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Monday, April 10, 2006


News for 04-09-06

04-09-06 - Israel steps up shelling, kills one Palestinian One civilian was killed and 15 people, civilians and policemen, were wounded, the sources said.


04-09-06 - Elderly Palestinian seriously injured in alleged settler attack Shtiyeh was hospitalized with six skull fractures, three broken vertebrae in his neck, four broken ribs, a perforated lung and fractures in his arm and leg. He is on a respirator.


04-09-06 - Israeli artillery fire kills Palestinian officer, wounds 16 in Gaza The police officer killed Sunday, Yasser Abu Jarad, 28, was trying to evacuate colleagues from a makeshift military post when a shell hit his car and killed him, Israel would appear to be deliberately targeting people that have nothing to do with the shellings.


04-09-06 - Deir Yassin (9 April 1948) On 9 April 1948, militants of the Irgun and Stern Gang attacked the Palestinian village Deir Yassin. In all over 100 Palestinian men, women and children were systematically murdered.


04-09-06 - Hamas armed wing vows to avenge deadly Israeli raids The latest victim was a 29-year-old taxi driver, Yasser Abu Jarad, killed by a tank shell by a national security post in the Beit Hanun region of the northern Gaza Strip as he dropped off members of a military unit. A total of 21 other people were also wounded in shelling in the north, including 10 when a house in Jabaliya was hit...In other developments, a Palestinian teenager died of wounds after being shot in the head during an Israeli incursion Thursday in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.



04-09-06 - Senior Palestinian militant killed by Israeli troops


04-09-06 - Soldiers arrest resident in Hebron, settlers attack farmers and shepherds


04-09-06 - PNN publishes statement on behalf of Palestinian Child's Day On this day the children remember their suffering, they remember their beloved ones killed, injured, or imprisoned in Israeli jails


04-09-06 - Army prevents Palestinians younger than the age of 30 to enter the Jordan Valley


04-09-06 - Norway freezes aid to Palestinian Authority


04-09-06 - Israel to boycott inquest into death of British peace activist shot in Gaza Israel will boycott an inquest opening today in London which will investigate the death of a British peace activist shot dead in broad daylight by an Israeli soldier.
Tom Hurndall, 22, died after being shot in Rafah, Gaza, while trying to lead Palestinian children to safety after the soldier opened fire from a nearby observation tower in April 2003.


04-09-06 - Egypt criticizes Israeli bombing in Gaza


04-09-06 - Israel tightens restrictions on Palestinian travel inside West Bank The restrictions have effectively divided the territory into three sections. Palestinians living in the northern West Bank are cut off from their jobs in the south, and a wide swath of land along the Jordanian border is off limits to all but its few thousand residents, human rights groups and the United Nations said. ..."There's a clear Israeli policy of laying siege to the Palestinian territories in an attempt to make the Palestinian people pay a price for choosing Hamas,"


04-09-06 - Hamas urges EU to continue aid to Palestinians


04-09-06 - Israel allows Palestinian Christians to Easter services Hate to rain on their parade, but judging from similar assurances in the past, Israel will find any ole pretext to put the kibosh on this.


04-09-06 - Palestinians evicted from Jewish east Jerusalem home Wouldn't be the first time for that.


04-09-06 - Israel to boycott diplomats who meet Hamas officials


04-09-06 - Erekat terms Israeli operation in Gaza as politically motivated The chief negotiator accused Israel of carrying out an open- ended war against the Palestinians in an attempt to prepare for further unilateral steps and create a new reality on the ground.


04-09-06 - US leak of Zarqawi letter riles Israelis Israel passed the letter ? in which Ayman al-Zawahiri outlined his Middle East strategy to Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq ? to Washington last October on condition of strict anonymity. Israel is providing us with letters from Al Qaeda operatives?


04-09-06 - Olmert seeks to boost settlement blocs Ehud Olmert said Israelis to be evacuated from isolated West Bank settlements would be moved to the major settlement blocs in the territory. Basically, they will be shifting settlers from one bloc to another. Musical settlements, if you will.



04-09-06 - Energy company halts PA fuel supply Energy officials believe that Dor-Alon decided to adopt a tough approach in its dealings with the PA after the United States and European Union officially announced they are suspending aid to the PA, and also after Israel decided to hold back the transfer of tax revenues to the PA.


04-09-06 - Israeli military considers invading Gaza Officials said Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz have been reviewing options for a ground attack on and the recapture of the northern Gaza Strip, the Middle East Newsline reported.



04-09-06 - Report: Israel pressuring U.S. over Iran attack The Washington Post wrote that despite estimations by American officials that Iran would need another decade before having the bomb, Israel believes that the critical breakthrough could take place within a number of months And just who is our government going to believe (this time)?


04-09-06 - Army shells the Palestinian Football League headquarters in Gaza


04-09-06 - Christian Palestinians find travel limitations hard during Holy Week


04-09-06 - U.S. aid to Israel put in sharp focus To John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, heartfelt thanks are due. They are very eminent academics, from the University of Chicago and Harvard respectively, and the authors of a treatise titled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."


04-09-06 - Professors spark political firestorm with Israel essay In the lobby essay, Mearsheimer and Walt charged that "the creation of Israel entailed a moral crime against the Palestinian people."


04-09-06 - Harvard dean steps down after study is criticized


04-09-06 - Uncharted territories , we learn that they have so much more on their minds than ''the conflict." This doesn't mean that the Nakba-that watershed moment when Israel became a state, was attacked by its Arab neighbors, and some 700,000 indigenous Palestinians became refugees This author has his timeline wrong. The Arab armies attacked AFTER the Israeli forces expelled the Palestinians which was primarily the reason WHY the Arab armies attacked. Thus does the myth of poor little Israel continue in the MSM of America.


04-09-06 - Many Sides to Palestinian Politics Palestinian "internal politics" have to be considered from the context of living under military occupation. Life-long residents of the United States can't relate to living under occupation.


04-09-06 - UN chief urges Israel, Palestinians to exercise restraint


04-09-06 - Pollard blasts former handler Pollard alleged that Eitan has the sole surviving copy of a document that could be used as a "bargaining chip" for his release from prison, but did not elaborate.


04-09-06 - "Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran" I don't think America can tolerate the idea of a leader of nation of 30 million people who can openly speak of the liquidation of another country That other country happens to be Israel. He is suggesting that we deal with threats to Israel, but also denying that this would be a war for Israel. Can't have it both ways.


04-09-06 - Straw agrees to meet journalist's family


04-09-06 - Al-Qaeda goes recruiting in festering Gaza


04-09-06 - Islamic Jihad leader says no halt to Israel attacks


04-09-06 - Made in Palestine "Made in Palestine" charts the physical and emotional geography of a land torn asunder by fifty years of subjugation and bloodshed.


04-09-06 - Asian American Journalists Association condemns Nolan Finley's column In its letter to Nolan Finley of The Detroit News the AAJA wrote, "We write to object to your Feb. 5 column that casts the entire Palestinian people as having "a lust for Jewish blood."


04-09-06 - Conference discusses Middle East Middle East peace talks have been going on for years, but this week Boulder will host discussions about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Writers, peace activists and former CIA members will discuss several topics.

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