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Friday, April 07, 2006


News for 04-06-06

04-06-06 - 22 residents arrested in the West Bank, 15 injured in Nablus clashes Also on Thursday, soldiers fired at dozens of school teachers and students; one teacher identified as A?eda Sara was shot by a live round in her leg. She was shot while standing near the students? morning lineup before attending classes. A medical source in the city reported that a total of fifteen residents were hospitalized, two seriously. The two were identified as Sameh Shafe?ey, 17, and Imad Ghalib Abu Atma, 25. Shafe?ey was shot by a live round in his head, and Abu Atma was shot by a live round in his chest. One American journalist was shot by a live round in his stomach.



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04-06-06 - WHO warns of dire risk to Palestinian health over aid cuts The World Health Organisation warned of dire consquences for Palestinian public health services because of Israeli economic sanctions and threatened cuts in international aid.


04-06-06 - Israel launches air raids on Gaza


04-06-06 - We'll study any Israeli talks offer: Hamas PM


04-06-06 - State: Israel, P.A. have 'poor' human rights record Israel's poor record was "due in part to actions by Israeli soldiers and settlers that resulted in death and injury to Palestinian civilians."


04-06-06 - Judge in Israel Lobbyists' Trial Told Evidence 'Overwhelming' "At trial in this case, the government will present overwhelming evidence of the defendants' specific, willful intent to violate" the Espionage Act, prosecutors wrote in papers filed last week with the federal judge overseeing the case, Thomas Ellis III of Alexandria,Va. "The government will prove - often using the defendants' own words - that Rosen and Weissman knew that they had obtained classified national defense information, knew it was unlawful to disclose that information, knew that the foreign officials and members of the media to whom they disclosed the information were not entitled, and yet, knowing all of these things, decided to disclose the information in any event."


04-06-06 - Film-maker 'murdered' by soldier Metropolitan Police Det Insp Robert Anderson told the inquest on Thursday that Israel had been "uncooperative" during their own investigations into the shooting. Mr Anderson said: "Israel has been uncooperative with the Metropolitan Police in that they haven't allowed us access to interview soldiers and witnesses."



04-06-06 - Israelis arrest Palestinian minister at border Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian cabinet minister as he tried to enter the West Bank from Jerusalem yesterday, the first time Israel has directly interfered with the new government


04-06-06 - Israel Lobby Exposes U.S. to Avoidable Hostility Overseas while Smearing Academic Critics as 'Anti-Semitic', Says IRmep Poll; Mearsheimer and Walt Study Accurate 91 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe it is "extremely accurate" to "accurate" that the Israel Lobby's tactics expose the United States to avoidable hostility in the Middle East...86 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe that the Israel Lobby places what it considers to be Israel's interests above the national interests of the United States.


04-06-06 - House committee passes P.A. ban bill It also legislates that the removal of Hamas from the Palestinian Authority will not be enough to re-establish P.A. relations with the United States; no matter who runs it, the Palestinian Authority will have to prove it has eradicated terrorism and anti-Israel incitement.



04-06-06 - Bankrupt Hamas government unveils austerity package


04-06-06 - US to boost Palestinian humanitarian aid - sources Despite the rise in humanitarian aid, estimated at 60 percent, overall U.S. assistance to the Palestinians was expected to fall, the sources said. Those figures were not disclosed.


04-06-06 - House panel eases proposed Palestinian aid cuts A House of Representatives committee backed away on Thursday from sweeping restrictions on U.S. aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, and passed a bill giving President George W. Bush more leeway to offer limited assistance.


04-06-06 - Palestinian PM Says Hamas Has the Power The new Palestinian prime minister said Thursday that his Cabinet will take control of the Palestinian security forces, putting his Hamas-led government on a collision course with President Mahmoud Abbas


04-06-06 - Briton shot by Israelis was murdered, says inquest jury The jury unanimously found that Miller, from Braunton, Devon, was unlawfully killed. Its forewoman said: "This was an unlawful shooting with the intention of killing Mr James Miller. Therefore we can come to no other conclusion than that Mr Miller was indeed murdered." At that moment the cameraman's family started to sob. The jury added: "It is a fact that from day one to this inquest the Israeli authorities have not been forthcoming in the investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr Miller's death." Our citizens get no such justice.


04-06-06 - Israel urged to stay off Gaza's pitch World soccer's governing body has raised concerns with the Israeli government after the IDF targeted the main soccer stadium in the Gaza Strip with artillery fire.


04-06-06 - EU rejects plan to suspend aid to Palestinian Authority European Union diplomats have rejected a proposal to suspend direct aid to the Palestinian Authority because some EU countries consider the measure "too brutal".


04-06-06 - Army uses two Palestinians as human shields in Bethlehem invasion As youth started to throw rocks at the army, troops forced the two youth to stand in front of them as they were approaching the stone-throwing kids.


04-06-06 - Jewish settlers expand West Bank enclave A Palestinian security source denied that the building had been legally purchased, and said it still belonged to a Palestinian family.


04-06-06 - 'I Would Have Been Hizbollah Member'


04-06-06 - Moscow issues West a warning BERLIN With Chancellor Angela Merkel shifting German foreign policy more markedly toward the United States and the defense of human rights, Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, on Thursday warned the West against isolating his country from helping to broker disputes with Iran and other conflicts in the Middle East


04-06-06 - Honor Killing Is Dishonorable


04-06-06 - Of Course There Is an Israel Lobby Neither the U.S. government nor media has ever protested?has never even mentioned?Israel's years-long multiple arrests and protracted detentions of American citizens, without charge or trial. In September 2000, CNN interviewed four Americans who had been tortured, the only report on this compelling story, and the network has since been forced to refuse selling recordings of that news segment, "Americans Mistreated in Israeli Jails." America would have been fully informed had any other country committed these acts.



04-06-06 - Germany: Israeli detained over Nazi slur On two separate occasions recently, Israeli nationals in Germany got themselves in trouble after swearing at public officials and referring to them as Nazis, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday.


04-06-06 - Remarks by President Bush on the Global War on Terror I think the Palestinians have been a long-suffering people that deserve better government. The former leadership turned out to be corrupt, like, stole money. And as a result of his leadership, we never got very close to peace. There wasn't a lasting -- there weren't lasting institutions in place. I believe democracies don't war. 'Democracies don't war', What the?


04-06-06 - China has U.S. anti-missile tech, via transfer from Israel China covertly obtained Patriot anti-missile system technology from Israel during the 1990s, according to U.S. officials.


04-06-06 - Israel, Egypt plan to meet


04-06-06 - Evangelicals Rally Their Flocks Behind Israel


04-06-06 - Arab nations quietly bridge the trade gulf with Israelis


04-06-06 - Why not open US-Israel relations to intellectual debate? If the US is serious about supporting democracy and human rights, it might want to rethink giving away a third of its entire foreign aid budget to a country against whichthe United Nations has passed more than 600 resolutions (non-binding though they may be) related to mishandling of the Palestinian situation.


04-06-06 - Cash has run out, but Hamas chief optimistic


04-06-06 - More debate over report on Israel's influence in US Coverage of the debate over the recent paper by professors Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago that examines the influence of Israel and its supporters in Washington over US foreign policy has been, mostly, absent from US media The Christian Science Monitor again takes the lead in reporting important issues when most other mainstream American media fall flat.


04-06-06 - Envoys: Mideast Nations Held Secret Talks


04-06-06 - My Name is Rachel Corrie extends


04-06-06 - Israel Project picks 30 for media fellows The program teaches Jewish and non-Jewish students communications techniques to bolster Israel?s image in the press.



04-06-06 - Decision on book to be reviewed The processs used by Toronto District School Board staff to take a book about the Middle East off elementary school library shelves after a complaint from the Canadian Jewish Congress will be reviewed by school board trustees


04-06-06 - I Will Not be Silenced

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