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Saturday, January 21, 2006


News for 01-20-06

01-20-06 - Developers 'dumping' East J'lem homes on unwitting U.S. Jews Nof Zion is slated to cover some 115 dunams, part of which belonged to Jewish landowners, and part of which the Jerusalem municipality expropriated from several Arab landowners in the Jabel Mukaber area East Jerusalem is Occupied Palestinian Territory: World.


01-20-06 - A Plan to Transfer Arabs of Unrecognized Villages in Negev The Regional Council of the Unrecognized Villages in Negev south of Israel revealed Wednesday that Israeli government plans to transfer Arabs living in those villages into other areas in Israel.



01-20-06 - Thousands Challenge Israeli Apartheid in Bil?in


01-20-06 - On A7radio: Military Attack against Iran Now Imminent US and Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear facilities in less than 10 weeks from now


01-20-06 - Peres: Israel does not intend to withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem


01-20-06 - Security forces to cast first Palestinian ballots


01-20-06 - Most Israelis back unilateral W. Bank pullout: poll


01-20-06 - Human rights poor in Mideast despite reform calls: HRW "Israeli forces carried out "daily arrest raids and military operations in Palestinian areas ... often (failing) to demonstrate it had used all feasible measures to avoid or minimize harm to civilians." Meanwhile, "conditions of lawlessness have increased in parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip" with Palestinian gunmen engaging in armed clashes, vigilante killings and kidnappings of foreigners.



01-20-06 - State Dept. to Iran, Syria: Get in Step Our government takes its cue from Israel, as per usual.


01-20-06 - Hamas gains on Fatah in election opinion poll The ruling Fatah party and the Islamist group Hamas are running neck and neck ahead of elections in the Palestinian territories next week, according to a poll released yesterday.


01-20-06 - Ex-Pentagon Analyst Sentenced to 12 Years The judge also agreed to let Franklin remain free while the government continues with the wider case. His prison time could be sharply reduced in return for his help in prosecuting two former members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Franklin better watch his back. It would appear that this would put him in a rather unfavorable position to say the least.


01-20-06 - Israel breaks up West Bank barrier protest The United Nations' International Court of Justice issued in 2004 a non-binding ruling that parts of the 650-kilometre (410-mile) barrier which criss-crosses the West Bank are illegal and should be torn down.


01-20-06 - Israelis would back attack on Iran nuclear sites: poll


01-20-06 - Israel Blames Iran, Syria for Bombings Coincidently, Israel has called for us to change the regimes in both of those countries after we are finished in Iraq, and these countries are both on the neocon hitlist.


01-20-06 - Settler rams Palestinian youth with car


01-20-06 - DeGioia Defends Palestine Conference Richard Frankel (COL ?08) questioned the university?s decision to allow Georgetown?s Students for Justice for Palestine to host a February conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, a group that some have accused of being anti-Israel.


01-20-06 - Syrian official: Syria not involved in TA bombing Syria "had nothing to do with the operation."


01-20-06 - Palestinian Christians The vast, vast majority of Americans and the vast majority of American Christians know virtually nothing about Palestinian Christians


01-20-06 - Palestinian ambassador asks for SA's help


01-20-06 - Despair Plagues Exiled Palestinians


01-20-06 - EU, PA slam east J'lem vote compromise The main problem, according to Dwaik and confirmed by De Keyser, was the issue of privacy. In previous PA elections, voters did not have a screen or booths set up in the post offices that allowed them to mark their ballots without being observed by Israeli postal or security officials.


01-20-06 - McCloskey takes challenge to run against Pombo In the past two decades, he has become a critic of pro-Israeli U.S. policies and visited the late Palestinian leader, Yassar Arafat


01-20-06 - The soldier knows what he's saying


01-20-06 - Hebron Reflection "Shabbat shalom", I greet the worshippers.
Some have learned to recognise my red hat
the mark of a Christian Peacemaker in Hebron,
and they spit at me
and they curse me as a Nazi. And it hurts.


01-20-06 - German FM: Israeli nukes don?t justify Iran


01-20-06 - Danish T-shirts 'to fund rebels' The T-shirts have as logos the initials of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).


01-20-06 - Siniora to ask for Arab help on Palestinian weapons issue Lebanon's Premier Fouad Siniora is set to send a letter to Arab states "soon" urging them to exert pressure on the Palestinians in order to put an end to Palestinian weapons outside refugee camps.



01-20-06 - U.S. to push for Hizbullah disarmament The United States is set on Monday to present to the United Nations Security Council a draft resolution calling on Lebanon to implement a past resolution demanding Hizbullah and other militias be disarmed.
Yet, no one asks Israel to implement the numerous UN resolutions that it is in violation of.


01-20-06 - Hamas leader says Oslo agreement expires long time ago


01-20-06 - Jaffa: Divided it fell In late May 1948 the Israeli government formed a Transfer Committee to prevent the return of the refugees, and settle new Jewish olim, immigrants, in their abandoned houses, starting in Haifa and Jaffa. The few Arabs who remained were to be relocated from their homes. The Emergency Committee's protest memorandum was ignored. When the time came Israeli soldiers simply threw the Arabs out of their homes. Even the Emergency Committee was expelled from its offices.


01-20-06 - Sinn Fein to meet Palestinian envoy


01-20-06 - Palestinian Conference Will Promote Peace For the record, the PSM is an entirely grassroots organization, which advocates non-violent methods to arrive at a just peace in accordance with international law. Any attempts to blacken the movements with such absurd charges as terrorism is a saddening reminder of the prejudices that remain on this campus.....the irony here is that Levinson himself is a racist who?s written that "Israel should expel the two-legged locusts and annex all the occupied territory. To hell with these vermin."


01-20-06 - Hundreds attend funeral for Israeli Arab Hundreds attended the funeral of an Israeli Arab killed by Israeli police


01-20-06 - Tens of thousands join Hamas rallies


01-20-06 - Activists: Museum should acknowledge Arab anti-Semitism The fledgling organization, "Holocaust Museum Watch," believe the government-funded museum should present an exhibit to highlight Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism, both No mention of the anti-Semitism by Israelis though.


01-20-06 - Syria supports Iran in standoff with West Ha'aretz reports that Russia rejected a proposal put forward by Israel this week to place immediate sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to abandon its nuclear program.


01-20-06 - Pentagon man jailed over spying It has made American officials more sensitive than ever about what they say on the subject of foreign policy and to whom they say it, and it has raised the question of just how much Israel conducts espionage against its greatest ally, the US, our correspondent adds.


01-20-06 - Israeli Group calls the wall land robbery, calls for protest in Bil'in


01-20-06 - East Jerusalem vote for minority Just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem will be allowed to vote in Palestinian elections this month.


01-20-06 - Film Award Is A Global Issue With the Middle East on the verge of explosion in recent months, it was an unwise decision to reward a one-sided film as a major achievement. We'll see if the same assessment is given if Spielberg's Munich receives an Oscar. Doubtful.


01-20-06 - Racism, anti-Semitism drop in France


01-20-06 - Defending 'Munich's' disputed territory


01-20-06 - ?We Are Citizens of This Country? You know, you do a great job bringing a human face to those in the Middle East, thereby undoing some of the harsh depictions that are routinely put forth in the mainstream American media.
Posted by dirtyharriet0 on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 9:47 PM ET
Vanity op :) My comment was chosen.


01-20-06 - Brandeis University Faces Threat Of Boycott Over Palestinian Scholar it has succeeded upending nominations and appointments of people whom it finds objectionable.



01-20-06 - Israel shuns Paradise Now

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