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Thursday, August 18, 2005


News for 08-17-05

08-17-05 - Settler kills 4 Palestinians, rattling Gaza pullout Israeli police said the assailant was a driver who had taken Palestinian workers to jobs in Shiloh, a Jewish West Bank settlement. Once there, he snatched a security guard's gun and turned it on his passengers


08-17-05 - Erekat condemns killing of 3 Palestinians, Hamas vows revenge


08-17-05 - Paul McCann: The world's largest prison camp


08-17-05 - Palestinians Cheer Gaza Strip Withdrawal "Tonight I will sleep at ease. No more fear. No more shooting. Just a good night's rest," said Raafat Attar, 21, who lives a few hundred yards from the settlement. Just two months ago, his car was hit by army fire from a watchtower as he drove home. The water tank on the roof of his house is full of bullet holes.


08-17-05 - Pullout Revives Exiles' Hopes to Go Home "I want to go home, even if I have to walk all the way."


08-17-05 - Watching the Gazan Fiasco it has been carefully designed to create imagery to support Israel's US-backed takeover of the West Bank and cantonization of the Palestinians.



08-17-05 - For Palestinians, Joy and Some Hints of Sympathy "One Israeli settler lady was talking about that she planted some trees, and she wanted the people behind to look after them," he said. He looked over at his wife, he remembered. "She was smiling," he said, "and at the same time she had tears. So it tells you about the conflicting emotions."



08-17-05 - Hamas vows revenge for Jewish settler's killing


08-17-05 - Sharon pledges to continue West Bank settlements "Settlement is a serious programme that will continue and develop,"


08-17-05 - Palestinian family longs for disappearance of The Wall


08-17-05 - Palestinians fear 'big prison' after Gaza pullout


08-17-05 - Bulldozers Used Against Gaza Protestors


08-17-05 - Gunman dines with victims before attack


08-17-05 - Palestinian Farm Family Could Lose Land The residents of the Rafah refugee camp, just next to the Gush Katif settlement bloc, have suffered the most. More than 13,000 of its 90,000 residents have been made homeless by Israeli demolitions since 2000. In most of the demolitions


08-17-05 - In Defense of Cindy Sheehan You don't have to be Jewish to put Israel first, even over and above your own country, as the Christian fundamentalists of the Darbyite persuasion have made all too painfully plain.


08-17-05 - The risk of a third intifada Once Palestinians are preoccupied with rebuilding their shattered lives under international scrutiny, Israel will accelerate the de facto annexation of the settlement blocs in the West Bank and Jerusalem


08-17-05 - Arabs demand school security following the Shfaram attack


08-17-05 - The confiscation of Jerusalem cuts family home in half


08-17-05 - SYRIA: Efforts to improve conditions for Palestinian refugees "The greatest of these challenges is improving living conditions for refugees, attaining access to quality free education, and ensuring healthcare and social services for all."


08-17-05 - MIT program bridges Mideast divide


08-17-05 - Palestinian Banners Fuel U.N. Dispute The United Nations is embroiled in a dispute with American Jewish organizations over the funding of Palestinian banners in Gaza, and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Wednesday protested the "unacceptable" payments.


08-17-05 - U.S. Condemns Settler Attack in West Bank


08-17-05 - PM to settlers: Don't hurt troops over disengagement, hurt me As Sharon was speaking, a woman protester stabbed and lightly wounded a woman soldier in Morag settlement, the focus of a tense evacuation of settlers and demonstrators on Wednesday


08-17-05 - Gaza Settlers Push Children to Front Line In the Gaza pullout Wednesday, terrified children were caught in the tug-of-war between settlers and soldiers


08-17-05 - Palestinians mesmerized by scenes from Gaza A quick tour of his home _which faces an Israel tank near the entrance of the Kfar Darom - bears evidence of the daily drama that surrounded the Abu Nifeh family since 2000.


08-17-05 - Abbas calls for serious changes after Israeli withdrawal


08-17-05 - Gaza protester sets herself on fire


08-17-05 - Gaza diary 4: Hakeem Abu Samra


08-17-05 - Mixed Signals On Divestment Front? ?While Democrats are busy making Cindy Sheehan their spokesman and avatar of their views, we see her as yet another example of how critics of Israel within the Democratic Party have taken control of the party?s agenda.?




08-17-05 - Sheehan Reportedly Links Iraq, Israel


08-17-05 - Out of Gaza - and into Jerusalem The feint is an old military trick - the general sends a section of his forces to distract the enemy, so the battalions heading for the real target meet little resistance.


08-17-05 - Jewish terrorist's family: We are ashamed


08-17-05 - Israel expels Gaza Strip settlers


08-17-05 - How Old Friends of Israel Gave $14 Million to Help the Palestinians


08-17-05 - Withdrawal exposes faultlines among Israelis


08-17-05 - Sheehan reportedly made anti-Israel comments


08-17-05 - Failure of SA's homelands should serve as cautionary tale for Israel Like the apartheid government, the Israelis hope that the anger and bloodletting will not be blamed on them but on those left in charge of the territory. But just as ?homeland independence? failed to defuse black anger at apartheid, so angry Palestinians in Gaza ? and the world ? will eventually blame not only the Palestinian Authority but the Israelis.


08-17-05 - One of the Reasons for the War on Iraq Israel is very clearly one of the reasons for the war on Iraq.


08-17-05 - Special Envoy on Disengagement Wolfensohn concludes his fourth visit to the region


08-17-05 - Analysis: 'Goldsteinism' returns with killing of four Palestinians


08-17-05 - 'Peace camp' brings Middle East youth together


08-17-05 - Arab Bank fined $24m for laundering


08-17-05 - Mark Gerban to represent Palestine in the men?s lightweight single at Worlds I am also hoping the push to do this will inspire other Palestinians to pursue their dreams.

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