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Tuesday, March 07, 2006


News for 03-06-06

03-06-06 - Two Children Among Dead in Israeli Strike


03-06-06 - Palestinian militants, children killed in Gaza air strike Eight-year-old boy, Raed al-Batsh, and 15-year-old Ahmed al-Sweissi, who were standing in Salaheddin Street at the time, were also killed in the massive explosion. Another 15-year-old boy died later from his wounds. Eight bystanders, most of them children, were also wounded.



03-06-06 - Thanking Israel's powerful friend Thus, a few years ago, an AIPAC lobbyist's activities developed ties to an anonymous candidate from a remote state, which has almost no Jews, until the latter reached one of the highest offices in the Senate, and was able to have a real influence in Israel's favor. Thus, last week, the adviser to a senator from a southern state, which also has few Jews, explained: "We have an excellent relationship with the Jewish community. We would never do anything related to Israel without first explaining to Israel what we are doing." Wow. This is the complete opposite of "taxation with representation". It's what revolutions are made of. Who are our officials representing?


03-06-06 - Fears of new Israeli settlement as wall completed 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, claims Open Bethleham.


03-06-06 - Palestinians targeted in Iraq


03-06-06 - For AIPAC delegates, clear goal on Iran, but mixed messages on P.A. Stop Hamas and stop Iran.....Instead of just showing progress on key issues, for instance, the Palestinian Authority must now prove that it has crushed terrorism and incitement before it reenters the United States? good graces. It also must recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a step further than merely recognizing Israel?s existence. Just look at our legislators scurrying about after they were given their orders from AIPAC.


03-06-06 - Russia says to continue contacts with Hamas Russia said on Monday it would maintain contacts with Palestinian militant group Hamas and urged other nations interested in building Middle East peace to do the same. The remarks by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov could increase tensions with Israel, which criticized Russia's decision to invite a Hamas delegation to Moscow over the weekend for talks Ruh roh.


03-06-06 - Hamas leader vows armed struggle against Israel The supremo of Palestinian radical group Hamas vowed to continue armed struggle against Israel and declared that the Palestinian Authority had accomplished nothing by recognising the Jewish state.


03-06-06 - Theater Still Hopeful on 'Rachel Corrie'


03-06-06 - Hamas Leader Says Group's Isolation Ending


03-06-06 - Pride and anguish at first Palestinian Oscar party Assistant director Inas Muzafar, watching the ceremony at the Ramallah bar, told Reuters: "The nomination was for me a victory -- not only for the film but also for the Palestinian and Arab film industry."


03-06-06 - UK: Solution to war crime lawsuits near Britain has informed Israel it is close to finding a solution that will enable IDF officers to visit the UK without fear of getting arrested due to war crime lawsuits filed against them, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. Thus does Britain kowtow to Israeli war criminals.


03-06-06 - World Bank sees scant progress boosting Gaza trade Israel has retained control of all access points for bringing goods in and out of the Gaza Strip, citing security concerns. The prison known as Gaza, run by a government that so parallels the Third Reich, it's frightening.


03-06-06 - State prosecutor: Palestinian rights groups undermine Israel The statement called HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual and B'Tselem - Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories - organizations "that undermine the existence" of the State of Israel, "besmirch" the state and its security forces, and "cause it damage in the world." Attack the messenger when you can't handle the truth.


03-06-06 - Palestinians Vote to Strip Abbas of Powers In the West Bank administrative capital of Ramallah, Fatah delegates walked out, accusing Hamas of twisting the rules to weaken Abbas' authority.


03-06-06 - Israel adviser switches to top FO job The British Foreign Office has appointed a controversial Israeli government adviser to one of its most sensitive posts as head of the legal department. Is Britain falling victim to Zionists (Again)..?


03-06-06 - Palestinian aid may be funneled via World Bank


03-06-06 - Palestinians demand Lebanon rights before disarming One of the Palestinian militant groups which retains bases in Lebanon said that it would only discuss laying down its weapons once the country's 380,000 Palestinian refugees have been accorded basic civic rights.


03-06-06 - Palestinian man shot by Israeli border police near Daharia checkpoint


03-06-06 - Another War for Israel: The amen corner howls for war with Iran All the same ingredients of the Iraqi potboiler are being thrown into the mix: a Middle Eastern country ruled by an unattractive tyrant, Israel's partisans furiously beating the drums for war, and "weapons of mass destruction" described by dubious exile groups.


03-06-06 - UAE urged to end its boycott of Israel Leading U.S. Jewish groups have long sought to end the boycott. The boycott "is an anachronistic practice that has been used by the Arab worlds to unfairly isolate and stigmatize Israel," said Josh Block, a spokesman for the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "No company should be participating in the boycott."


03-06-06 - The Jewish Right's movie madness This mindless hysteria is truly offensive. It would be one thing if this was 1942 and Jews were powerless in the face of the Nazis. But this is an entirely different world


03-06-06 - Israel's Kadima split over more West Bank pullouts In comments to reporters late Sunday, Dichter also poured cold water on the roadmap, calling it "obsolete" in the absence of a Palestinian partner. As with Oslo, Israel never stopped building its illegal settlements - which was a violation of the Road Map. It takes two to tango.


03-06-06 - 'Tsotsi' Wins Oscar for Foreign Film the academy decided to say the film was from the "Palestinian Territories," a compromise designed to be the "least controversial" option according to academy spokesman John Pavlick.


03-06-06 - Alleged Israel Mob Boss Extradited to U.S. Zeev Rosenstein is suspected in the distribution of more than 1 million Ecstasy pills in the United States, mostly in New York and Miami.


03-06-06 - Wiesenthal Center May Move Muslim Graves


03-06-06 - EU Commissioner says Israel should release payments "It would be important that the Israelis are paying out what is actually Palestinian money -- the customs duties," the European Commission's Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in an interview with Austria's daily newspaper Der Standard.


03-06-06 - Despite Court Ruling, Army resumed Wall construction in Aboud Israeli soldiers resumed the construction work of the Separation Wall near Aboud village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, in spite of a ruling of the Israeli High Court to halt the construction there.


03-06-06 - Palestinian link could cost Rogers $1.7bn New York deal One of Britain's leading architects, Richard Rogers, is battling to save his $1.7bn (£971m) redesign of a New York convention centre, after his connections to a pro-Palestinian protest group outraged politicians and Jewish organisations.


03-06-06 - U.S. bishops: Middle East needs strong U.S. leadership The bishop said it was crucial that Palestinians continue to receive humanitarian aid and that they not be punished "for the possible actions of their political leaders."


03-06-06 - Brethren, Christian Peacemaker delegation visits Palestine and Israel


03-06-06 - More than 300 Palestinian laborers arrested by Israeli Police Forces in raid


03-06-06 - Woman speaks to foster peace in the Middle East "I was surprised, shocked, and sometimes angry that I hadn't been told the whole truth," she said. "Four times as many Palestinian civilians are killed as Israeli civilians. You don't really hear about that."


03-06-06 - Hamas expected in Saudi, Chirac opposes sanctions visiting French President Jacques Chirac said he opposed sanctions against the Palestinian Islamist movement


03-06-06 - "Cycle of Peace" "Palestine is one of the great moral causes of our time" Nelson Mandela


03-06-06 - America's "Most Dangerous" Professors? Campus witchhunts by the usual suspects.

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