but between the lawmaker and the Jewish constituent who gives money to the lawmaker's campaign and who often is present on the trip.
12-20-06 - Orthodox community outraged as group embraces Holocaust deniers "They are going to learn that the Jewish people and Holocaust survivors are not going to stomach this," Mordechai Levy, national director of the Jewish Defense Organization, told JTA. "There is a real line. They crossed it a billion times."
12-20-06 - Is tough love for Israel still love? Question splits a campus group The Zionist Organization of America is spearheading an effort to have a left-wing group expelled from a pro-Israel consortium for its sponsorship of a program that brings Israeli army veterans to college campuses to speak about alleged army abuses.
12-20-06 - Arab-American writer is ambassador for Middle East Despite many displacements, Handal says her sense of home is inextricably bound up with her Palestinian identity. She first visited Bethlehem as a teenager, but found everything felt incredibly familiar. "When I first went, everything made sense to me about who I was," she said.
12-20-06 - So this is what occupation feels like Through its unwavering support for Israel and its illegal (per UN resolutions) occupation, America is complicit in depriving Palestinians of freedoms its Declaration of Independence holds as "unalienable."
12-20-06 - Palestinian immigrant in 'L.A. Eight' case becomes U.S. citizen All the so-called "L-A Eight" have denied being members, and immigrant rights groups say the case was politically motivated
12-20-06 - EU politician calls for isolation of Iran Last week Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni accused Europe of not doing enough to combat the nuclear threat from Iran.
12-20-06 - Get Carter The Israel lobby in the United States does not serve Israel or the Jewish community--it serves the interests of the Israeli extreme right wing. Most Israelis have come to understand that peace will be possible only when their country complies with international law and permits Palestinians to build a viable and sustainable state based on the 1967 borders, including, in some configuration, East Jerusalem.
12-20-06 - Why we support a cultural boycott
12-20-06 - Disbelief at israeli snub of Syrian offer
12-20-06 - Robert Fisk, Call Him an Anti-Semite and He'll Sue You
12-20-06 - Part three ? From the West Bank, a circuitous road to market
12-20-06 - Assad's fatal attraction
12-20-06 - Fresh from the horse's ass The little neocon from WND has a shiny new piece of Zioganda to spin - this time with regard to Baker and an attempt to delegitamize the latter's ISG report by smearing the former.
12-20-06 - Local Writer Gets Order of Ontario Her books include: Looking for X; The Breadwinner; Parvana's Journey; and Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak.
12-19-06 - Fresh clashes erupt in Gaza Strip One Hamas and two Fatah members were killed in at least three exchanges. A number of children were injured in crossfire in one incident.
12-19-06 - Six killed in tense Gaza, world concern grows
12-19-06 - Palestinian girl, 14, killed by IDF fire near West Bank fence Israel Defense Forces troops on Tuesday opened fire on two teenaged Palestinian girls approaching the separation fence near the West Bank town of Tul Karm, killing one and wounding the other.
12-19-06 - Worse Than Apartheid Israel, with no restraints from Washington, despite the Iraq Study Group report recommendations that the peace process be resurrected from the dead, has been given the moral license by the Bush administration to carry out what is euphemistically in Israel called ?transfer? and what in other parts of the world is called ethnic cleansing. Faced with a demographic time bomb, knowing that by 2020 Jews will make up only 40 to 46 percent of the overall population of Israel, the architects of transfer, who once held the equivalent status in Israeli society of the Ku Klux Klan, have wormed their way into positions of power in the Israeli government.
12-19-06 - US threatening Hamas rule, says Haniyeh
12-19-06 - Independent Appeal: Where bits of old radios keep patients alive
12-19-06 - Palestinian: Soldiers invaded my home to nap A resident of the Palestinian village of Salem near Nablus was forced to accommodate 20 soldiers for 15 hours in his home, after they broke into his house in order to rest.
12-19-06 - Palestinians agree new ceasefire in factional fighting
12-19-06 - Blair calls for Middle East 'alliance of moderation'
12-19-06 - Israel to step up Golan settlement building Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On has said he intends to accelerate housing projects on settlements in the occupied Golan Heights, defying recent Syrian calls for peace talks. Land or peace? Israel has chosen the former for nearly 60 years. Won't last forever.
12-19-06 - Backstory: The manger gets farther away Recognizing Bethlehem ? the site of the Christmas story ? is increasingly difficult.
12-19-06 - Bush delays moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem President George W. Bush has delayed for another six months moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, citing national security interests, the White House said on Monday. Only thing he gets right, seems.
12-19-06 - Human Rights Watch Statement on our November 22 Press Release
12-19-06 - A Glimpse at Daily Misery in the Gaza Strip 89 percent of the population is poverty-stricken, living on less than $2 a day. Over 60 percent are unemployed, and since the election of the Hamas government in January, international aid has dried up. It had been used to pay the salaries of public officials. Now, even those who have jobs have been thrown into poverty, meaning that over 860,000 people in the Gaza Strip are now living on food parcels distributed by the UNRWA. Over half of the population.
12-19-06 - Rice calls for end to Palestinian violence The only time Rice calls for an end to violence against Palestinians - when the violence is coming from OTHER Palestinians, not Israel. Hypocrite.
12-19-06 - The "Hoax" That Wasn't:: The July 23 Qana Ambulance Attack On the basis of this investigation, we conclude that the attack on the ambulances was not a hoax: Israeli forces attacked two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances that night in Qana, almost certainly with missiles fired from an Israeli drone flying overhead Israel-defenders stoop to new lows when it comes to their attempts to absolve that nation of any and all blame for anything.
12-19-06 - Supreme Court effectively abolishes Legislative Council The Palestinian Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that decisions made by the current Legislative Council are "null and void."
12-19-06 - Life in the Strip ? A Rare Inside Look at Gaza
12-19-06 - Interview with Hamas-Leader Khaled Meshaal For centuries we have lived in Palestine peacefully with Jews and Christians of all kind. We are fighting Israel because it occupies our land and oppresses our people. We are fighting Israel to finish this occupation. We want to live freely on our land just as other nations. We want to have our own country just like other people. But the Zionist movement came from all over the world to occupy our land. And the real owner of the land has been kicked out. This is the root of the problem.
12-19-06 - Court: State must submit criteria for Palestinians to enter Israel
12-19-06 - Iran seeks condemnation of Israeli nukes
12-19-06 - Palestinian Refugees and Children Held in Hutto, Texas Jail Some of the children and a pregnant woman being held in an immigration jail in Texas are Palestinian refugees whose families came to the USA with visas, says a Dallas lawyer.
12-19-06 - Arab League shelves meeting on Palestinian violence to give mediation a chance
12-19-06 - U.S. Senators Encourage Israel To Snub Syria
12-19-06 - Deep Background by Philip Giraldi In 2001-02 the FBI, acting on a request from the IRS, investigated what appeared to be a massive insurance fraud carried out by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
12-19-06 - The other Israel lobby The point of the initiative, Levy told me, is not to "turn American policy against Israel. It is to reach out to groups of philanthropists to get better resources and better focus and to translate this into a political statement," so that members of Congress will know that they "will have cover if they seek to do what we and many in the American Jewish Community think is right." You know, it would be great if our elected representatives actually represented the will of the American people, not lobbies. But then, that's just a quaint old notion these days...
12-19-06 - Free speech on the Mideast?
12-19-06 - Neo-Cons Wanted Israel to Attack Syria Abrams has been known to work particularly closely with both David Wurmser, Meyrav's husband, and Cheney's national security adviser, John Hannah, who, in turn have long favoured "regime change" in Damascus.Indeed, both Wurmsers, along with former Defence Policy Board chairman Richard Perle and former Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith, worked together on a 1996 paper, entitled "A Clean Break", for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, which called for overthrowing Iraq's Saddam Hussein as the first step toward destabilising Syria.
12-19-06 - Holy Warriors Set Sights on Iran **
12-19-06 - Israel worst brand name in the world, says survey And there was one more unpleasant surprise: Whoever thought that the US is Israel?s best friend and Israel is loved in the US, the index indicated that Americans ranked Israel just slightly above China in terms of its conduct in the areas of international peace and security.
12-19-06 - U.S. PREPARES DEFENSE PACKAGE FOR LEBANON Officials said the Bush administration plans to launch an imminent effort to bolster Lebanon's military amid the Hizbullah threat to the government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. They said the U.S. military aid package could reach more than $300 million over the next few years.
12-19-06 - Young and Palestinian Like Me
12-19-06 - Blair to ask Gulf States to rein in Iran
12-19-06 - A child of Bethlehem
12-19-06 - Israel: Western! Progressive! Or Not. Sounds like something the Saudi religious police would do. Fundies come in all flavors, folks.
12-19-06 - Mission to York for top Israeli clergyman
12-19-06 - Israel convenes online anti-Semitism conference
12-19-06 - Muslim leader: British are like Nazis
12-19-06 - Nazi jibe protested A right-wing Israeli party cried foul after its leader was satirized in Nazi-like terms Truth hurts.
12-19-06 - Hamas expert testifies in trial "What is the difference between this guy who blows himself up on a bus and the Israeli bombs dropped on a refugee camp in Gaza?" Hroub said. "The end result is the same -- killing civilians."
12-19-06 - Bike gift for refugees is the ride stuff A total of 20 bikes are on their way to the Shatila camp in west Beirut, which has been a long-term base for Palestinian refugees and their families.
12-19-06 - Russian, Syrian leaders discuss Middle East peace process
12-19-06 - Israel's Plummeting Image: A Call To Action! The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League have formidable resources and could possibly be persuaded to intensify their existing activities in this area. Consideration should also be given to undertaking long term information related projects such as the creation of a global Jewish TV satellite station Another typical reaction by an Israel-defender. They prove Mearsheimer and Walt right often.
12-19-06 - Iran to get nukes by 2010: Mossad boss Mr Dagan told the Knesset committee that a hasty US pullout from Iraq would be a disaster that would change the geo-political situation in the Middle East and provide al-Qa'ida with a victory. He said al-Qa'ida had already set its sights on Israel as its next target after the fighting in Iraq was over and that it would also aim at bringing down regimes in countries bordering Israel.
Thus will America never get out of Iraq. Israel's security comes before ours, which is why we went into that nation in the first place.
12-19-06 - Israel's entry into NATO proposed Daniel Levy, a senior fellow and director of the foundation's Middle East initiative, cautioned that a NATO with Israel as its only member from outside Europe and North America would make Israel look like a "colonial outpost."
That's exactly what it is.
12-19-06 - PM to senators: Syrian support of extremists hurts peace chances Olmert called for sanctions on Iran and praised U.S. efforts toward preventing Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capabilities
12-18-06 - one killed, two wounded in abductions in Nablus Israeli undercover special agents killed one Palestinian and abducted two others in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday morning.
12-18-06 - Fatah Hamas fighting continues, one Palestinian teen wounded in Gaza city
12-18-06 - Gaza violence shuts schools
12-18-06 - Fatah, Hamas men abducted freed: sources The abduction followed a clash between both sides in which one Fatah activist was killed.
12-18-06 - Sanour resident: the settlers leave and the army returns As a component of last year's partial withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces withdrew from four settlements in the northern West Bank's Jenin. However residents of Sanour will no longer be able to access their own land as the Israelis will impose another military installation there. And Israeli Channel 10 has just reported that it is going to get worse.
12-18-06 - Blair makes one last push in Middle East with Palestinian funding plan MP warns against funding sides in coming civil war
12-18-06 - Israel court strikes down ban on Palestinian students Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that a blanket ban on Palestinian students entering Israel to study was excessive and ordered that selective criteria be established.
12-18-06 - Bethlehem peacebuilding school threatened with closure As UK church leaders prepare for a pilgrimage to the beleagured city, news has emerged that a peacebuilding school in Bethlehem which welcomes Muslim, Christian and Jewish girls and boys has been told that part of their building is due to be demolished by the huge Israeli 'security wall' being constructed around the town.
12-18-06 - British clergy to spend Christmas in the Holy Land One of the founding members of Open Bethlehem, Maxim Sansour, told PNN that his campaign is working to ?expose Israeli occupation policies toward the city of Bethlehem and other Palestinian cities.?
12-18-06 - EU to Israel: Stop violating int'l law
12-18-06 - Views from Gaza residents
12-18-06 - Huda Mohammed al-Awadi, OPT ?I can?t believe I?m still alive? Huda, who lives in Gaza City?s Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, was hit in the left leg and right foot by gunfire as she was walking to the Cairo Elementary School in the west of the city during an attack that left three children of a senior member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, Baha Balousheh, and their driver dead.
12-18-06 - Only an end to sanctions can halt Palestine's crisis
12-18-06 - Strike by Palestinian workers near end -official Under the deal, which is expected to be signed later on Sunday, workers will be given assurances from Abbas and the Hamas-led government that they will receive partial salary payments within days and full wages starting next month.
12-18-06 - Gaza goods cost up to a million shekels more a day
12-18-06 - Bedouin, police clash over renewed Negev demolition orders A week and a half ago the Israel Lands Authority and the Interior Ministry demolished 17 of the 50 structures that make up the village - caravans, shacks and tents - leaving 12 families homeless. ....The Israel Lands Authority views them as squatters and therefore refuses to help them find housing.
Totally ironic that last statement there.
12-18-06 - "It is a missile launch bunker. Somewhere within a mile to five miles are silos with the missiles in them." ** another media outlet in Israel is reporting that the U.S. is building a massive new base for the Israeli military on the West Bank border.
12-18-06 - Iran within four years of nuclear bomb: Israel spy chief ** The boy who cried wolf.
12-18-06 - This is an attempt to overturn our elections The Palestinian people have indeed already spoken: for elections to the Palestinian National Council; for lifting the economic boycott of a democratically elected authority; for liberty and independence.
12-18-06 - Jordan asks Israel to state position on Palestinian statehood
12-18-06 - Army abducts eight Palestinian men including three brothers from Hebron
12-18-06 - Israeli PM to release Palestinian funds Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday said Israel is prepared to release seized Palestinian funds for "humanitarian" purposes, but ruled out a large-scale transfer of money to the Hamas-led government.
12-18-06 - 35 million dollars for Palestinians deposited in Arab bank account The 35 million dollars left behind in Egypt by Palestinian premier Ismail Haniya after Israel closed the Gaza crossing was reportedly deposited into an Arab League account.
12-18-06 - Israeli PM, U.S. senators: Baker's report not to be policy The delegation includes senior U.S. senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins and John Thune. Olmert and the senators discussed the Baker-Hamilton report and emphasized that in their view, although the report has led to a broad political discussion, it will not necessarily become U.S. policy, including regarding opposition to a dialogue with Iran and Syria. Let it be known: US Middle East policy is crafted in Tel Aviv, not Washington.
12-18-06 - Peretz wants more time to negotiate with settlers over Migron exit Evacuation of the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Migron, which was built on private Palestinian land, is likely to be delayed for another half year, according to a government brief submitted to the High Court of Justice yesterday.
12-18-06 - Settlers back in cleared area Accompanied by Israeli military jeeps, the settlers arrived at the site of the former colony of Homesh in the northern West Bank, the sources said.
12-18-06 - Thefts of military hardware reported at army bases
12-18-06 - Conversations with the Peacemaker, Father Peter Dougherty The fundamental violence is the Occupation. Yes, I grieve for Israelis killed. I am opposed to all violence. I?m opposed to Palestinian violence against Israelis, and vice versa. I agree with Gila Svirsky of Israel?s Women in Black that the best security for Israeli Jews is ending the Occupation, and justice for Palestinians.
12-18-06 - Uzi Landau: 'Israel's Churchill' Warns of Iran's Hitler Former Israeli Interior Minister Uzi Landau, a leading contender to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was in the United States last week to sound the alarm on Iran.
12-18-06 - UPS Seeks to Redeem Self After Rumors of West Bank 'Package Apartheid' Officials at United Parcel Service are vehemently fighting back rumors that their company practices "package apartheid" by refusing to deliver to Jewish settlements in the West Bank while offering service to Palestinian communities behind the Green Line. Oh those poor poor (illegal squatters). The heart bleeds..
12-18-06 - Palestine Solidarity Committee (South Africa) and Supporters Call for the Recall of South African Ambassador From Tel Aviv and Sanctions Against Israel At a press conference held today in South Africa the Palestine Solidarity Committee, COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions representing 1.2 million workers) and the South African Council of Churches called on the South African government to recall the ambassador to Israel and to implement sanctions against Israel.
12-18-06 - US defends early Palestinian election call despite legal ambiguity
12-18-06 - Ahmadinejad good for Jews
12-18-06 - U.S. aid not for Hamas-Fatah fight The U.S. is not trying to help Mahmoud Abbas fight Hamas by sending him military assistance, an official said. Right.
12-18-06 - Part One: The Arabs on the outside The report directly calls into question Israeli proponents' arguments in favor of the wall: that it is an antiterrorism measure and not a land grab. The Ir Amim study, which tracks the impact of the changes on Palestinian Jerusalemites in several areas, is the first indication that the wall is apparently being drawn with the explicit goal of improving Israel's demographic hand.
12-18-06 - Israel's Balance of Payments Surplus - New Record Good. Now they can GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK.
12-18-06 - Abdullah: I'll contact Israeli leadership soon
12-18-06 - Munich mastermind voiced regret "The instructions were not to kill anyone, except in cases of self-defense. I am saddened by the deaths of the Israelis and the Palestinians."
12-18-06 - World Evangelical Alliance Welcomes Historic New Middle East Member ?There are Palestinian Christians living in the Biblical Land, and we are the living stories of faith,? said Rev Ali. "It is a privilege to have you come to Bethlehem today, because we now know that we are not forgotten."
12-18-06 - Confronting Conflict With Barenboim Mr. Barenboim went on to say that the parties must "achieve on the ground the conditions that we have in the orchestra, which are conditions of equality. When a Palestinian and an Israeli are playing the Brahms symphony on Tuesday night in Carnegie hall, in front of the Brahms Symphony, they are equals. But on the ground, in the West Bank, they are not equals."
12-18-06 - Few in Lebanon Have Favourable View of U.S.
12-18-06 - Israeli intelligence warns Hamas gunmen being trained in Iran Wait, then that must mean we should attack Iran!....
12-18-06 - Anti-Semitism label confines open debate he debate about Israeli policies is far more heated and frank within Israel than here in the United States. As one telling example, consider this paragraph by Israeli columnist Larry Derfner, writing recently in the Jerusalem Post: "Nobody and nothing in the world has an army of advocates, defenders, PR people, marketers, spin-meisters and image-polishers like Israel has. This army isn't made up just of the government but of Jews and Judeophiles all over the world, especially in the U.S. It includes the entire alphabet soup of American Jewish organizations, right-wing 'media watchdogs' like CAMERA and Honest Reporting, hundreds of Jewish newspapers and Web sites, Alan Dershowitz, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Republican Party, the Christian Right, FOX News and an assortment of other forces.".....Carter's point ? and Foxman proves it ? is that it has become impossible to express sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians in this country without fear of being shouted down as anti-Semitic.
12-18-06 - Syria statement omits Golan
12-17-06 - Ongoing inter-Palestinian gunbattles kill young girl, wound twelve The girl was identified as a 19-year-old student named Heba Musbeh. According to witnesses, she died after being fatally shot during a gunbattle near her al-Azhar university in southwest Gaza city.
12-17-06 - Palestinian police officer killed in Gaza - sources A Palestinian police officer was killed shortly after he was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Gaza on Sunday, security sources said.
12-17-06 - Fatah and Hamas agree ceasefire Hamas fighters killed a member of Force 17, the elite presidential guard loyal to Fatah, in a raid on a training base. A 19-year-old Gaza woman was shot dead in the crossfire during a gun battle between rival militias.
12-17-06 - Israeli troops attack a Palestinian police station near Hebron Israeli forces attacked on Saturday a Palestinian police station in Al Samoa' village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron.
12-17-06 - Gaza fighting casts shadow over PM's visit
12-17-06 - Palestinian refugees fear for their lives after recent attack
12-17-06 - Militants fire mortars at Abbas Gaza headquarters in Gaza Medics said that four people were injured in the attack, which is the first of its kind since the beginning of the gun battles between Islamic Hamas movement's militants on one side, Fatah and president Abbas' special guards on the oth
12-17-06 - Gunmen fire upon convoy of Hamas senior official in Gaza Palestinian gunmen fired upon a convoy which was carrying Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al- Zahar in the Hamas-led government in Gaza on Sunday, local witness said.
12-17-06 - Human rights organizations in Gaza City call for law and dialogue to end tension
12-17-06 - The Israel Quandary By Robert D. Novak In 2002, a healthy and forceful Ariel Sharon, then prime minister, was an early advocate of U.S. military intervention in Iraq, in private sessions predicting therapeutic qualities throughout the region from deposing Saddam Hussein. More than four years later, the relationship has been reversed by the commission's report. Instead of the Iraqi intervention solving the Israeli question, stabilizing the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation is described as essential to an Iraqi solution....The Baker-Hamilton report and Hagel's speech each reiterated the truth that there is no chance whatsoever for essential Israeli-Palestinian peace without American brokerage. The Israeli ruling class and its U.S. outriders do not want that to happen, which explains the bitter opposition to the commission's recommendations.
12-17-06 - From June: The Persecution of the Palestinians by Patrick J. Buchanan Terrorism has been described as waging war on innocents to break their political leaders. Is that not a fair description of what we are doing to the Palestinians? No wonder they hate us.
12-17-06 - Catholic Church cancels Christmas Crib "The lives of the ordinary citizens of Bethlehem have been devastated by the building of the wall. It affects every aspect of their lives; friends and family are separated, earning a living becomes more and more difficult, access to health care is severely restricted all in the town of Bethlehem that we sing about at this time of the year. If we can provide them with a few extra basic provisions and give them a little financial support, we can help make their lives more bearable."
12-17-06 - Mufti of Jerusalem Condemns Israeli Measures
12-17-06 - Police issue warrant for suspect in fatal shooting of store owner In the video, the robber looks as if he's purchasing something from the store before shooting Abdel Hamid, a member of Wilmington's small Palestinian community.
12-17-06 - Israeli Arab, 17, charged in terror plot
12-17-06 - Carter wants to finish job creating peace in Mideast This wall was originally conceived by Yitzhak Rabin to be put along the border of Israel -- along Israeli territory -- to prevent cross-border raids by Palestinian terrorists. But when Rabin was assassinated, (Ariel) Sharon and (Benjamin) Netanyahu had the idea: Let's use the wall for a different purpose. Let's use it to confiscate Palestinian land. We won't build the wall on our border. We'll build the wall on Palestinian land. And we'll make tremendous intrusions to encompass settlements that already exist, and other areas on which we want to build settlements. So that's what they've done
12-17-06 - UN forum on Palestinian rights adopts declaration urging new system to protect civilians
12-17-06 - Olmert rejects Syrian calls for peace talks He suggested Mr Assad's overture was prompted by a desire to fend off international sanctions for Damascus's alleged complicity in the murder of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, and its support for radical forces in the Middle East.
12-17-06 - Hamas would lose election to Fatah according to poll
12-17-06 - So Much for Inalienable Rights "...even if Iran is telling the truth ? Iran says, 'We have no nuclear weapons program. We just want peaceful nuclear energy' ? Israel says, 'So long as Iran has any enrichment capability, this constitutes a threat to Israel,' and they are pressuring the United States to take forceful action."
12-17-06 - EU urges restraint from Palestinian parties
12-17-06 - Abbas meets with chief of central elections committee
12-17-06 - Islamic Jihad calls for end to Hamas-Fatah fighting
12-17-06 - Forty settlers freely trespass Palestinian property, Australian human rights volunteer arrested At 11am, human rights workers in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron were alerted that 40 Israeli settlers, one of whom was armed, had invaded the Abu Haikal?s property and were having a picnic and campfire in their olive groves. The settlers were accompanied by 15 soldiers. The settlers and soldiers refused to let Palestinian schoolchildren
12-17-06 - Libération correspondent shot in leg while covering clashes between rival factions
12-17-06 - Imaginary Hugs In Palestine
12-17-06 - US or Israel will attack Iran by March ** Note the source.
12-17-06 - Ayalon: Accept Syrian overtures for dialogue Ayalon said that before negotiations are started, Syria needs to disengage itself from terrorism and Iran and to make it clear that Israel cannot withdraw from the Golan Heights in the upcoming years.
12-17-06 - Ending illusions
12-17-06 - Action Alert: Ask Veolia advisors to take a stand for Justice in Palestine!
12-17-06 - Survival in a land of absurd questions fueled by grassroots ignorance
12-17-06 - Ex-soldiers break 'silence' on Israeli excesses A very courageous group.
12-17-06 - Hezbollah: 250 killed in war with Israel
12-17-06 - Groups Mute Criticism of Iraq Report Jewish and pro-Israel groups, after initially greeting the report of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group with outrage, have begun to mute their criticisms on the basis of assurances that the Bush administration will not adopt the report's proposed linkage between Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict......Aipac executive director Howard Kohr, stressed the importance of ensuring that the recommendations seen as linking Israel and Iraq are not adopted.
12-16-06 - Israeli army storms Nablus, killing Palestinian gunman Palestinian medics said that Joma'a Makhloof, 20, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers' gunfire, and witnesses said he was killed as he was on the roof of his house.
12-16-06 - Abbas calls for Palestinian vote, Hamas warns of war A 13-year-old boy was shot dead after being caught up in a gunfight between rival factions in the Gaza Strip, where armed supporters of both Hamas and Fatah were out in force, some in masks, waving flags and chanting
12-16-06 - Palestinian youth killed in Nablus The soldiers shot Amin Makhlouf, 20, while he was inside his house in the old city. He took more than seven bullets to the chest and other parts of his body and was killed instantly, they said.
12-16-06 - One Palestinian man killed by Israeli army fire in Nablus north of the West Bank
12-16-06 - Abbas threatens to sack Hamas-led government
12-16-06 - Islamic Jihad says its militants fire 8 rockets at Israel
12-16-06 - UNICEF: 2006 One of The Worst Years for Palestine Children
12-16-06 - Putin mad at Bush for funding Israeli war with Lebanon Less than 3 weeks after making this promise the United States used a little known provision in their security agreements with Israel to fully pay for the war, and as we can read as reported by Israel's Ynet News Service in their article titled "US to double emergency equipment stored in Israel"
12-16-06 - MK Steinitz: Believe US will attack Iran ** Member of Knesset Yuval Steinitz (Likud) said Saturday that he "believes a hundred percent that the United States will attack Iran?in order to eliminate its nuclear threat. This will occur after diplomatic efforts fail."
12-16-06 - Robert Fisk: Different narratives in the Middle East During the Sabra and Chatila massacres - when Israel sent its enraged Lebanese Christian Phalangist militias into the camps after telling them that Palestinians had killed their beloved leader - up to 1,700 Palestinians were slaughtered. Israeli troops watched - and did nothing. Wrong. The IDF offered the Phalangists body bags.
12-16-06 - Syria: We expect Israel to launch Middle Eastern War anytime
12-16-06 - EU backs peace plan worded by Spain, France, Italy
12-16-06 - US welcomes Palestinian poll call
12-16-06 - 5. PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID, by Jimmy Carter
12-16-06 - Last Word: Jimmy Carter The word apartheid?did you agonize about that?
Not really, I didn't agonize because I knew that's an accurate description of what's going on in Palestine. I would say that the plight of the Palestinians now?the confiscation of their land, that they're being suppressed completely against voicing their disapproval of what's happening, the building of the wall that intrudes deep within their territory, the complete separation of Israelis from the Palestinians?all of those things in many ways are worse than some of the aspects of apartheid in South Africa. There is no doubt about it, and no one can go there and visit the different cities in Palestine without agreeing with what I have said.
12-16-06 - UN demands an immediate halt to Israeli settlements
12-16-06 - Israelis and Palestinians could join Commonwealth The Commonwealth is an association of 53 independent states. Its 1.8 billion citizens ? about 30 per cent of the world's population ? are drawn from a broad range of faiths, races and cultures.
12-16-06 - 'Barrier will be done by end of 2008'
12-16-06 - Hillary Clinton: I join Israel against Ahmadinejad Her letter was read at a conference in New York City, among the guests were US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, Professor Alan Dershowitz and former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler. (Ronny Sofer)
12-16-06 - Rabid neocon attacks Carter The more vicious and vile the slander against him by the usual suspects, the more you know that Carter got it right. Offering up the truth to somebody like Horowitz, is like holding up a cross to a vampire - hssssssss.
12-16-06 - Lebanon protesters dig in for winter
12-16-06 - World rejects occupation Rich Lowry's Dec. 13 commentary titled "Carter's bashing of Israel will only prolong Palestinian suffering" was so absurd that I actually had to check it twice and confirm it was not written by Cal Thomas.
12-16-06 - Americans Back Iraq Study Group Conclusions Is the will of the majority of the American people being adequately represented by our politicians on Capitol Hill?
12-16-06 - Israel-Palestine statement hopes China join Mideast Quartet
12-16-06 - Photostory: Retracing bus no. 23 on the historic Jerusalem-Hebron Road
12-16-06 - Washington welcomes Israel's David Duke The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations welcomed him in New York on Dec. 12. Such organizations may claim that hosting him does not constitute endorsement, but it does provide him with legitimacy, particularly if he is not publicly and frequently confronted on his unapologetic displays of bigotry.
12-16-06 - My Name is Rachel Corrie closes today
12-16-06 - Neocons: We expected Israel to attack Syria Wurmser says that what most frustrates her is hearing people close to decision makers in Israel asking her if the US would have let Israel attack Syria. "No one would have stopped you. It was an American interest. They would have applauded you. Think why you received so much time and space to operate. Rice was in the region and Israel embarrassed her with Qana, and still Israel got more time. Why aren't they reading the map correctly in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem?"
Naturally, neocons consider themselves blameless in the Iraq debacle.
12-16-06 - Force Israel to behave humanely
12-16-06 - Israeli economy rides out war That's because AMERICAN TAXPAYERS PAID FOR THAT WAR. We also get to pay for Israel's war against the Palestinians, and for the Iraq war - which was one that was goaded on by Israel's agents in and around the Pentagon - the neocons.
12-16-06 - High school hoops star scoring for charities Every time Ahmad Hassan makes a basket for Leonia High School this season, he'll be contributing to more than his team's point total: The 18-year-old has set up a charity that scores cash for Palestinian children and Hurricane Katrina victims whenever its founder hits a one-, two- or three-pointer.
12-16-06 - Syria softens on Golan Syria said it could give up its demand for a return of the Golan Heights as a precondition for peace talks with Israel.
12-16-06 - UK arms deal probe dropped over Mid East peace process fears An investigation into a controversial arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia was reportedly dropped because of fears it could wreck Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to rekindle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
12-16-06 - People Who Mattered: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Ahmadinejad: When it is understood that the Holocaust does not have any relationship with the Palestinian people, we will have two proposals for the Western and European countries
12-16-06 - Jimmy Carter vs. Jimmy Carter I know full well why Carter doesn't want to engage in the 'debate' that Dershowitz seeks. It's because it would require that Carter unravel the 'Big Lie' - a lifetime of myths and untruths about tbe foundation of Israel and it's so-called 'democracy'. And there isn't much of a debate when it comes to the Israel-defenders. From personal experience, it boils down to a p'ing match which muddies the waters and gets so far off topic with the usual pro-Israeli tactics (deny/dismiss/deflect/etc), that the real message gets lost (which is the point of these tactics). Their side of the story has been the ONLY side of the story that Americans have been allowed to hear for nearly SIXTY YEARS. Let someone else have the floor (for a change).
12-15-06 - Hamas hands millions to Arab League Hamas deposited with the Arab League $35 million that Israel blocked from entering the Gaza Strip.
12-15-06 - Man dies en route to hospital as Israeli forces will not allow car to pass
12-15-06 - Defiant Hamas rejects call for elections
12-15-06 - Egypt seeks to ease Gaza tensions Egyptian officials seeking to broker a deal between Palestinian groups have met Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip.
12-15-06 - Abbas 'regrets' shots fired at PM's convoy
12-15-06 - UN General Assembly sets up organ investigating damage caused by Israeli barrier
12-15-06 - 35 Palestinians injured in Hamas-Fateh clashes
12-15-06 - Netanyahu wants Iran president tried for genocide at The Hague ** Netanyahu says Israel must get the Americans to take action, not just with words but through an act of Congress. Really now. That shouldn't take much given that about 99% of our Congress is beholden to AIPAC.
12-15-06 - Jerusalem by numbers: changing birthrates if the Arab women of Jerusalem have started to have fewer children because they apparently study more and thus work more outside their homes, there is no assurance that at the end of that year we shall see fewer Arab babies born. "The demographic issue is and always has been a major issue on the political agenda,"....."In the beginning, if we follow our suggestions, we will annex places like Azariya and Abu Dis, which means that we will have more Palestinians," he says. "But in the long run, taking into account the results of our survey on the lowering birthrate of Palestinian women versus the raising of the Jewish birthrate in Jerusalem, we will save Jerusalem."
This kind of talk is absolutely disgusting. This is evidently Israeli 'democracy'.
12-15-06 - UNHCR asks world to help Palestinians flee Iraq
12-15-06 - New polls highlight issues of US policy in Mideast, hopes for renewing regional peace process Asked if they agree that Palestinians are entitled to equal rights, 79.1 percent said "yes," while 12.8 percent disagreed.....Perhaps more surprising, the poll shows that a small plurality of those surveyed (38.8 percent to 37.1 percent) said that US support for Israel weakens US security. There was also a strong division based on the race of those surveyed. Say I wonder, who are the 12.8 percent?....
12-15-06 - 'This looks like civil war' - Palestinians battle on the streets Divide and conquer.
12-15-06 - At-Tuwani Update: 19 November - 13 December 2006 After finishing the morning school escort, the soldiers drove up to the home
of a Palestinian family in At-Tuwani. One of the men from the family was
standing outside the house. The soldiers told him to go inside. When he
refused, they held a gun to his head, kicked him and shoved him in the
house. They also shoved his elderly mother who came out to see what was
happening. The soldiers then accompanied a Palestinian farmer out to his field. Five
adult settlers and a small child came out of the outpost and stood in front
of the tractors, preventing the farmers from plowing. The army, police and
civil administration watched, but did nothing to stop the settlers. Sounds like the KKK is alive in well - in Israel. And it's state-sanctioned.
12-15-06 - Hebron Update 06-12-03 to 06-12-09 In the afternoon McLean and two visitors at the Beit Romano checkpoint
found Palestinians being detained while ultra-orthodox American Jews
strolled through the area at their leisure.
12-15-06 - U.S. seeking ways to fund Abbas The Bush administration is working with Congress to authorize the release of funds to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas? security forces.
Helping a(nother) civil war along, are we?
12-15-06 - Arab MKs: Ruling on targeted killings authorizes 'war crimes' The High Court of Justice's ruling Thursday on the Israel Defense Forces policy of targeted killings of militants received a mixed reaction from lawmakers, with Arab MKs blasting the decision as "authorizing war crimes."
12-15-06 - Israel PM strives for Abbas talks In a BBC interview, Mr Olmert said Israel was prepared to "pull out from many, many territories". Action, not words.
12-15-06 - More Americans hungry, homeless in 2006: mayors "The face of hunger and homelessness right now ... is young children, young families," While taxpayers are pickpocketed by special interest groups (such as the Israeli lobby), America gets poorer.
12-15-06 - No Middle East peace without Syria, Iran: Assad Assad told Rome's la Repubblica newspaper Damascus was ready to cooperate with Washington to resolve regional issues and challenged Israel to open up to Syria. He also said Europe had a "complex" over the Jewish Holocaust.
12-15-06 - Arrest of militant sparks retaliation, Gaza on edge Palestinian security agents arrested a militant in Gaza on Thursday in connection with the killing of three schoolboys, prompting his group to kidnap a security officer in retaliation.
12-15-06 - EU wants a Middle East free of WMDs The European Union called Thursday for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, responding to recent comments by the Israeli prime minister that have been interpreted as acknowledging his country has a nuclear arsenal.
12-15-06 - Palestinians with foreign passports on shaky ground for Rabi, 41, paradise is threatened. The Israelis have forced a choice of agonizing difficulty upon him. They have told his wife, Issedh, who has a U.S. passport and no permanent Palestinian identification document, that she cannot return to the West Bank if she leaves. Rabi must follow her to Brooklyn and forsake his aging and sick parents and this house he has dreamed of from age 16, or he must say goodbye to his wife.
12-15-06 - Analysis: Poll increases pressure on Olmert Under Rumsfeld, Israeli military officials had the run of the Pentagon and enjoyed unprecedented access to Rumsfeld and his top officials. They could count on the enormous clout of the DoD, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Rumsfeld himself to block any diplomatic initiatives by the Bush administration that the Israeli government did not like. But once Gates is running OSD, he appears far more likely to make common cause with Rice to pressure the Israelis to make new concessions on reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.....the findings of the UPI-Zogby poll will clearly strengthen the hand of the Baker-Rice-Gates forces that want to revive the peace process and push Israel to make new concessions or offers to get it going. That will not be welcome news in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem.
12-15-06 - UN: Israel overplayed Annan statement The source accused the Foreign Ministry of trying to "spin" Israeli journalists into writing incorrectly that Annan ruled out the return of Palestinian refugees to the final borders of Israel in the speech.
12-15-06 - Apparent landmine kills Lebanese soldier The reports of new landmines have been added to the international criticism against Israel following 'disproportionate use' ? according to human rights groups - of cluster bombs during the war.
12-15-06 - Fourth installment of European funds
12-15-06 - OPT: ICRC Bulletin No. 15 / 2006 - Latest report on ICRC activities in the field
12-15-06 - UPI Poll: Few support Israeli settlements But 47.2 percent of the 6,296 respondents to a Zogby interactive poll Dec. 4-6 said such settlements in the Palestinian West Bank should be torn down and land returned to Palestinian owners; 24.6 percent of those asked said Israelis have the right to build in those areas.
12-15-06 - Children hold a candle procession in Jabalia Hundreds of Palestinian children held a candle procession in front of the Jabalia police station, in Jabalia town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, against the Monday killing of three children by an armed group.
12-15-06 - General Assembly adopts resolutions criticizing Israeli actions against Palestinians
12-15-06 - New demand for release of Israeli soldier Hamas says it won't release a kidnapped Israeli soldier until Israel agrees to simultaneously free Palestinians serving extended prison terms.
12-15-06 - China holds Israeli-Palestinian seminar, calling for maintaining ceasefire and peace
12-15-06 - Non-violent march in Bil'in village met by Israeli military violence
12-15-06 - Quakers back Carter book The American Quaker activist arm called on followers to join former President Carter in urging an Israeli withdrawal from disputed territories The Presbys (and others) should line up behind them. There is strength in numbers. The pro-Israelis will be scrambling in all directions soon.
12-15-06 - Jewish groups oppose Palestinian act More than a dozen local Jewish groups signed a petition urging President Bush not to sign legislation that would isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority
12-15-06 - Israel warns of al-Qaida attack in India The ministry's announcement warned of a "concrete threat" of an al-Qaida attack in the area in the next few weeks. This is peak tourist season in Goa, a former Portuguese colony renowned for its palm tree-lined white beaches, resorts and hedonistic parties, and tens of thousands of foreigners, including many Israelis, are expected to be there
12-15-06 - War on terror drives Arab actor to "Zigzigland" In one scene, an FBI agent shows up at Daas's flat to ask if he knows anyone who is planning jihad. In another, a Jewish couple mistake Daas for an Israeli and agree that eliminating the Palestinians could be a good idea. Only when he has dropped his passengers off does Daas drop his bombshell.
12-15-06 - Why Holocaust Denial Hurts the Palestinian Cause
12-15-06 - "One Country": An Interview with Ali Abunimah
12-15-06 - UPI Poll: Israel right in Lebanon attack A total of 57.6 percent of the 6,296 U.S. respondents to a Zogby interactive poll said Israel was "justified" in its response while 31.1 percent said it wasn't
12-15-06 - STOP the Destruction of Lives and Homes in the Holy Land
12-15-06 - Telling it like it is Jimmy Carter has criticised Israel, but to accuse him of anti-semitism is so outrageous as to be laughable
12-15-06 - Palestinian policy affects U.S. image The perception of U.S. policy toward the Palestinians has a profoundly negative impact on Arab opinion about the United States, a poll showed. Oh come now. They hate us 'for our freedom', and because we're 'infidels', hadn't you heard? Ummm..
12-15-06 - Courageous Carter doesn't mince words The former president had the courage to say it: There can be no peace without justice. The Palestinians have been treated unjustly since 1948
12-15-06 - Students will hear disputed speakers
12-15-06 - UPI Poll: Agreeing with the ISG
12-15-06 - University to discuss professor's Iran trip "One can certainly assign some blame to the Palestinians . . . there is enough evidence of atrocities on both sides, but the fundamental problem is the occupation of the Palestinian land by the incoming European Jews, and nobody can deny that."
12-15-06 - Thank you Jimmy Carter Thank you for writing the courageous and inspiring Peace Not Apartheid.
12-15-06 - Bend it like Al Bandak: Palestinian women face challenges in soccer
12-15-06 - Why Fatah and Hamas hate each other
12-15-06 - Single father shot, killed by armed robber in store
12-15-06 - Pelosi adds two Jews to appropriations Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), speaker-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives, doubled the Jewish membership of its most powerful committee.
Ahh, Pelosi the Israel-firster.
12-15-06 - Bush honors Sharansky, Lederberg, Safire Three Jews were among those receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
President Bush hosted a White House ceremony Friday for nine medal recipients, including Natan Sharansky, an Israeli political leader who was imprisoned nine years in the Soviet Gulag; Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel laureate and science adviser to several presidents who specializes in space travel and genetics; and William Safire, a speechwriter for President Nixon who became an influential New York Times columnist
12-15-06 - Arab media play up anti-Zionist Jews at Iranian conference Many of the media outlets, however, broadcast the message of these ultra-Orthodox Jews, which is that the Holocaust did indeed take place but does not justify the commission of crimes against the Palestinians, as a British rabbi, Aharon Cohen, said at the conference
12-15-06 - UPI Poll: Bush favors Israel As for their advice on what direction Bush should take, not surprisingly "steering a middle course" was cited by 55.8 percent of those asked while 35.1 percent said it should lean toward Israel and 3.6 percent said policies should lean toward the Palestinians.
12-15-06 - Robert Fisk to speak on Middle East
12-15-06 - 400+ Organizations Oppose Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation sent today to the National Security Council a petition signed by more than 400 US-based organizations opposed to the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006.
12-15-06 - Annan calls on Palestinians to foster unity
12-15-06 - Moscow seriously concerned with Palestinian issue
12-15-06 - Blair heads to Turkey on first leg of Middle East tour Speaking shortly before his departure for Turkey, Mr Blair said: "There was a consensus round the table that it is of immense strategic importance for Europe that there is progress again between Israel and Palestine and that we get a resolution on issues to do with the Lebanon and support strongly the efforts of the democratically-elected government in the Lebanon."
12-15-06 - Fear 'as bad as after 9/11'
12-15-06 - Carter explains 'apartheid' reference "I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said in Friday's Boston Globe. "There is no need ... to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine." The school's debate request, Carter said, is proof that many in the United States are unwilling to hear an alternative view on the nation's most taboo foreign policy issue, Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
12-15-06 - 'Sacred Space' screened at St. Stephen's In many areas, including Bethlehem, the wall has been build well inside the West Bank, in order to include the settlements," Nagle tells viewers. "This wall confiscates Palestinian lands, attaching them to the settlements and making them part of Israel."
12-14-06 - One Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in northern West Bank The Israeli troops have withdrawn from the city after the killing of the civilian, witnesses said.
12-14-06 - Second Palestinian militant killed by Israeli army in West Bank
12-14-06 - Israel shuts Gaza crossing to protect finance boycott Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, was blocked from bringing millions of dollars of desperately needed donations home last night after Israeli forces closed Gaza's border with Egypt.
12-14-06 - Two police officers injured in clash with Gaza militants
12-14-06 - Haaretz: "Peretz said Israel will free P.A taxes if Hamas stops its military attacks"
12-14-06 - Man held over Gaza child killings In retaliation for Thursday's arrest, PRC members said they kidnapped the Fatah-linked security officer in Gaza City.
12-14-06 - Gaza border shots 'targeted PM' Ismail Haniya's convoy came under fire when it was allowed to cross, after being held there for several hours.....On Thursday Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz had ordered European Union monitors to close the Rafah crossing point
12-14-06 - Gaza City: 'Free the women and you free the whole country' "It's an amazing feeling, to be able to stand on your own feet: to be an independent woman,"
12-14-06 - Israel to refuse Egyptian troop request Israel, according to government sources, does not feel Egypt needs additional troops on the border, but rather needs to make more effective use of the troops already there.
12-14-06 - US: We won't compare Israel to Iran US State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack responded Tuesday evening to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert 's slip of the tongue on the nuclear issue. There is no change in Israel 's policy, he said ..."It leads also to concessions to the favourite Nation of priviledges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom eql. priviledges are withheld"
12-14-06 - Israel court backs targeted kills The court noted that not every killing complied with international law, but said the legality of operations should be assessed on a "case by case basis". Why do they demand that others abide by int'l law when they themselves do not?
12-14-06 - IDF told to dismantle small barrier hampering Palestinians "The true reason for the construction of the barrier is to bar the Palestinians' access to their lands and allow the gradual takeover by settlers. The barrier prevents the passage of pedestrians, the ill, women, children and cattle. But a terrorist can jump over it easily,"
12-14-06 - Is James Baker a Match for AIPAC? Obviously not, since Bush has refused to implement the relevant recommendations by the ISG.
12-14-06 - Dec. 14 1982: THE GOLAN HEIGHTS ANNEXED BY ISRAEL IN AN ABRUPT MOVE The annexation was greeted with jubilation by Jewish settlers on the heights, who number about 6,000 and have been pressing for this move for a long time. It was regarded, in part, as a Government effort to mollify militant settlers in Sinai, who have vowed to resist physically when Israel returns the final strip of the desert peninsula to Egypt next April 25, as required by the peace treaty.
12-14-06 - Ahmadinejad says Zionists are criminals Ahmadinejad said not all Jews are Zionists, and called for "a referendum in order to determine the type of regime the Palestinians prefer, with the participation of all Palestinians -- including Jews, Christians and Muslims," Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported.
12-14-06 - Support for Israel in Congress is Based on Fear I can tell you from personal experience that the support Israel has in the Congress is based completely on political fear -- fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done. I can also tell you that very few members of Congress -- at least when I served there -- have any affection for Israel or for its Lobby.
12-14-06 - They Only Look Dead What won?t be dropped is the neoconservatives? attachment to Israel and the tendency to conflate the Jewish state?s interests (as defined in right-wing Israeli terms) with America?s. So one can look forward to neoconservative agitation on two fronts: a powerful campaign to draw the United States into a war to eliminate Iran?s nuclear potential and an equally loud effort in support of maintaining Israeli dominance over the West Bank and denying the Palestinians meaningful statehood
12-14-06 - Jewish and Palestinian organisations defy EU secrecy European organisations today defied the refusal of EU Ministers to publish a report complied by their own diplomats regarding Israeli violations of international law with regard to East Jerusalem. Over 30 Jewish, Palestinian, peace and anti-poverty groups from around Europe will publish the suppressed Report on their websites.
12-14-06 - Abbas to declare Hamas gov't as interim administration Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will declare the Hamas-led government as an interim administration until holding referendum next year, local Maan news agency reported on Thursday.
12-14-06 - High Court: Investigate Iman al-Hams' death
12-14-06 - Nonviolent protest in Damon Prison against strip searches For the third day in a row Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli Damon Prison are on hunger strike. This nonviolent action is in protest of the prison administration's arbitrary attempts to force Palestinians to submit to strip searches before visiting relatives.
12-14-06 - Fatah getting U.S. anti-terror training The training began with the Presidential Guard, made up entirely of Fatah activists loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, a San Francisco Chronicle correspondent reported Thursday.
12-14-06 - Arab Israeli lawmakers slam high court for ruling on targeted killing
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Weak support for right of return Some 44.5 percent of those asked said the Palestinians should be allowed to return to live in Israel or be compensated for land that was lost
12-14-06 - John Berger rallies artists for cultural boycott of Israel
12-14-06 - UK visit to Bethlehem welcomed by local church and civic leaders
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Plenty of blame to go around Nearly half -- 46.7 percent -- of the 6,296 U.S. participants in a Dec. 4-6 Zogby interactive poll said both sides share responsibility for the breakdown of the Middle East peace process. More than a third (37.2 percent), however, cite the Palestinians alone and 10.3 percent pointed at the Israelis
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Strong support for 'Palestine'
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Aid hangs on Hamas changes
12-14-06 - Ahmadinejad tells West to 'pack up' Israel
12-14-06 - Art becomes yet another victim of war
12-14-06 - On human rights holiday, group seeks commitment to tikkun olam "Yes, we do oppose the policy of administrative home demolition, but that's not a security concern," he said. "In fact, I would argue the demolition of homes is in some ways a policy that endangers the security of Israel."
12-14-06 - More Evidence That Mearsheimer and Walt Are Largely Right This New York Times article quotes no one at all in support of Carter's position, only critics. Since when does the Times write in its news pages about controversies entirely from one side of the controversy, particularly when it's about someone who was president of the United States?
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Israeli lobby's U.S. influence With 47.5 percent of the 6,296 U.S. respondents saying there is a significant level of pro-Israel influence with 33.3 percent saying it has a "moderate" level of influence. Some 80.8 percent said there is some pro-Israel influence My fellow Americans, in light of the poll results, I would say that half the battle is won. Now then, what do you propose we do about this influence?
12-14-06 - Where do you go when the news makes you want to throw up your hands? Donate Now:
12-14-06 - Roger Waters joins the War on Want
12-14-06 - Ahmadinejad accused of incitement to genocide A group of prominent lawyers, politicians and Jewish leaders are attempting to have Iran?s president indicted on charges of incitement to genocide. Let's say that he really did commit incitement to genocide, what do you call what Israel has done to the Palestinians (starting with this)? And what of Avigdor Lieberman's comments calling on Israel to transfer the Arabs out of that country, hmm? He was just put in a very powerful position in the Israeli government. Can you say HYPOCRISY.
12-14-06 - New U.N. chief blasts Iran?s Holocaust denial The incoming United Nations secretary-general said it was unacceptable for Iran to deny the Holocaust and threaten Israel.
12-14-06 - Still Jews only The concept of a state having any rights is not only strange but also alien to international law. People have rights, not states. And that is precisely the point: when Israel demands that its "right to exist" be recognised, the subtext is that we are not speaking of recognition of Israel as a normal nation state but as the state of a specific people, the Jews.
12-14-06 - Rice lying low at the Middle East crossroads A new low was plumbed in the US's international standing when, on the 10th day of Lebanon's summer war, with civilian casualties mounting from Israeli attacks, Ms Rice declared the world was witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East".
12-14-06 - Neturei Karta defends Holocaust denial conference Asked on Israel Radio how he could rub shoulders with those who say the Holocaust was fabricated or exaggerated, Deutch said, "For the sake of saving Jews from Zionism, you have to do these things sometimes."
12-14-06 - Carter invite fizzles "I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said. ''There is no need to for me to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine." Good point.
12-14-06 - Listen to Carter on Israel
12-14-06 - The Rise of Avignor Lieberman Lieberman is more than kosher as far as Washington is concerned. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice welcomed him at the State Department on December 11, a day after he was featured at a forum, sponsored by the Brookings Institution's Saban Center, that also included Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and several other members of Congress
12-14-06 - Attitudes of Arabic people toward U.S. more negative The poll, conducted by Zogby International in mid-November in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Saudi Arabia, showed that a majority of people in the countries had an unfavorable opinion of the United States
12-14-06 - Israel boycott may be the way to peace
12-14-06 - Hezbollah still operating in Canada Using freedom-of-information legislation, Post reporter Stewart Bell has amassed what is probably the largest collection of terrorism-related Canadian intelligence documents in private hands.
12-14-06 - Professor sues over anti-Semitism charge
12-13-06 - Gunmen kill Hamas judge at court door
12-13-06 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian gunman in Gaza
12-13-06 - Israelis accused of vandalising airport The Israeli army has been accused of mindlessly destroying the terminal building at Gaza International Airport. A once pristine modern structure, which had come to symbolise Palestinian statehood, has been wrecked.
12-13-06 - 5 Palestinian Refugees Killed in Baghdad Mortar Attack
12-13-06 - Israeli security guard stabbed north of Jerusalem
12-13-06 - Independent Appeal: Coping with conflict in the world's biggest prison The Welfare Association, one of three charities supported by the Independent's 2006 Christmas Appeal, runs community psycho-social outreach programmes that help Palestinian families cope with the relentless conflict in the Gaza Strip. They are not allowed to flee to safety in exile because the Israelis usually seal the borders, and social collapse is a genuine risk....The densely-packed enclave is, in effect, the world's largest prison.
12-13-06 - NEF distributes urgently-needed drugs to Palestinian poor
12-13-06 - Israeli high court rejects Palestinian appeal over barrier The International Court of Justice issued a non-binding ruling in 2004 that parts of the barrier in the West Bank are illegal and should be removed. The UN humanitarian affairs coordinator's office says three-quarters of the proposed barrier lies in the West Bank, while only 145 kilometres (90 miles) follows the "Green Line" separating Israel and the Palestinian territory.
12-13-06 - Hamas, Fatah militants clash in central Gaza Strip
12-13-06 - UNRWA appeals for $246m in emergency funds to address deplorable humanitarian conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory To meet the most basic needs of Palestine refugees ? over 40 percent of the population in the oPt - UNRWA is appealing for $246m in emergency funding in 2007
12-13-06 - Cancer didn't kill my mother, the occupation did
12-13-06 - Fla. senator defies Bush, visits Syria Nelson said he ultimately received logistical support from the State Department in what he called a "fact-finding trip" across the Middle East, being transported by embassy officials from Jordan's capital city of Amman to Damascus. Prior to heading to Damascus, Nelson met with top Israeli and Palestinian officials; in coming days, he plans to visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iraq.
12-13-06 - Nine people, including school principal, arrested in Bethlehem as Christmas approaches
12-13-06 - Iran, Arabs demand UN action over Israeli nuclear arms
12-13-06 - Carter denounces plans for fence in Palestinian territories Appearing at a bookstore in Tempe, Carter denounced Israel's plan to build a fence in Palestinian territories calling it a land grab rather than a security measure.
12-13-06 - EU presidency wants Olmert to explain nuclear comments Kaariainen said he hoped Olmert's words would not have a negative effect on the UN-led peacekeeping force deployed in Lebanon following the 34-day war between the Israeli army and Hezbollah this year.
12-13-06 - United Kingdom announces £76.6 million for Palestine Refugees through UNRWA
12-13-06 - Hamas, Fateh trade accusations over Tuesday armed clashes Following Tuesday's armed clashes between members of Hamas' Executive Force and Palestinian Security forces dominated by Fateh, leaders and security officials of the two movements traded accusations over the injury of several residents
12-13-06 - Turkish Red Crescent donates medical supplies to Palestine
12-13-06 - Israel supports Arabs on N-power two Israeli generals offered assessments that appeared to contradict each other. Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, the No2 in Israeli military intelligence, told the cabinet that Syrian President Bashar Assad had stepped up production of long-range missiles and ordered that anti-tank missiles be moved closer to the border in anticipation of war. "He is preparing the Syrian army for the possibility of a military conflict with Israel," General Baidatz said. "On the other hand, he is not ruling out the possibility of reaching a political settlement with Israel." But a member of the general staff, speaking anonymously, said there was no indication from either Hezbollah or Syria that they were preparing for imminent war.
12-13-06 - Report: Haniyeh says Israel more flexible on Shalit prisoner swap Two emissaries of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid a secret visit to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday, Haaretz has learned.
12-13-06 - Religious leader in Gaza: Child killers must die
12-13-06 - Israeli army attacks a Palestinian school and takes over two nearby houses south of Hebron Israeli forces attacked a Palestinian high school for boys and took over two adjacent houses in Al Samou'a village south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday.
12-13-06 - President Jimmy Carter holds a copy of his book 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid' prior to a book signing
12-13-06 - UPI Poll: Support of Israel hurts energy The poll showed 40.7 percent of respondents said U.S. support for Israel made energy supplies less safe; 12.9 percent said it made it safer and 25.9 percent said it made no difference.
12-13-06 - Israeli military court postpones trial of elected Hamas official after failing to find charges
12-13-06 - Arab couple to lose land, home to new Haifa road
12-13-06 - Israeli PM to rally Italy's support on Iran sanctions The Israeli leader was given a private audience with the pope and was then to meet the Vatican head of government, Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone
12-13-06 - Despair deepens amid Gaza's strife Hamas has angrily denied Fatah allegations that it was behind the attack, or has somehow colluded with the killers.
12-13-06 - Israel's informers - real and imagined One former Shin Bet agent who spoke off the record described the collaborators who used to work for him as lemons: "You squeeze the lemon and (when) it's got no juice left, you throw it away."
12-13-06 - Grant permission to UN mission, S. Africa urges Israel South African government on Wednesday called on Israel to reconsider its decision to deny a United Nations (UN) human rights mission to investigate the killing of 19 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
12-13-06 - Democrat dilemma over Iran ** US and Israeli rhetoric has been echoed by Democrats, particularly incoming Speaker of the House, Representative Nancy Pelosi. In 2005, she told a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that "the greatest threat to Israel's right to exist ... now comes from Iran". AIPAC has long been associated with some of the more extreme sectors of the Israeli political spectrum. The organization has been particularly aggressive in lobbying for war with Iran, a war that polls show the US public strongly opposes.
12-13-06 - INTERVIEW-EU considers paying Palestinian police
12-13-06 - Sober days ahead as Bethlehem seeks Christmas cheer
12-13-06 - South African Government calls on Israeli Government to grant permission to UN Mission to Beit Hanoun The South African government today Wednesday 13 December 2006 expressed its disappointment at the decision by the government of Israel not to grant permission to the mission mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to investigate the deaths of the 19 Palestinians in Beit Hanoun in November and called on the government of Israel to reconsider its decision.
12-13-06 - Israeli gets 3 years for church bombing An Israeli man was sentenced to three years in prison for attacking a Nazareth church.
Haim Eliahu Havivi,his wife, Violette, and their daughter entered the Basilica of the Annunciation in March with a baby stroller loaded with firecrackers and gas canisters. What sentence would an Israeli judge hand down to an Arab that attempted to bomb a synagogue, mewonders?...
12-13-06 - Israeli TV catches Olmert "coaching" Italy's Prodi An Israeli television station broadcast candid footage on Thursday that appeared to show Olmert, during his first official visit to Rome, coaching Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on what to say during their joint press conference. Read that again.
12-13-06 - Israeli PM urges international moves against Iran ** Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on the international community to coordinate efforts to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons.
12-13-06 - UPI Poll: 'Poor' Middle East mark for Bush
12-13-06 - Carter Book Stirs Furor With Its View of Israelis' 'Apartheid' The outrage and criticism are from all of the usual corners. This yet again proves the premise of Mearsheimer and Walt's famous paper.
12-13-06 - No problem with Tutu's visit, says Israel Israel says it has no problem with Desmond Tutu, the archbishop emeritus, visiting Israel in his personal capacity, but it is against the UN mission which he was leading. Got something to hide?
12-13-06 - Jimmy Carter says Christians, pro-Israel lobby, stifle Middle East debate here In an interview this morning, Carter also told me it would be "political suicide" for any member of Congress to endorse the views in his new book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid." He said that's because of the power of the American Israel Political Action Committee.....the Anti-Defamation League launched a counter-PR campaign against it, including advertisements in major U.S. newspapers today that say:
12-13-06 - Saudi envoy talks about common interests Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington discussed areas of common interest with Israel when he met with a pro-Israel group.
12-13-06 - Syria blasts Israel over building of Golan Heights reservoir
12-13-06 - Clergy: U.S. holds key to Mideast peace In a statement set for release Thursday, the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East said that the U.S. did not fulfill its duty in pursuing the roadmap to a two-state solution in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
12-13-06 - Is Anti-Semitism That Dead? If I did not know any better, the description "dangerous, inflammatory and inaccurate" sounds a bit defamatory... I know, I'm being silly. They are anti-defamation, so they could never be what they say they are against. Right? Note to the owners of that blog: The ADL was convicted of just that (DEFAMATION) a few years back.
12-13-06 - Israeli nuclear whistleblower demands freedom Mordechai Vanunu made world headlines 20 years ago when he gave a London newspaper photographs and details of Israel's secret nuclear facility at Dimona.
12-13-06 - israel - the 'state' of perpetual denial
12-13-06 - Why Israel maintains nuclear ambiguity
12-13-06 - Three artists win $50,000 grants Sacco's innovative blend of journalism and comics demands months of reporting and years of drawing. The award will allow him to concentrate on his latest book, the story of the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah, which has already taken several years of work -- with several more ahead of him
12-13-06 - BBC World dropped by Israeli satellite TV BBC World has been dropped by Israel's satellite provider Yes TV in favour of the newly launched al-Jazeera English......The BBC has had a difficult time over its coverage of Israel, with regular accusations of bias coming from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides. ???
12-13-06 - Meanwhile: Gaza, my home and my prison
12-13-06 - Israel, Alone : The nuclear cat is out of the bag - and Olmert issues a warning? The Lobby is reeling. For the first time since the Eisenhower era, our Israeli-centric policy in the Middle East is being openly and successfully challenged
12-13-06 - Carter prays with rabbis after apartheid reference Rabbi Ayla Grafstein of Scottsdale said it didn't matter what promises Carter made. "In the end, he's not going to change what's in his book," Grafstein said.
Can't change the truth, toots. Spend more time trying to address the reality, and less time trying to cover it up/censor it; my advice.
12-13-06 - Middle East peace not possible without Syria - Merkel Speaking at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Merkel said she had supported Steinmeier's trip, but that it had led to no change of heart from Syria.
12-13-06 - Bush to meet with Jewish educators He plans to meet with leaders of Hillel, Chabad and Jewish universities, as well as some students. Hillel is an organization that works on Israel's behalf on US campuses.
12-13-06 - McCain: Withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq could 'risk catastrophe' Steering clear of the Iraq Study Group's controversial recommendation to engage the Arab-Israeli issue to win support for U.S. efforts in Iraq, John McCain made an emphatic case for American steadfastness in Iraq during an address to a Jewish group.
12-13-06 - Israeli jets violate airspace over southern Lebanon
12-13-06 - Muslim Charity Sues Treasury Dept. and Seeks Dismissal of Charges of Terrorism The government has accused the foundation of having been the American fund-raising arm of Hamas
12-13-06 - WCC NEWS: Palestine/Israel: new church forum for peace
12-13-06 - Israeli PM meets Pope at Vatican The Israelis are engaged in a major lobbying effort both here and abroad.
12-13-06 - Wednesday Night Fights: David Duke Calls Wolf Blitzer an 'Israeli Agent'
12-13-06 - Ontario, Israel share emergency tips Last year 39 Ontario police chiefs went to Israel to learn about counterterrorism measures. Israelization of Canada.
12-13-06 - Orthodox historian barred from bimah In a letter published in Wednesday's Irish Times, Rabkin complained that Dublin Jews had "yet to come terms with the contradictions" between religion and ideology, and therefore were "hostile" even to writing about Jewish opposition to Zionism.
12-12-06 - Aged woman dies due to an Israeli army sound bombs fired into her house in Qalqilia Latifa Miskawi, 57, died after having a hart attack when Israeli troops invading Kfar Saba neighborhood in Qalqilia fired a sound bomb into her house, medical sources in the city reported.
12-12-06 - Vigil held in memory of boys killed in Gaza
12-12-06 - Palestinians win legal right to sue Israel for damages The ruling did not cancel the exclusion "of members of terrorist organisations" from making claims even if they were not involved at the time of the damage. And the state would still be able to argue that it was not liable in cases where civilians were victims of "acts of war".
12-12-06 - Survivor Discusses Gaza Shooting Deaths
12-12-06 - Islamic Jihad resumes launching homemade rockets at Israel In a statement faxed to the press, the brigades said that the attack came in response to the ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire and the aggression against the Palestinian people. The statement noted that Israeli troops had arrested a senior Islamic Jihad militant in the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
12-12-06 - Independent Appeal: Rusty van which supplies Gaza's life-blood Gaza's blood banks have been crumbling for years. The Israeli siege made it extremely hard to get machine parts into this congested strip of land, that is home to one-and-a-half million people. Then the international boycott that followed the election of Hamas cut off the funds that Shifa used to purchase even simple equipment, such as blood bags and testing kits. Earlier this year the blood bank ran out of hepatitis C testing kits.
12-12-06 - Gaza protest erupts in violence Supporters of rival Palestinian groups, Fatah and Hamas, are reported to have exchanged gunfire in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least four people.
12-12-06 - Blair seeks to get Palestinians to negotiate with Israel Tony Blair revealed yesterday he intended to set out a political and economic offer to the Palestinians when he visits the Middle East, detailing what they can expect in return for negotiations with Israel.
12-12-06 - Israeli settler rams a Palestinian child in Hebron Resident Jihad Jaber reported that his child Mohammad, 5, was hit by an Israeli settler's vehicle while heading to his school in the old part of Hebron city.
12-12-06 - Four schoolboys injured in Israeli invasion of Tubas
12-12-06 - Israeli High Court strikes down ban of Palestinian intifada lawsuits
12-12-06 - Mashaal offers 10-year cease-fire deal In an interview published Monday in the Italian newspaper Republica, Mashaal also offered Israel a 10-year cease-fire deal.
12-12-06 - The Cruel Line into Gaza According to the UN report published last week, Israel has violated all of the articles of the agreement. There is no passage to Israel, no passage to the West Bank and even none to Egypt, the last outlet
12-12-06 - US to double emergency equipment stored in Israel The American Congress gave Israel financial and security encouragement when the Senate and the House of Representatives gave their approval to double the emergency equipment the United States stores in Israeli stockpiles.....A great portion of the American equipment stored in Israel last year was used for combat in the summer war in Lebanon. Hey, I know. I bet they 'hate us for our freedom'.
12-12-06 - China to host peace parley China will host a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian politicians.
12-12-06 - French Troops Can Fire on Israelis The Jerusalem Post is reporting that French military forces in southern Lebanon have been given the authority to "fire at" Israeli forces "if they feel threatened."
12-12-06 - Lieberman advocates aid to Palestinians In meetings described as positive, Lieberman spoke with Negroponte for an hour, with Rice for 45 minutes and Hadley for half an hour. They compared their assessments on Iran, as well as different options, intentions and deadlines Do not be fooled. Iran was the real issue here.
12-12-06 - Debate over Carter book reaches Middle East parliament. "He's visited here several times. He's seen the situation with his own eyes. I think he has been impressed by Palestinian eagerness for freedom and democracy.".....An original printing of 300,000 copies has soared to 395,000 copies after four printings. The book is ranked No. 7 on The New York Times best seller list; No. 8 on Amazon.com; and No. 21 on BarnesandNoble.com
12-12-06 - Calls for Olmert to resign after nuclear gaffe "This causes great harm to Israel. We are in the midst of a huge (diplomatic) onslaught against Iran's attempts to make a nuclear bomb," former foreign minister Silvan Shalom, a member of the rightwing Likud party, said on Army Radio. He added: "We always face the same question which our enemies ask: 'Why is Israel allowed to (have a bomb) and not Iran?'".....By not declaring itself to be nuclear-armed, Israel gets round a US ban on funding countries that proliferate weapons of mass destruction. It can thus enjoy more than $2bn (£1.02bn) a year in military and other aid from Washington. Hypocrisy exposed - by their own doing. D'oh!
12-12-06 - Israeli official 'not sorry' Tutu's probe into Beit Hanun strike canceled
12-12-06 - Fatah lawmaker calls on Hamas-led gov't to step down
12-12-06 - Iran: Israel 'will end like USSR' "The trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what all nations want," President Ahmadinejad said. Most of our media has somehow twisted his words to (again) imply that Iran is going to attack Israel.
12-12-06 - Study: "Wall forced 17% of Jerusalem families out of the city"
12-12-06 - Olmert says Palestinian militants test restraint
12-12-06 - Meal of poisonous fish claims youngster in Ain al-Hilweh
12-12-06 - Checkpoints in the West Bank: This is the day of Women
12-12-06 - UNRWA Thanks UK for Donation to Help palestinian Refugees
12-12-06 - Israeli army invades Walaja village near Bethlehem and levels Palestinian home
12-12-06 - Security Council urges negotiated two-state solution in Middle East
12-12-06 - Move to bring genocide case against Ahmadinejad as Iran president repeats call to wipe out Israel Barely a week after he announced his resignation from the UN post, Mr Bolton will appear tomorrow among a panel of diplomats and lawyers calling for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be prosecuted. The panel has been convened by a Jewish umbrella group in the US, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organisations. Bolton immediately goes back to work for Israel.
12-12-06 - Olmert back-pedals on the Israeli nuclear capability Mr Olmert had said on German television: "We have never threatened any nation with annihilation You didn't have to. But that's nearly what you did in Lebanon. And, the creation of the state of Israel has nearly wiped Palestine completely 'off the map'. Check the maps of 1946-47.
12-12-06 - U.N. probe IDs suspects in Hariri death Investigators are looking at numerous motives including assassination by an extremist group because of Hariri's links to other states in the region and in the West, before his possible success in May 2005 elections, because of his likely expose of a bank fraud, and as "a convenient cover" to cast suspicion on others.
12-12-06 - ISG fallout continues with query: Is Israeli-Arab peace the linchpin? Iran's ambitions dominated much of the Saban Forum. Shimon Peres, the vice prime minister, spoke darkly of the possibility of war in a Saturday-night panel with former President Clinton.
12-12-06 - The truth about MEMRI
12-12-06 - France deploys UAVs to stop IAF flights In an effort to put a stop to Israeli overflights in Lebanon, the French Armed Forces has deployed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) squadron in southern Lebanon to conduct intelligence-gathering missions in place of the IDF.
12-12-06 - Bush, Baker and Iraq: Why the Patient Can Not Be Saved Israel?s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is so confident that Bush won?t change his position on Iran and Syria that he told his cabinet to keep mum on the issue, lest they make it look as if Israel is inappropriately intervening.
12-12-06 - U.S. made Hezbollah stronger, analysts say America?s failure to stop Israeli attacks weakened the Lebanese government, critics argue
12-12-06 - U.S. condemns Holocaust denier meeting
12-12-06 - Colonialism, apartheid and Palestine
12-12-06 - Why are Jews at the 'Holocaust denial' conference? A handful of Orthodox Jews have attended Iran's controversial conference questioning the Nazi genocide of the Jews - not because they deny the Holocaust but because they object to using it as justification for the existence of Israel.
12-12-06 - Back to Lebanon until we liberate our policy from the depredations of Israel Firsters, there is no chance of formulating a foreign policy that serves both American interests and the interests of all the peoples of the region.
12-12-06 - Rabbis denounce house demolitions Members of Rabbis for Human Rights sent a letter protesting Israel?s demolition of an Arab house in eastern Jerusalem.
12-12-06 - Annan hints refugees should not be given right of return to Israel
12-12-06 - Prosecution Rests at Hamas Trial Salah claims he was tortured by Israel's Shin Bet security service into admitting he was aiding Hamas. Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, however, testified that he appeared "jaunty" at the interrogation and that she saw no evidence he was being tortured
12-12-06 - Baker redux Keep disregarding the Bakers of this world, and continue to listen to the Sharons and Netanyahus instead. Perhaps after another 60 years you'll finally get it.
12-12-06 - Israelis Content with Gaza Strip Ceasefire
12-12-06 - Germany, Israel see eye-to-eye on Palestinians, Iran Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during a state visit to Berlin did not rule out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said as far as she was concerned, a military option was "not on the table." Olmert is making his rounds to shore up support for some kind of action on Iran. Merkel and Blair are now singing his tune.
12-12-06 - Catholic church to replace Nativity scene with replica of Israeli wall A priest from the Diocese of East Anglia, England, has decided to replace a live Nativity scene for a replica of the wall encircling Bethlehem in protest of the Israeli separation barrier.
12-12-06 - UN warns Palestinian plight increases radicalism
12-12-06 - Livni to EU: Don't let Iran get nukes
12-12-06 - In Effort to Smear Democrats, FOX Hosts Report Unsubstantiated Rumor as News The WorldNet Daily story - from which FOX News drew this piece of trash talk masquerading as "news" - did not give the name of its Palestinian source
12-12-06 - N.Y. suburb: Holiday decorations look too Jewish
dozens of residents called Town Hall to complain, saying the colors were those of the Israeli flag and that at least one of the snowflakes looks like a Star of David.
12-12-06 - What in the
12-11-06 - Outrage over killing of Gaza boys So far, no-one has admitted carrying out the drive-by shooting.
12-11-06 - 'They were targeting the children': Gaza factions hit new level of horror
12-11-06 - Abbas slams the Gaza attack that led to the death of four children ?We strongly denounce this crime, those criminals must be arrested?, Abbas stated, ?I asked the Minister of Interior to follow this case, those assailants must be brought to justice?.
12-11-06 - U.N. mission canceled Israeli officials confirmed the decision not to cooperate with the Tutu mission, saying it was not necessary and criticizing the United Nations for not coming out more forcefully against the persistent rocket fire from Gaza. Unreal.
12-11-06 - Israel 'blocks Tutu Gaza mission' Mr Tutu's team was supposed to report its findings to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council by Friday.
12-11-06 - Palestinian factions to offer plan to settle Hamas-Fatah differences
12-11-06 - EU to renew Palestinian aid, urges dialogue in Lebanon EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said she was suggesting a three-month extension of a multi-million euro aid blueprint for Palestinians which bypasses the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
12-11-06 - Israeli soldier moderately injured in Jenin
12-11-06 - Israeli Army bulldozes Palestinian vinyards south of Bethlehem Salah Shahin, the owner of the land, said that the bulldozers have so far destroyed 85 grapevines - used to produce grapes that are sold in local markets. Shahin added that the army often attacks his land in order to force him to leave, so that his land could then be annexed to the nearby illegal Israeli settlement known as 'Kfar Atzion'.
12-11-06 - Iran pledges 250 mln dlrs to Palestinian govt: Haniya Iran has also "adopted" 100,000 Palestinian workers, who will receive 100 dollars a month each for the next six months, a total of 60 million dollars.
12-11-06 - THE SHOOTING OF MIRAS At approximately 12:10 in the after noon the Israeli Soldier(s) opened fire toward the kids without warning or apparent provocation from anyone. Miras got shot in the stomach, the bullet hit him from the back and went through his intestines and got out from the other side while he was trying to push his little brother inside the house away from the shooting
12-11-06 - Fatah operative involved in killing of 3 soldiers nabbed
12-11-06 - Tough times in birthplace of Jesus as Christmas nears Israel's separation barrier which snakes deep inside the West Bank has taken a particular toll on this city of some 40,000, cutting off access to farm land and isolating laborers from jobs in Jerusalem just minutes to the north.
12-11-06 - Ending Arab-Israeli war would help in Iraq -Annan
12-11-06 - Olmert, in Europe, hints Israel has nuclear arms Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said he did not mean to say that Israel had or aspired to acquire atomic weapons.
12-11-06 - MCCAIN WARNS OF IRAN IN CITY VISIT ** Sen. John McCain swept onto the turf of potential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani last night, vowing a strong defense of Israel and saying military action may be needed to prevent Iran from building nukes.
12-11-06 - Carter: Israeli apartheid 'worse' In South Africa, blacks were not prevented from "using or even crossing" roads, as in the West Bank, he said.
12-11-06 - Wataniya, Palestine mobiles Wataniya International is partnering with Palestine Investment Fund to set up a mobile operator in Palestine
12-11-06 - Tutu distressed over block on mission "We find the lack of cooperation by the Israeli government very distressing,"
12-11-06 - Saudi Arabia refuses to host Palestinian Prime Minister
12-11-06 - Labor's Paz-Pines praises Baker-Hamilton report ** "The report was good for Israel because as long as the US is in Iraq, America is impotent," he said. "As long as America is in Iraq, they cannot act on Iran, so Israel has an interest in helping America escape the Iraq fiasco. Really now. So Israel should seek to get us out of one war to send us into another (which again primarily benefits them, not us)? Isn't that nice of them.
12-11-06 - Carter says criticism has led to more attention Israeli policy Former President Jimmy Carter says the criticism aimed at his latest book is a sign that its take on Israeli policy is generating more interest in the plight of the Palestinians...."All they really read or hear is really one-sided, where the Israeli point of view is put forward," he said. "Very rarely do you see any expression or concern of the horrible plight of the Palestinians in their own land."
12-11-06 - Israel, Palestine, peace and apartheid by Jimmy Carter For the past 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticise policies of the Israeli government is due to the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices.
12-11-06 - Refugees Are The Key
12-11-06 - Bethlehem mayor appeals the world not to forget the Birthplace of Jesus Christ Batarsa addressed the world saying that in spite of all of the Israeli procedures and illegal practices, the Palestinian people have hope in a better future, and are capable of sending a message of tolerance, a message of Christmas to the whole world.
12-11-06 - Radio station to support handicapped launched in Gaza The station was launched on December 6 during a ceremony celebrating the International Day for Disabled Persons, the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported
12-11-06 - Palestinian political prisoners taking Israeli government to the International Court of Justice In light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 11,000 political prisoners in Israeli jails are filing a suit against the Israeli government at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. They are calling for an official investigation into ?abuse and serious violations in Israeli prisons against life and humanity.?
12-11-06 - Under-cover Forces abduct P.A Intelligence Officer in Beit Sahour
12-11-06 - No solutions for newly homeless The Israeli military destroyed 251 homes in Gaza between July and November 15 this year, leaving 1,577 people homeless, according to the Israeli human rights organisation B'tselem.
12-11-06 - Supreme court rejects appeals of Bat Ayin gang members Gamliel, Shlomo Dvir-Zeliger and Yarden Morag. They were found guilty in Jerusalem District Court of planting a bomb in a cart adjacent to an Arab girl's school in the A-Tur neighborhood on the Mount of Olives. The bomb was timed to explode in the morning, when the students were on their way to class.
12-11-06 - Rice warns Syria and Iran over Lebanon protests
12-11-06 - UK home secretary: Israeli-Palestinian conflict spawning terror Reid said the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was fueling "international terrorism," urging its resolution.
12-11-06 - If Israel Falls, the West Follows More hype and histrionics from the usual suspects.
12-11-06 - Palestinian novelist granted Naguib Mahfouz medal A Palestinian female novelist was awarded here on Monday the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for this year, Egypt's MENA news agency reported.
12-11-06 - Film director: What about civil rights for Arab minority? October?s Cry, a documentary that explores the killing of 13 young Israeli Arabs by Israeli security forces during the 2000 riots and their aftermath, is scheduled to be aired on Channel One this Sunday night.
12-11-06 - Gates testimony / Preserving nuclear ambiguity In particular, they want to know two things: First, whether this statement was a private initiative by Gates, or whether he coordinated it with the top levels of the American administration. And second, whether he was implying that since Israel has nuclear weapons, it can deal with any nuclear threat from Iran on its own.
12-11-06 - Hillary Clinton and Haim Saban at the 2006 Saban Forum in Washington, D.C.
12-11-06 - Syria backs Arab League on Lebanon -envoy
12-11-06 - Record Israeli arms sales irk US "The ability of the Israeli Military Industry annoys certain US administration officials," said a source from within the security industry on Saturday. He claims that these officials are making allegations that Israel has sold technological information to 'problematic' countries like China.
12-11-06 - Assad: Israel doesn?t want peace
12-11-06 - Jimmy Carter's Book Stirs Criticism, Complaint
12-11-06 - Where is the Palestinian Mandela? If Israel is white South Africa and the Palestinians are supposed to be the black population, where is their Mandela? It's positively inane to allege that there is no nonviolent resistance akin to Mandela in occupied Palestine. There is (Bi'lin being the best example - they have a nonviolent protest every Friday). But it makes no difference in the eyes of the international media (which ignores nonviolent demonstrations almost entirely), and most certainly to Israel (whose army has outright killed nonviolent resisters in the past - exhibit A).
12-11-06 - McCain: I?ll Embrace Bush Democracy Agenda Sen. John McCain has indicated that his foreign policy platform for a 2008 presidential campaign will remain faithful to President Bush?s efforts to promote democracy in the Middle East.
12-11-06 - Arab League hopes for Beirut deal
12-11-06 - Burning Books at Harvard Law Did Dershowitz Even Read Carter's Book?:
12-11-06 - Jewish students gagged in U.K. Following a campus-wide referendum last week, student union authorities were instructed to ignore complaints lodged by the Leeds branch of J-Soc, which represents Britain;' largest Jewish student community, "as long as Judaism as a faith is not offended."
12-11-06 - After divestment fight, relations with Presbyterians remain strained Sounds like the Presbys refuse to back down. Good.
12-11-06 - Swimmer and family win fight to stay in city A TALENTED teenage swimmer who faced deportation has won a six-year fight to stay in Glasgow.
12-11-06 - Neturei Karta: Iranians making logical claim Neturei Karta members don't pay taxes and also don't use state services. They have a closed and independent economy. Hirsch doesn't have an Israeli identity card, sees himself as a citizen of Palestine, and waives a black flag at his house, on which is inscribed: "We are mourning 58 years of Israeli tyranny on the Jewish people and the holy Torah."
12-11-06 - Hudna or Not: Palestinian Rights Must Be Preserved
12-11-06 - Former UN adviser slams world policies in Mideast "They amount to harsh collective punishment inflicted on all Palestinians because 'they did not vote right',"
12-11-06 - Silverman: "I do kind of regret saying" that Carter was "talking about Israel as if they were the second coming of Nazi Germany"
12-11-06 - Exasperated MK Calls for End to PA
12-11-06 - Holocaust deniers gather in Iran for 'scientific' conference
12-11-06 - Unheard Voices of the Middle East
12-10-06 - Israeli troops wound two Palestinians in northern Gaza Israeli forces wounded two Palestinians in Gaza Strip on Sunday morning despite ceasefire, sources from hospital said. Israeli soldiers opened gunfire near the borders in northern and eastern Gaza Strip, wounding two farmers, according to security sources and witnesses.
12-10-06 - Palestinian man and his wife killed and their son critically wounded due to an explosion in Hebron Eyewitnesses said that an unknown device, apparently left by the Israeli army, caused the explosion that took the lives of the couple. Palestinian security spokespeople stated that in the initial investigation of the incident, it appeared to be an unexploded Israeli tank shell that caused the explosion.
12-10-06 - Hamas minister escapes after attackers shoot up convoy Gunmen shot at the Palestinian interior minister's convoy in the Gaza Strip yesterday amid growing tension between the governing Hamas Islamists and President Mahmoud Abbas
12-10-06 - Palestinian PM says early polls will lead to chaos
12-10-06 - Peres: Unite against Iran and prevent war "If there was an international coalition, there would be no need to go to war against Iran, and Iran would return to its natural dimensions." I was not aware that Iran was going to START any wars. In fact, it's just the opposite. Israel has warned of attacking Iran (in case we won't do it for them). Note that this was being discussed at the 'closed forum'. The closed forum at the Brooking Institute, no doubt.
12-10-06 - Hamas promises to decorate Bethlehem for Christmas
12-10-06 - Former chief justice to rule on IDF, gov't actions in territories These include rulings on a petition to abolish Israel's assassination policy in the territories; on the legality of the so-called "intifada law," which bans claims of damages resulting from Israel Defense Forces activity in the territories; on the reduction of the IDF's safety zone for shelling the Gaza Strip; and on the legality of the Matityahu East neighborhood built on land that used to be part of the West Bank village of Bil'in.
12-10-06 - Hamas denies Saudi Arabia asks it to cut relations with Iran
12-10-06 - Humanitarian assistance for vulnerable Palestinian families
12-10-06 - Hawking says Mideast situation has deteriorated since last visit Hawking is also scheduled to lecture at Ramallah's Bir Zeit University and to hold a video conference with young Palestinian scientists from the West Bank
12-10-06 - OPT: UAE donates 0.5 million US dollars to UNRWA The United Arab Emirates pledged a 500.000 US dollars in donation to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), said member of the UAE delegation to the United Nations Salama Salim Al Dhaheri.
12-10-06 - MI officer: Syria preparing its army for war with Israel We've been hearing this for a few months now (from the usual corner).
12-10-06 - Amnesty - 'israel should be disarmed'
12-10-06 - Palestinian journalists call for immediate union elections One hundred Palestinian journalists from the Gaza Strip and West Bank signed on to a measure calling for immediate and fair elections in the Journalists Union
12-10-06 - Right of Return Center Director: UNRWA has failed the refugees
12-10-06 - Bil?in village land out of bounds for internationals In recent days internationals have been told by soldiers stationed at the checkpoint at the wall cutting through the village, that orders have been given forbidding access to this land.
12-10-06 - Why is Israel separating me from my wife? Israel has decreed that my wife and I can no longer live together. I am Palestinian and she is Swiss and we have been married for 28 years
12-10-06 - Neocons Leery of Baker?s Return As secretary of state from 1989 to 1992, during the first Bush administration, Baker often clashed with Jerusalem and the top pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
12-10-06 - Peretz endorses Saudi peace initiative Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz says any Palestinian peace initiative must be based on a Saudi plan which calls for two states along the 1967 borders. Rolling rolling rolling, get them settlers rolling, rawhide. Head 'em up, move 'em out, move 'em out head 'em up. ride 'em in rawhide
12-10-06 - Settlements further encroaching into Tubas; major loss imminent
12-10-06 - Senior Hamas leader calls on Abbas to resign
12-10-06 - Olmert: Bush won't change stance on Syria, Iran
12-10-06 - Amnesty and Israel clash over arms and human rights
12-10-06 - Issa Qaraqa': Israeli prison system funded by imposing fines on political prisoners
12-10-06 - Israel sees al Qaeda hitting Lebanon peacekeepers Al Qaeda has recently boosted its presence in Lebanon and could attack foreign peacekeepers who have been stationed there since Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas, a top Israeli intelligence analyst said on Sunday. Mmm k. Kind of like this, you mean?
12-10-06 - Under-cover Forces abduct P.A Intelligence Office in Beit Sahour
12-10-06 - Abed-Rabbo appointed as PLO Secretary General Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed-Rabbo, was appointed on Sunday as the Secretary General of the PLO.
12-10-06 - Caritas brings medical aid to injured in Gaza Caritas Jerusalem has just completed a distribution of 72 wheelchairs, walkers and medical beds to injured people in Gaza. By recent incursions by the Israeli army.
12-10-06 - Baker vs. "The Lobby" The only group left touting Bush's failed policy is the "Israel first" camp which continues to wave the bloody shirt of incitement from their perch at the Weekly Standard and the American Enterprise Institute. These same diehards are leading the charge for a preemptive attack on Iran; a criminal act which will have catastrophic effects on America's long-term energy needs.
12-10-06 - US must try to engage Iraq, Syria: Baker report authors
12-10-06 - Feds: Illinois man contemplated shul attacks A transcript of a conversation with an informant reported Shareef saying that Israel?s war with Hezbollah this summer enraged him and he had identified synagogues in the DeKalb area for a stabbing attack.
12-10-06 - U.S. says Hezbollah has Iraq role Speaking on background, a Bush administration official confirmed to JTA on Saturday that the reports have been substantiated. Mm k.
12-10-06 - Open door It's becoming more evident to me that the Guardian UK is coming under intense pressure by the Lobby to be more pro-Israel. This article comes after not one but two pieces were published on its website dealing with female Palestinian 'martyrs' - in the absence of any other news stories coming from that 3 or 4-day span and during which Palestinians had been killed. Something is rotten in Denmark. Recall this article from a month or so ago.
12-10-06 - Blow to Blair mission as Palestinian PM vows never to recognise Israel Although the Iraq Study Group proposed just such a solution, the US political right reacted viciously yesterday towards the group. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post doctored a photograph to show James Baker and the study group's co-chairman, Lee Hamilton, in furry suits and called them "Surrender Monkeys". Such sentiments are believed to reflect the views of the vice-president, Dick Cheney, who is now isolated but still in a powerful position
12-10-06 - Beirut rally attracts huge crowd Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are taking part in the latest protest to press the government to cede more power to the opposition or step down.
12-10-06 - Peacemaking, Iran to dominate agenda of Olmert trip to Germany, Italy
12-10-06 - Israeli government worst labor law violator: report Ninety-two percent of Israeli employers violate labor laws with impunity, according to a report published by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
12-10-06 - Next battleground will be a familiar one, Israelis say Thirty-three years later, Ben-David, an officer in a volunteer Israeli Border Police unit, has come to the Golan Heights to help prepare for the next war. According to Israeli military intelligence, the battle will erupt here within the next two years. And the status of the Golan broke into the news Wednesday, when the Iraq Study Group advised President Bush to pressure Israel to return the disputed land to Syria if it cooperates on other matters of importance in the Middle East.
12-10-06 - Wall is a barrier to peace
12-10-06 - Livni: Promote alternative to Hamas Israel and the West must help Palestinian moderates create an alternative to the Hamas government, Israel?s foreign minister said. Israel and then consequently the West have refused to promote Palestinians moderates in the past (all along).
12-10-06 - Israeli arms sales up Israel's arms exports are reportedly at an all-time high despite the setbacks of the Lebanon war.
12-10-06 - The battle over America's Middle East policy The neocons want the US to make war on Iran, not to engage it in dialogue. They want the US to bring about "regime change" in Syria, not to reward it with the Golan.
12-10-06 - U.S.: Israel can help moderate Palestinians "I think Palestinian public opinion would be powerfully affected by working to relieve restrictions on access and mobility as called for in an agreement reached with United States help last November," And they are just realizing this now. We've got some real geniuses in Washington, folks.
12-10-06 - Israeli officer: War talk 'irresponsible' "We don't have any information that Syria plans to go to war this summer, or to heat up the border with acts of resistance or fighting,"
12-10-06 - Olmert's Peace Proposal Splits Views in Israel
12-10-06 - Usual suspects come out against "biased" Middle East simulations This is a story about a partisan Zionist organisation forcing its will on educational freedom and wanting to censor perspectives they deem inappropriate. Oh come now. They would never do THAT. Why, that's tantamount to discovering whale feces at the bottom of the ocean. Preposterous!
12-10-06 - President Clinton, Ted Koppel, Shimon Peres and Haim Saban at the 2006 Saban Forum in Washington, D.C. The three-day closed-door Forum, entitled ?America and Israel: Confronting a Middle East in Turmoil,? continues through Sunday, December 10, and features panels and candid discussions confronting the complex challenges facing the United States and Israel in the Middle East. Participants include Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; President William J. Clinton; Israeli Vice Premier and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres; Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY); Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman; Israeli Minister of Education Yuli Tamir; senior Bush Administration diplomat David Welch; Secretary of State Senior Adviser on Iraq David Satterfield; George Tenet, former Director of Central Intelligence; James Wolfensohn, former Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement and former President of the World Bank; Senator Joseph Lieberman, (D-CT); Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA); Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN); Congresswoman Jane Harman, (D-CA); Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA); Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY); Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT); member of Parliament (Canada) Michael Ignatieff, among others.
12-10-06 - Kaplinsky: Iran to have nuclear arms 'in near future' But Kaplinsky, who said that he based this assessment on information obtained by the defense establishment, declined to give a more specific time frame, noting that analysts worldwide disagree on precisely when this will happen. K.
12-10-06 - Israelis Reject New Conflict with Hezbollah
12-10-06 - Israel should hold talks with Syria: Israeli official
12-10-06 - Lieberman: "Expel any citizen who does not recognize Israel and a Zionist state" Lieberman, who is slated to meet with the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday
12-10-06 - Cohen backs Baker report on peace talks
12-10-06 - Congress condemns Iran conference "The Iranian regime's public anti-Semitic, anti-U.S. and anti-Israel policies underscore the threat posed by a nuclear Iran," Hastings said in a statement. Really. Those on Capitol Hill would appear to have nothing better to do than to pass legislation on behalf of Israel.
12-10-06 - Former Rep. DeLay, indicted on state campaign finance charges, begins new 'career' as blogger Sunday's first political post at TomDeLay.com slams Jimmy Carter - "perhaps our nation's worst President" - for blaming "the problems in the Middle East not on Islamic extremism, but on Israel" in his new book Palestinian Peace, not Apartheid, which the budding blogger misspells as "Aparthied." Delay is an End Times Christian fundamentalist.
12-09-06 - Fatah armed wing says its militants fired homemade rockets at Israel The attack came in response to the daily breaches of the ceasefire by the Israeli army in West Bank and Gaza Strip, the statement said.
12-09-06 - Early election talk angers Hamas "The status quo cannot be continued - it is a disaster on the Palestinians," said Saeb Erekat.
12-09-06 - Security officers demonstrate in Gaza, one wounded
12-09-06 - Halting of foreign aid to Palestinians a crime: Carter
12-09-06 - Palestinian health workers ending three-month strike Some 13,000 Palestinian health care workers are returning to work, ending a three-month strike after the Hamas government promised to step up salary payments, a union leader said Saturday.
12-09-06 - Gaza police storm parliament over unpaid wages Dozens of Palestinian police stormed the parliament building in Gaza City demanding salaries which have gone largely unpaid since March, witnesses and security sources said.
12-09-06 - PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID, Number 7!
12-09-06 - More Palestinians flee homelands Homelands? There's only one Palestinian homeland.
12-09-06 - Arab League slams US over attempt to halt PA aid The Arab League criticized on Thursday Washington's attempt to halt the transfer of millions of dollars in aid from Qatar to the Hamas-led Palestinian government and warned the move could increase extremism in the region.
12-09-06 - Hebron Reflection: 06-12-09 We Are The Message I recently received a question from a reader who wanted to know, "What
is CPT doing over there to share the Gospel of Jesus?"
12-09-06 - Iran's denial of Holocaust harms Arab cause, Palestine activist tells president "Perhaps you see Holocaust denial as an expression of support for the Palestinians," he writes. "Here, too, you are wrong. We struggle for our existence and our rights, and against the historic injustice that was dealt us in 1948.
12-09-06 - Former Israeli envoy slams Gates over nuclear 'disclosure' "These are lamentable words. Perhaps his tongue is forked, but maybe not. In any case Israel must demand explanations," ...."It is not up to Washington to end the policy of ambiguity" on Israel's nuclear capabilities
12-09-06 - Israel's Olmert calls for dramatic measures against Iran ** Olmert criticised the international community's hesitation in dealing with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The West fears Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at developing nuclear weapons but Tehran denies this. "I am anything but happy," Olmert was quoted as saying in an interview released ahead of publication on Sunday. "I expect significantly more dramatic steps to be taken.
12-09-06 - Carter Challenges 'Lies, Distortions' Carter said Friday that Stein hadn't played a role in the Carter Center in 13 years and that his post as a fellow was an honorary title.
12-09-06 - Jordan sends aid convoy to Palestinian lands
12-09-06 - Algerian leader hails role of Palestinian women
12-09-06 - Israel Is Not Linked to Iraq, Except That It Is "The Saudis are saying to us, 'We are afraid of Iran and want to work with you but the Palestinian issue has to be solved,' " a senior Israeli official said, insisting on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.... There are two other reasons Mr. Olmert and other Israelis spoke out against the report's call for linkage: They don't want others to define linkage for them; they want any linkage to be on their terms, out of their own mouths. And they never liked Mr. Baker, whom they considered hostile when he was secretary of state in the early 1990's. Baker is considered 'hostile' because he tried to get Israel to stop building illegal settlements on Palestinian land. Boo hoo.
12-09-06 - PLO Praises Baker-Hamilton Report, would "seriously" Deal with International Initiatives
12-09-06 - Israel delays UN mission to Gaza "A decision on visas is pending," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said. "(The decision) is not about (Tutu) the person, but the process is extremely problematic, because it singles out Israel for special treatment and uses a human rights agenda to bash Israel." Translated from Israel-speak: 'we've got something to hide, no visas for you! Come back TEN YEAR!'
12-09-06 - Most Americans agree with Iraq Study Group recommendations: poll Fifty-seven percent agreed that the United States should engage Iran and Syria in efforts to stabilize Iraq, and 61 percent supported the idea of a renewed US commitment to pressing for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
12-09-06 - Amnesty urges EU to address Mideast rights crisis The European Union must urgently address worsening human rights' abuses in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Amnesty International urged on Sunday, predicting "widespread violence" and "disaster".
12-09-06 - FOX News Launches Jihad Against Jimmy Carter and His New Book What is being used against President Carter now is a classic character assassination jihad. First, right wing media outlets "seed" the audio and TV airwaves with hyperbolic, unsubstantiated, inflammatory rhetoric in order to create the illusion of a "big story". Simultaneously, the conservative blogs spew their oveheated invective, allowing their readershp of "true believers" a chance to vent.
12-09-06 - Israeli Nuclear Weapons Whistleblower Speaks Out
12-09-06 - Arab world on brink of explosion: Saudi king
12-09-06 - In Washington: The Right is scared
12-09-06 - Syrian FM: No solution to Iraq's problems without Iran and Syria
12-09-06 - Golan snubs Baker report "The Golan Heights are an unchangeable Israeli reality. We must develop and strengthen settlement in the Golan,"
12-09-06 - Stop aid to Israel Tell Congress to suspend US aid to Israel until it stops violating the human rights of Palestinians.
12-09-06 - Israel's fanatics fan flames of hatred between Jews drivers for Israel's national bus carrier, Egged, face a new risk: being stoned by ultra-Orthodox protesters demanding buses be segregated for men and women.
12-09-06 - Another day, a new flag for a village Despite decades of upheavals, residents of the Arab village of Ghajar on Israel's northern border have never had to flee. Instead, the village itself became a refugee, finding itself successively in three different countries.
12-09-06 - Peace Now in US pens anti-Lieberman letter "US Jewish groups, always quick as we should be to denounce Arab, European or American politicians who wear their bigotry on their sleeve, cannot now fall silent when it comes to Mr. Lieberman," the letter reads.
12-09-06 - Jimmy Carter Book Facts Ignored by Media The mainstream media ignored the last few articles Carter wrote about the situation in Palestine, prior to the release of his book. This latest news comes as no surprise (to me).
12-08-06 - Israeli soldiers shoot child playing with toy gun Miras al-Azza, 12, was shot in the belly when Israel soldiers opened fire on a group of children playing with a plastic rifle in the Aydah refugee camp.
12-08-06 - UN rights council slams Israel The UN Human Rights Council passed a seventh resolution criticizing Israel on Friday, this time for the Jewish state's failure to act on earlier recommendations that it end military operations in the Palestinian territories and allow a fact-finding mission to the region.
12-08-06 - Israel yet to allow Tutu fact-finding mission to Gaza Israel appears to be dragging its feet over a fact-finding mission that was to be led by Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu to the Gaza Strip.
12-08-06 - US bill meant to twist Hamas's arm The House of Representatives gave final passage Thursday to a bill aimed at forcing the Palestinians' ruling Hamas government to accept Israel and join negotiations toward a Palestinian state in formerly Israeli-occupied territory.
12-08-06 - INTERVIEW-New U.N. rights body must improve-U.N.'s Arbour The military operations, the barrier around the West Bank and the checkpoints might yield some short-term strategic gain but they were not sustainable over time, she said. "It is creating such an atmosphere of oppression that it can only radicalise sections of Palestinian society," she said.
12-08-06 - Israel is a Liability for U.S. we are still a long ways away from the end of the U.S. hegemony in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israel unfortunately is still a domestic issue in the U.S. and AIPAC's strength hasn't weakened despite attempts by U.S. academics to expose them.
12-08-06 - Economic potential of a friendly divorce Predictably the study, entitled ?Untapped Potential, ? found that the economic benefit that both sides stand to gain in a peacetime economy was high. What is surprising, however, is the researchers? finding that the potential is now higher than ever before
12-08-06 - APN urges Bush to veto Hamas bill Americans for Peace Now urged President Bush to effectively veto a bill that would isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
12-08-06 - Amnesty Secretary General visits Bil'in, observes weekly protest
12-08-06 - Palestine Still Main Agenda For Malaysia
12-08-06 - PLC member Qaraqa: Israeli forces detaining 150 citizens per week aiming at younger people Palestinian Legislative Council member and former Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Issa Qaraqa', said Friday that Israeli forces are continuing the massive arrest campaign, with dozens taken from single towns in a night.
12-08-06 - Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine By Jimmy Carter The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations - but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices....It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. Very few would ever deign to visit the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Gaza City or even Bethlehem and talk to the beleaguered residents. What is even more difficult to comprehend is why the editorial pages of the major newspapers and magazines in the United States exercise similar self-restraint, quite contrary to private assessments expressed quite forcefully by their correspondents in the Holy Land.
12-08-06 - Arab League damns Baker report as US face-saving The Arab League has damned a report calling for a shift in US policy on Iraq, calling it a face-saving effort, but its chief commended it for urging redoubled efforts to end the Israeli-Palestininan conflict.
12-08-06 - Israel frets over Iraq report, dispatches FM to Washington Israel's foreign minister has arrived in the United States amid worries that the Jewish state's main ally could shift course after a report urged Washington to redouble Mideast peacemeaking efforts. Israel worried that the US might fall out of line.
12-08-06 - President Carter talks about AIPAC and Israel on C-SPAN Towards the end of the video, Carter eludes to the fact that he was disinvited from some universities due to the controversial nature of what he might say as a guest lecturer.
12-08-06 - Carter plays Hardball with israel Excellent video of former president Jimmy Carter breaking it down for you. God bless him.
12-08-06 - Hamas: we will never recognise Israel
12-08-06 - Palestinian PM in Tehran nods to Iranian support Iran, like Hamas, refuses to recognize the state of Israel and has sent $120 million so far this year to the Palestinian Authority toward a shortfall caused by a Western financial blockade on the Hamas-led government. The irony - the Israeli-led US policy of imposing a seige on the Palestinians due to the election of Hamas has driven them right into Iran's arms. Another stroke of genius.
12-08-06 - Hamas supremo blames US for unity talks breakdown "With every day and each new meeting come new conditions dreamt up by the Americans," said Meshaal, referring to the deadlocked talks with President Mahmud Abbas's secular Fatah faction on forming a national unity government acceptable to Western donors.
12-08-06 - Caritas Jerusalem donates medical equipment to injured Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Caritas Jerusalem is continuing its humanitarian aid campaign in support of injured Palestinians who have been hurt in recent incursions into Gaza by the Israeli army.
12-08-06 - Olmert chastises German FM for Syria visit
12-08-06 - Israeli FM rejects linking Palestinian conflict to wider Mideast crises Addressing a gathering of current and former US officials, Livni said Middle East tensions were fueled more by ideology than territory BS. And just how could we put Livni's opinion to the test if Israel hasn't stopped grabbing Palestinian land? Look at the maps - just who is pushing whom into the sea?
12-08-06 - Canada's withholding funds from Palestinians 'criminal': Carter Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says the decision by Canada and other nations to withhold money from the Hamas-led Palestinian government is "a crime." Canada, thanks to its burgeoning Israeli lobby, is Israel's newest occupied territory.
12-08-06 - Israelis Back Ceasefire in Gaza Strip
12-08-06 - Rice: 'Freedom deficit' harming Mideast which explains why Saudi Arabia - a nation with one of the most atrocious human rights records - is still our best bud.
12-08-06 - Bush rejects Iraq report's key proposals, unveils Mideast initiative "I don't think Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton expect us to accept every recommendation," he said. "I know they expect us to consider every recommendation; that we ought to pay close attention to what they advise."
12-08-06 - Army attacks two local radio stations in Hebron, abducts one journalist The Israeli army invaded two radio stations in Hebron and took one of their staff prisoner in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday night, Palestinian sources reproted.
12-08-06 - Thousands of Palestinians attend pro-Hamas rally Thousands of Palestinian supporters of the ruling Islamist Hamas movement have demonstrated in support of prime minister Ismail Haniya in Gaza City.
12-08-06 - Rudd 'good for the Jews', but Gillard still untested Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) president Philip Chester said Rudd, who has served as Labor's foreign affairs spokesperson since 2001, "understands the issues" facing the Jewish community and Israel.
12-08-06 - Standing Up for Jimmy Carter's Use of the Word 'Apartheid'
12-08-06 - How Israel lost to the Iranians There are three separate litigations, which are taking place simultaneously in several European countries, all of them pertaining to a complex legal and business entity called Trans-Asiatic Oil Limited, and relating to one of the biggest secrets between Israel and Iran: the past oil connections between the two countries. Three years ago one of the arbitrations ruled that Israeli fuel companies have to pay the Iranian National Oil Company tens of millions of dollars. Interesting.
12-08-06 - A "Grand Settlement" Versus the Jewish Lobby There are several cases of notorious Phalangists being murdered just prior to their scheduled testimony in Brussels before a case brought by Palestinian survivors against top Israelis involved in the notorious massacres in Lebanon, especially at the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in September 1982. On January 24, 2002, Elie Hobeika, a Phalangist warlord directly involved in the massacre, was blown up in his Beirut neighborhood along with 3 bodyguards just two days after agreeing to testify against the Israelis on behalf of the Palestinian survivors. Hobeika, who was the Phalangist chief liaison with the IDF during their occupation of Beirut, claimed to have worked with the Israeli Mossad in orchestrating the massacre.
12-08-06 - Olmert to meet pope next week in Europe Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet with Pope Benedict XVI during a trip to Europe next week, officials said Thursday.
12-08-06 - Jimmy Carter Fires Back at Longtime Aide Over Book The Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights group based in Los Angeles, has received more than 16,000 signatures to an online petition to "act now against President Carter's one-sided bias against Israel." Note to self: create petition to "act now against the Congress', the Executive Branch's, and most of the rest of the US govt's bias TOWARD Israel"
12-08-06 - With military options limited, it's time for Plan B: Diplomacy The group pointed out a truth rarely heard by Americans (even as it is front and center in the Arab world and Europe): U.S. disengagement from Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts is a huge source of tension and anti-Americanism, like a raging toothache inflaming everything else. U.S. allies in the region, including the powerful Sunni leadership in Saudi Arabia, say that it underlies other Mideast problems and that rancor from the impasse makes them harder to solve.
12-08-06 - Germany summons Iranian diplomat over Holocaust conference The German government summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires in Berlin to express its opposition to a planned conference on the Holocaust in Tehran next week.
12-08-06 - Analysts: U.S. at root of effort to topple Lebanese government Many in Beirut say that U.S. failure to stop Israel's onslaught against Hezbollah last summer crippled the Lebanese government - a U.S. ally - while strengthening Hezbollah - a U.S. enemy. That created an environment in which the Shiite Muslim militia could call for overthrowing Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and his Cabinet.
12-08-06 - Hope in spite of siege The Austria Palestine Association held a conference this week in solidarity with the Palestinian people
12-08-06 - Hezbollah chief 'plotting coup'
12-08-06 - Protests blow to Beirut economy
12-08-06 - Carter: Universities blocked book promo Carter's book, which blames most of the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on Israel's settlement policy, is a New York Times No. 1 bestseller, and he has promoted it in multiple media appearances.
12-08-06 - London mayor finally apologizes Livingstone's relationship with the Jewish community long has been strained because of his vehement criticism of Israel
12-08-06 - Al-Zarqawi Said Shiites Most Dangerous Al-Zarqawi accuses Nasrallah of being two-faced in his opposition to Israel and suggests it is not an accident that Israeli aircraft have not killed him as they have killed several leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
12-08-06 - Rabbi activist carries message He is particularly well-known for working alongside Palestinian farmers picking olives after neighboring Israeli settlers hurled rocks or cut down trees following the Palestinian uprising of 2000.
12-08-06 - Saudi warns of Mideast arms race "The fact that Israel has nuclear weapons is the most dangerous threat against Gulf security," Intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz told a security conference in Bahrain.
12-08-06 - Why the Dead Sea is dying
12-08-06 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies In 2002, at a seminar in Washington sponsored by the Zionist Organization of America, Kikpatrick warned that a Palestinian state would be "a catastrophic mistake" and a danger to Israel
12-08-06 - Lawyer testifies on goal to steer money from Hamas Defense attorneys have claimed U.S. prosecutors were goaded into charging Salah by the powerful Israeli lobby
12-08-06 - Carter book useful for start of Mideast debate If Israelis can discuss these issues so can we. I do not know why there is so much resistance to having a debate, but those responsible for it need to get over it. Things have gotten too serious and too dangerous to ignore the facts on the ground. Let us talk and find a sensible solution to this vexing problem.
12-08-06 - Teachers praise principal's reversal Principal Peter Anderson's decision to change his mind and allow pro-Palestinian speakers to come to Andover High School is "a victory for freedom of speech," the teachers who organized the visit said in a statement yesterday.
12-08-06 - The Media Lynching of Jimmy Carter
12-08-06 - Hebron reflection 06-12-06: I have no enemies
12-07-06 - Special committee sets conditions for truce with Israel A Palestinian special committee Thursday finished drawing up conditions for reaching a general and inclusive ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian factions.
12-07-06 - Independent Appeal: Crushed: the dreams of a good life that peak periods of crossing closures coincided first with the peak of demand in the European market and, in March and April, with the peak of the GAP's production.....just four per cent of the 12,700 tons of vegetables and fruit produced by the GAP actually made it out of Gaza. The vast bulk of produce rotted, or was handed out for free inside Gaza by the workers. The project was closed in early May, well before before the end of the season, because of the heavy losses became unsustainable in the absence of revenue.
12-07-06 - PLO recommends dismantling Hamas-led gov't A special subcommittee formed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recommended on Thursday the break-up of the Hamas-led government and called for early elections, sources said.
12-07-06 - One day after opening it, Israel closes the Rafah Border Crossing Only several hundreds managed to cross on Wednesday.
12-07-06 - Despite truce, Israeli forces fire at Palestinians near Gaza border injuring two The Israeli army opened fire at Palestinian farmers in the northern part of the Gaza Strip injuring two. The attack is considered as a direct violation to the ceasefire, but the Israeli army claims that the men approached the ?security-fence? separating Gaza from Israel.
12-07-06 - Interior Ministry denies status to children of East Jerusalem residents
12-07-06 - Israeli Government Demolishes Entire Bedioun Village This is the fourth time this year that the government demolished in this village. This time they got it "right" ? no house is left standing.
12-07-06 - One child injured and four taken prisoners in the southern West Bank
12-07-06 - Army bars scores of residents from reaching their homes The Israeli army barred scores of residents from arriving to their homes in the Jordan valley area in the West Bank, on Wednesday afternoon.
12-07-06 - UN plea for millions in Palestinian aid amid fears of economic collapse Senior UN aid officials in Jerusalem said there were clear signs of a worsening economic crisis.
12-07-06 - Olmert rejects talks with Syria, says conditions are 'not ripe' Olmert's office said Wednesday that it is unlikely that Bush would alter his Middle East policy with regard to Israel, despite the recommendations of the bipartisan advisory panel, headed by former secretary of state James Baker and former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton. Sources at the Prime Minister's Office said Wednesday night that Olmert is not unduly concerned with the report because in his recent meeting with Bush at the White House, he was promised that the U.S. would not divert from the principles of its policy in dealing with terrorist groups and in countering the Iranian nuclear program.
12-07-06 - Right of Return art The Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, through the Bethlehem Center for Citizenship Rights, is holdings its annual competition in the arts.
12-07-06 - Carter: New book not about Israel "The book is about Palestine and what is happening to Palestinian people. Which is a terrible affliction and oppression of these people," Carter said. "There is no doubt that in Palestine, the people are treated with, in many cases, much more harsh treatment than existed in South Africa, even in the apartheid years."
12-07-06 - Saudi Ambassador Remarks on Iraq Study Group Findings Prince Turki welcomed the report's recommendation for a comprehensive settlement for all Middle East conflicts, which the Kingdom has always maintained are interconnected and affect global security and stability
12-07-06 - Israelis piqued by Gates nuclear "confirmation" A retired Israeli diplomat, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, called the testimony "quite unprecedented" and added: "I can only assume he (Gates) has yet to get to grips with the understandings that exist between us and the Americans."....By not declaring itself to be nuclear armed, Israel also skirts a U.S. ban on funding countries that proliferate weapons of mass destruction. It can thus enjoy more than $2 billion in annual military and other aid from Washington And what "understandings" would those be?
12-07-06 - Boris Berezovsky and the Bizarro Effect Russia in the recent past seemed to be trying to clean out its nest of crooks (in the oil biz, among other places) - some of whom are taking refuge in Israel. A couple of them visited the US this past year, much to Russia's consternation (since they are wanted in Russia and we allowed them to visit).
12-07-06 - Prime minister to visit Israel for talks in final push for peace Mr Blair is likely to visit neighbouring Arab countries. Ideally, he would like to organise an international conference to discuss a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement.
12-07-06 - Israel rejects US panel report recommendations on Mideast Israeli officials have sought to downplay the report's significance, saying it included only recommendations and that any change of policy would be up to Bush, who has so far not pressed Israel for concessions.
12-07-06 - Europeans welcome Iraq report as sign of change in US plans The policy set at the upcoming Saban conference (read below) will seek to ensure that the recommendations by the ISG with regard to Israeli concessions in any ME peace deal, or open dialogue between Iran/Syria with the US, will not be implemented by the US. That's my guess.
12-07-06 - Palestinian-Egyptian trade talks aim to improve import and export markets between the two nations
12-07-06 - Israeli Arabs demand veto on decisions affecting them
12-07-06 - Cracks appear between Bush and Blair over need for talks with Iran and Syria
12-07-06 - Abbas urged to call early polls to solve Palestinian crisis A commission probing ways out of the Palestinian political crisis has advised president Mahmud Abbas to call early elections, a member said as the ruling Hamas movement warned against the "illegal" move.
12-07-06 - Israel stands by vague nuclear policy Israel Radio gave the story prominence in Thursday morning, and one of Israel's three television stations ran a report about the United States' traditional cooperation in the ambiguity policy on its evening newscast.
12-07-06 - Arab leader says urges U.S. to be 'honest broker'
12-07-06 - Updated schedule for Amnesty International's Secretary General mission to Israel and the Occupied Territories
12-07-06 - Palestinian refugees want no part of another Lebanese war
12-07-06 - Israel seeks to downplay policy shifts in US panel report "American intervention in Iraq was done without agreement with Israel, the Americans have stayed in Iraq without agreement with Israel, which proves that the Iraqi question is not linked to Israel," Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told public radio. Bullsh@t.
12-07-06 - UNRWA inaugurates 40 new shelters for Palestine refugees in Ein el-Tal Camp, Aleppo, Syria The families, who started the final finishing works of their new houses on a self-help basis, were presented with a symbolic olive tree plant to mark their move to the new homes by Lise Filietrault, Ali Mustafa, and Panos Moumtzis.
12-07-06 - Bush acknowledges need for Mideast peace push
12-07-06 - Rice to return to Mideast in 2007 to push Israeli-Palestinian track US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will return to the Middle East early in 2007 for a new push to break the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, her spokesman said.
12-07-06 - Fresh from the horse's ass note who wrote this 'news article'.
12-07-06 - Letters, faxes, and e-mail
12-07-06 - Church helps keep Christmas in Holy Land
12-07-06 - The Other Lieberman Far from his nakedly anti-Arab approach disqualifying him from the political mainstream, Lieberman is today its rising star. He was welcomed into the ruling coalition in October as "minister for strategic threats" and is now the main ally and crutch of faltering Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
12-07-06 - UN speaks of arms movements on Syria-Lebanon border Le Monde also quoted a "confidential document" sent to UN headquarters from an official in the region which alleged the existence of a "50-man squad of militants linked to Al-Qaeda" charged by Damascus with killing 36 anti-Syrian Lebanese personalities
12-07-06 - Iraq Study Group report sees mixed response in Israel
12-07-06 - Al-Jazeera And The Truth you don't need an electronic bug in the offices of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee to know that AIPAC and the Bush administration are putting pressure on the distributors to shun Al-Jazeera. Denying Americans their First Amendment right to the truth, in regard to Israel, is always Job One with AIPAC. That is necessary because the truth about Israel's actions toward the Palestinians and other Arab countries puts the lie to all of the Zionist propaganda.
12-07-06 - Lebanese Blame Israel, U.S. for Recent War Many adults in Lebanon hold two countries accountable for the recent war, according to a poll by Gallup. 40 per cent of respondents blame Israel for the 34-day conflict, while 24 per cent think the United States is most responsible.
12-07-06 - Canadians to contribute to facelift of Jerusalem Square
12-07-06 - Pelosi slots Lantos, Waxman as chairs The nod Wednesday from Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) virtually guarantees that Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), a staunch defender of Israel, will chair the International Relations Committee, and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who is well known for his outspokenness, will chair the Government Reform Committee when Democrats assume control of the House in January after winning midterm elections.
12-07-06 - Iranian Ambassador Makes Inflammatory Remarks About Holocaust, FOX News at Columbia University The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations sparked a furor Wednesday night when he said at a speech in New York that Palestinians are suffering today because of "atrocities" that happened in World War II, specifically against the Jews.
12-07-06 - Israeli Official Discusses Iran and His Controversial Agenda
12-07-06 - BMD Focus: Israel's new BMD dilemma As we have previously reported in BMD Focus, Pentagon critics and high tech BMD enthusiasts assailed the Pentagon for not pushing ahead more energetically with the THEL system over the past decade. It is certainly the case that up to the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, THEL funding remained very low relative to other BMD programs. Only about $300 million was allocated to it over the past decade, of which Israel provided about half.
12-07-06 - Top Israelis, Americans at Saban session Among the many officials attending are Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; David Welch, the current top U.S. envoy to the region; Shimon Peres, Israel?s deputy prime minister; Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her husband, former President Bill Clinton; Amos Yadlin, director of Israel?s military intelligence; Avigdor Lieberman, Israel?s minister of strategic planning; and many other Bush administration officials and U.S. and Israeli lawmakers. The only session open to coverage is the formal launch of the conference at the U.S. State Department on Friday night, which is to be addressed by Livni and Welch That strategy to keep US foreign policy that puts Israel first will be cemented therein, methinks.
12-07-06 - Envoys tour Israeli Air Force base Foreign envoys visited an Israeli Air Force base to hear about the Lebanon overflights policy.
12-07-06 - Hezbollah leader urges defiance
12-07-06 - White House honors Sharansky Natan Sharansky will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A former Soviet refusenik and recently retired Israeli politician, Sharansky will receive the medal from the White House on Dec. 15.
12-07-06 - GOP taps Ros-Lehtinen for foreign affairs Ros-Lehtinen, who chaired the committee?s Middle East subcommittee, is very close to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and sponsored key legislation in recent years isolating Syria and the Palestinian Authority.
12-07-06 - Senate confirms Gates Israeli media described the comment as a potential breach of a longstanding tacit agreement by Washington to go along with the Jewish state?s policy of nuclear ambiguity
12-07-06 - U.S. House passes anti-terrorism bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied hard for both versions.
With the elections over, it's back to business in the Israeli Congress.
12-07-06 - Gasworks Presents Open Studio Shadi Habib is an emerging artist from Palestine working in various media including installation, sculpture and animation.
12-07-06 - Arab world welcomes Iraq Study Group report "Sure, Iran and Syria may be allowing people to come across their border and providing some arms or money, but the conflict is overwhelmingly about sectarian enmity inside Iraq,'' says Andrew Garfield, a former British military intelligence officer who spent most of last year as an adviser in Iraq and is now a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Washington.
12-07-06 - Bush nominates RJC head to Brussels post Sam Fox, 77, a St. Louis businessman and philanthropist and a top GOP fund-raiser, has presided over the RJC?s aggressive drive in recent elections to portray Democratic support for Israel as diminishing.
12-07-06 - Israelis Wary of Baker's Report "He certainly wasn't our friend," Tsiddon-Chatto said of Baker. "He was bullying Israel into situations, bossing (us) around," Tsiddon-Chatto told Cybercast News Service.
They want our money, and our guarantees of their security, but don't want us to have any say in the matter. Arrogant, audacious, #@'ers.
12-07-06 - Palestinian, Israeli to discuss Mideast
12-07-06 - Arabs and Israelis may resuscitate Dead Sea
12-06-06 - Israeli forces wound 2 Palestinians at Gaza border Palestinian ambulance workers said the two men were unarmed. An Israeli military spokesman said they had behaved suspiciously and ignored warning shots to make them move away from an Israeli-built border fence.
12-06-06 - Japan gives UN funds for Palestinians in Lebanon Japan has decided to give 3.72 million dollars to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which will cover three programs to aid refugees in Lebanon.
12-06-06 - Vital Gaza food conduit to open, Israel says The news comes as the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that 35 percent of Gazans do not have enough money to buy food, while 25 percent only just have the means
12-06-06 - Independent Appeal: Trampled because he could not hear For four days, Jihad cowered inside his home, too frightened to leave his bedroom and attend classes for the hearing impaired at the Jabalia Rehabilitation Society
12-06-06 - Rafah border crossing reopens Palestinian security sources reported that the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip was reopened on Wednesday morning.
12-06-06 - Iraq Study Group: Shift mission, go regional "There must be a renewed and sustained commitment ... to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace on all fronts: Lebanon, Syria, and President Bush's June 2002 commitment to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. This commitment must include direct talks with, by, and between Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians - those who accept Israel's right to exist - and Syria."
12-06-06 - Army hands out demolishing orders to several residents in Hebron Tuesday afternoon, Israeli troops handed out 11 military demolishing orders to Bedouin huts, east of Yatta village in the West Bank city of Hebron
12-06-06 - Qassam lands in western Negev The Color Red alert system identified a Qassam launching towards the western Negev Wednesday afternoon. The rocket landed near a kibbutz in the area; no injuries or damage was reported.
12-06-06 - Peres: Palestinian unity government would be "facade" because Hamas "doesn't want peace"
12-06-06 - Making the Connection Between Iraq and Israel
12-06-06 - Baker panel's mention of Palestinian "right of return" raises eyebrows A reference to Palestinians' "right of return" in the report issued by the high-level Iraq Study Group broke a diplomatic taboo which sparked immediate concern in Israel and surprise among Middle East policy experts.
12-06-06 - Arabs doubt Bush will overhaul Mideast policy U.S. President George W. Bush will ignore unwelcome recommendations on Middle East policy from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, especially on making contact with Syria and Iran, Arab commentators said on Wednesday.
12-06-06 - MK Azmi Bishara removed from hearing for profane remark Bishara submitted a Knesset bill Wednesday that would force the government to return expropriated land to its original owners in specified cases.
12-06-06 - IDF seeks intel-sharing with NATO
12-06-06 - President of Human Rights Council appoints Christine Chinkin to serve on high-level fact-finding mission to Beit Hanoun
12-06-06 - israel to raze 42,000 Palestinian homes
12-06-06 - UN Security Council welcomes Israel-Palestine ceasefire deal
12-06-06 - Hizbullah rejects human-shield accusations The reasons behind this report "are obvious. They are trying to get rid of the responsibility of killing civilians and pinning the responsibility on someone else. The Israeli Army has never had any morals. They used all kinds of internationally banned weaponry against our civilians - including cluster bombs and phosphorous bombs. If they didn't want to kill civilians they wouldn't have used such weapons in the first place."
12-06-06 - Hebron Update 06-11-26 to 06-12-02 The soldier then said, "Are you
Jewish?" Everyone answered, no. The soldier said, "Only Jewish people
can walk on this street." One of the visitors, very annoyed, said,
"This street was built with American money for everyone to walk on."
The soldier said, "No it wasn't." Levin said, "Yes, it was. It was
built ten years ago with USAID money for everyone to walk." The
soldier answered, "I don't know about that. But I do know that only
Jews are authorized to walk on this street. You must go back." The
group had to turn back.
12-06-06 - Carter plays Hardball with israel
12-06-06 - Report: Hamas ministers met with US, EU officials
12-06-06 - No friends, few drugs and little expertise for AIDS patients
12-06-06 - US and Israel targeting DNA in Gaza? Part 2 of 3: The DIME bomb, yet another genotoxic weapon
12-06-06 - Haniya reaffirms right of resistance "The Hamas government wants to preserve the right of Palestinian refugees to return and the right of resistance against occupation until an independent (Palestinian) state is established," Haniya told a press conference in the Syrian capital.
12-06-06 - Minister of Tourism: Bethlehem safe for Christmas "foreigners have been dear guests to Palestine and Bethlehem for decades, with hospitality palpable from the restaurants to the hotels and shops."
12-06-06 - Israeli troops arrest 30 Palestinians in W. Bank The sources said that most of the detained were taken away from northern West Bank city of Jenin when at least 50 military vehicles stormed the area.
12-06-06 - Abbas considers options to end Palestinian crisis: spokesman
12-06-06 - Israeli police partly demolish house in Arab section of Jerusalem's Old City Israeli police demolished part of a house belonging to Arabs in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, raising charges of discrimination by the Jewish-run administration against Palestinian residents.
12-06-06 - Israel refuses visa extensions for foreign passport holders
12-06-06 - Prime minister seizes chance for progress on Palestinian crisis
12-06-06 - Israel asked to release frozen Palestinian fund
12-06-06 - Egyptians offer to represent Beit Hanun victims at The Hague Representatives of the Egyptian Bar Association have offered to represent the victims of the Israeli artillery barrage in Beit Hanun at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
12-06-06 - Chirac to Israel: Stop Lebanon overflights Livni told reporters in response that Israel needs the Lebanon overflights to monitor continued arms smuggling to Hezbollah, a violation of the U.N.-brokered truce that ended the war
12-06-06 - It's getting worse in 'world's largest prison' say Gaza residents Asked about the MECC's work and current conditions, Dabbagh said he remained pessimistic, and that US and Western support for Israel is underwriting "perpetual atrocities and massacres in this part of the intentionally forgotten planet".
12-06-06 - Violence against women: with awareness comes a change in patterns
12-06-06 - US sanctions Latin American backers of Hezbollah
12-06-06 - Israel embarks on PR face-lift Yesterday's report detailing an Israeli think-tank's 'findings' on the alleged use of human shields by Hezbollah in Lebanon was one step in series of moves by Israel of late that can be chalked up to this newfound PR effort.
12-06-06 - Andover High School principal lets pro-Palestinian activists speak The Wheels of Justice, a group composed of staunch critics of the United States' and Israel's policies in the Middle East, were invited by six social studies teachers to talk to 200 students about their experiences in Iraq, the West Bank and Gaza
12-06-06 - Vallone Meets With Israeli Official At City Hall The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater New York and its Chief Executive, Michael Miller, organized the trips that brought Vallone and Goldstein together to exchange their ideas.
12-06-06 - Carter's Book on Israel 'Apartheid' Sparks Bitter Debate Criticism of the book, primarily from Jewish groups and leaders, began even before it was published, and it became an issue in the midterm elections last month
12-06-06 - Canada's inconsistent votes at UN questioned The inconsistency in Canada?s votes was questioned by B?nai Brith Canada, the Canadian Coalition for Democracy (CCD) and UN Watch, though the Canada-Israel Committee (CIC), the Jewish community?s primary lobbying arm on Israel, attributed the disparity to "rookie" mistakes in dealing with an overwhelming volume of anti-Israel initiatives. 'You must veto them ALL, Canada. Gosh, get it right!'
12-06-06 - New Vatican envoy urges pilgrimages to Holy Land The event brought the Latin patriarch, who is both the top Catholic official in the region and a Palestinian, face-to-face with Evangelical leaders, who he has publicly denounced as leading the world to armageddon by their strong support for the State of Israel.
12-06-06 - Israeli tycoon offers $1bn for Mideast peace
12-06-06 - Baker report urges Madrid-style summit with Israel, Syria and PA
12-06-06 - National Council of Churchs comments on Iraq The NCC also applauded the Report?s conclusion that the security situation involving Israel and the Palestinian Authority is intrinsically linked to Iraq, saying ?the Israeli - Palestinian conflict is central to the solution of all problems in the Middle East.?
12-06-06 - McCain's statement on Iraq Study Group report AIPAC must have sent out word that there is to be no linkage between Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict. This linkage appears to have been in the ISG report. So far Biden, Lantos and now McCain are all singing the same tune.
12-06-06 - House protects new red 'crystal'
More wasted time and money by those on Capitol Hill who were elected to represent the interests of THIS country.
12-06-06 - ADL: Iraq Study Group 'Gets It Wrong' on Arab-Israeli Peace Process If the ADL thinks it's wrong, then you know the ISG got it RIGHT.
12-06-06 - Captured Israelis 'were injured' Two Israeli soldiers captured in July by the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, suffered serious injuries in the attack, according to reports.
12-06-06 - South African Jews charge bias at Freedom of Expression Institute In response, the FXI said Saks' letter was "a thinly disguised attempt to intimidate the FXI into not taking a principled position against repression and censorship in relation to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Put more bluntly, we see this as an attempt to bully the FXI into submission for daring to criticize bodies like the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the S.A. Jewish Report when they act in a censorious manner."
12-06-06 - For pro-Israel crowd, Iraq report has some unwelcome proposals
12-06-06 - Carter fellow resigns over book Ken Stein distanced himself from Carter and the center's recent activities, and emphasized that he "had nothing to do with the research, preparation, writing, or review of President Carter's recent publication.
12-06-06 - Rabbis urge Israelis to revolt against gov't The rabbis were responding to a national address last week commemorating the death of Israel's founder and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, in which Olmert stated he is willing to give up most of the West Bank in exchange for "real peace." The rabbis don't want real peace if it means Israel must give up land that it has unlawfully 'settled' for 30+ years.
12-06-06 - APN meets Syrian envoy Moustapha repeated Syria's call for a resumption of talks with no pre-conditions; APN reiterated U.S. and Israeli demands that Syria end its support for terrorist groups.
12-06-06 - Failure to pass budget bills could stall Democrats' incoming agenda Spending that affects Israel is not impacted. Foreign operations, which accounts for the $2.8 billion Israel receives annually, is going ahead at 2006 levels, which differ little from levels promised for 2007. The Defense Appropriations Act, which affects collaborative U.S.-Israel programs such as the Arrow anti-missile program, is one of only two that were passed before the midterm elections.
12-06-06 - Council may ban anti-Israel activist
12-06-06 - AJC Says Iraq Study Group Report Complicates Quest for Peace The pro-Israeli groups already on the offensive trying to dismiss/downplay Baker's report.
12-05-06 - Settlers uproot Olive trees in Hebron
12-05-06 - Child detainee threatened with rape during interrogation
12-05-06 - Troops level two Palestinian homes in Jerusalem Palestinian sources in Jerusalem reported on Tuesday that Israeli policemen and border-guard units leveled two Palestinian homes in Al Tour and Ras Al Amoud, in East Jerusalem. Israel claims that the houses were constructed without obtaining construction permits from the Jerusalem municipality.
12-05-06 - Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire still valid, but fragile
12-05-06 - Prodi pushes for Jewish Israeli state Senior diplomatic officials in Jerusalem said Prodi's comments about the need to provide guarantees that Israel would remain a Jewish state were "very significant," because if European leaders talk about the right of Israel to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people, "they are by definition rejecting the idea of a Palestinian right of return."
12-05-06 - PM Olmert backs Tamir proposal to add Green Line to textbooks Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday he has spoken with Education Minister Yuli Tamir regarding her proposal to include the pre-1967 boundary, or Green Line, in maps that appear in school textbooks. Many MKs have sharply criticized Tamir's recommendation
12-05-06 - Speakers Describe Hardship West Bank Wall Is Creating
12-05-06 - Row erupts over Israeli textbooks Israel's education minister has said school textbooks should show Israel's pre-1967 borders, prompting a storm of criticism from right-wingers.
12-05-06 - Israel explores options for freeing captured soldier "We agreed to release several hundred women and children, mostly the young among them," the Israeli source said. Children sit in Israeli prisons.
12-05-06 - Gates: Iranian nuclear strike unlikely Addressing the U.S. Senate in his confirmation hearings Tuesday, Robert Gates said he did not discount threats to Israel from Iran?s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but added that he believed that the religious establishment controlling Iran was less inclined to an attack....He said a U.S. attack on Iran or Syria could destabilize the region
12-05-06 - Report: Hezbollah committed war crimes The American Jewish Congress helped the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Institute for Special Studies, a private research group with close ties to Israeli intelligence, prepare and translate the report. Israeli spin doctors still working full-time to cover for Israel's colossal blunder of this summer.
12-05-06 - Israeli envoy: Protect Lebanon "It should be the world's challenge to make sure that Lebanon does not fall into the hands of Iran and Syria," Sallai Meridor said Monday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, his first public appearance since his appointment three weeks ago.
12-05-06 - Biden: Don?t link Iraq with Palestinian conflict Speaking Monday to a gathering of the Israel Policy Forum in New York, the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee responded to news reports that the Baker-Hamilton Commission is set to recommend reinvigorating American involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian track as a means to win moderate Arab support for stabilizing Iraq.
12-05-06 - U.S. asking Qatar about P.A. aid offer
12-05-06 - Egypt police find explosives, destroy Gaza tunnel Egyptian police found 500 kg (1,100 lb) of explosives hidden in bags in central Sinai and bound for smuggling into Gaza, police sources said on Tuesday.
12-05-06 - Investigation into medical negligence toward Palestinians in Israeli hospitals
12-05-06 - $100 Million for Palestinian Agency; More Needed Nearly two dozen international donors have pledged around $100 million for the United Nations agency that provides humanitarian relief to millions of Palestine refugees, although funding for 2007 is still inadequate and the Gaza Strip is an ?economy on life support,? the agency?s deputy has warned.
12-05-06 - Report: Israel, Iran holding debt talks Iran is still owed hundreds of millions of dollars for oil it supplied to Israel in the years before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the two countries, now sworn enemies, are holding contacts meant to settle the debt, according to the report in the daily Haaretz citing anonymous Israeli and Swiss officials involved in the negotiations.
12-05-06 - Livni: International pressure on Hamas bearing fruit
12-05-06 - Israeli army takes 14 residents prisoner in several West Bank areas
12-05-06 - Netanyahu calls on Israel to stop restraint policy
12-05-06 - Israel denies Palestinian children are jailed illegally Palestinian Layth Ghalib Bedwan, 14, was arrested and detained by the Israeli authorities on 28 August 2006. Since then, his family has waited anxiously for him to return home.
12-05-06 - Local Journalist injured in Ramallah
12-05-06 - Daniel Barenboim to honor Annan with Arab/Israeli orchestra
12-05-06 - Report: Arab, Jewish birthrates in Jerusalem equal for first time For the first time ever, in 2005 the Arab and Jewish birthrates in Jerusalem were equivalent at 3.9 children per woman. An American-Israeli research report recently submitted to Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski found that the Arab fertility rate in Jerusalem has dropped in recent years, while the fertility rate among Jewish women in the capital has risen
12-05-06 - IDF tanks to be fitted with Trophy anti-missile systems The new defense system creates a "canopy" that surrounds the tank, identifies the threat of the incoming anti-tank missile, and destroys that missile's warhead before it strikes
12-05-06 - U.K. post resigned after controversial remarks Baroness Tonge's resignation Tuesday followed months of controversy after she referred, during her party's conference in September, to the "financial grips the pro-Israeli lobby has on the Western world."
12-05-06 - To halt Mideast tremors, heal the fault line The Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be resolved before we can expect peace in Lebanon and elsewhere.
12-05-06 - US must work harder to drive peace process Washington must change its policy of partiality towards Israel and work much harder to drive forward the peace process.
12-05-06 - Two wrongs don't make it right
12-05-06 - Israel is on freshman lawmakers' to-do list New office on Capitol Hill? Check. Orientation to congressional protocols? Check. All-expense paid trip to Israel? Add that to the freshman lawmaker's calendar....A 2005 National Journal survey of congressional insiders ranked AIPAC second most influential lobbying group among Democratic lawmakers and fourth among Republicans.
12-05-06 - Iran to host meeting on Holocaust This is Iran's answer to the debate about freedom of speech over the cartoons insulting the Prophet Mohammed, and its way of trying to woo radical support in the Middle East for its anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian policies.
12-04-06 - Army kills Palestinian despite decision to cut back on West Bank raids Palestinian security officials said the soldiers opened fire at a restaurant, killing a civilian and wounding two others ? the militant and a teenager.
12-04-06 - An appeal for an abandoned people This year, The Independent's Christmas Appeal will focus on the dispossessed of the Palestinian territories, for whom 2006 has been the worst of times
12-04-06 - Resident killed by army fire Tulkarem, one injured and ten taken prisoner Also, one child identified as Mojahid Adnan Al Shaweesh, 16, was moderately injured in his head and was transferred to a local hospital. Ten residents were taken prisoner and were moved to an unknown destination.
12-04-06 - Independent Christmas Appeal: Where your money goes The three charities which The Independent is supporting through this year's Christmas Appeal do not leave when the international spotlight fades. They remain, in Gaza and elsewhere, to help the frail and the vulnerable in the task of painfully piecing together their shattered normality. It can be a long and wearying process. And the support they require is unglamorous and continuing
12-04-06 - Army bulldozes farmlands and stops school students from going home near Bethlehem Israeli army bulldozers started on Monday morning to bulldoze farmlands, and barred school students from leaving their school in Al Khader village south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
12-04-06 - Israeli PM hopes truce with Palestinians will continue
12-04-06 - Israeli minister ready to release jailed intifada leader An Israeli minister has said he would agree to releasing Marwan Barghuti, the charismatic Palestinian militant leader serving five life sentences in jail for planning suicide attacks.
12-04-06 - This geocities page was the precursor of this web site - 4 years ago You can see the beginnings of this site in the link list on the left - Chris Hedge's diary, links to USS Liberty material. 4 years on - the march to justice continues. And it's gathering momentum. Fasten your seat belts...
12-04-06 - Sisters, mothers, martyrs The second such story by the Guardian inside of a week. No longer are important events on the ground being reported, such as the death of the teenaged stonethrower. No. We need to read not one but two stories about female martyrs, according to the Guardian.
12-04-06 - Israel 'to ease' W Bank friction "Instructions have been issued to avoid unnecessary frictions and to abstain from actions that could serve as a pretext," Mr Sneh told Israeli army radio.
12-04-06 - School Day 24: Jerusalem-Ramallah
12-04-06 - Lebanese army increases forces in tense Beirut Lebanon's army deployed more soldiers in Beirut after the killing of a pro-Syrian Shiite Muslim demonstrator raised fears anti-government protests could turn into sectarian violence.
12-04-06 - Syria says ready to cooperate with all sides for regional stability
12-04-06 - Bolton to step down Most major U.S. Jewish groups broke with tradition to endorse Bolton, who in addition to his support of Israel is a strong opponent of Iran?s nuclear drive.
12-04-06 - There has to be equality These Britons who go to fight for Israel are volunteering to serve in the frontline of Israel's war in the illegally occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Some have acknowledged that they have been or will be engaged in the killing of Palestinians. Under international law they and those who facilitate their enlistment are committing war crimes.
12-04-06 - US diplomat calls for Iran action "What does Iran stand for? Iran stands for disrupting states, disrupting peace and solving everything through the barrel of a gun." Ah. No comment.
12-04-06 - Money for Olmert-Haniyeh talks? An Israeli billionaire offered to pay Hamas a small fortune to arrange a meeting between the Palestinian Authority prime minister and Ehud Olmert.
12-04-06 - Was this the first casualty of Lebanon's new civil war?
12-04-06 - Haneya calls for continuation of dialogue on unity gov't
12-04-06 - Israel fears Siniora government may fall the government source said Bush promised Olmert that his position on Iran would remain unchanged as long as Tehran remains committed to pursuing its nuclear program. As for Syria, the source said, Bush has conditioned any resumption of dialogue on Damascus' ceasing to interfere with Lebanon and ending its support for Hezbollah, and both the recent murder of Lebanese minister Pierre Gemayal and Hezbollah's confrontation with Siniora make it even less likely that Bush would change his position on this issue.
12-04-06 - Netanyahu slams truce, claims Gaza is turning into Lebanon Nutty Netty say "Dems pesky Arabs are all alike!"
12-04-06 - Head of PFLP in Bethlehem area arrested Mahmud Ibrahim Hamdan Fanun, head of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) terror organization in the Bethlehem area, was arrested today in a joint operation by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency.
12-04-06 - Al Nu'man Village; already surrounded by the Wall, the gate is now open to Israeli settlers The move came only two days after some 150 settlers demonstrated on settler Road 60 at the eastern edge of Al Khader Village, demanding the confiscation of more Palestinian land to make the drive to Jerusalem quicker. Driving through Al Nu'man Village is approximately eight kilometers, while going on Road 60 through confiscated Beit Jala lands is 20 kilometers.
12-04-06 - Some Joy for the Poorest West Bank Families NEF teamed with Human Concern International. Poor families received about 500 food packages and 570 packages of dairy products, while 400 packages of sweets went to kindergarten children.
12-04-06 - Israel bars Gaza residents from university The state of Israel needs to cancel the sweeping prohibition preventing young Palestinians living in Gaza from reaching their studies in the West Bank.
12-04-06 - Israelis invoke Area C and destroy northwestern West Bank homes
12-04-06 - MSNBC Airs Multiple Segments On C-SPAN Caller Smearing President Carter Apparently, the rantings of this random C-SPAN viewer are considered "news." MSNBC has already run two segments today on this irrelevant non-story, one titled "Carter Controversy" and another called, "Pres. Carter: Anti-Semetic?"
12-04-06 - Ex-Mossad agent sues Israel over Pentagon spy affair Katz says that Israel prevented him from travelling to the United States after Pollard's arrest to try to recover funds seized there, and to prevent him from being questioned by US authorities.
12-04-06 - A historic moment for peacemaking It would be irresponsible folly to leave this for the United States to handle on its own, given its track record as a partisan and unsuccessful mediator. If the Quartet with its road map and the Arab League with its peace plan have any life left in them, this is their moment to work together quickly to push Israelis and Arabs toward a structured negotiation anchored in more explicit and mutual national rights for all concerned. Moments like this do not come along often
12-04-06 - Egyptian police arrest foreigners for allegedly plotting attacks Along with the American, police arrested two Belgians, nine French and several others from Egypt and other Arab countries including Tunisia and Syria, the statement said. The ministry did not provide names or say how many Egyptians and Arabs were arrested.
12-04-06 - Royal accused of Mid-East 'gaffe' During a joint news conference in Beirut, a Hezbollah MP compared Israel's policy towards Lebanon with Nazism.
12-04-06 - No blood diamonds in Israel, say local traders "We can guarantee that not one single diamond enters Israel without being checked by the authorities," said Moti Ganz, president of the diamond institute located in one of the three tightly guarded skyscrapers of the diamond exchange centre in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, which employs some 2,700 people. But despite the tight restrictions, some traders have tried to dodge regulations. Earlier this month, police seized a 150,000 dollar-worth batch of diamonds at the exchange, and these gems did not have the authentication certificate
12-04-06 - Gaza: Reports from the Ground
12-04-06 - The Palestinians bear the burden
12-04-06 - From Bethlehem to Jerusalem: Children of the Holy Land receive improved schools IOCC's plan to renovate and upgrade nine private schools in the West Bank was recently approved for funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
12-04-06 - Of land and peace Common to most journalists who have reported from the Holy Land is the interview with a displaced Palestinian whose family home or land has been seized and settled by Israelis. The Palestinians can often produce a rusty key from their ancestral home or a yellowed deed to their family land to prove their rightful ownership. When Israel is pressed about the issue, the government says only state or purchased land has been settled.
12-04-06 - Israel's Arabs shoot themselves in foot If Israel's Arabs do not modify their position and continue to object to defining Israel as the Jewish people's state, where they live as a minority with full equality, they should not be surprised to see the Knesset legislate strict immigration laws, or growing calls to move the Green Line west in the triangle region where Arab communities are concentrated. Do they really have 'full equality'? ("The overwhelming majority of non-Jewish citizens are Arabs and they are subject to various forms of discrimination.")
12-04-06 - Minister of detainees reveals information on prisoner swap with Israel Qabha said that the deal does not include the abducted ministers and legislators since they should be immediately freed without any preconditions.
12-04-06 - 'Israel Needs a Wake Up Call' I think you've put your finger on two very important issues. The first one is the ideology that Avigdor Lieberman subscribes to is an ethnic cleansing ideology.
12-04-06 - Citizen musicians giving peace a chance
12-04-06 - Chavez wins re-election In August, he drew fire for saying that Israelis "are doing what Hitler did against the Jews" and that Israel is carrying out "a new Holocaust" against the Palestinians.
12-04-06 - Jihad, hummous and airport security: It's the Arab Comedy Festival, of course!
12-04-06 - Call upon Hillary Clinton to cancel meeting with Lieberman Please cancel the meeting publicly as a matter of principle that is in the best interests and ideals of the United States of America
12-04-06 - U.N. humanitarian chief accuses world of failing to keep pledge to protect civilians, citing 55 percent increase in attacks since 1989
12-04-06 - In Beirut unrest, Israel sees threat of renewed Iranian, Syrian influence To arrest the process of radicalization in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, Israel would like to help stabilize the Siniora government, build a pro-American alliance with moderate Sunni countries as a bulwark against Iranian influence and detach Syria from the Iranian axis. The trouble is that everything on this wish list is likely to prove very difficult. Come again? This after having bombarded Lebanese civilians and civilian infrastructure, and then firing 1 million cluster bomblets into Lebanon knowing that there would be a ceasefire in 3 days.
12-04-06 - As Bolton resigns U.N. post, groups will miss his frankness "John Bolton has done an extraordinary job of advancing America's interests at a time of critical importance," AIPAC spokesman Josh Block said Monday. I disagree. Bolton was Israel's man at the UN, not ours.
12-04-06 - Jews, Presbyterians launch 'consultation' Leaders of three Jewish streams launched a "national consultation" with the Presbyterians in the wake of differences over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
12-04-06 - Clinton, Barak and Lieberman talk Iran ** Iranian nuclear threat and instability in Lebanon ? these are only some of the subjects high-level American and Israeli officials will discuss at third annual Saban Forum in Washington This will result in a renewed push by Israel and its lobbyists for US action on Iran, no doubt.
12-03-06 - Truce deal falters following Israeli operations in West Bank Witnesses said that the Israeli soldiers hit Mohammed Jebji, 15,who was on his way to school, with a gunshot on his head.....In southern West Bank city of Hebron, medical sources said an eight-year-old boy was critically wounded after an Israeli settler opened fire at him.
12-03-06 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian teenager-medics
12-03-06 - Unknown gunmen kill one resident, wound another in Khan Younis
12-03-06 - Child injured by setters fire in Hebron Medical sources in the city said that Mohammad Firas Al Atrash, was hospitalized after suffering two rounds of live ammunition in his right shoulder and neck.
12-03-06 - Palestinian factions agree with Abbas on strengthening Gaza ceasefire Saleh Zidan of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) said the factions agreed on forming a special committee to outline conditions that secure the continuation of the calmness.
12-03-06 - Qatar to pay thousands of Palestinian salaries Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has "taken charge of paying the salaries of all employees of the education ministry, almost 40,000 people, amounting to 22.5 million dollars a month", he said at the end of a visit to Doha on Sunday.
12-03-06 - Israeli DM says ceasefire not to extend to W Bank Moreover, the defense minister said that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would continue its operations in the West Bank.
12-03-06 - Hamas drops out truce with Israel In a statement sent to reporters, Hamas said that it made the decision out of the consideration of the current interior situation in the Palestinian territories..... Meanwhile, Israeli army also rejected the halt of military operations in the West Bank, putting aside Palestinians threats of dropping the truce deal if the operations in the West Bank are not stopped.
12-03-06 - Palestinian Authority to include disabled in govt., while challenging Israeli attacks on disabled On the occasion of the international day to honor the disabled, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights is calling on the international community to intervene in Palestine
12-03-06 - Jihad threatens to resume attacks on Israel Saraya al-Quds, armed wing of Islamic Jihad (Holy War), on Sunday threatened to resume armed attacks against Israel if Israel continued violation of truce deal.
12-03-06 - Israeli military resumes shelling in northern Gaza; rejects call for ceasefire in West Bank
12-03-06 - 'Church of the Ark' found on West Bank Jewish residents in the modern settlement of Shiloh, which sits on a hill amidst Palestinian villages, want the team to keep digging
12-03-06 - Solana blames Hamas for failure to form Palestinian unity gov't
12-03-06 - Israel creates new ministry to deal with Iran threat The Israeli government has approved the creation of a new ministry for strategic affairs, to be headed by a controversial ultra-nationalist and deal mainly with Iran's nuclear ambitions
12-03-06 - NY Times bestseller list 12-03-06 Number 11!
12-03-06 - Loss of Arab support due to US apathy in Mideast: Carter "One is not even allowed to say he has an objective opinion about the Middle East conflict or that he supports the rights of Palestinians on their land and favours Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories," said Carter, who has just released a book in which he is deeply critical of Israeli policies.
12-03-06 - Beirut protests keep pressure on While the demonstrations have had the good nature of a pop concert or festival, this is an extremely serious crisis for Lebanon, says the BBC's Jon Leyne in Beirut.
12-03-06 - For Palestinian women soccer players, a field is a dream "They're doing their best," says Hilal, "but they don't have the facilities or the equipment to be as good as they could be."
12-03-06 - israel destroys water well in Bethlehem
12-03-06 - Ghajar deal reached The Cabinet approved on Sunday a plan under which Israeli troops that occupied northern Ghajar since the summer war with Hezbollah would withdraw to the southern part of the village, to be replaced by UNIFIL peacekeepers and a small contingent of Lebanese police and troops
12-03-06 - Israel decides to maintain policy of restraint in Gaza "restraint" as defined by Israel: shooting kids.
12-03-06 - Israeli tourists urged to leave Egypt's Sinai
12-03-06 - Syrian PM highlights importance of Palestinian national unity
12-03-06 - 98 residents taken prisoner in Bethlehem in November The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported that Israeli soldiers took prisoner 98 resident in several attacks and invasions carried by the army in the West Bank city of Bethlehem during the month of November.
12-03-06 - Carter's frontal attack "I wrote the book because I wanted to stimulate a debate in this country about what is actually going on in the Middle East," Carter said during an interview at a midtown hotel on the first day of his national book tour. "This is a subject which, in my mind, has rarely if ever been honestly debated or discussed in the United States." Say what you want about Jimmy Carter, it takes an enormous amount of cojones to do what he did given the climate in this country at this time. It's legend.
12-03-06 - Gaza nurtures hopes of peace
12-03-06 - Israeli Arabs: Let us return to pre-'48 villages
12-03-06 - Polonium-210, Fiction and Fact Perhaps it isn?t significant, but most Russian nuclear reactors are subject to IAEA Safeguards. None of Israel?s are
12-03-06 - Hamas official holds Abbas responsible for failure of national dialogue
12-03-06 - Blair heads for US to press for peace in the Middle East The Prime Minister, who is said to be ?deeply frustrated? that Mr Bush has failed to fulfil his promise of spending ?political capital? on brokering a settlement between the Arabs and Israelis, will arrive on Wednesday evening
12-03-06 - Israel's wall has forced Palestinians to move home - right into Jerusalem
12-03-06 - Report: Olmert to Meet Senior Saudi Officials Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will in the near future meet with senior Saudi Arabian officials to discuss the Saudi peace initiative
12-03-06 - Bahrain vows support for Palestine His Majesty called upon all Palestinians to shun anything that may weaken their national march and remain united in order to face challenges ahead at this crucial phase.
12-03-06 - Palestinian PM arrives in Syria for two-day visit
12-03-06 - Carter criticizes U.S. approach to Israel interview on C-Span, said that, given widespread support for Israel in the United States, it would be "unimaginable" that a politician would assign any blame to Israel for the ongoing violence in the Middle East and still win office...."You're a racist and anti-Semite," one caller shouted at Carter during Sunday's broadcast before being cut off by the show's host. Now there's a charge we rarely see when it comes to criticism of Israel. Imagine.
12-03-06 - Imam disputes tie to Hamas
12-03-06 - Conference: Fear of Arab-Israelis unfounded
12-03-06 - Giving the gift of Water this Christmas in Palestine, Israeli authorities place tight restrictions on the supply of water to Palestinian communities.
12-03-06 - Harman gracious to successor Pelosi reportedly was irked that Harman solicited lobbyist to help her keep the position, including from major Jewish donors to the party.
12-03-06 - Dutch bank divests holdings in J'lem light rail, cites settlements A Dutch bank has decided to divest itself of its holdings in a French company that is participating in building Jerusalem's light rail system, on the grounds that the project "is not in line with the United Nation's demand to stop all support for Israel's settlement activities."
12-03-06 - Mideast peace a personal mission for Dataw man "The problem with Christians isn't that they don't care -- it's that they don't know," Harb said. "Maybe if they hear what Israel is doing from a past U.S. president, people will start to listen."
12-03-06 - Feds' Mideast stand ripped Newly anointed Liberal leader Stephane Dion must work to restore Canada's "moral authority" on the Middle East by demanding a reversal of Ottawa's "blind support" for Israel, say Palestinian supporters.
12-03-06 - Seeing the negative side of Israel's nationalism
12-02-06 - Banks strike over attack against Arab Bank branch in Gaza After months of public sector strikes due to nonpayment of salaries in light of the US-led blockade, now banks are striking. Following an Attack against the Arab Bank, it planed is shorter however, expected to last just one day in order to make a statement.
12-02-06 - Non-residents in territories threaten Israel with legal action "Israel is targeting the most vulnerable segment of Palestinian society in order to force a demographic change
12-02-06 - Gunbattle near Abbas' residence Hundreds of Palestinian police engaged in a roving gunbattle yesterday with a well-armed Palestinian clan in the streets of Gaza City near President Mahmoud Abbas' official residence, security officials said. Nine people were wounded in the fighting.
12-02-06 - Israeli navy fires on fishing vessel in first truce violation first truce violation????
12-02-06 - Abbas confirms inter-Palestinian talks failed
12-02-06 - The highest proportion of the disabled are Palestinian Sunday marks the day to remember the disabled throughout the international community
12-02-06 - Palestinians accuse Israel of violating ceasefire for 70 times
12-02-06 - Israel accused of violating ceasefire as Abbas sees top diplomats "We categorically deny the existence of this incident," a spokeswoman told AFP on Saturday. "There were no shootings by any navy boat this morning." K.
12-02-06 - UN human rights inquiry: Israel should compensate Lebanon A United Nations human rights inquiry said on Friday that Israel should be made to pay compensation for damage caused by the month-long Lebanon, especially losses incurred by civilians.
12-02-06 - Hebron Update 06-11-19 to 06-11-25
12-02-06 - Tel Aviv: Protest by 'Coalition against siege on Gaza' A few hundred protestors, members of the 'Coalition against the siege on Gaza' gathered Saturday evening in central Tel Aviv to rally against the IDF's operations in Gaza. The march proceeded towards Rabin Square under the banner of 'stop the siege on Gaza'
12-02-06 - Iran president sees Israel 'disappearing' The remarks were reported by The Jerusalem Post, quoting the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
12-02-06 - Protesters set up camp in Beirut "We will stay here until the fall of the government which is under the tutelage of the United States," one protester, Nadia Assaf, told the French news agency, AFP.
12-02-06 - In Palestine, a Dream Deferred Since 1993, under the guise of peacemaking, Israel has doubled the number of settlements and settlers (around 400,000) in the occupied territories. For Israel "peace" and "security" have come to mean a Palestinian population cut off from Israel yet at the same time totally dependent on it--a recipe for continuing Palestinian subjugation and Israeli domination
12-02-06 - Ahmadinejad, Assad and Hamas PM attend Games opening Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya were all attending the opening ceremony of the Asian Games.
12-02-06 - Palestinian prime minister rejects demands that he resign
12-02-06 - Analysis: Iran's growing array of missiles With missiles that can reach every corner of the Middle East and survive preemptive strikes, Iran is already "the major missile power of the region, at least in theory," said a former head of Israel's missile defense program.
12-02-06 - Special Relationship A one-sided U.S. policy toward Israel endangers both countries? interests.
12-02-06 - Old women step forward as 'martyrs' Two hundred homes were destroyed in Beit Hanoun. 'Fatma Najar, an old woman, did what many people don't have the guts to do. If you go back and research Fatma,' says Khola, 'you will see her home was destroyed on top of her head, her sons jailed, her grandson killed. This would be the first article in several days about the ME conflict by the Guardian. Interesting choice for a topic.
12-02-06 - Iranian president: Israel soon to collapse According to a report by IRNA
12-02-06 - PM defends non-arrest of Israeli Auckland University law professor Bill Hodge said it appeared Attorney-General Michael Cullen had prevented the arrest of former Israeli general Moshe Ya'alon on political rather than legal grounds.
12-02-06 - Palestinian PM admits Hamas holding out for key cabinet posts Palestinian premier Ismail Haniya warned against drawing a line under talks on forming a new government acceptable to Western donors but admitted his Hamas movement was holding out for key cabinet posts.
12-02-06 - Italy wants monitors on Philadelphi Corridor, Syrian border Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi suggests increasing his nation's involvement in the Middle East by placing Italian forces on the Syria-Lebanon border, as well as a multinational force along the Philadelphi corridor.
12-02-06 - British ceremony honors one year memorial of Balata Camp child's death Israeli forces shot and killed Ahmed Al Khatib in the northern West Bank last year. His family donated his organs to both Palestinians and Israelis in need of transplants. For that, British institutions honored the Al Khatib's this week.
12-02-06 - Egypt raids Sinai villas in search of Palestinians
12-02-06 - Palestinian activists resist settlers calling for further confiscation The settlers drove their cars on the settler-only Road 60 to the southwestern Bethlehem village. They raised banners in Hebrew calling to destroy Al Khader with more settlement roads and the Wall running through the center of the town.
12-02-06 - Peres: Palestinians present skewed picture of ME Peres used Israel's offensive in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun as an example, saying that the UN committee charged with investigating alleged Israeli human rights offenses there should first check Palestinian aggression and not Israel's response to it. The new UN secretary general is already being pressured by Israel.
12-02-06 - Bush trying to sabotage Irag Study Group progress on the Arab-Israeli conflict amidst a concerted push to pit Sunni regimes against Shiite ones is highly unlikely. Israel has shown itself quite willing in the past to withstand U.S. pressure for concessions, which would most definitely be required for success
12-02-06 - Israel expresses 'regret' over critical UN resolutions The only regret Israel has is the regret that it cannot control the UN GA like it can the UN SC (via the US veto). It regrets that any world body has the unmitigated gall to call Israel on its flagrant violations of international and humanitarian law.
12-02-06 - Appropriating Palestinian culture
12-02-06 - Saudis lead Israel peace bid an Israeli insider said: "The truth is that it was not Olmert's own initiative but a dictate given to him last month when he met George W Bush and Condoleezza Rice in Washington." And what's the prize? There has to be one. My guess? Iran.
12-02-06 - Essay: The demographic race
12-02-06 - In pictures: Beirut protest camp
12-02-06 - Royal slams Israel-Nazi comparison Royal had no immediate reaction to the comments on Friday, surprising some observers. She condemned them a day later, explaining that neither she nor the French ambassador to Lebanon had heard them at the time.
12-02-06 - Did anyone see the superpower? It's whine-and-bash-America time over at Haaretz. We aren't attacking Syria and Iran, after all.
12-02-06 - El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe
12-02-06 - Israel 'unfazed' by U.N. resolutions
12-02-06 - Action Alert - New Republic Defamation of Rachel Corrie
12-02-06 - Words against weapons I'm a deep friend of Jews and Israel but I do think that at times they've been brutal against Palestinians. In a way, society has forgotten and betrayed the Palestinian people. I wrote this during the latest Israel-Lebanon war where many civilians and children were killed.
12-02-06 - Memorial in Israel to honour Light Horse Brigade A new memorial will be built at Beersheba in Israel to mark the 90th anniversary of the charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade against Turkish forces in 1917. Were it not for the heroic efforts of the ARABS, who (along with the British) successfully drove the Ottomans up and out of Arabia and surrounds during WWI, there would likely be no Israel. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
12-01-06 - Army shoots and kills a resident of Hebron
12-01-06 - UN report: ?Israel violated all articles of Crossings agreement?
12-01-06 - Fresh Palestinian rocket violates Gaza truce Israel is still killing Palestinians on an almost daily basis, and that's not considered a truce violation...
12-01-06 - Israel rules out blanket truce for moment
12-01-06 - Palestinian dies of injuries in Gaza Morad Abu Awad, in his 20s, was wounded 10 days ago during an Israeli incursion into a neighbourhood of Gaza City on an arrest operation. Medics said he had probably been a civilian.
12-01-06 - UN General Assembly upholds 'rights' of Palestinians By a vote of 157 in favor, seven against and 10 abstentions, the 192-member Assembly "reiterates its demand for the complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan (Heights)."
12-01-06 - IDF soldier gets two weeks for shooting Palestinian
12-01-06 - Two weeks after his death, Palestinian resident identified by family
12-01-06 - Child injured in Azzoun village, near Qalqilia The child Sanad Mahmoud Shbeita, 13, was injured by a rubber-coated bullets and is an a moderate condition, medical sources reported.
12-01-06 - UN resolution seeks Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories
12-01-06 - General Assembly urges Middle East sides to extend truce to West Bank By the terms of a resolution adopted by the same majority, the Assembly said "any actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever, and calls upon Israel to cease all such illegal and unilateral measures." Israel's newest occupied territories - Canada and Australia - are on the list that voted against. My condolences to the Canadians and Aussies.
12-01-06 - 60 years after Partitioning of Palestine, residents stranded between checkpoints, Wall & settlements
12-01-06 - PLO calls for PM Haniyeh's resignation
12-01-06 - Accused Israeli General May Still Be In NZ
12-01-06 - Huge protest brings Beirut to a standstill
12-01-06 - UN starts mapping disputed Shaba Farms on Lebanon border Another problem facing the mapping experts is the fact that much of the ownership evidence comprises deeds from the Ottoman era, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which is causing delays in effective translation.
12-01-06 - Ramle Mayor apologizes for offensive comments about Arab residents "If they don?t like it they should go live in Jaljuliya, that's an Arab name," Lavi was quoted as saying. "What happened, what? Because some Mohammed wants to change the name? He should change his Allah."
12-01-06 - Palestinian apathy does not mean an end to resistance
12-01-06 - EU diplomat: Olmert refused European force to oversee ceasefire
12-01-06 - Bush tries to strengthen 'Sunni bulwark' to contain Iran Bush has been less personally involved in the Arab-Israeli dispute than any American president since Israel's creation in 1948 Not true. It is why we invaded Iraq in the first place - to remove Israel's then-primary threat.
12-01-06 - Analysis: High bar set in AIPAC case "The Court imposed the requirement that the government prove that the defendant knew the information ... would harm the United States," Judge Thomas Ellis told the Nov. 16 hearing, though prosecutors had asked that this requirement be lifted...."This was a counter-espionage investigation," said one retired veteran, pointing out that it had been conducted by the counter-intelligence unit at the FBI's Washington Field Office. Well, they tried. And thanks to those that gave their best shot.
12-01-06 - O little town of Bethlehem Cards The people of Bethlehem are asking for our help
12-01-06 - Palestinian FM: We need unity government that doesn't comply with US demands
12-01-06 - Bomb attack on Arab Bank's Gaza branch
12-01-06 - Muezzin's life lies sunk in a Gaza mosque's ruins
12-01-06 - Annan finds 13 incidents of illicit arms in Lebanon Still, his envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, said earlier this month he had evidence of the smuggling but was unable to reveal his sources....At the same time, Annan said Israeli aircraft entered Lebanese airspace, in violation of the ceasefire agreement, on almost a daily basis since his last report on September 12.....And Annan said that Israel had yet to provide the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, with detailed data on cluster bombs.
12-01-06 - Amnesty International's Secretary General to Lead Delegation to Middle East 2 - 11 December Secretary General of Amnesty International, is to lead a mission to Lebanon and Israel and the Occupied Territories (including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) to discuss human rights issues with members of the government and civil society.
12-01-06 - No way home An internal Israeli military document leaked to the Israeli daily Haaretz in late August suggested that the closure was intended "apply pressure" on Gaza residents until progress is made in returning the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. This tactic of collective punishment, a favorite of the Israeli government, never works. So why does it continue to employ it? Revenge, most likely.
12-01-06 - Protesters in Bil'in demand access to the isolated orchards to plant them
12-01-06 - Israel demands proof soldiers are alive
12-01-06 - Report: Lebanon bombing could be war crime Israel?s use of cluster bombs during the Lebanon war could be considered a war crime, according to a U.N. report.
12-01-06 - PLO leaders meet to discuss Abbas' next moves after coalition talks with Hamas fail
12-01-06 - Israeli court extends detention of wife of Palestinian minister
12-01-06 - Ethnic Cleansing and Israel?s Racist Discourse If the idea was indeed to shield Israel from Palestinian attacks, then why is 80 percent of the wall being built on ethnically cleansed Palestinian land? Why encircle the Palestinian population of the West Bank from east and west, and those of Qalqilia from all directions? Why do thousands of Palestinian schools kids have to stand for hours in front of their gated villages to acquire permission from an Israeli soldier to allow them access to their schools and back?
12-01-06 - Sarkozy : "Security in Israel is not negotiable" Sarkozy and Royal are the main contenders in the presidential election which is due in April 2007.
12-01-06 - Courage under fire
12-01-06 - Israel lobby sets its sights on academe This dispute over academic balance in relation to Israel has been simmering for years on Australian campuses but it is the war in Lebanon that has brought it to a flashpoint. It is a clash that raises raw and sensitive questions about the freedoms and the responsibilities of academe as well as the power of the pro-Israel lobby.
12-01-06 - Film Review: "Visit Palestine" and gain an insider's view
12-01-06 - The Nativity Story Movie Review Mary is the film's heroine and so are all women, including her mother, Anna (the great Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass),
12-01-06 - Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel The following ratings are based on point system designed by the organization. Points were assigned for actions either in support of or in opposition to the organization's position.
12-01-06 - New media training NGO launched in Palestine A new media training organization has been launched with the goal of creating and developing a new generation of professional journalists in Palestine
12-01-06 - Silverman misleadingly claimed Carter is "talking about Israel as if they were the second coming of Nazi Germany"
12-01-06 - Murdered ex-spy criticized anti-Semitism Goldfarb also claims that Litvinenko?s assassination by poisoning, which Goldfarb blames on the Russian government, was partially motivated by his association with a number of influential expatriated Russian Jews, including businessman Boris Berezovsky Strange how this is really the only mention being made on this website that I've seen of this case. And it was down bottom of the page on the right.
12-01-06 - Witness testifies on Shin Bet torture In a boost to Mohammed Salah's claims he was forced to make incriminating statements about connections to Hamas, a prosecution witness testified Thursday his own cousin was tortured by agents of Israel's Shin Bet security service.
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