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Wednesday, January 11, 2006


News for 01-10-06

01-10-06 - Security chief sees inaction in olive-tree attacks the chief of the Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, said there had been advance warning that radical settlers might carry out the attacks. The Shin Bet passed the information to the police and army forces in the West Bank, but it was greeted by "eye-rolling" and inaction, he said.


01-10-06 - Reflection: When reality becomes stranger than my dreams As we approached the women sitting by the 102 olive trees that settlers
cut the night before, I saw the tears rolling down her face as she stared
ahead. We were coming to pay our respects, it was a funeral, a graveyard
where the 30 year old trees were slaughtered


01-10-06 - Doctors Say Sharon Out of Immediate Danger Doctors reported progress Tuesday by Ariel Sharon, saying the Israeli leader moved his left hand and appeared to respond to his sons' voices in new signs of recovery from a massive stroke


01-10-06 - Israeli Cabinet to Decide Palestinian Vote Israeli officials gave conflicting accounts as to whether the proposal would pass


01-10-06 - US says it has no position on east Jerusalem vote


01-10-06 - Giant settlement confident it will flourish without Sharon Peace Now statistics show that ever year Israel confiscates several thousand square metres of West Bank land. The barrier's new route will seize another seven percent of occupied land which is home to some 10,000 Palestinians.


01-10-06 - Eid of misery and mourning in Gaza City In Gaza, the traditional ritual sacrifice for the Muslim feast is rare. More than 70 percent of Palestinians in the narrow territory hemmed in by Egypt, Israel and the Mediterranean live on less than two dollars a day


01-10-06 - Bush to Democrats: Don't Slam Iraq Policy he termed irresponsible the "partisan critics who claim that we acted in Iraq because of oil or because of Israel or because we misled the American people," as well as "defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right." With that description, Bush lumped the many Democrats who have accused him of twisting prewar intelligence with the few people, mostly outside the mainstream, who have raised the issues of oil and Israel


01-10-06 - Continuing the Eastern Wall: Aqraba left isolated from lands after fresh land confiscation


01-10-06 - Peretz backs ceding Jerusalem areas "We should consider giving up some Palestinian villages, and even neighborhoods" in and around the capital, Amir Peretz told Israel Radio on Tuesday, saying this would ensure "absorbing as few Palestinians as possible into Israeli territory and preserving Jerusalem's Jewish character."




01-10-06 - As Abramoff case plays out, his Jewish ties come to fore Reading the indictment against Jack Abramoff, one might not know that he was prominent in Washington Jewish circles. But in coming months, his ties with Jewish and Israeli organizations may play a large role in the web of illegal activity to which the lobbyist has pled guilty.


01-10-06 - World Bank official: Palestinians on verge of bankruptcy


01-10-06 - Palestine: The Price of Non Violence The Israeli Military has been distributing leaflets in Bil'in threatening the residents not to demonstrate against the annexation barrier. When despite these threats the villagers continue with their non-violent protests the military raids the village during the night taking villagers from their homes. Seventeen villagers who have been taken this way are being held in Israeli detention.


01-10-06 - Settlers uprooted 2400 olive trees in three years Yesh Din and B'Tselem Israeli human rights organizations reported that settlers have uprooted over the past three years 2400 olive trees during repeated attacks against Palestinian orchards in the West Bank.
The Israeli police in the north of the Wets Bank reported that settlers uprooted 773 olive trees last year. That's UPROOTED, not PRUNED.


01-10-06 - Non Violent protector against the Wall tried at Israeli Court


01-10-06 - Abramoff Corruption Scandal: Will more probes follow? He has strong and extensive ties with Jewish settlers in illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank


01-10-06 - ADL Troubled by United Church of Christ's Embrace of Radicalized Palestinian Christian Group All must grovel at the altar of Israel, or risk defamation.


01-10-06 - Might the Arabs Have a Point? by Patrick J. Buchanan Though per capita income in Israel is probably 20 times that of the Palestinians, Israel gets the lion?s share of economic aid. And though they have flipped off half a dozen presidents to plant half a million settlers in Arab East Jerusalem and the West Bank, have we ever imposed a single sanction on Israel? Has Bush ever raised his voice to Ariel Sharon? And when you listen to the talking heads and read the columns of the neocon press, is it unfair to conclude that, yes, they would like to dump over every regime that defies Bush or Sharon?


01-10-06 - Army bars Qalqilia residents from entering villages isolated behind Wall


01-10-06 - Pope urges cuts in spending on arms to feed poor "There, the State of Israel has to be able to exist peacefully in conformity with the norms of international law; there, equally, the Palestinian people has to be able to develop serenely its own democratic institutions for a free and prosperous future," he said.



01-10-06 - U.S. Renews Support for Palestinian State Yet we do absolutely nothing about the ongoing construction of illegal settlements in the W. Bank and Jerusalem or about the illegal construction of the wall on Palestinian land.


01-10-06 - Hamas runs TV station from secret location


01-10-06 - 'Red Ken' not going to Jewish party He also is fiercely critical of Israel, has called Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a war criminal and courted an Egyptian cleric who is openly anti-Zionist.


01-10-06 - Spy suspect says charges are false Acting as his own lawyer, Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, 53, told a jury of seven women and five men that he never met in 2002 with Iraqi intelligence agents while Saddam Hussein ruled that Arab nation.


01-10-06 - Israeli-Muslim population on the rise


01-10-06 - Absent Sharon, the US should keep the peace process moving Reagan phoned Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin demanding that he stop the bombardment at once. A follow-up cable said the "incomprehensible and unacceptable" Israeli provocation threatened the "entire future" of US-Israeli relations.


01-10-06 - Modern Activism: Palo Dutch Concept Factory In February 2005 he visited Palestine. He has been deeply touched and moved by what he saw and became motivated to contribute to advocate for Palestine


01-10-06 - Poll: French see Sharon as war criminal Nearly 58 percent of French voters in an online poll said they consider Ariel Sharon a war criminal.



01-10-06 - Book on Palestinian wedding songs recalls village life


01-10-06 - Settler council claims film clip shows Palestinians cut their own olive trees What the council failed to state was that the footage had been filmed by a security head of one of the settlements in the region two years ago. THe problem with this footage is that the trees in the orchards in question have been CUT DOWN ENTIRELY, not just PRUNED. But this fact will be outright ignored by pro-Israelis in our media.


01-10-06 - Hamas money laundering network busted


01-10-06 - Al Qaeda Moving Closer to Major Attack on Israel, Expert Says In general, the policy and strategy of al Qaeda is eventually to carry out attacks against Israel. "It's a matter of time. Now it's closer than before," said Dr. Yoram Kahati of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center near Tel Aviv.


01-10-06 - Spielberg loses out at the push of a button

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