June '05 Archive
06-30-05 - Stoning attack sickens Israelis Several Israeli reporters, putting aside their notebooks, ran up and dragged the unconscious Palestinian youth to safety.
06-30-05 - Settlers in Gaza stone Palestinian "Don't touch him, let him die," shouted one settler in footage of the assault shown on Israeli television
06-30-05 - No US Funding for Israel?s Illegal Wall
06-30-05 - Sunken road or sealed train? How to connect Gaza
06-30-05 - Israeli forces oust 150 Gaza rebels from hotel in dress rehearsal for withdrawal The rightwingers were from a variety of groups, but many were supporters of Baruch Goldstein, who killed 28 Palestinians as they prayed in Hebron in 1994
06-30-05 - Israeli army rejects claim two soldiers kidnapped
06-30-05 - Jordan devoted to helping Palestinian people: king
06-30-05 - U.S. envoy Ward: PA security reform still has a way to go
06-30-05 - Police probe lynch attempt at Tal Yam
06-30-05 - Shootings by Israeli forces During my time at the UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) as officer in charge of operations in South Lebanon (1983-95) and director of operations in Gaza (1986-88) I wrote several hundred detailed reports to the Israeli Occupying Authorities about the killing or wounding with live ammunition of Palestinian (and Lebanese) women and children by the Israeli Army, as witnessed by my UN staff.
06-30-05 - Palestinian militants shell Gaza settlements It said the attacks were in response to settlers' actions in the al-Mawasi area west of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Youn is on Wednesday when the settlers occupied Palestinians' houses and attacked a clinic.
06-30-05 - Judge Says Case Against UA Student Weak
06-30-05 - Israeli, U.S. talks on weapons deals with China end without result
06-30-05 - Students return to Golan after a year's free education in Syria
06-30-05 - Stabbings at Jerusalem gay march
06-30-05 - Egypt and Israel sign 15-year natural gas deal
06-30-05 - Israeli forces strike Hizbollah at Lebanon border
06-30-05 - Shebaa clash appears to be accidental "When we know which side of the Blue Line it is lying, then we will know whose story is correct,"
06-30-05 - Fatah central committee convenes
06-30-05 - Evangelicals Oppose Divestment Evangelicals have started a petition urging the United Church of Christ to oppose economic boycotts against Israel. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which is primarily supported by evangelical Christians, is circulating a petition asking the church to reject several anti-Israel resolutions slated for a vote at its annual synod in Atlanta from July 1-5
06-29-05 - Israeli air force strikes Gaza Residents said the missile struck a water pumping station
06-29-05 - Palestinian teen injured in clashes Five Palestinians were injured in Wednesday's clashes, from stones thrown by settlers. One of the Palestinian sustained a head wound, and was later severely beaten by settlers in a manner witnesses described as an "attempted lynch."
06-29-05 - Police move in on settler protest The Israelis use water cannons on their own protestors, but they use tear gas, rubber bullets, the 'screamer', live rounds, and concussion grenades on Palestinian protestors.
06-29-05 - Israel bans entry of female Palestinian patients
06-29-05 - Israel reneges on transfer of Qalqilyah to Palestinian Authority Meanwhile, a rift between Israel and the United States over arming the PA security services is deepening, Israeli sources said
06-29-05 - Israeli army ejects rightist Jews from Gaza outpost
06-29-05 - Gaza settler chaos strikes Israel
06-29-05 - "Palestinian Ghandi" Still in Jail, Balin Protests Rateb was injured by a sound grenade thrown at him while he lay on the ground. He was then arrested, and refused medical treatment. Israeli peace demonstrators videoed everything and their tape proves Rateb is innocent.
06-29-05 - Israeli settlers attack Palestinian clinic in Gaza
06-29-05 - Israelis poison Palestinian lands before withdrawal: Dahlan "We have definite information that the Israeli settlers are poisoning the lands in order to damage it and to prevent the Palestinians from using it in the future,"
06-29-05 - Samir Rantisi
06-29-05 - A wall as a faultline separating the haves and have-nots Beyond these small examples, 73,000 farmers have been cut off from their land by the Wall. Tulkarem used to be part of the "bread basket" of the West Bank, but last year had to import wheat, the first time in living memory.
06-29-05 - Israeli killed in Hezbollah clash The United Nations said there were contradictory claims about how the clashes started, and the group was in contact with both sides.
06-29-05 - Project promotes awareness between Palestinians and Lebanese
06-29-05 - US defends Israel retaliation over Hezbollah attack
06-29-05 - A pro-Israel lobby and an F.B.I. sting. (aipac lobbied Congress in favor of the Iraq war, but Iraq has not been one of its chief concerns.) Rosen?s main role at aipac, he once told me, was to collect evidence of ?Iranian perfidy? and share it with the United States.
06-29-05 - A dangerous change in peace with Egypt One reason why Israel is refraining from introducing a multinational force into Gaza is apparently the fact that the international community will agree to send forces only on condition that it is convinced that Gaza is a prelude to an overall and consensual peace move, and Sharon is not ready for that
06-29-05 - 18 Years Waiting for a Gavel to Fall Early witchhunt.
06-29-05 - Time and distance shift Israeli migrant attitudes ?Settlers are not right in the head, they don?t seem like nice normal people to me ? I?d give all the (conquered) territories back?.
06-29-05 - Fahmi: Oil gas talks with Palestine
06-29-05 - Security chiefs meeting over immediate Gaza closure Security officials were meeting Wednesday night over a proposal to bar the entrance of Israelis into the Gaza Strip, to prevent far-right extremists from carrying out violent protests against disengagement.
06-29-05 - The Power of Belief and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
06-29-05 - 'Hizbullah utilizing disengagement' "If the Syrians would still be there perhaps they could have been approached with such a demand (to disarm Hizbullah), but now that they have left Lebanon, there is no one who can do it,"
06-29-05 - JNF Land Swap Raises Questions Civil rights group cries foul over deal that would keep Jews-only sale policy for Negev and Galilee tracts.
06-29-05 - Palestinian refugees ready for disarmament talks Militants in the camps of Lebanon say they will put down their weapons when they are guaranteed security and right-of-return to Palestine
06-29-05 - PNA denies reports on special Palestinian force against Hamas
06-29-05 - Treasury study: Don't allow in more Palestinian laborers
06-29-05 - Evangelicals Eye Middle Ground On Middle East It was partially in response to the growing success of the divestment movement that Haggard led a delegation of evangelical leaders to Israel in mid-May. The idea was to provide a Christian counterbalance to the divestment campaign and to discuss ways to encourage Christian tourism to Israel. I knew this was coming.
06-29-05 - Return to sender, address in 'closed zone'
06-29-05 - Palestinian authority to scan settlements after pullout
06-29-05 - PM:We must stop rampage using all means
06-29-05 - Arab world ready for reforms: Moussa "Iran has the right to use nuclear power for peaceful purposes. The Arab world should be free of weapons of mass destruction. There should be no exemptions in this. It should be implemented by all states, including Israel,"
06-28-05 - Two Palestinian youths severely beaten by mob in moshav Two 15-year-old Palestinians were beaten Tuesday - one of them critically - by close to 200 residents of Moshav Ahiezer, two kilometers northwest of Lod. The youths had attempted to break into one of the homes in the moshav.
06-28-05 - Israel says shoots Palestinian near Gaza settlement
06-28-05 - Palestinian Child Ran Over by Israeli Car
06-28-05 - US weighs $1 billion post-pullout aid The United States government is considering giving Israel $1 billion in a post-disengagement aid package to develop the Negev and the Galilee, US-based sources close to the issue told The Jerusalem Post
06-28-05 - Jewish youths, Palestinians clash in Katif Five Israeli youngsters were injured from stones hurled by Palestinians during the day. One Palestinian was injured by stones thrown by the Israelis.
06-28-05 - Palestinian ministries put on alert
06-28-05 - Palestinian Authority takes anti-corruption steps
06-28-05 - Sharon vows to stop 'wild behaviour' of pullout foes
06-28-05 - Israelis, Palestinians Warned of Tactics "We do not want to allow even a single excuse for anyone to blame us for sabotaging the disengagement," Qureia said after a Cabinet meeting in Gaza City. "We will hold any party totally responsible if they attempt to gamble with our future."
06-28-05 - Disengagement begins with destruction of Palestinian buildings In a dry-run for the disengagement plan Israeli forces moved into the al Mawasi area of the Gaza Strip and demolished 11 Palestinian buildings. Israeli settlers destroyed near-by farm-land and closed down a local health clinic. They established a new settlement called Tam Yam.
06-28-05 - Israeli president slams Iranian leader as "very negative" on Spain visit "The threat is not just on Israel. Iran is trying to develop long range missiles of 2,000 to 3,000 kilometres (1,240 to 1,860 miles). It's a big threat to Europe too," Katsav told a news conference.
06-28-05 - Russia probes Jewish text, Israel protests
06-28-05 - Israel jails soldier for defying orders Mr Bieber, originally from the US and a resident of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, was convicted on three counts of refusing to carry out an order, threatening and insulting a commander and giving media interviews against Israeli Defence Force regulations, a military spokeswoman said.
06-28-05 - Better than delusions Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza isn't nearly enough, but the wait for a comprehensive deal could last for ever
06-28-05 - Israel denies entry to Jordan academicians Israel has refused to issue visas to 13 Jordanian academicians planning to participate in an educational fair which opens in the West Bank Thursday.
06-28-05 - China Scolds U.S. for Blocking Israeli Arms Sale
06-28-05 - Spain supports Israel's withdrawal from Gaza
06-28-05 - Khan Yunis rapper trio says music, not violence will end occupation Their band PR, or Palestinian Rappers, rejects violence and instead dramatizes the Palestinians' plight in songs with names like "Freedom" and "Our Screams."
06-28-05 - New Grants To Help Palestinians with Democratic, Economic Reform
06-28-05 - Turks mull operating Erez industrial zone
06-28-05 - Annan appoints American chief of relief agency for Palestinian refugees
06-28-05 - EU asks to host event in PA post-pullout
06-28-05 - Drastic reduction of Arab workforce inside Israel is crippling Palestinian Authority Work in Israel is essential for the Palestinian economy until it reaches a rate of growth and the occupation ends and Palestinians have independence.
06-28-05 - Barenboim to conduct youth symphony in Ramallah
06-28-05 - PA acts to prevent Hamas taking over in evacuated Strip
06-28-05 - 'Standard of living in PA better this year'
06-28-05 - Facing the reality in Tehran For years, Israel had difficulty convincing the international community of the gravity of the Iranian threat, until details of Iran's secret nuclear program emerged and a Pakistani nuclear arms smuggling ring was discovered. Pakistani nuclear arms smuggling ring, like this you mean? - "Federal prosecutors are appealing a ruling by a Denver federal magistrate that would set Karni free on $75,000 bond raised by supporters. Prosecutors argue that Karni, an Israeli citizen, should be jailed because he could flee to South Africa or Israel and avoid extradition to the United States."
06-28-05 - Annan welcomes Swiss UN reform plans The foreign minister said Switzerland would shortly present a report to the UN General Assembly about Israel?s controversial security barrier in the occupied Palestinian territories
06-28-05 - US, EU prepare for Egypt's control of Gaza border Twenty military advisers from the United States and the European Union inspected Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in preparation for Israel's upcoming disengagement.
06-28-05 - Southern Israel hopes to cash in on Gaza withdrawal
06-28-05 - Life in Khan Yunis
06-28-05 - Corsi: Israel would have to attack a nuclear Tehran
06-28-05 - Arab League considers Rice's Mideast trip as "positive"
06-27-05 - Snipers with children in their sights Palestinian civilians have been killed by the army with impunity
Photo of the children killed described in the article
06-27-05 - Israel: Bill Would Deny Compensation for Rights Abuses Human Rights Watch said that Israel has not upheld its obligation under international law to provide an effective remedy to victims of human rights abuses in the Territories, and this bill is yet further evidence of that
06-27-05 - Israeli soldier guilty of British activist's manslaughter An Israeli soldier has been convicted by a military court of the manslaughter of British peace activist Tom Hurndall two years after he was shot in head in the occupied Gaza Strip
06-27-05 - Israeli soldier guilty of killing Briton in Gaza Sgt Taysir, a member of the Bedouin Arab minority, is only the third Israeli soldier convicted of illegal killing even though human rights groups say many more are guilty in the deaths of more than 1,700 Palestinian civilians, one third of them children, since the beginning of the intifada nearly five years ago
06-27-05 - Hurndalls' fight for justice goes on But long before that, the Hurndalls had concluded from a bitter struggle to discover the truth about the shooting of their son that responsibility for his death runs much higher in a military that the family says encourages the shooting of civilians
06-27-05 - Israeli Settlers Attack a Palestinian House and Clinic in al Mawassi
06-27-05 - Poll: 20% prepared to block traffic
06-27-05 - Activists occupy Palestinian house Far right wing activists threatened on Monday to occupy the homes of Palestinians living in Gush Katif's Muwassi Bedouin encampment, raising concern in the IDF and the Gush Katif Police of a premature "explosion," prior to this summer's withdrawal.
06-27-05 - Palestinian enclave among settlers hopes for relief
06-27-05 - Islamic Jihad fires mortars at southern Gaza settlement
06-27-05 - Fatah condemns Israeli military escalation against Palestinians
06-27-05 - Lebanon eases work restrictions on Palestinian refugees Lebanon's main trade union confederation hailed what it described as a "first step towards granting the Palestinians their civil and social rights." But it added that the move should be no substitute to the "implementation of Security Council Resolution 194 (of 1948) regarding the right of return of Palestinians to their homes in Palestine."
06-27-05 - Palestinians hold Israel responsible for settlers' attacks in Hebron During the past few days, several mob attacks on Palestinian citizens erupted in Hebron and at least three Palestinian men were injured, according to the statement.
06-27-05 - Palestinian groups plan to move to Gaza According to the newspaper, Dahlan's invitation came following US pressure on Syria to close down the offices and bases of Hamas and other Palestinian radical groups
06-27-05 - Palestinian teen jailed for 8 years over attempted suicide mission Several sources said Abdu was of below-average intelligence, and the degree to which he was aware of his actions was unclear.
06-27-05 - Gaza pullout protesters block Israeli highway There has been speculation in the Israeli press that Benjamin Netanyahu, finance minister, might decide to back a delay to the withdrawal, even if that prompted a showdown with Mr Sharon.
06-27-05 - Israel: U.N. Must Halt Iran Nuke Ambitons Speaking to The Israeli Project, a private group committed to Israel's security, Ayalon said he did not see much of a difference between President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hard-liner elected by a landslide last weekend, and other Iranian candidates he defeated. The Israeli Project is the same outfit that is conducting witchhunts/smear_campaigns against professors in the US.
06-27-05 - Israel, U.S. Discuss Israeli Weapons Deals It also might set precedent and designate Israel as a strategic partner of the United States, with the two sides considerate of each others' concerns. That could imply some restraints on U.S. arms sales to Arab countries.
06-27-05 - The ISM's controversial activists
06-27-05 - Apology proves spies were in NZ: Clark
06-27-05 - Jewish settlers erect new Gaza outpost
06-27-05 - Japan to pursue Palestinian airport repair
06-27-05 - Israel protests gunfire across Syria armistice line But a Syrian official rejected the Israeli account. "It was just youngsters throwing firecrackers to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the town of Quneitra," the official told the state SANA news agency.
06-27-05 - Standoff in Gaza Some 600 settlers and their supporters streamed to the Maoz Hayam hotel Monday night in Gush Katif, following rumors IDF forces planned to storm the building
06-27-05 - USAID denies funding Palestinian terror "The accusations of this report are all ludicrous," said Sylvana Foa, head of USAID's public diplomacy office in the West bank and Gaza Mission. "There is not one fact connected with the charges [PMW] is making. We are so much in compliance that it slows our work a great deal. But we are very very happy to stay in compliance."
06-27-05 - Israel suspends construction of 50 settlements in W. Bank
06-27-05 - After 20 years Palestinians are finally allowed to work
06-27-05 - The Anti-Arab Ad that Appeared in the IHT According to the AJC, the advertisement appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune, all part of the New York Times publishing empire.
06-27-05 - 500 Palestinian police officers back to work
06-27-05 - Haaretz daily: Israeli integrators entertain Torturing Palestinian Detainees
06-27-05 - PNA bars dealing of lands near Gaza settlements
06-27-05 - Disputes Arise Over Passage to Peace Less than two months before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Cairo and Tel Aviv are still hashing out security arrangements that will govern the so-called 'Philadelphi Corridor', the 13km long border road between Egypt and Israel.
06-27-05 - Solana to visit Palestinian in mid-July
06-27-05 - Korean FM's Visit to Palestine 'Historical'
06-27-05 - North American Jews to help Ethiopians Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has won the help of North American Jews, who promised to raise $100 million to bring Ethiopian Falashmura to Israel.
06-27-05 - Rather hosts moderate Israeli religious leaders
06-26-05 - Four Residents, Two Critically,Wounded in Suspect Detonation left by the occupation
06-26-05 - 4 kids wounded by mysterious explosion in Rafah
06-26-05 - Settlers attack Palestinians in wake of teen deaths
06-26-05 - Arab-Israeli clashes in Hebron Settlers in the West Bank town of Hebron apparently initiated revenge attacks following the death of two teenagers in a drive-by shooting.
06-26-05 - Police officer stabbed in Jerusalem
06-26-05 - Settlers seek revenge in Hebron
06-26-05 - Jews Suspected in Assault Against Hevron Arab Resident
06-26-05 - Israeli teen dies of wounds after W. Bank shooting
06-26-05 - Palestinian parliamentary election likely in next January: sources
06-26-05 - Korea, Palestine to Exchange Diplomatic Representatives
06-26-05 - Palestinian Government, Non-Government Institutions Call to Abolish all Forms of Torture
06-26-05 - Israel bows to U.S. pressure, will curb defense exports The U.S. says this is not an isolated incident and that it reflects a pattern. They cite the Falcon airplane affair and before that, the sale of advanced Lavi airplane technology and air-to-air missiles to China.
06-26-05 - Internal, foreign elements behind security deterioration: official
06-26-05 - Israel reopens Rafah border crossing
06-26-05 - Palestinian special force to protect evacuated settlements: sources "We want this to be quiet and clean," Abbas told reporters in Ramallah. "We are preparing ourselves to be ready ... to take control of these settlements and to preserve the properties because it is property the Palestinian people can use,"
06-26-05 - Jordan blasts Israeli settlement expansion
06-26-05 - Haifa youth suspected of terror attacks on Arabs ruled fit for trial
06-26-05 - Israeli Army invades Bal'in, enforces curfew on nearby village of Saffa
06-26-05 - Israeli troops tell of tactics to abuse Palestinians
06-26-05 - Israel approves settler relocation plan
06-26-05 - Recognition of equal rights
06-26-05 - PNA interior minister meets Islamic Jihad leaders
06-26-05 - Bilin tests non-violent resistance
06-26-05 - Air Force to get USD 100 million plane Part of the deal will be financed with U.S. aid money.
06-26-05 - Israeli government apologises to New Zealand Israel has apologised for the spy scandal and has promised it will take steps to ensure no similar incident happens again
06-26-05 - Palestinians keep dream of return alive
06-26-05 - Israel bows to U.S. over arms exports - newspaper Israel has bowed to U.S. pressure to cancel an arms deal with China and will impose tighter controls on its weapons exports in general, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Sunday.
06-26-05 - Analyst worries over China's use of Israeli drone
06-26-05 - Indictments expected against two sacked AIPAC officers This episode ties in with the tough sanctions the Pentagon has imposed on Israel?s defense establishment
06-26-05 - Israel Backs Down in Face-off With U.S. Over Arms to China by forcing Israel to back down, the Bush administration is expected to gain leverage in its effort to convince the European Union to maintain its arms embargo against China
06-26-05 - HAS ABBAS BEEN LEFT TWISTING IN THE WIND AGAIN?
06-26-05 - Gaza clashes as demolitions begin Israeli settlers have clashed with soldiers in the Gaza Strip during work to dismantle buildings ahead of the planned withdrawal from the territory.
06-26-05 - Jerusalem gay march ban set aside
06-26-05 - Israeli soldier refuses to demolish Jewish settlement Israel radio reported that one soldier, a member of the Engineering Corporation, was arrested and his gun taken after he refused to take part in the demolitions.
06-26-05 - Shalom urges tough int'l plan for Iran
06-26-05 - Refugee reject takes case to Hill
06-25-05 - Settler wounds Palestinian child in Hebron Meanwhile, a Palestinian child was seriously wounded when Jewish settlers threw a grenade inside her home in the West Bank city of Hebron.
06-25-05 - Army to grab 2012 Dunams near Nablus
06-25-05 - Anglicans urge putting pressure on companies doing business with Israel The council also welcomed a report on the conflict that criticized Israel's conduct and expressed sympathy for "the draconian conditions of the continuing occupation" in which many Palestinians live
06-25-05 - Israel arrests 15 Jihad members in West Bank
06-25-05 - Israelis quit Palestinian schools Palestinians who visited the abandoned buildings after the soldiers left said they found a trail of devastation, with smashed doors and windows, and broken desks.
06-25-05 - 'We'll shake Tel Aviv' Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists will strike in Tel Aviv should Israel continue to arrest terror suspects in the West Bank town of Tul Karem, a senior figure in the terror group warned during a conversation with Ynet Saturday.
06-25-05 - Shooter of Palestinian Fatah member said arrested
06-25-05 - Rafah Border Crossing closed the crossing will remain closed at least for one day since more than 2500 residents have been stuck on the crossing over the last 24 hours after the Israeli side did not allow them in
06-25-05 - Rice warns against settlement expansion Meanwhile construction is continuing in the territories, especially in Ma'aleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem, and Upper Beitar. However, the U.S. administration has objected to the plans to link Ma'aleh Adumim to the capital, and to large-scale expropriation of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem.
06-25-05 - EU: Egypt plays a key role in filling security and political vacuum in Gaza
06-25-05 - Indian Affairs panel hears 'tale of betrayal' McCain traced the trail of money from the Choctaws? coffers to a private company controlled by Abramoff, a private Jewish school founded by Abramoff and even paramilitary groups in Israel.
06-25-05 - Jewish Settlers to Move Out of Gaza Homes Meanwhile, Israeli troops evacuated two army positions in the West Bank city of Hebron, including one in a Palestinian elementary school, the army said Saturday. About 2,000 Palestinian students had been forced to transfer schools in 2002 after troops took over the educational complex to establish an army post, said Mohammed Qawasme, the director of the Education Department in Hebron. Troops damaged the school buildings and it will take a year to reopen the facility, he added.
06-25-05 - 'Anti-Semitism' As A Political Weapon
06-25-05 - Palestinians plan to prevent looting
06-25-05 - Rice silent on women?s rights in Middle East "The main dilemma that US policy faces is what to do if the democratic process brings to the fore parties taking anti-western, anti-US and anti-Israeli positions,"
06-25-05 - Anarchy warning as leak foils plan to raid Gaza pullout opponents' bastion Israel's top law officer warned of the danger of anarchy breaking out during the operation to uproot settlers from the Gaza Strip as an embarrassing leak forced security chiefs to scrap a raid on an extremist bastion
06-25-05 - Editorial: Palestinians and civil rights Imagine, for example, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children, some of them Islamic and even Christian clergy, peacefully marching on, say, an Israeli military checkpoint. Palestinians protest nonviolently just about every day. This goes unreported in the US media.
06-25-05 - Palestinian official says security services 'responsible' for lawlessness
06-25-05 - Outrage greets Israeli military chief
06-25-05 - Saudi urges more aid for Palestinians
06-25-05 - Putin, Wolfensohn to discuss Mideastern settlement
06-25-05 - LIFE Inaugurates Two State-of-the-Art Medical Facilities in Palestinian Territories
06-25-05 - Boos based on Mideast borders The woman in the monologue says that "for Palestinians," the invasion of Iraq "is about one thing: defending the interest of America's three-billion-a-year colony in the Middle East," a reference to Israel. She asserts that the U.S. ignores U.N. resolutions about Israel while using U.N. resolutions to justify the Iraq invasion. She concludes that Palestinians are now victims, as Jews were earlier ? "We are the Jews of the Jews."
06-25-05 - Spielberg project leaves Mossad cold While standing by his source, Jonas admitted that "certain details of the story were incapable of being verified".
06-25-05 - Where is Palestine? Ask Bush
06-24-05 - Israeli killed in drive-by attack
06-24-05 - 15 arrested in protest against Israel's West Bank barrier Three Palestinians and two foreign activists were lightly wounded by rubber bullets and 15 arrests were made
06-24-05 - 6 residents arrested, British peace activist injured in Hebron
06-24-05 - Israel plans to double number of settlers in Jordan Valley Under the terms of the internationally-backed roadmap peace plan, Israel is meant to freeze all settlement activity but the government has continued to come up with expansion schemes
06-24-05 - Palestinian gov't denounces killing of policeman in Jenin
06-24-05 - Anglicans Consider Divesting in Solidarity With Palestinians
06-24-05 - Israeli land seizures undercut hopes for peace
06-24-05 - Palestinian security hunt militants suspected of slaying policeman
06-24-05 - Palestinian police, militants exchange gunfire
06-24-05 - Islamic Jihad rallies in Ramallah despite Palestinian Authority
06-24-05 - Anglican share vote angers Israelis
06-24-05 - Islamic Jihad threatens to end period of calm if Israel targets leaders
06-24-05 - Jordan River heavily polluted by sewage
06-24-05 - Abbas meets ROK FM on Mideast peace process Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas met on Friday with Ban Ki-Moon, foreign affairs and trade minister of the Republic of Korea (ROK).
06-24-05 - Report: U.S. Government Funds Terrorism-Promotion An Israeli watchdog group alleges that American aid to Palestinian universities and cities promotes terrorism.
06-24-05 - Rapture index rides a bull market Our sons and daughters will needlessly die in Iraq, our troops will not come home soon, and our national respect will nosedive as long as those in power influencing the White House believe God likes Israel but abhors the Palestinians
06-24-05 - Is the USA Really Israel's Ally?
06-24-05 - A wild idea takes root Before they traveled from the Gaza Strip to Maine this week, the closest the two Palestinian boys had ever come to speaking with an Israeli was at a military checkpoint, where soldiers shouted at them through megaphones
06-24-05 - Tel-Aviv, Refusing to serve the occupation
06-24-05 - Israeli worries about AIPAC
06-24-05 - MK Bishara: Israeli Actions in Jerusalem Go Beyond Belief
06-24-05 - High-tech crossings aim to ease way of life The new terminals will work as follows: Upon entering, the Palestinian's permit will be checked, and he will then purchase a magnetic card for a nominal fee. Initially, each card will be good for only one day
06-24-05 - Something is bothering the FBI Some claim the most recent proceedings are tainted with a desire to undermine the group of neoconservatives in the Pentagon.
06-24-05 - Swiss handball brings nations together three of the Palestinian players were refused permission to travel by Israel, so only two made it to the official launch on Tuesday in Magglingen in canton Bern
06-23-05 - Armed men kill Palestinian policeman
06-23-05 - Youth injured near Salfit
06-23-05 - Palestinians placed between false choices
06-23-05 - Palestinians may annul rulings of security courts Abbas wants new trials for Palestinians convicted by security courts, including at least 10 sentenced to death, as part of efforts to implement political and security reforms aimed at curbing lawlessness and increasing accountability
06-23-05 - World powers urge Israel to ease checkpoints
06-23-05 - G8 urges smooth Gaza pullout,quartet presses Israel
06-23-05 - Palestinians proceed on disarmament deal
06-23-05 - Mofaz: Bethlehem may be turned over to PA next week
06-23-05 - Jerusalem lawyer identifies Jewish group in Greek Orthodox property scandal Israeli media have reported the church leased the Imperial Hotel and other prime property in East Jerusalem for 198 years to unidentified Jewish groups that are seeking to expand the Jewish presence in that traditionally Arab sector of the city
06-23-05 - 1 000 Palestinians 'stranded'
06-23-05 - Palestinians reject bearing expense of settlement demolition
06-23-05 - French groups oppose Sharon visit How can Chirac "roll out the red carpet to a war criminal like Sharon?" the groups asked in a collective statement
06-23-05 - Protest and celebration More than 8,000 Palestinians, including supporters of Al Mubadara (the Palestinian National Initiative) and Independents, attended a demonstration and rally marking the Third Anniversary of the founding of the Palestinian National Initiative.
06-23-05 - NATO MAKES FIRST VISIT TO PA
06-23-05 - Israeli forces interrogate Palestinian female patients
06-23-05 - PNA to begin anti-chaos campaign in West Bank
06-23-05 - Jihad denies prisoner dies of disease in Israeli jail
06-23-05 - More Israel violations of Lebanon space
06-23-05 - Lebanese deputy: Mossad behind assassinations
06-23-05 - China, Israel discuss expanding defense ties Committee chairman Yuval Steinitz said the relations with China were "extremely" important for Israel, referring to China as the "giant" and Israel as the "dwarf."
06-23-05 - Jerusalem to Ban Annual Gay Pride Parade See earlier story from March - Petition: No 'gay pride'
in holy city
06-23-05 - Church rules out share sale 'gesture'
06-23-05 - EU states also need to deal with Israel
06-23-05 - Confronting Israeli Myth-Making
06-23-05 - Sharon 'dangerous' for Israel Right-wing Jewish extremists have begun hanging up posters in Jerusalem, depicting Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon wearing a kaffiyeh or Arab headdress.
06-23-05 - ?Arabs get raw deal' Israelis generally do not like Arabs because local media outlets incite viewers against them
06-23-05 - American woman to head UNRWA
06-23-05 - Gaza pullout co-operation urged
06-23-05 - Pro-Israel Groups: Campuses Improving Goldberg said that since the second intifada began in 2000 and anti-Israel activity spiked, pro-Israel advocates have mounted a coordinated campaign and made great strides in their effort to win back campus sentiment
06-23-05 - Seeds Of Peace Camp Opens For 13th Season
06-22-05 - Israel resumes targeted killings
06-22-05 - Israel fires missiles at Jihad activists An Israeli aircraft fired missiles at four Islamic Jihad men in the Gaza village of Beit Lahiya yesterday as they launched rockets into Israel.
06-22-05 - Failure to Probe Civilian Casualties Fuels Impunity The Israeli military has fostered a climate of impunity in its ranks by failing to thoroughly investigate whether soldiers have killed and injured Palestinian civilians unlawfully or failed to protect them from harm, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
06-22-05 - Israel mulls overland links between Gaza, West Bank
06-22-05 - Palestinian prisoners in Israel on hunger strike
06-22-05 - Abbas seeks international help after Sharon brush-off The Israeli press concluded that the former general had undermined the moderate Abbas.
06-22-05 - Murdered in name of family honour Chris McGreal in Ramallah reports on a rise in killings of Palestinian women
06-22-05 - Gunman fires on Palestinian PM
06-22-05 - WHouse declines to criticize Israel assassinations
06-22-05 - Israel threatens air strikes to protect Gaza pullout Israel threatened to launch air strikes in Gaza, even at the risk of Palestinian civilian casualties, if militants try to disrupt its planned August pullout from the territory.
06-22-05 - Palestinian militants deny involvement in shooting
06-22-05 - Church may black firms over Israeli 'occupation' Pressure is growing for increased sanctions against Israel, and the Presbyterian Church in the US has already begun a similar programme.
06-22-05 - Israel might hit Gaza after withdrawal "If needed, Israel will return to the Gaza Strip after the disengagement for several days in order to put an end to terror,"
06-22-05 - MIDDLE EAST SITUATION REMAINS CRITICAL, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS TOLD
06-22-05 - Islamic Jihad vows to retaliate Israeli attack
06-22-05 - U.S.: Watch out for settlers the State Department warned Americans about "violent settlers" expected during Israeli disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank.
06-22-05 - Palestinian civilans could be in harms way during pullout Israel may have to use weapons that are capable of harming the civilian population if there are terrorist attacks during the implementation of this summer's ... Story no longer exists.
06-22-05 - Israel continues raiding West Bank areas
06-22-05 - Conference examines plight of elderly refugees "It does not matter who provides the assistance, what is important is to live the rest of our days with dignity."
06-22-05 - Police arrest settler who shot at Palestinians
06-22-05 - Israel, Palestinians to hold security talks
06-22-05 - Study: most Gaza refugees reject abandoning right of return
06-22-05 - U.S. breaks diplomatic boycott with visit to Gaza Strip
06-22-05 - Foreign teams to supervise Israeli withdrawal
06-22-05 - 'It's all about demography'? ex-Israeli envoy warns When that demographic point is reached, he predicted, Palestinians will reject a two-state solution as impractical and impossible, and demand "one state for two peoples," the antithesis of the Zionist dream.
06-22-05 - CLC resolution: end settlements, fence Paul Purrit, the CLC?s international department program director, told The CJN he did not understand the uproar the statement caused in the Jewish community, because it was ?quite well-balanced? and, in terms of policy, if not language, not much different from the position of Israel?s Labor Party
06-22-05 - Middle East peace tops G8 meeting British officials say there will be a presentation by James Wolfensohn, the former World Bank president who is now a special envoy representing the "quartet" of Middle East peace mediators who is charged with overseeing the pullout.
06-22-05 - OPEC Fund replenishes special grant account for Palestine
06-22-05 - YU Poll: U.S. Jews, Israelis Sharply Pro-Pullout
06-22-05 - IRAQ: Focus on treatment of foreign Arabs The official continued, saying that living conditions for displaced Sudanese and Palestinians were deteriorating and that urgent action was needed from the new government
06-22-05 - They look at the burns and are silent
06-22-05 - Conflicts in Israel disturb Iowans I was most struck by the extent of the - I don't want to use a loaded word - but the extent of the oppression necessitated in the interest of national security. The checkpoints, the wall, the need for Palestinians to use a subset of highways and roads, the need to get permits to travel from place to place, the demolition of houses and confiscations of homes involved.
06-22-05 - Bauer: Major TV Networks Boycotted 'Hospital Bomber' Story Maybe they noticed the always coincidental timing of these things; right before a summit.
06-22-05 - Caged in by the Wall Bil?in Today at 6:00 AM the villagers of Bil?in placed a large metal cage on the route
of the illegal annexation Wall that is being built on their land.
06-22-05 - Barber is going global Barber will make an appearance on behalf of the Peres Center for Peace,
06-21-05 - Army attacks a peaceful procession in Marda
06-21-05 - Palestinians report IAF strike in Gaza Strip Israeli defense sources refused to comment on the report, but officials confirmed that targeted assassinations were being resumed.
06-21-05 - Israel: Wall in Jeruaslem is political too Israel in the past has insisted the routing of the wall was a security matter only
06-21-05 - Tour keeps woman?s efforts going
06-21-05 - Israel agrees in principle to re-operate Gaza airport
06-21-05 - Likud rebel lawmakers seek to apply Israeli law to West Bank
06-21-05 - AIPAC can place you by the elbow of the president It seems obvious that Franklin assumed ? perhaps correctly ? that Rosen and AIPAC had connections and influence that went above Douglas Feith who abruptly resigned after the FBI probe became public. So, who exactly was the AIPAC connection at the National Security Council? I am guessing it was Elliot Abrams
06-21-05 - ?Israel torpedoing international festival? Palestinians say Israeli Civil Administration is wrecking Ramallah festival by denying several artists permission to enter territories
06-21-05 - No one is exempt from International Law - Statement on International Refugee Day
06-21-05 - Bitter Abbas-Sharon summit makes little headway
06-21-05 - Jerusalem municipality delays demolition of Silwan homes But a representative of the residents, lawyer Sami Ershied, said tenants in the neighborhood of Silwan continue to receive demolition orders and he denied that a committee to work out a compromise was formed.
06-21-05 - Israel targets Islamic Jihad before Sharon-Abbas talks The operation, in which the army said 52 members of Islamic Jihad were taken into custody, was the biggest sweep against wanted militants since Mr Abbas and Mr Sharon declared a truce at their previous meeting on February 8.
06-21-05 - High Court rejects petition against fence in Jerusalem The section of the West Bank separation fence located within the Jerusalem municipal boundaries has political, not just security, significance, the State Prosecution told the High Court of Justice yesterday.
06-21-05 - Withdrawal is a prelude to annexation
06-21-05 - Haifa, peaceful town with a silent pain
06-21-05 - The Great Awakening to the Iraq Deception
06-21-05 - Mofaz faces difficult questions IDF soldiers. He said children have thrown stones at troops and their parents have insulted them. "We don't have the tools to deal with this," he said. Sure they do. Palestinian stonethrowers (including small children) get live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets, machine gun fire from a tank etc from the IDF.
06-21-05 - "Until When" Film to be Presented June 29 in New Jersey
06-21-05 - Judge decries inaction over probe into riot deaths in 2000
06-21-05 - Resolution Of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Holds Key To Mid-East Peace
06-21-05 - For U.N.'s 60th birthday, Israel, Jewish groups have a few wishes Who is behind the recent demands by the US for 'reforms' at the UN, I wonder?
06-21-05 - US eases West Bank travel limits for US person
06-21-05 - Paris hosts month-long 'Welcome, Palestine!' event
06-21-05 - McClellan addresses Israeli 'security concerns' Translation: 'Palestinian terrorism' justifies Israeli land theft in the eyes of the Zionist.
06-20-05 - A Teen killed by the Soldiers while Hunting Birds in G. Strip
06-20-05 - Jewish settler, Palestinian killed on eve of summit In Gaza, Israeli troops shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian civilian and wounded another youth near a road between the border and the settlement of Netzarim
06-20-05 - Ain al-Hilweh refugees protest neglect on World Refugee Day Monday was World Refugee Day and residents of the habitat marked the occasion by gathering around Palestinian and Lebanese flags at the entrance to the area.
06-20-05 - Palestinians seek to turn rubble of settler homes into Gaza port Under international law, as an occupier in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to return the Palestinian territory in the same shape it was seized in 1967.
06-20-05 - Sharon, Abbas to hold historic talks in Jerusalem
06-20-05 - Palestinian official calls militant attacks on Israel "embarrassment" Tawfeek Abu Khousa told reporters that the recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip was "a desperate attempt by some militant groups to weaken and embarrass the PNA."
06-20-05 - Abbas vows to avoid Palestinian civil war
06-20-05 - Israel agrees in principle to re-operate Gaza airport
06-20-05 - PM: We will stop Palestinian fire during disengagement Sneh argued that destroying the homes would portray Israel in a negative way around the world, and that Israel would also have to cover the cost of the demolition. "Where is the wisdom in that?" he asked
06-20-05 - Arrest warrants for Gaza attackers
06-20-05 - National Lawyers Guild Condemns Israeli Governmental Bill Currently Being Discussed by the Knesset Bill would deny compensation to Palestinian victims of Israeli acts or omission including war crimes perpetrated in the occupied Palestinian territories
06-20-05 - Woman at Israeli hospital had explosives
06-20-05 - Rice discusses Middle East with Saudi crown prince
06-20-05 - Abbas, Chinese FM mull Middle East peace process
06-20-05 - Foreign minister tours Israel and Palestine Israel is eager to strengthen exchanges with China in all fields and deepen understanding and co-operation with the country, Shalom said.
06-20-05 - Forgotten Beduin petition High Court
06-20-05 - Poll shows Palestinians support truce
06-20-05 - Israel installs spy cameras at al-Aqsa Mosque
06-20-05 - PNA orders 72 security officers to retire
06-20-05 - Deir Yassin: the Absurd Historical Revisionism of Steven Plaut
06-20-05 - Rush Hurries to Spielberg Project Why is this movie being rushed (no pun intended) into production for a December release? It kind of makes you wonder. Do the pro-Israelis need the Hasbara this badly, and why?...
06-19-05 - Israeli soldier, Palestinian gunman killed in Gaza
06-19-05 - Israeli plan to build 700 new settler homes in West Bank draws US rebuke Both sprawling settlements are located around annexed east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope to make the capital of their promised state
06-19-05 - US and Israel close to deal on arms sales Israel and the US were yesterday reported to be close to a deal that would give the Pentagon the right to vet Israeli weapons sales to third countries.
06-19-05 - Israel apologizes to U.S. over China arms sale "If things were done that were not acceptable to the Americans then we are sorry but these things were done with the utmost innocence,"
06-19-05 - Israel bids to defuse Chinese arms sales row with US Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom insisted Israel had "acted in good faith" amid continued fallout from a deal to upgrade Harpy Killer drones which Israel sold to China.
06-19-05 - Israel: No more arms for Palestinians Sharon emphasized that Israel would not allow weapons and ammunition to be delivered to the Palestinian Authority
06-19-05 - Survey finds Israeli Arabs accept Jewish, not Zionist, nature of state
06-19-05 - Roadblock set up near rightists' Gaza hotel Said one senior IDF officer yesterday: "It is clear that the hotel occupants were the provocateurs here. This is what they do at their homes in Judea and Samaria ... They feel their Sabbath is incomplete if they have not attacked Palestinians."
06-19-05 - Rice's response to PA's demands: counter-demands
06-19-05 - Israel, Palestinians agree to demolish Gaza settler homes However as she was leaving the country, the Israeli housing ministry announced that it would seek tender offers at the end of the year for building 700 new homes in the West Bank settlements of Maale Adumim and Beitar Eilit.
06-19-05 - 'X Committee' Out To Sharon is convinced that the conditions must be set for decisive military actions against both Syria and Iran, before an American military withdrawal from Iraq.
06-19-05 - Shalom calls for swift end to China arms sale crisis with U.S. Shalom acknowledged U.S. pressure on Israel to dismiss Defense Ministry top brass over the crisis, but declined to comment on the policy of another ministry.
06-19-05 - Another painful spying case
06-19-05 - Former extremist Israeli settler thanks Allah at new West Bank home
06-19-05 - Govt increases funding for Palestinian refugees Australia's aid package for the Palestinians now totals $12 million dollars for this financial year.
06-19-05 - 'Collaborators' villagers seek refuge
06-19-05 - Mofaz Suggests Razing Homes & Leaving Debris for PA
06-19-05 - Justice keeps suit vs. Halutz out of court for two years In September 2003, the group petitioned the High Court to open a criminal investigation against then air force chief Dan Halutz, now chief of staff, because of an order that he gave to assassinate Palestinian terrorist Salah Shehadeh by dropping a one-ton bomb on a residential neighborhood in Gaza in July 2002
06-19-05 - Egyptian FM: Pullout must come with deal on W. Bank
06-19-05 - Rice and the Palestinians Ironically, the only goods easily allowed into Palestinian cities are Israeli, giving them a huge advantage at the expense of local products and services.
06-19-05 - Protesters greet hundreds celebrating Israel's 57th anniversary "Palestinian people never had a problem with Jews before Zionism," said Rabbi Dovid Feldman, of Monsey, N.Y
06-19-05 - On Track Innovations makes 'smart cards' The cards were developed by an Israeli company with U.S. headquarters in Fort Lee
06-19-05 - Corries, Palestinians close to daughter team for fund-raiser
06-19-05 - Jordan calls for complete Israeli withdrawal from West Bank
06-18-05 - Palestinian killed in gunfight with Israeli soldiers at Gaza settlement
06-18-05 - Three Palestinians hurt in attacks by settlers in southern Gaza Right-wing extremists living in the hotel at Neveh Dekalim in Gush Katif on Saturday attacked Palestinians from the adjacent Moassi area. Three Palestinians were wounded in the attack, which met a response of mortars being fired at Gush Katif.
06-18-05 - AIPAC suspects shared info with boss Some fear that the case will inhibit the functioning of Jewish organizations and others that deal with the executive branch. "Not just Jewish organizations, but lobbyists in general," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "Lawyers will be telling their clients, 'Let's look at practices.'"
06-18-05 - Rice Urges Moves On Gaza Pullout Plan
06-18-05 - Rice says time is short to nail down Gaza handover Israeli military radio also reported that she pressed the Jewish state for "substantial" measures to improve the lives of Palestinians and for the release of more prisoners to keep up the good will in peace efforts.
06-18-05 - Israel, PA agree to measures meant to ease lives of Palestinians
06-18-05 - Chinese FM in Jordan on first leg of regional tour "China is monitoring developments in the Middle East and working to achieve progress in the peace process ... within the framework of the roadmap"
06-18-05 - Rice demands Palestinian reform
06-18-05 - Israel to urge PA to house refugees in settlements
06-18-05 - Handicapped, unemployed protest in Gaza:-
06-18-05 - Palestinian ministry renews call to stop shelling Israeli targets
06-18-05 - Hebron: What A Difference Five Years Makes But after being gone for a little over five years the long term effects are
evident and devastating. I began to see the difference when the taxi to
Hebron was leaving Jerusalem. The Israeli settlements on the outskirts of
Jerusalem had grown dramatically. By the time we got to Bethlehem, it was
apparent that Bethlehem would soon be surrounded by settlements.
06-18-05 - Israel closes Gaza for 2nd straight day
06-18-05 - Palestinian parliament approves legislative election law
06-18-05 - Abbas: 'We stand by our word' Less than two months before disengagement, US secretary of state meets with PA chairman in Ramallah; Rice says, 'I imagine that it's not the dream of Palestinian mothers to see their children become suicide bombers'
06-18-05 - Israeli TV says US, UK to give Israel time to 'heal' after Gaza withdrawal
06-18-05 - Palestinian Red Crescent in race against time Even with such coordination, and after permission has been granted to enter the area, soldiers have sometimes opened fi re on the EMTs, leading to injuries and even deaths of those attempting to carry out their humanitarian medical mission
06-18-05 - Shared History, Shared Defiance
06-18-05 - Jewish Groups Launch Campaign
06-18-05 - Israel takes part in NATO exercise
06-18-05 - Fighting the wall with gravestones in Bil'in
06-18-05 - Dean Condemns 'Anti-Semitic Literature' One witness, former intelligence analyst Ray McGovern, told Conyers and other House Democrats that the war was part of an effort to allow the United States and Israel to "dominate that part of the world," a statement Dean also condemned.
06-18-05 - Frank fires back at anti-Israel war gossip Frank said he was in and out of the hearing and did not actually hear the anti-Israel remarks. But he said he was told that Raymond McGovern, a witness, cited Israel and oil interests as major reasons for the war. McGovern is a former CIA agent.
06-18-05 - From 1995: Israel Charged With Systematic Harassment of U.S. Marines
06-17-05 - Mission Memorial: Remembering the USS Liberty
06-17-05 - 'Rachel Has Been Always With Us In Rafah'
06-17-05 - Elderly woman dies at a military roadblock near Bethlehem
06-17-05 - Six Palestinians, two Israeli policemen wounded in West Bank clash
06-17-05 - US diplomats lay groundwork ahead of sticky Rice visit to Israel The top-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said there was some fear among the Israelis that Sharon could be pressured into making concessions as a trade-off for securing European Union aid for Iraq
06-17-05 - Rice: Israel Must Not Sabotage Peace Hopes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Israel on Friday not to complicate the path to peace with the Palestinians through new Jewish settlements just as the date approaches for Israelis to fulfill a promise to leave other, established settlements.
06-17-05 - Rice says Palestinians must stick to ceasefire A U.S. official, who has been briefed on contacts in recent weeks between American and Israeli officials, said Sharon was hoping for a "cooling off" period that would halt moves along the roadmap for about six months after the withdrawal
06-17-05 - UN pushes Palestinians to keep cease-fire alive
06-17-05 - Peres: Israel should give PA weapons to restore order The Palestinians "are apparently facing many problems," Peres said. "The light arms are really needed in order to place law and order and to fight Hamas."
06-17-05 - UN observers to remain on Israel-Syria border
06-17-05 - Gingrich: U.S. should abandon roadmap in the quest for peace
06-17-05 - US working to raise Palestinian aid package The money would be for specific projects in Gaza, including a seaport, border crossings and other infrastructure
06-17-05 - Israel to build sea barrier near Gaza coast "There is a barrier on the ground, now a barrier on the water and tomorrow we will end up with barrier in the sky. It will not bring peace and security,"
06-17-05 - Palestinian Authority must restore rule of law and respect human rights
06-17-05 - Army to bulldoze hundreds of Dunams near Hebron The army started uprooting thre trees after barring the residents from reaching farmlands, and declared the area as a closed military zone.
06-17-05 - Rice prods Israelis, Palestinians to fulfill peace obligations But Rice also had tough words for Israeli plans to expand Jewish settlements east of Jerusalem that have drawn vocal protests from the Palestinians. "We don't intend that the Israelis try to create facts on the ground," she said. "They simply cannot engage in activities that are supposed to somehow prejudge a final status outcome."
06-17-05 - Orthodox leader demoted to monk
06-17-05 - Land Rovers deployed against civilians It has also said that it has sought and received assurances from the authorities that UK-supplied equipment is not being used against civilians.
Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, has said that Israel had breached such assurances in the past.
06-17-05 - Call for Action On the One Year Anniversary of the ICJ It is crucial to initiate a global debate around the World Bank?s plans and direct international financial support for Israel?s project of apartheid and expulsion of the Palestinian people.
06-17-05 - I am a Christian Arab-American
06-17-05 - Israeli Arabs march in memory of convicts hanged by British in 1929
06-17-05 - Israel reopens Gaza borders
06-17-05 - Jewish state idea mired in confusion "They don't say this now because it is politically incorrect and the timing is wrong, but at one point in the future, they will tell the Arabs of Israel 'we are a Jewish state, you are not Jews, therefore you should leave'."
06-17-05 - Preventing local terrorism Israeli security agents are all over this country propagandizing to our men and women in uniform.
06-17-05 - Dissing Conyers Reveals Truth: Invasion was for Israel
06-17-05 - Geoffrey Rush Joins Spielberg Project Israel needs to do some massive Hasbara, and this is one way to achieve it.
06-17-05 - 'Chicago Ten' plan $500m Gaza company
06-16-05 - Palestinian lawyers urge action More than 100 Palestinian lawyers have demonstrated in Ramallah in protest at the breakdown of law and order
06-16-05 - The Quiet Occupation Part 1
06-16-05 - Victim's Parents Tour U.S. to Raise Money When 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, she was protesting the impending demolition of a Palestinian home
06-16-05 - USS Liberty: 38 Years and Counting
06-16-05 - Report: PM nixed U.S. request for news conference with Rice According to the report, officials in Israel are exhibiting a "lack of enthusiasm" regarding the impending visit, stemming from criticism by administration and by EU officials over the level of cooperation Israel is displaying toward the Palestinians
06-16-05 - Rice talks tough to Israel Secretary of State pulls no punches, says Israel's military ties with China 'worrying'
06-16-05 - Hamas discloses EU contacts and Israel reacts sharply
06-16-05 - History's Greatest Reoccuring Hoax: Colonization "For Security Reasons"
06-16-05 - Palestinian rockets hit southern Israeli town The armed wing of Islamic Jihad movement, another radical movement which has its stronghold in Gaza, claimed responsibility for the attack as a response to Israel's arrest of six of its members in the West Bank since Wednesday night.
06-16-05 - Israel will strengthen strategic bases after Gaza pullout
06-16-05 - Rice rolls out pro-democracy message ahead of Mideast tour Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rolled out a pro-democracy message for Middle East friend and foe and prodded ally Israel on arms sales to China on the eve of her first major tour of the region.
06-16-05 - The Case for Israel, a Critical Review
06-16-05 - The message Rice will bring, and hear, in her Mideast trip She will also seek to convince Palestinians that the US sees what State Department spokesman Sean McCormack calls a "post-Gaza phase" to the peace process
06-16-05 - Palestine calls for complete Israeli withdrawal
06-16-05 - Israel presents detailed settlement maps to PNA
06-16-05 - Iran Off the Hook; Israel On As Iran continues to move ahead with its nuclear program, as it moves closer to receiving European and IAEA legitimization for its right to enrich uranium, Israel, it seems, is being set up for closer IAEA supervision and for greater US criticism There's a lot of whining going on in the Israeli press of late.
06-16-05 - Palestinians concerned over housing project Residents of Ain al-Hilweh have expressed fear that the humanitarian associations could be linked to unnamed "international parties" which are seeking to settle Palestinians outside their homeland and take advantage of their most basic needs to implement a settlement project.
06-16-05 - Analysis: Dancing to Washington's China tune
06-16-05 - Telecommunication and IT Minister Confirms PA Steps Towards Forming an E-Government
06-16-05 - Orthodox leader demoted to monk
06-16-05 - A celebration of brave hearts and courageous acts "Brave Hearts" features Neta Golan, an Israeli citizen, who stands between Palestinians and Israeli bullets, and shouts down, in Hebrew, Israeli troops. When asked if she were suicidal or had a death wish, she replied "no," but said that someone has to do something to end the violence. She and other Israeli activists work hard to end the occupation of Palestinian lands, as well as to end discrimination and segregation in Israel.
06-15-05 - Egypt, Israel move towards border deal after Gaza pullout
06-15-05 - Israel 'set to hand over' Jenin
06-15-05 - Abbas calls for more world support for Palestinians
06-15-05 - Palestinian gunmen rally at PM?s home, demand jobs
06-15-05 - Peace protestor Sam tells of violence in Palestine "They acted completely recklessly, especially as the demonstration was being led by people who were blind and in wheel chairs. The Israelis were clearly trying to provoke a violent response from the Palestinians and a clash followed between the villagers and the army"
06-15-05 - AJC Supports Congressional Initiative on UN Reform AJC also applauded the two for recognizing that UN reform must address the institution's profound bias against Israel, and welcomed their proposed bills designed to rid the body of bureaucracies antagonistic to the cause of Middle East peace, such as the UN- funded Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinians, and the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices.
06-15-05 - Taking on U.S. over China - a lost cause
06-15-05 - Indictment Shows Washington Is 'Israeli-Occupied Territory'
06-15-05 - Gaza Palestinians counting down to Israeli pullout
06-15-05 - Israel-US relations 'in crisis' "This is an illegitimate demand which also has an aspect of humiliation to it," he said. "We cannot agree to everything."
06-15-05 - NATO team heads to Ramallah for first talks with Palestinian Authority
06-15-05 - EU lets low-level diplomats meet Hamas
06-15-05 - U.S. Grad Students Seen Hostile To Israel The Israeli official added that the Israel Project tends to seek out and publicize negative opinions on Israel so as to bolster its own fund-raising efforts, portraying itself as more effective than Israel in the area of hasbara, or shaping public opinion.
06-15-05 - Bedouin may be aiding terrorists The escalation of Shin Bet activity in the Bedouin community is part of a plan by new intelligence head Yuval Diskin to prevent the sector from adopting extreme anti-Israel attitudes. "The Bedouin sector is in dire straights, and very bitter over a series of land disputes,"
06-15-05 - 'Gaza to be model for further pullouts'
06-15-05 - OPEC Fund extends US$1.2 million grant for social services project in Palestine
06-15-05 - Europe groups back Palestinian prisoners
06-15-05 - Israeli Arab MP demands Quran prison inquiry
06-15-05 - CJC to join campaign for Jewish refugees The Palestinians were made refugees by Israel prior to this, and they've never been allowed back to their lands, nor have they been compensated for them - despite UN resolution 194 that sought to redress the issue.
06-15-05 - Photojournalist's son blamed for early closure of exhibit Housefather said he could have lived with the photos, but the narrative that accompanied them was "inflammatory" and "condemnatory" of Israel. Oh the horror.
06-15-05 - Egyptian natural gas no pipe dream Israel could sign deal with Cairo in coming days that would create natural gas pipeline from Egypt to Jewish state; agreement would end years of negotiations
06-15-05 - Sharon invited to Paris after 4 years
06-15-05 - Mubarak may visit Israel after pullout: Egyptian official
06-14-05 - Three Palestinians killed in Gaza City
06-14-05 - Settlers attack homes east of Hebron
06-14-05 - Israeli Forces Attack One Civilian, Jewish Extremists Assault Two Youth in Affula
06-14-05 - Police chief orders probe into death of Palestinian detainee in north
06-14-05 - Palestinian children protest against fence
06-14-05 - A looming Gaza withdrawal
06-14-05 - Palestinian PM threatens shutdown Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei has threatened to suspend his government's work unless security chiefs act against growing lawlessness.
06-14-05 - Israeli army chief in warning over Gaza withdrawal Israel's army chief today said this summer's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip would be difficult to accomplish if Palestinian militants waged attacks on soldiers and police trying to evacuate the settlements.
06-14-05 - Egypt leads drive to curb Hamas poll success The "Stop Hamas" campaign is part of a strategy to secure a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in August, a subsequent large-scale international aid and reconstruction effort, and a victory for Fatah and other "moderate" Palestinian factions in polls tentatively rescheduled for next January.
06-14-05 - ISRAELIS WILL USE U.S. TAX DOLLARS ON ILLEGAL BORDER
06-14-05 - Israeli practices threaten truce: Palestinian committee
06-14-05 - Divestiture of Funds that Support Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories As United Methodists, we are committed to work for justice, and to refuse to be complacent in the face of such monumental human suffering.
06-14-05 - Children of Bilin Demonstrate before the Supreme Court Today Occupation bulldozers entered the village in February to confiscate farmland and uproot olive trees. More than half the village's lands will be isolated behind the Apartheid Wall and will be used for the expansion of the nearby settlements of Menora and Mattityahu East.
06-14-05 - Israeli-Palestinian committee on Gaza meets for first time
06-14-05 - Israel denies US spy work
06-14-05 - Iran fears US, Israeli nuclear plant attack The chief of Iran's nuclear program says the Islamic republic fears Israel or the United States may carry out threats to bomb his country's atomic facilities.
06-14-05 - Israel tries to defuse arms sale dispute with U.S.
06-14-05 - Watching stocks ... in Palestine
06-14-05 - Holland May Purchase Gush Katif Hothouses Holland is indicating it may be willing to purchase them from area residents and then present them as a gift to the Palestinian Authority
06-14-05 - Halutz: We won't let our soldiers be sitting ducks if extremists open fire To this day, there have been no recorded instances in which soldiers fired at right-wing Jewish extremists.
However, soldiers have opened fire several times on left-wing activists and Israeli anarchists protesting against the West Bank separation fence
06-14-05 - Buildings that fell between the cracks
06-14-05 - A death sentence to this valley
06-14-05 - UN regional seminar on Peace Israelis condemn Sharon's policy Shulamit Aloni, former member of the Israeli Knesset and professor of political science in Israel, urged the international community to pay attention to the Israeli systematic policy of genocide against the Palestinian people.
06-14-05 - Police detain peace activist for waving Palestinian flag near High Court Police detained a peace activist on Tuesday after the man waved a Palestinian flag outside the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem.
06-14-05 - Foreign minister to visit Middle East nations
06-14-05 - Survey: Israelis want Palestinians booted a large majority of Israelis favor transferring the Palestinian population out of Israel instead of implementing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan
06-14-05 - Anti-Caterpillar protesters take message inside 'corporate social responsibility' conference
06-14-05 - Oops! You're Racist.
06-14-05 - Berkeley Professor Uncovers the Everyday Lives of Palestinians
06-13-05 - Rice to visit Middle East before Gaza withdrawal
06-13-05 - Israel recruits Palestinian children to collaborate
06-13-05 - Palestinian Authority to try to save ceasefire
06-13-05 - Fatah: No serious internal divisions
06-13-05 - Palestinians protest Koran desecration
06-13-05 - Israel Razes 3 Factories in Gaza Strip
06-13-05 - Outrage at Palestinian executions
06-13-05 - U.S., Egyptian envoys to prepare for Sharon-Abbas summit
06-13-05 - Pentagon Analyst Indicted in Info Leak People familiar with the investigation have said AIPAC no longer is a target. But the indictment identifies two unindicted co-conspirators who were employees of a Washington lobbying organization.
06-13-05 - Israel Elected a Vice-President of U.N. Israel was elected one of 21 vice-presidents of the next General Assembly session on Monday, in what the Jewish state called a historic move toward its full representation on key U.N. bodies.
06-13-05 - Challenged on Its Mideast Coverage, Oregonian News Editors Cite AP Inaccuracies B?Tselem figures, Palestinian children were being killed at a rate 15 times that of Israeli children. The Oregonian reported 100 percent of Israeli children?s deaths, but only 18 percent of Palestinian children?s deaths. Its headlines reported 88 percent of Israeli children?s deaths but only 3 percent of Palestinian children?s deaths. The Portland daily also failed to provide cumulative totals of Palestinian and Israeli deaths, a standard journalistic practice allowing readers to put events in perspective
06-13-05 - US raises concerns about Israeli military sales to China
06-13-05 - Conference Critiques Negotiation Tactics of Palestinians and Israelis
06-13-05 - Health Minister Akdag Meets His Palestinian Counterpart In the meeting, the Palestinian side welcomed the proposal of Akdag who offered to send medical equipment and experts to hospitals in Palestine and to train Palestinian health personnel both in Turkey and Palestine.
06-13-05 - Palestinians to strengthen rule of law
06-13-05 - Qureia calls for curbs on Palestinian arms
06-13-05 - Pentagon analyst indicted on charges of divulging classified information A Pentagon analyst has been indicted on charges of passing classified information and documents about a Middle Eastern country to two employees of a pro-Israel lobbying group and a diplomat from an unnamed country, court documents show.
06-13-05 - Israeli Experts Teach Police On Terrorism: Several of the Israel trips have been organized by the research forum, a Washington-based organization that works with police nationwide. Others are planned by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a Washington think tank that focuses on defense and national security issues and promotes cooperation with Israel as vital to U.S. security interests.
06-13-05 - Activists to protest Caterpillar in NYC on June 14th
06-12-05 - Palestinians execute four men convicted of murder
06-12-05 - Two people wounded in West Bank family feud
06-12-05 - U.S. orders Israel to increase control of security exports The controversy triggered a personal trust crisis between outgoing U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and Defense Ministry Director General Amos Yaron. Recently, however, the dispute deepened and expanded into several security areas that could gravely damage Israel....The sanctions have been imposed on Israel's entire security industry, not merely on plants that made deals with China Does this have anything to do with the recent Israeli trojan spyware scandal, mewonders?...
06-12-05 - Hebron Update: 2-8 June 2005 The same soldier at the Duboyya Street checkpoint told the CPTer, "All Arabs
must die."
06-12-05 - Film Liberty Vets Fight Coverup (1) Requires Quicktime. See also the link to part II on the same page.
06-12-05 - 'Attacks on settlements harmful to PA'
06-12-05 - Makhsom-Watch: No Improvement Freedom of Movement Across Israeli Checkpoints The Israeli human rights group Makhsom-Watch (Checkpoint-Watch) asserted in a report that no tangible improvement was noticed in the freedom of movement for Palestinians across the Israeli military checkpoints in Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
06-12-05 - 'Underground' members released The group also carried out four terror attacks, mostly near Palestinian schools, which resulted in the injuries of several students.
06-12-05 - The irony contained in a piece of paper Still, at upward of $500,000 how cruelly ironic that this draft of scrawled words, this one piece of paper, can command such a high price, when thousands upon thousands of title deeds for property and land in Palestinian hands, became worthless because of it.
06-12-05 - 'Israel will hold talks with Hamas' Former deputy Shin Bet chief says terror group's 'center of gravity' shifting to its political wing; dismisses grim post-pullout forecasts
06-12-05 - Israel imposes closure on West Bank, Gaza for holiday
06-12-05 - Greek Orthodox Patriarchate ?hostage? of Israeli and Palestinian government
06-12-05 - Israeli official proposes delaying Sharon-Abbas summit
06-12-05 - US acts over Israeli arms sales to China The US believes that Israeli officials lied to them about the export of Harpy Killer drones to China.
06-12-05 - Giving Voice to the Arab League: Who Failed? What is even more significant, however, is not just that the mainstream U.S. media generally ignored the importance and equitable solution that this proposal represents, but that there also was virtually no reporting of the Israeli government?s dismissal of this latest League extension of an olive branch?just as the original 2002 initiative also received very little media coverage.
06-12-05 - Palestinians consult with Egypt before Rice's visit
06-12-05 - Israel to control Gaza Strip electronically
06-12-05 - House Tries to Restrict Aid for Palestinians
06-12-05 - Dual-loyalty bias worries US Jews Foxman suggested that the FBI's interest in AIPAC may point to underlying bias, and a suspicion among US authorities that Jews in America are more loyal to Israel than to the US.
06-12-05 - US envoys to visit West Bank to pave way for Rice's trip
06-12-05 - Palestinians halt release of Islamic Jihad suspects
06-12-05 - Palestinian actions denounced ISRAEL has vigorously denounced a stated refusal by the Palestinian Authority to disarm militant groups as long as Israel continues to occupy Palestinian land.
06-12-05 - Egypt-Israel textile ties spark controversy A US trade scheme which boosts Egyptian firms - but only if they link up with Israeli businesses - has divided opinion in Egypt
06-11-05 - USS Liberty Vets Demand End to Coverup! Incidentally, I couldn?t help but notice the absence of any members of the U.S. Congress and/or officials from the Bush-Cheney administration at today?s event. This was in marked contrast to the annual conference of the powerful pro-Israeli lobbying juggernaut
06-11-05 - Gunmen fire at Palestinian security
06-11-05 - After Israeli Withdrawal, Gaza in Limbo
06-11-05 - Israeli Occupation Arrests Several in W. Bank Over the last three months, Israel confiscated and announced intentions to annex 28931 Dunams of Palestinian farmlands, and bulldozed thousands of orchards, planted mainly with Olive trees.
06-11-05 - PPS Accuses Israeli Jail Administration of Attempting to Kill a Prisoner PPS lawyer, Shireen Al Eisawi, explained that Al Moghrabi, who is in solitary confinement, was placed in the same cell with a mentally disturbed convict, who has threatened him more than once with murder.
06-11-05 - EU Official: Europe Overlooks the Crime of Building the Apartheid Wall in W. Bank
06-11-05 - United States to Cut UN Funding if Israel Remains Ignored
06-11-05 - Abbas urges parliament to introduce post of deputy president
06-11-05 - Israel: Coordination not condition for pullout
06-11-05 - PNA: Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks 'a Myth'
06-11-05 - UNCTAD intensifies supt for Palestinian Institution building efforts
06-11-05 - Palestinians vow not to disarm militants until occupation ends Palestinian foreign minister Nasser al-Qidwa ruled out disarming militant groups as long as Israel continues to occupy Palestinian land
06-11-05 - Palestinians set up security team for pullout
06-11-05 - Israel agrees to ease restriction on Palestinian movement See also - Closure Imposed on Judea, Samaria & Gaza
06-11-05 - Annan backs call by US Congress for UN to fight anti-Semitism The office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed last week's resolution by the US House of Representatives calling on the UN to be more vigilant in the fight against anti-Semitism. The resolution, which the House passed Tuesday, also called on the United Nations to challenge discrimination against Israel.
06-11-05 - Sharon's non-response insults Japanese
06-11-05 - You have to imagine what it feels like The goal is to cut the organic, continuous links among existing Palestinian communities--to "Judaize" and strangle the eastern reaches of the city through settlement, land confiscation, the demolition of houses, state terror and massive military control.
06-11-05 - Israeli fears Hamas-led Palestine after UK 'endorsement' For many Palestinians, Fatah has become a byword for corruption and failure to deliver basic municipal services, such as street cleaning. Hamas, on the other hand, is perceived as being less corrupt and able to deliver key local services.
06-11-05 - Caterpillar protest goes up a gear Councillors from Labour, Sinn Fein and the Green party are leading an offensive against the American multinational, which they accuse of being complicit in the destruction of Palestinian houses on the West Bank and Gaza by Israeli defence forces.
06-11-05 - Report: Transfer control of Rafah to PA The position paper was presented to the Quartet's special envoy for the disengagement, James Wolfensohn, who visited Israel last week, and was submitted to Israel and the PA for comments.
06-11-05 - Israel-U.S. dispute on arms sale to China threatens to snowball The prospect of Israeli technology resulting in American deaths should rattle Israel, experts say, but it doesn't. Israel, they say, still hews to the coziness of its relationship with the Pentagon during the Cold War, when the United States encouraged Israel to sell arms to China as a means of isolating the Soviet Union
06-11-05 - Gulf states call for int'l efforts to fight terror They also called for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction and asked that international community make Israel subject its nuclear facilities to the inspection of the International Atomic Energy Agency and to "consider that as a main condition for any future security arrangements."
06-11-05 - Tensions between IDF, settlers rising When one of the reservists tried to remove the posters, the settlers attacked him and
06-11-05 - Women-only council planned for pro-Israel evangelical lobby group At the National Religious Broadcasters convention in California earlier this year, Christian Zionist leader Kay Arthur declared in a since memorable speech that despite her love for the United States, "if I had to chose between America and Israel, I would choose Israel."
06-11-05 - Egypt to ensure security after Gaza pullout: official
06-11-05 - 60 trucks enter Palestinian territories
06-11-05 - Hamas says not objects to ties with US
06-11-05 - Palestinian militants reiterate commitment to truce
06-11-05 - Abbas wants agreement to be ready before summit
06-11-05 - 28 Palestinian companies to exhibit products at Global Village this month - Jordan
06-11-05 - Swiss seek to improve access to Gaza A Harvard expert, commissioned by Switzerland to develop a system of access to Gaza, tells swissinfo the proposal has met less resistance than expected.
06-11-05 - Friendship defies political divide Maya says that until she met Lina, she had been under the impression that all Arabs were hostile.
"I always thought they want to kill us,"
06-11-05 - Haifa Wahbi enters the political scene Haifa stated that she feels obligated to present music that puts a smile on people?s faces, and that she ?supports the Palestinian people every step of the way.?
06-11-05 - 38-year occupation enough in Israel
06-10-05 - Liberty veterans file war crimes brief Weaver said aside from the physical wounds that have required him to have 29 major surgeries, the fact the government has ignored the sacrifices of friends who died was the most painful
06-10-05 - Prisoners of Congressional Politics No More 'What we are seeking is to be treated exactly the same as every other US military unit which has been similarly attacked,' Joe Meadors, a Liberty signalman told me recently.
06-10-05 - U.S. Vets Seek Probe of Israeli War Crimes
06-10-05 - Israel, Palestinians start coordination on Gaza pullout
06-10-05 - Israeli officials call for release of Marwan Barghouti The document argued that Barghouti?s release would benefit Israel, because he would support reform efforts in the Fatah party, as he is regarded as a leader by many young, pro-reform activists,
06-10-05 - Israeli Soldiers tear down the fence in Bili'in
06-10-05 - Israeli police deployed to east Jerusalem over clash fears
06-10-05 - OPT: Gaza children?s centres set alight
06-10-05 - Support for Gaza pullout slumps; ex-Shin Beth chief fears for Sharon Israel's domestic security service warned that a Jewish suicide bomber could target Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to stop the withdrawal.
06-10-05 - Settlement sewage kills off 200 olive trees grown by Palestinians
06-10-05 - Congress To Monitor Aid to Palestinians
06-10-05 - Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored "What are they afraid of? They're afraid of a woman who died for free expression, for freedom of the press,"
06-10-05 - Anti-Semitism office planned at State Department The State Department's definition of anti-Semitism has been changed to include the "demonization of Israel".
06-10-05 - Israel May Use Sound Weapon on Settlers A military official said the device emits a special frequency that targets the inner ear. Exposure for several minutes at close range could cause auditory damage
06-10-05 - Israelis and Palestinians given a shocking taste of each other's lives
06-10-05 - Palestinians stage first car rally in W Bank
06-10-05 - Palestinians free two militants held after bombing
06-10-05 - Palestinians find respite from violence in West Bank car rally "I'm used to seeing these races only on TV and now I see them for real, so I am excited."
06-10-05 - Mossad Chief: U.S. to Be Mired in Middle East in Perpetuity Israelis who are trying to promote a role for NATO in the region, in one form or another, are actually promoting a generation-long American presence
06-10-05 - Outgoing chief warns extremist Jews could open fire during Gaza pullout Avi Dichter, who last month ended a five-year term as head of the Shin Bet, said Jewish extremists who have no qualms about firing on Israeli soldiers and police are currently holed up in a Gaza Strip hotel, which he predicted would be the final stronghold of resistance to the evacuation.
06-10-05 - CANADA - Open letter to Montreal authorities about censorship of Zahra Kazemi photo exhibit Repor