September '04 Archive

9-30 - 8 Palestinians, 3 Israelis Killed in Gaza Six more Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Jebaliya, including at least one Palestinian gunman and a 60-year-old civilian

9-30 - Seven Palestinians killed by tank fire in Gaza refugee camp Witnesses said the shell fell on a group of Palestinians who had gathered at the entrance to the camp.

9-30 - 28 Palestinians, three Israelis killed in open-ended Gaza offensive More than 20 houses and the outside wall of a school were destroyed by the army. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned that the Israeli operations had disrupted its operations and called on the Jewish state to guarantee the safety of its staff.

9-30 - 32 Palestinians, three Israelis killed in open-ended Gaza offensive Eleven Palestinians -- at least seven of them teenagers -- were killed in two separate incidents of Israeli tank fire on Jabaliya in which groups of people near the entrance to the embattled refugee camp were hit.

9-30 - Victims of a conflict that has paralysed the Middle East But the deadliest single incident of the day came in Jabalya itself, when an Israeli tank shell fired on the busy market area close to a school killed seven Palestinians including two children, 11, and 13. Medics and local witnesses said that the majority of the dead and 43 people wounded in the same attack were civilians

9-30 - Israeli Tanks Enter Refugee Camp Among the 25 wounded was a Palestinian cameraman who was shot in the shoulder. Doctors said nearly half those hurt were under 16, and that five were in serious condition.

9-30 - West Bank Assailants Beat U.S. Activists

9-30 - Arafat urges world leaders to interfere to end Israeli military operations

9-30 - Urgent Appeal from UHWC Gaza

9-30 - Time is running out for two states Trade pressure on Israel would help Blair deliver his Middle East pledge Two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace, would do more to defeat terrorism than bullets can ever do."

9-30 - Straw urges Israel to stop targeted killings

9-30 - Israel lobbying for Taiwan submarine buy The reason: a Taiwan buy could launch a conventional submarine production line in the United States that would be used by Israel to procure additional subs

9-30 - Charging anti-Semitism, lawmaker calls for new head of AIPAC spy probe

9-30 - U.N. asks Israel grant UNRWA access

9-30 - Poll: Over 90% of Palestinians back reforms

9-30 - Palestinian children and society at risk

9-30 - UN chief calls for immediate cessation of violence in Mideast

9-30 - France calls on Israel, Palestine to break violence spiral

9-30 - Judge's Daughter Hurt In Israel

9-30 - Syria wants Israel expelled from UN over its "terrorist" policy

9-30 - Poll: 2/3 of Americans favor Mideast neutrality Just less than two-thirds of Americans - 64 percent - feel the US should make a major effort to be evenhanded in its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

9-30 - Chapel Hill Activist To Speak At Palestinian Conference At Duke Brian Avery was shot while working with the International Solidarity Movement

9-30 - Poll: 64 Percent of Americans Favor Balanced US Position in Middle East

9-30 - Not welcome in the Holy Land Forget army service and suicide bombings - what really upset me was the racist attitude of other Jews. In Israel, if you are not a white Ashkenazi [European Jew], you're treated like a second-class citizen


9-29 - Five children killed in Gaza Strip battles

9-29 - Rockets Kill 2 Israeli Children, 9 Palestinians Die Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian gunman and youths aged 17 and 14 in a crowd of stone throwers. A 13-year-old boy was killed in another Gaza incident

9-29 - Two US Christian pacifists say Hebron settlers beat them up Christian Peacekeeper Team's statement on the incident

9-29 - U.S. volunteers escorting Palestinian children attacked

9-29 - Jewish settlers 'attack' US workers Whilst recovering in an Israeli hospital in Beersheba, Chris Brown told BBC News Online it had been "was an ambush - a premeditated attack".

9-29 - Israeli army opens fire on stone-throwing schoolchildren An incursion by the Israeli army into the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday has ended in disaster for a group of mainly schoolchildren.

9-29 - Palestinian cancer patients miss out

9-29 - [PCUSANEWS] Anglican delegation pushes Israel divestment Jerusalem bishop urges Presbyterians to a strategy for world churches

9-29 - U.N.: Palestinian Economy Grew 4.5 Pct

9-29 - U.N.: Most Palestinians live below poverty line

9-29 - Gazans trapped by Israeli border closure The prison of Gaza

9-29 - Palestinian forced to drink urine: prosecutor

9-29 - Iran must be prevented from achieving nuclear capabilities: Israel

9-29 - Israel Takes Issue With Iran Weapons Israel will consider "all options" to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons

9-29 - Witnesses: Settler's shooting of Palestinian was unprovoked

9-29 - Weapons-free Middle East will foster peace, Vatican official says

9-29 - School meeting channels Mideast tension Jewish groups say pro-Palestine event supports terrorism

9-29 - ZOA: Congressmembers Urge U.S. Action Against Divestment Campaign The letter was initiated by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).

9-29 - A mole called Mega The scandal over a suspected Israeli mole in the Pentagon who allegedly passed highly sensitive policy documents on Iran to Israeli agents in Washington has rekindled suspicions long held by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation

9-29 - NZ deports Israeli 'spies'


9-28 - Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank Raid The army put the refugee camp under curfew overnight and witnesses said soldiers shot a Palestinian as he came out of a house. Medics said he died of a bullet wound to the chest.

9-28 - Two Palestinians killed on intifada anniversary, CNN staffer released Mahmud Ibzur, 16, was fatally hit in the chest during clashes between troops and stone throwers protesting the second day of a large army search-and-arrest operation in northern West Bank town of Jenin and its refugee camp

9-28 - Gaza Kidnappers Free Israeli Arab CNN Producer Yasser Arafat made every effort. He said he would not sleep until Riad Ali was free ... and now he is

9-28 - Gaza curbs 'hamper aid effort' Matthias Burkhart also said staff and supplies were having to cross checkpoints on foot, which is prohibited under UN security rules.

9-28 - Palestinian killed on intifada anniversary

9-28 - Kidnapped CNN man freed in Gaza But the circumstances surrounding his disappearance remained unclear after all the main Palestinian militant groups denied responsibility.

9-28 - Court releases settler suspected of manslaughter of Palestinian

9-28 - Sick transit Israel made a commitment that no ambulance should wait more than 30 minutes at a checkpoint.

9-28 - Palestinians use Israel-style perks to counter settlers

9-28 - Arabs, Israel Split on Terror Definition

9-28 - Blair says he'll make Middle East his 'personal priority'

9-28 - [PCUSANEWS] Fourteen Congressional reps push PCUSA to rescind The denomination has long opposed Israel's settlement expansion, the uprooting of orchards and the demolition of homes by its military, and, most recently, the construction of a barrier that separates Israel and the occupied territories

9-28 - Palestinians pay heavy price for intifada

9-28 - Syria Still Backing Palestinian Groups But sheltering militants in defiance of long-standing U.S. demands and at a time when Syria does not have much sympathy internationally could prove challenging

9-28 - Elite soldiers contend razing Palestinian houses is "immoral"

9-28 - Israeli Supreme Court Releases Soldiers Convicted of Abusing Two Palestinian Workers

9-28 - Hamas signals challenge to unseat Arafat

9-28 - UN chief urges Israel to ensure safety of Palestinian civilians

9-28 - London to Palestine Peace cycle blocked by Israeli Authorities

9-28 - Hungary sends aid to Palestinian refugee camps

9-28 - Alleged Israeli agents released from New Zealand jail

9-28 - Trip to help conflict victims 'turned into hell' The fact we were so quickly released by the judge shows we were never a security risk. Yet the Israeli police never explained their actions or apologised to us

9-28 - Presbyterians, Jews try to heal rift over Israel divestment vote

9-28 - Website pioneer plans improvements It also features a weblog which most recently included a full diary of the MP's visit to war-torn Palestinian occupied territories in Israel




9-27 - Seven Palestinians killed in Mideast unrest as Israel warns Syria In Khan Yunis refugee camp, 60-year-old Said al-Madhun was shot dead by Israeli fire while standing in the playground of a UN-run school near a Jewish settlement

9-27 - Four Palestinians killed in Gaza two stone-throwing Palestinian protesters are reported killed by Israeli troops in a refugee camp in Nablus

9-27 - Palestinian shot dead by West Bank settlers

9-27 - 7 Palestinians Killed; CNN Producer Held In the West Bank, a Jewish settler shot and killed a Palestinian taxi driver. He told police the taxi tried to run him off the road, but Palestinian witnesses said the settler ambushed the taxi and opened fire for no reason. The Israeli was arrested.

9-27 - Israeli Troops Enter West Bank Hospital In the nearby Rafah refugee camp, five Palestinians, including four children ages 9-15, were injured by Israeli army fire, hospital officials said.

9-27 - Citing death of Palestinian girl by Israeli fire, UN urges protection of children UNRWA said the tragic event occurred despite its numerous calls to the Government of Israel to instruct the IDF to stop firing at or in the vicinity of the Agency's schools.

9-27 - Gaza's tragic classroom casualties

9-27 - Israeli police accused of abuse There, the policemen allegedly urinated in a bucket and poured the contents over the faces of the Palestinians. The policemen then allegedly burnt the men with cigarettes before forcing them to jump from a second floor window.

9-27 - Arafat intervenes on behalf of British hostage: brother

9-27 - Israeli guard commits suicide next to West Bank barrier: police

9-27 - Syria Blames Israel for Inciting U.S. to Invade Iraq

9-27 - Syria: Israel Shares U.S. Blame in Iraq

9-27 - Israelis admit Damascus bombing

9-27 - Israeli mayor calls for Gaza town to be erased

9-27 - Resistant Israeli Settlers May Get Prison Resistant Palestinians get DEATH

9-27 - Group tells of Palestinians' pain Baer said he was overwhelmed by what he describes as the destruction and oppression that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands has wrought throughout the Holy Land

9-27 - Jerusalem clerics in punch-up row "There was lots of hitting going on. Police were hit, monks were hit ... there were people with bloodied faces,"

9-27 - Plans: Next, War on Syria? Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran

9-27 - Jordan says Israel barrier threatens the kingdom

9-27 - Israel May Not Be Able to Destroy Nukes

9-27 - Anglican Leader Voices Support for Measure to Punish Israel The declaration by the Anglicans comes as Jewish communal leaders are already working with pro-Israel Presbyterians to head off divestment efforts in their church

9-27 - No: Not 'til we alter Mideast policies Our financial and political backing of Israel is a key reason for the negative sentiment that produces anti-U.S. violence. Congress is cowed by pro-Israel political action committees, which target members who don't toe their line


9-26 - Israel kills Hamas leader in Syrian capital

9-26 - Suspected Israeli Agents Kill Militant in Syria On Friday, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat reported that an Arab country had given the Mossad detailed information about Hamas's leadership in a number of Arab capitals. It did not identify the country.

9-26 - Israeli Warplanes Bomb Workshop in Khan Younis, Seven Civilians Wounded

9-26 - Girl's life ended by Israeli bullets

9-26 - Israel warning on Jerusalem site

9-26 - Israel still expropriating land to expand settlements

9-26 - Syria slams Israeli assassination in Damascus

9-26 - Pulling out of Gaza, Israel tightens grip on West Bank settlements Despite the labels, the international community considers all settlements in the occupied territories illegal.

9-26 - Israel May Limit Worshippers in Jerusalem

9-26 - After 8 Months and Resistance: New Destruction for the Apartheid Wall in Budrus

9-26 - Jordan condemns Israel's assassination of Hamas member ."Jordan strongly condemned the assassination, which aims to destabilize security in the region and derail the peace process

9-26 - Settlers seized in outpost scuffle

9-26 - IAEA to examine Dimona effect The UN nuclear watchdog has said it will send experts to Jordan to verify whether the Dimona nuclear plant in Israel is emitting high levels of radiation

9-26 - Mayor to force Jerusalem's Arabs out

9-26 - CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL Kerry's bro pledges John will review Pollard's sentence

9-26 - Festival to aid Palestine set

9-26 - Troubled Waters Ahead For the Neo Cons The Chalabi files recovered by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement provided enough information for the FBI to begin a criminal investigation of a Baghdad-Jerusalem-Washington syndicate that is profiteering from America's misguided invasion and occupation of Iraq

9-26 - Cyclists Hope to Break Cycle of Violence A group of about 25 cyclists from around the world arrived in this West Bank town yesterday on a peace mission after traveling over 3,300 kilometers.
9-25 - Israel Razes 35 Palestinian Homes in Gaza The army said most of the demolished structures in the Khan Younis camp were uninhabited...However, after troops withdrew Saturday, dozens of Palestinians pulled clothes, kitchen utensils, school books, mattresses and other belongings from the rubble

9-25 - Israeli Army Flattens Rows of Houses in Gaza Raid

9-25 - Palestinian Missile Hits Car in Gaza

9-25 - Cave dwellers defy Israeli eviction bid They are direct descendants of the people of the Bible. They collect rainwater, husband livestock and grow crops in much the same way as was done in the time of the Old Testament

9-25 - One out of every nine Israel will not allow this Palestinian cancer patient to get treatment

9-25 - Palestinian official slams Israeli ban on security personnel's entry to Egypt "The Israeli move is a new proof that Israel attempts to torpedo any effort to defuse regional tension,"

9-25 - In the Shadow of the Wall Like the South African regime during apartheid, the Israelis are well on the way with their policy of containment to creating the equivalent of the infamous Bantustans, where most black South Africans were forced to live

9-25 - Hamas offices in Damascus ordered shut

9-25 - Palestinian Foreign Ministry Calls for Ending Israeli Travel Ban

9-25 - Israel-Arab business deal Israeli millionaire to purchase 50% of Al-Jazeera shares

9-25 - Looming Apocalypse Israel Arming For Strike On Iran

9-25 - Edward Said, the "Great Figure of Palestinian Intelligentsia"

9-25 - The Oklahoma Senate race and the Jewish question As usual, it comes down to who can kiss the AIPAC ass the best

9-25 - Canadian activists protest deportation of Palestinian refugees


9-24 - Israeli Copter Strike Kills Palestinian An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles toward a crowd of Palestinians on the outskirts of a refugee camp early Saturday, killing a 55-year-old man and wounding five people, all civilians, hospital officials said.

9-24 - Israeli Missile Kills One in Gaza Camp -- Medics An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza early on Saturday, killing an elderly man and wounding at least three people

9-24 - The story of Raghda al-Assar: The Palestinian School Girl Who Was Murdered at School By Israeli Bullets

9-24 - Israeli woman dies in Gaza attack

9-24 - Israeli Troops Shell Local Palestinian Hospital, Wound Six Residents The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) shelled heavily a local Palestinian hospital in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, and wounded six Palestinians including children.

9-24 - Jerusalem Mayor Plans to Replace Wadi Joz Palestinians with Jews Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski plans to rezone the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Joz for the purpose of settling Jews in the area.

9-24 - Israeli restrictions on staff movements in Gaza draw UN agency's protests Israel has asked UN international staff holding valid UN passports to cross on foot through the Palestinian labourers' terminal, a form of travel that exposes personnel to considerable risk and is prohibited under current UN security rules, UNRWA said.

9-24 - Holland...Sharon's Visit Under Fire Belgium 's highest court ruled in February that Sharon could face war crimes charges once he leaves office after an appeal by 23 Palestinian survivors of Sabra and Shatila massacres

9-24 - UN report blames Israel for building fence to confiscate land

9-24 - Anglican Peace and Justice Network Statement on the Israeli/Palestinian Israel, with the complicity of the United States, seems determined to flaunt international laws, whether they are the Geneva Conventions, United Nations resolutions or the most recent decision of the International Court of Justice in declaring the separation wall illegal

9-24 - Egypt's own Gaza plan "There aren't any tunnels here," said one. "The Palestinians buy their weapons from Israeli soldiers."

9-24 - Random Impressions from Palestine

9-24 - PNA Unsatisfied with Secretary of State?s Remarks on President Arafat


9-23 - Palestinians Kill 3 Israeli Soldiers at Settlement

9-23 - Six die in Palestinian raid on Gaza army post Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli helicopter fired a missile into the Khan Yunis refugee camp, wounding 12 Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy. An 11-year-old girl died in hospital yesterday after being shot in the head by an Israeli sniper on

9-23 - Clashes erupt at barrier protest

9-23 - Israeli troops raid Khan Younis, wounding 17

9-23 - Palestinian fugitives draw hospitals into line of fire

9-23 - Church Leaders Recommend Israel Divestment

9-23 - Israeli Settlers: The 'Fat Cats' of Israeli Society Since the creation of Israel, land expropriation went only in one direction ? from Arabs to Israeli Jews or the state, and never back to the Palestinians.

9-23 - Israel Says Iran No. 1 Terrorism Exporter

9-23 - U.S. okays armored vehicles for IDF The U.S. government has approved the supply of wheeled armored vehicles to Israel for deployment in the West Bank and Gaza.

9-23 - Iran's the new Saddam, Israel says

9-23 - Anglican group calls for Israel sanctions The network said it would press leaders of the 75 million Anglicans and Episcopalians worldwide to impose sanctions on Israel after an eight-day visit to the occupied territories.

9-23 - Devastation in Beit Awa; Hebron Farmers Face Immeasurable Suffering this Olive Harvest Season

9-23 - Court bars state from cutting down grove near Mofaz's house

9-23 - Iran warns of most severe reaction in case of Israeli attack

9-23 - UN nuclear watchdog set to wrap up conference with debate on Israel

9-23 - Anger over Iraqi-Israeli greeting

9-23 - UK archives reveal Palestine plan A top-secret Colonial Office file from 1943 shows that Mr Churchill favoured a plan to try to bribe King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, with £20m and the leadership of a new Arab confederation, in exchange for the Saudi monarch's help in handing over Palestine to t

9-23 - Norwegian artwork prompts Israeli envoy's protest

9-23 - Soccer: FIFA pledges support for Palestinian Football Association

9-23 - Forum at Duke angers Jews The university has received about 1,000 letters and e-mail messages, including one outright threat of violence, against the Palestine Solidarity Movement's conference scheduled for Oct. 15 through 17.

9-23 - Opinion eclipsing the news An online call to arms this week by the lobby group Honest Reporting ? how come it's concerned with fighting media bias only on one side of the Middle East debate? ? asks its followers to take action

9-23 - France Urged to Ban "Terrorist" Jewish Group A French pro-Palestinian group has asked for banning an extremist group blamed for inciting hatred and physical violence against Arabs

9-23 - OPEC fund grant of USD 2 million approved to assist Palestinian universities


9-22 - Palestinian Suicide Bomber Hits Jerusalem Moshe Suissa of the Jerusalem fire department said the attacker tried to approach a hitchhiking post used by Israeli soldiers when a border police officer spotted her.

9-22 - Israeli Helicopters Attack Palestinian Refugee Camp, 7 Injured At the same time, Israeli settlers using many vehicles, among them bulldozers, drove into the refugee camp, which sparked a trading of shots between Israeli military and armed Palestinians, the sources said.

9-22 - Israel Raids Gaza Town Hours After Jerusalem Bomb

9-22 - Woman Palestinian suicide bomber kills two Israeli police in Jerusalem

9-22 - Two Israelis die tackling bomber The bombing took place in French Hill, a mostly Jewish suburb of occupied East Jerusalem, which has been a favoured target for suicide bombings over the past four years of intifada.

9-22 - Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian and Wound Scores Others Meanwhile, Israeli troops wounded more than 90 civilians during a peaceful demonstration in the village of Budrus

9-22 - Sharon says Arafat "will get what he deserves"

9-22 - Bomber's stunned family has little time to grieve Her father Ali, recovering from surgery to open clogged arteries, collapsed and was taken to hospital after learning of his daughter's death.

9-22 - Major Powers Wring Hands Discreetly on Middle East EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told Reuters it was important that the Quartet had reaffirmed the demand for a settlement freeze and for changes to the Israeli security barrier, since both issues had caused problems between Europe and the United Sta

9-22 - Israel plays down Bush criticism; Palestinians want action not words "We are not building new settlements." Yeh right.

9-22 - Israel Urges Sanctions on Iran for Nuke Program

9-22 - Israel Urged to Freeze Settlements The international architects of the Mideast peace plan met Wednesday and urged Israel to freeze settlements and the Palestinians to reform their leadership and end violence and terrorism

9-22 - Israeli soldier jailed for abuse

9-22 - American Jewish Committee Survey: U.S. Jews Favor Kerry Over Bush; Support Israel's Security Fence, Gaza Withdrawal

9-22 - Anglican delegation to recommend divestment Leading members of the Anglican church will recommend that their decision-making body adopt an anti-Israel divestment policy similar to the one the Presbyterian church passed earlier this summer

9-22 - MP furious at treatment by Israel Foreign Office asked to protest after Labour member who had stroke is held at checkpoint for 90 minutes

9-22 - Palestinian film festival slammed Could incite hatred, Jewish group says

9-22 - The Useful Idiots of Osama bin Laden Patrick J. Buchanan Why does Bush continue to heed men whose policies have radicalized the Middle East and converted much of the Islamic world into a giant recruiting station for Osama bin Laden?

9-22 - Palestine/Israel: largest-ever group, including bishop, joins ecumenical peace-making programme


9-21 - Palestinian farmer injured in alleged mob attack Medics say he suffered multiple fractures, and was bleeding heavily on his arrival at hospital.

9-21 - Two dozen hurt by Israeli rubber bullets in anti-barrier demo Further north, in the Nablus region, a Palestinian farmer was seriously injured earlier Tuesday when he was attacked by Jewish settlers

9-21 - Israel must freeze settlements: Bush

9-21 - Israeli Soldier Jailed for Beating Palestinians

9-21 - Bush rebukes Israel over Palestinian "humiliation" President George W. Bush dealt Israel a rare, sharp US rebuke, calling for a freeze on settlements in occupied territories and an end to the "daily humiliation" of the Palestinian people.

9-21 - In 48 Months, Israel Troops Kill 3474 Palestinians and Wound 42022 Others

9-21 - Early troubles for Palestinian voter registration It was a centre to register voters for planned Palestinian elections, and the Israelis have shut it down along with five others in the city.

9-21 - Eyeing Iran Reactors, Israel Seeks U.S. Bunker Bombs

9-21 - Israeli released from al Ghraib prison The Interior Ministry refused to either confirm or deny that Ben Bachi was an Israeli citizen, citing "privacy issues", fueling suspicions that US forces had unwittingly arrested a Mossad agent

9-21 - Iran Converts Uranium in Defiance of UN Israel has made clear it will never permit Iran, which does not recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist, to become a nuclear power.

9-21 - Israelis Assure Powell on Settlements "We are committed not to build more settlements, not to extend or enlarge them," Shalom said. The settlement-building goes on as we speak.

9-21 - How a Palestinian widow and her trees are a threat to Mofaz

9-21 - U.N. Hears Annan Condemn Global Violations In Israel we see civilians, including children, deliberately targeted by Palestinian suicide bombers. And in Palestine we see homes destroyed, lands seized, and needless civilian casualties caused by Israel's excessive use of force

9-21 - UN turns up heat on Iran Non-proliferation efforts could backfire causing increased Iranian interference in Iraq.

9-21 - A taste of Palestine coming to British shelves British supporters of the Palestinian cause have launched an extra virgin olive oil grown in the lush groves of the occupied territories.

9-21 - FBI going to Israel for chat with McGreevey's ex (aide) FBI agents will soon travel to Israel to interview the man who claimed Gov. James E. McGreevey sexually harassed him, authorities said Tuesday.

9-21 - American Premier of Historic Palestinian Photographs on Display

9-21 - Tales of hope and resistance from the Holy Land Let me assure anyone interested in such a trip that going to Bethlehem is not dangerous. What it is is a world the Israelis don't want you to see.

9-21 - Musharraf: Palestine tarnishes U.S. image

9-21 - Gaza settlers weigh price of withdrawal I think there should have been money for the psychological distress, so they will know what a wrong they are committing by uprooting me from here Ironically, Palestinians have never been compensated by Israel when they were 'uprooted'.


9-20 - Gaza City blast kills militants Israeli aircraft fired missiles which blew apart a jeep carrying the men soon after sunset on Monday. Hospital officials said eight people were wounded by the blast, two of them children.

9-20 - Palestinian gunmen kill suspected informants

9-20 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian near Gaza outpost

9-20 - Palestinian economy will sink to mere subsistence without aid - UN study

9-20 - U.S. to sell Israel 5,000 smart bombs The funding will come from the U.S. military aid to Israel,

9-20 - In Last August; 47 Killed Including 15 in West Bank, 42 in Gaza Strip

9-20 - Israel - a stormy relationship: Passport to a world of trouble

9-20 - Israel on agenda for UN nuclear watchdog general conference

9-20 - Republicans woo American-Israeli vote With over 100,000 American Israelis eligible to vote, registration fever is at an all time high in Israel

9-20 - Rabbi escapes charges over curse on Israeli leader

9-20 - Palestinian militant gets vote, Israel cries foul "A society that is governed by terrorists and a society that caters to terrorists.. " Israel has had its share of terrorists at the helm - like Sharon, for example

9-20 - Powell Seeks Israel's Assurances on Gaza Sentiment in the United Nations is strong for an Israeli withdrawal on the West Bank as well as from Gaza

9-20 - Palestinian Construction and Road Sector Incurred $452 Million Losses by the End of August

9-20 - Jordan reiterates call for removing Israeli separation wall in W. Bank

9-20 - Far-right activist held on suspicion of attacking Palestinians Police on Monday detained right-wing activist Itamar Ben-Gvir for questioning on suspicion that he attempted to attack two Palestinian cleaning men

9-20 - Health scare MP to battle on "The Palestinian ambulance was stopped at a checkpoint and we were given a rough time by the Israeli guards, who kept us there for one and a half hours"

9-20 - Palestine & C Town Agree On Cooperation

9-20 - Mideast children visit Palestinian Christians spend a month with host families

9-20 - Film weighs media's view of Mideast

9-20 - Syrian speaker underlines support to Palestinians

9-20 - Indict the War Party For treason The burgeoning guerrilla war we face in Iraq is nothing compared to the regional conflagration the neocons pine for: a series of conflicts that will level every regime in the Middle East, with only a single nation left standing. Now which nation do you think that might that be?

9-20 - Three Years After Terror Attacks, Public Still Doubts 'Official' Story Told that the Anti-Defamation League attacked this writer for an article about eyewitness evidence of explosions in the towers immediately after 9-11, Why would the ADL find offense with that, you think?

9-20 - 'No need to revise Middle East road map' - Russian diplomat

9-20 - Palestinian and Israeli situation is facing danger

9-20 - Hacker 'Puts Massacre Picture on Severn Bridge Website' The image which had come up was a scene of a Palestinian massacre dating back 22 years

9-20 - Net security threats growing fast Latvia, Macau and Israel are the top three sources of attacks


9-19 - Hamas militant dies in Gaza blast

9-19 - New Israeli raid on Gaza as Sharon readies army to leave under fire Among the wounded, were a nine-year-old child, a 75-year-old man and a doctor who happened to be passing by

9-19 - Israel army kills Jihad militant

9-19 - Sharon orders army to prepare to leave Gaza under fire Israeli forces have always fired on civilian areas. This is nothing new.

9-19 - Pope deplores "horrifying" terrorist attacks The Vatican feels that a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is at the heart of a global solution to Middle East peace.

9-19 - MP falls ill on West Bank visit His ambulance was believed to have been delayed for several hours at an Israeli army checkpoint while on route to the Makassed Hospital.

9-19 - Eight Inhabitants, One Critically Wounded In Peaceful Rally Against The Wall in Hebron

9-19 - Two Children, A Girl Wounded In Separate Incidents

9-19 - Palestinians demonstrate against construction of security wall Witnesses said the Israeli soldiers opened fire at the demonstrators, beat up and detained dozens of others who protested against the construction of the wall that confiscates a wide area of their lands and farm.

9-19 - Arafat's navy without a sea

9-19 - US capital a magnet for foreign spies The Federal Bureau of Investigation regularly updates a closely held list of the countries that threaten national security due to espionage operations. "The top five countries on that list are China, Israel, Russia, France, and North Korea.

9-19 - Mubarak calls on Israelis, Palestinians to implement roadmap

9-19 - Israel hopes to close debate on West Bank barrier "I have met numerous foreign officials, particularly from France, Germany, Italy etc to tell them that they must not give the Palestinians a platform for this subject," Shalom said.

9-19 - Dichter: Hamas poses major threat to Israel

9-19 - Security prisoners charge guards with humiliating them

9-19 - Israel Plans to Expel Residents From East Jerusalem, President Arafat Calls for Their Aid To decrease the number of Palestinian population in the holy city, the Israeli authorities plan to introduce 30,000 Israeli Jews inside the boundaries of the East Jerusalem, as well as adding 3,000 Jewish settlers to the illegal Israeli settlements built

9-19 - Palestinian offers little hope Ashrawi tells a Richmond crowd Israel's barrier wall hinders a two-state solution

9-19 - 'I will die in this cave' [one settler convert]was born and raised a Christian Afrikaner in apartheid-era South Africa. He must have missed the apartheid so much, he moved to Israel to parttake in it.

9-19 - Israeli Source: Americans Has no Concerns, We Can Proceed with WB Barrier

9-19 - LWF Council Reiterates Call to Churches to Pay Up 'Fair Membership Fees' the continued construction of the so-called "separation wall" which is increasingly diminishing access by Palestinians (both patients and staff) to the hospital

9-19 - Editorial: Get back to road map

9-19 - Israeli Forces Try Palestinian Legislator Hussam Khader Today

9-19 - Stateless and Exhausted The Ayoubs (Nabih, Therese, and Khalil) are elderly Palestinians in their late 60s and early 70s. They want nothing more but to die in peace, with a shred of happiness and pride.

9-19 - U.S. should rethink its hands-off role in Mideast


9-18 - Worth Repeating: Remembering the killing fields of Sabra and Shatila The PLO trusted America's promise that the Palestinians left behind will be safeguarded. When America promised 'to do its utmost' to ensure that Israel kept its commitments, they took that commitment at face value. They would never have trusted an Israeli promise, but they trusted us. We betrayed them.

9-18 - Hamas denies being involved in bombing attacks in Iraq Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri made the remarks in response to a report by Radio Sawa financed by the United States, which said more than 200 Hamas members infiltrated into Iraq from Iran to carry out armed attacks against the US forces in Iraq

9-18 - Israel Negates Its Promise to Improve the Human Situation of the Prisoners They said, in a letter, that the demands were; ending the policy of strip searches, removing glass barriers in the visitation rooms and allowing prisoners to hug their children and families and to have physical contact with them and giving prisoners enough food, clothes, detergents, soaps and insecticides.

9-18 - Israel wages diplomatic offensive over barrier ahead of UN meet Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom was heading to the United States on a diplomatic campaign to defend the controversial West Bank barrier ahead of the UN General Assembly

9-18 - U.S. says plans to stem anti-Israel resolutions in UN

9-18 - Mubarak, Assad discuss Israeli threats against Syria

9-18 - Palestinian officers head to Egypt for training

9-18 - Egypt postpones intra-Palestinian talks Egypt has postponed a meeting of Palestinian faction representatives that was set to be held Sunday in Cairo "due to the absence of guarantees from Israel" that it will implement and carry out its disengagement plan,

9-18 - Israel and Palestine, Choosing Sides

9-18 - Palestinian day of solidarity with the humanitarian aid workers held hostage in Iraq

9-18 - Inspiring Rafflesians Moulded into a woman of substance The busy consultant at prestigious St Bartholomew's Hospital and The Royal London Hospital in London continues to be a trustee of Medical Aid for Palestinians, the charity she spearheaded in the '80s

9-18 - Iran tests long-range missile as UN watchdog reviews nuclear program Ariel Sharon said Iran and its nuclear ambitions represent "a very great danger" to the Jewish state but played down the prospect of a pre-emptive strike on its atomic facilities.

9-18 - One brother stays, one must go Two Palestinian brothers lived nearly identical lives - until they came to Canada and applied for refugee status.

9-18 - SA calls on Sharon to honour Road Map

9-18 - Putting Palestinian Homes Back Together

9-18 - Israeli Arabs to commemorate October riots with strike


9-17 - 1982: Refugees massacred in Beirut camps

9-17 - Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Woman

9-17 - Black September rarely in the West is any mention made of the past injusticies inflicted on thousands of innocent Palestinians

9-17 - US to protect Israel at UN General Assembly

9-17 - US Gives Conflicting Accounts of Rocket Attack That Killed 13 Dead The US account of the incident in which Mazen al-Tomeizi, a Palestinian television producer working for al-Arabiya satellite channel was killed, was contradicted by the film taken by his cameraman at the moment the rocket struck

9-17 - UN: Mideast has seen a 'bad month' "The widespread destruction of Palestinian property by Israeli forces raises concern about collective punishment, and fuels more violence and bloodshed," he added.

9-17 - India for lifting restrictions on Arafat "President Arafat represents the authority of the Palestinian people and to subject him to this treatment is an affront to the Palestinian people. This must stop forthwith,"

9-17 - Athens opens largest Paralympic Games Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Palestinian delegations received loud applause from the audience, and an athlete from Turkmenistan did a handstand on his crutches.

9-17 - Diplomatic quartet to meet on Middle East in New York

9-17 - 'Water factory' aims to filter tensions

9-17 - Israel's Demographics Population and the One-State Solution

9-17 - Palestinian directs IDF to bomb cache A Palestinian elderly on Friday succeeded in convincing his grandchild to hand himself over to IDF troops and guide them to a cache where he and other cell members hid an explosive device weighing 5 kg.

9-17 - Newspapers accused of misusing word 'terrorist' Reuters, said CanWest newspapers has been altering words and phrases in its stories dealing with the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

9-17 - 7 Days: Hasbara problems Israeli consulate officials termed his presentation "tremendous hasbara," and are trying to organize additional lectures for Mercer at other US campuses, preferably to African-American students.

9-17 - Madonna's Bodyguards Get Physical Peace activists awaited the popster-turned-pilgrim at Rachel's Tomb, protesting in an effort to raise awareness of the plight of Palestinians living under Israeli rule. The singer has been criticized by some Palestinian groups for showing a lack of sensitivity to their issues

9-17 - 'An Olive on the Seder Plate' tackles issue of Israeli occupation "We're really proud to be Jews," says Shoval, who co-wrote and directs the play. "We simply oppose the occupation."

9-17 - The caricature that came true The neocons are not only passionately pro-Israel, they are Likudists to a man


9-16 - The death and disorientation of the children of Gaza In their homes, in the street, in UN-run schools, Palestinian youth are not safe from Israeli bullets

9-16 - Israeli Army Kill Five Men Execution Style According to medical examinations

9-16 - Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli jail; Gunmen kidnap and then free Palestinian official

9-16 - W Bank women 'abort bomb mission'

9-16 - Gunmen release top Gaza official

9-16 - UN meet seeks end Israeli occupation of Palestine

9-16 - As Leaks Dry Up in FBI Investigation, Activists Still Fear Jury Probe The reasons for the lull are not clear, but journalists and Jewish communal officials were floating several theories this week, including the notion that the sudden silence came in response to the condemnations from Jewish organizations and Capitol Hill

9-16 - After the 'Road Map' But this development sadly underscores Washington's relinquishment of its position as honest broker in the peace process

9-16 - SUPREME COURT OPENS DOOR FOR LAWSUITS AGAINST ISRAEL The Supreme Court ruling opens the door for Palestinians who had their homes, land, and other property confiscated by Israel to bring forth lawsuits in federal court against the Jewish state

9-16 - Israel Spying on Palestinian Security

9-16 - The Neo-cons Threaten Syria

9-16 - Thousands Nablus residents bury six dead by Israeli troops

9-16 - Sadism on Checkpoints: Israeli Soldiers Force a Palestinian to Drink Urine!

9-16 - Deep Background: The Investigation of Doug Feith's OSP analyst Larry Franklin

9-16 - Syria, Egypt call for progress on Palestinian state

9-16 - An unsavory character on Bush team His resignation came two weeks after allegations by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker that Perle used his position as Pentagon adviser to try to profit from the war in Iraq.

9-16 - Poll: Should AIPAC Register as the Agent of a Foreign Government?

9-16 - Flashback: Senior U.S. officials join effort to free 5 Israelis held in Brooklyn

9-16 - Schoolchildren protest Israel's apartheid wall

9-16 - Jewish settlements should be withdrawn from Gaza under "road map"

9-16 - Israel's outrage: US cartoonist Pat Oliphant vilified for cartoon on the Israeli Pentagon spy story

9-16 - Vatican presses visiting Israeli leader on pact


9-15 - Ten Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in West Bank Ten Palestinians, including a young schoolgirl, were killed in separate army raids

9-15 - West Bank's deadliest day since 2002 Raiding Israeli forces have killed six Palestinian militants and four civilians

9-15 - Israeli Troops wound 3 Palestinian children in southern Gaza

9-15 - 2 Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in Rafah

9-15 - Israel will ditch road map, says Sharon

9-15 - 32 Palestinian Houses Demolished by Israeli Troops in Rafah, Qulqelia and Jenin

9-15 - Israelis Arrested on 9/11 Attempt to Sue Justice Department

9-15 - Shalom: Iran and Syria should be Isolated Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Iran has replaced Saddam Hussein as the source issuing checks to families of suicide bombers. Sounds like pure BS to make the case for a(nother) war for Israel.

9-15 - Egypt and Syria Link Damascus Pullout

9-15 - What's next in Iranian nuclear saga? The US and Israel has also ratcheted up the pressure in recent months.

9-15 - New Israeli spy probe has a 30-year history, insiders say the FBI has been intensively reviewing a series of past counter-intelligence probes that were started against several high-profile neo-cons but never followed up with prosecutions, due to political pressure, to the great frustration of counter-intelligenc

9-15 - 'India, SA can beat poverty' They also called for the early establishment of a Palestinian state in accordance with relevant United Nations security council resolutions to bring an end to the Israeli occupation.

9-15 - Letter urges US anti-Semitism monitor A separate reporting requirement on anti-Semitism "could erode our credibility by being interpreted as favoritism in human rights reporting," it said It would attempt to stifle critics of Israel too, no doubt.

9-15 - Controversial new US ambassador arrives in Kuwait We demand that the Kuwaiti government refuse to grant accreditation to a new US ambassador who is coming from Tel Aviv in appreciation of the feelings of the Muslim Kuwaiti and Palestinian peoples,"

9-15 - Crazy Like a Fox Neocons go bananas over AIPAC spy scandal, but there's a method to their madness

9-15 - "God Wills It!" Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment.

9-15 - American Jewish Committee Report: UN Bias Unhelpful to Promoting Peace AJC will stress that the emphasis placed on condemning Israel is not conducive to creating a climate of support for achieving peace.

9-15 - An Open Letter to Madonna Please Say No to Apartheid

9-15 - Swedish FM urges Arafat to play part in forging Palestinian society

9-15 - Opponents united in protest against 'pilgrim' Madonna Palestinians have accused her of ignoring their suffering, while Orthodox Jews have labelled her as religiously insensitive.


9-14 - Soldiers injured in suicide blast A Palestinian suicide bomber on a bicycle has attacked an army patrol near a West Bank checkpoint, injuring two soldiers, the Israeli army says.

9-14 - 12 Palestinians Including Two Internationals Wounded In anti-Wall Rally In Hebron

9-14 - In pictures: Clowns Without Borders "People told me that big international organisations give them clothes and food, but that nobody ever makes them smile."

9-14 - Sharon hints that Arafat may be killed

9-14 - How to handle Iran's nukes If the diplomatic route is blocked, the U.S. and Israel will be forced to resort to force to disrupt, delay and thwart Iran's nuclear arms race Really now?

9-14 - Britons held after Israel raid blunder Muslim women strip-searched before being freed by judge

9-14 - 'We prove that Jews and Arabs can live together' "The fact that we don't have a decent ground brings shame not only on us, but on the whole state of Israel. They can use us for propaganda purposes, but they should give us equal treatment in return."

9-14 - When will Britain and Europe act? Palestinian east Jerusalem has witnessed an exodus of the indigenous Christian and Muslim population, which Israel does not regret

9-14 - Police investigate Sharon death threats

9-14 - From across the divide, a united team offers hope for the Middle East

9-14 - Israel agrees payouts to settlers

9-14 - New Poll Shows American Suspicious of AIPAC Status

9-14 - U.S. agrees to help Israel relocate military bases Financing the move may cost the United States as much as $350 million.

9-14 - Call for 40 days of prayer for Bethlehem

9-14 - Terrorism Is the Price of Empire Pat Buchanan spoke with Bill Maher on Sept. 3 about Iraq and the "War on Terror." The following is a transcript from Real Time With Bill Maher.

9-14 - Jerusalem Could Be a Source of Peace, Says Cardinal

9-14 - Sharon Envoy Sees Rice, Powell Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sent an envoy to Washington for talks Tuesday with senior Bush administration officials on construction of a security barrier designed to fence out Palestinian terrorists.

9-14 - Indian minister to meet Yasser Arafat in Ramalla: The minister will hand over a fleet of 12 all-terrain vehicles and a consignment of medicines worth Rs.10 million ($220,000 approx.)as humanitarian aid for the beleaguered Palestinian population

9-14 - Ad criticizes decision to host PSM conference


9-13 - Israel Airstrike Kills Three in West Bank

9-13 - Two Civilians Die of Wounds, Israeli Troops Storm West Bank Towns

9-13 - Israeli missile kills activists In Jerusalem, Israeli police fired teargas to break up a demonstration by Palestinian children who are unable to reach their schools because of the separation wall built through their neighbourhood

9-13 - Israeli police shut six east Jerusalem voter registration booths

9-13 - Israel asks US to build bases for troops withdrawing from West Bank

9-13 - US Court Nixes Enforcement of "Jerusalem, Israel" Law The international community recognizes Israel as only the occupier of Jerusalem and not the owner.

9-13 - Israeli tank badly damaged by roadside bomb in Gaza

9-13 - American Sheriffs in Israel For Counter-Terror Training

9-13 - Chalabi aide in Israel He has also had contact with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful Israeli lobby in Washington

9-13 - Media spotlight on Baghdad deaths

9-13 - Israel tries to add to international pressure over Iran's nuclear program

9-13 - Chinese FM meets 5 senior Arab officials Li told Kadoumy the Chinese government and people have firmly supported the Palestinians' righteous cause and would continue to develop Sino-Palestinian friendship and cooperation.

9-13 - The Family of a Palestinian Prisoner call to save their son's life

9-13 - Residents of Three Villages to Block Bulldozers-Protest the Construction of the Wall

9-13 - Call for referendum on Gaza plan Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Finance Minister, has called for a national referendum on plans to withdraw Israeli settlements and troops from Gaza

9-13 - Annan Calls On Israel, Palestinians To Promptly Implement Road Map Peace Plan

9-13 - Portrait of a neo-con Feith's private business dealings raised eyebrows in Washington

9-13 - One Israeli's trip to Jenin, then jail

9-13 - AIPAC's Power, or America's Cowardice?

9-13 - Israeli and Palestinian Children Force Plan For Peace in Israel Announces The Kabbalah Centre Joining Michael Berg for this monumental event will include political and social leaders: Shimon Peres, Silvan Shalom, Sachi Hanegbi, and Eaud Olmart as well as high-profile celebrities such as Madonna, Guy Ritchie, and Donna Karen and many others

9-13 - World Bank grants $7.8 M for Gaza water

9-13 - U.S. to free stowaway after 4 years in detention Yassir, 28, is from Gaza City in the Gaza Strip

9-13 - House Republicans and Democrats Unite in Linking Iraq with 9/11 This comes despite conclusions reached by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission and the consensus of independent strategic analysis familiar with the region that no such links ever existed

9-13 - Kerry/Edwards Website Censors Discussion of Israel/Palestine Issues

9-13 - Five Israeli Refuseniks To Be Released From Prison

9-13 - At 10th anniversary, a far poorer Palestinian Authority


9-12 - Three Palestinian children wounded in Rafah

9-12 - Arab TV Reporter Killed in Baghdad Attack al-Tumeizi was of Palestinian origin

9-12 - Journalist killed during live report Mr Tomaisi, from the West Bank town of Idna, is the fourth Palestinian journalist killed in Iraq.

9-12 - US missile attack kills 13 civilians in Iraq "I am a journalist. I'm dying, I'm dying," screamed Mazen al-Tumeizi

9-12 - Thousands Protest Gaza Evacuation Plan

9-12 - Sharon Says Israel Is at Risk of Civil War

9-12 - Israel to Re-Examine Section of Barrier

9-12 - Our Beachhead in the Middle East The U.S. also fears that Israel's close partnership and resulting knowledge of sophisticated military technology is propelling still-secret American weapons into the wrong hands.

9-12 - U.S. Middle East Project to Leave Politics Alone

9-12 - U.S. signals it may not rule out attack on Iran President George W. Bush's top official on nuclear non-proliferation, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, was asked during a brief visit to Israel if the United States could consider such an attack.

9-12 - Land-locked Palestinian naval police faces new work drought

9-12 - Mubarak meets US envoy over Mideast situation

9-12 - Palestinian election machine cranks into action ahead of spring vote

9-12 - New party urges non-Jews' expulsion

9-12 - Kyl-Bingaman Restrictions on Imaging Israel

9-12 - Senate candidates agree on support for Israel

9-12 - US police spy for Israel

9-12 - Freedom in sight for jailed Israeli 'spies'

9-12 - American heart, Palestinian soul


9-11 - Israeli Troops Leave 8 Palestinians Dead Thirty-five of the wounded were 16 and younger, most of them with bullet wounds

9-11 - "Quiet Agreement" With the Americans on Israeli Settlement Expansion, Sharon discloses

9-11 - Israeli forces storm northern West Bank Asa'ad Sawalma, the chief of Aseera Al Shamaleya municipality, said that the Israeli forces imposed a curfew in the town, adding that they forced the students and the teachers to leave their schools.

9-11 - U.S. official to visit Israel for talks on Iran's nuclear program

9-11 - Palestinians rally for unity, holy sites About 70,000 Palestinians from the 1948 area, also known as the Green Line, participated in an annual rally organised by the Islamic Movement in Israel on Friday, under the banner "Al-Aqsa in Danger",

9-11 - Are we safer now? If U.S. policy persists, so will the danger The Guardian of London reports that almost one-third of Bush's electoral base favors war in the Middle East

9-11 - Sharp rise in voter registration among Israeli-Americans Shenker is just one example of this growing trend among Americans living in Israel, who according to leading political activists here, have shown an unprecedented interest in the outcome of this presidential election.

9-11 - U.S. Opposes Expulsion Of Arafat: Armitage

9-11 - Palestinian PM back at work after threat to resign

9-11 - Mubarak to meet US Mideast envoy

9-11 - US tells Syria to leave Lebanon

9-11 - September 11 and Its Aftermath A very interesting read. The 'Islamic superpower' theory has some truth to it, though rarely if ever mentioned in US media

9-11 - World mourns Sept. 11 victims, but Arabs accuse United States of spreading terrorism threat Victims of the Sept. 11 attacks were mourned worldwide Saturday, but in the Middle East, amid sympathy for the dead, Arabs said Washington's support for Israel and the war on terror launched in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse have only fueled anger and violence

9-11 - Boundaries Blur for Communal Leaders, Israeli Officials

9-11 - The Zionist Silencing Machine...Seven Examples of Zionist Authoritarianism

9-10 - 14-year-old among camp raid dead

9-10 - Palestinian crushed by Israeli jeep Aljazeera has aired exclusive footage showing an Israeli military jeep crushing a Palestinian teenager under its wheels in the West Bank city of Ram Allah.

9-10 - Sharon Says Roadmap Must Be Abandoned For Now

9-10 - Israel Locks Down Palestinians

9-10 - How Far Does Israeli Spy Case Go? the reaction to the whole story from both the subjects of the investigation and their buddies in the neoconservative media has been to deny everything and insinuate "anti-Semitism."

9-10 - The spies who aren't wash spy hunt is anti-semitic

9-10 - Key European countries urge Israel to end Arafat's isolation

9-10 - Israel's wall an act of violence, speaker says

9-10 - A "Lull in Middle East Violence?"

9-10 - Fact-finding team heads to the West Bank The 12-strong delegation will divide their time between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where they hope to hear from ordinary people about life under the Israeli occupation.

9-10 - Burns cancels visit to Israel, PA

9-10 - Reading, writing - and propaganda the EU study finds that many of the quotations "have been found to be often badly translated or quoted out of context, thus suggesting an anti-Jewish bias or incitement that the books do not contain

9-10 - Dual Loyalties


9-9 - Seven dead in Israeli incursions The child, Munir Deqqes, was shot from a tank-mounted machine gun while he played outside his grandfather's house, witnesses said.

9-9 - Israel Kills 5, Including 9-Year-Old, in Gaza

9-9 - Five Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israel presses on with offensive And a 15-year-old Palestinian was killed when he was run over over by an army jeep during a brief incursion into a refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank, sources on both sides said.

9-9 - Teen dies under army jeep He was rolled over twice by one of the vehicles, Palestinian security sources and medics said. A jeep inadvertently rolled over one of the boys, [an army spokesperson] said.

9-9 - UN Envoy Condemns Israel's Killing Of Palestinians In Gaza

9-9 - AIPAC asks for help against allegations in Pentagon probe The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC sent a letter to all its supporters on Tuesday asking for donations to help it combat the allegations leveled against it in the context of a counterespionage investigation at the Pentagon. No amount of money can buy the loyalty of this patriot.

9-9 - Shalom says Arafat?s expulsion "closer than ever"

9-9 - Israeli Soldiers Urged to Disobey Order A group of prominent Israeli hard-liners urged soldiers Thursday to disobey orders to dismantle Jewish settlements

9-9 - Congress needs to be loyal to us, not allies

9-9 - White House Draws Fire From Congress, Officials Over Leak of FBI Probe In Jewish communal circles, the criticisms and calls for investigations were focused on either the media leaks or the probe itself.

9-9 - Neocons Blast Bush's Inaction On 'Spy' Affair Members of the security establishment have worked aggressively to block attempts by Jewish organizations to have Pollard's sentence commuted on humanitarian grounds Humanitarian grounds? Pollard's treason may have cost some Americans overseas their lives. He gets what he deserves.

9-9 - America needs a Middle East policy made in the USA, not in Tel Aviv

9-9 - UN calls on Israel to stop flying over Lebanon The UN statement, issued in Beirut, expressed concern "at the large number of Israeli violations" in the past 36 hours

9-9 - Occupation Forces Issue House Demolition Orders to Residents of Anata for the Building of the Apartheid Wall

9-9 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict on brink of further escalation

9-9 - The Likudization of the world

9-9 - Palestine conference debate continues

9-9 - Combining revolution with art

9-9 - U.S. Jewish Petition Demands Mideast Envoy "I think most mainstream American Jews want to see movement toward peace, and it's not going to happen without an increased sustained engagement by the U.S."

9-9 - New GPO rules for Palestinian journalists

9-9 - Madonna due to join Israel trip Police said 2,000 officers are being deployed after rumours that religious extremists could disrupt the visit.


9-8 - Israeli Helicopter Fires Missile in Gaza During the day, soldiers opened fire on Palestinians throwing rocks at the tanks, wounding 13, one of them seriously.

9-8 - Palestinians fight camp incursion

9-8 - Israel to take more land for settlers Israel's agriculture minister, Israel Katz, has announced plans for further expansion of Jewish settlements in the Jordan valley by expropriating 8,000 acres of land.

9-8 - Israel is major concern as it 'changes facts on the ground' Israel's plans to build 1,000 new houses in its West Bank settlements breaches the terms of the Middle East road map and threatens to encircle East Jerusalem, cutting it off from a future Palestinian state, Jack Straw warned yesterday.

9-8 - 2 Israeli soldiers wounded in detaining Hamas militants

9-8 - Chronicle Of An Ordinary Death In Gaza

9-8 - Interview: What the IDF is doing in Nablus In recent months, a particularly dedicated group of soldiers has been actively engaged in gathering the testimonies of Israeli soldiers about human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinian civilians by IDF units enforcing the illegal military occupation

9-8 - Sharon: World Needs to Stop Iran Nukes

9-8 - Defense Memo Warned of Israeli Spying; 'Ethnic Ties' Charge Draws ADL Rebuke

9-8 - Spy-scandal lobby blitz That intense and frantic lobbying effort, which began on the eve of the GOP convention and continued unabated in New York, led dozens of lawmakers of both parties to testify to AIPAC's integrity before they had been briefed by the FBI investigators on the details of the case

9-8 - AIPAC Says U.S.-Israel Ties Are Under Attack

9-8 - Neoconservatism and Espionage AIPAC Spy Scandal: Crimes of the 'Clean Break' Gang

9-8 - U.S.-Israel, all in the family

9-8 - FBI investigates suspected Pentagon security breaches An FBI investigation into suspected security breaches involving Pentagon officials and Israel is unlikely to result in prosecution of senior figures following pressure from the White House

9-8 - Pollardites in the Pentagon? by Patrick J. Buchanan

9-8 - Sharon Denies Israel Is Spying in U.S.

9-8 - Israel and Syria swap peace barbs

9-8 - ADL Asking the FBI to Investigate Leak in Pentagon Case Mr. Foxman said that it was distressing that Senator Graham, a Democrat of Florida, who appeared on the program with Mr. Buchanan, "failed to speak out and challenge the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Pat Buchanan." Read the transcript here - show me where the 'anti-Semitic rhetoric' is.

9-8 - Sharon OKs Wall Move Closer to Israel

9-8 - The defendant was an 'impressive officer' The defendant is a 23-year-old Bedouin from the Galilee Explains why he was arrested and charged

9-8 - UN agency replaces Palestinian refugee homes demolished by Israel

9-8 - Palestinian PM threatens to quit

9-8 - Activists demolish W Bank outpost

9-8 - Report: Germany ready to help Israel acquire new submarines

9-8 - 2004 Top Ten Career Recipients of Pro-Israel PAC Funds

9-8 - Council for the National Interest (CNI) Presents 'Making The Link: Jerusalem and Baghdad', with Hanan Ashrawi, Edward Peck

9-8 - S.Africa-Israel talks end on lukewarm note Israel's past support for white rule in South Africa has also been a source of resentment.

9-8 - they beat him so much that he can no longer smile By Anne Gwynne

9-8 - Pat Buchanan for President!


9-7 - Palestinian girl seriously wounded in UN school by Israeli fire It said was the third shooting incident to have left a pupil wounded in UNRWA-run schools in the last 18 months

9-7 - Most Palestinians live in poverty, on two dollars a day

9-7 - Israeli troops wound four Khan Younis residents Four Palestinians, including two children, a woman and an old man were injured on Tuesday by Israeli troops' gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip town of Kahn Younis,local medics said.

9-7 - Israeli Rabbis Urge Army to Get Tough

9-7 - Palestinian cave dwellers await court ruling on expulsions

9-7 - Israel Begins Freeing 160 Palestinian Prisoners

9-7 - Palestinian soccer team complains Israeli travel jeopardizes World Cup game Israeli authorities barred five Palestinian soccer players from travelling to this Gulf nation for Wednesday's World Cup Asian qualifier against Uzbekistan.

9-7 - Israel urges Russia to back fence at UN

9-7 - Powell: Arab-Israeli Retaliation Tragic, Unhelpful

9-7 - Qureia endorses Hamas revenge

9-7 - Weaker Hamas retains support But its social-services network is intact, and it still has strong political power in the Palestinian street

9-7 - Behind the AIPAC Probe, Neocons Seen Battling Rivals A high-level Washington power struggle over U.S. policy toward Iran is driving the espionage investigation of the powerful American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), according to international online observers

9-7 - Mobile Clinic in Nablus

9-7 - Palestinian paper condemns Beslan attack, calls for Arab donation to Russia

9-7 - Israel tells World Bank it wants to move Rafah crossing A diplomatic source said that Israel wanted to maintain control over the crossing so as to continue to exact customs and taxes on the goods coming into the Gaza Strip

9-7 - Except for U.S. Judge, International Court Rules Against Israel's Wall, Occupation

9-7 - Israeli director launches film on white sex slavery at Venice Gitai believes his film and cinema in general can play an important "subversive" role in the Middle East peace process

9-7 - AIPAC Spy Case Involves Intelligence on Iranian WMD

9-7 - Are the Zionists Beginning to 'Lose It' in America?

9-7 - The Battle of Rafah-This One in Madison, Wisconsin

9-7 - Israel to close Erez industrial zone before March

9-7 - US Christian evangelicals raise the stakes

9-7 - Youths dig Gaza 'martyr' graves as death toll mounts

9-7 - Egyptian FM, Chinese envoy mull Mideast situation


9-6 - Israel Hits Hamas Training Camp in Gaza, Killing 14

9-6 - Israel to build more fences around West Bank settlements

9-6 - Palestinians threaten to boycott donor conference

9-6 - Switzerland reaffirms support for Geneva Accord The so-called Geneva Accord, which was launched last December, has received logistical and financial support from Switzerland.

9-6 - US rejects Israeli offer to fund underground Hawara bypass road

9-6 - Israeli military attache met with alleged Pentagon mole

9-6 - Israel's curfews block Palestinian election

9-6 - Israel still determined to banish Arafat: Mofaz

9-6 - Egyptian FM and Intelligence Chief to Meet President Arafat

9-6 - The Bush Neocons and Israel These people, who can fairly be called Israeli loyalists, are now at all levels of government, from desk officers at the Defense Department to the deputy secretary level at both State and Defense, as well as on the National Security Council staff and in the vice president's office.

9-6 - Spies in Pentagon Ignored CIA Told Top Brass Of Israeli Spooks Over Six Years Ago

9-6 - Chinese envoy calls for implementing Mideast roadmap

9-6 - EU publicizes protest against settlement construction The EU reiterated its position that all settlement construction is in contradiction to international law, undermines the two-state solution, and adversely effects chances for progress in the Middle East Peace Process, including the opportunities presented by the disengagement plan.

9-6 - Photo exhibition unveils daily life in Hebron through residents' eyes

9-6 - Israeli Counterterror Help Welcomed

9-6 - STATELESS & DEPORTED! A Popular Mobilization Against Deportation of Palestinians from Canada

9-6 - Swiss help chart brighter future for Palestinians

9-6 - Jerusalem Lutheran Bishop Younan Pleads for Palestinians, Israelis Living in Operations of LWF-run Hospital Threatened by Possible Israeli Tax Imposition

9-6 - Unlikely media titan plays potent role for Israel. "He thinks Germany is critical to Israel."

9-6 - Palestinians: Arafat Ends Feud With Envoy

9-6 - Peace activist held as 'danger to Israel' Lawyers question state motives behind detention without trial of former woman soldier who befriended leading Palestinian militant

9-6 - More than 1 million Palestinian children return to school


9-5 - Gunmen Seize Gaza Governor's Office in Protest "We need homes for the homeless," Abu Mujahed, a spokesman for the gunmen, told Reuters, adding that 160 families had been uprooted by the latest Israeli demolition and previous raids.

9-5 - 2 Palestinians wounded by Israeli gunfire in Rafah They said that the Israeli soldiers stationed near the Jewish settlement of Rafeyah Yam opened random fire at Palestinian houses, wounding at least three people who were later admitted to hospital

9-5 - Barak tells IDF to stop using civilians for 'early warning' Human shields - by 'coercion'. Still illegal.

9-5 - Israel Begins New Barrier Construction

9-5 - Israel seeks funds for separate Arab roads The Israeli government seeks foreign funding to upgrade the back roads that Palestinians are forced to use - after being banned from routes used by Jewish settlers. Israel should be paying for this.

9-5 - Israel denies bombings behind latest barrier construction

9-5 - Israeli troops demolish house in Nablus Residents in Nablus and in some villages around it said the doctors of "Medics for Human Rights" have treated about 600 Palestinians, most of whom had been wounded or beaten by Israeli troops.

9-5 - Israeli press expose Jewish 'terrorists'

9-5 - Pat Buchanan on Meet the Press Commenting on Iraq war, neocons and Israel - a good read

9-5 - Underground hit man Atias says he planned to assassinate Mitzna "I was to tell them that a Palestinian terror group carried out the attack against the former IDF major general".

9-5 - Pro-Israel Lobby Has Strong Voice Israel was established in 1948, and AIPAC was set up six years later. It now has 85,000 members, an annual budget of $33.4 million and a staff of 165, with offices in Washington, 10 states and Israel. Through more than 2,000 meetings with members of Congress, AIPAC activists help pass more than 100 pro-Israel legislative initiatives a year

9-5 - VIDEO: Pat Buchanan interviewed by Washington Post He answers the charge of anti-Semitism

9-5 - US legislators demand AIPAC details

9-5 - Sharon proposes Israel, Russia fight terror together Ariel Sharon - Reutrn of the terrorist

9-5 - 2nd day of voter registration excellent: Palestinian official

9-5 - EU to Send Delegations to Tel Aviv and Washington to Revive Peace Process

9-5 - PNA condemns Israeli offensive against hospitals

9-5 - Israeli border police ready for evacuating settlers

9-5 - Russia for all-round Mid-East settlement, based on "road map"

9-5 - Police to probe 'Jewish Legion' According to the group's own website it has extended activities outside the settlement boundaries where its armed members search Palestinian vehicles, ambulances and UN vehicles

9-5 - FBI painting ugly picture Still, the current investigation is one indication of growing concerns that U.S. national security and foreign policy have been gravely compromised, or even hijacked, by a small but powerful group of Bush administration neocons.

9-5 - Israeli-Jew jailed without trial

9-5 - Erekat urges EU to help push Middle East peace process

9-5 - Solidarity gesture with Palestine Hundreds of people expressed support for Palestinian prisoners in protests held up and down the Basque Country yesterday


9-4 - Israeli launches missile strike, search operation against Hamas In other violence, an 18-year-old Palestinian wounded by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis earlier this week died of his injuries Saturday, medics said.

9-4 - From May '01: Mutilated children of a crippled Palestine Ahmed Abu Taha, a stick-thin boy with almond eyes, the baby of the ward at 14, was running from a tank in Rafah refugee camp on February 18 when a bullet penetrated his back.

9-4 - Few Palestinians Registering to Vote

9-4 - U.S. delays visit by expert panel on settlement construction limits The administration made it clear to Israel that the more the route takes into account the humanitarian needs of Palestinian residents, the easier it will be for the U.S. to defend it in the expected debates at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly

9-4 - Palestinians say prisoner's life in danger

9-4 - Palestinians begin registration for legislative elections

9-4 - Jewish Republicans track Michael Moore's comments on Israel

9-4 - Al Aqsa mosque under threat

9-4 - Israel tallies up compensation claims by Iraq's Jews Indeed, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky asked the Americans in 2003 to look for anything relating to Iraq's Jewish community after conquering the country. Our troops were given the task of looking for these files for Israel. Also see the bit about the legislation passed by our government.

9-4 - Hebron's middle classes choose America rather than martyrdom

9-4 - The Latest Spy Scandal in US: Will It Be Bryen Case All Over?

9-4 - Villages put under Israeli curfew

9-4 - Remembering the Massacre of Palestinian people "Terrorism is a way of fighting that is acceptable under certain conditions and by certain movements." He added, "While terrorism was appropriate for Jews fighting for their homeland, it is not for Palestinians who are fighting for land that is not theirs. This is the land for the people of Israel.”

9-4 - New evidence of Mossad involvment in Belgian murder case

9-4 - Four Day War What follows is the unfolding of a worst-case scenario, an imaginary yet all-too-possible depiction of how events might develop if Israel were to attack Iran?s nuclear facilities.

9-4 - More photos from Palestine Lots of albums in this one

9-4 - Images from Palestine Page may be slow to load for dialup users

9-4 - Israeli government heads for SA for lessons in reconciliation

9-4 - Christian Zionism and the Roadmap to a Palestinian State Now America is slowly realizing that it is the American Zionists - Christians and Jewish - that actually prefer Israel to America.


9-3 - Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli fire in Gaza Strip

9-3 - Israeli missiles 'hit Gaza camp'

9-3 - Two Palestinians killed in Gaza

9-3 - E.U. Slams Israeli Threats Against Syria, West Bank Settlements "I don't think it's helpful to start talking about attacking new countries," Solana told reporters

9-3 - Prisoner released by paperwork error 16 years for 'grade tampering'??

9-3 - Israel Has Long Spied on U.S., Say Officials

9-3 - Mole Hunt An expert on U.S.-Israeli relations reveals details from his recent visit with the FBI. Steven Green's article on the neocons here

9-3 - IPI criticises British journalist's treatment

9-3 - Israeli spy nest in the U.S. ? Ashcroft says: 'Don't arrest them!' John Ashcroft - a "born-again" Christian fundamentalist

9-3 - Israel Engages In Espionage Against U.S., Says Ex-Intelligence Official

9-3 - Pentagon, GAO Report Israeli Espionage And Illegal Technology Retransfer "Country A" (publicly identified as Israel in the Feb. 22 Washington Times) "conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any U.S. ally."

9-3 - Iraq's U.K. envoy: Strong Baghdad lobby wants ties with Israel

9-3 - Family visit: Palestinian-born Reading man's nightmare trip In this country people respect you. I work with people who treat me as a human being and have respect for what I do, yet when I touch down in Tel Aviv all of a sudden I am nothing.

9-3 - Spy probe scans neo-cons' Israel ties

9-3 - Second-class schools anger Israeli Arabs

9-3 - FBI probing AIPAC, Chalabi leaks

9-3 - Friend and ally?

9-3 - UN adopts Lebanese sovereignty resolution Lebanon rejects UN resolution, says it will not accept any plan which does not address Israeli occupation of its land.

9-3 - Occupational hazards

9-3 - Award winning film uses Roger Waters track

9-3 - Changing geopolitics threatens Israeli-Turkish relations This would not be the first time that Israel has assisted Iraq's Kurds to advance its own interests.

9-3 - Political Big Names Come Out To Back Lobby (AIPAC) at the GOP Convention


9-2 - Israel hills 4 in Gaza raid Palestinian medics said four Palestinians were killed, including a 14-year-old, his 19-year-old brother and two other 19-year-olds. They said 41 people were wounded

9-2 - Israel army raids Khan Younis, Ramallah Medical sources said at least six Palestinian civilians were injured and taken to Nasser Hospital in the town.

9-2 - 7 wounded in Israeli demolition operation in southern Gaza

9-2 - Israel destroys dozens of Palestinian homes in Gaza "The children were crying and screaming ... The army did not give us a chance to take anything, they said 'Just go',"

9-2 - Israel raises wall down Jerusalem-West Bank street They are burying people alive. The people here are conscious and they are putting us in the ground ... This is killing us slowly

9-2 - PNA warns Israel against carrying out assassination threats

9-2 - Palestinian prisoners halt hunger strike

9-2 - State continues to implement anti-Arab segregation

9-2 - Israel-Syria in War of Words

9-2 - Secretive Pentagon office target of FBI probe, sources say

9-2 - Questions Raised Over Aipac's Tactics

9-2 - FBI Copies Computer Hard Drive in Israel Probe This looks more and more like a dog and pony show which accomplishes two things - it 'shows' to everyone that see, our government really isn't so pro-Israel after all, and two - it's a red herring for the larger issue of Israel's role in our going to war with Iraq and the Abu Ghraib scandal.

9-2 - FBI Informed White House of AIPAC Probe Two Years Ago

9-2 - Sharon's Desire to Include More Settlements Delays Construction of Southern Wall

9-2 - Condemnation of latest suicide bombings; non-violent resistance is the only way 'It feels like we are back to square one. The killing of innocent people on the streets of Israel is totally wrong and also does not help our political struggle.'

9-2 - Grass-roots study sees broad Israeli-Palestinian agreement on statehood, borders

9-2 - Foreign policy points missed "A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils."


9-1 - Israeli Airstrike Wounds Five Palestinians in Gaza

9-1 - Israeli Army Raids Gaza Camp After Deadly Bus Bombing

9-1 - Israel halts Jewish 'terror cell' The group murdered eight Palestinians and injured 16 in 2001 and 2002.

9-1 - UN Concern For Palestinians On Hunger Strike

9-1 - Israel to speed up barrier construction after bombings

9-1 - Israel Threatens Syria After Hamas Bombings

9-1 - Traitorous 'Conservatives' Israeli spies in Pentagon are heroes to the neocons

9-1 - US standing with Arabs hits a low The source of most frustration appears to be US policy towards Palestinians and the invasion of Iraq.

9-1 - FBI seizes computer from AIPAC offices

9-1 - U.S. Spy Probe Focuses on Two Lobbyists

9-1 - Superb Chronology Of The Israeli Pentagon Spy Case

9-1 - Spy Probe Scans Neocon-Israel Ties More software backdoors, like this - from 2001 Israeli spy scandal

9-1 - Or slams apathy over Arab riots report A year later, not a single investigation has been completed and the police have not recommended indicting a single officer.

9-1 - Israel Demolished 4500 Homes During 2nd Intifada

9-1 - Israel bars UN refugee agency head from leaving Gaza In an unprecedented and serious development, the Israeli authorities have barred Peter Hansen, UNRWA's Commissioner-General and an Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, from leaving Gaza to carry out his duties in the West Bank

9-1 - DeLay makes intense appeal for Jewish voters Vowing staunch backing for Israel, GOP leaders seek historic party realignment

9-1 - PNA urges Hamas to hand over assassination suspects

9-1 - Palestinian council to go on strike The Palestinian Legislative Council announced that it will go on a one-month strike in protest against what it calls Yasir Arafat's failure to implement its decisions

9-1 - World Reactions Continue to Pour in Solidarity with the Prisoners

9-1 - Spies in the Pentagon? Why would Larry need to give draft documents on policy anywhere in the Middle East to AIPAC, when all the big decisions are already coordinated between Israel and the U.S. at far higher levels?

9-1 - New Zealand condemns Beersheba slaughter

9-1 - Ramadan's vital work In short, criticism of Israel is now glibly equated with anti-semitism

9-1 - Palestinian eyes Paralympic gold "I'm a man who is practicing sports. I'm not a politician," he said. "I want to live in peace with all human beings."

9-1 - Palestinian beer comes to the UK

9-1 - Jews are creating their own ghetto warns Israeli This wall will embitter and impoverish Palestinians and add fuel to militancy and terrorism."




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