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Friday, October 07, 2005
10-06-05 - Israeli high court bans use of 'human shields' Israeli troops conducting raids against wanted militants have used Palestinian non-combatants to knock on doors or enter homes of suspects. In several cases, the practice resulted in injury or death of the human shields. Soldiers still used them despite the practice being barred under high court injunction. "I can attest that dozens of times after the High Court decision, we still used Palestinians as human shields, out of habit."
10-06-05 - Israel bans use of human shields Adallah submitted an affidavit by one Israeli reservist who said: "No civilian would refuse a 'request' presented to him at 0300 by a group of soldiers aiming their cocked rifles at him."
10-06-05 - Two settlers indicted of Abducting two Arab youth from the Negev The incident took place last year; the two settlers abducted and attacked two Palestinian residents, severely punched and clubbed them, and threatened to kill them.
10-06-05 - PA Officer Critically Wounded in Attempted Abduction
10-06-05 - Egypt Warns Hamas Over Weapons
10-06-05 - World Bank advocates sunken road from Gaza to West Bank The study was initiated by the World Bank, which asked for American sponsorship to moderate Israel's anticipated objection to its conclusions
10-06-05 - Testimony: Soldiers beat Palestinian at Nablus checkpoint Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers severely beat a Palestinian man at the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus on Tuesday while their female colleagues egged them on, according to a Machsom Watch activist who witnessed the incident.
10-06-05 - Israeli use of 'human shields' is judged illegal The Knesset member Zahava Gal-On of the left-wing Meretz-Yahad party said the court had ruled that "an army in a democratic state cannot act like terror gangs".
Interestingly enough, the terror gangs the Irgun and Stern of Palestine (pre-Israel) were infused into the Israeli army.
10-06-05 - Palestinian university professor kidnapped from West Bank home by gunmen
10-06-05 - Palestinian Rights Panel Concern Over Settlements
10-06-05 - Schoolgirls barred from reaching school in Hebron
10-06-05 - Israel starts building security zone around Gaza: sources Witnesses said since late Wednesday, Israeli army bulldozers has begun razing lands near the villages of al-Garara, Abbassan and Khoza, east of the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis near the borders with Israel.
10-06-05 - EU announces strategy to help build Palestinian state
10-06-05 - Palestinians want results from Mideast summit: Erakat
10-06-05 - Abbas to hit Sharon with demands at Mideast summit Abbas also said he would demand that Sharon halt settlement activity and the building of the controversial security barrier in the West Bank.
10-06-05 - Nine Human Rights Organizations Petition the High Court of Justice: Law Preventing Palestinians from Claiming Compensation from the State of Israel isUnconstitutional and Thus Void
10-06-05 - Urgent Appeal - End Closures of the Gaza Strip Press Release: Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
10-06-05 - Female Prisoner Narrates Details of Israeli Oppression in 'Talmond' Jail
10-06-05 - Palestinians lose 10 million dollars due to Israeli seal of Gaza
10-06-05 - A class divided: Israeli wall runs straight through the playground PALESTINIAN children returned to their school after the weekend to find that a 24ft concrete wall had been built through the playground, leaving the classrooms on one side and the football pitch and volleyball court on the other.
10-06-05 - Palestinian PM urged to reshuffle cabinet or face no-confidence vote
10-06-05 - PA: We won't oppose Arab-Israel peace Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidwa says, 'Palestinian Authority will respect the decision of Arab countries if they choose to have relations with Israel, even if those decisions are not in Palestinians' interests'
10-06-05 - Wiretap At Heart Of AIPAC Case AIPAC employees sign an agreement that protects them from legal harm until all appeals are exhausted, according to a source close to the defense of Rosen and Weissman who has firsthand knowledge of the clause.
Why is this necessary in the first place? Does AIPAC routinely knowingly engage in the violation of American laws?
10-06-05 - Egypt Shakes Its Finger; Lulavs to Suffer for It "We've got everybody on the case, and I told them to shake a leg," Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) said, pun intended. What happened to the separation of Church and State?
10-06-05 - THE SITUATION: Arabs Protest as Probe of Deaths Is Dropped Shviro himself acknowledged in a television interview this week that some key pieces of evidence in the 2000 shootings may have been withheld from his investigators by officers seeking to protect their colleagues. But he defended his decision not to bring charges given the lack of evidence
10-06-05 - What happens to Palestinians at the checkpoints
10-06-05 - MK: Zim's conduct in boat crash damaged Israel's reputation MK Ehud Rassabi, blasted Zim's conduct in the affair. Its initial denial of any involvement in the incident, without checking the facts, Rassabi said, caused damage to Israel's diplomatic standing and reputation in Japan.
10-06-05 - Palestinians want high tech too Palestinian high tech is trying to recover from the years of the intifada, and copy Israel?s success. But Palestinian high tech suffers from a lack of investment in large ventures.
10-06-05 - Middle East focus: Counter attack Chiefs of police from the US and other western countries have travelled with the Police Executive Research Forum for a week-long counter-terrorism course run by Israeli officers familiar with confronting Palestinian suicide bombers Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror
10-06-05 - Soccer Coaches Training Programme in Ramallah
10-06-05 - Anti-semitism warning from Chief Rabbi
10-06-05 - Religion news in brief An investment panel of the Episcopal Church has recommended against divesting from companies that profit from Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories.
10-06-05 - Palestinian rights committee approves annual report, forwards recommendations on Middle East peace process to General Assembly
10-06-05 - Norwegian says she infiltrated Mossad According to the Norwegian media, the book by state television NRK Middle East correspondent Odd Karsten Tveit identifies Linstad as a former Mossad agent but does not address any role as a double agent
10-06-05 - Beyond Chutzpah Book Review This thorough debunking of The Case for Israel perhaps gives some insight into why Dershowitz tried so hard to prevent Beyond Chutzpah's publication: it isn't just the book that's debunked, but Dershowitz himself.
10-06-05 - The Zoo comes to Blenheim Mr Campbell's documentary The Zoo tells the story of the difficulties a Palestinian zoo veterinarian faces trying to pick up a pair of baboons
10-06-05 - EU meeting with Hezbollah arouses Israel?s protest
10-06-05 - AIPAC's Shifting Message AIPAC is the leading and one of the most respected advocates on behalf of Israel in Washington AIPAC must register is a foreign agent.
10-06-05 - Israeli firepower and fences won't stop Palestinian sewage
10-06-05 - Teacher Class on Mideast Stirs Doubt Armbruster, a volunteer with the Friends Committee?s Middle East Peace Education Program, said that the Quaker organization ?strives for a better understanding of both the Palestinian and Israeli viewpoints, but it tends to delve more deeply into Palestinian issues and the problems they face? ? especially in light of a widespread presumption that the Israeli side gets more favorable exposure, thanks to strong Jewish advocacy. Where is the ADL when there is PRO-ISRAELI bias in the classroom? Nowhere to be found.
10-06-05 - No dancing and no gays if Hamas gets its way
10-06-05 - OPT: U.S. program brings Internet access to schools in need Palestinian, Bangladeshi teachers travel to U.S. for computer training
10-06-05 - Israel offers "voluntary deportation" instead of administrative detention
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