September '05 Archive
09-30-05 - IDF Force shoots dead Palestinian 'against orders'
09-30-05 - Israel kills three in W.Bank offensive Troops later shot dead a 13-year-old stone-thrower in nearby Askar camp, witnesses said.
09-30-05 - Hamas loses ground in West Bank election Two men and a 13-year-old boy were killed as soldiers conducted raids in refugee camps in the town of Nablus.
09-30-05 - Cong. urge Swiss on 'Red Diamond' More senators of Israel
09-30-05 - Soldiers bar residents, activists from picking Olives in Bil?in The office informed the IMEMC that 60% of the orchards are going to end behind the Separation Wall, which will bar the villagers from entering their farmlands.
09-30-05 - The question is will the state be forced to pay Israel's attempts to avoid having to pay for its crimes.
09-30-05 - AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell What is going on here is the exposure of Israel's underground army in the U.S. ? covert legions of propagandists and outright spies, whose job it is to not only make the case for Israel but to bend American policy to suit Israel's needs (and, in the process, penetrate closely-held U.S. secrets).
09-30-05 - Christians Overlooked in Holy Land, Says Priest
09-30-05 - Anti-occupation display stirs row New army recruits forced to watch 'soldiers' beating up 'Palestinians' in display prepared by teenagers who signed service refusal petition
09-30-05 - Abbas: I don't understand Israeli policies
09-30-05 - 3000 children commemorate Mohammad Dorra "Israel must stop its terrorism against us", a Palestinian child said, "We, the children of Palestine, want to tell the world the Israel killed the Peace and our childhood, they burnt our toys and dreams".
09-30-05 - 2000: Shocking images of boy shot in Gaza
09-30-05 - "The brigades will retaliate, in Israel and the West Bank"
09-30-05 - Israeli PHR Says; Israel Bans Extremely Urgent Cases to Enter Israel for Treatment
09-30-05 - U.S. officials: Gaza exit not last
09-30-05 - Arab govts have failed Palestinians: Debates
09-30-05 - AIPAC Restructuring AIPAC also has added a number of issues to its lobbying agenda, including homeland security, nuclear proliferation and terrorism. Its venture into homeland security is a first dip into domestic issues for the organization, which has made foreign policy its strength A clever way to weasel out of the attempts by pro-American lobbies to force them to register as a foreign lobby.
09-30-05 - Franklin to testify against former AIPAC officials
09-30-05 - Bolton: Anti-Israel bias still a problem Bolton- Israel's new ambassador to the UN.
09-30-05 - Pentagon wants Israeli arms-oversight law Members of the Knesset committee said they expected both sides to approve the agreement, but expressed concern that the appearance of the United States dictating Israeli legislation would encounter popular resistance in Israel. Because, as we all know, it's usually the other way around. And we can't have that.
09-30-05 - Israelis warn of Iran strike Delegates from the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee who held talks with senators and members of Congress warned that if the United States does not rein in Iran's nuclear program, Israel will.Say I wonder, whose war is this?
09-30-05 - Arabs fail to win Israel nuclear denunciation
09-30-05 - Ayalon: Israel will stand by DeLay The first public appearance of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) after being indicted and forced to leave his leadership position was at Wednesday night's dinner hosted by "Stand for Israel," What a surprise!
09-30-05 - Prof Explores Mideast Issues "Professor Zureik provides a very important Palestinian voice," Campos said after the lecture, "that students don't usually hear."
09-30-05 - Lapid: Stay course in Iraq It would be a "catastrophe" for the United States to pull out of Iraq, a leading Israeli legislator warned.
09-30-05 - Israelis urge U.S. to stop Iran's nuke goals "Threats of sanctions and isolation alone will not do it," said Mr. Steinitz.
09-30-05 - In Kurdistan, Mossad Gets in Washington's Way
09-30-05 - Israel 3rd largest weapons, military tech supplier to US Coincidentally, neocons are heavily into the arms business.
09-30-05 - Palestinian women brave threats to run in election
09-30-05 - Fatah success in local election
09-30-05 - A study on a transportation link between Gaza and the West Bank
09-30-05 - Progress in Palestine and how we can participate
09-30-05 - Jordan's king appeals for Muslim-Jewish cooperation
09-30-05 - Ill Iraqi Girl, 5, Is Flown to Albuquerque
09-30-05 - Shooting Palestinians Like Fish in a Barrel the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 has passed in the House (thus eliminating once and for all the First Amendment), and I will not be allowed to criticize the criminal state of Israel (or for that matter America) much longer
09-29-05 - West Bank killings cast shadow over Palestinian vote
JENIN, West Bank (AFP) - Three Palestinian militants were shot dead by the Israeli army in the West Bank
09-29-05 - ISR Police disperse 50 settlers after attacking Palestinians in Hebron An Israeli military source reported, on Thursday at night, that a group of 50 extremist settlers of Hebron attacked Palestinian residents in the city, and hurled rocks at them; the police dispersed the settlers after clashing with the residents.
09-29-05 - Arabs and Jews clash in Hebron According to a ZAKA report, the woman sustained her wounds after a cinder block was thrown at her, apparently by a Jew.
09-29-05 - Palestinians Enforce Weapons Display Ban
09-29-05 - Humiliation a Factor in Suicide Attacks
09-29-05 - AG: Bodies of Arabs killed in riots may be exhumed Attorney General Menachem Mazuz told Haaretz on Thursday that the state prosecution might call for the exhumation and autopsy of the 13 protesters killed by Israeli police in the October 2000 riots
09-29-05 - Palestinians, Jews scuffle in Hebron The Jerusalem Post reported about a dozen children were returned to the Jewish settlement by police after they threw stones at shops in a Palestinian area.
09-29-05 - Fatah ahead in West Bank vote
09-29-05 - Palestinian militants call off ceasefire A wing of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has called off a six month truce with Israel after three militants were shot dead today in the West Bank.
09-29-05 - 4166 killed, 45538 injured and 8600 arrested in five years
09-29-05 - Palestine urges intl. community to pressure Israel to stop actions in Gaza Palestine complained that de Soto did not reiterate the ruling by the International Court of Justice in July of 2004 that the wall is illegal
09-29-05 - Egyptian minister OKs European presence The Egyptian foreign minister on Thursday said Cairo and the Palestinians would accept a European presence to secure the border crossings, sea port and airport in the Gaza Strip
09-29-05 - Arab victim families: Review of Oct. probe 'dirty trick' None of the investigators gathered evidence at the scene during the riots nor did they attempt to collect evidence a short time after the events, Haaretz has learned.
09-29-05 - Too Late the Heroes ?The quarter of a million dollars that each Israeli settler received from their government to leave the land they illegally occupied came from you and could have been given to New Orleans!?
09-29-05 - Ex-Aipac Aide To Seek Dismissal of Case if the case goes to trial, it could cast an embarrassing spotlight on the ways in which Aipac collects information and wields power in Washington
09-29-05 - Fold Palestinian Relief Agency Into U.N.'s Refugee Body By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Guess who? - acting once again as an agent of Israel. This is one part of the pro-Israeli 'reform agenda' pushed for by neocon Bolton at the UN.
09-29-05 - Israel reviews decision to close Arab riot deaths file Blatant discrimination prompts Israeli PR move.
09-29-05 - Israel Intercepts Massive Palestinian Rock Shipment Israeli troops patrolling the border of the Gaza Strip breathed a sigh of relief Monday as state-of-the-art Israeli customs-searching equipment intercepted a large shipment of rocks bound for Palestinian youth demonstrators
09-29-05 - US government illegally utilises FM frequency defined as Palestinian "national asset" by Oslo accords
09-29-05 - US pressing Abbas to act now on Gaza: official The Palestinian Authority must immediately start to exert control over Gaza, a senior Bush administration official said on Thursday, suggesting it was a prerequisite to restarting the "road map" peace process and addressing Palestinian issues on the West Bank.
09-29-05 - New playwright Ismail Khalidi represents the undistorted Part of the inspiration was the stuff happening after 9/11, as an Arab-American, as a Palestinian. How we've been demonized.
09-29-05 - Lebanese army tightens grip on pro-Syrian Palestinian militia
09-29-05 - Goshen woman returns from Bethlehem "The news report loves to highlight, or must highlight the conflict in order to sell the news. But day after day thousands and thousands of Palestinians get up, love their children and try to find a job if they can no longer go into Israel to work and care for their environment. That's what real life is in Palestine."
09-29-05 - Hamas not to participate in voting in parts of W. Bank
09-29-05 - Settlers: Willing to leave now
09-29-05 - On different continents, parties follow one script in courting Jews It also shows that both parties continue to view their records on Israel and the greater Middle East as the strongest avenue to garner Jewish votes.
09-29-05 - Peres: Gaza 'test' for Palestinians
09-29-05 - Pentagon Analyst to Plead Guilty to Leak
09-29-05 - Arab League: No ties with Israel yet
09-29-05 - Bush, Abbas talks to focus on Gaza security: US spokesman
09-29-05 - No faith in Police Investigation Unit
09-29-05 - Report says Israeli wall helps 'land grab'
09-29-05 - A second chance at learning for women in the West Bank
09-29-05 - Hong Kong, Palestine, Mexico select Oscar contenders
09-28-05 - Israel pounds Gaza as Palestinians seek help from Bush
09-28-05 - Israeli missile fire knocks out power in Gaza
09-28-05 - Palestinians clash in Gaza
09-28-05 - Israeli sonic booms terrify Palestinian children Ten-year-old Ahmad has suffered from nightmares ever since his school was destroyed in an Israeli air raid. "I'm afraid the Jews will shell our house after hitting the school," he said.
09-28-05 - Halpern to chair public broadcasting A former chairwoman of the Republican Jewish Coalition was chosen to lead the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Cheryl Halpern was elected by the corporation?s board Monday to replace Kenneth Tomlinson, whose term as chair expired.
Goodbye to any sense of fairness of PBS.
09-28-05 - Israel Urges Nations Against Declaration
09-28-05 - Israel Shuts Down 'Hamas' Charities In addition to its militant wing, which is responsible for hundreds of attacks on Israel in recent years, Hamas also runs soup kitchens, clinics and other charities that have helped make it popular among poor Palestinians.
09-28-05 - Abbas to Meet With Bush in D.C. Next Month
09-28-05 - Police to boost forces as Israeli Arabs prepare for rally
09-28-05 - Gaza water supplies dangerous low
09-28-05 - PID to reopen probe into Arab deaths in 2000 riots None of the investigators gathered evidence at the scene during the riots nor did they attempt to collect evidence a short time after the events, Haaretz has learned
09-28-05 - Settler who killed Palestinian flees "This murder was very painful, but it's not surprising:, the uncle said, "This is part of continuous harassments and violence carried out by the settlers, at the road, fields, and everywhere".
09-28-05 - Israel threatens to annex West Bank Israel may annex some parts of the West Bank if the peace process with the Palestinians remain stalled, a close aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Israel Radio on Wednesday There's always an excuse to steal more land.
09-28-05 - Fewest deaths this year since intifada began Since September 29, 2004, 425 Palestinians have been killed in the intifada, an average of 35 a month. In that time, 56 Israelis and foreigners have been killed, an average of five fatalities a month
09-28-05 - 2000: 'Provocative' mosque visit sparks riots
09-28-05 - Bush's Security Barrier Why do our representatives continue to use our money to support the citizens of the 16th wealthiest nation on the planet, one third of our foreign aid budget, to .001 percent of the world's population? Why do we provide less support to sub-Saharan Africa than we do to Israel when its population exceeds 570 million and Israel's is 5.8 million? Does race have anything to do with this?
09-28-05 - OPT: Jihad to respond to uprooting Palestinians from northern Gaza It said that any Israeli action to force tens of thousands of Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip out of the area would mean resumption of Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip after it withdrew from the territory on Sept. 12.
09-28-05 - 'Third intifada almost here'
09-28-05 - Language matters Though Memri claims to be "independent", its founders were Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence - who is currently its director - and Meyrav Wurmser, an ardent Zionist who helped to draft the now-famous 1996 Clean Break document proposing the overthrow of Saddam Hussein as a step towards reshaping Israel's strategic environment.
09-28-05 - Key Israeli officials declare support for more unilateral steps Henry Kissinger who warned Israel "not to get used" to the level of relations between the two countries that exists now, because it was unlikely to continue like this forever.
09-28-05 - Cyprus launches Programme of Help to Palestinians
09-28-05 - Waiting for the next Jewish terrorist The intelligence community is in denial about a very real threat
09-28-05 - French ambassador dismisses Hizbullah ban
09-28-05 - MI: Gaza escalation has weakened Hamas' standing
09-28-05 - Israel rejects Arab charges it is nuclear threat to peace Egypt proposed the creation of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East and blasted Israel for standing in the way.
09-28-05 - Petition presses universities on Israel More than 2,500 people have signed on to a petition calling for changes in how the Israeli-Arab conflict and anti-Semitism are taught in the University of California system. Unbelievable.
09-28-05 - Jewish institutions get security funds Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) helped the institutions get the money, which came from federal and state homeland security funds.
09-28-05 - Congressman presses Egypt on Sukkot exports He wants a minimum of 25,000 lulavs so that every U.S. synagogue gets one. How is this an issue for a US politician in a country where there is supposed to be a separation of church and state?
09-28-05 - Israel seeks Security Council seat
09-28-05 - US to fund women's Internet centre in Madaba refugee camp - Jordan "The objective of the centre is to empower the Palestinian women in the refugee camp in all fields,"
09-28-05 - Ziv: 'Beit Hanun may be demilitarized'
09-28-05 - US urges Israelis, Palestinians to keep calm
09-28-05 - UN envoy meets with Palestinian, Egyptian leaders on Lebanon
09-28-05 - Homegrown hip-hop catching on among young Palestinians
09-28-05 - Assad boosting Palestinian terror? Israelīs Army Radio said Wednesday that Assad convened representatives of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Damascus earlier this month
09-28-05 - Abbas to Mubarak: Restrain Israel
09-28-05 - DeLay gets pro-Israel plaudits DeLay has been a staunch backer of Israel, especially pro-settler groups and has expressed skepticism of Israel?s recent decision to pull out of the Gaza Strip
09-28-05 - Richard Land Says Most Evangelical Christians Strongly Support Israel "We certainly do not give blind acceptance of everything that the state of Israel does or has done," he said. "But we do support the first of the Jews to exist in the land that God gave to them without any time limitation.
09-28-05 - Egypt calls for calm in Gaza after militant pledge Israel should respond to commitments from Palestinian groups, including the militants, and stop shelling the Gaza Strip, Egypt said on Wednesday
09-28-05 - PA official: Israel sabotaging vote
09-28-05 - Abbas urges Arabs not to normalize Israel ties yet
09-28-05 - China Describes Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza Strip as First Step toward Peace
09-27-05 - Israel Unleashes Barrage in Gaza City Missiles landed in at least three locations, including the impoverished Tufah neighborhood and the Bureij refugee camp, just south of the city. One airstrike hit a two-story building used by the ruling Fatah party. The offices provide tutoring lessons to school children, and cash and food assistance to families in Tufah.
09-27-05 - Israel launches fresh Gaza raids
09-27-05 - Israel minister threatens more killings
09-27-05 - MK Cohen Warns the Use of Artillery in Gaza Constitutes War Crimes
09-27-05 - Israeli Arabs in protest against 2000 killings "This is an outcry against Israeli racism,"
09-27-05 - Army spokesperson: "We will not hesitate in shelling civilian areas" "We will use cannon fire" he said, "even if Palestinian civilians are living there" It's never stopped them before.
09-27-05 - Hamas Candidates Part of Israeli Roundup Dozens of Hamas Candidates for Parliament, Local Council Members Caught in Israeli Dragnet
09-27-05 - Hamas kills Israeli in ransom bid
09-27-05 - Palestinian rockets hit Israel, none hurt --media
09-27-05 - Four one-act plays by Palestinian playwrights to support art exhibition The rarely heard voices of Palestinian playwrights come to New York City on October 16-17 for a unique and important theatrical benefit, Acts for Palestine, to support a visual art exhibition entitled Made in Palestine
09-27-05 - Palestinian militants to declare cease-fire with Israel
09-27-05 - 85 Palestinians Detained in West Bank
09-27-05 - Hamas shells blamed for 21 deaths at rally
09-27-05 - UN rights expert: Pullout diverted attention from W. Bank expansion
09-27-05 - Palestinian economy struggles up from ashes
09-27-05 - Middle East peace process should not stop at Gaza: Peres
09-27-05 - Hundreds of Bedouin protest house demolition orders in Negev Some 300 residents of unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev demonstrated on Monday in front of the government's Be'er Sheva office in protest of a policy calling for the demolition of their houses.
09-27-05 - Remembering Muhammad Al-Durra
09-27-05 - PBS Presents ELUSIVE PEACE: ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS (w.t.), Three-Part Special on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Premiere: Monday, October 10 9:00 - 11:30 p.m. (ET)
09-27-05 - Five years on, hope starts to grow
09-27-05 - Israel to Open New Archaeological Site The shrine, which is adjacent to the Western Wall, is one of the most sensitive in the Mideast conflict, and has often been the catalyst of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital
09-27-05 - You exist if the Israeli computer says so
09-27-05 - Why US isn't prodding Mideast peace process
09-27-05 - What You Can't Say About Israel in Australia The difficulty in even raising questions related to Israel proves that serious debate is ever-more essential. The world is slowing waking up to the true reality in Israel and Palestine and Australians are joining the chorus of disapproval.
09-27-05 - Analysis: Ariel Sharon's next move
09-27-05 - Al Kidwa: International Community Required to Exert Pressure on Israel to Stop Constructing Apartheid Wall
09-27-05 - Mofaz: "Golan Heights will remain under Israeli control"
09-27-05 - Arab Americans to honor lawyers, doctor
09-27-05 - Jordan inmates in Israel plead for release
09-27-05 - Specialists Warn of Psychological Dangers of False Raids on Palestinians
09-27-05 - Hamas scrambles to limit Gaza damage
09-27-05 - EU investment bank reconsiders Israel
09-26-05 - IAF helicopters fire missiles at three targets in the Gaza Strip
09-26-05 - A baby wounded in an Israeli airstrike
09-26-05 - West Bank: Settlers attack film crew
09-26-05 - Israel pushing Palestinians out of Jerusalem - UN UNITED NATIONS: Israel is striving to reduce the number of Palestinians living in Jerusalem while increasing its Jewish population to undermine claims on East Jerusalem as the capital of an eventual Palestinian state, a United Nations (UN) human rights investigator said....The barrier and settlements "seriously undermine the fundamental right of self-determination of the Palestinian people, upon which all other rights depend," Dugard said.
09-26-05 - Fresh Israeli air strikes on Gaza
09-26-05 - Israeli aircraft fired at a school
09-26-05 - Physicians for Human Rights protests closure of Gaza Strip Since the closure, however, only a handful of patients have been allowed into Israel or Egypt. In the past two weeks, the army has approved only six or seven out of 40 applications, while 16 children undergoing chemotherapy treatment have been unable to come for their regular appointments in Israeli hospitals over the past two weeks.
09-26-05 - Israeli-Palestinian summit set to be cancelled
09-26-05 - Return of Gaza land reveals family mosque, graves obliterated "I looked for the graves of my parents and an aunt" in the garden of the mosque, he said. "But there was nothing there."
09-26-05 - UNICEF psychosocial support helps kids recover The talkative and engaging student of Shija'ya, at the eastern border of Gaza City, received a bullet wound as she was sitting at her school desk studying math.
09-26-05 - Labor Party, Fatah officials to meet in Sweden
09-26-05 - Female Palestinian political prisoners continue nonviolent resistance
09-26-05 - 15 Body of abducted Israeli resident found near Ramallah
09-26-05 - Gunfire erupts near home of Palestinian leader
09-26-05 - Army shells Gaza
09-26-05 - Palestinians urge US to stop Israeli aggressions
09-26-05 - Saudi Prince Buys Large Share of Fox News
09-26-05 - Palestinian rights still violated in occupied territories, UN official says
09-26-05 - Israel sets aid for Israeli Arabs attacked by Jews
09-26-05 - Britain seeks to boost Palestinian infrastructure
09-26-05 - Israeli army detains 80 Palestinians in West Bank
09-26-05 - At UN, groups meet over joint Israeli-Palestinian projects
09-26-05 - Russia urges political foresight amid latest Mideast violence
09-26-05 - One Hour Before Sunrise
09-26-05 - Egyptians tell US to change its policies to improve image An Egyptian government newspaper also said that Hughes?s mission to improve Washington?s image abroad was bound to fail unless she could promise changes in US policy
09-26-05 - U.S. envoy Hughes' message to Muslims: We care They see what we do, not just what we say. And when our money is being used to fund Israel's colonial war machine, and our veto at the UN Security Council then shields Israel's violations of international and humanitarian law, nobody is fooled.
09-26-05 - Bush administration backs Sharon And the sun will rise tomorrow.
09-26-05 - EU urges Israeli restraint
09-26-05 - Ereikat: Latest escalation in Gaza resulted from Infringements of PA's Rule
09-26-05 - Eytan Schwartz?s film festival The Hasbara (Israeli PR) Road Show coming to a University near you.
09-26-05 - Sharon about faces on Gaza gas
09-26-05 - OPT: Two American grants support co-existence between Palestinians and Israelis Now if we could only stop funding the intransigence of Israel..
09-26-05 - Thousands protest war in Iraq any people carried Palestinian flags
09-26-05 - Under the guise of security: Routing the Separation Barrier to enable Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank
09-26-05 - Sharon wins leadership vote
09-26-05 - U.S. to Israel: Be careful in Gaza We also understand Israel?s right to defend itself, but in taking actions to defend itself, we ask Israel to consider the effect that its actions may have on reaching the overall goal that all share of achieving two states living side by side in peace and security
09-26-05 - Israeli legislators meet U.S. counterparts Members of the Knesset?s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will discuss the Iranian nuclear threat with their U.S. counterparts.
09-26-05 - U.S. Jew arrested for alleged Sharon plot It would mark the first time a Jew is deported from Israel for security violations
09-26-05 - Brown to lead EU-G8 mission to Middle East
09-26-05 - Inside the Middle East... Uncensored
09-25-05 - Rockets, bombs and jet fighters break Gaza's fragile peace Other Israeli targets included a school and buildings that Israel claimed were used to make rockets
09-25-05 - Israel launches new Gaza strike
09-25-05 - Israeli air strikes continue despite Hamas truce
09-25-05 - Withdrawal aid off the table
09-25-05 - Grim reminder for Gaza's people
09-25-05 - Hamas pledges end to Gaza rockets
09-25-05 - Israel Troops Arrest 200 'Fugitives'
09-25-05 - Rabbi gives 'reason' for Rita "Two million Americans have become refugees because the Gush Katif exiles have become refugees,"
09-25-05 - Pressure on leaders rises in Holy Land
09-25-05 - Sharon is silenced at Likud rally Mr Sharon took to the stage to address the stormy meeting, but walked out after discovering that his microphone cord had been severed.
09-25-05 - US 'understands' Israel's need to respond to attack
09-24-05 - Israeli airforce pounds Gaza radicals as "legitimate targets" Shortly afterwards, Israeli warplanes raided militant targets in and around the southern city of Khan Yunis and around Gaza City, leaving at least 20 Palestinians injured, one of them seriously. Medical sources said all the injuries occurred during the Gaza City raid in which eight women and three children were wounded. A school building sustained heavy damage, as did several nearby houses, security sources said
09-24-05 - Settlers attack Israeli left-wing activists in Hebron A Member of Ta?ayush and its filmmaker, Ra?anan Alechsandrovic, was attacked by an armed settler as he tried to videotape the settlers while throwing unknown object into a well used by the Palestinian residents.
09-24-05 - Resident injured in Beit Amin village
09-24-05 - The Hebron confessions "No one did it intentionally. No one thought we were going to shoot
kids. Its just no one cares - it's just total disregard for human
life. Life is just totally cheap ... the guy that shot him really
felt bad about it, he was really uncomfortable."
09-24-05 - Israeli Settlers, Soldiers and Police Raid Palestinian Village
09-24-05 - The Israeli army's double standard: Treatment of settlers and Palestinians in August 2005 MachsomWatch is an Israeli women's organization that monitors one of the gravest aspects of the Occupation - the restriction of free movement by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories
09-24-05 - Twin rallies in Jerusalem and West Bank
09-24-05 - Palestinian authorities reclose Egypt-Gaza border in Rafah
09-24-05 - AIPAC Givers Sought To Fund Job For Fired Top Official "I?m sure there's a concern Steve would reveal everything he knows about AIPAC" in a trial, said the former official. "The concern is not just violations of law but also from a political angle; they don't want the inner workings of the lobby laid out." .....Paul McNulty, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has publicly exonerated AIPAC of suspicion in the case. In fact, at a press conference last month announcing the indictments, McNulty publicly praised the lobby. Something very wrong with that picture
09-24-05 - Leading American, Israeli and Palestinian Medical Doctors Gather at U.N. to Promote Successful Peace Through Health Partnership on Monday
09-24-05 - The Palestinian 'Great Escape' On April 27, 2003, the Israeli high court issued a decision that effectively permitted Israeli military forces to use flechette anti-personnel tank shells against Palestinian civilians. These weapons are designed to injure or kill indiscriminately by spraying metal shards across as wide an area as possible. (I mention this here, since Israel's foreign ministry is directing the world's attention to the subject of terrorism.)
09-24-05 - Arab states at UN urge censure of Israel's nuclear program
09-24-05 - Israeli military fearing settler violence compromises with CPT delegation attempting to visit isolated Palestinian family Israeli soldiers and police admitted that they cannot
control violence prone Israeli settlers living in the Tel Rumeida
settlement.
09-24-05 - Schubert in Bil'in - a New Kind of Demonstration The idea was born when the Dutch pianist, Jacob Allegro Wegloop, a veteran supporter of Gush Shalom, offered to come to Israel and play for peace and against the occupation. Allegro, born in 1941, is an orphan of the holocaust.
09-24-05 - Hamas vows to continue resistance after Mofaz threat
09-24-05 - Israeli hostage's family offers $10 million for his freedom He was shot down over Lebanon. Not Iran.
09-24-05 - US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed Iraqis will love to hear that. A sure way to win over the insurgents, I'm guessing.
09-24-05 - Giuliani Desecrating Memory of the Babe Ruth
09-24-05 - The costs of a hasty U.S. withdrawal A failed American withdrawal in Iraq would increase the threats to the Jewish state.The succesful push to get us to take out Saddam was not enough. Now, we must stay there.
09-24-05 - U.K. group renews attempts at academic boycott of Israel
09-24-05 - Modest Plurality of U.S. Public Approves Removal of Israeli Settlers from Gaza and a Very Modest Plurality Believes This Increases Chance of Peace
09-24-05 - The Settlements and Their Sewage
09-24-05 - Just another rant about the Mideast Dershowitz is not the only supporter of Israel and of peace who argues in this way. Many Jews in America never really examine how Palestinians might feel about certain Israeli policies, always assuming that Israel tries to be humane (even when it drops a bomb on an apartment complex to eliminate one terrorist and also kills 10 children; even though more than 500 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since the start of the second intifada).
09-24-05 - Qatar's foreign minister calls on the Arabs to pressure Israel
09-24-05 - Steinitz leads delegation to US The Iranian nuclear threat, and Israel-US defense relations will be on the agenda when members of Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee travel to Washington, DC this week to meet with US defense officials.
09-24-05 - USA TODAY misplaces 98,000 antiwar protestors
09-24-05 - Leftists rally against occupation
09-24-05 - Jordan's king to meet Abbas and Sharon in days
09-24-05 - CONGRESS WORRIED OVER WEAPONS FLOW INTO GAZA
09-24-05 - Photo from today's anti-war protest Another.
09-23-05 - Blast kills 15 Palestinians at Hamas rally in Gaza including children
09-23-05 - Rocket fire injures five Israelis
09-23-05 - Palestinian militants fire rockets at southern Israeli town
09-23-05 - Report: U.S. Image in Bad Shape The report warned that televised images of U.S. policy choices -- such as in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the invasion of Iraq -- reverberate across the Arab media and will "long haunt the image of the United States." The committee recommended a series of steps, including increased funding and staffing, to rebuild efforts to promote U.S. culture and ideas Why not just take the logical step of bringing a just peace to the Middle East? Frankly, it would instantly boost our image in the world. Nah, too easy.
09-23-05 - Palestinians must see gains from Gaza pullout -UN
09-23-05 - U.S.: P.A. getting stronger in Gaza The Palestinian Authority is strengthening its control in the Gaza Strip and has restored greenhouses looted after Israel withdrew, a Bush administration official said
09-23-05 - 10 protestors arrested in Bil?in, dozens injured
09-23-05 - Israel aid unscathed in GOP proposal Funding for Egypt, Africa, the AIDS initiative and the Peace Corps would take hits
09-23-05 - Anti-wall protest dispersed with tear gas
09-23-05 - Turkey to Employ 6,000 Palestinians in Gaza
09-23-05 - Palestinian: Stop Expanding Settlements
09-23-05 - Red Cross movement to get new emblem The new emblem will eventually allow both MDA and Israeli military medical staff to use the crystal on its own as a protective symbol in conflicts to show the bearer is a neutral humanitarian player The IDF as a humanitarian player? You're kidding me, right? Laughable.
09-23-05 - IDF officer to remain despite conviction IDF officer First Lieutenant Tzvi Kortzki will be allowed to continue his army service despite being convicted of negligence leading to the death of a Palestinian teenager,
09-23-05 - Abbas's Fatah group blames Hamas for deadly blast
09-23-05 - Palestinians take charge of border for first time
09-23-05 - Crisis looms for water-starved Gaza Strip: experts
09-23-05 - U.N. Envoy: 'Road Map' Only Viable Option
09-23-05 - Dichter: U.S. embargoed Israel parts The embargo ended after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,
09-23-05 - Southern Baptist: Don?t pressure Israel Pressure on Israel to take decisions that harm its security would cause a
"cataclysmic failure" in evangelical Christian support for President Bush, a senior Southern Baptist Convention official said.
09-23-05 - Annan: Gaza first, West Bank next
09-23-05 - Breaking The Silence Because It?s time To Tell ! The reality we experienced was made of: Innocent civilians being hurt, Kids not going to school because of the curfew, and parents who can?t bring food home because they can?t go to work. This reality has stayed us and will not go away. After discharge from the army, we decided that we shouldn?t go on. We shouldn?t forget what we ourselves did and what we witnessed. We decided to break the silence.
09-23-05 - Palestinians Will Negotiate But Continue the Struggle
09-23-05 - Palestinian in bid to scale Mt Everest
09-23-05 - Trip to Israel and Palestine showed 'Christians and Jews can work together to achieve peace'
09-23-05 - India ready to play bigger role in West Asia peace to counter Pakistan?s plans to embarrass India by comparing Palestine with Kashmir
09-23-05 - Photographer documents forgotten lives Rania Matar calls the Palestinian inhabitants of refugee camps in Lebanon "a forgotten people,"
09-23-05 - Unearthing earthly Jerusalem According to this theory, Ateret Cohanim is a safety valv."
"They have pledged to redeem houses in the Muslim Quarter, to evict the Muslims from there and to settle Jews there," says a government source, who is an expert in the life of the Old City. He in fact testifies to correct relations with the organization (andhis use of the expression "to redeem houses" demonstrates that he is not hostile to its goals).
09-23-05 - Gaza's attractive, untouchable dangers Although by abandoning the synagogues to angry Palestinian mobs who burned them down Sharon scored a major PR coup on television, by the standards of anyone with any decency his act reached the depths of obscenity. What else are newly liberated people expected to do but destroy the symbols of their occupiers? The willingly ignorant US president, George W. Bush, danced along to the piper's tune and condemned the torching of the synagogues
09-23-05 - Palestinian diplomat presented with medal of peace
09-23-05 - Saudi Foreign Minister Chides U.S. Policy
09-23-05 - Moslem Country Ends Boycott Against Israel to Win U.S. Favors The government of Bahrain will end its economic boycott against Israel, but the move is aimed at winning trade benefits with the U.S. and does not signal diplomatic relations with Israel.
09-23-05 - Taybeh October Fest Reflects Democracy in Palestine
09-23-05 - Connecting the dots: IRAQ & PALESTINE The Israeli lobby and the Iraq War
09-22-05 - Israel Evacuates West Bank Military Base soldiers shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian teenager who entered the base too quickly. Allah Khamtouni, 19, and nine other Palestinians entered the Dotan base near the Palestinian town of Jenin early Thursday, mistakenly thinking it had been abandoned
09-22-05 - Israeli army kills Palestinian in West Bank Palestinian witnesses and security sources said the man was hit in the chest after heading into the base to scavenge for scrap metal
09-22-05 - Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinians in W. Bank raid
09-22-05 - U.N.: Babies die in IDF checkpoints Sixty-one women have given birth at Israeli checkpoints since 2000 due to delays in getting through the checkpoints, and 36 of their babies died as a result, the United Nations said on Thursday.
09-22-05 - Child dies of wounds sustained last month
09-22-05 - Hundreds of Palestinians stranded at Rafah crossing
09-22-05 - Abbas urges armed factions to help rebuild Gaza
09-22-05 - Palestinian FM calls for end to all Israeli settlement activities
09-22-05 - Israeli cop jailed in killing The victim apparently was selected at random by the policemen, who wanted to exact revenge for the killing of several of their comrades in a Palestinian terrorist attack.
09-22-05 - Israeli border policeman sentenced in Palestinian death many of whom like Wahabi are Druze Arabs which is precisely why they are being prosecuted.
09-22-05 - Ceasefire will end if Israelis block elections, says Hamas
09-22-05 - Netanya bomb mastermind convicted
09-22-05 - America's Syria problem Israel made Syria our problem
09-22-05 - After Gaza, some other settlers ready to move
09-22-05 - Straw apology on Israeli arrest
09-22-05 - Congressmen urge Swiss on ?Red Diamond? More legislation for Israel. And these are matters of such great import that they must take precious time and money from the taxpayers, when we surely can afford the such, given that we are not at war or not facing major natural disasters or anything. Right.
09-22-05 - Bush says Jordan king to meet with Sharon, Abbas
09-22-05 - UN Helps Palestinians Set Up Gaza Shipping Council The United Nations established an agency to support Palestinian importers and exporters
09-22-05 - Britain calls for arbitration over Shebaa Farms Britain's minister of state for the Middle East has called for "international arbitration" over the disputed Shebaa Farms, a border area occupied by Israel and claimed by Lebanon
09-22-05 - Egypt frets over high cost of doing business in Gaza About two-thirds of Gaza's 1.3 million residents live in abject poverty
09-22-05 - What's in a name? History, emotion for Palestinians
09-22-05 - Israelis petition against security fence
09-22-05 - Church of England fails to rise to Caterpillar challenge Anti-poverty campaign group War on Want today expressed shock and disappointment at the Church of England?s continuing refusal to withdraw its Ģ2.2 million investment from the construction firm Caterpillar.
09-22-05 - Palestinian factions to end display of weapons
09-22-05 - Chief of Palestinian wanted militants' committee resigns
09-22-05 - Statement by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, C. David Welch, on Palestinian governance
09-22-05 - Ahalan, Miss Seamline: Israeli and Palestinian beauties preen for peace "What I won tonight was that our neighbors in Gilo have become our friends," said fellow Palestinian contestant Christine, 14.
09-22-05 - Gaza aid request could be reduced An Israeli official said that a request for U.S. aid to help cover the Gaza Strip withdrawal could be reduced
09-22-05 - Israel: Palestinian Prisoners must pay for Health Israel Prison Service (IPS) relieved itself of responsibility for the health care of Palestinian prisoners in its custody and discriminates between them and other prisoners
09-22-05 - Dean praises Sharon effort ?The United States has to legitimize President Abbas as much as possible to make it as easy as we can to help him stand up to terrorists.?
09-22-05 - Jewish group protests CBC Hamas documentary as biased, producer denies it
09-22-05 - NZ gives aid to Palestine
09-22-05 - Saudi FM rules out diplomatic ties with Israel, raps Sharon
09-22-05 - Shin Bet 'failed to prevent' Jewish terror
09-22-05 - U.S. facilitates P.A. equipment transfer The United States has transferred more than $2 million worth of nonlethal military equipment to Palestinian Authority security forces, top officials said.
09-22-05 - Jewish Defense League Member Sentenced A Jewish Defense League member was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for his role in a plot to bomb a mosque and a Lebanese-American congressman's office If he were Arab, he would've been tried as on terrorism charges, and it would've made headlines for quite some time, unlike this story which has been veritably buried.
09-22-05 - 'US stopped parts sales during intifada' The Pentagon and the State Department rejected those claims and did not put new limits on the sales to Israel.
09-21-05 - Israel sets international border with Gaza "I don't think we can classify it legally as an international border now because Gaza is not free of occupation,"
09-21-05 - Hamas could one day change vow to destroy Israel
09-21-05 - Abbas dismisses mediators' plea to disarm militants
09-21-05 - Abbas welcomes 'quartet' call for Palestinian state
09-21-05 - Israel ends final pullout phase
09-21-05 - PNA calls on Quartet to press Israel to turn words into deeds
09-21-05 - Gaza evacuees plan to move to new West Bank settlement Such a move, if approved by the government, would violate Israel's promises to the United States not to establish new settlements and not to encourage Gaza settlers to move to the West Bank. Under the U.S.-backed road map peace plan, Israel is also required to freeze settlement construction.
09-21-05 - Palestinians to build housing on Gaza settlement ruins
09-21-05 - Soldiers invade Hebron, four surrounding villages, arrest five brothers
09-21-05 - Israeli troops arrest seven Palestinians in Tulkaram
09-21-05 - UK Parliament member visits Gaza "The situation in Gaza is shocking, Starkey said, "The world says that Gaza is free, I can not feel that".
09-21-05 - 'We will lose our land if we stay quiet'
09-21-05 - Israel sticks to Palestinian vote threat despite US plea
09-21-05 - Gaza crossings to Israel now international borders
09-21-05 - Palestinian ICT firms to partake in Gitex 2005
09-21-05 - PICTI participation at Expotech 2005
09-21-05 - Mixed results and reactions to restoration of border between Hebron areas H1 and H2
09-21-05 - No answers How could all the evidence from the October riots have disappeared?
09-21-05 - D.C. Gives Palestinian Authority Low Grade Ros-Lehtinen is an Israel-firster. She is behind a lot of the pro-Israeli legislation in Congress - the majority of which, I find, is a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. We've got much bigger issues at hand - that concern this country, AMERICA.
09-21-05 - Bush urges Arab countries to bolster Palestinian moderates in Gaza
09-21-05 - Israel seeks seat on Security Council The highest profile foreign figure to back the bid is the controversial US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. What a shocker.
09-21-05 - King's Activities in Washington
09-21-05 - Shalom to UN: Countries wanting to help the Palestinians must recognize Israel
09-21-05 - Beauty to the fore at Israeli-Palestinian pageant in East Jerusalem
09-21-05 - Jewish refugees from Arab countries seek compensation "Our aim is that, every time there is a Middle East discussion on refugees, instead of discussing only Palestinian refugees they will talk about Jewish refugees who are a result of the Middle East conflict," After the Jewish militants expelled the Palestinians in '47-'48, Arab countries expelled Jews some speculate for fear that the same fate awaited them.
09-21-05 - Bush wants provisional state in Gaza Bush, or Sharon?
09-21-05 - PNA to hold int'l conference for Palestinian developments
09-21-05 - U.K. seeks to boost economic development in PA
09-21-05 - Israeli firm tossed out of UK fair In the shadow of threats against retired Israeli generals over war crimes, organizers of one of the world's largest international arms fairs in London tossed out an Israeli company for offering stun guns, leg irons and other "weapons of torture."
09-21-05 - OPEC Fund extends US$2.5 million grant for housing program
09-21-05 - In pictures A rare show of Mid-East co-existence
09-21-05 - Israel, PA plan joint transport office, with a little EU help
09-21-05 - Egypt: Israel should launch negotiations Egypt's foreign minister called on Israel Wednesday to follow its withdrawal from Gaza by launching final status negotiations with the Palestinians and halting the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.
09-21-05 - Saudi: Conflict divides Muslims, U.S. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the main factor dividing the Muslim and Arab world and the United States, Saudi Arabia?s foreign minister said.
09-21-05 - Uzi Dayan unveils plan for West Bank Under the plan, Israel would retain control of the entire area west of the separation fence, including: the Etzion Bloc and Ariel; Route 443 (Modi'in-Jerusalem) and the area south of it; the "Jerusalem envelope," including Ma'aleh Adumim, Mishor Adumim, Ofra and Beit El; Kiryat Arba and the corridor leading to it through the Carmel settlement on the south side of Mt. Hebron; the Judean Desert; and the Jordan Valley.
09-21-05 - Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel Book shows major U.S. disasters happen after 'land for peace' deals
09-21-05 - Year was political thriller for U.S. Jews ''You have to screen out the background noise and see whether the basics have changed," he said. ''Jewish Americans have a pretty good position. When Democrats are in charge, they automatically have a lot of influence. And when Republicans are in charge, they have a lot of influence because Republicans have to be responsive to their fundamentalist Christian constituency. In that ideology, Israel is very important. Abe Foxman calls this kind of talk by anyone else about the purported overwhelming influence of Jewish groups as propagating 'anti-Semitic canards'
09-21-05 - Israeli, Arab kids celebrate 'Peace Day'
09-20-05 - Doctors say Israel turning back Gaza cancer patients "What sin did this child commit to be deprived care,"
09-20-05 - AP Cameraman Recounts Gaza Kidnapping
09-20-05 - Diplomatic quartet urges Israel to stop settlement expansion
09-20-05 - Egypt-Gaza terminal to open for two days: Palestinians
09-20-05 - Rice calls Abbas over Mideast 'quartet' meeting
09-20-05 - Qorei shoulders blame for anarchy
09-20-05 - Mideast 'quartet' seeks post-Gaza peace dividend
09-20-05 - PA: U.S. wants Palestinian state in Gaza the sources said they expect Israel to divide up the area into cantons, with the northern and southern West Bank being connected through bridges and tunnels, in a bid to ?establish facts on the ground.?
09-20-05 - OPT: Gaza fishermen return to sea after Israeli pullout
09-20-05 - EU to allocate 280 million euros for Palestinians in 2005 Of the 60-million-euro package, 40 million euros will be used to restore provision of essential services such as water, transport and energy.
09-20-05 - Gov't bill proposes that Gazans in Israeli jails remain incarcerated
09-20-05 - Rafah: A new kind of tears in the rubble
09-20-05 - Palestinians hoist their flags in Sanur
09-20-05 - Hamas militants succeed in freeing two journalists in Gaza
09-20-05 - Arabs plan protests over failure to indict police for riot deaths
09-20-05 - Israeli occupation forces continue bulldozing the West Bank
09-20-05 - Israel, Iran clash over their nuclear programs
09-20-05 - Israel Seeks Seat on U.N. Security Council They don't need one. For years we have done their bidding at the UN Security Council - including (ab)using our veto to block resolutions that uphold international and humanitarian law.
09-20-05 - Hands off the Palestinian elections
09-20-05 - Israel buries West Bank synagogue
09-20-05 - Breakthrough with Israel to benefit Pakistan: analysts The contacts between the sole Muslim nuclear power and the Jewish state after nearly six decades of hostility improve Pakistan's image in the West and with the United States' influential Jewish lobby...."The influential Jewish groups will now be sensitive to Pakistan's problems particularly with India,"
09-20-05 - World Bank to grant incentives to investors in Gaza
09-20-05 - Poll: 54 Percent of Palestinians See No Need for Weapons Other than PNA's
09-20-05 - US eases opposition to Hamas participation in election
09-20-05 - The Jew comes to learn from the Arab - and it works
09-20-05 - Soldiers bar laborers from crossing through a Separation Wall?s Gate
09-20-05 - Palestinian group threatens to kidnap Israeli soldiers for prisoner release
09-20-05 - Hamas threatens to end truce if Israel hinders elections
09-20-05 - CP of Israel Calls for Freedom for Occupation Refusers
09-20-05 - Shattering Democracy: Sharon's Plan for Palestine
09-20-05 - Abbas to tell Sharon Palestinian should be sovereign
09-20-05 - Army invades AL Khader
09-20-05 - A canvas for protest and peace
09-20-05 - Two Journalists Tell Their Stories in Link TV's 'Occupied Minds'
09-20-05 - Ethiopia Jews go on hunger strike
09-20-05 - Israel hotel blast likely not a militant attack-medics
09-20-05 - Abbas, Mubarak to meet next week to discuss reopening the borders between the Gaza Strip and Egypt
09-20-05 - Rice Urges Israel to Aid Palestinian Election
09-20-05 - Rabbis push Congress on torture This is interesting because many of the torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib so closely resembled those that Israeli has used on Palestinians and other Arabs, and given that Israeli forces trained our men in 'urban warfare' in the runup to the Iraq war, I'd say it is safe to assume that this is where our men learned this torture in the first place.
09-20-05 - Travels in Palestine, Part One By KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON
Former CIA political analysts
09-20-05 - FM: Israel has severed linkage of PA track, ties with Arab states Israel had broken the "absolute linkage" that had long existed between progress in negotiations with the Palestinians and broadened diplomatic relations with Arab and pro-Arab nations.
09-20-05 - Report: Sharon raised illegal campaign funds in New York
09-20-05 - P.A rejects international presence at the Rafah Border Crossing
09-20-05 - Quartet urges Palestinians to dismantle militias
09-19-05 - Resident injured West of Ramallah
09-19-05 - Abbas Says He Won't Open Gaza-Egypt Border "We want to do the right job at the right time because we want to act as a state, as a responsible authority," Abbas said. "Therefore, we are following up on the subject seriously with our brothers in Egypt. Until we reach agreement, we should be patient."
09-19-05 - Palestinians will fight Israeli settlement expansion: Qorei Building new Israeli housing units in order to connect Maale Adumim to Jerusalem will effectively sever the northern West Bank from the south, questioning the future viability of the Palestinians' promised state.
09-19-05 - Palestinians set no-confidence debate over chaos
09-19-05 - Sharon prepares for showdown with Netanyahu
09-19-05 - Women bridge Middle East divide
09-19-05 - Rice Wants Syria Out of Lebanese Politics Rice reiterated that Syria must stop allowing terrorists to cross its border and kill innocent Iraqis. She also demanded that it stop supporting "Palestinian rejectionists" who oppose peace with Israel.
09-19-05 - Israel: Iran may be 6 months from bomb know-how Same story about Iraq's alleged WMDs came from the same crowd thru their neocon cohorts at the Pentagon's Office of Special Planls - The spies who pushed for war
09-19-05 - ANERA Vows to Raise More Money to Help Palestinians
09-19-05 - Church to keep shares in firm with Israel links
09-19-05 - PA: Kids duped into drug smuggling "Drug dealers are exploiting children to bring in various types of drugs," sources in the PA Interior Ministry said. "We will take drastic measures against these criminals, who are using the children and exploiting the chaos near the border."
09-19-05 - Government to increase settler payouts by NIS 1.5 billion
09-19-05 - Israel allocates $1m for officers facing war-crime charges The state will allocate $1 million to defend senior army officers charged abroad with war crimes, if a bill proposed by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is passed.
09-19-05 - Israel boycott feud resurfaces
09-19-05 - Middle East Peace Process Comes To California Camp "I saw an Israeli and a Palestinian who said, prior to this moment, their only interaction they had ever had with the other was at a checkpoint,"
09-19-05 - New Arabic-speaking US envoy to Israel vows to work on Hebrew
09-19-05 - Mercenaries guard homes of the rich in New Orleans Two Israeli mercenaries from ISI, another private military company, were guarding Audubon Place, a gated community. Wearing bulletproof vests, they were carrying M16 assault rifles.
09-19-05 - PA-Israel olive oil corp to be launched The Japanese embassy's department for Israeli-Palestinian cooperation and Zur - Stef Wertheimer's center for developing entrepreneurship are sponsoring the creation of a joint Israeli-Palestinian olive oil corporation
09-19-05 - The Wall and the Holes in the Wall
09-18-05 - Envoy: U.S. to Back Israeli Settlements Kurtzer's language went slightly further than the original Bush letter, which did not speak of Israel retaining territory it captured in the 1967 Middle East war but said only that a return to the prewar borders of 1949 was unlikely.
09-18-05 - No prosecution of Israeli police over Arab protest deaths
09-18-05 - Israeli Forces Arrest Five Palestinians in the West Bank
09-18-05 - Israel wants Britain to tighten law on war crimes suits Reeling from the near-arrest in London of one of its ex-army generals, Israel will press Britain to tighten up laws allowing private war crimes suits to be filed against foreigners, Israeli officials said on Sunday
09-18-05 - Straw "thinks" Israel's Sharon safe from arrest in UK The British are our closest ally. So why are their politics so vastly different? Because they don't have this kind of influence over their government?
09-18-05 - Gaps sealed in Gaza-Egypt border to end chaos
09-18-05 - Israelis warm to security role for EU on Gaza's border with Egypt
09-18-05 - Sharon pledges to link Ma'ale Adumim to Jerusalem In a speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, Sharon told the leaders of organized American Jewry not to expect the US to applaud this move or the construction in settlements in the major settlement blocks. But, he intimated, the construction will continue.
09-18-05 - Israeli general not safe from arrest
09-18-05 - Palestinians reject Arab normalizing relations with Israel
09-18-05 - Musharraf breaks new ground in meeting with Jewish leaders As the peace process progressed towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, Musharraf said, Pakistan "will take further steps towards normalization and cooperation, looking to full diplomatic relations" with Israel.
09-18-05 - The divestment snowball In November 2004, the Episcopalian Church made a similar decision, and will soon publish its own list of corporations involved in activities that aid the occupation. That church, too, is threatening to withdraw investment in those corporations. The United Methodist Church took similar steps in June and the United Church of Christ will join these efforts in another month
09-18-05 - Sharon Seeks Disarmament of Militants
09-18-05 - Iran calls on UN to probe how Israel acquired nuclear weapons
09-18-05 - Hamas militants parade in Gaza celebrating Israeli withdrawal
09-18-05 - Sharon says to meet with Palestinian president on Oct. 2
09-18-05 - Tibi: Geneva Convention requires Israel to release jailed Gazans
09-18-05 - Annan expects full resumption of peace talks in Middle East
09-18-05 - New US envoy presents credentials
09-18-05 - Across the killing field
09-18-05 - Clinton Global Aid Meeting Gathers $1.25 Billion Among pledges announced on Saturday were a promise to find a way to provide terror insurance for businesses investing in Gaza, a plan to set up a mobile phone network for an emerging Palestinian state and $1 million to benefit Gaza children.
09-18-05 - Abbas nominates new Attorney General
09-18-05 - MK finds widespread building of illegal West Bank outposts
09-18-05 - MOI: ?Drug dealers are using children?
09-18-05 - Palestinian student at Tel Aviv University spreads good will
09-18-05 - Far From Mideast, Young Learn Empathy She said the young Israelis and Palestinians have begun to ask themselves not only why they have hated the other side - but also why the other side has hated them.
09-18-05 - Annan appeals for international support for Palestine
09-17-05 - Eight injured in clashes between PA police and Rafah residents
09-17-05 - Settlers burn vine groves in Al Khader
09-17-05 - Resident killed as army jeep crushed into his vehicle
09-17-05 - IDF clashes with Palestinian protesters in W. Bank village of Budrus Palestinian youths threw stones at the soldiers, who in return shot rubber bullets at the protesters.
09-17-05 - Settlers attack residents in Palestinians areas near Hebron Settlers in Hebron area escalated their attacks against the Palestinian residents, and attacked on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning several homes, vehicles and residents, while Israeli soldiers failed to arrive until the settlers had already left the attacked areas.
09-17-05 - Palestinian Forces Seal Off Gaza Border Palestinian forces sealed off five major breaches along Gaza's southern border Saturday
09-17-05 - PNA confirms Israeli army's sudden evacuation of four W. Bank settlements
09-17-05 - PA and Egypt may reopen Rafah crossing without Israeli approval
09-17-05 - Hamas warns Israel of building security zone in Gaza
09-17-05 - Dozens of Palestinians storm evacuated West Bank settlement "My soul has returned to me today," said Salah, bending down to pray at the threshold of the front door. "From this day forward I have a house and I don't have any problems in life. I hope they don't come back and take my home."
09-17-05 - Palestinians Urge Israel Not to Interfere Palestinians on Saturday urged Israel not to interfere in upcoming parliament elections
09-17-05 - Palestinians Start Repairing Damaged Homes
09-17-05 - Palestinian police fire in air to stop border chaos
09-17-05 - Gaza Withdrawal Is Not Enough In any other country, settlements in which only Jews are allowed to live, connected by roads that non-Jews are forbidden to use, would be cited as an example of discrimination, if not racism. Israel, however, is the grand exception to America's morality and ethics.
09-17-05 - Republican Jewish Coalition Applauds Senator Santorum for Urging UN Response to Anti-Semitism Because anti-Semitism is the first thing on the minds of
Americans these days, and as such, we should be passing legislation about it. Forget the natural disaster of a century. We need the legislation about anti-Semitism - because this country is majorically Semitic.
09-17-05 - Sharon fears arrest if he visits London BRITAIN is desperate to avoid a diplomatic row with Israel after Ariel Sharon apparently snubbed an invitation from Tony Blair to visit London, claiming that he feared arrest.
09-17-05 - Sharon asks S. Africa to act against Iran Say I wonder, whose war is this?
09-17-05 - Clinton global aid meeting gathers $1.25 bln "Clinton is the greatest charmer on the planet. What he is doing today is noble and global," said Peres. "I personally think we have to privatize peace. This conference is inviting global companies to help build a Palestinian state. You have to construct it." Gaza is the new Palestinian state?
09-17-05 - Feature: Palestinian troops deployed borderline with Egypt to stop smuggling chaos Cigarettes, cheese, oil, gas, liquors, beers, drugs, bullets, pistols, Klashnikov rifles, hunting rifles, drugs, even goats and sheep were all bought by Palestinians in Egypt and sold in the Gaza Strip for higher prices, said witnesses. Lots of things smuggled in to be sold at higher prices.
09-17-05 - Born in Bethlehem One Jerusalemite I spoke to became quite indignant. "Jewish health care is among the best in the world," she said. Why would you want to go to an Arab hospital? Do they even have the right equipment?''
09-17-05 - Israel tries to stop pullout of U.S. funding Seventeen mainline Protestant and Jewish officials are flying to Israel this weekend for a five-day summit on Israeli-Palestinian issues, with a goal -- at least among the Jewish participants -- to stop Americans from pulling funds out of Israel.
09-17-05 - U.S. voices disapproval of PM's warnings on Hamas
09-17-05 - Israeli reporters harass Iranian president
09-17-05 - Rectifying UN wrongs Our UN 'reform': Israeli wishlist, facilitated and made possible by the US Congress. How are our interests being represented here? Who are our officials representing?
09-17-05 - Religious motive denied in attack on Christian West Bank village The Palestinian security forces from Ramallah only arrived at around midnight, due to administrative delays in seeking permission from the Israeli authorities who control the zone.
09-17-05 - Resolve Palestinian issue to defeat Al Qaeda: Musharraf Asserting that issues of Kashmir and Palestine were "ripe for solution", Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that resolution of the Middle-East conflict will help defeat Al Qaeda as it was the "real provocation" for radical Muslims to opt for terrorism.
09-17-05 - Dundee students recruited by terrorist groups Mitch Simmons, a spokesman for the Union of Jewish Students, said that groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun posed a serious threat and Dundee was one of the campuses being monitored by his group. He added that Dundee?s twinning with the Palestinian city of Nablus might have made it attractive to politically motivated students. Therefore, no city should twin with Palestinian cities. A win-win situation for Israel, how coincidental.
09-17-05 - SYRIA: Training refugees to gain useful skills
09-17-05 - Sharon, Abbas to meet early October
09-17-05 - Current Issue of Ground Water Focuses on Transboundary Ground Water Issues In one of this issue's articles, a group of Israeli, Palestinian and French scientists have proposed a possible management solution to ameliorate the water quality crisis depriving residents of drinkable water in the Gaza Strip
09-17-05 - Iranian president attacks West, Israel "Saddam's regime used chemical weapons against Iran. Who armed him with these weapons?"
09-17-05 - No police to be tried for Arab deaths in 2000 riots
09-17-05 - Church to sell ?5m ?tainted? shares THE Church of Ireland is set to sell ?5m of shares in Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH) because of its involvement in the construction of the Israeli ?security? wall in the occupied West Bank.
09-17-05 - Some Arabs Condemn Closer Israel Ties
09-17-05 - RI Foreign Minister Met Israeli Counterpart in New York
09-17-05 - Iraqi president extends hand to opponents In a question and answer session, he said Iraq adheres to collective Arab decision regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, namely the Arab peace plan of 2002.
09-16-05 - Has the world forgotten Sabra and Shatila massacre?
09-16-05 - 1982: Refugees massacred in Beirut camps The Christian Phalangist group are reported to have murdered entire families in cold blood in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
09-16-05 - Troops, protesters hurt in anti-fence rally a Dutch Holocaust survivor who traveled to Israel to attend rally, was playing a number of pieces in protest of the security fence and as a show of solidarity with the local Palestinians. "I sympathize with all those who suffer from injustice,"
09-16-05 - Two held on Israel-Lebanon border United Nations peacekeepers said the two were shepherds, who had strayed across the UN-demarcated border line.
09-16-05 - U.S.: Fence must accommodate Palestinians "It's precisely because the lives of Palestinian civilians and men, women and children are disrupted in many cases that we make this point and that we urge the Israelis to consider and take into account and be responsive to the needs of the Palestinians to move and to live like normal people in the territory that they occupy,"
09-16-05 - Gazans enjoy their new freedoms
09-16-05 - World Bank: Palestinians may receive $500-$700 million for housing
09-16-05 - Israel to Disrupt Palestinian Vote if Hamas Runs
09-16-05 - Palestinian police move to stop chaos on Gaza border
09-16-05 - Sharon U.N. speech turns Israeli politics on its head Palestinians saw it as a propaganda ploy to mask Sharon's intention to keep a permanent hold on Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, continue expanding settlement blocs there and forestall a return to final-status negotiations
09-16-05 - Palestinian FM tells Israel Gaza withdrawal not enough
09-16-05 - Gaza access, West Bank link can be resolved: Peres
09-16-05 - Special report: ?Music sounds and bullets in Bil?in? Israeli soldiers attacked a non-violent procession against the Separation Wall in Bil?in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Pianist Jacob Allegro Wegloop, a holocaust survivor, and David Rovics, and American folk singer, sang for the Palestinian children, the refugees, the Palestinian cause and children, in addition to singing and the Palestinian national anthem.
09-16-05 - Palestinian: Settlers are war criminals his organization plans to file similar complaints against the settlers, as ?the settlements are a war crime, and the settlers are criminals of war. This is not a Palestinian definition; this is what international law states
09-16-05 - Israel to expand security zone into northern Gaza
09-16-05 - British police cancel arrest warrant against retired IDF commander The British Embassy in Tel Aviv informed Israel that the case against Almog was being dropped for procedural reasons,
09-16-05 - London, Jerusalem police chiefs meet London?s police chief was briefed on counter-terrorist measures by Israel?s top cop.
09-16-05 - Saudi Says Israel Should Yield More Land Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan said Friday that Israel should withdraw from more conquered Arab lands after Gaza, indicating there can be no change in the collective Arab stand on Israel unless occupation ends.
09-16-05 - Newsview: Gaza Puts Egypt in Dilemma
09-16-05 - Flashback 2002: CNN chief accuses Israel of terror Ted Turner, the billionaire founder of CNN, accuses Israel today of engaging in "terrorism" against the Palestinians, in comments that threaten to lead to a further decline in the news network's already poor relations with the Jewish state.
09-16-05 - Out of Gaza, Israel courts its neighbors "Israel is [viewed as] the ultimate friend of the US, so if you're a friend of Israel, you're a friend of the US," says Mr. Pedhatzur, a professor of strategic studies at Tel Aviv University.
09-16-05 - BU prof using Web in bid to catch media's anti-Israel bias Why, our press is falling all over itself to be more pro-Palestinian. That's it!
09-16-05 - Rice praises Palestinians on withdrawal "The Palestinians did a very good job of helping to create a dignified circumstance for the Israelis to withdraw" by preventing attacks on soldiers and settlers, the U.S. secretary of state said this week in an interview with the editorial board of the New York Post.
09-16-05 - Israel top five U.S. ally The Harris Interactive poll, released Wednesday, found that Israel was deemed a close ally by 41 percent of respondents 59 percent say Israel not a close ally?
09-16-05 - U.K. court cancels warrant against Almog The British judge said the warrant was annulled in light of the fact that Almog had left the country and is therefore "no longer under the court's jurisdiction."
09-16-05 - Islamic leader: Al-Aqsa in danger He said Israel is imposing a siege on al-Aqsa by building an electric fence and installing cameras around the complex and that Israel is encircling the mosque in a ?settlement-like? manner
09-16-05 - Hamas Rallies Pose New Challenge to Abbas
09-16-05 - Martin delivers scathing critique of UN failures On Thursday Martin announced that Canada will contribute $24.5 million in assistance to the Palestinian Authority for education, living conditions for refugees, and economic development
09-16-05 - B?Tselem report: ?Wall route planned to enable settlement expansion?
09-16-05 - Sharon meets Jordan's king Jordan's king said he will offer assistance as the Palestinians take over full responsibility in the Gaza Strip.
09-16-05 - Hebrew songs making a comeback in Gaza
09-15-05 - Israel court orders segment of West Bank barrier torn down Israel's supreme court ordered a section of the controversial West Bank separation barrier to be torn down as it imprisons thousands of Palestinian villagers for the sake of a Jewish enclave.
09-15-05 - Gazans reclaim the settlements "Our people have nothing," he said.
"And they have suffered so much. But when the world sees these pictures, it will not understand."
09-15-05 - Israeli general cancels London trip over 'war crimes' case Israel's former army chief of staff Moshe Yaalon has cancelled a planned trip to London after a complaint was filed against him and other top officers for "war crimes".
09-15-05 - Gaza Border Worries Israelis, Palestinians "We're talking about Iran, we're talking elements in Syria, we're talking about groups like Hezbollah and we're talking also about international terrorist groups like al-Qaida," said Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev
09-15-05 - Clinton opens rival summit on world's problems "I would urge the people in this room to think early and often on what opportunities there might be for private investments in Gaza, for job creation, for small businesses, because the Palestinian people are quite a remarkable people,"
09-15-05 - Israeli ex-military chief cancels trip to UK over threat of war crimes arrest both men are vulnerable over the army's policy of mass house demolitions in the Gaza Strip, which critics say are illegal under international law, and "targeted killings" supposedly aimed at Palestinian fighters but which have resulted in the death of large numbers of civilians.
09-15-05 - Bush Seeks Ways To Help Sharon Beat Netanyahu "I just don't see American pressure on Sharon" before the next general election in Israel, .....Observers note that on several other recent occasions the Bush administration has sought to avoid a fight over settlements in the West Bank....Last month, the Bush administration quietly dropped its demand that the United States and Israel jointly determine boundaries for construction in West Bank settlements. There's always an excuse as to why Israel should never be pressured.
09-15-05 - Palestinians 'end' Gaza anarchy
09-15-05 - Summer Trip Yields International Lessons "We subsidize a mission to Israel approximately once every 18 months for elected officials as well as civic and community leaders," Habler said. "While they are there, they get a chance to see first hand the things Israel is facing everyday."
09-15-05 - Palestinians: Israel must end occupation for peace
09-15-05 - Army to annex land near Hebron to construct military camp
09-15-05 - U.S. offers PA USD 3 million The Consul General added that the aid is intended mainly for the training of the Palestinian security forces and to make the Palestinian police more efficient in tending to the needs of the local population.
09-15-05 - The Second Draft Takes on 'Pallywood' Pro-Israelis have just about total control over what Americans see, so I don't know what this is about. Something must have slipped through the cracks, and thus it's time for damage control.
09-15-05 - Opinion: Israel will be forced to make further concessions Israeli "Concessions" = giving back land that was taken by force which is illegal under international law.
09-15-05 - Sharon to highlight successes of Gaza pullout in UN address "He will make a clear statement about Jerusalem and he will also talk about the 'understandings' reached with President Bush about the major settlement blocs,"
09-15-05 - Palestinians cross Egypt-Gaza border unhindered
09-15-05 - Ruined Gaza fun park now waits for aid
09-15-05 - Israel Calls for Wider Meetings With Arabs Arabs have proposed a peace plan calling for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which would all be part of a Palestinian a state. They also demand Israel give up the Golan Heights captured from Syria. In return, they say they will offer Israel normal relations and peace with the Arab world.
09-15-05 - Israeli rabbis urge pope to designate day against anti-Semitism
09-15-05 - Palestinians Rekindle Rafah Romances
09-15-05 - Young American Jews join IDF Because Israel is at war, and we're not, and an American joining the American army is unheard of...
09-15-05 - Chief rabbis meet pope Israel?s two chief rabbis called on the pope to condemn the Palestinian destruction of abandoned synagogues in the Gaza Strip.
09-15-05 - Sharon calls for compromise with the Palestinians at UN
09-15-05 - MP insists Hizbullah has right to 'defend and protect' Shebaa Farms
09-15-05 - London's top cop learns counterterrorism from Israeli police
09-15-05 - Sharon speech looks home and abroad He placed the onus firmly on the Palestinian leadership to bring the Gaza Strip under control and to end violence.
09-15-05 - The day rap music came to the Gaza Strip
09-15-05 - Israel, Arabs cooperate on tourism
09-15-05 - House committee backs Israel on world panel A congressional committee passed a resolution supporting Israel?s accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
09-15-05 - Charges filed against Israelis in Britain
09-15-05 - Abbas to visit border with Egypt
09-15-05 - Saudi Woman Pioneer to Pedal for Peace
09-15-05 - Kingdom to Finance Education Programs for Palestinians
09-15-05 - PCBS: 149 Palestinian areas Affected by Separation Wall
09-15-05 - Palestinian Gunmen Set Up Gaza Checkpoints
09-14-05 - 12 Palestinians wounded in accidents in Gaza Palestinian medical sources reported early Wednesday that at least 12 Palestinians were wounded in several explosions while playing with remains left by the Israeli army in the former Gaza Strip settlements.
09-14-05 - Resident killed, six injured in Hebron
09-14-05 - Israeli Soldiers occupy homes, take belongings the soldiers had taken
passports, photos, some jewelry, and some other papers
09-14-05 - High Court to rule on W. Bank separation fence principles on Thursday 'We will decide on which rules apply to us and which rules do not - the world be damned!'
09-14-05 - Hamas blows hole in Gaza border
09-14-05 - Abbas Wants All Armed Groups Disbanded
09-14-05 - Bush praises Gaza pullout but ignores West Bank settlement growth "We are building in the West Bank settlements. Does that make the Americans happy. No. Are there any steps against Israel? No again,"
09-14-05 - Lebanese party: Kill all Palestinians
09-14-05 - Gaza border: Crowds crossing back "I came to see this other world I heard about, I've never left Gaza in my life, in fact I've barely left my refugee camp, and this was my opportunity to do so,"
09-14-05 - Gaza unites to celebrate pullout despite skirmishes
09-14-05 - Sixty Jews in Sa-Nur Sixty Jews infiltrated into the dismantled Sa-Nur community Wednesday and soldiers have alerted police.
09-14-05 - Sharon firm on West Bank settlements ahead of talks with Bush
09-14-05 - More top government and military leaders targeted
09-14-05 - IDF chief clears soldiers who killed five Palestinians in raid After reading the findings of a military investigation into the incident, Halutz decided that further action was not necessary as "the operation's prime objective had been achieved: the arrest of the two suspects." Now there's something we wouldn't have expected to happen.
09-14-05 - Annan: Hezbollah disarmament discussed Israel and the United States believe it?s critical that Hezbollah disarm before the resolution is affirmed.
09-14-05 - Israel slams general arrest bid
09-14-05 - Katrina Knocks Down Sharonīs Plans for Negev, Galilee Congress has allocated the PA $50 million in direct aid in what PA leaders expected to be the first part of a larger package, but that is likely to be scrapped along with the Israeli request
09-14-05 - Peace campaigners get Gandhi award The award will be presented to Hanan Ashwari and Zehava Galon after the Gandhi Lecture
09-14-05 - Mid-East extremes in power survey Israelis, however, believe that they are governed by the will of the people more than most other nationalities.
09-14-05 - Behind the Scenes at UN, One Focus for Sharon: Iranian Nukes Israel long has had the Bush administration as a powerful ally in pressing the international community to force sanctions on the Iranians.....pro-Israel lobbyists -- who have made Iran their No. 1 priority in recent years -- say the timeline is less important than containing a rejectionist, anti-Western regime.
09-14-05 - Palestinians must establish "peaceful" gov't towards Israel: Bush
09-14-05 - Plan to boost aid to Palestine
09-14-05 - Jewish groups push Israel's cause
09-14-05 - Bush blasts U.N. Human Rights Commission Bush said the commission ? which criticizes Israel more than any other nation, while including tyrannical regimes among its members ? symbolizes what?s wrong with the institution.
09-14-05 - Rice: Iran, Syria still back terrorists Support for Palestinian terrorism remains an element in the U.S.-led isolation of Iran and Syria, Condoleezza Rice said.
09-14-05 - Liberal churches meet Bush official The delegation also discussed the ?damage being done by Israel?s building of a separation barrier and expanding settlements near Jerusalem.?
09-14-05 - Abbas meets Chinese envoy on Mideast peace process
09-14-05 - Exclusive: 'Post' informs PA about 'missing' infrastructure files
09-14-05 - After 'Post' interview: Rivlin quizzes gov't on Ma'aleh Adumim he said that the government has given assurances to the American administration that it has frozen controversial building plans that would link Jerusalem with Ma'aleh Adumim and would not revive the project without US consent. Those comments directly contradicted an official government statement in the Knesset just six weeks earlier
09-14-05 - Lebanon: Anti-Palestinian inciters detained Police on Wednesday arrested three officials of a nationalist Christian group, a day after they called on Lebanon to kill Palestinians and withdraw from the Arab League, a judicial official said.
09-14-05 - Judeo-Christian Alliance: Resolutions are Racist The ugly slander campaign has begun. For, nobody can criticize Israel and get away with it!
09-14-05 - Mossad chief reshuffles Israeli spymasters - TV Israel also wants to keep abreast of arch-foe Iran's nuclear plans.
Mossad and Israeli military intelligence were both rapped by parliament for overestimating Iraq's capabilities before the U.S. decision to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003.
09-14-05 - U.S.: Let Israel join Security Council Our country is truly an arm of Israel. Rarely are our interests put first.
"I've never seen a president - I don't care who he is - stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles your mind. They always get what they want....If the American people understood what grip those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens don't have any idea what goes on."
- the late Admiral Thomas Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
09-14-05 - Critic wrong about Palestinian literature class And so goes another campus witchhunt by the pro-Israelis.
09-14-05 - 'Bi-national state if settlements continue'
09-14-05 - Bush condemns Gaza synagogue looting
09-13-05 - Palestinian killed in clash with IDF troops near Hebron Israel Defense Forces troops killed a Palestinian youth in a clash near the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesdsay night.
09-13-05 - 6 Palestinians drown at Gaza beach including 2 children
09-13-05 - Family Reunion
09-13-05 - Soldier rams a mother and her child in Hebron
09-13-05 - Palestinian refugees give $10,000 to Katrina victims
09-13-05 - Mofaz: Government to develop West Bank settlement blocs One day after Israel ended 38 years of military rule in the Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday the government is now going to make investing resources in developing the West Bank settlement blocs a top priority.
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