January '06 Archive

01-31-06 - Israel kills Islamic Jihad leader

01-31-06 - Hebron Update The tent maker told Roe that recently Israeli settlers entered his shop and robbed him of rolls of canvas and tent making equipment. Shortly after the robbery, settlers constructed tents near Avraham Avinu.

01-31-06 - Hamas Struggles to Gain World's Acceptance

01-31-06 - Hamas accuses West of blackmail over aid threat

01-31-06 - Palestine gets its first Oscar nomination with Paradise Now Paradise Now has been nominated "best foreign language film" for the 78th Annual Academy Awards -- better known as the Oscars

01-31-06 - Israel urged to stop settlement expansion Israel must stop the settlement expansion, Angela Kane, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, said in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday The selective enforcement of international law by the international community via the UN does not go unnoticed, I'm sure.

01-31-06 - Putin presses Hamas "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has never considered Hamas to be a terrorist organization," Putin said. "But this does not mean that we approve and support everything that Hamas is doing."

01-31-06 - Congress presses Hamas Four U.S. congressional initiatives would ban assistance to a Palestinian Authority governed by Hamas.

01-31-06 - Man charged for shooting at Palestinian truck

01-31-06 - World Bank chief backs Palestine aid

01-31-06 - Quartet gives Hamas time to change its stripes

01-31-06 - Jewish settlers set to fight threatened demolition Another dog and pony media op in the making, whereby the real problem: the bigger settlements, ALL settlements in occupied land (all are illegal), stay put.

01-31-06 - 'Trojan horse' creators land in Israel

01-31-06 - Arabs launch diplomatic efforts aimed at bringing moderation to Hamas

01-31-06 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2006 I can't imagine that the West is going to support a terrorist organization unless they give up their arms, reject terrorism, and accept 242 and 338, which they have rejected forever. Here is Mort Zuckerman telling Hamas it must accept UN resolutions 242 and 338, when ISRAEL has not implemented them nor accepted them. Hypocrisy.

01-31-06 - The Good Life of Stew Albert Stew was never soft on the Israeli government. He opposed its seizure of the Occupied Territories and savage treatment of the Palestinian people.

01-31-06 - Top Humanitarian Group Sponsors Concert Tour to Benefit Palestinian Music Education; Jerusalem Ensemble Makes North American Debut The concert tour, which will continue to suburban Philadelphia and New York City, will benefit the conservatory's Palestine Youth Orchestra (PYO).



01-30-06 - Troops uproot 150 Dunams of farmland, west of Hebron

01-30-06 - Despite Hamas win, Palestinians want peace with Israel However, rather than backing Hamas's tactics towards Israel, nearly three out of four (73 percent) respondents said they believed the radical party should "change its position on the elimination of the state of Israel".

01-30-06 - Ami Ayalon: Hevron?s Jews Will Serve in the Palestinian Army

01-30-06 - OPT: Ongoing closure of Al Muntar crossing inflicts $ 2 million losses daily For third week in row, the Israeli occupation forces continued to hermetically seal Al Muntar crossing, the only trade gate of the entry and exist of goods from and in the Gaza Strip

01-30-06 - PCBS Publishes Pilot Study on "Quality of Life in Health" in OPT

01-30-06 - Hamas Asks Nations Not to Cut Aid A Hamas leader asked the international community on Monday not to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority, insisting the money would go toward helping the Palestinian people and Hamas was willing to have its spending monitored.

01-30-06 - Palestinians Appeal for Continued Aid "The European countries must understand that the Palestinian people are in bad need of this aid," Abbas said. "I hope to God that they will change their positions, both Israel and the European countries."

01-30-06 - U.S. Gains Support for Aid Cutoff to Hamas U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the aid won't stop immediately, now that Hamas has won a decisive victory in Palestinian legislative elections. U.S. and European officials said it will probably take two to three months for a new Hamas government to form and take office, effectively giving Hamas a brief grace period in which to change its ways

01-30-06 - Hamas rejects Quartet call to disarm, recognise Israel "The Quartet should have demanded an end to (Israeli) occupation and aggression ... not demanded that the victim should recognise the occupation and stand handcuffed in the face of the aggression," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.

01-30-06 - Masked Gunmen Briefly Take Over EU Office Masked gunmen on Monday briefly took over a European Union office to protest a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of violent denunciations of the caricatures across the Islamic world.

01-30-06 - Abbas says won't resign

01-30-06 - Israel freezes funding to the Palestinian Authority That didn't take long. Nobody saw THAT one coming. The aid Nazis. 'NO FUNDS FOR YOU! COME BACK ONE YEAR!'

01-30-06 - Criteria set for Palestinian aid UN chief Kofi Annan has said future aid to the Palestinian Authority will hinge on the government's commitment to peace and recognising Israel.

01-30-06 - Arab neighbours will work with Hamas-led cabinet All the Arab governments around Israel will deal directly with a Palestinian cabinet dominated by the militant Islamist group Hamas, ignoring U.S. and European attempts to isolate the group, analysts said on Monday

01-30-06 - Big majority want Hamas to drop Israel wipe-out call

01-30-06 - Bush Opposes Palestinian Gov't With Hamas Whatever happened to that push for democracy for the Middle East? The only 'democracy' that the neocon-propelled Bush administration wants, is the 'democracy' that elects Israel-friendly regimes, or so it would seem.

01-30-06 - Hebron squatters agree to leave Palestinian market Because Israel told them they could come back in a little while, this time to squat 'legally'. Mmm k.

01-30-06 - Imus slurs are 'abusive,' Canada watchdog says The CRTC said it was responding especially to one written complaint that questioned why the regulator had imposed restrictions on the distribution of Al Jazeera in Canada to guard against slurs against Jews or Israel "and not place similar restrictions on a service such as the American MSNBC service."

01-30-06 - Some Palestinians See End of Secular Dream

01-30-06 - US urges Arab states to fund Palestinians after Hamas victory The US plea to the Arab world is because it does not want the West Bank and Gaza to descend into chaos as a result of choking off aid. It also fears that if it stops funding the Palestinians, countries such as Iran or Syria could step into the breach, enhancing their image in the Islamic world just as Washington seeks to isolate them.

01-30-06 - Arna's Children: documentary follows woman who attempted to make a change "There are many Jewish people who see injustice and fight for other people," Meyer told the crowd.

01-30-06 - We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid We are being punished simply for resisting oppression and striving for justice. Those who threaten to impose sanctions on our people are the same powers that initiated our suffering and continue to support our oppressors almost unconditionally. We, the victims, are being penalised while our oppressors are pampered.

01-30-06 - Who?s who in Hamas? A look at the Palestinian group?s leaders

01-30-06 - Jewish group backs talks with Hamas

01-30-06 - Spielberg defends his film Some American Jews, he said, "have grown very angry at me for allowing the Palestinians simply to have dialogue and for allowing Tony Kushner to be the author of that dialogue. ?Munich' never once attacks Israel, and barely criticizes Israel's policy of counterviolence against violence,"

01-30-06 - Democracy is like a box a chocolates

01-30-06 - Newspaper, advocacy groups urge access to Israeli agents' testimony The Chicago Tribune and more than 20 advocacy groups representing civil rights activists, the Arab-American community and others urged a federal judge on Monday not to close her courtroom when Israeli security agents testify at a hearing in March.

01-30-06 - Hamas should moderate Israel stance: Saudi

01-30-06 - Hamas to prepare legal structure for forming security apparatuses

01-30-06 - Google to expand in Israel Google is planning to start a resource and development center in Israel.

01-30-06 - New Troubling Facts Discovered About Controversial When all else fails, smear.



01-29-06 - Abbas to resign if Hamas fails to work with foreign powers

01-29-06 - Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians Aya was the second child killed by the Israeli army last week. Soldiers near Ramallah shot 13-year-old Munadel Abu Aaalia in the back as he walked along a road reserved for Jewish settlers with two friends. The army said the boys planned to throw rocks at Israeli cars, which the military defines as terrorism.

01-29-06 - Rice confident of consensus on aid cut to Hamas

01-29-06 - Life in Tel Rumeida; "It is clear who are the terrorists around here." his nephew Yousef is holding up a rock wrapped in a kerosene soaked cloth which was set on fire and thrown at the olive trees

01-29-06 - Olmert Rules Out Working With Palestinians Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel won't have any contacts with the Palestinians unless Hamas disarms and recognizes Israel.

01-29-06 - Soldiers install checkpoints near Tubas Troops suddenly installed a barrier on the road and blocked the movement of hundreds of Palestinian vehicles and residents, local sources reported

01-29-06 - Israeli right may gain ground

01-29-06 - Several Fatah leaders resign in Gaza

01-29-06 - Rice Rules Out Aid to Hamas Government U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday ruled out any American financial aid to a Hamas government in the Palestinian territories and said Washington wants Arab nations and others to cut off money as well.

01-29-06 - Hamas' conservative brand of Islam stirs worry among Palestinians After decades of secular leadership under the late Yasser Arafat, many Palestinians are bracing for a seismic social shift as Hamas' new legislators propose imposing conservative interpretations of traditional Muslim values, including no alcohol, separation of the sexes and veils for women.

01-29-06 - Netanyahu urges sanctions after Hamas win Netanyahu also called for Palestinians to be barred from entering Israel and to expand the route of the West Bank separation barrier, which already cuts into the occupied territory, in order to incorporate more Jewish settlements.

01-29-06 - Palestinian refugees in Lebanon look to Hamas to get them home

01-29-06 - Nervous Palestinians Circulate Hamas Jokes

01-29-06 - Gallup Palestinian Survey Reveals Broad Discontentment With Status Quo At the same time, Gallup finds continued Palestinian support for the peace process with Israel and a preference for negotiation rather than terrorism, raising questions about just what kind of mandate Hamas will have for its more militant approach. Relinked in case you missed it.

01-29-06 - U.S. Jewish leaders consider financially assisting fired AIPAC officials

01-29-06 - 9/11: Pretext for Oil, or Jesus? "There are 70 million of us," he says. "And if there's one thing that brings us together quickly it's whenever we begin to detect our government becoming a little anti-Israel."

01-29-06 - Senators Support Holding Palestinian Aid Hamas' strong showing in last week's voting has been attributed in large part to dissatisfaction with the ruling Fatah party's ability to provide basic services as well as widespread corruption in its government. The U.S. was providing $150 million in aid to the Palestinian government this year.

01-29-06 - Hamas official: Group will make Islamic law a source for legislation Sheikh Mohammed Abu Tir, no. 2 on the Hamas list, told Canada's Globe and Mail that the government will modify the existing Palestinian education system to and institute a more Islamic curriculum, and will separate boys and girls.

01-29-06 - U.S. Jews start thinking seriously about the AIPAC case Regardless, some U.S. Jewish leaders convened this week and decided that the time has come for action. For some time now they have felt uncomfortable with the way the case is being conducted. Many thought that the prosecution was not justified and that its motivations are extraneous - the power wars of Washington and perhaps also a bit of anti-Semitism, or at least a desire to humiliate the pro-Israel lobby and damage its power.....Therefore, said the head of one of the major Jewish organizations, it is not AIPAC that should be attacked. A large majority of the Jewish community is interested in defending it, even if it is sometimes not pleased with its policy. "It is necessary to attack the prosecution and the case," It couldn't be that somebody broke the law? It has to be anti-Semitism!!

01-29-06 - Hamas suggests it could look for alternative sources of funding Haniyeh said the Palestinians would only disarm and end the armed struggle when Israel ended its occupation of land the Palestinians seek for an independent state.

01-29-06 - FBI conducting more investigations into AIPAC The FBI is conducting a second round of investigation concerning the Franklin-Aipac case and has interviewed in the past weeks several Jewish leaders and former Aipac officials.

01-29-06 - Hamas will make a deal

01-29-06 - Women of Gaza fear for their freedoms under new religious regime

01-29-06 - Hamas: US not enemy

01-29-06 - Abramoff and al-Arian: Lobbyist's "Charity" a Front for Terrorism Abramoff, a legendary lobbyist particularly close to DeLay, is also a fierce supporter of Israel?"a super-Zionist," one associate says

01-29-06 - Election officials reduce Hamas seats by two

01-29-06 - ABC's Bob Woodruff Reluctant to Label Hamas a Terrorist Group Old Bob fell afoul of the pro-Israeli community.

01-29-06 - The negative results of Israel's efforts to demonise everyone Hamas is a creation of Israel, supported and nourished by Yitzhak Rabin over 25 years ago in an attempt to use Islam as a counter to PLO nationalism. If

01-29-06 - Hebron squatters agree to leave alone - and return, legally The state and Hebron's settlers reached an agreement early Monday morning under which Jewish squatters would voluntarily leave the city's wholesale market by Monday night, Israel Radio reported. In exchange, they are to secure the state's promise to speed up legal proceedings that would enable them to return to the market legally. It would only be 'legal' by Israeli law, since Israel's seizure of the Palestinian market was unlawful under international law.

01-29-06 - 'Boycott Israel' forum held in London

01-29-06 - Palestinians Unite Again to Appeal for the Release of the Peace Activists held Hostage in Iraq

01-29-06 - Official says Hamas victory worries Holy Land Christians

01-29-06 - Hamas win is 'savage indictment' of U.S., Israeli policy "the abject failure of the United States to push forward any meaningful peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, the routine breaking of promises, and the expansion of the Israeli military occupation systematically undermined those Palestinians who supported negotiations and a viable two-state solution."

01-29-06 - Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign:

01-29-06 - When a Mother Gets Killed Does She Make a Sound? The answer is unclear at this point, but some disturbing patterns are beginning to emerge. They implicate some of our major news media, and, perhaps most of all, the Associated Press, the oldest and largest wire service in the world. I'm not the only one to have noticed this (see news for Jan. 27 in the archives).

01-29-06 - Mock trial of Bush, Blair and Sharon planned The prosecution will be headed by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who sits on Saddam's defense team, according to one of the organizers.



01-28-06 - Two Palestinian Police Wounded in Ambush Hamas returned fire, wounding two policeman. At about 1 a.m. Saturday, a Palestinian police patrol in Khan Younis was ambushed by Hamas gunmen, and two officers were wounded, police said. Hamas officials were not immediately available for comment.

01-28-06 - Palestinian medics: IDF troops kill girl near Gaza Strip border fence

01-28-06 - Resistance fires four homemade shells at military installations in Gaza

01-28-06 - Hamas Considers Using Militants in Army The situation gets worse by the minute.

01-28-06 - Gunmen take over parliament buildings

01-28-06 - Triumphant Hamas vows to work with West

01-28-06 - Soldiers or Settlers? Palestinian man's Hebron home sustains severe damage A neighbor, hearing of Adel's situation, said that the Israeli army has accepted volunteers who wear the uniform, and act as soldiers, but they are likely to be settlers. There have been other cases, he said, where these volunteers have attacked local Palestinians.

01-28-06 - Gallup Palestinian Survey Reveals Broad Discontentment With Status Quo Corruption may have doomed Fatah Party

01-28-06 - Hamas Says It Will Not Change Following their resounding election victory, the Islamic militants of Hamas met the question of whether they will change their stripes with a loud "no": no recognition of Israel, no negotiations, no renunciation of terror.

01-28-06 - Merkel visits Israel amid worries about Hamas, Iran During her two-day visit, Merkel will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert, acting Israeli prime minister since Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke and fell into a coma on Jan. 4

01-28-06 - Hamas Victory Rattles Arab World

01-28-06 - Clinton sees hope to 'work through' Mideast crisis Asked if he believed Hamas could recognize Israel, having advocated its destruction until now, Clinton said: "I think there's a way to work through this, yes. I think there's a way to get them into that, I mean I hope there is."

01-28-06 - Israel to limit Hamas MPs' movement between Gaza, West Bank

01-28-06 - High Court issues order banning Amona outpost demolitions High Court Justice Salim Jubran on Friday issued an interim order banning the demolition of buildings in the illegal outpost of Amona until another decision is given on the matter.

01-28-06 - Introducing Hamas - the new Likud In 1977, the Likud of Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir was derided abroad - and by the left at home - as a group led by terror warlords, a movement with roots in armed wings that had engaged in bombings and cold-blooded shootings

01-28-06 - Hamas says Abbas will not quit

01-28-06 - Victory for Hamas is a protest, not a call to arms

01-28-06 - Tourism to Israel grows as Israeli-Palestinian violence declines

01-28-06 - 'They are resisting what Israel did to us' A large number of Christians voted for Hamas on the premise all Palestinians are united in the struggle against Israel.

01-28-06 - US wants Abbas to stay as Palestinian president

01-28-06 - Jews Admit Defacing Kalandiya Sign

01-28-06 - Former governor observes Palestinian election Shaheen said she spoke with a Hamas campaign worker at one polling place who said he was motivated by the corruption of the (former ruling party) Fatah, not by any message of violence.

01-28-06 - From 2002: Analysis: Hamas history tied to Israel Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years.

01-28-06 - Hamas and President Bush: Andy Martin's viewpoint Put American policy in the hands of those who do not have any emotional attachment to either side.



01-27-06 - Child killed by military fire in the Gaza strip A Palestinian medical reported, on Thursday at night, that Israeli soldiers shot and killed a nine-year old Palestinian child near the Kissufim Crossing in the central Gaza Strip. All mainstream and most alternative media have halted the reporting of these killings of late.

01-27-06 - State Dept. to Review Aid to Palestinians The aid we give to the Palestinians is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions we give to Israel each year.

01-27-06 - Two injured, three arrested in Bil'in Two Palestinian residents, including a child, and one Korean peace activist, were injured

01-27-06 - Israeli politicians rush to condemn Hamas win IN the end, what difference does the Hamas win make? They refused to negotiate with Arafat. Abbas was no 'partner for peace' and was outright ignored as Israel continued building the illegal settlements in the West Bank and the wall that cuts deep into Palestinian land. Israel had planned to carry out unilateral moves which it has all of last year, without any negotiation with the Abbas government. The Hamas victory simply makes no difference when all is said and done. Just before Sharon had his second near fatal stroke, he was discussing drawing up Israel's final borders - without the consent and without negotiations with the Palestinians whose land would likely be further usurped in the process. The Palestinians, many of whom live below the poverty level, voted for Hamas because it is seen as being less corrupt than Fatah. The irony is that the world will now cut the aid money to the PA.

01-27-06 - We will not be blackmailed, Hamas says

01-27-06 - Army probes the death of a Palestinian child; soldiers did not follow orders The death of this child was also ignored by all major and most minor media outlets this week.

01-27-06 - Fatah gunmen protest Hamas victory in Gaza

01-27-06 - Almost half of Israelis say talk to Hamas - poll

01-27-06 - Protesters urge Abbas to resign

01-27-06 - Donors Threaten Aid Cut After Hamas Win The World Bank estimates that 1.1 billion dollars of the PA's budget in 2005 ? about half of the total ? came from foreign donors.

01-27-06 - Fatah Activists Protest Party Corruption Despite international pressure, Hamas leaders said Friday they had no intention of recognizing Israel. "It's not in our mind now to recognize it as we believe that it's a state that has usurped our land and expelled our people. These issues should be handled before we talk about recognition,"

01-27-06 - Hamas, Son of Israel Amid all the howls of pain and gnashing of teeth over the triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, one fact remains relatively obscure, albeit highly relevant: Israel did much to launch Hamas as an effective force in the occupied territories. If ever there was a clear case of "blowback," then this is it.

01-27-06 - U.S. Could Halt Aid to Palestinians The threat was echoed on Capitol Hill by a nonbinding Senate resolution condemning Hamas and expressing support for halting assistance to the Palestinian government. The symbolic resolution, crafted by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., says aid should be ended if the party controlling the Palestinian parliament advocates the destruction of Israel, which Hamas does. It was unclear when the Senate would vote on the proposal.

01-27-06 - Quartet pushes Hamas to renounce violence, accept Israel

01-27-06 - Peace among the olive trees It was a joy to see Muslims, Jews and Christians working together, demonstrating that peace and reconciliation are possible. It was especially impressive how these Israelis had come to work with the people who are supposed to be their enemies. Yet more impressive is the willingness of the Palestinian Muslims to accept these Jews, when they suspect is was other Jews who destroyed their olive trees

01-27-06 - Iran Says UN Is Being 'Manipulated' in Holocaust Observance "Regrettably, the Zionist regime has routinely attempted to exploit the sufferings of the Jewish people in the past as a cover for its crimes being perpetrated today against Palestinians in the occupied territories, including massacre,"

01-27-06 - Hamas win hardens Israel's unilateral instincts Hamas's shock election win is likely to encourage Israel to take more go-it-alone steps to impose a border with the Palestinians on its own terms.

01-27-06 - A triumph for Sharon The Hamas landslide is the direct outcome of the utter frustration felt by Palestinians at the failure of anybody to do anything about the abject poverty and oppression under which they spend every day of their lives.

01-27-06 - Israel questions cash transfers to Palestinians Israel may face "practical problems" over the transfer of customs revenue to the Palestinians after militant group Hamas won this week's election, a senior finance ministry official said on Friday.

01-27-06 - The Palestinians' democratic choice must be respected The excuses given for refusing to deal with Hamas will not wash. This is a chance for Europe to have an independent role

01-27-06 - Is democracy empowering Islamists? Some historians argue that radical groups' entry into mainstream politics has led them to moderate their stances: The Irish Republican Army or former guerrilla groups in Central America are often cited as examples.

01-27-06 - Leaders urged to accept Hamas government

01-27-06 - Hamas Upset Rattles Bush Strategy

01-27-06 - Israel, West likely to cut funds James Wolfensohn, envoy to the region for the diplomatic "Quartet" managing the peace process, predicted a cutoff from Western nations.

01-27-06 - APN backs Shikaki Americans for Peace Now led an initiative asking Brandeis University to maintain its relationship with a Palestinian academic accused of terrorist ties.

01-27-06 - AIPAC: Hamas win a 'major setback' The pro-Israel lobby said Thursday that the United States must not recognize Hamas as a legitimate political party until it renounces violence, dismantles terrorist infrastructure, recognizes Israel?s right to exist

01-27-06 - Arab-Americans concerned at Hamas victory A number of Arab-American groups expressed concern at Hamas' electoral win.

01-27-06 - China welcomes smooth completion of Palestinian parliamentary elections, FM spokesman

01-27-06 - CNI Delegation Observes Palestinian Election in Gaza

01-27-06 - Observers NDI/Carter Center: Palestinian Elections Important Step toward Greater Sharon did not distinguish between civilians or fighters and saw both as a "threat to Israel's national identity,"

01-27-06 - Edward Said would be Proud of the Palestinian People Once Again!

01-27-06 - The JCRC of Greater Washington Calls on International Community to Reject Hamas-Led Government Until It Renounces Terror

01-27-06 - Hamas to be invited to form government



01-26-06 - Israel rules out talks with Hamas

01-26-06 - Palestinians hail 'day of liberty'

01-26-06 - Hamas celebrates election victory

01-26-06 - Euphoria turns to shock as Palestinians ask 'What now?' "If they declare that secular law has priority over Islamic law I will relax, but if they elevate Islamic law, I will pack my bags. It is not only Christians that are scared. Moderate Muslims who live a modern life are also fearful,"

01-26-06 - Iran: Israel will be put in 'eternal coma' if it attacks nuclear sites Were Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran would respond so strongly that it would put the Jewish state into "an eternal coma" like Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's, the Iranian defense minister said Wednesday

01-26-06 - Hamas Says Will Uphold Cease-Fire

01-26-06 - Hamas Victory Draws Mixed Reactions A policeman fears a Hamas vendetta against security forces. A merchant worries that Israel will now seal the borders. A Hamas supporter celebrates, expecting prosperity.

01-26-06 - Intellectuals on the run The FBI?s file on Edward Said, which began in 1971 after Said co-delivered a lecture on the topic of ?Culture and the Critical Spirit,? was partly released at the request of Counterpunch.com. Despite Said?s death in 2003, the FBI is withholding parts of the 238-page document

01-26-06 - Human Rights Worker Released from Israeli Detention An Israeli Interior Ministry official ordered his release on condition Parsons not participate in any ?international activity? in Hebron. Parson?s lawyer Gaby Lasky views this as a victory and says that the police and military are using their authority to get rid of the international observers while doing nothing against the real perpetrators, the settlers.

01-26-06 - Carter Says Palestinian Elections Fair

01-26-06 - Davos chair apologizes for magazine's Israel boycott call The two-page article in question was headlined "boycott Israel." Written by American academic Mazin Qumsiyeh, its message summarized in the subheading was "global civil society ought to boycott Israel until it ends its Apartheid-like treatment of Palestinians."

01-26-06 - ADL: Palestinians Choose Terrorism Over Peacemaking; Hamas Victory Over Fatah Puts Peace in Peril This is the same ADL that was caught spying on anti-Apartheid activists in the past.

01-26-06 - Israel tried to kill bin Laden in 1996: paper

01-26-06 - Rice says Palestinians want peace despite Hamas victory

01-26-06 - Protecting free elections for Palestinians

01-26-06 - Gen. William Odom on Iraq The way to regain our influence would be "resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict."

01-26-06 - Palestinian activists fined in Jerusalem The Jerusalem municipality slapped a NIS 500,000 fine on Hamas, Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine yesterday for hanging campaign posters in East Jerusalem in violation of city bylaws.

01-26-06 - Spy With a Heart of Gold? Was an American spy for Israel trying to "help" his country?

01-26-06 - Bush demands renunciation of violence and recognition of Israel

01-26-06 - Palestinian elections: Voters' views

01-26-06 - Abbas insists on talks with Israel after Hamas win

01-26-06 - New B'Tselem Campaign - Change the Route of the Separation Barrier

01-26-06 - Zionist Thugs Threaten Another Rense.com Writer And Program Guest Also, the caller phoned me on my cellphone. Most people know - or should - that such a number is extremely hard to obtain. You must have the *authority* to do so and that authority must be high up the food chain.



01-25-06 - Impoverished Gazans vote for change "Today is important because the Palestinian people need their independence, they need to establish their own state and achieve peace with Israel,"

01-25-06 - Palestinians cast historic vote

01-25-06 - Palestinians go to the polls Rightwing Israeli politicians and extremists attempted to force their way into a Palestinian polling station in east Jerusalem, but 75 policemen blocked their way.

01-25-06 - A six per cent democracy As well as severely restricting the number of Palestinians allowed to vote, Israel photocopied registration lists. A refusal to give a previously issued letter of assurances that voting would not affect residency and other rights added to the atmosphere of fear.

01-25-06 - Bush's Dilemma: Iran vs. Israel by Patrick J. Buchanan In short, if Bush does not confront Iran on the nuclear issue with sanctions or air strikes, he may find himself confronted by Israelis and their U.S. auxiliaries

01-25-06 - AIPAC: A Danger For Jews; Orthodox Jews Will Assemble to Protest Against AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) at Annual Dinner Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for Neturei Karta International, Jews United Against Zionism, stated at a recent meeting: "Philanthropists and government representatives, should be apprised of the reality, that supporting Zionism and the State of 'Israel,' does not help Jews or Judaism, but only helps to perpetuate the tragic impasse and constant bloodshed in the Middle East."

01-25-06 - Israel's Olmert orders W.Bank barrier built faster

01-25-06 - Sentence in Franklin case sends chill through free-speech community Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told the Jerusalem Post that the climate in Washington was "unacceptable." That "two patriotic American citizens who are working for Jewish organizations who did nothing to violate American security should have to stand trial and be subject to the public scrutiny and public humiliation, frankly I find very disturbing, and a matter that we all have to look at in a much more serious way," Some people feel that they are above the law. It looks like the law just him square in the ass, rightly so.

01-25-06 - Jews look for pro-Israel turn as Conservatives win Canadian vote "I think the government will be more proactive in seeking remedies to ensure the Iranians do not move forward with their nuclear program," agreed Frank Dimant, president of B'nai Brith Canada. "I know that they understand the threat Iran is, not just to Israel, but to Canada, Europe and the U.S." Canada's growing neocon problem.

01-25-06 - Bush: U.S. Not Ready to Deal With Hamas

01-25-06 - In Wake of Palestinian Elections, ADL Urges World Leaders Not to Legitimate Terrorist Group Hamas ADL says 'Jump!, Bush replies 'how high?'

01-25-06 - Israel-Egypt Trade Soars on U.S. Deal Israel-Egypt Trade Soars, Thanks to United States Deal

01-25-06 - EU Could Increase Palestinian Aid Despite Hamas Victory

01-25-06 - York school board pulls controversial children?s book One Palestinian girl, Wafa, 12, complains about Israeli military checkpoints, saying ? the Israeli soldiers treat us like dogs. They make us stand and wait for no good reason, just because they can.

01-25-06 - OPT: Costs of conflict - Nablus after five years of conflict as this study concludes these changes are insuf?cient to stimulate recovery in Nablus. The bulk of the movement restrictions - aggravated by the presence of 14 Israeli settlements and 26 outposts around Nablus city - remain and in some cases are tightening.

01-25-06 - Palestinian refugees will hold mock PLO elections in Brussels and Paris The symbolic elections aim to raise public awareness of the exclusion of over half of the Palestinian people from the internationally-sponsored process of Palestinian political decision making applied under the terms of the Madrid-Oslo agreements between Israel and the PLO.

01-25-06 - Study: 220 Israeli firms export arms According to the study, most of the transactions are reported to the American government.

01-25-06 - A Minnesota senator said he was concerned that congressional trips to Israel could be cut under lobbying reform proposals. Who does he work for, the American people, or AIPAC?

01-25-06 - Inalienable Human Rights Stand Trial Today in Jerusalem Today begins the trial of Mordechai Vanunu, a Christian in Jerusalem fighting for the inalienable right to free speech and movement.

01-25-06 - Munich: Mossad breaks cover the assassination campaign did not fall apart because the agents lost their nerve, as the film suggests, but because an operation went disastrously wrong at Lillehammer in Norway, when the Israelis mis-identified their target - the Black September chief Ali Hassan Salameh - and killed an innocent Moroccan waiter instead. Spielberg does not even mention Lillehammer;



01-24-06 - Fatah leader in West Bank shot dead Today Fatah gunmen shot to death Abu Ahmed Hassouna, 44, a party leader in Nablus after he told them to stop shooting at campaign posters on his house

01-24-06 - Abbas, factions urge maximum Palestinian vote turnout After meeting former US president Jimmy Carter, one of the vote's overseers, Abbas called the election "a right of every citizen which should be exercised."

01-24-06 - UN renews pressure on Lebanon to disarm Hizbollah

01-24-06 - Absentee Property law is not applicable in East Jerusalem The Tel Aviv District Court, headed by Judge Boaz Okun, issued on Monday a ground breaking ruling stating that the Israeli Absentee Property Law can not be applied either on the West Bank lands Israel occupied during the 1967 War or the Palestinians who are living there adding that declaring lands owned by West Bank Palestinians as "absentee property" was illegal and canceled.

01-24-06 - Surge in support for Hamas as voters prepare to reject Fatah at polls

01-24-06 - Geographers propose transfer of Israeli Arab towns to PA "Is Israel going in the direction of making its Arab population feel like a rejected enemy or attempting to create an atmosphere of co-existence and equality?"

01-24-06 - Palestinian Candidates Condemn U.S. Program

01-24-06 - Militants pledge to ensure smooth Palestinian vote

01-24-06 - Carter: Elections can change Hamas In his speech, Carter said he supports President George W. Bush's Road Map peace initiative, as well as the principles of the Geneva Accord, which advocate recognition of Israel by the Arab states, an independent Palestinian state with territorial continuity, a "harmonious" division of Jerusalem and a resettlement of the Palestinians within their borders.

01-24-06 - Israel's priority to set permanent borders: Olmert No other nation in the world gets to draw up its own borders at will, at the expense of another people, and with the full backing of the United States.

01-24-06 - Palestinian AIDS patient denied care in Tel Aviv

01-24-06 - Palestinian vote 'decisive step' to statehood: Abbas

01-24-06 - State of emergency imposed ahead of Palestinian legislative election

01-24-06 - Olmert says Israel must quit more occupied land

01-24-06 - Abbas Receives Carter

01-24-06 - Christian candidate on Hamas ticket

01-24-06 - Herzliya conference cancels session on Negev Bedouin explusion plan

01-24-06 - The Growing Israel Divestment Movement

01-24-06 - A Human Rights Worker Writes of her Christmas in Israeli Detention During 2002-2003, Israeli soldiers were alleged to have deliberately wounded at least twelve foreign human rights workers with live ammunition, and killed several others, the best known being Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, and UN worker Iain Hook

01-24-06 - Conflict hurts Israel's legitimacy, minister says Unless progress was made towards establishing a Palestinian state as mandated by a U.S.-backed peace road map, Livni said in a speech, pressure could grow to turn Israel into a binational state in which Israelis and Palestinians would share power. One man, one vote works for the United States.

01-24-06 - Settlers begin new fight with Israeli forces For two weeks, dozens of youths have protested against plans to evict settlers living in Hebron's market since 2001. The ultranationalists have rampaged in the predominantly Palestinian city, torching several Palestinian homes and shops.

01-24-06 - Palestinian Elections: PA vehicles used in election campaign

01-24-06 - Norway: Israel boycott a flop Responding to the survey results, consumer researcher Eivind Jacobsen said Norwegians do not have a tradition of boycotts, the Norway Post said. Jacobsen also noted most of the Norwegian imports from Israel consist of components for electronics and IT, as opposed to fruits and vegetables.

01-24-06 - Hamas ordered to pay NIS 100 million Under a new (retroactive) Israeli law, Palestinians aren't allowed to sue the IDF for like crimes.

01-24-06 - Israel should allow Vanunu to leave

01-24-06 - Sharon's health woes concealed by doctors: report

01-24-06 - Carter leads Palestinian election monitors Separately, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) is leading a small official U.S. delegation.

01-24-06 - Abbas to Syria: Shut down terrorists the U.S. State Department said.

01-24-06 - Legislators urge Presbyterians to shun Hezbollah

01-24-06 - Barghouti“s political prospects limited Marwan Barghouti will not be able to serve in the Palestinian Authority Cabinet from prison, Israel?s internal security minister said.

01-24-06 - Q&A: What happens if Hamas triumphs?

01-24-06 - Israeli army nabs eight wanted militants in West Bank

01-24-06 - USAID: Qalandia Road Repair to Ease Travel for Palestinians

01-24-06 - Jewish National Front Plans to Disrupt PA Elections in Jerusalem

01-24-06 - 'Officers who voted for Hamas arrested'

01-24-06 - Rebuffed in D.C., Jewish groups



01-23-06 - Child killed, another injured by military fire near Ramallah Israeli soldiers fired, on Monday evening, at several children in Al Mogheer village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah killing a nine-year old child, and injuring another.

01-23-06 - Palestinian youth, 13, killed by IDF gunfire near Ramallah An initial report indicated soldiers opened fire in the direction of two children building a stone barrier across a road. Soldiers said they opened fire when they noticed two figures laying a suspicious object on the road.

01-23-06 - Israeli soldier lightly wounded in W. Bank shooting

01-23-06 - Thumbnails of Top Palestinian Candidates

01-23-06 - Fatah Calls on Hamas to Renounce Violence

01-23-06 - Palestinian campaign hits climax

01-23-06 - Bush warns Iran on Israel US President George W. Bush said that the United States would defend Israel against any Iranian threat and that the world could not risk being "blackmailed" by a nuclear-armed Tehran.

01-23-06 - Gazans have high hopes of election

01-23-06 - Carter calls for more withdrawal Jimmy Carter urged Israel to uproot more West Bank settlements. "You can't have a Palestinian state living in peace and dignity if it is filled with Israeli settlements,"

01-23-06 - Israeli army to avoid W.Bank towns for poll - media

01-23-06 - US denies campaigning for moderate Palestinians

01-23-06 - East Jerusalem Arabs watch election from afar "Some groups are banned and even if we can find a way to vote for them, how can anyone make a difference here with Israel still in control of the whole of Jerusalem?"

01-23-06 - NDI/Carter Center observers arrive for Palestinian elections Election observers from 22 countries have arrived to observe election preparations and voting as part of a multinational delegation organized by the National Democratic Institute in partnership with The Carter Center.

01-23-06 - Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace Brit Tzedek's CALL TO BRING THE SETTLERS HOME TO ISRAEL.

01-23-06 - CNI Public Hearing: Remarks by Timothy Rothermel Living in Palestine for the past decade, and being a frequent visitor there for over twenty-five years, I would like to share with you some thoughts about this extraordinary place.

01-23-06 - ADL chief: Franklin affair could pose threat to Jewish lobbyists Some American Jewish leaders are concerned by the influence the trial could have on the relations between Jewish groups and the administration

01-23-06 - Challenging a sacred American institution The Washington museum is a sacred institution in America, certainly in Jewish America, but it is not without controversy. Now its opponents are taking it to task for what they see as its failure to tackle Arab-Muslim anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitism by Israelis won't be getting any mention though, I'm guessing.

01-23-06 - One Israeli in four lives in poverty Then where is all our aid money going? To pay off/'relocate' the Gaza settlers who shouldn't have been in Gaza in the first place, to pay for the new illegal settlements going up in E. Jerusalem and the West Bank and the necessary military occupation thereof. Ordinary Israelis get to suffer for it.

01-23-06 - GOV SEEKS N.Y. $$ FOR ISRAEL HOSPITAL A provision tucked away in Gov. Pataki's proposed budget would allow the state to help a Jewish group dramatically expand a hospital it runs - in Israel.

01-23-06 - Fatah struggles with tainted image Corruption and incompetence in Yasser Arafat's faction are helping Hamas win support in run-up to Palestinian election

01-23-06 - Hamas has arrived - but there are limits to its advance

01-23-06 - FACTBOX-Palestinian parliamentary election

01-23-06 - Unicef appeals for $805m in aid

01-23-06 - Abbas meets Jordan's delegation to monitor Palestinian elections

01-23-06 - Armed factions banned from protecting ballots in Palestine

01-23-06 - Cheney's War Workshop Plots Another Attack Israel, however, and its neocon allies in the Bush administration, claim without any evidence that Iran is making a bomb.

01-23-06 - UN remains committed to helping Palestinians achieve own state, says Secretary-General in message on forthcoming election

01-23-06 - US likely to reschedule Israeli weapons payments Israel pays US arms suppliers with the annual military aid that it receives from the US. US regulations for financing cash flow allow Israel to base its financing for multi-year procurement on the military aid that it is expected to receive in the future.

01-23-06 - Hamas: Negotiations With Israel Possible

01-23-06 - Hundreds to watch Palestinian vote

01-23-06 - Rice Urges Palestinians to Nix Terrorism

01-23-06 - Poll: Israelis downbeat about chances for Middle East peace

01-23-06 - Olmert to stress road map at Herzliya Conference Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to tell Herzliya Conference participants Tuesday that Israel's permanent borders must be determined based on demographic considerations, and should not be based on control of a large Palestinian population in the West Bank.

01-23-06 - Tunnel discovered under eastern Gaza crossing

01-23-06 - Hillary Clinton, War Goddess It is the task of Israel's amen corner in the U.S. to convince the American public, and especially to prevail upon their elected representatives, that Israel's interests and our own always coincide.

01-23-06 - A Palestinian pivot

01-23-06 - Peretz: We'll pay settlers who leave Labor won't hesitate to evacuate more settlements: The Labor party will favor unilateral withdrawals should negotiations with the Palestinians fail, and offer compensation to settlers willing to voluntarily leave the West Bank

01-23-06 - Shaaban shows video in spy trial An Indiana truck driver fought with federal prosecutors today to play at his trial a videotape of a neighborhood Fourth of July celebration in Greenfield.

01-23-06 - Speaker's anti-Arab sentiments negligent



01-22-06 - One killed in Israeli air strike A Palestinian has been killed in an Israeli missile attack in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources say.

01-22-06 - Netanyahu: "No Right of Return, no withdrawal to the borders of 1967"

01-22-06 - Israel hardens line as pressure on Iran grows

01-22-06 - Iran warns Israel against military strikes Iran has warned Israel that it would be making a "fatal mistake" if it used military strikes to try to destroy Tehran's nuclear facilities.

01-22-06 - Jailed leader urges Palestinians to vote

01-22-06 - Various polls predict Fatah win over Hamas on national ticket

01-22-06 - Hamas Will Restrain from Attacks after Palestinian Elections: IDF

01-22-06 - Israeli leaders brace for Hamas landslide

01-22-06 - Will Oprah's next pick go to 'Pieces'? Wiesel's troubles with memory and truth are especially acute when it comes to Israel's behavior toward Palestinians. For example, he has long maintained that the 1948 Palestinian refugees left voluntarily, "incited by their leaders," a claim that Israel's own historians have done much to shatter.

01-22-06 - "Paradise Now" gains praise and condemnation

01-22-06 - President Receive Chinese Observers to Elections

01-22-06 - Colin Powell helps JNF raise a million In recent years JNF events have consistently been targeted by anti-Israel protestors, especially in Scotland. They claim the organisation is helping build settlements on Palestinian land.

01-22-06 - U.S. Funds Enter Fray In Palestinian Elections Elements of the U.S.-funded program include a street-cleaning campaign, distributing free food and water to Palestinians at border crossings, donating computers to community centers and sponsoring a national youth soccer tournament

01-22-06 - Hamas supports provisional Palestinian state

01-22-06 - Lawless in Gaza: leaders try to end chaos by taking guns off the street

01-22-06 - Annan urges Palestinian People to Vote

01-22-06 - My challenge For Steven Spielberg A Muslim friend once wrote to me to recommend Schindler's List, but asked if the director would continue the story with an epic about the Palestinian dispossession which followed the arrival of Schindler's refugees in Palestine. Instead of that, Spielberg has jumped 14 years to Munich, saying in an interview that the real enemy in the Middle East is "intransigence". It's not. The real enemy is taking other people's land away from them.

01-22-06 - FEATURE-Settlers begin new fight with Israeli forces "Until now we have been tolerant of settler riots and now we are paying the price," General Dan Halutz, the army's chief of staff, told the cabinet.



01-21-06 - IDF kills Palestinian near Gaza fence

01-21-06 - Israel warns Iran on nuclear work

01-21-06 - Army re-arrests two residents, several hours after releasing them soldiers told them to return in the afternoon to collect their ID's, but when they came back, soldiers hit them with their batons and arrested them.

01-21-06 - Iran faces 'destruction' - Israel warns

01-21-06 - Israeli Hints at Preparation to Stop Iran

01-21-06 - Hamas will recognise Israel: minister Egypt's foreign minister has expressed confidence that the militant Islamic Palestinian group Hamas would recognise Israel's existence.

01-21-06 - Israel assassinated Arafat: Syria Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused Israel of assassinating former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose death 14 months ago remains a mystery.

01-21-06 - Netanyahu to call for moving fence Netanyahu gave a preview of his Herzliya speech when he addressed a delegation from the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee on Wednesday

01-21-06 - IDF: Hamas to abide by cease-fire after PA vote The officers said that assuming Hamas does well at the polls, it is likely to maintain the calm it agreed to about a year ago.

01-21-06 - Iran rejects Israel's accusation on Tel Aviv bombing "Iran's support to the Palestinians is merely a moral support,"

01-21-06 - Palestinian forces vote ahead of civilian poll day

01-21-06 - US will help Israel in case of war with Iran? If Israel is attacked, the United States will ?obviously? militarily support its close Mideast ally, US Vice President Dick Cheney said in interview with CNBC television Thursday.

01-21-06 - Israel on alert as Hamas leads poll

01-21-06 - Arab anger: Jews treated differently "These police officers were here a number of times. They wanted to recruit my son and turn him into an informer. I refused and argued with them. The last time they came a few months ago, he refused, and they told him: 'We will settle the score with you in the end,'" said Jamal.

01-21-06 - Franklin's fate If he goes to court and tells Americans what AIPAC has been up to, that will be the end of the 'special relationship' between Israel and the United States. It goes without saying that he can't be allowed to go to court. So what will it be, 'accident' or 'suicide'?

01-21-06 - Egypt to send observers for Palestinian elections

01-21-06 - Sharon's condition unchanged: hospital

01-21-06 - Olympics Massacre: Munich - The real story The killings went on for at least two decades. Mossad agents have tried to claim they targeted Palestinians directly connected with the 1972 massacre. But only a couple of the Palestinians shot or blown to pieces during the operation appear to have been directly connected with the Olympic attack. Instead the dead were mainly Palestinian intellectuals, politicians and poets. And the consequences of these so-called "targeted killings" for Israel have been appalling.

01-21-06 - Palestinians court Gulf in $5 billion investment drive

01-21-06 - Jihad pledges to exclude Israeli civilians from future violence

01-21-06 - U.S.: Palestinians reject Iranian, Syrian support for militants

01-21-06 - British embassy in Israel stung for £1m



01-20-06 - Developers 'dumping' East J'lem homes on unwitting U.S. Jews Nof Zion is slated to cover some 115 dunams, part of which belonged to Jewish landowners, and part of which the Jerusalem municipality expropriated from several Arab landowners in the Jabel Mukaber area East Jerusalem is Occupied Palestinian Territory: World.

01-20-06 - A Plan to Transfer Arabs of Unrecognized Villages in Negev The Regional Council of the Unrecognized Villages in Negev south of Israel revealed Wednesday that Israeli government plans to transfer Arabs living in those villages into other areas in Israel.

01-20-06 - Thousands Challenge Israeli Apartheid in Bil?in

01-20-06 - On A7radio: Military Attack against Iran Now Imminent US and Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear facilities in less than 10 weeks from now

01-20-06 - Peres: Israel does not intend to withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem

01-20-06 - Security forces to cast first Palestinian ballots

01-20-06 - Most Israelis back unilateral W. Bank pullout: poll

01-20-06 - Human rights poor in Mideast despite reform calls: HRW "Israeli forces carried out "daily arrest raids and military operations in Palestinian areas ... often (failing) to demonstrate it had used all feasible measures to avoid or minimize harm to civilians." Meanwhile, "conditions of lawlessness have increased in parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip" with Palestinian gunmen engaging in armed clashes, vigilante killings and kidnappings of foreigners.

01-20-06 - State Dept. to Iran, Syria: Get in Step Our government takes its cue from Israel, as per usual.

01-20-06 - Hamas gains on Fatah in election opinion poll The ruling Fatah party and the Islamist group Hamas are running neck and neck ahead of elections in the Palestinian territories next week, according to a poll released yesterday.

01-20-06 - Ex-Pentagon Analyst Sentenced to 12 Years The judge also agreed to let Franklin remain free while the government continues with the wider case. His prison time could be sharply reduced in return for his help in prosecuting two former members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Franklin better watch his back. It would appear that this would put him in a rather unfavorable position to say the least.

01-20-06 - Israel breaks up West Bank barrier protest The United Nations' International Court of Justice issued in 2004 a non-binding ruling that parts of the 650-kilometre (410-mile) barrier which criss-crosses the West Bank are illegal and should be torn down.

01-20-06 - Israelis would back attack on Iran nuclear sites: poll

01-20-06 - Israel Blames Iran, Syria for Bombings Coincidently, Israel has called for us to change the regimes in both of those countries after we are finished in Iraq, and these countries are both on the neocon hitlist.

01-20-06 - Settler rams Palestinian youth with car

01-20-06 - DeGioia Defends Palestine Conference Richard Frankel (COL ?08) questioned the university?s decision to allow Georgetown?s Students for Justice for Palestine to host a February conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, a group that some have accused of being anti-Israel.

01-20-06 - Syrian official: Syria not involved in TA bombing Syria "had nothing to do with the operation."

01-20-06 - Palestinian Christians The vast, vast majority of Americans and the vast majority of American Christians know virtually nothing about Palestinian Christians

01-20-06 - Palestinian ambassador asks for SA's help

01-20-06 - Despair Plagues Exiled Palestinians

01-20-06 - EU, PA slam east J'lem vote compromise The main problem, according to Dwaik and confirmed by De Keyser, was the issue of privacy. In previous PA elections, voters did not have a screen or booths set up in the post offices that allowed them to mark their ballots without being observed by Israeli postal or security officials.

01-20-06 - McCloskey takes challenge to run against Pombo In the past two decades, he has become a critic of pro-Israeli U.S. policies and visited the late Palestinian leader, Yassar Arafat

01-20-06 - The soldier knows what he's saying

01-20-06 - Hebron Reflection "Shabbat shalom", I greet the worshippers. Some have learned to recognise my red hat the mark of a Christian Peacemaker in Hebron, and they spit at me and they curse me as a Nazi. And it hurts.

01-20-06 - German FM: Israeli nukes don?t justify Iran

01-20-06 - Danish T-shirts 'to fund rebels' The T-shirts have as logos the initials of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

01-20-06 - Siniora to ask for Arab help on Palestinian weapons issue Lebanon's Premier Fouad Siniora is set to send a letter to Arab states "soon" urging them to exert pressure on the Palestinians in order to put an end to Palestinian weapons outside refugee camps.

01-20-06 - U.S. to push for Hizbullah disarmament The United States is set on Monday to present to the United Nations Security Council a draft resolution calling on Lebanon to implement a past resolution demanding Hizbullah and other militias be disarmed. Yet, no one asks Israel to implement the numerous UN resolutions that it is in violation of.

01-20-06 - Hamas leader says Oslo agreement expires long time ago

01-20-06 - Jaffa: Divided it fell In late May 1948 the Israeli government formed a Transfer Committee to prevent the return of the refugees, and settle new Jewish olim, immigrants, in their abandoned houses, starting in Haifa and Jaffa. The few Arabs who remained were to be relocated from their homes. The Emergency Committee's protest memorandum was ignored. When the time came Israeli soldiers simply threw the Arabs out of their homes. Even the Emergency Committee was expelled from its offices.

01-20-06 - Sinn Fein to meet Palestinian envoy

01-20-06 - Palestinian Conference Will Promote Peace For the record, the PSM is an entirely grassroots organization, which advocates non-violent methods to arrive at a just peace in accordance with international law. Any attempts to blacken the movements with such absurd charges as terrorism is a saddening reminder of the prejudices that remain on this campus.....the irony here is that Levinson himself is a racist who?s written that "Israel should expel the two-legged locusts and annex all the occupied territory. To hell with these vermin."

01-20-06 - Hundreds attend funeral for Israeli Arab Hundreds attended the funeral of an Israeli Arab killed by Israeli police

01-20-06 - Tens of thousands join Hamas rallies

01-20-06 - Activists: Museum should acknowledge Arab anti-Semitism The fledgling organization, "Holocaust Museum Watch," believe the government-funded museum should present an exhibit to highlight Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism, both No mention of the anti-Semitism by Israelis though.

01-20-06 - Syria supports Iran in standoff with West Ha'aretz reports that Russia rejected a proposal put forward by Israel this week to place immediate sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to abandon its nuclear program.

01-20-06 - Pentagon man jailed over spying It has made American officials more sensitive than ever about what they say on the subject of foreign policy and to whom they say it, and it has raised the question of just how much Israel conducts espionage against its greatest ally, the US, our correspondent adds.

01-20-06 - Israeli Group calls the wall land robbery, calls for protest in Bil'in

01-20-06 - East Jerusalem vote for minority Just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem will be allowed to vote in Palestinian elections this month.

01-20-06 - Film Award Is A Global Issue With the Middle East on the verge of explosion in recent months, it was an unwise decision to reward a one-sided film as a major achievement. We'll see if the same assessment is given if Spielberg's Munich receives an Oscar. Doubtful.

01-20-06 - Racism, anti-Semitism drop in France

01-20-06 - Defending 'Munich's' disputed territory

01-20-06 - ?We Are Citizens of This Country? You know, you do a great job bringing a human face to those in the Middle East, thereby undoing some of the harsh depictions that are routinely put forth in the mainstream American media. Posted by dirtyharriet0 on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 9:47 PM ET Vanity op :) My comment was chosen.

01-20-06 - Brandeis University Faces Threat Of Boycott Over Palestinian Scholar it has succeeded upending nominations and appointments of people whom it finds objectionable.

01-20-06 - Israel shuns Paradise Now



01-19-06 - Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teen Near Hebron

01-19-06 - 22 injured in Tel Aviv suicide bombing "This is sabotage and aimed at ... the elections, not only the elections, but also the security of Palestinians," Mr Abbas told reporters at his office in Ramallah. "The culprits must be punished."

01-19-06 - Israel renews request for U.S. aid Israel needs the money to relocate settlers evacuated from Gaza last year, especially in the underdeveloped regions of the Negev and Galilee. The request was shelved following Hurricane Katrina. The payout has been approved in principle by the Bush administration but its details have yet to be hammered out.

01-19-06 - Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories * While the total number of Israeli and Palestinian casualties fell in 2005 following the February ceasefire, the overall human rights situation in Israel and the OPT remained grave. Since the beginning of the current intifada in September 2000, Israel has killed nearly three thousand Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, including more than six hundred children. During the same period, Palestinian fighters have killed more than nine hundred Israelis inside Israel and in the OPT. Most of those killed on both sides were civilians.

01-19-06 - 2,000 policemen to be deployed in north for Wadi Ara man's funeral

01-19-06 - Homemade shell hits Palestinian house north of the Gaza strip

01-19-06 - House demolitions in Jerusalem continue unabated

01-19-06 - Spreading War, Not Democracy The Bush Administration and their Democratic allies believe that the war in Iraq and now Iran is in Israel?s interest.

01-19-06 - Most Israelis willing to cede east Jerusalem for peace The willingness to give up swathes of the city's eastern sector can be understood in light of the fact that almost all respondents (95.3 percent) believe Jerusalem should have a large Jewish majority. East Jerusalem is occupied by Israel, not owned. Palestinians have sovereignty over it along with Gaza and the West Bank according to international law.

01-19-06 - EU suspends $42 million in aid to Palestinians citing budgetary mismanagement

01-19-06 - 3 Palestinians 2 soldiers wounded in army invasions in W. Bank

01-19-06 - Farmers: Closing of Karni costing millions Moreover, the Farmers Federation claim that Palestinian farmers are also suffering from the Karni crossing closure; the closure is also preventing the transfer of medical drugs and milk for people and animals in Gaza, leading to the outbreak of diseases in Gaza chickens coops.

01-19-06 - Army bars residents from opening farm road near Qalqilia Troops stopped the Palestinian bulldozers working in the northern area of the village, and barred them from opening a new road that will be used to facilitate the access of local farmers to their land.

01-19-06 - New-look Hamas spends £100k on an image makeover

01-19-06 - Hebron for Beginners Occupied by Israel in 1967, the Palestinian town saw its very heart taken over by Israeli settlers, whose presence there is illegal according to international law but supported by all Israeli governments

01-19-06 - Jewish Legislators Build International Network in Israel.

01-19-06 - IDF lifts Hebron military closure; 4,000 troops to evacuate Amona Military sources said the IDF would prefer to evacuate the market after the Palestinian parliamentary elections next week

01-19-06 - German spies see Iran 3-4 yrs from A-bomb: source Israel, which Iran's president has said should be "wiped off the map," believes the earliest Iran could get an atomic weapon is 2008. The United States believes Iran could get the bomb in the next decade.

01-19-06 - Severe restrictions on movement in the West Bank impact the election campaigns

01-19-06 - Hizbollah: missing Israeli airman probably dead

01-19-06 - Palestinians unable to sue Israeli employers Labor Court instructs Palestinian workers who filed lawsuit against Israeli employer to pay large fee in order for court to handle case

01-19-06 - 'It was a joke I was even nominated'

01-19-06 - Hamas office shut down ahead of vote, say Israelis

01-19-06 - Exalting Sharon: A Dire Case of Collective Amnesia Some US newspapers admitted, although reluctantly, that Palestinians indeed ?perceive? Sharon as a war criminal who has wrought untold hurt and misery. But as always, war crimes committed against Palestinians are never the same as those committed against others, especially when the perpetrator is Israel

01-19-06 - EU presses Israel over Palestinian elections

01-19-06 - Official: Attack worth 20,000 dollars Suddenly Iran, not Saddam's Iraq, is funding the suicide bombers. This is the very reason Cheney gave days ago for our war on Iraq.

01-19-06 - OPT: Continued Swedish participation in Hebron

01-19-06 - Israel holds American Representative of National Democratic Institute at Eretz Crossing Mara Rodman, representative of National Democratic Institute (NDI), which is directed by a former US president, Jimmy Carter, said that she - as a head of the international observers for the elections - and the accompanied staff were held up for 2 hours at Ertz Crossing by the Israeli investigators who questioned them.

01-19-06 - 20 Quebec groups urge Israel boycott

01-19-06 - Library Group Draws Fire Over Web Site Still, the absence of a pro-Israel link to balance the pro-Arab link on the ALA-approved Web sites for children, troubles Jewish advocates



01-18-06 - Army invades a village near Bethlehem levels two houses

01-18-06 - Vatican also wants Jerusalem? The Vatican's legal advisor in Israel, David Jaeger, harshly criticized Israel?s policy regarding safeguarding Christian holy sites.

01-18-06 - Palestinian Leader Says He May Resign Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he'd rather resign than let extremists block his peace agenda, but he expressed hope the Islamic militant group Hamas would moderate its views if it shared power.

01-18-06 - Jimmy Carter, former European leaders to monitor Palestinian vote

01-18-06 - Olmert requests plan to remove illegal Jewish outposts Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked his defence minister on Wednesday to draw up plans to dismantle 24 unauthorised Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank, officials said

01-18-06 - Israel detains Palestinians for election campaigning Israeli police detained seven Palestinian activists campaigning on Wednesday in Arab East Jerusalem for next week's Palestinian parliamentary election, accusing them of belonging to an outlawed group.

01-18-06 - Hebron settlers refusing IDF compromise deal "Evacuate the market," the army said, "and we will make a commitment to you that, within a few months, the stores will return to your hands."

01-18-06 - Construction plans clog Palestinian village's water supply If the plans materialize, the village will be surrounded on nearly all sides by new Betar Illit neighborhoods and the separation fence. A planned road will also cut through village fields

01-18-06 - Think tank calls for Int?l supervision in J?lem

01-18-06 - Israeli police face off with militant Israelis trying to prevent evictions of Israeli squatters in Hebron's Old City Palestinians have been forbidden access to the Avraham Avinu market place since February 1994. At that time the merchants were abruptly kicked out and the market permanently closed by the Israeli army following the massacre of 29 Palestinians and the wounding of scores of others by an American born Israeli terrorist living in the nearby right wing settlement of Kiryat Arba.

01-18-06 - Another Undeclared War? by Patrick J. Buchanan McCain and Bush both emphasized the threat to Israel. And all the usual suspects are beating the drums for war. Israel warns that March is the deadline after which she may strike

01-18-06 - Jordan keeping out Orthodox Jews Jordan is preventing Orthodox Jewish Israelis from entering the country, ostensibly for fear they could be attacked, Israel?s Foreign Ministry said.

01-18-06 - Limits on trips for U.S. lawmakers would affect Jewish, Israel lobbies Jewish groups have used trips to Israel as a key tool to help lawmakers, especially non-Jewish members of Congress, understand the significance of the Jewish state and its need for political support. Such trips have helped the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other groups sensitize Congress to Israeli concerns. "sensitize", more like INFLUENCE.

01-18-06 - President Abbas Participates in Armenian Church in Christmas

01-18-06 - Israel in talks with U.S., EU over sanctions Israel is in advanced talks with the United States and European countries over a package of sanctions that would be applied against Iran should it continue its nuclear program.

01-18-06 - Abbas calls on Palestinians to vote in election day

01-18-06 - Pro-Israel program gets grant A program that teaches pro-Israel advocacy to U.S. high school students received a $100,000 grant.

01-18-06 - Group opens D.C. office Brit Tzedek v?Shalom, which tries to build support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, opened a Washington office.

01-18-06 - Fatah, Hamas agree not to carry arms on election day

01-18-06 - Australian editorial cartoon blasted "There was a small movement in his right arm." The other character responds, "So he's fit enough to work. That's all the movement it takes to order a missile attack against an old Palestinian man in a wheelchair," a reference to Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, whom Israel assassinated in 2004.



01-18-06 - EU announces more financial aid for Palestinian elections efforts

01-18-06 - The Elephant in the World and Israel's Worst Kept Secret

01-18-06 - Israel appoints second woman FM Ms Livni hails from a prominent nationalist family - her father was a key figure in the Jewish underground movement, the Irgun, which fought British rule in Palestine before Israel was founded in 1948. A 'Jewish underground movement' that used terrorism to drive the British out of Palestine.

01-18-06 - 'Palestine' was born in Hollywood the presenters opened the envelope and announced the name of the winning country: Palestine. Palestine has always been there. It's Israel that is the recent creation (by the UN).

01-18-06 - Hamas swaps bullets for ballots in attempt to sweep away old guard

01-18-06 - Lebanon wants UN force in South for another year Assaf's letter made no mention of Hizbollah but accused Israel of repeatedly violating Lebanese airspace and failing to respect its sovereignty.

01-18-06 - Palestinian Business Council to hold a forum on investment in Palestine

01-18-06 - American Jews to Israel: Bring Settlers Home

01-18-06 - Sharon's breathing tube replaced

01-18-06 - Peres Proposes Talks With Palestinians

01-18-06 - US prof cleared of aiding Jihad may have 2nd trial A federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss remaining charges against Sami Al-Arian, making a second trial more likely for the former college professor on charges that he aided Palestinian terrorists.



01-17-06 - Israeli troops kill first Hamas militant since truce ended

01-17-06 - Olmert urges EU to push for Hamas disarmament

01-17-06 - UNRWA to cut refugee food rations: sources

01-17-06 - Hamas: We never wanted to throw Jews in sea "Hamas is not hostile to Jews because they are Jews. We are hostile to them because they occupied our land and expelled our people,"

01-17-06 - Palestinian AIDS Patient Denied Entry into Israel

01-17-06 - Israeli police evict Jewish hardliners from Hebron

01-17-06 - Gaza gunmen reject storing arms for vote: minister

01-17-06 - Zionist Threats - Nimmo Stops Posting On Blog

01-17-06 - Vatican deploys Israeli telecom solution

01-17-06 - Abbas finds Arafat's shoes tough to fill

01-17-06 - Report: Germany provided passports to Mossad agents A spokesman for the BND confirmed that his organization is cooperating with the Mossad, but refused to respond to the reported information that the organization supplied the Mossad with passports

01-17-06 - National Democratic Institute/Carter Center to Observe Palestinian Legislative Council Elections

01-17-06 - Palestinian Film Gets Thumbs Down at Home During the Golden Globe ceremony, the film's place of origin was announced as "Palestine." It's also in the running for the foreign film Academy Award as the entry for "Palestine."

01-17-06 - Olmert hopes to renew peace talks

01-17-06 - OPT: Save the Children inaugurates a new health clinic in Gaza - Memoranda of Implementation signed for new job creation projects

01-17-06 - Israel attacks Galloway for using Big Brother cash to ?fund terrorists? - The Herald the UK's charity commission conducted its second formal inquiry and again found no evidence to back claims against Interpal, which says it "focuses solely on the provision of relief and development aid to the poor and needy of Palestine". Our government buys Israel's hysterics lock, stock and barrel.

01-17-06 - IDF Claims a "Zero Tolerance" for Violent Settlers "I was attacked right in front of four soldiers," Parsons said, explaining that the group of girls surrounded him when they saw him filming as they threw stones at Palestinians. "They kicked and punched me, and tried repeatedly to steal my video camera. Four soldiers were standing nearby and watching, but they did nothing to help me or Palestinians as we were attacked."

01-17-06 - Palestinian?s Paradise Now film wins honour Abu-Assad insisted that he had not taken sides in the film but had tried to explain why two seemingly simple garage mechanics would be willing to kill themselves and others. His film presents arguments on all sides of the issue. ?It is a work of cinema. Cinema shows you different points of view,? he added.

01-17-06 - A REASON TO DANCE ON THE WEST BANK So, he moved to the Palestinian Occupied Territories .. spending the last four years in the West Bank, teaching dance in refugee camps.

01-17-06 - Olmert open to talks if Palestinians disarm factions

01-17-06 - Fateh Central Committee member loses consciousness during speech

01-17-06 - Mideast troupe brings act to Phila.



01-16-06 - 'Paradise Now' wins foreign language Golden Globe Director Hany Abu-Assad told the Beverly Hilton audience that he saw the award not only as recognition of the film, its cast and crew, "but also as a recognition that the Palestinians deserve their liberty and equality unconditionally."

01-16-06 - Palestinian: Settlers almost lynched me "My house was raided by some 200 people. Luckily for me, peace activists have intervened, and fell victim to the settlers themselves. They were stomped over and beaten until they bled," Dnadish recalled.

01-16-06 - Witherspoon, Clooney Earn Golden Globes The Palestinian film "Paradise Now," a dark tale of two Arab friends tapped to carry out a suicide bombing in Israel, won the prize for foreign-language film.

01-16-06 - Israeli, PA officials meet in bid to increase joint anti-drug efforts Police and Anti-drug Authority officials met Monday with their Palestinian counterparts at the Erez crossing on the Israel-Gaza border to discuss heightened cooperation in fighting the war on drugs.

01-16-06 - Hamas election success could hurt Palestinian statehood: US

01-16-06 - Israel will not agree to Iran nuclear capability: president

01-16-06 - Jerusalem man does not have bird flu The 50-year-old man from Sur Baher village in east Jerusalem had been admitted to hospital for tests late Sunday after a number of chickens he was keeping died

01-16-06 - Iran nuclear bid 'fault of West' Saudi Arabia has said the West is partly to blame for the current nuclear stand-off with Iran because it allowed Israel to develop nuclear weapons.

01-16-06 - Palestinian association asks to host matches in Gaza The Palestinian Football Association has asked to host matches on home soil for the first time since Palestinians gained control of the Gaza Strip, according to PFA president Ahmed Al-Afifi

01-16-06 - Settlers annex 150 Dunams of Palestinian land in Doura village

01-16-06 - UN urges bird flu vigilance in Middle East

01-16-06 - Israel sends troops to quell 'Jewish intifada' The defence ministry has ordered an investigation to assess the cost of the damage incurred by Palestinian shopkeepers in Hebron during acts of vandalism carried out by Jewish settlers with a view to compensating them.

01-16-06 - Dismantling of outposts served with evacuation orders delayed The dismantling of three outposts in the northern West Bank, which have been served with evacuation orders, has been delayed, a senior security source said Monday.

01-16-06 - Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian house in Jerusalem Israeli bulldozers demolished on Monday morning a Palestinian housing building at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, near Rachel's Tomb.

01-16-06 - Despite Injunction from Israeli Supreme Court ? Illegal Construction in Metityahu Mizrah Continues

01-16-06 - Abbas Concerned as Israel Escalates Arrests

01-16-06 - Court acquits 'Hilltop youth' leader accused of assault Avri Ran, who is thought to be the leader of the 'hilltop youth' settlers, was acquitted on Monday of charges of attacking Palestinians and of causing serious damage, despite the fact that he confessed to the crimes Disgraceful.

01-16-06 - How to buy friends and influence politics "Now here's the thing," commented Iraq expert Juan Cole. "If a Palestinian-American had diverted $140,000 from a Muslim charity to ?security equipment' and ?sniper lessons' for Palestinians on the West Bank, that individual would be in Gitmo so fast that the sonic boom would rattle your windows...

01-16-06 - Israel raids Palestinian party Israeli police Monday raided the Jerusalem offices of the Fidah Party and arrested five people.

01-16-06 - Anger helps Hamas rise in politics

01-16-06 - Civilians man border crossings Part of an IDF plan to curtail contact between IDF soldiers and the Palestinian populace on border crossings in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, a new unit of civilian guards has been set up and private security companies have been contracted to operate main checkpoints.

01-16-06 - Dozens of Palestinians arrested in W. Bank

01-16-06 - Court rejects Jonathan Pollard's bid to become Prisoner of Zion The High Court of Justice on Monday rejected a petition by Jonathan Pollard, an American Jewish citizen convicted and jailed in the U.S. for spying for Israel, to be granted Prisoner of Zion status, which would have required the government to do all it could to secure his release.

01-16-06 - Abbas urges Rice to press Israel to lift restrictions on candidates

01-16-06 - AIPAC Sponsored Trips Should be Made Illegal The overreaching of lobby groups such as AIPAC and the power it exerts on US foreign policy prompts a need for regulation and transparency. The Council for the National Interest is promoting a Foreign Lobby Registration Act, and those interested in signing the act may read it on CNI?s website.

01-16-06 - Palestinians concerned with unemployment, says visiting U.S. bishop Of some 400 families in Holy Family Parish in Ramallah, West Bank, 125 are facing a daily struggle because of unemployment, Bishop Skylstad said after visiting the parish Jan. 15.

01-16-06 - Several detainees infected with scabies without receiving treatment

01-16-06 - Hamas win to force Palestinian ties rethink: Spanish FM

01-16-06 - Palestinian youth frustrated by Arafat's old guard

01-16-06 - Open Letter to the candidates to the Palestinian legislative elections: Amnesty International is calling on all parliamentary candidates to put human rights at the top of their agenda, by making concrete proposals for putting an end to inter-factional violence and impunity and for delivering justice to the Palestinian people.

01-16-06 - Israel releases 8 of 10 Hamas candidates arrested in East Jerusalem

01-16-06 - Doctors play down claims that Sharon opened eyes

01-16-06 - Middle East rapporteur regrets Israeli decision to ban Hamas from campaigning in East Jerusalem

01-16-06 - Mother of Missing Palestinian Still Adamant Son is Innocent in Hariri Murder The mother of Ahmad Abu Adas, the Palestinian who claimed responsibility for the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in a videotaped message shown on al Jazeera in February last year, was surprised to discover her son?s name was mentioned in relation to a suspected terrorist cell.

01-16-06 - Sharon planed four options for West Bank settlements

01-16-06 - Human rights demo at Powell address The event, staged by pro-Palestinian activists, was heavily policed with almost as many officers as protesters at the scene



01-15-06 - Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank Palestinian witnesses said those killed were a 48-year-old woman and her 20-year-old son. Medics said four other family members were wounded.

01-15-06 - Israeli soldiers kill woman and son

01-15-06 - Three Consecutive Days of Attacks In Tel Rumeida; Baruch Marzel Beats Palestinian Woman a mob of approximately 40 settlers, averaging 15 years of age, attacked a small group of Human Rights Workers kicking, punching and hitting them with sticks. Soldiers did not effectively stop them. Then settlers began to try to kick the door to a Palestinian home. The owner opened the door and the settlers began kicking him and trying to enter his home. One HRW got past the settlers and blocked the door to prevent the settlers from entering the home. Settlers then kicked him violently.

01-15-06 - 6 Palestinian Shops Burned by Colonizers in Hebron Jewish colonizers burned Sunday 6 Palestinian shops in the wholesale market in the old city of Hebron, while the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and Police did not stop or arrest colonizers.

01-15-06 - Special Forces kill mother, her son, near Nablus Lawyer Mohammad Al Halabi, a relative of the family, said that Monjid was night-guarding the family's home after unknown men attacked it and burnt the family's vehicles several days ago.

01-15-06 - The U.S. double standard on rights Eight years ago, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turned 50, B'Tselem, Israel's leading human rights group, reported that Israel was violating 29 of the 30 articles of the declaration in its treatment of Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

01-15-06 - Abramoff Scandal Could End Netanyahu's Likud Takeover Although Netanyahu criticized the Oasis casino as providing funding for Palestinian terrorists, investigators are looking at Netanyahu's involvement in helping to steer $140,000 in tribal casino money away from Abramoff's Capitol Athletic Foundation (CAF) charity in Washington, DC to right-wing West Bank settlers in Beitar Illit on the West Bank so they could buy "security equipment" and sniper lessons

01-15-06 - Army invades village near Jenin

01-15-06 - IDF says may impose closure on Jewish areas in Hebron Following several days of settler unrest in the West Bank city of Hebron that came to an end Sunday evening, senior military sources warned that "if the situation doesn't improve we will have to declare the Jewish neighborhoods in Hebron a closed military zone." That's what they do to the Palestinians for lesser events, and mostly for no reason at all.

01-15-06 - Hamas banned from Jerusalem campaigning Lieutenant Ariel Nussbacher complained that Jewish youths gave him a Nazi salute when he tried to stop them beating up Arabs.

01-15-06 - Hamas determined to fight for election despite arrests

01-15-06 - Abbas not to seek re-election once term ends

01-15-06 - Israel okays Palestinian Jerusalem vote, arrests candidates A total of 10 Hamas members were held by the Israeli police in Jerusalem after the Islamists made good on their vow to defy the ban.

01-15-06 - Israel approves limited vote in East Jerusalem Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally Israel has no legal sovereignty over East Jerusalem.

01-15-06 - Laundering Casino Cash For NeoCon Politicians The pattern that is emerging is that Abramoff and his criminal associates not only used various casinos around the world to enrich themselves but also used them to launder money into right-wing/neo-con political campaign coffers in the United States, Israel, and other countries.

01-15-06 - Mossad works with German passports According to these data Israeli agents camouflage themselves with delicate employments in Middle East crisis areas also with German passports and German legends. At present use the Mossad German travel documents for instance with employments in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

01-15-06 - Ariel Sharon is given tracheotomy

01-15-06 - Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified

01-15-06 - Palestinians' entrepreneurial spirit dimmed by curfews, gun battles and bureaucracy

01-15-06 - Tibi: Israel should not be a Jewish state

01-15-06 - President Abbas Receives Heads of Churches in Holy Land

01-15-06 - Israel can't live with Iran's bomb, and can't stop it If Israel senses a direct threat from the extremist regime in Tehran and feels the need to do so, it can severely punish Iran and cause a significant delay in its military nuclear development project. But I do not believe it can put a complete stop to the project by military means. Undoubtedly, the U.S. has a far greater military capability

01-15-06 - An Invitation for Barak Obama

01-15-06 - Thanks to Birthright Another person returned disgusted by the racial slurs he heard from Jewish Israelis: the language use by these people when they spoke about Arabs was so despicable that if any one spoke about Jews in that manner we would all attack

01-15-06 - Scottish ISM-Activist Deported from Israel It asserted that Macdonald "still refusing to comply with the State of Israel's policy of deporting Human Rights Workers from Palestine, adding that he was carried on to the plane and accompanied by two Police officers on the plane from Tel Aviv to London."

01-15-06 - Rainwater Flows into Prisoners' Rooms in Al Sharon Jail

01-15-06 - Palestine: GDP estimated at $4.45 billion

01-15-06 - Survivors of Sabra and Shatilla massacre still demanding justice

01-15-06 - Powell to speak at Glasgow event The organisation plans to stage a protest to highlight its claims that the Jewish National Fund is detrimental to the Palestinian people both within Israel and worldwide.

01-15-06 - Christian evangelicals waving the Israeli flag Each statement is greeted by thunderous applause. If you didn't know better, you'd think the event was a campaign rally for Israel's hard-line Likud Party. But this night the packed ballroom is at the Altamonte Springs Hilton. And the speaker is the Rev. John Hagee, foremost exponent of "Christian Zionism," who repeatedly brings nearly 1,000 cheering evangelicals to their feet. During the evening, the attendees will open their wallets to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to help buy an ambulance for an Israeli relief agency.



01-14-06 - Disgruntled Policemen Block Roads in Gaza The gunmen were demanding a government response to the killing of a policeman in a drug bust a week ago.

01-14-06 - Jewish settlers riot in West Bank The settlers clashed with Palestinians while apparently trying to occupy a Palestinian-owned house.

01-14-06 - In Hebron, It's Brother Against Brother

01-14-06 - Hamas can join government if accepts peace with Israel: Abbas

01-14-06 - Ad in "The Nation" Maligns Palestinians ADC is disturbed by the standards that The Nation has exercised in accepting this ad. While we strongly respect the right to free speech, ADC believes that the ad, which presents an incredibly skewed and racist perspective of Palestinians and further reinforces stereotypes of Arabs as habituated to violence, constitutes hate speech.

01-14-06 - Government urged to ban Galloway's Big Brother charity On each occasion it found no evidence of links to terrorism. Despite this, President Bush recently blocked the charity's bank account and declared Interpal a "specially designated global terrorist" organisation.

01-14-06 - Israel set to decide on ballot for Palestinians WITH just 10 days to go until the Palestinian elections, the Israeli Cabinet will today vote on whether to allow Palestinians living in East Jerusalem to take part.

01-14-06 - France shou