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Saturday, March 18, 2006
03-17-06 - Israeli Troops kill 8-year old child near Jenin The family of the child, and eyewitnesses denied the military allegations and confirmed that the child was shot near her house.
03-17-06 - Israel confirms bird flu outbreak The source of the outbreak has not been determined, but the Israeli army is reported to have asked the Palestinian Authority to deliver blood samples from poultry in Gaza.
03-17-06 - Israeli border police shoot dead 10 year old girl
03-17-06 - 12-year old child killed by Israeli forces near Ramallah Why aren't any of our news wires reporting on these deaths anymore. The killing of the girl today, got a mention, but it's strange how these deaths go almost completely unreported these days by MSM.
03-17-06 - Two Palestinians killed in Gaza explosion The two were apparently killed when a homemade shell detonated while they were carrying it, a Palestinian security source reported.
03-17-06 - Fatah Officials Call for Abbas to Resign In violence Friday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 10-year-old girl during an operation in the West Bank village of Yamoun, the girl's father, Abdul Rahman Zaed, said. The girl was in a car with her uncle, who was shot in the head and arrested, Zaed said.
03-17-06 - Gazans queue for bread as shortages loom
03-17-06 - Defiant Hamas draws up Palestinian cabinet list "To this date, I have not seen a positive Hamas reaction in respect of any of these principles," David Welch told Reuters. Hamas says Israel, as an occupying power, must take the first step and recognize Palestinian rights
03-17-06 - Vigils around the world commemorate third anniversary of Rachel Corrie's murder Throughout the world on Thursday, vigils and readings were staged in Rachel's memory. In Israel, Palestine, Jordan, London and in over 70 places around the world, including in Rachel's hometown of Olympia, Washington, USA, friends, family and supporters gathered to read aloud Rachel's words, words which, in their simplicity and straightforwardness, have managed to create such controversy.
03-17-06 - Gaza farmers dumping their crops The problem is that the Israelis have blocked Gaza's export route.
03-17-06 - The Israel Lobby * For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ?democracy? throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state? Sweet Jesus. Right on the money. You can read this paper in PDF format here. It is 83 pages long.
03-17-06 - Fatah stays out of Hamas cabinet The Fatah movement of the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has refused to join a government being formed by Hamas.
03-17-06 - Palestinians may sue Britain over storming of Jericho jail The initial focus of the legal consultations in the UK - and with the Palestinian lawyers in touch with Mr Saadat in the Israeli interrogation centre in Jeru-salem - is Article Five of the European Convention of Human Rights. It deals with the proper treatment of prisoners in detention.
03-17-06 - B'Tselem: Treatment of Jericho detainees violated int'l law
03-17-06 - As bills advance to cut off P.A., administration weighs aid approach In testimony Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. security envoy to the Palestinians, pleaded with senators not to tie his hands.
"The less restrictive that the legislature can be on our activities, the more flexibility it will give me as a military man to deal with situations that are inevitably very chaotic and unexpected," Dayton said. It was highly unusual for a military figure to explicitly oppose legislation. ......APN blitzed the Hill with a bulletin headlined "questions to ask AIPAC," the first time the dovish group has openly taken on the pro-Israel powerhouse during its policy conference. "Why should Congress change U.S. law, permanently, in a way that weakens and embarrasses our best hope for a future Palestinian partner (people like former Minister of Finance Salam Fayyad, who is now an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council), and strengthens extremists?" it asked.
03-17-06 - Donors weigh paying Palestinian salaries directly Donor countries are looking into the possibility of paying salaries directly to 140,000 Palestinian Authority employees as a way to bypass a new Hamas-led government, Western diplomats said on Friday.
03-17-06 - Study: U.S. Middle East policy motivated by pro-Israel lobby "No lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical," write the authors of the study.
03-17-06 - UN sounds fears over Israeli border UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged the leaders of Israel, Syria and Lebanon to take steps to ease tensions along Israel's northern border following reports a possible confrontation may be in the works, the United Nations said on Thursday.
03-17-06 - Israel's colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter Chris McGreal of the Guardian UK comes through with this article about Jimmy Carter's latest piece about Palestine that was entirely ignored by the American press.
03-17-06 - IDF extends seal on territories as humanitarian state worsens A closure on Palestinian areas, meant to end Thursday after Purim, has been extended until at least next week, and the Israel Defense Forces is inclined to continue it until after the March 28 elections....Israel's tightening of security procedures has exacted a heavy humanitarian toll in the territories since the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January, according to a United Nations report obtained by Haaretz last month.
03-17-06 - A wall that enlarges Israel and embitters its victims Mr Khalil, who gives his age as about 80, lives in the West Bank village of Wadi Fukin, whose fields have been confiscated by the nearby settlement of Betar Illit. He broke down in tears when asked if he would have to leave. "I can't take any more of this. We were born here and will die here."....These villagers are caught up by what Israel calls US assurances to Ariel Sharon, the prime minister who has been in a coma since January, that it will be allowed to keep the large settlements being de facto annexed to Israel by the barrier
03-17-06 - ADC Remembers Rachel Corrie
03-17-06 - Group honors Mideast peace activist Corrie
03-17-06 - Israeli soldier killed by comrade An Israeli soldier who was killed in a fierce gun battle in the West Bank on Thursday was killed by friendly fire, an army investigation has found.
03-17-06 - Ismail Haniyeh: "I Never Sent Anyone on a Suicide Mission" CBS quoted Israeli officials as saying they have no evidence connecting Haniyeh to any terror attacks. However, Haniyeh is a senior official in Hamas, which has ordered many terror attacks, is responsible for scores of Israeli deaths and pledges to destroy Israel.
03-17-06 - President Abbas Receives Phone Call from British Foreign Secretary President Abbas asked Mr. Straw to work on the return of the captured Palestinians and not to put them to trial before Israeli courts in accordance with the Palestinian-Israeli signed agreements.
03-17-06 - Gaza Clinic a Lesson In Anatomy of Chaos
03-17-06 - Talk Is Cheap: "Dialogue" vs. Divestment In the Struggle for Justice in Palestine
03-17-06 - Palestinian diplomat takes on Israel, AIPAC and U.S. "We are the Jews of the Jews, a wandering Palestinian global tribe, dispersed from Scandinavia to Australia," said Safieh, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization mission in Washington, D.C.
03-17-06 - IDF preparing for PFLP revenge attacks in wake of Jericho raid The army fears Palestinian terror groups may attempt to abduct Israelis in an attempt to exchange prisoners, Israel Radio reported Friday.
03-17-06 - Common Ground: Bush and Jewish community Mirroring the sentiments of the Israeli right wing, powerful groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee want that door slammed shut until Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces violence. American Christian fundamentalist groups, meanwhile, which have been strong supporters of Israel of late, take much the same view as their more hawkish Jewish-American counterparts. Both these groups are vital constituencies for Bush, and have influence in the White House and in the House and Senate, particularly with congressional elections next November. Indeed, they could make the president's life almost as complicated as dealing with Hamas.
03-17-06 - Trojan spyware couple face jail
03-17-06 - Christian Ministers Unite to Decry Denigration of Prophet The organization has brought thousands of interreligious clergy to visit Israel and Gaza in more than a dozen delegations over the past 3 years to interface with the children of Abraham in constructive dialogue, leading participants to a greater understanding and appreciation of each other's faith
03-17-06 - Watchdogs Target Small Arms, Saying Dealers 'Defy UN Embargoes' Last year's report further faulted: ...the United States for ramped-up sales to Israel and Pakistan
03-17-06 - OPEC Fund extends US$2.5 million grant for urgent housing project in Palestine
03-17-06 - Foreign correspondent faults Christian Zionists In a talk given at Ottawa's First Unitarian Congregation on March 10, former CBC foreign correspondent David Halton laid much of the blame for the failure to resolve the Middle East conflict at the feet of the Christian Right in the United States. Their influence on American foreign policy has, he said, eliminated "any significant U.S. role as an honest broker between Israelis and Palestinians." ....Christian Zionists have, said Halton, raised some $100 million to promote expansion of settlements on the West Bank and to encourage Jewish immigration to Israel. They flooded the White House with 100,000 e-mails to protest President Bush's urging that Sharon pull troops out of Jenin on the West Bank. About 100 Congressmen and Senators are Christian Zionists, he said....On a visit to Israel, Tom DeLay, former House majority whip, announced, "I don't see occupied territories; I see Israel."
03-17-06 - U.S. doctors question quality of medical care given to Sharon "One striking part of Mr. Sharon's saga is that he was taken in an ambulance for a trip to an emergency room more than one hour away,"
03-17-06 - Japanese Food Aid to Palestinians through UNRWA, WFP The Government of Japan has decided to extend food aid totaling 660 million yen (approximately US 6 million) for Palestinian refugees and other Palestinian population through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
03-17-06 - Predictions of a better Middle East have evaporated three years after invasion Although Israel tacitly backed the effort to oust Saddam and some of its American allies urged the U.S. to attack, there's now broad, if quiet, criticism of the way the United States has handled the postwar period.
03-17-06 - Festival backs Palestine
03-17-06 - "You won?t impose your wall on us!"
03-17-06 - Terror suspect reveals the daily misery of life under control order Mahmoud Abu Rideh, 34, was born in Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents.
03-17-06 - Images from a floating world Do Israelis live in a bubble? Karma Nabulsi assesses Linda Grant's The People on the Street
03-17-06 - Books on sexuality drew most complaints in U.S. This year, Three Wishes, a book featuring interviews with Palestinian and Israeli children, has been withdrawn from a reading list at the York and Toronto District School Boards after a challenge by the Canadian Jewish Congress.
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