Previous Posts

News for 03-17-05

News for 03-17-05

News for 03-16-05

News for 03-15-05

News for 03-14-05

News for 03-13-05

News for 03-12-05

News for 03-11-05

Continued Loss of Human Rights in Palestine

News for 03-10-05

Links

* Against the Insidious Wiles blog -
  latest updates
  to this blog.

* A Stand for Justice -
  companion website
  to this blog.

* Guardian UK
* Independent UK
* BBC World
* Christian Science Monitor
* Headlines.org
* Australia's ABC News Online
* Gorilla in the Room
* Neocon Watch
* Neocon Watch Blog

Powered by Blogger

View my profile

Thursday, March 17, 2005


News for 03-17-05

3-17 - Yeshiva students attack Palestinians, wound at least five Military sources told Haaretz the Palestinians were severely beaten and that they were "almost lynched," an expression connoting an execution of defenseless victims


3-17 - Jewish Settlers beat Palestinians Three of the Palestinians needed hospital treatment in nearby Ramallah after the assault which left at least one man unconscious.


3-17 - Palestinian militants agree to extend truce If the truce holds, Israel could more easily carry out its plan to pull its troops out of Gaza, but it could also come under more international pressure to make other gestures


3-17 - Israel will not launch offensives if Palestinian calm observed


3-17 - Israel to tell UNHCR to shape up The UN's High Commission on Human rights (UNHCR) needs to clean up its act or be rendered totally irrelevant


3-17 - Calls for justice echo at memorial for Corrie "But I see this day as a time to celebrate the stand she took for justice," she said. "The stands for justice are not always the most popular ones."


3-17 - New Scandal: Israeli Forces Used Orders to Demolish Two Houses in Rafah to Demolish 25


3-17 - Qorei appeals to Israel to thwart Al-Aqsa mosque strike "We warn that the region will explode if there is any attack against Al-Aqsa,"


3-17 - EU finds no evidence it funded Mideast violence


3-17 - House Sets Limits on Palestinian Aid As DeLay Defies Calls of Bush, Rice The limits on Palestinian aid were the product of a deal brokered by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee


Before passing the bill Wednesday, House members overwhelmingly rejected an amendment, introduced by Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from New York, that would have blocked all aid to the Palestinians.


3-17 - Israel Boycotts Peace Conference; Mainstream Media Mum on Meeting


3-17 - Palestinians call for Arab intervention over Israel prisoners


3-17 - Text of the Declaration by Palestinians


3-17 - Aipac Puts Two Officials on Paid Leave


3-17 - Israel: A Call for Divestment


3-17 - Bush, in shift, invites Sharon to Texas ranch


3-17 - Jerusalem and Bethlehem divided by separation barrier The Israeli government has revealed its plans for the route of the separation barrier it is building around Jerusalem. It will cut East Jerusalem and the largest Israeli settlement in the West Bank off from the rest of the West Bank, and will divide Bethlehem


3-17 - Another Gaza tunnel destroyed


3-17 - Japan's star rises in Jerusalem While Japan's image as an unbiased player is a highly prized commodity, its most vital asset is that both Israelis and Palestinians regard Tokyo as trustworthy, an increasingly rare status in the notoriously difficult negotiations


3-17 - Palestinian poverty nears 50% across territories


3-17 - Israel pleased with choice of Wolfowitz Jerusalem Post's Man of the Year of 2003



3-17 - Israelis believed behind vast robbery attempt in Britain


3-17 - Wolfowitz Pick for World Bank Prompts Head-Scratching as with his fellow-neo-conservatives, Wolfowitz also has special concerns about the fate of Israel, where he lived during part of his teenaged years and which now is his sister's home


3-17 - Plot foiled to steal 421 million dollars from Sumitomo in Britain


3-17 - Israel to curb Gaza media access


3-17 - Fight Against Hate Hits High School The Zionist Organization of America has begun offering advocacy training for high school students partly so they aren?t ?susceptible to being taken in by the lies of the Arab propaganists [at universities] who call Israel a human-rights abusing horror,? ZOA National President Morton Klein said.


3-17 - Annan's Bow at Arafat's Grave Sparks Outrage in City U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's decision to lay a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat while on his way to the dedication of a Holocaust museum in Israel is infuriating New York politicians and Jewish leaders


3-17 - News: Chicago Lawyers Committee Announces Hate Crime Lawsuit Filed in Anti-Muslim Bombing On Thursday, March 17th Abbas Salmi and his family filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Eric K. Nix for bombing the family?s van in Burbank, IL on March 21, 2003


3-17 - The Captive Mind The targeting of Khalidi is perhaps most revealing of the movement's larger aims, since he is a redoubtable Palestinian moderate


3-17 - Gaza Solidarity Denied


3-17 - Vanunu faces new jail term Whistleblower charged with breaching gag order

posted by Somebody @ 11:01 PM Permanent Link



0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

 

Copyright 2006 - This template was created by DH, for DH, the mistress of her domain