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Monday, January 16, 2006


News for 01-15-06

01-15-06 - Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank Palestinian witnesses said those killed were a 48-year-old woman and her 20-year-old son. Medics said four other family members were wounded.


01-15-06 - Israeli soldiers kill woman and son


01-15-06 - Three Consecutive Days of Attacks In Tel Rumeida; Baruch Marzel Beats Palestinian Woman a mob of approximately 40 settlers, averaging 15 years of age, attacked a small group of Human Rights Workers kicking, punching and hitting them with sticks. Soldiers did not effectively stop them. Then settlers began to try to kick the door to a Palestinian home. The owner opened the door and the settlers began kicking him and trying to enter his home. One HRW got past the settlers and blocked the door to prevent the settlers from entering the home. Settlers then kicked him violently.


01-15-06 - 6 Palestinian Shops Burned by Colonizers in Hebron Jewish colonizers burned Sunday 6 Palestinian shops in the wholesale market in the old city of Hebron, while the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and Police did not stop or arrest colonizers.



01-15-06 - Special Forces kill mother, her son, near Nablus Lawyer Mohammad Al Halabi, a relative of the family, said that Monjid was night-guarding the family's home after unknown men attacked it and burnt the family's vehicles several days ago.


01-15-06 - The U.S. double standard on rights Eight years ago, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turned 50, B'Tselem, Israel's leading human rights group, reported that Israel was violating 29 of the 30 articles of the declaration in its treatment of Palestinians under Israeli occupation.


01-15-06 - Abramoff Scandal Could End Netanyahu's Likud Takeover Although Netanyahu criticized the Oasis casino as providing funding for Palestinian terrorists, investigators are looking at Netanyahu's involvement in helping to steer $140,000 in tribal casino money away from Abramoff's Capitol Athletic Foundation (CAF) charity in Washington, DC to right-wing West Bank settlers in Beitar Illit on the West Bank so they could buy "security equipment" and sniper lessons


01-15-06 - Army invades village near Jenin


01-15-06 - IDF says may impose closure on Jewish areas in Hebron Following several days of settler unrest in the West Bank city of Hebron that came to an end Sunday evening, senior military sources warned that "if the situation doesn't improve we will have to declare the Jewish neighborhoods in Hebron a closed military zone." That's what they do to the Palestinians for lesser events, and mostly for no reason at all.


01-15-06 - Hamas banned from Jerusalem campaigning Lieutenant Ariel Nussbacher complained that Jewish youths gave him a Nazi salute when he tried to stop them beating up Arabs.


01-15-06 - Hamas determined to fight for election despite arrests


01-15-06 - Abbas not to seek re-election once term ends


01-15-06 - Israel okays Palestinian Jerusalem vote, arrests candidates A total of 10 Hamas members were held by the Israeli police in Jerusalem after the Islamists made good on their vow to defy the ban.


01-15-06 - Israel approves limited vote in East Jerusalem Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally Israel has no legal sovereignty over East Jerusalem.


01-15-06 - Laundering Casino Cash For NeoCon Politicians The pattern that is emerging is that Abramoff and his criminal associates not only used various casinos around the world to enrich themselves but also used them to launder money into right-wing/neo-con political campaign coffers in the United States, Israel, and other countries.


01-15-06 - Mossad works with German passports According to these data Israeli agents camouflage themselves with delicate employments in Middle East crisis areas also with German passports and German legends. At present use the Mossad German travel documents for instance with employments in the Islamic Republic of Iran.


01-15-06 - Ariel Sharon is given tracheotomy


01-15-06 - Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified


01-15-06 - Palestinians' entrepreneurial spirit dimmed by curfews, gun battles and bureaucracy


01-15-06 - Tibi: Israel should not be a Jewish state


01-15-06 - President Abbas Receives Heads of Churches in Holy Land


01-15-06 - Israel can't live with Iran's bomb, and can't stop it If Israel senses a direct threat from the extremist regime in Tehran and feels the need to do so, it can severely punish Iran and cause a significant delay in its military nuclear development project. But I do not believe it can put a complete stop to the project by military means. Undoubtedly, the U.S. has a far greater military capability



01-15-06 - An Invitation for Barak Obama


01-15-06 - Thanks to Birthright Another person returned disgusted by the racial slurs he heard from Jewish Israelis: the language use by these people when they spoke about Arabs was so despicable that if any one spoke about Jews in that manner we would all attack


01-15-06 - Scottish ISM-Activist Deported from Israel It asserted that Macdonald "still refusing to comply with the State of Israel's policy of deporting Human Rights Workers from Palestine, adding that he was carried on to the plane and accompanied by two Police officers on the plane from Tel Aviv to London."


01-15-06 - Rainwater Flows into Prisoners' Rooms in Al Sharon Jail


01-15-06 - Palestine: GDP estimated at $4.45 billion


01-15-06 - Survivors of Sabra and Shatilla massacre still demanding justice


01-15-06 - Powell to speak at Glasgow event The organisation plans to stage a protest to highlight its claims that the Jewish National Fund is detrimental to the Palestinian people both within Israel and worldwide.


01-15-06 - Christian evangelicals waving the Israeli flag Each statement is greeted by thunderous applause. If you didn't know better, you'd think the event was a campaign rally for Israel's hard-line Likud Party. But this night the packed ballroom is at the Altamonte Springs Hilton. And the speaker is the Rev. John Hagee, foremost exponent of "Christian Zionism," who repeatedly brings nearly 1,000 cheering evangelicals to their feet. During the evening, the attendees will open their wallets to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to help buy an ambulance for an Israeli relief agency.

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