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Saturday, March 11, 2006
03-10-06 - Bush: Iran's threats to Israel a 'grave national security concern'
03-10-06 - West Bank tours reveal the grim reality of Israeli occupation When Mr Shaul talks about innocent targets, he means Palestinian civilians. Yet he is not afraid to tell stories from his 14 months service in the Israeli army in Hebron.
"Could we fire grenades at areas where Palestinians lived? Sure. Why not?" he asked, describing many Israeli army actions breaking the army's own rules of engagement. "It was fun. It was cool. Could we shut 2,000 Palestinian shops with a curfew on a whim? Why not?" ...."Many Israelis are shocked," he said. "I have seen some start to cry."
03-10-06 - This story from 03-09 was ignored by all mainstream media
03-10-06 - Israel to close Palestinian territories for Jewish holiday Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz ordered a lockdown of the Palestinian territories over the Jewish festival of Purim. The extraordinary measure will go into effect Saturday evening and remain in place until Wednesday. Prison gates shut for the Jewish holiday.
03-10-06 - From AIPAC to Check Point In May 2000, reports began appearing in the US media linking Amdocs Ltd. (NYSE: DOX) to the wiretapping of government communications. "Insight", a magazine of the right-wing "Washington Times" group, cited "scores" of sources, including intelligence sources, who claimed that the FBI was convinced that Amdocs, a contractor for upgrading the White House's telephony system, had listed to conversations in the president's residence...In another report, Cameron said Comverse Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: CMVT) subsidiary Comverse Infosys, a provider of surveillance equipment to US law enforcement agencies, was itself conducting secret wiretapping through a back door in the equipment it installed.
03-10-06 - House committee votes to restrict P.A. aid The U.S. House of Representatives? Appropriations Committee added restrictions to Palestinian Authority aid before referring a bill to the full House.
03-10-06 - Israelis were warned on illegality of settlements in 1967 memo The Israeli acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has made it clear that while Israel is prepared to withdraw further settlements from the West Bank, it intends, unilaterally if it cannot reach a negotiated peace deal, to annex territory occupied by others, including the three big settlement blocks of Ma'ale Admumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel.The Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, 78, who is still in a coma, had secured assurances from President George Bush that borders in a "final status" agreement with the Palestinians would allow such blocks to remain in Israel
03-10-06 - Settlers uproot 50 trees Olive trees near Hebron
03-10-06 - Abbas willing to grant extra time on forming Hamas government
03-10-06 - Ya?alon: Don?t rule out force for Iran Western nations should not rule out using military force against Iran, Israel?s former military chief said.
03-10-06 - Acting PM Unveils Sweeping Plan for Israel Israel also would keep most of Jerusalem, including its disputed holy sites
03-10-06 - EU threatens Palestinian aid cut The European Union has warned it will cut funding to a Palestinian government led by Hamas if the group fails to renounce violence against Israel.
03-10-06 - 'US not doing enough to stop Iran' "America needs to get its act together," the official said. "Until now the US administration has just been talking tough but the time has come for the Americans to begin to take tough action." Wow.
03-10-06 - Israeli plan to finalise borders is act of war: Hamas chief "This is not a peace plan, but a war declaration, which will permit Israel to stay in the largest section of the West Bank, to maintain their wall and settlements, to refuse all concessions on Jerusalem and to reject the Palestinians' right of return."
03-10-06 - Israel firm on Iran, reticent on military action "Ultimately, our objective is that the international community prevents the Iranians from developing non-conventional weapons, and Israel has helped in efforts to get the case brought before the UN Security Council," Olmert said. Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz also appeared to downplay Yaalon's comments to the Hudson Institute in Washington,
The Hudson Institute recently welcomed neocon Lewis Libby to its ranks, go figure.
03-10-06 - Paul Findley: Seek Justice, Only Justice In Middle East policy, America ignores injustice, because religion-based passions here at home override even vital national interests. Our bias is not controlled by government officials but by two peculiar, politically powerful religious communities -- fundamentalist Christianity, on one hand, and on the other an extreme element of Judaism. Together, they burden our country year after year with an Israel-centric foreign policy that is disastrous to America's vital interests. Both groups have a deep-seated, passionate attachment to the State of Israel, no matter how outrageous its behavior becomes. Both are represented powerfully in Washington and exert a suffocating level of influence throughout America's political system, as well as in almost every other part of our society.
03-10-06 - Israel Border to Follow Barrier Route Olmert said he would retain control over Jerusalem, including areas of the city claimed by the Palestinians for a future capital, and build another large West Bank settlement near the city Remember when Israel said that the wall is not a border? That the wall will be moved? Right.
03-10-06 - 4 Qassams hit Israel Four Kassam rockets were fired at Israel on Friday, causing no injuries and no damage.
03-10-06 - US presses Palestinian moderates to stay out of Hamas government US officials are exerting pressure on moderate Palestinian politicians not to serve in a Hamas-led government and have warned that Washington would sever existing contacts with them if they did.
03-10-06 - Four Palestinians injured in Israeli shelling
03-10-06 - 15 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in W. Bank
03-10-06 - Residents, Israelis and International peace activists protest against the annexation Wall Soldiers attacked the peaceful processions in the two villages and fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs at the protesters before attacking them with batons.
03-10-06 - Karni crossing opens just part of day on Friday At 8:00 a.m., Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had ordered the opening delayed for security reasons. By the time the crossing was opened, most of the Palestinian laborers waiting to enter Israel had already gone home. And Israel is back to its usual BS.
03-10-06 - Hamas will accept funding from Iran: Meshaal
03-10-06 - "Thou Shalt Not Criticize the Zionists!"
03-10-06 - U.K. Play Seen as Pro-Palestinian Faces Rough Atlantic Crossing But in the case of ''Rachel Corrie,'' Nicola appears to have had an epiphany. Realizing that the work was likely to be viewed as pro-Palestinian, he determined that the play demanded ''contextualizing'' with such politically correct accoutrements as panel discussions, forums with the cast, perhaps a pairing with a pro-Israeli play.
03-10-06 - Palestinian Child Festival; Al-Ahmar Invests $1M
03-10-06 - Palestine for strengthening ties with India
03-10-06 - MacKay meets Annan, signals active role at UN on some contentious issues Canada had just voted against a resolution critical of Israel in the Commission on the Status of Women. Last year, Canada abstained from the same resolution, which condemns Israel for its treatment of Palestinian women Canada - the newest Israeli-occupied territory.
03-10-06 - ANALYSIS - Islamists gain in Mideast with freedoms agenda
03-10-06 - Israeli Arab gallery breaks taboos
03-10-06 - International Muslim group denounces widespread Western 'double standards' Their defense of freedom of expression and human rights were undermined by the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the US-led occupation of Iraq, and Israel's occupation of Palestine, he said during a visit to London
03-10-06 - MADE IN PALESTINE ART EXHIBIT TO OPEN IN NEW YORK CITY
03-10-06 - Bush: Hezbollah must disarm Hezbollah continues to attack Israel six years after Israel withdrew to U.N.-certified borders. Israel continues to violate the airspace of Lebanon.
03-10-06 - ADL: U.N. Human Rights Official Uses Status To Promote Anti-Israel Bias The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called for the immediate dismissal of a United Nations Human Rights Commission official for his "outrageous accusations" in a report that accuses Israel of human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.
03-10-06 - Israelis Want Aipac-Backed Bill Softened They argued that at this point the bill could end up limiting the diplomatic flexibility of the new Israeli government in dealings with the new P.A. regime. In addition, Israeli officials said, the bill may place the onus of providing for the wellbeing of the Palestinian population on Israel, the occupying power in the territories. The bill could also result in the cancellation of several internationally funded aid programs in which Israel has a vital interest, in fields such as public health, water and sewage. ..Israel does not want to see the U.N. agency dissolved out of fear that Jerusalem would end up inheriting the responsibility for the welfare of about 1.5 million refugees in the West Bank and Gaza. ...Israeli officials said that Israel has coordinated its positions on Hamas and the P.A. with Aipac..but could not say whether Israel had consulted regarding specific provisions of the bill. The measure, according to several congressional staffers who followed its development, was drafted with the active involvement of Aipac's staff. Israeli officials would not say whether they suggested to Aipac that the bill be softened.
THis is why AIPAC needs to register as a foreign agent. They are acting on behalf of Israel, not America, in case you hadn't noticed.
03-10-06 - Remarks by President Bush at the National Newspaper Association Government Affairs Conference I'm concerned about -- I would say they're equal, Iran and North Korea, as for a security threat, because any time there's a non-transparent regime without a free press to hold people to account, it creates an unpredictability in the world. The Iranian President has stated his desire to destroy our ally, Israel. So when you start listening to what he has said, to their desire to develop a nuclear weapon, then you begin to see an issue of grave national security concern. Israel is our 'grave national security concern, straight from the Bushes mouth.
03-10-06 - A poignant atlas of Palestinian dispossession and exile There is a good new book that helps people work through such dilemmas. The book is Salman H. Abu-Sitta's monumental "Atlas of Palestine 1948," recently published by the London-based Palestine Land Society (www.plands.org) and available worldwide in the offices of Saqi Books or the Institute of Palestine Studies.
03-10-06 - Syrian: Rabin almost made peace Yitzhak Rabin?s murder prevented a peace deal between Israel and Syria, a former top Syrian official said.
03-10-06 - Hamas will ask Saudi Arabia to continue support
03-10-06 - Women in Palestine
03-10-06 - Source: Hamas to take key gov't security portfolio
03-10-06 - Finkelstein Rethinks Israel-Palestine Finkelstein also voiced his belief that claims about a "new anti-Semitism" are little more than attempts to silence criticism of Israel
03-10-06 - Bil?in Continues to Defy Israeli Violence
03-10-06 - Drawn into a blueprint of bias Apparently anyone associated with such a position ? in other words, anyone taking a principled stand in favor of human rights and international law ? may have to count himself out of a contract for the Javits Center....This is only the most recent example of Israel's American defenders ? who will not tolerate any criticism of Israel ? using their political clout to punish or silence dissident voices
03-10-06 - Hamas gets more time for cabinet
03-10-06 - Too hot for New York, Rachel Corrie's story plays here The play is uncritically on Corrie's side. Israel is represented as a big foot crushing innocent Palestinians. The plot features no Hamas-sponsored violence and no suicide bombers bent on earthly havoc followed by spiritual glory. Not only that, representatives of the Palestine Solidarity Committee are passing out literature in the lobby. There's no table representing Israel.
I'm sorry but since when does a play have to feature the other side of a story, or 'balance'? It's a PLAY!
03-10-06 - Study note to Jewish campus groups: Embrace universalism to be effective "You have to do Israel education," Sales says, "but in the second semester, or later. It's not the way to build community in the first semester."
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