May '06 Archive
05-31-06 - UN calls for massive rise in Palestinian aid
05-31-06 - UN seeks 80 percent increase in aid to Palestinians The United Nations called for an 80 percent increase in emergency humanitarian aid to Palestinians on Wednesday, citing a deepening crisis that follows a freeze in Western assistance to the government...Shearer said the World Food Program had also warned the international community that more Palestinians were unable to meet their daily food needs. The US government is deliberately starving a people for voting against corruption.
05-31-06 - Palestinian gunmen clash in Gaza, 3 hurt - medics
05-31-06 - Suspected collaborators executed by Palestinian gunmen
05-31-06 - Israel backs U.S. on Iran standoff Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Rice had told her about the initiative beforehand Naturally. Since any initiative requires prior approval from Tel Aviv.
05-31-06 - IDF razes toilets of Palestinian cave dwellers in West Bank The Civil Administration on Wednesday knocked down 13 structures - most of them toilet facilities - donated by Christian groups to Palestinians living in two cave communities in the West Bank.
05-31-06 - Urgent Action Needed To Prevent Health Disaster In Palestine, British Medical Association The British Medical Association has today (30/05/06) written to Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, to protest at the rapidly worsening state of health services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, following EU and US economic sanctions
05-31-06 - Rocket rattles Israeli minister A rocket fired by Palestinian militants into Israel from the Gaza Strip has landed near the home of Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz.
05-31-06 - Israeli Extrajudicial Killing In US Courts The following day the White House Press Secretary said President Bush condemned this ?deliberate attack against a building in which civilians were known to be located.? The U.S. State Department has also declared that the attack ?put large numbers of civilian lives in jeopardy?where civilian casualties were likely??
05-31-06 - Passage of Abbas plan unlikely to ease sanctions: UN Passage of a Palestinian statehood proposal that implicitly recognizes Israel would not clear the way for lifting sanctions on the Hamas government but could be a positive step, a top U.N. diplomat said on Wednesday.
05-31-06 - Jewish group raises money for Palestinian hospitals A Jewish group raised $15,000 for Palestinian hospitals.
05-31-06 - Hamas proposes job cuts to avert financial collapse
05-31-06 - US hopeful for rapid deal on Palestinian fund Scott Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, admitted the complexity of the arrangements, and said that the money would not pay for any Palestinian civil servants' salary
05-31-06 - In the Village of Nowhere, a Fate Soon Sealed The course of the wall, drawn by Israel, is now also separating thousands of Palestinians from their property and from each other....Only a quarter of the barrier follows the pre-1967 borders. Along the rest, it cuts into land Palestinians envision as part of their future state, according to the United Nations
05-31-06 - Settlement Expansion Bolsters Isolation of Jordan Valley
05-31-06 - Shin Bet and the Israeli Academy: Partners in Human Rights Abuses? Whereas the success or failure of American goals in Iraq is still open to question, Israel's plans to steal Palestinian land have been consistently successful and are only gathering pace. In fact, as British union delegates appear to understand, hopes of salvaging any viable state for the Palestinians have almost run out of steam.
05-31-06 - Hamas confirms Arab countries ready to mediate between Hamas, Jordan
05-31-06 - Zionist Democrats The DLC is blatantly adopting the policies of the neocons populating the right-wing think tanks in Washington that produce such human anomalies as John Bolton, Richard Perle and Daniel Pipes, all rabidly Zionist neoconservatives who advocate a much more aggressive US military agenda aimed directly at Islamic nations and peoples everywhere. The neocons are what brought the Bush presidency down. It is clear - no matter which party we are dealing with in American - both parties are teeming with Israel-firsters.
05-31-06 - World Cup price for Mideast fans steep When it comes to the World Cup, Israelis and Palestinians are in full agreement: The price to watch the games on TV is too high.
05-31-06 - Protest of Israel Leads to Federal Bias Probe The U.S. Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education is currently investigating charges by the Zionist Organization of America that the Irvine administration has failed to take a stand against anti-Semitism and to prevent harassment of Jewish students on campus.
Criticism of Israel now equals 'anti-Semitism' in the eyes of those who seek to shut down debate; therein lies the problem.
05-31-06 - Prehistoric ecosystem unearthed in Israel Ramle aboriginal inhabitants were marched out by gun point in the 40s.(para. 7), audio file of this event midway down the page.
05-31-06 - Hamas to dissolve government? Snow responded, "A couple of points to make. Number one, there were many reasons for the election of Hamas; one of them was corruption in the previous regime. And Hamas, you may recall, ran on an anti-corruption platform. Also it is worth noting that the president is ? well, that there is still an ongoing debate within the Palestinian Authority, and President Abbas has said to Hamas that they need, within a very short span of time, to go ahead and recognize Israel. So rather ?"
05-31-06 - Aid worker "wasn't linked to terrorists" Foreign Office officials have dismissed claims by Israeli police that a Bradford aid worker was linked to terrorist organisations
05-31-06 - Israel Targets Palestinian Facilities
05-31-06 - Israeli Authorities Deport Al-Haq Human Rights Defender In the late afternoon of 28 May 2005, Al-Haq human rights defender and American citizen Maureen Murphy arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Israel, on her way back from the USA to Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). She was questioned, denied entry into Israel, declared persona non grata and deported on a plane at 00:55 am on 29 May.
05-31-06 - Qawawis Villagers to Protest New Mini-wall
05-31-06 - Lebanon condemns Israeli attacks in letter to UN Lebanon's Foreign Ministry has sent an official letter to the United Nations complaining about "the recent Israeli aggressions and clear breaches to Lebanon's sovereignty and the international community's resolutions."
05-31-06 - Dean to Blair: Blast Israel boycott Howard Dean urged Tony Blair to speak out against a British boycott of Israeli academics.
05-31-06 - "We still have to check" was the response of Israel Air Force chief Major General Eliezer Shkedi when asked about the IDF's extrajudicial assasination of a Palestinian militant that resulted in the killing or paralyzing of an entire family.
05-31-06 - Effort to limit aid to Palestinians exposes rifts in Congress, community AIPAC officials would not speak on the record but sources close to the group dismiss the APN claims as nonsense. "APN is virtually irrelevant on Capitol Hill, and its effort to oppose the PATA in the House proved an embarrassing failure, with the bill passing 361-37," said a pro-Israel lobbyist sympathetic with AIPAC's case. AIPAC is an agent of a foreign government and should register as such.
05-31-06 - Israelis Fear Spread Of War Crimes Cases Laws passed in wake of Nuremberg trials now being pressed in Europe against Israeli generals. I sense some more legislation coming on via the US Congress....(Iliana Ros-Lehtinen, Tom Lantos, which one will it be? Do they flip a coin to decide who will propose the next piece of pro-Israeli legislation?)....
05-31-06 - Israeli academic boycott 'anti-Semitic', says Harvard president Larry Summers attacked the decision by members of Natfhe on Monday to support a boycott of Israeli academics who fail to dissociate themselves publicly from Israel's "apartheid policies". The accusations of anti-Semitism at the criticism of Israel as a tool by the Israeli lobby is described in the study by the two American professors : the Israeli Lobby.
05-31-06 - US lobby group enters Israeli academic boycott row In a backlash following this week's vote by the lecturers' union Natfhe to boycott Israeli academia, the Anti-Defamation League urged American universities and grant-giving bodies to "cut funding, support and contact with any academic who advocates a boycott of Israel."...The Israeli parliament is said to have convened an emergency meeting to respond to the resolution
05-31-06 - Movie on Islamism popular A film on Islamic extremism sponsored by a Zionist group sold out its screening in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I bet the movie leaves this fact out.
05-31-06 - Jewish groups welcome Senate immigration bill Jewish groups welcomed a U.S. immigration bill that includes paths for undocumented immigrants to legalize their status. This fits in with yesterday's news about the Latino vote, which was foreshadowed here: paragraph 15Note the double standard here with regard to Israel's refusal to allow the Palestinian refugees back to their lands, but America is to absorb potential Israel-supporters.
05-31-06 - The Hamas government should be recognized
05-31-06 - Israel?s Navy Steps Up to Security Challenge in Wake of Gaza ... The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Whose national security does this outfit represent?
05-30-06 - Israel in first Gaza raid since pullout killing three Islamic Jihad militants and a Palestinian policeman....Nine other people were wounded, including two journalists and an ambulance driver
05-30-06 - Palestinians: IDF chopper attacked rescue workers Ambulance driver Khaled Abu Saada tells Ynet that during IDF operation in Beit Lahiya army helicopter launched missile at rescue workers as they were evacuating dead, wounded. 'I do not know for certain whether the missile was meant to kill us or warn us to keep away ? but it was definitely aimed in our direction,' he says
05-30-06 - Court approves Shavei Shomron fence Judges reject petition filed by Palestinian villagers claiming the fence cuts them off from farmland, will necessitate uprooting 350 olives trees. Verdict: There are more benefits from fence than damages to petitioners; state agrees to compensate farmers for damages This settlement is itself ILLEGAL under international law (article 49, Fourth Geneva Convention).
05-30-06 - U.S. bishops to Senate: Modify Palestinian act to seek 2-state solution, meet needs The U.S. Catholic bishops called for modifications in the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 to support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to alleviate the urgent needs of the Palestinian people.
05-30-06 - Pay pledge to Palestinian workers Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has said 40,000 low-paid public employees will receive a month's salary despite a crippling financial crisis.
05-30-06 - ADL Calls for Action Against Academic Boycotters "Those who seek to damage and discredit their Israeli colleagues with a blacklist must know that there is a price to pay. In normal circumstances, we are opposed to boycotts. But these are exceptional circumstances. Therefore, we call on the entire academic sector in the United States to cut funding, support and contact with any academic who advocates a boycott of Israel." The ADL is an arm of Israel.
05-30-06 - Iran's Khatami urges more oil money to Palestinians
05-30-06 - Security Council meeting degenerates Syrian and Iranian diplomats traded barbs with Israel's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday, as a routine Security Council meeting on fighting terrorism degenerated into insults and accusations...... Alhariri said Gillerman should consider Israel's own nuclear program before criticizing other countries for theirs. Touche.
05-30-06 - Hamas lawmakers defy Israeli eviction threat
05-30-06 - Saudi king to visit Egypt for Mideast talks Saudi King Abdullah is to visit Egypt for talks with President Hosni Mubarak on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ahead of an Israeli-Egyptian summit, a Saudi official said.
05-30-06 - Truce holds as Lebanese hold mass funeral for guerrilla slain by Israel
05-30-06 - Pro-US Arab states mobilize against Israeli unilateralism
05-30-06 - Bush, Jordan's King Abdullah, dine at White House The embassy said that the two leaders also discussed the Palestinian-Israeli issue, with Abdullah underscoring the importance of pursuing a two-state solution, and the need to provide humanitarian assistance to inhabitants of the Palestinian territories.
05-30-06 - 'Law to be used' to stop Israeli university boycotts
05-30-06 - Turkey tells ally Israel it opposes Iran nukes Turkey reassured its ally Israel on Monday that it opposed Iran, arch-foe of the Jewish state, acquiring nuclear weapons and said it wanted to see the whole Middle East region freed of the atomic threat.
05-30-06 - NAM backs Iran, condemns Israel's "brutal" occupation
05-30-06 - From Israeli jails, Hamas activists press middle way A group of Hamas members who are imprisoned within Israeli jails have become a counterweight to colleagues in Gaza as the political players capable of bridging the rift between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party and Hamas over how to share power and avoid a civil war.
05-30-06 - Iran minister snubs Israel Asked about Israeli calls for economic sanctions on Iran, Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday: "What country is that? There is no such country."
05-30-06 - Most Palestinians support existance of Israel: PLO negotiator
05-30-06 - Latino Leaders Declare Readiness to Engage Foreign Policy Issues American Latino leaders who traveled to Israel on a Project Interchange seminar last month have joined in a statement declaring their commitment to engage in U.S. foreign policy in support of Israel. See the other link from today's news about this trip to Israel.
05-30-06 - A stand for peace and justice it is time to cease silent complicity with the illegal acts of the Israeli state but to stand up for peace and justice in both Israel and Palestine.
05-30-06 - Not as bad as it's clapped up to be "I've noticed that those who complain about the newly elected Palestinian government not being prepared to accept the current borders of Israel are totally silent about the election of an Israeli government that plans to continue to occupy areas outside its internationally recognised borders, that has nuclear arms and refuses to abide by UN resolutions."
05-30-06 - The Best Congress Money Can Buy
05-30-06 - Latino leaders call for Latino-Jewish collaboration The trip was co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee?s Latino and Latin American Institute and Project Interchange, which takes ethnically and religiously diverse leaders to educational seminars in Israel.
A calculated move on the part of pro-Israeli groups to address the growing influence of the Hispanic vote in the United States. Support for Israel must be assured.
05-30-06 - Israel slams 'repulsive' British academic boycott "The fact that the Israeli victims of this boycott will, in the main, be Jewish, is, ipso facto, an instrument of anti-Semitism,"
05-30-06 - Resolution focuses on Jewish refugees Resolutions introduced in the U.S. Congress call for any reference to Palestinian refugees to be matched by similar references to Jewish and other refugees. This HAD to become American legislation, because?..
05-30-06 - Schroeder opposes Hamas boycott Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said he opposes sanctions against Iran and the boycott of the Hamas-run Palestinian government.
05-30-06 - Arab League chief calls for nuclear-free Middle East
05-30-06 - Ex-Mossad chief says Israel shouldn't wait for Hamas recognition Given the chance, Halevy said, Hamas might make a better partner than former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat because the group is well respected among its people and has largely honored a cease-fire with Israel for nearly two years. "They're not very nice people. They're not very pleasant people. They're not very good," he said. "But they are very, very credible."
05-30-06 - Put pressure on Israel why doesn't the United States pressure Israel to end its illegal and unjust 39-year occupation of the Palestinian people? Israel has broken the international law during those years with impunity. It has confiscated Palestinian lands and has built close to 200 Jewish settlements there.
05-30-06 - Israel accuses British-funded Islamic charity of being front for terrorists After arriving back in the UK yesterday, Mr Ali said if there had been any evidence against him, the military judge would have ordered him to be charged.
05-29-06 - Three militants killed in Israeli helicopter attack in Gaza Seven other people, including two Palestinian journalists and an ambulance driver, were reported injured in the strike, two of them seriously.
05-29-06 - Palestinian shot near Gaza border In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops arrested two Palestinians they said had been carrying a bomb in a bag.
05-29-06 - Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics Presented on the final day of the Natfhe conference, the motion criticised "Israeli apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall, and discriminatory educational practices" and invited members to "consider the appropriateness of a boycott of those that do not publicly dissociate themselves from such policies".
05-29-06 - George Washington Had It Right He warned against foreign influence, calling it a poison to republican government. While he was no doubt thinking of the French, his advice applies to Israel. No foreign country should be allowed to influence American policy because that country will always seek to influence policy to favor its interests, not ours. If we followed Washington's advice, the only thing we would be sending to the Middle East would be oil tankers and tourists.
05-29-06 - Top Hamas leader rejects Abbas referendum plan
05-29-06 - Israel says Jerusalem Hamas members risk expulsion
05-29-06 - Israeli jets overfly Lebanon after clashes The Lebanese army said Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon's airspace, one day after rockets fired from south Lebanon sparked tit-for-tat clashes in which two militants were killed.
05-29-06 - US pushing Europe, Japan for sanctions against Iran leaders It described the plan as designed to rein in the financial freedom of every Iranian official, individual and entity which the Bush administration considers connected not only to nuclear enrichment efforts but also to terrorism, corruption, suppression of democratic freedoms, violence in Iraq, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
05-29-06 - China eyes closer energy, political ties at Sino-Arab forum China will become the second United Nations Security Council member after Russia to host a Hamas leader since the radical Islamic movement formed a government following its victory in Palestinian elections in January
05-29-06 - Hamas withdraws from talks The Foreign Minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian Government, Mahmoud al-Zahar, has withdrawn from a Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Malaysia in an apparent protest at the presence of a senior member of the rival Palestinian Fatah faction
05-29-06 - I was shot in the chest by Israeli soldier
05-29-06 - Gaza traders move as embargo bites Unable to import raw materials or export finished goods because of the near embargo, many factories are having to lay off workers and may shut down entirely if they cannot relocate.
05-29-06 - Palestinian admits to killing 9-year-old Beit Shemesh girl
05-29-06 - Islamic Jihad denies claim it attacked Israel
05-29-06 - Surrender vs. the Right to Exist
05-29-06 - Hebron barbers offer free trim to unpaid workers Palestinian hairdressers in the West Bank town of Hebron offered a free trim to local government employees who have not been paid for more than two months.
05-29-06 - Israel seeking support from Turkey, better ties
05-29-06 - Israel tightens NATO ties amid Iran nuke jitters Israel announced on Monday it would fully participate in a NATO naval exercise for the first time, bolstering defense ties with the Western military alliance in the face of arch-foe Iran's nuclear program.
05-29-06 - Egypt reaps huge benefits from battle over Gaza?s gas
05-29-06 - Israel arrests Palestinian PM's daughter at border: sources
05-29-06 - Arson at the Outpost in Bil?in
05-29-06 - Livni fails to get Ankara's support Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has failed to win the support of Ankara over Tel Aviv?s one sided plan to re-draw Israel?s borders.
05-29-06 - Top Democrat slams AIPAC prosecution The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee questioned the statute used to prosecute two former AIPAC lobbyists. Has the matter of the national security of this country ever entered the mind of this Congresswoman? Evidently not.
05-29-06 - Hamas given boost after PFLP says ready to join government
05-29-06 - Jewish group calls for energy legislation The American Jewish Congress urged passage of a bill that would facilitate U.S.-Israel energy cooperation.
Both houses are considering legislation that would help spur Israeli research into energy-saving technology.
05-29-06 - Senate delays P.A. vote With 89 co-sponsors, the act is guaranteed passage. This bill will harm US interests. It's apparently not a concern to these AIPAC-beholden legislators.
05-29-06 - US ending years of Gaza civic work "How are you going to bring democracy to the Middle East if you surround it and make people starve?
05-29-06 - Iran boosts Hezbollah's reach Haaretz reported
05-29-06 - A young man's transformation from village clown to suicide bomber "They would prefer to die with dignity rather than die with humiliation," said Dr. Mahmud Sehwail, a Ramallah psychologist who has treated several Palestinians who staged attacks on Israelis.
05-29-06 - Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat It was sent to Charles Johnson, owner of the Little Green Footballs (LGF) weblog, a popular site which often backs Israel and highlights jihadist terrorist activities. Last time I looked, the people that post at 'Little Green Footballs' are some of the most racist folks on the internet.
05-29-06 - The First Word: The other side of hasbara Why not show them what Israelis policies are doing to the people that live just over the Wall? Afraid to reveal the ugly truth behind the mask. Contrary to the tone of this article, the Israeli point of view has always prevailed in MSM. But since younger Americans are turning to different venues, the 'Hasbara' artists must follow suit.
05-29-06 - Actor William Shatner says horses can help injured Israeli, Palestinian kids
05-28-06 - Palestinian injured by Israeli fire
05-28-06 - Violence flares on Lebanon-Israel border One Palestinian militant and a Hizbollah fighter were killed and two Lebanese civilians and another Israeli soldier were wounded in the fighting.
05-28-06 - More Settler Attacks on International Volunteers in Tel Rumeida, Hebron In three separate attacks on internationals and Palestinians the kids were encouraged by adults of the religious extremist Jewish community. Israeli soldiers and police refused to do anything to stop the violence. These attacks occur almost daily in Hebron but on Shabbat they are more frequent and in the last few weeks have become more violent, sending more than two internationals to the hospital.
05-28-06 - A million Swiss francs for Palestinian healthcare Switzerland has decided to donate a million Swiss francs (641,000 euros, 819,000 dollars) to buy medicines for the occupied Palestinian territories and to send two health experts there, the foreign ministry said.
05-28-06 - A bit of good news from the US Congress This is not the first, nor will it be the last piece of bizarre anti-Palestinian legislation coming out of Congress. Its architect, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annually creates these "hoop jumping exercises" to test their strength and see how far they can push Congress. Look at the comments by Congressman Hinchey. Excellent.
05-28-06 - Hamas and Fatah delay talks on dialogue plan
05-28-06 - Review of Deadly Dogma: How Neoconservatives Broke the Law to Deceive America by Grant F. Smith As for Israel, "a priori devotion to Israel is a common denominator for all neoconservatives," Smith writes. Many of the neoconservatives were strongly pro-Likud Party and worked to restrategize Middle East policy on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Likud, shortly before he became Israeli prime minister. Support for Israel is the only explanation of why so many neoconservatives have risked violating US criminal law by passing on secret information to Israel.
05-28-06 - Ehud Olmert, Unreasonably Reasonable? Olmert also expressed support for the U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Act, an act drafted in part by the American Jewish Committee and introduced into the House and Senate last June. The bill currently has 49 co-sponsors in the House (H.R. 2730) and just 4 co-sponsors in the Senate (S. 1862). But he indicated that this energy cooperation would become a major effort, the goal being to develop the Galilee and the Negev with hundreds of millions and perhaps billions of American dollars presumably going to support the resettlement of 60,000 of the 350,000 settlers in the West Bank.
05-28-06 - Non-Aligned Movement urges Hamas and Fatah to make up
05-28-06 - Hebron Update: 20 to 26 May 2006 Atta Jaber, a local farmer and friend of CPT, visited the team and reported that
a fence had been erected cutting off his family from another six acres of land,
in addition to that already confiscated over the years by the Israeli settlement
of Harsina.
05-28-06 - Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad "We say if the Holocaust happened, then the Europeans must accept the consequences and the price should not be paid by Palestine. If it did not happen, then the Jews must return to where they came from."
05-28-06 - Punishment of Palestinians will create a crucible of trouble for the world what most shocks Arabs and Muslims is that it stems from a conscious political decision by the world's only superpower. First, they say, you give us Iraq, now on the brink of civil war. Then this: the starving of a whole people.
05-28-06 - Palestinian businesses struggle to surmount wall
05-28-06 - Egypt to host Abbas-Olmert summit: report
05-28-06 - Israeli settlements and peace prospects For Gershom Gorenberg to suggest that Americans should now pay Israelis to return stolen land to its rightful owners takes considerable chutzpah.
05-28-06 - Amnesty seeks to end internet repression Amnesty claimed to have uncovered internet repression in areas around the world from China and Tunisia to Vietnam, Iran, Israel and the Maldives
05-28-06 - Pastors vow to seek end to divestment A group of 11 Presbyterian pastors, completing a five-day fact-finding mission in Israel, vowed Sunday to work to rescind their church's 2004 Israeli divestment policy in an upcoming biennial General Assembly.
05-28-06 - Olmert should have stayed Home Israel should be isolated as much as possible until it complies with UN resolutions to return to the 1967 borders
05-28-06 - Amnesty: Microsoft helped Israeli Police in Vanunu probe
05-28-06 - Toward a third intifada The current Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority provides a convenient pretext for Israel to continue its five-year policy of no negotiation and unilateral action.
05-28-06 - Christian Evangelicals and Israel: A Marriage of Convenience
05-27-06 - IDF: Soldiers shot and hit Palestinian ambulance IDF troops shot a Palestinian ambulance that was carrying a pregnant woman in labor early Saturday because the vehicle was behaving in a "suspicious manner," the army said.
05-27-06 - Report: Israel warns of World Cup terror US officials opposed to an attack on Iran fear the Bush Administration would take advantage of such terror attacks to launch an offensive that, according to the officials, would settle the Iranian nuclear crisis and boost the president's approval rating. The officials added that should the terror attacks be masterminded by a third party, they would still be used to justify an attack on Iran. I will refer back to the Deep Background column from August of 2005 by former CIA official Philip Giraldi. This is the pretext that the neocons have been waiting for.
05-27-06 - Palestine to seek aid from developing countries
05-27-06 - Gaza's culture of violence The BBC team went round the main hospital in Gaza, as other journalists have done in the last few weeks. It was easy to find children whose lives may be shortened by not having enough dialysis, or a man who was dying of cancer because he could not get to Israel for treatment, or doctors and nurses who walk to work because they cannot even afford a bus, because they have not been paid since mid-March.
Our government, via the Israeli lobby, has been made a party to collective punishment of ordinary people that is resulting in the deaths of people who likely have nothing to do with terrorism.
05-27-06 - Two Journalists, Eight Others Wounded In Weekly Anti- Wall Rally In Bil'in
05-27-06 - Government Sees 'Israeli Fingerprints' in Islamic Jihad Leader Assassination
05-27-06 - Abbas loyalists threaten Hamas with civil war
05-27-06 - Buy olive oil and support Palestinian farmers
05-27-06 - Kudos to Congress From Israel
05-27-06 - Her majesty won't be wearing a burqa Born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, her family fled to Jordan along with thousands of others when Saddam invaded in 1990
05-27-06 - Hamas says it won't be "blackmailed" by Abbas plan
05-27-06 - Hamas militia returns to streets Members of a controversial Hamas militant force have made a limited reappearance on the streets of Gaza.
05-27-06 - British, Palestinian Organisations Urge UN, EU to Restrict Israeli Policies against HR Activists
05-27-06 - Ex-Mossad chief urges Israel-Hamas 'armistice'
05-27-06 - CUPE in Ontario votes to boycott Israel The Ontario divison of Canada's largest union has voted to support an international campaign that is boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.
05-27-06 - Hamas rejects deadline on Israel recognition plan Hamas on Saturday rejected a deadline set by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to accept a plan that indirectly calls for recognition of Israel, which he has threatened to put to a referendum.
05-27-06 - Housing Min. seeks NIS 32m to guard Jews in E. Jerusalem The Housing Ministry has requested NIS 32 million in the 2006 budget to provide security for the residents of Jewish enclaves in the heavily Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.
05-27-06 - "The Palestinians Must Pay a Price for Their Choice"
05-27-06 - Leadership has failed us Gov. Tom Vilsack was out and about recently "learning about foreign affairs" from AIPAC, a lobbying group under investigation for, among other things, spying on America and for putting Israel?s interests above American interes
05-26-06 - Three Palestinians killed by Israeli artillery in Gaza Separately, a Palestinian farmer was killed earlier when Israeli artillery shelled the northern Gaza Strip east of the Jabaliya refugee camp.
Israel continues to target civilians.
05-26-06 - Lebanon blast kills two officials "Israel will be held responsible for this attack, which crosses red lines by targeting officials outside the Palestinian territories and that changes things." The bomb was planted in a vehicle which both men were about to travel in. When the ignition was turned on, it exploded, security sources said, reducing the car to a charred mass of twisted metal and showering the area with debris
Not the first time Israel conducted a car-boming in Lebanon, is it?
05-26-06 - Steering Into a Third Intifada by Patrick J. Buchanan Rightly, Americans say we will not let Israel be destroyed. But why must we acquiesce in Israel's annexations of Arab land? Why must we remain silent to her deprivations of the Palestinians?
05-26-06 - Palestinians look to Jordan's dinar as Israeli banks halt shekel supply
05-26-06 - PHR Call for Donations to Aid Palestinian Hospitals
05-26-06 - American woman injured in West Bank demonstration against Israeli barrier
05-26-06 - Palestinian unrest hits Swiss aid projects Gaza is almost totally sealed off. People live in a kind of open prison and it is there that most of the armed incidents are taking place
05-26-06 - Report of the Director-General, Appendix: The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories The striking feature of the labour market of the occupied Arab territories is the persistent and unpredictable security restrictions on the movement of people and products. This, coupled with a Separation Barrier that deviates from the route of the Green Line and physically blocks movement within the territories as well as between the territories and Israel, disrupts the normal economic activity of Palestinian enterprises and is one of the major causes of the deteriorating conditions faced by workers.
05-26-06 - Palestinians' economic plight worsening: ILO "(The) report ... describes a situation that amounts to a daily affront to human dignity,"
05-26-06 - Palestinian child critically injured Palestinian security forces said that Tariq Shahata, 14, from Bait Hanoon, was hit by a fragment of a bomb launched by the Israeli Artillery which were stationed along the northern borders
05-26-06 - Enough Is Enough: People have had it up to here with The Lobby After describing the Lobby's largely successful efforts to cow the Clinton administration, Massing illustrates a point made by Mearsheimer and Walt, that the Lobby serves as the de facto agent of a foreign power
05-26-06 - Hamas government withdraws paramilitaries from Gaza
05-26-06 - Hamas discuss plan implying recognition of Israel
05-26-06 - Olmert, Cheered in D.C., Bows to U.S. Call for Talks At the White House press conference, Bush made several statements that were music to the ears of Olmert and his entourage. The president delivered the most explicit commitment he ever has made to defend Israel against an Iranian attack. "In the event of any attack on Israel," Bush said, "the United States will come to Israel's aid."
05-26-06 - British academics revive dispute on Israel Members of Britain's largest college teachers' union have reignited a fierce debate about academics and politics by asking colleagues to consider boycotting Israel over what it calls "apartheid" policies toward the Palestinians.
05-26-06 - AJCongress Recognizes 'Common Ground' With Evangelicals: Support for Israel, Will Resist Attempts to Limit Abortion Rights the Jewish community should remain grateful for evangelical support for Israel -- especially given the hostile attitude of some mainline churches -- and do what it can to help the more moderate elements in the evangelical community. At the same time, AJCongress resolved to remain vigilant in vigorously resisting "efforts to Christianize America, outlaw abortion, or make contraception unavailable."
05-26-06 - The Palestinian 18-point plan The document, negotiated by senior members of the leading Palestinian factions currently being held in prison by Israel, has 18 main proposals.
05-26-06 - Ooh lah lah! France and Israel create foundation for cooperation "Most of the French have an image of Israel as an occupier. Without getting involved in the politics, there is a tremendous need to change that image." But Israel IS an occupier, so why is it necessary to try and deny that fact to the French people?
05-26-06 - Freedom of Speech on the Israel Lobby This petition calls on the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to forthrightly condemn the castigation of Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt as anti-Semites for their academic paper, "The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy."
05-26-06 - US approves aid to Israel, Egypt During committee deliberations it was also feared that Egypt may turn to Russia and China to purchase military equipment. The policies of the AIPACers/neocons are driving Middle Eastern regimes into the arms of Russia and China.
05-26-06 - Palestinian FM rejects Israel border plan
05-26-06 - College Chief Hit Over Anti-Israel Events Some Jewish leaders contend that the administration has not gone far enough to address what they view as hate speech, particularly in light of findings and recommendations issued in early April by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission, an advisory body whose recommendations are not binding, held a hearing in November 2005 to address the issue of campus antisemitism. Among the commission's findings was that "anti-Israel" or "anti-Zionist" activism often serves as a thin guise for antisemitism on college campuses. Criticism of Israel is NOT anti-Semitism, although the Israeli lobby would have us Americans believe otherwise.
05-26-06 - Palestinians eye referendum gauntlet
05-26-06 - Abbas gives Hamas 10 days to accept plan that recognizes Israel An editorial Friday in the Washington Post, however, argues that even if Abbas regains some of his political power and becomes a credible partner, Israel would probably still go ahead and draw up new borders unilaterially.
05-26-06 - Bombing Without Regrets Now, in a version of the notorious brutal cop's claim that the victim of his abuse "kept ramming his head into my baton," Pentagon spokesman Col. Tom Collins says, "The ultimate cause of why civilians were injured and killed is because the Taliban knowingly, willfully chose to occupy homes of these people." Of interest: "Israel is secretly playing a key role in US preparations for possible war with Iraq, helping to train soldiers and Marines for urban warfare," it said.
The paper said that the Israelis built two fake cities at a secret venue -- complete with mosques, clothes hung out windows, and donkeys wandering down alleys -- for use in the exercises.
05-26-06 - Britain condemns Israeli raid "We condemn Israel's incursion into Ramallah on May 24 which left four Palestinians dead and tens injured," the foreign office said in a statement
05-26-06 - Lebanese PM blames Israel for car bombing
05-26-06 - Arab League official wants Israel at table
05-26-06 - Papers Show U.S. Courted Arabs in Mid-70s He said U.S. public opinion was turning more pro-Palestinian and U.S. aid to Israel could not be sustained for much longer at its massive levels. He predicted that in 10 or 15 years, ''Israel will be like Lebanon - struggling for existence, with no influence in the Arab world.''
05-26-06 - Crushed by Gate of Occupation
05-26-06 - HENRY HYDE'S PLEA by Robert Novak Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, sent along with his letter a five-page, single-spaced report prepared by his staff based on visits to Israel and Palestine over the past two years. It contends "the Christian community is being crushed in the mill of the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The Israeli security wall and expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the report continues, "are irreversibly damaging the dwindling Christian community."
05-26-06 - In Gaza, Palestinians see fruits of labor die Rather than exporting the produce to Europe, as was the plan, the Palestinians were forced to give away some of the cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers, hot peppers, and strawberries to charity groups. Most, however, was dumped in the surrounding sand dunes. (The PEDC made good on a pledge not to sell their produce in the Gaza markets, undercutting other growers here.) "All we needed was a crossing or a port we controlled by ourselves, and we could have sold all this to the world and brought in so much money,"
05-26-06 - U.S. sholuld pay Israel To help relocate settlers ? an operation that could cost from $10 billion to $50 billion, according to media guesstimates ? Olmert says he will ask the U.S. for funds. We are being asked to pay for an Israeli withdrawal of settlers that the Israeli government 'settled' in the occupied Palestinian territories in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49). This is wholesale extortion of the American taxpayers to get Israel to make peace and undo what it shouldn't have done in the first place.
05-26-06 - Israel's American Constituency Even as Olmert met with President George W. Bush at the White House Tuesday, the House voted by an overwhelming 361-37 margin to impose strict conditions on aid to Palestinians, as demanded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington's most powerful pro-Israel lobby.
05-26-06 - Hamas takes militia off streets but defies Abbas ultimatum
05-26-06 - Shimon Peres retracts proposal for joint industrial zone with PA
05-26-06 - Jordan's king visits US
05-26-06 - Interview with Prof. Norman Finkelstein you won't learn anything about the Israel/Palestine conflict from the American media that you can't learn by simply going to the official Israeli foreign affairs website. As far as the disparity between coverage, I think the record is pretty clear
05-26-06 - Inside the Beltway The Palestinians have no better ally in the White House than Helen Thomas, the Hearst White House correspondent of Lebanese descent
05-26-06 - Thousands of academics oppose boycott of Israel Yesterday a separate Israeli group, including both Jews and Arabs, said it was flying to Britain to brief the Natfhe conference about a new Hebrew University programme, approved last week, to grant undergraduate degrees to personnel in Shin Bet, an arm of the Israeli intelligence services, which campaigners say highlights links between Israeli academia and the occupied territories.
05-26-06 - Blair urges United Nations reform Hamas should drop its refusal to accept Israel so negotiations could begin on an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, with a two-state solution to the conflict
05-26-06 - One foot in the camp of terror Like Weizmann, early Zionist leaders openly advocated "transfer" of the Palestinians. Yosef Weitz, director of the Jewish National Fund's Land Settlement Committee, said, "There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, to transfer all of them - . Not one village must be left, not one tribe."
05-26-06 - Palestinian, Israeli Women Push Bilateral Talks The women took their case to the United Nations in New York and to Congress and the State Department in Washington, D.C., where they met privately with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. During their trip, they also pressed for statehood for Palestine; called for an increase in the number of women involved in official peace negotiations and worked to build a constituency of U.S. supporters by publicizing their efforts.
05-26-06 - Henry Hyde and the Clouding of Principles
05-26-06 - Senior police officer promoted against Or Cmte. conclusions Border Police Chief Brigadier General Bentzi Sau is to be appointed as head of operations at the Ministry of Public Security despite a recommendation not to promote him until the year 2007.
05-25-06 - Officer killed in Palestinian fighting A gunfight between a Palestinian security force and a Hamas militia Thursday killed one police officer and wounded four others in the latest outbreak of internal Palestinian fighting, doctors and witnesses said.
05-25-06 - Gaza Aid Deliveries Continue as Economy Worsens We need your help to deliver more critical aid to people with disabilities, the elderly, widows and others who need it most.
05-25-06 - Call for Donations to Aid Palestinian Hospitals A number of Palestinian hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have asked us at Physicians for Human Rights-Israel to assist them in acquiring a number of medicines and medical equipment needed for the daily functions of the hospitals.
05-25-06 - Abbas stuns Hamas with talk of referendum a referendum, which Palestinian pollsters expect to pass, could provide cover for the militants to become more moderate without appearing to succumb to Western pressure. Such a vote could also renew pressure on Israel to return to the negotiating table rather than impose borders on the Palestinians. An excellent idea on the part of Abbas.
05-25-06 - Dobbs noted that Israeli PM "told CNN Iran could make a nuclear bomb within months"; didn't mention that U.S. intel says otherwise
05-25-06 - Israeli official says Jewish area of Hebron will grow, be connected to Israel Israel will enlarge Jewish settlement enclaves in the West Bank city of Hebron and include them within the country's final borders, an ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday. A recipe for disaster.
05-25-06 - EU prepares ?34m Palestinian aid deal
05-25-06 - Hizbullah factor in Iran fray "If Israel attacks Iran, it may well attack other targets at the same time, including Hizbullah in Lebanon," he says. "In that case, Hizbullah has the right to defend itself and Lebanon with all possible means." Far from a theoretical concept, Malli's scenario is one that is under serious consideration by Israel, says Gerald Steinberg, professor of politics at Israel's Bar Ilan University.
05-25-06 - West Bank settlers defy court ban Jewish settlers have moved in to apartments illegally built in the West Bank in defiance of an Israeli court order
05-25-06 - Thousands mourn four Palestinians killed by Israelis
05-25-06 - Settlers continue to install barbed wire around annexed Palestinian land in Tubas
05-25-06 - Olmert, Bush agree on Iran deadline Ynet learns that Bush told Olmert US time limit for action to stop Iran's nuclear program fits Israel's own timetable, but American diplomats make it clear diplomacy will be given chance
05-25-06 - Troubles at Jerusalem mosque averted Potential troubles at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound were averted when extremist Jews cancelled a visit amid calls from Israel's Islamic Movement to galvanise a Muslim protest.
05-25-06 - AJCongress Urges Senate to Enact S. 1614 to Provide Diverse Perspectives in Teacher Workshops Funded by Higher Ed Act Long at the forefront of opposition to biased and inaccurate anti-Israel and anti-American teacher workshops funded under Title VI of the Higher Education Act, the American Jewish Congress today issued a resolution adopted earlier this week at its 2006 Annual Meeting to urge the Senate to follow the lead of the House, which unanimously passed H.R. 609, requiring the teaching of diverse perspectives and a wide range of views on world regions and international affairs They're baaaack. Free speech with regard to Israel on campus? No more if these folks get their way.
05-25-06 - Jordan vows never-ending support to Palestinians
05-25-06 - Israel to allow transfer of weapons to Abbas force Israel will allow weapons to be transferred to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's personal guards following threats on his life, a Defence Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.
05-25-06 - Villagers of Jab'a to Work Their Land After Settler Vandalism Last month, with the support of international and Israeli activists the villagers were able to work the land for the first time in 5 years. A few days later, settlers herded 150 goats onto the land, where they destroyed the village?s crops.
05-25-06 - ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: April 2006
05-25-06 - Canada urged to help in reforming UNRWA Since there are no political prospects that that might occur, Canada could push for rehabilitation of refugees along the lines adopted elsewhere by the UNHCR, the UN agency responsible for refugees everywhere in the world outside the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Poor Canada is now another Israeli-occupied territory. My condolences.
05-25-06 - Olmert and Bush meet in the middle, agree on unilateral moves as second best "Mahmoud Abbas was deprived of all his powers," Olmert said Sunday. "He is powerless. He is helpless....In that view, Olmert has a powerful ally: the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority. Like Olmert, the House largely ignores Abbas as an alternative. Wow. What coincidence.
05-25-06 - Olmert celebrates 'grand slam' and prepares for a diplomatic tour In his speech to Congress, Olmert commended the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, which effectively cuts off assistance to the Palestinian Authority. Members of Congress said they would tweak the act to help bolster Abbas if they get a signal to do so from Olmert.
"Members of Congress said they would tweak the act to help bolster Abbas if they get a signal to do so from Olmert." Our legislators are taking orders from Israel.
05-25-06 - Divestment dispute looms in Presbyterian church
05-25-06 - Olmert to go to Europe According to Israeli officials, Olmert will assess bilateral ties in Paris and London, as well as Europe?s role in diplomatic efforts to curb Iran?s nuclear program.
05-25-06 - Countdown to Apartheid Olmert's "convergence plan" (now renamed a "realignment plan" because it sounds better in [Newspeak] English), based on the massive "facts on the ground" Israel continues to impose unilaterally with overt American support, cannot possibly give rise to a viable Palestinian state
05-25-06 - New U.S. anti-Semitism ambassador has a big job ahead That legislation, introduced in 2004 by U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), required the U.S. government to monitor and report on anti-Semitism around the globe
05-25-06 - About 200,000 mark anniversary of Israeli pullout from Lebanon at Hezbollah rally About 200,000 flag-waving, cheering Hezbollah supporters massed Thursday near the site of the former Israeli military headquarters in south Lebanon to hear their leader pledge to continue fighting until victory.
05-25-06 - H.R. 4681: Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 Walt and Mearsheimer were entirely correct in their probe on the Israel lobby, and this is a perfect example of how the Israel lobby has used its power to target the Palestinians for more pain and suffering
05-25-06 - Sharon to be moved to long-term care centre
05-25-06 - Congressman asks Bush to press Israel on Christians According to columnist Robert Novak, who reported the letter Thursday, Hyde attached a five-page single-space report by the latter's staff. It says the "Christian community is being crushed in the mill of the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict" and charges that Israel's security barrier and settlements "are irreversibly damaging the dwindling Christian community."
05-25-06 - West Bethlehem in Final Stages of Ghettoization
05-25-06 - Senate tones down Palestinian anti-terrorism bill A Senate version of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act narrows its scope and restores presidential prerogatives.
05-25-06 - Olmert gets standing ovations in both Houses of Congress Why don't they drop the pretense and just salute the Israeli flag?
05-25-06 - Study Alleging Dominant Influence of Israeli Lobby Sparks Heated Fallout
05-25-06 - Palestinians 'must end fighting'
05-25-06 - Israeli court changes mind on admitting lawyer An Israeli court reversed itself and barred a British human-rights lawyer from entering Israel.
05-25-06 - McCollum, AIPAC make up She "appreciated" Kohr's acknowledgement of her pro-Israel record. "I expressed my resolve to continue to work with all pro-Israel groups who are committed to working respectfully and constructively for security, peace and human dignity in the Middle East," McCollum said.
05-25-06 - US deports Palestinian acquitted of terror charges
05-25-06 - What Olmert heard The road map for Mideast peace that was sponsored by the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia as well as the United States -- and that Bush continues to commend to Israel as the unaltered basis of US policy -- requires Israel to negotiate its permanent borders only with Palestinians, not with Americans.
05-24-06 - Emergency Assistance to the Palestinian population The current revision includes a proposal from ACT member the Middle East Council of Churches/Department of Service to Palestine Refugees (MECC/DSPR), who is proposing to provide supplementary food support, health and education services to the most vulnerable families in the Gaza strip and West Bank areas.
05-24-06 - Four die in Israeli W Bank raid One of the dead was a police officer and the other three were civilians, Palestinians sources were quoted as saying. The Israeli army said its troops had shot three gunmen. Look at the picture at the link. I don't see any guns, do you?
05-24-06 - Hamas suspected as bomb attack kills Gaza security commander
05-24-06 - 2006 Amnesty report on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories Some 190 Palestinians, including around 50 children, were killed by Israeli forces, and 50 Israelis, including six children, were killed by Palestinian armed groups. Israeli forces carried out unlawful attacks and routinely used excessive force against peaceful demonstrators protesting against the destruction of Palestinian agricultural land and the Israeli army?s construction of the fence/wall. Israeli settlers frequently attacked Palestinian farmers, destroying orchards and preventing cultivation of their land. Israeli soldiers and settlers responsible for unlawful killings and other abuses against Palestinians and their property generally had impunity
05-24-06 - Residents live 'between hammer and anvil' in Gaza Israeli gunners have recently been authorized to fire closer to populated areas, and some shells have hit outlying homes in Beit Lahiya and neighboring Beit Hanoun. Five Palestinians have been killed recently, including a 7-year-old girl, and more than 30 others have been wounded in houses and on farmland, according to local residents and medical staff.
05-24-06 - Gunmen kill Hamas member in Gaza
05-24-06 - 'How can people live, I wonder?' * the 68-year-old Bedouin farmer moved in with his son in town. Two days later a shell flattened Mousa's house. Three weeks after that, another shell killed him as he was trying to drive his camels away from artillery fire. "He was hit directly in the head," says his nephew, Fares al-Sawarka. "We couldn't rescue him because of the shelling....."They know who they kill. Before, they targeted the fighters. Now they are targeting all of us. The Bedouin have no relationship with the fighters. This is collective punishment."
05-24-06 - As countries withhold money, ordinary Palestinians feel consequences Saheen, a 54-year-old Greek Orthodox from Bethlehem, worries about electric and phone bills. Her husband is sick and unemployed, and she has been borrowing money from her sister to give to her son, a college student
05-24-06 - Palestinian delegation attacked by congressman Anthony Weiner is another agent of Israel on Capitol Hill.
05-24-06 - UN: Western aid cuts endangering Palestinian refugees The U.N. Commissioner for Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees has pleaded with the international community for badly needed assistance.
05-24-06 - Donors agree to move ahead on Palestinian plan Donor nations agreed on Wednesday to move ahead with an aid mechanism to prevent the collapse of essential services to Palestinians, but still differ its scope, making a June start date uncertain, diplomats said.
05-24-06 - Heart attack death blamed on IDF delays Omar died on the way to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem
05-24-06 - Olmert says Israel will draw own borders In a policy shift on Tuesday, the White House gave unexpected backing to Israel's plan to unilaterally set its borders with the Palestinians should their new Hamas leaders refuse to disarm and renounce their call for Israel's destruction
05-24-06 - Fake but Accurate This reminds me of the Niger uranium hoax, in which "intelligence" from a crudely forged packet of documents alleging that the Iraqis were trying to purchase weapons-grade uranium in order to fuel their nonexistent nuclear weapons program somehow made it into the president's 2003 State of the Union speech. In short, this isn't an honest error, but evidence of outright deception.....The Israeli strategy ? which they are now making no effort to disguise ? is to use the United States military as their instrument, and it has, so far, succeeded. Agreed.
05-24-06 - How Bush Brewed the Iranian Crisis Olmert's claim is absurd, as every weapons expert knows, and, indeed, as he knows himself. The only possible purpose of such a nonsensical claim is propaganda. Olmert is helping the Bush regime use fear to prepare Americans to accept an attack on Iran, just as Dick Cheney and Condi Rice invoked images of mushroom clouds to prepare Americans for the illegal invasion of Iraq.
05-24-06 - Israel is now booming as a result of shutting down its competition, the Palestinian economy
05-24-06 - Hamas denounces Bush over borders
05-24-06 - Olmert tells US Congress world must confront Iranian threat
05-24-06 - Interview: Hamas open to idea of joining task force supporting talks with Israel The Hamas-led government is open to the idea of joining a Palestinian task force that would support negotiations with Israel Well get to it.
05-24-06 - US renews criticism of Syria's rights record The United States outright ignores Amnesty's report on Israel's human rights violations.
05-24-06 - Hamas-led cabinet slams US policy toward Israel "They (Israelis) want to create a Jewish state based on a Jewish majority with 35 percent of West Bank lands and keep the Palestinians in isolated cantons,"
05-24-06 - EU Provides an Additional Euro 34 Million Humanitarian Aid Package for the Palestinian Territories
05-24-06 - Right-Wing Israel Lobby Seizes on Olmert Visit
05-24-06 - Bush: U.S. would aid Israel if attacked The US, go to war for Israel? Whodda thunk it!!
05-24-06 - Pelosi: 'A Shining Moment of the 20th Century Was the Establishment of Israel' "And those dreams as you say are not enough. We have to work to make the future better and to continue with what Israel strives for" You mean, these values? Repulsive.
05-24-06 - Palestinian PM dismisses potential civil war
05-24-06 - Kuwait calls on world to revert decision on halting aid to Palestinians
05-24-06 - Tomorrow: Solidarity Meeting Against Land Confiscation in Asira, Nablus At 1:30pm tomorrow (Wednesday the 24th of May) the people of Asira, near Nablus, will be joined by Israeli and international supporters in holding a meeting in solidarity with the owners of land that the Israeli military is about to confiscate
05-24-06 - Hamas officials talk to Israeli media
05-24-06 - House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is probing corruption in Congress, See the other story about Hastert from today's news.
05-24-06 - The Crisis for Palestinian Political Prisoners
05-24-06 - Six years after Israel's ouster, Shebaa farmers believe Hezbollah is their 'saviour' 'How can they (Israelis) say that Shebaa is not Lebanese?'
05-24-06 - Iran Proposal to U.S. Offered Peace with Israel
05-24-06 - Settlers continue to install barbed wire around annexed Palestinian land in Tubas
05-24-06 - FEATURE-Funds, patients make way to Hamas-linked clinics "The money is only going to Hamas supporters," a Palestinian security source based in the West Bank said. "It doesn't go through the banks."
05-24-06 - China unmoved by Israeli protest over invitation to Pales FM
05-24-06 - Palestinians discuss Olmert visit Mr Olmert wants to promote a vision of Israeli borders that are illegally built on our land.
05-24-06 - A Viable Palestinian State The problem is with the second part of the proposal: to retain several large settlement blocs in the Palestinian West Bank. That's a recipe for disaster. This is a NYT editorial.
05-24-06 - The Palestinian charade The Islamist challenge is real, but does not justify policies that are just plain stupid.
05-24-06 - House Vote Harms Palestine, Israel, US
05-24-06 - Republican chairman to Israel The chairman of the Republican Party is slated to meet with top Israeli leaders.
Ken Mehlman is due to leave Wednesday evening for Israel, and will return on June 1.
05-24-06 - Scottish church: Label settlement goods The Church of Scotland called on European authorities to identify products made in Israel?s West Bank settlements.
05-24-06 - Olmert praises House of Representatives He also praised Congress for legislation known as the Iran Freedom and Support Act that would further isolate the Islamic republic.
05-24-06 - Hamas not linked to Sinai bombing: Palestinian FM
05-24-06 - Palestinians unhappy with US support of Olmert plans
05-24-06 - Remarks of Speaker Hastert at Luncheon Honoring Israeli Prime Minister Another member of Congress panders to Israel.
05-24-06 - Olmert gets words not actions in US Prime Minister Olmert was given the (rarish) honour of addressing a joint session of the US Congress. He made a speech that seemed to press all the right buttons for his influential American audience.
05-24-06 - West Bank family tells of crisis
05-24-06 - Church of Scotland concerned about illegal Israeli settlements
05-24-06 - Army bulldozers demolish several buildings and barns in Al Fonduq village
05-24-06 - Bitter Wine for Israel's Bedouins Throughout the 1950s and until the mid-1960s, a considerable portion of their ancestral lands was confiscated and registered as state land. In the 1970s about half of the Bedouin population was moved once again by the Israeli government, this time into seven townships. The idea was to concentrate the Bedouin population within a small area that makes up only a very small percentage of their original tribal lands, the land from which they had been expelled.
05-24-06 - Israel gives Palestine peace deadline If Hamas does not recognise Israel and renounce violence within six months Israel will move ahead with plans to unilaterally draw its final borders by 2010, a senior Israeli Cabinet minister said today.
05-24-06 - Israeli, Russian FMs to visit Turkey The foreign ministers of Israel and Russia are set to visit Turkey to discuss regional issues and bilateral cooperation, the foreign ministry said.
05-24-06 - Common standards needed for Israel-Palestine peace, says WCC The statement recalls a long list of disparities between the two parties, with one of them accumulating and securing "unlawful gains" and the other "being isolated and punished". Those disparities "cannot be justified morally, legally or even politically", it adds.
05-24-06 - Ford backs peace groups But we will not be deterred by ad hominem attacks. For more than 50 years, we have worked to create opportunities for people to live freer, better and more-prosperous lives.
05-24-06 - Speakers Debate the Palestine-Israel Wall Bazian drew support from international law and used quotes from former United States President Jimmy Carter.
05-24-06 - APN Greatly Deplores House Passage Of H.R. 4681
05-24-06 - ADL blasts church group on Israel The ADL said the council "needs a reality check" after criticizing Israel for the ongoing conflict in the Middle East
05-24-06 - World Premiere of Documentary "With Blood" The 5th Annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival hosted the world premiere of "With Blood," a documentary that explores the violence Israeli occupation inflicts on Palestinian ambulance drivers, doctors, patients, and civilians
05-24-06 - JEWISH GROUP PROTESTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH AWARD The Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations, is calling on the Episcopal Peace Fellowship to reconsider a decision to give their highest honor to a Palestinian Anglican priest who has denied Israel?s right to exist.
05-23-06 - Israel turns blind eye to attacks on Palestinians: Amnesty Israeli security forces and settlers are being allowed to perpetrate abuses against Palestinians with no real fear of being brought to justice, Amnesty International said in a report.
05-23-06 - Egypt: Palestinians Aided Sinai Bombings Palestinian extremists helped finance and train members of the militant Egyptian group that carried out deadly attacks at Sinai resorts, Egypt said Tuesday, making a direct connection for the first time between militants on either side of the Egypt-Gaza border.
05-23-06 - EU proposes aid for Palestinian ministries, staff The official stressed the proposals were dependent on the endorsement of the United States to ensure lending institutions would participate without facing the threat of U.S. sanctions.
05-23-06 - Bush Praises Israeli Plan for New Borders "Israel is a close friend and ally of the United States. And in the event of any attack on Israel, the United States will come to Israel's aid," Bush said.
05-23-06 - Israeli court rejects Jerusalem barrier appeal Residents of Al-Azaria, a Jerusalem suburb which is technically in the West Bank, had filed a petition against building work on the barrier, which will cut them off from the holy city while encircling the major Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim.
05-23-06 - Defying Bush, House backs limits on Palestinian aid This bill was put forward solely to benefit Israel by two of its agents on Capitol Hill - Lantos and Ros-Lehtinen.
05-23-06 - Our rockets can hit any n. Israel target - Hizbollah Lebanon's Hizbollah group said on Tuesday it has thousands of rockets capable of hitting any target in northern Israel, and maybe beyond, should the Jewish state attack Lebanese territory again.
05-23-06 - China military upgrades a potential threat to US: Pentagon Israel, which supplied China HARPY unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, has begun to strengthen controls over its military exports, the report said.
05-23-06 - Israel captures Hamas commander
05-23-06 - U.S. group warns of humanitarian disaster in Gaza Mercy Corps warned at a news conference in Gaza City that the humanitarian and health situation in the Gaza Strip would further deteriorate if the political and economic blockades on the Palestinians continued.
05-23-06 - Peace will prevail if Israel ends occupation: Hamas PM
05-23-06 - U.S. presses Israel's Olmert to talk to Abbas
05-23-06 - Iran carries out missile test - Israeli source
05-23-06 - Jerusalem resolution in Congress A resolution commemorating 39 years of Jerusalem?s reunification has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
05-23-06 - Implementing Israel?s Strategy
05-23-06 - Members of the Tribe / Thriving in China In a controversial appearance at the recent American Jewish Committee centennial convention in Washington, author A.B. Yehoshua predicted that Diaspora Jews would move to China if it were to become a world power. Dr. Avrum Ehrlich, a professor at the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at the University of Shandong, says that this process is actually already under way It's no coincidence that China - the superpower of the 2020's - is the next place that pro-Israelis seek to take root.
America, being sapped by a war waged largely because of neocon/AIPAC urging - is on the precipice of being relegated to third world status. All of this is something that I predicted over three years ago. We're being used like a you know what, until the next sugar daddy pulls up.
05-23-06 - Israel must halt the crisis among the Palestinians - for its own sake
05-23-06 - Sanctions could strengthen Hamas: Israeli army chief
05-23-06 - House Votes to Cut Aid to Palestinians "Today, Congress made it clear that Hamas' decision to continue its support for terrorism has direct and immediate consequences," AIPAC said after the vote. How is this move in the best interests of America? Why is AIPAC, a foreign lobby, allowed to so influence our Congress that it actually puts America in DANGER?
05-23-06 - Alleged AIPAC informant promoted The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case.
05-23-06 - "Paradise" director targets post 9/11 paranoia
05-22-06 - It's not too late to contact your representatives to oppose H.R. 4681
05-22-06 - Civilian killed in gunbattle near Palestinian parliament One civilian was killed and three people wounded in exchanges of gunfire between security officers and Hamas followers near the Gaza City branch of the Palestinian parliament, security sources said.
05-22-06 - Gaza bakery buys butter - and a gun As the Palestinian economy worsens, security becomes a major concern for Gazans.
05-22-06 - Olmert to tackle withdrawal, Iran in Washington meetings this week Yediot Achronot reported that Olmert would ask Bush to "do away" with the Iranian threat during what remains of his term in office
05-22-06 - AAI Urges House to Reject HR 4681; 'A Failed-State in Palestine is Not in the Interests of the U.S.'
05-22-06 - Father of slain British activist doubts Israel will help probe British Attorney General Peter Goldsmith was visiting Israel Monday to gather facts about the fatal shootings of the activist, Tom Hurndall, and cameraman James Miller, his office here said.
05-22-06 - Israel's UN ambassador slams Qatar, praises Bolton Israel's U.N. ambassador, in unusually blunt comments, criticized Russia, China and Qatar on Monday for disappointing the Jewish state in their role as U.N. Security Council members this year.
But Ambassador Dan Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped praise on U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, jokingly describing him at one point as a secret member of Israel's own team at the United Nations.
The joke is on America. For John Bolton primarily functions as ISRAEL'S ambassador to the UN. Look at his track record - it speaks for itself. Even the Israelis know this.
05-22-06 - INTERVIEW - Hizbollah sees no need to aid Iran if U.S. strikes Kassem said it was hard to predict how any conflict would play out and that decisions would be made according to the situation on the ground, but that in principle Hizbollah would only intervene to defend Lebanon, primarily from Israeli attack
05-22-06 - Israel-US crisis over warplane project The United States is refusing to allow Israel to install any more advanced systems in their batch of the F-35 planes -- no navigation, sighting or fire control systems, or Israeli-developed missiles, the Maariv newspaper reported
05-22-06 - Inquiry into Gaza family killing a man who survived the attack said he had lost the greatest things in his life - his wife, his son and his mother.
05-22-06 - Grief over innocent victims of Israeli missile A three-year-old girl was also paralysed in the blast
05-22-06 - Rally challenges churches to unite in call for justice in the Holy Land An estimated 20,000 people of all faiths and none walked in the rain along the Embankment, past the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street into Trafalgar Square for the rally which was prompted by the Israeli government's decision to strengthen the economic blockade of the Palestinian people
05-22-06 - Palestinians to hold national dialogue: Abbas The upcoming dialogue is aimed at unifying the Palestinian political landscape in light of increasing friction and violence between rival parties, said Abbas.
05-22-06 - Permanent Observer of Palestine to UN: Israel Must be Held Accountable
05-22-06 - House wants to block aid to Palestinian government The House bill, introduced by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., and Tom Lantos, D-Calif., has 295 sponsors from both parties and has been vigorously supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobby. All three are agents of a foreign government occupying the US Congress.
05-22-06 - WCC UPDATE: In Israel/Palestine double standards must end The statement recalls a long list of appalling disparities between the two parties, with one of them accumulating and securing "unlawful gains" and the other "being isolated and punished". Those disparities "cannot be justified morally, legally or even politically",
05-22-06 - For Olmert, 'convergence plan' is a lifeline for Zionism?s future He calls it "Zionism's lifeline." That is because he believes Israel cannot allow itself to be sucked into an endless occupation that might lead to international pressure for a one-state solution, in which Palestinians would be the majority
05-22-06 - Israelis aim to sue Ahmadinejad Lawyers are preparing to send a file on Mr Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel, to the International Court of Justice
05-22-06 - Israelis held over arms export An Israeli aviation firm is suspected of violating arms-exports regulations to China.
Four staff members of a Tel Aviv area company that produces unmanned aerial vehicles were arrested Monday on suspicion of selling controlled technology without Defense Ministry approval.
05-22-06 - Congressman: UNRWA amendment planned A U.S. congressman plans to introduce an amendment that would condition U.S. funding of UNRWA on an independent audit.
05-22-06 - Bolton: U.N. council likely anti-Israel The newly formed U.N. Human Rights Council is likely to be stacked against Israel, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said.
That's because Israel is a major human rights offender, and no amount of bullying at the UN is going to change that fact.
05-22-06 - Arabs at Sharm slam US Mideast policy American foreign policy in the Middle East, including its unfaltering support for Israel, were the main targets of criticism by Arab participants who attended a working lunch on Saturday attended by US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and 10 US senators and members of Congress
05-22-06 - Israeli envoy: Russia, China delaying Iran resolution Russia and China are impeding passage of a Security Council resolution addressing Iran?s nuclear ambitions, Israel?s ambassador to the United Nations said.
05-22-06 - Israeli Bedouins seek UN action "They are destroying our homes and stealing our land and trying to concentrate us in small reservations in order to take our land and give it Jewish settlers."
05-22-06 - Effort to reconcile AIPAC, congresswoman Harper stands by the charge. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), a strong friend of AIPAC, defended McCollum, saying the alleged attack reminded him of the Taliban.
05-22-06 - Low Expectations for Olmert's U.S. Visit
05-22-06 - Israeli police briefly detain Hamas lawmakers in Jerusalem
05-22-06 - Israel junket courts the cool kids with party tour for foreign journalists "We met with one Palestinian this whole trip. They don't seem to have any voice in the media," McCormick said. "This is the most racist country I've ever seen."...The junket, of course, was not so much about these 10 reporters, but their influence on readers back home. They write for magazines like Urb, Bust, Flaunt, Seventeen and MTV's Urge Web site.....Midway through the trip, it seemed some of the journalists already had become advocates for Israel - particularly the Jewish reporters.
05-22-06 - Saudis have assured not boycotting Israel: US aide Oh thank God. This matter so vital to American national security really kept me awake at night.
05-22-06 - Carter's view of Mideast far from reality Abraham H. Foxman, National director, Anti-Defamation League, New York
05-21-06 - Palestinian woman killed in W.Bank camp: witnesses the 48-year-old woman was shot by troops who were patrolling the camp for gunmen after she left her home to see what route her husband, a cleaner, should take to avoid the soldiers. Medics later pronounced her dead
05-21-06 - Settlers attack schoolchildren Dozens of Palestinian school children from Um Touba village, in the West Bank, were attacked on Sunday morning by an extremist settlers group living in the Ma?oun illegal settlement outpost.
05-21-06 - Child seriously injured by Israeli artillery fire in Beit Hanoun
05-21-06 - War crimes charges possible over shot Britons THE Attorney-General is to have talks today with senior Israeli authorities as he considers whether to bring war crimes charges against Israeli soldiers who shot dead two Britons. The British government actually does something about the deaths of its citizens at the hands of Israel. Can't say the same for ours.
05-21-06 - Israel to expand four West Bank settlements Under the terms of a internationally backed peace plan known as the roadmap, Israel is meant to freeze all settlement construction in the West Bank. Thus does Israel prove once again that the only peace it seeks is the peace with which it can continue to pilfer and 'settle' Palestinian land - and drive the Palestinians off of it.
05-21-06 - Palestinians Foil 2nd Assassination Effort Palestinian security foiled the second attempt in two days to kill top commanders loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas in what officials in his Fatah party said Sunday was a "clear conspiracy" against their leaders.
05-21-06 - Malaysia pledges $16 million to Palestinian Authority But in practice the Malaysian pledge, like previous contributions from Arab states, will not reach the Palestinians until the United States lifts the threat of sanctions against banks which transfer the funds to the West Bank or Gaza.
05-21-06 - U.S. says no split with Europe on Iran Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on CNN's "Late Edition" he believed Tehran was already seriously engaged in uranium enrichment, placing it "months rather than years" away from achieving the technology to build a nuclear bomb. That's not what our intelligence says. Who will this administration believe (this time)?
05-21-06 - Territorial Fragmentation of the West Bank May 2006 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
05-21-06 - Abbas to urge World Economic Forum to lift siege on Palestinians
05-21-06 - Abbas Calls Civil War 'Forbidden'
05-21-06 - Goldsmith flies to Israel to investigate shooting of Britons Juries in both inquests found that the men had been unlawfully killed.
05-21-06 - Palestinian views on financial crisis
05-21-06 - Palestinian rocket hits Israeli empty classroom
05-21-06 - Islamic Jihad shells Israeli city with homemade rockets
05-21-06 - Abbas acts to halt slide into civil war in Gaza
05-21-06 - Israel orders probe into Gaza air raid deaths Another dog and pony show for keeping up appearances. Are the killers of Rachel Corrie and James Miller behind bars? NO.
05-21-06 - Beilin Calls on Peretz to Take Control or Resign
05-21-06 - Israel to free some Palestinian tax for hospitals part of some $220 million in tax and customs levies withheld from the Palestinians since they voted Islamic militant group Hamas into power in January, would be spent by Israel on medical supplies for Palestinian hospitals. This money belongs to the Palestinians - not the Israelis. This is not an act of generosity on the part of the latter.
05-21-06 - Olmert says Abbas 'powerless,' but meeting planned Israeli politicians are sending conflicting signals about the utility of peace talks with the Palestinians. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is "powerless" and "helpless," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.
05-21-06 - Italy's New Foreign Minister Affirms Ties "It would not be acceptable for the international community or convenient for Israel for there to be a humanitarian collapse in the territories,"
05-21-06 - Israel can change track of separation barrier: FM The separation barrier was constructed "for security reasons, but we can change it after negotiations (with Palestinians) on the (final) borders," she said in a debate at the World Economic Forum (WEF). It's always critical to keep this in mind: watch what Israel DOES not what they SAY they're going to do.
05-21-06 - Militants claim Palestinian spy chief attack-Web
05-21-06 - Gulf Arabs to discuss nuclear fears with Iran "any effort to get rid the region of weapons of mass destruction must not exclude Israel,"
05-21-06 - West urged to halt Iran The West has less than a year to block Iran's ambition to develop nuclear weapons before it touches off "hyper-proliferation" throughout the Middle East, says Israel's military intelligence chief. That's not what our intelligence says. Who will this administration believe (this time)?
05-21-06 - Audio Interview: Palestinian Children in Israeli Jails According to recent figures the Palestinian prison population includes 400 children and 100 women detainees.
05-21-06 - Court slams probe into Palestinian boy's 2000 death The judge said in the ruling that Duriel's investigation into the incident was "amateurish and subjective", adding that he did not employ scientific methods in the inquiry
05-21-06 - At-Tuwani Update 15-19 May 2006
05-21-06 - UNRWA amendment withdrawn Israel does not want UNRWA touched for now, as it is possibly the most stable element in the Palestinian areas.
05-21-06 - Israel's economy leaving Palestinians far behind
05-21-06 - JORDAN: Aid freeze on Hamas squeezes students The US and EU decision not to provide financial aid to Hamas-led government is having a damaging effect on thousands of Palestinian students in Jordan, according to Palestinian diplomats in Amman.
05-21-06 - Ohio county buys $5 million in Israel Bonds Jim Rokakis, the treasurer of the Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, said the purchase was not political, but made sound financial sense Right.
05-21-06 - Israel lobbyists go to Washington In meetings with some 400 representatives, lobbyists focused on issues including support of the Iran Freedom and Support Act, alternative energy research and the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act.
05-21-06 - Poll shows support for P.A. cutoff The poll, commissioned by the Israel Project
05-21-06 - Middle East Christians hold meeting in Paris with French Authorities Michel Sabbah, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, said Israel's wall in the West Bank has turned Palestinian villages into prisons. He cautioned against suggestions that Middle Eastern Christians were persecuted by Muslim majorities or governments, such as the Hamas-led administration in the Palestinian territories. Pressure on them often came from criminal elements.
05-20-06 - Gaza Blast Stokes Hamas-Fatah Tensions Hours after the explosion, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a car in Gaza City and killed Mohammed Dadouh, top military commander of the small militant group Islamic Jihad, Palestinian officials said. Three others traveling in a car behind Dadouh's - a mother, her 5-year-old son and the child's grandmother - also were killed.
05-20-06 - Israeli air strike kills four Palestinians in Gaza Saturday's missile strike, which medics said also killed a boy and his mother and grandmother,
05-20-06 - Israeli Occupation Forces Violently Suppress Peacefull Protest Over Right to Worship
05-20-06 - Open Bethlehem calls for end to sanctions as Holy Land faces disaster As the situation in Bethlehem and the rest of Palestine approaches a humanitarian crisis, Open Bethlehem calls on church leaders, clergy, lay Christians and all who care about peace and justice to speak out against the EU sanctions and support the people of Bethlehem at this critical time.
05-20-06 - Christians urged to speak out over EU sanctions against Palestine
05-20-06 - Syria accuses EU of rights hypocrisy "The European Union, which has imposed a blockade on the Palestinian people to starve them and to nullify their free democratic choice, has no right to pretend to defend human rights or democracy,"
05-20-06 - Russian FM to visit Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia The discussions will be aimed at finding "ways of overcoming the crisis in Palestinian-Israeli relations and preventing a further deterioration in the... situation in the Palestinian territories,"
05-20-06 - Israeli Plan Divides U.S. Conservatives In the United States, the realignment is widely opposed by conservative Jewish voters whom Bush has courted with strong support for Israeli security. Conservative Christian leaders, including television evangelist Pat Robertson, who back Bush have endorsed the expansion and defense of Jewish settlements. The question that should be at the fore to these 'American' Congressmen and Senators is: WHAT POLICY IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF AMERICA? That is the heart of the problem; our legislators would appear to be servile to a FOREIGN nation.
05-20-06 - Bush wants to know Israeli leader's real plans
05-20-06 - Swedish FM says spat with Israel over In recent weeks, though, Israeli-Swedish relations had soured to the point that one Israeli spokesman described Sweden as the most anti-Israeli country in Europe.
05-20-06 - Mubarak Chides U.S. on Double Standards The president said he saw a double standard in the U.S. nuclear policy, under which Washington maintains a resolute silence about the nuclear arsenal Israel is believed to possess while it conducts a campaign to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
05-20-06 - A LETTER TO AIPAC AIPAC should not have a lower standard for persons affiliated and representing its organization when they label a Member of Congress who thinks for herself and always puts the interest of our nation and people first a supporter of terrorists. My God! This Congresswoman dared to put the interests of the American citizens first. Traitor!
05-20-06 - Hamas slams Abbas' call for money smuggling probe
05-20-06 - Key regional economic forum kicks off in Egypt He said that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict should be solved on the basis of related international resolutions, vowing that Egypt would continue its efforts toward a settlement of the conflict
05-20-06 - Michael Savage, Israel-firster Not only does Savage refuse to address the matter of the Israeli lobby, but he uses the same tactics employed by that group to smear anyone that dares to criticize Israel.
05-20-06 - Russia urges Palestinian forces to abandon confrontation Russia Foreign Ministery on Friday urged all Palestinian political forces to abandon confrontation and pool efforts to strengthen internal security.
05-20-06 - Hamas slams Abbas' call for money smuggling probe
05-20-06 - Non-Violent Demonstrations in Palestine
05-20-06 - Hebron Update: 13 to 19 May 2006 During the morning Israeli military threw a percussion grenade into a
Palestinian home in the Old City. It landed close to a sleeping woman and her
child. There were no injuries.
05-20-06 - Panel to address Israel divestment plan
05-19-06 - Food Aid From Turkey To Palestine
05-19-06 - Israeli FM to meet with Abbas in Egypt
05-19-06 - Some 20 protesters hurt during anti-fence rally in Bil'in
05-19-06 - Abbas Orders Inquiry Into Cash Smuggling Hamas demanded that the money - all in 500-euro bills - be returned, saying private donors abroad intended it for Gaza's poor. The alleged smuggler, Hamas spokesman Abu Zuhri, "resorted to this way ... when all other ways were blocked," said government official Ghazi Hamad.
05-19-06 - Lebanese soldier dies after clashes with Palestinians
05-19-06 - Captain H. 'unconcerned' about charges in UK But the Miller family refuses to back down. The victim?s family has already sued Israel for the killing, and a few days ago they met with Britain?s new Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and asked her to press Israel to indict those responsible for Miller?s death. His widow, Sophie Miller, said that Beckett promised to renew pressures on Israel in the matter.
05-19-06 - EU states split over Palestinian aid plan
05-19-06 - Villagers fight West Bank Barrier According to Abdullah Abu Rahma, 35, the organiser of the weekly protest, the barrier annexes about 60% of the village's land, cutting farmers off from their fields, making it almost impossible to make a living.
05-19-06 - BG drops natural gas sale plan to Israel British Gas has no intention of selling natural gas to Israel and instead will use gas from its wells off the Gaza coast for the more lucrative liquefied natural gas market, BG said yesterday.
05-19-06 - Israel and U.S. at odds over nuclear treaty proposal Although Washington sent messages to Israel assuring it that it has nothing to fear from the treaty, Jerusalem is worried by any move that might erode its policy of nuclear ambiguity and generate future pressures on it over its nuclear program. As a result, Israel made a last-minute effort to persuade the U.S. not to submit the draft for discussion
05-19-06 - US fumes as Iraq backs Israel boycott The US-backed Iraqi government sent an official representative to this week's meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office in Damascus, The Jerusalem Post has learned, prompting criticism from members of Congress Members of Congress? Who are they representing here - the America people or the Israeli government?
05-19-06 - British Gas departure could cost economy billions of dollars In an exclusive interview with TheMarker, Shaw said that the prices the state presented to the company did not come close to making it worthwhile to implement the project.
05-19-06 - King Abdullah sends letter to President Bush His Majesty also underlined the importance of addressing the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories and the urgency of establishing an effective mechanism to channel the assistance needed to maintain the functioning of vital structures for humanitarian services in the Palestinian territories
05-19-06 - Israel carried out nuclear test in 1979 Prepared for the White House in December 1979, it said Israel and South Africa, then under apartheid rule, were cooperating on military issues, including nuclear research.
05-19-06 - British professor refuses request to write article for Israeli journal
05-19-06 - Red Cross Red Crescent responds to deteriorating Palestinian humanitarian situation
05-19-06 - Barakeh to PA: Don?t surrender Right of Return
05-19-06 - Savage: "Jimmy Carter is like Hitler" Summary: On his radio show, Michael Savage declared that former President Jimmy Carter is a "Jew-hater" and a "war criminal" who "is like Hitler" because of his criticism of Israeli policies in the West Bank. Savage also called Carter a "communist, anti-American, anti-Semitic bastard." Is there any doubt left that Michael Weiner Savage is an Israel-firster? I've read all of the latest articles by Carter with regard to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Savage has only the interests of Israel at heart, never does he mention the Israeli lobby's control over the US government in any of his radio broadcasts; a big problem here in the US. Boycott this man.
05-19-06 - Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter.
05-19-06 - U.S.: Saudis not boycotting Israel The United States sought and received assurances from Saudi Arabia that it?s not observing the Arab boycott of Israel.
Oh thank God. I can sleep better at night knowing that this matter of American national security has been addressed. Mmm k.
05-19-06 - State: Egypt deserves aid Egypt deserves to maintain current levels of U.S. aid because of the role it plays in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the U.S. State Department said.
05-19-06 - Israel disinvestment forum set in Walnut Creek "The forum is meant to send a political message to the Israeli government that the occupation should be ended,"
05-19-06 - Saud Satisfied With Bush Mideast Push
05-19-06 - What right does Israel have to exist? the world hasn?t seen one UN resolution concerning Israel enforced by the UN or the international community. America specifically refers to ?countless? UN resolutions Iraq refused to comply with as a major reason to invade in 2003. If America were to invade Iraq on this reasoning, one would think they would at least attempt to enforce the UN resolutions pertaining to Israel.
05-19-06 - Swedish Prime Minister Rejects Israeli Criticism
05-19-06 - On Late Style By Edward W Said
05-19-06 - New flick focuses on Israel's 'apartheid' The film documents the establishment of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, and the growth of this phenomenon during each Israeli prime minister's tenure. It also looks at the impact of the settlements on the peace process from a Palestinian point of view.
05-19-06 - Israeli plants Palestinian flag on Mt. Everest
05-19-06 - MARCHERS AIM TO PROMOTE RESPECT IN MIDDLE EAST
05-19-06 - Officials: Israel-Italy love affair over A woman who accompanied the new Italian foreign minister during his visit to Jerusalem in 1999 said that upon his arrival she greeted him by saying "welcome to Israel," to which he responded, "welcome to Palestine."
05-18-06 - Red Cross Red Crescent responds to deteriorating Palestinian humanitarian situation
05-18-06 - Gaza Beset By Food Shortages, Economic Woe 70 year-old Um Shaheen (left) depends on assistance to help her take care of five severely disabled daughters that range in age from 25 to 40 years old. "Donate online now to help the most vulnerable Palestinians meet their basic needs"
05-18-06 - EU weighs security pledge for Iran, US resists One EU diplomat said the United States had promised Israel it would never give Iran a security guarantee before it recognised the Jewish state's right to exist and ended all support for anti-Israeli militants.
05-18-06 - Police hurt in Gaza City attack Two police officers have been wounded in a gun battle between Palestinian factions in Gaza City.
05-18-06 - Isolation hits Palestinian life hard across the board people here are shocked by what they see as the harshness of the tactics of the West.
They are appalled that it has sided so firmly with Israel, rather than the victims of the Israeli occupation.
05-18-06 - Israel should face sanctions Ronnie Kasrils was head of intelligence in the African National Congress's armed wing and is now South Africa's intelligence minister; he is writing in a personal capacity.
05-18-06 - Israel to relent over Palestinian pay-outs ISRAEL is prepared to release Palestinian tax revenues into a proposed international aid mechanism to avert the collapse of the Palestinian health sector and to pay some salaries, an official said yesterday
05-18-06 - Two Israelis wounded in shooting attack in West Bank Just one day after Israel fully reopened the main Israel-Gaza cargo crossing for the first time in several months, it was closed again due to a terror warning. THAT didn't last long. What a surprise.
05-18-06 - Crisis in Gaza Your donations make these humanitarian projects possible. Thank you for your generosity. American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
05-18-06 - Palestinians, Israelis horrified at Hebron 'jungle' "I don't know how you can let 400 or 500 people dominate the lives of tens of thousands. It's unbelievable," It's called APARTHEID, and it's paid for in large part by the American taxpaying public.
05-18-06 - Iranian nuke crisis to top agenda of Olmert-Bush meeting The prime minister is planning to describe the severity with which Israel views the Iranian nuclear threat, and explain that the country is not leading an international struggle against Iran,said the report. However, Israel expected the United States and other countries to do everything they can to halt the threat,
05-18-06 - Israeli PM to convince US it wants peace talks Riiight. When Israel speaks of 'peace', they mean 'piece'. As in, another 'piece' of Palestine. Like Carter and Bush the first before, perhaps it's time to withhold aid to Israel until it can stop building settlements, and abide by int'l law.
05-18-06 - Moderate voices vie for clout within Hamas Just under three-quarters of Palestinians say they would prefer a negotiated solution to unilateral withdrawals
05-18-06 - Malaysia offers aid to Palestinians to ease crisis
05-18-06 - At-Tuwani Update 10-14 May 2006
05-18-06 - Israel detains British aid worker held at checkpoint At first, he was held under Israeli law, but this was changed to detention under military law in the occupied territories, meaning that Mr Ali's rights are considerably reduced.
05-18-06 - West Bank Fence Provides Example for U.S. BS. America has no intention of building a fence on or through Mexican territory. Unlike Israel's fence which was built such that it confiscates swaths of Palestinian land in violation of international law, our fence will be built on American soil. There is a difference, folks.This is just another propaganda piece by who else? - the Associated Press.
05-18-06 - In initial meeting, Olmert and Bush to look at the big picture, not details Beyond cash, the Americans could offer Olmert support for his redrawn borders - a recognition of Israeli sovereignty over some settlements that would go beyond the vague "realities on the ground" that Bush cited in his April 14, 2004, letter to Olmert's predecessor, Ariel Sharon.
05-18-06 - US to monitor behavior at more airports George Naccara, the federal security director at Logan, said the TSA program is modeled on behavior detection systems used in Israel and some other countries. That's quite ironic since it's been stated that all four airports on 911 were using an Israeli security company.
05-18-06 - Spanish PM pledges to help Palestinians seek peace
05-18-06 - Israel Will Buy Supplies for Gaza Hospitals, Premier Says Mr. Olmert vehemently denied that there was any Palestinian "humanitarian crisis," calling it "for the time being total propaganda" based on what he was told by the Israeli military and intelligence officials he met with on Wednesday
05-18-06 - Connecting Two Cultures The level of energy and anticipation on the U.S. side was palpable - the students couldn't wait to meet their new exchange partners.
05-18-06 - Israel protests China's invitation to Hamas' foreign minister Regev said that at Thursday's meeting Israeli officials urged China to revoke the invitation.
05-18-06 - EU wants US pressure against convergence
05-18-06 - Palestinian refugees to recover original registration
05-18-06 - APN Urges House to Reject Attack on UNRWA Operations Americans for Peace Now (APN) today issued an issue brief to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, calling on them to reject legislation being offered by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) that attacks the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
05-18-06 - Qatar Charity allocates Q.R. 5.380.000 to support Palestinians Qatar Charity, in cooperation with Qatar Authority for Charitable Activities, has allocated the sum of Q.R 5.380.00 as a first donation to support the Palestinian People
05-18-06 - Palestinian Refugee Crisis and the Right of Return
05-18-06 - Worth it It's in America's interest to aid Palestinian citizens, bypassing the terrorist government they elected.
05-18-06 - Rice: Rival Palestinian Forces Dangerous
05-18-06 - Who's singling out Israel? Supporters of the Palestinian cause are wrongly accused of anti-semitism.
05-18-06 - Israeli Independence and Happy Nakba Day! Israeli 'news source', listed in Google News, celebrates the Nakba.
05-18-06 - Film Review: "Bethlehem Bandolero"
05-17-06 - Israel kills 2 Palestinian gunmen in West Bank raid
05-17-06 - Saudis to Bush: Don't Cut Off Palestinians Saudi Arabia contributes to the Palestinian cause through the Arab League, but more than $70 million in Arab League donations is now frozen because of U.S.-supported banking restrictions
05-17-06 - Palestinian association warns health system will collapse
05-17-06 - Medical Workers Targeted by Israeli Army in Last Night?s Raid in Nablus
05-17-06 - Israel/Occupied Territories: High Court decision institutionalizes racial discrimination Indeed, the law violates the absolute prohibition on discrimination contained in international human rights law, notably several treaties which Israel has ratified and is obliged to uphold, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
05-17-06 - Denmark offers emergency aid to Palestinians
05-17-06 - Palestinian civil servants protest lack of wages "We need milk for our children and to live in peace," read placards held aloft amid a sea of flags
05-17-06 - Abbas, Hamas mount rival shows of force in Gaza President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the deployment of thousands of Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after the new Hamas government, in a challenge to his authority, posted its own armed contingent on the streets
05-17-06 - . . . nightmare For world opinion, rightly or wrongly, Israeli action against Iran could not take place without a green light from the White House....Interestingly enough, the raid did not retard but actually accelerated Saddam Hussein's program....A religious fanatic who believes the return of the 12th imam to Earth will be preceded by global death and destruction in his own lifetime, Mr. Ahmadinejad presumably sees an Israeli and/or U.S. attack against Iran closing Muslim ranks the world over against the imperialist infidels. Now that's an interesting take I had not yet heard before.
05-17-06 - Pentagon denying Israelis security clearances New York Sun reports State Department citing AIPAC leak case as basis for denying employees with dual Israeli-American citizenship security clearances. In one case, government lawyers argued Israel was 'actively spying on United States' to justify withdrawing clearance from worker
05-17-06 - Terror-related trauma: Palestinian kids suffer more According to al-Krenawi, Palestinian children in Gaza are worse off than their counterparts in the West Bank in terms of response to trauma, due to the closure imposed on Strip, the political violence in the streets and the hunger they have been experiencing.
05-17-06 - China seeks to tie knot with Arabs to boost trade, energy China will host officials from 22 Arab countries in talks to promote cooperation in areas including trade and energy, China?s foreign ministry said. Representatives from the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority have also been invited.
05-17-06 - Israel 'Will Not Allow' Iran Nuclear Weapons He noted that the timetable for military strikes must occur when Iran develops acquires the capability to make nuclear weapons, long before it acquires the weapons themselves. "People tell me that this means months and not years," he added....Israel needed to make its intentions clear, as a warning to Iran but also to its friends in the United States and elsewhere, Olmert said.
05-17-06 - Finland to increase emergency aid for Palestinians
05-17-06 - Gaza on brink as Hamas deploys militia An Israeli official said that Israel was now discussing the creation of an independent unit at every medical centre to pay Palestinian clinicians' salaries. The official added that provisions had been made for the direct payment to Israeli hospitals for Palestinian patients out of the revenues it is withholding from the PA. But officials at Shifa hospital in Gaza City say that 270 patients are awaiting transfer to Israel partly because the PA has no funds to pay for treatment there.
05-17-06 - Israel Reopens Cargo Border Crossing It's no coincidence that the Israelis did this (along with dismantling a few token 'wildcat outposts') just before Olmert's trip to Washington to seek support for his 'convergence plan'. The Israelis, using any old pretext, will shut Karni upon Olmert's return home, I'm betting. These moves are what's known as 'chumming the water'.
05-17-06 - Appointment of monitor adds teeth to the fight against anti-Semitism Rickman, who will be sworn in Monday, will not simply monitor anti-Semitism; he will inject the issue into every bilateral or multilateral arrangement where it's applicable. Given that Arabs are Semites too, will this type of anti-Semitism be getting reported on? Or how about this? Highly doubtful.
05-17-06 - Anti-abortion group seeks to keep Israel Jewish Responding to an issue that Jews often refer to as "the demographic threat," a non-profit Jewish group is encouraging poor, pregnant Jewish women who might be considering having an abortion to go ahead and have a child instead.
05-17-06 - French FM warns Israel off unilateralism
05-17-06 - Palestinian minister visits Germany despite Berlin protests
05-17-06 - China urges Hamas to recognise Israel
05-17-06 - Olmert wants Bush pullback support, though his own government is balking Aides say Olmert will seek agreement on the following general principles in his Washington talks: .......An American commitment to mobilize international support for any unilateral Israeli moves; * American readiness to negotiate with Israel over where its permanent borders should run, and to recognize them if agreement is reached.
05-17-06 - Israel boosts exports to Arab world
05-17-06 - McCain: 'Proudly Pro-Israel' - Says Haaretz Article Left 'Serious Misimpressions' The McCain that both supporters and opponents have come to know, said the consultant, is the McCain who in June 2001 told a special AIPAC seminar that "America?s unequivocal support for Israel ? not evenhandedness, not moral equivalence, not winking at Palestinian violence ? is the best guarantor of peace in the Middle East." McCain reaffirms the fact that he is willing to forgo American national security in order to gain the AIPAC vote. It's a joke to see these types still touting Israel as the 'only democracy in the Middle East'. Total BS. That's a slap in the face to the families of the US soldiers that have died in Iraq.
05-17-06 - Casey to oppose Santorum Santorum maintains some Jewish support because of his consistent pro-Israel record.
05-17-06 - P.A. arms funding disclosed The Shin Bet released a transcript Wednesday of its interrogations of Fuad Shobaki, a former Palestinian Authority financier and confidant of Yasser Arafat who was jailed in the West Bank city of Jericho until Israeli troops took him into custody in May.
05-17-06 - Palestinian FM to visit China
05-17-06 - Palestinian groups seek relief from court order in terrorism case And the case shows no sign of ending. Earlier this week, a lawyer for the Ungar family signaled that he wants to seize $70 million that several Middle Eastern countries have contributed to help keep the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority financially afloat.
05-17-06 - Iranian Jews in Israel worry for former homeland Close allies when Iran was ruled by a U.S.-backed Shah, Iran and Israel have been implacable foes since the 1979 revolution
05-17-06 - Anti-Israel Italian Cartoon Sparks Protest An Italian communist newspaper affiliated with a party in the governing parliamentary majority, Liberazione, published a cartoon last week that likened conditions in the Palestinian Authority to those in Nazi death camps
05-17-06 - American Credibility Erodes Abroad In increasing numbers, people around the globe resent American power and wealth and reject specific actions like the occupation of Iraq and the campaign against democratically elected Palestinian leaders, in-depth international polling shows.
05-16-06 - Assailants kill Hamas militant, gunmen raid Gaza firm Unknown assailants killed a senior Hamas activist in Gaza on Tuesday, medics and a security source said, and gunmen stormed the offices of the only Palestinian cellular provider amid growing chaos in the coastal strip.
05-16-06 - Palestinians Hunker Down As Cash Runs Out He's overdrawn at the bank, owes $400 to the grocery, can no longer afford baby formula for his youngest and is trying to sell his 16-year-old car for half its value to raise cash for food. After two months without his government salary, Abdel Hakim Abu Samra, 47, is fast running out of options
05-16-06 - Urgent Press Conference on State of the Palestinian Health System On Wednesday, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel will host an urgent press conference, during which it will present new and updated information regarding the current status of the health system, which continues to deteriorate.
05-16-06 - Carter denounces Israel's new plan to redraw border Former president Jimmy Carter has denounced plans by Israel's new prime minister to unilaterally establish the geographical boundaries of the Jewish state, saying that such a move would be in violation of international accords. The French news wire, AFP, picked up this story - now will the others (AP, Reuters)?
05-16-06 - Palestinian PM urges Arab banks to help transfer aid
05-16-06 - Palestinian anger rising, Abbas warns "Life will be frozen and there will be an explosion of anger and this would lead to a chaotic situation of which we cannot foresee the results,"
05-16-06 - Abbas Urges EU to Give Hamas a Chance Abbas said the cuts had left the Palestinians facing a "humanitarian catastrophe."
05-16-06 - Hamas debating shift in stance to ease pressure Despite a public vow by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh not to make any concessions, Hamas officials said on Tuesday that some members of the group were weighing what political benefits might be reaped by softening its position and what would be the best timing for proposing any political changes.
05-16-06 - US tells Israel not to request funds The United States and Israel are still discussing a reduced aid package that would help fund economic development in the Negev and Galilee after Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last year. The funding, which has been put on hold in the wake of the devastating damage caused by a hurricane that struck the US Gulf Coast last year, was originally slated to be $2 billion, and was intended to cover part of the cost of the disengagement, but has since been reduced to $1.2 billion, with the money geared exclusively for the development of the Negev and the Galilee.
And Palestinians continue to starve.
05-16-06 - Palestinian TV protests over parliament blackout Palestinian state television filed a complaint against parliament speaker Aziz al-Dweik after cameramen were ordered to stop filming a special session of the Ramallah-based chamber.
05-16-06 - Hamas praises EU's "fairness" towards Palestinians
05-16-06 - Israel to axe six West Bank outposts before US summit
05-16-06 - Japan assures Egypt it will aid Palestinians
05-16-06 - Pakistan says Hamas election win must be respected
05-16-06 - Egypt FM calls for peaceful resolution of Iran nuclear row He said Egypt wanted a nuclear-free region -- a reference to Israel which is widely suspected of possessing but has never acknowledged a nuclear arsenal
05-16-06 - Israeli army arrests PA security officer in Bethlehem
05-16-06 - Politician against U.S. money for withdrawal "It is absurd that the American taxpayers should fund a plan that will ethnically cleanse an area of Jews by expelling tens of thousands of Jews from their homes," It was equally absurd for American taxpayers to pay for these folks to settle there in the first place - which was a violation of international law.
05-16-06 - US restores aid to Palestinian hospitals But the aid programme has been only partly restored and Liz Sime, a director of Care International, the group that delivers supplies, called for a full return of the programme.
05-16-06 - Palestinians Wary of Haniyeh's Financial Policies
05-16-06 - Israeli bank decides to cut ties with Palestinian banks Israel Discount Bank announced on Tuesday that it would cut all ties with Palestinian banks by November, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported on its website.
05-16-06 - As neighbors break apart, one faces economic disaster "Palestinians really tried hard to achieve economic development in the 1980s," he said. "But it reached a point where development under occupation is really an illusion."
05-16-06 - Hebron: Israelis show solidarity with Palestinians Descendents of Jews killed in 1929 Hebron massacre visit city to tell settlers 'you have no legitimacy to act in our names, harass local Palestinian population'
05-16-06 - Rice names anti-Semitism adviser The US is now the anti-Semitism police for the world. And only anti-Semitism? What about anti-Christianity?
05-16-06 - Azeris to open Israel Embassy ?shortly? Yevda Abramov told Baku Today that the issue was raised last month when Azeri President Ilham Aliyev visited Washington and met with Jewish leaders. And here's why.
05-16-06 - Financial Times Will Publish Special Report on Investing in Israel After suffering a three-year recession following the start of the Palestinian uprising in 2000 and the bursting of the global hi-tech bubble, Israel's economy has been on an upward track since 2004 Israel enjoys great prosperity.
05-16-06 - Overseas pro-Israel students revel in American attitudes at forum "Having senators, congressmen and the president- all these really significant and important leaders of your country - backing Israel and talking about how important it is for Israel to be secure was amazing," They have the Israeli lobby to thank for that.
05-16-06 - Moss puckers up with Jemima Khan for Palestinian kids
05-16-06 - Purpose found in plight of Palestinians When Furui was learning photography, she went to see a photo exhibition on Palestinian children. It sparked a keen interest in Palestinians and the loss of their homes after Israel was founded in 1948, the year Furui was born.
05-16-06 - I call it an apartheid state
05-15-06 - EU vows to speed Palestinian aid; says Israel key "Now I think it is crucial that Israel also resume transfers of tax and customs revenues, which are essential to prevent a crisis in the Palestinian territories," ......Solana hinted U.S. Congressional resistance might make it impossible for the World Bank to run the mechanism Our government may still insist on starving an entire population.
05-15-06 - Israel's new plan: A land grab By Jimmy Carter It is inconceivable that any Palestinian, Arab leader, or any objective member of the international community could accept this illegal action as a permanent solution to the continuing altercation in the Middle East. This confiscation of land is to be carried out without resorting to peace talks with the Palestinians, and in direct contravention of the "road map for peace," which President Bush helped to initiate and has strongly supported.
05-15-06 - Report: Abbas target of assassination plot
05-15-06 - Rosemarie Said Zahlan Like her elder brother Edward Said (obituary, September 26 2003), Rosemarie's Palestinian identity was central to her life. She was stamped from an early age by the experience of cousins, aunts and friends made refugees in 1948, and she married a Palestinian academic from Haifa
05-15-06 - Peretz defends wave of attacks on Palestinians Since April the army has killed about 45 Palestinians, including five children, in scores of raids on the West Bank and by firing thousands of shells into the Gaza Strip
05-15-06 - Activists bring Jerusalem's Arab history to life for Nakba Day Rotem's activities are part of the "Nakba 60" project, a coalition of five Jewish and Palestinian organizations established a year and half ago. "The project aims to raise awareness of the Nakba
05-15-06 - Shops Demolished Again in Northern Jordan Valley
05-15-06 - Palestinians mark Israel's creation amid air strike
05-15-06 - Sweden to increase financial aid for Palestinians
05-15-06 - Hadley: We oppose paying P.A. payroll Stephen Hadley, President Bush?s national security adviser, met Monday with about 30 Jewish leaders from an array of organizations to discuss next week?s visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hadley is a neocon.
05-15-06 - Putin offers aid to Palestinians A Kremlin source says Russia intends to help create a normal life for the Palestinian people.
05-15-06 - Israeli unilateral moves will wreck two-state vision: Abbas "The Israeli side is using every excuse possible to tell the world there is no Palestinian partner to negotiate with," Abbas, who is currently in Russia, said in a pre-recorded address.
05-15-06 - The Palestinian Nakba Continues
05-15-06 - Israel's Independence: The Victims' Views
05-15-06 - Jordan demands security talks with Hamas over arms
05-15-06 - Abbas calls for renewed peace talks with Israel on 'day of mourning' "I tell our neighbours, the Israelis, that we want to make a just and lasting peace with you, and we want a better future for our children and yours,"
05-15-06 - Hamas PM vows to resist 'unholy alliance' "I say by God the Palestinian government will not make any concessions that infringe on the rights of the Palestinian people... By God we will not infringe the legitimacy of the occupier."
05-15-06 - Day by day, the damage deepens From my visit to the region with the UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, it is clear that risks to physical and mental health are multiplying.
05-15-06 - Israeli Arabs: Nakba our Holocaust Day "It is more important to us than the Holocaust is to the Jewish nation. Ninety percent of Arab population was expelled on this day; many villages no longer exist, and this is our way of remembering those events."
05-15-06 - Ex-Israeli army chief warns of long-range Iran missiles "Ahmadinejad is promising the end of history in two or three years' time and I suggest that we believe him," Ahhh.. aren't we exaggerating things just a tad bit?....
05-15-06 - Palestinian political prisoners in Israel to donate monthly allowances to cash-strapped P.A.
05-15-06 - Israeli Officials Spar Over Palestinians Olmert has rebuffed attempts by Peretz to send more humanitarian aid and to arrange a summit with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
05-15-06 - The Palestinian tipping point
05-15-06 - Israel gets spot on U.N. committee membership would be a "good way to diversify our visibility in the United Nations."
05-15-06 - Israeli Lawyer Registers Criminal Indictment against Ahmadinejad in German Court Shahar has taken the initiative to file a case in the German Court to carry out criminal proceedings in absentia against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his brazen denial of the Holocaust and his urging Germany (and Austria) to resettle all Jews in Israel to Germany and Austria. Denying the Holocaust in Germany is an offense, punishable by law with a maximum of five years in prison and a fine.
05-15-06 - Israeli Army Fired 5000 Shells at Gaza Strip in Six Weeks
05-15-06 - U.S. working behind the scenes to bolster Abbas The U.S. administration is working behind the scenes to bolster the security forces under the control of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli sources said Monday. According to the sources, the United States is also promoting the creation of a new Palestinian administration that will manage the border crossings in the Gaza Strip.
05-15-06 - UNRWA chief urges Hamas engagement A senior U.N. official called for the West to hold talks with "moderate" members of the new Palestinian Authority government under Hamas.
05-15-06 - Most Israelis, Palestinians lack confidence on peace process: poll
05-15-06 - OPT: Council conclusions on Middle East Peace Process
05-15-06 - Palestinian Bible Society's Gaza bookshop reopened
05-15-06 - Israeli troops briefly intrude into Gaza: Palestinian sources
05-15-06 - Israeli-Palestinian couple fight to live together
05-15-06 - If Zionism conflicts with equality, so be it "If Zionism conflicts with equality, so be it" - which has been the very essence of the problem since the early Zionist leaders gave the Arabs of Palestine a choice: submit or be expelled.
05-15-06 - Professor fights portrayal as supporter of terrorism Beinin, a 58-year-old Jewish professor who supports Palestinian rights, knows he has enemies. Secure in his tenured position at an elite university, he routinely criticizes U.S. leaders for failing to understand why Americans are hated in the Arab world. He decries the humanitarian costs of the Palestinian occupation. David Horowitz is leading that smear campaign, among others.
05-15-06 - This Palestinian Crisis Can End Today, Palestinians are trapped, with no way out. Hamas won their victory not, as our polling showed, because of corruption, but because after 12 years of a "peace process" in which Palestinians became less free and poorer, "peace" had been given a bad name and the party associated with it had been discredited.
05-15-06 - Presley's pre-Graceland home sold "We intend to restore it to its old glory. We would like to bring sick children there (for tours), Palestinian children, Israeli children, American children,"
05-15-06 - Jewish Alliance appeals for negotiations The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace sent a representative to Monday?s meeting between Stephen Hadley and Jewish leaders to present a letter from supporters calling for negotiations between Israel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a relative moderate.
05-15-06 - Barenboim to be La Scala's guest
05-15-06 - APN Asks Speaker Hastert to Support Bush Position on H.R. 4681 The Bush Administration has raised a series of serious objections to the legislation. In addition, APN cautioned the House about taking steps that could potentially undercut the work of the Quartet to find a new mechanism for delivering humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.
05-15-06 - Rania builds a brighter future for Jordan
05-15-06 - Ex-spymaster vows to help Pollard Jonathan Pollard's former handler, now an Israeli Cabinet minister, vowed to work for his release from prison.
05-14-06 - Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids In a separate raid in a nearby West Bank town, troops killed a Palestinian intelligence officer......Also killed in Qabatiyeh was a 19-year-old who was throwing rocks at the troops....In the Qabatiyeh raid, an AP Television News photographer was hit in the back by an Israeli rubber bullet
05-14-06 - Where is the global outcry at this continuing cruelty? My family was among those displaced and, though a child, I vividly remember the panic and misery of that flight from our home in Jerusalem on an April morning in 1948, with the scent of spring in the air. Palestine by then had become a raging battleground as Jews fought to seize our land in the wake of the 1947 UN partition resolution. My parents decided to evacuate us temporarily. "We will return," they insisted, "the world will not let such injustice happen!" They were wrong
05-14-06 - Swiss reporter forced to strip at Gaza border security check The security check was carried out by private security personnel but Israel Defense Forces soldiers were securing the border terminal and therefore looking on at the time.
05-14-06 - Jerusalem's Palestinians say barrier not about security "They say the wall is about security, but it's clearly gerrymandered for demographic reasons, to drastically reduce the number of Palestinians living in the city,"
05-14-06 - Boycott-squeezed Palestinians selling up
05-14-06 - Palestinians married to Israelis lose battle Israel's High Court on Sunday narrowly upheld a law that denies Israeli residency to many Palestinians who marry Israelis, rejecting appeals against a statute critics say violates human rights and is racist.
05-14-06 - Iran denies supplying weapons to Hamas
05-14-06 - Mideast spotlight on EU for Iran, Palestinian moves Washington opposes the fund paying Palestinian Authority salaries, the mainstay of the economy, and envoys said banks were reluctant to take part in anything which might breach a U.S. financial blockade of the Authority.
05-14-06 - NSW man shot in West Bank may sue army Mr Reiss is not the first Australian injured while protesting in Israel.
Perth university student Joshua Taaffe, 24, was shot through both legs by Israeli soldiers during an ISM protest in the West Bank in October 2003, and Sydney woman Kate Edwards, 26, was shot in the stomach while volunteering with ISM in April 2002.
05-14-06 - In the West Bank, an Escort for Palestinian Pupils Israeli troops protect children from radical settlers, who have attacked them. The extremists say the whole story hasn't been told.
05-14-06 - Israeli troops fire tear gas at Palestinian high school graduation ceremony, injuring two girls Two Palestinian girls, students of the Anata secondary school in East Jerusalem, were injured Thursday when Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters at schoolgirls and their parents who were gathered for the school's graduation ceremony.
05-14-06 - Too hot for Broadway Sitting in a park near London's Playhouse Theatre, where My Name is Rachel Corrie is being performed, Craig Corrie, 59, said: "The Royal Court and Katharine and Alan have treated Rachel, her writing and image with such respect, such faith. It was a real disappointment that the team in New York didn't have that same faith and respect in her."
05-14-06 - Hebron Update: 6 to 12 May 2006 Israeli settlers struck mainly on Fridays, Saturdays and Jewish Holy Days. For
example on the previous Saturday settlers had attacked a 10-year old boy,
injuring his arm. On their return from the hospital his father was relieved to
have found that his son's arm was not broken, but was told that in his absence
settlers had set fire to his car.
05-14-06 - Putin and Abbas set for key talks
05-14-06 - Teen Dies Of Injuries From Blast A Florida teenager wounded in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last month died Sunday from his injuries, a hospital spokeswoman said.
05-14-06 - IDF jeeps, soldiers escort 15 Palestinian children home from school past illegal Maon Farm outpost Last week, Dalal recounts, she was hit in the face with a rock. "Here," she touches her cheek. People coming from Maon Farm jumped on her and her friends. "It was at the foot of the black house," she says. "They put stones there, blocked the way, and then a settler came and started hitting a soldier. We clung to the soldiers' legs out of fear, but they couldn't do anything."
05-14-06 - 14 May 2006: Crisis in medical services in the territories
05-14-06 - Fuel crisis in W.Bank, Gaza ends
05-14-06 - Lebanon's new resolve on Palestinian issue Lebanon hopes to offer Palestinians greater job opportunities and better living conditions to weaken the lure of the many armed Palestinian factions operating in the camps. Though Beirut has long been under international pressure to disarm the groups, the imminent negotiations - regarded as a key step in allaying that pressure - signal a change in how the government plans to tackle the problem
05-14-06 - On eve of Olmert visit, mixed signals on Palestinian aid confuse Congress Top members of Congress, administration officials and senior diplomats are sorting through conflicting signals from Israel and its supporters as they attempt to formulate a policy on how to assist Palestinians while isolating their leaders. In other words, our Congress is taking orders from Israel.
05-14-06 - Olmert aides to Washington The prime minister is expected to push for U.S. recognition of, and financing for, Olmert's "convergence plan," under which Israel would withdraw from parts of the West Bank and annex others
05-14-06 - Islamic Jihad said planning to assassinate PA Chairman Abbas
05-14-06 - Livni endorses bills on P.A. In a Cabinet meeting Sunday, Tzipi Livni "emphasized the importance of the bipartisan efforts in both houses of Congress to increase restrictions on aid to the Hamas government while keeping the option of continued humanitarian assistance,"
05-14-06 - Haifa mayor: I agree to refugees' return Yahav added that he sympathized with the Palestinian exiles' pain. "I'll tell you frankly that I feel deeply for the refugees and their suffering and hope that their problem is solved, as my father has also tasted the bitter taste of loss and exile after he fled Germany,"
05-14-06 - Palestinians married to Israelis lose court battle for residency The majority of judges agreed with the state prosecution, which argued that it was appropriate to limit human rights in order to enhance Israel's security. This is an ongoing theme for Israel. And it has undoubtedly actually harmed Israel in the end.
05-14-06 - Olmert team lays groundwork for Bush summit The so-called convergence plan would see up to 70,000 Jews uprooted from isolated settlements in the occupied West Bank. In turn, Israel would cement control of major housing blocs where the vast majority of the quarter of a million Jewish settlers live.
05-14-06 - AIPAC case defense cites treaty the attorneys told the court last week that the Legal Cooperation Treaty signed between Israel and the US in the late 1990s, to help with criminal investigations in both countries, can be used to take depositions from the three diplomats, who are all in Israel.
05-14-06 - In West Bank outposts, Israel now almost an enemy
05-14-06 - An alliance of Palestinian, Israeli fighters It is an unusual partnership, different from other peace groups because its members took an active part in the violence they now are working to end. For more than a year they have been meeting regularly to share their experiences, forge trust and work together for a peaceful resolution
05-14-06 - Brzezinski rips U.S. policy on Iran, Hamas On cutting off aid to the Palestinians for having elected Hamas, he said: "I think the American foreign policy is mindless. "When Likud came to power in 1977, it had a position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not fundamentally different from the position of Hamas; that is to say, all of the former Palestine should be part of Israel. Some Likud officials even felt the Palestinians should be expelled physically across the Jordan River. But we did not isolate or embargo the Likud government. We kept talking to it and over a period of time, the position of Likud evolved to the point that Likud itself accepted a two-state solution. Excellent point.
05-14-06 - Help for Palestinians The international community never should have punished children, hospital patients, and elderly pensioners for the democratic election of Hamas.
05-14-06 - Irish prisoners chose death over surrender In June of 1981, a group of Palestinian prisoners in Nafha prison sent a letter to the families of the hunger strikers
05-14-06 - Don?t let the Academic Bill of Rights become law The person behind the Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) is David Horowitz, founder of the California-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Horowitz is not surprisingly an Israel-supporter.
05-13-06 - Protestors clash with soldiers in West Bank On Friday, 10 people were injured in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. An Australian activist was hospitalized after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet and an AFP photographer was shot in the hand.
05-13-06 - Police: Settlers who set caravan on fire knew guard was in it IDF sources said the settlers also beat a Palestinian guard who exited the caravan due to the fire. The guard ran to a nearby military checkpoint to report the incident.
05-13-06 - Hamas-led Cabinet Calls for Direct Talks with Jordan
05-13-06 - Palestinian Aide Appeals to Arab League
05-13-06 - India announces aid to Palestine The assistance will be primarily in the form of medicines and medical supplies as has been requested by the Hamas government in Palestine.
05-13-06 - Tel Aviv death toll rises to 10 An Israeli wounded in the April 17 suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv lunch stand died on Saturday.
05-13-06 - Hamas may talk to Israel to avert humanitarian crisis "We as an occupied people are ready to talk to all sides in order to receive aid," It's interesting to point out that the Iraqi people are not all held accountable by the United States for the actions of the 'insurgents' in their midst the way that Israel holds all Palestinians accountable for the actions of the militants or terrorists in their midst. Imagine if the United States cut off all aid, closed all borders to the Iraqi people as a way to stop the insurgency and starving the people in the process, the uproar?
05-13-06 - Nine Palestinians killed in the last week by Israeli forces; 24 injured
05-13-06 - Mubarak, Moroccan king urge renewal of Middle East peace process They also underlined their "rejection of unilateral solutions", an apparent reference to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and its planned retreat from most of the West Bank.
05-13-06 - OPT: Profile of Nahalin Village - The West Bank Barrier update Feb 2006 Before 1948 the village comprised 23,000 dunums out of which 10,000 dunums were confiscated by military orders in the years thereafter. On 4,500 dunums court cases are currently ongoing.
05-13-06 - OPT: Profile of Al-Jab'a Village - The West Bank Barrier update Feb 2006 Before 1967 the village comprised 13,000 dunums out of which 8,000 dunums were confiscated by military orders in the years thereafter. On 2,000 dunums a court case is still ongoing.
05-13-06 - Call a spade a spade
05-13-06 - Arabs 'still discussing' funds for Palestinians Under US law, any foreign bank that refuses to cooperate with the United States in cutting off funding to Hamas risks having its US assets frozen and its access to US financial markets denied.
05-13-06 - Lebanon hosts first PLO representative in 13 years A new representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation presented his credentials to President Emile Lahoud, becoming the PLO's first envoy to Lebanon in 13 years
05-13-06 - Hamas minister meets Norwegian foreign ministry official
05-13-06 - Israel discovers suicide bomb belt in West Bank
05-13-06 - Arms smuggling dispute between Hamas, Jordan aggravates
05-13-06 - Jewish newspaper begins Christian edition in Israel with support from Evangelicals The relationship between Jews and evangelicals has grown stronger in recent years, since the latest Palestinian uprising. For example, in April 2002, President Bush called on Israel to withdraw its tanks from Palestinian towns on the West Bank. The Rev. Jerry Falwell protested to the White House, followed by 100,000 e-mails from Christian conservatives. Israel did not move its tanks, and Bush did not ask again
05-13-06 - Court to rule on Citizenship Law appeal
05-13-06 - Palestinian interior ministry calls for closure of training camps
05-13-06 - Israeli envoy rebukes Canada's Arbour Arbour called on Israel and the Palestinians to respect international law and not target each other's civilian populations.
05-13-06 - Rights group praises Syria
05-13-06 - Israel's Mossad remains in charge of Iran nuclear file: report In December, Dagan, 60, predicted Iran would be able to manufacture a nuclear bomb within one to two years.
05-13-06 - Putin to host Abbas next week
05-13-06 - A Palestinian university rises from the rubble of a former Israeli settlement
05-13-06 - Let's boycott the universities On these immoral and illegal acts, Israeli academics as a community - with some brave exceptions - are at best silent and at worst open in their advocacy. Some speak of the Palestinians as representing a "demographic problem"; others indulge in racist hate-speech that in Britain would merit prosecution under race relations legislation, yet are protected in Israel by their institutions.
05-13-06 - Israel village tries to breach barrier with Palestinians
05-13-06 - Israel, Turkey plan pipeline project Israel and Turkey are negotiating the construction of a giant energy and water project that will transport water, electricity, natural gas and oil via underwater pipelines to Israel, Jerusalem Post reported on Friday.
05-13-06 - Hamas and Israel's "Right to Exist" recognizing Israel's "right to exist" could be construed to mean that Israel has a "right to exist" within whatever borders it chooses in coming years.
05-13-06 - Palestinians deserve humanitarian aid While the bill, "The Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006," is purported to be a way of keeping funds out of the hands of Hamas, the fact is that U.S. aid has been channeled to non-governmental organizations and independent contractors in the West bank and Gaza for years. So the funds wouldn't be going to the Palestinian Authority anyway.
05-13-06 - Vilsack to arrive in Israel Sunday The six-day tour of the region, including Jerusalem, was arranged and paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, a group affiliated with the politically powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
05-13-06 - SHOOTING FROM THE LIP The play has been controversial and due to its political nature its US premier was "indefinitely postponed".
05-12-06 - Sydney man shot in Israel during protest ISM spokeswoman Zadie Susser said Phil Reiss, from Yowie Bay in Sydney's south, and a Danish demonstrator were seriously injured after being shot in the head at close range with rubber bullets. Ms Susser said Mr Reiss had been volunteering with the ISM for two weeks and had been filming the demonstration.
05-12-06 - 75- year old man seriously injured after settler rammed him with his car A 75- year old man was seriously injured on Thursday after a settler rammed him with his car close to Efrat settlement, in the far north of the West Bank city of Hebron.
05-12-06 - Militant killed in Israeli raid The man, in his 20s, was identified by Palestinian sources as a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
05-12-06 - Israeli Settlers attempt to burn a Palestinian alive
05-12-06 - Seeking a bypass, as the money runs out EVER since March, when foreign donors first began cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the wake of Hamas's election victory, their refrain has been that they did not intend to punish the Palestinians personally. This week they acknowledged that the punishment was happening anyway.
05-12-06 - Quartet's aid plan may fall short Western diplomats say United States objections to including salary payments as part of the new aid program could make it impossible to reverse a steep drop in living standards, even if supplies of food and medicine increase sharply. But I bet that they hate America because 'we're free' or because we're 'infidels', mm?
05-12-06 - Palestinian children stage protest Some of the children had "I'm under siege" written on their bodies while others held placards reading:"Please save us from hunger and siege".
05-12-06 - Certification scheme crucial for Gaza farmers In the past week alone, six civilians have been wounded in the Beit Lahia area, a number of homes damaged, and, along with Shafii, a second civilian, 65-year-old Moussa Al Sawarka, was killed. Sawarka had been grazing camels in the Khousa area, to the north of Beit Lahia town, when he was killed by shell shrapnel to the head on May 6, just 500 meters from the spot where, the next day, Shafii, too, would die.
05-12-06 - Civilians will be the first victims of the suspension of direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, warns Handicap International Handicap International has been working with the most vulnerable Palestinian populations for the last ten years. Disabled people are already affected by a situation that has been ongoing for many years. They have to deal with restricted movements, difficult access to specialised treatments and poverty. The organisation has observed a rapid deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian Territories.
05-12-06 - Out of Money but Not Resources A family with enough money to prepare a large dinner one night will share a dish or two with neighbors. Taxi drivers decline to collect fares. Civil servants with other sources of income -- grown children, usually, in other parts of the world -- ask that their monthly payments from Jubran be given to those who need it more.
05-12-06 - Palestinians resort to primitive means to survive "Every time I bake bread, my face turns as red as a tomato, not to mention being tired from inhaling the smoke." Like 165,000 other Palestinians employed by the state, Ahmad, who as a senior teacher would normally make about 2,000 shekels ($450) a month, has not been paid since the Hamas-led government came to power in March.
05-12-06 - Groups to Bush: Drop Iran-Israel Linkage Messages were passed to the White House through several channels, Jewish activists said. And it seems to have worked: Speaking before the annual conference of the American Jewish Committee in Washington last week ? his most recent address before a Jewish audience ? President Bush talked about America's commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and about his administration's commitment to Israeli security, but he did not link the two, as he has several times in recent months.
But there's no Israeli lobby here that can successfully dictate to the President of the United States the contents of his speech. It's all just one big conspiracy theory. Read the bit about Iran.
05-12-06 - E.U. Aid Plan Sets Stage for Clash Washington seems poised to allow the E.U. to chart its own course on the issue. But Ayalon insisted that Jerusalem would oppose any international plan to cover salaries.
05-12-06 - Syria rejects Hamas plot confessions in Jordan
05-12-06 - Israeli army releases wild pigs around Salfit area
05-12-06 - Jerusalem family facing forced eviction and home demolition The Jerusalem Municipality is preparing to forcibly evict Muhammad Is'hac and Yousra Herbawi from the house where they live with their six children, one of whom is severely disabled, and then to demolish the building.
05-12-06 - EU looks to Israel for help with Palestinian aid
05-12-06 - On immigration, Jews seek out interfaith, interethnic partnerships ?If we want to be active partners with these organizations, we can?t look at issues of paramount importance to these communities and say we don?t see it as a Jewish issue, so we?re going to sit it out,? said Gideon Aronoff, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. ?We?ve got to nurture our common agendas ? then we can get them to engage in our other issues, like Israel.? Supporting illegals so they'll support Israel. How nice.
05-12-06 - More Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance for the Media to Ignore
05-12-06 - House To Pass Legislation To Close PLO Missions in New York and Washington The House of Representatives will pass legislation ordering the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's missions in New York and Washington next week, Congressional sources say. More legislation for Israel by our AIPAC-beholden Congress. Whose interests are being represented here? Ours? Hardly. Moves like this actually damage America's standing in a region where we are already disliked, to say the least. Karen Hughes should resign. For, it's actions such as this that render her job utterly impossible.
05-12-06 - Peretz: Rethink PA isolation that is causing humanitarian crisis Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Thursday urged a rethink of the policy of isolating the Hamas-led Palestinian government, Army Radio reported, due to the humanitarian crisis it has sparked in the Palestinian territories.
05-12-06 - Usaid sends pharmaceuticals, medical supplies to local clinics in Gaza
05-12-06 - Group claims snub by U.S. Treasury American Muslim leaders claim pleas to U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow for guidelines on how to financially aid the Palestinian people without being accused of terrorism have been ignored.
05-12-06 - Jenin residents barred from traveling ?until further notice?; Israeli blockade affects daily life
05-12-06 - Hamas official heads for Norway amid controversy
05-12-06 - Gaza militants cook up deadly mix The eyes of the chief rocket maker look young, but his words are strong.
"The Israelis kill our children," he says. "So we want to kill their civilians."
05-12-06 - Canadian UN rights chief blames both sides for Palestinian humanitarian crisis Arbour said Israel must do more, citing the government's responsibility to ensure the movement of goods, including humanitarian assistance, into and from the Gaza Strip. "As the occupying power, Israel bears responsibility under international humanitarian law . . . for the welfare of the Palestinian population," she said.
05-12-06 - More Palestinian refugees from Iraq allowed into Syria, UN agency reports
05-12-06 - Norway raises financial aid Norway's government said yesterday it would raise its financial aid to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA by 50 per cent in response to concerns about a possible humanitarian crisis in Palestinian territories.
05-12-06 - Palestinian govt rejects Olmert ultimatum
05-12-06 - West Bank travel restrictions make life difficult for Palestinians Commerce has been all but halted in some parts of the West Bank, and acres of fruits and vegetables have spoiled because they can't be moved to market. U.N. officials say restrictions on travel in and out of the Jordan River Valley, along the border with Jordan, have forced farmers to let crops rot in the field. "The Jordan Valley right now is disastrous," said David Shearer, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Jerusalem. "It's practically locked down. What you're seeing on the ground is essentially the stopping of almost all Palestinian movement."
05-12-06 - At-Tuwani Update 3-9 May 2006 At 1:00 pm, the military escort jeep for the Tuba schoolchildren arrived.
One soldier told the other to put his helmet on. Three soldiers walked, one
drove. Five male settlers shadowed the escort from near the beginning. At
1:15 pm at the roadblock on the middle road about thirty settlers ambushed
the children and soldiers...Settlers threw rocks
at the children and soldiers, and kicked and punched them. Several children
sustained injuries to legs and heads.
05-12-06 - Palestinian PM makes plea for aid
05-12-06 - Charges over Israel assassination They are alleged to have shot Rehavam Zeevi, a hardliner who advocated deporting Palestinians from the occupied territories.
05-12-06 - Hamas denies Jordan attacks plot He told the BBC Arabic Service that Hamas - which now runs the Palestinian government - was not interested in destabilising any Arab country.
05-12-06 - Hamas PM: we want neither war nor concessions "The government will not make concessions on the principles and rights of the Palestinians, but that does not mean we are calling for war or that we want disorder in the region," he said in a speech to mark the 58th anniversary of the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation, commemorated in Naqba Day next Monday.
05-12-06 - Hamas edges toward recognizing Israel in draft agreement with rival Fatah
05-12-06 - U.S. blocking $100 million to Hamas The United States successfully blocked $100 million from getting to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
05-12-06 - Rabbi, Hamas minister in 'joint coalition' A relatively small number of fervently religious Jews have made common cause with Israel's enemies because they believe that Jews should not have political sovereignty until the Messiah comes.
05-12-06 - Israeli envoy supports bills Israel's ambassador to Washington expressed support for congressional bills targeting the Palestinian Authority Naturally, since this legislation was introduced on behalf of Israel via its agents in the US Congress.
05-12-06 - Israel's Road to 'Convergence' Began With Rabin
05-12-06 - Western diplomats worried by prospect of Israeli unilateralism A number of diplomats told Haaretz that Israel's attempt to "avoid negotiations" would not be received well, and that this message was also being delivered to Washington in anticipation of Olmert's scheduled visit there next week.
05-12-06 - A Joint March of Palestinians and Israelis:
05-12-06 - Veteran UN humanitarian official named deputy envoy to Middle East
05-12-06 - Lawmaker cites AIPAC case critiques Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) cited the opinion articles, by Nat Hentoff of the Washington Times and David Wise of the Los Angeles Times, to underscore his criticism of what he said was the Bush administration?s effort to censor journalists BS. This is the puppeteering by the Israeli lobby at work here, nothing more.
05-12-06 - AJC launches anti-boycott campaign The campaign comes weeks before a British teachers association is set to consider a motion to boycott Israeli academics and institutions. The AJC has allocated $10,000 for the effort, on top of $10,000 it allocated last year, and is seeking additional contributions.
05-12-06 - U.C.-Irvine hosts offensive events Jewish students at University of California-Irvine are protesting anti-Israel events.
05-11-06 - 3 Palestinians wounded in Israeli shelling in Gaza
05-11-06 - The great catastrophe In the last week of April 1948, combined Irgun-Haganah forces launched an offensive to drive the Palestinian people out of the beautiful port city of Jaffa, forcing the remaining inhabitants to flee by sea; many drowned in the process. My aunt Rose, a teenager at that time, survived the trip to begin her life in exile on the Lebanese coast.
05-11-06 - Israeli army shells two areas in the Gaza Strip
05-11-06 - DCI/PS calls on Palestinian groups to prioritise the safety of children Defence for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS) deplores the latest round of inter-factional violence in Gaza which has resulted in the wounding of 13 people, including 10 schoolchildren.
05-11-06 - Israel Releasing Money for Palestinians Israel stopped transferring some $55 million in tax and customs revenues it collects monthly on behalf of the Palestinians shortly after Hamas won January parliamentary elections.The withholding of those funds, coupled with a cutoff in aid from the U.S. and European Union, has left the Palestinians broke and two months behind in paying salaries to government workers who provide for about a third of the people in the West Bank and Gaza
05-11-06 - Militant Signs Palestinian Border Proposal
05-11-06 - Jailed Palestinian leaders propose end to attacks in Israel Jailed leaders of the Palestinian factions have drawn up a series of proposals to ease tensions between their followers, including a pledge to end attacks inside Israel.
05-11-06 - Arab League unable to transfer funds to Palestinians "This is due to the refusal of the banks to transfer the money as a result of American and international pressure."
05-11-06 - Arrest fears prompt Israeli general to avoid Britain The Israeli army has scrapped plans to send one of its generals to a course at a British military academy over fears he could be arrested on war crimes allegations.
05-11-06 - Remembering May 15 On the fourteenth of May 1948 Israel declared independence. The following day Israeli forces moved rapidly through Palestine expelling the region?s Palestinian inhabitants from their villages. During the Nakbah an estimated 700,000 to 900,000 Palestinians vacated their homes. Most were forcibly evicted by the Israeli military while others fell victim to a paranoia that swept through Palestine as result of the forced evictions and other atrocities committed by the Israeli forces
05-11-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran
05-11-06 - Israeli Authorities level two houses in Jerusalem
05-11-06 - Gaza protests as fuel runs out
05-11-06 - Report suggests IDF document may have been forged According to the report, Zilber's home was repeatedly broken into during the years she worked on the paper. A Trojan horse was also installed on her computer allowing hackers to view her files and copy her paper
05-11-06 - Rachel Corrie's Legacy The legal papers make for sobering, eye-opening reading. The cases besides Rachel's, as described, are even more compelling. One concerns a demolition that killed a family, including a pregnant woman and children ages 4, 7, and 9. Another demolition trapped and killed a paralyzed man, despite his family's warnings to the IDF that the man was in the house. Warnings by family members during another demolition also failed to save a man in his 70s who was so sick that he could not walk or hear.
05-11-06 - Israel defence minister urges Palestinian boycott rethink New Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz is pushing for a rethink of the government's blanket boycott of the Palestinian Authority, which he fears is only strengthening Hamas, reports said.
05-11-06 - Whose human rights? Palestinians are being deprived of life-saving medicines, but the talk is all of Israeli academics being denied their privileges.
05-11-06 - Israeli rabbis awarded Japan peace prize Israel's Rabbis for Human Rights, which has built up a reputation for battling abuses by soldiers and settlers in the Palestinian territories, was honoured in Japan with a leading peace prize.
05-11-06 - Palestinian petrol crisis 'over'
05-11-06 - Israel agrees to release $95m to Palestinians
05-11-06 - Beckett to respond to Gaza death The Foreign Secretary has told the family of a British cameraman murdered in Gaza that she will ask Israel to take action following his death.
05-11-06 - Palestinian officials lobby for negotiations Three top Fatah officials lobbied congressional and administration officials to press Israel to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority president.
05-11-06 - Hebron police post to close due to harassment by Jewish settlers Judea and Samaria police commander, Major General Yisrael Yitzhak, announced Wednesday his plans to close down the community police station in Southern Hebron Hills due to violence carried out against its officers by Jewish settlers. Who is in charge here? Really.
05-11-06 - In desperation, Palestinians seek prison in Israel A growing number of desperate young Palestinian men are deliberately getting themselves arrested at Israeli checkpoints so that they will be sent to Israeli-run prisons, Israeli and Palestinian officials say.
05-11-06 - Talk radio gives Palestinians a voice
05-11-06 - Hamas: We?ll recognize Israel within '67 borders
05-11-06 - Hamas and Fatah leaders urge Abbas to lead peace talks
05-11-06 - New call by lecturers for Israeli academic boycott
05-11-06 - Palestinian PM dissatisfied with Quartet decision "The Quartet still put conditions on aid to the (Palestinian) government to force it to make concessions by recognizing legitimacy of the Israeli occupation which harms the Palestinians' rights,"
05-11-06 - Olmert kicks off the ?Negev Development Plan? by leveling Arab houses
05-11-06 - U.N. Concerned With Israel Flights He expressed the United Nations' "concern at the recent increase in violations by Israeli aircraft of Lebanese airspace" and called on Israel to stop all such flights.
05-11-06 - Israel 'one day will vanish', Iranian president says
05-11-06 - The communists who saved the Jewish state This fact will also not be mentioned in the exhibit along with the fact that among the Israelis involved in establishing contacts between the Jewish Agency and the Communist authorities in Eastern Europe there were also some of the leaders of the Israeli communist party.
05-11-06 - Group seeks funds for anti-Semitism education Efforts to combat hate crimes and anti-Semitism in Europe are in dire need of funding, experts told a Congressional committee. ...The Helsinki Commission, a bipartisan body monitoring human rights, recommends funding for such program to Congressional appropriators.
I have an idea - LET EUROPE PAY. Why is this a matter for the US Congress???
05-11-06 - What Jim Carrey Probably Doesn?t Know
05-10-06 - 3 Palestinian children with kidney's failure die due to medicine shortage He said that Gaza hospitals and kidney department at Shiffa Hospital suffer from a severe shortage of kidney medicines. He indicated that 150 children need frequent kidney dialysis.
05-10-06 - Interim aid agreed for Palestinians as churches call for siege to end After intense pressure from NGOs, Christian agencies, churches and Muslim organizations, Middle East mediators have agreed a plan which will channel aid to the stricken Palestinians, though not through the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
05-10-06 - Palestinians welcome quartet peace talks call
05-10-06 - Control without Liability Physicians for Human Rights-Israel calls for the dismantlement of the enclave. The enclave was formed because the separation barrier was not built along the route of the Green Line despite the opinion of the International Court of Justice from 2004. As long as the enclave exists, passage of medical staff in general, and emergency medical staff in particular, must be allowed without condition and without delay.
05-10-06 - West Bank fuel supply dwindles after Israeli cutoff Gas stations in the West Bank are running out of fuel after their Israeli supplier cut off deliveries over the Palestinian government's failure to pay bills, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.
05-10-06 - Israel Firm Cuts Palestinian Gas Supplies Compounding Hamas' woes, Israel has cut off about $55 million in monthly transfers of tax money it collects for the Palestinians. Israel has placed the money in escrow. Israel dipped into this money last month to pay Palestinian bills to government-owned companies, such as the Israeli electric monopoly. The Palestinians rely on Israel for many key supplies, including fuel, electricity and water
Then there is no reason why Israel cannot use this money to pay the fuel bill.
05-10-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran PM set to visit Washington in two weeks for summit with President Bush; Olmert to point to link between Tehran nuclear threat, Hamas terror, demand Americans move against Iran
05-10-06 - UK aid agencies highlight urgent Palestinian suffering As the Quartet of major powers meets in New York to discuss the Middle East peace process, Save the Children UK, Christian Aid and Oxfam GB urges the European Union to reconsider the freeze on direct aid to the Palestinian Authority.
05-10-06 - Iran unlikely to give nukes to militants - Israel If Iran eventually acquires nuclear weapons, it would be unlikely to share them with the Islamic militants it backs in the Middle East, a senior Israeli security official said on Wednesday.
05-10-06 - Artists urge PM to curb settler attacks on Palestinian children However, after a short lull, settlers recently resumed attacks against these children and their armed protectors. The severity of the assaults peaked last Saturday, when the settlers threw stones at the convoy, injuring four children and two soldiers. One of the settlers set a dog on the children, and soldiers were forced to shoot in the air in order to disperse the rioters.
05-10-06 - Emergency aid may be too little, too late for Palestinians trying to survive a crisis "They wouldn't allow me to do this if they knew," she said. "I'll buy flour, the basics and give it to them. I'll tell them God sent it to me. Of course the rings are dear to me, but my children and grandchildren have to eat." ...Officials say four kidney patients have already died after their dialysis was reduced from three times to twice a day because of drug shortages.
"We have nothing to do with Fatah or Hamas," Ms Majdalawi's mother, Ataf, said. "But we are paying the price. We are always facing pressures but now they want the Palestinians to overturn their government."
05-10-06 - Embracing Palestinians but not Hamas The real message: As much as Israel and Hamas believe they can ignore each other, the plight of the Palestinians - caused in part by each government's intransigence toward talking - should not and will not be ignored by the rest of the world.
05-10-06 - Israeli plane pounds Gaza militant training camp
05-10-06 - U.S. wary of new mechanism for bankrolling PA salaries This wariness was expressed yesterday by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, during a meeting with visiting Israel Defense Forces officers from the National Security College in Israel. John Bolton is a NEOCON.
05-10-06 - Haniyeh to Jihad: End rocket attacks
05-10-06 - The Church of Scotland to discuss divestment The report maintains Israeli policy "deliberately undermines economic efforts by and on behalf of the Palestinian people, drawing particular attention to the issues of water".
05-10-06 - Jewish groups fight over congress vote Other American Jewish groups known for their dovish approach are also lobbying Congress against the proposed language of the anti-Hamas legislation Good for them!!!!!
05-10-06 - Lobbying on Iran, groups strive to play down the Jewish angle Careful to avoid giving the impression that it's primarily an issue of Jewish or Israeli concern, however, U.S. Jewish groups are taking pains to highlight the greater regional and global threats posed by a nuclear Iran and its Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...."We have to mobilize public opinion in this country and around the word to understand the serious threat that this represents," Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JTA....Jewish groups have vigorously lobbied American and international leaders, and have held meetings to educate members of the media. Well, it acts like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck....Oops, it looks like they forgot to tell Olmert.
05-10-06 - US gives ground on Iran, Palestinian aid
05-10-06 - Palestinian majority believe Hamas cabinet unable to bring new jobs: poll
05-10-06 - Israel agrees to free Palestinian tax for aid use Israel is willing to free tax revenues collected for the Palestinian Authority on condition they go toward humanitarian causes and not the new Hamas-led government, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday. It's not Israel's money nor is it Israel's decision as to how the Palestinians spend THEIR money.
05-10-06 - Peretz slams Maon settler attacks
05-10-06 - While Hamas is snubbed, kids starve The decision by the United States, the European Union and Canada to cut financial assistance to Hamas, the winner of the recent Palestinian elections, not only disrespects the results of a clean and democratic electoral process; more ominously, it will further harm Palestinian children, already punished by the effects of the Israeli occupation.
05-10-06 - Peretz recommends transfer of NIS 50m. to PA
05-10-06 - U.S. calls on president of Azerbaijan to open mission in Israel The American request follows an appeal by Israel to the Bush administration, which was made to boost a similar demand by Jewish American groups Israeli lobby? What Israeli lobby?
05-10-06 - Israeli official meets Hamas lawmakers - report The newspaper quoted a ministry official as saying Zaken had met with some of 2,200 prisoners held at two jails, among them Hamas legislators, "to assess their mood".
05-10-06 - IN WASHINGTON, IT FEELS LIKE EARLY 2003 ALL OVER AGAIN Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, who has extraordinary contacts across the Middle East and whose predictions are nearly always right, wrote last week that a high-level Israeli official told him at Israel's National Day reception that Israel would strike first, in the next "month or two or three."
05-10-06 - Palestinian gas stations organizing nonviolent demonstration against fuel crisis The Bethlehem area is suffering a serious gas shortage which if continued would paralyze traffic in the district.
05-10-06 - Most Israeli Jews want Arab compatriots out - survey Asked if the government should encourage Arabs to emigrate, 62 percent of Jews polled by the Israel Democracy Institute said yes. Therein lies the problem. For this sentiment was around before the creation of the state of Israel long before there was a Hamas, a PLO, a PIJ, etc etc etc. The Zionist leaders even then knew that the Arabs either had to submit, or be kicked out.
05-10-06 - Palestinian fuel crisis looming "We appreciate every effort in order to help the Palestinian people by legal channels... and the legal channel is the Palestinian Authority, whether the presidency or the government," Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar told reporters, the Associated Press news agency said.
05-10-06 - Palestinian funding bill clears committee The committee approved the bill in a voice vote Wednesday, toughening a provision that extends a ban on Palestinian offices in the United States to the U.N. mission in New York.
05-10-06 - Why are we enabling Israel?
05-10-06 - Aid may flow again to Palestinians "That's an example of the type of thing that we want to be able to do for the Palestinians. What we don't want ... is that the international community is seen as stepping in and taking responsibility for things that should be the responsibility of the PA." He adds: "The PA, even if it's led by Hamas, needs to take responsibility for its people and for the consequences of its decisions."
In other words, according to this US official, our government IS in fact starving the Palestinians on purpose because they elected Hamas. Collective punishment, if you will.
05-10-06 - Palestinian factions pledge calm
05-10-06 - Jordan 'holds 20 Hamas plotters' "Hamas was attempting to recruit elements in the Jordanian arena and trying to recruit elements from abroad to send to Syria and Iran to get military training,"
05-10-06 - Russia against Hamas's isolation - Lavrov
05-10-06 - Israel warns Hamas over borders Israel is set to give the Palestinians until the end of 2006 to show they are ready to negotiate a final peace deal, Israel's justice minister has said.
05-10-06 - Judge rejects state request to throw out Palestinian farmers' compensation claim The Tel Aviv District Court rejected the state's request yesterday to turn down a demand by four Palestinians from Qalqilyah for compensation for their greenhouses, which were destroyed by the IDF during the early days of the Intifada in 2000.
05-10-06 - Settlers sell Palestinians fuel "The settlers are not doing us a favor. They are making good money on our account. In my opinion, the station had more customers in a week than a whole year," he said.
05-10-06 - NATO cites "growing threat" of missile attack Military experts reckon Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a range of some 2,000 km (1,200 miles), meaning Israel, U.S. bases in the Gulf and foreign troops in Iraq lie within their range.
05-10-06 - Egypt's Zamalek invites Palestinian PM to football match Egypt's Zamalek football club has invited Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya to attend the upcoming clash with city rivals Ahly and promised to donate part of the proceeds to the Palestinian people.
05-10-06 - Stanford professor of Middle East history sues over book calling him terror supporter Beinin, a Jewish professor who has been criticized for his support of Palestinian rights, is one of four pictures on the cover of Horowitz's book. Jews themselves are not and have never been immune from attacks - both verbal and physical - by Zionists.
05-10-06 - A Comforting Oasis Ever since I graduated from the Hebrew University, I have worked in one way or another with missions working to better the situation of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories
05-10-06 - Western diplomats worried by threat of Israeli unilateralism Western diplomats have become increasingly wary of Israel's intentions.
05-10-06 - One bowl serves many Israeli and Palestinian artists have joined forces to send a message of reconciliation.
05-10-06 - Australian politician slams anti-Israel media bias Connie Fierravanti-Wells said that she was made aware of the "anti-Jewish, anti-U.S. slant that some broadcasters relish in adopting" after she visited Israel last year on a trip run by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council's Rambam Israel Fellowship Program, the Australian Jewish News reported. Are those stations biased, or is SHE in fact the biased one?
05-10-06 - Israel, caught again with its hand in the cookie jar
05-10-06 - Mideast conflict hits N.Y. school The day also featured a dozen other sessions with several Jewish journalists and liberal Jewish voices....The school had canceled a previous Mideast day after parents complained that the line-up appeared biased against Israel.
05-10-06 - Israeli/Palenstinian video camera exchange project still on Spielberg told Time, "What I'm doing is buying 250 video cameras and players and dividing them up, giving 125 of them to Palestinian children, 125 to Israeli kids, so they can make movies about their own lives not dramas, just little documentaries about who they are and what they believe in, who their parents are, where they go to school, what they had to eat, what movies they watch, what CDs they listen to -- and then exchange the videos."
05-09-06 - US opens the door for Europe to save Palestinians from funding disaster the EU position has not been as hardline as the US and both the EU and Russia went into yesterday's meeting urging Washington to soften its approach.
05-09-06 - Quartet agrees to channel aid to Palestinians
05-09-06 - Cuts squeeze lifeline to Gaza's sick Israel stopped paying the tens of millions of dollars a month that it owes the Palestinians from customs and other revenue collection.
05-09-06 - Patients die as doctors run out of drugs to treat them
05-09-06 - FEATURE-Shadow of Israeli barrier hangs over matriarch's tomb "You look outside the window to see a nice view and all you see right in front of your face is a wall," Noustas said pointing out of her window. "We have lost everything".
05-09-06 - Report: Israel responsible for PA collapse Scathing report issued by Phycisians for Human Rights organization says Palestinian healthcare system collapsing because of aid cuts, Israel curfews; report warns Israel will be held responsible for collapse by international community
05-09-06 - Israeli Arabs send 250 tons of food, medicine to West Bank The Monitoring Committee had also requested permission to transfer a similar aid delivery to the Gaza Strip, but the delivery has been held up due to the closure on Gaza, and is awaiting the Israeli go ahead.
05-09-06 - Two injured, including teen, as Israeli forces continue to pound northern Gaza with artillery Palestinian security sources reported that a Palestinian man and boy suffered shrapnel wounds Monday morning, after Israeli tanks occupying the northeastern Gaza Strip border fired tank shells.
05-09-06 - U.S., Allies Agree to Palestinian Aid Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the European Union would take the lead in the new effort What? Our government - as a result of goading by Israel - is the reason the Palestinians were cut off from aid in the first place. I don't believe that this matter should be in Rice's hands.
05-09-06 - Hamas and Fatah ban carrying of arms
05-09-06 - Russia may continue giving aid to Palestine - Foreign Ministry
05-09-06 - New U.K. attempt to boycott Israeli universities, professors The largest university and college lecturers union in Britain is likely to decide shortly to recommend that its 67,000 members boycott Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy in the territories.
05-09-06 - Would an attack on Iran be legal? the US would probably seek to justify an attack under the self-defence principle, and it would first of all have to outline the nature of the threat. .....The US might say that it was acting in protection of or at the request of Israel, which could argue that it was under a greater threat than the US itself.
05-09-06 - U.N. body welcomes Gaza food from top donor Japan "Ever since the new representation in the Gaza Strip, we've had difficulty in persuading some of our traditional donors to continue giving, but fortunately Japan doesn't share this reluctance," Japan doesn't put stipulations on its humanitarian aid.
05-09-06 - Israel wall to be largely done this year
05-09-06 - Unified Arab-American Lobbying Effort Urged
05-09-06 - Damu Smith, peace activist, dies at 54 Smith, who complained of stomach problems for years, fell ill last year in March while leading a delegation for Palestinian rights in the Middle East. After his return to Washington, doctors told Smith he was in the end stage of colon cancer.
05-09-06 - Jewish celebration picketed Carrying red, black, white and green Palestinian flags and
protest signs, members of three groups - the Huron Valley
Greens and Defend Palestine Ann Arbor, which sponsored the
protest, and Jewish Witnesses for Peace - loudly vocalized
anti-Israeli chants, urging the Jewish community to take a
stand on what they said is Israel's mistreatment of
Palestinians.
05-09-06 - West Bank barrier prompts Arabs to cross over
05-09-06 - Israeli officials secretly planning on convergence plan Israeli high-ranking officials from different ministries have been secretly planning the legal framework of the convergence plan for several months, the Ha'aretz newspaper report Monday, citing government sources.
05-09-06 - Hasner leads effort for Florida?s support of Israel "Now is the time to affirm our solidarity with Israel," Hasner stated during debate on the floor of the House of Representatives, "It's a critical time in the Middle East and it's important for the state of Florida to show its solidarity with the lone Democracy in that region." Lone democracy in the region? I don't think so.
05-09-06 - More than half of Israelis want gov't to help Arabs emigrate More than half of Israelis think the government should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate from Israel, according to an annual survey by the Israel Democracy Institute.
In case this story gets yanked or changed by Haaretz, here it is elsewhere on the web.
05-09-06 - Hamas signals wariness over international aid
05-09-06 - Hamas minister to visit four more European countries after Sweden
05-09-06 - Syria takes in Palestinian refugees stranded on Iraq border "Neither the Iraqis nor the Jordanians wanted us,"
05-09-06 - Lebanese PM asks for Blair's help on evicting Israel from Shebaa He asked Blair "to exert the pressure on Israel so that the Israelis can withdraw from the Shebaa Farms", and said he wanted the matter raised at the United Nations.
05-09-06 - Abbas appeals for end to foreign aid freeze Several proposals, including a French one to allow the World Bank to channel funds to pay salaries, are expected to be presented when the Quartet -- the United States, the European Union, the U.N. and Russia -- convenes.
05-09-06 - Speak out against Palestine blockade, Left tells PM Criticising the US, the European Union and Israel for the decision to stop funds to the Palestinian authority, the four-party Left Front expressed 'surprise' that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had been silent about the 'onslaught' on the Palestinian people.
05-09-06 - Palestinians losing link to U.S. care Steve Sosebee, founder and director of the children's charity, said the U.S. sanctions are so stringent that he is being forced to cancel life-saving missions by U.S. doctors.
05-09-06 - West Bank Territories Opened
05-09-06 - Fire erupts at Palestinian parliament
05-09-06 - MI chief warns that Iran will produce nuclear bomb by 2010 Iran will have acquired nuclear bombs by 2010, the head of Israel's Military Intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.
05-09-06 - Howard to visit US, Canada and Ireland On Tuesday, he will meet Mr Bush, senior members of the US cabinet and Congressional leaders. That evening, he will be presented with international Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith's presidential gold medal for steadfast friendship to the people of Israel before the White House dinner.
Canada - the newest Israeli-occupied territory.
05-08-06 - House Voting on Anti-Palestinian Legislation Tuesday the House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday, May 9 on H.R. 4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006. This bill imposes draconian economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Palestinian people for exercising their democratic rights.
05-08-06 - Aid Cuts Cripple Palestinian Health Care The West's economic boycott of the Hamas-led regime has brought the perpetually strained Palestinian health care system to the brink of disaster, international aid workers and government officials say. They warn of an epidemic of preventable deaths if money is not found soon.
05-08-06 - Aid block 'may ruin Palestinians' There are food and petrol shortages in Gaza, whose borders are entirely controlled by Israel.
05-08-06 - Hebron Update: 29 April to 5 May 2006 On school patrol in Shuhada Street Dave Corcoran and Christina Gibb encountered
a group of Israeli settler boys kicking a Palestinian boy on his way to school.
Corcoran rushed over to protect the Palestinian boy. The settler children spat
on Corcoran and kicked him. They broke into a door to attack another
Palestinian school child. Corcoran again intervened. In the melee he dropped
his mobile phone. Settler boys immediately kicked it around before stealing it Imagine what these undisciplined and violent children will grow up to do. Where are they learning such behavior in the first place, one wonders.
05-08-06 - Israel Intent on Keeping Jordan Valley Israel has given no indication what will become of the Palestinian farmers in the valley, or whether the corridor will become an impenetrable wedge dividing the West Bank. Ahh, they'll just chase those pesky Palestinian farmers out as they've done for nearly 60 years. Law, what law?
05-08-06 - Jewish majority fundamental to Israel survival: PM Imagine if the headline read "White majority fundamental to America's survival"? It's something that white supremacists would say.
05-08-06 - Palestinians See No Way Out in Standoff Many Palestinians would likely balk at returning to the polls so soon after the January vote. They have been upset with what they consider the hypocrisy of the West, which they say preached democracy to them, then refused to accept the results.
05-08-06 - Hamas PM vows to prevent civil war after three killed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya vowed not to allow a civil war to break out after clashes between his Hamas movement and the rival Fatah faction left three dead and 11 wounded.
05-08-06 - Settlers Assult Humans Rights Workers in Hebron - Soldiers Refuse to Intervene The oldest settler, approximately 40 years old, got close to their faces and whispered "I like to kill Arabs. I like to kill Arabs." Then another settler punched the male HRW, who was still sitting down, in the face. At that point, the soldier located 6 meters away approached but did and said nothing.
05-08-06 - Israel warns Iran against attack Israel's Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres says Iran should understand that it could be destroyed if it were to launch an attack on his country.
05-08-06 - Dovish groups oppose Hamas bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has lobbied strongly for the bill, and with 290 co-sponsors it is almost guaranteed to pass
05-08-06 - Restrictions on Palestinians eased Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he would soon sign an order allowing 12,000 Palestinian laborers and merchants from the West Bank to work in Israel.
05-08-06 - Punishing prospects International law bans collective punishment - a tenet the representatives of the Middle East peace "quartet" should bear in mind when they meet in New York today to consider the grave situation in the Palestinian territories
05-08-06 - Hamas, Abbas fail to agree on way out of Palestinian crisis
05-08-06 - Israel warns nationals to leave Sinai 'immediately' Israel's counter-terrorism unit advised all nationals visiting the Sinai peninsula to "immediately" leave the neighbouring Egyptian territory citing "concrete" threats to kidnap Israelis.
05-08-06 - Europe's actions threaten more chaos for Palestinians
05-08-06 - Olmert promises more West Bank settler evictions Gaza, the West Bank and E. Jerusalem are Israeli-OCCUPIED territories. All Israeli settlements built therein are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention, article 49.
05-08-06 - Iran's nuclear gambit - the basics Mr. Negroponte, testified to Congress in February that Iran "will likely have the capability" to produce a nuclear weapon within 10 years......Some of the shortest estimates, of less than two years, come from Israel No kidding?
05-08-06 - Straw Canned Over Iran? there is no rational basis for a belief that Iran's nuclear ambitions are a threat to "the world," unless all that is important to you in the world is Israel's regional dominance in the Middle East, or perhaps the continuation of the United States' free hand in the same area
05-08-06 - Indonesia Muslims urge US to end Palestine aid ban More than 10,000 supporters of a popular Muslim party marched through the streets of at least three Indonesian cities on Sunday demanding Washington and its allies work with the Palestinian Hamas-led government.
05-08-06 - UK cabinet shuffle may benefit J'lem Israel may have come out the winner following Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet shuffle on May 5. The demotion of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and appointment of Blair loyalist Margaret Beckett to his post are likely to result in a more unified Anglo-American approach to Iran, Hamas and the Middle East
Britain is ruled by neocons, by proxy. Read between the lines.
05-07-06 - Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. God bless Jimmy Carter.
05-07-06 - Israeli fire in Gaza kills Palestinian farmer-medics
05-07-06 - Three die in Fatah-Hamas clashes Clashes broke out in the early hours after Hamas and Fatah accused each other of kidnapping their members.
05-07-06 - Settlers evicted in Hebron clearance Meanwhile, a fifty-five-year-old Palestinian civilian was killed after being hit by shrapnel from an Israeli artillery shell while farming in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights claimed. His death occurred just 500 metres from the site of the killing by Israeli shrapnel of a 65-year old man on Saturday evening while he was grazing his camels.
05-07-06 - Interview of President Bush by Sabine Christiansen of Ard German Television I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce [sic] its desire to destroy Israel. On the other hand, the elections did say to people in the Palestinian Territories, we're sick and tired of corruption. We want leaders who don't steal from us. We want leaders who help us educate our children and provide health for our citizens. Our president knows exactly why the Palestinians elected Hamas, yet does nothing in the face of the human catastrophe that is unfolding in the Palestinian Territories. That's the power of the Israeli lobby
05-07-06 - Palestinian funds crisis 'underestimated' The World Bank has warned donors that the financial crisis gripping the Palestinian Authority since Hamas won election was deeper than it first thought and could render the West Bank and Gaza ungovernable.
05-07-06 - EU plans to go it alone with aid for Palestinians The EU is preparing to go it alone and channel emergency funds to the Palestinians if talks with the US, Russia and United Nations on setting up an international mechanism for easing their financial plight fail this week, senior officials indicated at the weekend.
05-07-06 - Hebron settlers evicted in early test for Israeli leader In the nearby village of Susiya, Khalil Khalayla, an Arab farmer, found yesterday morning that settlers had uprooted 60 trees in his olive grove. The saplings had been planted by Jewish and Arab human rights activists last month to replace trees destroyed in an earlier raid. Settlers claim that the land in question belongs to them, but an Israeli court has already ruled in favour of the Palestinians.
05-07-06 - Hamas sanctions squeeze the life out of West Bank "All the international aid agencies put together will not be able to replace the services that the Palestinian Authority provides," said David Shearer, the head of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs.....Last week a group of 36 aid agencies working with Palestinians, including the British groups Merlin and Save the Children UK, wrote a joint letter to Israel urging it to fulfil last November's agreement to allow trade in and out of Gaza.
05-07-06 - Palestinian talks on fund crisis fail
05-07-06 - Israel shuts down all crossings on Israel-Gaza borders
05-07-06 - Soldiers indicted for shooting during settler-Palestinian clash A number of Israeli volunteers had come to the area, east of Elon Moreh, to protect the farmers of the village of Salem while they worked in their olive groves and fields. The clashes began after settlers prevented a Palestinian riding a tractor from reaching his field, located near Skali farm.
05-07-06 - Tough times for Arab journalists 'Israeli soldiers discriminated against Arab journalists and abuses against them, whether they worked for local media or pan-Arab TV stations, such as al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, increased during the year. The Israeli army hounded, threatened, summoned and arrested them, sometimes without subsequent trial,' the report said.
05-07-06 - Hamas denies its armed wing plans to kill Abbas A spokesman for Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeina, also dismissed the report as baseless in a statement on Sunday
05-07-06 - Morgan Stanley: Israel almost perfect US investment house Morgan Stanley has released a glowing review of the Israeli economy, entitled "Israel: Almost Perfect".
05-07-06 - Jordan king says 2 years left to win Mideast peace
05-07-06 - Bush Taking Iran Threats 'Very Seriously' President Bush says he's paying close attention to threats made against Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
05-07-06 - Buffett deal to fuel investment in Israel - Olmert As Israel kills innocent civilians like the two farmers of the past two days and cuts off all food via Karni, as well as seeing to it that the PA can no longer pay its salaries to hospital workers, policemen, teachers and more, Israel is being rewarded by investors.
05-07-06 - Israel foils plot to kill Palestinian president A HAMAS plot to assassinate Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has been thwarted after he was tipped off by Israeli intelligence.
05-07-06 - Hebron Release: Eviction of Hebron settlers has started
05-07-06 - Chicago's mayor cancels visit to West Bank barrier Daley attributed the change to a scheduling conflict. But last-minute phone consultations between Israeli army officers accompanying the aborted visit suggested the mayor's aides wanted to avoid media images of the mayor against the backdrop of the contentious project....The cancellation of Daley's visit to the barrier sharpened questions about the planning of the mayor's visit to Israel, which was sponsored and organized by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
05-07-06 - Opening the debate on Israel If the U.S. news media were to become committed to a single standard of human rights, the shift would transform public discourse about basic Israeli policies - and jeopardize the U.S. government's support for them. It is against just such a single standard that the epithet of "anti-Semitism" is commonly wielded. From the viewpoint of Israel and its supporters, the ongoing threat of using the label helps to prevent U.S. media coverage from getting out of hand. Journalists understand critical words about Israel to be hazardous to their careers.
05-07-06 - Gaza defiance in face of US pressure
05-07-06 - Russia Says Middle East Mediation to Revive Dialogue on Road Map
05-07-06 - E. J'lem diggings continue despite threat to kindergarten The kindergarten operates in the courtyard of a mosque in the Wadi Hilwe neighborhood of the East Jerusalem suburb of Silwan. The excavations funded by the Elad association for Jewish settlement of East Jerusalem take place a few meters away from the mosque.
05-07-06 - Do Palestinians need to convert to Judaism to get Justice? Israel's territorial ambitions are predicated on the assumption that one group of people are better than the other. Israelis are entitled to the land, its resources, and the full range of human rights, while Palestinians are herded into open-air prison camps and treated like chattel.
05-07-06 - Hamas and Fateh school teachers collect monthly funds for the unpaid
05-06-06 - Israeli strikes on Gaza claim six more lives A 60-year old farmer was the latest victim of Israeli shelling, which continued all day yesterday in response to the firing of six missiles at Israel on Friday.
05-06-06 - Palestinian man killed in Israeli shelling on Gaza Medics at Kamal Odwan hospital said that Musa Sawarkah, 63, was killed by tank shell shrapnel, as the shell landed near his home in Beit Lahya town in northern Gaza Strip.
05-06-06 - Aid Cuts Cripple Palestinian Health Care "We have to look at their faces, their yellow faces," he said. "This cannot work. This is a human crisis." Hospital officials said four dialysis patients have died in recent weeks because of the shortage of medicines.
05-06-06 - Tuba Children and Soldier Escort Ambushed by Ma'on Settlers Settlers
threw rocks at the children and soldiers, and kicked and punched them. Several
children sustained injuries to legs and heads, three required medical attention.
One soldier fired his gun in the air; police have not yet arrested any settlers
05-06-06 - Palestinian pain, one kid at a time Israel claims it needs to restrict Palestinian movement in response to the new Hamas-led government. But the reality is that Israel first established its system of permits and closures in 1991, and we have been living under these difficult conditions ever since.
05-06-06 - A Bush/Neocon/Zionist Atomic 'Incident' In The US?
I have been speaking about some kind of an "October Surprise," i.e. some kind of a spectacular event designed to assist Bush and his Republicans to overcome growing evidence that his party will be obliterated at the November, 2006, mid-term elections. I have seen a number of vague references to something of this sort on various speculative websites but there is certainly strong evidence that such a project is being discussed. Same here. A speculative and immenent terror attack on US interests is being put forth so routinely, it's scary. It was first put forth in a column for the American Conservative by former CIA official Philip Giraldi.
05-06-06 - Palestinians may get aid package soon: top EU official Ferrero-Waldner called on Israel to release those funds.
"We have been very clear. We have not been biased. They should pay the customs and taxes to the Palestinians,"
05-06-06 - Five Palestinians detained after girl, 8, strangled in Beit Shemesh shopping area
05-06-06 - Book: Palestinian Killed With Chocolate The Mossad, working with a Palestinian who had become close to Haddad, secretly gave him Belgian chocolate laced with poison over six months, Klein said. Haddad died in March 1978, showing only symptoms of leukemia but no signs of poisoning, Klein told the radio.
Why does this ring a bell, hmmm? What other Palestinian died not so long ago of an undetermined illness, mewonders?....
05-06-06 - Palestinian leaders discuss financial crisis Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas met with Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, of the radical Hamas movement, to discuss the ongoing financial crisis in the territories.
05-06-06 - Palestinians flog gold for food
05-06-06 - Palestinian Workers Demand Salaries "I haven't received a salary for 66 days. Of course I'm not happy with the government," said one teacher. "I need to live and I need to feed my children." The teacher, a father of six, asked not to be identified, fearing he could lose his job.
05-06-06 - Britain denies trust fund would hurt Hamas boycott "Humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people should not be conditional on actions by Hamas," the document said.
05-06-06 - Dreams pushed aside by reality Nafida Abu Aser is the psychological councilor at Nora?s school. Nafida says that "we do our best to alleviate the children?s suffering through home visits and certain programmes within school." In spite of this she cannot overemphasise the detrimental effect that the continuous shelling of Gaza is having on the students? educational achievement
05-06-06 - Lebanese premier to urge British pressure on Israel Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is to urge his British counterpart to put pressure on Israel to withdraw from contested territory at the convergence of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Evidently, the US would not pressure Israel for the same reason, despite the attempt by Siniora to lobby our governmment toward that end only weeks ago. The newfound concern by the Bush administration for Lebanon ends when it comes to any pressure on Israel.
05-06-06 - Rice, Russian official discuss Mideast, Iran The gathering comes amid a growing rift between Moscow and Washington over aid to the Palestinian Authority after the election of Hamas, a militant group that refuses to recognize Israel and is responsible for dozens of suicide bombings.
05-06-06 - Jenin on hunger strike in nonviolent protest against the ?starvation of children and residents Dozens more Palestinians join nonviolent protest, hunger striking against ?starvation of children and the Palestinian nation, as the US-led economic blockade continues against Palestinians after the elected the Hamas party into the Palestinian Legislative Council.
05-06-06 - Hamas refuses to join Palestinian delegation to Amman Hamas has refused to take part in a Palestinian delegation visiting Jordan in protest over accusations that the Islamist movement was planning attacks on Jordanian soil.
05-06-06 - An open letter to Senator John Warner I am writing to you in your capacity as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. I am the wife of James Mahlon Lupton, CT1, who was killed aboard the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel on June 8, 1967.
05-06-06 - Hebron Update: 22-28 April 2006 Arbour and Montgomery attended a press conference at the Alternative Information
Center in Jerusalem where Montgomery and representatives from other groups in
Hebron spoke about recent Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians and human
rights workers. Representatives of about fifteen media organizations heard them
call upon Israeli police and military to uphold the law and take steps to
restrict settler violence To my knowledge, most American mainstream media ignored this, as usual.
05-06-06 - Palestinians to close Oslo office The PLO delegation in Oslo, which has acted as the embassy of the Palestinian self-governing authorities in Norway, will have to close down their office due to lack of funds.
05-06-06 - Clashes over Hebron settler move
05-06-06 - U.S. Warns Russia to Act More Like A Democracy Or we starve them next (like we are doing to the Palestinians)?...
05-06-06 - Palestinian lawmaker calls on all factions to join national dialogue
05-06-06 - Outstanding issues with Abbas still unresolved: Haneya Speaking to reporters after a three-and-half-hour meeting with Abbas at the latter's headquarters in Gaza City, Haneya said that the meeting agreed to form a joint ministerial panel to continue discussions on resolving all outstanding issues.
05-06-06 - Egyptian FM calls for changes to Mideast roadmap
05-06-06 - Palestinian Products Steal Limelight at Bourget
05-06-06 - Jordanian King to meet Olmert to push for peace talks
05-06-06 - Number of Unemployed Persons Rise to Reach 210,000 in Q1, 2006, PCBS Says
05-06-06 - Woman drawn back to church after 10 years
05-06-06 - Hebron Release: Israeli squatters defy High Court ruling Members of the Hebron Christian Peacemaker Team continue to watch the situation.
They fear that an influx of ultra-Zionist activists, many armed, will lead to
renewed attacks on Palestinians and on international human rights observers.
05-06-06 - The uproar over the Israel lobby
05-05-06 - Our government is blocking aid to people that will starve Our government is blocking aid to people that will starve
very soon. Some people are dying in the state-run hospitals.
Many countries have pledged aid, but the banks won't transfer it because they fear US repercussions.
05-05-06 - Palestinian killed on Israel arrest operation Mohammed al-Kotob, 19, who had been throwing stones at Israeli troops conducting an arrest operation in the city of Nablus, died from a bullet to the chest after soldiers opened fire on the protestors.
05-05-06 - Five dead as Israelis strike Gaza
05-05-06 - US blocking EU aid for Palestinians, diplomats say European diplomats say the US is blocking European Union (EU) plans to resume direct financial aid to the Palestinians.
05-05-06 - Aid agencies condemn boycott In a bleak report detailing a Gaza Strip in economic tailspin, the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) cautioned donor nations and Israel that the strategy of starving out the newly elected Hamas government by rerouting aid to outside agencies is deepening the suffering of civilians.
05-05-06 - Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Additional funds from this emergency appeal will be directed to the most vulnerable populations in Gaza and the West Bank, ensuring, for example, that widows and families with small children have sufficient cooking fuel, hygiene products and other essentials. Mercy Corps will work with local organizations to identify potential beneficiaries and meet their most pressing needs.
05-05-06 - Humanitarian crisis on Gaza doorstep: UN He also said UNRWA was having to pay 78,000 dollars a month in surcharges for empty food containers stuck in Gaza because of a refusal to allow exports to cross the Karni crossing between Israel and the Palestinian territory.
05-05-06 - At-Tuwani Release: "Are you afraid of the settlers too?" A CPTer overheard one of the children ask an Israeli police officer, "Are
you afraid of the settlers too?"
05-05-06 - Israeli authorities impose more restrictions on UNRWA staff members' access to Jerusalem In an unprecedented development, the Israeli Government failed to officially inform UNRWA, and other United Nations agencies, about its decision to impose a general closure from 1 May through 4 May and did not inform the Agency that its West Bank staff, holders of Israeli-issued travel permits allowing them access to Jerusalem, would be prevented from reporting to work.
05-05-06 - The Israel Lobby At least two of the letters complain that we ?catalogue Israel?s moral flaws?, while paying little attention to the shortcomings of other states. We focused on Israeli behaviour, not because we have any animus towards Israel, but because the United States gives it such high levels of material and diplomatic support. An articulate and well-reasoned response by Mearsheimer and Walt to the criticism of their report on the Israeli lobby. It is a must read.
05-05-06 - Palestinians rally in support of Hamas government "We may starve but we will not cave in,"
05-05-06 - Lord Goldsmith to consider trial over Britons shot dead in Gaza The film-maker's widow, Sophy, 35, said: "When an innocent man is killed in cold blood there should be accountability. If the Israelis can't provide that then the onus is on our government to do that."
05-05-06 - EU ready to release Palestinian aid package European Humanitarian Aid commissioner Louis Michel will offer to release 34 million euros (43 million dollars) in aid for the Palestinian territories, where the government is facing financial meltdown.
05-05-06 - Israel PM looks to US as first step to redrawing borders "Before anyone moves, support has to be won from the Americans for the new line which will deviate from the Green Line," that delineates between Israel and occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank. In other words, they want our support for their violation of international law. No other country on earth gets to draw up their borders at will - at the expense of another people and with the support of the world's only superpower - the US. There's no doubt that they will get this support.
05-05-06 - Palestinian small businesses cut customer credit "The most painful thing is when your kid wants something and you cannot afford it ... Sometimes I regret the fact I brought these girls into this life," said Hussein, choking back tears.
05-05-06 - EU to aid Abbas in plan to avert PA collapse
05-05-06 - Israeli Military confiscates land, demolish Palestinian house, barn in Hebron area
05-05-06 - Arab nations aim to push quartet over Palestinians "We cannot wait for this to spiral further down to the point of no return. When you have an angry, unemployed, impoverished population, democracy and freedom and coexistence go out the window. It's survival,"
05-05-06 - Palestinians in Lebanon collect aid for compatriots
05-05-06 - Bush: US must ensure Israel's security The US president also said that he would keep pushing for a strong resolution at the United Nations to curb Iran's nuclear programs. "America will continue to rally the world to face these threats," Bush said.
05-05-06 - "New Anti-Semitism" - A Reality or A Misused Concept?
05-05-06 - Swedish PM says stands by Hamas visa decision
05-05-06 - Bil?in: Un-cage Palestine!
05-05-06 - Shofat Families Demonstrate for Right to Worship
05-05-06 - U.S. Congress to vote on bill outlawing Hamas funding A bipartisan effort headed by Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with the support of Democrat Tom Lantos, managed to raise the required 290 co-sponsors to bring the bill before Congress. Two Israel-firsters, what a coincidence?!!
05-05-06 - U.S. cool to French proposal of escrow account to Palestinians I cannot believe that my government is directly causing people to starve, and renal patients in hospitals to die. This is the AIPAC America, folks. The bullseye over America just got bigger, thanks to it.
05-05-06 - Miller's family to meet attorney general Solicitor Louise Christian, who represents Miller's family, said after the inquest that the killing was "essentially murder of a civilian by a soldier". She said technically it was "a war crime" and as such should be prosecuted under the Geneva Conventions Act.
05-05-06 - Book asserts Palestinian leader poisoned Haddad died several months later in a rundown hotel in East Germany after doctors were unable to diagnose his disease.
05-05-06 - Hebron settler eviction delayed The military was concerned that the operation might not be completed by sundown, the start of the Sabbath.
05-05-06 - Merkel: German Jews a 'joy' Merkel also said her country would not tolerate a nuclear weapon for Iran.
05-05-06 - Senate slashes Egypt aid Egypt gets $1.3 billion in military aid and just under $500 million in domestic assistance stemming from its 1978 peace accord with Israel.
05-05-06 - Annan wants full U.N. membership for Israel Kofi Annan said he wants to see Israel?s unqualified membership in the United Nations
05-05-06 - At-Tuwani Update: 27 April - 2 May 2006 The team later learned that during the previous night around 200 olive trees
and grape vines were cut in Susiya, in the groves in the valley closest to
the settlement of Susya.
05-05-06 - Livni: Israel's prime minister-in-waiting "Somebody who is fighting against Israeli soldiers is an enemy and we will fight back, but I believe that this is not under the definition of terrorism if the target is a soldier," she said in an interview on ABC television.....she champions Israel's controversial separation barrier being built across the territory, incorporating large chunks of Palestinian land.
05-05-06 - First Chinese mikvah since WWII The ritual bath, being installed at the new, $1.8 million Rohr Family Chabad Community Center of Chabad of Beijing, will include some distinctive Chinese touches Strengthening Jewish ties to China have suddenly become of high import to Israel and the pro-Israeli community. Could it have something to do with the fact that China is set to become the world's next superpower? Nahh..
05-05-06 - Hamas not interested in secret ways to transfer funds, Palestinian minister says
05-05-06 - Abbas calls to congratulate Israeli PM, ask for peace talks
05-05-06 - Albright: Lobby paper 'highly overstated' Appearing at a Council of Foreign Relations event in New York City earlier this week, Albright was asked about the paper written by two foreign policy academics, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University.
05-05-06 - Court upholds Fulani expulsion In a 1989 review of a play by Newman, Fulani said Jews "had to sell their souls to acquire Israel" and must "function as mass murderers of people of color in order to keep it."
05-05-06 - Debate on display: art at Brandeis
05-05-06 - Letter: Freedman spins Freedman and other apologists for Israel's crimes -- and their Arab and American counterparts -- should learn from George Orwell: "The nationalist not only does not condemn the crimes of his own people, but has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
05-04-06 - Israel troops kill Palestinian in W.Bank- medics Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian taxi driver in the West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. They said an Israeli patrol opened fire on Zakhariah Darghmeh, 38, after he drove off a major road connecting the West Bank city of Nablus and the northern part of the occupied territory.
05-04-06 - Hebron child injured in settler hit and run Abd Allah Al Ja'bari, 3 years old , from the West Bank city of Hebron was seriously injured on Tuesday evening, in a hit and run incident with an Israeli settler.
ref="http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060504-100112-1068r">05-04-06 - Palestinian budget crisis imperils hospital patients "We've lost four patients in the last two weeks from chronic renal failure due to the lack of drugs for kidney dialysis," Mr. el Habash said. "The situation is getting worse day by day."
05-04-06 - 'Intifada Law' has barred compensation to Palestinian victims almost entirely Like a similar law passed during the first intifada, this amendment enables the state to avoid suits and payment of compensation for damage sustained by Palestinians during the armed conflict.
05-04-06 - Hamas seeks $100 million from Palestinian central bank Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya said Wednesday that his Hamas government had obtained enough aid from Arab and Muslim states to pay staff but slammed US pressure on banks for preventing the money from being transferred
05-04-06 - Abbas to put any peace deal to vote "It is my intention to bring the results of the negotiations [with Israel], if and when they end, to the Palestinian people in the form of a referendum and to give the Palestinian people the right to decide."
05-04-06 - UAE donates medical supplies worth USD 10 mil. to Palestinians
05-04-06 - Army arrest handicapped youth from Beit Awwa village near Hebron Al Masalmah is handicapped and uses a wheel chair, he went missing last night and his family searched for him all night long , in the morning the family found his wheel chair and clothes near the wall
05-04-06 - Settler blockade prevents Palestinian children from returning home After three hours of waiting for armed forces to escort them from their school in A-Twani to their homes in Umm Tuba, the children walked the 10 kilometers accompanied by international aid workers.
05-04-06 - Palestinians Feel Pain of No Pay The United Nations warned in a recent report that a continued failure to pay salaries, especially to an estimated 70,000 members of the security forces, could create an explosive climate in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
05-04-06 - Prime minister pins his colours to 'new look' Israel the government plans to move the affected settlers into the expanding larger colonies that will be formally annexed by the imposition by 2010 of a new Israeli border east of the 1967 frontier and running through the occupied territories.
05-04-06 - Abbas urges 'immediate negotiations' with Israel Abu Rudeina said Abbas would oppose any unilateral measures planned by Israel in the occupied West Bank seeking to redraw the borders of the Jewish state by leaving large parts of the territory and holding on to key settlements.
05-04-06 - House preserves travel in lobbying amendment The Jewish community, led by the United Jewish Communities federation umbrella group, lobbied hard for the amendment, fearing it could affect education about Israel, Darfur and other areas.
05-04-06 - British proposal may open rift with US on Hamas Western diplomats said on Thursday Britain had proposed creating a fund, an idea also floated by France, to stop Palestinian institutions collapsing under financial pressure.
But they said the Bush administration has moved in recent days to block the proposals.
Strange how the politics of our best ally - Britain - are so vastly different than our own. This might have something to do with it.
05-04-06 - Arab League, Palestinians seek method to deliver aid Mussa said a team of Palestinian financial experts was in Cairo, where the League is based, for a brainstorming session aimed at resolving the problem which has arisen since Hamas took control of the Palestinian government.
05-04-06 - Bush, Malaysian PM agree on diplomacy to end Iranian crisis Malaysia has said it would not establish relations with Israel until the Palestinians secure statehood.
05-04-06 - Israel Offers Outline to Divide Jerusalem Most of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods would go to the Palestinians, he said. "Those same neighborhoods will, in my assessment, be central to the makeup of the Palestinian capital ... al-Quds," Schneller said, calling Jerusalem by its Arabic name. Israel would keep Jerusalem's Old City with its shrines sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike - an unacceptable plan to Palestinians, particularly if carried out unilaterally.
05-04-06 - US cool to Israeli-Palestinian talks The United States poured cold water on Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas' call for immediate talks with Israel, saying the time was not ripe with the militant group Hamas running the Palestinian government
05-04-06 - Bush, Merkel pledge backing for Israel, denounce Iran and Hamas "America's commitment to Israel's security is strong, enduring and unshakeable," Bush said in a speech in Washington to the influential American Jewish Committee (AJC), which is marking its 100th anniversary.
05-04-06 - Cash-strapped Gaza taxi drivers turn to cooking gas Facing sky-high petrol prices and fewer passengers, Palestinian taxi driver Abdel-Hakim Yassin now powers his shabby cab with cooking gas canisters as a financial crisis deepens in the Gaza Strip.
05-04-06 - Olmert: Scattered settlements endanger us "The continuance of scattered Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria endanger us," said Olmert. He added that "if the Palestinian Authority doesn't cooperate with us, we'll work alone to shape the defensible borders of Israel."
05-04-06 - Russia sends aid to Palestinians The transfer, which had been expected, reflected Russia?s stated belief that the Palestinian government should not be isolated after Hamas leaders took office.
05-04-06 - "We All Just Want to Leave" Many Palestinians are now served with deportation papers when they show up at the residency office to renew their visas, despite the fact that neighboring countries often won't accept them
05-04-06 - Israeli settlers in Hebron steal and beat Palestinians' donkeys
05-04-06 - Palestine's Refugees Emerge from the Shadows Many Israeli Jews have never heard of the Nakba (the Catastrophe), the mirror event to Israel's Independence, when at least 80 per cent of the Palestinian population -- some 750,000 -- were forced or terrorised to leave the land that would become Israel. It is not something discussed in Israeli schools or the Hebrew media.
05-04-06 - Palestinians recall day of catastrophe
05-04-06 - Palestinian employees protest against Hamas-led govt over salary delay
05-04-06 - Brandeis pulls Palestinian art The images were painted by Palestinian teenagers at the request of a Jewish Israeli student at the Jewish-sponsored college, who wanted to bring the Palestinian viewpoint to campus. However, school officials said the paintings were too one-sided
05-04-06 - Daley Visits Israel, But Not The West Bank
05-04-06 - Lib Dem quits in row over remarks The constituent wrote to Mr Davies: "You make the same mistake as many others who call themselves liberals. "You seem to equate the situation of the Palestinian people as being exactly the same as the Jewish victims of the Holocaust." The Jewish News reported that Mr Davies responded in an email: "Sounds like racism to me. I hope you enjoying wallowing in your own filth."
05-04-06 - Quartet ponders role as Mideast peace hopes crumble Alvaro de Soto, the U.N. special envoy for the Middle East, has said Hamas's refusal to recognize Israel and Israel's pursuit of settlement expansion meant the road map should be updated to reflect the grimmer situation on the ground.
05-04-06 - UK Christian groups to rally for peace and justice in the Holy Land The demonstration has been called in response to the news that Palestinians are now on the brink of starvation and many people have already died as a result of shortages of medicines - caused by the withdrawal of aid following the election of Hamas
05-04-06 - Ex-Mossad chief: Take Iran seriously The former Mossad director noted that "now more than ever," Israel and the US share the same interests "in the face of Iran's threats on Israel and the free world." Bullshit.
05-04-06 - Rachel Corrie: a true martyr The play should be shown in Israel, because only Israelis can rein in the terror being unleased by their army.
05-04-06 - PM Olmert defends Arab MKs after Avigdor Lieberman's attack Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday lashed out at Israeli Arab political parties and said he hoped Arab MKs who had contact with Hamas or did not celebrate Independence Day would be executed.
05-04-06 - Glover to speak at peace walk "Anybody can come," said Caren Van Slyke, an Oak Park resident who is a member of the steering committee for the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
05-04-06 - Israel orders settlers to leave Hebron house
05-04-06 - Kadoumy lauds China's support for Palestinian, Arab causes
05-04-06 - Palestinians wary of Olmert plan
05-04-06 - State asks High Court to nix petition According to attorney Michael Sfard, who filed the petition on behalf of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights, the army last month reduced the target safety margin of artillery shells from 300 to 100 meters from the Palestinian civilian population of northern Gaza.....the order was in violation of international law because it endangered the lives and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population....Sfard maintained that the lethal fallout of an artillery shell can kill anyone within a radius of 100 meters and wound anyone within a radius of 200 meters.
05-04-06 - Hamas minister granted Sweden visa
05-04-06 - Olive Picking Program 2006
05-04-06 - Egypt, Jordan give Hamas cold shoulder This marks the second time Zahhar has been snubbed by his Egyptian counterpart
05-04-06 - Aid agencies call for trust fund to help blockaded Palestinians US opposition to the plan - which is believed to have Israeli support - will fuel speculation that Washington is bent on "regime change" in the PA.
05-04-06 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006 MR. BUCHANAN: The czar of American intelligence, Negroponte, says they're years away from this thing. They are hiding a lot of stuff and they've hid a lot of stuff. They are far, far away from this. But I'll tell you this, John. Your problem is our war party in this country, the Israelis, are pushing, pushing, pushing Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, who are all painted into a corner, and said they will n
ot be allowed to enrich at all.
05-04-06 - The country that wouldn't grow up It seems to me of no small significance that the recent essay on "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has aroused so much public interest and debate. Mearsheimer and Walt are prominent senior academics of impeccable conservative credentials. It is true that - by their own account - they could still not have published their damning indictment of the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy in a major U.S.-based journal (it appeared in the London Review of Books), but the point is that 10 years ago they would not - and probably could not - have published it at all.
05-04-06 - BD25,000 donated to Palestinians
05-04-06 - Kean backs stem-cell research on an ?intimate? trip to Israel Kean came with a delegation of NJ Republican pro-Israel activists, including Short Hills publisher Steven Klinghoffer;......"Starting next year in the U.S. Senate, I will be very involved with issues that relate to Israel and the Mideast in a direct fashion,"
05-04-06 - Fight Against Campus Bias Gets Boost If you?re a Jewish college student, you no longer have to tolerate anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing on your campus. It's official - you can no longer criticize Israel on campus. The cry of anti-Semitism has been (ab)used to see to that.
05-04-06 - Palestinians Demand Unity Government
05-04-06 - London Bridge A sad attempt to smear the London Review of Books. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point in their insane attempts to discredit the Mearsheimer-Walt study of the Israeli lobby.
05-04-06 - Caterpillar: Campaigners tell Church Commissioners 'Divest Now'
05-03-06 - Palestinian Blames U.S. for Lack of Money Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Wednesday that U.S. pressure foiled the latest attempt to pay 165,000 government workers by transferring money from abroad directly into their accounts.
05-03-06 - Building on the Mount of Olives In the early 1990s, about 10,000 Christian Palestinians lived in Jerusalem, Brown said. Now the city is home to about half that number, including 600 Lutherans, Younan added.
Although the LWF provides for the humanitarian needs of all Palestinians regardless of religious affiliation, Brown said it's now urgent that Lutherans focus on "preserving and protecting the Palestinian Christian community here."
05-03-06 - Friction Growing Between Hamas, Abbas
05-03-06 - Hamas willing to match Israeli peace moves: Meshaal "We're in a battle with Israel because Israel occupied our land and forced our people into destitution; the problem is not in Hamas, it is Israeli behavior," he said. He said that since the truce, Israel forces killed 260 Palestinians, wounded 1,700, detained 6,750, including women and children, and confiscated 3.6 million sq-meters of Palestinian land to build a "separation barrier," he said.
05-03-06 - Five-year old boy detained by Israeli forces
05-03-06 - Soldiers abuse a handicapped child at a military checkpoint near Jenin
05-03-06 - UNRWA bill introduced in House Congress will consider legislation to tie U.S. contributions to UNRWA to outside auditing of the agency.
05-03-06 - Palestinian business calls for unity government They called for the establishment of a unity government of all factions that would accept the Arab League peace plan of 2002 and the basic principles of the Palestinian national movement.
05-03-06 - Brandeis removes pro-Palestinian art The Zionist Organization of America condemned the exhibit, and several students lodged complaints with the school.
What happened to the cries of freedom of speech like with the cartoon incident? Total hypocrisy.
05-03-06 - Where Rockets Exit, Shells Enter and Houses Are Ruined Notice how, in a very obvious act of bias, the NYT breaks down the Israeli death toll into civilians vs military deaths, but does not do the same for the Palestinian death toll which is much higher. And we are to believe that the NYT is not a pro-Israel rag. Laughable.
05-03-06 - Update on the AIPAC Espionage Case After receiving numerous examples from IRmep of how Pincus' mistake was being propagated into other stories trivializing AIPAC lobbyistWeissman and Rosen's alleged criminal activities, yesterday the Post finally gave in and committed to a correction of the story.
05-03-06 - Israel Marks Independence Day with $1.7 Billion Budget Surplus Is it due to the fact that Israel is withholding millions of dollars in customs levies that it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, perhaps? Either way, Israel clearly does not need the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people. We certainly don't have a budget surplus.
05-03-06 - Hamas officials barred from Sweden and France
05-03-06 - Bush, Merkel hold firm against Iran nuclear program On the Palestinian question, Berlin was a major player in pushing through a European Union boycott of the Hamas-led government, including a freeze on direct funding to the Palestinian authorities worth 500 million euros (630 million dollars) a year
05-03-06 - From 2004: The Stab in the Back Gee, I thought Israel had nothing to do with this war, and that anyone who said otherwise was merely spreading anti-Semitic canards. Why, in that case, does Israel need "other options," or, indeed, any options at all?
05-03-06 - Democratic staffer, Jewish leader straddles two worlds in Washington "He shapes the whole philosophy of what they are going to do," said (veteran Republican Congressman Pete) Sessions, also a close friend of Kahn's who traveled to Israel in 1997 on one of four trips Kahn has co-chaired in the past.
05-03-06 - You aren't going to believe this:Letter from the Congress of the United State
05-03-06 - Bipartisan support for AJCommitee energy bid The AJCommitee leads the "Set America Free" coalition, which seeks to reduce dependence on foreign oil. More important is the need for America's independence of Israel.
05-03-06 - Mubarak says Palestinians need to close ranks
05-03-06 - Combating Anti-Semitism: OSCE Police Training Initiative and Holocaust Education Trips to Israel, prompted by pro-Israel groups, are a regular occurrence for US (as well as Canadian) law enforcement officials.
05-03-06 - Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2006 Congressional Candidates
05-03-06 - Impatient Mossad warns of 'monster in the making' Mossad chief Meir Dagan, in Washington last week in preparation for a visit to the U.S. by Olmert on May 23, held secret meetings with U.S. officials to discuss Iran's nuclear program, reports the London Times.
05-02-06 - Blast in north Gaza kills two security officers An explosion ripped through a building used by Palestinian security forces in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing two security officers and wounding three others, Palestinian security sources said.
05-02-06 - 1 killed, 1 hurt in clashes in Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp A bystander, Mohammed Tayssir Awad, 20, was hit by a stray bullet and died instantly
05-02-06 - ACT Appeal: Emergency Assistance to Civilians, Palestine Through a contract with the PA, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)-Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) in Jerusalem, was providing, on a monthly basis, about 1700 medical procedures for the Palestinians such as dialysis, radiation, chemotherapy, endoscopy and head-neck treatments. The blockage of the funds will put in danger the life of the patients who are currently under treatment as it is the only source of treatment they can access.
05-02-06 - Iran Threatens Israel if U.S. Attacks Iran's first target would be Israel in any response to a U.S. attack, a Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday, reinforcing the Iranian president's past call for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
05-02-06 - Palestinians With Renal Failure Dying in Silence Palestinian patients with chronic renal failure risk losing their lives as they will be deprived of life-support dialysis due to severe shortage of tubes and kidney filters in light of the West's aid cut-off and the crippling Israeli closures.
05-02-06 - BBC news 'favours Israel' at expense of Palestinian view
05-02-06 - Apologies aren't enough ? the IDF must investigate those responsible for the death in Tulkarm The circumstances under which 'Itaf Zalat, a 44-year old woman, was killed in Tulkarem last night, raise the grave suspicion that Israeli security forces acted as if they were conducting an assassination rather than an arrest operation
05-02-06 - Israeli: World Has Means to Stop Iran Halutz told Maariv it is not clear if Iran will be able to achieve nuclear capability by the end of the decade, as Israeli officials had predicted earlier.
05-02-06 - Israeli army chief opposes Gaza ground offensive Israel's military chief opposes a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip at present as it would not stop cross-border rocket fire by Palestinian militants, he said in remarks published on Tuesday.
05-02-06 - Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust? *
05-02-06 - Palestinian farmers blocked from land Due to recent terror alerts, soldiers prevent Palestinian farmers cut off from their farms by separation fence from reaching their fields, confiscate their permits. 'We are in despair, this is not life,' Palestinian farmer says
05-02-06 - Hamas leader asks militants not to attack crossings Palestinian Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh appealed for the first time on Tuesday to militants not to launch attacks against border crossings needed to bring vital humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip.
05-02-06 - Palestinian FM urges Muslims to help ease financial crisis
05-02-06 - Gaza without aid Hospitals have been particularly hard hit by the funding crisis - brought about after the EU and the US withdrew hundreds of millions of dollars of direct funding
05-02-06 - Brandeis Shuts Down a Show of Palestinian Art An exhibit of 17 paintings done by Palestinian children that was mounted in a library at Brandeis University last week was taken down over the weekend by the Brandeis administration. That's from Lior Halperin, a 27-year-old Israeli sophomore at Brandeis, who fought resistance from the school to put on the show in the first place
05-02-06 - Israeli customs finds military equipment
05-02-06 - Army attacks a medical center in Beit Sahour
05-02-06 - 9-11 LAWSUITS SUPPRESSED In the case of at least one of these security defendants, Huntleigh, there would seem to be a conflict of interest for the judge because the airline security company who is responsible for the shocking security lapses at both the Boston and Newark airports on 9-11 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an Israeli company (ICTS) headed by men with clear ties to Israel?s military intelligence agency, Mossad.
05-02-06 - Jews Protest Against Israeli Independence Day Rally This condemnation also encompasses all acts committed by Zionists under the guise of Judaism whether against people of the Jewish faith or the Palestinian people.
05-02-06 - Israeli settlers in West Bank try to regroup
05-02-06 - Call terrorist acts sterrorism, BBC told BBC sources expressed surprise that the report accused the corporation of demonstrating bias towards Israel, contrary to the perception that the BBC is pro-Palestinian. I'm not surprised. There was a study done about this very topic in the UK which demonstrated their NOTED BIAS toward Israel. They are NOT pro-Palestinian as the pro-Israelis would have eveyone believe. The UK news sources are just NOT PRO-ISRAELI enough for the Israeli lobby's liking - and that is especially true for the Israeli lobby in America - where NOT ONE WHIFF of anything that would even remotely depict Palestinians as anything other than terrorists is allowed. A BBC official met with Ariel Sharon last fall, and since then the BBC coverage of the I-P conflict has grown MORE pro-Israel. I don't believe that that is a coincidence.
05-02-06 - Hamas Leaders in Dispute Over Ideology there's no denying that Hamas leaders in the Palestinian territories are more pragmatic, if not more moderate, where Israel is concerned. They've maintained a 15-month-old truce with the Jewish state, while sending mixed messages _ refusing to renounce violence or negotiate with Israel, while speaking vaguely about the possibility of peace in interviews to the foreign media
05-02-06 - PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas says will not seek 2nd term of office
05-02-06 - BBC's coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict 'misleading' In particular, it highlighted a "failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, reflecting the fact that one side is in control and the other lives under occupation".
05-02-06 - Republican chairman booed at AJCommittee event The room burst into applause, however, when AJCommittee board member Edith Everett asked Mehlman to "take a message" to President Bush to stop linking Israel and Iran. "It does not help Israel and it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran," If the shoe fits.
05-02-06 - U.S.: P.A. failed on counter-terror Israeli restrictions on Palestinian security forces contributed to the failure, the report said
05-02-06 - UAE leads in Israel boycott Second in requests was Lebanon, with 84. Some requests came from non-Arab countries, including India and Nigeria.
05-02-06 - Israelis close file on Britons shot in Gaza
05-02-06 - London rally for the Holy Land The demonstration has been called in response to the news that Palestinians are now on the brink of starvation and many people have already died as a result of shortages of medicines - caused by the withdrawal of aid following the election of Hamas.
05-02-06 - Olmert to Meet With Abbas After D.C. Trip
05-02-06 - Yesha council: 'Nakba' ceremony is incitement'
05-02-06 - AT-TUWANI UPDATE: 21-26 April 2006
05-01-06 - Israel kills woman in W Bank raid The Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem, estimates that 78 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza so far in 2006. Approximately 27 of these, B'Tselem says, were civilians
05-01-06 - Mourning a West Bank wife Then - the army says - soldiers saw a "suspicious movement" at a window. They thought they would be fired at, so the soldiers opened fire at the house.
05-01-06 - Jordan sends 27 aid lorries to Palestinians Twenty-seven lorryloads of food and medical equipment arrived in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Jordan on Monday, officials said.
05-01-06 - Soldiers attack, beat an old woman and her son in Hebron
05-01-06 - Palestine appeal: Palestine...still suffering
05-01-06 - Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace: police
05-01-06 - Quartet envoy questions Palestinian aid cuts International envoy James Wolfensohn, in his final report to the Quartet of Middle East mediators, sharply questioned the decision of Western powers to cut all but humanitarian aid to the Hamas-led government.
05-01-06 - James C Moore: Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? Israel has American warheads ready to fire Because the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf make the Israeli subs easily detectable, two of them are reported to be patrolling the deeper reaches of the Gulf of Oman, well within range of Iranian targets.
05-01-06 - After Bush, the Green Line Every time an Arab leader wants to
provide a distraction, (McCain) argues that the problem is due to Israel, and also
in the matter of Iran, "we would not have been so concerned" over its
nuclear program had it not threatened Israel with extinction
05-01-06 - Southern Hebron hills: Israel reinstates the cancelled barrier route "through the back door" When completed, the barricade will further isolate the more than 3,000 Palestinians living in 18 cave-villages southeast of Route 317, who are dependent for basic supplies and services on the town of Yatta , which is located on the other side of the planned barricade
05-01-06 - Gaza journalists get threats over Hamas coverage A handful of Palestinian journalists have reported receiving death threats for their critical coverage of the Islamic militant group Hamas since it began running the government in March, a press group said on Monday.
05-01-06 - Quality of new Israeli spy satellite photos said 'excellent' Photographs sent over the weekend from a new Israeli spy satellite, placed in orbit to monitor Iranian nuclear developments and other key defense developments, were of "excellent" quality
05-01-06 - Arab League to pay Palestinian civil servants The Arab League, which has collected 70 million dollars for the Palestinians, will pay the salaries of civil servants straight into their bank accounts. Our govt has just said that it will block this attempt to pay the PA employees.
05-01-06 - Don't harm Palestinians, Sistani tells Iraqis Iraq's revered top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has urged the authorities and his followers not to harm the thousands of Palestinian refugees living in Iraq.
05-01-06 - No planes or pay, but Gaza airport workers carry on The Palestinians are a people that are nearly destroyed - and our tax money helped do it.
05-01-06 - Plan to pay Palestinian wages faces US objections "They will not support any arrangement that would support payment of salaries. They don't want to reduce pressure on Hamas," said a senior Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions in London were private. The Palestinian employees and the families of those who are employed by the PA will now starve and they will have us to blame. This is a real smart move for an administration that's trying to win 'hearts and minds' in the Arab world, not to mention its collective punishment of a population who elected Hamas in the first place to procure a less corrupt government.
05-01-06 - Canadian court declines to make Jerusalem ruling The document states only his birth city with no reference to any country because Canada wants to remain neutral and avoid taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over claims to the holy city, officials said.
05-01-06 - Palestinians mark Labor Day amid crisis, unemployment
05-01-06 - Palestinian activists gather in Corrie's hometown
05-01-06 - Hamas behind foiled Gaza crossing attack: Israel Speaking to AFP, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri flatly denied any connection to the planned attack and accused Israel of propagating lies.
05-01-06 - Israeli Firm Spins Off Southern Gas Station Chain Like Alon, Delek has been growing through buyouts, consolidating the fragmented U.S. convenience-store industry. It's made three acquisitions in that area since the start of 2003. The most recent came in December, when it bought 21 locations in Tennessee from BP. Of interest.
05-01-06 - Gazan traders fall on desperate times Even before the wages crisis set in, Gaza's economy was on its knees. The World Bank has consistently put poverty rates at well over 60% of the population.
05-01-06 - Hebron settlers to face eviction The settlers moved into the house in early April, saying they had bought it. But the police say that the purchase documents are false and that the three families living in the building have no right to be there.
05-01-06 - Settlers continue attacking residents in the Jordan valley
05-01-06 - Israeli forces ban Palestinian patients from treatment in Israel
05-01-06 - Bush, Ahmadinejad, Clooney most influential personalities: Time Also on the sublist of "Leaders and Revolutionaries" are Japan's "good-looking, straight-talking maverick" Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the Palestinian Hamas leader and Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola and Pope Benedict XVI.
05-01-06 - Ex-professor jailed in Jihad case Sami al-Arian was sentenced to four years nine months but got credit for time already served.
05-01-06 - Palestinian team in Jordan to discuss Hamas row A team of Palestinians is in Amman in a bid to resolve a row over accusations that members of the Islamist movement Hamas were planning attacks on Jordanian soil.
05-01-06 - Israeli soldiers accused of raping 11-year-old The news was greeted with shock by Israelis, who tend to believe their army is morally superior to those in other countries. Boy are these folks in the dark.
05-01-06 - Israeli drones under African skies Hundreds of Israelis live there and ships belonging to the Israeli Zim shipping company stop at Nigerian ports.
05-01-06 - Hamas denies adopting Arab peace initiative A Palestinian legislator representing the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denied on Sunday reports that Hamas was reconsidering its stance on the Arab peace initiative.
05-01-06 - After harrowing journey to Israel, Sudanese refugees end up in jail About 160 refugees have come to Israel in the past year, and most of them are being held in prisons or army bases.
05-01-06 - Congress considering Olmert address Top congressional leaders are considering a plan to have Ehud Olmert address both houses.
Will the real president of the United States please stand up..
05-01-06 - Abbas says not to seek second term
05-01-06 - France shuns Hamas official Salah Bardaweel, Hamas spokesman in the Palestinian Authority?s Parliament, said Monday his request to visit France as part of an unofficial delegation of lawmakers had been turned down.
05-01-06 - "Lens on Syria": Films Spanning Thirty Years of Contemporary Syrian Cinema to Tour North America Premiering in the US in this program is Mohammad Malas' poignant documentary "The Dream", filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon just months before the notorious massacres took place. It is a unique document that has finally become available after digital remastering and subtitling.
05-01-06 - Arab-Americans bring own agenda to rally, receive mixed reaction While their presence was welcomed by the predominantly Hispanic crowd, their message received a mixed reaction.
05-01-06 - U.S. Calls for Strong International Security Force for Darfur She said the international community is sending the message to Hamas that the best interests of the Palestinian people are served by the peace process 'So let's starve the Palestinian PEOPLE into 'peace' instead!'
05-01-06 - Israeli industrial zone in West Bank cheap laborer desribes the area as a "chemical grave"
05-01-06 - Turkey and Israel to build four underwater oil and gas pipelines Turkey and Israel plan to build four underwater pipelines to transport oil and gas from Russia to Israel, the Palestinian Autonomy, Jordan, and Lebanon
05-01-06 - Israeli agents deny torturing Illinois man, court documents show The redactions included 4 1/2 blank pages following a question about the use of "moderate pressure" in interrogations and 7 1/2 pages after a query about a "closet" sized cell. More than 30 blank pages followed questions about an Israeli ruse, in which collaborators posed as Palestinian prisoners to obtain information. Why did the Israeli High Court of Justice have to render such torture illegal in that nation, if this was not a common practice by their military or intelligence operatives?
05-01-06 - Iran consensus in focus on Merkel US trip Merkel's speech to the AJC, a symbolic first by a German chancellor at the body's annual event, will also allow her to speak out on Iran, an issue even more critical to the Jewish community since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
05-01-06 - Jailed spy seeks to block Israel minister In the petition, Jonathan Pollard claimed that Pensioners party leader Rafi Eitan should not be allowed to serve in government as he had "betrayed" him and acted "unethically" over his arrest for spying two decades ago.
05-01-06 - Gazans fear clashes in Hamas-Fatah security dispute Hamas officials have said the new unit would provide backup for police on various missions and protect government officials if they came under attack.
05-01-06 - The Palestinian Nakba at 58 - the Nakba Continues
05-01-06 - U.S. terrorist funding czar in Israel Stuart Levey, the Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, was to meet with Israeli counterparts and discuss "joint efforts to combat terrorist financing," U.S. officials told Reuters.
05-01-06 - Presbyterians studying Middle East task force If it adopts the GAC's proposal, more than two dozen pending overtures on the issue of "selective, phased divestment" would be referred to the task force.
05-01-06 - Super sized sausage Eight Israeli chefs have combined to create a 25 metre, record breaking chorizo sausage I'm not gonna touch this ..
05-01-06 - 2006 Award for Best Al-Nakba Poster
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