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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
04-11-06 - Israel/Occupied Territories: Israel must halt attacks on Gaza residential areas - children killed Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli army to end immediately its air bombardments and shelling of civilian residential areas in the Gaza Strip. At least two Palestinian children have been killed and tens of other civilian bystanders injured in recent days during the course of such attacks; at least 15 other Palestinians, most of them reported to be members of armed groups, were killed.
04-11-06 - Gaza bombardments to continue: Israeli FM Her comments came after an eight-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and 12 other people wounded Monday when an Israeli shell struck a house in the Beit Lahiya region of the northern Gaza Strip. Who are the terrorists here?
04-11-06 - Israel Defends Policy After Girl's Death In a major policy shift, it has begun allowing guns to fire close enough to hit populated areas Biggest crock of BS yet from the Associated Press. The Israelis have ALWAYS turned their guns on the Palestinians civilians - and even against those civilians that are NOT Palestinian (bottom of article).
04-11-06 - Israeli Gunboats Shell Palestinian Police
04-11-06 - Israel 'to step up Gaza shelling' The Israelis admit there was no militant rocket fire from the area at the time but they say there had been earlier, and that they had been trying to deter more.
So they decided to deliberately shell civilian houses.
04-11-06 - Palestinians who target soldiers not terrorists: Israel FM Livni's own father, Eitan, was director of operation for the Irgun, the hardline nationalist group which fought British rule through World War II. Irgun and Stern gang killed civilians as well.
04-11-06 - Palestinian president takes control of Gaza border Special forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assumed control of the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt on Tuesday in a move certain to heighten tensions with Islamic militant group Hamas.
04-11-06 - Arab League condemns EU Palestinian aid cut "It's strange and reprehensible ... that the Palestinian people are punished for being undemocratic and also punished for exercising democracy."
04-11-06 - Russia should stick with Mideast peace 'Quartet': US Earlier Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that denying aid to the Palestinians because of Hamas's participation in the government was a mistake.
04-11-06 - Arab states want U.N. to press Israel to end attacks To win U.S. backing a council statement would have to be "something that contributes to positive movement in the dispute, not something that creates more heat than light," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said. A neocon (Bolton) for the UN.
04-11-06 - FIFA pays to fix Gaza stadium An Israeli army spokesman told Reuters that the bombardment of the stadium was intended to "send a strong message to the Palestinians that Israel can target any point in the coastal strip and will not tolerate rocket fire at its citizens." He added that there was no confirmation the stadium was ever used as a launching pad for the makeshift rockets. Palestinian officials say the stadium is too far from Israel to be an effective launching pad.
04-11-06 - Palestinian Health Care Conditions Under Occupation There are instances where Palestinians need access to urgent medical care, but Israeli forces will not allow Palestinian ambulances to cross the checkpoint. When this happens Palestinians are forced to transfer to an Israeli ambulance, which costs
04-11-06 - Israeli army destroys several agricultural greenhouses in Beit Lahiya
04-11-06 - Hebron Update: 4 April - 10 April 2006 A representative from Hebron Land Defense Committee came by to brief the team on
four military orders involving the theft of significant Palestinian land: Otniel - The plan is to build 16 military towers around this settlement, taking
an additional 100 acres of land..... What would Americans do if they came to take OUR land?
04-11-06 - British Attorney General asked to act on men shot in Gaza The only mainstream news organization in the whole of America to date that has the wherewithal to cover the stories of the Brits - and other matters of import to the American people - I give you the Christian Science Monitor. Subscribe to this paper today, show your support!
04-11-06 - Palestinians latest casualty of Iraq conflict Three weeks after they fled violence in Iraq, about 130 Palestinian refugees, including at least 50 children, are still stranded in the no-man's-land between Iraq and Jordan with no light at the end of the tunnel.
04-11-06 - IDF would like to stay in West Bank The IDF would recommend retaining a military presence across the West Bank even after a unilateral withdrawal from most of the territory under Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's convergence plan, a high-ranking military officer has told The Jerusalem Post. In other words, they want to control Palestinian territory even after they withdraw from it - just like they're doing now in the Gaza Strip.
04-11-06 - Palestinian child dies of wounds sustained Saturday
04-11-06 - U.S. officials looking to Israel for partnership and ideas against terror Israel advocates are behind new legislation that would create an office within the Department of Homeland Security for counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and its allies. Israel is one of a handful of countries named in the legislation that U.S. officials believe could provide technological assistance. Just don't read this if you have blood pressure problems, and are a true American patriot.
04-11-06 - Iraq: A way out for America Divide and conquer, or so the saying goes. Imagine how the Iraqis must feel, seeing the plans for their future being drawn up in Tel Aviv?
04-11-06 - Gaza families watch in awe and fear as Israelis pour in 300 shells a day
04-11-06 - World Bank faces dilemma on Hamas contacts World Bank officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said on Tuesday contact with the new Palestinian government has been "limited" until World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz decides how to proceed A neocon (Wolfowitz) for the World Bank.
04-11-06 - Palestinians tighten belts as aid crisis bites The radicalization of the population continues - one starved Palestinian at a time.
04-11-06 - Israeli cabinet brings curtain down on Sharon era Ehud Olmert was appointed as his replacement after Mr Sharon showed no sign of improvement 100 days after he became ill
04-11-06 - Israel: Human Rights Organizations to the Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense
04-11-06 - 'We have no film industry because we have no country'
04-11-06 - Israel rejects Hamas long-term truce: official
04-11-06 - British, American Consoles won't cooperate over Jericho Prison Investigation
04-11-06 - Two steps forward for efforts to correct bias in Mideast studies The bill also grants the education secretary some discretion in examining whether Middle East Studies departments are producing well-rounded graduates for the U.S. diplomatic, intelligence and defense corps, as envisioned by the Title VI framers. THis move isn't to 'correct bias', it's to ENSURE bias - the same bias towards Israel that pro-Israeli lobbies make happen in the mainstream US media, the US Congress and in the White House. Also of note from the article : 'Perhaps as significant as the recommendations were the commission's findings, which discerned anti-Semitism in "anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda." ' Pro-Israeli groups have successfully conflated anti-Semitism with anti-Israelism. This is a recipe for a backlash. For, their increased calls for censorship only add fuel to the fire.
04-11-06 - Lobbyists' Prosecutors Pointing to Spy Case
04-11-06 - United Nations ends unrestricted political contacts with Palestinians The UN said Tuesday it has ended its policy of unrestricted political contacts with the Palestinians and will now assess every request for political talks with the new Hamas-run government. A neocon (Bolton) for the UN.
04-11-06 - Sharon's legacy of controversy Benziman's portrait of Sharon in "Sharon: an Israeli Caesar," is not particularly flattering: It documents a man who, from the early days of his career, often stretched or disregarded orders in order to inflict heavier casualties on the enemy, often without distinguishing between soldier and civilian He continued that legacy until he was incapacitated by the stroke.
04-11-06 - Look out, India: Jerusalem fighting for its share of the call center market
04-11-06 - $10M Bail Set for Alleged Israeli Kingpin Rosenstein, 51, is accused in a 2004 grand jury indictment of conspiring to distribute more than 1 million Ecstasy pills in the United States between summer 1999 and November 2001. His attorneys have said he will plead not guilty.
04-11-06 - Palestinians feel pinch "If Hamas fails, it will realize that it's due to Israel, Europe, and the Americans," says the economist Mr. Barghouti. "So if it has to give up power, Hamas's message to the world will be: You did not give us an opportunity to be part of the political process, so we will return to military activities."
04-11-06 - Abbas offers to resume peace talks
04-11-06 - Made in Palestine NY Exhibit Extended Following 3,364 Visitors in 3 Weeks Made in Palestine is the first museum quality exhibition devoted to the contemporary art of Palestine to be held in the United States. It is a survey of work spanning three generations of Palestinian artists who live in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Galilee, Syria, Jordan, and the United States
04-11-06 - Young American's tragic tale sways UK theatergoers One of the most disturbing things about "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," the Royal Court play based on the journals and e-mails of a young American who died in Palestine for no apparent reason, is that it has yet to be seen in the United States.
04-11-06 - Israel and Australia lay claim to latest Google genius
04-11-06 - Israeli advice to Americans on Iraq Does anyone still have any doubt that this was the neocon/Israeli plan for Iraq from the beginning?
04-11-06 - Gilat Satellite China Project Completed
04-11-06 - Court: Couple Can't Sue Northrop Grumman the two opposed U.S. policy and believed terrorism would worsen as long as the U.S. supported Israel. Northrop Grumman notified the State Department and U.S. immigration authorities, and the government took the couple into custody and began deportation proceedings.
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