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Saturday, August 27, 2005


News for 08-26-05

08-26-05 - USS Liberty Veterans Present Pentagon With Report on Israeli War Crimes As survivors watched the 90-year-old mother of one fallen hero and the sister of another lay a wreath at the grave marker where 11 crew members are buried, these men, and the women who love them, silently vowed to keep fighting until the murders and the subsequent cover-up are explained


08-26-05 - IDF soldiers attack Peaceful Demonstration with Rubber Bullets There were 4 wounded including a 61 year old peace activist
from Los Angeles, USA, who was injured by a tear gas cannister,
and required hospital treatment, her condition is not
considered to be critical


08-26-05 - 40 wounded in Anti-Wall demonstration in Bil'in


08-26-05 - PM ordered E-1 police HQ built two months ago According to political sources in Jerusalem, two months ago, Sharon ordered that plans for the police station be separated from the plans to build two new residential neighborhoods, which were frozen due to American objections


08-26-05 - US calls for restraint after Israelis kill five Palestinians While insisting that a better flow of information would probably not have prevented the killings in Shfaram, the report said that information about the extremist Eden Natan Zada had not been "analysed correctly". The killer's desertion with an M-16 rifle was not fully reported by the army to the intelligence agency Shin Bet


08-26-05 - Israeli guard stabbed in Hebron Israeli police arrested the Palestinian man, who stabbed the policeman while being searched at a checkpoint.


08-26-05 - Israeli soldiers "focused laser lights on the faces of the people and started shooting randomly"


08-26-05 - Israelis favor evacuating more settlements


08-26-05 - UNCTAD: ?One-third of the Palestinians are unemployed?


08-26-05 - Israel boosts W.Bank settlers while quitting Gaza Thousands of Israelis have streamed into larger West Bank settlements since the start of the year, increasing the number of Jews living on occupied land to 246,000...."Israel's insistence on expanding settlements represents a declaration of war against the Palestinians because it aims to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state by reinforcing and prolonging occupation,"


08-26-05 - Soldiers, Anguish Remain Around Evacuated West Bank Settlements "The settlers have cut our access to our fields, they have burned our crops and olive trees," she said, pointing to charred and truncated stumps. "They think if they destroy our crops they can make us leave."


08-26-05 - Palestinians fight move to declare Gaza occupation over "Gaza will remain under the control of the occupier, who will continue to weigh heavily on our lives through control of border crossings, air space and territorial waters,"


08-26-05 - Israel seeks control of Gaza borders post-pullout


08-26-05 - Realism in Washington? Don't Hold Your Breath


08-26-05 - Israeli pullout may be 'prelude to the big battle'


08-26-05 - Marking the Palestinian Presence at the Heart of the Israeli State A few kilometers outside Nazareth, on the road to Haifa, 1940s Mujaydil was a farming village with around two thousand Muslim and Christian inhabitants. But like hundreds of villages across Palestine, this peace was brutally interrupted by Israeli occupation. In July 1948 villagers were forced to flee their homes and lands. Hundreds came to nearby Nazareth hoping that the international Christian profile of the town would prevent Israeli forces from exiling its inhabitants, as happened in other towns.


08-26-05 - Snapshots From Palestine The following day, when we told our friends who live in Hebron what had happened, they said, "Settlers." Nothing unusual or extraordinary, just the usual Saturday night settler activity. Welcome to Hebron. Welcome to the occupation by night.


08-26-05 - US experts see revival of Mideast talks taking months


08-26-05 - World view - Lindsey Hilsum on youthful extremes Most Israelis watched in disgust as the hilltop teenagers flouted the law and cursed Israeli soldiers, but their parents encourage them. This is the vanguard of a new generation of extremists with no regard for the institutions of their own state, let alone for the Palestinians.


08-26-05 - In the wake of the Gaza disengagement Enforce ban on settlements Disengagement has been touted as a bold step for peace. Yet it is increasingly apparent that Gaza withdrawal is but one side of a two-faced strategy. The other side is increasing Jewish settlement of the West Bank, including Jerusalem


08-26-05 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2005 MR. BUCHANAN: What radicalized these kids? This is the point. The horrible situation in Gaza is in part because the Israelis came in. They colonized the place. They brought in those settlements. One-third of the land they took for -- Another interesting episode of The McLaughlin Group.


08-26-05 - Real Surprise In Gaza Yet To Come For Palestinians, the Gaza pullout is a little like a settler shell game. The settlers have disappeared from one place, only to pop up somewhere else. And Israel still controls Gaza?s land and sea crossings. In the eyes of the armed Palestinians, that?s plenty reason to keep fighting.



08-26-05 - Report blames Lebanon for Palestinian refugees' plight


08-26-05 - Ambassador Bolton Praised for Effective Action against U.N. Funding of Palestinian Propaganda Neocon Bolton pleases his American Jewish Congress


08-26-05 - Israeli Source: Former PA official offers help discover Israeli MIA's fate


08-26-05 - Lutherans Jump On Divestment "There's absolutely nothing in the resolution but support and appreciation for Israel's need for security," he said. "Our concern with the wall is the placement of the wall."


08-26-05 - Sheikh calls for revolt, Jewish activist wants Arabs expelled A Tel Aviv couple arrested today admitted to placing the pig in the mosque in hopes, they said, of instigating area Muslims to riot in order to derail the Gaza evacuation plan


08-26-05 - Video: Balata Youth Drama and Dance Group Tours the UK YCC's director said: "The Irish were more 'Palestinian' than we were!"


08-26-05 - EU welcomes Israeli disengagement from Gaza


08-26-05 - Sharon settles row with Vatican


08-26-05 - Israeli, Arab youths reunited at U.S. peace camp

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