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Tuesday, February 14, 2006
02-13-06 - Israel 'has annexed Jordan Valley and shut out Palestinians' A 25-year-old Palestinian woman, Nafia Abu Musaed, died in hospital yesterday after being shot in the chest by Israeli troops near the Gaza border fence. IDF sources said that the soldiers involved had identified "movement of suspicious figures" 50 metres from the fence when the shots were fired. Palestinians sources said the woman was several hundred metres from the barrier.
02-13-06 - U.S. and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster The intention is to starve the Palestinian Authority of money and international connections to the point where, some months from now, its president, Mahmoud Abbas, is compelled to call a new election. The hope is that Palestinians will be so unhappy with life under Hamas that they will return to office a reformed and chastened Fatah movement. Wow. Just when you thought that they couldn't go any lower... Starving them (some more) for wanting a less corrupt government, and jobs so that they can feed their families.
02-13-06 - Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian woman Nayfa Abu Imsaa'id, 25, and her friend were tending to some goats in an an area just east of the central Gaza town of Dair al-Balah on Monday when she was killed, family members told Aljazeera.net.
02-13-06 - Israel excludes Palestinians from fertile valley Israel has effectively annexed the Jordan Valley - about a third of the occupied West Bank - by barring almost all Palestinians from entering the region, a respected Israeli human rights group said yesterday.
02-13-06 - Israeli Settlers in Palestine attack Children, deface Mosque 10 year old Ahmed al-Haddad was attacked Monday by eight adult Israeli settlers in Hebron who chased him down, hitting him with stones until he fell off a wall.
02-13-06 - Hebron Update: January 30-February 5, 2006 Men
from the four families still living in the area told stories of
settler abuse. Settlers attacked their houses at night, threatened to
shoot the families and poisoned all of the four wells used to water
their flocks of goats.
02-13-06 - Hamas will end armed struggle if Israel quits occupied territories: leader However, Meshaal added in his latest comments that Hamas did not feel bound by the international Middle East roadmap for peace since, in his view, no one else was abiding by it.
02-13-06 - Fixing borders is Israel's top priority: Olmert His latest comments come despite a warning by the United States against any Israeli move to annex parts of the West Bank The last time a nation attempted to 'fix its own borders' was in 1991 when Saddam Hussein invaded Quwait. He was beaten back out of there - rightly so. Land taken by force is inadmissible: international law.
02-13-06 - Palestinian Parliament Strengthens Abbas The Palestinian parliament used its final session Monday to give President Mahmoud Abbas broad new powers, infuriating Hamas days before the Islamic group takes control of a suddenly weakened legislature.
02-13-06 - Little tolerance evident in museum, critics say
02-13-06 - Palestinians condemn Israeli plans to strike Palestinian power company A Palestinian power company official said Saturday he was extremely anxious about reports on Israel's plans to strike the infrastructure in areas under the Palestinian Authority and to destroy the power generation plant in Gaza.
02-13-06 - Israel cuts Jordan Rift from rest of West Bank Israel completed another cut-off process, which went unnoticed; In 2005, Israel completed a process of sealing off the eastern sector of the West Bank, including the Jordan Rift Valley, from the remainder of the West Bank. Some 2,000,000 Palestinians, residents of the West Bank, are prohibited from entering the area
02-13-06 - Army uproots hundreds of Olive trees near Ramallah Sunday night, Israeli Army uprooted hundreds of Olive Trees from lands owned by the Palestinian citizens in the western side of the West Bank village of Seera west of Ramallah.
02-13-06 - Greenhouses looted in economic blow to Gaza The looting began when gunmen from a militia hired to protect the greenhouses abandoned their posts early this month because they had not been paid,
02-13-06 - Japan meets with Arab women on aid The representatives of women's organizations in Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian territories are on a weeklong visit that will address literacy campaigns, education and vocational training, the foreign ministry said.
02-13-06 - Seeds of Peace camp hopes to have Palestinian delegations
02-13-06 - Israel plays up Hamas links to Chechen separatists "It is widely known that Hamas does not intervene in the internal affairs of other sovereign countries," said group spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. "Attempts by Israel to isolate Hamas internationally, politically and economically have failed." Next, Russia will play up Israel's links to Hamas..
02-13-06 - Family says it was targeted because of Arab descent Federal authorities had charged the brothers and others with conspiring to sell thousands of dollars worth of drugs. Then last month prosecutors unexpectedly asked a judge to drop the charges without explanation and without apology.
02-13-06 - Germany backs Israeli conditions for Hamas talks "Europeans will not negotiate with Hamas right now as it is on the terrorist blacklist. It is just not possible," said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier after meeting with Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
02-13-06 - Venezuela Would Welcome Hamas Leaders Venezuela's vice president said Monday his country would welcome leaders from Hamas "with pleasure" if they visit the country as part of a South American tour following their victory in Palestinian elections
02-13-06 - Soldiers, olive trees, and Santa Claus In a large show of force, over twenty Israeli soldiers declared
the whole area a closed military zone, and ordered everyone to leave,
preventing Israelis and Palestinians from planting olive trees together.
Somehow, the Israeli military saw those olive trees as some kind of threat.
02-13-06 - Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East to Hold Press Conference in Washington Feb. 17 to warn churches not to embrace the anti-Israel message promoted by the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM). The PSM is hosting a Divestment Conference at Georgetown University this weekend. (Yet) another pro-Israeli spin campaign is launched. The PSM really scare these folks. Good!
02-13-06 - Norway reopens West Bank office
02-13-06 - Report: 350,000 Israelis live in NY
02-13-06 - U.S. support has allowed Israel to violate Palestinian rights repeatedly
02-13-06 - Palestinian Film Professionals Question Euromed Funding Initiative in Open Letter
02-13-06 - Army radio poll: ?50% of the Israelis oppose further withdrawal from W. Bank?
02-13-06 - Putin the Peacemaker One has to wonder, however, why he would bring up the subject of Chechnya in this context. Especially since Israel's amen corner in the U.S. is so overtly sympathetic to the Chechen cause, as evidenced by the endorsers of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, including such neoconservative superstars as Jim Woolsey, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, and the omnipresent Michael Ledeen
02-13-06 - Hamas rounds up weapons in northern Gaza Strip
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