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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
03-07-06 - Sad Day for Children of Gaza UNICEF said Monday was a sad day for the children of Gaza, after five were killed in conflict-related incidents.
In the first incident, two brothers, aged 14 and 15, were killed instantly when they were exposed to an unexploded device in a pond in Bereij, south of Gaza City.
03-07-06 - Gaza Closure Is Causing Food Shortages "This is nothing punitive," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev. Mmm K. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck..
03-07-06 - Israel Accused Of 'Inhumane' Threat Two of the dead were children but Israel defended the airstrike, saying its policy of targeted killings is effective.
03-07-06 - Amid AIPAC's Big Show, Straight Talk With a Noticeable Silence Luncheon speeches by former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and former Virginia governor Mark Warner (D) were declared off the record. At another speech yesterday by Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, reporters were turned away at the door; an AIPAC spokeswoman went through the room making sure no journalists had infiltrated.
03-07-06 - World Bank approves 42 mln dollar grant to Palestinians The World Bank announced that it was issuing a 42-million-dollar grant to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to help ensure it can continue providing basic services.
03-07-06 - Censorship of the Worst Kind: The Second Death of Rachel Corrie By VANESSA REDGRAVE
03-07-06 - AIPAC taking Hamas, Iran to Congress Delegates of the AIPAC conference will depart Tuesday to Capitol Hill for more than 450 lobbying meetings with their members of Congress. The two main issues on the legislative agenda of the organization are Hamas and Iran.
03-07-06 - Abbas to Free Cabinet Minister's Killer Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he would free from prison the mastermind of an Israeli Cabinet minister's assassination, but he would not be responsible for any Israeli actions against him.
03-07-06 - Abbas against temporary-border Palestinian state Abbas also announced in his speech that as of next year, March 8 -- International Women's Day -- would be a national holiday in the Palestinian territories "only for women".
03-07-06 - Israel's Olmert says will reduce settlement funding He said "billions" now poured into Jewish settlements would be diverted to infrastructure projects in Jerusalem and Israel's sparsely developed Galilee and Negev regions.
03-07-06 - Cheney Says U.S. Won't Let Iran Get Nukes "The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences," Cheney said in a speech to the to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobbying group. Cheney bows before his AIPAC masters.
03-07-06 - Hamas leader accuses west of hypocrisy over threat to withhold cash "There was never any pressure on Israel when it ignored agreements. The PLO recognised Israel and what did it get for it? Now we are being asked to recognise Israel when it is annexing half of the West Bank behind the isolation wall."
03-07-06 - Hamas-Fatah row goes before court Mr Erekat, one of the MPs who walked out of the session, condemned Hamas' attempt to annul the legislation.
03-07-06 - Israel: Hamas leaders not immune Palestinian PM-designate Ismail Haniya will not be immune from assassination if Hamas renews attacks on Israel, the Israeli defence minister has said.
03-07-06 - NATO spy planes fly in Israel Jones was answering a question from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) about what NATO was doing regarding a potential Iranian nuclear threat to Israel.
03-07-06 - Netanyahu would control more territory Benjamin Netanyahu said he would move Israel?s security barrier deeper inside the West Bank.
03-07-06 - Party leaders pledge support for Israel trips Leaders of both major U.S. parties are making sure that educational trips to Israel for legislators are not affected by lobbying reforms.
03-07-06 - Couple face jail for Trojan trickery A couple accused of corporate espionage using Trojan software have beenindicted in a Tel Aviv court.
03-07-06 - Church investment body snubs Synod over Caterpillar Detailed in War on Want?s recent ?alternative report? on Caterpillar, thousands of Palestinian homes and vast swathes of agricultural land have been destroyed by the Israeli military using armoured Caterpillar D9 bulldozers. The bulldozers have also been used in the construction of Israel?s Separation Wall, ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice in July 2004.
03-07-06 - So what if the Jews run Hollywood? "So many fundamentalists in my own community, the Jewish community, have grown very angry at me for allowing the Palestinians simply to have dialogue and for allowing Tony Kushner to be the author of that dialogue," Spielberg told Newsweek last month. Spielberg learns a valuable lesson from Hollywood: you do not question Israel, even if you are Jewish.
03-07-06 - "Gaza Blues: Different Stories" provides surrealist snapshot of conflict
03-07-06 - Norway allocates USD 10 million to the interim Palestinian government
03-07-06 - Christians must forgive Nazareth incident, Holy Land official says
03-07-06 - Children's book angers Canadian Jewish group The censorship campaign continues. All books, universitiy curricula, oscar-nominated movies, and etc will soon have to pass the sniff test administered by the Israeli lobby.
03-07-06 - Man Pleads Guilty in Attack on Muslim Van A man who blew up an empty van belonging to a Palestinian Muslim family pleaded guilty to federal charges alleging he was trying to intimidate them.
03-07-06 - Patriarch Calls Christians in Holy Land to Solidarity
03-07-06 - HIRC Hearing: What Course for Palestinians after Elections?; Ros-Lehtinen Schedules Wednesday Oversight Hearing
03-07-06 - Film gives rare look at Palestinian women The 12 years Furui spent shooting still and video images has borne fruit in a documentary titled "Ghada -- Songs of Palestine,"
03-07-06 - Israeli says civilian deaths not its fault Naturally.
03-07-06 - THE MYSTERIOUS TRANSFORMATION OF THE AIPAC CASE Notice how, curiously, what started out as what would have been called an espionage case if the alleged parties had been working on behalf of, say, Iran or Palestine instead of Israel - in which secret information was transferred to an Israeli diplomat - has been mysteriously transformed into a freedom of the press cause celebre even though the indicted parties were not journalists at all
03-07-06 - A rainbow shines in Shatilla refugee camp "While creating jobs for women in the camps," explains Khanazeh, "[the embroidery project] also preserves and promotes traditional Palestinian embroidery."
03-07-06 - Church advisers oppose divestment The Ethical Investment Advisory Group voted unanimously Tuesday against divestment, saying it "could find no compelling evidence that Caterpillar is or has been complicit in human rights abuses."
03-07-06 - Peace Now blasts Kadima for 'capitulating' to settlers The Peace Now movement on Sunday blasted Kadima for "capitulating" to settlers after the party won the backing of a top religious Zionist movement rabbi, who had earlier heard assurances from Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about the future of Israel's borders.
03-07-06 - Hamas pledges efforts to solve prisoner issue
03-07-06 - Russian church happy with cooperation between Muslims, Christians in Palestine
03-07-06 - China says it would weigh Hamas aid China is a major exporter of Iranian oil and a veto-wielding member of the United Nations Security Council.
03-07-06 - NZ Palestine aid to be re-evaluated after $500,000 payment
03-07-06 - Debate over ports deal shows complex reality of Arab boycott What seems to politicians like a crystal-clear case - how can you entrust the nation's ports to a regime that harbored terrorist money? - gets murkier the closer you get to the realities of Israel's dealings in the Middle East.
03-07-06 - Women in Israeli prisons facing torture, abuse
03-07-06 - What the Indian giver got by Patrick J. Buchanan Israel, which has also refused to sign the NPT and has 200 to 300 nuclear weapons, will demand the same nuclear technology that India got. On what grounds can Bush deny Israel?
03-07-06 - Russia: Hamas looking at Saudi deal Hamas is ready to consider a Saudi diplomatic initiative that recognizes Israel?s existence, Russia?s foreign minister said.
03-07-06 - Hamas hints at softer line A senior Hamas member hinted his group might one day recognize Israel.
03-07-06 - Israel sells arms to China Yaakov Toren, director general of Israel?s Defense Ministry, announced the resumption of sales March 1, according to Jane?s Defence Weekly. Israel had suspended the sales after signing an agreement last August allowing U.S. officials to review Israeli arms sales.
03-07-06 - Alleged Israeli mob boss appears before US judge on drug charges The case against him is largely based on the seizure of about 700,000 ecstasy pills in July 2001 in New York.
03-07-06 - Dershowitz pledges to defend Israeli generals
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