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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
04-04-06 - One Palestinian killed, Israel steps up shelling of Gaza The dead man, Abdallah al-Daalsa, 42, was killed as he stood in a field in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.
Another seven people, including a six-month-old baby, were wounded by shrapnel
04-04-06 - Two killed by Israeli artillery shell in Gaza Strip
04-04-06 - Israel Fires Missiles Into Abbas' Compound
04-04-06 - Aid organizations in Gaza paralyzed fearing ties with Hamas-led government Israel will keep the Karni crossing closed on Tuesday, despite the warnings of United Nations aid organizations that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster due to a lack of money and food.......Speaking to Haaretz on Tuesday, a senior Israeli source in Jerusalem quoted Israel's policy chief for the territories, Major General Yosef Mishlab as saying that there is no humanitarian crisis in the territories.....David Shearer, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told Foreign Ministry officials that if there is no significant change in the situation, Gaza will face a humanitarian crisis as bad as the one in Kosovo.
04-04-06 - Palestinian officials claim escalation of civilian deaths
04-04-06 - Hamas leader takes conciliatory note in U.N. letter The letter, referring to Israel's expansion of its West Bank settlements and its construction of a barrier on Palestinian land, says at one point:
"This will ultimately diminish any hopes for the achievement of settlement and peace based on a two-state solution," a possible reference to recognizing Israel's right to exist.
04-04-06 - Hamas FM says will visit China Palestinian foreign minister Mahmud al-Zahar announced plans to visit China as Beijing became the latest power to reach out to Islamists Hamas despite a Western boycott.
04-04-06 - Russia, United States Increasingly at Odds Russia's influence in the world has swelled, providing a growing counterbalance to U.S. hegemony
04-04-06 - Israeli law eases settlers into east Jerusalem Elan Frenkel from Arab-Jewish group Taayush says the government is involved in a plan "to transfer Palestinians out of Jerusalem so Israel can annex their property without Palestinian inhabitants
04-04-06 - Afghanistan firmly with Palestinians, says president's FM choice Israel's return of occupied land to the Palestinians remains a pillar of Afghanistan's foreign policy, President Hamid Karzai's choice for new foreign minister said.
04-04-06 - Shooting of British cameraman by Israeli soldier cold-blooded murder, inquest told Mr Cobb-Smith, a former British army officer and UN weapons inspector, said Mr Miller and his colleagues would have been visible to the Israeli soldiers, who had night vision goggles. The sky was cloudless, the moon was shining and electric lights were shining from nearby houses. "My conclusion is this was calculated and cold-blooded murder, without a shadow of a doubt,"
04-04-06 - Film-maker's death 'was murder'
04-04-06 - YOUR VIEW: Israeli seizures done with U.S. support This military action overshadows Israel's seizure of Arab land in the Jordan Valley concomitant with the denial of the 2000 Arab owners of that land to return to their homes, lands, churches, mosques and businesses. Not one American newspaper printed anything about the seizure of Arab lands. Not one TV news station reported it.
04-04-06 - Holy Land: Gaza "on verge of humanitarian catastrophe"
04-04-06 - Largest Israeli bank breaks ties with PNA Hapoalim Bank, the last Israeli bank having business ties with the Palestinians, has suspended in the last 24 hours all its connections with the PNA by ceasing processing the PNA checks and transferring funds,
04-04-06 - Settler sentenced to two years in jail for shooting Palestinian Upon Finner's arrival on the scene, several Israeli hotel guests began harassing one of the Palestinians, and beat him to a point where he needed medical attention. Israelis and Palestinians then began throwing stones at each other. According to the charges, Finner burst onto the scene with a loaded Uzi submachine gun and began firing in the air and directly at the Palestinians. One Palestinian man was severely wounded by the gunfire and was rushed to a hospital to be operated upon.
04-04-06 - Augusta Victoria Hospital Financial Situation Dire; ELCA Provides Grant the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and LWF president, said the "very viability" of the hospital is at stake because of the loss of funds and the pending tax case. He said the hospital situation must be resolved immediately for the sake of the Palestinian people.
04-04-06 - Iran's spies watching us, says Israel The situation is now regarded as so serious that many senior Israeli officers openly admit to missing the restraining influence of Syria over Hizbollah. Boy, that's another move that bit them square in the ass, eh?
04-04-06 - Top Saudi, Russian officials meet on Middle East policy
04-04-06 - Passionate portrayal of an insecure idealist By rights, this production shouldn't be playing in London at all, but in America
04-04-06 - China envoy meets with Palestinians
04-04-06 - Handicapped Palestinian from Qalqilia saves photographer from Israeli soldier attack
04-04-06 - Calling all Child and Women Abusers
04-04-06 - USCCR Combats Anti-Semitic Harassment on Campuses; Panel Issues Recommendations Directed to Campuses, Enforcement Entities, Others (3) federal grant-making institutions should exercise appropriate oversight over academic departments of Middle East Studies to ensure that federal funds are not used in a manner that supports discriminatory conduct See yesterday's news. This is to push that legislation through (A previously version failed) that would see to it that universities are pro-Israeli enough to the pro-Israeli lobbies, or else lose federal funding. Crying 'anti-Semitism!' really does work, Virginia.
04-04-06 - Anti-Israel bias at colleges scrutinized The recommendations grew out of a November hearing at which speakers cited examples of anti-Semitic incidents. One frequently cited involved a 2004 documentary that said Middle East Studies faculty at Columbia University were intimidating Jewish students who defended Israel. (A faculty committee investigated and found no evidence of anti-Semitism.) It was BS, just like the allegations by the USCCR. This matter is to ensure that universities toe the pro-Israeli line. IT will all backfire on the pro-Israel lobbies in the end. For matters such as this only serve to prove the opposition right.
04-04-06 - Israelis ponder a land swap to rid themselves of the 'Arab problem'.
04-04-06 - US looks to increase Palestinian humanitarian aid
04-04-06 - Sharon surgery postponed
04-04-06 - Halutz slams officer for letting settlers return to Hebron market
04-04-06 - Hebron Update: 28 March - 3 April 2006 While walking down the length of Shuhada Street, a number of
Israeli settlers observed the group's progress. One stopped his car near the
Chicken Gate, got out, took pictures (and the visitors took pictures of him),
and said in parting, "Why don't you go to Iraq where they know what to do to
people like you?" He sounded like an American.
04-04-06 - CRS, U.S. bishops urge Senate approval of humanitarian aid The leaders also called on the Senate to ensure that urgently needed aid reaches the Palestinian people, especially through non-governmental organizations like CRS, while requiring the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism
04-04-06 - Palestine urges Annan to open talks with Hamas govt
04-04-06 - Silence in class Earlier this year, Fox news commentator Sean Hannity urged students to record "leftwing propaganda" by professors so he could broadcast it on his show. On the web there is Campus Watch, "monitoring Middle East studies on campus"; Campus witchhunts.
04-04-06 - Lobbyist Jack Abramoff?s "Charity" a Front for Terrorism the investigation into his activities by the FBI also shed light on the ways in which right-wing American Jews have often been involved in funding what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory...Abramoff, a legendary lobbyist particularly close to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), is also a fierce supporter of Israel-"a super-Zionist," one associate says.
04-04-06 - UNRWA, European Commission Inaugurate Rehabilitated Shelters for Palestinian Refugees in Syria
04-04-06 - PDF file: Defining the Role of Faculty in Supporting Israel on Campus Activists guide to pro-Israeli propagandizing at the universities. It's all a big conspiracy theory though.. nothing to see here..
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