03-09-06 - Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace by Jimmy Carter For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community. Israel?s occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalized government, one headed by Yasir Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet. This man is legend. My hat's off to former president Jimmy Carter. God bless him.


03-09-06 - Child's finger cut off during interrogation The interrogator forced the child to put his hand between the hinges of the door and slapped it closed resulting in the cutting on one of the boy's fingers. The boy was transferred to Affoula hospital for treatment.


03-09-06 - Palestinian man, woman in hospital after Israeli settler attacks A group of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man and woman in separate incidents in the Old City of Hebron Wednesday night, medical sources reported. Shaher Fakhouri, 43, and Ghazala Shaban Barade'y were both admitted to the hospital with various bruises and contusions all over their bodies, after being attacked by Israeli settlers living illegally in Hebron....The physical assaults on Palestinian citizens comes after an afternoon attack by Israeli settlers on Hebron-area orchards, in which 50 olive trees belonging to Palestinian families were uprooted.


03-09-06 - Israel reopens main Gaza crossing point for goods More than 500 tons of produce grown in Gaza greenhouses had to be destroyed in the last week because of the Karni closure, a U.S. government report has said. ...."The decision to open the crossing was made despite existing security alerts and after both humanitarian and security aspects were all taken into consideration," the Israeli army said in a statement. Translation: 'We received so much bad press about the closing and the resulting near starvation of the Palestinians, we've decided to reopen the border.' It's a PR move. Otherwise, the border would've stayed shut forever.


03-09-06 - Carter On A Roll Jimmy Carter has, of late, been breaking the unwritten rule that former presidents shall not contradict sitting presidents on major issues of policy. He did it yesterday, when he called the Iraq War unjust, unnecessary and based on false pretenses. Today, the 2002 Nobel peace prize winner did it again, right here on TomPaine.com.


03-09-06 - Palestinian Bodies Celebrates International Women Day with "The Land of Women"


03-09-06 - Israel's Gaza stranglehold continues The system as it is forces Palestinians to pay fees to Israeli truckers who have to wait in lines at the border, and gives Israel control over trade volumes....According to a similar interim assessment released by the World Bank on February 28: "Very little has been implemented and the system that exists today is virtually unchanged from that which existed in December 2004."


03-09-06 - Your Israel gig is another brick in the wall, star told PALESTINIAN artists have appealed to the British musician Roger Waters, who wrote the song Another Brick in the Wall when he was with Pink Floyd, to cancel a concert in Israel out of solidarity with their fight against Israel's West Bank barrier.


03-09-06 - Olmert Says He?ll Build in Controversial E-1 Section Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that he will continue building in the controversial E-1 section of land between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem if elected this month.


03-09-06 - Documents reveal Labor-Likud plans for West Bank Highly confidential documents from the Ministry of Justice dating from the early 1990s, copies of which were sent to the ministers of defense, justice and housing as well as the attorney general, confirm the existence of a vast network of ties between Likud and Labor governments, and land dealers and settlers' associations, for the purpose of acquiring land in the West Bank.



03-09-06 - Talk about Iran military option could backfire, IAF source warns "If we emphasize too much, express ourselves too much, it frees the international community (of responsibility)," Ben-Eliyahu told Israel Radio. "Our major achievement, from a military perspective and from a political perspective, is that an international coalition has been created that understands and comprehends that Iran's nuclear development must be stopped." Whose war?


03-09-06 - House panel clears emergency war funds The committee cut most of the $75 million Bush sought for new pro-democracy efforts in Iran, calling the plan announced with fanfare last month poorly justified...Lawmakers also agreed to put into law a block on aid to the Palestinian Authority unless the new government being formed by the militant group Hamas renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel's right to exist, backing Bush's stance


03-09-06 - Hamas presents Palestinian coalition proposals to Fatah Radical Islamic group Hamas presented Fatah with proposals for forming a Palestinian coalition government, in the search for an elusive deal on sharing power, an official said.


03-09-06 - Secret sale of UK plutonium to Israel Under Wilson, Britain also sold Israel tons of chemicals used to make boosted atom bombs 20 times more powerful than Hiroshima or even Hydrogen Bombs...Using Freedom of Information, Newsnight has obtained top secret papers. They show Foreign Minister Kim Howells misled the IAEA and that Britain made not one, but hundreds of secret shipments of nuclear materials to Israel.


03-09-06 - Israel Expects to Draw Borders by 2010 Olmert said his broad guidelines for Israel's borders included incorporating its three major settlement blocs - Maaleh Adumim and Gush Etzion outside Jerusalem, and Ariel, deep inside the West Bank...Jerusalem and its environs would also fall within the permanent borders, as would the West Bank's Jordan Valley on the frontier with Jordan, which Olmert characterized as a "security border." Again, Israel is the only nation in the world (to my knowledge) that gets to draw up its own borders at will - at the expense of another people, in violation of international law, and with the full backing of the United States.


03-09-06 - Islamic Jihad threatens to target Israeli leaders


03-09-06 - U.N.: Number of West Bank roadblocks up The Israeli army has increased the number of roadblocks and barriers in the West Bank by 25 percent since last summer,


03-09-06 - Palestinian women continue to suffer under Israeli occupation as they commemorate International Women's Day


03-09-06 - Palestinians complain of mistreatment at checkpoint in the Jordan Valley The deliberate and unexplained delays include forcing the farmers back for unnecessary documents and taking their identity cards for several hours.


03-09-06 - Israeli report: When Palestinians are killed, no questions are asked A new study examining media coverage of the Intifada finds that in incidents when Palestinians are killed, the Israeli media relies almost exclusively on the security establishment's official version of the story.



03-09-06 - 'Civilians get in the way'


03-09-06 - Probe: Air force didn't fully survey Gaza strike scene But air force officials said that neither human error nor technical failure was to blame, but that it is inevitable that targeted killings in densely populated areas will occasionally result in civilian casualties.


03-09-06 - NYT Rachel Corrie Play Theatre Review Critiqued Rachel and the play, already "disingenuous" and "radical" are made sacrilegious and even obscene to some readers. Despite all Rothstein's efforts at distraction, the simple truth is that Rachel was an idealistic woman who used nonviolence to support international law. Finally, Rothstein implies that Hamas' recent victory in the elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council somehow should have some bearing on whether or not the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie" should be staged in New York City


03-09-06 - NY, Jewish leaders drop opposition to architect Concerns about his links with the British group were allayed after Silver, Weiner and Rogers met on Thursday in the Manhattan offices of the Conference of Presidents, which represents over 50 U.S. Jewish organizations. Rogers' backpeddling and groveling paid off.


03-09-06 - Federal Hearing Incenses Civil Advocates Two Israeli intelligence agents are being called to testify about Salah's interrogation in an effort to determine whether the confession can be used at Salah's trial. Although experts say judges frequently take special precautions to protect witnesses, the judge's decision to keep the pretrial hearing secret to better safeguard the agents against reprisals has upset opponents of government secrecy. "I don't believe serving the interest of a foreign intelligence agency is high priority for the American people,"...Over defense objections, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled in January that she would close the courtroom for the Israeli agents, offer heavy security and permit them the use of pseudonyms and "light disguises."



03-09-06 - British Government Condemns Israeli Air Force Attack in Gaza


03-09-06 - Parishes to boycott C of E over continued investment in Caterpillar Parishes are being urged to withdraw their money from the Church of England after a decision to continue its current investment in US company Caterpillar inc.


03-09-06 - No dialogue with Hamas without recognition of Israel: defence minister


03-09-06 - BBC criticizes itself over story The BBC?s board of governors said a report published late last year failed to give a balanced account of a U.N. resolution regarding the 1967 Six-Day War, the Guardian newspaper reported.
Pro-Israelis have a hard time with UN resolution 442.
They seek to downplay or deny the fact that it specifically calls on Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupied in the Six Day War. Read it for yourself at the UN website. Ever since a BBC official met with Sharon last fall, the BBC's reporting of the I-P conflict has become decidedly more pro-Israel.


03-09-06 - Be "vocal locals," Israeli press official urges Baker acknowledged that "biased" reporters covering Israel are in a minority, but he said there are correspondents who have preconceived notions about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nothing less than total control over press reports about Israel is acceptable.


03-09-06 - School boards limit access to controversial book While the book will remain in the district?s library inventory, children who request it may find the librarian directing them to other books.


03-09-06 - IDF re-opens Nablus checkpoint, allowing students to sit exams Hundreds of Palestinians had arrived Wednesday morning at the Beit Iva checkpoint on the western side of Nablus, among them students, teachers, medical personnel, businessmen and laborers, only to be turned away by IDF soldiers.



03-09-06 - "Peace climbers" from different religions to scale Mount Everest The climb team includes Palestine-born Ali Bushnaq and Israelis Micha Yaniv and Dudu Yifrah


03-09-06 - Palestinians deplore "Wall" musician's Israel show Concert promoter Shuki Weiss said Waters was persuaded to come to Israel after it quit the Gaza Strip, territory on which Palestinians want to build a state, last year in a move billed as breaking a deadlock in peacemaking.


03-09-06 - Senate rejects travel ban Pro-Israel groups have been working to ensure that the original bill, which remains under debate, does not include a ban on non-profit travel, which would hamper their ability to send lawmakers to Israel. You didn't really think the AIPACers would allow Congress to ban all lobby-sponsored trips, including those to Israel, did you? Hahahaha. We are talking about the Israeli lobby here.


03-09-06 - Jewish groups push for travel A Jewish leader urged Congress not to ban or limit privately funded congressional travel.


03-09-06 - Bush reaches out to philanthropists A large number of Jewish groups oppose faith-based initiatives, because of concerns that using federal money for religious charitable organizations violates the separation of church and state. See this next short article from JTA for today as well.


03-09-06 - Jewish studies program gets government money A U.S. university received a $500,000 matching grant from the U.S. government to support its Jewish studies program. Abe Foxman would scream bloody murder if this were about government funding of Christian studies. Allegations that there is 'anti-Semitism' on campus, are a prelude to a new Jewish studies program being implemented on said college campus.


03-09-06 - BBC Partially Revises Biased Timeline on Web site CAMERA?s submission to the BBC Board of Governor?s Independent Panel demonstrated that throughout the timeline, Arab perspectives are amplified and endorsed, while Arab violence is downplayed and emphasis is given to supposed Zionist or Israeli culpability. Bingo. The BBC board did not self-criticize, the board came under pressure from CAMERA, a virulently pro-Israeli lobby in the US. This pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' succeeds in getting BBC to whitewash its coverage of Israel on the timeline of the I-P conflict on its website.


03-09-06 - Palestinians open up mobile phone market The Palestinian Authority has decided to end the monopoly on the mobile telecommunications market and will call for tenders for a second licensee, an official said.


03-09-06 - Ministry documents highlight West Bank land acquisition network


03-09-06 - US report cites Israel and Arab countries as having major human rights flaws


03-09-06 - Israeli security officer indicted over sexually harassing Palestinian Women A central court in Israel sentenced the security officer of Maale Adumim settlement to six years and a half imprisonment after being indicted with sexual harassment and abuse against Palestinian women, Palestine News Network Reported.


03-09-06 - National Lawyers Guild Urges Support for Boycott of Israeli Goods The US-based National Lawyers Guild (NLG) issued a statement Wednesday urging international support for the boycott of Israeli goods by the Norwegian County of Sor-Trondelag.


03-09-06 - 'Israel respects citizens' rights, but discrimination exists'


03-09-06 - Israel Feeds Palestine on Steady Diet of Death By Genevieve Cora Fraser


03-09-06 - Aznar: Make Israel a NATO member Spain?s former prime minister said Israel should become a member of NATO as a warning to Iran


03-09-06 - Potter's Israel trip sparks debate, requests "It's a private vacation. He is doing no official duties," said John Doussard, the mayor's spokesman. "He is going as Tom Potter, who is very interested in archaeology." Riiight.


03-09-06 - Controversial anti-Israel speaker to take stage in S.C. More attempts at censorship.

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