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Sunday, March 05, 2006
03-04-06 - Four residents, Israeli officer, injured in clashes near Ramallah Soldiers fired rounds of rubber-coated bullets and concussion grenades at the protesters injuring four.
03-04-06 - Roman Catholics to march in Nazareth after church attack "Priests in the church helped us save the three from the raging crowd as they took us to a small room. Hundreds of people besieged the room. Policemen who protected the three with their own bodies were hit," a police officer told the Yediot Aharonot daily. The three assailants were dressed in police uniforms and whisked out of the church, the newspaper added.
"The three assailants were dressed in police uniforms and whisked out of the church" ???
03-04-06 - Soldiers attack peaceful protesters, local and international journalists
03-04-06 - Olmert to seek international support for West Bank withdrawal According to senior political sources, in return for the next disengagement in the West Bank, Israel will ask the U.S. to recognize the withdrawal line - apparently to be based on, but not identical to, the separation fence route - as an international border. This would mean U.S. recognition for annexing the settlement blocs of Ma'aleh Adumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel, based on President Bush's letter of April 2004, which acknowledged the "facts on the ground" created by the settlement blocs
03-04-06 - Britain told future Israeli PM had cosmetic surgery in 1940s: secret files The British security services viewed future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin as a terrorist and were told he had undergone cosmetic surgery to change his appearance, secret files from the 1940s show.
03-04-06 - Bishop Seeks Protection of Christian Sites Archbishop Elias Shakur, the top Roman Catholic official in Nazareth, issued a call for unity among Israel's citizens and dismissed the attackers as lone extremists. While praising the Israeli response, he said "it is not enough."
03-04-06 - Bush, Putin Confer by Phone on Hamas, Iran Bush took the call from Putin, lasting little more than 15 minutes, in the cabin of Air Force One and "reiterated the importance of the Quartet statement, which calls for Hamas to renounce violence, recognize Israel and disarm," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. Because all things Hamas are of the utmost importance to the national security of the United States, right?..
03-04-06 - Arab League to vow support to Hamas
03-04-06 - Nazareth residents march to protest church attack Police said the Habibis were not motivated by ultra-nationalism but as the result of psychological and economic distress after daughters of theirs were taken away from them by social services. This family evidently knew exactly what they were doing since they wanted to draw attention to their plight. Trying to lean back on mental illness as an excuse is an insult to the truly mentally ill.
03-04-06 - Sinnoqrot: Food and Medicine Supplies in Gaza Will Run Out Within Days if Closure Continues
03-04-06 - Hamas rejects recognition of Israel despite pressure "I gave the Russian officials a white sheet and I asked them to draw me a map of the Israel they want me to recognise and nobody was able to draw the map," You know, he does have a point. When Israel gets to decide its borders - which change at whim with all manner of illegal settlements going up - it's got to be hard to figure out which Israel to'recogize'.
03-04-06 - Gaza Workers Think Things Will Soon Worsen "Maybe it is time for the Palestinians to build their own economic life without leaning on Israel," Dror said. Maybe they could, you arrogant #@!hole, if Israel wasn't illegally occupying and imprisoning the whole lot of them.
03-04-06 - Thousands of Israeli Arabs protest church incident
03-04-06 - Hamas Praises Russian Mediation Efforts In an apparent attempt to avoid further damage to relations with Israel, Putin will not meet the Palestinian delegation. The visitors will instead only take a sightseeing tour of the Kremlin on Sunday.
03-04-06 - Fatah lawmakers oppose coalition with Hamas
03-04-06 - Lebanon leaders close on fate of Palestinian arms "The leaders are close to reaching an agreement on the issue of Palestinian militants' arms outside the refugee camps," the source told Reuters without elaboration.
03-04-06 - Hamas victory 'complete fiasco' for US: Primakov He said it was "wrong" for the West to continue to treat Hamas as a terrorist organization in light of the election, "wrong" to demand immediate formal recognition of Israel and "wrong to starve them financially" as the United States has said it intends to do.
03-04-06 - Oscar contender 'Paradise Now' shot amid bombings, tanks
03-04-06 - In Tape, al-Zawahri Blasts Cartoons He complained that the previous Palestinian leadership had "sold Palestine."
03-04-06 - Abbas pressed not to transfer police control to Hamas The United States and Europe were pressing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas not to transfer his control on police and security forces to a Hamas-led government, well-informed Palestinian sources said on Thursday.
03-04-06 - Bipartisan pressure on Bush administration against dealing with Hamas The committee's top Democrat, Rep. Tom Lantos, said there must be "an end to humanitarian assistance" to the Palestinians with the exception of food, water and medicine....Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said the election victory of Hamas poses "enormous threats" to U.S. security. Hilarious. It poses no such threat. Ros-Lehtinen and Lantos are Israel-firsters.
03-04-06 - Israeli settlers mock their image in campaign against West Bank pullouts The campaign sought to fan fears among secular Israelis that if the settlers are forced to relocate, the middle classes of Tel Aviv could find themselves living beside devoutly religious families with large numbers of children.
03-04-06 - Israeli interrogation tactics put on trial in US courtroom Deutsche said he would be introducing reports by the Israeli Supreme Court, the US State Department, United Nations Committee on Torture, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch detailing how torture was a government-sanctioned practice of the Israeli security forces at the time of Salah's arrest.
03-04-06 - US President Bush asked Yemen to cut ties with Hamas
03-04-06 - Islamic Jihad condemns attack on Nazareth cathedral
03-04-06 - Russia gets Hamas to honor truce
03-04-06 - Palestinian Narratives Enter the Mainstream Abu-Assad says, "Israel as a state denies our stories; their leaders are using fear in order to make others inhuman and to continue this injustice. And you know, I don't understand this fear. When you are stronger than me, and you are afraid of me," he says, "you don't need politics to solve your problems, you need a psychoanalyst."
03-04-06 - Pro-Israel Lobbying Group Roiled by Prosecution of Two Ex-Officials But the question of dual loyalty, to the United States and to Israel, became touchy after the investigation was revealed. At last year's conference, the group broke with tradition and did not sing the Israeli national anthem. Dual loyalty? I don't see it. I see loyalty to one nation - and it ain't this one.
03-04-06 - Israeli leaders to address AIPAC The main issue on the agenda will be the call to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. AIPAC is supporting tough legislation in Congress, intended to cut off direct financial aid to the PA and to limit the possibility of supplying humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. A non-binding resolution with similar language has already been approved overwhelmingly by both chambers of Congress. The binding bill is expected to be voted on in the next weeks. AIPAC is also working tirelessly to promote legislation against Iran and to make sure that the administration and Congress remain firm on their opposition to an Iranian nuclear program.
03-04-06 - Elon: Two-state solution dead Hamas's failure to recognize Israel means the end of a two-state solution on this side of the Jordan River, according to MK Benny Elon, who heads the National Union and National Religious Party. The two state solution is dead not because of Hamas but because Israel has illegally confiscated and 'settled' large portions of the West Bank - thus rendering any viable Palestinian state untenable.
03-04-06 - Love and hate in Jerusalem if an Israeli falls for a Palestinian these rights can seem elusive.
03-04-06 - 'Brokeback' named best independent film The Spirit Awards' other top two prizes also went to Oscar nominees: The Palestinian terrorist tale "Paradise Now" was picked as best foreign film, while "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" was honored as best documentary.
03-04-06 - New Actors on the Middle East Scene America's gross bias in Israel's favour -- together with the war in Iraq eagerly promoted by the neo-conservatives -- has contributed to fuelling unprecedented hostility to the United States throughout the Arab and Muslim world....In intervening directly in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Vladimir Putin's Russia is challenging America's monopoly of the peace process while seeking to regain the influence it once had in a vital region not far from its southern borders
03-04-06 - Bil?in and Beit Sira March Together For Peace
03-04-06 - Hamas Victory Has Changed Everything Nothing was left but the good old democracy pretense, which worked well until Palestinians cast their vote on that critical day in late January. The majority voted for Hamas, not because of its Islamic agenda, but because of its uncompromising anti-corruption platform, its stance on Palestinian rights, and the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza.
03-04-06 - Reality Checkpoint: A Reality few Israelis know The placement of checkpoints between Palestinian towns and villages can only be seen as a form of harassment, to say the least.
03-04-06 - Serving One Flag
03-04-06 - Bakheit Meets with US Delegation Prime Minister Marouf Bakheit reiterated that finding a just solution for the Palestinian issue is the key to fighting terrorism and extremism in the region
03-04-06 - Like it or not, politics will always be part of Oscars The crowd sighed a deep breath of relief. Everyone was afraid of what might happen if Redgrave, who was outspoken about her pro-Palestinian homeland stance, took the podium.
03-04-06 - On eve of Oscars, debate intensifies over 'Paradise'
03-04-06 - A book where children simply speak their truth It takes a decided talent for lifting things out of context, and a failure of faith in the young, to have objected ? as some Greater Toronto school boards and the Canadian Jewish Congress have ? to her latest book.
03-04-06 - Teacher stands by work "In the view of Palestinians, who are the real terrorists?" Bennish asked at one point. "The Israelis, who fire missiles that they purchase from the United States government into Palestinian neighborhoods of refugees and maybe kill a terrorist but also kill innocent women and children."
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