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Sunday, March 05, 2006


News for 03-05-06

03-05-06 - Spreading Rachael?s words


03-05-06 - Nato may help US airstrikes on Iran Israel's special forces are said to be operating inside Iran in an urgent attempt to locate the country's secret uranium enrichment sites. "We found several suspected sites last year but there must be more," an Israeli intelligence source said. They are operating from a base in northern Iraq, guarded by Israeli soldiers with the approval of the Americans, according to Israeli sources.


03-05-06 - Assad urges Hamas not to recognize Israel Syrian President Bashar al-Assad urged the radical movement Hamas, which now holds a majority in Palestinian parliament, not to recognize Israel unless Palestinians' rights are restored.


03-05-06 - Family Trapped by Israeli Barrier, Road The Jados say the situation claimed the life of their matriarch, Fatima, who died of a heart attack last year when she couldn't get to a hospital on time.


03-05-06 - Ally: Olmert Wants Israel to Set Borders Israel will draw its own borders and withdraw from isolated West Bank settlements if acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's party wins elections next month, a political ally said Sunday, the clearest indication yet of the Israeli leader's plans for a new government. Israel- the only nation in the world that gets to draw up its own borders at will at the expense of another people, and with the full backing of the United States.


03-05-06 - Hamas Rejects Support of al-Zawahri "Our battle is against the Israeli occupation and our only concern is to restore our rights and serve our people. We have no links with any group or element outside Palestine,"


03-05-06 - US warns Iran of consequences of nuclear ambitions U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton reaffirmed that the United States will use "all tools at our disposal" to thwart Iran's nuclear program and is already "beefing up defensive measures" to do so. "The Iran regime must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences," he told 4,500 delegates to the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group.



03-05-06 - Bolton: World Must Confront Iran The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday told an influential pro- Israel lobbying group there is an urgent need to confront Iran's "clear and unrelenting drive" for a nuclear weapons program. Bolton, a key speaker at the AIPAC conference once again, demonstrating that he is ISRAEL'S new ambassador to the UN.


03-05-06 - Israel 'plans to annex West Bank colonies' in response to Hamas ISRAEL will exploit the radical Hamas movement's rise to power in a bid to gain international legitimacy for annexing the large settlements of the West Bank and their environs, Israeli newspapers said yesterday


03-05-06 - Plans ready for limited West Bank withdrawal Mr Dichter said residents of the small, isolated settlements would be transferred to the larger ones Israel intends to keep. Unlike the situation in Gaza, he said, the Israeli army would maintain a presence in the evacuated settlements.


03-05-06 - Soldiers attack, wound, five Palestinian worker in Beit Hanoun Crossing Soldiers attacked and clubbed the workers while waiting to be inspected and allowed to cross, several workers were injured.


03-05-06 - Palestinian MPs set to hold first working session


03-05-06 - Lobbying really DOES work, go figure! Paradise Now fails to win the Oscar for best foreign film, much to the delight of the pro-Israeli community who lobbied hard against it.


03-05-06 - Olmert vents anger at Putin over Hamas invite


03-05-06 - Masked gunmen take over Palestinian Education Ministry, demand jobs


03-05-06 - Israeli Soldiers beat and arrest two children in Bethlehem


03-05-06 - Architect for NY's Javits Center under fire American Jewish leaders welcomed the decision by British architect Richard Rogers to resign his membership in a professional organization that has called for the boycott of Israel's construction industry...Abraham H. Foxman, Anti-Defamation League national director, welcomed the statement but said it did not go far enough.


03-05-06 - Hamas ready to 'change manners' after landmark Russia trip "Hamas must change its manners. We know that very well. But what we are saying is that we want a response from the Israelis. If you want Hamas to change its policies, you must also request that the Israelis change their policies. "We are saying 'yes' to peace. We are sayihg 'yes' to building relations with the international community. We are saying 'yes' to anything we feel will be in the interest of the Palestinian people," Nazzal said



03-05-06 - Israel operating in Northern Iraq


03-05-06 - Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London JEWISH terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown. The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel. Begin, whom MI6 believed was backed by the Soviet Union, planned to send five terrorist cells to Britain to carry out bombings and assassinations that would "beat the dog in his own kennel". Hmm.. terrorists that were rewarded with their own state..a state that had said terrorists in their government.. where have I heard that before?


03-05-06 - Pro-Israel credit card launched "We felt a need to devise a plan to have the 6 million Jews and millions of Evangelical Christians in the US affect Israel's economy on a daily basis," Good, now we can keep the billions in taxpayer aid to Israel for use here at home?..


03-05-06 - Olmert accuses Muslims of exploiting Nazareth church attack Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused Israeli Muslims of seeking to exploit an attack on a Nazareth church, which led to riots in Jesus Christ's hometown, for their own purposes. The pro-Israeli community would never exploit the standoff between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces in the Church of the Nativity in like fashion, would they?


03-05-06 - Olmert: Israel Ultimately Seeks Separation


03-05-06 - Telegram warned of plot to kill Attlee's ministers The Stern gang, in common with Irgun, were fighting against the British mandate of Palestine and murdered Britain's Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo in 1944


03-05-06 - French president, Saudi king meet on Mideast issues


03-05-06 - Accusations of anti-semitic chic are poisonous intellectual thuggery debate is poisoned and consensus becomes difficult when allegations of anti-semitism are bandied about for reasons that have nothing to do with fighting racism


03-05-06 - Israel 'to make more withdrawals' Mr Olmert has previously indicated Israel will hold on to the Jordan Valley, as well as East Jerusalem and the major settlement blocks of Maale Adumim, Ariel and Gush Etzion as part of a final settlement.


03-05-06 - Director defends his bomber movie


03-05-06 - Israel church attackers 'sorry'


03-05-06 - Hamas leader unconcerned by funds threat


03-05-06 - U.S. Bishop Urges Continuation of Aid for Palestine "(W)e believe it is essential that humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people be continued and that a decision about aid to the new Palestinian government not be made until the policies of the new government become clear."


03-05-06 - Barakeh on church attack: Olmert's head 'sick with racism' MK Muhammad Barakeh (Hadash), accusing Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of racism, rejected Olmert's criticism Sunday of the Islamic leadership in Israel for using Friday's an attack at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth for political purposes.


03-05-06 - IDF chief invites anti-fence protesters to Tel Aviv meeting Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz fielded complaints by members of "Machsom (checkpoint)-Watch" during a meeting at his Tel Aviv office on Sunday. The activists voiced their concerns over the army's policy restricting Palestinian travel in the West Bank.


03-05-06 - Prison official: Hamas good for Israel The senior prison official, who has spent long hours in conversations with many of the group's members at the prison, said knowing them has led to better understanding and a common language.


03-05-06 - The Art of Politics A few of the curators confided in one of Samia's colleagues explaining, "They would lose their funding if they show Palestinian art."



03-05-06 - Hamas blames 'hate culture' for Church attack Ismail Haniyeh, the designated Palestinian prime minister from the Islamic Hamas group, held Israel responsible for Friday?s attack in the Church of Annunciation in Nazareth, saying the attack is the result "of a hate culture which Israel is feeding its public against the Palestinians, and their Christian and Islamic holy places and believers."

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