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Friday, February 10, 2006
02-09-06 - Two armed Palestinians attack main Gaza-Israel checkpoint Two Palestinians armed with an explosives belt attacked the Erez checkpoint between Israel and Gaza before daybreak Thursday, and were killed in an ensuing shootout with Israeil troops,
02-09-06 - Israeli tanks shell Gaza, killing one, seriously injuring another 35 year old Palestinian citizen Tariq Abu Harbid was killed Thursday when Israeli tanks near Eretz Crossing began shelling indiscriminately in the area.
02-09-06 - Israel: Military Must Account for Killings of Two Children The Israel Defense Forces' top judicial officer should demonstrate his resolve to combat impunity by immediately ordering thorough and effective criminal investigations into the latest shooting deaths of Palestinian children by Israeli forces during policing operations, Human Rights Watch said today.
02-09-06 - Egyptian diplomat seized in Gaza
02-09-06 - Ittijah: 2000 Dunums of Wheat-Cultivated land in al Naqab Exterminated
02-09-06 - US shield blunts Israeli military option on Iran "The decision if and when to act against Iran will be made in the White House, not in the underground headquarters of the (Israeli military command) General Staff."....A senior Israeli official, who asked not to be named, acknowledged that Bush's pledge took bilateral ties to "a new level," but said Israel had not promised anything in return.
02-09-06 - Israelis Won't Stop Dig at Muslim Cemetery A dispute over the fate of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem threatened Wednesday to ignite tensions in Holy City as workers removed skeletons from the site despite Muslim pleas for the work to end.
02-09-06 - Putin says will invite Hamas leaders to Russia Denisov also said Moscow would push for the "rejection of radical views and positions which are inappropriate" and tell Hamas to keep up the "momentum of the peace process."
02-09-06 - Palestinian envoy: Don't demonize Hamas Asked whether his post as Palestinian envoy to Washington was now threatened, Safieh said he believed he would keep his diplomatic position and added that the biggest threat came from the "pro-Israeli" lobby on Capitol Hill.
02-09-06 - Palestinian Corruption Probe Underway Palestinian prosecutors froze bank accounts and seized assets of dozens of suspects in a widening corruption probe of senior government officials believed to have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds, the Palestinian attorney general said.
02-09-06 - Israel Lands Authority plows 2,500 dunams of Bedouin lands Until a year ago, the ILA had routinely sprayed the land to prevent its cultivation, although the High Court of Justice ruled against the spraying policy. A year ago, the ILA switched to a policy of plowing the land before the harvest season to destroy the crops.
02-09-06 - Juggernaut Gathering Momentum: Next Stop, Iran Aside from all that, the Israelis were, and are, confident that their influence in Washington is such as to ensure U.S. support, no matter what. And, as President Bush's rhetoric demonstrates, they are correct in thinking they can, in effect, have their cake and eat it too ? a commitment equivalent to a defense treaty, with no binding undertakings on Israel's part.
02-09-06 - Angry Palestinian youth force international monitoring
02-09-06 - Israeli government budgeted $600,000 in 2005 for Palestinian home demolitions in Jerusalem Ma'er Merghlit, an Israeli activist and member of ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions) revealed Thursday morning that $600,000 USD had been designated in 2005 by the Israeli Municipal Government in Jerusalem for home demolitions.
02-09-06 - Palestinian militants ransack former Gush Katif greenhouses The incidents were accompanied by exchanges of fire between the militias and Palestinian policemen, in which several policemen were wounded.
02-09-06 - Galloway's eBay auction sabotaged Mr Galloway told the BBC News website: "This stupid act means children in the West Bank and Gaza will suffer."
02-09-06 - Congress Differs With Israel, Bush Over Aid to Palestinians The bill, which makes no distinction between the P.A. president and the P.A. Cabinet, enjoys broad support in the House and has been endorsed by Washington's pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The bill goes much further than the demands made by the Bush administration and even by Israel ? including a requirement that the P.A. "publicly acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state."
AIPAC has Congress in their back pocket.
02-09-06 - Palestinian and Israeli nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2006 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace and social justice organization, has nominated two candidates for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize: Ghassan Andoni, ex-director and co-founder of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People, (PCR) from Palestine and Jeff Halper, director and founder of the Israeli Committee against home Demolition (ICAHD) from Israel, for the work they do for peace. You can see physics professor Ghassan Andoni in the People and the Land video off the videos page.
02-09-06 - Israel plays down talk of rift with US "What applied for the Gaza Strip does not apply for the ongoing process which should lead to a final status agreement with the Palestinians," he said. "We want to act within the framework of the roadmap to peace." That's hilarious. That's why the settlement-building in the West Bank and Jerusalem have continued apace since the unveiling of the Road Map?
02-09-06 - Army arrests 17 Palestinians from several areas in the West Bank
02-09-06 - U.S. Jews block conference in which anti-Israel professors participating Pressure exerted by Jewish organizations in the United States has succeeded in preventing an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) conference, in which a number of supporters of an academic boycott on Israel were scheduled to take part.
02-09-06 - U.S. Says Russia Must Stand Firm on Hamas The United States reminded Russia on Thursday that it is on record condemning Hamas' violent tenets, but did not criticize Russia's president for inviting leaders of the militant group to Moscow.
02-09-06 - Israel unveils plan to encircle Palestinian state
02-09-06 - Hamas seeks Arab, Muslim aid amid threats from West
02-09-06 - Hamas joins call for calm in cartoon row
02-09-06 - Architects threaten to boycott Israel over 'apartheid' barrier A group including some of Britain's most prominent architects is considering calling for an economic boycott of Israel's construction industry in protest at the building of Israeli settlements and the separation barrier in the Occupied Territories.
02-09-06 - American Jewish Congress Calls on Latin America Not to Receive Hamas
02-09-06 - U.S.: Hamas Must Accept Israel's Existence
02-09-06 - Pollard appeals to U.S. Supreme Court in latest effort to end his life sentence
02-09-06 - Israel no longer alone in the struggle against Islamic imperialism The partial compensation is that Israel is not alone in dealing with aggressive fundamentalist Islam. It?s now being made tangible to European countries - by the street rioting and the torching of embassies - that their culture and the lives of their citizenry are in real danger. Cui bono - who benefits?
02-09-06 - Italy, Germany eye positive side of Hamas victory in elections
02-09-06 - American Jewish Congress Welcomes AAUP Decision to Postpone Anti-Israel Boycott Conference
02-09-06 - New Basketball Rules in the Middle East
02-09-06 - Jewish Canadians, Loyal Liberals, Lose Insider Status many Jews, especially those on the right, are hopeful that Harper's conservative agenda will prove more responsive to Jewish concerns ? especially on Israel ? than did the policies of the defeated Liberal government.
02-09-06 - CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL Laffey urged Chafee to come out in favor of ending all foreign aid to the Palestinians and criticized the senator's vote against the Syria Accountability Act, a measure that paved the way for American sanctions against Damascus. Laffey also expressed his support for a bill sponsored by Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, which would cut off the $225 million in humanitarian funding sent to the Palestinians through the United States Agency for International Development
02-09-06 - Keeping the Land of Milk and Honey Pollution-free When the Jews of the first aliya arrived in Palestine at the end of the 19th century they found a natural, unblemished landscape. Fast-forward to today and Israel is, ecologically speaking, a mess
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