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Saturday, January 14, 2006


News for 01-13-06

01-13-06 - Army demolishes three houses in Al Khader village A local source in the village reported that the army intends to extend a settlement outpost which was illegally constructed near the houses.


01-13-06 - Hebron Disengagement And Violence Begins; Settlers Attempt to Occupy Palestinian Home


01-13-06 - Bush: Iranian bomb could destroy Israel "I want to remind you that the current president of Iran has announced that the destruction of Israel is an important part of their agenda, and that?s unacceptable," What did Bush say just day's ago about war critics who bring up the Israel issue? . Both Bush and Cheney have admitted that Israel was one of the reasons for the attack on Iraq. Just yesterday Cheney said the war on Iraq was because Saddam supported Palestinian terrorists. Bush is just reiterating what some war critics know to be true: the real reason we are in the Middle East is to make it a safer place for ISRAEL.


01-13-06 - Israel postpones outpost eviction The Amona outpost was built in 1996 on private Palestinian land on a hilltop north of Ramallah. Around 30 families live in caravans on the site. A luxury not afforded Palestinians who have built on their OWN LAND, and still see their homes demolished by the Israeli army.


01-13-06 - More than 800,000 Palestinians Sealed Off in Northern West Bank


01-13-06 - Army obstruct peace procession in Bil'in Some 300 local, Israeli and international protestors attempted to reach an area behind the Separation Wall, in an attempt to reach the location where the settles are attempting to expand Modi'in Elit settlement


01-13-06 - Israel Urges Sanctions Against Iran they warned a military strike led by others against Iranian nuclear facilities may be necessary.



01-13-06 - US envoy backs Palestinian call for east Jerusalem vote "The United States believes that the Palestinians should be able to vote everywhere,"


01-13-06 - US may review Palestinian aid if Hamas gains power


01-13-06 - USA threats after boycott support US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods


01-13-06 - Bolton confronts Annan on Palestine The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations reportedly asked Secretary General Kofi Annan to explain why he posed in front of a map that leaves out Israel. Bolton proves once more that he is ISRAEL'S new ambassador to the UN.


01-13-06 - Sharon fails to show signs of emerging from coma Doctors treating Ariel Sharon are concerned that the Israeli prime minister has failed to show signs of emerging from a coma, despite being taken off anaesthesia.


01-13-06 - Doctors deny Sharon coma concerns


01-13-06 - Sharon's second 'big plan' His "big plan," which led to the war in Lebanon, attempted to solve the demographic problem by turning Jordan into Palestine, deporting the refugees from Lebanon, transferring them from the West Bank, and destroying the Hashemite kingdom. After this plan failed disastrously, Sharon drafted his canton plan, and strove to implement it in every post he filled. For many years he had to resort to underhanded, even illegal means, but he did not tire, and filled the territories with settlements and outposts.



01-13-06 - RJC postpones controversial program The Republican Jewish Coalition postponed a controversial program that included a writer who has called Ariel Sharon "vile."


01-13-06 - MK Bishara: Sharon a war criminal


01-13-06 - Immigrants prefer non-religious status More than half of recent Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel say they have no religion, government data shows.


01-13-06 - Star of Palestinian 'young guard' woos the voters


01-13-06 - Punishment doesn't work For years now, even during the Lebanon War, the IDF held firmly to the working assumption that collective punishment is effective. The basic idea is that if the local population suffers, they will pressure their government to fight terrorism. This has never happened. Israel was greeted by the Shiites in south Lebanon with candies and flowers in 1982; within less than a year the Shiite population there joined the 'resistance' that planted roadside bombs and killed Israeli soldiers for 18 years



01-13-06 - US opposes Palestinian militant groups' participation in Jan. 25 elections


01-13-06 - Hamas warns Israel against banning participation in elections


01-13-06 - Bishops gather in Jerusalem to show suppport for Holy Land


01-13-06 - Students to Host Palestinian Summit


01-13-06 - Galloway goes on Big Brother "for Palestine" Galloway's support for Palestine is the reason why he is reviled by the neocons who have tried to implicate him in the Oil for Food scandal.


01-13-06 - Olmert gears up for visit to Washington


01-13-06 - Bolton Scores U.N. on Stance Toward Israel The American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, upped the ante in an escalating confrontation between America and Turtle Bay on the issue of Israel's place at the world body. In a sharply worded letter to Secretary-General Annan, Mr. Bolton threatened to cut funding to the United Nations if it continues to promote anti-Israel events. Bolton=Israel's new ambassador to the UN.


01-13-06 - Former Columbia Student: Massad's Bullying, Anti-Israel Stance Led Her To Drop Out Thus does the witchhunt at Columbia continue. Massad has been in the crosshairs of pro-Israeli groups, and this time they are going for blood.


01-13-06 - Strategic talks held Israeli and U.S. defense officials held a new round of strategic talks.

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