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Friday, March 31, 2006
03-30-06 - Suicide bomber kills 3 Israelis in West Bank Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, claimed the bombing and said it was in response to Israeli attacks.
03-30-06 - Israeli Arabs in landmark protests two days after polls Lod was the scene of the notorious Plan Dalet operation led by later defence minister Moshe Dayan in the 1948 Arab Israeli war in which some 80 Palestinian civilians were killed, prompting most of the rest of the town's Arab residents to flee...."It's not just Lieberman, it's the so-called moderate parties too," said Qadri Wasal of the Arab Israeli extra-parliamentary political movement Sons of the Land. "This was all our land in 1948 and they took it away."
03-30-06 - Israeli planes target rocket sites in Gaza: military Earlier, Israeli planes carried out a further airstrike on a launch site used by militants to fire rockets into Israel. No casualties were reported. Artillery gunners also shelled open areas in the northern Gaza strip in response to recent rocket fire, which killed two Israelis earlier this week.
03-30-06 - NDP urges Ottawa to redirect cancelled funding for Palestinian aid
03-30-06 - Seven people hurt in gas blast in Israeli city
03-30-06 - American volunteer believes Hebron attack was ?planned? The American has been working for several months in Hebron?s H2 district and says he is well known by the settlers and has been the target of violence and verbal abuse in the past. Members of the Tel Rumeida Project accompany Palestinian children to shield them from settler violence
03-30-06 - Israeli Army forbids tree planting Shortly after the planting commenced 25 Israeli soldiers and 12 police came on
the scene, declaring the area a "closed military zone" and giving the
Palestinians notice that they would be arrested in ten minutes if they did not
leave.
03-30-06 - A just peace or no peace Do policymakers in Washington and Europe ever feel ashamed of their scandalous double standards?..we have not heard a single demand of the Israeli parties that took part in this week's elections, though some advocate the complete removal of the Palestinians from their lands
03-30-06 - Hamas fury over West's funding threats "That surprises us that the Western societies are refusing the results of a democratic process that all observers agreed went on in a good manner,"
03-30-06 - Palestinian Official Criticizes U.S. He also said the United States is spending $3 billion a year "to expand settlements and to confiscate our rights and our land," he said, referring to U.S. aid to Israel....."Is the Canadian state willing to starve the Palestinian people while the Israelis are committing major crimes against Palestinian industry, Palestinian society, the Palestinian economy, occupying their land?" he said. "Is this is a moral principle according to which Israel should be blessed and supported by the Canadian government and people?" Canada has come under the heavy influence of its burgeoning Israeli lobby. It has become another Israeli-occupied territory. My condolences.
03-30-06 - Quartet warns Hamas government aid will be hit The statement omitted previous warnings against "unilateral actions" which referred indirectly to Israeli settlement expansion and the West Bank security barrier.
03-30-06 - House considers university funding One directs the education secretary ?to take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutes of higher education advance national interests, generate and disseminate information, and foster debate on U.S. foreign policy from diverse perspectives.? This sounds like an earlier bill that was to ensure that federally-funded university curricula was sufficiently pro-Israel or the funding would be cut. Now it's been cloaked in more 'patriotic' language. Be warned.
03-30-06 - Fisk paints a Middle East in crisis Robert Fisk says that in his three decades of reporting from the Middle East for British newspapers, he's never seen it more dangerous, and that he's certain another major crisis, possibly even another September 11, is coming.
03-30-06 - Inquest date set on shot filmaker James Miller was shot while filming in Gaza in 2003. An Israeli investigation in April 2005 cleared a soldier of misusing his firearm.
03-30-06 - Abbas congratulates Olmert on election victory Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has telephoned Israeli interim-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to congratulate him on his election victory this week
03-30-06 - World Vision supports food security in Palestinian villag According to the World Bank, more than 43% of all Palestinians live under the poverty rate of US$2.1/ day. One third of all Palestinian families do not have food security, and an additional 40% are vulnerable to food insecurity.
03-30-06 - Al-Assad's interview with PBS: Syria's position is very clear Al-Assad: I will tell you. There was something like we did. I will go back to our experience. I think both sides have to recognize the UN and the Security Council resolutions. This is the solution. According to those resolutions, you have an Israeli state and a Palestinian state. So it is a very good idea. Both of them will have a state but through Security Council resolutions. Whole interview is worth reading. I saw it as it aired on PBS.
03-30-06 - Exposé on Jewish role in US policy is disowned After a furious outcry from prominent American Jews, Harvard has removed its logo from the study and disowned any responsibility for the views put forward in the working paper, released two weeks ago....Yesterday it confirmed that Stephen Walt, the co-author of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, will be stepping down in June as academic dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government to become an ordinary professor. Which again proves some of the points of the study.
03-30-06 - What Was CPT Doing in Iraq? You probably know Jonathan Kuttab he is an evangelical Palestinian, born in Bethlehem, and has been working for justice for the Palestinians in nonviolent ways for a couple decades now
03-30-06 - Hamas seeks access to Palestinian investment fund
03-30-06 - Galilee Bishop Speaks for Justice, Friendship and Peace I have the pride of introducing myself as a Palestinian. I am a proud Palestinian.
03-30-06 - Caspar Weinberger, aide to Reagan and Jonathan Pollard nemesis, dies Weinberger authored a 40-page, classified assessment of the damage Pollard's actions caused to U.S. interests. A four-page version, which was not classified, compared Pollard to other well-known spies. In the unclassified version, Weinberger said it was difficult to conceive a greater harm to national security than what Pollard had caused. He said Pollard "both damaged and destroyed policies and national assets which have taken many years, great effort and enormous national resources to secure."
03-30-06 - Paper on Israel lobby raises hackles, but fails to gain traction in Congress Off the record, Jewish officials here reverse that equation, saying their support for the Iraq war was necessary in order to curry favor with a White House that was hell-bent on war. In fact, the adventure unsettled many Israeli and Jewish officials because of concerns that the principal beneficiary would be Iran. Outright bullshit. These groups have only recently backpeddled from their stance on the Iraq war due to the fact that it isn't the 'cakewalk' that neocons such as Paul Wolfowitz asserted that it would be.
03-30-06 - Palestinian minister off to bad start: Bolton In a further sign of how the United States aims to isolate Hamas, Bolton said Washington had decided to redefine the duties of U.S. Major-General Keith Dayton, whoe was appointed last November to oversee Israeli-Palestinian security coordination efforts John Bolton's neocon 'strategery' earned him the job of ambassador to the UN. The only problem is, it would appear that he is doing the bidding of Israel therein, 99% of the time, thus earning the new title of ISRAEL's ambassador to the UN.
03-30-06 - 'Sharon studied my map before stroke' Israel would retain the large settlement blocs, Jordan Valley, all of Jerusalem - including the Old City and the rest of east Jerusalem - and holy sites such as Rachel's Tomb on the outskirts of Bethlehem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, said Schneller. "Jerusalem will remain united," he said. That is a recipe for disaster. Israel does not own the West Bank or E. Jerusalem - it is occupied territory. Israel has been in violation of international law by building settlements and by building its wall such that it confiscates large swaths of land therein.
03-30-06 - S Africa to urge Hamas to accept Israel South Africa, which under apartheid was a close ally of Israel
03-30-06 - Art Exhibit by Watchdog Group Banned in Beersheva The group, Machsom Watch, monitors IDFsoldiers behavior toward Palestinian Authority Arabs at Yesha checkpoints. Turner said Thursday he would not allow the group to hold the exhibit on city property.
03-30-06 - Land Day: Arab MK threatens 'another intifada' The demonstration was in protest of "Israeli policy to demolish Arab houses in Lod and Ramla, and expropriating Arab lands under false pretenses." The protestors were angered that some 1,800 Lod homes are slated for demolition.
03-30-06 - European Union mission visits Gaza Strip; says food crisis is 'serious' due to Israeli closures Though Israel re-opened al-Mintar crossing after an emergency meeting last week brokered by American representatives, experts and UN officials say it is still functioning well below full capacity, and that not enough goods are being allowed in or out.
03-30-06 - Frost & Sullivan Accolade for NICE System's Technology Innovation in Homeland Aviation Security Frost & Sullivan's 2005/2006 Excellence in Technology Award in the field of homeland aviation security is conferred on Israel-based NICE Systems Ltd. In presenting this award, Frost & Sullivan commends the suite of advanced, innovative airport video surveillance systems developed by the company's digital video security solutions division - NiceVision
03-30-06 - Jews join letter against 'anti-terror' bill The petition presented this week to the act's principal sponsor, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), says the act "would punish and isolate the Palestinian people for exercising their right to vote."
03-30-06 - Israeli Electorate Rebukes Bush American neoconservatives have close, long-standing alliances with Israel's right-wing Likud Party. Like the neocons, the Likud believe in military solutions. In their policy papers, neocons set out a strategy for U.S.-Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. Many experts are of the opinion that Bush's invasion of Iraq was the opening gun of implementing this strategy.
03-30-06 - Curb your enthusiasm This week Palestinian children were being shot and killed in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian political activists arrested (there is now more than 9,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails), Palestinian crops and farms were being destroyed, Palestinians thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem, huge new checkpoints created at Kalandia that has made an insurmountable barrier between Palestinians within the West Bank, and with the continuation of the apartheid wall taking more land from villages.
03-30-06 - US professors accused of being liars and bigots over essay on pro-Israeli lobby Prof Mearsheimer said the storm of protest proved one of its arguments - that the strength of the pro-Israel lobby stifled debate on US foreign policy. Indeed. When the ever-abused charge of 'anti-Semite!' is leveled, then you know you've hit on something.
03-30-06 - Images that will terrorise Israel Oh God forbid Israel's image suffers, nevermind the starving Palestinians.
03-30-06 - US open to Israel's unilateral move on border "I would note that if you are going to have a negotiation, though, you have to have partners, and the Palestinian government that has just been sworn in does not accept the concept of a negotiated solution." Evidently Condi hasn't read this, or, she's a puppet of the Israeli lobby. Methinks the latter is the more appropriate conclusion.
03-30-06 - Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East Concerned about Report Authored by Two Prominent American Professors This organization is Christian Zionist in nature, not surprisingly.
03-30-06 - Presbyterians hear Jewish, Muslim Middle East views "We are being used by the extremist hate mongers on both sides to destroy each other," he said. "What you folks can do in this room?quit wishing for a wishing bone and have some backbone to stand up for justice and right and for your own religion."
03-30-06 - Good Times Roll at Alon USA With the purchase from Good Time Stores, Alon USA appears to be following a similar path. Once this deal is completed, Alon USA's retail operations will include 222 convenience stores throughout the Southwest
03-30-06 - Hillel e-mail links GW law student to terrorism Sophomore Seth Weinstein said he provided the information contained in the original e-mail about Kiblawi. On Wednesday night, he was with Bob Turk, a U.S. director of the Jewish Defense League, who said "there's no way" Kiblawi can deny the accusations, because his organization "has the papers to prove them." They would not discuss where their information about Kiblawi came from, other than to say some of it was given to them by an unnamed employee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Since when does the Department of Homeland Security turn over documents to the JDL, an organization whose members have plotted acts of terrorism?
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