November '06 Archive
11-30-06 - Soldiers kill Palestinian teen throwing rocks: relatives Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian who was throwing rocks at them after nightfall Thursday, relatives and witnesses said.
11-30-06 - Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Appeal 2007 for occupied Palestinian territory The Gazan population is undergoing a virtual "siege" by historical standards
11-30-06 - Army levels a number of shops in Salfit The Israeli army leveled to the ground three Palestinian owned shops in the West Bank city of Salfit.
11-30-06 - Army levels several houses south of Bethlehem The houses are located on lands belonging to Mohamed Odah and Taysser Odah nearby the illegal Israeli settlement block of Kfar Atzion.
11-30-06 - Abbas says gov't talks at dead end as he meets Rice In a gesture of support for Palestinian aspirations, Rice said any future Palestinian state should be "viable" and "contiguous" and said no actions should be taken now to prejudge the outcome of a final peace deal.
11-30-06 - Al Aqsa brigades says it will not abide to the truce since it excludes the West Bank The Al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, issued a statement on Thursday declaring its position that it will not abide to the truce since its excludes halting the Israeli attacks, and invasions in the occupied West Bank.
11-30-06 - Rice calls for intensified peace efforts "The United States has made clear that we expect it to be a viable and contiguous state when it is created," she said. "Secondly, that no actions that are being taken now should prejudge the outcome of a final status agreement. That means very clearly that if actions are being taken now, they will not be considered by the United States to have prejudge the outcome of final status." Rice also said Israel has obligations under the peace blueprint known as the road map. Requirements regarding Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories are "clearly articulated," she noted.
11-30-06 - Palestinians seek conference on Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for an international conference to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict and urged Israel to drop its opposition to a meeting that would address all outstanding issues.
11-30-06 - Former President Jimmy Carter Examines Israeli-Palestinian Conflict I chose this title very carefully. It's Palestine, first of all. This is the Palestinians' territory, not Israel. Very good interview. Read the entire thing.
11-30-06 - Recent Hamas political position an "important" development: official
11-30-06 - Carter draws more than 1,000 to book signing Carter, 82, was signing copies of his new book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," which calls for renewed dialogue about peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
11-30-06 - Nobel Laureate Tutu to Head UN Rights Probe of Israeli Killing of Palestinian Civilians
11-30-06 - Finding holes in West Bank barrier Six days a week Hani, a Palestinian from the West Bank city of Ramallah, comes to work in a shop in East Jerusalem.
11-30-06 - No child in the Nablus refugee camps forgets where he comes from
11-30-06 - Ya'alon leaves New Zealand in wake of arrest warrant for war crimes Diplomatic ties between Israel and New Zealand have been rocky in recent years. In 2004, two members of Israel's Mossad espionage agency were imprisoned in the country for illegally trying to obtain New Zealand passports.
11-30-06 - Egypt: Israeli soldier may be freed soon
11-30-06 - For farmers, much of their land remains out of reach Israel?s West Bank barrier has separated the village of Jayyous from 9,500 of its 13,600 dunums (a dunum is 1,000 square metres) of land, and the Israeli authorities have denied them permits to access it.
11-30-06 - Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance Popular and peaceful resistance to the oppressive policies of occupying powers and autocratic rulers, in India and South Africa for example, has always been, by its very nature, a risky venture in which civilians are liable to be killed or injured. Responsibility for those deaths must fall on those doing the oppressing, not those resisting, particularly when they are employing non-violent means. On HRW?s interpretation, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela would be war criminals.
11-30-06 - A Hamas official accuses a stream within Fateh of trying to void Legislative Election results
11-30-06 - Iraq panel to recommend U.S. shift from combat role Israel is expected to be part of the proposed regional dialogue, including the international conference, sources close to the group said. "They live in the neighborhood ... The aim is to engage the neighborhood, including addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue," one source said.
11-30-06 - Gov't: Extend Citizenship Law by two years and expand it to cover 'risk states'
11-30-06 - Cullen Criticised For Quashing Moshe Ya'alon Arrest Warrant An Auckland district court judge issued a warrant for the arrest of Moshe Ya'alon after a legal team acting on behalf of a Palestinian man brought a case against him
11-30-06 - Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform Jewish groups, though supportive of most measures, are concerned about two aspects of the reform: the ban on privately funded congressional travel, and the limitations on earmarks. Both measures might - depending on the final language adopted - restrict actions of Jewish and pro-Israel groups on Capitol Hill.
11-30-06 - Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians
11-30-06 - Rice sees hope in Mideast truce but urges patience Rice visited Russia last month and told Moscow firmly that it needed to improve its human rights record, particularly after a prominent investigative reporter was gunned down. As a sign of solidarity, she met the reporter's editor and son at her hotel. "I feel very strongly that the Kremlin is too powerful at the expense of other countervailing institutions," Rice said when asked if she saw any irony in the fact that Russia was co-hosting the Jordan conference.
11-30-06 - UN concerned at impact of Israel-Palestine conflict on citizens
11-30-06 - King Reiterates that Denial of Palestinian Rights Deepens Regional Instability.
11-30-06 - Diabetic journalist imprisoned without trial on hunger strike
11-30-06 - U.S. to offer funds to help boost Abbas's forces
11-30-06 - State: Status of villages outside J'lem fence not up for review The government has no plans to change the status of nine Palestinian villages located within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem but outside of the separation fence, despite the fact that it does not provide these communities with vital services and that residents of the towns must cross through roadblocks on a daily basis.
11-30-06 - Rice seeks wide Middle East truce to restart talks "It is quite fragile and we would like to see it consolidated and extended," Rice said after meeting Olmert. Hours later, Israeli soldiers shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian in the West Bank, police and a clinic said
There's your response, Condi.
11-30-06 - U.S. Jews protest proposed Law of Return The heads of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) sent an unusually harsh letter yesterday to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, warning that if a proposed change goes through in the Law of Return excluding converts in the definition of a Jew, it could seriously impair support for Israel among American Jews.
11-30-06 - Hezbollah calls for huge protests The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has called for a huge turnout for opposition protests aimed at bringing down the anti-Syrian government.
11-30-06 - Sinai bombers sentenced to death
11-30-06 - Lebanese PM vows to defy protests Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has said his government will not be brought down by mass protests planned by pro-Syrian opposition groups.
11-30-06 - ?Free Palestine,? say Italian soccer fans
11-30-06 - UK plan for Bethlehem boost
11-30-06 - Analysis: U.N. panel reacts to critics
11-30-06 - County linked with peace charity launch
11-30-06 - Archbishop Tutu to Lead UN Human Rights Investigation into Gaza Killings With abundant experience in similar work, Tutu previously chaired the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established in 1995. Archbishop Tutu is well-known across the globe as one of the most prominent figures to fight apartheid in South Africa. Don't forget Tutu's 2002 article in the Guardian Apartheid in the Holy Land.
11-30-06 - With Notable Exceptions, Congress Rushes To Support Israel?s Attack on Lebanon
11-30-06 - ADL slams UN body for making Tutu head of Beit Hanun mission "The appointment of Desmond Tutu as head of the fact-finding mission to Beit Hanun is an extension of the anti-Israel kangaroo court tactics used by the UN Human Rights Council," said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. Recall the ADL's spyring that was broken up in 1993 and one that spied on anti-APARTHEID activists in the USA. Why would they want to spy on THEM, mewonders? Israel was in cahoots with the apartheid government of South Africa back then.
11-30-06 - IRCICA to Restore Ottoman Buildings and Monuments in Jerusalem
11-30-06 - Shorbagi testifying in Chicago
11-30-06 - Norman G. Finkelstein: HRW Must Retract Press Release HRW executive director Kenneth Roth "commended" Israel during its last invasion for warning people in south Lebanon to flee--before turning it into a moonscape, slaughtering the old, infirm and poor left behind. It would seem that Palestinian leaders and people, too, merit some recognition for embracing the tactics of Gandhi and King in a last desperate bid to save themselves from annihilation
11-30-06 - Campaigners lobby parliament over plight of Palestinians The main issue raised were the withholding of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority; the export of arms to Israel and the imprisonment of elected Palestinian MPs
11-30-06 - Americans feel better about the world: poll Britain, Canada and Israel generated the warmest feelings among the 1,623 voters in the November 13-19 telephone survey.
11-30-06 - Spiritual Book Is Holiday Gift That Keeps Hope Alive in Israel Palestine
11-30-06 - German foreign minister may visit Syria during Middle East trip Germany's foreign minister may visit Syria on a visit to the Middle East starting Thursday that also will take him to Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Israel, an official said Thursday.
11-29-06 - International community cannot escape responsibility to aid quest for peace, says Secretary-General in message for Day of Solidarity with Palestinians
11-29-06 - Tutu to lead Beit Hanoun mission The mission aims to "recommend ways to protect Palestinian civilians against further Israeli attacks", the UN says.
11-29-06 - Settlers in Hebron abduct a Palestinian woman for seven hours
11-29-06 - PM to tell Rice Israel will exercise restraint in Gaza In the meeting in Jericho, Abbas is expected to voice to Livni the Palestinians' demand to extend the ceasefire to the West Bank territories as of Sunday. Abbas will also ask of Rice that the US make sure that the border crossings operate on a regular basis, in order to alleviate the Palestinian population's distress.
11-29-06 - Army demolishes two homes in Hebron Army claims that the house was illegal constructed. The leveled house is only a few hundred meters away from the Kharishna Israeli illegal settlement outpost.
11-29-06 - Army attacks farmers east of Tamoun village near Tubas Israeli troops attacked Palestinian farmers working in their lands east of Tamoun village, east of the West Bank city of Tubas.
11-29-06 - Rafah crossing shut down again after temporary opening: sources
11-29-06 - UN rights chief warns of 'climate of impunity' in Middle East UN human rights chief Louise Arbour warned of a "climate of impunity" operating in the Palestinian territories and urged Israel to carry out credible and transparent probes into civilian deaths resulting from military action.
11-29-06 - Army shells areas northern Gaza strip No injures or damage were reported but the shelling created panic among the residents, this shelling violates the ceasefire deal declared three days ago by the Palestinians and the Israelis.
11-29-06 - Palestinian PM celebrates Palestinian solidarity day in Egypt Visiting Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya on Wednesday attended celebrations marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
11-29-06 - Bodies of smugglers found in Gaza-Egypt tunnel
11-29-06 - Egyptian intelligence chief to visit Israel
11-29-06 - Refugees Are The Key
11-29-06 - Mofaz: Arafat agreed to house secret Iranian bases inside PA Iran and the Palestinian Authority, then headed by Yasser Arafat, reached a secret agreement in 2002, which called for the creation of branch Iranian revolutionary guard corps bases in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in exchange for military aid to the Palestinian Authority. And they just discovered this NOW. Mmm k.
11-29-06 - Presentation by DCI to CRC I am here today to remind the Committee that the unlike the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon, the Israeli campaign in Gaza, is continuing as I now speak, AND it is continuing to devastating effect for Palestinian children.
11-29-06 - Palestinian PM pushes 1967 borders proposal
11-29-06 - Carter on Palestinian Prisoners
11-29-06 - For author of settlement report, hope is to spark moral reckoning "I especially love Hebron. But we cannot be there as occupiers. For 500 Jewish settlers to live in Hebron, thousands of Palestinians must live under effective house arrest. 'This is a mitzvah borne of a sin,' " she said, again quoting the Talmud.
11-29-06 - Iran leader appeals to US people The Iranian leader's discursive, five-page letter also urged Washington to recognise a Palestinian state, saying it was ignoring public opinion in "trampling the rights of the Palestinian people".
11-29-06 - Abdullah asked to probe Bush on overflights Jordan?s king may raise Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace during talks with President Bush.
11-29-06 - Ahmadinejad's letter to Americans
11-29-06 - Avigdor Lieberman to Washington ** Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beitenu Party joined Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s government last month, will participate in a conference at the end of next week at the Brookings Institution?s Saban Center. The conference, which is closed to the public, will include other top Israeli and U.S. officials.
Lieberman is the new guy in charge of Israel's 'attack Iran' department.
11-29-06 - Conflict in the Middle East: Symbols of life and death
11-29-06 - UN marks Palestinian Solidarity Day with calls for peace with Israel
11-29-06 - Israelis adopt what South Africa dropped Many aspects of Israel's occupation surpass those of the apartheid regime. Israel's large-scale destruction of Palestinian homes, leveling of agricultural lands, military incursions and targeted assassinations of Palestinians far exceed any similar practices in apartheid South Africa. No wall was ever built to separate blacks and whites.
11-29-06 - GAZA: Episcopalians aid Gaza hospital In response to an emergency appeal, the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem sent $100,000 during the past five months to support the work of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.
11-29-06 - Hamas minister freed by Israel-witnesses Israeli authorities on Wednesday released one of the Hamas government ministers that it detained after gunmen from Gaza abducted an Israeli soldier in June, witnesses said.
11-29-06 - Egyptian intelligence chief mediating hostage solution in Tel Aviv
11-29-06 - Syria accuses Israel of building dam in Golan to secure water Damascus accused Israel on Monday of building a dam on the Golan Heights to steal water and deprive Syria and Jordan from badly needed resources, Syria's official news agency reported.
11-29-06 - Palestinian Students and Faculty Call for Academic Boycott Over one thousand Birzeit University students and over 110 of its faculty members signed an open letter in support of the international boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
11-29-06 - Baker Panel Aide Expects Israel Will Be Pressed AIPAC's Congress (formerly the US Congress) will never allow it. 100 new pieces of legislation will be passed therein to counter such a move.
11-29-06 - Bedouin citizens of Israel denied water as means of transfer
11-29-06 - Catholic relief confederation calls for end to Israeli occupation of Palestine In statement issued a day before the Nov. 29 observance of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development, and social service organizations present in about 200 countries and territories throughout the world, said it wanted to use the U.N.-organized commemoration as an opportunity to promote ?a just and durable peace for all those in the Holy Land ? Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, Christians and Muslims.?
11-29-06 - President affirms solidarity with Palestinian people President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday sent a congratulatory message to the Palestinian people on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People which falls on November 29
11-29-06 - China shows solidarity with Palestinian people China strongly condemns Israel's military actions, which have caused heavy casualties to innocent Palestinian civilians. China is also concerned with the human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territory, he said.
11-29-06 - Man ordered imprisoned for threatening President Bush An Israel-born Palestinian was sentenced Tuesday to federal prison but was credited with time already served on charges that he threatened to castrate President Bush while involuntarily committed at a mental hospital.
11-29-06 - Hastings, Harman Rejected for Chairmanship House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has decided against naming either Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), the senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee, or Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (Fla.), the panel's No. 2 Democrat, to chair the pivotal committee next year.
11-29-06 - Pelosi's Price is Right for Jewish Community Pelosi said that former President Jimmy Carter - who has a new book out that harshly criticizes the government in Jerusalem - "does not speak for the Democratic Party on Israel."
11-29-06 - Thousands demand release of Israelis Thousands demonstrated outside the European Commission in Brussels to demand the release of three Israeli soldiers kidnapped by terrorist groups
11-29-06 - Judge strikes ban on terrorist funding A California judge declared unconstitutional a 2001 presidential order blocking funds for terrorist groups, a decision that could affect funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.
11-29-06 - Jordanian, Israeli towns sign river agreement
11-29-06 - Film on failed suicide bombers counters Palestinian documentary New propaganda film coming to a theater near you.
11-29-06 - ZOA Condemns Jimmy Carter's Anti-Israel Book As Inaccurate, Shallow & Vicious A condemnation by the Zionist Organization of America : that's how you know you hit a homer. Way to go, Jimmy :)
11-29-06 - Rebuilding Lebanon: the task ahead Lebanon's finance minister, Jihad Azour, says that physical losses from the 34-day war amount to $2.5bn.
11-29-06 - And now a word from neocon Daniel Pipes Who is trying to decide for YOU, the American public at large, what you will and will not learn about in college. Message to Pipes (the look on that guy's face in the photo is priceless).
11-29-06 - Is 'American era' ending in Middle East?
11-29-06 - Israel chooses rocket defense system
11-29-06 - Palestinian families separated by Israel take action
11-29-06 - Victims call for peace
11-29-06 - Congenial meeting in Beirut warns against possible detractors
11-29-06 - Women's film festival in Jenin
11-29-06 - Energy-hungry China breaks ground in Middle East The Chinese have cleared thousands of cluster bombs and other ordnance -- including the bomb 2nd Sergeant Liu was tackling in Zebqin -- since the Israeli-Hezbollah war ended on August 14, winning them a degree of affection from Lebanese villagers.
11-28-06 - Qassam rocket fired from Gaza falls in Israel despite truce
11-28-06 - Gaza?s teetering tower of debt After nine months of an international trade embargo on the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which has seen international aid cut off to the Hamas-led government because it has not recognised Israel or renounced violence, the economy of the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) is verging on collapse.
11-28-06 - Israel continues raids as Gaza truce enters 3rd day "If Israel expands its aggressions in the West Bank and continues with the arrest campaigns, the calm will collapse,"
11-28-06 - Israeli-militia fighting threatens new truce Speaking shortly after Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in Qabatiya, a local militia leader called for colleagues in Gaza to ignore the cease-fire that went into effect on Sunday and take revenge.
11-28-06 - Gaza Strip remains calm as ceasefire with Israel enters 3rd day Israeli troops arrested at least 10 Palestinians in West Bank cities on Tuesday morning, claiming they were wanted by the state of Israel.
11-28-06 - Israeli TV: Radiation Leak at Israel Nuclear Site Channel 2 reports that "high levels of radiation" were detected in water at a crater just outside the nuclear complex.
11-28-06 - Palestinian elderly refugee abducted, killed in Iraq
11-28-06 - The lie beneath Israel's settlements Facing court challenges in the 1970s, the state argued that the new communities served Israel's security and were not permanent. The officials who planned the settlements might have believed that they had military value. But they did not regard them as temporary. The settlements' underlying purpose, as shown by an extensive paper trail in Israeli archives, was to anchor a political claim to territory before any negotiations began.
11-28-06 - Cease-fire would help forming new government: officials
11-28-06 - Palestine's Teachers: Its Last National Resource
11-28-06 - Ghettos form in shadow of the wall A pattern of ghettoisation and population flight is being repeated in other towns along the length of the barrier.
11-28-06 - Hamas loses control at key Palestinian university
11-28-06 - Lebanon's farm business is suffering Lebanon's agriculture sector suffered about $280 million in damage during this summer's conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a U.N. food agency said Monday.
11-28-06 - Gaza relishes moment of peace back on battered Hamad Street, Mr Adwan had this message for the militants. "That's enough with the rockets," he said. "That's enough."
11-28-06 - Rafah crossing reopened after two-week closure The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Tuesday morning reopened Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt.
11-28-06 - Salvaging Bush's Mideast disaster like it or not, the fact remains that the now 39-year-long Israeli occupation of Palestinian land continues to be the most incendiary issue in the Arab-Muslim world, the single thing that most inspires hatred of the U.S. A U.N.-sponsored group recently found that tensions between Islam and the West are caused not by religion but overwhelmingly by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has acquired a symbolic significance larger than itself......Bush's neoconservative brain trust is urging him to maintain his hard line against Syria and Hezbollah. But as Israel's recent, unsuccessful war shows, the Shiites in Lebanon are too powerful to smash into submission. The only long-term solution to Lebanon's woes, as former ABC News chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass, who was kidnapped by Hezbollah in 1987, recently argued, is to remove Hezbollah's raison d'être by providing justice for the Palestinians. Excellent article there at Salon.
11-28-06 - Briton tells of surviving blast from Israeli mine
11-28-06 - Spokesman: Palestinians need "deeds and not words"
11-28-06 - Meretz MK mediating between Barghouti, PM's Office
11-28-06 - Olmert demands the Palestinians to drop the Right of Return
11-28-06 - Israel gives nod to deploying Jordanian forces loyal to Palestinian's Abbas in Gaza
11-28-06 - International Academy of Art Palestine to launch Next Week The International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP) will be launched in Ramallah on Tuesday, December 7, shifting Palestinian artists from dream to reality, a press release by the administration of the academy said on Tuesday.
11-28-06 - Rice to press Abbas to assure ceasefire in Jericho meeting
11-28-06 - Abbas' senior aide rules out unilateral policy for Palestinian issue
11-28-06 - International day of solidarity with palestinian people to be observ.. The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold a special meeting in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in the Trusteeship Council Chamber, at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 29 November 2006, as mandated by General Assembly ...
11-28-06 - Scores of Palestinian public sector employees take the streets in Gaza city Scores of public sector employees in Gaza city took the streets on Tuesday morning in protesting of the delayed over due salaries.
11-28-06 - Jordan to urge Bush action on Israel-Palestinian conflict "The best way to counter this Iranian danger is to resolve the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, which will strengthen the moderate trends in the region and allow stability."
11-28-06 - Olmert speech puzzles press Palestinian commentators are puzzled by what they see as Mr Olmert's sudden change of tone, but also welcome a new "readiness to reinvigorate the political process". Olmert's sudden change of tone is predictable. It's because high-level US officials will be meeting with him and then the Palestinians very soon. Watch what he does after the former leave.
11-28-06 - Abbas sees talks with Hamas at "dead end": official Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told Jordan that talks on a unity government with Hamas have hit a "dead end" and he will pursue other options, a senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday
11-28-06 - Jordan will reject 'unjust' Mideast settlement
11-28-06 - Egypt allows Palestinian FM to carry 20 million dollars into Gaza Al-Zahar was allowed to cross the terminal after he agreed to declare the sum in his tax statement, well-informed sources said, adding that he passed the crossing after his visits to Egypt and some Arab and Islamic countries.
11-28-06 - Israeli troops round up 13 Palestinians in West Bank Israeli troops arrested 13 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on suspicion of engaging in "anti-Israeli activities".
11-28-06 - Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq The interview occurred at a time of intense debate over whether the United States should enlist Iran?s help in stabilizing Iraq. The Iraq Study Group, directed by James A. Baker III, a former Republican secretary of state, and Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic lawmaker, is expected to call for direct talks with Tehran. Wow, what a coincidence, this finding. For, the Iraq Study Group is going to release it's recommendations very soon, and well, we can't negotiate with Iran NOW, can we?
11-28-06 - Detainees facing harsh living and health condition in Be?er Shiva and Nafha prisons The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) published a report on the living conditions of the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Be?er Shiva and Nafha prisons. According to the report, the detainees are subjected to repeated attacks and facing bad living and health conditions.
11-28-06 - Report: Jerusalem talks to Barghouti Israel's government has been holding indirect talks with a Palestinian politician jailed for orchestrating terrorist attacks.
11-28-06 - Haniyya leaves Gaza on his first tour as a Prime Minister
11-28-06 - Bulldozers destroying 700 dunams of Bethlehem Israeli military bulldozers began dredging Artas Village in southern Bethlehem under heavy guard. Israeli forces are confiscating and destroying 700 dunams of the southern Bethlehem village
11-28-06 - U.S. Critiques Russia as It Readies for Mideast Democracy Forum
11-28-06 - First Bank decides to Divest! Dutch Civil Society challenges investments in the Occupation
11-28-06 - Local doctor honored for his work in developing countries Since 1988, Mustafa has taken 15 medical mission trips to the Palestinian West bank, his homeland, to give medical service
11-28-06 - Netanyahu Questioned by Police MK Netanyahu was questioned by police as a suspect regarding the possible misuse of public funds to pay for polls used to advance his own political standing in recent years.
11-28-06 - Peace is Possible: Caritas Internationalis Supports International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People on 29 November We cannot overemphasize the urgency we share with countless others that justice be done, that the occupation come to an end, and that the fundamental root causes of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict be put squarely at the heart of fair negotiations
11-28-06 - On a mission to help kids Purdue University student Michelle Sullivan said she "loves doing humanitarian work." Last month, she and other Indiana students traveled with Ambassadors for Children to a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan
11-28-06 - More than 500 people participate in largest protest of the year About 500 people came to the university's Vari Hall to take part in the Nov. 16 protest or simply to watch it unfold. The protest began with speeches by pro-Palestinian students, but hollers, whistles and drums quickly drowned their words.
11-28-06 - School 'terrorist' simulation exercise banned
11-28-06 - Israel's newest PR weapon: The Internet Megaphone "An Israeli company developed a type of software that functions like a beeper from one central place. They send alerts and anyone who downloads the software gets a pop-up with links to an activity. It can be to vote for Israel in a CNN survey or react to an especially nasty article. We still have a long way to go, but this is our future." Conspire much?
11-27-06 - Israeli army kills 2 in West Bank The woman, a neighbour aged 50, was killed in error as she rushed to help
11-27-06 - Israelis avoiding Cyprus due to Lebanese refugees
11-27-06 - High Court approves Bir Nabalah enclave
11-27-06 - Carter: Israeli 'domination' over Palestinians is 'atrocious' Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter called Israeli "domination" over Palestinians "atrocious" during an interview Monday on ABC's Good Morning America, RAW STORY has learned. He's right. Unfortunately, with so many dupes of Israel in the mainstream American media, Jimmy Carter will now be vilified. They must shout him down to attempt to discredit him in the eyes of ordinary Americans.
11-27-06 - Palestinians fire rockets in new truce violation The group said the rocket fire was in response to the deaths of a militant and middle-aged woman killed during an Israeli operation, plus the arrest of 15 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
The press has buried the deaths of these 2 individuals killed by Israel since the ceasefire went into effect - and that includes the British press. We are to focus our attention on the PALESTINIAN ceasefire breaches, seems.
11-27-06 - A group of settlers attack and injure one child in Hebron A group of illegal settlers attacked Palestinian school kids going back home to the Tell Rumeida neighborhood in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday afternoon.
11-27-06 - Hamas orders investigation into violation of ceasefire The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Sunday condemned the rocket attacks at southern Israeli towns, which breached a ceasefire with Israel and said it would look into the attacks.
11-27-06 - Israeli prime minister offers prisoner exchange and hope of renewed Middle East peace talks In his most important policy speech since the Lebanon war, Mr Olmert said if the Palestinians halted violence and recognised Israel, there could be negotiations that culminated in the creation of a Palestinian state and an Israeli withdrawal from some of the occupied West Bank The supreme being of the universe has ordained that those pesky Palestinians may just be deemed worthy enough to have a state of their own, provided they meet the supreme being's conditions. And there are always conditions.
11-27-06 - Bush Asking Arab Friends for Iraq Help Meanwhile, one of Ms. Rice?s most trusted aides, Philip D. Zelikow, announced Monday that he was resigning his post as State Department counselor. Mr. Zelikow, widely viewed as a voice of candor in the administration on the Iraq crisis, said in his resignation letter that he would return to teaching at the University of Virginia
11-27-06 - IDF officials: Mines in Lebanon could have been laid by Syria, Hezbollah Dalya Farran, a spokeswoman for the UN agency, said its experts found the land mines and were able to tell they were new Israeli anti-personnel mines based on their "type, shape and condition." Right. Like that 'mine' that Hamas planted on the Gaza beach in July. K.
11-27-06 - U.N. rights council keeps Israel focus The U.N. Human Rights Council passed two resolutions against Israel.
The council voted 32-1 Monday to declare Israel?s presence in the Golan Heights illegal, and 45-1 to condemn Israel?s settlement construction.
11-27-06 - E.U. leader meets with Israel, Arabs Finland?s foreign minister began two days of meetings with Israeli and Arab leaders.
The Associated Press reported that Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the rotating E.U. presidency, led peace discussions Monday in Tampere, Finland, with foreign ministers from the European Union, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia.
11-27-06 - Israelis Split on Unilateral Attack Against Iran Do you count on the United States and on the Europeans to succeed in stopping the nuclear program of Iran by peaceful means and via United Nations (UN) Security Council resolutions? That's PEACEFUL means. Look at the results. They forgot to ask the most important question: are you expecting America to attack Iran for Israel?
11-27-06 - Honor the agreement you signed The Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA) signed on November 15, 2005 promised Palestinians freedom of movement of people and goods. A detailed fact sheet published by the Palestinian Monitoring Group shows that since last year, none of the agreement's provisions have been fully implemented by Israel.
11-27-06 - 'First flicker of light at the edge of darkness' It may be that the arrival of George Bush in the region later this week has provided the final impetus When you are as focused as intently as I on this conflict, you'll notice that just before an Israeli PM meets with a US president, suddenly there are Israeli 'gestures of peace'. Watch what happens after their meeting is over.
11-27-06 - Iraq's Palestinians in bull's-eye international officials warn that Palestinians are in an especially precarious position because they are considered outsiders, even after decades of living in Iraq, and have difficulty gaining admission to other countries because they do not carry Iraqi passports
11-27-06 - Carter shares insight on peace in Mideast I mention in the book that we've vetoed resolutions, some of them overwhelmingly supported by the world community, probably now about 45 times, in fact twice within the last two weeks when Israel attacked the Gaza people and killed those 18 civilians. The United States vetoed the resolution that condemned that action. And I have to tell you that I have always considered myself a supporter of Israel -- but with the premise that Israel comply with international law and withdraw from occupying territories of the West Bank and Gaza. And what's degenerated in recent years, to a very disturbing degree, is the gross abuse of the Palestinians by the Israeli occupying powers. It's one of the most serious human-rights abuses about which I'm familiar. It aggravates and alienates not only the Palestinians and the Arab world, but most of the rest of the world
11-27-06 - Gaza violence threatens Palestinian participation at Asian Games Palestine is due to send 84 athletes to the Asian Games to compete in 13 sports. Eleven of them were in the volleyball team
11-27-06 - Pass for Israel From Mainstream American Media and Congress By Robert D. Novak
11-27-06 - A Storm Is Brewing in Kurdistan.
11-27-06 - UN Aid Agency Bills Israeli Government For 28 Million Dollars The UN relief agency for Palestinians refugees (UNRWA) said Friday it has billed the Israeli government for 28 million dollars for port and container charges that it claims it should never have had to pay.
11-27-06 - MobIS to develop application for Souktel in Palestine Souktel's new Matching Service will help local communities get emergency food and medical aid more efficiently-by pairing them directly with NGOs that meet their specific needs.
11-27-06 - Military probe ordered in 2003 shooting of American in Nablus Here's what happened to Brian Avery.
11-27-06 - Palestine's First English Daily "Many foreign mass media have been telling the Palestinian story with their standards. Now it is time for us to tell the world our story with our standards,"
11-27-06 - Flurry of diplomacy as US seeks to regain Mideast initiative The burst of US diplomacy is seen in part as an effort to counter Iran's bid for a greater role in the region, where it has significant influence with Shiite militants who have been foiling US policies in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian areas Iran is the reason.
11-27-06 - Palestinian PM delays first trip abroad Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas has postponed a tour of Muslim countries because of Israeli travel restrictions, his office said Monday.
11-27-06 - Western boycott causes catastrophic impoverishment of Palestinians
11-27-06 - Palestinian's Abbas may meet Bush in Amman
11-27-06 - Palestinian Hamas PM to visit Egypt Tuesday: report
11-27-06 - Excerpt: Carter's 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid' The overriding problem is that, for more than a quarter century, the actions of some Israeli leaders have been in direct conflict with the official policies of the United States, the international community, and their own negotiated agreements Ok, I will have to eat crow. Some in the mainstream media DID cover Carter's new book.
11-27-06 - Rice may meet Olmert, Abbas during her Mideast trip: official
11-27-06 - Islamic Jihad members taken prisoner near Jenin
11-27-06 - UN rights body urges Israel to reverse settlement policy The resolution called on Israel to prevent any new installation of settlers in the occupied territories. It also urged Israel to take "serious measures" to prevent settlers attacking Palestinians.
11-27-06 - Report: Hamas threatens more kidnappings Kidnappings like the abduction "done four months ago" of Gilad Shalit would go on, the report said, as part of "a bid to swap them for Palestinian detainees languishing in occupation dungeons."
11-27-06 - Interviews -Jimmy Carter on Conflict in the Middle East
11-27-06 - Workshops help Palestinian women take the lead in a refugee camp
11-27-06 - Jimmy Carter urges Canada to press Israel
11-27-06 - Palestinian homes abandoned in flight across Israel?s wall "Displacement is the root cause of the conflict. It is taking land and clearing it of people. The wall is just one aspect of a pattern of making life so difficult that people will eventually want to move," she said.
"One has to ask ? is this the goal of Israeli policy?"
11-27-06 - Palestinians decry 'hate crime' Greater Toronto's Palestinian community is in shock at what they are calling a hate crime that left the parking lot of their main gathering place vandalized.
11-27-06 - The complete text of The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict Published by
Jews for Justice in the Middle East
11-27-06 - Saudi urges US to play fair in Mideast
11-27-06 - Israelis Pick Netanyahu Instead of Olmert
11-27-06 - Murdered KGB Agent Visited Israel
11-27-06 - U.S. theaters pull Turkish film that ADL leaders had protested A Turkish film featuring a venal, bloodstained Jewish doctor has been mysteriously withdrawn from screening in the United States. In "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq," American actor Gary Busey portrays a Jewish U.S. Army doctor who cuts out the organs of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison and sells them to wealthy clients in New York, London and Tel Aviv.
11-27-06 - The Saudis strike back at Iran Three things must be said about Cheney's beliefs. First, he is steadfast in his belief that the Iraq war is still a "doable" job. Second, he consistently maintains that an Iraq settlement is inconceivable without a regime change in Iran. Most important, Cheney believes that when it comes to Israel's security, US politicians are alike. Name them, they are all "friends of Israel" - Democratic presidential hopefuls Senators Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, and the incoming chairman of the House Committee on International Affairs, Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos.
11-27-06 - Zuckerman, Tisch and Lauder: Rock stars of the Jewish world honored at ZOA dinner R. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA under President Bill Clinton, was ZOA?s Keynote Speaker. Woolsey was honored with the ZOA?s Defender of Israel Award .....Among the numerous distinguished guests who attended the Dinner were Kenneth Bialkin, Malcolm Hoenlein, Steve Emerson and a number of national board members of AIPAC.
11-27-06 - Canadian PM receives a delegation from One Voice, a Palestinian-Israeli civil society movement for change The Palestinian youth delegation has held several sessions and panels at Canadian universities where they met with hundreds of Canadian students, businessmen, parliamentary members in addition to different unions and associations
11-27-06 - Palestine to Be Represented in World Weightlifting Championships
11-27-06 - Jewish Like Me
11-27-06 - Israel Wants Larger Share of Holocaust Funds And how much of this will the actual survivors get? They live in poverty in Israel. Why is that?
11-26-06 - Israeli army withdraws from Gaza Strip under ceasefire
11-26-06 - Gaza truce takes hold despite rocket fire
11-26-06 - PA forces deploy 13,000 in Gaza Palestinian Authority security forces began deploying along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel on Sunday, in order to prevent Palestinian militants from firing Qassam rockets at Israel in violation of the cease-fire.
11-26-06 - Travel ban on Palestinians in Israeli cars limited to Green Line The ban on allowing Palestinians to ride in Israeli cars in the West Bank will mainly be enforced near the border with Israel, and not throughout the West Bank, a senior Israel Defense Forces officer told Haaretz.
11-26-06 - Court rejects petition to change route of J'lem envelope fence
11-26-06 - US man allegedly spied for Israel, China A federal grand jury in Honolulu has indicted a leading former military engineer for allegedly transferring classified information to Israel, China, and other countries.
11-26-06 - Jordan king warns on Mideast civil wars "We could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands," he said, citing conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon and the decades-long strife between the Palestinians and Israelis.
11-26-06 - Peacekeepers bring calm to south Lebanon
11-26-06 - Human rights urge less talk, more action "The State of Israel is obliged to protect Palestinian citizens and their property in the face of Israeli violence. Mazuz must organize the efforts and bring about the desired change."
11-26-06 - Nonviolent Palestinian protest in Israeli prison: hunger strike in Jalameh Since Friday Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli Jalameh Prison have been hunger-striking in protest of inhumane treatment. The Jenin area prison is accused of acting in contravention to international laws and norms.
11-26-06 - "America's moment in the Middle East is about to end" So, who benefits from greater antagonism between Washington and Damascus? Who gains from the continuing bloodshed in Iraq? Prime Minister Olmert helped answer this question just a few days ago when he said: "I know that (Bush's) policies are controversial in America. (but) I stand with the president because I know that Iraq without Saddam Hussein so much better for the safety and security of Israel?Thank God for the determination and leadership of George Bush". (Reuters)
11-26-06 - Hebron settlers trespass on Palestinian family?s land with IOF complicity
11-26-06 - Lebanon divide hits dangerous deadlock over UN court plans
11-26-06 - PA Gov't to Spend 50 K for Christmas decoration in Bethlehem Palestinian Minister of Tourism, Eng. Judeh Markus said the Paestinian Authority decided to allocate 50 thousand dollars to decorate Bethlehem on Christmas, Palestine News Network reported on Sunday.
11-26-06 - Mashaal backs away from 6 month deadline for talks
11-26-06 - Israeli settlers, or squatters? In the first years of the occupation, Israel regularly "requisitioned" land, ostensibly to meet provisional military needs. Palestinian residents retained ownership, but not control, of their real estate. On some of that land, the government established settlements.
State-sanctioned theft (and it's not a new Israeli policy either)- paid for in part by the unwitting American taxpayers.
11-26-06 - Egypt threatens to quit importing Israeli cotton over price hike Under the agreement, Egypt is obligated to incorporate in the production Israeli output to a minimum of 11.7% in order to receive customs tax exemptions in the United States
11-26-06 - Christian public library opens in Gaza
11-26-06 - West Bank land comes with a price Israel-apologentsia at the Boston Herald with a slight attempt to propound the truth.
11-26-06 - Film by Longview's Dylan Bergeson looks at lives of Palestinian children And you can watch it at Google Video. I have not done so yet.
11-26-06 - ELCA conference explores Christian responses to walls and barriers The Palestinian Christians called for justice, asking that the international community uphold United Nations resolutions and the International Court of Justice ruling in July 2004 against the separation barrier.
11-26-06 - Israeli Chief of Israeli Defence Force (Ret'd) in NZ -Palestinian groups protest! Auckland and Wellington Palestine support organisations are protesting against the presence in New Zealand of the former Israel Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon who is responsible for war crimes in Lebanon and is a fugitive from justice.
11-26-06 - Absurd Atrocity By YvonneRidley
11-25-06 - Israeli artillery shelling kills two Palestinians Two Palestinians, one Hamas militant and one police officer, were killed in an Israeli artillery shelling on eastern Gaza Strip Saturday night, security sources said.
11-25-06 - Israel: Fear for Safety Human rights defenders working in the Occupied Territories are at risk of
attack by Israeli settlers. Amnesty International is concerned at the latest
such attack against those who seek through their presence to afford protection
to Palestinians and to bear witness to the abuses perpetrated against them by
Israeli settlers in the area.
11-25-06 - Palestinians agree to end rocket attacks in Gaza ceasefire deal The breakthrough came after the Palestinian leadership reached an agreement with resistance groups and factions to stop firing rockets into Israel. President Abbas told the Israeli premier of the development yesterday in a telephone call and Mr Olmert pledged to stop military operations in the Gaza strip.
11-25-06 - Hamas chief warns of new intifada Khaled Meshaal said it would happen unless there was international agreement on a Palestinian state within six months.
11-25-06 - Palestinian political prisoner paralyzed after being shot in spinal cord A Palestinian political prisoner is paralyzed after Israeli soldiers shot him in the back. During the arrest of Ali Hussein Ali Israeli soldiers unloaded several bullets into the body of the second year Al Quds University student
11-25-06 - December 2: International 'End the Gaza Siege' Day
11-25-06 - And now - Deep Background by Philip Giraldi FBI reportedly has kept the case open as Wells, an Israeli citizen who claims to be a student but does not appear to be registered for a course of study anywhere, is suspected of working for Israeli intelligence in some capacity. If it is determined that he might be from Mossad, he will undoubtedly be quietly deported on immigration charges to avoid embarrassing the Israeli government.
11-25-06 - Hezbollah 'to rule within five years' Not all Israeli experts believe the Syrian Government was involved in the assassination of the Lebanese minister. Zvi Barel, Arab affairs analyst of the daily Ha'aretz, noted that Syria was in the midst of chalking up significant diplomatic points that could only be harmed if it were shown to be involved in another political assassination.
11-25-06 - Palestinian Scholars Discuss Ethnic Cleansing in London Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian journalist, editor of the Palestinian Chronicle and the author of several books, provided a detailed account of Israel?s policy of ethnic cleansing, but most importantly highlighted the racist discourse that adjoined such a policy
11-25-06 - Mubarak: identifying those behind Lebanon killings 'premature'
11-25-06 - Larijani says Israel cannot attack Iran with US support: report "How could IAEA and the West blame Iran for any illegal activity while the Agency's cameras are covering every activity and its inspectors have been inspecting each of Iran's nuclear installations?" Larijani asked.
11-25-06 - U.N. group: Israel laid mines in Lebanon The Israeli military said it wasn't convinced the mine was recently laid or used by Israel, saying it could have placed by Hezbollah or another party during the decades of conflict in Lebanon. But officials were evasive when asked whether Israel laid mines in Lebanon this summer. More deceptive behavior from the Israeli government.
11-25-06 - Hariri court gets Lebanon backing While he did not want to pre-judge any investigation into Mr Gemayel's death, Mr Bolton said, proof of Syrian involvement would show it was "not just a supporter of terrorism but is a state actor in a terrorist fashion".
11-25-06 - UN says Israel planted landmines in Lebanon as four wounded Four members of an international demining team have been wounded in an Israeli-laid minefield in south Lebanon, a UN spokeswoman said, adding it was the first evidence of use by the Jewish state of anti-personnel mines in the summer conflict
11-25-06 - Moussa welcomes Hamas chief's proposal to establish Palestinian state in six months
11-25-06 - Gaza to get electricity supply from Egypt: company Palestinian and Egyptian officials will sign a final deal to provide Gaza Strip with Egyptian electricity instead of some Israeli power, a Gaza power company announced on Saturday.
11-25-06 - FACTBOX-Key facts about the Gaza Strip Most Gazans live on less than $2 a day. Unemployment exceeds 50 percent because of Israeli security closures curbing cross-border trade and access to jobs.
11-25-06 - Financial Boycott Sends Palestinian Poverty Numbers Soaring, Finds UN Report More than 1 million Palestinians, or one in four inhabitants of the occupied territories, are now mired in deep poverty as living standards deteriorate dramatically following the economic boycott of the Palestinian Authority this year, according to a United Nations report released today.
11-25-06 - Egypt Steps up Mediation for Israeli-Palestinian Prisoner Swap
11-25-06 - Rockets, riots and rivalry Beitar fans were living down to their reputation when at least 7,000 travelled to their opening match against arch-rivals Maccabi Tel Aviv. 'We hate Arabs and Muslims,' shouted 19-year-old fan Eliran, a member of Beitar's La Familia hooligan gang. 'If any Arab played for Beitar, we'd burn their ass and burn the club. They're our enemy.'
"Rockets, riots and rivalry" and RACISM.
11-25-06 - Beyond the Mask - The ADL Spy Scandal What appears the most troubling is the fact that the ADL collaborated with state, federal and foreign intelligence agencies to provide confidential information that could have led to the deaths of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa and Palestinian activists. Wow. A harsh article featured on the Final Call, which I believe is affiliated with the Nation of Islam.
11-25-06 - Behind the Wall: Palestinian Teens Speak Out
11-25-06 - What if Israel invaded Vermont?
11-25-06 - Syrian Jews: Talk to Syria now
11-25-06 - U.S. Groups To Host Rightist Minister With Anti-Arab Plan In a further indication of his acceptance into the political mainstream, controversial right-wing Israeli politician and newly minted government minister Avigdor Lieberman will be hosted next month in New York by the most influential umbrella organization of American Jewish groups. It speaks volumes. He's coming here to speak about Iran.
11-25-06 - From Dec. 2005: Israeli Aides Warn U.S. Not To Drop Ball on Iran Israeli officials, sources said, were surprised by reports that rather than take the lead in pressuring Iran, the Bush administration instructed its ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khaklilzad, to open a dialogue with Iran's ambassador there. In addition, Israeli officials were also upset by Washington's restrained reaction to the deal that Russia is finalizing to sell Tehran more than $1 billion worth of anti-aircraft missiles, which could be used to help Iran protect its nuclear facilities against a possible air strike.
11-25-06 - New Israeli ambassador would like to see Malta 'more balanced' Israel, for its part, kept its word: it gave up the land it was supposed to give up. No, it didn't. Israel continued to build settlements in the occupied West Bank - doubling the amount of settlers therein during the Oslo process.
11-25-06 - Brenda Norrell: On Alcatraz, American Indians and Palestinians Offer Thanks On Alcatraz Island, Palestinian dance group Al-Juthoor (The Roots) were among the performers during the sunrise service on Thanksgiving, hosted by the International Indian Treaty Council, which attracted 3,000 people in solidarity against injustice and oppression.
11-25-06 - Israeli military chief may quit over failed campaign Many Israeli officers regard this year?s battles as a ?dress rehearsal for the real thing? ? a war against the combined might of Hezbollah and Syria, and possibly Iran.
11-25-06 - Caterpillar homewrecker?s visit to London
11-25-06 - From Nov. 2005: UN Amb. John Bolton And Jerusalem Post's Caroline Glick The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased to announce that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will be the Keynote Speaker at the annual ZOA Louis Brandeis Award Dinner. He will also receive ZOA?s Defender of Israel award
11-24-06 - Israel kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza: medics Israeli forces shot dead a 10-year-old Palestinian boy and a militant in Gaza on Friday, hospital officials said as the government vowed it would only end its assault when militants stopped attacking Israel.
11-24-06 - Israel rejects Palestinian offer to halt rocket fire A Palestinian child and Hamas militant were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip just hours after a spokesman for the ultra-radical Islamic Jihad extended the offer, following an overnight meeting between rival factions.
11-24-06 - Army shells a residential building near Beit Lahia Palestinian sources reported on Friday night after midnight that Israeli soldiers fired a shell at a residential building in Sheikh Zayid city, north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; injuries were reported.
11-24-06 - Hamas says new rift with Abbas on government
11-24-06 - Resident dies of wounds suffered three weeks ago, three injured in Jabalia, two in Beit Lahia Resident Ala' Al Omary, died of his wounds at an Israeli hospital on Friday evening. He was seriously injured three weeks ago when the Israeli army shelled an area in Beit Lahia town; four residents, including two medics, were killed in the attack.
11-24-06 - Beit Hanoun: what happened? I linked to this video again because I had a chance to watch it. Watch at the end the Israeli spokeswoman just spin and spin and spin, shooting in all directions to try to detract from the focal point, and deflect attention and blame. Keep in mind that this woman is an offical spokesperson from the Israeli government. She fits the part nicely.
11-24-06 - Gaza's Reality
11-24-06 - TV News Footage - Israel/ Palestine. Poverty in the West Bank ICRC video footage available for media professionals. As the International Committee of the Red Cross is launching its report on "Household Economy Assessment" this report shows two stories of impoverished Palestinian families.
11-24-06 - At-Tuwani Update: 1-18 November 2006
11-24-06 - Syria: Convenient but Unlikely Fall Guy for Gemayel's Death Gemayel's death, and Syria's blame for it, strengthens the case of the neoconservatives in Washington ? Israel's allies in the Administration ? whose star had begun to wane. They can now argue convincingly that Syria is unreformed and unreformable. Such an outcome helps to avert the danger, from Israel's point of view, that White House doves might win the argument for befriending Syria.
11-24-06 - Cluster bomb wounds two experts Two mine-clearing experts were rushed to hospital in Lebanon after a dormant cluster bomb left behind by Israel exploded.
11-24-06 - Netanyahu warns on Iran The boy who cried wolf.
11-24-06 - Italy, France call for European action in the Gaza Strip
11-24-06 - Bethlehem youth ask President Abbas to waive tuition and increase security as economy worsens Four Palestinian youth organizations active in the Bethlehem District sent President Abbas a message. The letter asked that "some of the worries and burdens of the young be alleviated."
11-24-06 - Palestinians on Iraq-Syria border UNHCR is very concerned about five Palestinians ? three men and two boys ? who were arrested on Tuesday by Iraqi security forces at Al Tanf border crossing between Iraq and Syria.
11-24-06 - Peaceful settlement of Palestine question, UN special information programme among issues addressed as Palestinian rights committee approves four texts
11-24-06 - Japan eyes 4-way talks next spring for peace in Middle East Japan decided Friday to begin making arrangements with Israel, the Palestinian government and Jordan to convene four-party talks in Tokyo next spring to help achieve peace in the Middle East through regional development, Japanese government sources said.
11-24-06 - Palestinian deals go on despite boycott
11-24-06 - There's no accounting for it Gemayel's murder will be fully investigated - but there is no sign of justice for the 1,183 Lebanese civilians killed in this summer's war Good point.
11-24-06 - Bil'in peaceful protest marks agriculture season, demands free accesses to isolated orchards
11-24-06 - Gaza violence damages graves of Canadian soldiers The wall was reportedly damaged by an Israeli army bulldozer. Five headstones close to the wall were smashed
11-24-06 - U.S. general says building up Abbas's guard
11-24-06 - Killing plunges Lebanon deeper into crisis The assassination of Gemayel, and the fingerpointing at Syria, at a time when the ice was thawing between Syrian and the West - is highly reminiscent of the Lavon Affair. Somebody sought to poison the warming relations between Egypt's Nasser and the West. Who was it? And who are the experts at assassinations?
11-24-06 - Lebanese viewpoints I think Israel and the USA are benefiting from the situation; but I don't know who did it. We should wait for the investigation.
11-24-06 - Moral compass on the occupation
11-24-06 - Special meeting with Palestinian musicians
11-24-06 - Plays on Palestine sought for new Nibras theater project
11-24-06 - Al-Awda/Alternate Focus Annual Worldwide Video Contest
11-24-06 - The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe
11-24-06 - Hebron Reflection: Two Poems
11-24-06 - Syria expects foes to slander it over killing of Gemayel Syria, while clearly unhappy with the tribunal and with Lebanon's Western-backed government, argues that Gemayel's death plays into the hands of its Lebanese opponents and hurts its chances of dialogue with Europe and the United States.
11-24-06 - Settler rabbi calls for rogue militias A settler rabbi called on Jewish youth to set up unsupervised militias to counter terrorist rocket attacks on Israel?s South.
11-24-06 - Pullout cash went to unauthorized settlers Unauthorized settlers were compensated after leaving the Gaza Strip
11-24-06 - Tycoon blames Kremlin in spy death Leonid Nevzlin, who fled to Israel in 2004 after Russian authorities charged officers of the Yukos oil giant with tax evasion, murder and fraud, said Alexander Litvinenko had shared with him evidence of Kremlin malfeasance in the Yukos affair.
11-24-06 - When will Israel attack Iran?
11-24-06 - Kremlin critic who died in London suffered radiation poisoning: Britain Litvinenko's rapid, and previously unexplained decline, was reminiscent of that of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who became ill with nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating dinner in his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Oct. 12, 2004. The symptoms continued for more than two weeks before he was evacuated to France where he died on Nov. 11.
11-24-06 - Israel Poverty Addressed By US Outsourcing US firms looking to lower costs by outsourcing work abroad, may turn first toward Bangalore or Beijing. Luckily for Israel, it has other charms Why not? Our foreign policy was outsourced to Israel long ago. Imagine some of these Israeli settlers having access to your private data?
11-24-06 - Canadian church seeks action on tragedy of occupied Gaza "The unqualified Canadian government support for the Government of Israel in the face of the overwhelmingly disproportionate military response to the firing of Qass am rockets is a cause of grave concern to the United Church."
11-24-06 - Keeping it unreal Built by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) more than 30 years ago, the purpose of this replica town is to train Israeli soldiers in the strategies of modern urban combat. It was here that the IDF rehearsed the invasion of Beirut in 1982 and the withdrawal from Gaza last year. It was here, too, that US forces drilled the battle of Fallujah and the raid of Baghdad three years ago
They trained our guys in 'urban combat', among other things. Now you know why there are so many similarities (the origin of the term "Palestinian hangings"). Then one wonders why Iraqis didn't accept us as 'liberators'. (Because Israeli tactics work so well on Palestinians..)
11-24-06 - Iran and Syria Helping Hizballah Rearm additional reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv Wouldn't you know - Aaron Klein reported this propaganda, I mean news.
11-24-06 - Palestinian visitor makes case for peace According to Ghareeb, after Israel took Bethlehem in the Six-Day War of 1967, it deliberately obstructed attempts by Palestinian tour guides or operators to get licenses to show tourists Christian holy sites in the occupied territories, for fear they would point out other landmarks to pilgrims ? such as refugee camps and abandoned Palestinian villages.
11-24-06 - BBC appoints Jewish reporters A BBC representative has denied that the move was an attempt to defray criticism of the agency?s alleged anti-Israel bias. Contrary to what the Israeli lobby would have you believe, the BBC is biased in favor of Israel, NOT the Palestinians.
11-23-06 - Israel kills 7 in Gaza, woman attempts suicide attack Hospital officials said a 20-year-old civilian man was shot dead by Israeli troops east of the town of Beit Lahiya. The army said it was checking the report.
Residents said troops backed by tanks earlier thrust into Beit Lahiya. Tanks firing machineguns stormed a housing project, killing a 19-year-old man, hospital officials said.
11-23-06 - Two killed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, several residents injured Earlier on Thursday morning, Israeli army helicopters fired a missile at a group of residents and killed one. Eight school boys were shot and injured east of Beit Lahia, in the norther part of the Gaza Strip.
11-23-06 - Several homes destroyed in northwestern West Bank citing building without Israeli permission The Israeli administration continues to target the houses of Qalqilia District citizens where early this morning Israeli forces demolished several homes 18 kilometers east of the city, and just days ago destroyed others in the south.
11-23-06 - Woman, 64, blows herself up in attack on Israeli troops Her oldest daughter, Fatheya, said she decided to become a bomber because her grandson had been killed.
11-23-06 - Palestinians offer Israel limited truce
11-23-06 - Beit Hanoun: what happened? Channel 4 News has been to Beit Hanoun, where the operation took place, to piece together what happened this month. What we found challenges the Israeli version of events and raises questions about the protection of civilians during conflict.
11-23-06 - Hamas official shot by West Bank gunmen
11-23-06 - Gunmen clash with Lebanese-Palestinian security forces in refugee camp, 3 wounded
11-23-06 - The Next Act: Will the Republicans? Mid-Term Loss Hurt Chances of a War on Iran? ** What's happening right now and the reason some of the people talked to me about the new Israeli intelligence, is that there's a great debate inside the community about how good it is, whether it's for -- you know, there is human intelligence about a warhead being manufactured, but nobody in the CIA knows much about it, who the source is, knows ? are there drawings, any evidence, any technical evidence? Those questions aren?t being asked and answered because the White House likes it. The Israelis are supplying us with intelligence on a Middle Eastern country's alleged WMD program - again.
11-23-06 - Olmert: I did not use classified information Wednesday morning, Yedioth Aharonoth reported that the prime minister used top secret intelligence information in order to censure Peretz for and, by doing so, exposed a number of Israeli intelligence capabilities, including the capability to listen to Abbas' conversations.
11-23-06 - Israeli MP dreams up new Mideast peace plan
11-23-06 - Families of Oct. 2000 riot victims nix payout over wording of deal Eight families of Israeli Arabs killed in the October 2000 riots said Wednesday that they have rejected the settlement agreed on with the state because of a specific clause in the agreement that declares that "both sides feel remorse for the civilian deaths and injuries that security forces sustained."
11-23-06 - Hebrew Univ. to review application process deemed discriminatory
11-23-06 - Israel permit 'too short' for PhD Israeli human rights group Gisha described the six-month permit as "cynical" because a doctoral thesis usually takes at least four years.
11-23-06 - France okays firing at IAF over Lebanon French soldiers in Lebanon who feel threatened by aggressive Israeli overflights are permitted to shoot at IAF fighter jets, a high-ranking French military officer told The Jerusalem Post.
11-23-06 - Civilians in Israel, Palestine bear brunt of abuses, UN rights chief says
11-23-06 - Louise Arbour: Israel may be more to blame than Hizbullah "I left Gaza with a sense that the right of its people to their physical integrity - their right to life - was particularly imperiled," Arbour said.
11-23-06 - Israel, Palestinians agree to continue preparations for Abbas- Olmert summit
11-23-06 - The Massacre at Beit Hanoun - How Can We Allow This to Go On? What can one say to them? That they should stop firing Qassams? But the vast majority of them are not involved in this at all
11-23-06 - Mideast diplomacy / Bush to visit Jordan, won't meet PM, Abbas We can assume that Bush informed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of his intentions to limit the American presence in Iraq during their meeting last week. That would explain Olmert's controversial statements regarding a rushed American pullout from Iraq that would "undermine stability" in the region. From Israel's point of view, there is tremendous significance to the thinning American presence in the Middle East, at a time when Iran is getting stronger and is seeking to form a regional alliance against America and its allies.
11-23-06 - EU says must speak with one voice on Middle East
11-23-06 - Bereaved Gaza family struggles to recover
11-23-06 - Palestinian Contingent Stranded Due To Curfew In Gaza
11-23-06 - Israeli lawyers: Rescind Palestinian travel ban human rights activists said the order is part of a wider Israeli scheme to create separate road systems for Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank and to keep Palestinians from 20 percent of the territory.
11-23-06 - Shin Bet opposes assassination of Palestinian leaders
11-23-06 - Palestinian sources: Saudis have severed ties with Hamas
11-23-06 - UN official: Apology insufficient when you kill 19 civilians Frankly I don't think it's sufficient for the armed forces, after 19 innocent civilians are killed in their house, in their bed, two days later to say 'well, this was an accident'. It's not enough; it does not persuade the victims that this is the truth. I don't think it persuades the community at large and it certainly doesn't give any guarantee that it won't happen again.
11-23-06 - What the U.S. Has Failed to Learn in Lebanon a key reason for the U.S.'s setbacks in the Middle East is it's chronic refusal to wholeheartedly address the root causes of conflict, such as the lack of a negotiated end to Israel's occupation of Arab lands, the failure to establish a Palestinian state and Western support for repressive Arab regimes.
11-23-06 - War on terror is WWIII: Israeli Lt Gen The West should confront the threat through diplomatic and even military action if necessary, and Iran and Syria must be held responsible for their support of militants in Iraq, Lt Gen Yaalon said.
11-23-06 - Ex-council leader jailed for contacting Iranian agents
11-23-06 - Flemish Palestine Committee marks Israeli fruit
11-23-06 - Poll: More than half of Israelis support Syria talks More than half of Israelis would like to see Israel engage in negotiations with Syria, but are unprepared to withdraw from the Golan Heights as a price for peace
11-23-06 - Israel's Rumsfeld Takes Heat In my opinion were Israel to attack Iran, and if Iran takes revenge the world's oil market will be in a mess.
11-23-06 - Enter the historians, finally
11-23-06 - Jewish & Arab women unite in the spirit of entrepreneurship
11-23-06 - AWU meeting closes with Palestinian writer's winning laurel
11-23-06 - Damascus awaits a renewed political backlash Syria now expects its enemies to use the killing to blacken its image and dash its hopes of a thaw in ties with the West. This particular killing is reminiscent of the Lavon Affair. Who did it and why?
11-23-06 - Daniel Barenboim Receives Award From Berlin's Jewish Museum
11-22-06 - Israel approves more Gaza operations, 4 killed Soldiers killed two gunmen from the governing Hamas faction, hospital officials said. They said a Palestinian woman, 35, was killed by Israeli shelling in an area used by rocket crews, and that troops killed a 14-year-old boy in a nearby refugee camp.
11-22-06 - Top Hamas commander killed in Gaza offensive
11-22-06 - Israeli forces move into two Gaza towns A gunman from the Hamas group had been killed and three teenage Palestinian girls wounded by Israeli fire outside a school, Palestinian hospital officials said.
11-22-06 - Israelis push back into Gaza town Israeli troops have moved into an area of the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun where Israeli artillery killed almost 20 people earlier this month.
11-22-06 - Naval boats injure a fisherman near Rafah Israeli army naval boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen boats near the coast of Rafah beach, in southern Gaza and injured one on Wednesday at dawn.
11-22-06 - Iraq war was good for Israel: Olmert "I stand with the president because I know that Iraq without Saddam Hussein is so much better for the security and safety of Israel, and all of the neighbors of Israel without any significance to us," added Olmert, who was speaking in English.
11-22-06 - Father Peter Dougherty, 65, left, and Sister Mary Ellen Gundeck, 55, right
11-22-06 - West Bank and Gaza: ICRC report shows increased levels of poverty "Humanitarian assistance alone, in whatever form, will not solve the problem in a sustainable way. It is the responsibility of the State of Israel, as the occupying power, to ensure that Palestinians can meet their basic needs."
11-22-06 - Israel eyes trade deals from China visit Beijing has also sought closer ties with Israel in recent years, particularly in trying to source military technology and hardware Yeh, OURS. And Israel has indulged them.
11-22-06 - Hebron Update: November 12 to 19, 2006
11-22-06 - Peace talks What do young Palestinians and Israelis think about the chances of peace in the Middle East? Emine Saner joins four activists trying to find common ground at an unofficial summit in London
11-22-06 - israel opts for MAJOR war in Gaza The deeper the domestic crisis erupting in Lebanon in the wake of the assassination of Pierre Gemayel on Tuesday, Nov. 21, the less Hizballah will be free to start another war against Israel.
11-22-06 - Israel army trains U.N. in bomb disposal for Lebanon Isn't that nice of them? Why not refrain from dropping those cluster bombs into civilian areas in the first place? Too easy.
11-22-06 - University students targeted for arrest in northern West Bank Sources in the Palestinian Prisoner Society reported today that Israeli forces arrested 20 university students in November.
11-22-06 - Roundup: exiled Hamas leader arrives in Cairo on unexpected visit
11-22-06 - Freed Red Cross worker says kidnapping won't stop him from working in Gaza A Canadian Red Cross worker freed eight hours after he was kidnapped in Gaza said his abductors were poor unemployed people driven to the act of desperation by miserable conditions in the Palestinian area..... "We moved from one house to another - three different places. But we were well treated and, I think I can say for my colleague, we never felt really threatened."
11-22-06 - Israel Moves Ahead on Rocket Shield Plan
11-22-06 - Civilians must not be used to shield homes against military attacks
11-22-06 - Negotiations the only way out in Mideast crisis: UN official
11-22-06 - Aides of Israeli, Palestinian leaders meet Aides of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met advisors of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in a new effort to arrange a summit between the two leaders, one of the aides said.
11-22-06 - American nun, priest join Gaza standoff Father Peter Dougherty, 65, and Sister Mary Ellen Gundeck, 55, both Michigan-based peace activists, said they were sent by God to help protect the Palestinians.
11-22-06 - Violence, politics cause Palestinians to look abroad
11-22-06 - US could bomb Iran nuclear sites in 2007: analysts Israel has also been pushing Washington to get tough on Iran.
11-22-06 - Arms deals frozen because of Chavez Anti-Israel comments by Venezuelan president delay weapon deals with Israel
11-22-06 - SACCC'S Elce Redmond heads to the West Bank On Sunday, Nov. 19, the South Austin Coalition staff member, along with colleagues from the Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT), departed for Hebron
11-22-06 - Spielberg: shoot film, not each other ?The young people will be busy filming instead of throwing firebombs, and they will be able to see the other side?s of life and learn that we are all human beings who want to live in peace,?
11-22-06 - South African Jewish weekly in eye of storm "I oppose the brutal treatment of the Palestinian people by successive Israeli goverments, and like your first agriculture minister, Aharon Cizling, who in 1948 said to the cabinet, 'Now we too have behaved like Nazis,' I do compare methods such as the indiscriminate bombings of civilians, collective punishment and ethnic cleansing as measures utilized by the Nazis and other fascist regimes.
11-22-06 - Like dying, totally helpless, trapped in a car Lives proscribed, Palestinian artists narrate the culture of occupation through diaries posted online
11-22-06 - History professor sues York University He tells the Star he criticized people for their political views on Israel, not their ethnicity or religion.
11-22-06 - Jews, Arabs provide U.S. care for young Palestinian blast victim
11-21-06 - Two Palestinians die in Gaza raid Sadia Haraz, 70, was killed by Israeli tank fire, medics said
11-21-06 - Red Cross suspends work in Gaza The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended its field operations in the Gaza Strip after two of its staff were briefly abducted.
11-21-06 - Man dies of wounds sustained in Qassam strike on Sderot
11-21-06 - Report: 101 Palestinians killed during November by Israeli attacks in Gaza Out of the 101 killed, 26 (26%) are children and 15 (15%) are women.
11-21-06 - Israel issues final visas, splitting families All foreign passports belonging to spouses and children of Palestinian ID-holders who had applied for visa extensions have recently been marked as "last permit" by the Israeli authorities.
11-21-06 - Hamas, Fatah negotiations postponed
11-21-06 - Israeli Foreign Minister demands annulment of Palestinian refugees' right to return The Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has urged the world community, especially countries hosting Palestinian refugees, to annul those refugees' internationally-recognized right of return to their homeland (what is now Israel).
11-21-06 - Israel launches offensive in Gaza City Troops entered the town of Jebaliya after dawn. Bulldozers plowed over farms, ripping up irrigation systems and destroying greenhouses and fields. A main electricity transformer, which provides about 60 percent of the power to the Zeitoun neighborhood, was also destroyed.
11-21-06 - Israelis Support Large Scale War in Gaza Strip
11-21-06 - 39% of Israeli settlements 'on private land' In a key ruling in 1979, the Israeli high court said settlements should only be built on state land. The other issue here is : 'state land'. How did Israel procure this 'state land' in the West Bank? By military seizure? This is commonplace with regard to land confiscation by the Israeli army.
11-21-06 - Olmert repeatedly banned Peretz from meeting Abbas Peretz again asked to meet with the Abbas recently, due to the delays in setting up a meeting between the PA chairman and the prime minister. Peretz's request was denied by Olmert.
11-21-06 - Army takes four children prisoner in Abu Dis village east of Jerusalem
11-21-06 - Bedouin petition High Court requesting access to water supply A group fighting for the legal rights of Arabs in Israel on Monday petitioned the High Court of Justice with a request to connect unrecognized Bedouin communities to the national water infrastructure.
11-21-06 - Iraq and Syria restore relations Correspondents say Iraq hopes the move will help to stem a flow of militants across the border with Syria. What will the AIPACers do if they can't blame Syria for this? Wait a minute, wait a minute. What happened today.... in Lebanon..
11-21-06 - American foes step into the Iraq fray The US has repeatedly accused Iran and Syria of stirring up violence inside Iraq, but recently the notion of isolating them as punishment has lost favor in Washington. A growing number President Bush's advisers are urging direct dialogue with both nations. Not going to happen now, is it?
11-21-06 - Israel's Domestic Political Game Raises the Danger of a U.S.-Iran War ** One reason it won't be debated publicly because it's based on a fallacy promoted by a calculated campaign of hysteria by Israel's leadership
11-21-06 - Palestinians Support Operations Inside Israel
11-21-06 - Israeli protestors throw stones at UN commissioner's convoy
11-21-06 - Lebanon mourns murdered minister BBC Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen says the assassination seems to have been designed to inflame sectarian tensions at a time when Lebanon was already going through a profound political crisis. Cui bono? - who benefits? - is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror.- Patrick J. Buchanan
11-21-06 - Detained Palestinian Minister of Finance appears in Israeli Court chained
11-21-06 - Human rights organizations criticize ongoing Israeli detention of human rights worker
11-21-06 - Conference addresses 'forgotten faithful' in Israel-Palestine
11-21-06 - Italy wants Britain, Germany in Mideast initiative Israel was cool to the idea and the United States is working on its own planning, which could include an international peace conference in Jordan at the end of the month
11-21-06 - Fourth Committee defers action on 10 draft resolutions until 28 November Finland?s representative, speaking on behalf of the European Union, supported the Palestinian request.
11-21-06 - Israel backers say no need to worry as Iraq Study Group prepares report
11-21-06 - American priest and nun join Palestinian non-violent resistance in Gaza
11-21-06 - Jordan Valley farmers resist new portion of Wall by refusing to accept land confiscation Residents of the northeastern West Bank are living in a heightened state of fear and anxiety as Israeli forces confiscate and control more Palestinian land for the Wall, reported the Land Defense Committee on Tuesday
11-21-06 - Sweden: Israeli response to Hebron attack lacking The Swedish government is dissatisfied with Israel's investigation of an attack in the contentious West Bank city of Hebron that left a Swedish activist with a broken cheekbone, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said Tuesday....None of the assailants were apprehended, police said
11-21-06 - Netanyahu and the End Times In a congressional spinoff, the FBI and Justice Department are investigating claims of collusion between AIPAC and Rep. Jane Harman of California, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. In return for lobby support for her reappointment, Harman allegedly agreed to press the government to go easy on Rosen and Weissman
11-21-06 - Palestinians learn emergency medicine in Israel The emergency medicine course is sponsored by the Israeli Physicians for Human Rights, a private group dedicated to professional cooperation with Palestinian doctors. Funding comes mainly from international donors.
11-21-06 - ...not an anti-semite
11-21-06 - The Geriatric Squad It has occurred to me that perhaps the real goal of the invasion of Iraq has already been accomplished. That is, the real goal all along might well have been to half-destroy the country and create chaos. A country in chaos is not a strong country. It's been taken out of the play. That might explain Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statement that the Iraq invasion has contributed greatly to Israel's security.
11-21-06 - 'Israel should embrace, not fear, James Baker' In 1989, Baker also stunned many by telling an AIPAC conference that "now is the time to lay aside once and for all the unrealistic vision of a Greater Israel. Israeli interests in the West Bank and Gaza, security and otherwise, can be accommodated in a settlement based on [UN Security Council] Resolution 242. Forswear annexation; stop settlement activity; allow schools to reopen; reach out to the Palestinian as neighbors who deserve political rights." Demand Israel abide by international law? The horror!
11-21-06 - Support Information Clearinghouse This man has many many videos and daily updates of news of Palestine, neocons, etc.
11-21-06 - Lerner's Letter Ignores Palestinians' Pain All Palestinians want is freedom and democracy. Once Israel stops being an apartheid state, where two people share the same land but are completely separated by a large wall, we can start talking about a democracy
11-21-06 - E.C. won?t back academic boycotts The European Commission said it does not back boycotts of Israeli academic institutions.
11-21-06 - U.S. to address cluster bombs
11-21-06 - El Al bomb-plot foiled, but plotters go free
11-21-06 - Writers Forum to Hear Voices of Palestine, Africa Opens
11-21-06 - Rev. Frederick R. Trost: Israel supporters should be outraged
11-21-06 - Reid "can't afford not to (support israel)"
11-21-06 - Muppets return to Israel
11-20-06 - Israeli army shoots dead Palestinian teenager in W. Bank
11-20-06 - Two dead in Israel air raid on Gaza Two Palestinian militants were killed and six other people wounded, two of them children, in an Israeli air strike on a vehicle in Gaza City, medical sources said.
11-20-06 - Israeli Army re-invades the southern part of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza strip The tanks opened fire with heavy machine gun and artillery fire at the homes and cars of local Palestinians creating a lot of damage. At the same time, Israeli armored bulldozers began razing farming lands and animal sheds belonging to local farmers, eyewitnesses reported.
11-20-06 - Gaza: UN appeals for $2.5 million to ease 'humanitarian disaster' from Israeli attack
11-20-06 - Gazans gather to foil air strike Similar action on Saturday caused Israel to call off an air strike on the home of another militant leader
11-20-06 - UN commissioner slams rights violations on Gaza tour The UN high commissioner for human rights has slammed rights violations in the Palestinian territories as she visited the site of a deadly botched Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip.
11-20-06 - Palestine: Building-up of water supply system in Idhna town Polish Humanitarian Organisation has started the realisation of a new project in Palestinian Autonomy. Its aim will be to counteract further worsening of the state of piping, that supply in water the south part of the West Bank. It is planned to build 1550 metres of pipeline in Idhna village in the Hebron Governorship
11-20-06 - France, Israel talk on Lebanon flights: ambassador
11-20-06 - Israeli army disobeyed order not to use cluster bombs: TV For its part, the Internet site of the Yediot Aharonot daily said an initial probe by the army had determined that Israeli artillery used the munitions contrary to a ban by Halutz. Months later they discover this? Please. This is simply the latest in a series of Israel's attempts to correct its image in the world, nothing more. And for the record, Halutz was behind this incident. It's unlikely that he gives a rat's about using cluster bombs on Arabs.
11-20-06 - Cheney, the neocons and Israel work together again - this time, Iran **
11-20-06 - Israeli Army invades Hebron city and takes three prisoners
11-20-06 - The Gewalt agenda Olmert is foiling any possible progress on this track: On his way home from Los Angeles, the prime minister "calmed" the reporters - and perhaps even himself - by saying there is no danger of U.S. President George W. Bush accepting the expected recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton panel, and attempting to move Syria out of the axis of evil and into a coalition to extricate America from Iraq. The prime minister hopes the Jewish lobby can rally a Democratic majority in the new Congress to counter any diversion from the status quo on the Palestinians. Note the source (horse's mouth).
11-20-06 - IDF admits targeting civilian areas in Lebanon with cluster bombs According to the officer, in order to compensate for the rockets' lack of precision, they were told to "flood" the area with them. "We have no option of striking an isolated target, and the commanders know this very well," he said. Strange, because that's exactly what Hezbollah did with its rocket fire toward Israeli civilian population centers. One is no better than the other.
11-20-06 - Previously unknown group warns of 'Shiite death squads' preparing to attack Sunni Muslims in Lebanon The statement's authenticy could not immediately be verified.
More collaberators with Israel, perhaps?
11-20-06 - Shabbat Shalom Moments later, Britton glancing through the checkpoint, could see one
of the internationals on the ground. Rushing through, the CPTers
found it was a 19 year old Swedish nonviolent human rights activist,
Tove Johansson. Her face was bloody from a lacerated eyebrow. Her
left cheek was swollen. One of the internationals told Britton that
while they were waiting for the CPTers and Palestinian boy to pass
through the check point, one of the men in the Jewish group asked
them, "Do you think Jesus was gay?" Then some of the men began
spitting and kicking the internationals. It was then that Johansson
was hit with the empty bottle.
There are photos of this incident down at the very bottom of this page.
11-20-06 - Haneya complains Arabs failed to break up siege on Palestinians
11-20-06 - Hamas, Jihad conditionally welcome arrival of Jordan-based Palestinian militia into Gaza
11-20-06 - Ahmadinejad dismisses Israeli threats Iran?s president shrugged off Israeli threats to attack his country?s nuclear facilities as psychological warfare.
11-20-06 - 'Apartheid road system' cemented with new regulations on driving
11-20-06 - Stalemate over West Bank settlements We were there, a small group of witnesses, to try to make sure that the settlers did not simply attack the Arab families with their automatic weapons and truncheons, as they had done in the past..... this is not the real reason that Baker is disliked by Jews. He is also the only U.S. secretary of State since the Camp David accords in 1979 to have taken credible action against the proliferation of Jewish settlements like Havat Maon. In 1991, he and the first President Bush got the Senate to hold up a program of American loan guarantees for Israel that were earmarked to help settle Russian Jewish immigrants; he had tried, and failed, to elicit a promise from then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir not to use any of this money for expanding settlements. This is proof positive, Jews tell themselves, that he is "anti-Israel."
11-20-06 - Ahmadinejad: Israel weak, won't attack Iran The ISNA news agency reported Monday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel would not attack the Islamic Republic as ?its regime is weak and it has many problems.?
11-20-06 - 2nd man charged in terrorism TV case A man was charged Monday with supporting terrorists by enabling customers to obtain satellite broadcasts of a Hezbollah television station, the second person accused in a case that has drawn scrutiny over how far the government can go in claiming someone is aiding terrorist groups.
11-20-06 - Palestinian unity government talks stall
11-20-06 - Time to toughen up on Iran: Israeli FM
11-20-06 - Bush: I would understand if Israel chose to attack Iran ** The United States lacks sufficient intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities at this time, which prevents it from initiating a military strike against them, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told European politicians and diplomats with whom she has recently met. An attack on Iran by Israel would automatically involve us in it.
11-20-06 - Israeli minister moots international force for Gaza former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition Likud party, called for another strike against Gaza to halt the missile attacks. "I recommend a massive military operation against the northern Gaza Strip to halt these rocket attacks, and another against the southern region to block contraband weapons coming in from Egypt," he told public radio.
11-20-06 - Vatican envoy deplores "illegal Israeli action"
11-20-06 - Dems Rebut Carter on Israeli 'Apartheid' There is a dual system of law at work in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem--one for Jews and one for Palestinians. Additionally, Palestinians are confined to South Africa-like bantustans, while Palestinian refugees are refused permission to return to homes and land from which they were expelled by Israel. Meanwhile, Jews from around the world are welcomed under Israel's Law of Return.
11-20-06 - Gunmen fire at vehicle of Ramallah mayor
11-20-06 - Study: 71% of Palestinian Refugees living below poverty line
11-20-06 - Israeli military court again postpones trials of elected Palestinian officials
11-20-06 - Blair indicates policy shift in West's "war on terror" Resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict was a key first step in "untying the knot of terrorism",
11-20-06 - A different course in the Mideast?
11-20-06 - Teachers Learn Some New Lessons
11-20-06 - Historian in free speech row over Jewish article Judt intends to hit back with a lecture on December 4 in New York on self-censorship and free speech in open societies. "I've been accused of being a self- hating Jew, a conspiracy theorist and an anti-semite," he said. "It's absurd but it is an echo of what is said to non-Jews when they criticise Israel."
11-20-06 - War of words She was killed by the IDF and then she was crucified by Israel-supporters the world over.
11-20-06 - Helplessness In Hebron's Old City
11-20-06 - Germany probes 6 in El Al plot
11-20-06 - Sharansky exits
11-20-06 - Ties to Israel are nothing new for Senate?s next majority leader As the newly elected majority leader in the U.S. Senate, Reid will play an instrumental role in crafting U.S. policy in the Middle East. Friends and political observers are confident his position on Israel won't change.
11-20-06 - Speakout: Israeli depredations must be curbed
11-20-06 - Palestinian doctor honored for PhD research in pharmacology Palestinian doctor Tha'er Abdel Ghani Attiyaneh received the highest award for pharmaceutical research during an Indian ceremony Monday
11-20-06 - Chris Hedges: Bring Down That Wall Since 1967, Israel has spent more than $10 billion on its settlements, and the total estimated cost for the snaking security barrier, which slices deep into the West Bank and connects with settlements and security roads to create pod-like Palestinian ghettos, is at least $1.5 billion. The barrier is being used not only to annex Palestinian land but give Israel control of Palestinian aquifers and at least 40,000 acres of Palestinian farmland.
11-20-06 - Barenboim: Israel should 'acknowledge the sorrow of the Palestinians' "We, the Jewish people, have no right to occupy the territories, and we must find the intelligence and strength to fight for peace - in fact, with at least double the intensity with which we led war. That is our Jewish heritage."
11-20-06 - One Country: One Person, One Vote
11-20-06 - Group alleges Israeli, Hezbollah crimes Amnesty International again criticized Israeli and Hezbollah forces' handling of the 34-day war in southern Lebanon, saying both sides committed war crimes by attacking civilians and singling out Israel for its use of cluster bombs.
11-20-06 - Free speech controversy builds as pro-Israel speech canceled at Brown In those cases, questions raised by Jewish opponents led the hosts to cancel the events. But at Brown, the decision was taken by Jewish students themselves, apparently out of concern that the speaker could harm Muslim-Jewish dialogue.
11-19-06 - Elderly man killed in Israeli strike on Gaza car Seven other Palestinians -- including five children -- were also wounded.
11-19-06 - UN agency: Two schoolchildren hurt by stray IDF gunfire in Gaza Stray Israeli gunfire hit a United Nations school in the northern Gaza Strip, wounding two children, including a 7-year-old boy who was hit in the head as he sat as his desk, United Nations officials said Sunday....Minutes later, a 12-year-old girl was shot in the leg as students were being evacuated from the building. 'stray gunfire', mm k. Another student shot in the leg as students were being evacuated. Doesn't sound like it was 'stray gunfire' to me.
11-19-06 - Haaretz: "25-year-old Palestinian shot for protesting IDF's treatment of women"
11-19-06 - Israeli rescue services say Palestinian militants fire rockets at Israeli town
11-19-06 - Abbas accepts Shubair to be new Palestinian prime minister
11-19-06 - Israel 'asks victims to foot hospital bills' While Israel accepted full responsibility for the Beit Hanoun shelling and promised to pay for medical treatment, authorities in Gaza are livid they were forced to provide financial guarantees to Israeli hospitals.
11-19-06 - Palestinians Flee Village of Tuba due to the Invasion of 50 Israeli Settlers This is the latest example in this area of settler violence towards
Palestinians, which again has evoked no response from the Israeli
authorities.
11-19-06 - Hamas seeks guarantees on ending Western sanctions
11-19-06 - Israeli ambassador: Olmert advised to ignore UN Still, even before it began its work, it was obvious that it would have a difficult time operating in the area since Israel would not be in any hurry to cooperate with the investigation ? even if it would not publicly declare so.
11-19-06 - Israeli envoy slams French support for UN resolution
11-19-06 - German globe maker 'establishes' Palestine Pro-Israel advocacy groups campaign around the globe against the use of the word Palestine, since no such country exists, but it turns out that globes being sold in Israel bear the term.
Palestine was on the maps before Israel's creation. It's why the British mandate of the region was called the Palestine Mandate. So, what happened that Palestine is no more? Who/what literally 'wiped (Palestine)off the map'?
11-19-06 - Bolton is Israel's secret weapon, says Gillerman According to Arutz Sheva, Gillerman told the Jewish assembly the Israeli delegation to the United Nations is not five people as most believe, but six, including Bolton, who is the Israeli government's secret weapon. Bolton in no way represents the US at the UN, it is clear.
11-19-06 - Palestinians use human shield to halt Israeli air strike on militants' homes It is likely that Israel will have to find a new way of destroying homes as yesterday's protest began to be copied elsewhere. What Israel will likely do is simply stop giving the Palestinians advanced notice. That a similar article by the AP was trotted all over the mainstream American news all day (at least on front page of Yahoo) allows for the following translation: Israel good, Arabs bad. Meaning, that Israel took care to not bomb all of those 'innocent civilians' is newsworthy here in the States. When the fact is: the only thing stopping Israel from bombing all of those people is that, as demonstrated in the Beit Hanoun incident, the press in America WILL give ample coverage to the deaths of Palestinians - provided that it is a large number of them killed at one time. And Israel cares more about its image in the US than it does about Arabs - civilian or otherwise. Morality had nothing to do with the decision NOT to bomb all of those people.
11-19-06 - Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war Gissin was not down-hearted. He declared there to be a "war on the web" in which Israel had a new weapon, a piece of computer software called the "internet megaphone". Read the entire article and note the lengths to which pro-Israelis will go to push their propaganda on anyone and everyone.
11-19-06 - Al-Jazeera and the Truth Al-Jazeera shows you the grim reality. When the Israelis kill children, they show you the bodies and the weeping mothers. They show you all the ugly truth about Israeli and American policies and actions in the Middle East. They show you what war looks like.
11-19-06 - Is the Next Congress For Sale?
11-19-06 - What's the problem with the UN Register of Damage caused by Israel's Wall in the occupied Palestinian territories?
11-19-06 - Jordan rejects Israeli minister's call for ignoring Abbas The Jordanian government on Sunday rejected a an Israeli cabinet minister's call for the Palestinian Authority to be ignored and replaced as Israel's peace partner with Jordan.
11-19-06 - Many Palestinians feel isolation will endure "People can get to Jerusalem from Hawaii, but not from here," said Salahuddin, the taxi driver. "I'm 58 years old and I can't go to pray in Jerusalem. I want to go to pray, not to destroy Israel."
11-19-06 - Gaza Doctors: Israel used a strange weapon against Palestinian victims
11-19-06 - Poll: Most Palestinians say Qassams detrimental Survey released by An-Najah University in Nablus indicates 61 percent of Palestinians believe rocket attacks on Israel are harmful; 65.7 percent support limiting armed struggle to West Bank, and 68 percent say they will not leave to another country
11-19-06 - Federalist Society's Annual Lawyers Convention Featured Speaker Michael Chertoff Scroll down to the section about Israel's wall. Now isn't it a coincidence that Chertoff - whose mother was Israeli - is advocating against international law and citing the ICJ's opinion on Israel's wall as an example of why America should disregard said law. Notice his spin on the issue. And then read the actual decision here. The issue is not with the wall itself - the issue is that this wall is unlawfully built within occupied Palestinian land. Pro-Israelis seem to have an awfully hard time grasping that concept.
11-19-06 - Israel must create peace, official says Israel must come up with its own peace plan with the Palestinians rather than wait for other plans, Israel's second most powerful politician said Sunday. This in response to Israel's wholesale rejection of the plan offered up by Spain and the rest of the EU. Israel wants peace on its own terms - which is the reason why none of these peace plans have been implemented. Palestinians seek justice based on international law. And that's not something that Israel will ever agree to (especially since we allow them to get away with violating it).
11-19-06 - Chief Palestinian Justice calling for freedom of worship
11-19-06 - Olmert: UN should condemn Palestinian gunmen, not Israel PM expresses faith in IDF, says UN decision to condemn Israel over errant killing of Palestinians in Gaza a 'severe development'; vows to strengthen Sderot residents Olmert is under the assumption that the world buys the bs about 'errant killing'. It's like saying that Israel's attack on the USS Liberty was a case of 'mistaken identity'...
11-19-06 - Israelis forbidden to drive Palestinians in West Bank
11-19-06 - WSU law professor candidate protested Stand With Us, a group of Jewish activists that seeks to protect the interests of the state of Israel on campuses, in libraries and in other settings They seek to do this in the UNITED STATES. Why is that? They want to control EVERYTHING Americans see, hear, read, etc etc etc. It's ridiculous.
11-19-06 - From Nov 2002: After Iraq, Bush Will Attack His Real Target The real target of the coming war is Iran, which Israel views as its principal and most dangerous enemy. Iraq merely serves as a pretext to whip America into a war frenzy and to justify insertion of large numbers of U.S. troops into Mesopotamia
11-19-06 - Brit war critic takes us to task It is an "an absolute scandalous disgrace," that Canadians are "fighting for democracy in Afghanistan while starving Palestinians because they democratically elected a government (Canada) does not like."
11-18-06 - Israeli troops kill one more Palestinian in Gaza Strip The dead was identified as Thaer al-Masri, 19, hospital sources said, adding that four others were wounded when Israeli troops opened machine-gun fire on a group of people. Two of the wounded were in serious condition. Earlier in the day, a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) was killed by Israeli snipers.
11-18-06 - Palestinian portfolios to be discussed in next round of talks In Gaza, a 21-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire in northern Gaza. The Israeli army said troops operating in the area opened fire when they spotted an armed man a few meters away. Palestinian officials said he was a member of the security forces, wearing a uniform, but not carrying a weapon. Three Palestinian farmers were wounded by army fire in the same area, Palestinian officials said. Also Saturday, a 16-year-old boy was shot dead by troops in a separate incident, and two men were wounded, security officials said. The Israeli military had no comment.
11-18-06 - Child killed in Beit Lahia, woman dies of heart attack as shell exploded near her home
11-18-06 - Hamas calls on UN to impose sanctions on Israel The Hamas-led Palestinian government Saturday called on the United Nations to impose sanctions on Israel, a day after the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution deploring the recent Israeli offensive into Gaza.
11-18-06 - New Palestinian gov't to be formed by end of November: Deputy PM
11-18-06 - Human Rights Worker Injured In Hebron A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her jaw broken by an Israeli settler in Hebron today....Earlier in the day at least 5 Palestinians, including a 3-year old child, were injured by settlers, who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents. Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The IDF, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene to stop the settlers.
11-18-06 - Army critically injures one resident in Beit Lahia
11-18-06 - Israel issues an order to annex hundreds of Dunams in the West Bank
Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Right Center (Musaada) demanded the Legal Counselor of the Israeli so-called Civil Administration Office in the occupied West Bank, to cancel a decision that aims at annexing 1238 Dunams of farmlands that belong to residents of Anata town.
11-18-06 - Report: Olmert orders targeting of Hamas leadership
11-18-06 - OIC vows to 'break blockade' on Palestinians
11-18-06 - Jordanian FM, Russian envoy discuss Palestinian issue
11-18-06 - Syria exerts backstage influence on Hamas Open to a rapprochement with the West, Damascus has been gently pushing its ally Hamas into solving differences with President Mahmoud Abbas on a new Palestinian government that have played into the hands of Israel, they said.
11-18-06 - Haniyeh: Israel shows it doesn't want peace
11-18-06 - Islamic states see sympathy turning against Israel
11-18-06 - Olmert's drums of war ** The Democrat's victory in midterm elections in the United States also lessened the likelihood that Bush will bomb Iran. Israel, it seems, is facing Ahmadinejad alone.
11-18-06 - Washington gets real ** A senior political advisor to the Republican Party who has criss-crossed America in his clients' Congressional election campaigns, estimated this week that the chances of an American attack have dropped to zero. This, in his opinion, is the implication of the Democrats' victory last week. The public does not want to hear about a new military adventure. Only a large terror attack in the United States, or some other shocking event that can be connected to Iran, would make it possible to enlist public opinion for new hostilities. Ambassador Ayalon disagreed with this assessment this week. He believes that Bush will stop Iran, even by force. A good assessment of the president's intentions, but not necessarily of his ability to realize them.
11-18-06 - Human shield deters Israel strike "The attack plan was cancelled because of the people there," he said. "We differentiate between innocent people and terrorists." Hilarious statement there. Evidently, this incident turned out to be a good PR op for Israel. The only thing that's stopping them from bombing all of those people is that the press will give it more coverage (since there's a greater number of people involved) and thus world condemnation will follow.
11-18-06 - Bolton in extraordinary outburst against United Nations Despite the resolution being significantly watered down at the behest of the United States, and being passing by 156 votes to seven, Bolton launched a blistering attack on the UN, and many of its members. John Bolton IS - Israel's man at the UN.
11-18-06 - The Stab in the Back This war was always about enhancing Israel's strategic position, and nothing else: not oil, not democracy, not WMD. The goal was to extend Israel's sphere of influence, and that is precisely what is occurring. To the victor go the spoils, and Hersh's revelations highlight the Israelis as the real winners of this war
11-18-06 - The Problem with USA Churches Is...
11-18-06 - Egypt hails UN General Assembly resolution on Israeli offensive in Gaza He said that he was astonished to find that some powers still allow Israel to act as it pleased and go on with its policy of violating international law and human rights after the deadly attack on Palestinians.
11-18-06 - Hollow visions of Palestine's future
11-18-06 - Annan urges Syria, Iran to aid Lebanese stability
11-18-06 - Israeli minister wants partial recapture of Gaza
11-18-06 - Aides to Abbas, Olmert to meet in Washington for summit meeting: report Sama news agency quoted Palestinian officials as saying that the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked both Abbas and Olmert to send their aides in order to "discuss ways of removing obstacles that prevented the pair from meeting." I would like to believe that this is geniune. However, given these events toward peace also happened in the recent past and were seen as necessary to get Europe (and others) on board for the Iraq war, and given that Olmert and other Israeli officials were just here calling for someone to do something about Iran, I think that it is safe to say that the peace efforts now underway are toward the same ends: to get support for forthcoming action on Iran by the US.
11-18-06 - Analysis: Palestinian Gov't to Test U.S.
11-18-06 - Jordan press blasts Israel for rejecting European initiative
11-18-06 - AL chief says ready to cooperate with Europe on new Mideast peace initiative
11-18-06 - Israeli envoy walks out of U.N. session
11-18-06 - Too late to talk Palestine
11-18-06 - Agrexco releases strawberry forecast In addition to exporting Carmel-branded berries, Agrexco is handling the logistics and distribution of strawberries grown by Palestinian farmers in the Gaza region, who grow on 200 hectares.
11-18-06 - Palestine: The Olive Picker
11-18-06 - 'Bush cronies' or Salah? Salah, of Bridgeview, was caught by Israeli authorities during a January 1993 money-running mission to the Occupied Territories. He was accused of delivering cash to high-ranking Palestinian militants, but Salah's lawyers insist the money was for the charitable arm of Hamas.
11-18-06 - Syrian president, Annan discuss Lebanon U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke with Syrian President Bashar Assad by telephone Saturday to discuss political developments in Lebanon and Iraq.
11-17-06 - Youth killed in Qalqilia invasion, at least 31 injured Dozens of youth hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading forces who randomly fired round of live ammunition at them.
11-17-06 - Palestinian leadership denies rift over unity premier
11-17-06 - Palestinian group may consider "calm" with Israel A Palestinian militant group may consider ceasing attacks against the Jewish state if Israel first halts its strikes in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, an official said on Friday.
11-17-06 - Jimmy Carter may head Beit Hanoun probe
11-17-06 - Rights group says Israel engaged in "wilful killings"
11-17-06 - Israeli airstrike destroys home near residence of Hamas prime minister
11-17-06 - Army shells one house, a charitable society in Gaza City Palestinian security sources reported on Friday at night that the Israeli air force carried two separate attacks that targeted on house and a charitable society in Gaza City.
11-17-06 - Israel secretly studies 'bold' peace bid Leaders of the militant Hamas movement have for many years spoken of such a long-term hudna, or ceasefire, but only on the condition of a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 armistice lines ? terms deemed unacceptable to the Israeli leadership.
11-17-06 - New Israeli Cabinet minister threatens to target heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad
11-17-06 - Israeli-Arab activist in mission to tackle Iran over Holocaust A text on the wall of his museum declares: "The Palestinians are the only people in the world who for the sake of providing shelter to the Jews have paid their homeland as a price for the sins and the deeds of the Nazis."
11-17-06 - PM uses al-Jazeera to target Mid East
11-17-06 - Mid-East peace 'crucial' - Blair
11-17-06 - Oct. 2000 victims' families: Deal won't make up for loss
11-17-06 - Soldiers, settlers obstruct families from harvesting their olive trees Several families of Tal village, west of Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, complained that Israeli soldiers and settlers are obstructing their Olive harvest in their orchards, which is costing the families significant losses.
11-17-06 - Israel's Elbit unit get $51 mln U.S. army deal
11-17-06 - Too early to say Israel against new peace plan France... A senior Israeli official appeared earlier Friday to reject the initiative outright. The only peace Israel wants is the peace with which it can continue to seize and settle Palestinian land - and drive the Palestinians off of it.
11-17-06 - U.N. calls on Israel to end operation The resolution passed Friday by a vote of 156 to 7, with six abstentions. The U.S., Israel and Australia voted against the document, while all the European Union members supported it after last-minute changes were made to soften the tone.
11-17-06 - For West Bank, It's a Highway to Frustration As Palestinians make their way through dozens of military checkpoints, they are delayed for hours, rerouted to dirt roads and sometimes turned back altogether on their way to jobs, schools and family visits. They also face hundreds of unattended obstacles that include earth mounds, concrete blocks and trenches that have cut many roads, forcing lengthy detours.
11-17-06 - Diplomats fear US wants to arm Fatah for 'war on Hamas' "A lot of what the Americans were saying was, 'If there is going to be a fight, we might as well make sure the right person wins'. We would have a difference of opinion there. You really don?t want to be encouraging a civil war."
11-17-06 - Israelis mourn Gaza deaths Obituaries published in Haaretz express 'deep sorrow' over Beit Hanoun victims. Edna Kovarski of Herzliya tells Ynet she published obituary because of shame she felt for what Israel is doing
11-17-06 - Heart-broken victims united in bid for peace "I truly thank Gilad's father for the visit, and I pray that his son is returned home safe and sound and that it will bring an end to the tragedy we had at home,"
11-17-06 - Olmert says he favors pinpoint strikes, not broad Gaza offensive
11-17-06 - Groups Side With Bush on Bolton Bolton is viewed as a strong supporter of Israel, and exercised the American veto last week on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. While American support for Israel at the U.N. is unlikely to change with a new ambassador and a Democratic Congress, Bolton had cultivated especially close personal bonds over the years with all major Jewish groups
11-17-06 - Israel's July attack on UN post in Lebanon 'error': leaked document An Israeli attack on a UN base in Lebanon that killed four peacekeepers in July was the result of "severe professional errors" due to poor planning, according to a leaked army document. How to get away with murder - join the IDF, blame it on 'error', 'technical problem', etc etc etc.
11-17-06 - A simple solution: Rights or sovereignty for Palestinians
11-17-06 - UNIFIL protests about Israeli flights over Lebanon
11-17-06 - Settlers continue expansion of illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank In spite of the official Israeli statements of intension to evacuate illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, settlers continued their illegal activities of expansion of settlement outposts north of Jerusalem and near Ramallah city
11-17-06 - UN General Assembly set to slam Israeli offensive in Gaza Strip The text expected to be overwhelmingly endorsed by the General Assembly would condemn the Israeli killing of 19 Palestinians, mainly children and women, in Beit Hanun last week, as well as Palestinian rocket firing into Israel.
11-17-06 - French UN troops prepare guns against Israeli jets in Lebanon He said "UNIFIL observed and reported 14 Israeli air violations this morning, on November 17, 2006, and 11 of these violations occurred in the area of operation of the French battalion with UNIFIL." Israel will not stop violating Lebanon's airspace and menacing both the Germans and the French who are there to keep the peace. Ingrates.
11-17-06 - A minor movie about Yasser Arafat
11-17-06 - Israeli hospital refuses continued treatment for Palestinian shot by special forces
11-17-06 - 2007 budget to perpetuate gaps between Jewish, Arab schools The budget plan deals a heavy blow also to the ministry's program for the education of minorities, slashed by 27 percent, and to education in the Arab sector, which will drop by 25 percent.
11-17-06 - Carter Discusses New Book on Israel and the Middle East I?ve seen the coverage given to Israel?s activities in Europe and in Israel itself ? a highly contentious debate over (Israel). There is no such debate in the United States. There?s not any debate in the Congress. There?s not any debate in the White House, at least since George Bush Sr. and I were there, and in the news media of the United States there is very rarely any editorial comment that would criticize some of the practices of Israel which I consider to be deplorable ? and that is the persecution of the Palestinians, and the occupation and confiscation and the colonization of Palestinian land.
11-17-06 - 'Blue Dogs' endorse Harman Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is set to become speaker now that Democrats have won the House, opposes Harman, who is Jewish, partly because she's incensed that Harman solicited lobbying for the post from top Jewish donors to the Democrats. Harman has been the top-ranked Democrat on the committee for four years. Harman is under investigation by the USDOJ because she "agreed to pressure the administration to "go lighter" on two former AIPAC lobbyists facing trial on classified information charges" according to TIME.
11-17-06 - Pelosi drops the ball - AIPAC takes all What a line up - AIPAC couldn't ask for anything more. It matters not if Dems or Repubs won the elections. AIPAC still wins. It always does.
11-17-06 - The New York Times Marginalizes Palestinian Women
11-17-06 - Minority-free TV
11-17-06 - Al-Arian Gets 18 More Months For Contempt
11-17-06 - ABCUSA: General Secretary Reports On Lebanon Trip, Other Topics
11-17-06 - Israeli ambassador: "Reconsider your stand" According to Fréttabladid, Shomrat said that the Icelandic government focuses too much on the incident in Beit Hanoun, in which 18 civilians were killed, and has failed to take into consideration the bigger picture.
11-17-06 - Vandals fuel hatred with death posters
11-17-06 - Friends and enemies in Israel, Palestine
11-17-06 - On Iran, U.S. may have to differ with Israel ** For the past six years there has not even been a sliver of light between the positions of the United States and Israel. It's safe to say that no administration has been as supportive of Israel's policies as the administration of President George W. Bush..... Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University, says it might be too late to stop Iran from developing weapons-grade nuclear fuel. But he says it could well be another decade or more before Iran would actually have a deliverable nuclear weapon; we are not in a crisis now, and we shouldn't be acting as if we were.
11-17-06 - Research: Dozens of Dutch companies support or facilitate Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories The investigation, which is presumably not exhaustive, identifies 35 Dutch companies that maintain direct or indirect relations with the occupation of Palestinian and/or Syrian territories: 21 companies with headquarters in the Netherlands and 14 Dutch subsidiaries of Israeli companies.
11-17-06 - Facts on my Israel-Palestine talk
11-17-06 - GOP House leaders remain the same Both men have strong Jewish community ties and Blunt, who is married to a Jewish woman, has led numerous congressional delegations to Israel.
11-17-06 - Leak case judge denies motion Prosecutors asked for an exemption from having to prove that the leaking harmed U.S. interests. In denying their motion Thursday, Ellis exhibited exasperation, because his earlier decision, rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the case, had favored the prosecutors overall
11-17-06 - From June: 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.
11-17-06 - Canada takes pro-Israel stance at UN pro-Israel and Jewish groups in Canada have for years lobbied that the resolutions are biased because they demand so much of Israel, but little from the Arab side in the search for Middle East peace and the current government appears to agree, prompting praise from Canada's Jewish community.
''We're very pleased Canada is staying the course and is now guided by a (new) set of principles,'' said Sara Freedman, a senior official with the Canada-Israel Committee
11-17-06 - Britain dragging its feet on treaty to ban cluster bombs, say activists
11-17-06 - FBI agent, defense clash over 1993 meeting
11-17-06 - Political Blogging as Hate Crime
11-16-06 - One Palestinian killed amid stepped-up operation in W. Bank
11-16-06 - Israeli troops shoot, kill Palestinian civilian in West Bank: relatives Relatives said Mohammed Ahmedan, 25, was standing on the porch of his home in the al-Ein refugee camp, near Nablus, watching the Israeli military operation when he was shot two times and killed. They said Ahmedan was unarmed.
11-16-06 - Gaza Humanitarian Crisis - A Joint Statement by Israel 's leading human rights organizations Nine Israeli human rights organizations issued an unprecedented joint call to the international community to ensure human rights in the Gaza Strip. The statement comes in light of the dire humanitarian situation there:
11-16-06 - Gaza amenities crippled, illness on rise - aid group Only one in three people in Gaza had access to running water after Israel's offensive in late June and chronic illness, trauma and mental health cases have increased sharply, a French relief group said on Thursday.
11-16-06 - Three residents injured in a car accident with an Israeli army vehicle in the Jordan Valley Palestinian medical sources reported that three residents were injured in a car accident between a Palestinian civilian car and an Israeli military vehicle in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank late Wednesday night.
11-16-06 - Child seriously injured in Hebron by army explosives Palestinian medical sources in Hebron reported on Thursday that a 15-year old Palestinian child was seriously injured north of Hebron, after an explosive device left by the army apparently during training, detonated near him as he was herding sheep his family owns.
11-16-06 - Army shells houses, workshops in the Gaza Strip, four children injured
11-16-06 - Israeli warplanes carry out at least six over-night air strikes
11-16-06 - Families of Beit Hanoun plan suit against Israel ?There was no battle in the area, no homemade shells were fired at Israel?, he stated, ?The army killed those people while they were sleeping in their beds, even Israel admitted and accepted its responsibility?.
11-16-06 - US contradicts UN pessimism on Lebanon munitions removal his portrayal of the progress being made contrasted with a UN complaint last week that Israel's failure to provide detailed maps of where its forces dropped so-called "cluster bombs" in Lebanon had hamstrung clearance operations.
11-16-06 - Palestinian medical student gets five days to respond to allegations he's a terrorist Since the intifada in 2000, Israel has barred most Palestinians living in Gaza from traveling to the West Bank, and has been trying to deport from the area those whose identity cards state that their home address is in Gaza.
11-16-06 - China feels deeply concerned about Israel-Palestine situation "China calls upon Israel to stop its military action immediately, and hopes the two sides respond to the mediating efforts and prevent deterioration of the situation," she said.
11-16-06 - $120m Iran aid to Palestinians
11-16-06 - Palestinians welcome European proposal for international conference
11-16-06 - Palestinian soccer team still wants to play Singapore in Asian Cup qualifier The players could not get out of the violence-stricken Gaza Strip due to Israeli military operations, Palestinian soccer federation head Ahmed al-Afifi said Thursday.
11-16-06 - Short urges action over shooting "I think the behaviour of the Israeli army is notorious in Palestine. So the UK Government owes it to the protection of its own nationals and it also needs to stand up for decent standards in a country it treats as an ally and ships military equipment to.
11-16-06 - Israel/Occupied Territories: Governments at General Assembly must now put civilians before politics
11-16-06 - Peres: Israel can't lead efforts on Iran Israel must not take the lead in international efforts to curb Iran?s nuclear program, Shimon Peres said.
11-16-06 - Israel rejects European peace plan The Associated Press quoted Livni on Thursday as telling Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos that it was unacceptable for such an initiative to be launched without the Jewish state?s coordination
11-16-06 - Hoyer wins leadership
U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), one of the pro-Israel community?s closest friends in the U.S. House of Representatives, was elected majority leader.
11-16-06 - The neocons' last stand The neocon logic in favour of the Iraq war was that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad: an invasion would install an Iraqi democracy that would force the Palestinians to submit to the Israelis. Now near-unanimity exists on Baker's commission to reverse that formula. The central part of a new policy must be, they believe, that the road to Baghdad leads through Jerusalem.
11-16-06 - European states offer Middle East peace plan without UK One particular cause of frustration has been the American veto, last Saturday, of a security council resolution condemning Israel in the wake of an artillery attack in Gaza which killed 18 Palestinian civilians. France, a permanent member of the council, voted in favour, describing its text as "balanced", but Britain abstained.
11-16-06 - Euro MPs vote for international military observers in Gaza In the meantime "in order to protect the civilian population on both sides," the Euro MPs also invited the 25 EU member states to "launch an initiative to dispatch international military observers to Gaza," and called on all parties "to endorse and fully cooperate with such a proposal". Israel and thus the US would never allow it. The international community has tried this before - at the UN - but the US vetoed this measure at Israel's behest.
11-16-06 - Bush gives go-ahead for building 'Bush Center' in Israel United States President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security. It would appear that Bush was elected to serve Israel.
11-16-06 - Qatar's emir criticizes Western attitudes to Hamas
11-16-06 - International aid to Lebanon coming slower than planned: mininster
11-16-06 - US assails UN rights forum probe into Israeli Gaza attack
11-16-06 - We didn't pay ransom for Wiig and Centanni, says Fox Fox News president Roger Ailes today said claims Fox paid US$2m in hostage money were "absolutely false". This allegation was put forth by Aaron Klein of WND.
11-16-06 - Yemeni group to help Palestinian people
11-16-06 - Syria and UNRWA to Improve Situation of Palestinian Refugees
11-16-06 - Soldiers attack rooms of abducted Palestinian legislators and ministers
11-16-06 - Israel to compensate 11 of 13 Arab residents killed in October 2000
11-16-06 - Egypt welcomes UN body's approval of resolution on Israeli attacks in Gaza
11-16-06 - Indonesia seeks US timetable for Palestinian state "In the past, the US said it supported the establishment of Palestinian state in 2005," said Dino Pati Djalal, adding that despite the pledge the situation "is getting complicated and the peace prospects are not yet clear."
11-16-06 - German academics: Enough of special treatment for Israel The petition said, ?A large part of the German society has turned the shame and grief of the Holocaust into a ceremonial matter. That is how a problematic philo-Semitism has developed in Germany.?
11-16-06 - Father of captured Israeli soldier visits wounded Palestinians "These families are victims of the brutality of war, the same as the inhabitants of Sderot," said Shalit, referring to the Israeli town where Palestinian rockets on Wednesday killed a woman and wounded five Israelis.
11-16-06 - Hamas says talks on Israeli soldier frozen
11-16-06 - Germany refuses to alter Israel ties In a lengthy petition published in the Frankfurter Rundschau regional newspaper Wednesday, the scholars said that, "The roots of this bloody 60-year confrontation in the Middle East are German and European. The Palestinian population doesn't have the responsibility to take on European problems in the Middle East," according to translations in English-language media.
11-16-06 - Bin Laden not top Islamist thinker: study The Militant Ideology Atlas, compiled by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, instead showed Palestinian cleric Mohammed al-Maqdisi as the most influential living Islamist thinker.
11-16-06 - Israel's Peretz pledges to continue pressure on Gaza
11-16-06 - Lebanon inflation to rise to 7 percent due to Israel war Inflation in Lebanon is forecast to rise sharply to seven percent by the end of 2006 due to Israel's devastating summer offensive, the central bank governor has said.
11-16-06 - Jesuit priest apologises for 'ghetto' remark at Holocaust ceremony A JESUIT priest who referred to the "ghetto-like conditions of Bethlehem" during a Holocaust memorial ceremony last week has apologised to the Jewish community.
11-16-06 - Judging a book by its cover and its contents By Abraham Foxman Carter's new book on Palestine has Abe's BVDs in a bunch - a sure sign that Carter hit a homer. You can buy this book here.
11-16-06 - Newspapers Endorse John Bolton Now you know which rags are run by the staunchest of Israel-supporters, folks.
11-16-06 - Consulate of Israel attacks BC for slanted Palestine week The Jewish community's concerns over anti-Israel sentiments at BC comes at a time when the Northeastern University School of Law National Lawyers Guild Chapter and the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights is scheduled to host the talk "Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine" on Sunday.
11-16-06 - A project of dispossession can never be a noble cause
11-16-06 - Harper's pro-Israel position sparks a debate Canada has fallen under the influence.
11-16-06 - Falling In Line On Israel The election of a Democratic majority in the House and Senate is unlikely to result in any serious challenge to the Bush administration?s support for Israeli attacks against the civilian populations of its Arab neighbors and the Israeli government?s ongoing violations of international humanitarian law.
11-16-06 - Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Protest Outside "Israeli" Consulate, NYC on November 9, 2006
11-16-06 - Palestinian protesters force castle closure
11-16-06 - U.S. citizenship of former graduate student born in West Bank revoked
11-16-06 - Pentagon hands back clearance to bomb expert ?The renewal of Dr. Baum?s security clearance is clearly consistent with our national interest, as it allows him access to classified information needed to perform duties in support of contracts with the United States,? said Susan Weinberg, the JCRC president.
11-16-06 - Occupation opponents plan rallies In an e-mail Wednesday, the Washington chapter of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation called on likeminded groups to help organize the Washington rally on Dec. 2
11-16-06 - Emanuel to leadership In his victory statement, Emanuel recalled the arrival to the United States of his grandparents from the Russia-Romania border and of his father from Israel.
11-16-06 - Israeli Occupation Foils Mid-East Peace
11-16-06 - Wanted: A moderate pro-Israel lobby Indeed, AIPAC sometimes tries to be more Israeli than the Israeli government, urging American Jews and their elected representatives in Washington to oppose moderate, responsible positions on Israel, while hewing to the hardest line on the Israeli and American Jewish political spectrum.
I don't understand why AIPAC officials are allowed to say such things and yet AIPAC is still not forced to register as a foreign agent.
11-16-06 - Students Gather For Gaza Vigil The students, dressed in black, held signs listing the names of 18 civilians killed by Israeli shells on Nov. 8, along with their ages and the circumstances of their deaths. The vigil was organized by the Palestinian Solidarity Coalition (PSC), a Harvard student group.
11-16-06 - Ambassador speaks on Palestinian life
11-16-06 - Tilt toward Ehrlich doesn't take place; in area, Jews favor Dems Some pro-Israel activists, though, are raising questions about Webb's position on the Jewish state.
Morris Amitay, the founder of the pro-Israel Washington PAC and a former American Israel Public Affairs Committee executive director, said that Webb's endorsement during the campaign of negotiations with Iran and Syria as part of a regional approach on the Iraq war could indicate support for a similar approach on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
11-16-06 - Will Other Democrats Listen to Carter on Palestine?
11-16-06 - Between sessions and schmoozing, harsh warnings about Israel?s future The Jerusalem Post reported that Zeev Bielski, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, had observed that "One day the penny will drop for American Jews and they will realize they have no future as Jews in the United States due to assimilation and intermarriage."
11-16-06 - SJP wall divides Red Square Likeness of West Bank barrier stirs debate
11-16-06 - Speaker alleges pro-Israel bias
11-16-06 - Lobbyists' hearing scheduled Three other trial launch dates ? in January, April and August of this year ? have all lapsed
11-15-06 - Israeli woman dies in rocket strike from Gaza Eli Moyal, the mayor of Sderot, called for Gaza to be punished so its people would realise they could not afford to allow rocket fire on Israel.
11-15-06 - Abbas: Middle East peace begins with Palestine The creation of a Palestinian state through negotiations with Israel is the key to achieving a wider peace in the Middle East, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday.
11-15-06 - ICRC deeply concerned about the interruption of health services for the Palestinian population The decision to withhold funds from the Palestinian Authority has had a dramatic effect on medical services since the beginning of the year, despite efforts by donors to support private and charitable health-care facilities. An already precarious situation worsened on 7 November when Ministry of Health staff working for the Palestinian territories? largest health-services provider expanded their strike, suspending all primary health-care services and closing emergency rooms in all government hospitals.
11-15-06 - Hamas MPs cross Egypt to Gaza with more than $4 mln
11-15-06 - UN rights forum sets up mission on Beit Hanun attack Eight countries, including Canada and European nations such as Britain and Germany, opposed the move. Six countries, including France, Switzerland and Japan, abstained
11-15-06 - Israel hits Gaza militants' homes At least one person was wounded in the first attack, Palestinian officials said.
11-15-06 - Israeli leader pays L.A. a visit ** Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a Los Angeles audience Tuesday night that it would be "an unbearable sin to future generations" if Iran is not stopped from developing nuclear weapons. Olmert and Netanyahu come HERE to discuss the dangers of Iran. Not Germany, not Britain, HERE. Because they want US to deal with Iran.
11-15-06 - Abizaid: Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses dangers The failure to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace remains a major strategic danger to U.S. interests, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said.
11-15-06 - Al-Jazeera English hits airwaves In the United States, the channel will be available via a broadband internet connection, but not distributed by a major cable or satellite system.
11-15-06 - Iran and Syria supplied Somali Islamists with arms, says UN The report also claimed that 720 Somali Islamists had fought in Lebanon alongside Hizbollah during the war with Israel. Syria is accused of sending an aircraft loaded with guns to Mogadishu, while Iran is believed to have sent three shipments of weapons between July and September. Who penned this report, John Bolton? ...
11-15-06 - The Man Who Could End the Palestinian Deadlock
11-15-06 - US urges Arab League to honor conditions on Palestinian aid
11-15-06 - Al Jazeera English version - website
11-15-06 - Bush will not hesitate to use force in Iran: Israeli ambassador ** "First the president will try to exhaust the diplomatic process," he said. "I estimate that there is a 50 percent chance that the diplomatic effort will succeed. If not, he will advance another step and consider imposing isolation and a blockade on Iran, like the US imposed on Cuba in the past. "If this too does not succeed, he will not hesitate to employ force," he said. "If sanctions succeed, all the better. Otherwise, he will act by all means possible, including military action."
11-15-06 - Olmert calls for 'one voice' on Iran ** In his remarks Tuesday, Olmert called Bush "a great friend ... of Israel" but said America must have the support of the international community to "defuse this mortal threat."
11-15-06 - US confirms meeting of Mideast peace quartet The sponsors of the Middle East peace process will meet in Cairo Wednesday to discuss efforts to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the State Department confirmed
11-15-06 - Who's In Charge Here?
11-15-06 - Rice rejects any link between Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
11-15-06 - Palestine side a no-show THE Palestinian territories failed to turn up for an Asian Cup qualifying match against Singapore today due to travel difficulties in and out of Gaza.
11-15-06 - Groups holding Shalit blame Israel for impasse release of IDF soldier Abu Obaydeh, a spokesman for Hamas' military wing, told Haaretz that Israel had withdrawn its consent to certain elements of an emerging agreement that it had previously accepted, and that is why the talks were halted.
11-15-06 - 'Sliding Doors' in Washington en route to Washington it became clear to Olmert that the bastards had changed the rules, and that the administration is looking for a way out of the Iraqi quagmire and the diplomatic paralysis in the Middle East
11-15-06 - Israeli restrictions on Gaza bars Palestinian Football team from participating in the Asia Cup Ahmad Al Afeefy, head of the Palestinian Football Association said on Wednesday that the team was unable to participate in the Asian World Cup due to the Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip and its refusal to allow team player from leaving Gaza.
11-15-06 - Syria accuses U.S. and Israel of torpedoing chances for peace in the Middle East
11-15-06 - NCC delegation finds Lebanese looking for hope, action
11-15-06 - Independence Day in Palestine: a lifeless holiday
11-15-06 - Iran leader says Lebanon will mark US-Israel defeat Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the United States and Israel would be defeated in Lebanon, in talks with Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri, the media has reported.
11-15-06 - Israeli checkpoints in West Bank frustrate Palestinians
11-15-06 - Abbas: Israel must resume talks, leave Arab lands Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called on Israel to resume negotiations toward a final peace settlement, insisting on a full Israeli pullout from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
11-15-06 - Thank You John Bolton By: SHOSHANA BRYEN, JINSA
11-15-06 - The Israeli Army seize mother of five to force her wanted husband to surrender Soldiers repeatedly broke into the house of Al Hroub and voiced repeated threats to arrest his wife is he does not surrender to the Israeli forces.
11-15-06 - Scott Ritter: Israel's influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby He is right on the money.
11-15-06 - AIPAC and NeoCon Policy
11-15-06 - US group seeks to get young Jewish activists involved in Israel A study done in 2005 by pollster Frank Luntz describes a growing "impatience" with Israel and increasing emotional ties to the Palestinian cause among Jewish graduate students at top US universities Good for them.
11-15-06 - Jordan and Israel plan to build joint airport at Aqaba
11-15-06 - Movers and Shakers of U.S. Foreign Policy Having convinced America to attack and destroy Iraq, ?independent? institutions that serve Israel?s interests, are now persuading the White House to destroy Iran, with no regard for the country that has stood staunchly behind Israel ? America itself
11-15-06 - In Mideast, time for White House to push for new peace negotiations If one goes to the Web sites of most U.S. Jewish organizations, it's hard to find clear statements supporting the Israeli government's commitment to a two-state solution. One can find advocacy efforts against Hamas and Syria, Hezbollah and Iran, but little that reflects the Jewish majority's desire to end the Israeli-Arab conflict. This may explain why Congress and even the White House see no benefit in engaging in a concerted and unrelenting diplomatic effort to help Israel find a peaceful solution to the threats that surround it. That should now change.....The American Jewish community has well-deserved political clout. For those who remember Jewish passivity and powerlessness, there's great pride in the ability of Jewish advocacy groups to affect policy in Washington.
11-15-06 - Aaron Klein on Gallagher, Liddy shows this morning Frankly, I think this guy pulls the majority of his 'facts' straight out of his ass. The fact that TIME, YnetNews and now Gallagher and Liddy are giving him airtime is not a really a suprise either.
11-15-06 - Bibi Woos Techies, Demands Bombing of Iran
11-15-06 - UJC adopts Iran resolution The resolution, passed Wednesday by the group's Board of Trustees and the Delegates Assembly at the UJC's General Assembly in Los Angeles, calls for education and media outreach to raise awareness about "the drumbeat of hostility against Israel and the Jewish people emanating from Iran" and the global threat posed by Iran's potential nuclear capability.
America beware: propaganda for war on Iran about to ramp up a notch or two.
11-15-06 - Israel army to resume guerrilla training
11-15-06 - Not Coming Soon to a Channel Near You
11-15-06 - Minister: Schwarzenegger to promote business in Israel Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Eli Yishai has invited Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to visit Israel in order to advance business investments and promote the economic cooperation between Israel and California.
11-14-06 - Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian militant in W. Bank Bahaa Saleh, 26, was gunned down by Israeli soldiers who attacked al-Ein refugee camp in the west of Nablus, Palestinian security sources said.
11-14-06 - Hamas: No recognition of Israel "It was not asked from the two Germanys to recognise each other, while the whole world recognised them.
"Why should Palestine, which is not yet a state, recognise Israel?" he said, also citing as examples China and Taiwan.
11-14-06 - Egypt detains Palestinian legislator A Palestinian legislator was briefly detained Tuesday at the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip when he was found carrying US$2 million in a suitcase, security officials said.
11-14-06 - A resident of Beit Hanoun dies of wounds sustained last week Palestinian medical sources reported that Mohamed Mekhiz, 21, died on Tuesday morning of wounds he sustained during the Israeli army attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip last Wednesday.
11-14-06 - Jordan to offer foodstuffs to Palestinians The Jordanian Charity Fund will provide two new aid convoys comprising 33 trucks full of food stuffs to the Palestinian territories, the Jordanian official Petra news agency reported on Tuesday.
11-14-06 - Historic black Methodist church delegation visits Holy Land A delegation of leaders from historic African-American churches who just returned from Jerusalem and the Holy Land says conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank painfully echo the injustices suffered by people of color during South Africa's apartheid era and during the pre-civil rights era in America.
11-14-06 - Hamas: Boycott to end even if PA gov't doesn't recognize Israel "I don't wish any Jewish mother to go through what I'm going through, this disaster of seeing her son die before her eyes," she continued. "I only hope that we will be the last victims of this war." Nor did other family members sound hungry for revenge. "I don't want this to happen to anyone in the world," said Riad Atamna. "Not to Jews, not to Christians and not to Muslims. Enough blood. Enough."
11-14-06 - Olmert: World has reached the pivotal moment of truth on Iran "America's leadership in preventing Iran's nuclearization is indisputable and unequaled," said Olmert in his speech. "But America must have the support of the international community if we are to successfully defuse this mortal threat."
All of this bluster on Iran by Israel and its officials in the US are for one reason alone: preparing America for a war on Iran. Will Americans fall for it (again)? History is now repeating itself.
11-14-06 - Worried about Gates' views on Iran, Israel backers hope he toes Bush line Neumann of JINSA said that however Gates turned out, Rumsfeld - known for his closeness to Israel - would be missed. He cited a recent revelation by Colin Powell that some State Department staff referred to Rumsfeld and his staff as the "JINSA crowd." "The administration today was stronger on Israel than any administration in my life," Neumann said.
11-14-06 - Nixed Signals - When Hamas hinted at peace, U.S. media wouldn?t take the message
11-14-06 - Sneh: Rules on Palestinian Americans to be modified Ephraim Sneh met Monday with Ziad Asali, president of the American Task Force on Palestine, and discussed visa restrictions on Palestinians who hold American citizenship who travel to and from Palestinian areas.
11-14-06 - Shin Bet chief warns of large-scale confrontation in Gaza
11-14-06 - Bush assures Israel Iran seen as threat Olmert, who also met with Vice President Dick Cheney and members of Congress, was heading to Los Angeles on Tuesday to speak to Jewish groups.
11-14-06 - Lebanon: Palestinians doubtful of camp improvement initiatives ?None of this will happen. No one here helps the Palestinians,? said Ahmed Hassan, an unemployed Palestinian refugee who lives in Chatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut.
11-14-06 - Military sales to Israel challenged Saleh Hasan, a Palestinian who lives in Bethlehem, argues that the sales are in breach of the government's guidelines covering arms exports and are unlawful. The guidelines say exports should be blocked when there is a "clear risk" they "might be used for internal repression".
11-14-06 - Palestine Independence Day
11-14-06 - Blair presses case for solution in Palestine Tony Blair used a one-hour video testimony to the Iraq Study Group in Washington yesterday to repeatedly press his case that a settlement of the Palestinian-Israel dispute would be the single best way of calming the chaos in Iraq.
11-14-06 - Army installs a barbed wire fence near Azone Village
11-14-06 - Scott Ritter on 'My Good Friend,' Israel He said that Israel is our close ally; and if Iran actually intends to develop nuclear weapons, not nuclear power (as the Iranian Ambassador had said, in the speech preceding Ritter's), and if Iran fails to repudiate Ahmedinejad's hateful rhetoric about Israel, well then, Israel's "legitimate national security concerns" are ours, and could even bring war.
11-14-06 - For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is 'God?s Foreign Policy'
11-14-06 - Netanyahu: Iran Preparing Another Holocaust The boy that cried wolf and Chicken Little have just morphed into one.
11-14-06 - Peace Not Apartheid - By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Just bought this book myself. You can too from Amazon.
11-14-06 - Getting to know the neighbours Residents of al-Ein said on Tuesday that in the 14 days of November, there have only been two nights when Israeli forces did not enter the small and crowded camp. On Tuesday, the army arrived at 2.30am. The soldiers fanned out and entered houses all over camp, ordering families into small rooms. The soldiers then either set up a sniper's nest, by smashing holes in the wall or windows, or smashed through walls in order to enter neighbouring houses. It harkens back to the British raids in towns and cities of the American colonies. In today's world, our revolutionary forces would be called 'terrorists' that 'hide among the civilian populations' too (and they would NOT target civilians just as some of the Palestinians do not do so- 'streetfighters').
11-14-06 - 'We must reject hatred of U.S.' Mr Howard, in his address, said creation of a secure Palestinian state would do more to counter fundamentalist terrorism in the Middle East than co-opting Syria and Iran to assist in Iraq.
11-14-06 - Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails increasing: lawmaker
11-14-06 - Kuwait donates 500,000 US dollars to Palestinians
11-14-06 - MKs: New phenomena - illegal Arab settlements The West Bank does not belong to Israel, it is Israeli-OCCUPIED territory. Those settlements built on occupied territory are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).
11-14-06 - Israel army denies shooting unarmed suspects in West Bank The Israeli army denied charges by a human rights watchdog that it had shot dead two unarmed Palestinian suspects as they lay wounded last week in the occupied West Bank.
11-14-06 - Algeria offers emergency assistance to Palestine
11-14-06 - Fateh condemns US for vetoing UNSC resolution against Israeli massacre in Beit Hanoun
11-14-06 - EU extends Gaza border mission for 6 months
11-14-06 - Israel prepares to allow Palestinian troops into Gaza Israel is on the brink of a policy U-turn that would authorise 1,500 armed Palestinian soldiers based in Jordan to move into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
11-14-06 - Army does not allow patients with severe conditions to enter Israel for treatment
11-14-06 - Palestinian forces arrest two Israeli secret agents in Gaza Sources from the Palestinian preventative security forces working in Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that the forces managed to arrest two Gaza residents working as agents for the Israeli secret service Shin Bet.
11-14-06 - Budget-saving, American-made cluster bombs left vicious legacy in Lebanon This would appear to be another 'Blame America' article.
11-14-06 - Blair calls for new focus on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
11-14-06 - King receives Palestinian President
11-14-06 - Robert Fisk: Conflict in the Middle East is Mission Implausible the Hizbollah - here is a fact which will not sit happily with the John Boltons of this world at the UN - are watching every car that drives south of the Litani river. For they know that if a suicide bomber attacks the French, they - the Hizbollah - will be blamed. They will not be to blame. It will be the Sunni Muslim al-Qa'idists to the north who wish to attack Nato. So Hizbollah will be the most powerful defenders of the European armies in southern Lebanon. Now there's something to think about.
11-14-06 - Israel's Supreme Court rejects jailed U.S. spy's former Mossad handler from Cabinet post Israel's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by jailed Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard to boot his former Mossad handler from his Cabinet post.
11-14-06 - Gaza to produce natural gas soon: sources
11-14-06 - Hagee preaches support for Israel What better way for these End Times fundies to show their support for Israel than to move there and act as human shields?
11-14-06 - Hizbullah leader sees collapse of government A poll published last week by the Beirut Centre for Research and Information suggests nearly 60% of Lebanese support the opposition, with 70% seeking the formation of a new national government.
11-14-06 - Report: Israel chose cheap bombs Israel reportedly decided against using a local, safe variety of cluster-bombs during its war against Hezbollah for cost reasons.
11-14-06 - FBI: Pollard passed info to Pakistan and Australia In a presentation given by FBI agent Ronald Olive, which was broadcast on Channel 10, it was revealed that Pollard was also involved illegally in arms sales to Taiwan, France, Kenya, Afghanistan, and Argentina.
11-14-06 - Divestment talk at Wisconsin college The University of Wisconsin?s board of regents considered divesting from Israel.
11-14-06 - Ethnic cleansing's friend in Israel Peter Edelman, left, is president and Larry Garber is chief executive of the New Israel Fund, a Washington D.C.-based organization focused on social justice and human rights inside Israel.
11-14-06 - CNN adds Palestinian remarks to US veto story, two days later Good job, CNN Exposed.
11-14-06 - After 18 Months, Israeli Judge to Rule on Palestinian's Detention Mr. Abu-Haniyeh has been adopted as an appeal case by Amnesty International and is supported by the American National Lawyers Guild. He is one of at least three known Palestinian human rights workers currently detained by Israel.
11-14-06 - Olmert does Congress He met with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is set to become majority leader in the Senate, after Democrats won both houses in elections last week.
11-14-06 - E.U. commissioner slams Iran Benita Ferrero-Waldner made the remarks Sunday in Paris to the governing board of the World Jewish Congress.
11-14-06 - Jewish leaders ask Chirac to use influence Jewish officials asked France?s president to put pressure on the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority and Hezbollah to stop endangering Israeli civilians.
11-14-06 - Poll: Lebanese opinion of U.S. worse A Gallup World Poll conducted Sept. 18 to Oct. 12 found that 64 percent of Lebanese surveyed said their opinion of the United States was worse following the summer war, during which the Israeli army damaged Lebanese infrastructure while retaliating, with U.S. backing, for Hezbollah attacks launched from Lebanon. Winning the battle for hearts and minds, one Arab country at a time we are.
11-14-06 - Dershowitz criticizes Israeli bombing Alan Dershowitz criticized Israel's use of cluster bombs during the war with Lebanon.
Aww gee, wasn't that noble of him?
11-14-06 - King Abdullah receives poet Sameh Kasem
11-14-06 - Rachel Corrie's Parents, Etc., Part of 11/14 Talkback Moderated by ABC News anchor/correspondent Dan Harris, this panel discussion will occur following the 8pm performance of My Name is Rachel Corrie, as part of its ongoing series
11-14-06 - Another Israeli 'mistake'
11-14-06 - Video: Pollard steals secret documents Ron Olive, the FBI agent who apprehended Jonathan Pollard has released footage taken from a surveillance camera showing the convicted spy taking suitcases full of top secret documents to his Israeli operatives.
11-13-06 - US-educated professor likely to be nominated Palestinian leader
11-13-06 - Palestinian FM puts cost of Israel shelling at 50 million
11-13-06 - Grave suspicion of extrajudicial execution
11-13-06 - Palestinian hospital starts blood donation campaign to aid injured in Beit Hanoun
11-13-06 - PLO official slams U.S., Israel for irresponsibility for Palestine issue Taysseer Khaled, a senior member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), on Monday slammed the United States and Israel for showing their irresponsibility for the Palestine issue.
11-13-06 - Palestinian candidate says ready to accept premier's post of unity government
11-13-06 - Palestinians vow US attacks after UN Gaza veto "Through its position completing the (Israeli) aggression, America has pushed us to take a serious decision to (consider it) a legitimate target for us, exactly like Israel," America has found itself involved in Israel's war on the Arabs, and this goes back long before 9/11. Here's why. George Washington is rolling in his grave. And of course, proclamations such as these play into Israel's hands ('war on terror').
11-13-06 - Syria: An urgent appeal for Palestinians feeing Iraq Iraqi Palestinians are recipients of a collective "fatwa" (or death sentence) issued by several militia or sectarian groups, and their ethnicity - displayed on all their identification papers - is tantamount to committing a capital crime. Many have been kidnapped, tortured and killed.
11-13-06 - Fatah appoints Abbas overall head of movement A key Fatah body elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday as overall leader, officials said, in a bid to revitalise the movement hit by the election success earlier this year of rival group Hamas.
11-13-06 - U.N. rights body to hold special session on Gaza The United Nations' top human rights body will hold a special session on Wednesday to consider a call by Arab and Muslim states for action against the "gross human rights violations" of Israel in Gaza.
11-13-06 - Lebanon's Hariri probe at heart of Hezbollah walkout A UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri lies at the heart of the resignations of five Shiite ministers from the Lebanese government.
11-13-06 - Israel, US have 'complete understanding' on Iran: Olmert Olmert said that he had had a "deep conversation" with Bush and that the two leaders had "complete understanding over their objectives" regarding Iran. Bush has been given his orders. And now, like before with Iraq, Israel's minions in the US will go to work on our government to achieve Israel's wishes.
11-13-06 - Weakened Bush firm on Iran, Syria, Iraq US President George W. Bush, sticking to his guns despite a stinging election defeat, rejected calls for new overtures to Iran and Syria and opposed a fixed timetable for a US withdrawal from Iraq. And coincidentally, Bush met with Olmert today who does not want to see America pull out of Iraq. See yesterday's news batch.
11-13-06 - Nobel winners petition Israel to outlaw targeted killing Hundreds of Israeli peace activists, joined by three foreign Nobel laureates, asked the nation's high court to rule against targeted assassinations carried out by the army in the Palestinian territories, saying the attacks were killing civilians.
11-13-06 - Bush, Olmert warn of threat in Iran Bush saw Olmert on the same day he was interviewed by an independent panel studying U.S. options in the Iraq war. It matters not if the Dems are in power or if the chicanery behind the Iraq debacle has been brought to light - the same lobby is still calling the shots as it was before. And until that changes, America remains a puppet of Israel and is thus in grave physical danger.
11-13-06 - To Israel with love Why is America so much more pro-Israeli than Europe? The most obvious answer lies in the power of two very visible political forces: the Israeli lobby (AIPAC) and the religious right.
11-13-06 - All In A Day's Work
11-13-06 - No clash of civilizations, says UN report A UN-sponsored group says the Israel-Palestinian conflict is the main cause of global tensions.
11-13-06 - Hebron Update: November 5 to 11 2006 Many shops were closed in the West Bank to protest the Israeli army's
invasion of Bethlehem on Friday when two young Palestinian stone
throwers were shot and killed by soldiers. Spend some time reading the messages in that group. You'll quickly learn the ugly truth.
11-13-06 - Barrier clogs West Bank olive harvest
11-13-06 - Blair urges White House to shift focus to Israel-Palestine conflict
11-13-06 - EU ministers pound Israel over Beit Hanun Rightly so.
11-13-06 - Olmert draws fire in U.S. over praise of Iraq war Politicians from the Democratic Party said they wanted to speak to Olmert about his comments on the Iraq war before responding publicly, but said they were uncomfortable with the comments. If Olmert planned his remarks and intended them to come out as they did, a Democratic official said, then they are not acceptable and can be seen as an attempt to influence the American political dispute.....Bush expressed pride in the American veto at the UN Security Council regarding a condemnation of the Israeli shelling of the Gaza town of Beit Hanun
11-13-06 - Annan: Politics cause Muslim-West divide Political tensions, rather than religious differences, are the source of the rift between the West and the Muslim world, and any resolution must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.
11-13-06 - Bush to Olmert: No international peace convention "I said I am in favor of a compromise, if this compromise prevents them from reaching this threshold. I have no special desire to be dragged into a confrontation with the Iranians," the prime minister said, refusing to refer to a possibility of an american military operation in Iran.
11-13-06 - Olmert promises to release prisoners
11-13-06 - Annan links Arab-Israel to broad conflict U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that any effort to stop growing violence between Islamic and Western societies must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict
11-13-06 - FEATURE-Gaza students lament ban on studying in West Bank Palestinian student Huda Abu El-Roos enrolled at Bethlehem University in the occupied West Bank in 2003. But Abu El-Roos, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has never set foot inside the campus. Citing security reasons, Israel has prohibited the 21-year-old and nine colleagues from attending classes on occupational therapy in the biblical town....."Since the uprising, the handicapped have crowded health centres. We need to rehabilitate these people and enable them to practice a normal life as much as possible,"
11-13-06 - Israeli PM Brings Iran Agenda to U.S. ** The fear is that with American public opinion turning against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bush would be less likely to take decisive military or diplomatic action against Iran. Whose war is it?
11-13-06 - Lebanon war's deadly legacy continues to kill On Friday, farmer Mohammed Rizk became the latest victim of the summer war. Police said he was killed and a companion was wounded as they gathered olives in the village of Kfar Roumman, near Nabatiya.
11-13-06 - Army detains an ambulance at a checkpoint near Nablus
11-13-06 - Palestinian factions haggle over cabinet seats
11-13-06 - Olmert talks of Military Action against Iran **
11-13-06 - South Africa seen as model for Palestine
11-13-06 - Facing challenges, Olmert and Bush seek to avoid regional deterioration "We in the Middle East have followed the American policy in Iraq for a long time, and we are very much impressed and encouraged by the stability which the great operation of America in Iraq brought to the Middle East," Olmert said after the meeting "We pray and hope that this policy will be fully successful so that this stability which was created for all the moderate countries in the Middle East will continue."
11-13-06 - Olmert Doesn't Represent Jewry Says Orthodox Spokesman Anti Zionist Jews to Protest Arrival of 'Israeli' Prime Minister in Washington
11-13-06 - Visas at last for musicians bound for city THREE Palestinian musicians refused visas to come to play in Edinburgh have been finally allowed into the UK.
11-13-06 - Harborite visits West Bank with peace team In her view, most Americans don't understand the situation at all. "If people could transfer themselves to the occupied territories for just a day, their opinions about who the victims of injustice are would change. ... The land that has been a promise come true for some people has also been a nightmare that never ends for others."
11-13-06 - Gissin: 'Take The Israel Media War To The Enemy'
11-13-06 - Palestinian ambassador to U.S. visits metro Detroit "I consider him to be the most eloquent spokesman regarding the Palestinian issue." George Khoury, of Huntington Woods, and coordinator of the Palestine Education Fund, said in a news release.
11-13-06 - New Indymedia film about Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
11-13-06 - The root of terror is clear Only a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict will stop al-Qaida recruitment
11-13-06 - US Called On to do More to Bring Peace to the Holy Land A leading Franciscan priest has said hope of peace has died out completely in the Holy Land and has called on the US and Europe to sieze present opportunities to work for peace in the land of Christ?s birth.
11-13-06 - A Dissenting Note on the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917 If my memory serves me right, there are three times as many Jews
in the world as could possible get into Palestine if you drove out
all the population that remains there now. So that only one-third
will get back at the most, and what will happen to the remainder?
11-13-06 - U.N. negotiations continue, but can they stop Iran?s nuclear push? Many worry that Israel could act alone if it thinks the United States is progressing too slowly to contain Tehran. His menu of policy recommendations to the United States notwithstanding, Berman said he believes Israel will feel forced to strike within the year. "I think we're quite clearly entering a season of hard choices on the part of the Israelis," he said.
11-13-06 - Miller testifies in 'torture' case Salah's defense raised allegations that Miller left the New York Times because she was found to have perpetuated faulty evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but the judge in the case upheld a prosecution objection against such characterizations Miller the neoconette.
11-13-06 - Pelosi backs challenge to Hoyer Hoyer is considered one of Israel?s best friends in Congress, isolating Democrats within his party who have been critical of the Jewish state and leading numerous congressional missions to the region.
11-13-06 - Livni promises branding campaign Israel will "invest a lot of time and money" in an image-branding campaign, its foreign minister told the United Jewish Communities' General Assembly.
11-13-06 - Hostility to Zionism Seen as 'Major Threat' in the fevered minds of JINSA and hard-line Zionist elements, the real concern is that there are growing numbers of people high up in the FBI and the CIA and in the military who are getting "fed up" with Zionist power in America You are required to pledge allegiance to a foreign nation, or be branded a traitor. An Orwellian phenomenon that I have personally experienced. To the true patriots in my country and govt: God bless ya and fight the good fight.
11-13-06 - 'Get Your Arab On': Comedians chip away at ethnic fears
11-13-06 - Jewish Weekly slaps ban on Kasrils Censorship of this type ? reminiscent of apartheid era bannings ? is in direct violation of South Africa?s constitutional protection of free speech and the hard-fought for media liberties, central to freedom of expression.
11-12-06 - Palestinian child blown to pieces by Israeli shell, teen dies of wounds sustained Wednesday Medical sources reported that a group of students were targeted by the Israeli shelling on Sunday, in the western part of Beit Hanoun, near Balsam Hospital. One was blown to pieces, and was eventually identified as Moussa Ahmed Zahd, 14, from Al Shaima' area in Beit Lahiya
11-12-06 - Seven days to stop confiscation of Jerusalem land as Israelis continue bid to overtake the city The notification issued to land owners states that Israeli forces will seize the land for military purposes to ?establish a security barrier north of Ma'ale Adumim? on Anata Village lands. As it stands now, the major Ma'ale Adumim Settlement in East Jerusalem blocks much of Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.
11-12-06 - Israeli Military Again Fails to Provide Timely Escort for Palestinian The children waited the entire time by themselves at the same place where
settlers attacked them yesterday afternoon. After the attack yesterday a
commanding officer spoke with a village leader, and promised that the soldiers
would pick the children up in the village of Tuba the following morning.
11-12-06 - Arabs 'to break Hamas aid freeze' The Arab ministers, meeting in Cairo, said they would somehow get funds to the Palestinians despite a Western-led ban imposed when Hamas was elected. ....Regardless of how it will be implemented, the Arab decision is above all a message to the Americans.
11-12-06 - Abbas, Hamas agree on new PM candidate: sources
11-12-06 - Militants resume launching rockets at southern Israel The rocket attack came after Israeli artillery and airstrikes resumed shelling northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, which killed one Palestinian in Beit Laheiya town, according to medical sources.
11-12-06 - Fury as Israelis damage war cemetery Britain has issued a formal complaint after Israeli forces caused significant damage to the Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City, the last resting place for thousands of troops who died fighting the Ottomans in 1917.
11-12-06 - Hamas Accepts Peace Conference Proposal Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel's foreign ministry, said he was not aware of the conference proposal. But he said Hamas could not be a party to talks with Israel unless it met the international community's stipulations.
11-12-06 - After 70-day strike, Palestinian schools reopen
11-12-06 - Youth dies of wounds sustained last week The youth was identified as Mahmoud Hamada, 18. He was in critical condition at a Beit Hanoun hospital after the army shelled Beit Hanoun last Monday, and was pronounced dead on Sunday.
11-12-06 - Rallies throughout Palestine commemorate anniversary of death of Arafat
11-12-06 - Olmert hardens stance on Iran
11-12-06 - 'Israeli Forces shoot indiscriminately at Palestinian Women and Children' Watch the small clip on the page.
11-12-06 - Olmert warns US against 'premature pullout' from Iraq US GIs serve as human shields for Israel.
11-12-06 - Arab League denies UN motion biased
11-12-06 - Iran key as Israeli PM meets Bush **
11-12-06 - Israel warned off nuclear 'folly' Iran's foreign ministry spokesman has warned Tehran will not hesitate to retaliate with a crushing blow if Israel attacks its nuclear sites.
11-12-06 - 'Gates will uphold solid US-Israel ties' At any rate, some in the American Jewish community have suggested that Gates was more positively disposed toward Israel than Baker and Scowcroft.
11-12-06 - Palestinian Women Pay Health Toll at Checkpoints Between Sept. 28, 2000, and Aug. 20, 2006, for instance, 10 percent of women in the West Bank and Gaza who needed to give birth in medical centers or hospitals were delayed by Israeli forces from two to four hours, according to the Palestinian Health Information Center, an agency of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
11-12-06 - Stage collapse in Gaza injures 14 lightly
11-12-06 - He can't leave the West Bank. She can't get in.
11-12-06 - International force for Gaza
11-12-06 - Dream of permanent peace by delaying it for a decade
11-12-06 - Israeli unease grows over fraying U.S. ties ** As the Lebanon war demonstrated, Bush has been reluctant to impose the kinds of restraints on Israel that his father employed, to press negotiations with the Palestinians in the style of Bill Clinton or even to push Israel to ease up on Palestinian travel. That has pleased Israel's supporters in the Jewish community and among an increasingly vocal, fiercely pro-Israel community of evangelicals, who visited the White House at least once during the Lebanon war to voice support for allowing the air attacks on Hezbollah to continue unabated......"Can we rely on the United States alone and say we abdicate our responsibility for dealing with the matter, and let the United States do what it wants? No, by no means.".....The message seemed to Israelis perfectly clear: The Bush administration would demand Israeli concessions on the Palestinian issue to hold together an American-led coalition on Iran. .....No Israeli knows if the next American president will be as tough on Iran or as loyal to Israel as Bush. If Bush does not act, Israelis say, by the time the next president takes office in January 2009, Iran will be well on its way to a bomb, and Washington may not back Israeli responses....."We would like to be liked by everyone, of course," he said, "but it's the relationship with the United States that really matters."
11-12-06 - Rabbis for Human Rights volunteer held Theresa McDermont came to Israel to pick olives with Palestinian farmers for one month. Instead, she has been sitting in a detention cell for 12 days at Ben-Gurion airport.
11-12-06 - After GOP's midterm drubbing, Olmert will tread delicately in D.C. "It's the right time to exchange views with the president on what is expected in the coming two years," Olmert told reporters Expected of whom? ...
11-12-06 - Report: Mossad museum planned It will not be open to the public, Ma'ariv reported, but will be used to teach new recruits and select visitors about the Mossad's operational history ??
11-12-06 - Seaman guilty over Japan deaths Haifa Magistrates Court gave Zdravko a two-and-a-half-year suspended prison term in addition to the community service
11-12-06 - Israel general quits over Lebanon
11-12-06 - CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US This happens a lot and not just on CNN. When there's an entire article on Yahoo News (almost always by AP), there will be a heavily edited and abbreviated version that will be released to the MSM news websites including local ones (if it makes it at all). I've observed this simply by doing the news run every night. Who decides what information makes it to American viewers and why? .. is what I'd like to know. You are not getting the whole story. Somebody makes sure of that.
11-12-06 - Falash Mura supporters hail vote to keep monthly immigration steady Stephen Hoffman, president of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, said the government's continued stonewalling on previous decisions to accelerate the aliyah betrays a philosophical difference about the value of Ethiopian immigrants. "It's a matter of principle," Hoffman told JTA. "I guess it just comes down to whether you think the aliyah of the Ethiopians is valuable or not, and I recognize that there are different views."
11-12-06 - Bush calls for help in Argentine warrants President Bush called on the international community to assist Argentina in arresting a former Iranian president wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center. Why is this a matter for the US president?
11-12-06 - Ali Abunimah strikes fear in the hearts of Ziocons Oh dear.
11-12-06 - College students jam Mideast courses
11-12-06 - UJC General Assembly in L.A. This year's meeting of the North American federation system, which will run Sunday through Wednesday, is focused on Israel under the theme "Together on the Frontline, One People, One Destiny."
11-11-06 - At-Tuwani: Palestinian School Children Attacked by Israeli Settlers; Israeli Military Fails in Its Duty to Keep Them Safe. On Saturday 11 November at 2:15 PM Israeli settlers from the illegal
settlement outpost of Havot Ma?on (Hill 833) attacked fourteen children
from the Palestinian villages of Tuba and Magaer al-Abeed. The children
attend school in the village of At-Tuwani and were returning home when the
attack occurred.
11-11-06 - Pain and disbelief in Gaza
11-11-06 - Abbas upbeat on Palestinian unity A Palestinian unity government could be in place by December, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said.
11-11-06 - How Israel put Gaza civilians in firing line Israeli military commanders drastically reduced the 'safety' margins that separate artillery targets from the built-up civilian areas of Gaza earlier this year, despite being warned that the new policy risked increasing Palestinian civilian deaths and injuries, The Observer can reveal.
11-11-06 - Abbas calls on Israel to resume peace, end occupation Abbas made the appeal in a speech marking the second anniversary of the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
11-11-06 - With two year memorial underway, President's death remains shrouded in mystery
11-11-06 - After Two Years of His Passing Away, Palestinians Miss Yasser Arafat
11-11-06 - US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbath Fellow Americans, you and I - thanks to the Israeli Lobby - have just been made a party to Israel's crimes (AGAIN).
11-11-06 - Italian MEPs campaigning for Israel's inclusion in EU Italian members of the European Parliament intend to embark on an international campaign to further a proposal to include Israel in the European Union after peace agreements are signed in accordance with international law.
11-11-06 - Iran in UN protest over Israel 'military threats' "Unfortunately the Security Council's inaction over the Israeli regime's terrorist acts have emboldened this regime to continue its crimes and not heed the most obvious international principles and the UN convention,"
11-11-06 - AL chief: Arabs won't coexist with Israel without just, balanced peace Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said Saturday that the Arab countries will not accept coexistence with Israel without a just and balanced peace prevailing in the region, Egypt's MENA news agency reported.
11-11-06 - Analysis / A meeting in handcuffs for Ehud Olmert, George Bush ** In an ideal world, Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush would finish the weighty part of their meeting in five minutes and move on to talking about their families, their children and sports. Bush would promise to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and thus remove the existential threat hanging over Israel.....That will be Olmert's primary message to Bush. Will a veiled threat be sufficient to rouse the U.S. into saving Israel and attacking Iran? Will Olmert's promises to withdraw from the territories in exchange persuade the administration? "Will a veiled threat be sufficient to rouse the U.S. into saving Israel and attacking Iran? " And what veiled threat would that be? Israeli blackmail (refer back to my comments in a previous post this week).
11-11-06 - Hezbollah ministers quit cabinet
11-11-06 - Berlin aims to revive Mideast 'quartet'
11-11-06 - U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact Most U.S. loans to Israel are forgiven, and many were made with the explicit understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them. By disguising as loans what in fact were grants, cooperating members of Congress exempted Israel from the U.S. oversight that would have accompanied grants.....Generous as it is, what Israelis actually got in U.S. aid is considerably less than what it has cost U.S. taxpayers to provide it. The principal difference is that so long as the U.S. runs an annual budget deficit, every dollar of aid the U.S. gives Israel has to be raised through U.S. government borrowing.
11-11-06 - U.S. Vetoes Justice Again Israel has been allowed to give the finger to the international community and international law since 1948 with almost complete impunity.
11-11-06 - Gaza: part gladiator's arena, part open prison ?We don?t operate with firecrackers and neon signs to attract attention to ourselves,? said one of the contractors working with Fatah on behalf of the US State Department. Even more worryingly, Washington?s funds will also be used it seems to encourage ?watchdog? groups and local journalists to investigate the activities of the Hamas-led government and parliament. All of which of course has the potential to ignite serious intra-Palestinian violence and even civil war.
11-11-06 - Kuwait condemns Israeli offensive in Gaza: Murad; UNSC urged to take steps to protect civilians
11-11-06 - Bush to ask Olmert: Be flexible
11-11-06 - 'Israel Has Many Options' Wouldn?t it be worth trying to separate Syria and Iran?
I don?t believe Assad wants to be separated from Iran. What he wants is to recover the Golan Heights, and I don?t see any signs that he understands that he needs to pay for it. ???
11-11-06 - Hamas government accuses Israel for killing Arafat
11-11-06 - Outrage at London sting by US spies It is not known whether the sting operation is connected to a British investigation launched in August after Israel accused Britain of indirectly supplying Hezbollah terrorists with military night-vision equipment that helped them target Israeli soldiers in Lebanon.
11-11-06 - U.S. engineer indicted for passing secrets to Israel Gowadia is charged with passing information for an unspecified period to business sources in Israel, although he in no instance received payment for his services Received no payment? Then why did he do it?
11-11-06 - Cluster bomb kills Hezbollah guerrilla in Lebanon
11-11-06 - PNA slams U.S. veto against UN decision that condemns Israel "The U.S. veto against the UN decision which condemned the Israeli daily massacres against the Palestinian people is for sure encouraging Israel to carry out more aggressions into the Palestinian territories,"
11-11-06 - British boycott Israeli academics Israeli researchers, professors boycotted by British press, higher education institutions in protest of ?occupation of Palestinian territories?
11-11-06 - Malaysia condemns Israel's military strike against Palestinian civilians
11-11-06 - Analysis: Full plate for Bush, Olmert More whining that America isn't doing enough with regard to Iran. We're real sorry, but we're in this clusterf#ck that is Iraq at the moment.
11-11-06 - AIPAC Eats New Congress Critters for Lunch
11-11-06 - AJC Appreciates U.S. Veto of One-Sided UN Resolution Message to AJC
11-11-06 - Pinochet in Palestine
11-11-06 - Waging war won't eliminate terrorism, says Jesuit magazine
11-11-06 - George and Nancy Make Nice As for foreign policy, Pelosi is as Zionist friendly as any Straussian neocon, albeit in a fuzzy Democrat sort of way, and thus we can expect more murder and mayhem in the Middle Eastern neighborhood.
11-11-06 - Indonesians join UN peacekeepers in Lebanon amid tensions A first batch of Indonesian troops have flown in to Beirut to join a UN peacekeeping force, whose commander warned of growing tensions in south Lebanon.
11-11-06 - Christian Population Falls In Holy Land A perfectly-timed Hasbara (PR) piece by the Associated Press. Right on cue. Blame the Muzzie for alleged harassment, forget about the wanton killing of women and children by Israel.
11-10-06 - A Palestinian mother and her two babies lay together in the drawer of the morgue
11-10-06 - Palestinian PM offers to resign for aid Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday he would be willing to sacrifice his job if the international community would lift economic sanctions that have crippled his Hamas-led government.
11-10-06 - Resident of Beit Hanoun dies of wounds sustained on Wednesday
11-10-06 - Desperate Palestinians miss their late leader Yasser Arafat Abu Ibrahim Salama, a 65-year-old Gazan man, pointed a huge Arafat picture hanging in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) building and said, "Where are you? Where are your days? If you were here, our life would be better."
11-10-06 - UN Security Council delays vote on criticism of Israel's Gaza attack The amended draft no longer refers to Wednesday's Israeli shelling that killed 18 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun as "a massacre" and no longer calls for the deployment of UN observers to supervise a mutual ceasefire.....But despite the changes, the United States is expected to veto the draft, several diplomats said.
11-10-06 - Gaza: While the world looked elsewhere, another week of death and misery
11-10-06 - Palestinians inch towards unity government
11-10-06 - Palestinians Pessimistic Before Haniyeh's Offer 62.3 per cent of respondents are pessimistic about the political and economical conditions in the Palestinian territories.
Another winning US policy in the Middle East: cut off all hope from an already destitute people. A real stroke of genius.
11-10-06 - Olmert warns against hasty U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
11-10-06 - Olmert to focus on Iran in Washington, hoping for steady course ** "Without the political support at home and in his party and among the American public, a decisive military or diplomatic move (by Bush) against Iran seems less and less likely."
11-10-06 - Egypt uncovers arms tunnel Egypt on Friday discovered a weapons-smuggling tunnel under its border with Gaza, a move that will please Israel
11-10-06 - Israel official: Strike on Iran possible ** Such a move would implicitly involve the US in the fight, thereby endangering our guys in Iraq, and threatening the world economy via its oil supply. This is nothing short of blackmail on the part of Israel to get us to do the job for them.
11-10-06 - At-Tuwani Release: Children return to school, continue to need Because of the repeated attacks on the children and international observers
in the area, the Israeli police and military, under order from the Israeli
Knesset, began escorting the Palestinian children to and from school each
day in October of 2004.
11-10-06 - In Nazareth; thousands protest against Israeli attacks in Beit Hanoun Thousands of Arab residents of Israel held on Friday in a regional protest against the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the recent killing of twenty-one civilians, including several children, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Several Arab Knesset members participated in the protest.
11-10-06 - UN urges Israel to cease flights over Lebanon The UN says the flights, conducted regularly by Israeli warplanes, are a clear violation of the Security Council resolution adopted in August to end the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah.
11-10-06 - Church agency-backed call for Israel to observe international law in Gaza
11-10-06 - Restrictions Imposed on West Bank Due to Israel?s High State of Alert The Red Cross buses typically used to transport families to other West Bank cities were unable to operate Friday due to the long lines at military checkpoints
11-10-06 - 'We are dead people' - Gaza defiance grows as Israeli grip stifles economy Since the militant Hamas movement was elected to power this year, Israel has refused to transfer the $60m (£31m) monthly tax revenues due to the Palestinians, and the west has halted direct financial support for the government. Since March 160,000 government employees, from doctors and teachers to security staff, have gone without their salary. Regular Israeli closures and delays at crossing points out of Gaza have badly hit the already fragile economy.
11-10-06 - Why is the Middle East exempt from international law? Christian Aid partners, both Israeli and Palestinian, along with UN officials have expressed their shock over the continuing Israeli incursions in Gaza, asking how many more Palestinians need to die before the world acts.
11-10-06 - France demands independent probe of Beit Hanoun incident
11-10-06 - Blair will urge US to talk to Syria and Iran Mr Blair faces an uphill battle to persuade Mr Bush to include a big initiative on Palestine in any revised Iraq strategy
11-10-06 - Italy calls on the U.S. to press Israel on Palestinian conflict he called on Bush to press Israel, where he said the military was lashing out in Gaza to prove its might after failing to defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon.
11-10-06 - Gazans debate response to killings "Children were sleeping," said one of them. "Bombs killed them while they slept. They had done nothing.
11-10-06 - Kahane supporters praise Gaza killings as 'holy'
11-10-06 - Radar fault led to deaths in Beit Hanun A technical malfunction in the radar of the Israel Defense Forces artillery battery that carried out an attack against Beit Hanun was the cause for the mistaken shelling of civilians on Wednesday, which resulted in the deaths of 19 Palestinian civilians, IDF sources said yesterday Oh what a crock.
11-10-06 - 12 Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace as Paris seethes over mock attacks
11-10-06 - Iran State Media Plays Down Argentina "Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed the arrest warrants as a decision influenced by Zionists," the newscaster said, referring to Israel.
11-10-06 - Does Father Know Best? It was the Lobby that, in large part, lured us into the Iraqi quagmire, and this same concatenation of forces stands in the way of an orderly withdrawal of U.S. forces.
11-10-06 - UN bemoans slow Lebanon cluster bomb clearance "If the Israelis give us the exact locations of the targeted sites, it will accelerate our work," Dalya Farran, the spokeswoman of the United Nations' Mine Action Coordination Center (MACC), told AFP.
11-10-06 - Kahane followers: radical Jews in garb of American counterculture Those gathered for the commemoration represent a fundamentalist religious militancy in the garb of American counter culture. Like Kahane himself, most of those in attendance seem to be from Brooklyn. The younger devotees blend New York hip-hop fashions such as baggy chinos, Nike trainers, and hooded sweatshirts with untamed beards, wool skull caps, and messianic eyes. Some wear T-shirts that read "I only buy from Jews."
Abe says ISLAMIC extremism is where we should be focusing our attention.
11-10-06 - Olmert to focus on Iran in visit to U.S. **
11-10-06 - Iran slams Western 'silence' at Israeli killings "The West's silence towards this huge atrocity shows that Palestinian children, men and women's lives are worthless for these self-professed human rights backers,"
11-10-06 - FM Gul Condemns Israel over 'Massacre' of 18 Palestinians Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has slammed Israel for its killing of 18 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and reiterated a call for an immediate end to its "inexplicable" military operations.
11-10-06 - Nonviolent marches throughout Palestine condemn Israeli massacre of civilians in Beit Hanoun In addition, protests in the Jerusalem area have again been beaten down today by Israeli border police, and Israeli authorities have closed the Al-Aqsa Mosque to anyone under 45 years old on this, the weekly day of prayer for Muslims.
11-10-06 - Israeli troops arrest 27 Palestinian militants in W. Bank
11-10-06 - At-Tuwani Update: 19-31 October 2006 The team received a phone call telling them a settler was plowing land in
the Palestinian village of Mufakara. Schramm, Zimmerman and two Doves walked
to the neighboring village and videotaped the settler working the land.
Meanwhile, two other settlers called the police to complain that
Palestinians were preventing them from working their land near the illegal
settlement outpost, Avigail. The police provided protection for the settler
on Palestinian land, and proceeded to arrest the three accused Palestinians
11-10-06 - Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi: new Prime Minister to be named within days, unity government within weeks
11-10-06 - Two Gaza projects temporarily suspended
11-10-06 - A simple road to Middle East peace
11-10-06 - Historic Black Churches Delegation to Holy Land Finds Pain and Hope On a visit to the Israeli-built barrier now separating Palestinian residents in the West Bank from residents in Israel-controlled Jerusalem, African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop E. Earl McCloud, Jr., said, "I'm surprised by the blatant attempt of Israelis to separate themselves. I've also been on the backside of fear of Black people," he said, "and it makes me sad to see this wall and to hear so many say this wall has been built with money I have sent to the U.S. government in tax dollars." .....Bishop Louis Hunter of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, said, "I don't care what anyone says, I'm going to do something for the kids in that Lutheran School." Hunter, whose episcopal seat is in Suwanee, Georgia, also declared that he will "become a megaphone in the AME Zion Church" to bring attention to the inequality in the Holy Land. When people witness the reality of Palestine, they sing a very different tune. That is, until the Israeli lobby starts working on them (recall what happened to the Presbys who sought to divest from Israel). I wonder how long the fine clergyman's attempt to spread the word will last before being silenced by the Lobby.
11-10-06 - Analysis: Bush, Olmert, Iran and Palestine ** Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will probe the likelihood of the United States providing a nuclear umbrella against Iranian nuclear threats when he meets President Bush in Washington next Monday. Yediot Aharonot Friday quoted sources close to Olmert as saying he "expects to hear" such a promise from Bush.
11-10-06 - Dems pledge to sever ties to lobbyists Ethics watchdog groups are hopeful as incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., readies the Democrats' "Honest Leadership and Open Government" initiative for opening day in January You're kidding me right? Our legislators will never sever ties to one of the most powerful lobbies in America - AIPAC. Not going to happen.
11-10-06 - Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted
11-10-06 - IAF negotiates purchase of 100 F-35 fighter jets in $5 billion deal The F-35 project, funded jointly by the U.S., Canada and the U.K., is still in the developmental stage and is scheduled to fly for the first time in late 2006
11-10-06 - Number of Jewish lawmakers worldwide reaches record high "cooperation among Jewish legislators worldwide has increased. " Conspiracy? .... j/k!
11-10-06 - Arab-American Comedy Fest Comes to New York
11-10-06 - Syria attacks UN report of arms traffic to Lebanon Roed-Larsen's allegations had also been denied by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh and Defense Minister Elias al-Murr, Jaafari said.
11-10-06 - From 2005: Nancy Pelosi Gives A Pep Talk To AIPAC
Nancy Pelosi Speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee
11-10-06 - In parting interview, ambassador says Israel must build more bridges Ayalon described a determination in the Bush administration to confront Iran over its nuclear program, which international inspectors believe is a precursor to the manufacture of weapons. He predicted U.N. sanctions in place by December unless Iran relents. Making sure that America remains under the influence.
11-10-06 - Protesters rally in Mideast capitals against Israel, US I bet they hate 'our freedom'.
11-10-06 - Back to Palestine - Only America can move matters forward in the Middle East The second fact is the liberation that a final stint in office brings. George W. Bush has no need now to fear the electoral consequences of defying powerful lobbies in America: like Bill Clinton, he can afford to pursue a Middle East settlement
11-10-06 - Israel, U.S. ponder new ways to collect intelligence in Lebanon Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will discuss the issue of the overflights during his visit to Washington on Monday. Olmert will inform President George W. Bush of the continued supply of arms to Hezbollah and the fact that the international embargo is only being implemented partially.
11-10-06 - Hospital in Bethlehem Seen as Hope for Interreligious Peace Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem, considered the pre-eminent provider of medical services in the Holy Land, serves as a beacon of hope for Palestinian women in desperate need of healthcare.
11-10-06 - Israel Is In Crisis. What Part Will American Jews Play?
11-10-06 - Peace group outrage at ban on Palestinians Members of the five-strong musical party were also going to give a presentation on life in their war-torn home city of Jenin. But only days before the cultural group were due to fly into London, bureaucrats at the Consul General?s office in Jerusalem said no.
11-10-06 - Citigroup Lauds Israel's 'Robust Economy' According to Citigroup's new local managing director, despite having endured years of Palestinian terrorism and a devastating 34-day summer war with Hezbollah, Israel maintains a "robust economy" that continues to surpass all expectations.
11-10-06 - Resolved to defeat Islamic extremism It is not Israel that is the obstacle to peace or the cause of continued Palestinian suffering. This according to Abe Foxman of the ADL. This organization heavily influences our government, our law enforcement and other major institutions in America. And he couldn't be any more clear: Israel is not to be blamed. That is a form of supremacy. We are to blame extremism - specifically, Islamic extremism, when the extremism of Israel in many forms has been demonstrated these last few weeks. The Muslims made 'em do it.
11-10-06 - Al-awda urges UW divestment from Israel
11-10-06 - The Perils of Inaction Even before Mr. Olmert visits Washington next week, Mr. Bush should send Ms. Rice back to the region to broker an immediate cease-fire.
She needs to insist that the Israelis restrain their offensives into Palestinian territory and cease all settlement construction. And she needs to make clear to the Palestinians that while words are important, there will be no resumption of aid until their security forces move aggressively to halt rocket and terrorist attacks against Israel.
11-10-06 - Independent Publisher Norton Purchases Rachel Corrie's Writings Independent publisher W.W. Norton this week acquired the complete writings of Rachel Corrie, the young American killed in March 2003, while trying to prevent an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer from razing a Palestinian home in Gaza.
11-09-06 - Violent spell rivals worst times for Palestinian children UNICEF is distressed by the extraordinary violence in northern Gaza. Since 1 November, we estimate that 68 Palestinians have been killed, including 14 children. The deaths during the last seven days, including the children killed in today's shelling, add to the steady deadly toll on Palestinian children since the Intifada broke out in 2000, with 113 children killed so far this year.
11-09-06 - A Palestinian prepares to bury the body of one-and-a-half-year-old Maram Al-Athamna
11-09-06 - Palestinians chide U.N. silence on Gaza At a daylong open meeting of the Security Council, speaker after speaker denounced the killings and criticized what they described as Israel's excessive use of force in its offensive in Gaza.
11-09-06 - Palestinian farmers fight back against Israeli attack during demonstration Israeli forces placed signs on Palestinian agricultural land and the town cemetery indicating that the Wall will be imposed there, as reported by eyewitnesses this afternoon. In response to the impending land confiscation, village residents and area farmers marched to the scene where soldiers beat the Palestinians after telling them to leave
11-09-06 - Chaos and commitment at Gaza hospital
11-09-06 - Israeli shells shear branches off Palestinian patriarch's family tree All told, Assamna lost his mother, four children, four grandchildren and three daughters-in-law in the shelling. His brother Masoud also died, as did Masoud's wife, son and daughter-in-law.
11-09-06 - Palestinians Blame U.S. for Deterioration 30.6 per cent of respondents think the United States is responsible for the deterioration of the economic conditions in the territories of the Palestinian Authority
11-09-06 - Israeli attack 'an outrage that cries to heaven' - Tutu Johannesburg: Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu condemned an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip that killed 18 people as an atrocity yesterday, saying "security does not come from the barrel of a gun".
11-09-06 - An Out of Control IDF
11-09-06 - Lebanon's Hezbollah slams Israeli attack on Gaza "The savage massacre committed by the Zionists in Beit Hanoun today is new proof of the racism and wantonness of this enemy and the nature of its aggression and criminality, coming on top of a moving series of massacres especially in Palestine and Lebanon."
11-09-06 - Chris Hedges: Bush and Israel, Midwives to Radical Islam
11-09-06 - Grief turns to rage as Beit Hanoun buries its dead Ephraim Sneh, the deputy defence minister, told the Jerusalem Post that the "moral responsibility" for the deaths lay with militants who operate from within civilian areas.
It's never the fault of Israel. K.
11-09-06 - Bush resubmits Bolton A number of Jewish Democrats in the Senate have since considered dropping their opposition because of Bolton?s outspoken defense of Israel and his tough stance on Iran.
11-09-06 - Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace as France protests Israeli jets violated Lebanese airspace on Thursday, hours after France summoned Israel's ambassador to protest about Israeli warplanes diving on French UN peacekeepers in the south, police said.
11-09-06 - The vehicles the Israeli army never stops Israeli security forces have used stolen cars to assassinate Palestinian militants on several occasions since 2000. On these occasions Palestinian collaborators would bring an attractive car, rigged with explosives, to the target who would later be blown up.
11-09-06 - Olmert says 'technical failure' led to killing of Gaza family They must have a hundred ways of exonerating themselves of blame. Recall the Gaza beach shelling of July which killed almost an entire family. To buy into the excuse is to give credence to the myth that Israel actually gives a sh#t about the lives of Palestinian (or any Arab) civilians - it doesn't. Never has. Behold the civilian-to-Hez killing ratio by the IDF, and the million or so cluster bomblets Israel fired into Lebanon three days before the ceasefire (that they knew was forthcoming).
11-09-06 - Olmert: Sorry for civilian deaths in Gaza And the Palestinians might respond.
11-09-06 - U.S. plans to veto proposed UN resolution on Beit Hanun deaths Our government stands in the way of justice - AGAIN. Americans and Palestinians have something in common -they both live under a foreign occupation.
11-09-06 - A profound pessimism has taken hold of Israel Palestinians are being made to pay for Israel's failure in Lebanon. It seems to give the Israelis a warm fuzzy feeling to know that they can revert back to shooting fish in a barrel.
11-09-06 - Save the Children: A Berlin wall for the 21st Century We call for the UN member states to make effective the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) advisory opinion of 9 July 2004 that calls for Israel to cease construction and to dismantle those sections of the Wall which are located in the West Bank.
11-09-06 - US gives Lebanon army 10.5 million dollars of equipment
11-09-06 - France summons Israeli ambassador over Lebanon incident The French government has summoned Israel's ambassador to Paris to complain about an incident in Lebanon in which Israeli warplanes dived menacingly on French UN peacekeepers, officials said.
11-09-06 - Olmert: Israel won't stop targeting Gaza Israel will keep targeting Palestinian rocket squads in Gaza despite the risk of inadvertently hitting civilians, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday, as tens of thousands of Palestinians buried 18 victims of an errant Israeli artillery strike.
11-09-06 - Russia, Bahrain urge renewed efforts to find Mideast peace Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Bahraini counterpart, Khaled ben Ahmed al-Khalifa, called for renewed diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in the Palestinian territories.
11-09-06 - Hamas says no leading politicians in next government
11-09-06 - Hard times for widows of violence
11-09-06 - Human rights groups ask High Court to expand security zone betwen Palestinian civilians and IDF Six human rights groups asked the High Court of Justice yesterday to expedite proceedings for their request that the Israel Defense Forces expand the "security zone," the minimal space allowed between a civilian population and the area from which the army fires shells.
11-09-06 - Abbas in talks with Meshaal Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday spoke by telephone with the exiled political leader of the ruling Hamas movement over efforts to form a unity government, his spokesman said.
11-09-06 - Nonviolent protest continues against construction of Jewish museum on desecrated Islamic cemetery
11-09-06 - PLC member Ashrawi calls for impartial probe committee into Gaza attacks
11-09-06 - MDA charges for evacuation of Beit Hanoun wounded
11-09-06 - State prosecution waives entry ban on Palestinian PhD student
11-09-06 - Just how cozy is Pelosi with AIPAC?
11-09-06 - Want to win media game? Don't apologize Shelling in Beit Hanoun deals hefty blow to Israel's already struggling image, so how does one win war on minds and perhaps more importantly ? hearts? Media expert Dr. Ra'anan Gissin and former ambassador Zvi Mazel weigh in I've an idea: why not stop bombing civilians?
11-09-06 - Opponents of Pro-Israel Lobby Releasing DVD The CNI Foundation was founded in 1989 by former Republican congressman Paul Findley, to counter the influence of pro-Israel lobbying groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Findley was voted out of office in the early 1980s by an opponent who received significant backing from donors who were affiliated with Aipac.
11-09-06 - Gates expected to push Israel-Palestinian talks supporters of Israel were quietly raising concerns that Gates's associations with members of President George H. W. Bush's foreign policy team would reignite calls for active US engagement towards the end of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks With Capitol Hill teeming with Israel-firsters, as noted by the many articles by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (the horse's mouth) these past few days, I'd say that we've still got a ways to go before America's foreign policy is one in which AMERICA'S interest come first. However, Gates is a step in the right direction. Keep it coming.
11-09-06 - AIPAC's Nov. 9 message to its supporters "AIPAC reached nearly every lawmaker elected in Tuesday?s mid-term congressional elections as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. During the campaign that ended Tuesday, nearly every viable candidate met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy."
11-09-06 - French troops 'came close to shooting down Israeli jets' Defence Ministry officials would not elaborate on why the French troops decided not to fire, nor explain why they waited eight days to announce the incident. Ahh France. A wee bit enthralled by that 'sh@tty little country', are we?...
11-09-06 - UN meets to address israeli paranoia
11-09-06 - The Old Zionist Smear Machine
11-09-06 - Warrant issued for former Iranian president Israeli Ambassador Rafael Eldad called the development "highly significant."
11-09-06 - Israeli youth think Shas rabbi is most powerful Israelis under 30 think Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the most powerful person in Israel, a study found. See also "The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs. ".
11-09-06 - World learns from Israel on deserts Israel is hosting an international conference on how to make deserts bloom. Step 1, make war, steal desert land. Step 2, steal water from neighbors. Ouila!
11-09-06 - Casey rejoices in his election as Pennsylvanians reject Santorum Betsy Sheerr, an adviser to the campaign who had traveled to Israel with Casey and serves on the board of trustees for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, was enthusiastic. "Israel won big tonight, as did the U.S.-Israel relationship," declared Sheerr America's interests factor in exactly how?
11-09-06 - After the elections in America Political struggles between the administration and Congress should not be allowed to impede the handling of the existential threat to Israel, and the danger that the entire region will come under the influence of the radical Islamic regime in Tehran.
Israel afraid US won't deal with Iran (in the way that they want us to).
11-09-06 - The lame-duck syndrome Bush's well-wishers are suggesting to him that he remove Israel from this dubious group. They are imploring him to follow in the footsteps of his father, who marked the conclusion of the first Gulf War with the Madrid peace conference. Will the son listen to them, or will he be attentive to Christian evangelists and Jewish lobbyists, "friends of Israel," who will take the wind out of his sails and remind him how, a year later, they sent his parents home to the ranch and his party into the opposition? Wow. A frank admission there by a writer for Israeli news site Ha`aretz. A keeper. They took Bush`s daddy down, and now they`re jumping ship seeing as how the war on Iraq wasn`t the cakewalk that the neocons, their cohorts in the US, promised and also harping on Bush to do their bidding with regard to Iran. Junior should pay them back in kind.
11-09-06 - Key US policies will not see major changes following elections McCormack, said, however, there will be few changes with regard to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programmes and the Israeli- Palestinian conflict
11-09-06 - Voices from the Holy Land The Sabeel Conference, "Ending the Silence: Voices from the Holy Land," Oct. 20-21 at Village Presbyterian Church, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, brought more than 330 people together to discuss peaceful solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
11-09-06 - Jordan pays tribute to victims of deadly hotel bombings
11-09-06 - Democrats' victory won't affect Israel policy, but could impact Iran The tone of the U.S.-Israel relationship remains the same whoever controls Congress, but Democratic pledges to stringently oversee the Iraq war could affect how the United States confronts Iran. Oh dear.
11-08-06 - Children among 19 killed by Israeli tank fire The dead and injured - including nine children, four women and six men - were sleeping when the first shell hit at around 6am local time. Many of the victims were taken to hospital in their pyjamas....Witnesses said that the first shell hit a home, causing deaths and injuries. Residents took shelter while rescuers attempted to retrieve the bodies and care for the wounded. Many residents were sheltering in a nearby alleyway when a second shell landed, causing most of the casualties. A further five or six shells landed in the same vicinity over a period of 15 minutes, witnesses said.
11-08-06 - Israeli shelling kills 18 in Gaza Israeli forces also killed a 17-year-old civilian near Jabaliya refugee camp, hospital officials in Gaza said.
11-08-06 - Gaza children cannot escape as Israel mounts its bloodiest attack in months The victims were killed by an estimated 10 to 12 155mm shells which landed on Beit Hanoun less than 24 hours after troops had ended a six-day ground incursion into the northern Gaza town aimed at stopping militants firing Qassam rockets into Israel
11-08-06 - Five Palestinians killed in Al Yamoun, near Jenin
11-08-06 - Gaza town stunned by shelling A father of one child who was killed told me: "One missile I believe could have been a mistake, but the number of missiles that were fired, I can't believe that was a mistake." .....It seems clear that rockets have been fired from near this area in the past, but there appears to have been nothing on that night.
11-08-06 - Italy calls Gaza killings "unacceptable"
11-08-06 - Hamas urges attacks on U.S. targets But Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government, said the group had no intention of attacking American targets.
11-08-06 - Hamas chief: Truce with Israel is over
11-08-06 - Aid agencies condemn Gaza carnage The Red Cross and Unicef said they were appalled by the deaths of women and children from Israeli tank fire in the town of Beit Hanoun.
11-08-06 - In pictures: Beit Hanoun
11-08-06 - Gaza Shelling Prompts Hamas to Call for Attacks Against U.S. A young man, standing in the bloodied alleyway, said an infant girl had been blown to pieces. "I tried to look for her head, I tried to look for her head," he shrieked, then sank to the ground, weeping. Israel is provoking Hamas. And Hamas is falling for it - again.
11-08-06 - Annan just "shocked" at Israeli massacre in Gaza
11-08-06 - "We just need to live" say Beit Hanoun residents "I found bodies without heads, children's bodies without hands, some without legs. We found a husband, wife and children who were still on their bed - we thought they were still asleep until we tried to wake them up," he said....."Two of the injured were mentally-ill residents of Beit Hanoun who did not understand what was going on and were wandering around the streets when they were shot by Israeli snipers."
11-08-06 - World horrified by Israeli killings in Gaza The world's failure to staunch the bloodshed was roundly criticised by the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Territories. "This brutal collective punishment of a people, not a government, has passed largely unnoticed by the international community," said rights expert John Dugard.
11-08-06 - Wounded Gaza teenager mourns 13 family members Anyone that believes the line that Israel 'missed their target by 500 meters' is under the mistaken belief that Israel gives a sh@t about Palestinian civilians - it does not. Never did.
11-08-06 - Israel destroyed all chances of peace: Abbas "You (the Israelis) do not want peace at all. You have destroyed all chances of peace and you should bear all the responsibility," he told reporters in Gaza City following the attack in the northern town of Beit Hanun
11-08-06 - Mexico lambastes Israeli artillery barrage in Gaza
11-08-06 - Gaza on brink of explosion as plight worsens - UN "People are at the point of such frustration and anger that unless things change there very definitely can be an explosion," AbuZayd, whose agency is the largest aid body providing services in the Palestinian territories, told Reuters in Amman
11-08-06 - Palestinian: 'I will be a militant to fight them now' "I would say this action, and others like it, are intensifying a process that has been going on for four years of strengthening Hamas at the expense of Fatah and turning the Palestinian movement into a religious nationalist or even religious-revolutionary movement -- distancing the Palestinians from any peace process," And that is exactly the point. The more radicalized the Palestinians, the more Israel can refuse to negotiate with them, and that's all the more land that they can steal from all of those 'Palestinian terrorists'. The international community does absolutely nothing about any of it.
11-08-06 - In pictures Your views: Beit Hanoun deaths
11-08-06 - Bush urges swift probe into Israeli raid "The United States is deeply saddened by the injuries and loss of life in Gaza today. We send our condolences to the families of all those affected," Bush said in a statement released by the White House.
11-08-06 - 'I cannot see a day when we live in peace with them'
11-08-06 - Shrouded in silence As always in such cases, the Israeli Defence Army claims there was a mistake. Their shelling of the residential compound was "deflected by 500m" and hit the wrong place
11-08-06 - The blood of innocents Yesterday's victims were all civilians and mostly women and children. Their deaths will fan the flames of a conflagration in danger of getting out of control
11-08-06 - Massacre In Beit Hanoun - It's Alright, It Wasn't Intentional as B'Tselem points out, this does not excuse the IDF of responsibility. Firstly, by the IDF's own admission, the shells were not fired in self-defence. It was fired at a 'launching space' from which previous attacks had occurred and was not in response to a Palestinian rocket-attack that was in progress.
11-08-06 - Britain 'gravely disturbed' by Palestinian deaths in Gaza "I am gravely disturbed by the deaths of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in an Israeli strike on Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip,"
11-08-06 - Gush Shalom: After Gaza Atrocity
11-08-06 - World welcomes shift in U.S. politics
11-08-06 - Syria urges UN sanctions for Israel ?state terrorism? Syria called for UN sanctions against Israel for its act of ?state terrorism? after 18 Palestinians were killed, including women and children, when Israeli shells slammed into their Gaza homes on Wednesday.
11-08-06 - French UN troops 'seconds' away from firing at Israeli aircraft over Lebanon "Two seconds later there would have been a shot against the aircraft which were directly menacing our forces," ..."When Israeli aircraft recently 'dived' on French UNIFIL soldiers, it is a miracle that nothing serious happened, because there could have been a response on the part of French troops," Here these UN troops are, attempting to alleviate the situation on behalf of Israel, and this is the thanks that they get (and that includes the fact that Israel fired on German ships). Ingrates.
11-08-06 - Israeli group demands inquiry into attack Some of the casualties were hit by secondary shellfire as they left their beds to survey the scene of the initial explosions.
11-08-06 - We overcame our fear But as though this occupation and collective punishment were not enough, we Palestinians find ourselves the targets of a systematic siege imposed by the so-called free world. We are being starved and suffocated as a punishment for daring to exercise our democratic right to choose who rules and represents us. Nothing
11-08-06 - Study: 57 unarmed Palestinian minors killed by IDF since June
11-08-06 - U.N. Calls Meeting on Israeli Offensive Qatar, the only Arab nation on the Security Council, had asked for an emergency council meeting Monday on the Israeli offensive along the northern Gaza border. Israel says the offensive is aimed at halting Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli communities near the coastal strip. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Qatar's request was discussed by the council on Tuesday "and there was no support for it."
11-08-06 - Security Council to hear Gaza shelling concerns But the US, Israel's closest ally and one of five permanent council members with veto power, typically opposes council intervention in the Middle East conflict.
11-08-06 - Gaza attack threatens Palestinian unity talks
11-08-06 - Eyewitness: Gaza bloodshed Yesterday they killed my aunt. She lives in eastern Jabaliya camp (near Beit Hanoun). She was cleaning inside her home when a shell hit the room she was in. She died instantly.
11-08-06 - Rice expresses sorrow to Abbas over Gaza deaths: spokesman
11-08-06 - Islamic body says Israel's Gaza attack a war crime The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, accused Israel of war crimes on Wednesday after Palestinians said 18 civilians were killed in an attack on Gaza.
11-08-06 - The Killing of Civilians in Beit Hanun is a War Crime
11-08-06 - Nation on highest alert with 80 attack warnings All of the Palestinian factions, with no exceptions, threatened terror attacks to avenge the lethal strike.
11-08-06 - Israel: Respect civilian lives in Gaza Strip
11-08-06 - Violent spell rivals worst times for Palestinian children
11-08-06 - Amnesty International delegate visits scene of Gaza Strip killings The organization called for an immediate, independent investigation and for those responsible to be held accountable. It said previous Israeli investigations, such as that carried out into the killings of a Palestinian family on a beach in the Gaza Strip last June, had been seriously inadequate and failed to meet international standards for such investigations, which must be independent, impartial and thorough.
11-08-06 - Running as independent, Lieberman overcomes primary loss to keep seat The Jewish vote, which was widely believed to hinge on whether support for Israel was a voter's principle issue, went to Lieberman, as had significant financial support from pro-Israel factors across the country.
11-08-06 - Riding Jewish support and opposition to war, Klein takes close Florida race In the weeks leading up to the elections, the Republican Jewish Coalition had placed full-page advertisements in local Jewish newspapers urging voters to look out for Israeli security first
11-08-06 - New leadership in the House could breathe life into Jewish domestic concerns Jewish groups have also established strong ties with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the frontrunner for majority leader, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a Jewish lawmaker who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and is now considered a shoo-in for a leadership position. Hoyer is close to Howard Friedman, the Baltimore-based president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and is considered one of Israel's best and most influential friends on Capitol Hill. Hoyer makes it a point to educate freshmen lawmakers about Israel issues and he has led delegations to the Jewish state multiple times. He prides himself on making Israel a bipartisan issue, vetting proposed legislation with his GOP counterpart, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri.
11-08-06 - Pelosi's support for Israel is heartfelt, supporters say With Pelosi as speaker, Jewish activists and officials are confident that the U.S. Congress will remain strongly pro-Israel...... At an AIPAC members luncheon in San Francisco right after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Pelosi was speaking when an alarm sounded.
"Everybody started getting nervous, scrambling toward the door," Lauter recalled. One person, though, was reading the words of Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, above the din. It was Pelosi. True patriots beware.
11-08-06 - Santorum concedes defeat
11-08-06 - Pelosi slated for speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is close to national Jewish leaders, is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
11-08-06 - Lieberman retains his seat He had drawn significant pro-Israel funds, and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
11-08-06 - Jerusalem mayor mobbed A fervently Orthodox mob opposed to the upcoming Jerusalem gay pride parade tried to attack the city?s mayor.
11-08-06 - Fit to Print - The top censored news stories of 2005-2006 Halliburton and Iran , World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
11-08-06 - Arabs react to U.S. election results ** "Israelis perceive the Iranian threat as imminent," said Prof. Menahem Blondheim of Hebrew University. "Without political support at home and in his party and among American public, a decisive military or diplomatic move against Iran seems less and less likely."
11-08-06 - Boston area voters refuse ballot call for divestment from Israel The questions asked voters whether the district's representative in the state legislature should be called on to back divestment from Israel bond holdings and the Palestinian right of return should they come up for a vote in the State House. On the former, residents voted 70 percent to 30% against, also defeating the latter 55-45.
The divestment group tried like hell, and that's more than most. My hat's off to them.
11-08-06 - Protecting Palestinian females: HRW misses the mark The level of "research" carried out by HRW for this study is laughably inadequate, and certainly nowhere near sufficient to have propelled the study into so many of the august tribunes of the western MSM HRW has become a tool of Israel.
11-08-06 - New Delhi prevents Zionist "rescue campaign" the Indians automatically were eligible to become citizens of Israel under the Zionist "Right-of-Return"-law and the Jewish Agency in Israel had already prepared for the settlement of the new immigrants in Carmiel and Nazareth, where they were destined to boost the Jewish presence in an Arab Palestinian environment. The US-based Friendship Fund of the Evangelical Christians, who funded the project of mass immigration of allegedly Indian Jews to Israel, had prepared for a spectacular mass-media covering of the organized departure of the group from India on 12th November and of the celebrations planned to greet their arrival in Israel
11-08-06 - Taibeh architect to design Palestinian culture museum The Umm al-Fahm museum will be the first of its kind in Israel, and will be broader in scope than the contemporary art gallery
11-08-06 - Something's rotten in Israel Latest drop in global corruption index yet another warning sign
11-08-06 - Upgrade of Palestinian bureau to embassy?
11-08-06 - Israel Wins at the Polls .S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who drew strong pro-Israel opposition, was projected to lose his bid for re-election to Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse
drew funding from the pro-Israel community. Chafee, the chairman of the Senate's Middle East subcommittee, was strongly critical of Israel's settlement policy and recently blocked the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador to protest a planned settlement expansion
11-08-06 - Large Hebron sympathy protest turns into dangerous confrontation with Israeli
11-08-06 - Galilee archbishop scheduled as guest
11-08-06 - DM Peretz Seeking a True Peace Partner Peretz made his comments as part of statements relating to the Wednesday morning artillery mishap in the Beit Hanoun area of Gaza that claimed the lives of 18 PA (Palestinian Authority) residents.
He's joking, right?
11-08-06 - Israelis divided over Gaza attack
11-08-06 - Dershowitz to Discuss Israel at UCLA Dershowitz has repeatedly defended the actions of the Israeli military against accusations of human rights violations Good luck with it.
11-08-06 - Jewish Democrats win big, both as candidates and as voters Pro-Israel money was also a factor in Rhode Island, where Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the Republican chairman of the Senate's Middle East subcommittee, was projected to lose to Sheldon Whitehouse. Chafee was a tough critic of Israel's settlement policy, and blocked the nomination of John Bolton - who is very friendly to Israel - as ambassador to the United Nations to protest a planned settlement expansion. Pro-Israel contributors boosted Whitehouse's bid. They also helped Brad Ellsworth, a Democrat, defeat U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.). Hostettler was a social conservative who was cool on Israel. The United States of Israel .
11-07-06 - Israel pulls out of Gaza town, eight Palestinians killed A woman, Nahla Shanti, and Abdel Majid Ghirbawi were killed when a shell struck the home of Hamas lawmaker Jamileh al-Shanti where the two were staying.
11-07-06 - Israeli army blasts home of Hamas MP
11-07-06 - Female suicide bomber in Gaza attacks Israeli troops An 18-year-old Palestinian woman strode defiantly toward an Israeli army checkpoint and blew herself up Monday, slightly wounding a soldier in the latest act of resistance among women to the occupation of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun
11-07-06 - Beit Hanoun: Israelis pull out leaving trail of death
11-07-06 - Gaza: UN agency reports significant damage in Beit Hanoun after Israeli withdrawal ?We have seen an extraordinary number of children being killed just in the last five days,? UNICEF Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dan Rohrmann said. ?There are tanks everywhere, shelling, house demolitions and there is fighting in the streets. People are getting quite desperate. The children are terrified by everything going on, including seeing family members being taken away.?
11-07-06 - Abbas wants Hamas to give up soldier
11-07-06 - Border cops charged with beating Palestinian in Old City They then allegedly took him into an alley near the Jewish Quarter and ordered him to stand with his face to the wall with his legs spread. One of the policemen then reportedly held his neck while the other two began to kick and beat him.
11-07-06 - Resident injured by settler fire in Hebron Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that one resident was shot and injured after a settler from the Keryat Arba' settlement, east of Hebron, opened fire at him when he was standing near the settlement fence.
11-07-06 - Abbas hopes for Palestinian cabinet deal 'in days' Stoere said Israel's actions in the impoverished territory, destroying homes, schools, mosques and other civilian infrstructure, were illegal, unacceptable and disproportionate.
11-07-06 - Gaza militants carry out deepest rocket strike in months The four rockets did not cause any injuries or damage, but marked the first time since July that rockets fired by Gaza militants reached the city of 120,000, the army said Tuesday
11-07-06 - Hebron Update: 29 October to 4 November 2006 In the morning while on the roof with a tour group Ozanne saw four soldiers
surround a Palestinian boy at the end of the street. She saw them push the boy
slightly and then grab him by the neck
11-07-06 - Israel Declares End to Gaza Mission, but Firing Continues "We fire rockets to respond to what Israel is doing to our people," said Ibrahim Seweil, Yousef Seweil's brother, a policeman who said he was arrested during the operation and whose son was arrested, and let go, four times. "We are not sheep they can just slaughter."
11-07-06 - Withdrawal around Ghajar Israeli forces withdrew from areas around a village straddling Israel?s border with Lebanon.
11-07-06 - WJC meets with Chinese president The two met Tuesday to discuss international affairs, including the Iranian threat to Israel and the rest of the world.
11-07-06 - Lieberman projected to win Lieberman had drawn significant pro-Israel funds and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
11-07-06 - Olmert seeks Lebanon talks "Two senior world leaders are working at my behest to try to create the conditions for my meeting Siniora, and I am personally in touch with them."
11-07-06 - West Bank outpost residents handed eviction notices
11-07-06 - Jews favor Democrats as number of Jewish senators jumps Deadlock between Congress and the White House "will influence domestic policy, immigration, health care, taxes, social policies, the Supreme Court," said Daniel Ayalon, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to Washington. "It won't influence foreign policy, with the possible exception of Iraq. For sure, not the U.S.-Israel relationship."
11-07-06 - Wolfensohn: US may lose interest in Israel Not if the Israeli lobby can help it.
11-07-06 - US diplomat: Israel won?t attack Iran The official further stated that he did not believe Israel would attack Iran?s nuclear facilities, as 'Israel has repeatedly stated that this is an international problem and such an attack would make it an Israeli one.' Right. They won't attack if they can get somebody else (namely us) to do it for them.
11-07-06 - UN humanitarian chief calls for freeze on use of cluster bombs The United Nations said the density of unexploded cluster munitions in Lebanon was higher than those found after conflicts in Kosovo and Iraq which had already caused alarm among humanitarian agencies. The unexploded ordinance is a "constant threat" to 200,000 refugees and internally displaced people in Lebanon as well as for hundreds of thousands of people returning to their homes and for humanitarian and reconstruction workers, it added.
11-07-06 - UN says it found no evidence of uranium-based munitions in Lebanon The investigation confirmed that Israel had used artillery and mortar ammunition containing white phosphorus, the statement said
11-07-06 - ISRAEL: Unexploded Hezbollah rockets pose risk (Still) trying to one-up Lebanon's victim status with regard to the cluster bombs, are we? Please.
11-07-06 - A brutal taste of the future The assault on Beit Hanoun is a terrifying example of what lies in store for Palestinians
11-07-06 - FEATURE-Jordan dynasty bolsters religious role in Jerusalem
11-07-06 - Cabinet to review Peace Valley project
11-07-06 - Ethiopia: AU blasts Israel for attacking Palestine
11-07-06 - Deal signed for Jordan to supply Jericho's electricity
11-07-06 - Palestinian women held on suspicion of transfering Jihad funds to activists
11-07-06 - Former Israeli PM speaks out on Iraq Speaking at Indiana University recently, Ehud Barak cited Iraq's deterioration into civil war, adding: "The U.S. presence is more and more a part of the problem and not the solution," according to CampusJ.com.
11-07-06 - Gaza students traumatized by fighting, says parish priest
11-07-06 - US official: Israel won't bomb Iran "I do not see that Israel is going to do something like that. ... In all our conversations, thus far, Israel has stressed that this is an international problem. Israel does not want to make it an Israeli problem. Israel is committed to the political approach that the international community it taking,' .....The US official said the text of UN sanctions against Iran would be discussed with Olmert when the Israeli leader met with the US President George Bush in Washington next Monday The last sentence tells you who is really running the show, folks.
11-07-06 - Blair sets term for Palestinian talks
11-07-06 - Hamas: West told Abbas boycott will end once coalition formed
11-07-06 - Dear Mr. Secretary We have a duty to see to it that justice is served when it comes to crimes committed against our own. What if it were YOUR brother, or father, uncle, grandfather, or son? These guys have a right to have their day in court. We owe them that much in the very least.
11-07-06 - South Africa trade union: Hizbullah fighters heroic
11-07-06 - Divorce in Israel: Men get the final word What, no HRW report for this?
11-07-06 - Rice: Better to have Hamas in gov't than armed on the streets
11-07-06 - Has America ?lost? the Middle East? What then should the US do to regain trust and credibility? It should perhaps begin by recognising its many mistakes. Perhaps the greatest mistake over the past 25 years was to allow Israel to expand its colonies on occupied Palestinian territories.
Among other things.
11-07-06 - Pope in Gaza Peace Plea His call for an end to the bloodshed came after the Israeli forces killed some 47 Palestinians in the previous week including a four-year-old child, a 12-year-old boy, two teenagers, a 70-year-old man, some women and at least 25 militants, while one Israeli soldier was killed.
11-06-06 - Teenager killed as missile explodes near school bus A PALESTINIAN teacher was critically injured and one teenager killed when an Israeli missile aimed at suspected rocket launchers landed near a school bus in Gaza yesterday. 'human shields' - everywhere Israel needs them to be.
11-06-06 - Gaza death toll from Israel blitz tops 50 Student Mahmud Ashrafi was killed and nine other Palestinians, two of them five-year-olds, wounded when an Israeli aircraft fired a missile on the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, a medical source said.
11-06-06 - Female suicide bomber attacks Israeli troops in Gaza A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up near Israeli troops on Monday in a Gaza town where Israeli forces had killed two women acting as human shields for militants
11-06-06 - Palestinians: Israel army ends Autumn Clouds operation in Gaza Meanwhile, Palestinian hospital sources said on Monday evening that bodies of two militants were found near Gaza-Israel border in eastern Gaza Strip while the Israeli military operation continued.
11-06-06 - Palestinians gripped by fear in Gaza
11-06-06 - Envoy calls for cease-fire in Gaza Strip The Palestinian observer to the United Nations on Monday called for a mutual cease-fire to end an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 50 Palestinians in the last six days.
11-06-06 - In pictures: Gaza offensive
11-06-06 - Teachers strike to be suspended Saturday
11-06-06 - ICRC "appalled" at Palestinian paramedic deaths
11-06-06 - Erekat calls for mutual truce between Israel, Palestinians
11-06-06 - Renewed violence in Gaza raises serious concerns for children's safety "We have seen an extraordinary number of children being killed just in the last five days. There are tanks everywhere, shelling, house demolitions and there is fighting in the streets. People are getting quite desperate. "The children are terrified by everything going on, including seeing family members being taken away,"
11-06-06 - International Red Cross says Israeli forces hit clearly marked ambulance workers "The ICRC is appalled by this failure to protect personnel engaged in emergency medical duties," a statement said. "The individuals concerned and their means of transport were clearly marked with a distinctive emblem conferring the protection of the Geneva Conventions" on the conduct of warfare.
11-06-06 - Girl Power
11-06-06 - For Gaza students, security steps limit access to West Bank schools Read between the lines with regard to this policy.
11-06-06 - Seeking Iraq exit strategy, U.S. pushes Israel toward peace talks former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, who has been working on the exit strategy, is expected to make proposals soon for a renewal of talks on both the Syrian and Palestinian tracks......In advance of the Bush-Olmert meeting, U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte came to Israel in early November to discuss ways of weakening Iran's fundamentalist regime. Negroponte reportedly was particularly interested in Israeli assessments of the degree to which disaffected minorities in Iran could destabilize the mullahs' rule.
Israel and the United States see Iran as the major threat to their security in coming years, and Olmert will use his meeting with Bush to exchange assessments and coordinate future moves. Israeli officials note that although both sides prefer a diplomatic solution, neither is ruling out a military option.
You have to get to the last few paragraphs to get to the real reason for the sudden moves toward 'peace': the upcoming attack on Iran that Israel is pushing for. For, this is the very same sequence of events that happened in/around the runup to the Iraq war. Same sh%t, different year.
11-06-06 - Injuries in Lebanon revive bid to ban cluster bombs According to the UN, Israel dropped 90 percent of the cluster bombs in the last 72 hours of the war - when all parties knew a cease-fire was imminent.....The UN says Israel has not provided vital information that would speed up clearance and south Lebanon's safety and recovery. "We have been asking for the grid references and how many were dropped, but we still haven't received them,"
11-06-06 - Slow start to Palestinian talks Although there has been talk that the two sides are close to agreement, the BBC correspondent in Gaza says these discussions did not go well.
11-06-06 - Abuse of women still rife in Palestinian life, says study published today by Human Rights Watch (HRW HRW firing out reports left and right, desperate to put some blame on Israel's enemies (note the timing of this report).
11-06-06 - Israel: Divorce America, Marry Russia There used to be a time when Israel had no other "superpower partner" to align herself with other than the US.
Today, that is not the case. Although few Israelis realize it, Israel has strategic options that it didn't have 15 years ago. In many respects, Russia is a much more suitable partner for Israel than the US. Their audacity reaches new levels. They've soaked the American bloke and now it's time to move on to the next one.
11-06-06 - Israel gearing up for second war with Hezbollah "We will do everything now to prevent Hezbollah from coming back and sitting on the border."
11-06-06 - Red Cross calls for end to cluster bombs Philip Spoerri, director of international law for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said countries needed urgently to address the bombs, which were used by Israel against Lebanon during fighting in July and August. Spoerri said innocent Lebanese continue to be killed by the bombs every week.
11-06-06 - Iran ready to share missile systems with others:TV "Tehran also considers this as its duty to help friendly countries which are exposed to invasion of the Zionist regime ( Israel)," Sheibani was quoted saying, in response to what he said was a request by Lebanon's army commander, General Michel Suleiman, for help from friendly states.
11-06-06 - Israeli cabinet minister calls for Arab-free Israel
11-06-06 - Blair says Britain will talk with Hamas-led government if it meets international demands
11-06-06 - PRC rescinds threat on Shalit's life
11-06-06 - International Federation mourns loss of two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics
11-06-06 - Syria predicts relaunch of peace process in 2007 "If they are planning to start a war in 2007, we, for our part, believe the peace process will be relaunched in 2007,"
11-06-06 - IDF girds for possibility of war with Syria, Hezbollah in 2007 A decision in Washington to withdraw the majority of its forces from Iraq will contribute to this atmosphere and will necessitate concentrating on the possibility that Iraq may become part of an eastern front comprising Iran and Syria. Trying to get us to stay in Iraq, perhaps?
11-06-06 - Let us export hope, not fear, former US adviser urges In a further criticism of the Bush Administration's foreign policy, Mr Armitage described as "inexplicable" the US's support of Israel's six-week-long bombing of Lebanon in July and August this year. He said while it was understandable Israel wanted to retrieve its soldiers and make Hezbollah pay a price, it was inexplicable that the US would "hold their coat for them and let them do it".
11-06-06 - Through its participation in Expotech 2006 The Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI) to announce new projects and partnerships
11-06-06 - Israel confiscates Bedouin Arab village to build Air Force Base, says
11-06-06 - 19 detained in Ethiopian rally in Jerusalem
11-06-06 - Palestinians protest Saddam death sentence, threaten reprisals against foreigners Under Saddam's rule Iraq donated $25,000 per household for Jenin residents to rebuild homes destroyed in a 2002 Israeli military offensive there.
11-06-06 - Palestinian FM urges Arab states to help end Israel offensive
11-06-06 - Bush, Olmert to meet at White House November 13 Last month, Olmert said he would meet with Bush in November to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions. "The international community should prevent Iran from getting nuclear arms," he said on October 16.
11-06-06 - Hezbollah says UN envoy has 'dangerous, suspicious role' 'This is not the first time Terje Lord-Larsen carries out a dangerous, suspicious role that serves the goals of the Israeli enemy and the United States which contradicts his diplomatic mission and puts quesion marks on the role of the United Nations,'
11-06-06 - Lieberman, Peretz denounce Palestinian threats to kill Shalit If anything happens to abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, "we will have to add Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian Interior Minister Said Siyam to the list of martyrs," new minister Avigdor Lieberman said at yesterday's cabinet meeting.
11-06-06 - Peace talk During his talk, Safieh stressed the importance of U.S. relations with Palestinians, both at home and abroad, and urged U.S. administration to follow a policy of ?nonalignment? toward regional conflicts.
11-06-06 - Slide show chronicles conflict
11-06-06 - Arabic sounds at Zellerbach
11-06-06 - Sudan condemns Israeli practices in occupied territories
11-06-06 - 10 arrested as Orthodox protest gay march
11-06-06 - MP backing musicians in visa wrangle The Scottish Palestinian Forum has undertaken to cover their expenses and claim the group have spent all their savings surviving since the UK and European Union stopped supporting the Palestinian territories in the wake of the Hamas election victory
11-06-06 - Vatican to U.N. on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
11-06-06 - The Case for a Larger Israel Totally disgusting case for the disregard of international law by a supporter of 'Greater Israel'. Israel took this land by force which is inadmissible under international law. No amount of spinning, cajoling, or manipulating is going to change that fact.
11-06-06 - Jewish group calls for end to attack ads against Democrat Jim Davis
11-06-06 - You exist if the Israeli computer says so
11-05-06 - Offensive claims more victims Fatma Zahan, 80, a Palestinian, died five days after being wounded by Israeli army fire, medics said.
11-05-06 - Three killed in Gaza as Israel vows to press assault
11-05-06 - Olmert to press on with Gaza offensive
11-05-06 - Gaza militants warn Israel operation risking kidnapped soldier's life "We have no intention of killing the prisoner Gilad Shalit, but the Israeli air raids are risking killing him,"
11-05-06 - Dead in the street: women who were called out to shield Lying in hospital with a dressing to a shrapnel wound on her forehead, Elham Hamad, 45, said that Israeli tanks opened fire on her group even though they did not get within 300m of the mosque. Don't think they would do such a thing? They shoot kids from tanks. And film makers, among others.
11-05-06 - Palestinian students lack funds when they need them most The European Union, which last year provided the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) with a $1.1 million grant for university scholarships as a one-time offer, has declined to renew its donation this year
11-05-06 - Iran ready to supply Lebanon with anti-aircraft arms
11-05-06 - Without Return, Final Status will not succeed
11-05-06 - FEATURE-Cash-strapped Palestinians bank on rich olive crop
11-05-06 - Foreign Ministry wants to talk to PA, but bypass Hamas
11-05-06 - Turkey Calls On Israel To Halt Operations In Gaza
11-05-06 - Pope appeals for peace in Gaza After reciting the Marian prayer, the pope talked about the tragic situation in Gaza, voicing the "vivid concern" with which he is following news about the "grave deterioration of the situation". Benedict XVI expressed "nearness to civilian people who are suffering the consequences of acts of violence."
11-05-06 - 7 Qassam rockets fired at Israel
11-05-06 - Hanging onto hope in Gaza In Gaza, where the situation is particularly dire, the MECC is focusing on providing assistance in purchasing basic food items for some 7,000 families, emergency health intervention - free health care or free medicine--for about 76,000 people, and vocational training for 187 people.
11-05-06 - Hamas agrees in principle to form national unity gov't: PLO
11-05-06 - Another Hamas Peace Plan Ignored This whole scenario has been played out before. Back in June Hamas leaders offered a hudna. On the same day, the Israelis began the renewed military action in Gaza which continues to this very day. Israeli leaders surely understood then what they still know now. Their policy has an absolutely predictable outcome. The angry Palestinian public will reject its own leaders' plans for peace.
11-05-06 - Grossman expresses his despair at Israel's 'hollow' leadership he urged Mr Olmert to appeal to the Palestinian people over the heads of their elected leaders. "Appeal to the moderates among them, those who are opposed like you and me to Hamas and its path," Mr Grossman said."Speak to their deep wound, recognise their suffering ... Just for once, look at them not only through the sights of a gun and not beyond the closed barrier. You will see there a people that are tormented no less than we are, an occupied and oppressed and hopeless people. Look at the overwhelming majority of that miserable people, whose fate is linked to ours, whether we want it or not."
11-05-06 - Israel hardliner in new controversy over copy Cyprus plan Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman has sparked new controversy by calling for the Jewish state to copy the division of Cyprus to deal with the "problem" of its large Arab minority.
11-05-06 - Nonviolent demonstrations throughout West Bank in protest of Israeli attacks on medical crews
11-05-06 - At the corner barbershop, Palestinians debate their future
11-05-06 - Settler celebration prevents West Bank farmers from harvesting olives Some twenty Israeli volunteers and 100 farmers from the village tried to approach the groves but were denied access.
11-05-06 - Car bomb goes off near Beirut barracks
11-05-06 - Cheers and jeers as Mideast torn over Saddam verdict
11-05-06 - Hamas lawmaker says Haniyeh will not head new govt
11-05-06 - Arab parliament calls for Israel's immediate release of Palestinian prisoners The Damascus-based Arab Interim Parliament on Saturday called for an immediate release of detained Palestinian officials and civilians from the Israeli jails, Syria's official SANA news agency reported.
11-05-06 - Holy See Insists on 2-State Solution in Mideast "In light, too, of the numerous incidents of violence and challenges to free movement posed by the Security Wall," he added, "the Holy See renews its support for internationally guaranteed provisions to ensure the freedom of religion and of conscience of its inhabitants, as well as permanent, free and unhindered access to the holy places by the faithful of all religions and nationalities."
11-05-06 - Israel to align with Fatah as border strike tactics fail
11-05-06 - Lieberman: Target PA Leader If Shalit Is Harmed
11-05-06 - Beit Hanoun women inspiring West Bank
11-05-06 - President Receives Phone Call from Norwegian FM President Mahmoud Abbas received on Sunday a phone call from Norwegian Foreign Minister, Mr. Jonas Gahr Store
11-05-06 - EU deplores civilian deaths in Israel's Gaza assault "The right of all states to defend themselves does not justify disproportionate use of violence or actions which are contrary to international humanitarian law."
11-05-06 - Israel stays silent on Saddam "We prefer not to state our position on the matter, which could be used by the rebels in Iraq who are attempting to drag Israel into the conflict there,"
11-05-06 - Voting Your Conscience It is time for those who are committed to Israel's security and right to flourish to base their choices on November 7 on who will be best for Israel. This must be paramount, even though other issues should concern us, too.
11-05-06 - Kentucky notes: GOP, Israel, Dirt In recent weeks a debate has been heating up among the movers and shakers of the Jewish community over a key question: Who's better for Israel - the Republicans or the Democrats? Things reached such a point that, on Wednesday, the main pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, had to address the subject and issued a decisive announcement: They're both good, the Republicans and the Democrats. No kidding? Next we'll hear that both grizzly bears AND black bears sh@t in the woods. Will wonders never cease?...
11-05-06 - DePaul professor says facts support his controversial view of Israeli-Palestinian conflict Finkelstein will speak here Wednesday at noon at UW-Parkside on the misuse of anti-Semitism, which is part of the title of his latest book
11-05-06 - Lonely Palestinian giraffe seeks single spotted male Some 20 animals in the Qalqilya Zoo have been caught in the crossfire of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Among the more tragic losses, three zebras suffocated to death after tear gas cartridges landed in their cage
11-05-06 - Our view:Andover made right choice on Wheels of Justice Isn't it strange how we don't hear these howls for 'balance' when in fact it IS the Israeli side that is being presented at school (in the media, in politics, etc etc etc)? Because it is what happens the MAJORITY of the time in America. Palestinians don't get the 'balance' that Israel does in this country. Hypocrisy.
11-05-06 - Violence from ultra-orthodox Jews may halt gay march in Jerusalem Last night gangs of ultra-Orthodox Jews threw stones at buses in the town of Bet Shemesh because men and women were not separated on board. Ultra-Orthodox residents in the area want buses where men sit in the front and women at the back and the radio does not play
11-05-06 - PLO head in Boulder to discuss Mideast
11-05-06 - Crist, Davis dart across state, make final pitches to voters Davis said. "I've been standing up for peace and security in Israel and Charlie Crist has done nothing." I pledge allegiance to the flag of..
11-04-06 - Israeli military offensive kills nine in Gaza During the brief respite the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, delivered water, food and other basic aid to the town, as its Gaza director John Ging called the situation there "desperate". "Death, destruction and despair are the terms to describe the situation," Ging told reporters
11-04-06 - Israeli offensive kills Palestinian child and teen in northern Gaza A 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy were killed on Saturday night by Israeli gunfire during its ground and air military offensive "Autumn Clouds" in northern Gaza Strip, medics said.
11-04-06 - Resident killed in Beit Hanoun, death toll rises to 49 since Wednesday
11-04-06 - 42 Palestinians killed in Israeli operation since Wednesday
11-04-06 - Abbas urges UN Security Council to convene and discuss situation in Gaza
11-04-06 - Annan 'deeply concerned' at escalating violence in Gaza
11-04-06 - Are Israelis gearing up to bomb Iran?
11-04-06 - Israel Discount Bank to pay $12M in probe The New York State Banking Department said that the bank processed $35.4 billion in suspect wire transfers from March 2004 to March 2005. A large number of the 181,000 wire transfers showed patterns, like moving large amounts of funds through high risk countries, that are often associated with money laundering, according to court records.
11-04-06 - Wall and Restrictions Divide Jerusalem Area Christians from Their Faith and Life Zoughbi hasn't been able to go to his church in Jerusalem for 6 years. Not for Easter, not for weddings, not for funerals, not for baptisms and not for Sunday services. He used to be a member of the English-speaking congregation of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. But it's hard to be a member if you can't get there.
11-04-06 - Who's Targeting Iran ? and Why? So, even if Iran is telling the truth ? Iran says, 'We have no nuclear weapons program. We just want peaceful nuclear energy'? Israel says, 'So long as Iran has any enrichment capability, this constitutes a threat to Israel,' and they are pressuring the United States to take forceful action."
11-04-06 - Israel urges world action after Iran missile test Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz urged the world to act after Iran claimed to have fired longer-range ballistic missiles for the first time, the defence ministry said.
11-04-06 - Beit Hanoun - a resident's account
11-04-06 - Moussa condemns Israeli offensive in northern Gaza
11-04-06 - The Demographic and Economic War against Palestinians In addition to Israel's policy of denial of entry/reentry, decades of restrictions, rejection and freeze on family reunification applications, home demolitions and land confiscation for settlement expansion and the construction of the separation wall, one major factor pushing Palestinians to leave is the economic embargo.
11-04-06 - Jordan opposition parties protest Israeli "massacre" in Gaza
11-04-06 - Germany says Israel not respecting Lebanon airspace "That Israel is still trying to control the airspace over Lebanon despite the international presence of French, Italian and other soldiers, runs contrary to every agreement," Gernot Erler told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
11-04-06 - Israel conditionally allows Palestinian forces' entry into Gaza from Jordan
11-04-06 - Iraqi-Palestinian refugees to find haven in Canada
11-04-06 - Jordan foils attempt to smuggle arms into West Bank
11-04-06 - West Bank youth launch cell phone solidarity campaign They are sending text messages via mobile phone carrying phrases of support to the besieged northern Gaza Strip town.
11-04-06 - US State Dept. defends Israeli action in Gaza The rot is everywhere at the top.
11-04-06 - Activists: Security forces fired live ammo at anti-fence protest
11-04-06 - UN calls for end to Israeli flights over Lebanon The United Nations has given a positive assessment of the situation in south Lebanon almost three months after the Israel-Hezbollah war except for continued Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace.
11-04-06 - Hardline Muslims protest Bush visit "Bush should not come to Indonesia," shouted Muhammad Ismail Yusanto, saying Bush was responsible for the violence in the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Afghanistan.
11-04-06 - Jews and Arabs can never live together, says Israel's vice PM When Avigdor Lieberman, a populist Israeli politician frequently compared to Austria's Jörg Haider and France's Jean-Marie le Pen, proposed to bus thousands of Palestinians to the Dead Sea and drown them there, he was just a fringe member of government. As for the title of the article : they actually did, not just in Palestine, but in other Arab countries. That is, until the advent of Zionism. Why is that? What happened?. The more racist and 'hawkish' a politician is in Israel, the more they love him. That's the kicker.
11-04-06 - Palestine's Many Faces of death
11-04-06 - Poll: Bush policy threatens world peace Conversely, only 9 percent of the Israeli respondents found that Bush represented a danger to the world, while Iran's leader drew 81 percent of those polled in Israel. A few years back, a poll in Europe found that the majority of Europeans saw Israel as the threat to world peace. Now the world sees it as Bush. It's not a coincidence given that, and that the Bush administration is doing Israel's bidding in the ME, and that only 9 percent of Israel's think he's a danger. See the pattern.
11-04-06 - Somerville ballot tricks This is a dreadful idea too. The return of the 1948 refugees and their descendants, about 3 million people, would swamp the Jewish state. Those who support this proposal surely know that. This is an editorial from the Boston Herald deciding that the Palestinians' right of return should not be allowed, despite the fact that it is based on international law.
11-04-06 - Palestinian couple looks to new life in S. Florida with son, family PALESTINIAN COUPLE FROM LEBANON FIND HAVEN FROM MIDEAST CONFLICT, START NEW LIFE WITH THEIR SON, HIS WIFE AND BABY
11-04-06 - Dutch hiphop artists visit Israel and Palestine
11-03-06 - Israeli troops open fire on women outside mosque This incident reminds me of this 2002 video made by Orla Guerin of the BBC. It shows Israeli tanks opening fire on the crowd of peaceful international protestors. One of the tanks then chases Guerin down an alley.
11-03-06 - Israeli troops fire on women in mosque siege Two boys, one aged 15, the other 16, were also among the crowd and were injured, both in the lower leg. A Palestinian cameraman was also shot in the chest and was seriously ill in hospital.
11-03-06 - Israeli "Cloud of Autumn" operation expands, 23 killed Local residents also said that Israeli snipers shot dead on Friday morning two Palestinian teens, residents of the town, and wounded five others
11-03-06 - More Palestinian deaths reported in Gaza late Friday At least another nine deaths were reported during clashes and air attacks in Palestinian territory late Friday evening, including two paramedics
11-03-06 - Reuters video-Gaza women shot They were on the streets to demand the release of 60 Palestinian gunmen holed up inside a mosque.
11-03-06 - Gaza women killed in mosque siege One of the women told the BBC they had dressed the militants in women's clothes to help them escape.
The Israeli military said the women were used as "human shields" and that there had been armed men in the crowd.
Which is why they were shot as they were marching TO the mosque (ie, TOWARDS the tank and mosque, not away)? Mmmm k. And I didn't see any men in that Reuters footage. That bit sounds like a load of baloney.
11-03-06 - Israeli air strike kills 4 Hamas men in Gaza - source An Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Friday killed four members of a Palestinian police force headed by Hamas
11-03-06 - Palestinians carry a wounded youth after he was shot by Israeli troops at Beit Hanoun
11-03-06 - Palestinian cameraman badly wounded by Israeli army gunfire in north of Gaza strip Reporters Without Borders accused the Israeli government of indifference to repeated acts of violence by its troops against journalists after a young Palestinian cameraman sustained serious gunshot wounds today in Beit Hanun
11-03-06 - Palestinian journalist Hamza al-Atar is carried to hospital after he was wounded by Israeli troops at the entrance of Beit Hanoun
11-03-06 - Before shooting
11-03-06 - Before shooting (?)
11-03-06 - A doctor treats a Palestinian boy who was injured by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Hanoun Look at him
11-03-06 - A wounded Palestinian woman lies on the ground as others run for cover after an Israeli tank opened fire at them at Beit Hanoun
11-03-06 - Palestinian minister arrested by Israeli troops The Palestinian public works and housing minister in the Hamas-led government was arrested by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
11-03-06 - Palestinian leader urges US to stop Israeli Gaza incursion But Washington, Israel's most powerful ally, said that Israel's actions in Gaza were a matter of "self-defence."
11-03-06 - Palestinian man kidnapped, beaten, and later released from Israeli army base
11-03-06 - Official: Israel ignoring U.S. plan to leave Iraq "I am very fearful," said a senior official in Jerusalem. "The American withdrawal from Iraq will have a very severe impact on us, unless developments take place that are not currently visible on the ground."
The official said the pullout could lead to two negative outcomes for Israel - the emergence of a terrorist entity with ties to Iran, and American hesitation to send troops to the Middle East.
American GIs being used as human shields for Israel.
11-03-06 - Number of dead in Gaza reaching historic levels
11-03-06 - US dissatisfied with Israeli flights over Beirut: Israel US officials "expressed their dissatisfaction on Thursday," during telephone conversations with senior Israeli officials, the source said Friday.
11-03-06 - Gaza deaths 'self-defence', says US Disgusting.
11-03-06 - Damage controller eight members of the Shabi family were buried alive when an Israeli bulldozer knocked down their home
11-03-06 - The Neocons, Undaunted The Israelis are reportedly blackmailing us into a strike by declaring that they'll do it if we don't. And that's what this is all about. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt are quite correct in noting that Israel's American lobby is in the forefront of the "let's bomb Iran" contingent, just as they were in the case of Iraq, and Muravchik's analysis perfectly reflects the Israeli perspective. These neocons need to be neutralized, contained and then brought to justice for deliberately deceiving the American people (into supporting the Iraq war). They are at it again.
11-03-06 - Gaza civilians strain under weight of Israeli attacks "This morning they killed one of our neighbors, Diab Bassiuni, on the corner of the street. He went out to get some water and they killed him. He was 70 years old. He wasn't armed,"
11-03-06 - Gaza's pain: 'We're bored of this life and want to die'
11-03-06 - Israeli soldiers break into Bethlehem hospital
11-03-06 - Haaretz: "Activists: Security forces fired live ammo at anti-fence protest"
11-03-06 - 50-year old French man shot by Israeli army in Bil'in
11-03-06 - Gaza ? ICRC Bulletin No. 13 / 2006 Latest report on ICRC activities in the field
11-03-06 - Angry Palestinians attack police station in Hebron
11-03-06 - Israel arrests 25 Palestinians in West Bank as Gaza rocket attacks continue
11-03-06 - US demands Israeli Air Force stop flights into Lebanese airspace
11-03-06 - Synagogues, Jewish groups seek the line between legal, illegal political talk Last week JTA obtained an e-mail that Barbara Ledeen, staff director of the Senate Republican leadership, had sent to Pennsylvania representatives of Chabad-Lubavitch, or shluchim. The e-mail, dated Oct. 23, included a letter written by Rabbi Shea Hecht of Brooklyn. "At this moment, we need to show our support for Rick Santorum," Hecht wrote. "This goes beyond politics."
11-03-06 - Sharon admitted to intensive care "Sharon contracted an infection that is affecting his heart and will receive intensive treatment to combat the infection," the hospital said.
11-03-06 - Kissinger meets with Jewish leaders on Iranian threat to Israel The meeting was attended by leaders of several major U.S. Jewish organizations, including David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, AIPAC's Howard Kohr, Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League and Morley Levine from Hadassah.
11-03-06 - Bethlehem Christians flee tensions The BBC decides to blame the Muslims, when other appeals by these Christians have put the blame on Israel - whose wall (among other restrictions) is strangling Bethlehem and cutting off much-needed tourist dollars. That, along with the article alleging that there were men in the crowd of female protesters when the IDF opened fire (when there are none in either the video of said event, nor are there any in the photos), should clue you in on the BBC's spin. They won't release this report because their bias is not in favor of Palestinians (as some allege), but rather in favor of Israel.
11-03-06 - Ethiopians outraged over blood disposal
11-03-06 - Joe Lieberman's Dangerous Alliance with Christian Zionists Using his second favorite tactic -- race baiting -- Lieberman pointed to black congresswoman Maxine Waters, who abstained from voting for the Hezbollah condemnation, and Al Sharpton, who seldom speaks of Israel, but who has had tension with Jews in the past.
11-03-06 - Using Israel as political football There are some Republicans who believe that the only way to win over Jewish voters is by politicizing Israel. For them, winning an election is more important than protecting the bipartisan consensus of support which Israel has received in Congress for almost 60 years from people like Jim Davis. You want to get elected to Congress? You must bow down and grovel to Israel.
11-03-06 - Tel Aviv U. funding threatened? Issue roils tight Illinois election "Bob Schrayer calls himself pro-Israel?" the e-mail continues. "Hard to believe that he can make the claim while working to defeat the MOST pro-Israel voice on the Hill? Mark Kirk. We understand that Schrayer hates Bush? that has NOTHING to do with Mark Steven Kirk. Revenge is a dish best served cold. I know that you and Itamar would not want TAU to be sullied by his out of control actions." .....Seals told JTA he regrets that Israel has become an issue in the race. "You've got two strong pro-Israel candidates, and that's how it should be," he said
11-03-06 - 3,000 Pounds of TNT Seized in Egypt Israel has repeatedly accused Egypt of not doing enough to stop smuggling of weapons into Gaza, particularly via tunnels
11-03-06 - Rangers in dock over 'Palestinian' protester A protester, draped in a Palestinian flag and wearing a Pope John Paul II T-shirt, ran the length of the pitch and handcuffed himself to a goalpost.
11-03-06 - Hamas, Fatah condemn Israeli arrest of Hamas minister
11-03-06 - Radio presenter injured in latest attack on a Gaza radio station
11-03-06 - Germany expects no more 'incidents' off Lebanese coast The German defense ministry said last week that in two separate incidents, Israeli warplanes fired shots over a German helicopter and on an unarmed German vessel off the Lebanese coast.
11-03-06 - Tibi in Cairo: Israel committing war crimes in Gaza
11-03-06 - Territorial fragmentation of the West Bank
11-03-06 - Til the IDF do us apart Saad Banoura from Bethlehem wants to move to US with his American wife, but the IDF is making things difficult. Army won?t give Banoura permit to enter East Jerusalem so he can be interviewed for visa at US consulate. Meanwhile, his wife?s visa is about to expire
11-03-06 - 'Jews join BBC J'lem bureau' "As the debate rages on over BBC bias in its Israel coverage, two Jewish journalists were this week appointed to join the corporation's reporting team in Jerusalem," The BBC was found to have bias in FAVOR of Israel, not the opposite.
11-03-06 - Israelis criticize Egyptian border guards Lo and behold, Egyptians strike gold in the desert (see related story in this news batch).
11-03-06 - Just a wall?
11-03-06 - Israeli occupation must end,says Arab-Christian leader
11-03-06 - Georgian president visits Israel Georgia?s president expressed solidarity with Israel during a visit to the Jewish state.
11-03-06 - Christians: Here to serve Israel Yeh and when the Jews of Israel are to convert or die (in the End Times scenario of these 'Christians'), who do they expect to save them then, mm? Confucious say, man who lays down with dogs wakes up with fleas, or something like that.
11-03-06 - How to Put U.N. Rights Council Back on Track Strange that this piece by the Jewish news outfit The Forward is published on the Human Rights Watch website. HRW has fallen under the influence, as has been noted previously.
11-03-06 - The Lobby's favorite 'Palestinian terrorist' still making his rounds Ie, doing the 'Hasbara'.
11-03-06 - U.S. accused of interfering Lebanon's national unity Hezbollah on Thursday accused the United States of interfering Lebanese national unity, saying that Washington is using Lebanon to wage "war" against Syria and Iran.
11-02-06 - Israel kills 7 in Gaza, encircles gunmen Two Palestinian civilians were killed late in the day in an Israeli airstrike just outside Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. The military said it was targeting rocket squads who had fired rockets into Israel earlier. Witnesses said a missile had targeted a car carrying militants. A second missile was fired at a group of civilians who approached the car after the first blast, resulting in the two fatalities. A third civilian was critically wounded
11-02-06 - Israeli assault kills four Gaza militants, woman The woman killed was among a group of several dozen women who approached a mosque in Beit Hanoun, where around 60 gunmen are holed up by Israeli forces, in an attempt to help them flee. Witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire towards the women as they walked towards the mosque, to try to force them to turn away.......Hospital officials said a four-year-old Palestinian boy from the town was declared dead on Friday after being wounded on Thursday by a tank shell. Another child was critically wounded.
11-02-06 - Four year-old child dies of wounds suffered Wednesday, his father killed earlier On Thursday night after midnight, the Israeli army shelled with heavy artillery several house in Al Shujaeyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City
11-02-06 - Video Shows Unarmed Palestinian Shot By Israeli Occupation Forces
11-02-06 - Settlers attack Palestinians harvesting their olive trees A representative of the Israeli group, Rabbis for Human Rights?, said that the army must implement the orders of the Israeli High Court of Justice, and must enforce the law against the settlers. The Palestinian must be able to harvest their olives without being attacked by the settlers, he added.
11-02-06 - 98 percent of cluster bomb victims are civilians: report Quoting from UN figures, Simonazzi said that 1.2 to 1.6 million of the four million submunitions Israel dropped on Lebanon during the conflict have not exploded Cluster bombs that were made in the USA and given to Israel KNOWING FULL WELL what they would do with them. In the 80s, Ronald Reagan banned the sale of cluster bombs to Israel because it was using them on Lebanese civilians even THEN.
11-02-06 - Israel seeking to pressure UN with Lebanon flights Commanders want the international community to intervene actively on behalf of the two soldiers 'You will do our bidding, or else.'
11-02-06 - Who is Holding Peace Hostage? Text of a CNI Foundation ad that appeared in the New York Times on November 5th, 2006
11-02-06 - Mubarak meets Putin for talks on nuclear power, Middle East
11-02-06 - Where is the Outrage about Lieberman?
11-02-06 - The West Bank managers In the first of a series of reports from Nablus, Conal Urquhart sees the ancient city trying to restore its reputation as a centre of trade and industry
11-02-06 - Poverty-stricken Palestinians desperate to profit from West Bank olive harvest Despite a campaign of intimidation by militant Jewish settlers, confiscations of land for Israel's security barrier, and travel restrictions that make it difficult for farmers to tend their trees and move their crops, 2006 promises a bumper harvest - if only the Palestinians can market it.
11-02-06 - US accuses Syria, Iran, and Hizbullah of plotting to topple Lebanon The New York Times reports that the White House declined to offer any proof of the plot. However, US officials have said that because of the evidence, the US government feels it cannot diplomatically engage Syria or Iran, an approach advocated recently by several leading Republicans, including former Secretary of State James Baker. Read that again. The neocons in Cheney's office and the Pentagon are behind the 'evidence', no doubt. Israel-lovers can't stand James Baker.
11-02-06 - Syria, Iran dismiss U.S. accusation on Lebanon The Syrian newspaper said the United States should make public any evidence of the alleged Syrian role in efforts to topple the Lebanese government. U.S. officials say the information is classified.
Classified. Hilarious. Which neocon supplied this 'evidence'?? - is the real question.
11-02-06 - Bush tells Rush he's 'deeply concerned' about the US leaving the Middle East Bush said that he was "worried that rival forms of extremists will battle for power, obviously creating incredible damage if they do so; that they will topple modern governments, that they will be in a position to use oil as a tool to blackmail the West."
"People say, 'What do you mean by that?'" The president continued. "I say, 'If they control oil resources, then they pull oil off the market in order to run the price up, and they will do so unless we abandon Israel, for example, or unless we abandon allies.'"
11-02-06 - Iran 'sending funds to Hezbollah'
11-02-06 - Full-Page New York Times Ad: 'Congress is in Thrall to the Israel Lobby' The Council for the National Interest Foundation argues in a full-page New York Times ad scheduled to run this Sunday, Nov. 5, two days before the 2006 midterm elections, that the U.S. Congress is in thrall to the Israel lobby....The Israel lobby, the ad says, was able to defeat a recent amendment to the defense appropriations bill introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that would ban the export of cluster bombs to countries that use such weapons in civilian areas, including Israel's use of U.S.-made cluster weapons in Lebanon
11-02-06 - Some Palestinians face new visa restrictions Nofal called the ban part of a "silent evacuation" of Palestinians from the West Bank and other critics have referred to it as a "silent transfer." Nofal suggested that Israel was trying to prevent successful businessmen such as himself from helping to build the foundations of a healthy Palestinian state.
11-02-06 - Bush 'would understand' attack on Iran ** Israel endorses US-led efforts to curb Iran s atomic ambitions through the threat of UN Security Council sanctions but, like Washington, has hinted that military action could be a last resort
11-02-06 - In a protest in Beit Sahour town: Parents demand to open schools The students' parents' council in the town of Beit Sahour, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized a protest demanding the immediate opening of schools on Thursday.
11-02-06 - An article from the AEI, neocon central Deploy More Than the Military. Recent elections in the Palestinian territories and Egypt have brought disconcerting results that suggest democratizing the Middle East may be more difficult than we imagined. Naturally, we're treated to the same mantra that neoconservative is a code word for 'Jew', among other things. But the above paragraph spells out to you what I've known all along: the very definition of the idea of democracy that these neocons have in mind for the Middle East. For, there is no question of whether the elections in Egypt and the Palestinian Territories were democratic or not -they were. The problem that these neocons have with them is that parties not friendly to Israel were elected. Neocon democracy defined: elect Israel-frienldy regimes - or else. And you may note the second to the last topic addressed starts with 'Prepare to bomb Iran'. Same sh$t, different year.
11-02-06 - Jordan charges three Hamas suspects with plotting terror attacks The public prosecutor of Jordan's State Security Court (SSC) on Thursday officially charged three alleged members of the ruling Palestinian Hamas group with smuggling of arms from Syria for targeting Jordanian intelligence officers and Israeli interests, judicial sources said
11-02-06 - Who does the Prime Minister consider to be a terrorist? On October 30, Israel 's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly told the Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs Committee that in the past three months, the Israeli military has killed 300 "terrorists" in the Gaza Strip in its war against terror groups.....However, over half of those killed - 155 people, including 61 children - did not participate in the fighting when they were killed.
11-02-06 - Two Hour Delay for Teachers at Tel Rumeida Checkpoint On the Tuesday, a settler came and spoke to the headmistress expressing anger that the school was open again. The settler asked whether the school would be open the following day and was told that it would be. The headmistress suspects that the settler made a complaint and that is why the teachers were not allowed to pass the checkpoint.
11-02-06 - Iraq exit strategy The prospect of a Palestinian state in the foreseeable future looked even dimmer with the creation of a newly-formed evangelical Christian organization in the U.S. that aims to include all pro-Israel Christians, and, according to its founder, will soon make it the single most powerful Christian organization in America. "We are a one-issue organization -- and the issue is Israel, Israel and then Israel," Here's an idea: why don't you move there? Leave the rest of us out it.
11-02-06 - Vatican document on two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
11-02-06 - Israeli Left-Right Divide Unmasked as Phony Anti-Arab racism, for example, is currently approaching epidemic levels among Israeli Jews; "earlier this year, an opinion poll found that more than two-thirds of Israeli Jews would refuse to live in the same building as an Arab and half would not allow an Arab in their home. Among those surveyed 41% wanted entertainment facilities to be segregated, 18% said that they felt hatred when they heard Arabic spoken and 40% thought Israel should 'support the emigration of Arab citizens'," Anti-Arab sentiment by Zionists is not new. This was par for the course by the first settlers and leaders of that movement back in the late 1800s who saw Arabs as inferior and felt that they must either submit or be cast out. This was to be a Jewish state for Jews only. Same sh@t, different century.
11-02-06 - Iran says Holocaust cartoon contest expresses hatred toward oppressors Iran awarded a Moroccan artist late Wednesday the top prize in an exhibition of cartoons against the Holocaust, saying it wanted to emphasize that Palestinians were the indirect victims of the Nazi's killing of six million Jews in Europe during the Second World War. "Palestinians have been victim of a deceptive history by Zionists," Iran's Culture Minister Hossein Saffar Harandi was quoted as saying by the Kayhan conservative daily on Thursday.
11-02-06 - Ballot has city taking sides, again "I?d be very glad to know that the citizens know the moral issue for what it is," said Maria Leza, a member of the divestment group who?s been leafleting her neighborhood with pamphlets about the ballot questions. "I hope they continue to try to pitch in."
11-02-06 - Virginia congressman campaigns for Capito Cantor was named chief deputy majority whip after only one year in the House.
He also is the only Jewish Republican in the House and is known for his hawkish positions supporting Israel and calling for the United States to end aid to the Palestinian Authority.
11-02-06 - ADL blocks Israel critics from speaking at school "I feel that the Wheels of Justice is not the right group to represent the Palestinian perspective because their emphasis is less on education and more on propaganda," Goldstein said. "I am not afraid of ideas, even radical ones. (But) students weren't properly prepared for what they would hear." The ADL decides what you will and won't hear about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Your freedom is being eroded by the fundamentalism of a different color.
11-02-06 - From June 2005: Israeli warplanes draw Lebanese anti-aircraft fire Four Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese air space, drawing anti-aircraft fire from the army, Lebanese police said. Same sh#t, different year.
11-01-06 - Israel kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza: residents Relatives said the dead civilian, a 75-year-old man, was killed when he went onto the balcony of his home in the northern town of Beit Hanoun to take his disabled son inside. He was shot in the head by Israeli troops on a rooftop, they said
11-01-06 - Israeli strike on Gaza kills eight Infantry, tanks and aircraft pummeled Beit Hanoun from before dawn. At least six of the dead were militants, and the seventh was not immediately identified. Palestinian hospital officials also reported at least 40 people were wounded. Most were gunmen, but a woman and an 11-year-old boy were also hurt, they said
11-01-06 - Palestinians: We fired Nasser-1 at W. Bank settlement The IDF denied the reports and said that no missile was fired at the settlement of Migdalim
11-01-06 - Hamas Proposes Hudna to End Ceaseless, Senseless Gaza Violence This important initiative has not been picked up by the Israeli newspapers, even Haaretz, and it seems likely that it will go unrecognized by Jerusalem and Washington as so many worthwhile initiatives from the Middle East have in recent years.
11-01-06 - Pause for Peace When Hamas gives its word to an international agreement, it does so in the name of God and will therefore keep its word. Hamas has honored its previous cease-fires, as Israelis grudgingly note with the oft-heard words, "At least with Hamas they mean what they say." He's got a point...
11-01-06 - Abbas, Haneya slam Israel's new round of Gaza offensive
11-01-06 - Army shells several houses in Gaza
Palestinian security sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli soldiers shelled on Wednesday night after midnight several houses in Al Shujaeyya area, east of Gaza city; damage was reported, no injuries.
11-01-06 - Full speed ahead for plans to revamp refugee camps "The conditions in which Palestinians live in Lebanon are, quite frankly, appalling," said Richard Cook, Lebanon director for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) responsible for aid to the refugees, adding that the shelters in which many refugees live are "some of the worst I have seen in my United Nations career."
11-01-06 - 20 Palestinians register crop theft In the first case the organizations dealt with, on October 25, a group of settlers allegedly attacked farmers from the village of Farata who were harvesting their olives in an orchard one kilometer from the illegal settlement outpost of Gilad Farm, near Kedumim in Samaria. After soldiers arrived at the scene, the settlers attacked the farmers, who retaliated by throwing rocks. Five Palestinians were injured in the melee, including one seriously. The assailants reportedly stole sacks of olives and spilled the contents of a few of them on the ground What kind of vile heathens rob an already impoverished people of what little they have? I don't get that. And why does our government reward such behavior?
11-01-06 - Egypt warns against Philadelphi bombing Egypt's foreign minister said in remarks published Wednesday that his government would not allow Israel to bomb areas along the Egypt-Gaza border where Israel has uncovered hundreds of underground tunnels used by Palestinians to smuggle weapons into Gaza.
11-01-06 - Wave of change likely to wash away pro-Israel politicians Those monitoring the election from the Israel perspective are somewhat disappointed and cautiously concerned by Santorum's likely defeat and by Sherrod Brown. Santorum has been one of Israel's most important friends in the Senate. Even those who disagree with his worldview can not deny his steady support for Israel. Not that his rival, Bob Casey, is suspected of being anti-Israel. "He will be fine," says an experienced observer but "Santorum was much more than fine." Almost all of our representatives on Capitol Hill are 'pro-Israel politicians'. Unfortunately for AMERICA, that is not going to change any time soon.+
11-01-06 - The rise of the rightwinger who takes his cue from Putin
11-01-06 - Blair's Syrian peace initiative fails to impress The White House also distanced itself from Mr Blair's initiative. Tony Snow, George Bush's press secretary, said the administration was concerned over what it called mounting evidence that Syria and Iran were joining Hizbullah to try to topple the Lebanese government through demonstrations, violence and threats against Lebanese leaders
11-01-06 - Hebron Update: 22 to 28 October 2006 Just as the soldier was
saying that he could not let the CPTers through, a settler car drove
out of Avraham Avinu. The driver asked if Levin spoke English. "Yes,"
he answered. The settler responded, "Then f--k you."
11-01-06 - HEBRON: Olive Harvest One settler woman holding a baby began yelling at the Palestinian owner, "You
are all terrorists! You want to kill the Jews! You killed my father!" He
replied, "No, I'm not a terrorist. I haven't killed any Jews, and my family
protected Jews during the massacre of 1929." Then the woman also claimed the
olive trees belonged to her and shouted at him, "If you want to pick olives, go
to Tel Aviv to pick olives!" She kicked one of the olive pickers causing him to
lose his balance and fall. Another settler hit a Palestinian nonviolent activist
in the face, injuring him slightly. The young man did not retaliate. These settlers are total psychos. They have attacked not just Palestinians but also foreign nationals. They beat two elderly Americans, and of course, our government did NOTHING.
11-01-06 - IMF calls for tough reforms from cash-strapped Palestinians
11-01-06 - Israel must treat Gaza like Russia does Chechnya: hardliner
11-01-06 - Israel vows to continue Lebanon flights The Lebanese army also confirmed it had fired off anti-aircraft batteries towards Israeli warplanes flying over the south on Tuesday, having been ordered to oppose Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty by all means
11-01-06 - Hizbullah confirms talks on prisoner exchange He said his party did not distinguish between US and Israeli policy in the region. "There are not two separate policies for the region, there is one policy: it's the Israeli-American policy. The Europeans need to decide on their options for the future. Do they want their position to be identical with the Americans and thereby incur the same hatred that exists towards America?"
That's because US policy in the region is crafted in Tel Aviv, not Washington.
11-01-06 - West Bank veterinarian: Zoo animals not safe from occupation "Many animals die due to the procedures of the occupation or from bullets. But often they do not kill the animals directly. For example I need specific equipment to administer anesthesia, but they will not allow it. What I am forced to use is a crude alternative that often falls short.?
11-01-06 - Lasting peace more important than international aid in improving humanitarian situation of Palestine refugees, Fourth Committee told Speakers expressed concern about the constant and marked socio-economic deterioration in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with Norway?s representative noting that the situation was most desperate in the Gaza Strip, where UNRWA provided the only safety net available.
11-01-06 - Soros a Zionist? That would be great AIPAC has, in truth, been highly effective in pushing through Congress Israel's messages, and in blocking anything that might be construed as anti-Israel. It has been a vital ally in advancing Israel's policies in the United States. There can be no doubt that without AIPAC our position in Washington would be very much weaker.
11-01-06 - Olmert: A decision on how to deal with Gaza to be made soon Olmert was also quick to warn of a pending humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and said that unless it is contained, it can deteriorate into a humanitarian disaster. He said Israel was not to blame for the situation Israel is not to blame for the humanitarian crisis? Who is withholding millions of dollars worth of customs duties from the Palestinian Authority, thereby depriving doctors, teachers, policemen and others of their salaries, and forcing them into poverty? I suppose it was the Pope. Couldn't possibly be Israel's fault....
11-01-06 - Senior US officials visit Israel Observers said the presence of Welch and Negroponte in Israel indicated that Washington is possibly trying to launch a new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative.
11-01-06 - Kidnapped Israeli Arab released in Hebron He will be accused of violating a military order prohibiting Israeli citizens from entering Palestinian-controlled areas and released on bail, said the spokesman.
11-01-06 - Israeli Army stops farmers and international volunteers from picking olives in Hebron The Israeli army stopped Palestinian farmers and French volunteers from picking olives located on lands belonging to the village of Faqaqes, west of the city of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank on Wednesday.
11-01-06 - Settlers release wild and dangerous dogs around farm lands in the Jordan valley Farmers said that the dogs are a serious threat to their sheep and their owners. They were released on lands confiscated by the settlers three years ago in order prevent Palestinian land owners from the West Bank city of Tubass from reaching their lands located in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
11-01-06 - Sweeney breaks with Bush on Iraq, contradicts own vote on partitioning ON OTHER international issues, Sweeney said the United States must take steps to prevent North Korea and Iran from becoming nuclear powers. "No doubt, if we allow the proliferation of nuclear weapons, our children will see Hezbollah attack Israel with nuclear weapons," he said
Is Sweeney running for office to serve Israel, or America?
11-01-06 - Canada welcomes 63 Palestinians stranded between Iraq, Jordan Jordan and Syria turned them away, claiming they had already welcomed their quota of Iraqi refugees from the previous Gulf War and Israel was not warm to the idea of them returning to the occupied territories
11-01-06 - Plans under way for Mideast quartet meeting in Jordan A meeting of ministers from the quartet sponsoring the Middle East peace process is being planned for early December in Jordan.
11-01-06 - Palestinian-American Developer Remakes DC Cityscape
11-01-06 - Stephen Hawking To Visit Israel the visit by perhaps the most well-known living scientist in the world was arranged by the British Embassy
11-01-06 - Israeli agent scoffs at Hamas defendant's torture claims
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