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Thursday, March 30, 2006


News for 03-29-06

03-29-06 - Five missiles fired at southern Israel


03-29-06 - Palestinian cabinet is sworn in


03-29-06 - Christian heads in Israel, PA warn against unilateral moves The leaders of the Christian faith in Israel and the Palestinian territories expressed concern over the possibility that the newly elected Israeli government will continue its unilateral withdrawal from the territories:


03-29-06 - Israelis have at last endorsed the gradual return of a stolen inheritance


03-29-06 - Hamas warns of return to violence Hamas warned yesterday that if the new Israeli government did not begin peace negotiations and end the confiscation of Palestinian land it would revert to "armed resistance" to the occupation of the West Bank.


03-29-06 - Arab Leaders Adjourn Annual Summit The summit repeated its plan to provide $55 million a month to the Palestinian Authority, despite Western pressure to close up funding for the Hamas-led government. But most Arab countries have failed to follow through on their pledges since the plan was adopted in 2002, and Wednesday's resolutions contained no language pressing them to pay up.




03-29-06 - Canada halts aid to Palestinian Authority


03-29-06 - Hamas would win any conflict with Israel: Iran


03-29-06 - Palestinian family calls for support to fight eviction in Jerusalem Local sources report that the Jewish National Fund and Israeli Police are forcefully removing the Palestinian Ozlan family from their home in Silwan, East Jerusalem


03-29-06 - Israel must completely withdraw from Palestinian territories: Meshaal


03-29-06 - Result could spell end of US role in pushing for peace the Bush Administration has time and again shown itself reluctant to get involved and certainly does not intend to challenge Israel


03-29-06 - Palestinian farmers receive olive tree seedlings from Canadian Gift Catalogue How long before the Israeli settlers or soldiers uproot them, I wonder?


03-29-06 - Hamas: Israeli Policies Remain Hostile Mashaal said all the top Israeli parties refuse the following Palestinian demands: to give up Arab parts of Jerusalem, to withdraw to the borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, to grant Palestinian refugees the right of return, and to dismantle main Jewish settlements.


03-29-06 - Pullout Won't Bring Palestinian State Soon Palestinians fear Israel's unilateral imposition of borders will destroy any hope of establishing a viable, contiguous state, mostly because of Israeli plans to maintain and expand large West Bank settlement blocs.


03-29-06 - United States Must Address Control of its Middle East Policies by Israeli Lobby by Paul Findley Former Ambassador George W. Ball said Congress behaves like trained poodles, jumping through hoops held by lobbyists for Israel. The lobby marshals great resources to defeat its critics and reward supporters. Senators Charles Percy and Adlai Stevenson and Representatives Paul "Pete" McCloskey, Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard and I are among those defeated at the polls by candidates heavily financed by pro-Israel forces. With hardly a murmur of protest, Congress recently approved resolutions saluting the prime minister of Israel for building high walls and fences that keep Palestinians penned up on their own land like cattle.


03-29-06 - Abbas calls for 'negotiated peace' with Israel


03-29-06 - Radical haredim: Zionists aided Nazis Throughout the leaflet, the Zionists are described as an evil and satanic force that abused haredi children before and after the establishment of Israel.


03-29-06 - Man Sentenced for Bush Assassination Plot The jury in the three-week trial saw a videotaped confession Abu Ali gave to the Saudis in which he said he joined al-Qaida because he hated the United States for its support of Israel. Our support for Israel also motived one of the plotters of 911


03-29-06 - U.S. cuts off contacts with Hamas-led government "I weep about the suffering of the Palestinians," Bush said, but added the Hamas-led government had to make a choice. Actions speak louder than words.


03-29-06 - Ex-Spymaster Gains in Israeli Election Asked about Pollard on Wednesday, Eitan said, "I would very much like to see this man go free."


03-29-06 - AIPAC trial delayed Judge T.S. Ellis III did not explain his order Monday postponing the trial from April 25 to May 23.


03-29-06 - Israeli poll deepens Palestinian gloom They argue that they would never be able to create a viable state out of the land that Mr Olmert would leave them


03-29-06 - Bush must now focus on the West Bank Kadima's plans thus go against the larger US interests in countering terrorism in the Middle East, which include creating a viable Palestinian state and a negotiated settlement over Jerusalem


03-29-06 - .S. Likely to Back Olmert's Border Plan as 'Road Map' Shelved


03-29-06 - Europeans greet result with hope, but Arabs sceptical


03-29-06 - The New York Times Covers Up Discrimination Against Palestinian Citizens of Israel


03-29-06 - Hamas condemns U.S. rejection of Quartet dialogue


03-29-06 - The Media and the Middle East No other issue has been the victim of such treachery like the Middle East discourse in the West, and particularly that concerning Palestine and Israel.


03-29-06 - Ballistic Missile Defense: Israel BMD plan As with previous Israeli tenders, the U.S.-Israeli consortia participating in the SRBMD tender want their systems to be eligible for U.S. government funding for the proposed project, Globes said. The U.S. Congress has already approved $133 million for the Arrow program in the coming fiscal year, including $10 million for defense against short-range missiles.


03-29-06 - Israel/Palestine issues will loom large at GA At the other end of the spectrum, the Presbytery of San Francisco in California is asking the GA to "reaffirm" the 216th Assembly's decision regarding divestment. "The occupation of the West Bank continues unabated, taking more land and isolating Palestinians from one another and their livelihood, undercutting the possibility of a viable economy," the presbytery says in its rationale.


03-29-06 - Dutch Glass Barriers to Israel for Inspecting or "Killing" Palestinians


03-29-06 - Church leaders in UK gather for peace in the Middle East


03-29-06 - U.S. Consulate to review P.A. encounters American consular officials in Jerusalem must review any request for a meeting between U.S. and Palestinian Authority officials.


03-29-06 - Presbyterian Church May Reconsider Divestment The church has since received letters of protests and even arson threats from people disagreeing with what they view as an unfair targeting of Israel in what is a bilateral conflict


03-29-06 - Roed-Larsen to ask for new UN resolution on Lebanon According to the sources, Larsen proposed three possible solutions to the Shebaa Farms dispute: a Lebanese-Syrian agreement, international arbitration, or an Israeli withdrawal.


03-29-06 - Belgium demands EU guideline on issuing visa to Hamas


03-29-06 - IDF to probe death of Palestinian shepherdess shot by soldier An investigation on the scene raised the suspicion that the soldier violated the army's rules of engagement. The shooting occurred during daylight hours, at a time when soldiers ostensibly can discern a woman shepherd herding her flock Nothing will come of this, judging by Israel's track record on these matters. In fact, they have a habit of rewarding soldiers that empty their clips into schoolgirls that are already on the ground.


03-29-06 - Israel's Election Europe is not beholden to any individual European government?s objection to meeting with Hamas - oh, come to think of it, most of those have quietly faded away, amid continuing blather about how best to funnel ever more money to the Palestinians despite their choice of terrorists as leaders My but the folks over at JINSA have adopted an amateurish and downright immature tone in their latest article. Then, that's what one would come to expect from neocons.


03-29-06 - Crowley, Israeli Official Meet "I will continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to make sure the safety of Israel remains a top priority," Crowley said at the end of the meeting.




03-29-06 - Jews who fled Arab countries take campaign to European Union Jews who fled Arab countries following the creation of the State of Israel have taken their demands for restitution to the European Union.


03-29-06 - Russia likely to sell arms to Palestine in long-term


03-29-06 - Arab-Americans Tell Corzine Of Candidate's 'Political Lynching'


03-29-06 - Israeli army sorry for fake voting The Israeli army apologized after a photo-op of soldiers voting turned out to be a sham


03-29-06 - A nation like ours The Boston Globe's resident Israel-apologist Jeff Jacoby's SECOND response to the report about the Israeli lobby by the two professors. Americans would NOT be so supportive of Israel if they knew the truth about Isreal's sordid history and grave human rights violations. That the American media is complicit in this is one of the POINTS OF THE STUDY.


03-29-06 - The Iraq War is Going Very Well - For Israel


03-29-06 - Bookstore owners defend kids' book Local bookstore owners, impassioned defenders of free speech, are loaning out copies of a controversial book of interviews with Palestinian and Israeli children after the Toronto public school board restricted access to it.


03-29-06 - Advisors block CoE Caterpillar divestment


03-29-06 - Kentucky lawmakers pressed on religion A letter signed by leaders of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville mentioned bills authorizing the posting of the Ten Commandments and the motto ?In God We Trust? at the state capitol How much time do they spend on Israel? I ask because some feel that to be anti-Israel is to be anti-Semitic. Conversely, one could make the same argument that our government spends the same amount of time if not more on legislation for the state of Israel. This legislation seemingly has no real beneficial effects for the majority of the citizens of America.


03-29-06 - Author Will Continue To Write

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