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Thursday, March 02, 2006


News for 03-01-06

03-01-06 - Israeli shot dead by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank


03-01-06 - Jihad leader killed in Gaza blast


03-01-06 - Remembering Rachel Corrie


03-01-06 - Accidental explosion rocks Gaza The accidental explosion of a container of road tar caused panic in Gaza City


03-01-06 - Palestinians will lose essential services, says UN The report says that there has already been a "sharp deterioration" in humanitarian aid because of increased security measures by Israel since Hamas's election victory.


03-01-06 - First AIPAC Test In Years Looming In PA Aid Fight Ros-Lehtinen has indicated she will press ahead with her tougher bill that goes beyond even what the government of Israel is seeking in dealing with the PA. And AIPAC delegates will press right along with her, setting the stage for what could be the first real fight for the pro-Israel lobby group since the 1992 debacle over loan guarantees to Israel.
Are you nauseous yet from the level of control a foreign nation has over our government? You should be. Our lawmakers fall over themselves to please their AIPAC masters.


03-01-06 - Food stocks dwindling in Gaza, say UN officials


03-01-06 - Abbas urges to protect Palestinians in Baghdad


03-01-06 - Fears of new Israeli settlement as wall completed around Bethlehem The wall around Rachel?s Tomb in Bethlehem will not only sever the connection between the region?s most holy Christian sites, but will also herald the creation of a new ?fact on the ground? - an illegal Jewish settlement which will be home to some of Israel?s most extremist religious groups.


03-01-06 - America's Pro-Israel Lobby Holds Its Annual Policy Conference in Washington D.C. AIPAC - the real policymakers in Washington. They have Congress and the Executive Branch (among others) in their backpocket.


03-01-06 - U.N. employee kidnapped in Nablus A Palestinian employee of the United Nations in Nablus has been kidnapped by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah faction.


03-01-06 - Palestinian President, Legislators condemn the attacks against Palestinian refugees in Iraq


03-01-06 - White House Extends Palestinian Aid Review


03-01-06 - Israel shells northern Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday as Palestinian militants launched a bomb attack on an Israeli military jeep on patrol, Palestinian security sources reported.


03-01-06 - Israeli report reveals $14 billion spent by Israel to construct West Bank settlements


03-01-06 - Israelis ask Oscars to drop suicide bomb film


03-01-06 - Israeli gang wars prompt US State Dept travel warning The travel warning also cites assault by Jewish settlers and IDF troops on protestors....The State Department warns against participating in demonstrations, saying, ?In recent months, citizens of Western nations, including Americans, involved in pro-Palestinian volunteer efforts were assaulted and injured in the Occupied Territories by Israeli settlers and harassed by the IDF. Those taking part in demonstrations, non-violent resistance, and ?direct action?, are advised to cease such activity for their own safety.?


03-01-06 - Israeli police arrest two Hamas MPs in Jerusalem "They are not allowed to do any political activities in Jerusalem,"


03-01-06 - Arab Players Refuse to Boycott Game Arab players on Israel's national soccer team ignored calls to boycott Wednesday's exhibition game against Denmark, saying the controversy over Danish newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was not related to sports.


03-01-06 - Former Iranian president attacks Ahmadinejad over Holocaust "The persecution of Jews, just like Nazism, is a Western phenomenon. In the east, we have always lived side by side with them. And we follow a religion that states that the death of an innocent person is the death of all of humanity,"


03-01-06 - AIPAC donors to ask questions on scandal Several donors have asked AIPAC to explain its decision in recent months to limit funding for the defense of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman


03-01-06 - Lawmaker presses USTR on Saudi treatment of Israel A U.S. lawmaker asked the Bush administration on Wednesday to explain what steps it is taking to ensure Saudi Arabia no longer participates in the Arab League boycott of Israel. Our lawmakers once again are doing the bidding of a foreign nation.


03-01-06 - Middle East tragedies vie for Oscars "The problem here is that the folks from Israel are not satisfied in controlling every aspect of Palestinian daily life but in controlling every aspect of the manifestation of things Palestinian in the outside world. They ought to let up and let people define themselves,"


03-01-06 - Soccer: Late strike stuns Lions Lions were sent crashing down to earth yesterday after they went down 1-0 to Palestine at the Amman International Stadium in a Group E Asian Cup qualifier.


03-01-06 - Sub fleet chief: We can hit targets overseas While Colonel Yoni's statements are shrouded in mystery, publications in the foreign press have already hinted Israel's Dolphin submarines have the ability to carry and launch nuclear weapons, a capability that will be put to use should the country's nuclear ground bases are hit in a surprise attack. Psyops piece.


03-01-06 - Jordan urges patience with Hamas


03-01-06 - Israeli 'ruler-in-waiting' plans to starve Hamas Raised in a hardline Likud household, Ms Livni has an ideological pedigree that is hard to top. "My family is part of the founding history of Israel," she has said. Her father's gravestone bears the inscription, "Here lies the head of operations of the Irgun"
The Irgun and Stern gangs used terrorism to drive the British and then hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of Palestine. Remember Livni's comments from a few weeks ago. "When an entity, a state is being led by terrorists, the meaning is that this entity, this authority, this state is going to transfer into a terror state," said .


03-01-06 - Palestinian and Israeli men will climb Mt. Everest together in world peace climb This April world history will be made when Palestinian born Ali Bushnaq will climb Mt. Everest with Israelis Micha Yaniv and David Yifrah. The three climbers are part of a group of ?peace climbers? called The Everest Peace Project


03-01-06 - Israeli army arrests 12 villagers near Bethlehem


03-01-06 - From yesterdays news: Dubai Ports World uses Zim connection in US deal Zim offices are used as a source of Mossad cover. Zim had an office in the WTC and bailed shortly before the attack on September 11. Israeli Company Mum About
Perfect Timing Of WTC Pullout



03-01-06 - Reflecting fair Scottish views about Israel The advantages of Israel in its economy, military, land resources, water, health, in fact in its whole quality of life, are so overwhelming as to be oppressive. So when Israel gripes about how it suffers from the Palestinians then fair-minded people are offended, and more. Further, it is my strong experience that this is the view of the majority of (non-partisan) Scots, despite the best, behind-the-scenes efforts of Scottish Jewish community leaders, a fact supported by The Herald's letters over many years.


03-01-06 - Lord Rogers leaves anti-Israel group after anger in US Jewish groups and local politicians were enraged when they learned of the involvement of Lord Rogers in the group, which accuses Israel of an "apartheid system of environmental control". "His associating with this bigoted view would disqualify him from receiving our tax dollars," said Malcolm Hoenlein, vice-chairman of the Conference of Major American Jewish Organisations PLENTY of American tax dollars go to those with bigoted views.


03-01-06 - European aid cannot buy Hamas, says Meshaal


03-01-06 - Checkpoint expansion continues at Hawara


03-01-06 - Olmert: We must improve relations with Russia


03-01-06 - Iran: Jewish Groups Want President Barred From Europe


03-01-06 - Policing thought after 9/11 * An interview with historian Beshara Doumani on threats to academic freedom and the looming privatization of Middle East studies


03-01-06 - Pensioner promoting peace while helping Palestinians ?There?s still a tendency by the media to treat Palestinians as terrorists, but in our experience the vast majority are engaged in peaceful resistance ? the kind of resistance of being absolutely determined to stay where they have always lived, and not to be squeezed out and to carry on with their every day lives under increasingly terrible conditions.?


03-01-06 - Palestinian national team beats Singapore


03-01-06 - ELCA bishop calls for careful response to Hamas


03-01-06 - The Wall : Cinequest documentary entry 'Occupied Minds' takes disturbing trip through Israel and Gaza Strip While the Israeli lobby always likes to point out young Palestinians indoctrinated in hate, Dajani and Michaelis show us a stage show of singing right-wing Israeli children, returning such hatred


03-01-06 - Vouchers for Jewish day schools? A gathering of Jewish leaders, academics and Israeli Knesset members discussed the possibility of pushing for U.S. government vouchers for private Jewish schools.


03-01-06 - Here's how you know Kevin Sites came pretty darn close to the truth A bitchfest from CAMERA - a pro-Israeli 'media watchdog'.


03-01-06 - Cultural differences dissipate in the world of medicine Imagine limited access to hospitals, a scarcity of ambulances and the challenge to doctors of treating a chronic illness during a home visit.


03-01-06 - Judge denies journalists? motion in AIPAC case The judge in the classified information case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists denied a motion from a journalism organization to weigh in


03-01-06 - Geraldo Rivera Considered Run for Israeli Parliament Israel's occupation of the West Bank "is bull," in Rivera's view, and it "dehumanizes" the Palestinians. "I want peace between Jews and Palestinians, based on equality between the countries."

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