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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
03-27-06 - Palestinian militant killed by Israeli army in Gaza Strip
03-27-06 - Palestinians furious over new checkpoint restrictions The Israeli military said that as of Wednesday, Palestinians would be banned from crossing the Qalandiya checkpoint on the main road connecting the city of Ramallah to Arab neighbourhoods of east Jerusalem.
03-27-06 - The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie went to Gaza to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians, whose voice is seldom heard in her country, the US. That she herself should be silenced - first by an Israeli bulldozer, next by a New York theatre cancelling a play created from her words - is a testimony to the power of her message.
03-27-06 - EU, Arab, lawmakers warn of chaos if aid cut to PA Cutting aid to the Palestinians, on top of Israel's refusal to hand over tax revenue, could lead to chaos as the local economy cannot meet the population's basic needs, European and Arab lawmakers said on Monday.
03-27-06 - Fearing riots, Israel bars Jews from Temple Mount Israeli police have barred Jews from entering Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Al Aqsa mosque compound after fears that Jewish extremists would incite riots there ahead of general election.
03-27-06 - Hamas presents gov't to parliament Hamas called yesterday for talks with Western powers to try to reach a "just peace" in the Middle East but showed no sign of softening its stance on Israel as it presented its government to the Palestinian Parliament.
03-27-06 - Hamas urges talks on "just peace" in Mideast Haniyeh peppered his speech with language that could be seen by some foreign powers as more conciliatory.
03-27-06 - Middle East elections limit U.S. peace role Professor Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution said the United States would not publicly take a position on the expansion of settlements, which the Palestinians oppose, but would tacitly give a "yellow light" to such a plan.
03-27-06 - Palestinians cull chickens to contain H5N1 bird flu Palestinian agriculture officials began poisoning 15,000 chickens in the Gaza Strip on Monday following an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.
03-27-06 - Military force can't destroy our atomic program: Iran Soltaniyeh said that after Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear power plant at Osirak in 1981, then Iraqi-leader Saddam Hussein bombed Iran's Bushehr plant. The Security Council then passed a resolution condemning the attacks and making it illegal for countries to strike nuclear facilities.
But Soltaniyeh said those U.N. documents were "just pieces of paper" today to the United States and Israel.
A retired U.S. Air Force colonel and well-known war gaming expert told the conference the United States was under increasing pressure to use military force to destroy Iran's atomic sites and would make a decision on this option soon.
03-27-06 - US rebuffs Hamas offer of dialogue
03-27-06 - From 1997: Fulbright Called for U.S. Defense Pact With Israel But Was Labeled Anti-Semite This article from 1997 describes Senator Fulbright's version of the Harvard study of the Israeli lobby. Same s$#t, different decade.
03-27-06 - Israeli couple jailed over computer virus The Haephratis tried to market the virus to Israel's defense agencies .. who in turn said, 'No thanks, we've already got some!'....
03-27-06 - Check Point Loses Match Point With the possible exception of the Holy See, there's no country in the world less likely to attack the U.S. or aid terrorists than Israel. Evidently the author doesn't know about this incident, or perhaps this one.
03-27-06 - Academic Israeli path goes astray By Boston Herald editorial staff
This editorial from the Boston Globe follows closely the one by Jeff Jacoby in the same edition from yesterday's news.
03-27-06 - Shanghai's help for Jews hailed (Foxman of the ADL) added there were three reasons for the group's tour of the country....."And the last is to strengthen the relationship between China and Israel," he said.
Thus does the Israeli lobby take root in China.
03-27-06 - Hamas seeks $170 million per month from Arabs
03-27-06 - Israelis Rally Around Idea of Separation Thirty-nine years of occupation has taken a great toll, placing millions of Palestinians under the occupier's gun while Jewish settlers living just down the road enjoy full rights. A rare moment of honesty for the Associated Press. Wait 'til CAMERA sees it.
03-27-06 - Water reservoirs benefit farmers in Jordan Valley
03-27-06 - Hebron Update: 14-20 March 2006 A CPT intern joined Israeli activists, EAPPI, and farmers from Beit Ummar and
Saafa to plant 500 olive trees near Beit Ein where more than 1500 trees had been
uprooted the year before
03-27-06 - Olmert on verge of winning his border battle Israelis are expected to elect a government today that plans for the first time to set the final borders of the Jewish state - ending years of expansionism but still holding on to significant parts of the occupied territories.
03-27-06 - Palestinian militant refused bail
03-27-06 - HIAS: Keep immigration policies humanitarian Is this a policy they would support for Israel ? Be consistent, please.
03-27-06 - Palestinian rights advocate blocked from U.S. The U.S. State Department blocked a Palestinian human-rights advocate from entering the United States
03-27-06 - An Open Letter to President Jimmy Carter
03-27-06 - Rachel Corrie's Words Workshop officials said that given the controversial political nature of the play that they felt a need to either rewrite(!) ?My Name? to provide a more balanced context or to hold off on performing it until they could present it alongside another yet to be written piece that focused on testimonies of Israeli victims of terror.
03-27-06 - ATK, Boeing partnering on Israeli missile-defense system Alliant Techsystems Inc. said Monday it has signed on to help Boeing Co. in its pursuit of a contract for Israel's short-range ballistic missile defense system, designed to protect the country from short-range missiles and long-range artillery.
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