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Saturday, March 04, 2006


News for 03-03-06

03-03-06 - Unrest after Israel church attack The three entered the church pushing a pram filled with fireworks and small gas canisters and began throwing them, reports said...."It went on for six or seven minutes," she was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. "I thought we were going to die."


03-03-06 - Hamas says no lasting peace until Israel pulls out


03-03-06 - Palestinians Trying to Keep Al Qaeda Out, Abbas Says Raising the alarm about Al Qaeda could be a means of drawing attention away from Abbas' rift with Israel over how to deal with Hamas


03-03-06 - US lawyers attack Israeli security agent "It's embarrassing that this kind of argument would be going on in an American courtroom," Deutsch said, comparing the methods used by Israel in its occupied territories in 1993 with those once employed in South Africa and Chile. It violated not only international human rights but the U.S. Constitution's guarantees, he said. We will now allow confessions extracted by torture, and this is exactly where our (neocon) Pentagon got it from.


03-03-06 - Israel has classified areas near Gaza perimeter fence as "killing zones" Since the disengagement from the Gaza Strip was completed, in September 2005, IDF soldiers have killed nine unarmed Palestinian civilians who were in the area of the Gaza perimeter fence. Five minors, including an eight-year old child, were among the nine persons killed.


03-03-06 - Israelis set off firecrackers in church Television reports said the man, a Jew, was a Jerusalem resident known to police and security services as having a history of threatening to attack churches


03-03-06 - Over 200 Palestinian Children Arrested in Two Months The scale of arrests over the past two months brings the number of Palestinian children in Israeli custody to almost 400. This represents a significant increase on the already-inexcusably high numbers of recent years and marks a further indication of the scant regard Israeli pays to Palestinian children's rights and to international legal instruments.


03-03-06 - Sewerage of Ariel settlement pumped into Palestinian farmlands


03-03-06 - Settlers attack, abuse two residents near Tubas


03-03-06 - Russia: No Future for Hamas Without Change


03-03-06 - Abbas says still suspects Arafat was poisoned


03-03-06 - Despair and suffering Since September 2000, more than 3200 Palestinians, and more than 600 Israelis have been killed, and at least 30,000 Palestinians and many Israelis injured, many of them severely.


03-03-06 - Daniel Pipes, the expert of hate Daniel Pipes could not be considered as an unconditional supporter of the Israeli government. He has actually criticized it sometimes, especially when he has reproached it for not repressing Palestinian populations enough. Pipes believes Palestinians must be annihilated


03-03-06 - IDF officers: We have less freedom than terrorists Senior Israel Defense Forces officers are outraged over the army's decision to prevent one of their number from traveling to Britain for fear he might be arrested as a war criminal, charging that leading Hamas terrorists now enjoy more freedom of movement than IDF officers.


03-03-06 - Israelis petition to stop suicide bombing film from winning an Oscar it's exactly because even Paradise Now's harshest critics agree that it is so well made that it has triggered a campaign for the withdrawal of the Oscar nomination


03-03-06 - State Dept. Says Russia Helped With Hamas The Bush administration credited Russia on Friday with putting the extremist Palestinian group Hamas on notice that it must renounce terrorism and accept Israel.


03-03-06 - Row over postponement of play about US Gaza activist In a statement on the theater's website, its artistic director James Nicola said the delay was motivated by concerns that those on all sides of the Middle East conflict would use the play as a platform to promote their own agendas...In an interview with the New York Times, Nicola said the decision to seek a postponement of the performance until the 2006-07 season had been taken after consultations with local Jewish religious and community leaders. Both sides, huh? Riiight.


03-03-06 - Palestinian filmmaker fears for Oscar after outcry Rightly so.


03-03-06 - Editorial: Carter's right on Palestine


03-03-06 - Tel Rumeida's Cycle of Trash The urgent letter from the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee asking for
help complained that among other acts of insolence and worse the
"seven Jewish families settling in Tel Rumeida" have been throwing
their garbage into nearby Palestinian yards for years.



03-03-06 - Arsenal face protests after deal to promote tourism in Israel


03-03-06 - Petition Seeks to Revoke Film's Nomination "Not gonna happen," Pavlik said. "It would be physically impossible to happen between now and Sunday and, beyond that, we're not going to disqualify films because some people don't like the content."


03-03-06 - Christian group blasts Sabeel conference John Salzberg, a member of the conference?s planning committee, said it "plans to show that peace with justice requires an end to the occupation and the wall," a reference to Israel's West Bank security barrier, "and a viable Palestinian state."


03-03-06 - Protesters Hang Themselves on The Wall


03-03-06 - Palestinian resistance group vows to protect internationals in Gaza strip


03-03-06 - UN REFUGEE AGENCY 'SERIOUSLY CONCERNED' FOR THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS IN IRAQ The United Nations refugee agency today voiced serious concern over the safety of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Iraq, some of whom have reportedly been directly targeted and killed in the continuing violence there


03-03-06 - Boy caught in crossfire bouncing back


03-03-06 - Hypocrisy Running Wild In Israel


03-03-06 - From The Horse's Mouth: Israeli journalist: Israelis need to know Gideon Levi: It is important because I want to prevent any kind of situation in which Israelis, or at least the readers of Ha?aretz, will ever be able to say that they don?t know what is being done on their behalf in the occupied territories


03-03-06 - Women ponder future under Hamas


03-03-06 - UN drafters fail to end terrorism treaty impasse The dispute over the treaty?s scope centers mainly on how to treat Palestinian suicide bombings and Israeli military actions in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza.


03-03-06 - Palestinian eyes alcohol-free beer after Hamas win


03-03-06 - Official: No Hamas-UAE connection ?To the best of my knowledge, the United Arab Emirates government has no relationship with Hamas,? Welch said Thursday in testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives on the recent Hamas win in Palestinian Authority legislative elections.


03-03-06 - Livni, Blair meet Israel?s foreign minister asked Britain?s prime minister to deny Hamas international recognition.


03-03-06 - Israeli: Pollard gave good info Rafi Eitan, Pollard?s Israeli intelligence handler, told Yediot Achronot that Pollard?s information was so important that Israeli officials did not consider ending the operation, even though the target was the United States.


03-03-06 - Resolution calls for Israel in NATO The non-binding resolution, which aims for Israel?s full inclusion in NATO, was introduced this week by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen By now it is abundantly clear judging from the amount of legislation submitted on behalf of a foreign nation, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the US Congress' representative of Israel.


03-03-06 - Snort The difference between the ports and possible monitoring of the telephone system and intelligence computers is that everybody will know if something goes wrong at the ports ? and will be quick to blame Dubai for it ? while monitoring of secrets can take place for years without anyone having the slightest idea.


03-03-06 - Al-Arian's Christian champion Especially after his recent pilgrimage to Israel in February, Clark came away with a clear feeling that Israel is continually oppressing the Palestinian people.


03-03-06 - Couple remember wedding bombing


03-03-06 - Peace group sends 18 observers to Middle East According to EAPPI, their objectives include the exposing of the violence of occupation, and to end the "brutality, humiliation and violence against civilians," as well as to express "solidarity with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists and empower local Palestinian communities/churches."

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