June '06 Archive
06-30-06 - Two brothers killed, child injured in an explosion in Khan Younis Palestinian medical sources in southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis reported that two brothers were killed and seven residents were injured in an explosion that took place in a Palestinian house in the city.
06-30-06 - Palestinian shot dead in Israel arrest operation
06-30-06 - From Amnesty International: Israel/Occupied Territories: Deliberate attacks a war crime Deliberate attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes, Amnesty International said today.....The deliberate destruction of the Gaza Strip?s only electricity power station, water networks, bridges, roads and other infrastructure is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and has major and long-term humanitarian consequences for the 1.5 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip.
06-30-06 - ELCA Participates in Emergency Assistance to Families in the Middle East The funds were sent June 28 to Action by Churches Together (ACT), which has issued an emergency appeal for funds on behalf of the Middle East Council of Churches/Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (MECC/DSPR).
06-30-06 - The U.S. and Gaza / Sit quietly and do nothing The pro-Israeli lobby has already begun vigorous action to persuade the public that the document and the Hamas-Fatah agreement that followed it are not breakthroughs. In the coming weeks the U.S. Congress will formulate the final version of the law blocking money transfers to the PA. Someone suggested yesterday that the ongoing violence will make it easier for those advocating the harsher version, as opposed to the refined one that passed in the Senate.
06-30-06 - Militants' new demands for Israel Palestinian and Israeli diplomats traded accusations at an emergency session of the UN Security Council called by Arab nations - but a resolution condemning the Israeli offensive was blocked, apparently due to US opposition
06-30-06 - AG refuses to ok use of Hamas officials as 'bargaining chips' The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago
06-30-06 - Israel quiet on second kidnap claim A SECOND Israeli soldier has been kidnapped and will be killed unless Israel ends its military offensive in the Palestinian territories, the radical Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades declared overnight
06-30-06 - Army shells Rafah, Khan Younis and Gaza
06-30-06 - Army shells electricity generators in central Gaza Friday after midnight, the Israeli air force fired missiles at electricity generators in the central Gaza Strip causing complete power blackout in the whole area.
06-30-06 - Palestinians seek UN pressure on Israel over Gaza "The United States is of the firm view that a prerequisite for ending this conflict is that the governments of Syria and Iran end their role as state sponsors of terror and unequivocally condemn the actions of Hamas," including Shalit's kidnapping, Bolton said.
06-30-06 - Israel Kidnaps Non-violent Palestinian Activists The Committee has recently been organising non-violent actions in the area that try to gain access for Palestinian farmers to their farm land after it has been is closed off by settler violence, or closure by the Israeli military.
06-30-06 - Families flee as Israel?s siege of Gaza continues With no army, no tanks, helicopters, jets or bulldozers to defend themselves, Gazans are up against the world?s fourth largest military power and preparing for the worse.
06-30-06 - Kidnapped Israeli soldier still alive - TV The 19-year-old soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, was visited by a Palestinian doctor at a certain place in the Gaza Strip, said the report, adding that the doctor treated Shalit's wounds.
06-30-06 - ELCA and Episcopal bishops call for U.S. diplomatic intervention in Gaza "We condemn the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier and pray for his safe return," said Hanson and Griswold in a letter to Bush. "We recognize the grief this brings to all Israelis, but we cannot accept the response which punishes all Palestinians in Gaza."
06-30-06 - Gaza militants demand 1,000 prisoners for Israeli
06-30-06 - Palestinians, Israelis and internationals protest in Bil'in against the Israeli attacks in Gaza At least 400 Palestinians and 60-70 Israeli and international peace activists participated in the protest, and chanted slogans against the annexation Wall Israel is constructing on Palestinian orchards and lands in the village and in numerous other places in the rest of the West Bank.
06-30-06 - Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.
06-30-06 - Gaza invasion and violence is no solution, says Christian Aid "The message to the civilian population of Gaza could not be clearer ? collective punishment is part of Israel?s military strategy. This is in addition to the internal security chaos that exists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the lack of Palestinian Authority control."
06-30-06 - Canada calls for return of kidnapped Israeli soldier "We want to be sure that people respect the rights of settlers and others to live in peace in the region," Canada, whose pro-Israel lobby has succeeded in putting its interests ahead of those of Canada, is the newest Israel-occupied territory.
06-30-06 - IDF bars East J'lem residents from using Bethlehem crossing Christians from East Jerusalem, for instance, who wish to visit the holy sites in Bethlehem now have to go to the Qalandiyeh crossing, north of the city, where the Israel Police have said that they are unable to implement the policy
06-30-06 - Long after his death, rebbe's words resound among Washington's elite The conference culminated in a White House briefing by Joshua Bolten, President Bush's chief of staff, who also is Jewish. Bolten said Bush would never encourage Israel to give up territory without a Palestinian quid pro quo.
06-30-06 - Texas GOP: U.S. Is a Christian Nation As in past years, state and national Jewish organizations have condemned the platform, but local Jewish communal officials told the Forward that lobbying to strip the language from the document was not a top community priority.
06-30-06 - Israeli offensive called premeditated plan
06-30-06 - Thousands of Turks Protest Israeli Actions
06-30-06 - Israel revokes Jerusalem residency for Hamas minister, MPs Israel bans all Palestinian political activity in east Jerusalem which was occupied and annexed following the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, a move not recognized by the international community.
06-30-06 - Rice phones Israel's Tivni for fifth time amid tensions Rice again urged the Palestinians to release an Israeli soldier whose capture sparked an Israeli military incursion into the Gaza Strip, US State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.
06-30-06 - The Gaza Beach Party Massacre The buzzing of Bashar al-Assad's summer residence, the mass arrest of democratically elected Palestinian lawmakers and ministers, the targeting of infrastructure in violation of the Geneva accords and the commonly held concept of human decency ? the Israelis do it simply because they can. This isn't "colonialism" ? it's sadism.
06-30-06 - Bush imposes, then waives, PLO sanction The president has the right to waive any of these sanctions if he deems it "in the national security interest of the United States," the letter said.
06-30-06 - Thousands in Egypt rally for Palestinians Several thousand protesters at one of Cairo's main mosques called Friday for holy war against Israel to help the Palestinians in their conflict with the Jewish state.
06-30-06 - Arab states keep Israel in U.N. human rights dock Arab and Muslim states on Friday won a decision to keep Israel in the United Nations dock for alleged abuses in the occupied territories, overcoming U.S.-led opposition to singling out the Jewish state. A loss for neocon John Bolton.
06-30-06 - Don't give up Israeli soldier for nothing - Hizbollah Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group, which has swapped kidnapped Israelis for Arab prisoners in the past, urged militants on Friday to only free an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza exchange for Palestinian prisoners
06-30-06 - Egypt warns Israel not to take peace treaty for granted
06-30-06 - There will be no Palestinian referendum: Hamas PM
06-30-06 - Estimation: UN won?t condemn Israel Deputy head of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Danny Carmon estimated that a decision condemning Israel will not be made Friday night at the UN Security Council....Washington's UN Ambassador John Bolton estimated that the probability the Security Council will vote on condemning Israel at the end of the emergency meeting was small.
06-30-06 - Archbishop Hanna: Israeli aggression against the Palestinians is an ugly crime
06-30-06 - International community must act boldly to stop vicious cycle of violence in Israel/Palestine, WCC says
06-30-06 - Visiting Palestinian youths teach about Christian roots .."Many people here don't know there are Christians in Palestine,'' he said.
06-30-06 - More Settler Vandalism in Hebron June 27th: Settler youth continue to trash a internationally funded project intended to make it safer for Palestinian girls living in the Tel Rumeida section of Al-Khalil (Hebron) to reach their elementary school.
06-30-06 - Israel: Most Israelis Want To Negotiate An opinion poll showed that 53 percent of Israelis favor negotiations over the return of a captured Israeli soldier being held in the Gaza Strip
06-30-06 - Israeli Press: Army May Ban Tourists From Holy Sites
06-30-06 - Poll shows most Israelis prefer talks on captured soldier
06-30-06 - Exiled Hamas leaders under pressure
06-30-06 - Security forces tighten siege on Sheikh Sa'ed village The court ruling of March 2006, referred to above, states that the planned route causes disproportionate harm because it detaches the residents from East Jerusalem
06-30-06 - Israel's performance 'pretty good' -U.S. Israel's performance in protecting innocents during its current strike on the Gaza Strip has been "pretty good," the U.S. State Department said. Outrages BS. THe US State Department, along with most of the rest of the government, is Israeli-occupied territory.
06-30-06 - Rights council passes anti-Israel resolution Bolton is enraged, no doubt. His idea to 'reform' the UN was meant to quash this kind of thing.
06-30-06 - Israel conflict rankles at Arab-American forum A throng of Arab executives and leaders gathered in Houston this week to promote stronger economic ties with their American counterparts, but found the ambitious goal could easily get lost in heated rhetoric over the long-simmering conflict.....The head of the 22-member League of Arab States, Amr Moussa, in his opening remarks said the Israeli-Palestinian question "continues to be the main source of tension in the region."
06-30-06 - UN warns of full-scale war if violence continues US Ambassador John Bolton told reporters earlier that the council should not be a forum for 'talks and no action.' But he warned against premature steps that can worsen the situation.
06-30-06 - Israeli soldiers kill Sudanese illegal immigrant Israeli troops shot dead a detained illegal immigrant from Sudan who crossed from Egypt as he tried to escape on Friday, an army spokesman has said.
06-30-06 - B'Tselem to Israeli Defense Minister - Don't damage indispensable civilian facilities in Gaza
06-30-06 - CBS's Mideast 'Cycle of Violence' - Analysis omits Palestinian deaths There's no reason why Simon's timeline of the crisis would 'begin' with the June 25 kidnapping of Israel soldier Gilad Shalit, or why that attack would be unequivocally attributed to a desire to "provoke a brutal Israeli response"?unless one wishes to erase the killings of Palestinian civilians over the past several weeks.
06-30-06 - Court Won't Supervise Love-Crazed MySpace Teen
06-30-06 - Pro-Israel coverage
06-30-06 - Gaza's infrastructure suffers That was Israell's intention.
06-30-06 - Israel and the United States would be wise to heed the words of Pope Paul IV
06-29-06 - Israeli aircraft hit Palestinian ministry
06-29-06 - Israel strikes hit Gaza targets
06-29-06 - Anxious Palestinians flee Israeli incursion
06-29-06 - Israel justifies Hamas detentions Israel has denied Palestinian cabinet ministers detained in the West Bank are to be used as bargaining chips to release a captured Israeli soldier. See the next story by The Jerusalem Post.
06-29-06 - IDF: Hamas detainees could go free if Shalit is released Israel will consider releasing the 64 Hamas activists it rounded up early Thursday morning if IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit is freed, OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh said Thursday. See related story at BBC.
06-29-06 - Christian Aid condemns attacks on Gaza "The message to the civilian population of Gaza could not be clearer collective punishment is part of Israel's military strategy. All of these press releases and warnings don't mean a thing. For if the message doesn't reach the masses of Americans, then Israel can continue to do what it wants. They know it. And that's why pro-Israeli media 'watchdogs' and lobbies make sure Americans never get one whiff of the truth.
06-29-06 - Soldiers confiscate Palestinian lands for settlement fence in Hebron
06-29-06 - Israel/Palestine - Occupied territories: collective punishments, destruction of property and taking of hostages are war crimes under international law The ICJ is extremely concerned by the destruction of infrastructure and collective punishments carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip, and by the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier last Sunday by Palestinian armed groups. Such acts can amount to war crimes for which individuals can be held criminally responsible. The ICJ calls on both parties to respect basic principles of international humanitarian law and reminds all States Parties to the Geneva Conventions of their legal obligation to ensure respect for the Conventions.
06-29-06 - Hamas willing to release Israeli soldier: Mubarak
06-29-06 - Army levels four houses and bulldozes scores of dunams of farming lands in Rafah The Israeli army bulldozers and tanks leveled four houses and bulldozed scores of dunams of farming lands in Al Shoka area in Rafah city, in the southeastern part of the Gaza strip, Thursday.
06-29-06 - Gaza power plant hit by Israeli airstrike is insured by US agency The Palestinian power plant bombed by Israeli forces Tuesday is insured by a US government agency, and US officials say they expect American funds to be used to pay for the damage.
06-29-06 - Official: Gaza near humanitarian crisis Hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip are on the brink of a humanitarian crisis after Israel bombed the area's only power plant in response to the kidnapping of one if its soldiers, the top U.N. humanitarian official saidWe are appalled by seeing how they're playing with the future of defenseless civilians, including children." Thursday.....
06-29-06 - Syria backs Hamas despite renewed Israeli threat
06-29-06 - G8 calls for Israeli restraint in Gaza
06-29-06 - Arab anger flares at Israeli incursion An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said both Abbas and Egyptian officials called Syrian President Bashar Assad to ask him to persuade Mashaal to order the soldier's release.
06-29-06 - Palestinian police re-seal hole in wall
06-29-06 - U.S. Muslims Condemn Kidnapping of Palestinian Officials; CAIR Urges International Community to Repudiate Israeli 'State Terror'
06-29-06 - Syria vows to defend itself after Israeli overflight
06-29-06 - Arabs back Syria after Israeli flyover
06-29-06 - Nobody Speaks for Palestinian Christians except Palestinian Christians Palestinian Christians began fleeing or were forced to flee the Holy Land during the 1948 War establishing Israel. The same has occurred for Palestinian Muslims, and this mutual suffering will forever bond them to each other
06-29-06 - Toronto's United Church to boycott Israeli goods The United Church of Canada's Toronto branch will today unveil a boycott of Israeli products and companies doing business with its military to end what it calls the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.
06-29-06 - Knesset panel approves a bill that limits the rights of Palestinian detainees
06-29-06 - Moscow warns against military operation in Gaza Strip
06-29-06 - US presses Israel to use restraint in Gaza there is a fear among some Bush administration officials that Israel might go too far. "The Israeli measures might not only affect innocent civilians but could build support for Hamas," said the senior official in an interview with Reuters.
Killing all those civilians -which included children - wasn't "too far"?
06-29-06 - Lawmaker blasts Arab colleagues Bishara called the attack "legitimate," while Tibi said it should be referred to as a wartime "capture" rather than a "kidnapping."
06-29-06 - Hamas says Israel is out to destroy its administration Israel's defence minister, Amir Peretz, said the detained Hamas officials could be put on trial for involvement in "acts of terror",
06-29-06 - Kidnap hits nerve in Israel's military society Opinion polls regularly show that the military remains by far the most trusted institution in a country where voters are accustomed to political corruption that sometimes reaches the highest offices. But that also places an unusual burden on an army routinely described by its leaders as "the most moral in the world". When it fails to live up to that billing the institutional instinct is to cover up, as it has done over soldiers killing Palestinian civilians and foreigners in recent years with demonstrably false accounts of the circumstances of their deaths.
06-29-06 - Gaza voices: Thursday We are the hostages, believe me, not the soldier.
06-29-06 - Israel goes after both Hamas leaderships From Syria, Meshaal has also shown willingness to talk to American officials, even though Washington brands Hamas a terrorist organization. In February, shortly after Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections, the former university professor met with a delegation of retired US diplomats in his office in Damascus and expressed an eagerness to begin a dialogue with the US
06-29-06 - The weapon of last resort The demands of the captors are legitimate. This soldier is a prisoner of war, and so are the 10,000 Palestinians held captive by Israel.
06-29-06 - Churches call for calm in Gaza The letter characterizes Israel?s destruction of Gaza's power plant and bridges as "acts of collective punishment that have resulted in tremendous suffering by ordinary Palestinian people."
06-29-06 - Israel offensive stirs anger in Egypt
06-29-06 - Hebron Update 10-15 June 2006
06-29-06 - White House to Chabad: Bush won't press Israel The Bush administration will not force Israel into concessions, top White House officials told representatives of the Lubavitch movement......Bolten said Bush would follow Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's lead in deciding what concessions to support. Well now there's a shocker! Here is the most important sentence again : "Bolten said Bush would follow Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's lead in deciding what concessions to support."
06-29-06 - German Jewish leader blasts outreach to Iran A German Jewish leader criticized attempts to reach out to Iran.
06-29-06 - Venezuela condemns Israeli offensive in Gaza
06-29-06 - World Pride's Jerusalem plans sparks outrage Jewish and Muslim religious leaders say that an international Gay Pride gathering set for Aug. 6-12 in Jerusalem could trigger a worldwide Islamic uprising more intense than the riots and bloodshed generated by the cartoons in European newspapers of the profit Mohammed.
06-29-06 - Red Cross vote reflects decades of lobbying and last-minute push Reaching this point took decades of work by major Jewish organizations, and the battle also played out in Washington, where a number of legislators made it a priority issue. This type of influence is all just a conspiracy theory, don't you know...
06-29-06 - Three recordings from Palestine and the world Three recent recordings by Palestinian musicians, each, in its own way, quite brilliant.
06-29-06 - Columnist: 'New York Times' code for 'Jews' "It is very nice for the president to be able to campaign against the Jews without (a) actually saying the word 'Jew' and (b) without irritating the Israelis. A number of prominent Zionist groups think the New York Times is insufficiently anti-Palestinian, so they think the New York Times isn't Jewish enough."
06-29-06 - Kentucky employees denied access to Web sites after an employee distributed material from one of the sites that was deemed religiou What's good for the goose....
06-28-06 - Hamas leaders arrested; Israeli executed Israeli forces rounded up dozens of Palestinian Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from Hamas, increasing pressure on the Islamic militants to release a captured Israeli soldier, and witnesses said tanks moved into northern Gaza, widening Israel's largest military operation in the year since Israel pulled out of the seaside territory.
06-28-06 - Body of kidnapped Israeli settler found: Palestinians
06-28-06 - Two Palestinian refugees killed in Iraq
06-28-06 - Abbas brands Israeli offensive 'collective punishment' Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has slammed an Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip "collective punishment" after civilian infrastructure was damaged in air strikes.
06-28-06 - CAIR Says Targeting of Gaza Infrastructure a 'War Crime'; Bush Administration Urged to Condemn Attacks on Bridges, Electrical Supply In reaction to the Israeli strikes, a White House spokesman said: "In any actions the government of Israel may undertake, the United States urges that it ensures that innocent civilians are not harmed, and also that it avoid the unnecessary destruction of property and infrastructure."
06-28-06 - Syrian air defenses fire on Israeli jets State-run Syrian television said two Israeli planes flew near Syria's Mediterranean coast early Wednesday, and "national air defenses opened fire in the direction of the planes, and they dispersed."
06-28-06 - AAI Condemns Israeli Offensive; Use of Collective Punishment Exacerbates Humanitarian Crisis The Arab American Institute (AAI) today condemned Israel's ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip, which already has destroyed a power station and three bridges and resulted in the loss of water and electricity to 1.3 million impoverished Palestinians.
06-28-06 - Israel vows 'extreme measures' to rescue soldier
06-28-06 - Palestinians hoard food in fear of siege "As for me, I say just give them back the (captured) soldier," she said. "What is it worth for women and children to be forced from their homes and have nowhere to sleep and to suffer for the sake of one soldier? I think they should give him back."
06-28-06 - Palestinians demand Israeli hostage be well treated The soldier's captors should "show the world that the Palestinians will not treat Israeli prisoners the way Israelis treat Palestinian prisoners,"
06-28-06 - Israel bombs Islamic University in Gaza: witnesses An Israeli warplane fired a missile on Thursday at the pro-Hamas Islamic University in Gaza City, setting off a huge explosion, witnesses said.
06-28-06 - Storm over Gaza Bombing bridges may have some military logic, but the destruction of a power station seems intended solely to intimidate and inflict collective punishment. No other purpose is achieved by cruelly depriving hundreds of thousands of ordinary Gazans of their electricity supply (and shutting down water pumps) in sweltering heat
06-28-06 - Israeli missiles pound Gaza into new Dark Age in 'collective punishment' This was no accident. Israel deliberately set out to target the civilian infrastructure as laid out in this article.
06-28-06 - Gaza voices: Israeli air strikes
06-28-06 - Gazans grim and defiant after Israeli forces enter
06-28-06 - Knesset panel approves a bill that limits the rights of Palestinian detainees
06-28-06 - Israeli tanks turn screw on besieged Gaza Strip In Rafah, people feared a repeat of a punitive Israeli offensive two years ago which left about 60 Palestinians dead and hundreds of homes destroyed in a week-long assault after 11 soldiers were killed. Merchants in Rafah's market said sales of food had surged over the past two days.
06-28-06 - World Jewish Congress meets in Berlin on Iran The WJC leaders said they would have meetings with Jewish communities around the world and with international policymakers to help to shape efforts on the Middle East.
06-28-06 - Rice arrives in Russia to discuss Iran, Mideast with G8
06-28-06 - US supports Gaza assault, but warns Israel on civilians Or else, what? They do nothing when Israel targets Palestinian civilians.
06-28-06 - Ultra-Orthodox Jews attack Christian tourists in Jerusalem A group of 50 pro-Israel Christian tourists came under attack Wednesday from some 100 residents of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim in Jerusalem.
06-28-06 - Eradicating hunger: Commission steps up its efforts in food aid and food security with a ?197 M package United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA): ? 15 million for a food aid and cash programme in favour of Palestinian Refugees in West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
06-28-06 - Bush administration supports Israel James Zogby, president of the institute, issued a statement, accusing Israel of using "disproportionate power" in an act of collective punishment. Zogby also said the abduction of an Israeli soldier "remains of deep concern."
06-28-06 - Jewish groups hope they can keep homeland security money flowing Jewish groups gratefully absorbed more than half of the homeland security funds last year aimed at protecting nonprofits - and they're campaigning to make sure the money keeps flowing....The funds are an unqualified boon, Jewish leaders agree. And this fact is the most ironic of all.
06-28-06 - Major Israeli websites hacked
06-27-06 - Large explosion destroys car in Gaza A massive explosion on Tuesday demolished a car traveling near the residence of President Mahmoud Abbas, killing an unknown number of people inside. The blast scattered debris and body parts up to 200 yards away.
06-27-06 - Israeli F16 warplanes strike southern Gaza Palestinian security sources said that the main water pipes supplying the central area of the Gaza Strip had also been destroyed. Israel, as put forth in this article, is targeting the civilian infrastructure.
06-27-06 - Palestinians back prisoner release call For Walid al-Houdaly, 46, the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants offers the opportunity that his wife and their 18-month-old child will be freed from prison.
06-27-06 - Israel 'will ensure Hamas govt toppled' if soldier slain
06-27-06 - New Hamas-Fatah plan recognizes Israel
06-27-06 - US cannot accept Israeli nuclear weapons: Arab League chief The United States cannot denounce Iran's nuclear program while accepting Israel's possession of nuclear bombs, the head of the Arab League has said.
06-27-06 - Gaza attack threat to Egypt national security: Muslim Brotherhood Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood said that any aggression on the Gaza strip would be "a threat to Egyptian national security," and called on Egypt to prevent such an attack.
06-27-06 - Militants threaten to kill Jewish settler A Palestinian militant group on Wednesday threatened to kill an abducted Jewish settler if Israel doesn't stop its raid on the Gaza Strip.
06-27-06 - Hamas takes step to recognise Israel "This is not a direct recognition of Israel," said a founder of Hamas, Issa Ali Nashar. "The recognition is in the document, it is not Hamas saying it directly recognises Israel. There is recognition of resolutions by the UN (that recognise Israel) in the document."
06-27-06 - Israel won't let Abbas out of Gaza Strip As part of the siege, Israel closed four crossings with the Gaza Strip and thus blocked all traffic of goods into and out of the area, the army said.
06-27-06 - Humanitarian emergency in Palestine In addition to the food shortage, the lack of funds has also aversely affected the Lutheran World Federation's Augusta Victoria Hospital, located in Jerusalem. This hospital provides healthcare services to Palestinians through a contract with the Palestinian Authority. The blockage of funds is effectively jeopardizing the lives of thousands of patients who depend on Augusta Victoria for emergency care as well as specialized services such as kidney dialysis and cancer treatment.
06-27-06 - Urgent appeal as bulldozers move in on Bethlehem's last green space One of the last green spaces in Bethlehem is being destroyed to make way for the Partition Wall. Yesterday morning, (Tuesday 27 June) Israeli bulldozers guarded with armed personnel started cutting and uprooting olive trees in the Cremisan area near Bethlehem, in preparation for the construction of the segregation Wall.
06-27-06 - OPT: Gaza fishermen struggle for survival - ICRC provides funds to repair boats and gear Those fishermen who can return to sea find that they are being shot at by the Israeli Defence Forces Further difficulties stem from the lack of access to markets, and restrictions on fishing areas. As a result, it is difficult if not impossible for the fishermen in Gaza to earn enough to support themselves and their families.
06-27-06 - Israeli settler feared to be kidnapped: report Eliyahu Asheri, 18, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, disappeared Sunday night when he was trying to hitchhike on the way back to Itamar.
06-27-06 - MK Sarsour hit by right-wing activist in Jerusalem MK Sarsour had called for the Israeli government to let him and his companions enter Gaza in order to aid the efforts to release the kidnapped soldier, Gilad Shalit
06-27-06 - New human rights council kicks off with hope for improvement on Israel With the United States declining to run for a seat, Kessler expressed the hope that Western countries on the council, led by European Union members, would "draw a red line around where they stand when it comes to Israel."
06-27-06 - Israeli "Retaliation" and Double Standards according to the BBC's analysis, this attack ends the immediate chances for "peace" negotiations and provides the context for the next round of the conflict between the Israeli army and the Palestinians of Gaza. We are left to infer that all the suffering the army inflicts in the coming days and weeks should be attributed to this moment of "escalation" by the Palestinians. We can ignore the weeks of shelling by the Israeli army of Gaza, the firing of hundreds of missiles into the crowded Strip that have destroyed Palestinian lives and property, while spreading terror among the civilian population and deepening the psychological trauma suffered by a generation of children.
06-27-06 - CPJ: Israeli Authorities Restrict Gaza Press Access
06-27-06 - US plays wait-and-see on Palestinian agreement
06-27-06 - Gaza beach blast survivors treated in Egypt Three surviving members of a Palestinian family decimated by an explosion on a Gaza beach earlier this month have undergone treatment in Cairo, a medical source told AFP.
06-27-06 - US must check nationalists who clash with Islam: Arab league chief Moussa said the United States needed to acknowledge that the conflict was not a result of "terrorists" but of a military occupation by Israel. The policy of aiming for "security now and peace later" will not work, he said.
06-27-06 - Tunnellers dig with martyr's zeal
06-27-06 - Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at Tel Aviv University But the bond between America and Israel is about more than sharing these common struggles against injustice. Israel, like America, is a nation with a deep respect for the rule of law Laughable. To my knowledge, Israel has not abided by ANY international laws since its creation. It has Disregarded UN resolution after UN resolution, along with its utter disregard for the ICJ's ruling on the wall.
06-27-06 - Hamas in quandary over Israeli soldier
06-27-06 - Plan did not include grabbing soldier
06-27-06 - Israeli threat unites Hamas, Fatah
06-27-06 - Israel may provide counsel to officials in war crimes trials overseas The decision comes in the wake of arrest warrants issued in Britain against senior Israel Defense Forces officials Speaking of which, the United States takes zero action against the war crimes Israel has committed against its own.
06-27-06 - "Slicing and separating" Occupied Palestinian Territory turning it into isolated reservations, impeding quest for statehood
06-27-06 - Outpost attack almost legitimate The attack on Kerem Shalom was conducted from deep inside the Palestinian consensus. And it may not be nice to say, but the world will have a hard time condemning it. It was an attack on soldiers, it took courage. It was not a cowardly act.
06-27-06 - Rumsfeld due to visit Israel on regional tour U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is expected to visit Israel this week. Gonzales, whose post in the American government is equivalent to that of Justice Minister, is one of President George Bush's closest advisors. He will give a lecture at Tel Aviv University on international law enforcement in the post-9/11 era.
06-27-06 - UN meeting on Israeli-Palestinian peace opens with call for two-State solution
06-27-06 - Annan talks to Palestinian and Syrian leaders to try to obtain release of kidnapped Israeli soldier
06-27-06 - Peace prospects may look bleak, but dovish group still pushes talks Diane Balser, Brit Tzedek's executive director, says there's an absence of a debate on Israeli policy in the pro-Israel American Jewish community, leaving many Jews without a voice. "In Israel there has always been a debate," Balser said. "Yet in the American Jewish world, people have been scared of that debate for a long time."
06-27-06 - Hamas spokesman feels for Israeli soldier
06-27-06 - House committee approves Israel-NATO legislation The resolution, introduced by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), was adopted Tuesday by the House Committee on International Relations. Just when you think one week will go by without any legislation being proposed on behalf of Israel in the US Congress ...
06-27-06 - US Corporate Media Misses Target in
06-27-06 - The Delusion of U.S. Aid The Economic Coercion of Israel: America is to fork over exceedingly high amounts of cash to induce Israeli withdrawals from lands that it should not be occupying in the first place.
06-27-06 - War is War, and Captured Soldiers are Captured Soldiers
06-27-06 - Israeli President Invites Pope to Holy Land
06-27-06 - National Canadian Jewish Organization Supports CUPE Ontario and Resolution 50 We regret to say that Israel?s refusal to abide by international humanitarian law standards for the treatment of Palestinians over 39 years of occupation has brought considerable shame on the Jewish people and isolation to Israel
06-27-06 - 'Christian Birthright' seeks supporters "'Christian Zionism' may be a bad buzzword, but we need to see relationships built between Christian and Jewish supporters of Israel," Thus does the propaganda campaign aimed at Americans continue.
06-26-06 - ISRAELI SETTLER ATTACKS ECUMENICAL ACCOMPANIER IN HEBRON It is not known if the woman intended to suffocate her, but the accompanier had difficulty breathing. Stones were also thrown at Masango and four other internationals who were with her. The incident left her shaken, although she did not need to receive medical treatment.
06-26-06 - Hebron Settlers Attack Palestinian and His Donkey Near Soldiers
06-26-06 - Settlers burn 10 tons of hay in Hebron A group of Israeli settlers from Susa settlement near the Palestinian village of Yatta south of Hebron torched 10 tons of hay that belong to Palestinian farmers Monday.
06-26-06 - Israel rules out negotiations with soldier's captors In a related development Monday, a statement signed by three Palestinian groups said they are holding Shalit. It also demanded that Israeli prisons release all Palestinian women and people under age 18 who are being held.
06-26-06 - Olmert refuses to release jailed Palestinians Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday he will not free jailed Palestinian women and children as demanded by the militant captors of an Israeli soldier being held in the Gaza Strip.
06-26-06 - High Court: Palestinians must have access to lands
06-26-06 - Israel gears up for offensive over kidnapped soldier Earlier Monday, Olmert said he had "instructed the heads of the army to deploy our forces in order to be ready to prepare for a prolonged and extensive military operation in order to strike the terror organisations and commanders.
06-26-06 - Syria 'holds Swedish journalist' Reports in the Swedish media identified the journalist as Palestinian-born Rachid Alhajeh, 61.
06-26-06 - White House seeks Israeli soldier's release "There are a lot of different parties working to resolve the issue," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "But the bottom line is we call upon this individual to be released immediately."
06-26-06 - Egypt mum on mediation for kidnapped Israeli soldier Egypt was involved in intensive efforts to secure the release of an Israeli soldier kidnapped in the Gaza Strip but observed a strict media blackout on the mediation.
06-26-06 - Annan: States must monitor arms supplies The nations that were most transparent were the United States and Germany. The least transparent were Bulgaria, Iran, Israel and North Korea.
06-26-06 - IDF commander: Excavations missed terror tunnel by 500m The investigation found that in recent weeks the IDF dug numerous holes in the area with heavy engineering equipment in search of underground tunnels, apparently guided by an intelligence alert
06-26-06 - Israel: A history of prisoner deals
06-26-06 - Court orders Palestinian farmers protected Beinish said the military should do more to stop settlers suspected of attacking Palestinians, suggesting that restraining orders could be used.
06-26-06 - News in brief from the San Francisco Bay area A Palestinian toddler who lost her right eye during an Israeli missile attack just got a new prosthetic eye, thanks to a nonprofit that helps children with severe war injuries.
06-26-06 - Israeli troops gather at Gaza borders as Palestinians try to find hostage "The government (Hamas) can go to hell. Europe boycotts us and the United States are against our democracy. The Palestinians are in a big jail and the Israelis have the key," he said. "We have no use for prime ministers or anything like that. The reality is that we are under occupation. We would end the occupation by negotiations but the occupier has no interest in that. The only path is resistance."
06-26-06 - Church Continues Investing in Caterpillar The Ethical Investment Advisory Group said in its annual report that it did not recommend disinvestment at this time because it had been informed that Caterpillar had made no sales to Israel in recent years, and because it did not wish to do anything to impede negotiations between Israel and Palestinian authorities.
06-26-06 - Nice video shows policing of the future Nice Systems, the Israeli firm trying to sell extreme surveillance software to the British police, has put out a promotional video depicting the way our friendly bobbies will police our communities a year from now - if they use its latest software.
06-26-06 - Germany presses Palestinians on hostage
06-25-06 - Gun battle near Gaza border post A spokesman for Gaza's Popular Resistance Committee said they carried out the attack on the military post in revenge for the death of their leader, Jamal Abu Samhadana, in an Israeli strike.
06-25-06 - Palestinians launch raid from Gaza into Israel Israeli leaders ordered the army to prepare for "urgent military action" and a "harsh response," including targeting civilian infrastructure
06-25-06 - Israel blames Hamas for deadly attack "This operation is a natural response to the Israeli crimes of killing women and children, and the assassination of two (militant) leaders," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.
06-25-06 - Echoes of intifada as Israeli tanks rumble into Gaza
06-25-06 - Israel vows revenge after deadly attack from Gaza In a joint statement, the militant groups said the dawn assault was revenge for the 22 civilians killed in an alleged Israeli shelling and botched air strikes since the start of June.
06-25-06 - Israeli Sewage dumped in Brukin village
06-25-06 - Hamas gov't urges kidnappers to keep Israeli soldier safe
06-25-06 - Abbas condemns attack, calls on militants to free abducted soldier
06-25-06 - Israel holds back military response Israeli cabinet, meanwhile, granted green lights to the army for preparing military operation to free the soldier abducted in the predawn raid Sunday.
06-25-06 - Israel closes down all crossings, terminals on borders with Gaza
06-25-06 - Two years of hard work shows Presbyterians just want 'shalom' The sufferings and injustice caused by the occupation of Palestinian lands has greatly diminished the Christian presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
06-25-06 - Iran to host Holocaust conference later this year Ahmadinejad, an ultra-conservative who came to power in a surprise victory last June, has provoked international condemnation with a number of anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish remarks. They include labelling Israel a "tumour" and calling for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map" or moved as far away as Alaska. On the Holocaust, he has claimed it is merely a Western invention used to legitimise Israel.
06-25-06 - Peace activists, residents of Bil'in protest against the Wall
06-25-06 - Abbas' guards deployed at key Gaza commercial crossing Elite troops loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were deployed at the Karni commercial crossing on the eastern Gaza Strip border with Israel on Saturday, Palestinian security sources said.
06-25-06 - Peretz: Government must pay settlers to evacuate
06-25-06 - Resolution urges JA to include Arabs in its development plans The resolution sets a precedent not only because the agency has never before been active in Israel's Arab, Druze and Circassian communities, but also because it was achieved through a rare collaborative effort between Reform and Orthodox groups.
06-25-06 - Fatah-Hamas deal limits attacks to the territories
06-25-06 - Abbas urges US to press Israel to end military escalation Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged the United States to press Israel to stop military escalation against the Palestinians, mainly in the Gaza Strip, an aide to Abbas said yesterday.
06-25-06 - Mas'ha village land seized for expansion of Elkana settlement The 'Jews-only' settlement of 'Elkana', built on illegally seized Palestinian land, has begun construction of an additional 54 houses on farmland belonging to Mas'ha village farmers.
06-25-06 - IDF Intel Chief Says Withdrawal Increased Existential Threats Former Defense Minister Moshe Arens has also come out vocally against the withdrawal, saying that Israel must reoccupy Gaza as the only way to prevent the continuation of rocket attacks on towns and cities
06-25-06 - Israel extends Palestinian spouse ban
06-25-06 - PA minister: Settlers not welcome in Palestine "It is obvious that the settlers' forceful presence on our land is illegal. It's unacceptable that these robbers live alongside us. Their behavior here in the Hebron area and all across the West Bank has turned Palestinian people, land and property into constant sufferers from their violence. Our experiences with them thus far leave no question about such a possibility,"
06-25-06 - Israel rejects US anti-Kassam system initiative Experts: The time and cost of development the system are too high, and its effectiveness would be limited.
06-24-06 - Palestinian Shepards "Tear down the wall"
06-24-06 - Abbas-Haneya meeting ends without deal
06-24-06 - Abbas, Haniyeh said to agree ending Gaza rocket fire "There is consensus on the need to ... embarrass the Israelis by stopping Palestinian rocket fire in order not to give Israel a pretext to continue attacks on the Palestinian people," Abu Rdainah said.
06-24-06 - Israel arrests 2 in Gaza raid The raid, completed in one hour under the cover of darkness, came as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in Gaza trying to work out final details on a power-sharing agreement with the Hamas-led government
06-24-06 - What's Next for the Palestinians - Starvation? The topic under discussion was grim - ?The Politics of Starvation: The Humanitarian Crisis in Palestine.? In Room SC-6 of the U.S. Capitol, the Council for the National Interest (CNI) authored a public forum, the 18th in a series over the last few years, dealing with Middle East issues, and in particular, the Israel-Palestine Question
06-24-06 - A mixed blessing Samah?s parents, Riyad and Yusra, also invited the families of the four Jewish recipients of Ahmed?s lungs, second kidney and liver ? split between a seven-month-old baby and the 57-year-old woman. None have chosen to attend.
The father of a four-year-old girl, whose life has been saved by the transplantation of one of Ahmed?s kidneys, publicly stated afterwards that he wished the organ ?had come from a Jew and not an Arab?.
Go to the first paragraph on page 2 to read an example of Israel's known use of human shields.
06-24-06 - Analysis: Olmert spoils Petra peace summit In what was perhaps the clearest indication regarding Israel's intended policy regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions, Olmert said he supports the efforts of President Bush and the Europeans and the U.N. Security Council to make every possible effort to stop the Iranians from possessing nuclear weapons. "And I am certain they will succeed," said Olmert.
06-24-06 - Israel issues restricting orders against 13 far-right Jews The activists are suspected of taking part in violent acts against Palestinians and clashes with security forces, the source told AFP
06-24-06 - Hezbollah, al-Qaida mirror Islamic split To the outside world, the two groups appear to have much in common: Devoutly Muslim, fiercely hostile to Israel and the U.S., and high on Washington's list of terrorist groups. Yet al-Qaida in Iraq and Lebanon's Hezbollah are waging a worsening verbal dispute that threatens to burst into confrontation
06-24-06 - Palestine: A Besieged Nation Under Watch
06-24-06 - British Filmmaker's Death in Gaza Continues to Resound "The emphasis had to be on us to do the proper investigations, because it was obvious that the I.D.F. was not going to conduct their investigation with any impartiality," said Mr. Cobb-Smith, whose examination of footprints, tank tracks and traces of blood and bullet holes, among other things, led him to conclude that the shot that had killed Mr. Miller had come from an Israeli vehicle.
06-24-06 - Founder of protests for Palestinians joins Louisville's demonstration
06-24-06 - Judge OKs Palestinian's citizenship
06-24-06 - Terrorists want Israel to kill civilians Dershowitz, the known Israel-apologist: 'The terrorists made them do it!'.
06-24-06 - Episcopalians curb anti-Israel rhetoric "Virtually all General Convention resolutions concerning the Middle East, and all public policy pronouncements by Episcopal agencies, have relentlessly criticized the state of Israel, portraying the Jewish state as an oppressor nation and the Palestinian people as victims of Israeli oppression,"
06-23-06 - Senate clears flexible limits on Palestinian aid The Senate bill gives the Bush administration more discretion to provide relief to the cash-starved Palestinians than a more punitive measure passed by the House of Representatives in May.
06-23-06 - Army and settlers attack residents of Hebron and Surif, injuring four
06-23-06 - Abbas heads to Gaza to galvanise crisis talks
06-23-06 - Israel refuseniks order soldiers to hold Gaza fire "We urge soldiers on active and reserve duty, in the infantry, air force and navy to refuse to fire on Gaza following the deaths of dozens of innocent civilians, including many children," said the Courage to Refuse group.
06-23-06 - Militant Palestinian groups vow to avenge Israel 'massacres' Fourteen Palestinian civilians, including a pregnant woman and five children, have died in Israeli air strikes over the Gaza Strip in the last 10 days to counter the firing of nearly 150 rockets at Israel. This is what Israel wants. Then they can avoid negotiations for Israel's final borders.
06-23-06 - Gaza's gateway to world re-opens Hundreds of people trying to cross in and out of the Gaza Strip were stranded at the terminal on Friday, including the sick en route to Egypt for medical treatment, said Palestinian officials at the terminal.
06-23-06 - Arab MK: Only Palestinian kids get killed "While children in both Sderot and Gaza need to be protected, it is only Palestinian children who are getting killed so far
06-23-06 - EU to release 105 million euros in aid to Palestinians The European Commission announced plans to release 105 million euros in aid to Palestinians, bypassing their Hamas-led government, with the first funds to be paid out by early July.
06-23-06 - New warning of Palestinian crisis Mr Dugard is the UN's human rights rapporteur for the Palestinian territories. Special rapporteurs are appointed by the UN secretary general to investigate particular issues, but are independent of the organisation. He said the aid boycott was causing ordinary Palestinians to lose faith in the international community...."The Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions, the first time that an occupied people have been so treated," Mr Dugard said.
06-23-06 - Palestinian woman injured in Israeli Air Strike delivers stillborn baby Doctors at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis have performed a Caesarean section on Shaima Ahmad, 25, after detecting signs of fetal distress. Ahmed was wounded by shrapnel in Wednesday's Israeli air strike.
06-23-06 - 'Palestinian patient must pay' Israel has threatened to deport a Palestinian cancer patient because he can no longer pay the security guards the government insists he employ to guard him
06-23-06 - US Senate votes to isolate Hamas Govt The United States Senate has adopted by consensus a bill to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Government, forbidding any US aid until it recognises Israel and renounces violence.
06-23-06 - Chilean legislators launch aid drive for Palestinians
06-23-06 - Israeli Air Force Attack in Gaza ? Grave Suspicion of War Crime
06-23-06 - Activists: Stop Waters Two right-wing Israeli activists asked authorities to arrest British rocker Roger Waters for spray-painting a message on Israel?s West Bank security fence.
06-23-06 - U.N. denounces secret detention centers John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in New York, strongly criticized Arbour. He said rather than singling out the United States or Israel, she should have focused instead on human rights problems in North Korea, Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe. Bolton - shill for Israel at the UN.
06-23-06 - Iraqi ambassador to Washington speaks out on terror, but not Israel Baghdad's first ambassador to the United States in 15 years dismisses any such talk as preliminary. In an interview with JTA last week, Sumaida'ie said he has no contact with Israeli diplomats in Washington, and that such things are not an immediate priority for his government.
06-23-06 - AAI Condemns Indiscriminate Israeli Bombing of Gaza Strip, Death of Innocent Children; Calls for Review of Arms Exports to Israel "Being repeatedly sorry after the fact is not good enough," Zogby added. "We are calling on the State Department to investigate whether or not these attacks constitute a violation of Israel's obligations under provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, which prohibits the use of U.S. weapons in an offensive manner targeting a civilian population."
06-23-06 - The truth lies buried in Gaza sands Garlasco?s slight change of tune -- even if it is not exactly a ringing endorsement -- leaves the door ajar just wide enough that the Israeli army will doubtless slip through it to escape being held accountable yet again.
06-23-06 - Today on CSPAN: Stephen Walt, Int'l Affairs Prof., & John Mearsheimer, Poltical Science Prof. Stephen Walt, International Affairs Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and, and John Mearsheimer, Poltical Science Professor at the University of Chicago, discuss lobbying for Israel. Scroll down page for the video from today's Washington Journal on CSPAN.
06-23-06 - Israeli security prepares for a campaign to bar international activists from entering West Bank Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Israeli security services are preparing for a campaign to bar international peace activists from entering the occupied West Bank this summer to participate in the "Summer Peace camp" organized by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).Also, Israel will try to arrest and expel Palestinians who carry international nationalities "if they fail to explain why they are visiting the country". The campaign will also include expelling foreign workers, including Palestinians, who entered Israel without obtaining work permits from the Israeli authorities.
06-23-06 - When Killings Don't Count - A Week of Israeli Restraint
06-23-06 - Hamas' Suitcase Economy (On Wednesday, the Rafah crossing was closed for a day by European Union observers after Israel issued a warning of a possible suicide attack, drawing criticism from Palestinian officials who contended that the shutdown was a ruse to halt the cash transfers). The money Hamas officials were bringing in undoubtedly was the real motive behind the closure due to a 'security threat'.
06-23-06 - Israeli politician calls for ground invasion of Gaza
06-23-06 - Cars set alight in West Bank Palestinian village A resident of the village complained to police that three settlers from Yitzhar set alight the three vehicles and a tractor and subsequently returned to Yitzhar. The villager followed the settlers up to the gate of Yitzhar and then alerted the police.
06-23-06 - Hebron Settlers Vandalise Palestinian School
06-23-06 - Jew threatened pro-Palestinian French figures Schoemann said during his trial last month that he carried out the threats in a bid to make the people targeted "soften their stance" towards Israel.
06-23-06 - Israel critic wins 'peace' award A Palestinian priest who is a fierce critic of Israel was honored by an Episcopalian group
06-23-06 - An Idea Whose Time Has Come? by Patrick J. Buchanan it is a vast U.S. presence that Islamic peoples are taught is designed to steal their God-given resources and assist the Israelis in humiliating them and persecuting the Palestinians.
06-23-06 - A Plague on Both Their Houses the U.S. military was ? and is ? being used to cleanse the Middle East of Israel's Arab and Persian enemies and extend the Jewish state's influence as far from the Promised Land as Kurdistan. An interesting note about the Kurds and Israel can be found here, paragraph 12. See last night's news for more information about Israel and the Kurds.
06-23-06 - Prophets in Their Own Land How to go from respected academic to anti-Semite?in one simple step A great read at The American Conservative. Please support this magazine if you can.
06-23-06 - 'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon "I'm grateful for all the wonderful Christian angels wanting to help us," Solomon added, acknowledging the political support from "Christians who are now Israel's best lobbyists in the United States." End Times Christian Fundamentalists, that is.
06-23-06 - Next Victim: Iran or North Korea? Few are aware that such a treaty was broached to Israel after the 1967 war. But a treaty would have required clearly defined international borders, and Israel would have no part of that. It turns out that the Israeli government was correct in concluding it could have the best of both possible worlds. Who needs a treaty when the president of the United States keeps referring to a U.S. commitment to spring to your defense?
06-23-06 - Pessimism Evident for Many Palestinians
06-23-06 - A view from Australia The Aussies have an up-and-coming Israeli lobby in their midst.
06-23-06 - US Afairs: Hyde spark In the letter, Hyde - who is retiring this term after 32 years in Congress - argued that Israeli actions in the West Bank were "damaging and dwindling" the Christian community, which "is being crushed in the mill of the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
06-23-06 - Teen: I'll marry man I met on MySpace.com "Our initial reaction was to isolate her, to lock her up and just keep her safe here in America," said her father, Terry Lester. "But that's unrealistic because you can see the love they have for each other."
06-23-06 - PM: Settlers would be allowed to remain in PA
06-22-06 - Israel kills Palestinian security officer A Palestinian intelligence officer has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
06-22-06 - Hamas set to recognize Israel: Palestinian official
06-22-06 - UN Health Rights Expert criticizes donors for failing to fulfil their humanitarian responsibilities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
06-22-06 - Gaza-Egypt border reopens after two days The monitors were finally able to travel to their jobs when the Israeli military opened the Kerem Shalom crossing to the EU representatives, and allowed an adjacent liaison office, which oversees Rafah, to reopen.
06-22-06 - Some Palestinians in West Bank get cash payments Nearly 29,000 Palestinian government workers in the West Bank will each receive about $300 under the partial payout, which started in the Gaza Strip on Monday, officials said. The payout in the West Bank totalled about $8.5 million.
06-22-06 - Olmert: Israeli lives worth more than Palestinian ones Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, expressed "deep regret" for army operations that have killed 14 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in just nine days but said the lives of Israeli citizens threatened by Qassam attacks were "even more important"......Almost three times as many Palestinian civilians have been killed in Gaza in the past nine days as Israeli civilians in Sderot killed by Qassam rockets in the past five years. This form of supremacy has been around since the beginnings of Zionism, when Zionist leaders advocated policies of ethnic cleansing even then.
06-22-06 - Palestinians in Jordan Valley feel strangled by Israel "Israel wants to cut off the Palestinians from all signs of life, especially from the commercial side," said Tamer Hamdan, a farmer who owns lands around the enclaved village and whose income depends on Nablus's market. "They want to force us to leave our land by cutting our sources of living." Thirty-five percent of Palestinian agricultural produce comes from the Jordan Valley, but Israeli restrictions mean farmers are often unable to reach the markets in Nablus and villages on time to sell their produce.
06-22-06 - Palestinians reach out for a lifeline Ahmad and many children like him who can be seen rummaging through garbage cans for metal, plastic and wood to be sold or discarded food, are part of a serious humanitarian crisis unfolding in the occupied Palestinian territory which affects the poorest sector of the population most heavily.
06-22-06 - Israeli inquiry into Gaza beach blast 'one-sided' The army also failed to answer questions raised more than a week ago by The Daily Telegraph concerning the "missing shell" - the one artillery round for which Israel cannot account.
06-22-06 - Donor freeze behind Palestinian health crisis: UN expert "Donors' actions have threatened the most vulnerable -- the sick, infirm, elderly, children, and pregnant women. In short, some donors have acted in breach of their responsibility to provide international health assistance."
06-22-06 - Israel to continue Gaza raids despite botched strikes Fourteen Palestinian civilians, including five children, have been killed in air strikes over Gaza in nine days
06-22-06 - Israeli police investigating contractors In December, an investigative report by another daily, Yediot Ahronot, alleged that a number of private Israeli companies won contracts to provide security services to the Kurdish government in Iraq. The report said Israelis who had served in elite military combat units were teaching anti-terrorism methods to the Kurds.
06-22-06 - Excerpts from Bush news conference We talked about Israel and Palestine. I assured the leaders here that my position is firm, and that is I envision two states living side by side in peace.
06-22-06 - Controversial Mideast play to be performed in NY The play was edited from Corrie's own words and includes stories from Corrie's childhood through her time in Gaza.
06-22-06 - Israeli firms probed for illegal dealings in Iraq: report Since 2004, Israeli firms operating in northern Iraq, including Michaels and Kodo, have been ordered to cease their activities because of threats of terrorism. It's been known for a while now that Israel has been helping to arm and train the Kurds of northern Iraq.
06-22-06 - Red Cross grants membership to Israel, Palestinians Jaafari questioned how the Red Crescent would actually be able to operate given Israeli restrictions on the movement of Palestinians.
06-22-06 - US and EU voice concern at Russia's policies They also noted that Russia's international policies too often ran contrary to theirs, citing the debate over sanctions against Iran, the question of dealing with the radical ruling Hamas movement in the Palestinian territories and Russian President Vladimir Putin's support for Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko
06-22-06 - Olmert apologizes for civilian deaths Meanwhile, a family in Gaza buried the latest two civilian victims of Israeli airstrikes, receiving the bodies of Zakaria Ahmed, 45, and his pregnant sister, Fatma Abdel Khader, 35, at a neighbor's house because the family's home was too badly damaged. Yes, Israel is really sorry alright. Sorry that these killings make them look bad in the media.
06-22-06 - Pink Floyd star lambastes Israel barrier British rock musician and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters spray-paints the words "No Thought Control" on a section of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank Wednesday. Waters wrote slogans on the wall in protest against the construction of the barrier, which Palestinians say is a land grab and Israel says is necessary for its security.
06-22-06 - Abbas, Olmert plan summit
06-22-06 - Germany grants EUR 20m to Palestinian fund
06-22-06 - More Funding Needed to Help Victims of Sexual Violence In another presentation, Feryal Thabet, of the Bureij Women's Health Center in Gaza, said the border closure with Israel and escalating conflict were causing a deterioration of women's health and an increase in violence against women. "More than one third of Palestinian pregnant women are anaemic,"
06-22-06 - IAF: Technical glitch behind Khan Younis tragedy Investigation reveals technical malfunction caused aircraft missile to stray from its course, kill innocent Palestinian brother, sister. Riiiight.
06-22-06 - Netanyahu: IDF has operational capability to wipe out all of Gaza
06-22-06 - U.S. revokes ?Jerusalem, Israel? from death report The U.S. Embassy in Israel reportedly revoked a death report for an American citizen that listed him as having died in "Jerusalem, Israel."
06-22-06 - International Benefit Concert for Palestine in London
06-22-06 - Israeli suppliers vie for PA payments The Israeli government decided last February to freeze all payments to the Palestinian government, but permitted the collection of debts from funds earmarked for the Palestinians. Following this decision, portions of PA-bound funds were allocated toward paying off the Israeli Electric Corporation, Mekorot (the Israeli National Water Company), hospitals, and oil companies. 'To hell with the starving Palestinians. Give us our money!'
06-22-06 - Report: Karni crossing operating far below potential The Karni crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel is, for all intents and purposes, closed to Palestinian merchandise from the Strip, despite pledges by Defense Minister Amir Peretz to keep it open as much as possible, according to a report by the Peres Center for Peace.
06-22-06 - United Church of Christ Leaders Release Statement on Presbyterian Church Decision to Modify Middle East Resolution Language
06-22-06 - Illinois, Israel sign cooperation agreement The agreement, signed by Chief Scientist Eli Opper and Illinois State Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg, comes during a week long visit to the country by an Illinois delegation aimed at encouraging Israeli homeland security companies to expand their operations in the US state The Israelization of America continues.
06-22-06 - Global Peace Project Launches at Pink Floyd Concert in Israel A global peace project called JAMOP (www.jamop.com) - Just A Minute of Peace, will be launched by Israel's David Broza and Palestinian Ebrahim Eid at a Pink Floyd concert taking place in Israel this evening, June 22, 2006.
06-22-06 - Study shows divide between Muslims, West "In the Western countries, the Muslims are to blame," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center. "In the Muslim countries and among Muslim minorities in Europe, the Western people are to blame."
06-22-06 - Pro-Israel Donors Rally For Joe, as Left Takes Aim Morris Amitay, founder of the pro-Israel Washington Political Action Committee said his committee already had donated the legal limit to the Lieberman campaign and would support him in the event of an independent candidacy. What a surprise?! Lieberman would appear to be a neocon.
06-22-06 - British Gas to resume talks with Israel on Gaza gas British Gas clinched a 20-year concession on the "Gaza Maritime" fields, in partnership with Consolidated Contractors Co (CCC), a firm owned by the powerful Palestinian families Khoury and Sabbagh.
06-22-06 - Surprise, Surprise: the Media Get the Presbyterian Israel Vote All Wrong* Israel's supporters are in effect praising a process that could still end investments in companies abetting Israel's occupation of the Palestinians.
06-22-06 - Abbas calls suicide bombings 'crime'
06-21-06 - Israel missile kills two in Gaza On 13 June, eight civilians were killed in a similar attack. Israel is out of control.
06-21-06 - 2 killed in second botched Israeli strike
06-21-06 - Palestinian civilians killed in fresh Israel air strike Another 13 civilians were wounded, including five children
06-21-06 - Palestinian killed in fresh raid A Palestinian militant has been shot dead by Israeli troops during an overnight raid in the West Bank.
06-21-06 - Group says Israel ignored beach blast evidence The Human Rights Watch statement followed a report by Israeli television on Tuesday that said the delayed explosion of a dud Israeli shell might have killed the beachgoers.
06-21-06 - Gaza-Egypt border closed following Israeli security alert The Gaza Strip's sole gateway to the world that bypasses Israel was closed owing to an Israeli security alert stopping EU monitors from accessing the terminal. Seems Israel found a way to block the sole link to the outside world for Gazans.
06-21-06 - 1.4 million new paupers in the Palestinian territories in late three months, PCPS report says
06-21-06 - Israel to cooperate with Hamas-led Palestinian gov't on key issues
06-21-06 - OFID grants a US$3,000,000 for reduction of deprivation in Palestine The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) today approved a grant of US$3,000,000, under the umbrella of the Special Grant Account for Palestine in support of social development projects and services that are provided to the poorest and hardest hit Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
06-21-06 - On the national day of refugee : 4.26 million Palestinian refugee in the world
06-21-06 - Climbdown as Hamas agrees to Israeli state Hamas has made a major political climbdown by agreeing to sections of a document that recognise Israel's right to exist and a negotiated two-state solution, according to Palestinian leaders.
06-21-06 - Palestinians vow revenge for kids' deaths Samia al-Sharif, freshly dressed for a wedding, had slipped out of the house to buy her disabled aunt a sandwich when the missile exploded, sending a piece of shrapnel into her back with a force so great that it propelled her inside the sandwich shop, witnesses said....Just two weeks earlier, her parents had enrolled her in the first grade.
06-21-06 - New evidence raises questions about Israel's role in beach explosion medical logs, cell phone records and other evidence reviewed by Knight Ridder suggest that the explosion took place during the barrage and probably was due to an artillery round.
06-21-06 - Rights group says Israel beach death probe not credible Human Rights Watch said the army's conclusion that it was not responsible for the deaths was based "exclusively" on information gathered by the IDF and excluded all evidence gathered by other sources....The group said the army fired "more than 80 such shells in the area of the beach" on the morning of June 9.
06-21-06 - Olmert: Withdrawal a demographic necessity Olmert said his "realignment plan," under which isolated West Bank settlements will be removed while others are annexed, will spare Israel the threat of a growing Palestinian population within its borders.
06-21-06 - Play About Gaza Death to Reach New York the solo show about an American demonstrator for Palestinian rights who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, has found another New York theater.
06-21-06 - Beckett condemns 'completely unacceptable' Gaza deaths We call on the Israeli authorities to respect their obligations under international law and ensure that civilians, particularly children, are not harmed.
06-21-06 - Jordan urges Nobel laureates to help create Palestinian state Peace between Palestinians and Israelis "will only come with a peacefully negotiated final settlement based on international law," King Abdullah II told Nobel prize-winners and celebrities at the World Heritage site of Petra.
06-21-06 - Quartet has three "windows" to aid Palestinians: diplomat
06-21-06 - Russia welcomes approval of mechanism of aid to Palestine
06-21-06 - Israel criticized over airstrikes "I think we have been doing the right thing, and will continue to do so," Israel's infrastructure minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, told Israel Radio. "This is war."
06-21-06 - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" star marks Israeli barrier "I've seen pictures of it, I've heard a lot about it but without being here you can't imagine how extraordinarily oppressive it is and how sad it is to see these people coming through these little holes," he added. "It's craziness."
06-21-06 - Presbyterian Church amends investment plan The statement approved 483-28 also urges an end to terror against both Israelis and Palestinians. It says a sovereign state has the right to protect its borders but said the present location of Israel's security wall "illegally encroaches into the Palestinian territory."
06-21-06 - Annan 'Deeply Deplores' Israel's Killing of Three Children in Gaza
06-21-06 - IDF issues international law handbook for combat officers Officers and commanders in combat units are to receive a handbook on international law and war crimes written by the Israel Defense Forces in order to instill in ground forces the importance of observing international conventions. A little late for that, isn't it?
06-21-06 - American-Israeli indicted for smuggling arms Seth, who recently immigrated to the Jewish state and moved to the radical Jewish settlement of Tapuah in the occupied West Bank, was arrested on June 8 after the weaponry was discovered.
06-21-06 - Dahlan to Haaretz: Olmert's unilateral withdrawal will increase violence Mohammed Dahlan, one of Fatah's leaders in the territories, warns that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's unilateral withdrawal plan in the West Bank will not solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and will only perpetuate the bloody cycle of violence.
06-21-06 - Edwards visits Israel Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, is considered a contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008. And as such, must make the necessary trip to Israel.
06-21-06 - Energy pact passes committee The bill would establish a $20 million annual grant program ? administered by the U.S. Department of Energy ? to fund joint ventures between U.S. and Israeli businesses and academics
06-21-06 - Time to go
06-21-06 - Bahrain pushes Palestine cause BAHRAIN plans to use its seat on the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) to highlight the plight of the Palestinian people, according to Foreign Ministry Assistant Under-Secretary for Co-ordination and Follow-up Shaikh Abdulaziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa.
06-21-06 - American Red Cross Welcomes Israel's Magen David Adom and Palestine Red Crescent Society to International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
06-20-06 - Two children killed after Israel launches air strike Nine, people, including children, were hurt. The two children killed in the air strike were a five-year-old boy, Mohammed Al-Rouka, and his seven-year-old sister, Nadia Al-Rouka. The teenager was identified as 16-year-old Bilal Al-Hasa.
06-20-06 - Israel, Israel, Israel, Kill, Kill, Kill - that's all I ever read online Israel is doing all it can possibly do to provoke Palestinian terrorists. I can see no other explanation for such bold and constant killings - of not just 'militants' but civilians as well.
06-20-06 - Leaving the Truth Buried in Gaza's Sands - Israel Engineers Another Cover-Up Garlasco has already determined that the injuries sustained by the beach victims accord with a blast above ground -- an Israeli shell -- rather than one underground -- a Palestinian mine.
06-20-06 - Hebron: ACTION RELEASE: "Punishing Abu Muneer" What possible purpose is served by punishing citizens like Abu Muneer - city
workers, teachers, doctors and nurses? Is there any goal? Can any of us
imagine going to work and not getting paid month after month? ACT NOW!
06-20-06 - The Gaza gold merchant's tale For many Palestinians, these are black days.
06-20-06 - IDF rejects as 'lie' new report linking shelling, Gaza beach deaths Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch presented findings ostensibly proving that
Israeli shell fragments had been found near the site of the explosion. Had to have been a Hamas mine. Riight.
06-20-06 - Israel seeks conditions on Palestinian aid Israel wants Palestinians who benefit from a proposed foreign aid mechanism to sign a document renouncing terrorism. Sign, or you don't get to feed your families.
06-20-06 - World refugee day - The lives of Palestinian refugee children told in pictures
06-20-06 - African Americans upset over pool rules A neighborhood in America is restricting membership in its swimming pool to residents of local white settlements. Same sh*t, different decade.
06-20-06 - Abbas and Olmert set for Jordan meeting
06-20-06 - Al Khader unites in mounting protests against ghettoization Mass protests began last week as the village becomes set to loose 20,000 dunums of land.
06-20-06 - LA Times: "Questions Arise Over Case Against Islamic Charity" The Justice Department?s criminal case against officials of the largest U.S.-based Islamic charity relies more heavily than previously known on Israeli intelligence, court records show....The case figures to hinge on the government?s ability to prove, largely with Israeli-provided information, that the defendants knowingly supported groups tied to Hamas. Israel's prominent investigative role appears to be unprecedented in post-Sept. 11 terrorism cases. The Israelization of the United States continues.
06-20-06 - Security wall built along route 317 Any farmer or shepherd between At-Tuwani and Qawawis wishing to access their
land on the other side of the road must travel to one of the two openings.
Especially for shepherds grazing their flocks, this "security" wall makes
access to their land very impractical and difficult.
06-20-06 - U.S. harasses in name of terror screening, suit says Dr. Elie Khoury is a Palestinian-born physician who has been a U.S. citizen for more than 30 years, but every time he and his wife return to the United States from abroad they are separated, searched, and questioned for hours -- and no one will explain why.
06-20-06 - Abbas demands end to rocket attacks, Israel steps up threats
06-20-06 - Jordan: Palestinian refugees feel neglected
06-20-06 - Israeli strike clouds leaders' meeting
06-20-06 - Hamas says delays motion against Abbas referendum
06-20-06 - Illinois officials visit Israel Officials from Illinois are touring Israel to discuss defense, education and trade issues. This week?s visit comes as Illinois tries to position itself as a center for counterterrorist business following Boeing?s relocation to the state 'Cui bono, who benefits? - is ever the question we must ask about Middle Eastern terror'; PJB..
06-20-06 - Three schoolgirls wounded in ambush on Israeli bus in West Bank
06-20-06 - At-Tuwani Update 1- 9 June 2006
06-20-06 - Former Dutch Ambassador Calls for Sanctions if Israel Refuses to Comply with International Law
06-20-06 - London channel hosts anti-Israel panel Moderator Alan Hart, a former BBC correspondent, said that "the anti-Semitism card is something the Zionists have exploited to suppress debate," and dismissed reporting about Israel?s existential concerns as "propaganda," the Post reported.
06-20-06 - America deaf to Palestinian screams
06-20-06 - Ethiopian immigration to Israel to remain flat? The government decided several years ago to increase the number allowed into Israel each month, from 300 to 600. However, the decision was never implemented, and the committee said the move should be postponed further because of financial considerations.
06-20-06 - Muslim nations challenge Red Cross move on Israel The Palestinian Red Crescent was also barred because the movement's statutes only allow relief societies from sovereign states to join. That rule is also up for change at the conference.
06-20-06 - Getting locked up to get away from it all Last year, Ms. Tabbouq said her son got arrested at Hawara checkpoint while carrying a smoke bomb he had made from sugar and coal. When the Israelis released him from jail 2½ weeks later, he began plotting to get sent back.
06-19-06 - Israeli missile hits Gaza building
06-19-06 - US Congress 'misinformed' about plight of Christians in Holy Land Open Bethlehem's chief executive Leila Sansour, a Christian from Bethlehem, has sent a letter to congress expressing her community's shock at the "gross misrepresentation of the real threat facing Christians of the Holy Land" and has urged congress to "pay heed to the real threat to the oldest Christian community in the world. The letter dated 13 June states: "We are disappointed by the latest resolution drafted by congressman McCaul and congressman Crowley purporting to act on our behalf. The resolution seriously misrepresents the situation facing Christians in the Holy Land."
THis legislation was put forth by pro-Israeli interests for pro-Israeli interests - and no others. It's a sham.
06-19-06 - Palestinian workers receive partial pay
06-19-06 - Plan to aid needy Palestinians will take time - EU
06-19-06 - UN agency urges int'l community to restore aid to Palestinians Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Karen Koning Abu Zayd urged the international community on Monday to restore aid to the Palestinians.
06-19-06 - Congress Misled About Real Threat to Christians in Palestine
06-19-06 - Shrapnel from deadly Gaza beach explosion was Israeli: TV Shrapnel from an Israeli artillery shell was extracted from a young Palestinian wounded in a deadly Gaza beachfront explosion earlier this month, an Israeli television report said Monday.
06-19-06 - Maybe Congress Should Go Home On June 6th, a bi-partisan group of members began to circulate for co-sponsorship a resolution entitled, ?Condemning the Persecution of Palestinian Christians by the Palestinian Authority.? The bill, which now has 13 co-sponsors, is nothing more than a malicious act of incitement. While correctly noting that Palestinian society is in disarray and that the percentage of Christians in Palestine has dropped significantly in the past several decades, the Congressmen proposing the legislation absolve the repressive nature of Israel?s occupation policies and falsely accuse the PA. The drafters of the bill acknowledge that in crafting their resolution they relied on the writing of an Israeli researcher working for a Jerusalem-based center founded by notorious Likudnik hard-liner Dore Gold. Palestinian Christians were not consulted, nor were any of the major religious bodies in the West with ties to their coreligionists in Palestine. Surprise surprise.
06-19-06 - Palestinian Christian continues family business in Bethlehem despite losses due to security restrictions the Israeli government, in retaliation for the Hamas victory in the Palestinian election, recently refused to renew his permit to travel to Jerusalem. "But we are Palestinian Christians, not Hamas," he said.
06-19-06 - Divided & Conquered - A visit to Syria, Israel, and Palestine reveals the barriers? It is not a question of the creation of the state of Israel, a country born in tragedy and hope and one with numerous extraordinary accomplishments to its credit. It is a question of the continued dispossession of the Palestinians, an unnecessary act and yet one that Americans sustain every day with their tax dollars. Unlike many other injustices, it is one of the easiest in the world to put right: everyone knows the parameters of a just solution, what the shape of a fair settlement would be.
06-19-06 - Palestinian anguishes over MySpace romance The Palestinian man who had an Internet romance with a 16-year-old Michigan girl is a music-loving computer buff who says he loves the teen and is heartbroken she was sent home
06-19-06 - EU sceptical on Israel unilateral borders initiative The European Union's external relations commissioner has said that unilateral Israeli steps could not bring Middle East peace but nevertheless hailed plans to remove settlements as "courageous".
06-19-06 - Israeli lawmaker calls for int'l probe into Gaza blast
06-19-06 - Israel to review WB barrier route The barrier is a land grab under the guise of 'security' - and this is not a new Israeli policy either.
06-19-06 - Bowen Middle East role 'enhanced'
06-19-06 - FEATURE-Battle lines harden at the heart of old Hebron David Wilder, an American-born Jew with a pager and mobile phone on one hip and a pistol on the other, is now the official spokesman for the hard core of settlers in old Hebron.
06-19-06 - The Assassins - From character assassination to physical assassination, the Lobby and its agents ruthlessly pursue their agenda
06-19-06 - Archbishop issues call to prayer for the Holy Land
06-19-06 - Western freeze on Hamas-led P.A. is hindering aid work, nonprofits say
06-19-06 - Court: Palestinians can?t sue Israeli employer Eighty-one Palestinian workers have been blocked from suing their Israeli employer after the Be'er Sheva Labor Court rejected their appeal to file a lawsuit without paying the demanded fees.
06-19-06 - Population swap goes mainstream They just love their Arab citizens in Israel!
06-19-06 - Conference to Explore Concept of Population Transfer The study, ?Injustice and Folly ? On the proposals to cede Arab localities from Israel to Palestine? examined the issue of transferring Israeli Arab towns to a new existence under the auspices of a Palestinian Authority state.
"Transfer"=Israeli doublespeak for forced emigration - and it's a concept that was put in practice in the late 40s by Israeli terror groups Irgun and Stern.
06-19-06 - Speaker at GA dinner has blunt assessment of Israeli/ Palestinian conflict Wagner told the group he had just returned from a trip to the Middle East, and that the Israeli occupation is now "the worst that I have seen."
"Yes, it is apartheid," he said. "We have to unmask the face of the empire."
06-19-06 - Christian Century features LWF hospital funding crisis The hospital relied on the Palestinian government's insurance payments for 40 percent of its operating budget. The facility has been living on credit with suppliers.
06-19-06 - Driven by hope, Gazans rebuild amid turmoil
06-19-06 - Jaber Acquitted On Terror Charges
06-19-06 - Israel can no longer rely on the support of Europe's Jews Israel is discovering that it can no longer frighten non-Jews out of opposing its policies merely by accusing them of anti-semitism.
06-19-06 - From Gaza, Tragedy and Propaganda Isn`t it strange how an `American` enterprise group would (attempt to) deny/dismiss/defend Israel`s Gaza beach shelling? That`s because the American Enterprise Insitute is a NEOCONSERVATIVE outfit, whose primary interest is not America, but Israel. David Frum is one of the neocons involved in foisting the Iraq debacle upon the American people.
06-19-06 - Fury in Egypt over Ghana's Israeli flag waver
06-19-06 - ANC boycotts pro-Israel conference Three prominent Christian members of the governing African National Congress Party, including former Cape Town mayor Normaindia Mfeketo, did not even respond to invitations to attend the conference, said Dave Wilken, deputy chairman of the South Africa branch of the Jerusalem-based International Christian Embassy. The "International Christian Embassy" = Christian Zionists. Israel helped the apartheid of South Africa along.
06-19-06 - The real source of the grief Krauthammer, Cal Thomas, David Frum - all Israel-firsters - all on a frenzy to dismiss/downplay/deny the fact that an Israeli shell killed those civilians on that beach in Gaza.
06-19-06 - Israel's Olmert convenes ex-premiers on Iran
06-19-06 - Protesters, revelers mark Israel?s birth ?They have no problem whatsoever with Jews,? he said of the Palestinians protesting nearby. ?They don?t mention Jews in their message. They have a problem with Israel.?
06-18-06 - Abbas urges Arabs to block Israel's plan
06-18-06 - Olmert rejects international probe into Gaza beach deaths "We will never agree to become subject to an investigation by international bodies," Olmert told ministers during a weekly cabinet meeting. The former Pentagon official points to plenty of evidence that it was an Israeli shell that caused the massacre on the Gaza beach. The IDF has been shelling civilian areas for weeks now - which has resulted in the deaths of other children. The Hamas mine story is about as credible as saying the attack on the USS Liberty was a case of mistaken identity.
06-18-06 - EU wins backing to send £70m aid to Gaza and West Bank Worth around $126m (£70m), the plan will give money to healthcare suppliers, utility companies and individuals in extreme need but will not pay the salaries of thousands of Palestinian Authority staff
06-18-06 - UN ups food handouts in Gaza Strip The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) began distributing emergency food aid to an additional 90,000 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.
06-18-06 - Palestinians predict breakthrough in factional talks Palestinian factions are moving towards agreement on a statehood initiative implicitly recognizing Israel and could reach a deal early this week aimed at ending deadly internecine clashes, officials said.
06-18-06 - Palestinian National Football Team Sabotaged I am writing to urge the suspension of Israel?s FIFA membership until it stops interfering in and obstructing Palestinian national representation in football and other international arenas.
06-18-06 - Israel extremists threaten hell over West Bank pullouts A draft battle plan, seeking to incite a third Palestinian uprising in the vein of the intifadas of 1987-93 and 2000 until today, has been drawn up and handed out to sympathisers at an award ceremony for a dissident Jewish conscript...."We are going to create an atmosphere of terror," They already do.
06-18-06 - Israel, Palestinians set to gain Red Cross membership Syria says Israel is neglecting the health needs of the 25,000 Syrian citizens who live in the Golan, which Israel annexed in 1981 after taking over in 1967. Israel rejects that argument.
06-18-06 - Israel court rejects barrier route change Nearly 2 years ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that this barrier is illegal whereever it confiscates any Palestinian land. E. Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank are Palestinian land.
06-18-06 - Aid plan draws muted Palestinian response
06-18-06 - PA to import power from Egypt, bypass Israeli grid The Palestinian government plans to build an electrical facility in Egypt that will allow it to take power from Egypt, weaning itself off more expensive Israeli electricity, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.
06-18-06 - Egypt and Jordan discuss "Arab differences" At the Red Sea resort, Mubarak and Abdullah also discussed the Palestinian question and how to push forward the inter-Palestinian dialogue.
06-18-06 - On Boycotts, Activism, and Moral Standards The thought of becoming yet another person to abandon the Palestinians was abhorrent. And it was obvious that Iraq would further divert American and world attention from Israel's occupation, perhaps one of the war?s many intended results. So I stayed at my post. It remains a difficult decision today, but I do not regret it. Does it constitute a "moral double standard"?
06-18-06 - High-ranking Israeli Arab army officer sentenced to 15 years on spying charges Lt.-Col. Omar el-Heib, 43, denied spying for Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, and accused the military court in Tel Aviv of racism after the sentence was handed down. "I didn't confess, I won't confess," el-Heib told reporters. "I didn't do anything. The only reason they are coming after me is because I am an Arab."
Seems the only people in the IDF that Israel WILL prosecute for anything are the Arab/Druze.
06-18-06 - Gaza goes back to its beaches
06-18-06 - Israelis killing Palestinians, and vice versa The Irgun, a Jewish terrorist organization that morphed into the Likud, first targeted Arab civilians in October 1937. In his history of Israel's War of Independence, "Righteous Victims," Benny Morris writes that the Irgun "introduced a new dimension to the conflict" when "for the first time, massive bombs were placed in crowded Arab centers, and dozens of people were indiscriminately murdered and maimed." Morris writes that in 1937, "this 'innovation' soon found Arab imitators."
06-18-06 - Gaza gov't workers receiving U.N. food aid for first time
06-18-06 - Israeli town to go on strike in protest against Qassam attacks
06-18-06 - Wen: China wants Mid East peace talks The conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis is a flash point in the Middle East, he said, adding that the key to solving it was following the relevant United Nations resolutions and the roadmap peace plan
06-18-06 - Pro-Palestine Rally in Union Square, Friday, June 16, 2006
06-18-06 - Conductor Daniel Barenboim ends reign at Chicago Symphony Orchestra
06-18-06 - Israeli "Justice": Paul Larudee Denied Entry to Palestine by Israel
06-18-06 - Palestine's Hope Moves Across US The Al Raja (Hope) Dance Troupe from Ramallah opened their six-week, US tour in the Chicagoland area.
06-18-06 - Art that aims to heal hatreds in Mideast
06-18-06 - Presbyterian compromise appears to please Israel divestment opponents "Changing the divestment policy seemed a given in their deliberations" - a result, he said, of two years of conversations between Jews and Presbyterians and among Presbyterians themselves.
06-18-06 - From Columbus: Ateek and others honored by Episcopal Peace Fellowship for reconciliation work
06-18-06 - S. African Christians host pro-Israel parley "South Africans need to be informed that the story of the blacks and the story of the Palestinians are totally different, and that the accusations against Israel of racism, colonialism, and apartheid are a big fraud, and are outrageous lies which are reminiscent of Nazi-era propaganda," In other words, South Africans need to be Ziofied.
06-18-06 - New UN rights body under pressure to prove itself European countries have warned they will not allow Israel to be the only one signaled out for censure. Its routine condemnation, in resolutions repeated year after year, symbolized for many the sterility of the old commission.
06-17-06 - Israeli strike kills 2 top Palestinian militants Palestinian medics said several civilian bystanders were injured in the strike, the latest in a series of several Israel has launched against militants launching rockets in the past week
06-17-06 - The time is right to use 1559 against Israel According to observers, Lebanon can not only put forward the argument that Israel has violated international law and the UN declaration but also UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which up until now has only been used against Syria. The neocons would never allow it. That resolution was directed at Syria for a reason.
06-17-06 - International Sponsors OK Palestinian Aid Establishment of the fund is an acknowledgment that an international aid freeze imposed after the surprise election victory of Hamas militants in January has had unintended and harsh consequences for ordinary Palestinians. No kidding?
06-17-06 - Quartet backs EU funding mechanism for Palestinians The statement said it hoped other donors, international organizations and Israel would consider channeling aid through the mechanism. So it's still up to Israel to allow the aid to the Palestinian people?
06-17-06 - Lebanon to complain about Israel to UN Lebanon will complain to the United Nations about Israel after a Lebanese man confessed to killing Hizbollah and Palestinian guerrillas on the orders of Israeli intelligence, the prime minister said on Saturday.
06-17-06 - 4 Months Into Aid Cutoff, Gazans Barely Scrape By More middle-aged men can be seen on the piers of Gaza, fishing with boys, to try to catch some protein for dinner. The Israeli government is laughing all the way to the bank on the interest they're making off of the tax customs that they are withholding from the Palestinians.
06-17-06 - Abbas says EU funding mechanism 'not adequate' "Though we consider this a step forward, it is not enough at all because it cancels the role of the government and cancels the role of the Palestinian Authority," he said.....On arriving in Amman, Abbas said his security forces had still not received an arms shipment Israel had agreed to let be delivered through Jordan despite a top Israeli official's claims to the contrary.
06-17-06 - Palestinian FM boasts Iran pledge of 50 million dollars in aid "We will continue bringing in money through the Rafah crossing," he said. "It is legal and we will not let anyone keep milk from our children and medicine from our sick."
06-17-06 - Lieberman: Flatten homes of Hamas leaders
06-17-06 - Behind the Walls: Separation Walls between Arabs and Jews in Mixed Cities in Israel The purpose of these walls and fences is to separate the Jewish majority and the Palestinian minority, and to prevent physical or even eye contact between the two populations.
Remember this? and this "A poll of attitudes among Israel's Jews towards their country's Arab citizens has exposed widespread racism, with large numbers favouring segregation and policies to encourage Arabs to leave the country."?
06-17-06 - Palestinian women become Beekeepers
06-17-06 - Misguided Theology Makes Bad Foreign Policy Washington needs to develop a Mideast policy that advances America's national interests by reducing the likelihood of war involving the U.S. and attacks on Americans ? basically staying out. Yet a number of Israel advocates appear to see their support as an outgrowth of their Christian faith
06-17-06 - Former CIA chief Woolsey sharply criticizes 2004 GA decision Former CIA James Woolsey - propagandist for Israel. "Woolsey serves on the board of advisers of JINSA, as well as the Pentagon's DPB, and several other neo-conservative groups, including Americans for Victory Over Terrorism. " Source. Who knew?
06-17-06 - Jews lobby Presbyterian Church over divestment The resolution called for pulling out funds of Presbyterian Churches and pension funds from companies that have made profit from contracts signed for the construction of the Israeli separation barrier or for projects that involved Jewish settlements or military activity in the West Bank.
06-17-06 - Masked perpetrators harass West Bank Palestinian village, steal donkey About a month ago, dozens of settlers ambushed a military vehicle escorting the children. They threw stones and bottles, and one settler set his dog on the children. Four of the children and two soldiers were wounded in the attack.
Oh how delightful. These are the people that the evangelical Christians in America love the most, folks.
06-17-06 - Palestinian factions say close to agreement Rival Palestinian factions said on Saturday they were close to hammering out an agreement that might avoid a referendum showdown between President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and governing Hamas Islamists.
06-17-06 - Bil'in Unites in Solidarity With Gaza
06-17-06 - Fire Dancing in Hebron
06-17-06 - U.S.-Indian Nuclear Deal Puts Israel In Hot Seat While the Israeli government has not taken a strong position on the India deal, some of Israel's supporters in America, including the American Jewish Committee, have urged Congress to ratify it.
06-17-06 - (PCUSANEWS) Peacemaking and international issues Alan Villesvik, a member of North Puget Sound Presbytery in Washington, talked about the unequal system that exists for Israelis and Palestinians, with the lion?s share of resources going to Israelis. "The present configuration of land ? is one-sided," he said, pointing out that all of the water is controlled by the Israeli side. "If we are going to have peace there, it has to be a just peace."
06-17-06 - Israel Blows Up World
06-16-06 - Two Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike
06-16-06 - Hospital casts doubt on Israel's version of attack that killed seven Palestinians It also said for the first time yesterday that a call was made by Palestinian security at 5.12pm to Israel asking them not to shell in the area, because ambulances were attending an emergency on the beach.
06-16-06 - Condi and the Isolationists by Patrick J. Buchanan Is it the isolationists who cannot end a column or commentary without howling for new preemptive strikes on "Islamofascists"? Was it isolationists who reveled in those Danish cartoons, reprinting them and declaring them to be a fine expression of Western values? ...Was it isolationists who sent an army storming into Baghdad in search of weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.....Is it isolationists who are supporting Israel's strangulation of aid-dependent Palestinians....
06-16-06 - Congress Bans All Aid to Palestinian Authority (PA) The Senate and the House of Representatives have passed a bill that includes a ban on giving money to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA). The clause was an amendment to the bill providing emergency funds for the war in Iraq and for Gulf Coast hurricane victims.
The AIPACers had this snuck in under the radar, due to the growing opposition of their previous effort.
06-16-06 - Quartet deal on Palestinian aid close, say U.S., EU There have been signs that the Europeans were at odds with Israel and the United States, which have opposed payments of salaries.
06-16-06 - Egypt urges Palestinian cooperation ahead of Abbas visit Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak urged Palestinian leaders to put aside their differences amid a deepening political crisis, on the eve of a meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
06-16-06 - EU aprroves 100 million euro Palestinian aid package The EU to the rescue.
06-16-06 - Iran says it has capability to defend itself Iran has the ability to defend itself, the country's president said on Friday when asked about Israel's nuclear capability.
06-16-06 - Who really killed Huda Ghalia's family? The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, initially apologised for the killings but the military swiftly realised it was confronting another PR disaster to rival that of the killing of Mohammed al-Dura, the 12-year-old boy who died in his father's arms amid a barrage of gunfire six years ago and became the first iconic victim of the intifada Seems to be different versions of this McGreal story at the Guardian.
06-16-06 - Bush bans P.A. use of funds President Bush signed an emergency supplemental funding bill that includes language forbidding funding of the Palestinian Authority. .......The bill was strongly supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The AIPACers got Congress to slip this funding ban into another bill because their last effort was to be met with opposition in the Senate.
06-16-06 - The battle of Huda Ghalia - who really killed girl's family on Gaza beach? Guardian investigation casts doubt on Israeli claim that army was not to blame
06-16-06 - Israel admits shell report flaws The army has told The Times that its report was flawed because it failed to mention two gunboat shells fired at about the time of the deaths. It insists, however, that they landed too far away to have been responsible. .....The Times has established that at 4.43pm the UN received a radio call from one of its officials in northern Gaza that said: "At 16.33hrs IDF artillery shelling has started again targeting the northern area, two artillery shells so far. One of the shells fell down at the coast west of the evacuated old Dugit settlement, some casualties among the people spending their day at the . . . "
Israel is spinning hard now - their 'official story' is getting to be too full of holes to maintain.
06-16-06 - Israel Holocaust memorial slams Ahmadinejad's anti-Semitism "Yad Vashem reiterates its warning against complacency in face of Iranian Holocaust denial," a spokeswoman for the memorial told AFP.
06-16-06 - Lawmakers praise NATO-Israel ties Forty members of the U.S. Congress wrote NATO?s secretary-general in support of expanding the NATO-Israel relationship.
06-16-06 - Flights from north to central Israel are 'Jews only' In April, the Industry and Trade stopped funding providing the NIS 30,000 monthly cost for security for the building, saying, "The new operator must bear responsibility for securing both the the equipment and the building." As a result, the necessary security checks are not conducted, and non-Jewish passengers are not allowed to board flights. In other words, non-Jews must be checked.
06-16-06 - Suspected Lebanon assassin turned in Israel jail A suspected Israeli agent held in Lebanon over a spate of assassinations was turned while in Israeli detention in the 1980s, a Palestinian militant leader charged in an interview published.
06-16-06 - Palestinian PM low on Israel's hit-list: official
06-16-06 - Hamas group disowns govt ceasefire offer to Israel Hamas militants distanced themselves on Friday from a ceasefire offer that the Palestinian government led by the Islamist group made to Israel.
06-16-06 - Behind Jerusalem's Old City, an Arab district in turmoil While western districts of Jerusalem, which are overwhelmingly Jewish, generally have well-maintained roads with working street lamps, neat sidewalks and skips where rubbish is collected and recycling encouraged, Silwan is a mess. That's because Silwan is an Arab neighborhood.
06-16-06 - Dayan is accused in antiquities plunder Various books and news reports have related how Dayan, aided by children, robbers, soldiers and military equipment, poached excavations for private gain...."Probably most of Dayan's looting was done in areas conquered after 1967 and under his own military rule," Kletter wrote Thieving by someone in the Israeli government? Come on! It's unheard of!
06-16-06 - Peres: World must decide on Iran "Iran is a world problem. We don?t want to make it into an Israeli problem," Too late.
06-16-06 - IDF told to draw up settlement evac plan There are more than 100 Jewish settlements in the Palestinian West Bank that were not officially authorized by the Israeli government. There are also about 150 authorized settlements and communities. All are illegal under international law.
06-16-06 - 'Debating' the Iraq War - It isn't happening ? at least, not in Congress bin Laden and his cohorts are driven by the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf, and America's unconditional support for Israel and its apparent indifference to the plight of the Palestinians
06-16-06 - Bush extends Jerusalem embassy delay President Bush delayed moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for another six months.
C'mon, even Bush knows that our foreign policy is decided there anyway. No formality is necessary.
06-16-06 - Three Palestinians nabbed for attempting to kidnap Israelis
06-16-06 - Hamas criticises EU aid proposals
06-16-06 - Experts: US must win 'war of ideas' How do you expect to win the 'hearts and minds' of a people and their neighbors whom you are directly causing to further plunge into poverty and starvation?
06-16-06 - Get Out Your Tinfoil Hats They appear to be tied to conservatives and there appears to be a tie to townhall.com, the ultra-right-wing web site. Same outfit visited my blog, on more than one occasion. The comments feature is disabled on both of my blogs. Pro-Israelis, actively engaged in 'Hasbara' or PR ops, and whose numbers are extremely high in cyberspace, flood such media with their cybergraffiti every chance they get. I refuse to give them the opportunity. According to my own research, the visitor using netvocates seems to be based in the same city as this scandal involving that state's Republican party . Perhaps they've changed tack and are now jamming blogs instead of phone lines?
06-16-06 - Annan warns commission on Israel Kofi Annan warned the U.N. Human Rights Commission not to single out Israel. Lately, Annan is singing Israel's tune like a canary. They must have something on him.
06-16-06 - 'Words' honors her fight for peace ''The Words of Rachel Corrie," a play based on a series of e-mails she sent to her family, opens Tuesday at the Provincetown Fringe Festival.
06-16-06 - Palestinians dance for peace "After 20 years, if there are no Palestinian Christians, we will ask (Americans): 'Why didn't you help us stay in the country?'" said Younan, who was in Chicago for the dancers' American debut. "What is a Holy Land without Christians who have been there for the last 2,000 years?"
06-16-06 - Fertility rate among American black women steadily declining Another relevant figure is the number of births per thousand. Among the white population, the number of births per thousand rose from 18.7 in 2000 to 19.2 in 2004 Just changed the words a little bit.
06-16-06 - Israel blocks RussNeft bid in oil refinery tender The source said the Israeli decision might have also been influenced by Russia's relations with Arab countries, a March visit made by a delegation from radical Palestinian political party Hamas and weapons supplies to Algeria
06-16-06 - Homeland Security Expert and Former Security Chief of El Al Airlines, Isaac Yeffet, Joins HiEnergy Technologies' Business Advisory Board Israelis capitalize on and are heavily entrenched in the 'Homeland Security' industry both in America and abroad.
06-16-06 - As China's economy grows, so does the Jewish community - and Chabad "Ninety percent of the Jews who come to China come not because they fall in love with Chinese culture, but because there are opportunities." ..."We are absolutely determined that the infrastructure of Judaism in China should be Chabad. That's why we set up a JCC in each place, because Chabad cares for Jews in a way few other organizations do," he said. "We have the right balance of not compromising Jewish values and tolerating those who do. But tolerance does not mean we have to endorse intermarriage." China is slated to be an economic superpower by 2026 (as America's economy tanks). This move is no coincidence. Israel's survival must be ensured (by these folks).
06-16-06 - Burning Cole Neoconservatism is an elite calling. It thrives in think tanks, not union halls; its proponents want most of all to influence the powerful. No wonder Ivy League labels have always been important to neocons. This fixation on intellectual prestige explains the recent neocon uprising over the possibility that Juan Cole, scholar and blogger, would become a Yale professor
06-16-06 - Native Palestinians bring their message through folkloric dance Saba Nader and Ola Haniya are both 16-year-old juniors at the Evangelical Lutheran School of Hope in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the West Bank. Since they were small children, they have been practicing dabkeh, a traditional form of Palestinian dance.
06-16-06 - Ahmadinejad calls for Holocaust inquiry
06-16-06 - Open Borders Threaten Jewish Clout Closer to home, massive immigration will obliterate Jewish power by shrinking our percentage of the population ? to a fraction of 1% in 20 years. Jews possess political clout despite tiny numbers because we are concentrated in large electoral vote states, have legendary voting rates, donate significantly to both parties and dominant culture. We will retain residual influence due to campaign contributions, membership in institutional establishments and the endurance of our alliances, but the Latino vote will eventually overwhelm us....And except for the evangelical part of the community, Latinos do not share any particularly strong bond to Israel.....Latino population growth is inevitable, but exponential growth is not. If we can keep the numbers within reasonable bounds ? which would hasten immigrant acculturation and reduce traditional cultural bigotry ? we will likely maintain our position.
Wow. THe Latino immigrants are ok, so long as the Jewish groups can keep their numbers to a comfortable limit - one which would not threaten their interests. The rest of Americans, be damned.
06-16-06 - Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan cautions against U.S. House resolution A letter circulating in Congress with the resolution charges the Palestinian Authority with the "systematic destruction of the oldest Christian community in the world." CMEP and other organizations are concerned that the resolution's reports of Christian persecution contains inaccuracies and exaggerations.
06-15-06 - Gaza Crisis Deepens Innocent families need your help to survive what the UN calls a "desperate" and deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza....Please give today. With your help, we can continue to help vulnerable families alleviate a crushing financial burden and pressure international actors to come up with a political solution that unfetters the Gaza economy.
06-15-06 - Artillery Strike Probably Killed Palestinian Family The head of the IDF's southern command, General Yoav Galant, has said that IDF forces fired six artillery shells at an area described as approximately 250 meters away from the fatal incident between 4:32 p.m. and 4:51 p.m. on Friday, June 9. Human Rights Watch investigations indicate that the evidence overwhelmingly supports the allegations that the civilians were killed by artillery shells fired by the IDF....Human Rights Watch researchers currently in Gaza interviewed victims, witnesses, Palestinian security officers and doctors who treated the wounded after the incident. They also visited the site of the explosion, where they found a large piece of unoxidized jagged shrapnel, stamped "155mm," which would be consistent with an artillery shell fired by the IDF's M-109 Self-Propelled Artillery...Eyewitnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch described between five and six explosions on the beach between 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., the time frame when the IDF fired artillery onto the beach and when the seven civilians were killed. Read this report. Five of the six IDF shells were fired during the same time period when the Palestinian family was attacked by a missile. The craters of the previous Israeli shells match the crater of the incident with the family on the beach.
06-15-06 - Russian president blasts United States after Asian security summit The Russian leader also spoke out strongly against U.S. efforts to mount a financial blockade of the Hamas-led government in the Palestinian territories.
06-15-06 - Hamas govt says it wants ceasefire with Israel Ghazi Hamad said Israel had to first stop military activity in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
06-15-06 - In Palestine, a War on Children a final solution, agreed by the United States and Israel, to the problem of the Palestinians. While the Israelis fire missiles at Palestinian picnickers and homes in Gaza and the West Bank, the two governments are to starve them. The victims will be mostly children
06-15-06 - Palestinians call for UN probe of Gaza killings Annan also told reporters such an investigation would need the consent of Israel Why? Let's face facts folks. Israel admits to shelling this area just minutes beforehand. And we are to believe that coinidentally, a 'Hamas mine' goes off in the same locality and massacres a family at the beach? BS. The former Pentagon official Garlasco believes that it was likely a 155mm IDF shell. I agree with that assessment.
06-15-06 - Lebanon accuses Israel of car bombing The government has decided to complain to the U.N. Security Council about Israeli attacks in Lebanon, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said following a Cabinet meeting where Defense Minister Elias Murr reported on the car bombing.
06-15-06 - EU mulls funding mechanism, vows to stand by Palestinians The European Union has reiterated that it "will not let the Palestinian people down," as its leaders were to consider proposals for an international funding mechanism at an EU summit.
06-15-06 - 45 olive trees damaged in W. Bank; settlers blamed The damage, which was caused in part by sawing, was discovered Saturday by a farmer working a neighboring plot. The damaged trees are located next to a road leading to the Elon Moreh settlement, near Nablus
06-15-06 - Israeli Military branches Collaborate with Settlers to Expand Settlement The Israeli military, police, and secret service are collaborating with Beit Ayn settlers to confiscate Palestinian land. That's always been the case. Since confiscating Palestinian land has been official Israeli government policy since and just before Israel's creation. There was no Israel prior to 1948. The Palestinians sure as hell didn't give their land over to those largely recent immigrants.
06-15-06 - World Bank says in talks on aid to Palestinians World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Wednesday the bank wants to help deliver aid to Palestinians and is in discussions with the Quartet of Middle East negotiators on how it can be done. A neocon at the World Bank (playing "good cop" to the US government's "bad cop": 'Well, we want to help the poor Palestinians.. but it's up to the US government').
06-15-06 - Shrapnel clue to Gaza beach shelling "It should be possible to work out whether it was a fuse from the type of shell being fired by Israel into Gaza."
Last night the Israeli army had not responded to questions about whether the fuses used in its Gaza bombardment had similar markings.....This timeline does not fit with Israel's account. The army inquiry admitted its guns were firing between 4.30pm and 4.48pm but had stopped at the time of the blast which, according to Israeli surveillance of Gaza, happened about 5pm. The hospital read-out would suggest a blast time of 4.45pm - during the period when Israel admits it was firing.
06-15-06 - Israeli Soldiers in Hebron Refuse to Prevent Attacks Against Palestinians, Internationals
06-15-06 - Iran, Syria sign defense agreement "Our cooperation is based on a strategic pact and unity against common threats. We can have a common front against Israel's threats,"
06-15-06 - Authors of Israel Lobby Paper Get Warm Reception at Military College It was evident to me during my visit that many at the Naval War College were familiar with the paper. By one report, the College came under pressure from an unnamed congressman to cancel the talk, but the College stuck by its cannonballs.
06-15-06 - Annan retracts remarks on IDF's Gaza blast probe Following a meeting Thursday with Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, he told reporters that he had responded to "media speculations." Annan gets cowed by Israeli officials.
06-15-06 - EU monitors protest Hamas cash flow across border Pistolese said the continued practice would prevent his monitors from fulfilling their duties, said Erakat, expressing concern that the letter could precipitate a withdrawal by the monitors and the border's closure.
06-15-06 - Israel, Egypt Jordan on alert for al-Qaeda attack Egypt, Jordan and Israel are on high alert for possible large-scale attacks by al-Qaeda members in response to last week's killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the global terror group's leader in Iraq, security sources said.
06-15-06 - Israel army says Gaza militant rocket firing drops
06-15-06 - Court orders Israel to tear down West Bank barrier segment Israel's supreme court has ordered the state to dismantle a section of its controversial West Bank separation barrier following an appeal from two Palestinian villages. The International Court of Justice ruled nearly 2 years ago that any part of this wall that is built on Palestinian territory is in violation of international law. Israel ignored the ruling.
06-15-06 - Israel's Olmert sees risk of West Bank, Gaza split Congested and coastal Gaza is a stronghold of Hamas Islamists, who recently swept to government, while the more moderate Fatah faction holds sway in the hilly West Bank.
06-15-06 - Militants fire rockets into south Israel The Israeli army said one person was slightly injured in the southern town of Sderot and a building was damaged.
06-15-06 - Huge rise recorded in number of houses IDF razes in arrest raids Since the IDF can no longer use Palestinian neighbors as human shields, they instead just raze the suspect's house down.
06-15-06 - Hamas minister found with 4 mln dollars at Rafah crossing
06-15-06 - From Columbus: Peace in Israel/Palestine is focus of committee hearing A five-point resolution, A012 advocates for: an end to the isolation of East Jerusalem and Bethlehem from the West Bank; removal of the Wall; assurance of human rights for Palestinians; support for the return of sovereign control of Gaza to the Palestinian people; and assurance that no U.S. tax dollars will be used to finance the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian territories
06-15-06 - Congress bans P.A. use of emergency funds The bill, now awaiting President Bush?s signature, was strongly supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
More legislation for Israel.
06-15-06 - Bipartisan effort to expose P.A. treatment of Christians The proposed resolution appears aimed at countering actions by other Congress members, notably Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), who contend that Israel?s occupation is driving Christians out of the West Bank.
This is a complete joke, and further evidence that Capitol Hill is Israeli-occupied territory.
06-15-06 - Church panelist compares Israelis to Nazis Salam al-Maryati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, said Thursday that Israel was crowding Palestinians into conditions ?like the Warsaw Ghetto,? said Ethan Felson, assistant executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, who was in attendance.
06-15-06 - Bulldozing Palestine - An Open Letter to Caterpillar, Inc. Caterpillar's failure to reconsider its relationship with the Israeli army is no mere sin of omission. Caterpillar Inc. is consciously abetting practices recognized as war crimes and crimes against humanity. That active decision prevails still, fully two years after the International Court of Justice determined the illegality of those actions of your client and committed partner.
06-15-06 - NYC: June 16, 2006 - Emergency National Action- Protest Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians
06-15-06 - Arab League 'disturbed' by Palestinian discord
06-15-06 - Jordan suspects plead not guilty to infiltrate Israel plot Five Jordanians of Palestinian origin pleaded not guilty in court to charges of plotting to infiltrate Israel to carry out attacks, judicial sources said.
06-15-06 - Cover Up on Gaza Beach - Israel Spinning Out of Control
06-15-06 - Egypt to the rescue? Egypt reportedly proposed a plan that would dissolve the Hamas-led Palestinian government in favor of one headed by a more moderate businessman.
06-15-06 - A "Quiet Triumph" for Israel Activists at UC Berkeley Jewish and pro-Israel organizations used this opportunity to call on Jewish students and professionals to do more to combat anti-Israel sentiment on campus Criticism of Israel is neither anti-Semitic nor is it going away any time soon. Better get used to it. The more people try to quash it - the louder it is going to get.
06-15-06 - War, Mideast issues face Episcopal church votes On Thursday, one panel took up a number of disparate Middle East resolutions. One urges Israel to "end the isolation of East Jerusalem and Bethlehem from the West Bank created by the continued construction of Israeli settlements, settler roads and the (security) wall" and to remove the wall.
06-15-06 - Small Jewish group with big muscle defends community against anti-Semitism Maxime, a 22-year-old waiter, admits his group is not afraid to take justice into its own hands if need be. He bragged about a 2003 incident in which a Jewish Defense League member beat up pro-Palestinian university students, injuring one.
06-15-06 - Scholar: A Nuclear Iran Spells Doom for Israel "If - just if - the American-led coalition will not come to the right decision at the right time, then the onus will fall on the shoulders of Israel. And we will know what to do."....."We believe the entire land of Israel is Jewish land by right," said Olmert.....Moreover, he added, "Israel does not meddle in America's business."
It's up to America to 'protect' Israel. And if America won't do it, THEN Israel will act on its own behalf. That last statement above by Olmert is positively hilarious.
06-15-06 - CUPE members going to court over Israeli boycott The four Toronto CUPE locals helping organize Friday's information picket represent workers at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, the Jewish Immigrant Aid Service, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the UJA Federation Toronto, the Jewish Vocational Service a non-sectarian employment agency and Jewish Family & Child Service.
06-15-06 - Palestinians willing to risk arrest, beatings and even lives to get to jobs in Israel
06-15-06 - Palestinian issue dominates Caterpillar meeting
06-15-06 - French withhold backing for Israel?s plan
06-15-06 - Israel's entry to International Red Cross teeters Olivier Durr of the International Committee of the Red Cross said that the deal, which is also slated to admit the Palestinian emergency services operation, has been ?complicated by a deteriorating situation in the Middle East,? Reuters reported.
06-15-06 - Punishing the Palestinians Commentary: Congressional legislation aimed at isolating Hamas is unnecessarily harsh and will likely backfire.
06-15-06 - ND valedictorian headed to UIC While this young Palestinian woman has still yet to decide on what she wants to major in at UIC, she says in the next five years she sees herself as a "successful business woman who can support herself financially and is hopefully married."
06-15-06 - Aim for a Better Image? Quit Talk of Being Thieves! This deluded columnist fails to account for international law which states that Gaza, the West Bank and E. Jerusalem are only OCCUPIED by Israel. Israel has no legal claim to them. To the contrary, Israel is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention by building settlements in those territories.
06-15-06 - Speaking up for Israel The speakers feel no obligation to strive for balance, as any group asking them in would understand that they are quite clearly Jews advocating for Israel. No kidding? Yet they routinely demand this 'balance' by speakers who present the Palestinian side of the story to American audiences in many different venues, including theatre. Hypocrisy.
06-14-06 - Israeli force kills Fatah militant in Jenin The Israel undercover force entered Jenin using a Palestinian car and then opened fire at Mohammed Sobhi, 24, as he was walking on a main street close to a hospital, said the witnesses, adding Sobhi was critically wounded.
06-14-06 - Hamas man dies in Gaza shooting It is not immediately clear who was behind the attack in Khan Younis.
06-14-06 - Israel sends warning through secret channels to Hamas gov't: DM Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said that Israel had sent a message through secret channels to the Hamas-led Palestinian government warning of large-scale operations if Palestinian militants continue rocket attacks on Israel, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Wednesday.
06-14-06 - Ramallah succumbs to civil strife hundreds of Fatah supporters stormed the parliament attacking Hamas lawmakers and forcing the Hamas speaker to flee the building.
06-14-06 - Olmert says West Bank plan unstoppable "I hope it can be carried out within the framework of talks, but it will be carried out with or without talks," he said of the plan, which would see Israel take chunks of land where Palestinians want a state. Any 'chunks' of Palestinian land that Israel 'takes' is a violation of international law.
06-14-06 - Abbas and Hamas try to ease fears of civil war This internecine battling going on isn't helping the plight of the ordinary Palestinians any. They better calm it down.
06-14-06 - Palestinian minister takes $20m into Gaza
06-14-06 - Saudi Arabia donates food aid for 50,000 Palestinian families
06-14-06 - U.S.-trained expert says shell was Israeli Garlasco said he concluded the explosion was caused by a 155 mm shell of the type Israel uses. He viewed shrapnel collected from the scene by a Palestinian ordinance disposal unit, and in X-rays of Palestinians wounded in the blast.
06-14-06 - Evidence from Gaza beach points to Israeli shell
06-14-06 - We must eat, yell Palestinian civil servants in pay demonstration
06-14-06 - Israel army concedes old munition may be behind beach deaths
06-14-06 - Catholics seek to stave off Palestinian hunger
06-14-06 - Lebanon's army 'foils Israeli attack cell'
06-14-06 - Vatican denounces spiral of violence in Holy Land The Vatican appealed to both sides "to show due respect for human life, especially that of unarmed civilians and children" and urged them to find the courage to resume peace talks. The Vatican also urged the international community to rapidly approve funds for humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
06-14-06 - Free World Cup TV gives Palestinians something to cheer about "This is not a money making venture for me," Qadry says from his sparsely equipped studios housed in a converted apartment. "This is about giving Palestinians a spot of joy during bleak times."
06-14-06 - Women fly Palestinian flag on the pitch This is one half of the Palestinian women's football team, made up of players from local sides including Ram Allah, Gaza and Bethlehem, which has been playing in tournaments abroad. ...The national women's team rarely gets to train together because of the Israeli checkpoints.
06-14-06 - Top-level Israeli military now at most important US-government What is interesting is that the author, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon
was chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2002 to 2005 and
now " is a distinguished military fellow at the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy." The ignoring by the mainstream media of the
extent of the seamless integration of top-level Israeli military with
the most important US-government connected think tank is yet another
indication of how Israelized our seat of government has become.
06-14-06 - Israeli PM approves arms transfer to Abbas "We want to strengthen Abu Mazen so that he will be able to cope with Hamas," said the Israeli leader, using Abbas's nom de guerre.
06-14-06 - Israel Spinning Out of Control Israel?s Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced today that Israel is preparing a global "propaganda offensive" to counter the recent barrage of news reports and writings that condemned Israel for the recent killing of 10 civilians, including 5 children, on a Gaza beach. In political and media lingo this is called spin, to twist and turn an event so as to give an intended interpretation, and Israel excels at it
06-14-06 - Suicide bombs biggest threat to U.S. -experts I wonder , Why Are They Killing Us?
06-14-06 - Iraq conflict fuels rise in global refugees to 12 million: survey The UNHCR did not take into account Palestinian refugees, who came under the jurisdiction of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), USCRI spokeswoman Sarah Petrin said.
06-14-06 - Will the White House Moron Bring On Armageddon? To help undermine any prospect for peace in the Middle East, Israeli gunboats shelled a public beach and killed or wounded 50 Palestinians. This was done in order to provoke Hamas into abandoning the long-established cease-fire that Hamas had imposed in the interest of negotiating a Palestinian settlement. The Israeli government succeeded, and now there will a resurgence of "Hamas terrorism" that Bolton and his neocon compatriots can use to build a frightening spectacle of Muslim terrorism.
06-14-06 - Palestinian tourism minister quits The Palestinian tourism minister has announced his resignation from the Hamas-led government after increased inter-Palestinian violence.
06-14-06 - How Israel's Jewish terrorist became a victim
06-14-06 - Palestinians being pushed closer to civil war, experts say "Let's put it this way: There are internal and external conditions that make that possibility imminent,"
06-14-06 - Committee OKs anti-terrorism cooperation A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved legislation strengthening anti-terrorism cooperation between the United States, Israel and other nations....The American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied for the bill.
06-14-06 - Israel PM modifies West Bank pullout plan
06-14-06 - Adviser: Hamas prepared to offer long truce Hamas might offer a 50- to 60-year truce if Israel withdraws to its pre-1967 borders, a top Palestinian adviser said.
06-14-06 - Blair salutes 'true friend' Israel
06-14-06 - Donor may fund Georgetown Jewish center to give U.S. leaders another viewpoint The move would involve hiring three more professors, and possibly a new building. The Jewish and Israeli presence at Georgetown, a Jesuit university that sends its graduates into the heart of the American political establishment, would reach a totally different level, according to one participant in the discussions
06-14-06 - Anti-Semitism cited in immigration debate One Internet-distributed game, "Border Patrol 2," in which players gain points by shooting Mexicans, features a U.S. flag in which the stars have been replaced with Stars of David
06-14-06 - Honest Tony, peace broker Rolling out the red carpet for Olmert just four days after the massacre of Palestinian civilians picnicking on a Gaza beach is a stark example of the double standards employed by the British government towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows Blair yet again turning a blind eye to war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.
06-14-06 - Rachel Corrie: Will Americans Get to Hear The Voice of an American Anne Frank?
06-14-06 - Disputed events on Gaza beach Speaking from personal experience, after the shooting of our son, Tom, such claims following Israeli defence forces "investigations" lack credibility because of the inadequate and untruthful manner in which they are carried out, if they are carried out at all.
The author of that letter, Jocelyn Hurndall, knows all too well of the IDF's lack of cooperation with investigations of its own behavior.
06-14-06 - Demonstrators urge Caterpillar to cease sales to Israel Shouting "end the occupation now" and holding signs depicting the demolition of Palestinian homes and olive groves in the Palestinian territories, the demonstrators called on the company to end its support of Israel's "war crimes."
06-14-06 - Innovative UCC Resource Helps Churches Promote Peace in Middle East Buy olive oil direct from Jerusalem. Sponsor a school in East Jerusalem. Help a soccer association for Israeli Arabs and Jews. Contribute to the interfaith Hands of Peace, the YMCA or YWCA of Palestine. All these actions can help promote peace in the Middle East and are listed in a new United Church of Christ (UCC) resource, available online at http://www.globalministries.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=908&Itemid=36.
06-14-06 - 1967: Moscow calls for UN action against Israel
06-14-06 - House Disclosures List Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record), R-Mo., House majority whip.....Blunt took one expense-paid trip in 2005 with his wife to Israel. The $14,078.56 cost was paid by the American Israel Education Foundation. The pro-Israeli groups made sure that travel to Israel paid by lobbyists now falls under the 'educational trips' clause and is thus not a part of the lobbying reform legislation brought forth as a result of the Abramoff scandal.
06-14-06 - West Bank family upset by MySpace no-show Sana Jinzawi says she was waiting at the airport in Tel Aviv to pick up Katherine Lester, who met her 20-year-old son Abdullah on the popular MySpace.com Web site.
06-14-06 - US & Israeli Propaganda Conflict
06-13-06 - Two children among 11 killed in missile strike on Gaza City "Palestinian civilians living in the area gathered around the car and two paramedics from the nearby hospital came to provide first medical aid," said the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. "Immediately, (Israeli) aircraft launched another missile at the car, killing civilians, including a man, his two children and the two paramedics." These latest killings of civilians are nothing less than a provocation of an already impoverished and destitute people.
06-13-06 - One in three sick babies dying in Gaza - UNICEF
06-13-06 - Aid needs to triple to counteract 'alarming' Palestinian crisis: UNICEF "The civilian population -- and particularly women and children, who make up the majority -- are the principal victims of this conflict," he told reporters on Tuesday...."One in three babies in hospital in Gaza risks dying simply because there is no medicine,"
06-13-06 - Eyewitness: Gaza beach shelling
06-13-06 - Israel reluctant to provide funds to Palestinians Israel has expressed caution about using an international mechanism to channel funds to cash-strapped Palestinians even if the money were to by-pass the Hamas-led government. Innocent children and medical patients are dying as a direct result of Israel's collective punishment of an entire population for electing a regime due to the corruption of the previous one. More Israeli 'democracy'.
06-13-06 - Revealed: the shrapnel evidence that points to Israel's guilt
06-13-06 - Rights group refutes Israeli claim over Gaza beach deaths "It has been suggested by some that the family was killed by a land mine, and this is patently not the case," he said. "The injures of the people in the hospital were all to the torso and head, so a land mine couldn't have done this."
06-13-06 - Health crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory
06-13-06 - EU Says It Will Help Palestinians It can't. Israel won't let them.
06-13-06 - Palestinian aid plan stalls on U.S. objection WASHINGTON A European proposal to provide aid for health care for Palestinians has stalled because of objections from the Bush administration and the World Bank, which contend the aid would violate U.S. sanctions against paying salaries to Hamas government employees, U.S. and other officials say
06-13-06 - Death in Tulkarem Human rights workers are seeking justice for an unarmed Palestinian mother killed in error by Israeli troops.
06-13-06 - Blair risks Arab anger by backing Israeli plan to impose new border Mr Olmert made no secret of his intentions. He ruled out any idea of returning Israel to the pre-1967 borders. ?It is a fantasy,? he said.
06-13-06 - Caritas seeks to stave off Palestinian hunger
06-13-06 - IDF attempts to exonerate itself in Gaza beach massacre former Pentagon offical sent by the New York-based Human Rights Watch to investigate the death of the family has concluded that there is little doubt they were killed by an Israeli shell. "All the evidence points to the fact that it couldn't have been a mine," said Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon expert on battlefields who led the US military's battle damage assessment team in Kosovo and worked for its intelligence wing, the Defense Intelligence Agency. "You have the crater size, the shrapnel, the types of injuries, their location on the bodies. That all points to a shell dropping from the sky not explosives under the sand."
Oh dear. Let's see. Whom should we believe, the IDF which is obviously trying to exonerate itself, or a former Pentagon official with expertise in battlefields? Boy, that's a tough one....
06-13-06 - Israelis blame Hamas for beach deaths
06-13-06 - Israel suspends additional Gaza airstrikes That lasted long, eh?
06-13-06 - Palestinians review financial crisis Our panel of Palestinians talks about whether life has improved, and what they think of the power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, the former governing party
06-13-06 - EU-ISRAEL ASSOCIATION COUNCIL: CHALLENGE ISRAEL ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES The country's record of disproportionate use of force against civilians has been presented to the Austrian Presidency in a briefing paper which outlines Amnesty International's key human rights concerns. (The document is available at www.amnesty-eu.org)
06-13-06 - Hamas forces withdrawn from view in Gaza after clashes
06-13-06 - New poll shows US image sinking abroad But the poll also showed a growing convergence of views between the United States and the Europeans on issues like Iran's alleged nuclear weapons aspirations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
06-13-06 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Open Exhibition Celebrating Women Entreprenuers as Skilled Artisans Key local, national, and international leaders will join more than 100 Palestinian women directly involved with CHF International's Policies and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs' (POWER) program to participate in an exhibit and international crafts fair to celebrate their remarkable success and sell their handmade crafts.
06-13-06 - Lebanon's army 'foils Israeli attack cell' The Lebanese army said it had dismantled a network used by the Israeli spy agency Mossad to carry out attacks in Lebanon, mainly against Hezbollah and pro-Syrian Palestinian groups.
06-13-06 - Russia appeals for halt in Palestinian 'civil strife' The statement said Russia was worried about "escalating instability in the Palestinian territories and the increasingly frequent recourse to force to clarify relationships" among Palestinians.
06-13-06 - 7 arrested in beating death of Jewish extremist; fired on bus, killing 4 Arabs These folks beat to death a man that was MURDERING people at the time. But because they happened to be ARAB and the murderer was JEWISH, we see a whole set of new laws in force. This is the most racist instance I've seen yet from Israel, since they do not arrest JEWISH Israelis that kill an ARAB who murders or is about to. There's that Israeli 'democracy' in action again.
06-13-06 - UN chief shocked at deaths from Israeli missile attack in Gaza
06-13-06 - India condemns Israel's 'unprovoked' action in Gaza
06-13-06 - MK Erdan Calls for Shutting Off Power in Gaza
06-13-06 - Ha'aretz: "20 Hebron settlers arrested for violently harassing Palestinians" Palestinian farmers suspect that settlers are behind the vandalizing of some 45 olive trees in the Palestinian village of Salem near the West Bank city of Nablus.
06-13-06 - Israeli intel network discovered in Lebanon Investigation conducted by Lebanese military intelligence revealed that the members of the network, whose number was not disclosed, received training inside and outside Israel by Mossad officers.
06-13-06 - Jordan condemns Israeli military operations in Gaza The Jordanian government on Tuesday strongly condemned Israeli military operations against innocent and unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip
06-13-06 - Beckett "reluctant" about Israel's West Bank plan Britain would be reluctant to see Israel implement a plan to set its borders unilaterally, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.
06-13-06 - Israelis arrest bus 'lynch mob' Israeli police have arrested seven Arabs suspected of lynching a Jewish man who killed four Arabs on a bus in a northern Israeli Arab town last August. The arrests angered Israeli Arabs who said the men had acted in self-defence to stop more killings in Shfaram.
06-13-06 - Despite the divisions, the national consensus holds
06-13-06 - How racism has invaded Canada Poor Canadians. They've just been fully indoctrinated via their Israeli lobby in Israel's war against the Arabs, and they don't even know it.
06-13-06 - Abbas orders Palestinian forces onto streets
06-13-06 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict threatens to explode Israel is looking for a reason to weasel out of having to negotiate with the Palestinians on Israel's final borders. Hence the provocations lately (murder of civilians). THey are looking to make sure that they do NOT have a negotiating partner. THat's why they picked the very moment to shell the Palestinians on the beach; Abbas was set to announce the date for the referendum.
06-13-06 - PLEASE SUPPORT CUPE?S CALL TO BOYCOTT ISRAELI APARTHEID
06-13-06 - Olmert's land grab
06-13-06 - PALESTINIAN CHILDREN TO VISIT CAMDEN
06-13-06 - Excellent Pro-divestment Op-ed
06-13-06 - Egyptian artifact removed from auction An ancient Egyptian vessel expected to sell for as much as $30,000 at auction this week has been pulled from the sale over concerns about how it was removed from Egypt....The piece was part of a private collection in Israel
06-12-06 - Hamas gunman killed in Gaza clash The man was shot dead during a funeral for a fellow militant in Rafah. Each side blamed the other for firing first.
06-12-06 - Israel steps up threats against Palestinian PM
06-12-06 - Israel plans new homes in West Bank settlement Israel plans to build 54 new homes in the occupied West Bank despite an obligation under a U.S.-backed peace "road map" to halt such construction on land Palestinians seek for a state. When the world said they'd like to see Middle East PEACE, Israel thought they meant PIECE, as in another PIECE of Palestine....
06-12-06 - Some Palestinians prefer Iraq border camps "I prefer to live here in the desert over returning to Baghdad because there I would die - although I don't know how. It could be shooting, burning or stabbing," Hassan said as he sat in front of the tent he shares with his family. "There is absolutely no security there."
06-12-06 - Palestinian humanitarian crisis deepens amid aid freeze: ICRC "As the ICRC has pointed out on previous occasions, the occupying power -- in this case the State of Israel -- is responsible for meeting the basic needs of the civilian population of the territories it occupies. Those needs include sufficient food, medical supplies and means of shelter."
06-12-06 - Olmert suggests Blair backs him on plan for unilateral West Bank borders
06-12-06 - Hamas lawmakers back off referendum threat
06-12-06 - Hamas gunmen fire rockets at forces loyal to Abbas
06-12-06 - One Israeli critically injured in rocket attack
06-12-06 - Blair refuses to back Olmert's West Bank plan
06-12-06 - Palestinian PM office set on fire Security personnel and militiamen fired shots then rampaged through the offices in protest at earlier Gaza clashes.
06-12-06 - Palestinian tourism minister resigns amid violence
06-12-06 - Sympathy short-lived as rockets hit Sderot Israel used to respond with ground assaults but since its withdrawal from Gaza in September it has used artillery barrages. The army has dropped 6,000 shells since the beginning of April, claiming the lives of elderly farmers, children and women.
Those deaths went largely unnoticed in Sderot, as did the destruction of another Gaza family three weeks ago when an Israeli airforce missile attack on Islamic Jihad activists also wiped out three generations of one family
06-12-06 - Lebanon: Israeli spying cell busted Assafir newspaper reports Lebanese authorities caught members of Lebanese nationals spying for Israel; says cell member reportedly admitted to role in assassination of two senior Islamic Jihad members in Sidon
06-12-06 - The poverty of unilateralism
06-12-06 - Passenger train derails in Israel A passenger train has derailed in Israel, killing at least five people and injuring more than 60.
06-12-06 - Business withers as West Bank cordon tightens
06-12-06 - ADL Appeals to Presbyterian Church Leadership to Reject Divestment This week, the Anti-Defamation League, in conjunction with leaders from eleven other national Jewish organizations, called on the Commissioners and Advisors to the 217th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to reject its initiative to divest from companies doing business with Israel.
06-12-06 - Israel-Palestine struggle, personalized For the Arab Khairi family, the home they built represented hope and faith in the future of their family and its prosperity. Later, after hundreds of thousands of Arabs were forced from their homes by Jewish forces, the Khairis' home became a concrete expression of their belief in the Palestinian right of return.
06-12-06 - They Thirst for Water and Justice in Kafr Al-Deek, Palestine
06-11-06 - Palestinian man killed in West Bank shooting The victims were identified as Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem, who were traveling in a car at the moment.
06-11-06 - Three Palestinian militants die as rocket attacks escalate
06-11-06 - Settler opens fire at workers in Hebron, one resident seriously injured The settler, from Susia settlement outpost, opened fire at six workers as they were heading back home from work.
06-11-06 - Palestinian firm to distribute food coupons One of the biggest Palestinian companies said yesterday that it would distribute food coupons worth 500 shekels ($112) to 40,000 government workers who have not received salaries since Hamas came to power.
06-11-06 - Army fires a missile near the American School, north of Gaza Palestinian sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air-force fired one missile, on Friday at dawn, at an area close to the American School, north of Gaza city, causing damage to the building., no injuries were reported.
06-11-06 - Abbas orders three-day mourning in territories
06-11-06 - Zayed Foundation earmarks Dh22 million for Palestinians
06-11-06 - Grassroots: New Land Seizures in Tulkarem and Qalqiliya Squeeze Palestinians in Ghettos In Tulkarem Occupation Soldiers handed out seizure orders for 587 dunums of land planted with almonds and olive trees. The dispossession will hit Palestinian farmers from Fira'un, Iras and Taybeh
06-11-06 - Troops uproot dozens of olive treas south of Qalqilia Israeli military bulldozers uprooted on Saturday morning dozens of olive treas that belong to the sons of Mahmoud Hussein Al Sheikh, from Snieria village, south of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. The treas were uprooted in preparation to pave a settlement road in the area.
06-11-06 - Israeli missile strikes draw wide criticism Elsewhere in the Middle East, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora warned that verbal condemnation was not sufficient "in the face of continuing Israeli barbarism."
06-11-06 - Hamas to boycott referendum on recognition of Israel
06-11-06 - Hamas to challenge Abbas referendum in parliament
06-11-06 - Palestinian survivor, 8, describes seeing relatives 'without faces' Huda's brother Ayham, 20, greeted visitors somberly and quietly, and he spoke of his family. His father, Ali, 45, a farmer of tomatoes, had taken his two wives and their children to the beach as a reward for the children's successful completion of their school year. Hadeel just finished second grade.
06-11-06 - US, EU spar over Palestinian aid plan - diplomats The trans-Atlantic dispute could further delay the launch of an aid mechanism proposed a month ago by the Quartet, which is composed of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
06-11-06 - Israeli forces invade Bethlehem, arrest two Palestinians, naked and blindfolded This is also the area where the Israeli military has built the Wall and confiscated hundreds of dunams of land for a Synagogue, a Yeshiva and another settlement, according to Bethlehem?s Mayor.
06-11-06 - Bomb blast at Palestinian official's house
06-11-06 - Lutheran World Relief Responding to Palestine Crisis Lutheran World Relief this week gave $50,000 to the global aid alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) to provide supplementary food support and health and education services to families in the Gaza Strip and West Bank areas affected by the blockage of international funds to the Palestinian Authority.
06-11-06 - Gaza victims fight for life in Israeli hospitals
06-11-06 - Palestinian strongman heads back to school
06-11-06 - Google 'spying' on IDF Google Earth now offering detailed photos of sensitive military facilities in Israel in 1996 Congress approved a law stating that US commercial companies must apply for a special permit before selling such high-resolution images of Israel.
06-11-06 - Israel: Final peace talks unrealistic Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Sunday that Israel wants to negotiate with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but insisted it's "not realistic" to pursue a final peace deal with him while the Hamas militants controlling the Palestinian government refuse to moderate.
06-11-06 - Fatah rebukes Zawahiri for urging Palestinians to reject referendum
06-11-06 - Israel's Air Strikes on Gaza are Politically Motivated
06-11-06 - Israel's Olmert eyes Europe support on Hamas, Iran
06-11-06 - Israeli PM expresses confidence in army "I reject any attempt to question its (IDF) morality. The army has never made it its strategy to target civilians, and this is also true today," I beg to differ. And again.
06-11-06 - Hebron Villagers Continue Non-violent Action Against Road Wall
06-11-06 - New lessons from the Six-Day War Multiple U.S. and British spy agencies indicated the Israeli numbers of 100,000 Egyptian troops were highly inflated. The CIA, in a May 22 memorandum, declared Egyptian troop strength at 50,000 men, and characterized Nasser's Sinai forces as "defensive in character." Rostow called the Israeli estimates "highly disturbing," and the CIA concluded that they were part of a "political gambit intended to influence the U.S." Israel, according to this CIA assessment, wanted the United States to pressure Nasser into ending his blockade of the Straits of Tiran, or alternately, for the Americans to send more military hardware to Israel or allow Israel to take matters into its own hands.
06-11-06 - US backs Israel's right to kill children
06-11-06 - President Receives Phone Call from Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs The President stressed on the necessity to provide assistance to the Palestinian people, in these hard circumstances due to suspension of international aid.
06-11-06 - Three-way war threatens Gaza
06-11-06 - Analysis: Losing the propaganda war Israelis have been deliberately shelling Palestinian civilians (resulting in some fatalities) for the past few months now. That we are all to believe that this was done by a Palestinian, and that the author of this article laments the loss by Israel of the 'propaganda war' is further evidence of the outright moral bankruptcy of elements in that nation.
06-11-06 - China condemns Israeli attack on Gaza, FM spokesman
06-11-06 - Gaza beach blast may have "internal Palestinian cause": Israeli DM THe Israelis to this day are still trying to exonerate themselves from the Mohammed al-durrah incident. So, this latest attempt to point the finger at someone else - which the Israeli government has a history of doing - has become the expected outcome of years of "accidents and "tragic mistakes".
06-11-06 - Errant Shell Turns Girl Into Palestinian Icon Less than eighteen months ago, four of Ms. Ghaben's sons and her grandson were killed by Israeli shelling on the Beit Lahiya strawberry field adjacent to their house. "I am the mother of the strawberry martyrs and the sister and aunt of the beach martyrs," she said. "Only God knows what will come next." "Errant shell" my ass.
06-11-06 - Israel asks 15 Japanese to attend court over fatal sea collision The Israeli container ship, the 41,507-ton Zim Asia, collided with and capsized the 19-ton Japanese saury fishing vessel Shinsei Maru No. 3 on Sept. 28 off the eastern Hokkaido city of Nemuro. Seven Japanese fishermen were killed in the accident, with Fujisato the only survivor.
06-11-06 - Iran team face mass protest Senior politicians, Jewish groups and a prominent German TV host will join a demonstration today in Nuremberg hours before Iran play their opening match of the tournament against Mexico in the city
06-11-06 - Anti-terror measures spawn courtroom secrecy Witnesses used false names, the public was barred from the courtroom and part of the hearing was held in the judge's chambers - with defence lawyers shut out.
06-11-06 - Meet the World's Youngest Queen She's smart, beautiful and royal?the world's youngest queen. And the grandmother of nine who made presidential history. Queen Rania, born to Palestinian parents in Kuwait, was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show that aired May 17th of this year. There is a small clip of her on this page from that show.
06-11-06 - See what a day is like for the modern women of Amman, Jordan. To understand what life is like for the women in Rania's kingdom, The Oprah Show spent a day with a few women in Amman, the capital city of Jordan.
To watch this interesting and insightful footage that was featured on the Oprah show, click the link of the same title that is on the page.
06-11-06 - Al-Zarqawi's Death: Israel's Cover
06-11-06 - Filmmaker: Israel regime like East German Stasi For Sivan, this film is an allegory about Israel. ?In the Stasi the terror and intimidation of the populace were done in the name of the law,? says Sivan. ?The idea in the film is to show how evil in East Germany, as in Israel, was mainstream. Evil was justified there, as was the soldier, who justifies his actions with obedience to the law, in acting for the state and security.?
06-11-06 - Director retraces footsteps of Palestinian thinker in new documentary "Out of Place," by veteran Japanese director Makoto Sato -- which retraces the late professor's steps through Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, and the United States -- is as much about Said's life as it is about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
06-10-06 - United Nations and aid agencies make fresh appeal for Palestine
06-10-06 - Abbas sets date for referendum opposed by Hamas Israel's army said one of its shells may have hit the beach by accident Israel has a history of having such 'accidents'.
06-10-06 - Problems remain on Palestinian referendum after talks Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya agreed to differ over a referendum called by Abbas but fiercely opposed by the Hamas government after talks, Haniya said.
06-10-06 - Lebanon says Islamic Jihad killing suspect arrested "Documents and equipment linked with the crime were seized with him, and he has links to the intelligence of the Israeli enemy."
06-10-06 - Palestinian militants release American It appears the militants agreed to quickly release Fishbein because he is an American who does not hold Israeli citizenship.
06-10-06 - Lands burnt in Jordan Valley by Occupation Military Camps The fire destroyed a total of 15 dunums of land in Tobas and 4 dunums of land in Tayaseer. Given the isolation policy being implemented in the Jordan Valley since 2005, the planting and upkeep of the crops had taken considerable efforts by local Palestinians who depend upon agriculture for their livelihoods.
06-10-06 - Egypt denounces Israeli military offensive on Gaza
06-10-06 - Hamas fury over poll to recognise state of Israel Palestinian president's referendum plan 'a coup' says militant government, as Gaza mourns the tragic killing of picnicking family by Israeli shells
06-10-06 - Carnage on the beach leaves truce hanging by a thread "We started to walk to the place where the taxi would pick us up, and suddenly the missile landed in the middle of where we were," he said
06-10-06 - Top Palestinian general's car caught in crossfire of Hamas-Fatah gunbattle
06-10-06 - Israeli Human Rights Organizations: End Killing of Civilians
06-10-06 - Annan condemns Gaza killings
06-10-06 - Hamas fires rockets as truce ends The rockets, aimed at the city of Ashkelon in southern Israel, caused no casualties. The Israeli army said all but four of the rounds landed inside Gaza.
06-10-06 - Funerals for Gaza beach victims A joint statement put out by the organisations says that since October 2000 at least 1,647 Palestinians - nearly half the number killed by Israeli troops - had been taking no part in fighting at the time of their deaths.
06-10-06 - Army to demolish more homes in Bethlehem
06-10-06 - US voices regret over killing of Palestinians in Gaza 'Regret' is not enough.
06-10-06 - Gaza deaths leave Israel embarrassed ahead of PM's Europe tour
06-10-06 - PM's daughter protests Gaza killings Five human rights organizations sent a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and defense Minister Amir Peretz, calling on them to act immediately in order to put an end to the killing of Palestinian civilians in the territories, and to "uproot the elements that contribute to this killing."
06-10-06 - Human Trafficking Report Slaps Israel the report chides Israel's government for not pushing to pass legislation criminalizing all forms of trafficking...This is the first time in four years that the administration has downgraded Israel's ranking, putting it in the unflattering company of Third World, mostly non-democratic regimes.
06-10-06 - Israel should not wait too long to implement plan - PM
06-10-06 - 'Confiscated Jerusalem' campaign launched in Paris two French companies, are currently building the greater Jerusalem Tramway lines which are linking Jerusalem to the settlement blocks
06-10-06 - Girl becomes sign of Palestinian mourning Israel's military chief said the killings may have resulted from a misfired Palestinian rocket. Palestinians insisted they were caused by an Israeli artillery shell. as witnessed by folks on the ground("It was a terrible scene, with blood everywhere. We could see a gunship in middle of sea, so we knew what had happened.").
06-10-06 - Al-Awda Convention Announcement : July 14-16, 2006, San Francisco, CA
06-10-06 - An Eye On the Middle East - An interview with journalist Robert Fisk Look at the Middle East coverage where the Americans keep referring not to the "wall" but to the "fence," not to "occupied territories," but to "disputed territories." Not to "settlements," but to "neighbourhoods." They're constantly de-semanticizing the conflict, so that the Palestinians look idiotic whenever they commit any violent acts.
06-10-06 - UCAN: Climbers with religious attitudes reach heavenly altitudes
06-10-06 - Kurdish people In 2001, a team of Israeli, German, and Indian scientists discovered that the majority of Jews around the world, belonging to various different Jewish ethnic divisions, are closely related to the Kurdish people, more closely than they are to the Semitic-speaking Arabs or any other population that was tested Just a factoid as it relates to Israel's aid to the Kurds of northern Iraq.
06-10-06 - Letter: Palestine first
06-10-06 - As a matter of fact it isn't all dark: Roger Waters spotlights a peace village Later, after moving the concert, he said, "The suffering caused by 40 years of occupation is incomprehensible to the Western world and I support the struggle for freedom. I moved the concert to Neve Shalom as a gesture of solidarity with the voices of reason ? Israelis and Palestinians seeking a nonviolent path to a just peace between the peoples."
06-09-06 - Death on the beach: seven Palestinians killed as Israeli shells hit family picnic The beach was packed with picnicking families enjoying the Muslim day of rest, and the explosions landed among them, scattering body parts along the dunes. Television footage showed a woman and a child laying dead on the sand, and another child screaming in agony while a lifeless man was carried away by an ambulance crew. This is nothing more than a(nother) provocation by the Israeli government at a critical time.
06-09-06 - Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Captain William L. McGonagle, US Navy Although severely wounded during the first air attack, Capt. McGonagle remained at his battle station on the badly damaged bridge and, with full knowledge of the seriousness of his wounds, subordinated his own welfare to the safety and survival of his command. Steadfastly refusing any treatment which would take him away from his post, he calmly continued to exercise firm command of his ship. Despite continuous exposure to fire, he maneuvered his ship, directed its defense, supervised the control of flooding and fire, and saw to the care of the casualties. Capt. McGonagle's extraordinary valor under these conditions inspired the surviving members of the Liberty's crew, many of them seriously wounded, to heroic efforts to overcome the battle damage and keep the ship afloat. Israel underestimated our guys. For it is their sheer heroism that prevented Israel from sinking that ship - which is what Israeli forces clearly sought to do. McGonagle and all those on board the USS Liberty : heroes.
06-09-06 - Hamas military wing calls off Israel truce The killings raised questions about whether Abbas would go ahead with referendum on establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel despite pleas from Hamas to hold off.
Abbas is eager to restart stalled peace talks with Israel, and on Saturday was expected to formally announce a July 31 date for the referendum.
First of all, the Israelis have been deliberately shelling civilians for weeks now. The resulting truce nullification by Hamas ensures that Israel will not have to negotiate with ANYONE in the Palestinian government. It also will render null the referendum that Abbas seeks to put forth.
06-09-06 - 15 Palestinians killed, dozens wounded in Israeli offensives on northern Gaza Israeli naval boats gunship fired three shells at the beach of the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza Strip, killing at least 12 Palestinians and wounding fifty others, many of them are in serious conditions.
06-09-06 - Eyewitness: Gaza beach shelling One girl was just screaming, crying out for her father: 'Dad, my dad.' It was a terrible scene, with blood everywhere. We could see a gunship in middle of sea, so we knew what had happened.....I've heard people in the last few hours calling for revenge. If an attack happens inside Israel it will make them a little bit happy. It might also make them reject the referendum planned by (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud) Abbas.
Read that last sentence again. Cui bono? Who does NOT want to negotiate with the Abbas or anyone in the PA?
06-09-06 - Gaza humanitarian situation 'deplorable and getting worse,' UN official warns "We urgently need to get the funding mechanism, promised by the Quartet a month ago, operational now," UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Director of Operations for Gaza John Ging said,
06-09-06 - A Thirst for West Bank Water Under Olmert's plan, Israel aims to keep the two main Palestinian West Bank aquifers: the lower Jordan River basin in the east, and the eastern mountain aquifer, trapped behind Israel's wall in the west.
06-09-06 - Abbas signs Palestinian referendum decree Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya has warned Mahmud Abbas that a referendum next month risked an historic split among the Palestinians as the president signed a decree for the ballot. This happened just hours before Israel's deadly shelling at the beach.
06-09-06 - Militants vow revenge after chief killed in Gaza raid Thousands of Palestinians have vowed to avenge the death in an Israeli air strike of a militant leader who served as an advisor to the Hamas government
06-09-06 - Palestinians Back Abbas, Demand Referendum Adults in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank support their president?s proposal to hold a territory-wide referendum over the recognition of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders, according to a poll by Near East Consulting. 76 per cent of respondents support Mahmoud Abbas? call.
06-09-06 - As gold rush ends, meltdown begins The attraction for the media has been the sight of thousands of desperate people selling their most prized possessions so they can buy food for their families
06-09-06 - Israeli attack on gaza beach an act of genocide - Abbas Abbas urged the international community to put an end to the Israeli aggression. He added that there is no reason for Israel to conduct such acts which caused chaos in the Gaza strip.
06-09-06 - LWR gives $50,000 for food, medical care for Palestinians In a news release issued today, Lutheran World Relief indicates it has given $50,000 through Action by Churches Together to help provide for food, health and education needs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
06-09-06 - Lutheran World Relief Responding to Palestine Crisis In addition to support of the MECC/DSPR, LWR also continues to support Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem, which serves patients regardless of race, gender, religious belief, nationality, ethnic origin or political persuasion, and has played an important role in responding to emergencies arising from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
06-09-06 - Gaza's Dialysis Patients: Hostage to Politics
06-09-06 - Israeli PM says Palestinian referendum meaningless The Financial Times quoted Olmert as saying that the Palestinian leadership was not presently capable of negotiating on his plan to withdraw from part of the West Bank. After the day's events, Olmert has made sure that he has no Palestinian partner to negotiate with.
06-09-06 - Israel resumes shelling of Gaza strip Ramallah, June 9, (BNA) Israeli forces resumed this morning shelling of east and north of Gaza Strip.
Israeli tanks, positioned in the east and north peripheries of Gaza Strip, fired tens of missiles towards Palestinian houses in Al Shujai'a quarter in east Gaza and the towns of Bait Lahya, Hanoun, Shaikh Zayed and Tel al-Za'atar in the north. This story came out just hours before Israel's attack on the Gaza beach.
06-09-06 - DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE sends $80,000 to reduce suffering in the Palestinian Territories The funds will help Caritas Jerusalem - the Catholic aid agency working
in the Palestinian Territories - provide medical aid for 800 people, social
assistance for 1,000 people, and education and employment opportunities for
800 of the area's poorest residents
06-09-06 - U.S. calls for restraint after Israeli artillery fire kills Palestinian civilians STATE DEPARTMENT The U-S is calling on Israel and the Palestinians to show restraint following the deaths of seven Palestinian civilians on a beach by Israeli artillery fire.
06-09-06 - Israel pursues air strikes despite damage to Abbas
06-09-06 - Israeli PM to take borders plan to Europe Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert embarks on a charm offensive Monday in a bid to win British and French support for his unilateral project to redraw his country's borders with the Palestinians.
06-09-06 - Israeli support for West Bank pullout falls: poll
06-09-06 - 'MySpace' teen persuaded to leave Jordan A 16-year-old honor student from Michigan tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew off to the Mideast to be with a West Bank man she met on MySpace.com, authorities say.
06-09-06 - Palestinian Hamas denies statement mourning Zarqawi The ruling Palestinian faction Hamas on Friday denied issuing a statement mourning the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, but hailed him as a symbol of resistance to occupation.
06-09-06 - Al Qaeda's Zawahri condemns Palestinian referendum
06-09-06 - At-Tuwani Release: Villagers gather support demonstrating against low "security"
06-09-06 - Richard Perle reveals US War Plans in the Iran The love affair between Perle?s base in Likud on the hard line Israeli right and the neoconservatives of both US political parties is alive and kicking. Perle has long been associated with Likud that has been reduced to a weak rump huddling around Benjamin Netanyahu in the new Knesset. As a close associate of Netanyahu, Perle is seen as Likud?s top-ranking advocate in Europe and America with his tentacles into both political parties, the Bush White House, the Pentagon and many other leading institutions.
06-09-06 - House rejects cut in Egypt aid Others argue that Egypt has faithfully adhered to the 1978 Camp David peace treaties that launched the aid package. The amendment was defeated 225-198.
06-09-06 - Egypt says Israel disallows medical aid into Gaza Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population said that Israel disallowed Egyptian medical aid to pass through its checkpoint to reach the Gaza Strip on Thursday, reported the official MENA news agency.
06-09-06 - CAIR Condemns Israeli 'Massacre' of Palestinian Family
06-09-06 - Dozens of Israeli settlers wreak havoc on streets of Bethlehem District
06-09-06 - Christians in the Middle East face persecution, pushed to the periphery The local church faces draconian travel restrictions imposed by the Israeli government. This Easter, for example, only 1,000 permits were granted to Bethlehem?s 30,000 Christians to attend Easter services in Jerusalem, little more than five miles away.
06-09-06 - CPI-M wants India to build opinion on Palestinian aid
06-09-06 - Ambassador: Terror increased sympathy for Israel "Israel should take advantage of the potential held by economic and diplomatic relations with Europe. We are far from utilizing to the fullest the potential of nearing Europe on all areas, but I have no doubt that as time passes, Israel and Europe will become closer. We are discovering Europe and they are discovering us, and I have no doubt that this is good for the Israeli economy," he added.
06-09-06 - House approves aid for Israel The American Israel Public Affairs Committee praised passage of the bill.
06-09-06 - The AIPAC case goes wild Pro-Israelis hope AIPAC case is dismissed.
06-09-06 - Top Israeli press official speaks in Burlington James Brooks, a Burlington resident and representative for Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel who attended the lecture, said he sees more media bias against Palestine than against Israel.
06-08-06 - Hamas official killed in Israeli air strike Jamal Abu Samhadana was one of four people killed in the strike on a training camp in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, which happened shortly before midnight. Ten people were injured.
06-08-06 - A matter of Liberty - The Day Israel Attacked America "A virtually unarmed American naval ship in international waters was shot at, strafed with rockets, torpedoed, set on fire, then left to sink as crazed gunners shot up the life rafts. The foreign nation then says, ?sorry about that? and offers an explanation so outrageous that it is insulting, and the American government accepts it, sweeps the whole affair under a rug, then classifies as top secret nearly all details concerning it," he said. A total of 821 shell holes were counted in the ship?s superstructure and hull.
06-08-06 - PA: Four killed in Gaza were policemen Palestinian sources said Thursday that the three men killed the previous night by IDF troops on the border fence between Gaza and Israel were members of the Palestinian police force. A fourth man died of his wounds overnight.
06-08-06 - OPT: Gaza situation "deplorable and getting worse" says UNRWA Gaza Director
06-08-06 - Hamas warns Abbas against referendum plan "We reject and condemn the referendum which is the path to division and chaos,"
06-08-06 - Bush Overture To Iran Splits Israel, Neocons Neoconservative analysts are blasting the administration, saying that holding talks with the Islamic regime would serve only to embolden it and undermine the anti-fundamentalist opposition in Iran. They argue that America's ultimate goal should be to change Tehran's theocratic regime....The Walt-Mearsheimer paper has triggered an escalating debate on the influence of Israel and Jewish organizations that has spilled over onto the opinion pages of major publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Recently, with such scrutiny mounting, Israeli leaders asked American Jewish organizations to lower their profile on the Iran issue, the Forward has learned.....Israel's support for Rice and Olmert's request for Jewish groups to take a lower profile are being well received by many Jewish groups
Neoconservatives, as evidenced by the failures of their policies in the Middle East, have been a little too idealistic and not very REAListic about the consequences of the policies that they've pushed through via the Bush administration. Even the Israelis rue some of the (unintended) outcomes of these policies. Their vision is narrow and consists of what they'd LIKE to see happen. The outcome is most often something very different. Time to use the gray matter for a change, and leave the bellicosity, belligerence and shortsightedness at the door.
06-08-06 - Humanitarian crisis in Occupied Territories by Amnesty International Israel continues to appropriate large areas of fertile Palestinian land and to restrict the movement of Palestinians within the Occupied Territories, with disastrous consequences for the Palestinian economy.
06-08-06 - Abbas 'sets date' for referendum
06-08-06 - Fears of 'regime change' policy after US cancels Palestinian pay talks "At best it's a delaying tactic, at worst it's an attempt to scupper the entire mechanism," said the diplomat. "The Americans are into regime change. They want the Palestinian Authority to fail."
06-08-06 - Lebanon: Discrimination against Palestinians must end without delay The right to return is a right protected under international law; other human rights do not contradict it and their fulfilment does not negate it. Palestinian refugees, including those in Lebanon, should be able to enjoy their human rights to the fullest possible extent until such time when their right to return is fulfilled.
06-08-06 - King of Jordan urges Israel to scrap annexation plans (Olmert) prefers unilateral steps to negotiation as it will enable Israel to keep more territory. But he has not been able to garner much international enthusiasm for the idea.
06-08-06 - Israel wants to ease plight of Palestinian people Outright BS. They are the CAUSE of the plight of the Palestinian people.
06-08-06 - In pictures Palestinian views on a possible referendum on recognising Israel
06-08-06 - Student pioneers in the Negev, Galilee point way for resettlement Israel last summer requested a reported $2.2 billion from the United States in post-Gaza pullout aid to be invested in the Negev and Galilee. President Bush and other lawmakers initially warmed to the idea, but Israel scrapped the request after Hurricane Katrina exacerbated an already bleak U.S. deficit situation. A diplomatic source inside the Israeli government told JTA that the request remains "put to the side due to special sensitivities." Olmert told reporters he raised the issue in only the most general terms when he met with Bush last month, but it is clearly uppermost in his mind: He made Shimon Peres, deputy prime minister, responsible for developing the regions. U.S. Jewish officials say Israel is planning to eventually up the request by another $10 billion to accommodate the West Bank withdrawal.
THe United States can ill afford to keep handing over billions of American taxpayer dollars to Israel to withdraw from land that it should not have colonized in the first place (an act which we helped subsidize).
06-08-06 - Israeli Military Raid ISM Apartment in Balata Camp
06-08-06 - Ex-IDF officer: Controversial policies make Israel safer "We do profiling," she said. "It has issues within a democracy, but it is most efficient. ? For us it is very nice, but I wouldn't want to be an Arab Israeli citizen."...Eisen said no military can eliminate terrorism, but Israeli security forces have reduced terrorism to the point that "Israelis are back in our normal lives." This has more to do with the Hamas ceasefire, than anything else.
06-08-06 - Annan urges Syria, Lebanon to agree on Shebaa The Farms were seized by Israel from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The area is now claimed by Lebanon, with Syria's backing. The pro-Syrian Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant Hezbollah has vowed to end Israel's occupation of the border area.
06-08-06 - Jewish leader: Ahmadinejad '2nd Hitler' In Israel, meanwhile, Nobel peace laureate Eli Wiesel suggested in an interview published Thursday that military action might be necessary to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb
06-08-06 - US judge rules alleged Hamas operative not tortured by Israel The decision sets a "dangerous example" of allowing coerced confessions obtained by foreign governments into US courts, warned the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based progressive bar association.
06-08-06 - Palestinian fighter urges truce during World Cup
06-08-06 - Arabs say insurgency will continue after Zarqawi
06-08-06 - Hamas, Abbas rivalry spurs Palestinian arms race
06-08-06 - Swiss 'foiled hit on Israeli jet' Swiss intelligence agents have foiled a plot to attack an Israeli El Al airliner, officials report.
06-08-06 - At-Tuwani Update 21-31 May 2006 . Soon
after the Palestinians arrived at the field, five settlers approached them,
followed by the military. The soldiers who were present in the area did
nothing to stop the settlers from trespassing on Palestinian land. The
Palestinian drivers of the two tractors fled. The settlers damaged one of
the tractors and did not leave until the Israeli police arrived
06-08-06 - Olmert reaffirms backing for 'road map' Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assured Jordan's King Abdullah that Israel is committed to the road map to reach a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians. which is why Israel has BUILT SETTLEMENTS the entire time since its acceptance of the Road Map?....
06-08-06 - Trouble at the Palestinian Stock Exchange
06-08-06 - The conflict between Israel and Palestinians - Joint policy statement by Norway and Spain
06-08-06 - Olmert courts support for pullout Palestinians and the international community are also waiting to see how much of the newly fenced-off West Bank and fertile Jordan Valley Israel will seek to retain for what it calls security purposes, a policy that Palestinians dismiss as a land grab in the heartland of their future state The construction of new settlements in the Jordan Valley have already begun as well as some demolitions.
06-08-06 - Israelis demolish Palestinian buildings, say Christian peacemakers
06-08-06 - From the Crow's Nest: On tip-toes in Israel Growing numbers of American Jews are coming to recognize that and have seen their way clear to questioning and sometimes even opposing things the Israel government does, according to Norman Solomon, an American Jew himself and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington. Yet, he says, their voices are ?nearly drowned out? by ?Israel right or wrong? organizations in this country.
06-08-06 - New home comforts elderly Palestinians
06-08-06 - All-women team conquers Arabia's highest peak The adventurous team recently climbed Mount Toubkal in Morocco and in doing so raised money for a Palestinian cause.
06-08-06 - EU Says It Will Help Palestinians
06-08-06 - Iraq errors 'to last generation' Sooner or later we shall leave Iraq. But no matter when that may be, Iraq will have a poor chance of survival unless there is regional stability; unless there is a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute; unless there is an accommodation with Iran.
06-08-06 - Paying heed to Mr. Erekat
06-08-06 - Dallasites reach out to Galilee Nationwide, more than $1 billion a year in charitable contributions go to Israel from American Jews. The money is in addition to $3 billion a year in U.S. military and economic assistance, and another $1 billion in loans from the sale of Israel bonds to buyers as diverse as small-town banks and the state of Texas.
06-08-06 - BG says Israel delays study to transport gas from Gaza to Egypt Prieto said he was not surprised by the lack of response from the Israeli government, and that he was hoping for assistance from Egypt in the event of non-cooperation and difficulties.
06-08-06 - BILL FLETCHER, JR.: Israel's Wall of Death I simply call it the Wall of Death because, for all the rhetoric, Israel's wall separating itself from the Occupied Territories more than anything else is about ensuring the death of the Palestinian people
06-08-06 - Saudi prince shares views in Louisville On the Middle East conflict, Saudi Arabia supports an independent Palestinian nation along with the existence of Israel, and the United States, he said, could play a more active role in that.
06-08-06 - Frankford woman going to improve Israel's image One of 30 students worldwide charged with helping to improve Israel's image in the media, Alexandra "Alex" Marin will spend two months in Jerusalem this summer.
Good luck with it.
06-08-06 - Donor states should continue aiding Palestine Russia has warned the world community that countries not interested in middle east settlement will come up with support of Palestine if donor states cut it off from help, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov has said
06-08-06 - The Left and the Israel Lobby In reality, the Israel lobby simultaneously operates both as an external interest and as internal "special" interest, represented within a faction the U.S. ruling class and establishment that wishes to see the United States pursue an unequivocally Israelocentric foreign policy in the Middle East The left refuses to lay any blame on Israel or its lobby in the US.
06-08-06 - Peacemakers honored for work in Jerusalem, Columbus The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) will give its 2006 EPF John Nevin Sayre Award to the Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, and Madeline Trichel, director of the Interfaith Peace Center in Columbus, Ohio. This is going to anger pro-Israel groups.
06-08-06 - The Great Henry Siegman on Israel In today's Financial Times, Henry Siegman states that Israel is trying to annex large portions of the West Bank and thereby frustrate plans for a true Palestinian state
06-08-06 - Court rejects Pollard's petition for Israel to act for his release
06-08-06 - Sweden labeling Golan wine Sweden is labeling Israeli wines produced in the Golan Heights as coming from an occupied territory.
06-08-06 - Palestinian Soccer Film Screened on Apartheid Wall in Jerusalem
06-08-06 - Showdown Over Divestment Resolution Set for Upcoming Presbyterian Parley The hefty number of anti-divestment overtures follows two years of work by Jewish communal leaders and Christian activists, including Green, who have sought to educate the church laity about the issue The Presby's have since been thoroughly Ziofied, I'm sure.
06-08-06 - Israel aims to hook up to Azeri-Turkish pipelines Azeri oil and gas exports are due to flow to Turkey via the Baku-Ceyhan and Baku-Erzurum pipelines respectively. Israeli National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Israel wanted both extended to Israel.
"We and the Azeris are interested in transporting Azeri oil from Ceyhan through the Israeli Ashkelon-Eilat pipeline, and from there to big markets like India and China," he told a news conference in Baku.
From last month :U.S. calls on president of Azerbaijan to open mission in Israel
06-07-06 - It was June 8, 1967 a day 34 American sailors were killed and scores more injured. Will anything be mentioned in the press about this (except for of course the small blurb in the "Today in history" article)?
06-07-06 - Holy Land: UN and NGOs increase emergency aid appeal by 80% THE United Nations and a number of NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory have launched an emergency appeal for additional funding in the face of a deepening humanitarian crisis.
06-07-06 - Palestinian security force member killed in Gaza by Israeli fire Juma Saqqa, chief of emergency at the Gaza hospital where the men were taken for treatment, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa the men were shot while stationed near the separation fence with Israel in an attempt to ward off militants from firing missiles towards nearby Jewish towns.
06-07-06 - Two Jewish settlers stabbed by Palestinians in W.Bank
06-07-06 - Abbas pushes on with referendum despite Hamas protests
06-07-06 - Pakistan announces financial assistance for Palestine Pakistan Wednesday announced financial assistance of $3 million for the Palestinians while reiterating full support to the Palestinian cause of achieving an independent homeland.
06-07-06 - No civil war says Hamas PM amid last-minute talks Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya flatly ruled out any descent into civil war as Egyptian mediators rushed to find a last-minute solution to deadly feuding in the Gaza Strip.
06-07-06 - Palestinian Authority teeters towards shutdown As the political stalemate drags on, the machinery of government is slowly creaking to a halt.
06-07-06 - Today in history - June 8 In 1967, 34 U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces raided the Liberty, a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. ( Israel called the attack a tragic mistake.) A perfect example of the fact that the Associated Press is a mouthpiece for Israel - that they include ISRAEL's point of view in that blurb, and NOT the SURIVORS of Israel's ATTACK who are US MILITARY. I suppose we should be grateful that they mentioned it at all.
06-07-06 - The Occupation destroys 15 buildings in the Jordan Valley in one day
06-07-06 - Hamas agrees to withdraw militia
06-07-06 - 'Talks' on direct Palestinian aid A senior US envoy says Washington and the EU are working closely to find ways to give aid to the Palestinian people without dealing with their government.
06-07-06 - Rival Palestinian factions agree to end clashes
06-07-06 - Relief agency offers food to unpaid workers The United Nations Relief and Works Agency today said it is adding 100,000 Gaza residents, mostly government employees and their families, to its food distribution programme to meet an increasingly desperate situation there.
06-07-06 - Gold market's glitter a portent of gloom for many Palestinians In another stall, Mahdia Abu Nada, 55, was selling gold bracelets. Her husband, who works in a government hospital, is not getting paid, and the couple has no money for rent or grocery bills, let alone tuition for children in college.
06-07-06 - Palestinians Reject Israeli Smuggling Claims
06-07-06 - Crossing the Green Line: Birthright nixes woman with West Bank plans That's because the woman, a 26-year-old resident of California, was dropped from the program last week when birthright officials learned that after participating in their program, she planned to join another group in a trip through the Palestinian territories.
06-07-06 - Voices from under Occupation Americans need to know that the unjust conditions under which Palestinians live, grow up, and die have been, and are still being made possible through the support Israel receives from the US government.
06-07-06 - US: Israel trip may cost state employee his job Trips to Israel don't cost US government officials their jobs. It's quite the opposite; it ENSURES the backing of the Israeli lobby, and thus makes it HIGHLY likely that they will stay put or be elected.
06-07-06 - Palestine team's World Cup woes Sanbar approached the BBC with the idea of following the Palestinian team, and later co-produced the episode. But when filming was over, she was left wanting to know more
06-07-06 - Recipe for war: Israeli hysteria and imperial logic The Israeli lobby sees the development of Iran?s nuclear program as a convenient timetable for war, a golden opportunity to weaken or destroy Israel?s enemies in Tehran and settle Israel?s strategic horizon for a generation, preferably by goading others (the US) to do the job. Unlike its relatively coy public position in pushing the US war on Iraq, Israel?s warmongering against Iran has been unabashed and relentless. Bush has also been explicit in linking Iran?s nuclear development to Israel?s security. He has pledged on more than one occasion to protect Israel from Iranian attack.
06-07-06 - Israel pays costs after missile killings This is a(nother) piece of propaganda by the AP to make Israel out to be the good guy, when this particular example is the extreme exception rather than the norm.
06-07-06 - Jordan king warns against destabilization King Abdullah II warned on Wednesday that his country can never again serve as a "substitute homeland" for Palestinians, signaling that Jordan fears a destabilizing flood of refugees if Israel unilaterally redraws its borders.
06-07-06 - Two Palestinians arrested by Israeli troops over killing settlers Israeli troops arrested in the West Bank city of Ramallah two Palestinians suspected of killing two Israeli settlers 10 years ago, Palestinian security sources said on Wednesday.
06-07-06 - Envoy tells AP State Dept. reworking image A top envoy aiming to improve America's image among Muslims says the United States has begun an effort to make its diplomats more visible in the world's media, particularly those that can spread U.S. views in Arab countries If we got Israel out of our government, we wouldn't have an image problem in the Middle East and beyond, I'm betting. The Israeli lobby is the problem here.
06-07-06 - IDF suicide may have planned to kill Arabs The investigation into the apparent suicide of an American immigrant soldier in a West Bank mosque early Tuesday morning picked up speed on Wednesday with the Military Police saying it was investigating "every scenario," including the possibility that Yisrael Reinman, 28, initially entered the mosque not to commit suicide but to murder Palestinians. No sooner had I written the bit about Baruch Goldstein from tonights' news, now this... It's very possible that this guy didn't plan on the mosque being empty.
06-07-06 - DeLay says departure disrupts Dems' strategy Besides advocating support for conservative causes and Israel, DeLay also plans to continue fundraising for a community of foster children that he and his wife established. Delay is a Christian Zionist; an Israel-firster.
06-07-06 - The Presbyterian Church of the USA must be dismantled Rightwing Israel-supporters angered about the Presbytarian church's efforts to stop supporting Israel's policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
06-07-06 - UN: Hezbollah border posts destroyed
06-07-06 - US-born Israeli soldier found dead I can't help by be cynical when I wonder if this man, like America-born Israeli-emigre Baruch Goldstein, was hoping the mosque was full of Palestinian Muslims when he opened fire. And also as I have asked before, is there something wrong with joining the US ARMY? Why do so many of these folks who were born HERE feel the need to serve in the military of a FOREIGN country?
06-07-06 - Blackballed at Yale Cole is a tough critic of U.S. foreign policy and of Israel?s government ? and his blog comments have been used for months by opponents of his appointment to kill it.
06-07-06 - USAID Continues Food Supplies to Palestinian People
06-07-06 - The Israeli Boycott of Palestinian Education Under Israeli occupation, all eleven Palestinian universities have been closed
06-07-06 - Israel to take part in NATO maneuvers According to Israel's Rear Adm. Yochay Ben Yosef, the forthcoming exercise is "tailor-made for us."
06-07-06 - Why Israel's capture of Eichmann caused panic at the CIA Washington and Bonn failed to act on the information or hand it to the Israelis because they believed it did not serve their interests in the cold war struggle
06-07-06 - Canadian Jewish leaders meet PM "The core and urgent matters on the agenda for discussion with the Prime Minister included global and domestic threats of terrorist entities and the increasing menace posed by Iran."
06-07-06 - Israel's image - why the all-time low? its international standing, far from improving, has hit an all-time low.
The last time that Israel's global image was this low, it was the summer of 2001. It does not bode well.
06-07-06 - South African union joins boycott of Israel The Congress of South African Trade Unions, representing 1.2 million workers in the African country, published a letter expressing enthusiastic support for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) boycott of Israel.
06-07-06 - Bibi: I prefer Palestinian workers over Asians Bibi told the reporters that he always preferred Palestinian workers, who at the end of the day return to their homes in the territories,
over the Asians, who stay here and become a burden on Israel's social system.
06-07-06 - Arab and Jewish Organizations Call on Knesset to Impose Fair Budget
06-07-06 - Film screening generates hostile reaction Obsession was produced by Honestreporting.com, a media watchdog group that monitors what it sees as western media bias against Israel Canadians are getting thoroughly Ziofied.
06-07-06 - Jews have no home but Israel Absurd. Jews have very safe homes in MANY nations. It's the PALESTINIANS that need a homeland now - as a direct consequence of Zionism.
06-07-06 - Divide and rule? The Israeli government seems to be deliberately thwarting dialogue at grassroots level with the Palestinians
06-07-06 - Israeli police find stolen Venezuela documents
06-06-06 - It was June 8, 1967 a day 34 American sailors were killed and scores more injured.
06-06-06 - The Persecution of the Palestinians Donation information included on page.
06-06-06 - Israeli helicopters strike on Gaza City There were no reports of casualties in the air strike that targeted the camp for second time in two months.
06-06-06 - Abbas extends Hamas deadline on Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stepped back from a political showdown with his Hamas rivals, giving the Islamic militants several days to recognize Israel or face the voters in a referendum on the idea.
06-06-06 - Israel accuses Hamas of directly involving in Tuesday's Qassam attacks Israel's defense establishment on Tuesday accused Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) of directly involving in the Qassam attacks on Israel's southern city of Sderot earlier in the day, which lightly wounded a woman.
06-06-06 - Jordan to prod Olmert to resume peace talks
06-06-06 - Abbas delays referendum over two-state proposal "The referendum idea originated in the United States. The US said that this government must collapse within three months. They wanted to show a semi-democratic means to collapse the government because people didn't rise up against the government and supported it with money and endurance."
06-06-06 - Pro-Israel group pushes tough U.S. policy on Iran In a letter to supporters this week, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee requested contributions to build support for a proposed law tightening U.S. sanctions on Iran. American foreign policy in the Middle East brought to you by the Israeli lobby - whose primary interest is Israel PERIOD.
06-06-06 - Construction of new settlement begins At Maskiot in the Jordan Valley, bulldozers have cleared the top of a hill and work crews have laid foundations for four houses. New trees have been planted on the edges of the settlement. Say, I wonder how they acquired this land in the Jordan Valley?
06-06-06 - Israel carped for human trafficking Between 1,000 and 3,000 foreign women work as prostitutes and as many as 20,000 foreigners are subjected to forced labor in Israel, the report said, citing independent groups
06-06-06 - US welcomes Abbas referendum proposal
06-06-06 - Shrinking Dead Sea faces fight to survive The Dead Sea has fallen over 20 metres (66 ft) in the past 100 years and is now losing about one metre each year.
06-06-06 - US Jewish group urges tough German stance on Ahmadinejad's World Cup plans A leading US Jewish group has written to German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to take a tough stance against any plans by football-mad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the World Cup.
06-06-06 - U.S.-born Israeli soldier found dead An Israeli soldier who recently emigrated from the United States was found dead in a West Bank mosque Tuesday, where he apparently committed suicide after shooting at the walls of the empty building with his M-16 assault rifle.
06-06-06 - Senators seek answers in probe of reporter Anderson's son said the FBI contacted his mother shortly after his father's funeral, expressing interest in documents that would aid the government's case against two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who have been charged with disclosing classified information.
06-06-06 - Israeli police reveal international prostitution ring, arrest three The discovery of the ring on Monday came the same day the U.S. State Department issued a report on human trafficking that blamed Israel for not doing enough to stop it What a coincidence!
06-06-06 - Lebanese minister: expelled Palestinian workers must go back Lebanese Minister of Sociaal Affairs and Labor Trad Hamadeh said Tuesday that Palestinian workers who have been expelled from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) must go back to their homes and land
06-06-06 - No suspects held yet in attack on Arab youths In the three months since Mohammed and Jalal Tawili were brutally attacked by a gang of youths in Kiryat Yam, the police is apparently still at a loss and no suspects have been brought before a court in relation to this case.
06-06-06 - Checkpoint witnesses "Often I feel we do so little," sighs Lourenco as the car pulls back into Tel Aviv's rush-hour traffic. "But I cannot live in Israel and remain silent. We show a peace-loving face to Palestinians who see no other Israelis but soldiers and settlers." And although she says she finds her task increasingly difficult, she knows that her presence at checkpoints makes a difference. "You should see the Palestinian women's eyes light up when we catch their eyes. I couldn't stop now."
06-06-06 - A vote for Palestinian unity
06-06-06 - PLO backs referendum on Palestinian statehood plan
06-06-06 - U.N. asks Israel to stop making nukes A U.N. commission recommended that Israel refrain from manufacturing any more nuclear weapons as a step to a nuclear-free Middle East
06-06-06 - Justice Dept. criticized over AIPAC case The department is basing its classified information leak case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, on a 1917 statute that criminalizes the receipt of classified information.
The Justice Department should use any means at its disposal to make sure that America's national interest is not being jeopardized by the agents of a foreign lobby.
06-06-06 - President Abbas Receives Chinese Representative to PNA
06-06-06 - Israeli DM vows tough response to Palestinian rocket attacks
06-06-06 - ?Hamas smuggled cash to pay salaries? "It is our right to bring money in any way. Do you want us to die? Do you want our children to be hungry for bread and milk?"
06-06-06 - HomelandDefenseStocks.com Announces New Featured Security Company, TraceGuard Technologies Inc., Targeting Airports and Border Crossings With Trace Extraction and Collection Systems TraceGuard Technologies is currently developing a portfolio of trace extraction and collection systems: CarrySafe, HoldSafe and CargoSafe at its new R & D center in Petach Tikva, Israel. The systems are designed to be used in screening methods for identifying drugs, explosive and biological threats at airports, border crossings and ports and can be integrated into existing systems.
06-06-06 - PBS Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment Present Seven Acclaimed Frontline Programs Looking for Answers (2001)
Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were history's most devastating terrorist assault and the worst failure of U.S. intelligence in 60 years. "Frontline" correspondent Lowell Bergman and The New York Times investigate CIA and FBI failure to uncover the hijackers' plot. The segment examines hatred for America among Muslim fundamentalists, fueled by U.S. support for Israel and authoritarian Middle East regimes. Anchored by Bill Moyers.
06-05-06 - Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills Militant Hospital officials said one militant was killed and three people wounded.
06-05-06 - Gaza-Israel border post: lifeline and bottle neck One Gaza farm project that hoped to send tomatoes and peppers to Europe failed to export 90 percent of its produce in the first season because of closures, losing nearly $10 million, manager Ayed Abu Ramadan said last week.
06-05-06 - Iran, Syria added to US blacklist of human traffickers Iran and Syria were added to a US blacklist of countries trafficking in people, a State Department report said, while raising concerns over an influx of sex workers to Germany for the World Cup soccer tournament Israel is well known for its atrocious record with respect to human trafficking (and this comes from Fox News, no less, which is a pro-neocon network). But when you have a government that is snookered by the Israeli lobby, you can be sure that they will be left off any blacklist.
06-05-06 - Abbas pushes for statehood poll
06-05-06 - Gunmen storm Palestine TV office Bassam Abdullah, a Palestine TV cameraman, said that "around 100 gunmen" from Hamas's Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades military wing and a new paramilitary force formed by the Hamas-led government stormed into the broadcast centre.
06-05-06 - At-Tuwani Release: Demolitions and Orders of Demolitions Zimmerman and the
Dove visited the family later in the day to document the demolished house.
The family told them that twelve family members, nine of them children,
lived in the house that they had built from rocks, with a tarp roof. The
family also said that the military had not delivered a demolition order for
the house and that the family didn't have any warning that the demolition
was going to happen. In addition, they didn't have time to remove their
belongings from the house before the demolition started.
06-05-06 - The Persecution of the Palestinians by Patrick J. Buchanan
06-05-06 - Arab Bank stops paying Gaza salaries
06-05-06 - Palestinian hurt in settlers' attack home from hospital Saber Shtaya, a 73-year-old Palestinian farmer who was attacked in his olive orchard in April, returned from an Israeli hospital to his West Bank village of Salem over the weekend.
06-05-06 - Is America a strategic liability? According to Ram, after 9/11, and particularly after the invasion of Afghanistan, there was a "window of opportunity" for a rapprochement between the United States and Iran. Ram attributes the failure of contacts toward this end to Israeli efforts to present Iran as a dominant factor in the conflict and to internationalize the conflict in order to present it as an integral part of the "war against terror."
06-05-06 - Starving Palestinians is inhumane, stupid "I believe that we can make peace with Hamas. Actually, I believe that it is even better to make peace with Hamas than with Fatah, because if we make peace with Hamas, there will be no opposition to it."
06-05-06 - Lobbying reform slow despite scandals The lobby that needs to be addressed the most, is nowhere to be found in American political discourse.
06-05-06 - Abbas envoy meets Assad ahead of talks with Hamas chief Palestinian ex-premier Ahmed Qorei met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ahead of planned crisis talks with the exiled leader of Hamas, the militant group which heads the Palestinian government.
06-05-06 - LEAD: Koizumi eyes visiting Israel, Palestinian territory before G-8 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is considering visiting Israel and the Palestinian territory immediately before the summit of the Group of Eight nations in Russia in mid-July, government sources said Monday.
06-05-06 - EU will not abandon Palestinians: Solana The EU will not let Palestinians down, foreign policy chief Javier Solana said, expressing hope that a special aid fund that would bypass Hamas would be in place by early next month.
06-05-06 - All DeLay's Children As the only Jewish Republican in the House, Cantor provides a crucial link between pro- Israel donors and Christian conservatives. Through his seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax law and Social Security, Cantor raised more money for his colleagues than any other House Republican in the last election cycle. Like DeLay, Cantor is also tied to Abramoff, having accepted $13,000 from the disgraced lobbyist's Indian clients, written letters on behalf of tribes and held eight events at Abramoff's restaurant, Signatures. Cantor even had a sandwich named after him at Abramoff's deli, Stacks: the Eric Cantor, a "tuna-based stacker," changed by Cantor to roast beef on challah.
06-05-06 - Lieberman faces showdown over Iraq Lieberman acknowledges his support for the war runs counter to sentiment in Connecticut, where a recent poll found more than 60 percent of voters believe the war is wrong. Say, I wonder why Joe Lieberman, a DEM, would've supported the war on Iraq? Lieberman has a passionate attachment.
06-05-06 - Israel Targets Palestinian Americans, U.S. Does Nothing "Singling Palestinian Americans out under a subtitle in a US official document" proves the helplessness of the US Administration vis-à-vis its Israeli strategic ally, he added, declining to identify himself.
06-05-06 - Fatah-linked group to deploy gunmen on Gaza border An armed group linked to Fatah said it would deploy 1,250 gunmen on Gaza Strip borders to guard against Israeli raids in the latest move set to exacerbate tensions with the governing Hamas.
06-05-06 - New York parade salutes Israel Rally organizers estimated Sunday?s event attracted nearly 100,000 people, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R-N.Y.), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.).
06-05-06 - Foreign Min. urges public figures not to attend UN 'anti-Israel forum' The Foreign Ministry is trying to stop a United Nations initiative to invite Israeli politicians and public figures to the International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, scheduled to be held in Moscow On June 8 and 9.
06-05-06 - Israel shrinking its citizens' army Most of the infiltration attempts, he says, are not suicide bombers but migrant workers looking for jobs in Israel. "We have to be very cautious about opening fire," Which they never are, as evidenced by the large number of unarmed civilians shot and killed by the border areas - most were looking for work.
06-05-06 - Israeli PM fails to win Egyptian support for "realignment" plan Mubarak reiterated at the Sharm e-Sheikh summit that "there have to be direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestiniansin order to reach a peace agreement. That is the main mission."
06-05-06 - RSF Condemns Attack on Palestine TV Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the attack earlier today on Palestinian national TV installations in the south of the Gaza Strip
06-05-06 - Lutherans Preparing to Host Palestinian Youth Dancers This summer 19 youth dancers from the Al Raja Palestinian Folkloric Dance Troupe, based in Ramallah, West Bank, will travel to the United States and perform throughout the country, making appearances in congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), at key ELCA events, and at other ministry sites.
06-05-06 - Al-Raja Tour 2006 Tour schedule on the right-hand side of the page.
06-05-06 - Californian piano tuner faces deportation from Israel for supporting Palestinian freedom Larudee is traveling with the tools of his trade and has twenty piano tuning engagements scheduled around the West Bank. "This is something small I can do to make life under the occupation just a little more bearable for people, so I do it."
06-05-06 - Experts divided on how to deal with Iran Poraz said Israel took some comfort in its proximity to the Palestinian Authority territories since a nuclear weapon launched at Israel would most likely take out some Muslim Palestinians as well. The ultimate use by Israel of the Palestinians as human shields.
06-05-06 - Israeli army estimates heightened conflict with Palestinians According to the assessment, army intelligence officials believe Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ambitious plan to withdraw from large parts of the West Bank will not do anything to decrease the scope of daily violence in the region. Instead, the army is moving forward based on a working plan that it is nearing another round of bloody violence with the Palestinians.
06-05-06 - Israeli professor found guilty of slander An Israeli court found a Haifa University professor guilty of slandering a fellow Israeli academic.
Plaut, a known neocon, writes for Frontpagemag.
06-05-06 - The great divide "Quite separately from the debate around the boycott, there has been a huge mobilisation in universities against the Iraq war ... You also have a growing number of student Palestinian groups and a highly organised Jewish lobby, which portrays any criticism of Israel as anti-semitism. In campus terms, this is an extremely bloody battlefield."
06-05-06 - General Assembly backgrounder: Middle East peace and divestment
06-05-06 - Brangelina baby blessed in West Bank Residents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
D'oh!
06-04-06 - Israeli troops kill elderly man in invasion of Tulkarem
06-04-06 - Five bystanders killed in Gaza In the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis gunmen killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and another family member and wounded her husband and his brother, a Hamas militant, hospital sources said.
06-04-06 - Hamas PM says referendum illegal
06-04-06 - Israel pledges to 'give talks a chance'
06-04-06 - Growing Destitution Among Palestinians "Many people are now living on only bread and the cheapest vegetables, usually those left unsold at the end of the day. We are also very concerned about the growing numbers of people, often children, rummaging through garbage cans,"
06-04-06 - Palestinian banks agree to cover some wages After threats from militants, Palestinian banks agreed on Sunday to pay out of their own funds 40,000 government workers who have gone without wages for three months.
06-04-06 - Hamas under pressure to compromise as deadline looms Ruling party Hamas came under mounting pressure to accept a national unity deal as moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas prepared to deliver on a threat to put it to a referendum.
06-04-06 - Palestinian aid mechanism may be ready in week-US Welch said Washington, which strongly opposes any direct aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, will not agree that salaries could be paid from these funds.
06-04-06 - Palestinians thank God as first salaries paid Bassel Ashur, a 22-year-old member of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas's Force 17 protection guard, invoked the heavens in delight as he held up wads of banknotes from a Gaza ATM that will nonetheless not go far.
06-04-06 - US echoes Gulf fears of pollution from Iran's nuclear program They're reaching for straws now.
06-04-06 - Israeli PM wants to strengthen ties with Egypt
06-04-06 - Boycotting Israeli Academia Anyone who has spent time in an Israeli university will know that its academic staff and the country?s huge defense industry are intimately entwined. The geography department of Haifa University, for example, was until very recently headed by Prof Arnon Sofer, who is best known in Israel for advocating ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, both occupied Palestinian non-citizens from the West Bank and the minority of Palestinian citizens from Israel.
06-04-06 - Osirak: Over the reactor The US-made single-seat F-16s had been in service for only a couple of years with the Americans, and had arrived in Israel less than a year before, though the pilots had been in training earlier in Utah.
06-04-06 - Poll: Europe easing anti-Israel sentiment Greenberg conducted the surveys for the Israel Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel, the newspaper said.
06-04-06 - Europe's opening mind the Islamist threat in Europe, the terrorist predations there, the burgeoning of what has been dubbed Eurabia - are all apparently impressing Europeans deeply enough to begin to question the perception of Israel as an intransigent imperialist aggressor and the Palestinians as progressive freedom-fighters. Cui bono..
06-04-06 - Union drawing attention to Israeli injustice, argues Linda McQuaig The tendency of North American media to render the Palestinians invisible ? except as terrorists ? helps explain why the Ontario wing of CUPE decided last week to champion the Palestinian cause by joining some churches and unions in an international boycott of Israel.
06-04-06 - Palestinian graduates feel job crunch from ailing economy One week later, Alatrash no longer has much to celebrate. Although he is newly graduated from the most prestigious university in the West Bank, his prospects for finding a job are slim.
06-04-06 - Shatner puts disabled Israelis where few have gone before -on horseback "We are extending a hand to say we want to help kids. We want to help Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, Bedouin, Druse - whose only common denominator is that they are children," Shatner said. "It's about extending a hand of peace as well as healing handicapped minds and bodies."
06-04-06 - Muslims craft their own video games The creators of the game say the story line counteracts the biases in some Western games by showing the Palestinian struggle from an Arab vantage point and creating Arab and Muslim characters who are fighting in self-defense.
06-03-06 - Two Palestinian children wounded in Israeli shelling on Gaza Nawal Abu Azoum, 18 months, and her three-year-old sister were hit in the legs and hands by shrapnel from an Israeli shell that landed in an open area in front of their house which was located in a "no-go" area declared by Israel along the northern Gaza border with Israel, medics said. ..Meanwhile, undercover Israeli soldiers shot and moderately wounded a Palestinian security member in the northwestern Gaza town of Bit Laheya, This evidently was not fit to print according to the lack of reporting thereof by the AP, AFP, Reuters, etc.
06-03-06 - Senior member of Hamas military wing hurt A senior member of Hamas' military wing was shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting early Saturday, Palestinian security officials and Hamas officials said.
06-03-06 - 'US, Israel behind Damascus attack' The accusation came a day after security forces fought Islamic militants near the Defense Ministry in a gunbattle that left four militants and a police officer dead, the government said.
06-03-06 - Palestinian paychecks delayed again Palestinian employees, going on their fourth payless month, will have to wait another several days for back salaries, a spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government has said.
06-03-06 - Dead border police were dragged to Israeli territory: Egypt press Israelis dragged the bodies of two Egyptian policemen onto Israeli territory after shooting them on the Egyptian side of the border, it has been claimed.
06-03-06 - Israeli Soldiers Surround and Attack Non-violent Demonstration; 6 Palestinians Badly Injured
06-03-06 - Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Revised Emergency Appeal 2006 for the oPt Although UN agencies are appealing for funds, it is recognised that under the Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel as the occupying power, bears the legal responsibility for the welfare of the Palestinian population
06-03-06 - Israeli secret agent threatened to kill me, says Briton A British charity worker has revealed how he was threatened with death by the Israeli secret service while he was detained for three weeks without charge.
06-03-06 - UN 'races against time' to feed Palestinians
06-03-06 - Operas planned to aid Palestinian medical relief American-born vocal instructor, producer and longtime UAE resident, Janet Hassouneh is organising a production of Georges Bizet's celebrated opera, Carmen, as well as A Night on Broadway, with proceeds going towards the United Nations Children's Fund's (Unicef) work in the West Bank and Gaza.
06-03-06 - Rumsfeld urges China to come clean on military spending "Do I recognize that the United States is closely identified with Israel and that the bulk of that region tends to be anti-Israel and blames the plight of the Palestinians on the Israelis, and by extension on the United States? I do recognize that,"
06-03-06 - Fatah deploys new W Bank militia
06-03-06 - PLO lobbies against pullout PLO officials lobbied in Washington against Israel's conditional plan to unilaterally withdraw from parts of the West Bank.
06-03-06 - Time to Question 39 Years of Failed Israeli Occupation * The Congress is currently considering legislation that will make it impossible to have a balanced negotiation for peace between Israel and Palestine and very difficult to provide humanitarian aid if the crisis in the Palestinian Territories worsens.
06-03-06 - 'Realignment' in one stage Israel's unilateral West Bank withdrawal, if implemented, will take place in one stage, Ehud Olmert said.
06-03-06 - STUDENTS UNITE AGAINST CHECKPOINTS A nonviolent demonstration was held at Atara checkpoint today to protest against the Israeli Occupation Forces? preventing students from reaching their universities and schools.
06-03-06 - Rally in Tel Aviv calls for "end of occupation" Under the title of "Stop the boycott and the siege on the Palestinian people," hundreds of people comprised of a wide coalition of peace movements and political parties, held a protest march and rally in Tel Aviv Saturday night to mark the 39-year anniversary of Israel's "occupation of the Palestinian territories."
06-03-06 - Very Canadian action Canadians do not need extremist politicians from abroad telling us what is un-Canadian (This Boycott Call Is Un-Canadian -- June 1). Natan Sharansky, as part of Israel's most extremist government on record, successfully advocated for the most oppressive and violent measures to ensure that Palestinian statehood may never be achieved.
06-03-06 - Observed bullying of Palestinians
06-03-06 - Palestinian sheepherder at a loss over theft of flock
06-03-06 - Aid drive for Palestinians
06-03-06 - Legal action filed against Israeli official Hearings opened Wednesday in the class-action lawsuit filed by Palestinians against Avi Dichter, Israel's internal security minister.
06-03-06 - Kents Hill hosts activist for peace As chief negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization and one of PLO President Yasser Arafat's chief advisors over the years Erakat has stood firm in his resolve to broker an honest peace between Palestine and Israel.
06-02-06 - Still Some Food in the Garbage Children rummage through garbage cans for discarded food for their one meal during the day. Families wait to buy discount-priced vegetables left unsold in the evening. These are not locally exaggerated accounts of the situation in Palestinian areas, but an official account by the World Food Programme. ...."You have three categories of people in need," Campbell said. "You have the chronically poor, then you have people in institutions like the elderly, orphans and social rejects, and thirdly the new poor who have been affected by the present crisis.
06-02-06 - Israel building new West Bank settlement Israel has begun laying the foundations for a new Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank - breaking a promise to Washington while strengthening its hold on a stretch of desert it wants to keep as it draws its final borders. I reiterate once again : evidently, the only peace Israel wants is the peace with which it can continue to seize and 'settle' Palestinian land -and drive the Palestinians off of it.
06-02-06 - At season end, future dims for Gaza harvest project The problem, in essence, has been a near complete inability to export the produce from Gaza into Israel because of the frequent closure of Gaza's border by Israeli authorities......The closures, which intensified after Hamas won Palestinian elections in January, almost entirely mirror the December-to-May harvest and export season for Gaza's fruit and vegetables....Israeli fruit and vegetable producers compete in the same market the Palestinians were entering.
"I think they wanted us to fail," he said. "It's part of the economic and psychological war. They didn't want to pull out and allow the Palestinians to succeed."
06-02-06 - Army forces families to leave their village east of Tubas Troops stormed the farmers huts and houses east of the city and confiscated the resident's ID cards before ordering them to leave the area and not to come back to their land, claming that their IDs do not indicate the place of residency, eyewitnesses said.
06-02-06 - Abbas, Fatah chief patch up differences in Tunis
06-02-06 - Barakeh: Bil'in protesters didn't attack Hadash leader Mohammed Barakeh, who was present at Friday's protest, told Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter that he had a videotape on which a Border Police commander was captured instructing his forces to "break protesters' legs," Army Radio reported.
06-02-06 - Well-being of population in OPT lies with the occupying power - ICRC chief President of thee International Committee of the Red Cross Jacob Kellenberger said Thursday that in legal terms naturally the final responsibility for the well being of the population in the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territory) lies with the occupying power.
06-02-06 - Israeli troops in hospital raid
06-02-06 - Our Endangered Values - Jimmy Carter By Jeff Fleischer . We can't deal directly with the Hamas government. But I think we should have the same degree of generosity to the Palestinian people who are suffering horribly in their own land. This could be done through UNESCO, through the United Nations Human Rights Organization, through UNICEF, or even through the government of Jordan. Just to finance the payment of schoolteachers or nurses or ambulance services or food distribution to people.
06-02-06 - Web of betrayal, blackmail and sex that killed two lovers who turned informer "There was a man there - a Palestinian. This guy said he was intimate with my sister. It was a shock. I asked my sister and she said it was true. Then he showed me a photograph of her in a sexual way," said Jefal, his voice breaking. "He said either I worked with him or he would show this picture around and it would create a scandal and bring dishonour to our family."
06-02-06 - Palestinian salaries will start to be paid within two days: PM "We have a lot of money but the United States is preventing the banks from transferring it," the prime minister added
06-02-06 - Russian military denies seeking Mediterranean naval base in Syria "Moscow's stake in Damascus would definitely damage relations between Russia and Israel and could persuade the Iranian regime to be even less compliant in talks on the Iranian nuclear program," the paper said.
06-02-06 - Fatah MPs hurt as Israel breaks up barrier protest Ten demonstrators, including two Fatah MPs, were lightly injured when Israeli soldiers broke up a weekly protest against Israel's West Bank separation barrier, witnesses said.
06-02-06 - Israeli soldiers kill 2 Egyptian border policemen Egyptian security sources cast doubt on the Israeli account of the incident near Israel's Mount Saguy, opposite the Egyptian town of Bir el-Ma'in, saying the policemen were shot after wandering across the unfenced desert border by accident.
06-02-06 - Following a Haaretz expose, Nigeria may cancel arms deal with Israeli firm If the deal goes through, it will also be one of the largest in the history of Israel's relations with the African continent (with the exception of the massive military assistance that Israel extended to the apartheid regime in South Africa).
06-02-06 - Firms sell terror protection The dual nature of this expanding consulting field was clear at a seminar Thursday that combined dire warnings about future terrorist attacks in the United States with understated pleas by those same experts to hire their companies to combat the threat.
"Unfortunately, the lessons of 9/11 have largely been forgotten," said Ilana Freedman, chief executive officer of Gerard Group International LLC, one of the sponsors of Thursday's conference. Freedman's company is a counterterrorism specialist originally created in Israel and now based in Massachusetts. This is the brutal irony: why America was attacked in the first place.
06-02-06 - Four Israelis killed in NJ plane crash The four - Ronald and Rachel Ziv, and David and Keren Nimrod - were flying in a single-engine Piper plane, when it apparently exploded in mid-air.
06-02-06 - HR 4681Palestinian "Anti-Terrorism Act" -- Fighting Terrorism By Creating More Desperation HR 4681 is opposed by many leading voices for Israel and Middle East peace, including the Israel Policy Forum, Brit Tzedek, Americans for Peace Now, Churches for Middle East Peace (a broad coalition of churches) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop.
06-02-06 - Risky Gambit by Abbas Raises American Hopes, Israeli Worries "Israel may find itself under pressure by regional or European governments, who would say, 'There is progress ? let's go with it,'" said Michael Herzog, former military secretary to Israel's minister of defense. Herzog is currently a scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
06-02-06 - Canadian Philanthropist Focusing Efforts on Darfur One of its newer markets is Iraq, where the Pentagon hired SkyLink's American affiliate to rehabilitate and run the airports in Baghdad, Basra, Arbil and Mosul. (The American affiliate had bought a table at a Bush fund-raising dinner, but Arbib denied that the donation was connected to the Iraq contracts.)
06-02-06 - Liberal Professor Takes On Conservative Firebrand in Federal Lawsuit Joel Beinin, who is a Stanford University history professor and a former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, filed a federal lawsuit March 30 in San Jose against the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, founded by 1960s liberal-activist-turned-right-wing-firebrand David Horowitz. Horowitz is a former liberal-cum-'conservative' (neocon) who is engaged in witchhunts - universities will teach the Israeli POV or else.
06-02-06 - Israel envoy condemns Canadian boycott The Ontario branch represents nearly half of the 450,000 union members working nationwide in health care, education, social services, universities, transportation and other sectors.
06-02-06 - Hamas leader's three sisters live secretly in Israel as full citizens Hamas and her sisters.
06-02-06 - The fine line between hatred of Jews and political opposition to Israel Israel is clearly the biggest obstacle. Where does the line fall between hatred of Jews and political opposition to, or even hatred of, Israel? Rickman knows that in Israeli eyes, the difference is minimal. Everyone is particularly sensitive when they are the ones being criticized, Rickman said, adding that some people consider anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism to be the same thing. He will need to come up with criteria to determine what is permissible and what is forbidden, what is anti-Semitic and what is just political when it comes to Israel. Revealed: the newly created office to combat global anti-Semitism is a front for combating criticism of Israel (?) Another prediction of mine coming to fruition, perhaps. If anywhere, criticism of Israel in America is the most dangerous proposition to that country. Because if Americans learned the truth,... Indeed. When do Americans get persecuted for criticizing Israel, is the question? Methinks it has already started..
06-02-06 - Jews greet U.S. overture to Iran with ambivalence and skepticism There was greater skepticism in Congress, where bills urging Iran's isolation have garnered overwhelming support. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), whose bill isolating Iran passed overwhelmingly in April in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Rice's initiative would at least call Iran's bluff.
This woman puts forth so much legislation on behalf of AIPAC, I'm prompted to ask: DOES SHE WORK AT ALL FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Is there JUST ONE non-AIPAC-driven piece of legislation put forth by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen?
06-02-06 - Assad State of Affairs After Hariri's murder, it seemed that all the stars were aligned to lower the boom on Damascus. Not only were the appropriate U.N. resolutions in place, but the assassination spurred a rapprochement between the United States and France in opposition to Syria. Alas, to date the administration has been unable to capitalize on this multilateral moment. The final U.N. report on the Hariri murder is due this month, but absent any smoking gun Assad and company may again emerge unscathed.
The neoconservative Weekly Standard boohoos that the Bush administration isn't sanctioning Syria to their liking. America just can't do enough to make the Middle East a safer place for Israel. Or so it would appear.
06-02-06 - Hospital hope for Palestine CONSTRUCTION of a $5 million (BD1.89m) children's hospital in Palestine, which is being built with Bahraini money, has been completed.
06-02-06 - Ex-Israeli soldier condemns army practices When Shaul and his comrades joined the Israeli Defence Force, they thought of it as "the most moral army in the world". This belief, however, was shattered during their first weeks of service in the Palestinian territories.
06-02-06 - Striking Fear in Our Hearts In the 1990s, suicide bombings began in Israel. Until that time, the tactic had been limited to Iranians and Iranian-influenced Shi'ite terrorist groups, but eventually it was taken up by the Sunni Palestinian Arabs Wrong. It was being employed by the Tamil Tigers: 'Indeed, the world's leader in suicide terror was the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. This secular Marxist group "invented the famous suicide vest for their suicide assassination of Rajiv Ghandi in May 1991. The Palestinians got the idea of the vest from the Tamil Tigers." ' The NY Sun is again shilling for neocons (get Iran, ooga booga).
06-02-06 - Don't let Israel annex chunks of Palestine The US will never be an 'honestbroker' as long as the Israeli lobby wields such disproportionate influence over it.
06-02-06 - Frank Purdue School of Foreign Affairs That's because series of tough steps designed to highlight the tight corner into which the Palestinians have painted themselves resulted in, at long last, the faintest glimmer of Palestinian moderation. This jerk writing for - where else - the NY SUN gloats over the starvation of the Palestinians.
06-02-06 - Britain mulls war crimes charges against Israeli soldiers
06-02-06 - SOLIDARITY: RAVENNA, PALESTINIAN WOMEN AT SOWING SCHOOL
06-02-06 - Voice of the unpeople Pilger's interviews with Palestinians are among the most moving in the book, such as with Liana Badr, the director of the Palestinian Cultural Centre, just after it has been hideously destroyed by Israeli soldiers
06-02-06 - Our readers' views Here is a question for the brilliant writers to ponder. "When was the last time an Israeli suicide bomber blew him/herself up any where within the Israeli-Palestinian territory?"
Answer: they don't have to. That's why we give them the F16s and Apaches. And they kill Palestinian elderly, women and children all the same.
06-02-06 - Land of my father The Sabbagh family history shows the absurdity of Israel Zangwill's claim that Palestine was "a land without a people for a people without a land". Sabbagh's grandfather was a lawyer in Tulkarm. His relatives were businessmen and traders, part of an intricate web of societal links that reached across Palestine and the Levant. Palestinian Arab society was highly developed, especially in the towns and cities, with a sophisticated cultural and political life
06-02-06 - Students experience Israeli conflict ?Jewish activists standing in front of Israeli bulldozers and rallying at protests really surprised me,? Mojtahedi said. ?Soldiers are less likely to shoot if they see solidarity.?
06-02-06 - 'Smoking gun' fax proves The Lobby directed defamation of Jewish professor at York U.
06-01-06 - One dead as rival factions clash in Gaza A Palestinian security officer was killed and seven were wounded in clashes between rival Fatah and Hamas factions in Gaza on Thursday, underscoring growing tensions in the impoverished coastal strip
06-01-06 - Children bringing in a deadly harvest When lessons are over the ten-year-old Palestinian and his schoolmates will run across farmland, hoping to salvage the unexploded missile, to sell for a few shekels to feed their families.
06-01-06 - Killings, abductions in Baghdad leave Palestinians in Iraq scared and angry A fresh spate of killings and kidnappings in Baghdad and a renewed death threat have led to mounting anger, panic and fear among the Palestinian refugee community in Iraq. Hundreds have fled to border areas.
06-01-06 - Security men demonstrate in Gaza They demanded the government pay wages for the first time since February.
06-01-06 - Wall Casts Divisive Shadow on Suburb of Jerusalem "There won't be peace with this at all," said Maher Al Khatib, a 40-year-old resident of Hizma. "Ask any kid, and they'll tell you that."
06-01-06 - Palestinians tell of experiences under Israeli travel curbs
06-01-06 - Hamas' Zahar hails China trip as a success China, which only forged diplomatic relations with Israel in 1992 and has traditionally been seen as pro-Palestinian, made no apologies for inviting Zahar and giving Hamas the political recognition.
06-01-06 - Gaza family shattered by missile attack
06-01-06 - Hamas chief opposes Palestinian referendum call
06-01-06 - IFJ Condemns Abusive Treatment of Swiss Journalist at Israeli Checkpoint The International Federation of Journalists today called on the Israeli authorities to investigate and deal with those responsible for a "shocking and appalling" violation of a journalist that took place as part of security measures imposed at a crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
06-01-06 - Jewish settlers attack Palestinians in Tel Rumeida, Hebron
06-01-06 - 2 soldiers wounded in Jenin
06-01-06 - Homes, construction sites leveled near Hebron
06-01-06 - Blix panel prods Israel, Iran on nuclear agenda Iran and Israel should both end nuclear enrichment as part of a renewed drive to rid the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction, a panel led by former U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix said on Thursday.
06-01-06 - US aid for Israel $2.46 billion in 2007
06-01-06 - Police offered robot eye Police forces using older versions of Israel-based Nice's software include, Devon and Cornwall, Hampshire, Herts., the Met., South Yorks., and Strathclyde. Nice software can also be used to spy on telephone conversations and internet traffic. Prisons, casinos, airports, banks, call centres, transport networks and 75 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies use the system for these purposes, as well as analysing CCTV footage for suspicious behaviour. Police forces are busy establishing control room links with town centre and other public CCTV networks.
06-01-06 - EU lawmakers seek travel ban on Iranian leader A group of 75 European Union lawmakers called on Thursday for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be banned from entering the bloc until he renounces inflammatory statements on Israel and the Holocaust Weren't these the same people that cried for freedom of speech when faced with the uproar about the Mohammed cartoons?
06-01-06 - A hot paper muzzles Harvard At Harvard and other schools, the Mearsheimer-Walt paper proved simply too hot to handle ? and it revealed an academia deeply split yet lamentably afraid to engage itself on one of the hottest political issues of our time.
06-01-06 - Many Israeli settlers would leave peacefully -poll
06-01-06 - Decatur native, religion professor Sweeney will discuss Israel's prospects for peace Another reason for optimism is that the Palestinian Arab population is probably the best educated and best informed Arab population in the world, Sweeney said in a phone interview from his home in California.
06-01-06 - IDB allots $100m for Palestinians Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has decided to finance emergency projects worth $100m in the Palestinian territories over the next 12 months
06-01-06 - Olmert in DC - Bold Ideas and Ugly Intentions Chief among Olmert's priorities is establishing common cause with the US administration over Iran. Applauding Bush's bravery in standing up to the global terror threat posed by Iran's "imminent" development of a nuclear capability
06-01-06 - Candidate Returns Donor Check Tied To Al Qaeda "This is America, so you are presumed innocent until proven guilty, but I just don't want the appearance of impropriety," McCloskey told the Stockton Record in a story published Thursday. "I'll send it back."
Pete McCloskey is a true patriot, and I hope he gets re-elected. We need more like him in our Congress.
06-01-06 - Palestine: It's All Over
06-01-06 - Red Crescent ambulances to start operating in Jerusalem
06-01-06 - Palestinians waiting for Israel's response on resuming talks: official
06-01-06 - "Enemy" Sudanese refugees in Israel face uncertainty Many of the Sudanese refugees are locked up in Ramle prison, a town in central Israel
06-01-06 - UW group sees Mideast violence firsthand Pierce said his group sought the "complete story" with regard to disparities between Palestinians and Israelis.
06-01-06 - A violent quest for manhood The author fails to account for the phenomenon of female suicide bombers.
06-01-06 - Ambassador Ayalon Visits Philadelphia Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Ayalon, met with Lois Murphy, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Congress in the 6th district......She indicated how greatly she values this friendship and the special relationship we share with the State of Israel." She promised that as a Member of Congress, she would be a champion for Israel's interests and well-being.
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