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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
03-13-06 - Palestinian farmers say Israel taking their land TONY EASTLEY: Palestinian farmers are accusing Israel of throwing them off their land in a bid to annex the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. Their claims have been backed up by an Israeli human rights group, which says it has proof that the Israeli Army is quietly implementing new controls on Palestinian residency and movement.
03-13-06 - Some 2,000 Palestinians banned from entering Jordan Valley Thousands of dunams of land have been illegally transferred to settlements and army bases in the area.
03-13-06 - Israel starts work on settlement expansion - source Israel has begun construction to link a West Bank settlement to Jerusalem, sources in the prime minister's office said on Monday, in a move a Palestinian official said could torpedo future peace talks Who is the biggest obstacle to peace? How is building settlements on confiscated land in the interest of Israeli security?
03-13-06 - Israel begins new construction on W. Bank land - sources Israel has begun new construction on occupied West Bank land near Jerusalem, sources in interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said on Monday, days after he had warned Israel could set permanent borders. This is an earlier version of the settlements story from Reuters. Notice how Reuters self-corrected some of the terms they used in this earlier version - such as 'West Bank land', and 'occupied territory'.
03-13-06 - Israeli Settlers attack Palestinian farmers; injure four, including one child The Palestine News Network reported that the attack was carried out during a voluntary work session conducted by the Israeli organization Rabbis for Human Rights, who were planting olive trees in solidarity with the Palestinian farmers and cave dwellers of the area.
03-13-06 - Ending Ban, Olmert Ally Meets With Abbas Elder statesman Shimon Peres secretly met the Palestinian president in Jordan with the blessing of acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, ending a ban that followed the victory by the militant group Hamas in Palestinian elections, Israel said Monday.
03-13-06 - Israeli Army resumes work on a new settler road in the middle of Hebron Israeli army bulldozers resumed work on a road for 'Israeli Settlers only' which will cut through the middle of the old city of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Monday morning.
03-13-06 - U.S. May Shift Aid From Palestinian Authority to Relief Agencies
03-13-06 - Israeli warplanes overfly Lebanon Beirut has filed repeated complaints to the United Nations -- which has in turn called for Israel to halt violations of Lebanese airspace -- following the May 2000 Israeli troop pullout from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
03-13-06 - Hamas case testimony in U.S. continues out of eye of public, press Prosecutors say the measures are needed to protect the Israelis from possible retribution by Hamas terrorists. Mr. Salah's attorneys argue their client has a constitutional right to confront his accusers....What is rare about the Salah case, according to Northwestern University law professor Ron Allen, is Judge St. Eve's decision to block the agents' testimony from the public....Prosecutors will make transcripts of the testimony public -- minus material that the government deems classified under the federal Classified Information Procedures Act.
03-13-06 - Hamas pushes for coalition deal The meeting reportedly ended without agreement, but Hamas was expected to submit a new draft programme before talks continued on Tuesday.
03-13-06 - The piper's pipe dream: Tom Fox' vision for Hebron
03-13-06 - Mubarak says EU must not cut aid to Palestinians "The aid is used by the man-in-the-street to buy medicine and to send his children to school. If this money is cut, terrorism will grow and all the (Palestinian) people will suffer,"
03-13-06 - CDI in Israel petitions High Court against Gaza-West Bank travel ban The Center for the Defense of the Individual, in Israel, filed on Monday a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice, demanding the army to lift or lessen the restrictions on Palestinians wishing to travel between the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
03-13-06 - Olmert to declare Ariel part of Israel during visit 'Ariel' is an illegal settlement built in the West Bank.
03-13-06 - Fatah faces US cutoff if it joins Hamas government Washington plans to curtail contacts with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction and other parties if they join a Palestinian government led by the Hamas militant group, Western diplomatic sources said on Monday.
03-13-06 - Israeli Counter-Terrorism Expert Trains Police At Mall
03-13-06 - Jewish Settlers Despair Before Election Beyond the violence, Israeli critics of the settlers have long complained that the settlers have led the nation astray for decades and antagonized the international community. Israeli governments have invested billions of dollars in settlement construction, including generous subsidies for settlers.
03-13-06 - The revolutionary matriarch of Hamas "People voted for Hamas not for their beliefs and not for their attitudes toward peace and Israel. They voted for Hamas because they are tired of Fatah and their corruption," says Nabil Kukali, the head of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, in Beit Sahour in the West Bank.
03-13-06 - Eceptionist(R) Begins Palestine Service
03-13-06 - Interfaith Group Prays for Peace in Iraq at U.S. Capitol The council recently awarded the controversial, Oscar-nominated movie "Paradise Now," which tells the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers, with its 15th Annual Media Award
03-13-06 - Israel avoids wrangling with Straw Israel will not make an issue over British Foreign Minister Jack Straw's statement last week that after the world deals with Iran's nuclear "threat," it will deal with Israel's.
03-13-06 - Palestinian leader to meet EU officials in Strasbourg "The EU will continue to be a reliable partner for the Palestinian people, around half of whom live in deep poverty,"
03-13-06 - Cardinal: Holy Land at critical stage Cardinal McCarrick, a member of the CRS board, visited a CRS kindergarten project in Bethlehem, West Bank. He also celebrated Mass at a parish in the West Bank village of Aboud....The barrier is one of the reasons cited for the decline in the Catholic population, he noted, and while it may have seemed necessary to the Israeli authorities, it seemed "harsh and unreasonable to those who have lost property." If completed as planned, the barrier were stretch nearly 400 miles and restrict the movements of 38 percent of residents of the West Bank.
The cardinal pointed specifically to Bethlehem as an example of a city whose lands have shrunk significantly because of Israeli security measures, causing many of the local businesses to close.
"I obviously worry about the economy of that very important town which always had a large Christian population," he said.
03-13-06 - Bethlehem Calling According to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) of December 2004, Bethlehem is surrounded by 78 physical obstacles, including illegal Israeli settlements, settler-only roads, checkpoints and military roadblocks, and of course the Wall.
03-13-06 - Israeli Elections as Palestinian-Killing Contest
03-13-06 - Israeli police issue unjustified tickets to Palestinian drivers The drivers said that police chased some of them and issued tickets with extremely high fines without any justification.
03-13-06 - On the Side of the Peacemakers I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine. I met people who didn?t have that vision, like Iraqis did, that their situation was going to change in the near future
03-13-06 - Students deliver Torah to Israel The students will receive shooting lessons from the police while in Israel.
03-13-06 - Paris confirms Abbas' visit to Paris on Friday
03-13-06 - Americans enter Holocaust cartoon contest One cartoon shows an Israeli soldier pointing a gun at a Palestinian's head with the words, "What has Ariel Sharon learned from the Holocaust?"
03-13-06 - Greenhouses in Gaza suffer export blow Greenhouses bought on behalf of Palestinians by Jewish American benefactors are losing up to $130,000 a day in export sales because of Israeli restrictions on produce leaving the Gaza Strip, says the company running the project
03-13-06 - Palestine will never forgets Indonesia's help, support
03-13-06 - Israeli, U.S. labor leaders sign pact The agreement ? the first between an Israeli and a U.S. city ? was signed by Rich Rogers, executive secretary-treasurer of the Greater Boston Labor Council, and Baruch Zalts, chairman of the Histadrut-Haifa Labor Council
03-13-06 - European socialists open on Hamas Leaders of European socialist parties said Europe should be open to talks with a Palestinian government led by Hamas.
03-13-06 - Poll: England, Canada top list of foreign friends American voters feel that England, Canada and Israel are their country's best friends, Propaganda really does work. Go figure.
03-13-06 - Writers and Readers Week: Joe Sacco Joe Sacco is a cartoonist best known for his journalistic comics focusing on war zones. Palestine depicts stories and his experiences in Israel and the Palestinian territories - other works have focued on the Bosnian War and he is currently working on a book about the Rafah refugee camp.
03-13-06 - Seeds of Peace Experience Brings New Responsibilities After returning home to Hebron and seeing the suffering and despair that he had escaped while in the United States, Fadi, a Palestinian Seed, said, "in my mind I felt extremely selfish that I had this opportunity. ? There is nothing to worry about (in America) compared to what they have."
03-13-06 - Rabbis call for Sudan action The program also featured a briefing on the topic by John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at the offices of the Anti-Defamation League. The neocon hero du jour, John Bolton, doing the bidding of pro-Israel organizations. It's doubtful that these orgs would give a rat's about Darfur if it weren't for the fact that it's Arabs that are doing the crimes therein.
03-13-06 - Seeking an end to a history of violence Zaru maintains that fundamentalists who believe Israelis have the sole rights to Israel misrepresent Scripture, and that flawed perspective, unless corrected, will continue to bring bloodshed and violence.....Israel recently denied Zaru permission to travel to Jerusalem for a conference to discuss nonviolent solutions. Though her case was presented several times, each time she was refused entry. The Israelis said the denial was for "security" reasons.
03-13-06 - 2 comedians try to narrow Mideast rift Blakeman, who is Jewish, and Obeidallah, who is of Palestinian descent, are stand-up comedians who perform around the country, hoping to unite two cultures that have been bitterly divided.
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