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Saturday, March 25, 2006
03-24-06 - Deadly bird flu spreads in Gaza Strip
03-24-06 - Israel Drops Bid To Curb Palestinian Refugee Body Sources said that Israel is in dire need of reliable international bodies to deliver increased humanitarian aid to the Palestinian population. Those sources cited Jerusalem's desire to maintain stability in the West Bank and Gaza and avoid being forced to assume responsibility for the welfare of the Palestinians if the U.N. agency were forced to leave...A State Department official confirmed that Israeli diplomats in fact discussed with UNRWA officials the possibility of extending the organization's mandate in order to serve the nonrefugee population in the West Bank and Gaza...Pro-Israel lobbyists appear to be following Jerusalem's lead, as support among Jewish groups for immediate congressional action against UNRWA has decreased. Oops, that well-orchestrated smear campaign of UNRWA by the Jewish Telegraph Agency from last week may have been in haste. Read on in the article about Kirk's legislation. Israel's unlawful occupation of the Palestinian Territories has created one of the biggest humanitarian disasters of our time.
03-24-06 - Abbas says he proposed secret talks with Israelis In an interview with Israel's Haaretz newspaper published on Friday, Abbas said he proposed opening "a back channel of talks" to U.S. officials and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres, who has spearheaded peace efforts in the past.
03-24-06 - Lebanese ministers visit refugee camp for first time Education Minister Khaled Kabbani, who headed the group, expressed outrage about the living conditions in the camps. "What we saw in this camp is a true humanitarian drama that must shake the international consciousness," the minister said. Most Palestinians living in Lebanon are denied basic civil rights, including Lebanese citizenship, the right to work in many professions and to own property
The Palestinians are 'the Jews' of the modern-day world, as someone once said.
03-24-06 - Olmert says Haniyeh an enemy, wants to try Meshaal
03-24-06 - Israel breaks up West Bank barrier protest, 17 wounded Seventeen Palestinians were lightly injured as Israeli troops broke up a weekly protest against Israel's West Bank separation barrier and made arrests.
03-24-06 - Rice presses case to get supplies into Palestinian territories Israel has virtually sealed off its frontier with the Palestinian territories, and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that the Gaza Strip faces a humanitarian disaster if more supplies are not delivered to the impoverished territory, where stocks of flour, wheat and sugar are low. The fear of ISRAEL has been put into her. That is, Israel's fear of being responsible for the people in the territory it occupies - which is required by international law.
03-24-06 - Russian Immigrant Party Up in Israel Polls Avigdor Lieberman wants to swap Arabs for Jews in drawing Israel's final borders, and that platform has made him the surprise up-and-comer in Tuesday's elections "New presidential candidate John Doe wants to swap blacks for whites in drawing up America's new borders..." Imagine the uproar at such a headline in the United States of America? Save for the human rights orgs in Israel, it's met with silence. And why? Indeed, why.
03-24-06 - Jewish pressure drives Gaza play out of New York A public meeting attended by the activist's parents on Wednesday at a New York church brought messages of support from the writers Maya Angelou and Alice Walker, Mariam Said, wife of the late Dr Edward Said, and the actors Vanessa Redgrave and Eve Ensler. By video, Patti Smith performed Peaceable Kingdom, dedicated to Ms Corrie.
03-24-06 - Abbas to Deny Hamas Access to Big Fund A Palestinian investment fund that controls hundreds of millions of dollars will remain under the control of President Mahmoud Abbas, a senior aide said Friday - a move that would deny Hamas militants access to the money after they take control of parliament next week.
03-24-06 - Settlers uproot olive trees in Hebron Several farmers from Yatta village reported that settlers of Sosia illegal settlement outpost repeatedly attacked them and their orchards over the last month and uprooted at least 400 olive trees which were recently planted there.
03-24-06 - Abbas tells Hamas it must cooperate with Israel or fail
03-24-06 - No exports allowed out of the OPT, losses estimated at USD 500,000 a day The inability to export local agricultural produce at the height of the harvesting season has led to hundreds of tones of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and strawberries going to waste.
03-24-06 - UN refugee agency fears for Baghdad's Palestinians "On Thursday, we heard from the Palestinian community in Baghdad that reportedly over 100 families had received written death threats and that many are in a state of shock and panic,"
03-24-06 - From 2002: Intractable Foes, Warring Narratives COLUMNISTS AND COMMENTATORS WHO CAN BE COUNTED UPON TO SUPPORT ISRAEL REFLEXIVELY AND WITHOUT QUALIFICATION:
03-24-06 - KSG Seeks Distance from Paper Yesterday?s issue of The New York Sun reported that an "observer" familiar with Harvard said that the University had received calls from "pro-Israel donors" concerned about the KSG paper. Everything that the pro-Israelis have said and done thus far in response to this study - have proven the ENTIRE PREMISE OF THE STUDY.
03-24-06 - Israel Lobby Paper Proving Itself True Media, pundits and bloggers will continue to make much ado of David Duke's support, which the pro-Israel Sun elicited in an interview, but not bother mentioning that a shorter version of this paper made it into the prestigious and highly intellectual London Review of Books. That is exactly the state of discourse the paper addresses.
03-24-06 - Harvard's Paper on Israel Drew From Neo-Nazi Sites And the smear campaign continues. Everything that the pro-Israelis have said and done thus far in response to this study - have proven the ENTIRE PREMISE OF THE STUDY.
03-24-06 - UN envoy calls on Lebanon and Syria to firm up borders UN special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen called on Lebanon and Syria to agree on their respective borders in the controversial Shebaa Farms area, which is occupied by Israel.
03-24-06 - Hamas government may see decline in attacks: Israel chief of staff "The formation of a government led by Hamas will not necessarily lead to an increase in terrorism, perhaps even the contrary," he said in comments carried by army radio.
03-24-06 - ANALYSIS - Stark problems await Hamas-led Palestinian Authority
03-24-06 - American Muslims gaining a foothold in politics Up to a third of American Muslims are African-Americans who vote mostly for Democrats. The rest come from Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa.
03-24-06 - Constitutional Questions Show in AIPAC Case Prosecutor Kevin DiGregory argued that the law regulates conduct, not speech, and therefore does not merit the same level of scrutiny. He also said that "the national security interests of the United States" require that the law be upheld.
03-24-06 - Palestinian President Sees Peace Soon
03-24-06 - Lutherans urge world community not to cut off aid to Palestinians The church also demanded that Israel reverse its freeze on about $50 million a month in taxes that it collects for the Palestinian Authority.
03-24-06 - Neocon rag bashes Jimmy Carter for supporting real democracy, not neocon 'democracy' His latest pieces that demonstrated sympathy for the ordinary Palestinians no doubt pushed the fire-breathing neocons over the edge. They're out for blood now.
03-24-06 - US rappers sing for Palestine
03-24-06 - For activist's supporters, the show does go on
03-24-06 - First Displaced, Then Attacked Since the beginning of the second Intifadah, or Palestinian uprising in 2000, Jewish settlers have killed 24 Palestinians in the occupied territories, says Bassem Eid, director-general of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in Jerusalem. "No settler has been arrested or charged, or is facing a trial,"
03-24-06 - President Receives Seeds of Peace Vice President
03-24-06 - Woman Arrested For Midway Bomb Comment Justified Anna Mustafa was checking in for a flight bound for Israel for her father's funeral when she became upset security workers had put her luggage through a screening machine. Convinced she was being singled out because of her Palestinian heritage, Mustafa lashed out at airline employees.
03-24-06 - Common Ground: A journey from Gaza My life took a change for the worse when I was shot on February 18, 2004. The bullet stopped near my spine. The day of the shooting, we were visited by United Nations workers, who had permission to visit us. At the end of the visit, I was standing outside my house, waving them goodbye, when I was shot. This is the same boy from the story U.N. staff see boy shot in back from February of 2004.
03-24-06 - Middle East Women Discuss Importance of Empowerment Dana Jamjoum, a Palestinian, said obstacles to creating and maintaining a business at home include fear and limits on transportation and movement that stifle daily activities.
03-24-06 - Mass. officials attend Israeli conference MacMillan and 130 other senior US security officials attending a counterterrorism conference in Jerusalem found themselves caught up in an unfolding manhunt for a suspected Palestinian suicide bomber.
An hour later, after a dramatic helicopter and motorcycle chase through police roadblocks on the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, Israeli police told the Americans that the would-be bomber had been captured, with 15 pounds of explosives packed with nails and shrapnel.
Aha. This explains a lot about the dramatic chase of those 'suspected bombers' this past week.
03-24-06 - Jewish panel defends Israel Members of the Tulane community have brought Ahmadinejad's comments to light. The Tulane College Democrats, New Orleans Hillel and the Tulane-Israel Public Affairs Committee sponsored a panel discussion entitled "Democracy in the Middle East" to address how the United States and the international community should respond.
03-24-06 - HOW ISRAEL CONTROLS WHAT YOU READ
03-24-06 - KABOBalert: Support Michigan House Resolution Condemning Racist Editor Lemmons, an African American who represents Detroit's far east side, stated, "Nolan Finley's generalization of all Palestinians as terrorists is reminiscent of many stereotypes that my people have been victimized by
03-24-06 - Blair's flawed defence of foreign activism He acknowledges that the lack of western "even handedness" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rankles deeply and plans to expand on this "at a later time". That speech will be worth listening to if it makes clear the UK will not condone illegal land-grabs through which Israel plans to expand its borders.
03-24-06 - Boehner says he won?t let anti-Israel laws through Boehner?s address Monday to 5,000 activists at the AIPAC conference in Washington was his first major foreign policy speech since his fellow Republican legislators elected him on Feb. 3. Boehner was elected after Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) stepped down in the wake of his indictment on charges related to campaign fund-raising.
03-24-06 - U.S. opposes depositions in AIPAC case Lawyers for Steven Rosen, the pro-Israel lobby?s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, asked the court in a motion to be considered Friday to allow three Israeli diplomats to be deposed in the case.
03-24-06 - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc
03-24-06 - Israeli media condemn, discuss report on US-Israel ties
03-24-06 - Libya reiterates support for Palestinians
03-24-06 - Four types of enclave in the West Bank The restrictions on movement that Israel imposes on Palestinians in the West Bank have effectively created four different types of enclaves.
03-24-06 - On a desert trek, former enemies form new bonds But when word was delivered to the group at 2 a.m. Wednesday that all were welcome except the Israelis, they didn't hesitate. "Muslim, Christian, Jewish, we're all one team, one body, one spirit," says Palestinian Mohammad Azzam Alarjah
03-24-06 - Three Wishes Controversy Continues in Ontario Schools The controversy began in February when the Canadian Jewish Council wrote OLA and every school board in the province, asking them to withdraw the title from the reading program, arguing that it lacked historical context, was too sophisticated for children in the recommended age group, and demonized people on both sides of the conflict.
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