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Thursday, April 13, 2006
04-12-06 - Israelis kill two gunmen in Gaza An Israeli air strike has killed two Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip close to the border fence with Israel.
04-12-06 - Palestinians in financial crisis despite Arab aid promises Arab countries have vowed to plug a gaping hole in the Palestinian budget after EU and US aid suspensions to the Hamas-led government, but analysts doubt such promises will come close to filling the shortfall.
04-12-06 - Israel wary of Iran's atomic progress "The United States has placed this issue at the top of its agenda. I do not recommend that we should be involved," Naturally. If they can get us to 'deal with Iran', why should they?
04-12-06 - Iran Showdown Tests Power of Israel Lobby Far more visibly than any other domestic constituency, the Israel Lobby, defined by Profs. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt, academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, as "the loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction," has pushed the government ? both Congress and the George W. Bush administration ? toward confrontation with Tehran...."This bill has been pushed almost entirely by AIPAC," noted Trita Parsi, a Middle East expert at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) here. "I don't see any other major groups behind this legislation that have had any impact on it."
04-12-06 - Security experts: Iran to be bombed in 2007 If Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons, a military operation against it is inevitable and will take place in 2007, senior U.S. and Israeli specialists say, Israel?s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday Our foreign policy is crafted in Tel Aviv.
04-12-06 - UN won't scale back Hamas contacts The American head of the UN agency aiding Palestinian refugees said her agency will not scale back contacts with the new Palestinian government and will meet with Hamas leaders as part of its aid work.
04-12-06 - Israel expands zone for retaliatory strikes in Gaza "What have we done to deserve this?" Ghraben asked, sitting on a cushion with four of her injured children. "We are farmers, and all of us are innocent civilians. Not one of us fires rockets."
04-12-06 - innocent child dies in Israeli bombardment of northern Gaza
04-12-06 - Arab bloc drops plan to seek UN censure of IDF actions in Gaza the unusual Arab hesitation to refrain from pushing for a condemnation of Israel stems from the belief they wouldn't be able to secure a majority vote in the Security Council.
04-12-06 - Essay Stirs Debate About Influence of a Jewish Lobby They say that the United States was singled out by Al Qaeda in large part because of American support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and that a significant motivation for the invasion of Iraq was to improve Israel's security. A rather rational piece by the NY Times on the study of the Israeli lobby. It's about time.
04-12-06 - New research debunks myths about suicide bombers the other half of the bombers interviewed refused to kill civilians. A 37-year-old bomber said, "I could have done a much larger number if I executed the mission among citizens in the central bus station of Tel Aviv, but I didn't do it because I wanted to kill only soldiers."
04-12-06 - Church, find your voice Palestinians have the right to enjoy sovereignty in their own independent, viable and contiguous state within secure and recognized boundaries. Israel?s withdrawal from Gaza is a positive first step. Yet the continued expansion of Israeli settlements, restrictions on movement for Palestinian people, and the impact of the security wall on the lives and livelihoods of Palestinians make the path to peace extremely difficult.
04-12-06 - Olmert: Convergence to cost USD 10 billion Olmert said he plans to visit Washington in May to seek U.S. political and financial backing for his plan. My fellow Americans, look right in the mirror to see who will be footing the bill for an Israeli withdrawal from lands that it has unlawfully occupied and colonized in violation of international law for nearly 40 years. We pay for Israel's intransigence - and then we pay again, in more ways than one.
04-12-06 - Italy's Prodi may not be Israel-friendly Oh dear.
04-12-06 - The airport with no planes Foreign donors say they won't let Palestinians starve, although Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, said Israel has withheld tax revenues due to the PA "to put the Palestinians on a diet".
04-12-06 - Canadian seeks court recognition of Jerusalem as part of Israel "My religion teaches me that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel." Israel's claims with regard to Jerusalem have been addressed by numerous UN resolutions. Land taken by force is inadmissible.
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