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Saturday, November 19, 2005


News for 11-18-05

11-18-05 - IDF kills Palestinian in Hebron area Earlier, IDF troops shot at a 17-year-old Palestinian in a village north of Ramallah after the boy appeared to shoot in the air using a handgun. Later it turned out the teen was using a toy gun.


11-18-05 - Israel invites tenders for new settler homes Israel has invited tenders for the construction of new homes and infrastructure in two of the largest Jewish settlements in the West Bank It has been made abundantly clear: the only peace Israel wants is the peace with which it can continue to seize and 'settle' Palestinian land - and drive the Palestinians off of it.


11-18-05 - Arab football star may join Israel's most racist club


11-18-05 - Index ranks Middle East freedom Lebanon is free in a very particular sense: it is no longer under military occupation. Most Palestinians do not enjoy that freedom, and yet they have just had local elections and are preparing for parliamentary ones in January, our correspondent says



11-18-05 - House votes to cut $700 mln in food stamps Aid to Israel will flow uninterrupted though: "Pro-Israeli sources were encouraged by the fact that legislators have not asked for across-the-board cuts in foreign aid to help finance recovery efforts in New Orleans and elsewhere" US, Israel resume talks on $1.2b special aid package


11-18-05 - Palestinians Postpone Planned Primaries


11-18-05 - Zarqawi: Jordan bombings targeted Israelis The terrorists who struck Amman?s Radisson Hotel last week were targeting Israeli intelligence officials, terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi said. Which is why those bombs killed many Palestinians including a PALESTINIAN intelligence official, as well as three other Palestinian Authority officials?


11-18-05 - Syria sees Peretz selection as positive: Arab Israeli MP


11-18-05 - A week after Issawiya clashes, Jerusalem hospital firebombed An autopsy on 36-year-old Samir Ribhi Dari at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine revealed he had been shot in the back, which contradicted claims by Border Police officers that Dari had been shot after trying to run over an officer.



11-18-05 - Vanunu held after West Bank visit Israel insists Mr Vanunu - who has converted to Christianity - still poses a security threat.


11-18-05 - Palestinians Retiring Entrenched Diplomats


11-18-05 - Pope to receive Palestinian, Polish presidents in December


11-18-05 - Heated debate on Palestinian disarmament at AUB


11-18-05 - Israel violates peace roadmap; construction on in West Bank


11-18-05 - Al-Zarqawi Tape Threatens Jordan's King He said he was targeting Jordan because it is serving as a "protector" for Israel, helps the U.S. military in Iraq and has become a "swamp of obscenity," with alcohol and prostitution in its tourist sites


11-18-05 - China to invest in Israel complex


11-18-05 - New Pew Poll Reveals Growing Isolationist Trend and View that U.S. Support for Israel Contributes to a Decline of Global Image Just 39% of the public believes that U.S. support for Israel is a major factor that causes the nation's global image to suffer. 52% of the public cited the issue as only a minor factor.

A testament to the pro-Israel lobby's success in making sure that there is little if any negative coverage of Israel in our mainstream media.


11-18-05 - RAND Presents Plan for Palestinian State at Middle East Institute Conference the RAND plan hinges on their full withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories


11-18-05 - Regents hear from divestment group close to 100 people came to speak in support of divestment from Israel and re-investment in socially responsible companies


11-18-05 - Off-key in a chorus Turner stuck to his position yesterday. He repeatedly came back to the idea that the United States, as Israel's benefactor, has a duty to speak out about the treatment of Palestinians.


11-18-05 - Jews must stand by Jews ? including the marginalized JDL The JDL is listed as a 'proscribed terrorist group' by the FBI. Two of its members plotted to bomb mosques and the office of a Congressman, among other things.


11-18-05 - Russia's Putin sees second Black Sea gas pipeline "Blue Stream gives us an opportunity for shipping gas to other third countries... There is the opportunity for building new oil and gas transport systems delivering to southern Italy, to the south of Europe as a whole and to Israel," Putin said.


11-18-05 - Commission looks at campus anti-Semitism A federal commission resisted Jewish groups? call for governmental oversight of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses...commissioners acknowledged the problem and said they would consider an investigation. Pro-Palestinian activism will fall under the definition of 'anti-Semitism', I'm guessing. That's what this is all about; too many college kids are getting the truth, and the pro-Israelis do not like it.


11-18-05 - Gunners use football for peace


11-18-05 - Embassy blasts Palestinian week The Israeli Embassy in Ireland complained to Trinity College in Dublin about a ?Palestinian Awareness Week? on campus


11-18-05 - Committee: Treat Israel fairly A powerful congressional committee passed a resolution calling on the United Nations to treat Israel more fairly. More legislation for Israel.


11-18-05 - AGREEMENT OPENS BORDERS IN GAZA STRIP An agreement on Tuesday between Israel and the Palestinian Authority gave Palestinians control over border crossings in the Gaza Strip. Paul Wolfensohn, the U.N. special envoy, explains the deal.


11-18-05 - Dear Hillary Clinton: Yes, It Takes a Global Village, But Minus Physical and Mental Walls


11-18-05 - Two newspapers try to make difference in post 9-11 world


11-18-05 - Time to take Palestinian opinion seriously As Amira Hass noted in Ha?aretz, the Israeli daily, an IDF soldier at a remote checkpoint has more to say about critical issues affecting Palestinians than does Mr Abbas.


11-18-05 - Border agreement is just a small step


11-18-05 - Politics & Policies:Jerusalem's other wall


11-18-05 - U.S.: Iran threat a disqualifier Iran?s threat to destroy Israel disqualifies it from achieving nuclear-weapons capability, a senior U.S. official said.


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