October '06 Archive
10-31-06 - Israeli strikes kill 3 Palestinians, wound 23 Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen and a policeman and wounded 23 people in a series of air strikes and gun battles that erupted in northern Gaza on Wednesday, security sources and witnesses said.
10-31-06 - Rafah Border crossing opened for one day The sources said that the Crossing was opened after extensive talks with Israel in order to enable at least part of the people stranded there to cross into Egypt or back into the Gaza Strip.
10-31-06 - Israeli armoured vehicles mass near Gaza-witnesses Dozens of Israeli armoured vehicles massed at the border with Gaza on Tuesday and a military spokesman ordered Palestinians to evacuate an area close to the frontier with Egypt, witnesses said.
10-31-06 - Hamas touts 10-year ceasefire to break deadlock over Israel The most senior delegation from the Hamas government to visit Britain is in London this week to promote its offer to allow a period of "co-existence" with Israel as a way to move to an eventual settlement of the Middle East conflict.
10-31-06 - Lebanese man killed handling Israeli cluster bomb Truck driver Hafez Khalil Abbas, 35, had spotted a bomblet outside a school in the Rass el-Ain quarter of Baalbeck. It exploded after he picked it up, killing him instantly and hurting the other two.
10-31-06 - EU to Israel: Mock raids could encourage cease-fire violations The Lebanese army issued a statement Tuesday saying its gunners fired anti-aircraft artillery at Israel Air Force warplanes as they flew over south Lebanon.
10-31-06 - Planes known to carry CIA terror suspects landed in Tel Aviv
10-31-06 - Hezbollah confirms Israel talks Hezbollah's leader has confirmed that indirect talks with Israel on a prisoner exchange are under way, describing them as "serious".
10-31-06 - Olmert to discuss Iran with Bush In the short term, two high-level Washington envoys - Elliott Abrams and David Welch - are scheduled to arrive in Israel Wednesday. They are also due to visit with Palestinians and then go on to Jordan.
10-31-06 - Christian Zionists rally in San Antonio Twenty-five years later, Hagee, who now advocates a strike by the United States or Israel on Iran's nuclear installations, observed the silver anniversary of the Church of the Cornerstone's annual Night to Honor Israel, an event that was part of a three-day celebration Oct. 20-22 designed to show solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people and to advance the message that Israel and America are in danger.....Gabriel said Israel's enemies are America's, warned of Hamas cells in the United States -- "Hamas has the largest infrastructure on American soil" -- and declared, "Our enemy is in Islamic mosques throughout the U.S."...."I've never been in any placed that called itself a Christian setting where there was such hatred,"
10-31-06 - Deputy defense minister: Palestinians could end up like Bint Jbeil "We need to tell the Palestinians: A large-scale regional conflict is impending. If you do not turn against Israel, your country and economy will prosper. If you take the other side, you will look like Bint Jbeil," And here's what happened to Bint Jbeil.
10-31-06 - Kfar Salem harvests olives: Settler harasser no-show
10-31-06 - Ambassador Ayalon: Bush letter - historic During the interview Ayalon rejected the possibility of imposed pressure on Israel to accept a forced agreement under the Bush administration. According to him, the coordination between Washington and Israel will only get stronger due to the Iranian situation and international terrorism.
10-31-06 - Israeli warplanes fly low over Beirut, suburbs Israeli warplanes flew at a low altitude over Beirut, its suburbs and large areas of south Lebanon on Tuesday, witnesses and Lebanese security sources said.
10-31-06 - Golan Heights Land, Lifestyle Lure Settlers Perhaps more important, the region provides a third of Israel's drinking water......Arab grievances here center on the preferential treatment Israeli settlements receive in allocation of water, which is scarce and expensive for many Arab farmers
10-31-06 - Tel Aviv court charges a Palestinian resident of killing a collaborator
10-31-06 - Palestinians wait in vain for taken ID's
10-31-06 - US envoy, Egyptians parley with Hamas He spoke a day after US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte arrived in Cairo for a two-day visit and a Hamas delegation came for talks with Egyptian officials about a possible swap of Shalit for Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli prisons.
10-31-06 - EU Commissioner thanks Abbas for role in freeing Spanish aid worker
10-31-06 - Olmert: Hezbollah neutralized Ehud Olmert said the Lebanon war had neutralized the threat from Hezbollah...."Except for the Iranian problem, no one now threatens Israel," Olmert said.
10-31-06 - Debris of war compounds ecological nightmare in Lebanon
10-31-06 - Israel presses Lebanon overflights despite growing criticism A number of aircraft also made sonic booms over the southern port city of Tyre, an AFP correspondent reported
10-31-06 - Palestinian businessmen call for interim gov't of experts
10-31-06 - Israel Labour leader ready for talks on Arab peace plan The leader of the second party in Israel's governing coalition, Defence Minister Amir Peretz, said that he was open to negotiations on a four-year-old Arab peace initiative.
10-31-06 - U.S. National Intelligence chief arrives in Cairo Things are starting to move here with Negroponte visiting Cairo and a Blair aide visiting the Syrian president.
10-31-06 - ANALYSIS-Israel's Olmert riding high despite Lebanon setback A senior Israeli official said that is likely to be the main focus of his November 13 talks with Bush.
Israel has said it wants to take a back seat to international efforts to curb Iran's nuclear programme, which Tehran says is aimed at electricity generation.
They and their cohorts in the US are pushing us into another war. And they will at some point in the future deny they pushed for it, like they are doing with regard to their support during the run-up to the Iraq war.
10-31-06 - Teacher:Speaker cancellation violates First Amendment The head of the teachers union has threatened a First Amendment lawsuit against the School Department because Andover High School cancelled a visit by pro-Palestinian speakers.....The Anti-Defamation League and Rabbi Robert Goldstein of Temple Emanuel in Andover both voiced their opposition to Andover High last week. Andrew Tarsay, the ADL's regional director, applauded the school's decision. But to suggest that the ADL and other pro-Israeli lobbies seek to silence any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Mmmm k.
10-31-06 - PCHR slams the abductions carried by gunmen in P.A territories
10-31-06 - On Washington tour, Palestinian cites both sides for Christian plight He said that instability in the region derives from Israel's presence in the West Bank and noted the disruption occasioned by the security barrier, which he says is frustrating commerce and travel between the Bethlehem area, a Christian center, and the rest of the West Bank.
10-31-06 - Hoping to shed conflict image, Israel launches branding campaign What kind of image does the average American have of Israel? Suspicion confirmed. There IS a pro-Israeli PR campaign underway in America.
10-31-06 - Harris: I'm a Jewish wannabe A Washington Post profile published Tuesday described Israel as one of Harris' "greatest passions" and quoted her as saying she is a Jewish "wannabe."
10-31-06 - Study: Israelis hate the pious most The Gesher poll concluded that 37 percent of Israelis think fervently Orthodox Jews are the most disliked, 15 percent said the same of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and 13 percent named settlers.
10-31-06 - Texas Versus Tel Aviv: US Policy in the Middle East If it is true that the primary purpose of the Baker Commission is to take back US Middle East policy-making from the ?Israel Firsters? and secondly to subordinate military approaches to empire building to market interests, the question arises as to what strategic policies, tactical alliances, regional realignments and specific proposals dealing with the US military presence in Iraq Baker will propose?
10-31-06 - Shanghai's Jewish 'ghetto' looks to reinvent itself
10-31-06 - Ambassador to Canada: Israelis are fooling you the embassy was irritated by the fact that those Israelis received refugee status under false pretenses about life in Israel.
10-31-06 - King unites his opponents Brodersen, 54, decided to run when she felt she wasn't getting straight answers about the death of her niece. Rachel Corrie, 23, was killed March 16, 2003, while trying to stop an Israeli military bulldozer operator from demolishing a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip
10-31-06 - Radio host speaks on lies, misconceptions of Israel It would seem to me that there is a major PR effort underway in America by the Israeli lobby, given the amount of campus visits and other propagandizing of the members therein.
10-31-06 - ZOA still smarting over now infamous speech by Rice Damage control continues. In my book, Condi gets extra points for pissing off the whole Hee Haw gang here.
10-31-06 - 'Censorship and bias' tracked by news tool The tool could now attract media watchers and others keen to monitor fairness and balance, such as those concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or with election reporting.
10-31-06 - How to cut and run Fourth, real progress must be made on the Palestinian issue as a foundation for Middle East peace. The invasion of Iraq and the U.S. tilt toward Israel have dangerously reduced Washington's power to broker peace or to guarantee Israel's security. We now need Europe's help. And good relations with Iran would help dramatically.
10-31-06 - Kazakh oil fund pours millions into israel
10-30-06 - One resident killed in Khan Younis shelling Dr. Hasanen stated that Mazin Abu Odeh, 21, was killed after a shell hit his house; his body was severely mutilated.
10-30-06 - Israel preparing extensive Gaza operation:MP Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that the army was preparing an extensive operation in the Gaza Strip, with the government to make a decision on the offensive within days, an MP has said.
10-30-06 - Thousands march to commemorate 1956 Israeli massacre of 49 villagers
10-30-06 - Na'im: "Health sector in Gaza on the verge of collapse" Palestinian Minster of Health, Dr. Bassim Na'im, warned on Monday that the health sector in Gaza is on the verge of collapse as a result of the Israeli and international siege imposed on the Palestinian people since the election of Hamas earlier this year.
10-30-06 - Spanish aid worker freed unharmed in Gaza A Spanish aid worker was freed unharmed by kidnappers in Gaza on Monday, hours after they took him from his car near the southern town of Khan Younis
10-30-06 - Newly sworn-in Lieberman already set to visit US Lieberman is already set for his first trip abroad as a minister. He will travel to the United States on December 8 to take part in the prestigious Saban Forum at the Saban Center For Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC
10-30-06 - B'Tselem Urges the Security Forces to Prepare for the Olive Harvest
10-30-06 - Prisoners' swap deal would be more than humanitarian process
10-30-06 - Hamas official denies meeting with Israeli academicians On Sunday, Israel's state-run television reported that Yousef met with Israeli academicians and financial experts behind closed doors in London.
10-30-06 - Olive Harvest campaign starts in Hebron Despite the restrictions imposed by the settlers and the Israeli Military Forces prohibiting farmers to reach their lands, 90 volunteers and farmers including 20 foreign volunteers participated in olive picking near Asfer settlement in the town of Sa'er near Hebron .
10-30-06 - Online Exhibition: Memorial of the 50th Anniversary of the Kafr Qasem Massacre
10-30-06 - Israeli Jets Trouble German Troops on UN Mission Germany was taken by surprise by the most recent incident, as Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz recently smoothed over ruffled feathers after a confrontation on Tuesday between Israeli aircraft and a German vessel patrolling Lebanon's coast.
10-30-06 - West Bank exodus on hold In hard numbers, the settlers have far and away reversed the numerical setback of the Gaza pullout, having added another 14,000 people to their ranks in the past year for a total population of 261,000, according to the interior ministry's population registrar. All of the Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).
10-30-06 - Saudi ambassador calls for U.S. pressure on Israel
10-30-06 - Family: State ignores kidnapping of Israeli-Arab "Had it been a Jewish Israeli or a foreign citizen, the world would have jumped through hoops to get them freed. But because it is an Arab citizen, no one cares. Neither the District Coordination Office, nor the IDF nor any other authority is interested. We were not informed of anything that goes on,"
10-30-06 - Israeli air force shells a Palestinian house in Khan Younis
10-30-06 - West Bank disco one of few places where Palestinians can let loose
10-30-06 - McCormack sidesteps Israeli operation in Gaza question, says it is
10-30-06 - UN investigates Israel's 'uranium weapons' The Harwell laboratory for mass spectrometry in Oxfordshire confirmed the concentration of uranium isotopes in the samples, but the European experts were puzzled about what weapons Israel might have been using and why.
10-30-06 - Rice: I think I know what the ?Palestinians? want Condi grilled by bible-thumping Christian Zionist Cal Thomas. The more these folks lambaste her, the more I know that she is doing something right.
10-30-06 - "Never Forget, Never Forgive": Kafr Qasem 50 Years Later
10-30-06 - Israeli troops arrest local Hamas leader
10-30-06 - Security Council urges disarming of Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias
10-30-06 - Confrontation off Lebanon Leads to Questions The Alster though is no run-of-the-mill battleship. It is a spy boat loaded with highly sophisticated technology. Sensitive antennas are able to not only identify radar locations and monitor flights, but they can also listen in on radio and mobile-phone conversations. And the crew is not just made up of sailors, but also German secret service agents. Don't get the Liberty treatment.
10-30-06 - Iran sounds an awful lot like Iraq ** Recent months have seen the creation of an "Iran directorate" at the Pentagon, using some of the same personnel as the Office of Special Plans, the shadowy Pentagon outfit led by former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith that was accused of massaging raw intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war look far more solid than in fact it was.
Iran has now supplanted Iraq as the greatest single threat to the United States, according to the National Security Strategy released earlier this year. Articles in the New Yorker and Time describe an accelerated rate of contingency military planning in an environment in which many senior officials ? on the military and civilian sides ? consider war with Iran more a question of when rather than if. And just why has Iran been placed at the fore, folks? I wonder. And again. More. Another. You get the point.
10-30-06 - Labour minister quits over Lieberman's role He said that Yisrael Biteinu had a platform with "racist ingredients" and its leaders were tainted "by racist declarations and declarations that harm the democratic character of Israel".
10-30-06 - Egypt eases security measures along Gaza border Egypt relaxed security on its border with Gaza on Monday, days after sending thousands of police there following a report Israel might bomb tunnels it said were used to smuggle arms to Palestinians,an official said. "The number of police was reduced after the Israeli threats receded, the border area was calm and no unnatural movements were observed," a border official said, asking not to be named.
10-30-06 - Cheney Pushing Israel Towards Fascism
10-30-06 - Canada: Israel?s new friend in North America MacKay made it clear that a threat on Israel meant a threat on Canada in his speech at an event honoring Canadian businessman Ralph Benatar, one of Canada?s veteran leaders of the North American Jewish community
10-30-06 - Shift in Lebanon's sectarian politics
10-30-06 - Israeli attack on Germany Israel doesn't like those surveillance ships getting too close for comfort - even if they're in international waters. Ask these guys. It is my belief that Israel sought to sink the USS Liberty and all aboard - leaving no eyewitnesses to report just who it was that attacked it. It was because of the sheer heroism of our men that that ship and the survivors made it out alive. God bless 'em.
10-30-06 - Presbyterian-Jewish Forum to Shape Understanding of Interfaith Relation The General Assembly had approved to initiate the divestment process from multinational corporations that the denomination believed were unduly profiting form violence surrounding the Israeli government?s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and from construction of the "security barrier" between Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The issue had sparked debate in the PCUSA and drew criticism from Jewish groups and Presbyterian opponents. One op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times had called PCUSA's action a "grievous sin" as it contributed to anti-Jewish bigotry.
10-30-06 - My Name is Rachel Corrie extends The Off-Broadway production of My Name is Rachel Corrie has extended its limited run through December 30th. The engagement was set to end on November 19th.
10-30-06 - Terrorist scampers naked to elude capture Another article by guess who? A 'Palestinian terrorist's' favorite confidante, or so we are to believe.
10-30-06 - In Lieberman race, Jewish vote seems to turn on Israel support
10-30-06 - Jewish groups urged to boycott Hunger Walk Church World Service, an American group with ties to Protestant and Orthodox churches, has been critical of Israeli actions toward Palestinians and the Lebanese Oh dear.
10-30-06 - Israel Refuses Entry to Le Pen's Daughter He was convicted and fined in 1990 for inciting racial hatred and for saying in 1996 that the gas chambers used by the Nazis were "merely a detail in the history of World War II."
10-30-06 - MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE riveting play under the deft direction of Alan Rickman, who also co-edited it, with the journalist Katharine Viner. The bright, fine-boned Megan Dodds, who radiates a sense of both privilege and pluck, resuscitates from diary entries and e-mails the voice and being of the American pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, who, at the age of twenty-three, was crushed to death by an Israeli Caterpillar when she tried to shield the home of a Palestinian civilian in the Gaza Strip
10-30-06 - UN to map disputed Shaba farms area on Israel-Lebanon border
10-30-06 - Israeli Arab lawmaker raps Ahmadinejad A leading Israeli Arab lawmaker came out against the anti-Jewish statements of Iran?s president.
10-30-06 - Doves urge U.S. intervention in Gaza Americans for Peace Now urged President Bush to intervene immediately in the Gaza Strip.
10-30-06 - Former Israeli Prime Minister to Speak at IU Hasbara coming to a campus near you.
10-29-06 - Palestinian resident killed by Israeli military fire in the Gaza Strip Palestinian medical and security sources reported on Sunday that one resident was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers stationed at the Gaza International Airport, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
10-29-06 - Israelis annex north Bethlehem Today, even this one-sided check on Israel's sweeping land-theft has been discarded. The dispossession of Palestinian property-owners and their families, Christians and Muslims alike, is now undertaken by soldiers and bureaucrats outside of any scrutiny.
10-29-06 - Hamas and Israel held secret meet in London: TV The Israelis who took part in the talks described Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's moderate Fatah party as a "has-been" and said it was necessary to engage in dialogue with Hamas
10-29-06 - Israeli barrier and settlement to leave West Bank village with nowhere to go On the hills to the south and east of the village is a rapidly expanding ultra-orthodox Jewish settlement built on Palestinian land seized by the Israeli government and declared "state land".....Within months, the village will be sandwiched between the growing settlement of Beitar Illit and the barrier, with a large chunk of its farmland gone This is wholesale robbery - another policy supported by the United States. For, the US could withhold the billions in aid to Israel to get Israel to halt this unlawful activity. It doesn't.
10-29-06 - Israel backs down on visas for Palestinians from US
10-29-06 - At-Tuwani Update: 1-18 October In the village of Birki, the soldiers entered another house shortly after
midnight. They destroyed several windows and beat a woman, who required
medical attention. Due to the Palestinian civil strike, the public
hospital was closed, and she had to pay a great sum of money to be treated
at the private hospital in the town of Yatta. The soldiers also broke
glass in neighboring cars and houses.
10-29-06 - No Qatar trip for senior Israeli A spokesman said she decided not to go after learning Hamas members would represent the Palestinian government.
10-29-06 - Fatah agrees to end clashes with Hamas in Gaza
10-29-06 - FEATURE-A divided house, and divided lives, in Jerusalem The white community has installed a small playground for their children, which black children are not allowed to use, says Segal. The armed guards stop them. The black children play on grass nearby or in the street. "I don't want my kids playing with black kids, and they don't want to play with each other,"
Play on words. You get the point. Same sh#t, different decade.
10-29-06 - Israel sorry for 'misunderstandings' in shooting incident
10-29-06 - An international force in Gaza is long overdue In a recent interview with Israel's Haaretz newspaper, D'Alema said that he sees the formation of peacekeeping force for Palestinian areas taking place at the same time as other critical steps are taken.
10-29-06 - Cairo to host Hamas men for talks on swap
10-29-06 - Iran's foreign minister urges Hamas leader to work for national unity Iran's foreign minister told Hamas' political leader Sunday that the Palestinian people must solve their problems through national unity and reconciliation, the official Iranian news agency reported
10-29-06 - Child detainees facing unbearable conditions in Israeli prisons
10-29-06 - Indictment: Tira resident planned terror attack in Raanana District prosecutors issued a severe indictment Sunday to the Tel Aviv District Court against Wurood Kassem, an Arab-Israeli woman, accused of conspiracy to aid the enemy in time of war, contact with a foreign agent, illegally carrying a weapon, and membership in a terrorist group.
10-29-06 - So much for another kind of olive harvest Members of the Yesh Din-Volunteers for Human Rights organization, who go out to the field every day, reported yesterday that the IDF had completely blocked access to groves in five West Bank villages. The IDF prevents farmers in three villages from entering their land on the west side of the separation fence. Another six villages were informed their lands had been closed or seized by the military. In at least one case, farmers were thrown off their land without being presented any orders at all. Farmers in 10 villages were ordered to harvest olives on specific dates and seek advance permission from security officials before entering their land.
10-29-06 - Peretz to meet German counterpart Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apologized on Sunday to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for an incident that occurred last week between an Israeli fighter jet and a German naval boat that was patrolling the waters outside Lebanon. ......Peretz vehemently denied reports that the Israeli jets had fired on the German vessel in his talk with Jung......Also Sunday, UN officials denied reports that Israeli jets had fired on a German navy vessel in a separate incident in the waters off southern Lebanon late Thursday night.
10-29-06 - 3 Qassams fired at Western Negev Rockets land in sheep farm near Sderot and in surrounding area; some sheep hurt, several people treated for shock
10-29-06 - Labor accepts inclusion of ultra-nationalist in Israeli government
10-29-06 - Peretz denies Egyptian troop reports Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Sunday denied media reports that Egypt has reinforced its troops along the Gaza border.
10-29-06 - Stuck in the Canal
10-29-06 - Stung by Republican ads on Israel, Democrats defend part in online chat These candidates would SEEM to be running in an election to serve Israel, not the US.
10-29-06 - In heavily Jewish Florida district, perception of Israel support is key Congressional support for Israel will remain steadfast whoever controls the House, said Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen, the Republican chairwoman of the House's Middle East subcommittee who represents Florida's 18th District......."Iran is the biggest threat to Israel right now," he said. "I think we should be refocusing our attention on the real threats. The longer we're mired in this civil war in Iraq, the less it allows us to lead other countries in restricting Iran's ability to export terrorism." Regarding the title of this article - it's that way in most of America.
10-29-06 - Israelis put nuclear bunkers in gardens "Israel will not allow Iran to build an atomic bomb, and even if it did, the Iranians know very well that we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age before they've launched a single missile."
However, the government is quietly updating its preparations for a possible nuclear strike.
10-29-06 - Open door Some months ago, the Guardian published two articles dealing with Israel's apartheid-like system. It is a well-respected news outfit of Britain. There's a big difference between what THEY report, and what OUR MEDIA reports. And that is exactly why a staunchly pro-Israel outfit such as CAMERA seeks to detract/obfuscate/dismiss/etc etc etc these reports. Report one. Report 2. Looks like CAMERA had a complete sh#t fit about those reports since it couldn't get away with what it does in the US MSM. My how the tables have turned over the centuries, eh? America has (silently) become (re-)occupied territory. And if the American people knew what grip those people have on our government..
10-28-06 - Palestinian woman dies from wounds, rockets fired from Gaza Strip A Palestinian woman shot by Israeli troops during an incursion into the north of the Gaza Strip earlier in the week died in hospital.
10-28-06 - Child injured after Israeli settler attack near Bethlehem The boy was hit by a stone in his face and was transferred to the town hospital.
10-28-06 - Israeli considering Abbas request for entry of PLO Bader Brigade into Gaza The force is composed of several thousands of Palestinians, most of them long-time PLO activists.
10-28-06 - Abbas may dissolve Hamas government Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he will replace the Hamas-led government with a panel of professionals if the militant group doesn't agree to govern with his party, suggesting a new, tough line in a bid to ease crippling sanctions.
10-28-06 - West Bank under lockdown The number of roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank has risen by 40 per cent since the start of 2006, with 528 permanent and temporary checkpoints and physical roadblocks disrupting all aspects of Palestinian life, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Jerusalem.
10-28-06 - Egypt beefs up security at border with Gaza "The security forces have deployed along the entire border... following threats by Israel... to drop 'smart' bombs in the Philadelphi corridor," the agency said, referring to a strip along the border from which Israeli troops withdrew a year ago.
10-28-06 - Palestinian economy near collapse - Abbas loyalist
10-28-06 - Palestinian GDP dropped from $4.04 billion to $2.9 billion in the past year, official says
10-28-06 - Soldiers take three senior P.A officials prisoner in Ramallah
10-28-06 - Army closes a gate in the wall and stops farmers from reaching their lands near Tulkarem
10-28-06 - UN unable to confirm radiation spike after Lebanon war The UN, which has been studying the ecological damage in Lebanon caused by the war between Israel and Hezbollah, said it would soon be able to say whether uranium-based munitions were used
10-28-06 - Rice presses for Hezbollah's disarmament Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up international pressure on Hezbollah to disarm, saying the guerrilla group must surrender its weapons if it wants to remain part of Lebanon's political process.
10-28-06 - Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb Israel has a poor reputation for telling the truth about its use of weapons in Lebanon. In 1982, it denied using phosphorous munitions on civilian areas - until journalists discovered dying and dead civilians whose wounds caught fire when exposed to air.
10-28-06 - New aid convoy heads for Palestine
10-28-06 - Israeli Arab MPs urge world to boycott govt over far-right party
10-28-06 - Internationals start to arrive in West Bank for 2006 olive harvest Olives are the agricultural backbone of Palestine, and the harvest is of tremendous importance to those who earn their livelihood from the production of olive oil. This year is expected to yield a particularly abundant harvest, and farmers hope they will be able to pick the fruit of their trees without violent attacks or denial of access to land.
10-28-06 - UN urges Solana to pressure Israel on Lebanon overflights Bagga said there were "sometimes between nine and 15 flights a day, which is quite a lot actually ... (they occur) sometimes late at night."
"It is very discomforting for the Lebanese, it could easily lead to some incident,"
10-28-06 - Old order in Iraq Democratization of Iraq has created anarchy, and in the Palestinian Authority it has led to the rise of the Hamas government ? that since then no longer recognizes democracy Really. Is it that the Hamas government no longer recognizes democracy? Or is it that Israel (and consequently the US) no longer recognize the party that the Palestinians democratically elected (and they did so due to the corruption of the previous administration, the Fatah party)? You know the answer.
10-28-06 - EU backs Palestinian technocrat government -Solana
10-28-06 - Egypt to develop roadmap plan with specific timetable: FM
10-28-06 - Israel experts uphold nuclear vagueness Sneh suggested that after an attack the damage would be so great that perhaps retaliation would be pointless, recommending that Israel develop the capability to hit many targets far from its borders.
10-28-06 - Official: No imminent Fatah-Hamas meetings in Cairo
10-28-06 - Trailing in Polls, GOP Senator Reaches Out to Jews "He finds a lot of common points on intersection between himself and the Jewish people and the land of Israel," said a top Santorum aide with ties to right-wing pro-Israel circles, Barbara Ledeen.
10-28-06 - U.N. Security Council Edicts Challenged Historically, Israel is one of the few member states to consistently defy the Security Council by refusing to accept or violating over 40 resolutions, primarily because of the unwavering support it has from the United States.
10-28-06 - On Israel's Lebanon border, a surprising optimism
10-28-06 - Solana expresses support for Lebanese gov't
10-28-06 - Israel and Palestine Explored in an Unlikely Friendship Do I detect a note of bias in favor of Israel in this book review by the 'deputy foreign editor of The Times' (NY Times, that is)?
10-28-06 - Make Assad an offer he can't refuse
10-28-06 - Dolls toy with the idea of beauty The collection includes a gourd head doll from Mali. Another incorporates cactus fibers and the Palestinian flag ("representing the 531 Palestinian villages and towns destroyed since the 1948 war," according to the artist). One from Samoa is made of bark cloth and coconut husk fiber.
10-28-06 - Israeli, Palestinian debaters spar at 'Clash of the Titans'
10-28-06 - Palestinian speaks of his faith He is an Israeli citizen and a Christian who has been cited for his efforts to build peace
10-28-06 - Bearing witness to the intifada
10-27-06 - Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians
10-27-06 - Israeli army injures 16 protesters demanding to be able to harvest their olives in Bil'in Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Bil'in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest in Bil'in Friday, pleading with the assembled Israeli military force to allow them to harvest their olives. Israeli soldiers used excessive violence against the protesters and injured 16.
10-27-06 - Palestinian rivals agree to ease tension
10-27-06 - Abbas to announce decision on new govt in days: EU officials
10-27-06 - UN appeals for end to Mideast stalemate amid Palestinian suffering
10-27-06 - UN lays out function of office for Palestinians to claim damages from Israeli barrier
10-27-06 - PA security officials: Israeli Arab man kidnapped in Gaza Strip
10-27-06 - Israel may bomb along border with Egypt: paper
10-27-06 - Shin Bet to upgrade security in LA Airport Los Angeles International Airport invites team of security experts from Shin Bet, Ben Gurion Airport to examine airport's security arrangements. Say what? We allow the secret intelligence unit of a FOREIGN country offer up security advice to one of our major airports? How moronic is that?
10-27-06 - Israel and U.S. to expand civil air defense cooperation It's outrageous that our security systems continue to be outsourced to Israel.
10-27-06 - A Jewish Hitler? - The rise of Avigdor Lieberman As hard-right ideologues embark on a campaign of aggression aimed at creating a "Greater Israel," will U.S. tax dollars continue to fuel the Israeli war machine? Why wouldn't they? All of the despicable acts Israel has committed over the years has not stopped the flow of US cash. Israel kills Americans, and our government doesn't do a damn thing about it. The taxpayer aid runneth over.
10-27-06 - Report: FBI In Expanded Aipac Probe the allegations - along with the upcoming trial of Rosen and Weissman, and the recent book deal signed by two of the pro-Israel lobby's most prominent and vocal critics, scholars Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer - are likely to trigger increased media and public scrutiny of the pro-Israel lobby's efforts to influence the decision-making process in Washington.
Oh dear.
10-27-06 - Israeli minister to visit Qatar Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has accepted an invitation to a conference in the Gulf state of Qatar.
10-27-06 - Israel denies German ship clash This is a denial of the first incident.
10-27-06 - Chris Bellamy: An enigma that only the Israelis can fully explain The initial tests on samples taken from the site of the Israeli strike on Khiam present an enigma which will only be solved when the people who produced and deployed the weapon explain themselves.
10-27-06 - Hebron Reflection: Strangers in my home
10-27-06 - Rice?s Counselor Gives Advice Others May Not Want to Hear , in choosing Mr. Zelikow as her counselor, she eschewed Elliott L. Abrams, a darling of neoconservatives and the pro-Israel lobby.
10-27-06 - Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to US-Mideast Understanding Christian Zionists have pushed the militarist policies of both Israel and the U.S. in an effort to secure the Holy Land in preparation for the coming of the "promised land." As part of this strategy, the U.S. occupation of Iraq is deemed absolutely necessary.
10-27-06 - UN peacekeepers unlikely to disarm Hezbollah: Russia Ivanov said that concern over this aspect of the peacekeepers' mission was one of the reasons Moscow decided to send a peacekeeping contingent to Lebanon under an accord reached separately with the Lebanese government, instead of under the UN mandate
10-27-06 - Germany says Israel fired shots over unarmed ship The incident, which Israel has so far denied, was one of two involving the Israeli military and German forces in the region this week, defence spokesman Thomas Raabe told reporters Friday. "There have been two incidents, one involving a helicopter and another the Alster" a German electronic surveillance and reconnaissance ship.
A second incident.
10-27-06 - Israeli PM accuses world of doing 'nothing' over Iran
10-27-06 - Bush: World must 'double' effort on Iran nuclear program Israel says "Jump!", the US says "How high?".
10-27-06 - Olmert compares Iran with Nazi Germany Look in the mirror. The Palestinians : have been forcibly expelled from their properties, had their properties seized, have been ghettoized and walled in, are deemed inferior by Zionists both past and present, are deemed a 'demographic problem' by Zionists both past and present, are collectively punished for the sins of a few, are impoverished and starving as most of the 'civilized world' turns a blind eye, are severely dehumanized in the Western media (at the behest of pro-Israeli media 'watchdogs'), are in need of a homeland.
10-27-06 - All must play their roles As long as the Israelis, irrespective of their policies and ideological positions, are accorded preferential treatment by western governments or international bodies it is doubtful that any peacemaking will succeed.
10-27-06 - High radiation levels said to be found after Israel's Lebanon bombing
10-27-06 - A 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldier hugs a young Iraqi boy in central Baghdad's Karradah district There's the difference between US soldiers and those of Israel.
10-27-06 - US to rebuild Mideast's highest bridge, damaged by Israel The United States will pay to rebuild the Mdairej bridge in Lebanon, the highest in the Middle East, which was damaged by Israeli bombs during the war this summer, a senior US official said. Deduct it from the billions in aid we give Israel. American taxpayers shouldn't have to pay any extra (to clean up after Israel) than they already do now.
10-27-06 - 50 Years After Suez, US Hegemony Ebbing Fast the Bush administration's failure to exercise any demonstrable pressure on Israel to seriously engage the Palestinians in a peace process, its transparent support for Israel's military offensive and bombing campaign in Lebanon last summer's war with Hezbollah, and its rejection to date of renewed Arab efforts to promote the 2002 Saudi peace plan in the wake of the Lebanon conflict have effectively destroyed the image of Washington as an honest broker. Thus far in his Presidency, Bush Jr. has refused to stand up to Israel like his old man did.
10-27-06 - Palestinian village inside Israel goes on strike in protest of the Israel's government continued confiscation of land belonging to the village.
10-27-06 - US Affairs: Is there an ally in the House? Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, is in line to become chairman of the House International Relations Committee if the Democrats win. But some rumblings suggest other lawmakers - namely Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) - may bypass him because of Lantos' support for the Iraq war. Privately, congressional aides say Lantos has been reassured by Pelosi that he will get the chairmanship; both men are considered strong backers of the Jewish state...... the new foreign operations subcommittee chair would be Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), a strong, proactive Israel backer. Lantos is an Israel-firster.
10-27-06 - Mediterranean leaders to push for relaunch of peace process
10-27-06 - Palestinian banks walk economic tightrope Adding to the headaches, Israeli troops have raided banks three times since the uprising began six years ago, taking millions of dollars from accounts they suspected were connected to militant groups, the Monetary Authority said.
10-27-06 - French twist on border France?s foreign minister now thinks Israel?s West Bank security barrier is a good idea.
10-27-06 - Injured and sick detainees appeal for medical treatment
10-27-06 - From 2002: Lieberman and Cheney March In the Footsteps of Joe McCarthy Among the agencies engaged in this coordinated witch-hunt are: View the article to check out the list of offenders, the usual (pro-Israeli) suspects. He forgot to include WND and FrontPage mag.
10-27-06 - Palestinian 'humiliation'? Another Israel-defender does damage control regarding Condi's comments about Palestine.
10-27-06 - 1993 interrogation described Nadav also testified that in 1993 Judith Miller, then a New York Times reporter, visited the detention facility where Salah was being held.
Nadav said he asked Salah questions at Miller's direction. Strange.
10-27-06 - Breaking the Silence: Fmr. Israeli Soldier Tours U.S. to Expose Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Military
10-27-06 - Feed Palestine, or Breed War Israel gains by reducing Palestinians to starving 'savages'. It's great PR, or Hasbara for Israel.
10-27-06 - Why Is No One Talking About The 400-600 Israeli Nukes ?
10-27-06 - Analysis: Aid could impact Muslim opinion And here's the key to winning hearts and minds: deeper American assistance directly to the people, following their expressed priorities."
A better idea: end the unconditional support of Israel's policies vis a vis the Palestinians. That would be the single greatest boost for America in not just the ME, but the world.
10-27-06 - Former militia chief does not foresee civil war
10-27-06 - Vatican urged to halt beatification Israel has urged the Vatican to halt procedures putting Pius XII, the controversial wartime Pope, on the path to sainthood.
10-27-06 - Republican staffer threatened TAU funds
A Republican congressman reprimanded a staffer for threatening to cut U.S. funds to Tel Aviv University unless a donor agreed to stop backing his opponent.
10-27-06 - Jewish groups condemn U.N. official
10-27-06 - Dovish groups balk at Lieberman Two dovish U.S. groups expressed reservations about Avigdor Lieberman?s new role in the Israeli Cabinet.
10-27-06 - Democracy in Name Only
10-27-06 - Fans ask Philharmonic to denounce occupation A petition is circulating among fans of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra asking the institution to denounce Israel?s West Bank presence on the eve of a U.S. tour.
10-26-06 - Three Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza In Beit Hanun, in the north, 37-year-old farmer Suheil al-Majdalawi was fatally shot by Israeli soldiers while in his fields, a medical source said Thursday.
10-26-06 - Israeli forces kill Palestinians policeman, second man in Gaza gun battles
10-26-06 - Two residents, international peace activist injured by Hebron settlers
10-26-06 - Israel court rejects Palestinian plea against West Bank barrier The plea concerned a six-kilometre (four-mile) section scheduled to incorporate the Jewish settlements of Immanuel, Karnei Shomron and Maale Shomrom that encroaches on Palestinian land in the northern West Bank. This fence we will build down on the Mexican border, will we build it such that it confiscates large swaths of Mexican land, you think? Why is that? So why do we allow Israel to do just that with respect to the unlawful confiscation of Palestinian land?
10-26-06 - Solana: Time to end occupation The European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana said following a meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah Thursday that "the Palestinian people have suffered and suffered a lot, and it is time that the occupation that started in 1967 is over."
10-26-06 - Abbas calls Haneya for talks on coalition government
10-26-06 - Settlers attack Palestinian olive harvesters, soldiers stand by
10-26-06 - EU chief ask Israel to reopen border
10-26-06 - Barred from Contact: Violation of the Right to Visit Palestinians Held in Israeli Prisons Holding these prisoners and detainees in Israel flagrantly breaches international humanitarian law, which prohibits the transfer of civilians, including detainees and prisoners, from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying state
10-26-06 - What's for Dinner? The dinner was hardly an unusual one for AIPAC. The group often arranges such elite pow-wows at the homes of senior members of Congress and government officials (one in the mid-1990s was hosted by then Vice President Al Gore) as a way for AIPAC to both demonstrate its political clout and to provide a perk for major donors.
10-26-06 - Israel's DM reiterates continuation of overflights Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz reiterated on Thursday that Israeli Air Force (IAF) overflights would continue in Lebanon as long as the UN cease-fire resolution had not been fully implemented.
10-26-06 - A deadly scandal continues in Gaza
10-26-06 - Massacre of Arabs to be remembered The villagers were shot because they were in violation of a wartime curfew that had not been announced in advance. By the time the shooting stopped that evening in 1956, Israeli troops had killed 49 peaceable residents, half of them women and children, in the village of Kafr Kassem, about 10 miles east of Tel Aviv. All the dead were Arabs and all were full Israeli citizens, headed home at dusk from work in fields and factories--and unaware that a military curfew prohibiting movement after sundown had been imposed an hour or so earlier.
10-26-06 - European politicians delay Israel trip A visit by a European Parliament delegation to Israel was postponed due to Israel's concern over a far-right French delegate. Hypocrisy.
10-26-06 - Peres: West bolsters Iran Shimon Peres chided the international community for not being firmer in its efforts to curb Iran?s nuclear program.
10-26-06 - Waxman blasts Justice on Harman A top congressional Democrat called on the Justice Department to publicize what it knows about an investigation into relations between AIPAC and a Jewish congresswoman.
10-26-06 - Hamas Gets $2 Million to Help Offset Cutoff
10-26-06 - U.N. sees hold-ups in Lebanon withdrawal Talks have been under way for weeks on Israel?s demand that the bolstered United Nations peacekeeper force in southern Lebanon impose new security regulations in Ghajar to ensure Hezbollah does not use the village as a conduit for attacks or drug smuggling.
10-26-06 - Lieberman urges discretion on Iran "We have to wait and see what the European Union, United States, Russia and China do about Iran," Lieberman said. "We don't need to be on the front line on this issue. We just have to sit and wait."
10-26-06 - No aggression intended, Israel says after German ship incident The confrontation occurred when Israeli jets scrambled after a helicopter took off from a German frigate serving with a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) task force. German Defence Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said six Israeli F- 16s had flown very low over the German vessel and one of them fired two shots into the air. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the helicopter took off without having coordinated this with Israel
10-26-06 - Indonesia to buy Israeli surveillance drones
10-26-06 - In pictures: Lebanon oil spill clean-up Fishermen who were badly affected by the war and Israel's sea blockade of Lebanon have been employed to clean the beaches.
10-26-06 - Iran denies Argentina bomb charge Mr Hoseyni said the charges were intended to divert "world attention from the perpetration of crimes by the Zionists against women and children in Palestine".
10-26-06 - Israel to provide F-15 fighter components Israel's Elbit Systems unit Cyclone has been awarded a $19 million contract with Boeing Co. to provide components for U.S. F-15 fighters.
10-26-06 - Berlin wants 'smooth cooperation' with Israel after warplane incident "Shots were fired by Israeli planes. It is under investigation," a spokesman said. Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz has denied that the planes had fired at the German forces
10-26-06 - Bush: Returning Shalit would help Syria President Bush said facilitating the return of a captured Israeli soldier would help Syria in American eyes.
10-26-06 - Palestinian injured by land mine blast in Greece
10-26-06 - U.S. Stays Mum On Israel's Lieberman "The Baker report may be the key," Reich said. "I cannot envision that he won't recommend changes not just with respect to Iraq, but to other issues, including a second Madrid conference on the Middle East."
10-26-06 - Army takes prisoner three residents from Tulkarem The Israeli army took prisoner three residents from the West Bank city of Tulkarem and the nearby Nur Shams refugee camp on Thursday morning.
10-26-06 - Israel thwarting Hamas effort to set up West Bank security force The conflict between Israel and Hamas is likely to escalate soon in light of the Israel Defense Forces' decision to try to thwart the establishment of a Hamas security service in the West Bank.
10-26-06 - A Palestinian Question: Where Has America Gone?
10-26-06 - Progress on Israel-Palestinian prisoner swap: Hamas The leader of Hamas, who lives in exile in Syria, is expected to travel to Egypt soon for talks on a prisoner swap with Israel that could see hundreds of Palestinians freed in exchange for an Israeli soldier.
10-26-06 - Sierra Leone: Palestinians Gain Sympathy
10-26-06 - Israeli president rape charges spurred by Lebanon war: Putin
10-26-06 - U.S. evangelicals on mission in Israel The Christians support the extreme Israeli right-wing position which opposes any territorial compromises to the Palestinians.
10-26-06 - Letter: Support divestment Israel has imposed a strict siege on Palestine, isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world, and continues to construct the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank. In addition, Palestinian farmers have been denied access to their agricultural lands. These crimes against humanity represent your tax dollars at work. Please support Somerville's divestment from Israel.
10-26-06 - Don't mention the war: Israel seeks image makeover "In the wake of 9/11, the objective now is to place Israel among the coalition of the moderates, facing off against Islamic radicalism," Gissin said
10-26-06 - Letter: Accusations were false against Web site That people like Mr. Brociner must rely on false accusations shows that they cannot find anything "anti-Jewish" or untruthful about Israel in the SDP Web site
10-26-06 - Letter: Ignore the lobbies, vote yes Israeli historians have documented that most of the land was not purchased but rather captured by an Israeli militia that massacred Palestinians who resisted being forced off their homeland. These horrifying acts were condemned by many courageous Jewish Americans of the time, including Albert Einstein who, in an open letter to the "New York Times," labeled an Israeli political party as "akin to ... the Nazi and Fascist" parties and described the Israeli militia as "terrorist" who "massacred" peaceful Arab villagers
10-26-06 - 'Rachel Corrie' Was a Liar Rabid Israel-supporters furiously attempt to smear the memory of Rachel Corrie. Can't have Americans getting the truth.
10-26-06 - Agent's testimony contradicts Salah's torture claims The Salah case marks the first time that Israeli intelligence agents have testified on U.S. soil, and extraordinary security measures are in place to keep their identities secret
10-26-06 - Argentine Jewish groups welcome call for Iranian arrests in AMIA case The prosecutors' call reprises the original investigative tack - first suggested by the Mossad and CIA - that pointed to Iran as the intellectual author of the attack.
10-26-06 - Lebanon's celebrity hangout shakes off war hangover
10-26-06 - American Arabs and Muslims begin to flex political muscle From 1990 through 2004, Arab Americans gave $788,968 in individual donations, political action committee contributions and soft money to federal parties and candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research and advocacy group. During the same period, pro-Israel groups and individuals donated $56.8 million.
10-26-06 - Israeli hippies dream of pot-fueled Mideast peace
10-26-06 - Chacour pleads for peace Despite his critique of U.S. foreign policy, Chacour praised the former Secretary of State James Baker for his help creating schools, summer camps and the first Christian Arab Israeli University in Galilee.
10-26-06 - Letter: Support human rights, vote yes
10-26-06 - Dems to host Israel online meeting Top U.S. congressional Democrats will host an online "town hall meeting" on Israel on Friday
10-26-06 - Letter: Yes on right of return Did you know that Israel was accepted into the United Nations on condition that it accepts the right of return of the Palestinian refugees?
10-25-06 - West Bank Settlers attack Palestinian farmers Ibrahim Salah said about 30 family members were tending to their field west of Nablus when some 50 settlers descended on the area wielding rocks and metal bars, and some holding guns. He said his son Basel, 31, was hit in the head by a metal bar and taken to a hospital. Witnesses said four others were lightly wounded
10-25-06 - 'US withdrawal from Iraq would be disastrous for Israel' ** "...And what if the US becomes trigger-shy? No one else except the US has the military might to set back Iran's nuclear program. Maybe Israel, but it's not certain. If the US gets trigger-shy, then we're in trouble." .....The result would be that "the terror efforts currently directed against US forces in Iraq would be turned against Israel," Ahh. I see. So the US military is being used as a type of human shield.
10-25-06 - Palestinian PM unhurt in convoy attack: Hamas
10-25-06 - CRS packages help Gaza Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr Using money from a special CRS fund established over the summer to assist with needs in Gaza and Lebanon, CRS was able to assist almost 25,000 people belonging to 3,200 needy families with food packages to help them celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday
10-25-06 - Palestinian economy withers under Israeli curbs
10-25-06 - Shin Bet foils bid to smuggle 6kg of TNT from Gaza to West Bank
10-25-06 - Labor Arab MKs vow to 'settle score' over Lieberman partnership "How would Peretz and (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert respond if the government of France, for instance, had brought in a man who calls for expelling Jews from France?"
10-25-06 - UAE's Khalifa discusses Lebanon's reconstruction with Siniora
10-25-06 - Out of the shadows: Israel's Minister of Strategic Threats One of the largest blocs of Israel?s citizen army, the Russians are assigned some of the toughest spots in the West Bank and Gaza, often their first experience of meeting "Arabs".
10-25-06 - Ayalon: Focus on Palestinians before Iran "Taking care of the Iranian threat begins with achieving a diplomatic accord with the Palestinians," Ayalon told Israel Radio, adding that such an accord would help Israel enlist pan-Arab support for a tough stand against Tehran's nuclear program.
10-25-06 - Israel, Germany at odds over Lebanon air incident Israel denied a German newspaper report on Wednesday that two of its air force planes had fired twice as they flew over a German navy ship patrolling the Lebanon coast as part of an international peacekeeper force. This story sounds familiar...
10-25-06 - Military Build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf: Israel and NATO sign Framework Agreement ** This Israel-NATO framework agreement not only has a bearing on the military build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean, which in practice is directed against Syria and Lebanon, it is also related to the massive deployment of US naval forces in the Persian Gulf, oppositie Iran.
10-25-06 - Israeli Arab's rising voice of opposition Look at another nice spin job by Ilene Prusher of the CSM (who else?). She puts the main issue of this week's headlines in Israel (extremist Lieberman's inclusion into Olmert's govt) at the very bottom of the article, and instead focuses the story on Israeli Arabs to make THEM look like the extremists.
10-25-06 - Iran charged over Argentina bomb Chief prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused the Iranian authorities of directing Hezbollah to carry out the attack.
10-25-06 - Olmert's dangerous choice The Moldovan-born politician enjoys wide support among the million or so Russian speakers who came to Israel during the demise of the Soviet Union, and brought with them a strident nationalism, a taste for blunt-speaking leaders and anti-Arab prejudice
10-25-06 - Dodd: U.S. wrong to urge Palestinian vote He joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who also addressed the conference, in urging final passage before the year is out of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, which would isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority....McCain said a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel.
10-25-06 - Experiments on elderly echo Nazis Three Israeli doctors are under arrest over illegal experiments on thousands of patients, including an elderly concentration camp survivor who narrowly escaped being a victim of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
10-25-06 - Palestine banks walking an economic tightrope
10-25-06 - "I will only leave this house in a coffin" Palestinians living in Iraq have increasingly come under threat since the US-led occupation of the country began in 2003, according to a recent report by the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
10-25-06 - Iran, Syria rapidly rearming Hezbollah Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday.....He met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte, among others, on a visit to Washington this week in advance of U.S.-Israel security talks set for December.
10-25-06 - Israeli jets fire over German navy ship off Lebanon The daily Der Tagesspiegel quoted a German junior defence minister as telling a parliamentary committee that two Israeli F-16 fighters had flown low over the ship, firing twice.
10-25-06 - The newly formed executive force starts to recruit personal in Bethlehem
10-25-06 - NATO: Israel ties must remain strong
10-25-06 - 'Syria increasing preparedness following IDF maneuvers' According to the report, a Syrian source added that Israel?s military activity is increasing tensions in the region. He mentioned Chief of Staff Dan Halutz?s Monday to a Golan Heights division exercise as contributing to the heightened tensions.
10-25-06 - AP photographer recounts Gaza kidnapping
10-25-06 - Mideast solution possible: ElBaradei A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is within grasp if the international community commits to a blueprint and pursues dialogue, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said on Tuesday.
10-25-06 - Qatar offers to host Israeli delegation Long-term, Israeli leaders want to build contacts with moderate Arab states to counter the influence of Iran's anti- Israel government.
10-25-06 - Solana testy with Israeli politician "I am here to meet with a man I have disagreed with my entire life," Solana told reporters as he sat next to Lieberman in the Knesset, or parliament. "Now that he is a member of the government, I would like to see the position he has."
10-25-06 - Cross on Israel Museum brochure sparks religious stir A religious Jerusalem city councilman on Wednesday called for the immediate resignation of the director of the Israel Museum following the distribution of a museum brochure featuring a girl wearing a cross on its cover.
10-25-06 - U.S. Jews skeptical of Arabs, trust Israel on Iran, survey shows Harris contends that Jewish voters are willing to let other issues determine their vote, provided they believe both parties are "rock solid" in their support for Israel.
10-25-06 - Jewish Billionaires versus AIPAC Despite the misleading double-talk, this campaign represents a real and serious threat to Israel. AIPAC is possibly the greatest success story of any American lobbying group. It has one overriding role: To support Israel and Israel government policies Were AIPAC to initiate policies conflicting or inconsistent with the objectives of the Israel government it would lose its grassroots support overnight. Note the source. After such a frank admission, doesn't it follow that AIPAC should register as a FOREIGN agent?
10-25-06 - Lowy implicated in Israeli PM corruption row
10-25-06 - Report: UN mediator in talks with Hezbollah so far unsuccessful
10-25-06 - AIPAC condemns Republicans for 'loyalty' jibe The American Israel Public Affairs Committee condemned Republican activists who said failure to support their candidate amounted to "disloyalty" to Israel.
10-25-06 - U.S. lawmaker chides Carter on 'apartheid' In his statement Tuesday, Conyers said he called Carter "to express my concerns about the title of the book, and to request that the title be changed. President Carter does not build upon his career as a proponent of peace in the Middle East with this comparison and I hope he and his publisher will reconsider this decision."
10-25-06 - Candidates speak out on the issues On Israel What role should the United States play in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, and their "benefactors," Iran and Syria?
10-25-06 - Israel's experience with harsh questioning may provide guidance Mohammed Barghouthi - the labor minister for the Palestinian Authority, which is led by the militant group Hamas - was held and questioned for 48 days this summer before being released without charge. He said he was shackled to a chair in a painful position for hours at a time. But more painful, he said, were the threats against his family, the screams of interrogators and the humiliation of other Palestinian lawmakers that he was forced to witness. The problem is, Dion, this is exactly where the US got the ideas in the first place. It's where the term 'Palestinian hanging' came from and it's why it was used on Iraqi prisoners. This nation is heavily under the influence of a foreign entity.
10-25-06 - Exclusive: Hillary Clinton On Israel, Iraq And Terror Sen. Clinton: First, I don't think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake.
If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win instead of signing off on an electoral system that advantaged Hamas.
"If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win"........
10-25-06 - Palestinian man finally wins fight to call U.S. home Mohamed Aboushaban, 53, a Palestinian refugee, said he doesn't know why it took a court order to get the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service to complete the paperwork he needed to get permanent residency, but he's happy it will now be done
10-25-06 - Hamas expert's testimony continues in Salah trial On cross-examination, Levitt testified that many Palestinians also have been killed in the conflict and that living conditions in Gaza and the West Bank are often desperate
10-25-06 - Israeli illegals arrested in Egypt They apparently had walked across, circumventing the border terminal.
10-24-06 - Hebron Update: 15-21 October 2006 In the evening, CPT learned that the Palestinian family whose home had been
invaded the evening before (see Hebron Update 06-10-08-14. October 14th entry)
discovered that the Israeli soldiers who had invaded took 5000 Israeli Shekels
and 100 Jordanian Dinars...CPT learned from Palestinian colleagues that settlers took more than 150 dunams
of land belonging to three families near the village of Susiya southeast of
Yatta It's not enough to impose a seige on a whole people, they've got to rob them of what little they have to boot.
10-24-06 - Kidnapped Gaza journalist freed A Spanish photographer who was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip has been released, it has been confirmed.
10-24-06 - Olive harvest sparks tensions For years settlers have been attacking Palestinian farmers and chopping down their trees.....Palestinian farmers often require a permit from the army to visit their lands which lie close to Jewish settlements.
10-24-06 - Abbas orders deployment of 20,000 Fatah forces in Gaza Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday has ordered more than 20,000 security forces to be deployed in Gaza Strip during the Muslim's holiday Eid al-Fitr, in the wake of the Israel's military operation, Israel's newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Tuesday.
10-24-06 - Troops isolate Beit Hanoun, shells several areas One day after the Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli tanks and armored vehicles surrounded Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and bulldozed farmlands and hothouses in the area.
10-24-06 - Lutheran leader calls for Israeli and Palestinian action on education A Lutheran leader in the Holy Land, who was shocked to encounter school children begging by the road side, has pleaded for Palestinians, Israelis and the international community to get more than 700,000 Palestinian students back to school - writes Annette Young for Ecumenical News International.
10-24-06 - Israel to carry out more Gaza operations
10-24-06 - Olmert pins hopes on Lieberman to stop Iran ** Beside Olmert's faith in President Bush and the United Nation to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms, the prime minister is seeking to speed up Israel's preparations for a possible confrontation with Iran.
10-24-06 - Settlements grow on Arab land, despite promises made to U.S. The data also shows that in many cases the construction was carried out on private Palestinian land. In the masterplans, more often than not, Palestinian properties were included in the construction planned for the future. These included Palestinian properties to which the state had promised access...exploiting the intifada and arguing that the settlers should not be exposed to security risks, Palestinian farmers were prevented access to their properties that were annexed by Israeli settlements. Nothing new.
10-24-06 - Air Force to Establish New Cyberspace Operations Command Lani Kass, director of of the service's Cyberspace Task Force, served in the IDF. She also served at the Pentagon - what a surprise. And it looks like I answered one of my own questions from last week.
10-24-06 - Russia: Go easy on Hamas Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published Tuesday that it?s unrealistic for Western powers to shun the radical Islamist group to get it to recognize Israel?s right to exist and renounce terrorism.
10-24-06 - The $228 million question: How to rebuild Israel?s North? Increasing the Jewish population in the Galilee and investing in its development has been a long-term goal of the Israeli government, which is wary of the current demographic situation. A little more than half of the Galilee population is Arab.
10-24-06 - Despite friendly words, Olmert visit to Russia highlights Iran differences "It is necessary to act on Iran, but that action should be in direct proportion to what is really happening," the RIA-Novosti Russian news agency quoted Lavrov as saying. "And what is really happening is what the" International Atomic Energy Agency "reports to us. And the IAEA is not reporting to us about the presence there of a threat to peace and security."
10-24-06 - Report that Jews backed Harman for help on AIPAC trial dismissed The lead Democratic Party donor making the case for Harman was Haim Saban, the Power Rangers toy and TV-show magnate, who also has been a major donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Brookings Institution, where a center for Middle East studies was established in his name. Saban, a dual Israeli citizen, also is a donor to Israel's Labor Party....Sources close to Harman, who is Jewish, and Pelosi acknowledged that there has been such lobbying, but added that it's par for the course and not illegal, though Pelosi has made it clear she resents the pressure
10-24-06 - Under Occupation - An American who was kidnapped in West Bank shares his experience My studies and travels exposed me to the Palestinians' lack of freedom and equal rights. But I knew that to really understand it, I had to live it. And because my government supplies the massive financial and diplomatic support that makes Israel's occupation of the West Bank possible, I wanted to see the effects of those policies firsthand Mr. Phillips seems to have taken the Harriet Challenge. But of course, be extremely cautious if you do just that.
10-24-06 - Iran warns of U.S., Israel ME schemes He cautioned peoples of the region -- "especially the Lebanese and Palestinians" -- as well as all Muslim nations not to fall for the U.S. plan or act in a way that serves Washington's and Israel's schemes
10-24-06 - Israeli deputy PM warns of Iranian nuclear threat "We discussed the Iranian issue which is a threat not only against the state of Israel but it is a threat against all the Western countries," Mofaz told reporters after meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Nicholas Burns, the State Department's number three, in charge of the Iranian nuclear issue.
10-24-06 - 'Major attacks against Israel on their way' Terror leaders tell WND of 'imminent' plans to strike from Gaza
Note the author (Aaron Klein), the publication (World Net Daily), and note that the information contained therein likely won't be found anywhere else. But other respectable news sources may pick it up from the former. Call me a cynic, but it's a mite strange that Palestinian 'terrorists' are going to tell WND (and only WND) of their forthcoming terror attacks on Israel. Mmmm k.
10-24-06 - FEATURE-Palestinians in Nablus lament their "dying" city
10-24-06 - Israeli dignitaries and supporters converge on Savannah The Savannah Jewish Federation joined as a co-sponsor of "Convergence 2006" after the controversy over a paper published by the London Review of Books in May claiming an expansive Jewish lobby is undermining American political interests.
10-24-06 - Opinion: A response to President Reid?s letter on divestment
10-24-06 - Editor: U.S. media favors Israel
10-24-06 - 'World not getting real ME story'
10-24-06 - Mossad angry over British espionage series?
10-24-06 - Congressman: Help Bangladeshi journalist A U.S. congressman called on the Bush administration to intervene on behalf of a Bangladeshi journalist facing sedition charges for advocating ties with Israel. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
10-24-06 - B´nei Brak Rabbis Call for Supervision of Arab Workers The crackdown stems not from security concerns, although Arabs transported across checkpoints together with groups headed for the area have carried out attacks in the past. Rather, the rabbis are concerned with the rise in incidents of romantic involvement of Hareidi-Religious women with the Arab workers.
10-24-06 - Germany backs combating hate as extremists win more elections Jewish leaders are welcoming announcements that Germany will continue to finance programs aimed at combating right-wing extremism. What about the right-wing extremism in Israel? This is especially relevant given Olmert's choice of party he has chosen to ally with - which was announced just this week.
10-24-06 - Balance Kills: Media, Good Will, and Israeli Oppression in Palestine
10-24-06 - Government expert tells terrorism trial of Mideast violence A terrorism expert told a federal court jury Tuesday that suicide bombers have killed hundreds of Israelis but a defense attorney said five times as many Palestinians have died amid the violent conflict. Palestine on trial in the US courts.
10-24-06 - Democratic leaders: Carter wrong on Israel Both parties must pander to the Israeli lobby - lest they be perceived as hostile to Israel, and thus lose the elections. The interests of the majority of Americans (who do not make up the Israeli lobby) do not factor in.
10-24-06 - Student admits bomb hoax in bid to delay flight The 21-year-old, who holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to a felony count of conveying false information of a threat targeting an airplane. He faces from probation to five years in prison at sentencing Jan. 29.
10-23-06 - Israel kills 7 in Gaza battle: Palestinian officials
10-23-06 - Army shells eastern areas of Jabalia Israeli tanks shelled on Monday evening residential and farm lands to the east of Jabalia town in the northern part of the Gaza strip; several civilians suffered anxiety atacks as a result of the shelling
10-23-06 - A settler terrorizes the farmers of Huwwara town near Nablus The farmers said that this settler hides in olive orchards that belong to the farmers located near the Yetzhar settlement. He attacks, shoots at and threatens to kill the farmers whenever he has the chance. The farmers expressed fears that this may be part of a plan to expand the settlement, which was illegally built on their lands.
10-23-06 - Abbas condemns Israeli "massacre" in northern Gaza Strip
10-23-06 - Jewish diamonds find favor in Arab Dubai The two-year-old Dubai Diamond Exchange has put the Gulf emirate squarely inside a global business dominated by Jewish traders. And that, inevitably, means trade ties with Israel, another world diamond hub.
10-23-06 - UN hands 'final' Hariri tribunal plan to Lebanon
10-23-06 - Israel warplanes in Lebanon overflights in defiance of France Two warplanes twice flew low over Beirut, police said Monday, with four planes carrying out similar mock raid over southern Lebanon, causing a sonic boom over the port city of Tyre, as Muslims celebrated the end of Ramadan.
10-23-06 - Fallout of Hamas's rule spurs Palestinian desire to flee Like Hushiyeh, a growing number of Palestinians are openly saying they'd like to leave the West Bank and Gaza if given the chance, raising concern about the possibility of a Palestinian brain drain
10-23-06 - The Lobby, Unmasked
10-23-06 - Breaking the Silence - The debate ignited by Walt and Mearsheimer gathers momentum. On any other political question?abortion, guns, health care?it is understood that there are two sides, but in the United States (and only in the United States), where Israel is concerned there is only one position. As far as I'm concerned, with respect to America's well being, Mearsheimer and Walt rank right up there with the founding fathers of this nation.
10-23-06 - Israel's Olmert agrees to alliance with hard-liner
10-23-06 - Peretz: IAF to overfly Lebanon until soldiers back
10-23-06 - The President's Saudi Moment Reportedly, the Saudis have amended it since it was first introduced in 2002. In its previous incarnation, it would have required Israel to relinquish all of the territories occupied in 1967 as a precondition to negotiations toward a peace agreement between Israel and the entire Arab League. The current version drops the precondition and envisions negotiations under international auspices
10-23-06 - Top Dems slam Carter book
According to advance publicity, the book argues that Israel?s settlement policy is principally to blame for the failure of peace initiatives in the Middle East. AIPAC's shills on Capitol Hill take Carter to task for daring to speak out.
10-23-06 - Olmert appeals to world on Iran threats ** Israel considers Iran to be the greatest threat to its survival, and rejects Tehran's claim that its nuclear program is peaceful
10-23-06 - Israeli envoy protests Iranian statements Israel's U.N. envoy protested recent threatening statements against the Jewish state by Iran's president.
10-23-06 - Israel-U.S. to develop plane defense? Israel and the United States are considering the joint development of defense systems for civilian aircraft. Just curious, does "joint development" mean Israel develops it, the US pays for it, and Israel uses it? Or that the US develops it, the US pays for it, and Israel uses it?....
10-23-06 - Hamas minister: Move Israel to Europe "We will never recognize Israel," Zahar said. "The Zionists have occupied our land like the Nazis did with France during the Second World War. Israel is a foreign element in the Middle East. Why don't the Jews establish their state in Europe?"
10-23-06 - Gaza Strip opens briefly for Israeli Arabs on Eid al-Fitr Looking somewhat stiff in his suit and carrying a small suitcase, William Tarazi passes the final control check separating Israel from the Gaza Strip with a smile: "Eid al-Fitr is an eagerly awaited day -- the only one during the year to visit my family."
10-23-06 - Hamas PM calls for unity amid standoff with Abbas
10-23-06 - Minister to oriental Jews: Claim your reparations Minister Sheetrit preparing for D-day: Planning to counter Palestinian claims of refugees by placing counter-claims of Jews from Arab countries. Does their victimhood always have to come first?
10-23-06 - Real-world conflict is a moral challenge for gamers NOTHING is safe from the gamers. The latest fodder for the kicking-punching-shooting world of video games is the endless, bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
10-23-06 - Soros considers backing peace initiative
10-23-06 - Palestinian Conductor Seizes UCLA's Schoenberg Hall The concert takes on an added flair with the class and
elegance brought by co-chairs Her Majesty Queen Noor and international
businessman Dr. Raymond Jallow.
10-23-06 - Present Aid: Give Christmas presents for a change The catalogue contains 30 gift ideas, ranging in price from Ł8 to Ł4,100 using examples from countries such as Bolivia, Bangladesh, Angola, Burundi, DR Congo, Mozambique, Honduras, Nicaragua, India, El Salvador, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, and Occupied Palestinian Territories.
10-23-06 - The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: Israeli Academic Analyzes the Root Cause of the Conflict The author will be available for interviews in Boston, November 17-22, 2006.
10-23-06 - Activist speaks on Israeli travels It wasn't until she met some Palestinian refugees while traveling in Lebanon after college that her perspective began to change.
10-23-06 - Christian and Muslim academics issue global appeal for Occupied Territories
10-22-06 - Resident killed, four residents prisoner taken prisoner, seventeen injured near Tubas
10-22-06 - Palestinians celebrate Eid al-Fittr holiday in gloom
10-22-06 - Israelis threaten to retake Gaza-Egypt border
10-22-06 - Stricter Policy Splits West Bank Families "It is a policy that can only be seen in the context of population control," said Nabeel Kassis, president of Bir Zeit University near this city, who along with 10 other Palestinian university presidents warned in an open letter this month that the policy is depleting faculties, student bodies and exchange programs. "They are taking away a segment of the population that could help most with state-building."
10-22-06 - Palestinian Strike Imperils School Year Many Palestinians put a premium on education as a means of survival _ a response to their turbulent history of uprooting and exile. The West Bank and Gaza Strip have one of the highest literacy rates in the Arab world, and Palestinian professionals hold key positions in wealthy Gulf economies, often supporting families back home.
10-22-06 - Coup in the works? Some Hamas sources say yes
10-22-06 - Kuwait donates $30m to Palestinians
10-22-06 - Empty pockets promise grim Eid feast for Gazans "This year, there will be no presents."
10-22-06 - Palestinian missile fired towards Israel, occupation troops advance into
10-22-06 - Palestinian security forces demonstrate in Gaza Dozens of Palestinian security officers loyal to president Mahmud Abbas have blocked Gaza's principal thoroughfares demanding unpaid wages, Palestinian security sources said.
10-22-06 - Boy killed by Israeli cluster bomb in Lebanon
10-22-06 - Israel admits it used phosphorus weapons Unexploded cluster bombs in Lebanon have regularly killed and maimed civilians since the end of the war. Rami Ali Hussein Shibly, 12, was killed and his nine-year-old brother brother, Khodr, injured yesterday by a cluster bomb as they picked olives in Halta. He was 21st person to be killed by the bomblets since the fighting ended
10-22-06 - Campaign to compensate Jewish refugees Some of the conference participants want the Jewish refugees? claims to be given equal weight to those of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war for Israeli independence For nearly 60 years, Israel has refused to implement UN resolution 194. In particular, article 11 which states: "Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible;" Chutzpah.
10-22-06 - Meridor confirmed as Israeli ambassador to U.S. Meridor supports the settlements
10-22-06 - A call to abolish cluster bombs Cluster munitions are not banned weapons, but their use in civilian areas violates the international ban on the use of indiscriminate weapons. According to the UN, 90 percent of the cluster bombs were dropped in the last 72 hours of the war - when all parties knew a cease-fire was imminent......A congressional investigation into the munitions' use after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon pressured the Reagan administration to ban sales of cluster weapons to Israel for six years.
10-22-06 - Olmert, Abbas agree to continue working on future talks
10-22-06 - Robert Fisk: We've all been veiled from the truth at no point is it made clear that Deir Yassin was just one among many villages in which the inhabitants were butchered - this was particularly the case in Galilee - and the women raped by Jewish fighters. Israel's "new" historians have already bravely disclosed these facts, along with the irrefutable evidence that they served Israel's purpose of dispossessing 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes in what was to become Israel.
10-22-06 - Report: Spy heading U.N. hostage efforts The United Nations reportedly appointed a German spy to help secure the release of two Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hezbollah.
10-22-06 - Israel founded using fake British banknotes
10-22-06 - Israel admits phosphorus bombing Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said in late July: "According to the Geneva Convention, when they use phosphorus bombs and laser bombs, is that allowed against civilians and children?" We used phosphorous too - in Iraq. But due to the inordinate amount of civilians Israel killed in Lebanon (disproportionate to the amount of Hezbollah fighters that they killed), it's safe to say that it was likely used against the Lebanese civvies. Our army isn't perfect, but for the most part, our guys don't harbor the animosity toward Arabs that the Israelis do.
10-22-06 - The post-Israel Middle East The Zionists have put all their eggs in the basket of American support, but that basket has developed two holes. One is the paradox that support for the Zionist series of wars and conflicts has so weakened the United States that it is no longer a reliable ally. Faced with a real crisis in Korea, the Americans are powerless to do anything, and have to rely on China to fix things. Some Israelis are already setting up shop in China. And then there's this. I predicted as much a couple of years ago on a message board.
10-22-06 - Sombre mood as south Lebanon gears up for Eid
10-22-06 - Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground' In mosques in America, it's fairly common for imams to preach assimilation, says Mr. Zogby. That's not as true in Europe, particularly in poorer neighborhoods where sermons can be laced with extremism.
10-22-06 - Poll: Jewish support for Iran strike declining Thirty-eight percent of American Jews would support U.S. military action against Iran, according to the American Jewish Committee?s annual survey of U.S. Jewish opinion, down from 49 percent last year.
10-22-06 - Peace with Syria should be explored: Israeli DM However, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has dismissed Assad's remarks about peace with Israel and declared that he would never give back the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights were seized by Israel during the Six Day War - a war that Syria did not start. Some say that Israel's plans to seize this prized piece of land were the reason they attacked and tried to sink the USS Liberty and all aboard - because the US would not have supported this plan if she discovered it (via the Liberty's surveillance).
10-22-06 - Israel: Flights over Lebanon to continue French Maj. Gen. Alain Pelligrini, who leads the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, said last week that the overflights are a major concern. A day later, France's Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie called the overflights "extremely dangerous" because the peacekeepers on the ground could see them as hostile acts and fire in self-defense.
10-22-06 - Israeli activists help Palestinians harvest their olive crop
10-22-06 - High Priestess of the Palestinian State Condi comes under attack by more pro-Israel extremists - this time FrontPage mag.
10-22-06 - Extreme right-winger to join Israeli government A FAR-RIGHT politician dubbed "the most dangerous politician in the history of Israel" because of his anti-Arab and authoritarian views last night looked set to join the Israeli government.
10-22-06 - Sven-Goran Eriksson is a big hit in Kiryat Gat Around 120 Israeli and Palestinian children, between the ages of six and 13, took part in the day-long program organized by The Peres Center for Peace.
10-22-06 - Four Israelis die after receiving French flu vaccination
10-22-06 - Report: Olmert Met with Saudi Officials The Prime Minister's office said earlier this month that there was no truth to reports of the meeting, but various sources have confirmed that he and two top intelligence and military officers flew to the palace of King Abdullah
10-22-06 - Parish disinvests from Church of England over morals "We cannot turn our backs on our sisters and brothers in Palestine any longer. We cannot close our ears to their pleas for help. How can we profit from policies which we believe to be both threatening the viability of a Palestinian state and also damaging prospects for peace and security for the Israeli people?"
10-22-06 - Israel downplays Russian's Hamas comment
10-22-06 - The Second Palestinian Intifada by Ramzy Baroud Now Available Covering the five year span of the uprising, ?The Second Palestinian Uprising?, documents history making events from 2000-2005, from the brutal Israeli invasion of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002 to the untimely death of some of the greatest icons in the quest for Palestinian statehood.
10-22-06 - Indonesia to buy four Israeli spy drones
10-22-06 - N. Korea, Turkmenistan, Eritrea worst for press freedom The study also criticizes the Palestinian Authority (134th) for failing to maintain internal stability and Israel (135th) for behavior outside its borders that "seriously threaten freedom of expression in the Middle East," it said.
10-21-06 - Masked gunmen in Gaza kill senior Fatah militant Masked gunmen killed a senior Fatah militant in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Sunday in what appeared to be another deadly episode of an increasingly violent power struggle with the governing Hamas movement.
10-21-06 - Israeli raid in Gaza kills one civilian - medics Hospital officials said the dead civilian was a man aged 50. Residents said he was shot and killed when soldiers raided an area near the Sufa Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
10-21-06 - Hamas may accept forming technocrat government: spokesman
10-21-06 - Palestinian doctors alarmed by new weapons injury we?re calling on the Israeli ministry to let us know what is being used and we?ve been asking them this question for over a month already. Asking them to let us know what is the weapon that is being used in Gaza for the simple reason for the benefit of the patients and there have been innocents, many who have been hurt by this new type of injuries and maybe new weapon and we would like to know exactly what it is so that the doctors can treat them.
10-21-06 - Tyres burned in Gaza pay protest Wassafi Batala, an officer in the national security service, said members had not been paid for six months
10-21-06 - Expansion of Hamas' auxiliary forces illegitimate: Fatah
10-21-06 - Erekat calls on Norway to restore aid level to that of 2005 Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat met here with Norwegian envoy to the peace process Svein Savje on Saturday, calling on Norway to restore the aid level to that of 2005.
10-21-06 - Fatah loyalists block Gaza City roads
10-21-06 - Member of the Executive Force injured in internal clashes in Gaza Palestinian medical sources reported that a member of the Executive Force, formed by Hamas, was injured on Saturday evening during clashes between members of the force and Fateh gunmen in Al Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
10-21-06 - Haniyeh urged to accept govt of 'national figures'
10-21-06 - Army withdraws from the Rafah Border Crossing area
10-21-06 - Abbas brings security commander out of retirement to curb Hamas buildup in West Bank
10-21-06 - West Bank: Left activists shield olive harvest The Tuesday before we arrived at Farata, verbal confrontations between Palestinians and settlers were reported there. The army separated the two groups and took the opportunity to declare that leftist activists would not be allowed in the groves during the harvest in order to keep things calm.....?The best way we can help Israel is to help the Palestinians. It is a moral issue, against the injustices of the occupation,? explains Physics doctor David Nir.
10-21-06 - Creative Resistance: The Nassar Family?s 'Tent of Nations' In this small corner of Palestine, on land that is under direct threat of confiscation, the Tent of Nations project was doing what it does best: "connecting people to their land," in the words of co-founder Daoud Nassar.
10-21-06 - Lawyer Defends Israeli Major's Arrest at KSG Under Almog?s leadership, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) dropped a one-ton bomb in a residential area of the Gaza Strip to assassinate a Hamas leader, killing the target and his assistant, along with 14 civilians, including nine children, according to news reports at the time.
10-21-06 - Guest column: Israel conference reflects minority view The United States can lay the groundwork for negotiations by reversing its policies which exacerbate the growing tensions. As citizens we should advocate for our government to lift severe restrictions on humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people and to repudiate all settlement expansion in the West Bank.
10-21-06 - Qatari emir ready to mediate between Palestinian factions Qatar's emir is ready to travel to the Palestinian territories to try to break the political deadlock and violence between Palestinian factions, a senior Palestinian official said
10-21-06 - Exclusive: Feds Probe a Top Democrat's Relationship with AIPAC Did a Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government.
10-21-06 - Hezbollah again calls for 'national unity cabinet' The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah repeated its call for a national unity cabinet for the country, calling it a "serious option it is useless to try to avoid."
10-21-06 - Palestinians Blame U.S. for Current Crisis Notice that Israel was mysteriously absent from the list of choices.
10-21-06 - Peres: Israel has no intention of attacking Iran ** Israel has said repeatedly it wants the United States and other countries to take the lead in dealing with Iran If they can get us to do it for them. Israeli officials have in the recent past demanded that the US deal with Iran and Syria.
10-21-06 - South Lebanon gets first state reconstruction aid Owners of entirely destroyed houses receive 40,000 dollars, with compensation for lesser damage awarded according to an official assessment.
10-21-06 - New study indicates Wall destroying northwestern West Bank economy
10-21-06 - Israeli forces confiscating family home of deceased Palestinian Gabr, who passed away last Saturday, lived in Beit El until increased attacks by neighboring Israeli settlers forced him to move to another village
10-21-06 - Religious authorities in several Mideast nations say the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr will begin Monday Official media in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Territories announced late Saturday that the feast would start Monday
10-21-06 - Russia calls for one-step-at-a-time approach in talks with Hamas Lavrov said it was unrealistic for Hamas to fulfill all of the Quartet's requirements immediately and that the Islamist group should be given more time.
10-21-06 - Israel, Palestine and Canada Harper's statement of total support for Israel in Lebanon is not in keeping with traditional Canadian views and policies. Canadians want balance and fairness. Unqualified support for Israel is tantamount to giving it a free pass to repeat the many savage things it has done, things most Canadians do not support.
10-21-06 - ICCR: Stop Silent Transfer of Palestinians
10-21-06 - KC event looks at Mideast conflict The conference included discussions of how people against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza conduct nonviolent resistance, how some Israeli soldiers refuse to serve in occupied areas, and international human rights.
10-21-06 - Strangers in the promised land An Arab hip-hop trio is waking the world to the reality of ?their? Israel, Sophie Heawood reports
10-21-06 - Essential ally - Pro-Israel lobby gathering here will examine some of the most troubling challenges to U.S. foreign policy AIPAC's mission is almost as essential for the United States as it is for Israel. BS.
10-20-06 - Four Palestinian refugees killed in Iraq, eight injured An unknown armed group in Iraq fired, on Thursday night, mortar shells and rounds of live ammunition at a Palestinian neighbourhood of Al Baladiya an area in Baghdad, killing four Palestinian refugees and injuring at least eight others.
10-20-06 - Shooting mars Gaza factions deal Witnesses said a gunman had opened fire on a convoy carrying Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.
10-20-06 - Muslims Flood Streets of Jerusalem for Ramadan "It's a terrible feeling," said Qassem al-Balboul, 42. He sought to pray in Jerusalem with his 8-year-old daughter, Sundus, who has been asking for years to visit Al Aksa Mosque. "We have no jobs and no money, and now we can?t even pray at our greatest mosque."
10-20-06 - Appeal from Palestinian Labor Union as poverty rate reaches 65 percent
10-20-06 - Iraqis protest against Israel on 'Jerusalem Day' More than a thousand Iraqi Shiite protesters have taken to the streets of Baghdad, Basra and Najaf to condemn Israel and demand that Jerusalem be handed over to Palestinian control.
10-20-06 - Qassam hits Sderot; 1 hurt
10-20-06 - Large arms shipment seized in Egypt near border with Gaza
10-20-06 - Some 10,500 Palestinians in Israel prisons The report said more than 500 women have been arrested since "al-Aqsa uprising," of whom 115 are still behind bars. Three of them gave birth in prison. Also, more than 5,000 children and teenagers were arrested during the same period. An estimated 400 are still in prison and some have reached the legal adult age of 18 while in jail.
Aren't they all in a jail when you get right down to it? In fact, some likely eat better in the Israeli prisons than in the prison called Palestine (where they live on less than 2 dollars a day). This is a direct result of US foreign policy.
10-20-06 - Palestinians living inside Israeli borders receive permits to visit Gaza relatives
10-20-06 - UNHCR decries Palestinian plight in Iraq Shelling of a Palestinian neighborhood in Baghdad has left four dead, prompting the U.N. refugee agency to renew appeals for local and regional responsibility.
10-20-06 - Israel hunts for tunnels in major Gaza raid
10-20-06 - LEBANON: Fishermen survive on handouts The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in August that the Ouzai Harbour was "the most polluted and damaged harbour in Lebanon, after nearly 320 boats were destroyed and sank after Israeli air raids on the harbour, fish market and cafeteria".
10-20-06 - Carter Book Slaps Israel With 'Apartheid' Tag, Provides Ammo to GOP Israel's current policy in the territories, Carter writes in the book's summary, is "a system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights." In a separate passage in the advance draft, the former president stated that "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land." You can pre-order this book at Amazon.
10-20-06 - Lebanon receives 300 mln USD from Kuwait for rebuilding Lebanon has received a grant of 300 million U.S. dollars from Kuwait for helping its post-war rebuilding, Lebanon's newspaper Daily Star reported Wednesday
10-20-06 - Livni: Lebanon's calls for peace talks prove war has left its mark Speaking to Kadima party members in Dimona, Livni said Berri's statement is "the best proof that the war has changed the rules of conduct in Lebanon, and now different voices are heard."
10-20-06 - Iran 'should stop student bans' Human Rights Watch says according to documents it has obtained, Iran's Ministry of Information - which performs intelligence functions - is orchestrating what it describes as a campaign to deny student activists their right to education Speaking of HRW and student bans, where is HRW's condemnation of Israel's ban of the Palestinian student (from today's news), mm? Israel is doing the same exact thing.
10-20-06 - UN: UNIFIL won?t shoot IAF planes UNIFIL forces have no intention of firing at Israeli planes patrolling Beirut?s skies, United Nations spokesperson Stefan Dujarric said Thursday. Furthermore, the UN has no plans to change the rules of engagement to permit the targeting of IAF planes.
10-20-06 - Israeli billionaire's investment plan raises fears of a hidden agenda By limiting the focus to families of the refugees who fled their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war the plan will also fuel Palestinian suspicions that its hidden agenda is to reduce the demand for a "right of return" to their family homes in what is now Israel in any future peace negotiations Prettying up the refugee camps does not change the fact that they are still refugee camps, and cramped ones at that.
10-20-06 - Israelis coming to D.C. Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter met this week with Stephen Hadley, the White House?s national security adviser. Stephen Hadley is a neocon.
10-20-06 - Russia says Hizbullah used US arms
10-20-06 - Judith Miller Agrees To Testify in Chicago Hamas Trial She also said a former New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, would testify that she witnessed part of the interrogation of Mr. Salah and saw no torture or mistreatment Judy Miller - she's everywhere the neocons need her to be... Or so it would seem.
10-20-06 - Putin jokes about Israeli sex scandal
10-20-06 - Ahmadinejad predicts Israel's collapse, warns of 'boiling wrath' "You (the Western powers) should know that any government that stands by the Zionist regime from now on will not see any result but the hatred of the people," he added. "The wrath of the region's people is boiling."
10-20-06 - Iranian leader threatens Israel's allies ** President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branded Israeli leaders "a group of terrorists" Friday, after Israel's prime minister warned Tehran would have "a price to pay" if it does not roll back its nuclear program.
10-20-06 - Palestinian woman battles blanket ban to study in Israel In the 10 months since she won the scholarship, Salameh has applied eight times in vain for a permit to enter Jerusalem. The answer has always been "no". What about online schooling (some colleges offer this)? I know that theirs is a situation with limited power supplies, but it may be one way around Israel's restrictions. Adapt, overcome, improvise.
10-20-06 - Hamas' most influential leader, Khaled Mashaal, seen as key to conflict Although that doesn't meet the demands of the United States and other countries that Hamas recognize Israel, Hamidi said it was a significant shift for Mashaal to agree to a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders.
10-20-06 - Four detained in Saudi Arabia for supporting Hezbollah Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally, fears the rising influence of Shi'ite power in Iran and in the Arab world. It has criticized Israeli military action in Lebanon but has also blamed the Iranian-backed Hezbollah for provoking the crisis.
10-20-06 - Art of resistance There is now a vibrant and growing body of work that can be said to be an art "of Palestine". Created by Palestinians and non-Palestinians, it is essentially an art of resistance. This has existed for decades in the Arab world but now it's coming from the west as well.
10-20-06 - Israeli planes steering clear of Lebanon: France The French cabinet minister told a news conference at U.N. headquarters that the Israeli air incursions were "extremely dangerous" and should stop permanently.
10-20-06 - Solidarity delegation denied entry while attempting to join farmers for olive harvest Today's intention was for the foreign group, including members from France and Sweden, to join the farmers near the Wall in Jenin to harvest their olive crop.
10-20-06 - Israel, U.S. agree: Not the time for Syria talks
10-20-06 - Palestinian majority wants elections A majority of Palestinians favors early parliamentary elections and opposes Hamas? rejection of Israel?s existence, a poll found.
10-20-06 - Peace Now: Most outposts partly built on private Palestinian land Nearly three-quarters of the 102 outposts in the West Bank - 74 percent - are at least partly built on private Palestinian land..... An additional 7.6 percent of the area on which the outposts are built is territory whose recognition as state lands is pending.
"territory whose recognition as state lands is pending" = more stolen Palestinian land, I bet.
10-20-06 - N. Korea, Mideast states, refuse chemical arms ban
10-20-06 - NCC president finds fear, frustration in Lebanon In the town of Cana, just below a home that had been so recently bombed, there were pictures of the several families that were killed lining the walls of the makeshift cemetery where the bodies were buried. Many of the pictures were of children, one after another. I got about half way through, walking alongside the mayor of Cana, and was overwhelmed with grief
10-20-06 - Protest in Syria to mark 'Jerusalem Day'
10-20-06 - Russia welcomes Fatah-Hamas vow to end internal violence
10-20-06 - Hamas to France: We suffer from fence, not you The French foreign minister's comments suggest a change in France?s position on the security fence. In July 2004 France ?gloated? over its achievements in the UN after it succeeded in passing a decision in the General Assembly to demand Israel dismantle the fence.
10-20-06 - Palestinians sneak past checkpoints for Jerusalem prayers for Palestinians in the West Bank, reaching this revered mosque is no simple matter. Since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000, Israel has imposed harsh travel restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
10-20-06 - Lebanon's Hezbollah Marks Jerusalem Day
10-20-06 - Palestinian Christians meet in D.C. Top Palestinian Christians met in Washington to discuss peace in the Holy Land.
10-20-06 - Egypt's Brotherhood: World starving Palestinians "We follow with sorrow ... the strangling blockade and aggressive starvation of the Palestinians, punishing them for their democratic and honest choice," the
10-20-06 - Terror suspect says CIA recruited him
10-20-06 - Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman calls for end to cultural boycott of Israel
10-20-06 - Palestinian virtuoso brings Arabic music to the West Regrettably, record industry politics involving Sting?s ex-manager obstructed the proposed session, and Shaheen was forced to supplant Sting?s vocal with solo violin.
10-20-06 - Arab group wants action from Harper in Mideast
10-20-06 - Supporting Israel to Death I asked him what he wanted to see happen. He said that he wanted the Bush administration to bring Israelis and Palestinians together "and not quit until there is an agreement."
He said that is what the United States did in the late 1970s to achieve the Egypt-Israeli treaty His friend needs to study the accords that Israel agreed to at that very point in time; some DID deal with the Palestinian conflict. But Israel failed to uphold the terms of THOSE accords(not surprising, is it?)...
10-20-06 - Presbyterian Peacemaker shares his story with schools and churches he tells a story about his father-in-law, Audeh Rentisi, a Palestinian who was forced from his home at age 12 in 1948. "As they left, the soldiers fired shots over their heads and pushed them into the hills. He became a refugee and for three years he lived in a tent,"
I bet it's the same man as the one on the middle of this page.
10-20-06 - Turkish troops arrive in Lebanon Turkey is the first contributor with a majority Muslim population.
10-20-06 - Pollard to PM: Your silence costing me my life
10-20-06 - Controversial Mideast play enjoys early NY success The New York Observer's John Heilpern said "after all the uproar and bitter controversy," Corrie's writings "turns out to be a poignant, modest and humane play" while USA Today said "if her views provoke emotions and inspire debate, isn't that the purpose of art?"
10-20-06 - Muslim, Hindu, among new accompaniers Ecumenical accompaniers, who serve a minimum of three months, work in various capacities with local churches, Palestinian and Israeli NGOs, as well as Palestinian communities to try to reduce the brutality of the Israeli occupation and improve the daily lives of both peoples.
10-19-06 - Two youth injured in Jenin invasion
10-19-06 - Israel may have used experimental weapon in Gaza The US weapon, which is still in the testing phase, is believed by experts to be "highly carcinogenic and harmful to the environment."
10-19-06 - Palestinian FM dismisses proposal to form government of technocrats
10-19-06 - Hardship goes on for Palestinians on Iraq-Syria border Some 353 Iraqi Palestinians have been stranded on the Iraqi-Syrian border for almost six months now and no solution to their suffering seems at hand as the Syrian authorities are reluctant to admit them, fearing an exodus from war-torn Iraq.
10-19-06 - Three youth injured in Hebron
10-19-06 - Army plans to level ten homes in a Tulkarem village Under the pretext of ?illegal constructions?, the Israeli army plans to level ten Palestinian homes in Faroun village, near Tulkarem, in the norther part of the West Bank. The residents were handed military orders and were given three days to appeal against the decision.
10-19-06 - Israeli soldiers attack and injure 18 year old girl in Hebron
10-19-06 - Army continues to deny patients from Gaza access to medical treatment
10-19-06 - Striking doctors send sick Palestinians scrambling
10-19-06 - Furor Over Carter?s South Africa Analogy several Jewish leaders have complained that the ads, by criticizing the entire Democratic Party for the hostile statements of a few members, are undercutting the broad pro-Israel coalition that has dominated American politics for decades. - "the broad pro-Israel coalition that has dominated American politics for decades." But if Walt and Measheimer say that they're anti-Semites. K.
10-19-06 - Hezbollah denies cluster bomb use HRW said Hezbollah made two strikes with Chinese-made Type-81 rockets - their first recorded use. But Hezbollah MP Hassan Hoballah told the BBC: "We did not use these bombs. We don't have them." ....HRW says until now Israel prevented publication of the details for security reasons.
: "HRW says until now Israel prevented publication of the details for security reasons. " Mm k.
10-19-06 - Hamas "shocked" by global opposition to its power
10-19-06 - Heated debate over use of torture The Israeli figure is interesting since it conceals a stark difference in attitude between the country's Jewish majority and its minority of Arab citizens.
This in turn is a reflection of their obvious differences in attitude towards the prevailing security climate.
And that would likely be because its the ARAB citizens that are most likely to get tortured (and have been). It's where the term 'Palestinian hanging' came from - an Israeli technique.
10-19-06 - U.S. to Israel: Ease up on Arab-Americans During her recent trip to Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raised the issue with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and U.S. diplomats have also recently complained to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, officials said. "They are being treated as Arabs and not Americans," one senior official said. "They basically treat them as second-class citizens."
10-19-06 - Lebanon denies arms smuggling from Syria
10-19-06 - Abbas Outranks Haniyeh in Palestinian Authority
10-19-06 - Israeli aims in Gaza fall short despite siege -UN
10-19-06 - Olmert in Moscow / Sowing the seeds of a preemptive strike the prime minister has sown the seeds of the possibility that Israel may be forced to carry out a preemptive strike against Iran if the international community does not succeed in its diplomatic efforts, and if no international force is used against Iran.
10-19-06 - Turkey provides humanitarian aid to Palestinians Turkey has sent humanitarian aid worth of one million U.S. dollars to the Palestinians, Turkish Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Thursday.
10-19-06 - Poll: Forty percent of American voters believe the Israel Lobby has been a key factor in going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran A new poll commissioned by the Council for the National Interest Foundation shows that a significant number of Americans are wary of the power of the Israel lobby, and believe it is behind the invasion of Iraq and the current belligerent tone of the White House and Congress toward Iran. Those that don't agree may need to read this, for starters.
10-19-06 - Dichter to White House: Egypt must do more Dichter also met with his U.S. counterpart, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. We've been given our orders.
10-19-06 - Iran seen stopping Shalit release Iran reportedly bribed the top Hamas leader to prevent the release of an Israeli soldier being held in the Gaza Strip. Mm k.
10-19-06 - Jordanian court convicts 8 militants of plotting to kill Americans, Israelis
10-19-06 - Arab youths surprised to recieve recruitment orders Will have to watch and see where this goes.
10-19-06 - Hamas denies Iran's role in prisoner swap deal with Israel
10-19-06 - Sheetrit: Israel must negotiate peace with Arab states on the basis on the Saudi initiative
10-19-06 - Bush tells Mubarak Syria still active in Lebanon
10-19-06 - Bishop of Jerusalem, Christians Rally in Support of Palestine
10-19-06 - Israel Lobby Congressional Junkets ? as Usual PoliticalMoneyLine, a watchdog group that follows money in politics, reported on its website that while congressional travel spending has significantly dropped this election year from levels attained in 2003, the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) continues to spend freely on congressional junkets it runs to Israel. The junkets are underwritten by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), which is the 501(c)(3) wing of AIPAC.
10-19-06 - Lebanon: Israel greater nuclear threat than N. Korea
10-19-06 - Lebanese army dismantles Israeli pipes The Lebanese army said in a statement on Wednesday that "A tall sand barrier was built as a shield in response to the (Israel's) violation in order to prevent the diversion of rainwater into Lebanon and causing damages to the properties of Lebanese citizens. "
10-19-06 - Israel Must Not Ignore A Devalued American Dollar Israel must not ignore such facts while perilously relying on one superpower, no matter how trustworthy, as an implied guarantor of its prosperity and perhaps viable existence..... It would be propitious, in the long run, for the Israeli shekel to grow in value based solely on the merits of Israel?s economy, implicitly suggesting that Israel not rely on the fortunes of its staunchest ally. .....Cut the cord now Israel, your brainpower needs no external help Ungrateful @$%@!~!@ers.
10-19-06 - Organizations in Kafr Qasim demand Israeli government acknowledge massacre
10-19-06 - Russia and Israel to deepen military ties
10-19-06 - Collaborator's sons attack Jews
10-19-06 - Iran must be intimidated, says Israeli leader
10-19-06 - Lebanon mines 'continue to kill' Landmines and cluster munitions are continuing to kill and injure between three and four civilians in Lebanon each day, a campaign group has said. The bad press from the almost daily reports about civilian casualties of the cluster bomblets Israel fired into Lebanon are enough to warrant a handy dandy new report from HRW about the 'cluster munitions' Hezbollah allegedly fired into Israel. They must do the Hasbara. It means more to them than the moral high ground, quite obviously.
10-19-06 - Israel cannot survive: Ahmadinejad
10-19-06 - Unifil head hints at use of force The commander of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon (Unifil) has suggested the use of force to stop continuing Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace. ....Gen Pellegrini also said Unifil had seen no evidence of illegal arms being smuggled in from Syria.
10-19-06 - Hizbullah 'used cluster bombs' Again, keep in mind HRW's sudden turn towards Israel of late. And again : "A leading human rights group called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to end its one-sided approach to the Middle East.
In a release Monday, Human Rights Watch said the recently formed council has passed three resolutions against Israel, but has ignored the actions of Hezbollah and armed Palestinian groups". Since when does a human rights organization lobby on behalf of Israel?
10-19-06 - Hebron Reflection: War is Not Healthy A few days ago three Israeli settler boys attacked another CPTer and me as we
walked past an Israeli settlement enclave. They threw stones at us, hit us and
kicked us. Nothing surprising in this day and age, you may think. Perhaps not,
but what amazed me was the total lack of response from the many adult settlers
witnessing this attack
10-19-06 - Israeli siege is undermining peace
10-19-06 - Britain 'is blocking' cluster bomb ban The move coincides with the release of research suggesting that up to one million potentially lethal unexploded bomblets remain in Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli attacks on Hizbollah.
10-19-06 - Analysis: Rice offers Hamas olive branch the dream of a viable Palestinian state Secretary Rice mentioned is not about to materialize anytime soon, at least not until all parties concerned can come to terms with the fact that you can coexist alongside your neighbor, even if you choose not to ask him over to dinner. When one side has their boot on the throat of the other, it's kind of tough to take that simplistic perspective there, Claude.
10-19-06 - Annan presses Lebanon on disarming Hezbollah
10-19-06 - French TV station wins 'fake film' case
10-19-06 - Nobel Nominee To Speak At Area Colleges Elias Chacour, a Christian-Palestinian-Israeli ambassador for peace, will make a visit to Eastern Mennonite University and James Madison University in late October, sponsored by EMU?s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP).
10-19-06 - Former enemies unite for peace
10-19-06 - Israel, U.S. sow misery in Mideast The American friendship with Israel should have resulted in a strengthening of Israel's inclination for peace, compromise and respect for human rights. Instead, we have supported a failed political and military strategy.
10-19-06 - My Name Is Rachel Corrie Extends Off-Broadway Through 12/30
10-19-06 - Orthodox rabbis urge yes vote on Somerville human rights questions?"an awakening" "Jews were not massacred, but lived side by side for hundreds of years with Muslims and Christians in Palestine and in every Muslim country," giving refuge for those fleeing the Inquisition and the Crusades. But that coexistence began to change around 100 years ago with the introduction of Zionism, which sought "the transformation of Judaism from a religion, serving God? to a political movement," aimed at acquiring territory.
10-19-06 - Palestinian Puzzle - A Business Professor in Springfield Goes on Trial Today On U.S. Charges of Supporting Hamas. He Strongly Denies It.
10-19-06 - Academics against ?post-Zionist? professors
10-19-06 - 'Jerusalem women,' touring as Partners for Peace, fault Israeli policies Khamis, who said she was part of a Christian community that has been present in Israel since the very beginning of the Christian era, showed pictures of her family's olive trees, marked for destruction by red slashes of paint, and then uprooted by the Israelis, she said, to make way for a new security wall "to protect settlers from all over the world."
10-19-06 - UNSC monthly Mideast debate turns into finger-pointing among participants
10-19-06 - Only dialogue can bring peace to Middle East: top UN envoy
10-19-06 - Mideast conflict plays out in terrorism funding trial What's really interesting about the prosecution of Hamas-supporters in this country is that Israel itself helped Hamas along in its infancy (Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.
") because it was seen as a counter to the secular PLO. Yet we aren't to focus on that little nugget of information.
10-19-06 - U.S. lawyer turns Israeli soldier A 37-year-old New York lawyer, inspired by the Lebanon war, joined the Israeli army.
Something wrong with joining the US army?
10-19-06 - America impedes peace in Mideast America does not call the shots in this relationship, that much is clear.
10-18-06 - Hamas militant involved in kidnapping Shalit killed by Israeli army: Hamas source
10-18-06 - OPT: West Bank patients grow increasingly desperate for medical treatment
10-18-06 - For Palestinians, this year's Ramadan is the worst ever
10-18-06 - Despite repressive measures, thousands of Palestinians reached Al Aqsa Mosque for night of prayer Tens of thousands of Palestinian Muslims spent the night in Al Aqsa Mosque praying during the last days of Ramadan. The Israeli military stepped up the repressive procedures keeping thousands more out.
10-18-06 - Is violence Palestinian "disease"?-Hamas official "(Violence) has taken away the language of brotherhood and replaced it with arms ... It has stolen our unity and divided us into two camps, or three, or ten,"
10-18-06 - Mines and brides: UN staff tread lightly on Golan Strategic experts agree that Israel's command of the Golan, much of which is heavily mined, would make any assault by the lesser-armed Syrians easy to repel
10-18-06 - Appeals Court Upholds Terrorist Label for a Jewish Group The Israeli cabinet declared Kahane Chai a terrorist organization in 1994, and the United States State Department followed suit in 1997. In 2003, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell reaffirmed the designation and added that 20 entities were aliases of Kahane Chai, including a Web site, Kahane.org.
10-18-06 - Iran must be intimidated, says Israeli leader
10-18-06 - Running from Iraq - Don't Imagine It Will Reduce the Jihadist Threat Neocons like this individual writing for the AEI- neocon central - just LOVE having American GIs taking the brunt of violence in the Middle East -it keeps the attention of the jihadis away from Israel. Now they want us to stay for awhile and continue this policy.
10-18-06 - From gunbelts to greenbelts After Hizbullah's 34-day war with Israel, Erlend Clouston tracks down its representatives and finds them keen to talk about parks and pollution
10-18-06 - A symbol of failure: The unholy state of the River Jordan What has made this even worse, since Israel started sucking out the waters of the Jordan for the water carrier it built in the 1960s, is the man-created depletion of the river which has reduced it from a level of 1.3bn cubic metres a year to what is by comparison a trickle of some 100 million cubic metres.
10-18-06 - Court presses Israeli army on ban Israel's High Court has urged the army to reconsider its denial of entry to a Palestinian woman who wants to study at an Israeli university.
10-18-06 - Lebanon businesses try to bounce back
10-18-06 - Lebanon's young begin return to normalcy Compared to many southern Lebanese schools, Ansariyeh was relatively fortunate. Israeli bombing completely flattened 50 schools, say officials from UNICEF, the UN's international children's fund.
10-18-06 - Israel Lobby Initiates Hispanic Strategy: "Invadimos a Iran" The Israel lobby clearly sees Hispanic voters as a new and largely untapped force in American politics in need of leadership harnessed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) foreign policy issue framework.
10-18-06 - PM pledges 'steadfast support' for Israel No amount of political pressure will force the Canadian government into taking a neutral stance regarding Israel's fight against terrorism, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday in promising Canada's "steadfast support, encouragement and friendship" to the Jewish state.
10-18-06 - Congresswoman: Safeguard US aid to Abbas
10-18-06 - Israel: Iran targeting us with drugs Israel accused Iran of trying to flood it with drugs via Lebanon.
10-18-06 - Jordan, Syria discuss river rights Jordan and Syria are negotiating water rights from the Yarmouk River, a source Israel also claims.
10-18-06 - Festivities in support of Palestinians
10-18-06 - Hamas government urges int'l community to stop Israeli offensive on Gaza Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Wednesday that the incursion into Rafah was the biggest operation in Gaza Strip since Israel's major withdrawal in late 2005.
10-18-06 - Peretz considers granting legal status for illegal settlement outposts
10-18-06 - Even Palestinian-Americans are being turned back at the border
10-18-06 - Rectors: Let Palestinians study "How can we send Israeli students to universities abroad while we act this way when Israeli academics have been boycotted in countries like England and Canada? How can we appeal to those countries if we are doing the exact same thing?"
10-18-06 - Between Syria and Israel, a strategic breakthrough for peace is possible Virtually all Arab and Muslim leaders - whether regarded in Washington as "radical," like Assad, or "moderate," like King Abdullah II of Jordan, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, or King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - share Assad's perception that the Bush administration is seriously biased in Israel's favor, and that it will make no serious move without Jerusalem's assent.
10-18-06 - Middle-East conflict informs game Global Conflict: Palestine centres on the activities of a young journalist.
10-18-06 - Editor beaten in Bangladesh A pro-Israel editor reportedly was beaten in Bangladesh.
10-18-06 - Syracuse summit looks at finding ways to peace Among the participants were former U-S Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke and Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian legislator and scholar and a former spokesman of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East Peace process.
10-18-06 - The prosecution Ferguson was braced for a new barrage of criticism at a hearing not long after he made the bombshell announcement last month the government was dismissing a key element of the indictment -- that Salah provided material support to a terrorist organization.
10-17-06 - 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli army, including stone-throwing youth
10-17-06 - Israeli troops push into Gaza, 2 Palestinians killed The residents said at least two Palestinians were killed overnight in the northern Gaza Strip and identified them as being a gunman from the governing Hamas Islamist group and a civilian.
10-17-06 - Three youth killed in Qabatia
10-17-06 - Israel threatens massive Gaza ground assault Israel has ratcheted up threats of a massive ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing war of words with the ruling Hamas movement which has vowed to teach the army a harsh lesson
10-17-06 - Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks "We don't know what it means - new weapons or something new added to a previous weapon," he said. "We had patients who died after stabilisation and that is very unusual."
10-17-06 - U.S. protests restrictions on its citizens entering West Bank The United States government has lodged a vigorous protest with Israel over its restrictions on the entry of Palestinian-Americans into the territories. State Department officials told senior Israeli diplomats in Washington that they find it "hard to understand" Israel's discriminating against American citizens based on their ethnic background.
10-17-06 - Abbas says considering poll on fate of Hamas government Abbas promoted the idea of a cabinet of technocrats as a way to ease crippling Western sanctions, but he pledged not to force it on Hamas, and the ruling party was cool to the idea.
10-17-06 - New power line to connect Israel and Gaza After Israel bombed Gaza generator, new power line to be built between Israel and Gaza. The funding: Palestinian tax funds withheld by Israel
10-17-06 - Millions around globe stand up against poverty - U.N. School children in Gaza, cricket fans in India and African church-goers have helped set a Guinness world record for "the largest number of people to 'stand up against poverty,'" U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
10-17-06 - Soldiers break into PLC headquarters, abduct two Palestinians Israeli soldiers broke on Tuesday into the Palestinian Legislative council office in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, and abducted two residents, including one employee
10-17-06 - UN calls for ending siege on the Palestinian territories Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has called on international community on Tuesday to lift the siege on the Palestinian people.
10-17-06 - IDF holds first Philadelphi raid since 2005 pullout Security sources said there are serious concerns at the growing smuggling activities between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, through use of tunnels.
10-17-06 - French forces: Stop Lebanon overflights or we'll open fire The commanders of the French contingent in UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) have warned that if Israeli warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon, they may have to open fire on them, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday
10-17-06 - HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL - PART 3: The political war Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert adopted Bush's language on the "war on terrorism", reminding his citizenry that Hezbollah was a part of "the axis of evil". His remarks have been reinforced by Bush, whose comments during his address before the UN General Assembly mentioned al-Qaeda once - and Hezbollah and Hamas five times each. The United States and Israel have now lumped Islamist groups willing to participate in the political processes in their own nations with those takfiris and Salafists who are bent on setting the region on fire.
A very interesting take on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of this past summer.
10-17-06 - Saddam: Kurds dividing Iraq for Israeli benefit
10-17-06 - Hamas says likely to accept forming gov't of technocrats
10-17-06 - Hebron Update: 8-14 October 2006 a Palestinian associate reported that settlers had broken
into three shops bordering the Bab iBaladeyyeh (Beit Romano) checkpoint.. They
had smashed their way in through the back walls of the stores. He also reported
that Israelis have been sneaking into and operating a stone quarry at night,
located near the village of Dahariya.. He said that the invasions constitute
illegal land confiscation and have been reported to Israeli police. He added, if
they get no satisfaction, they plan to take their complaint to Israel's high
court.
10-17-06 - Israeli politicians go on trial Correspondents say allegations of sleaze at the top of Israeli politics have shaken the establishment and caused dismay and disillusionment among already jaded voters.
10-17-06 - Plan to boost security seen as power play Omar Shaban, a Gaza political analyst, said the aid will backfire if perceived as partisan. "They have to do it in a way that they don't show it as empowering Fatah against Hamas. They can't show it as a part of the conflict," he said. "They have to say that we want to help the Palestinian people, they have to put in the context of the Palestinian state, not the president."
10-17-06 - U.N. naval force patrols Lebanese waters An international force is in place to help the Lebanese navy prevent arms smuggling.
10-17-06 - Hamas-led government renounces inter-Palestinian violence
10-17-06 - British MP apologizes for comparing Israeli tactics to the Nazis Turner slammed the British government for not calling for an immediate cease-fire during the summer conflict. He said even Human Rights Watch condemns Israel?s lawless attacks on south Lebanon that were followed by civilian casualties. "Those were the tactics of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940, attacking fleeing civilians from the air," he said.
IT's the truth.
10-17-06 - Lebanon asks Arab states for more help Prime Minister Fuad Saniora appealed to Arab countries Tuesday to increase and accelerate their donations to Lebanon to help it rebuild from what he called "a series of devastating Israeli invasions" in the past 30 years.
10-17-06 - Peace being sown among olive trees this year has not been without problems. In recent weeks settlers set fire to two olive groves, Palestinian farmers say, and Israeli police arrested 10 settler youths - carrying knives, saws and brass knuckles - suspected of attacking and beating Palestinians harvesting olives, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
10-17-06 - Jordan: Unemployed refugee women face poverty More than 33 per cent of women in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan are unemployed, according to a study released on Sunday by the Amman-based Palestinian Centre for Citizenship Rights
10-17-06 - Israel Plans House Demolitions in Al Jiftlik, Jordan Valley We were told that 25 homes in Al Jiftlik were scheduled for demolition by the Israeli army. The owners of the homes had been given notice of the demolition in the last two months and had been called to appear before a military tribunal at the nearby colony to appeal against the decision.
10-17-06 - Israeli Settlers Annex 150 Dunams of Palestinian Lands in Susia
10-17-06 - Mussa calls on all Arab nations to help Lebanon rebuild Arab League chief Amr Mussa has called for all Arab nations to help with the massive task of Lebanese reconstruction following Israel's devastating summer offensive.
10-17-06 - Teacher?s Strike to End After Eid
10-17-06 - 'Minor' glitches delay Israel pullout from Lebanese village: UN Israeli troops continued to occupy the Lebanese northern parts of Ghajar, after their October 1 withdrawal from southern Lebanon. That came almost seven weeks after a UN-brokered truce took effect on August 14, ending 34 days of war against the Lebanese Hezbollah Shiite militant group.
10-17-06 - Jordan: UNRWA health care extends beyond refugee camps
10-17-06 - A foreign policy tailspin The administration's green light to Israel to do anything it wants to grind down the Palestinians, reversing 30 years of U.S. policy, as Powell pointed out, has caused structural damage to America's efforts toward a just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem
10-17-06 - Egypt urges Hamas to back down
10-17-06 - Olmert speech doesn?t mention pullback Prime Minister Ehud Olmert laid out his agenda for the coming year in a policy speech to parliament Monday, but he made no mention of the key issue that brought him to power: a unilateral pullback from the West Bank .
10-17-06 - Poll shows Palestinians far from peace This poll sounds mighty suspect - especially seeing as how it comes on the heels of this one - which gave very different results.
10-17-06 - Israel to help NATO patrols Details of the pact have not been released, but the accord, agreed to Monday, is seen as a way to bolster ties between Israel and Arab nations with borders on the Mediterranean.
10-17-06 - Seven prisoners escape from PA jail near Ramallah
10-17-06 - Israeli emigres urged to return Israel's Immigration Ministry is trying to persuade citizens who moved abroad to return.
10-17-06 - Google eyes second Israel center The leading Internet search engine announced Tuesday that it plans to open a research and development center in Tel Aviv next year. The center will seek to build partnerships with Israeli universities and institutions, Google said in a statement. Google is evidently very friendly with Israel. They also chose to use as their search algorithm one developed by an Israeli man. Anyone that knows that algorithm could potentially be a very rich person.
10-17-06 - Jewish political partisans in U.S. engaged in pre-election outreach
10-17-06 - The Jewish left rears its head The new lobby will try to promote a known "political recipe": It will back Israeli policies when they promote the lobby's agenda, but in other cases it will try to sabotage them.
10-17-06 - Jewish group calls off Ignatieff's mid-leadership trip to Israel The Canada-Israel Committee didn't want an all-party parliamentary delegation to the Middle East to turn into a leadership side show.
10-17-06 - May we criticize Israel?
10-17-06 - President Ben Ali honoured for his defence of Palestinians
10-17-06 - Refusnik left in underwear, only
10-17-06 - Flood of late campaign donations fueled Johnson's win over McKinney The Jewish community particularly seized on the opportunity to defeat McKinney, who some critics view as anti-semitic and who has been outspoken in her support for Palestinian and Arab causes.
10-16-06 - The Right To Return, a basic right still denied United Nations Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, who was later assassinated by a Zionist terrorist hit squad, stated: "It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine"
10-16-06 - Israel escalating military operation in Gaza: DM Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said on Monday that Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip was escalating.
10-16-06 - Palestinian court to examine petition to sack govt
10-16-06 - Fatah cancels Jordan talks citing "national security" The Fatah party of moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas have abruptly cancelled a planned meeting of its central committee in Jordan, citing urgent "national security" concerns.
10-16-06 - Israeli Authorities do not allow MS Palestinian patient medical help The Israeli authorities did not allow Osama Al Adel, an MS patient from the West Bank city of Qalqilia to travel out of the country for medical treatment after claiming that he is a security threat to the state of Israel.
10-16-06 - Settlers annex 150 Dunams of Palestinian lands near Hebron
10-16-06 - Erekat calls for int'l protection to Palestinians amid Israel's invasion threats Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat Monday urged the international community to protect the Palestinian people from Israel's threatened invasion, the local radio Voice of Palestine reported
10-16-06 - Army air strikes Gaza
Monday night, Palestinian security sources reported that the Israeli air force shelled Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip causing damage, no injuries were reported.
10-16-06 - Hamas slams reports Abbas is forming new forces loyal to himself The governing Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Monday slammed reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was forming new forces to face Hamas militia.
10-16-06 - BBC will appeal FoI ruling on Balen report The BBC will appeal to the High Court to overturn an Information Tribunal ruling that the corporation should release a report into its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under the Freedom of Information Act Contrary to what the JTA reports on the same topic, the BBC with regard to its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was found not be biased against Israel, but biased toward Israel. Here is an article detailing the such from May of this year by the Sunday Times of London. Given that, what exactly is the BBC trying to hide?
10-16-06 - Secret war testimony broadcast over PA system During the meeting, an embarrassing incident happed when part of the top-secret testimony given to the committee was heard over the loudspeaker system in the Tel Aviv Convention Center where the meeting took place.
10-16-06 - Steep drop in travel spending after congressional scandals behind the American Israel Education Foundation, which has emerged as the new top sponsor despite its close ties to the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington.
The foundation spent $583,131, sponsoring 62 trips to Israel for lawmakers, their relatives and staff from July 2005 to July 2006.....while the organization is considered an independent entity, its affiliation with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee -- a lobby that is consistently ranked among the nation's most powerful interest groups -- blurs the lines between lobbies and nonprofit educational groups. Members of Congress are banned from accepting travel expenses from lobbyists...Founded in 1990, the education foundation shares its office space and phone number with AIPAC -- the lobbying group. In 2005, 17 of the foundation's directors were also vice presidents on the group's board, and one was the president.
And just why are these trips allowed in the wake of the lobbying scandal? The Israeli lobby, of course.
10-16-06 - Israel's internal security minister to dispense advice in the US He will also meet in Washington with Mueller, US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, Drug Enforcement Agency administrator Karen Tandy and Frances Townsend, the homeland security adviser to US President George W. Bush. After Boston, Dichter, ministry director-general Ronny Falk and Israel Police's US representative, Cmdr. Mickey Levy, are expected to travel to the nation's capital to meet with government leaders from the White House and Congress as well as American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) heads The Israelization of the United States continues at full speed.
10-16-06 - Lebanon implicitly rejects Olmert peace talks offer "Real peace resides in Israel accepting the Arab peace initiative, promoted at the time by prince (now King) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and agreed to at the Arab League summit held in Beirut," said a statement from Siniora's office.
10-16-06 - Olmert says he will meet with Bush in November Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that he will meet with US President George W. Bush in November, to discuss arch-foe Iran's nuclear program.
10-16-06 - Israel wants Lebanon talks but not Syria
10-16-06 - U.N. force only protects Israel: top Shi'ite cleric "The widening of the scope of Israeli violations in the south and other areas in Lebanon and their repetition within the sight and hearing range of UNIFIL forces that don't interfere to stop these violations... affirm that these forces have come here to protect Israel not Lebanon,"
10-16-06 - Israeli bombs 'major threat' to Lebanese children: UNICEF The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million bomblets into Lebanon during the 34-day conflict.
10-16-06 - Dead Man Walking The power struggle has been intensifying for months now, fueled by frustration in Gaza over unpaid salaries and Israel's economic stranglehold. Add in an upsurge in crime, itself partly a byproduct of rampant unemployment, and the violence threatens to evolve into something altogether more amorphous It's what happens when Israel withholds custom duties - millions of dollars worth - for over six months depriving government employees (including doctors, teachers, and policemen) of their income. It is a policy that Israel involved the US in in the hopes of turning the Palestinians against their democratically elected government which includes members of Hamas.
10-16-06 - Abbas to deliver important speech by the weekend: official
10-16-06 - Moscow tells Israel it will tighten its export controls on weapons For all intensive purposes, the order is directed mainly against Syria, and intended to prevent the transfer of Russian arms to Hezbollah and other terror groups.
10-16-06 - US: Jury picked for alleged Hamas supporters trial
10-16-06 - Prison administration in Nafha bars visitations The families, travelling under difficult conditions for several hours, were turned back without seeing their detained family members.
10-16-06 - Golan Heights again center of land-for-peace deal On Monday, Olmert repeated his rejection in a speech before the Israeli parliament. U.S. officials also have rejected Assad's gesture.
10-16-06 - Peace Now spokesman threatened during reserve duty
10-16-06 - Food Distribution in the Palestinian Territories Food baskets have been delivered to 1000 Palestinian families in the cities of Hebron, Salfit, and Old Nablus.
10-16-06 - Fatah-linked radio studios attacked and destroyed
10-16-06 - Olmert sees Arab axis of peace to counter Iran
10-16-06 - Webcast: Syracuse University Broadcasts International Summit on World Peace
10-16-06 - Confronting the War Pushers.
10-16-06 - A Controversial Death Provokes a Controversial Play The first night of previews, they gave a free ticket to a man passing out pro-Israel fliers outside the theater. Other nights have drawn other protestors passing out leaflets. To formalize the debate, the producers also planned audience ?talk-backs? after some shows, with participants ranging from Rachel Corrie?s parents?who originally provided the show?s material?to playwrights David Hare and Tony Kushner. Passing out pro-Israeli flyers outside of a play? Afraid people might get a small glimpse of the truth?
10-16-06 - ZOA Condemns Sec'y Rice For Making Most Pro-Palestinian Speech In Memory By U.S. Administration Official The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice?s keynote speech last week to the American Task Force on Palestine as the most pro-Palestinian Arab, anti-Israel speech in memory by a major US Administration official Oh dear. Condi, you've got some 'splaining to do.
10-15-06 - Death toll passes 23 as Israel hunts down Gaza rockets
10-15-06 - Soldiers suspected of looting homes during operation At least seven Palestinian families claim that the soldiers looted jewelry and money from their houses.
10-15-06 - Hamas threatens to break ceasefire after Israeli air strikes Israel and Hamas were on the brink of war last night as a senior member of the Islamic movement hinted that it would stop observing a 20-month-old ceasefire in retaliation for the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip.
10-15-06 - Israeli police arrest 3,230 illegal Palestinian residents: newspaper
10-15-06 - Palestinian campaign calls for immediate forming of national unity government The Palestinian National Initiative party launched a popular campaign Sunday calling for forming a unity government immediately to avoid more internal infighting.
10-15-06 - Israel gears up attacks on Gaza after failing to retrieve captive soldier: official
10-15-06 - Two-Thirds of Palestinians Want Peace with Israel
10-15-06 - Hamas, negotiators discuss prisoner swap
10-15-06 - Israel threatens to step up deadly Gaza offensive According to army radio, General Yossi Baidatz, head of Israel's intelligence research department, told the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday that surface-to-air missiles and Russian-made anti-tank rockets had been brought into Gaza.
10-15-06 - How Hezbollah Defeated Israel - Part Two: Winning the Ground War "We knew they were going to do this," Ilay Talmor, an exhausted Israeli second lieutenant, said at the time. "This is territory they say is theirs. We would do the same thing if someone came into our country."......"It seemed to them (USAF officers) that Israel threw away the book in Lebanon. This wasn't surgical, it wasn't precise, and it certainly wasn't smart. You can't just coat a country in iron and hope to win."
10-15-06 - Olmert, Abbas deadlocked over summit: Israel aide Efforts to arrange a long-awaited summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are deadlocked, a senior Israeli official said on Sunday.
10-15-06 - Palestinian charities help Hamas endure
10-15-06 - Muslims are the new Jews I reserve that phrase for the Palestinians who have been: forcibly expelled from their properties, had their properties seized, have been ghettoized and walled in, are deemed inferior by Zionists both past and present, are deemed a 'demographic problem' by Zionists both past and present, are collectively punished for the sins of a few, are impoverished and starving as most of the 'civilized world' turns a blind eye, are severely dehumanized in the Western media (at the behest of pro-Israeli media 'watchdogs'), are in need of a homeland
10-15-06 - Israel calls for tough UN action on 'demented' Iran US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, warned Tuesday however that the resolution on Iran would likely take more time to draft than the one now being considered for North Korea.
10-15-06 - Notes From a Young Idealist in a World Gone Awry Few plays have traveled to New York with as much excess baggage as ?My Name Is Rachel Corrie,? which opened last night at the Minetta Lane Theater.
10-15-06 - Jordanian King urges Palestinians to rearrange internal scene
10-15-06 - Hamas slams Jordan for plan on transferring Palestinian refugees to Canada Atef Adwan, Minister of Refugees of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)-led government, on Sunday accused Jordan of planning to transfer hundreds of Palestinians, who fled violence in Iraq, to Canada. The new Jews.
10-15-06 - Syria aiding arms smuggling into Lebanon: Israeli official "Syria is continuing to sabotage the implementation of (UN Resolution) 1701 and is playing a conspirator's role in sabotaging (Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad) Siniora's ability to carry out his agenda," Like clockwork with this sh@t.
10-15-06 - Hamas denies reports saying it considers attacking U.S. interests You remember now, Aaron Klein who is presumed to be the same Aaron Klein of WND contributed to that TIME report. See news for 10-13.
10-15-06 - Tensions despite Israeli PM pageantry in Russia Behind the official pageantry to mark 15 years of renewed diplomatic ties between Russia and Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s visit to Moscow this week will be tense, notably over Iran?s nuclear ambitions, observers say.
10-15-06 - Merchant gathers Israeli politicians in Savannah Benny Davis, a former South Carolina candidate for U.S. Senate with ties to Israel's right-wing Likud Party, is sponsoring an "international summit on Israel" next weekend at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center.....In 2005, Benny Davis sponsored a gathering in Jerusalem of more than 1,000 "right-wing religious activists" working to see construction of a third temple at the Temple Mount, according to The Jerusalem Post.....In addition to building on the Temple Mount, Benny Davis said she is lobbying the U.S. government to pass a resolution backing Israeli rights to retain control over all Jewish holy sites, including the Temple Mount.
10-15-06 - Palestinian women hold nonviolent demonstration against Israeli Wall in rural Bethlehem Farmers are losing crops, lands, and their livelihoods as Israeli bulldozers have destroyed 20,000 dunams of agricultural land in the town.
10-15-06 - Top Egypt envoy discusses Shalit with Mashaal
10-15-06 - Olive Harvest in Hebron
10-15-06 - Syria president stresses necessity of Palestinian national unity Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stressed on Sunday the necessity to strengthen the Palestinian national unity, the official SANA news agency reported.
10-15-06 - Islamic leader lived his mission
10-15-06 - What's in a 'Name'? "Some people chose not to work with us on this," she says. As one longtime legit agent explains: "You can't be perceived as saying anything remotely anti-Israel in New York. People jump all over you."
10-15-06 - Peace Activists Beware: Homeland Security May Be Reading Your E-Mail, and Passing it on to the Pentagon
10-15-06 - Italy hands over UN Lebanon naval force to Germany The Italian navy has handed over to German command the UN naval force tasked with intercepting arms shipments along Lebanon's coastline following Israel's war with the Shiite movement Hezbollah.
10-15-06 - XPress enters Palestinian market with new Digital Trunking license
10-15-06 - We're stuck in civil war that has no end in sight At the same time you've got to have a comprehensive and sustained effort at peace in the Middle East - something that pulls together all players and resuscitates dealing with the festering problem of Israel and Palestinian territories.
10-15-06 - Police back Katsav rape charges Israeli police believe there is enough evidence to charge President Moshe Katsav with rape and wire-tapping, a statement has said.
10-15-06 - The last Shabbat of Sukkot
10-14-06 - Two dead in new Israeli raid on Gaza An Israeli drone fired missiles at a vehicle in the Zeitun neighborhood of Gaza City, killing at least two members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which is allied to the Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Palestinian security sources said.
10-14-06 - Israel kills six Hamas militants
10-14-06 - Israeli warplane destroys a house in southern Gaza
10-14-06 - US 'plot to force out Hamas' US cash is reportedly being used to set up training facilities for Abbas's special guard, Force 17, in the West Bank town of Jericho and in Gaza
10-14-06 - US sanctions on Palestinian Territories taking their toll Hundreds of millions of dollars are being held from the Palestinian Authority meaning public sector workers, like teachers and nurses, have been paid little or nothing for more than half a year.
10-14-06 - Army harasses the civilians at a checkpoint South West of Nablus
10-14-06 - Israeli forces continue land confiscation in southern West Bank Settlers from Kiryat Arba, infamous for their extremist violence against the local population, praying particularly on farmers and school children, aided the Israeli soldiers in confiscating more Palestinian land.
10-14-06 - Lebanese man killed by stray bullet at Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon
10-14-06 - US launches plan to help Hamas opponents Bush Administration starts USD 42 million campaign projected to bolster Hamas' political opponents ahead of possible early Palestinian elections
10-14-06 - HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL - PART 1: Winning the intelligence war Hezbollah had identified key Israeli human-intelligence assets in Lebanon. One month prior to the abduction of the IDF border patrol and the subsequent Israeli attack, Lebanese intelligence officials had broken up an Israeli spy ring operating inside the country
10-14-06 - The pain behind the occupation It is even not far-fetched to suggest that the United States - and possibly the UK - are funding Dahlan, as they did prior to the Palestinian elections, in an $11m (Ł6m) bid to stave off a Hamas election victory. This time, the aim would be to try and bring about an "organic" change of power, since obviously starving the Palestinian people hasn't worked out too well.
10-14-06 - Lebanon: IAF planes infiltrating Lebanese airspace will be shot
10-14-06 - Spy Jonathan Pollard caught on tape NBC News has obtained surveillance video, which for the first time, actually shows Pollard pilfering classified documents and stuffing them into a briefcase supplied by Israel. Pollard stole a "ten-volume intelligence bible". Israel denied Pollard spied for it until only a few years ago. Pollard will get $3.6 million dollars from the Israeli government when he is released.
10-14-06 - Lebanon?s new disabled 'There are children who have been left disabled by the war and are now in wheelchairs,' said Nizar Amine of Christian Aid partner Mouvement Social, which is repairing three schools damaged by bombing in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa
10-14-06 - Palestinian fights Israel for her right to study
10-14-06 - Clint, what about Iran? ** Why isn't Sheriff George W. Bush pulling out his rifle in order to drive the bad guys out of town, before they make the global village evaporate in smoky mushrooms? Because thanks to the neocons, he's got his hands full in Iraq. And secondly, whose war is it? Fight your own battles (sh#t), or get off the pot. Enough of the whining.
10-14-06 - Daunting challenges face war-devastated Lebanon: minister Lebanon's ailing economy urgently needs world financial aid, reforms and an end to political rows in order to overcome the devastation of this summer's war, Finance Minister Jihad Azour has said.
10-14-06 - Israeli Army expands a military base at the expense of farmers' land Israeli troops started expanding a military base, today, in the city of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank at the expense of farmers' land.
10-14-06 - The logic behind Rice's grin Her declaration, following Israel's devastating war on Lebanon in July 2006, that time had arrived for a "New Middle East," and her full backing of the Israeli military adventure, earned her "enemy of the people" status that towers far beyond that of former secretary of state Madeline Albright.
10-14-06 - Hamas minister discusses police training with Syria
10-14-06 - Two grenades hit building near U.N. HQ in Beirut
10-14-06 - More Muslims than ever observing Ramadan In the Palestinian territories, where tens of thousands more have plunged into poverty since the Islamic militant Hamas took power this spring, most barely squeeze by. In the West Bank city of Nablus, the civil servants' union set up 17 tables in the main square for a Spartan fast-breaker of rice, lentils and water to illustrate the hardships endured by its members, who haven't been paid for months because of the international boycott of the Hamas government.
10-14-06 - Analysis: No Results From Hamas Boycott
10-14-06 - A right to wrong I am not sure what it means to be on Abe Foxman's radar (nor would I like to find out), but the idea that Tony Judt being denied an audience and a microphone is a positive outcome to this dispute is outrageously stupid and counterproductive.
10-14-06 - Nero, Not Hitler For an entire month this summer ? while Israel?s latest war of aggression was devastating Lebanon, costing at least a thousand Lebanese civilians their lives and hundreds of thousands their homes ? Bush prevented the UN Security Council from ordering a cease-fire.
10-14-06 - British book launches in East Jerusalem on demografic racism & the mind of the Israeli occupier Reporter Jonathan Cook argues that at the heart of Israel's concerns is the issue of demography. The "Jewish state" cannot be Jewish if the lands' original owners bounced back in population after hundreds of thousands were displaced upon creation of that Jewish state. The basis of the racist ideology that creates a state for a single religion on the land of that of another is at the core of the local discussion.
10-14-06 - Rice properly speaks up for Palestinians someone has to speak up for the aspirations and the rights of suffering Palestinians. Rice reflects well on the United States by doing so.
10-14-06 - Hebron Reflection: Seasons I will hear
soldiers spewing hate toward "Arabs." I will listen to the stories of families
whose homes have been invaded, their possessions thrown about, their men beaten
or imprisoned. I breathe air heavy with the weight of injustice. The sparrows
call outside the window. I remember that I am here, in Palestine, in Al Khalil,
living under occupation.
10-14-06 - Tragic Palestine Diary, Not Prime 'Jean Brodie': John Simon
10-14-06 - Syria, Spain talk of relaunching Mideast peace process
10-13-06 - Six Palestinians killed, 10 wounded in Israeli air raid
10-13-06 - 13 killed in Israeli raids on Gaza over 24 hours On Friday, a 29-year-old woman was shot dead by soldiers operating in the south and another Palestinian died overnight from wounds suffered during an air strike against the house of a Hamas militant.
10-13-06 - Palestinian Boy Killed During Clashes in Beit Lahia Mahmoud Zomlot, 15 years old, was killed and approximately 33 other residents were wounded on Friday evening after internal violence ensued between supporters of Fatah and Hamas in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, local media sources reported.
10-13-06 - Four killed in new Gaza strikes In the southern village of Abassan, a woman was shot dead outside her home, doctors said.
10-13-06 - Nonviolent resistance: I sell grapes Jerusalem is the largest market for grapes and just last week southwestern Bethlehem farmers demonstrated to be able to reach the city with their crop. But as the assault on economic sustainability continues, Israeli forces will not allow grapes and seasonal vegetables into Jerusalem..... "We want to sell grapes on our own land, in our own city, and still they accuse us of terrorism."
10-13-06 - Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers The apparently spontaneous outbursts at checkpoints around the holy city reflected Palestinians' growing anger with the continued construction of the barrier and their frustration with Israeli restrictions keeping many of them out of Jerusalem. Israeli forces dispersed the crowds with tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons.
10-13-06 - Qalandia checkpoint closed, stopping worshippers on route to Al Aqsa mosque The military checkpoint, Qalandia, separating the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem was closed by Israeli troops today, denying the access of Palestinian worshippers to attend Friday prayers in the Al Aqsa mosque.
10-13-06 - IDF sets up detention center near Gaza The army said soldiers have been instructed to treat the detainees in a humane manner and stressed that most men are released after undergoing interrogation. Released Palestinians are given a package of food staples like sugar, oil and flour. The stench of bull feces emanating from this report is overpowering.
10-13-06 - Gaza fishermen risk Israeli fire According to Mr Habeel, it did not issue any verbal warning, but opened fire first at the cables holding the nets - cutting them adrift. Then he says the Israelis circled the unarmed fishermen spraying their craft with machine gun fire from no more than 20m away.
Here's what they did to our guys, if you have trouble swallowing that.
10-13-06 - Texas buys more Israel Bonds
10-13-06 - The 'Palestinian question' on both sides of the Jordan Of course, given the current situation in the Middle East, the establishment of any sort of Palestinian state could be years away. In the meantime, the Palestinian demographic "time bomb" in both Israel and Jordan will continue to tick. 'Yayy! We have someone we can share our 'demographic problem' with!'
10-13-06 - Bush extends PLO waiver Friday's move comes weeks after an effort failed in Congress to restrict Bush?s ability to waive long-standing legislation banning any Palestine Liberation Organization presence in the United States.
10-13-06 - U.N. picks Ban He met with a number of Jewish groups and leaders in recent weeks in his quest to win Friday afternoon's vote, and was favored by the United States and Israel.
10-13-06 - Mexico probes alleged Hezbollah financing: reports Mexico started the investigation three months ago on a request from the United States, which is helping in the probe, the daily El Universal said.
10-13-06 - Hamas: Revenge will be painful
10-13-06 - A small Jerusalem is better During the past two decades, about 300,000 Jews have left the city, most from the middle or upper class. Jerusalem has turned into the poorest city in Israel, and today, Jewish neighborhoods comprise only one-third of the city's eastern part. The other two-thirds house about a quarter of a million Arabs, who have upended the demographic policy designed to reduce their proportions. Oh dear.
10-13-06 - Road Map remains best method of achieving peace in Middle East, says Annan Mr. Annan added that Israel?s decision to withhold customs and value-added tax payments it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, combined with some donor governments? withdrawal of aid because the Palestinian Government did not commit to Quartet principles, has ?resulted in an acute fiscal crisis for the Palestinian Authority.?
10-13-06 - Foreign Ministry slams envoy's comments about 'yellow race' "Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia," Tamir said in an interview with Haaretz during a visit to Israel this week. "We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race. We are on the western side of Asia and they are on the southeastern side."
10-13-06 - Keep Arabs away from us,settlers urge For decades Israeli nationalists have been establishing settlements all over the West Bank. They wanted to ensure Jewish control over it. Now they are complaining the government is building a security fence too close to their homes. The Palestinians will be on its other side posing a security threat. In some cases that fence will block their plans to expand, they say.
10-13-06 - Olmert urges Moscow to boost Middle East role Olmert said that Russia will no longer have a one-sided policy to the Middle East as the Soviet Union did. "But Israel does not expect that a turn in this direction will cause damage to relations between Russia and the Arab countries,"
10-13-06 - IDF: Only US operation can stop Iran **
10-13-06 - Palestinian diplomatic staff in dire straits
10-13-06 - Street interviews: This will be the worst Eid of my life. If you have children, you know what I mean
10-13-06 - Tibi Demands PA Residents be Permitted into Jerusalem
10-13-06 - British MP: Israel employed Nazi tactics in Lebanon "Those were the tactics of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940 - attacking fleeing civilians from the air," he said. Turner then turned to Jewish MP Louise Ellman, saying, "I know this offends the honorable Member for Liverpool, Riverside, but I must tell the truth."
10-13-06 - Israel may prepare for large-scale operation into Gaza
10-13-06 - Popularity of Israel's right-wing rising: poll
10-13-06 - Israel punishes civilians There are plenty of things wrong with Mr. Masse's article. I happen to think so thoroughly misrepresenting Israel's human rights record is the most odious. In perpetuating this myth, Mr. Masse has taken a page from one of the most infamous twentieth century leaders: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it."
10-13-06 - Whose Move in the Middle East?
10-13-06 - Mel Gibson Blames Anti-Semitic Remarks on 'Passion' Criticism The 50-year-old Gibson said his tirade also may have been triggered by Israel's war in Lebanon. The Middle East has troubled him for a long time.
"I remember thinking when I was 20, man, that place is going to drag us all into the black hole, you know, just the difficulty over there," he said. Asked by Sawyer what Jews are responsible for, Gibson replied: "What are they responsible for? I think that they're not blameless in the conflict. There's been aggression and retaliation and aggression. It's just part of being in conflict, and being at war. So, they're not blameless."
10-13-06 - Joan Rivers: Mel Gibson Should Die
10-13-06 - Parents rejoice at release of their son Unknown Palestinian groups frighten US reporters and aid workers with abductions. Strange that.
10-13-06 - Bishop Riah calls for Peace with Justice Speaking after dinner at Morris' Egyptian restaurant, Bishop Riah urged all who attended to do whatever they could to help bring justice to the Palestinian people.
10-13-06 - Protester voted out of group Coleman has publicly compared the City
Council to the KKK, called them racists, Nazis and baby-killers for not acting to protect Palestinians.
10-13-06 - New U.N. head may make body fairer to Israel, groups hope Ban has said he would make reforming the United Nations - a cause close to the hearts of Jewish organizations who say the world body treats Israel unfairly - a top priority. The terms 'fair' and 'balanced' to pro-Israelis translate to: Israel is not to be blamed for anything.
10-13-06 - Rebuke for peer's Israel remarks Jenny Tonge was told by her leader that he was dissociating himself and his party from her "unacceptable" remarks.
10-13-06 - Christians and Zionists: apocalypse row in Jerusalem The Christian Zionist movement offers Israelis financial support from born-again Bible-belt Christians, principally in the United States, Germany, South Africa, and Scandinavia. Proselytising to convert Jews to Christianity is outlawed, although clandestine efforts to Israeli Muslims have been condoned by at least one cabinet minister.
10-13-06 - Basque members of parliament visit Palestine
10-13-06 - Poll: Most Lebanese see war as attempt to remake region A Jordanian poll published Thursday showed that 84 percent of Lebanese believe that the recent war on Lebanon was a premeditated attempt by the United States and Israel to impose a new regional order in the Middle East.
10-13-06 - Ignatieff planning trip to Israel Liberal leadership front-runner Michael Ignatieff says he'll travel to the Middle East next month in the wake of comments that have enraged Canada's Jewish community and members of his own party.
10-13-06 - The maestro making music for peace
10-13-06 - Palestine film screens in Hollywood The documentary about Caiomhe Butterly, who has been injured in her campaign for peace in the region, will screen Nov. 11
10-13-06 - New Calls by Hamas Militants to Target the U.S. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv Reporter for World Net Daily - a magazine run by a Christian Zionist, Aaron Klein - now providing reports for TIME magazine. If any 'reporter' can get 'facts' from Palestinians that serve the Israeli position - and conflate the US-Israel 'war on terror - it would be Aaron Klein.
10-13-06 - The role of public opinion ** The United States is up to its neck in Iraq and Afghanistan, and cannot open another front. The U.S. weakness and the fact that even Japan and South Korea reject the use of force against North Korea - thereby accepting its nuclearization - encourages Iran to accelerate its own nuclear project. The "soft" sanctions on Iran, if they are imposed at all, will not bring forth salvation.
Translation: "we may have to fight our own battle, and so we must prepare".
10-12-06 - Nine killed as Israel escalates air-ground military actions in Gaza Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that an Israeli army aircraft targeted a house in eastern Gaza City on Thursday night, killing three Palestinians, including a father and his 2-year-old baby girl, and wounded nine others, said Palestinian medics.
10-12-06 - Seven killed by Israeli fire in Gaza Seven people, including an eight-year-old girl and a teenage boy, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip as troops mounted a fresh incursion as part of a four-month offensive.
10-12-06 - Gaza: Child killed in IDF strike Who is doing all of the killing? Week after week after week, Palestinians are killed almost daily by Israel.
10-12-06 - PA security officer shot and killed by unknown gunmen in Gaza
10-12-06 - Settlers attack a holy site in Nablus Around 20 settlers from Israeli settlements located south of Balata, stormed a shrine, Sidnah Yousif, which is in the centre of a highly populated area. Under the protection of the Israeli army the settlers conducted prayers, while local residents were restricted from accessing the site by soldiers who had closed the area.
10-12-06 - Police arrest 10 settler youths who beat Palestinians harvesting olives Police on Thursday arrested 10 youths from the West Bank settlement of Hashmonaim who are suspected of attacking and beating local Palestinians harvesting olives. Three Palestinians filed complaints with police after they were attacked while working in orchards adjacent to Hashmonaim, which is located near Modi'in. It's what happens when Israel bans police and international escorts for the farmers. And again. And again.
10-12-06 - Rights group: Shin Bet denies vital treatment to Palestinians
10-12-06 - US General: Strikes on Iran possible by 2007 ** Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf but academics, left-wing politicians and experts say a military option is not on the cards for the Bush administration because of the situation in Iraq "Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf" - no s%#t? Really? I never would have guessed.
10-12-06 - Anti-rocket systems said years away Israel is not expected to have defense systems against tactical rockets within the next four years, a newspaper reported.
10-12-06 - Arab villages want equal compensation
10-12-06 - Former general: Israel testing its limits
10-12-06 - Olmert urges action against Iran
10-12-06 - FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon By contrast with the absence of Israel's conduct in Lebanon, the report says: "We remain deeply concerned by Syria's ongoing support for Hizbullah. Hizbullah's role in the major outbreak of violence this year with Israel included abducting and detaining two Israeli soldiers and firing unguided rockets into Israeli towns and cities. In total, Hizbullah fired nearly 4,000 rockets into Israeli territory."
10-12-06 - Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps: Check your stereotypes at the door ?The Palestinian refugee issue could have been solved decades ago, like so many other cases, if only the Arab states stopped using UNRWA to keep the Palestinians as political pawns,? said Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based group that monitors the United Nations. THe problem could have been solved if Israel had implemented article 11 of UN resolution 194. These folks just cannot ever lay any responsibility at the foot of Israel when it was Israel that created this 'refugee problem' in the first place. Disgusting.
10-12-06 - State Prosecutor won't reopen case against policemen 'absolved' of killing Arab Israeli in 2003
10-12-06 - Hamas says recognising Israel politically futile "Let's ... force Israel to compromise. Let us keep some cards in our possession. We have seen the fate of those who accepted recognition as a precondition for negotiations. They have gained nothing,"
10-12-06 - Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran ** Is the Israeli government using Shalev, wittingly or not, and is he in turn using the BBC, to spread Israeli propaganda? Propaganda that may soon propel us towards the "clash of civilisations" so longed for by Israel's leadership. This is in reference to the BBC's program of the same topic from this week.
10-12-06 - US probes Israeli restrictions on travel of Palestinian-Americans Rice referred to the problem during a speech Wednesday night to the American Task Force on Palestine, a Palestinian-American charity.
10-12-06 - Bahrain urges relaunch of Mideast peace talks
10-12-06 - Report: Peres torpedoed Gaza desalination plant in '92
10-12-06 - Media group accuses Israeli soldiers of unprovoked violence against journalists
10-12-06 - Pope condemns use of religion for hate In his speech Thursday, the pope also reiterated his condemnation of anti-Semitism, saying that "the church deplores all forms of hatred or persecution directed against the Jews and all displays of anti-Semitism at any time and from any source." Foxman said he had asked Benedict to be "a strong, constant voice against anti-Semitism," adding that the pope responded privately: "I will always be available for you as a voice against anti-Semitism."
The ADL says "Jump!", the Pope asks, "How high?".
10-12-06 - Abu Mazen Apologizes for Abduction of American
10-12-06 - Hamas wants 1 for 1,000 prisoner swap In an interview with London's al-Hayat newspaper, Khaled Mashaal said he had not ordered the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a June 25 Hamas border raid and suggested it had been an impromptu act, which he praised.
10-12-06 - Women discuss challenges of living in war-torn Gaza Ageel's family was expelled from their home in 1948 and forced to live in a refugee camp. She remembers waiting for food rations and secondhand clothes as a child. Her college dreams were put on hold for six years as she waited for Israel to reopen universities.
10-12-06 - My Friend, the Enemy Bashir Khairi was a child of 6 when, in July 1948, he, his family and almost all the citizens of the towns of al-Ramla and Lydda were forcibly expelled from their homes by the Israeli army. It was the single largest such eviction of the war, numbering 30,000-50,000 Palestinians, ordered by the newly declared state's prime minister, David Ben-Gurion
10-12-06 - Harvest of death is reaped where the cluster bombs were scattered Dalya Farran, of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre, said that there were 770 new cluster bomb sites across south Lebanon but complained that they had received little help from Israel. ?All we got were maps giving areas ?highly likely? to contain unexploded ordnance, but they didn?t mention what type and said they were not exhaustive,? she said
10-12-06 - ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: October 2006
10-12-06 - UTLA quashes Israel divestment push "Some of the Jewish establishment is absolutely intolerant of any discussion of any sort that has to do with Palestinian human rights; anything that's critical of Israel," The Israeli lobby doesn't exist. It's an anti-Semitic myth.
10-12-06 - Qassam rocket hits southern Israeli town, causing blackout
10-12-06 - If Peres truly wants peace with Syria, let him make a genuine overture
10-12-06 - ADL presses pope on Iran The leader of the Anti-Defamation League asked Pope Benedict XVI to help protect Jews from Iranian threats.
10-12-06 - Israel Renounces Violence, Recognizes Palestinian?s Right to Exist
10-12-06 - Civic leaders condemn attack on Calif. Muslim candidate A powerful Republican Party operative who earlier this week accused a Muslim City Council candidate of supporting Islamic extremists on Thursday challenged the Syrian-born man to a debate on his views of Hezbollah and the Middle East.
10-12-06 - Comments on Israel harm Canadian pol A leading Canadian politician is under fire after calling an Israeli bombing of a Lebanese town this summer a war crime
10-12-06 - Voters to face anti-Israel questions in Somerville Francis added that the grassroots group?s main goal is to get people educated about Israeli and Palestinian concerns.
10-12-06 - AIPAC Runs Right
10-12-06 - Christian Zionists descend on Israel for festival They love the state of Israel because they say the Bible foretells the return of the Jews to the Holy Lands before the final battle takes place, Armageddon, when the anti-Christ will be defeated. Most of the Christian Zionists are American. They've raised millions of dollars for Israel and they've cultivated ties with the right of Israeli politics. .....DAVID HARDAKER: After a terrific start he became tetchy when asked to explain why his group supports Israeli settlements being built on Palestinian land.
10-12-06 - New pro-Israel initiative doesn't aim to compete with AIPAC, organizers say Top AIPAC officials said they saw the organization as complementing AIPAC's pro-Israel mission from different perspectives, as the Zionist Organization of America now does from the right and Americans for Peace Now does from the left. Both organizations are represented on AIPAC's executive committee.
10-12-06 - Rachel Corrie The Play, At Last With some members of the audience still applauding the now-empty stage, others quickly engaged in political scuffles. "You," one woman hissed at two excitable teenagers, clapping hard, "clearly didn't understand the play," implying that the teenagers' enthusiasm was due to an incomplete understanding of the intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The teenagers muttered something in response.
10-12-06 - U. of Maryland dedicatesInstitute for Israel StudiesCenter named for Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Alma Gildenhorn points out that while the university has a large Jewish population ? an estimated 6,000 students, or more than 20 percent of the student body ? "not all of them are well-informed, and it is up to us to help them."
10-12-06 - Hickman forum dwells on Mideast conflict
10-11-06 - Army kills one resident near Eretz border crossing in Gaza Medics in the ambulance car said that the man, who is in his 20s, remains unidentified due to severe mutilation of his skull and face. The man was hit with heavy artillery fire in the back of his head, medics added.
10-11-06 - Two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, West Bank Near the West Bank city of Nablus, Abdallah Mansur, 29, was struck by a stray bullet during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants while he was at a window of his house, a Palestinian security official said Wednesday
10-11-06 - Settlers attack residents of Tall Al Rimada in Hebron A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents of Hebron, in the Tell Al area in the West Bank, on Wednesday, at dawn.
10-11-06 - Gaza sliding into civil war Years of rivalry between the Islamic Hamas movement, which now dominates the government, and the more secular Fatah, which was ousted from power in January elections, is spilling over into a struggle for power.
10-11-06 - Israel willfully kills two civilians at Nablus checkpoints
10-11-06 - U.N. humanitarian chief says Gaza crossings must be opened to avert 'social explosion' 750,000 young people in Gaza were particularly hard hit by the border closure and the increasing humanitarian crisis
10-11-06 - Israeli authorities impose additional restrictions on farmers in southern Qalqilia Farmers will be allowed to harvest their olives for three days only. Israeli settlers from the Oranit Settlement, built on Qalqilia lands, are expected to again attack Palestinian farmers.
10-11-06 - Rice says U.S. wants end to Palestinian "humiliation" "The Palestinian people deserve a better life, a life that is rooted in liberty, democracy, uncompromised by violence and terrorism, unburdened by corruption and misrule and forever free of the daily humiliation of occupation," And only the US has the power to see to that. Yet it is unable to do so. Here's why.
10-11-06 - Israel says 2 bombers intercepted Each man had a pipe bomb weighing about 2.2 pounds, and they admitted during interrogation that they planned to use the explosives to attack Israeli soldiers.
10-11-06 - Israeli warplanes rocket hits northern Gaza House
10-11-06 - Fatah-linked group rescues, releases US student
10-11-06 - Italian TV: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip An investigative report to be aired on Italian television today raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns. The weapon is similar to one developed by the U.S. military called DIME, which causes a powerful and lethal blast, but only within a relatively small radius.
10-11-06 - U.N. notes increase in Israel roadblocks Israel's network of military checkpoints and road barriers in the West Bank has grown by 40 percent in the past year, part of an increasingly sophisticated system of controls that disrupts all aspects of Palestinian life, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.
10-11-06 - Peace Now head guards settlement He is on a three-week tour of duty with his army reserve unit.
10-11-06 - Israel group gets $2 million NIF is targeting what it calls "invisible Israelis" - Arabs, Sephardi Jews and immigrants - as it helps residents of the North recover from this summer's war against Hezbollah.
10-11-06 - Will Israel bomb Iran? ** with its ongoing commitments in Iraq, some of Israel's strategic thinkers believe America has too much at stake to intervene militarily....According to Israeli intelligence sources, Iran's scientists are now within a year of reaching the technical point when they could enrich uranium to the level required for atomic arms.....The former chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, Moshe Yaalon concludes: "As a last resort, the West should be ready to launch military strikes to deal with Iranian nuclear capabilities ...but Israel should be ready to deal with this kind of threat, if anyone else doesn't do it."
10-11-06 - Design Meets Diplomacy Doug Suisman's Arc project isn't a roadmap to peace in the Middle East-it's a blueprint of what a peaceful Palestinian state would look like
10-11-06 - Hebron Update: 1-7 October 2006 It turned out that the father had been taken from the house by the soldiers and
beaten in the street. There was a large fresh bump on his forehead which he had
gotten, he said, had been inflicted when some of the soldiers slammed him
repeatedly against a wall.
10-11-06 - Lebanon: We seized arms from Hizbullah
10-11-06 - The undocumented / Fifth in a series - Bedouin trackers: Israeli enough for the IDF, but not for an ID card
10-11-06 - Evangelicals invest $40m. in aliya A Jerusalem-based Evangelical Christian organization announced Tuesday that it has helped 100,000 Jews move to Israel during the past decade and a half. Here's why.
10-11-06 - Crown Prince denies secret Saudi-Israeli meeting Israel's top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot reported last week that Olmert had held a secret meeting lasting several hours with Saudi officials at the palace of Jordan's King Abdullah II.
10-11-06 - Bleak Ramadan in Palestine
10-11-06 - Jewish group offers 007 Middle East "missions" For a little less than $2,000 and a donation to a center that sues countries and groups it accuses of militant links, participants are promised briefings from Israeli spies, a visit to a West Bank checkpoint, tours of the Lebanese frontlines and trips in light aircraft over northern Israel. You know, just when you thought you'd seen it all with regard to the behavior of some people in Israel. Wow.
10-11-06 - Prisoners' association shut down in Israel and West Bank
10-11-06 - NGO statement reaffirm the right to return, restitution and compensation of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced as the preferred solution
10-11-06 - A New Fence Is Added to a Border Town Already Split To the Lebanese, the fence, erected over the past several weeks to separate the northern side of the village from the rest of Lebanon, amounts to a new occupation of their territory, potentially worsening tensions over the disputed Shabaa Farms area nearby.....Lebanese officials say the continued presence of Israeli soldiers on Lebanese soil is a violation of United Nations Resolution 1701, which settled this summer?s conflict. Well now.
10-11-06 - Palestinian newborns, even the dead, hit by strike
10-11-06 - Hamas rep in Lebanon calls for Abbas to step down
10-11-06 - Hamas accuses Abbas of wrecking unity govt talks
10-11-06 - Syria supports formation of Palestinian unity government: FM
10-11-06 - PFLP slams Qatari proposal on forming Palestinian coalition government
10-11-06 - Jordanian King warns Palestinians of sliding towards civil war Abdullah said the Palestinian aspiration of statehood could vanish within months unless they would curb sliding towards civil war.
10-11-06 - Israel Starving Palestinians Into Submission
10-11-06 - Hamas may recognize earlier agreements Several Israeli media quote a London Arabic newspaper as saying Hamas may recognize previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority
10-11-06 - USAID Funds Holy Family Hospital inBethlehem The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said that it has funded the Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem to launch construction of an additional floor to serve Palestinian patients.
10-11-06 - Two Palestinians injured, two taken prisoner in Jenin Wednesday evening, under-cover units of the Israeli army, invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, took two fighters prisoners, shot and injured two residents including a resistance fighter.
10-11-06 - Israel and North Korea / Maybe now they'll take Iran seriously the key to imposing sanctions on Iran lies in Russia, which has avoided effective handling of Iran's nuclear ambitions until now. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will visit President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow and again try to change his mind.
10-11-06 - Richardson man gets 7 years in '04 export case Bayan Elashi, former chief executive officer of InfoCom Corp., said in his first public comments about the case that federal prosecutors couldn't find anything related to terrorism ? so they went after him for common errors normally punished with administrative fines.
10-11-06 - The Non-Lobby Not at Work
10-11-06 - South African Jews have adjusted to post-apartheid state, study finds 85 percent perceived anti-Zionism as more of an issue in South Africa. Sixty percent of respondents - up from 49 percent in 1998 - agreed with the statement that Israel should "give up some territory in exchange for credible guarantees of peace." I see a connection between that and this
10-11-06 - Brandeis made error, committee says A Brandeis faculty committee has found university officials committed a "serious error" when they removed a student-organized exhibit that displayed the artwork of Palestinian youth.
10-11-06 - Mideast politics enter Calif. local race A letter by former state Republican Party chairman Shawn Steel has been circulating on the Internet accusing Syrian immigrant Belal "Bill" Dalati of helping sponsor an anti-Israel rally and associating with "zany left wing groups."
10-11-06 - Israel to help India arms probe
10-11-06 - Sharansky quitting politics He entered politics in 1996 with the new immigrant party Yisrael Ba'Aliyah, eventually serving as a Cabinet minister. He resigned from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government last year to protest the looming Gaza Strip withdrawal. That move coincided with the publication of his book "The Case for Democracy," which was co-authored by Israeli diplomat Ron Dermer and drew praise from President Bush. Sharansky is widely expected to write a new book on geopolitics. Sharansky's idea of spreading of 'democracy'in the Middle East was taken up by Bush.
10-11-06 - Palestinian and Jew seek insight on stage One of the many poignant moments in the play occurs when an old Palestinian man, dying of cancer, holds up a rusted key to a home he was forced to leave and says, "This is my life." A young Israeli woman responds by opening a box of similar rusted keys belonging to Jewish family homes that the characters were forced to leave in Europe
While we can feel sympathy for both parties, the real issue here is : the Palestinians did not displace the Jews of the Holocaust, they did not take their properties. The Nazis did. So why should the Palestinians have to pay for the crimes of others? That is in essence what has happened here. And the spectre of the Holocaust is always wielded every time this particular Palestinian grievance is raised. Palestinians didn't do it, and it's not right to treat them as if they did, nor is it right to expect them to forfeit their legitimate rights to return to their property or to receive compensation thereof should they seek not to return (as per article 11 of UN resolution 194).
10-11-06 - China beats Palestine 2-0 to qualify for Asian Cup
10-11-06 - Soros pairing with dovish Jews to consider an alternative to AIPAC That success was an impetus to the current initiative, participants in the late September meeting said: It fed their perception that AIPAC is not adequately representing American Jews, who polls show have overwhelmingly backed past peace plans
10-11-06 - Professionalism vs. patriotism
10-11-06 - UNRWA Must Be Brought in Line with UN High Commissioner for Refugees While not advocating the de-funding of UNRWA, JINSA believes its mandate should be changed to resemble the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an agency that sees the resettlement of refugees as its priority. Both Sen. Coleman and Rep. Kirk agreed that UNRWA?s mandate was problematic while acknowledging that the organization provides valuable services for Palestinians refugees. So says the pro-Israeli outfit JINSA and its minions on Capitol Hill. JINSA- neocon central, placing matters to the fore of US politics in line with a policy that can best be summed up by two words: Israel first!
10-10-06 - Israel strikes home of Hamas lawmaker in Gaza An Israeli missile hit the Gaza Strip home of a well known lawmaker from the governing Islamist group Hamas on Wednesday in what the army said was an attack on a weapons factory.
10-10-06 - Syria welcome in Israel - Peres President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was welcome to come to Jerusalem for peace talks, Israel's deputy prime minister, Shimon Peres, has said.
10-10-06 - Palestinians suffer from West Bank closure Full closure on West Bank during Sukkot holiday is nightmare for thousands of Palestinians who can?t get to work in Israel. IDF: Thousands given permits for Ramadan, start of olive harvest
10-10-06 - Resident injured, seven, including four brothers taken prisoner in Ramallah
10-10-06 - Israeli, Palestinian officials to prepare for Abbas-Olmert summit: radio
10-10-06 - Army fired missile at car in Gaza, resident injured
10-10-06 - Army closes again the Rafah border crossing The Israeli authorities closed, on Tuesday morning, the Rafah Border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after opening it on Monday.
10-10-06 - Settlers attack shepherds in the Jordan Valley and threaten to kill them
10-10-06 - Israel warned: Lebanon war could start again Hizbullah will resume its military campaign unless Israel withdraws from the disputed Shebaa farms area and other pockets of territory occupied during this summer's 34-day war, Nabih Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, has warned. "If Israel does not pull out we will have to drive them out," Mr Berri, who acted as a link to the militant organisation during this summer's war with Israel, said in an interview with the Guardian.....Mr Berri also expressed concern that UN forces could be involved in gathering information that could fall into the hands of Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad
10-10-06 - Israel Bars New Palestinian Students From Its Universities, Citing Concern Over Security Dr. Raphael Levine, the Hebrew University chemistry professor who accepted Ms. Salameh as his student, said he understood Israel?s security concerns but was baffled by the ban. ?I think it is in Israel?s interest to strengthen the Palestinian middle class, and strengthening academic institutions in Palestinian areas is one sure way of achieving that,? he said.
10-10-06 - Envoy welcomes U.N. appointment The next United Nations secretary-general can be expected to be friendly to Israel, Israel?s U.N. envoy said.
10-10-06 - Rice to address Palestinian gala Condoleezza Rice will address a gala evening honoring Palestinian Americans.
10-10-06 - Analysis: Egypt may solve Gaza energy woes Natural gas reserves confirmed off the coast of the Gaza Strip in 2000 could provide a much-needed source of revenue to the economically beleaguered Palestinian Authority, but the development of those reserves has been hindered by the ongoing friction between Israel and the Palestinian government.
10-10-06 - Olmert: Syria peace overtures are a ploy "Olmert could have gone down in history as Menachem Begin, who gave Sinai back to Egypt," journalist Tom Segev wrote in the Haaretz daily Tuesday. "Instead, he is reacting to Syria's offers of peace with contempt, loathing and threats."
10-10-06 - In new TV characters, Palestinians see their own "For the Arab world, it would be the first time seeing a Palestinian drama," he says. "They see a Palestinian hero with a gun and a mask on his face. Well, not all of us are part of a brigade. We love, we hate, there are drugs in our schools. This is the reality."
10-10-06 - Lebanese children go back to school with tales of horror "What affected me most was my cousin being wounded," said Hadil, holding back her sobs. "On the road that took us to Damascus, we saw decapitated people," said Salam.
10-10-06 - Peres happy with Israel?s nuclear policy Shimon Peres said he sees no reason for Israel to go public with its nuclear capabilities.
10-10-06 - US free speech row grows as author says Jewish complaints stopped launch party The British-based author and former publisher Carmen Callil has become embroiled in a growing dispute over the limits of freedom of speech in America after a party celebrating her new book on Vichy France was cancelled because of the opinion she expresses about the modern state of Israel. Oh you are free to criticize Israel in America, but the MSM and other outfits will shun you like the plague, that's all.
10-10-06 - Community non-violence workshops protect Palestinian children
10-10-06 - UN says Israel provides maps of minefields in southern Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel has provided maps of minefields it had laid in southern Lebanon, a move that falls in line with the UN cease-fire resolution that ended the Israel-Hezbollah fighting, a UN statement said Monday.
10-10-06 - Beleaguered Olmert courts Right-wingers Mr Lieberman's party surprised many political pundits when it won 11 seats in March with an uncompromisingly anti-Arab electoral message that included a commitment to redraw Israel's borders to exclude large Arab Israeli towns.
10-10-06 - Freed detainee: ?Female detainees were attacked after administration claimed that two tried to flee"
10-10-06 - Jordan's king gives carpet to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque Jordan's King Abdullah II has donated a huge carpet to the Al-Aqsa mosque and is launching an architectural competition for a fifth minaret for the building, which stands in Jerusalem on the third holiest site in Islam, the palace said Monday.
10-10-06 - As North Korea tests nuke, Israel worries about precedent for Iran "Perhaps the case of North Korea will teach the international community a lesson in the case of Iran," Ephraim Sneh, a senior Labor Party lawmaker and retired army general, told Israel Radio. "We, the Israeli PR and policy apparatus, must take advantage of what happened to explain, and to persuade the international community to do something before it's too late."
10-10-06 - Indian politician took 'hefty' bribe on Israeli missile deal - police
10-10-06 - Iran: Nuke disarmament must begin with Israel Iranian government spokesperson Gholam-Hossein Elham told a press conference Tuesday that ?the dismantling of nuclear arms in the Middle East must begin with the Zionist entity.?
10-10-06 - Academic boycott 'wrong political tool', says Israeli minister The meeting follows a motion at the May conference of the lecturers' union, Natfhe, which successfully called for a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who did not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel's "apartheid policies".
10-10-06 - Gaza blockade lift allows Palestinian team to unite - AFC A trio of Palestinian internationals have joined their team for Wednesday's Asian Cup qualifier against China after Israeli authorities lifted a blockade on Gaza, the Asian Football Confederation has reported.
10-10-06 - Palestinian rights group calls for abolishment of death penalty
10-10-06 - Row over Danish cartoon escalates
10-10-06 - Text of 'Status of Jerusalem' statement from Catholic, Christian Holy Land leaders Decrying the erection of walls that deny access to "many of our faithful ? from the precincts of the holy city" and security decisions by local authorities that have made the political and social environment less secure, the 13 church leaders, including six of whom represented Catholic churches, called on Palestinian and Israeli government leaders to begin negotiations and draw upon "needed international collaboration" to assure the rights of "two people and three religions ? to live together in harmony, respect, mutual acceptance and cooperation."
10-10-06 - Banks required to report PA transactions
10-10-06 - Dor-Alon resumes fuel supply to PA
10-10-06 - Mideast crisis worsens with time
10-10-06 - Israel: No Syria talks unless it shuns militants
10-10-06 - Egypt: Internal feud in PA ruining chance for peace Egypt's foreign minister said Palestinians will lose a chance for peace if they continue infighting, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.
10-10-06 - Syria calls on Germany to help solve problems of Mideast
10-10-06 - Israeli charged with spying in Nigeria
10-10-06 - IDF judge seeks probe into Arab cameraman's injury during arrest A judge in a military court asked Tuesday that an investigation be opened into the injuries suffered by a Palestinian cameraman arrested by Israel Defense Force troops during a demonstration in Bil'in over the weekend.
10-10-06 - Devout Christians march for Zionism in Jerusalem The return of the Jews to Israel will pave the way for Christ's second coming, they believe. "My beliefs say that this land belongs to the Jews," said Diane, one of the pilgrims marching on Tuesday
10-10-06 - Anyone Able To Establish Peace In Middle-East Would Get Nobel Prize
10-10-06 - Academic to quit post in anger over Israel Professor Reinhart, who will give a public lecture at the University of Melbourne tomorrow night, said Israel's walling of the large and prosperous West Bank was cutting off the Palestinian people from their lands and each other.
10-10-06 - Soros mulls AIPAC alternative Billionaire George Soros is considering funding a dovish, pro-Israel alternative to AIPAC, JTA has learned.
10-10-06 - Sony backs Israeli environment Sony Pictures also donated $25,000 to the Red Cross in Lebanon
10-10-06 - Baltzer speaks on horrors in Middle East Baltzer is against the inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people
10-10-06 - Church of England decides against Caterpillar boycott
10-10-06 - Six-hundred people attend landmark conference in Toronto
10-10-06 - Israeli barrier displayed in S. Africa A replica of Israel?s security fence was displayed at a South African university.
10-10-06 - Looking for a cheaper way to marry
10-09-06 - Israeli air strike kills 1 in Gaza: witnesses A hospital doctor said the dead civilian was a 14-year-old boy, correcting medical officials who earlier said he was 17. The boy's father was among the wounded, medical officials said.
10-09-06 - Two Palestinians killed by Israel
10-09-06 - Palestinian knife man killed by Israeli troops A witness who was at the checkpint told AFP that Saadah was shot after the soldier found a pistol, which later turned out to be plastic, in his luggage.
10-09-06 - Palestinian Journalist to Be Brought in Front of Israeli Court
10-09-06 - Palestinian officer dies of wounds sustained during Sunday internal clashes
10-09-06 - Israeli Settlers Threaten Israeli and Foreign Activists The Israeli army has demanded that Israelis and foreigners, who are escorting Palestinian farmers during this year?s olive harvest to protect them from Israeli settler attacks, not participate in this year?s action, according to Palestinian sources in northern West Bank city of Nablus
10-09-06 - UK's Ł3 million helps provide allowances for unpaid Palestinian teachers
10-09-06 - Two Palestinians injured by Israeli army gunfire in the Gaza strip
10-09-06 - Israeli army puts a village in the Jordan valley under curfew
10-09-06 - Three militants survived Israeli air attack on northern Gaza
10-09-06 - Britain donates three million pounds to Palestinian workers Britain will donate millions of pounds to unpaid Palestinian teachers and public sector workers to help support them, International Development Secretary Hilary Benn said.
10-09-06 - Syria: US lacks Mid-East vision The implementation of UN resolutions by all parties - Syria, Israel, America, the UN and EU - was the only way to achieve peace, Mr Assad said.
10-09-06 - Hebron Reflection: Life
10-09-06 - Lebanese army: We'll use Hizbullah north of Litani The Lebanese army warned that should Israel attack Lebanon north of the Litani river, the military would be aided by Hizbullah armed forces to respond to the aggression, the Lebanese daily al-Balad reported Sunday
10-09-06 - 'N. Korea nuke test should worry Israel' "It could be a good thing," Sneh told Israel Radio, explaining that Israeli policymakers and advocates should use the developments in North Korea to convince the international community to "do something (about Iran) before it's too late."
10-09-06 - Syrian president's patient wait for peace
10-09-06 - Galilee Arab towns to receive special budget allotment for first time Until now, government cooperation with Arab municipalities was limited, and the majority of budget funds were allocated to Jewish municipalities.
10-09-06 - Four top doctors arrested over illegal human experimentation
10-09-06 - Palestinian school children rid a bicycle next to the beach as they return home from school
10-09-06 - UNRWA audit finds mismanagement, but doesn?t back critics' terror charges U.S. Congress members seized on the U.N. audit as vindication of their claims that the agency is unaccountable, potentially allowing terrorists to work under its aegis, but a pre-publication copy of the audit obtained by JTA finds little basis for those criticisms
10-09-06 - Lebanese children trickle back to war-ravaged schools Israeli artillery pounded southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs in a bid to force out the guerrillas, killing around 1,200 people -- one third of those killed were children under 12 -- and destroying massive numbers of homes, apartments, businesses, bridges and schools.
10-09-06 - Tens of thousands converge on Hebron for Jewish festival Tens of thousands of Jews converged on Hebron to celebrate the festival of Sukkot and stake their claim to the flashpoint Biblical city that lies deep in the occupied West Bank. Palestinians were put under curfew for this event, no doubt.
10-09-06 - North Korea test 'alarm bell': Israel Israel has slammed North Korea's nuclear test as "provocative," arguing that it sounded an "alarm bell" for a world also facing the prospect of an atomic-armed Iran unless firm action is taken. Israel and its acolytes in our government have made sure that our attention has been focused more closely on Iran than on N. Korea. The results speak for themselves.
10-09-06 - In N.Y., Sparks Fly Over Israel Criticism Judt, who was born and raised in England and lost much of his family in the Holocaust, took strong exception to the cancellation of his speech. He noted that he was forced to cancel another speech later this month at Manhattan College in the Bronx after a different Jewish group had complained. Other prominent academics have described encountering such problems, in some cases more severe, stretching over the past three decades. The pattern, Judt says, is unmistakable and chilling
It's all a big conspiracy theory, nothing to see here...
10-09-06 - Analysis: Israel's oil hopes rekindled
10-09-06 - Far-right Israel MP visits Jerusalem mosque compound "This is a message of Israel's sovereignty over Temple Mount, and Jews should visit the place,"
10-09-06 - Senior Abbas aide warns Hamas of early elections
10-09-06 - Join Jenin childrens' struggle to break the Walls of Hatred through art The biggest ghettos of the 21st century are emerging on the land of Palestine.
10-09-06 - Barghouti prosecutor to think tank Dvorah Chen started at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Oct. 5.
10-09-06 - Norway to Increase its Allocation to UNRWA
10-09-06 - UN plans to resettle Palestinians from Iraq in Canada The UN refugee agency is hoping to resettle in Canada around 50 Palestinians who fled Iraq three years ago but is deeply concerned for the plight of thousands of others still stuck in Iraq, Syria and Jordan.
10-09-06 - Hamas denies Qatari initiative on forming coalition gov't
10-09-06 - EXCLUSIVE - French cancel book fete over author's Israel view In the book's postscript Callil writes: "What caused me anguish as I tracked down Louis Darquier was to live so closely to the helpless terror of the Jews of France, and to see what the Jews of Israel were passing on to the Palestinian people."....But Callil said Tuesday's party was canceled after "a series of letters from various Jewish fundamentalists complaining. They take a view that that no one can say anything about Jews that is not 100 percent complimentary."
10-09-06 - Palestinians losing faith in Hamas Withholding money from ordinary people really does turn people against their government. Whodda thunk it!
10-09-06 - U.N. Watch: Make rights a priority Sad attempt to deflect from Israel's human rights violations (some of which were war crimes) the latest being in Lebanon.
10-09-06 - What Does it Take for a Palestinian to Get a US Visa?
10-09-06 - Palestinians Split Over Suicide Bombings
10-09-06 - Begin Regarded as Best Israeli Prime Minister
10-09-06 - Lecturer sees hope for Mideast peace
10-09-06 - Birmingham Jews, Muslims in rift over Hamas-linked charity The Rev. Steve Jones, pastor of Southside Baptist Church and a friend of both Awad and Miller, said Awad has been unfairly characterized as a terrorist sympathizer and other participants in interfaith dialogue, such as Christians and Buddhists and Baha'is, are also negatively affected by the dispute.
10-08-06 - Israeli troops kills 2 Palestinians - witnesses Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant and a Palestinian civilian on Sunday near the West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses said.
10-08-06 - Haneya reiterates Hamas rejection to Arab peace initiative Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya renewed on Sunday his rejection to the Arab peace initiative of 2002, saying it includes recognition of the Jewish state.
10-08-06 - Palestinian unions threaten to expand strike "There is no hope on the horizon for settling the crisis so the strike will continue and will only end when we receive our salaries," union spokesman Bassem Hudaida said.
10-08-06 - Soldiers abuse handcuffed brothers at a West Bank checkpoint One of Machom Watch activists, activist Ditza Yitzhaki, was at the scene at confirmed that soldiers attacked and hit the brothers.
10-08-06 - Israeli Border Police arrest three peace activists for aiding Palestinian farmers The Israeli Border Police arrested three international peace activists near Al Khader town, in Bethlehem area, after they arrived at the town to held Palestinian farmers in harvesting their orchards.
10-08-06 - 'He Was Like a Brother To Me' - On the 25th anniversary of Anwar Sadat's assassination, Jimmy Carter discusses the Mideast conflict. Looking to the present day, I know you've been very critical of the wall that Israel is building on the West Bank. The wall and the Jordan River actually completely circles what is left of the West Bank. Do you see that as a sign of "apartheid" to come? It's a sign of division, obviously, between the two. I make it clear in my book that when I refer to apartheid I'm not talking about racism. But it is certainly a division and there is no place where the wall separates Palestinians from Israelis-the wall in its entirety separates Palestinians from other Palestinians. It's completely within the West Bank, and sometimes miles and miles within the West Bank. I've got an entire chapter in my forthcoming book describing the wall in detail, and in fact the cover of the book will be a picture of the wall.
Look for Former President Carter's forthcoming book entitled "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" (you can pre-order at Amazon by clicking that link).
10-08-06 - Kuwait Red Crescent sponsors iftar for Palestinian orphans in Nablus A charity society organized Ramadan iftar dinner in the city of Nablus for orphans of the Palestinian Women's Union Society under the auspices of the Red Crescent Society of Kuwait.
10-08-06 - Exploring roots in Israel - American-Palestinian style "I found myself sitting next to an American man who had just spent two weeks in Jerusalem with some sort of program for Jewish Americans," she says. "My airplane friend was very educated, articulate, and from what I could tell, a genuinely good person." She was amazed, however, by how little he knew about the situation in the West Bank.
10-08-06 - Rabbi leads defence of Palestinian olive groves Rabbi Ascherman, co-director of Rabbis for Human Rights, will spend the six-week olive season rising at dawn with other volunteers to put his life on the line to protect Palestinian farmers from armed Jewish settlers. Without the Jewish cleric, the farmers would be fired upon or beaten, their harvest stolen and ancient trees - some dating from Roman times ? felled with chainsaws.
10-08-06 - Analysis: Watch the Syrians, very carefully A credible Israeli threat to heavily bomb Damascus may help cool the escalating war-like atmosphere created by the young Ba'athist president, and thereby deter a spree of violence. This despite the fact that Israel's strategic profile coming out of the Lebanese war would be bolstered by a sweeping and conclusive military victory in the immediate future against any one of its enemies.
10-08-06 - FEATURE - Israelis divided on invoking Holocaust against Iran "Denying the Holocaust is considered an existential threat in Israel," said historian Tom Segev. "If we are looking for reasons to attack Iran, Ahmadinejad is certainly giving them."..Another historian, Michael Oren, suggested that Israel's comparisons of Ahmadinejad to Hitler were not for domestic ears, but rather aimed to shore up Western resolve to curb the Iranian nuclear programme through the threat of U.N. sanctions. The cry of wolf?
10-08-06 - Abbas to meet with Qatari FM in Gaza on Monday: Sources
10-08-06 - Palestinian politics going through labour pains, says Erekat
10-08-06 - Lebanon's Speaker Says U.N. Should Stick To Mandate Berri was commenting on the recent report issued by UNIFIL that said the international peacekeeping force could use force against "hostile activity." The report added that if the Lebanese army is unable to intercept unauthorized weapons, they would conduct the activity.
10-08-06 - Israel's Lebanese Allies At Risk Israeli troops have left southern Lebanon, but some of their former Lebanese allies are refusing to go back to their own villages. Hated by Hizbollah who regard them as traitors, they're part of a rebel force which once fought alongside Israel. Israelis 'Lebanese allies' also slaughtered hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children (Sabra and Shatilla) and Israel allowed it to happen by encircling the camps, and even offered the Phalangists body bags as they set about their gruesome task.
10-08-06 - Israeli agents want disguises to testify at Miami trial Undercover agents want to wear wigs, fake facial hair and makeup so they can testify without revealing their true identities at the upcoming trial of Israeli underworld kingpin Zeev Rosenstein, charged with running a worldwide Ecstasy distribution ring
10-08-06 - Olmert to convene panel of top officials to discuss Iran ** The group will debate Israeli policy toward Washington's proposed sanctions. It will also discuss developments in light of the Lebanon War, with even moderate states expressing concern about Iran. Olmert will update participants on his conversations last week with Condoleezza Rice on regional organization.
10-08-06 - Jordanian FM, UN envoy review situation in Palestinian territories Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Al-Khatib and visiting UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's representative for Middle East peace process Al Faro De Soto held talks here Sunday on situation in the Palestinian territories.
10-08-06 - SYRIA: Stranded Palestinians should be allowed into the country, say UNHCR and rights group
10-08-06 - UN in talks with Israel on completing Lebanon pullout Despite pulling out of the rest of south Lebanon on October 1, Israeli troops continue to occupy the Lebanese part of the divided village of Ghajar, which borders the Syrian Golan Heights that Israel has held since 1967.
10-08-06 - Israel seeks to shoot down rockets with rockets Two Israeli arms firms are developing systems that would use miniature rockets to shoot down the rockets favoured by Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants, security sources said on Sunday.
10-08-06 - Officers warned off Palestinian olive harvest The Central Command instructed security officers in Judea and Samaria not to get involved in the Palestinian olive harvest, Israel Radio reported Sunday morning.
10-08-06 - US Jewish Left calls on Bush to promote negotiations between Israel and PA, Syria
10-08-06 - Israel: No intention of attacking Syria Israeli officials have said over the weekend that despite what the Syrians believe, Israel has no intention to attack Syria. This statement comes in reaction to the words of President Bashar Assad who said that his country was ready for an Israeli offensive at any moment.
10-08-06 - Second boy dies of wounds from ISF clash "The ISF came to break down the half-erected illegal buildings" but were blocked by a crowd, said Ismael's cousin, Mohammad Jbeili, 17 who also saw the incident. "One ISF personnel attacked a woman and the people got angry and clashes started before ISF personnel started shooting at the crowd."
10-08-06 - Al-Qaeda affiliate burns coffee shop in Gaza Strip I'm sorry but I just don't buy the whole 'Al Qaeda in Palestine' bs because the Israelis have been trying to link the two now for years.
10-08-06 - The head of the Mossad and the Saudi connection The unofficial liaison between Riyadh and Jerusalem was Prince Bandar, from his luxurious suburban Washington home in McLean, Virginia. Bandar's Israeli contact is Mossad head Meir Dagan, who discreetly reported on their meetings to Sharon. The connection was maintained when Bandar returned to Saudi Arabia, and according to Israeli sources became closer during the war in Lebanon.
10-08-06 - President Receives Phone Call from US Secretary of State
10-08-06 - If killing civilians is terror, then who's the terrorist?
10-08-06 - Doak: Iowans' mission -- To bring faith and hope to Palestinians
10-08-06 - Enlisting minority recruiters A faculty committee at Brandeis University has found that the school erred last year in removing a student-created art exhibit from the school library that included paintings by Palestinian teenagers depicting injured Palestinian youths. At the time, the university said the exhibit was too one-sided; it was later displayed at MIT.
10-08-06 - Cary man tackles U.S., Arab relations with hummus
10-08-06 - Famous Singer Nassiri in Bethlehem
10-08-06 - Turning Hunger Into Hatred As Israeli warplanes attack from the air--all told, their bombs have destroyed 43 buildings and killed more than 220 people, most of them suspected militants- I'm sorry, but most of them have NOT been suspected militants. Half of them (or more) were CIVILIANS. TIME gets the facts wrong. Go to the very end of the article, and lo and behold, World Net Daily's Aaron Klein contributed to this report - the same individual that writes for the right-wing pro-Israeli outfit World Net Daily. And he always seems to get 'facts' from Palestinians that make them look extremely bad; ie , it suits his agenda. Sad to see any respectable news outfit take anything he says as fact.
10-08-06 - Irish protesters challenge Israeli ambassador in Galway Dr. Zion Evrony, the Israeli ambassador to Ireland was greeted with boos and hisses, shouted slogans and Palestinian flags as he began a speech at the Law School of the National University of Ireland in Belfast. The protest was launched by Irish supporters of Palestine, and sponsored by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Committee.
10-07-06 - Army closes the Rafah border crossing after promising to open it during the holy month of Ramadan The Israeli authorities closed the Rafah Border crossing on Saturday after opening it last Wednesday and Thursday and promising to open it for the whole month of Ramadan for regular hours on a daily basis -- prompting European Union observers to threaten to leave the crossing if Israel does not make an effort to live up to its obligation to keep it open.
10-07-06 - Qassam lands next to Sderot mayor's home
10-07-06 - Palestinians teeter on edge of civil war
10-07-06 - Shot Wounds Palestinian Photographer A Palestinian news photographer was shot and seriously wounded Saturday night by a stray bullet from local protesters as he stood at the window of his home in downtown Ramallah
10-07-06 - Abbas, Haneya likely to meet this week: Hamas spokesman
10-07-06 - President Abbas: "No Civil War as Long as I'm Alive"
10-07-06 - Israeli tanks roll into northern Gaza Strip The incursion was followed by intensive gunfire, while Apache attack helicopters hovered over Bit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, said the witnesses.
10-07-06 - Hebron commemorates anniversary of massacre in Ibrahimi mosque It was 13 years ago on this, the fifteenth day of Ramadan, that Dr. Baruch Goldstein walked into Al Haram Al Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank's Hebron and opened fire.
10-07-06 - Lebanese PM urges UN action over Israeli flights Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has appealed to United Nations chief Kofi Annan to put pressure on Israel to stop its warplanes from overflying Lebanon and withdraw from a village, his office says
10-07-06 - Palestinian Islamic extremist shot dead in Lebanon's largest refugee camp Gunmen shot a Palestinian extremist Saturday as he walked through a refugee camp in south Lebanon banging a drum to wake Muslims for their pre-dawn Ramadan meal, security officials said
10-07-06 - Army restricts farmers in Tulkarem from their own land Israeli soldiers restricted Palestinian farmers from their own land on Saturday morning, by denying access through a gate in the Separation Wall North of the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
10-07-06 - Attempt to use explosives against IDF IDF forces opened fire early Saturday and hit a Palestinian man who was trying to place an explosive charge adjacent to the security fence west of Jenin
10-07-06 - Lebanese PM: Army to seize any weapons found in South Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Thursday that Lebanese Army has clear instructions to seize any weapons found in the South.
10-07-06 - Syria ready to repulse any possible Israeli aggression-Blal Syria is ready to repulse any possible Israeli aggression, Information Minister Muhsen Blal confirmed on Saturday.
10-07-06 - Robert Fisk: The Age of Terror - a landmark report When will the bombers arrive? After further massacres in Iraq? After the Israelis cross the border again? After Israel - or the US - bombs Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months?....Even when Ariel Sharon was staging his withdrawal of 8,500 settlers from Gaza last year, he was shifting 12,000 more settlers into the West Bank, and George W Bush had effectively accepted this illegality by talking of the "realities" of the Jewish settlements still being enlarged there. And that was the end of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 upon which the "peace process" was supposed to be based - Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, in return for the security of all states in the area. One of the few honourable American statesmen to grasp what this portends is ex-President Jimmy Carter
Great article. Read the whole thing.
10-07-06 - Hazardous Intent: US Brokers in Palestine The BBC quoted UN special rappoteur on Palestinian human rights, John Dugard, as stating, "In effect, the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions -- the first time an occupied people has been so treated."
10-07-06 - Palestinian interior minister vows to arrest murderers of senior security official
10-07-06 - Non-Hamas officials criticizes Haneya's Friday speech Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio, lawmaker Hannan Ahsrawi called the speech "a popular, calling up speech away from real reading of the Palestinian people' suffering," adding that the speech addressed only Hamas supporters instead of the Palestinian people."
10-07-06 - Stones and fire in Kufr Qallil ? yet the olive harvest continues They beat the trees to make the ripest olives fall to the ground in order to steal them, and also sabotage the harvest in other ways. About two months ago, they set fire to a 16 dunum large plot of land below the olive grove. Haj Suleiman?s family now have to trudge up a slope of desolate scorched earth in order to reach their land ? an ugly reminder of the threat that the Israeli colonists of Berakhya present to their Palestinian neighbours
10-07-06 - Gaza Clashes - The Struggle for Palestine's Soul Whatever the Palestinians do -- apart from submitting willingly to occupation and permanently renouncing their right to statehood -- is justification for Israeli "retaliation".
10-07-06 - Israelis Would Welcome Negotiations with Syria
10-07-06 - Israelis, Palestinians planning Olmert-Abbas meeting Aides are planning a long-awaited summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas which could revive peace talks, officials from both sides said on Saturday.
10-07-06 - The US, Israel and Lebanon - Historical Roots and Patterns of Conflict Georges Hanna, manager of a factory for prefab housing: "They hit everything: 25,000 square meter coverage area, factories, all of them damaged. We think it's about -- they have also some factories that made the same products like us, and they made this attack to eliminate us from the market."
10-07-06 - Jordan's Queen Rania 'very worried' about rift between West, Muslim world "The priority is to treat the problem that is at the heart of the frustrations and recriminations of all Arabs ? the Palestinian question," she said. "This injustice has gone on only too long."
10-07-06 - 4 Egyptians arrested in tunnel under Gaza-Egypt border
10-07-06 - Settlers steal fruit in Kufr Qallil during olive harvest
10-07-06 - Blair and Rice talk Middle East She said the breakfast was private and not intended as a follow-up to Friday night's ministerial meeting of six world powers that agreed to discuss further steps to pressure Iran into halting its nuclear programme.
10-07-06 - PM Haniyeh's advisor denies strategy to bring Mash'al back from exile
10-07-06 - Soirees of violence in the Gaza Strip
10-07-06 - Documentary on coexistence work may inspire others, filmmakers hope
10-07-06 - Living and Dying by the Sword, or Being Agents of Hope and Opportunity Violence in the Holy Land can be traced back ad infinitum to US and Israeli policies that reinforce Israel?s occupation of Palestinian territories beyond the 1967 borders. Legitimate Israeli security concerns notwithstanding, the separation barrier, check-points, and settlements that encroach on land and water sources in the West Bank, as well as measures that prohibit economic growth in Gaza, only mock the idea of a viable two-state solution. Unless we offer Palestinians a real future, terrorists will continue to find young people willing to become suicide bombers.
10-07-06 - The Israel connection across the Taiwan Strait "I think with the correct kind of dialogue, Israel can play a role in reducing this tension. Unfortunately, we have had a lot of experience in such things." Oh dear God, no.
10-07-06 - Suha Arafat gets Tunisian citizenship
10-07-06 - Jerusalem's patriarch visits area "I hope he's able to spread the message that (Palestinians) are not terrorists. They are people; they are Muslims, and they are Christians," said Nancy Hemminger, chairwoman of Twal's visit and coordinator of the Children's Peace Project that brought the Palestinian children in Cincinnati.
10-07-06 - Olmert Thanks Canadian PM for Support Mr. Olmert also thanks the prime minister for Canada?s support for Israel regarding the Quartet decision that the PA (Palestinian Authority) formally recognize Israel, cease terror and adhere to previously signed agreements with Israel.
10-06-06 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls for restoring aid to Palestinians "The attempt to coerce Hamas leaders by starving the Palestinian people has failed, and it is time for the international community to alleviate their suffering and resort to diplomacy," Carter said in a statement. Former President Jimmy Carter is legend in my book. Despite the fact that this story is by the Associated Press, it was only published on a few news websites (in Georgia), according to a Google News search. In effect, the mainstream media are still boycotting Carter's articles that deal with Palestine.
10-06-06 - Two Islamic Jihad fighters assassinated in Khan Younis Israeli forces assassinated two Islamic Jihad fighters after targeting their vehicle by a missile fired by an Israeli fighter-jet in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
10-06-06 - Tunnel collapse kills Palestinian militant at Rafah
10-06-06 - One resident killed by Israeli fire east of Khan Younis
10-06-06 - In Palestinian territories, crime is on the rise Officials blame the rising crime on the cutoff in Palestinian Authority funding. When Israel and the international community first stopped payments to the authority in March, Palestinians tapped their savings to pay the bills. Then they sold off family jewelry and other cherished items to get by. Now, more and more Palestinians are stealing from their friends and neighbors to make ends meet.
10-06-06 - Gazans take advantage of rare opportunity to leave as Israel partially opens crossing to Egypt
10-06-06 - Lebanon riot leaves 1 dead, 16 injured Police clashed Friday with hundreds of rioters protesting attempts to demolish illegal housing in a southern suburb of Beirut. One person was killed and at least 16 were wounded.
10-06-06 - Haniyeh urges Abbas back to talks But Mr Haniyeh vows no Government in which the militant Hamas movement serves will recognise Israel, a stance that is a non-starter for Mr Abbas and western nations.
10-06-06 - Israeli security forces disperse hundreds of Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem Hundreds of Palestinians who attempted to forcibly break through a crossing to join Ramadan prayer in Jerusalem's Old City were dispersed by Israeli security forces, Israel's popular Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Friday.
10-06-06 - Palestinian PM collapses at rally Mr Haniya, 43, has been observing the Muslim daytime Ramadan fast.
10-06-06 - Army invades Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip Earlier on Friday, soldiers shelled with heavy artillery several agricultural areas close to several houses in the Bedouin village, north of Beit Lahia and east of Beit Hanoun; damage was reported, no injuries.
10-06-06 - Twenty residents taken prisoners east of Khan Younis Also, soldiers bulldozed farmlands and hothouses in the area; dozens of trees and plants were uprooted, local sources reported.
10-06-06 - 55 minutes from Tel Aviv What participants will not hear from organizers is how the settlements were expanded; the methods by which lands were expropriated from Palestinian Arabs; the expansion orders given by the Israeli civilian administration and the seizing of private Palestinian land by settlers in the dark of night
10-06-06 - Illegal Palestinian workers possibly beaten before Jaffa shooting Border policemen may have beat several illegal Palestinian workers in Jaffa on Wednesday before one worker was shot and killed, according to information emerging from a probe of the incident.
10-06-06 - US pledges fall on deaf Palestinian ears In the occupied West Bank, the number of Israeli checkpoints has mushroomed and the vast separation barrier, slammed by Palestinians as an apartheid wall, has separated loved ones, landowners from land and necessitated long detours....."We don't know what the use is of the US getting involved anymore. They only come to ruin us,"
10-06-06 - Sukkot: Full closure on Gaza, West Bank A general closure was imposed Friday on Palestinian territories and will remain in affect until the end of Sukkot; police have raised their alert level ahead of the holiday.
10-06-06 - Pregnant Palestinians give birth at Israeli checkpoints Since the beginning of the second Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation, in September 2000, 68 pregnant Palestinian women gave birth at Israeli checkpoints, leading to 34 miscarriages and the deaths of four women, according to the Health Ministry's September report.
10-06-06 - Save up to 50% on the New Statesman for twelve months and support the Trees for Life campaign! Your subscription sponsors the planting of three new olive trees in Palestine.
10-06-06 - Families face food crisis in Palestine Please help us to reach more Palestinian Families with food & water by donating now
10-06-06 - Just Another Mother Murdered - Gunning Down Itemad Ismail Abu Mo'ammar Neighbors report that Israeli soldiers had been beating her husband because he wasn't answering their questions. Foolishly or valiantly, how is one to say, the 35-year-old woman had interfered. She tried to explain that her husband was deaf, screamed at the soldiers that her husband couldn't hear them and attempted to stop them from hitting him. So they shot her. Several times. By Alison Weir - a media watchdog. She knows the ins and outs of that business very well.
10-06-06 - Israeli Bomblets Plague Lebanon Since the war between Israel and Hezbollah ended in August, nearly three people have been wounded or killed each day by cluster bombs Israel dropped in the waning days of the war, and officials now say it will take more than a year to clear the region of them.
10-06-06 - Israeli Human Rights Abuses in the Recent Israel/Hezbollah War What should be even more shocking is the fact that the United States, a source of moral influence in the world, did not once condemn Israel for committing such violations of humanitarian law during its war with Hezbollah and continued to provide it with arms for fighting the war. Amnesty International?s Secretary General Irene Khan stated that, "governments supplying Israel and Hizbullah with arms and military equipment are fuelling their capacity to commit war crimes,"
10-06-06 - Israelis Win Contract To Secure US Borders As Chertoff announced the awarding of the contract, estimated to be worth some $2.5 billion, he was giving a very lucrative and sensitive contract to an Israeli company with close ties to the Israeli military. This was also reported in the Jerusalem Post. Israelis or Israeli companies influencing or directly providing our airport security is also taking place and it's nothing new. Why is it that a foreign nation is protecting our borders and airports? (and also training our soldiers, and influencing our police agencies nationwide). Read on: "Huntleigh U.S.A., another Israeli-owned security company, provided passenger screening at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Huntleigh, which is wholly owned by the Israeli company International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) apparently failed to intercept the Arab terrorists who hijacked the two planes that hit the World Trade Center, according to the government version. Now, the same administration that failed to stop the terror attacks of 9-11 is hiring an Israeli-owned company to help protect the entire U.S. land border. " Scary stuff.
10-06-06 - US offers millions to keep Abbas safe
10-06-06 - Israeli warplanes overfly Hezbollah strongholds in Bekaa Two jets screamed over the region which borders Syria on Friday, without drawing a response from guerrillas of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah or the Lebanese army. Israel has been violating Lebanese airspace on an almost daily basis since the August 14 ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah sparked by the guerrillas' capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12.
10-06-06 - Report Israel entry problems, group says Arab Americans turned away from Israel's border should report the matter to the U.S. State Department, an advocacy group said.
10-06-06 - Hebron Update: 23-30 September 2006 A soldier told the Palestinian she needed a pass to walk in that area.
When she questioned that a pass was required, a border police officer got up
from his seat nearby and pushed her. Burnside got in-between the two. Burnside
and the visitor asked the officer to back off. A relative and Burnside tried
to calm down the friend. The soldiers and police nearby were laughing. A female soldier yelled for them to get out and that the land would never belong
to the Palestinian people.
According to international law, it already does.
10-06-06 - Are security forces trigger-happy when it come to Arabs? Jewish suspects in comparable circumstances have not been shot to death even though there have been dozens of confrontations during this period with Jews who were illegally armed, or with Jews suspected of breaking into cars.
10-06-06 - Greenpeace Warns of Toxic Risks to Two Million in Lebanon Two million residents of Lebanon, about half the population, could face health risks posed by toxic releases from Israeli bombing in the July-August war, Greenpeace warned.
10-06-06 - Closure Denies Palestinian Residents Access to their Homes / Nablus Resident?s Basic Rights
10-06-06 - Iran behind Rice's Mid-East tour There is a need, as Philip Zelikow put it, for a "sense of progress" in the Arab-Israeli dispute, in order to reassure US Arab allies. A sense of progress, but no actual, real progress. ....the logic of this line of reasoning is that military action against Iran is now being very seriously considered in Washington.
10-06-06 - Jordan denies Israeli reports about Saudi-Israeli meeting in Amman Israeli newspapers reported that a meeting took place recently at the Jordanian royal court between senior Saudi and Israeli officials. The reports claimed that the meeting was also attended by Egyptian and Palestinian officials.
10-06-06 - FEATURE - Hamas's 'Executive Force' gains strength in Gaza
10-06-06 - Occupied Palestinian Territories: Civilians Human Rights Watch called today on the leaders of Palestinian factions and Palestinian government officials to bring an immediate end to the lawlessness and vigilante violence that has plagued the Occupied Palestinian Territories and to hold the perpetrators of this violence accountable
10-06-06 - U.S. pays to clear cluster bombs The United States is paying $9 million to clear explosives in southern Lebanon, most of them cluster bombs fired by Israel. If there was any justice, that money would come from the aid money we give to Israel each year. Or better yet, it would be cut entirely for the fact that Israel committed war crimes by firing those cluster bombs into civilian areas (see related article in today's news batch).
10-06-06 - The Israeli army seizes 16 residents during dawn raids and invasions across the West Bank
10-06-06 - UN rights body adjourns second session till November The UN Human Rights Council ended on Friday three weeks of discussion on various human rights issues, notably Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territories and the Darfur crisis, but failed to take any action on these issues
10-06-06 - Israeli academic speaks out about Palestinian conflict
10-06-06 - UN sets up camps for Palestinian children affected by Teachers Strike UNICEF has set up youth clubs to provide extracurricular activities, safe indoor and outdoor play areas, and centres to provide literacy and computer training for Palestinian children, who have been unable to start school this year, due to the closure of the Palestinian government - including the schools.
10-06-06 - UN warcrimes prosecutor attacks international double standards "We are faced with conflicts where, according to credible reports, serious violations of international humanitarian law were committed, for instance during the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict, but no independent criminal investigation is taking place," she told a seminar of international prosecutors here.
10-06-06 - We Can't Go Home Again The NYT publishes account of Palestinian-Americans being barred from entering Palestine.
10-06-06 - Tens of thousands of Palestinians rally in Gaza to support Hamas
10-06-06 - Indonesian troops President Bush budgeted $3 million to assist Indonesian forces in Lebanon.
10-06-06 - U.S. asking donors to expand Abbas force The United States reportedly is asking international donors to contribute $26 million to bolster forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas.
Again, take the money from the aid we give to Israel.
10-06-06 - Israeli DM promises to transfer tax revenues to Palestinians if captured soldier returns
10-06-06 - A serious tour well off the beaten path Jelani's Abu Hassan Alternative Tours offers not only the day trip into Hebron -- a close-up look at the nearly abandoned market, a visit with a Palestinian family, a trip to the mosque, followed by lunch and a shopping trip to the city's famous pottery and glass-blowing factories -- but also tours of the concrete wall and electrified fence that makes up the barrier between Israel and West Bank, visits to the West Bank village of Qalqilya to experience life under occupation, tours of the ancient city of Jericho and trips to Palestinian refugee camps.
10-06-06 - Israel Lobby Debate at the Cooper Union A video recording of the debate in 11 segments can be found here.
10-06-06 - Bishop Riah calls for Peace with Justice Speaking after dinner at Morris' Egyptian restaurant, Bishop Riah urged all who attended to do whatever they could to help bring justice to the Palestinian people. He said that justice for Palestine was the key to peace in the Middle East.
10-06-06 - Removing Hamas -Brinkmanship Tactics or Coup D'Etat? One could not but wonder whether the real Israeli-U.S.-backed provocateurs' aim is to bring about the downfall of both Abbas and Hamas in order to maintain and sustain a pre-Hamas comfortable status quo, where their interests and privileges are preserved and the interests of their backers are ideally served
10-06-06 - 'You Never Know What's Next' Lubin probed more and began to see that Eretz Israel (Greater Israel) was built on land owned by Palestinians. Since her awakening, Lubin has been a tireless promoter of Palestinian rights and recognition.
10-06-06 - L.A. Palestinian rally nixed Under pressure from Jewish organizations, however, union president A.J. Duffy said the rally could not be held at headquarters
10-06-06 - Muslim leader gets interfaith award in U.S. despite Jewish protests The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations gave an interfaith award to a prominent Southern California Muslim leader despite strong objections from Jewish organizations who criticized him for comments made about Israel.
10-06-06 - My Name Is Rachel Corrie Begins New York Debut Off-Broadway Oct. 5 The limited engagement will play 48 performances through Nov. 19. Opening is Oct. 15.
10-06-06 - Lieberman Is No Friend of Israel
10-06-06 - Israel 'must explain' war probes Israel's highest court has ordered the government to explain its decision not to set up a state commission to probe the handling of the war in Lebanon.
10-06-06 - Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jeff Halper at U of M Halper, an Israeli, and Ghassan Andoni, a Palestinian from the Occupied Palestinian Territories, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee. The winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 13, the same day that Halper will visit the university.
10-06-06 - Greenberg Lecture Focus: Hamas and Hezbollah "Hamas and Hezbollah: Risk, Conflict, and Democracy" is the title of the latest Greenberg Middle East series of events at Skidmore. Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa program director for the International Crisis Group in Washington, D.C., will give the talk, scheduled at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
10-05-06 - Fateh member killed by unknown gunmen in Rafah, Hamas member injured in Beit Hanoun
10-05-06 - Palestinian govt. signs deal with Israeli fuel supplier The Hamas-led Palestinian government signed a contract with an Israeli firm, Paz, to supply Palestinian territories with fuel.
10-05-06 - Rice offers Abbas plan to ease blockade of Gaza Ms Rice, who left yesterday for a surprise visit to Baghdad on her way back to Washington, proposed a $25.5m (Ł13.5m) security centre for checking lorries on the Palestinian side of Karni. To meet Israel's concerns, it would be manned by Mr Abbas's presidential guard, supported by international monitors
10-05-06 - Blair's Middle East 'nightmare' Palestinians would have to accept that refugees who left their homes in what became Israel will not get them back They shouldn't have to. Israel must either admit them back, or compensate those Palestinians (for their seized property) not wishing to return (article 11, UN resn 194). Allowing Israel to both deny the Palestinian right of return, and allowing Israel to keep all land seized in war(also against int'l law), is unacceptable. Israel is in violation of the law, and it is not right to excuse such actions.
10-05-06 - Rice leaves Israel without agreement to ease Palestinian restrictions Who's in charge here?
10-05-06 - Israeli arrested for mosque threat Police said the suspect, described in media reports as a 51-year-old rabbi, was taken into custody Wednesday after announcing in the lobby of a Tel Aviv hotel that he would carry out an attack in the Temple Mount, an apparent reference to the Al-Aksa Mosque located there.
10-05-06 - Israeli settlers take over Hebron mosque under armed protection of Israeli soldiers Official Palestinian sources in the town told PNN on Thursday that the Israeli settlers carried machine guns and other weapons while overtaking the mosque for a half hour of Jewish prayer. Israeli soldiers occupying the area guarded the northern Hebron's mosque on behalf of the settlers.
10-05-06 - U.N.: 91 Palestinian child deaths in 2006 "They are confronted with regular military operations, shelling, house demolitions, checkpoints on their way to schools," UNICEF Child Protection Officer Anne Grandjean said. "As a result, we find high prevalence of signs of stress such as anxiety, eating and sleeping disorders, and difficulties concentrating in school."
10-05-06 - Iraq: Palestinians Targeted With Death Threats Shi'a armed groups have threatened to kill Palestinian refugees living in Baghdad if they do not leave Iraq within 72 hours, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the Iraqi government and the Multi-National Forces to investigate these threats and provide greater security to Palestinians in Iraq.
10-05-06 - Palestinian military wing launches two missiles against Israeli town Al-Aqasa Martyrs' Brigades launched on Thursday two missiles against the Israeli town of Sderot.
10-05-06 - Gaza's border with Egypt open for second day
10-05-06 - PA security officer dies of wounds he sustained on Monday due to infighting in Gaza
10-05-06 - IDF: Troops in north permitted to fire beyond fence The officer added that in case of a mass gathering on the Lebanese side that the soldiers believe is endangering the lives of Israeli civilians or their own, they will be permitted to carry out the suspect apprehending procedure, including firing at the lower part of the main suspect?s body, in the case he is identified.
10-05-06 - Middle Eastern 'Strategic Consensus' Redux? Like his neoconservative descendants today, Safire argued that Arab fears of Iran should be used as leverage to get them to either put aside or compromise their demands for the U.S. to put serious pressure on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.
10-05-06 - Hamas blames Abbas for unity talks collapse The Islamist movement charges that Mr Abbas is exerting "immoral pressure" to foster the collapse of the current Hamas-controlled government and replace it with a cabinet tailor-made to meet demands imposed from abroad.
10-05-06 - Israelis Crank Up Volume on Total War Mantra
10-05-06 - Bush Opposed to Israeli Withdrawal from the Golan
10-05-06 - Egypt raises possibility of new Palestinian election
10-05-06 - Gazans react to factional violence
10-05-06 - Mona Yousef We will never see a united government. We don't know what will happen; we just expect things to get worse.
10-05-06 - Majeda al-Saqqa The reason for the clashes is the new face of the occupation. Imagine there are 15 people in a small room. After two days they will start fighting.
10-05-06 - Olmert, Bush to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet President Bush in Washington in November
10-05-06 - Israel sacks war critic general Maj Gen Yiftah Ron-Tal was fired by Lt Gen Dan Halutz for breaching the ban on Israeli troops making public comments on political and diplomatic issues.
10-05-06 - Ukrainian leader to visit Israel Yuschenko, who is expected to arrive Nov. 7, said his country is ready to assist Israel in developing satellites and missiles
10-05-06 - Muslim PC in Israeli embassy row feared being targeted by Islamists The constable, whose wife is from Lebanon and has relatives there, works in the Metropolitan police diplomatic protection group. He has never been stationed at the Israeli embassy, but requested during the summer that he not be sent there because of his family background and concerns for his safety.
10-05-06 - At-Tuwani Update 17 September- 30 September
10-05-06 - Russian FM: Abducted IDF troops alive, in good condition Russian FM: Abducted IDF troops alive, in good condition
Sergey Lavrov meets in Strasbourg with wife of kidnapped soldier Ehud Goldwasser and delegation of MKs; says Russia has information indicating that troops held by Hizbullah are alive and in good physical condition
Ilan Marciano Published: 10.04.06, 18:14
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sent a reassuring message about the fate of the kidnapped soldiers held by Hizbullah, reporting that according to information in the hands of Russia, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser are alive and their physical condition is good.
10-05-06 - Lebanese army prevents Hezbollah supporters from protesting near border with Israel It came a week after Israel Defense Forces chief said IDF soldiers have been instructed to shoot Lebanese stone-throwers along the border if they feel their lives are in danger There's your reason right there. Israel routinely shoots stonethrowing Palestinian children - killing some of them. They deem them a 'threat', evidently.
10-05-06 - Arab, Muslim states blast UN human rights envoys' report on war Arab and Muslim countries on Wednesday angrily rejected a report by four UN human rights investigators on the Lebanon war, calling it "biased" and too soft on Israel.
10-05-06 - Hezbollah listened in on IDF beepers, cell phones Israel has been doing this sort of intelligence gathering for many years. But it seems that Hezbollah has now become adept at this form of intelligence and analysis as well.
10-05-06 - Tel Avivians, northerners rally against leadership Residents from Tel Aviv and residents from northern Israel came together to protest management of war in Lebanon, government attitude towards citizens
10-05-06 - Government spokeswoman: Illegal West Bank outposts will be removed All outposts and other civilian residential areas built on occupied land are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49). This does not address the REST of the illegal dwellings. In fact, Israel is set to build more.
10-05-06 - Abbas accepts Qatari plan on Palestinian unity government, prisoner exchange deal Qatar has come up with a plan to end the infighting between Fatah and Hamas, establish a Palestinian unity government and release captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
10-05-06 - Fathi Tobail Within the past few days the Israelis shot the main electricity transformer, in the north of Gaza. So we've only had three to four hours electricity a day in the past 48 hours. Normally it's double that.
10-05-06 - Rice: Economic boycott on Hamas gov't effective Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that she believes the international economic boycott on the Hamas-led Palestinian government is effective and should be maintained. Effective in holding an entire population accountable for electing a government due to the corruption of the previous one such that folks are at the brink of starvation. Yes, an effective Nazi policy if I've ever heard one!
10-05-06 - America and Israel How would you describe U.S. support for Israel under the Bush administration? 62% Too strong
10-05-06 - SFSU president keeping Jews safe with mural censure The proposed Palestinian mural focused on the life of Edward Said, the late Columbia University professor, and incorporates numerous symbols of significance to Palestinians Censorship appears to be the order of the week. It's nothing new with regard to pro-Israeli outfits.
10-05-06 - Berri: Lebanon more imperiled now than during war "We will resort to the arms of the resistance if Israel stalls in withdrawing from the Shebaa Farms," the speaker said.
10-05-06 - Israel is creating Mogadishu next to its Silicon Valley Unlike American Jews - or Jews from anywhere - who can receive instant citizenship upon arrival, we are unable to obtain residency. Instead, we Christian and Muslim Palestinians must rely on our American passports, renewing our tourist visas every three months.
10-05-06 - Report: Shalit to be freed if Mashaal enters Gaza
10-05-06 - Peretz: Tax Rebate Funds to PA -- Olmert Aides: Nice Try
10-05-06 - Ex-Mossad chief says Hezbollah lost war
10-05-06 - Hamas men jailed for life over Israeli attacks
10-05-06 - What Assad needs to do State that Syria, recognizing that no territorial gains should accrue from war, will respect in negotiations the international boundary between Syria and Palestine as it existed in May 1948. Israel is demanding other nations not to recognize land taken by force? The height of hypocrisy.
10-05-06 - Syria: U.S. Embassy attackers not linked to terror groups While not affiliated with known terrorist groups, the men had attended religious lessons in Saudi Arabia and were influenced by the United States' role in the region and perceived bias for Israel, the ministry said
10-05-06 - Appeals Grow For Comprehensive Settlement Hopes for a more flexible U.S. position were also raised by remarks to a pro-Israel group last month by a top Rice adviser, State Department Counselor Philip Zelikow, warning that "some sense of progress and momentum on the Arab-Israeli dispute is the sine qua non" for European and Arab support on Iran and "other things we care about".
10-05-06 - Israeli PM secretly met Saudi officials in Amman: press The meeting, at the palace of Jordan's King Abdullah II, lasted for several hours and focused mainly on Iran's nuclear program and the spread of "Shiite terrorism" in the region, the paper said.
10-05-06 - Lieberman Queries Lamont Over Commitment to Israel Senator Joseph I. Lieberman questioned his opponent?s commitment to Israel at a fund-raiser in Manhattan yesterday, saying he had received important support from several Democrats who have been critical of Israel. Which country will they be representing, America or Israel? You know the answer.
10-05-06 - Jewish groups opposed Rice meeting
10-05-06 - Learn facts about Jewish state, says Kasrils
10-05-06 - UNIFIL says it boosts Lebanon's economy
10-05-06 - Former Muslim terrorist to speak at Bethel College No 'former Muslim terrorist' gets to speak at any US universities, let alone set foot in the US, without the express approval by the Israeli lobby. Shoebat is their darling because he tells Americans what the Israeli lobby wants them to hear.
10-05-06 - International and local nonviolent activists partner against Israeli occupation
10-05-06 - Mother Jones Smears Rachel Corrie? Again
10-05-06 - Green light for terror suit vs. bank In court papers, the bank claimed it suspected the charity, CBSP, might be involved in money laundering, but not terrorism. It cited investigations in France that cleared the group of any wrongdoing.
10-05-06 - Refuseniks: IDF employs apartheid regime
10-05-06 - Israel opens office in Atlanta The Georgia office will be Israel?s hub to the Bible Belt and to a huge Christian market that provides 35 percent of Israel?s tourism, according to ministry officials
10-05-06 - Former envoy opposes Ahmadinejad-Hitler parallels Israel Radio quoted Indyk as saying that, while Ahmadinejad?s Holocaust denials and calls for the Jewish state to be eliminated were reprehensible, the fact that 25,000 Jews live largely unharmed in Iran means Nazi parallels are inappropriate.
10-05-06 - United Teachers Los Angeles just says 'no' to Israel divestment push by union commitee Under a tidal wave of pressure from the local Jewish community, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) has decided to deny use of its headquarters to a UTLA committee hosting a meeting to discuss the launch of a local boycott of, sanctions against and divestment from Israel.
10-04-06 - Masked gunmen kill Hamas member Witnesses said the gunmen's car had the yellow licence plates of Israeli-registered vehicles.
10-04-06 - Israeli airstrike on S Gaza kills two Palestinians The witnesses said that the car, which was full of three militants, drove at al-Manara area east of the city, adding that two aerial rockets were fried from an Israeli aircraft directly at the car
10-04-06 - Palestinian?s brother: He was murdered in cold-blood Tarqumiya resident Morad Abu Raiya, who said he witnessed the fatal shooting of his brother Iad by a Border Guard officer in Jaffa, told Ynet on Wednesday "I was a few meters from the scene; at first the officers chased after my brother and his friend, took them into the bathroom of a building and beat them severely with clubs. A few minutes later they took him outside and shot him. "There was no malfunction, no attempt to snatch the weapon; it was deliberate murder,"
10-04-06 - After war in Lebanon, Israeli settlements growing again Palestinian dreams, of course, look markedly different, including the establishment of an independent state, a goal they view as incompatible with settlement expansion. To them, and to US officials hoping to coax Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiating table, news of settlement growth only complicates efforts. Perhaps if the Israeli government quit subsidizing the mortgages for those illegal settlements (to create more 'facts on the ground') and instead did the same for housing within Israel, then the newlyweds from the article wouldn't have this problem. But that would be too easy.. The CSM's Ilene Prusher always has a pro-Israeli spin to her articles, even in the case of Israel's illegal settlements.
10-04-06 - Israeli police boosts security in Jaffa after a Palestinian killed Israel has dispatched a large group of police forces to Jaffa, a coastal city adjacent to Tel Aviv, for fear of disorder after police officers indiscreetly shot dead a Palestinian man Wednesday morning, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.
10-04-06 - Gas Shortage Spreads Across West Bank A gasoline shortage that Palestinians blamed on a cutoff of supplies by an Israeli firm spread across the West Bank on Wednesday, causing long lines of angry drivers at gas stations.
10-04-06 - Palestinian coalition talks fail as Rice arrives for visit Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, said yesterday that attempts to form a coalition government with the ruling Hamas movement had failed despite a mounting economic and security crisis.
10-04-06 - Rice meets Abbas as the road map to peace lies in tatters
10-04-06 - World figures urge Mid-East talks More than 130 former world leaders, politicians and Nobel laureates have called for urgent international efforts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
10-04-06 - Hezbollah received intel from Russian-Syrian listening post during war
10-04-06 - Judge: Police officers lied while testifying against left-wing activists Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court revealed Tuesday that police officers lied while testifying against 11 left-wing activists accused of violent acts during anti-fence demonstrations in the West Bank village of Bil'in. The court acquitted the activists.
10-04-06 - The Cooper Union "Israel Lobby" Debate no one denied the fact that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ? the epitome of the Lobby ? was one of the most powerful forces on Capitol Hill. Khalidi reminded the audience of the framing of the debate it does in Congress, from the resolutions it drafts, to the congressmen it harasses, to the candidates for public office that it vets. It works tirelessly to demonstrate that U.S. and Israeli interests are exactly the same......It was a travesty of news coverage that it was not televised, not even by C-Span, and no major media covered the event, including the major newspapers
10-04-06 - Israel sets conditions for Syria talks
10-04-06 - Scholars Land Book Deal for Attack on 'Israel Lobby' The David Duke card is being played again by the ADL in an attempt to smear the authors of the study to try to discredit it. This actually proves one of the points of the study - the smear of anti-Semitism is used by individuals and organizations like the ADL in the Israeli lobby in an attempt to silence dissenters.
10-04-06 - UNIFIL says could resort to 'use of force beyond self-defense' The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said it could resort to the "use of force beyond self-defense," but did not give details on the means which will be used.
10-04-06 - Many children need professional help to shake off effects of war Another aggravating factor is the widespread presence of unexploded ordnance around the houses and in the courtyards of southern towns and villages, which prevents children from playing normally.
10-04-06 - Analysts warm to Lebanon results The war destroyed the group's positions in southern Lebanon, wiped out a good deal of its rocket arsenal, left hundreds of Lebanese civilians dead and wrecked the country's infrastructure, angering the general public.
"We really must shake ourselves out of this mood of pessimism and negative thinking," wrote Daniel Gavron on the English language Web site of the Ha'aretz newspaper. So, killing civilians was part of the success? Because this made them angry at Hezbollah? Targeting civilians to achieve a political end is in fact terrorism. And our government wholly supports it (only in the case of Israel).
10-04-06 - Nominee for top Israeli post in D.C. draws praise from American Jews Speaking last year to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Meridor said his concern for the health of Israel's democracy trumped his love for the land. "Israel was created to be a state of and for the Jewish people," he said "And in order to have a Jewish and democratic state, you have to maintain" a "significant, large, Jewish majority." ....As the World Zionist Organization settlement chief from 1992-1997, and then as Jewish Agency boss, Meridor presided over an end to the long-standing agency policy of not directing funds to West Bank settlements
All of the settlements in occupied territory are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49). Israel's new ambassador to the US - a West Bank settler.
10-04-06 - U.S. and EU warn Israel over closure of Gaza border Rice personally brokered the deal last year to boost the flow of people and goods into and out of Gaza after Israel's withdrawal from the impoverished coastal strip. "The fact that the members of the (monitoring) mission have been prevented from performing their duties for three months is not in accordance with the spirit of the agreement," Dayton and Pistolese wrote. "The Rafah crossing is not a security risk."
10-04-06 - Stay Home, Ms. Rice Will she insist that Israel stop murdering innocent Palestinian civilians; stop expanding its settlements; and commit itself to the creation of an independent and viable Palestinian state? Nothing could be further from her mind.
10-04-06 - Israel takes fresh look at Golan
10-04-06 - Abbas agrees with Rice on new government programme US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas presented a united front, saying any Palestinian government should respect the peace principles set out by the world powers.
10-04-06 - Washington says its efforts in Palestinian territories go unrecognised "While I recognize that sometimes the coverage tends to portray the situation in a little different terms, I feel that the United States and President Bush don't always get much credit for the support that we provide to the Palestinian people," The US has backed Israel in its attempts to starve the Palestinian people into ousting Hamas by withholding customs duties from the Palestinians, and by threatening to sanction any bank that attempts to send them aid. Thanks to the Israeli lobby, the US is partly responsible for the mess in Palestine (and Lebanon).
10-04-06 - U.S. State Secretary Rice worried about condition of Palestinians Where's she been for the past 6 months?
10-04-06 - Saudi Ambassador raps US on reform calls
10-04-06 - Syria still against Lebanese government: Israeli DM Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told cabinet ministers on Wednesday that Syria still works against the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Saniora and is calling for peace "while keeping open the option of war." This coming from the folks that just put Lebanon back ten years.
10-04-06 - Amid protests, building continues for "Museum of Tolerance" on top of an Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem
10-04-06 - Rice's visit to the Middle East is "unwelcome": Hamas
10-04-06 - Canadian assists emergency training for Palestinian Red Crescent
10-04-06 - Off Limits? Talk By Israel Critic Canceled ADL National Director Abraham Foxman acknowledged his group spoke with Kasprzyk about the issue, but strongly denied exerting any such pressure.....Pro-Israel advocates also claimed their lobbying of Yale University donors succeeded in preventing Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Middle Eastern studies professor, from receiving a tenured appointment at Yale earlier this year. University officials denied they played a role.
Just a big 'conspiracy theory'. Nothing to see here.
10-04-06 - FEATURE - Abbas builds up forces amid Palestinian crisis
10-04-06 - Sderot: Israelis leave, Palestinians arrive Many of the older, Jewish residents of the city are not happy with the "new settlers". One woman told Ynet that, "with all due respect to them, I'm afraid. Even on Yom Kippur I forbade my daughter from leaving the house." "I don't think that such coexistence is positive, rather it's even dangerous. Even now, there are some young girls who have gotten pregnant from them,"
10-04-06 - Livingstone not anti-semitic, judge tells hearing over mayor's diatribe Mr Livingstone has accused the Board of Deputies of British Jews of making the original complaint to try to silence his views on the Middle East and the need for "a viable Palestinian state" alongside Israel.
10-04-06 - US support for Israel threatening peace: Iran Iran warned yesterday that the current Middle East tour of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will end in failure unless Washington ends its support of Israel ? Tehran?s arch-foe in the region. That view was shared by a number of newspapers in the Arab world. ....?Its own policies have helped promote the extremism it now fears, and have weakened the impact and credibility of the so-called moderate Arabs it now seeks to bolster,?
10-04-06 - Cleanup to Start at Old Sites in Lebanon
10-04-06 - European Commission funds support for Palestinian children caught in conflict
10-04-06 - Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, to Speak About Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
10-04-06 - Saudi doctors battle for hearts and minds in Lebanon
10-04-06 - Oregon House speaker discloses trip to Israel paid for by private group The state treasurer said he had reported the $4,000 that came from private citizens, who are associated with the Jewish Federation, to pay for his trip to Israel. He said the trip was valuable because it allowed him to visit personally with managers of a Tel Aviv-based buyout company with whom the state has invested $50 million.
10-04-06 - Tony Judt Speech Shut Down by ADL I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.
10-03-06 - Israeli air force shells Khan Younis; one resident killed, his brother injured
10-03-06 - Israeli warplanes strike on Gaza Strip targets
10-03-06 - Israeli strike wounds 5 Palestinian militants An Israeli air strike in northern Gaza on Tuesday wounded five Palestinian militants, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.
10-03-06 - West Bank settlements grew during Lebanon war With media attention focused on the Lebanon war, Israeli wildcat settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank have mushroomed in recent months, a watchdog group has said.
10-03-06 - Israel should face war crimes probe over Lebanon: UN rights expert Israel should be held to account for possible war crimes during its offensive in Lebanon, the United Nations' food rights expert has said in a report.
10-03-06 - Israel removes closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip The general closure, imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip prior to the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, has been lifted, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday.
10-03-06 - Israel, Hizbollah broke human rights law: U.N. envoys
10-03-06 - UN Sets Up Camps For Palestinian Children Hit By School Strike In West Bank With 500,000 Palestinian children out of school due to a strike in the West Bank that has left most public schools closed, the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) has set up youth clubs to provide extracurricular activities, safe indoor and outdoor play areas, and centres to provide literacy and computer training.
10-03-06 - Palestinian clashes flare for third day
10-03-06 - Arabs Pressure Rice On U.S. Peace Efforts During talks Tuesday in both Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Rice was confronted by friendly but firm pressure from eight Arab governments -- Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain -- to follow up on promises by President Bush to help achieve a two-state solution in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians Rice's visit to the Middle East, under the guise of restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, is a front to gain Arab support for the upcoming war on Iran. This comes just after a number of high-ranking Israeli officials visited Washington in the preceding weeks.
10-03-06 - U.N. moves to maintain peace in Lebanon A Lebanese army statement said four Israeli jets flew over southern towns and villages as well as areas in northern Lebanon. UNIFIL has asked Israel to end this practice, which violates the cease-fire. Israeli officials said previously that air patrols would continue. A military spokesman declined comment on the latest overflight reports
10-03-06 - Palestinian refugees see payouts stop A considerable number of refugees used to receive assistance from the Palestinian Authority, but that has stopped after an international embargo was imposed on the Hamas-led Palestinian government since the Islamist group won elections in January
10-03-06 - Nof Zion vs. Jabal Mukaber: Manipulations to Erase Reality This is an effort to erase the Arab presence, to take over the space, together with the land, the view, to ?judaize? East Jerusalem by a combination of Jewish building projects and the erasure of the Arab presence.
10-03-06 - Rice off to Middle East - with no new ideas the Saudi foreign minister. He described the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the region's "core problem" on whose settlement the resolution of other disputes depended. Similar appeals have come from Egypt and Jordan.
But Ms Rice, conscious of neo-con opposition at home to any pressure for Israeli concessions and aware that Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is in no shape politically to reopen peace talks, offered no concrete res
10-03-06 - Lebanese government under pressure to resign "The main ally of the Siniora government was the Americans and they didn't seek to end the war but in fact sought to prolong it. Certainly, what happened during the war really strengthened the hand of the government's opponents; it allowed them to say, 'look what your alliance has brought us'."
10-03-06 - Outburst on Bush and Blair threatens foreign policy rift He also accused them of making "an enormous error" by refusing to press Israel for a ceasefire during the war in Lebanon.
10-03-06 - Rice plea on Palestinian clashes "Innocent Palestinians are caught in this violence," She makes no such plea when it's Israel that is doing the killing, and that goes for Lebanon too.
10-03-06 - Can Rice rally Mideast against Iran? Hizbullah is seen by the US as an Iranian proxy that could harass Israel if the nuclear dispute with Iran moves to open conflict; disorder in Iraq is seen as serving Iranian interests by tying up US forces and creating the possibility that the country's Shiites could rise up against US forces in support of their coreligionists; and Hamas, too, is seen by America as a threat to speed attacks against Israel in the event of war....Washington's conviction that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons (Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only) trumps all other concerns.
10-03-06 - UNIFIL sets rules of engagement in Lebanon
10-03-06 - U.N.: Israeli military won't answer probe A U.N. panel investigating the July deaths of four U.N. military observers in Lebanon says Israel will not allow interviews with tactical operations officers.
10-03-06 - Cries of victory, sighs of defeat from Jews as Congress recesses The American Israel Public Affairs Committee scored a victory in a separate bill setting up an office within the Homeland Security Department that would coordinate cooperation with counterparts in Israel, Britain, Australia, Canada and Singapore.....Appropriations for U.S.-Israel programs, victory. An AIPAC priority, the $460 million allocated for such programs in the U.S. Defense Appropriations bill is separate from the $2.8 billion Israel receives each year in assistance, and is considered an investment. Some of the innovations, including protective tiles for armored vehicles, a targeting and navigation pod and unmanned aerial vehicles, already are in use in Iraq.
10-03-06 - UNHCR "Deeply Concerned" over Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq UNHCR Spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis said at the press briefing today at the Palais des Nations in Geneva that the security situation of Palestinian refugees in Iraq has deteriorated - particularly since the Samarra bombings last February - and an increasing number of them have left or are trying to leave the country.
10-03-06 - Hawke calls for help for new Palestine FORMER prime minister Bob Hawke has called for a huge injection of capital and expertise to a new Palestinian state as way to end the long-running conflict in the Middle East.
10-03-06 - PRC: "No more talks on abducted soldier release, if Israel expands its invasion" The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), one of three factions that abducted an Israeli soldier on June 25, said that if Israel expands its invasion and military assaults in the Gaza Strip, there will be no further talks on the release of the captured soldier.
10-03-06 - Palestinians Assess Hezbollah's Techniques
10-03-06 - Yushchenko: I believe in cooperating with Israel Ukrainian president tells Ynet that he will use his visit to Jerusalem next month to advance initiative for joint Israeli-Ukrainian development of missiles and satellites for peaceful purposes
10-03-06 - Israeli jets fly over Lebanon despite withdrawal Israeli warplanes flew over Lebanon on Tuesday two days after Israeli forces withdrew from virtually all of south Lebanon, witnesses said.
10-03-06 - Palestinian volunteer to remove unexploded Israeli Cluster bombs in Lebanon Abu Ali, has become the only hope for the farmers of that region who are worried about farming their fields filled with these internationally prohibited cluster bombs Israel fired at the southern Lebanon during the war with Hezbollah, which claimed the lives of 1500 Lebanese and 157 Israelis. In addition, over one million Lebanese were displaced from their homes as a result of the Israeli shelling.
10-03-06 - Hezbollah denies seeking U.S. money A veteran member of the Hezbollah political party in Beirut says the organization is not involved in fundraising in the United States.
10-03-06 - Israelis selling arms to India Down the years, successive Indian governments have been at the forefront of support for the Palestinian cause and in the vanguard of criticising Israel. But this began to change under the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
10-03-06 - Palestinian resistance group fires home made shells at army post in Gaza
10-03-06 - Palestinian in-fighting provokes despair, frustration "The only winner right now is the occupation. The only way out is early elections, otherwise a dark future awaits us."
10-03-06 - Palestine: Deals on prisoners swap with Israel "immature"
10-03-06 - Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly incumbents - and challengers Since he lost the Democratic party's nomination - and its financial backing - for his Senate seat, Lieberman has become the top fund-raiser among American Jews whose primary political focus is support for Israel.....Among the trends in pro-Israel money, fund-raisers say, is a rush to defend endangered Israel-friendly incumbents, the majority of whom are Republicans. There is also significant support directed toward challengers of incumbents such as Chafee and Hostettler, who are not considered friendly to Israel. America's interests factor in, exactly how?
10-03-06 - Sanford Garner; D.C. Rector Worked for Peace Abroad In the 1970s, he helped establish House of Hope, a peace center in Galilee for Palestinian and Israeli young people
10-03-06 - WCC asks Israel to recognize head of Orthodox Church of Jerusalem The Israeli authorities have, however, refused to validate the August 2005 election of the leader of the Word Council of Churches' largest member church in the Holy Land, and have thus prevented the church from fulfilling its regular functions
10-03-06 - New Romantic Comedy Film 'Crossing Borders' May Bring Middle East Peace "Crossing Borders" is a satirical comedy about Jewish and Arab lifestyles and culture. A Jewish girl and an Palestinian boy meet, fall in love, and break down the barriers between their two cultures bringing happiness not only to themselves, but to the world around them.
10-02-06 - 2 Killed as Palestinian Factions Clash for 2nd Day A Palestinian fisherman was killed Monday just off Gaza?s Mediterranean coast, in what Palestinian officials said was a shooting by an Israeli gunboat. The Israeli military said that naval vessels fired in the air several times to drive fishing boats back toward the shore, but that it was not aware that anyone had been hit
10-02-06 - Palestinian factions clash as government stops work A Palestinian waiter who was shot and wounded by members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades during clashes in the West Bank town of Jericho was pronounced "clinically dead," medics said.
10-02-06 - Hamas closes offices as violence spreads
10-02-06 - Gazans bury dead after clashes
10-02-06 - Gazans fear call from Israeli army An F16 destroyed my home with two rockets. They demolished the four-storey house completely.
The reason they gave was that one of my sons is planning attacks against Israel.
But this son hasn't lived with me since 2004. He lives in the middle of Gaza, between Gaza City and Khan Younis, in Nasiriya Camp
A sinister new low by the Israeli government.
10-02-06 - Hamas rejected Arab initiative for recognizing Israel Hamas-led Palestinian government spokesman Ghazi Hamad said Monday that Hamas didn't accept the Arab peace initiative because it calls for recognizing Israel, asserting they would never recognize the Jewish state.
10-02-06 - Israeli-Arab kidnapped in Palestinian village
10-02-06 - Fatah closes down shops and private schools; Hamas closes ministries
10-02-06 - Ailing Palestinians hit hard by worker strike "The most difficult thing in life is to see your son dying before your eyes and not to be able to do anything to help him," Dmairi said as he dried his tears with his hands outside the shuttered ministry building in Ramallah.
10-02-06 - OPT: Freshwater shortage leads to health problems in Gaza Strip Environmentalists and public health specialists are warning of escalating health problems due to a growing freshwater deficit and declining water quality in the Gaza Strip.
10-02-06 - Palestinian group threatens Hamas The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, threatened for the first time on Tuesday to kill Hamas leaders, including exiled political chief Khaled Meshaal. Israel is loving this.
10-02-06 - Poverty drives Palestinian children to work at checkpoints
10-02-06 - Condoleezza Rice arrives in Saudi on Mideast tour Iran's nuclear program and the crisis in Lebanon were also to figure on the agenda, he said
10-02-06 - Hebron Update: 16-22 September 2006 CPT's immediate neighbor took Gibb to their apartment to show her that
Israeli settlers on Shuhada St had again thrown stones through their windows,
breaking them again.
10-02-06 - Arms industry 'flouting export laws' The report, Arms Without Borders, by Oxfam, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms, points out, for example, that the European Union prohibits selling helicopters to Israel. But Apache gunships used in the recent attacks in Lebanon, which drew widespread condemnation, were built with components made in Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands.
10-02-06 - UN to study Lebanon environment
10-02-06 - Lebanese troops deploy on border In a small ceremony near the border, Lebanese army commander Brig Gen Michel Suleiman promised to reassert Beirut's control of the area by stopping arms smuggling and cross-border attacks from either side. He urged his soldiers to take tough action against Israel too, if needed. "I call on you to confront any Israeli aggression and violations," he said.
10-02-06 - Sudan worries over situation in Palestinian territories
10-02-06 - During war, PM ignored Livni's plan for early exit from Lebanon
10-02-06 - Israel's Lebanon bombardment visible from space Israel's recent bombardment of Lebanon was clearly visible with "the naked eye" from space, a Russian cosmonaut based at the time on the international space station has said.
10-02-06 - Kuwait''s Ramadan meals distributed in Jordan, Palestine
10-02-06 - No Ground Troops in Iran, Say Americans Many adults in the United States think it would be a mistake to launch direct military action against Iran, according to a poll by Zogby International released by Reuters. 70 per cent of respondents oppose the use of U.S. ground troops in the country. Look at the second part of that poll.
10-02-06 - IDF threatens Lebanon raids Officers say army would not hesitate to carry out incursions into Lebanon if UN peacekeeping force fails to prevent Hizbullah from reclaiming border posts or waging attacks
10-02-06 - Lebanon economy reels under hardships since war Lebanon's finance minister said last month the offensive and Israel's blockade on the country had increased Lebanon's public debt to 41 billion dollars.
10-02-06 - PA to stop buying petrol from Alon Oil
10-02-06 - Amnesty: Two thirds of Israeli arms ? for exports Among the many examples given by the report, Israel is mentioned several times as an alleged culprit in these violations. One example
is the sales of weaponry from the United States to Israel, which in turn uses these arms in its military actions in the Palestinian territories, resulting in the death and injury of thousands, all in violation of the international humanitarian law
10-02-06 - France calls Fatah, Hamas to keep calm
10-02-06 - Army closes the Ibrihimi mosque in Hebron to Palestinans.
10-02-06 - Just another day at Huwarra-Journalist beaten, ten men detained
10-02-06 - Lie Less in Gaza The decision by Israel's security services to prevent the launch of a peace initiative between Rabbis representing the three main streams of Israeli Jewish thought and the Hamas MP Muhamed Abu Tir and Minister for Jerusalem Khaled Abu Arafa was unprecedented.
10-02-06 - Habib: "Gaza internal clashes, free gift for the occupation" "This is unimaginable, a Palestinian killing his fellow Palestinian", Habib said, "All of this is without any excuse or justification, the only beneficial is the Israeli occupation".
10-02-06 - Gooood morning Tehran! This is Jerusalem
10-02-06 - Final note On the occasion of the third anniversary of the death of Edward Said, Ferial J Ghazoul* reviews the posthumous publication of a collection of articles, lectures and class notes
10-02-06 - Coming out in Arabic Brian Whitaker reports on a lesbian group's struggle for acceptance in the Middle East
10-02-06 - Alarm bells for banks after US bombings ruling The US government declared in August 2003 that Interpal was a terrorist organization, several days after the last of the bloody suicide bomb attacks cited in the suit. Israel had branded Interpal a terrorist organization in 1998. NatWest said that Interpal - or the Palestinian Relief and Development Fund - was cleared by Britain's Charities Commission, which regulates charities in England. The US and Israel says it's terrorist, and the Brits say it's not. Why is that?
10-02-06 - Palestinian Dance Education under Occupation: Need or Frill?
10-02-06 - Paralysis of the Palestinian 'Authority': What's to be done?
10-02-06 - Israeli leader's scheduled visit causes stir at IU
10-01-06 - Eight Palestinians die as Fatah and Hamas fight on streets of Gaza City Among the dead was a boy aged 15. More than 50 people were injured, including three children and a television cameraman. The fighting broke out during a protest in Gaza City led by government employees and security officials, none of whom had received salaries since the government was formed in March.
10-01-06 - Hamas-led government expresses regret over Gaza riots
10-01-06 - 'Smugglers' get 15 minutes to go, then house is blown up
10-01-06 - President Abbas calls on rivals from Amman to stop fighting in Gaza
10-01-06 - Palestinian Territories on brink of volcano: Deputy Premier
10-01-06 - Israeli army forces storm northern Gaza Strip The residents reported that tanks took up positions on hills in the area while bulldozers began working on the ground.
10-01-06 - Program to Get Nourishment to 2,500 Palestinian Children; Animal Husbandry Awaits Funding In the beleaguered West Bank with Palestinians besieged politically and economically, NEF (Near East Foundation) provides a lifeline of assistance and hope in a "cluster" of 14 villages north of Nablus. NEF is meeting basic needs as well as seeking longer-term solutions with a wide range of environmental, economic, health, education and nutrition activities underway. Here is the most recent twist to our highly successful "Cup of Milk" program," now featuring a new treat.
10-01-06 - Rice to ask for 'creative moves' to bolster Abbas U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will discuss steps for strengthening Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on her visit to Israel this week. According to an Israeli diplomatic source, the U.S. administration wants to shore up Abbas' position and weaken Hamas by "creative" means, one of which would be the moving of funds to the PA through Abbas. "Ok ok. Starvation isn't working. What can we try next? Ideas people!"
10-01-06 - Crossings pact in failure few provisions were carried out, and the main Gaza crossings have remained constricted or shut, leaving Palestinian farmers unable to export crops and deepening a sense of confinement felt by many of its 1.3 million residents. The United Nations said in a recent report that the flow through Karni is lower now than when the agreement was crafted.
10-01-06 - The ethnic cleansing of Palestine In this controversial new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe uses recently declassified archival sources to investigate the fate suffered by the indigenous population of 1940s Palestine at the hands of the Zionist political and military leadership, whose actions led to the mass deportation of over a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, over 400 villages wiped from the map, and hundreds of civilians dead.
10-01-06 - Home destroyed by two Israeli missiles, 'five minute warning' given by cell phone
10-01-06 - Syria shifts troops to Lebanon border But the troop movement was still likely to draw criticism from the U.S. and Iraqi governments, as President Bashar Assad said Syria shifted forces away from its eastern border with Iraq to fortify its frontier with Lebanon.
10-01-06 - The Internet clicks as a business lifeline for Palestinians Famous for their ability to make money, Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron have hit upon the Internet as a lifeline to cushion losses from conflict, competition and severe local recession.
10-01-06 - UN hails Israel's Lebanon pullout The UN has said Israel has withdrawn the bulk of its troops from Lebanon, fulfilling a key condition of the UN ceasefire ending war with Hezbollah.
10-01-06 - Abramoff Knew US Would Invade Iraq in March, 2002 I was sitting yesterday with Karl Rove, Bush's top advisor, at the NCAA basketball game, discussing Israel when this email came in. I showed it to him. It seems that the President was very sad to have to come out negatively regarding Israel, but that they needed to mollify the Arabs for the upcoming war on Iraq. That did not seem to work anyway. Bush seems to love Sharon and Israel, and thinks Arabfat (sic), is nothing but a liar. I thought I'd pass that on.
10-01-06 - Ruined Towns Look to Beirut, Mostly in Vain
10-01-06 - British lawmaker scrutinized for remarks A member of Britain?s House of Lords will be investigated by her party for comments about the "pro-Israel lobby."
10-01-06 - Infighting the worst thing to Palestinian cause: AL chief
10-01-06 - Rice will try to get Arab allies to join efforts against Iran ** Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was headed to the Middle East on Sunday night to rally Arab allies against Iran and try to resurrect Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
And that's the real reason for this - to garner international support, to build a coalition for the coming confrontation with Iran. It's the same situation as the run-up to the Iraq war.
10-01-06 - Mubarak discusses with Jordan's King on Palestinian issue
10-01-06 - U.S. rabbis list support for Israel as No. 1 High Holiday focus Support for Israel is the No. 1 focus for this year´s Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur sermons among American rabbis, according to a new survey.
10-01-06 - Military force won't stop illegal weapons entering Lebanon: Assad
10-01-06 - UNRWA thanks Syria for Helping Palestinian Refugees
10-01-06 - Palestinian president says civil war is a "red line" "Let us be frank here, the United Stated has imposed a political, economic and social siege on us after Hamas's win," said Abbas.
10-01-06 - Things Go Better With Rights
10-01-06 - Female Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike in Israeli Jail
10-01-06 - Unwritten history - The challenges of writing Palestinian history reflect the larger challenges facing the Palestinians' quest for statehood
10-01-06 - Sentiments Woven into Rustic Cloak Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in rural Galilee, but his village was destroyed during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. After spending a year in exile in Lebanon, he and his family returned to what had become Israel. He has lived in Nazareth for more than 50 years
10-01-06 - U of M-Dearborn student government demands divestment from Israel
10-01-06 - More Aggressive Israeli PR Needed Convincing a non-Muslim, anti-Israel audience that it ought to know better is a daunting challenge, to say the least. Yet, making such an impression is not within the realm of the impossible. If enough shekels are channeled by the government to hasbara and public relations, the tides may just turn.
10-01-06 - Israeli, Palestinian share a mission
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