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Friday, April 14, 2006
04-13-06 - Israel/Occupied Territories: Gaza shelling must stop Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli army to immediately end its air bombardments and shelling of civilian residential areas in the Gaza Strip.
04-13-06 - Stop the bombing of Gaza! Prevent a humanitarian crisis!
04-13-06 - US blocks UN draft pressing Israel to end attacks U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the draft, even after three days of intense negotiations, "was disproportionately critical of Israel, and unfairly so, and needlessly so." John Bolton proving once again - he's ISRAEL's ambassador to the U.N.
04-13-06 - The Dead Sea / In a few more Passovers, there'll be nothing left
04-13-06 - Egypt urges diplomatic solution to Iran nuclear crisis US ally Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, but has campaigned tirelessly for Iran to be brought before the UN Security Council and face sanctions for its nuclear activities.
04-13-06 - Hamas minister expects financial crisis without aid Finance minister Omar Abdel-Razek on Thursday predicted economic collapse in the Palestinian territories within months unless Arab governments stepped in to stave off financial crisis.
04-13-06 - Bush waives restrictions on PLO office The Bush administration on Thursday extended a waiver of restrictions on the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Washington office, saying it remained a useful channel for ties with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
04-13-06 - Tolerating Intolerance Look what is considered to be 'antiSemitic' and 'hate speech' by the conference holders - criticism of Israel. Who is intolerant here? This will go hand in hand with that proposed legislation being supported by the Israeli lobby. This attempt to equate anti-Israel vocabulary to anti-Semitism has increased and not by coinicidence. It is because of the negative press that Israel and its lobby have been getting in the US. The criticism must be silenced at all costs. Thus will the magic wand of 'anti-Semite!' be wielded to achieve this goal.
04-13-06 - Rachel Corrie remembered during panel discussion
04-13-06 - Palestinians storm PM's offices According to witnesses, the gunmen demanded jobs and promotion. Then, within half an hour, they left the building
04-13-06 - This time we need the complete truth At the same time, particularly when criticism of Israel is extremely rare in the cowed US media, it is incumbent on the rest of the world to try to ensure that Israel withdraws in full from the territories it illegally occupied and that, if it wishes to erect barriers, it does so within the internationally recognised boundaries
04-13-06 - Church leaders in Jerusalem oppose Palestinian boycott In a joint Easter message, the 13 patriarchs and heads of Christian Churches in Jerusalem have made a powerful appeal for reconciliation between Israel and Palestine, the AsiaNews service reports. The Christian leaders also called on the international community not to boycott the Palestinian people by stopping aid.
04-13-06 - Holy Land: A call to action from the Presiding Bishop Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold has issued a Call to Action in response to the "impending humanitarian tragedy (which is) unfolding ... throughout the Holy Land,"
04-13-06 - Aid agencies protest at EU decision to stop aid to Palestinians In a letter to the Middle East Quartet, Oxfam warned that Palestinians are on the edge of survival. It says: "one in four people depend on aid. Three in four live on two dollars a day. Their plight will worsen, if donors stop giving aid to thePalestinian Authority."
04-13-06 - UNICEF Requires $9,321,936 for Immediate Action in OPT
04-13-06 - UNRWA denies cutting off ties with Palestinian cabinet
04-13-06 - Oxfam International: Decision to Stop Palestinian Aid Oxfam International, the international confederation of development organizations, is deeply concerned that the already serious humanitarian situation facing the Palestinians may become far more acute with some donors considering cutting funding to a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, and with the impact of continuing Israeli restrictions on social services and economic activity.
04-13-06 - Bil'in Children Arrested Mohammad Abd Al Fattah Burnatt, aged 17, and Mohammad Ahmad Hamad aged 13 were tending a herd of goats close to the illegal Israeli settlement of Modi?in Elite. The settlement is built on land that has belonged to the village for generations.
04-13-06 - Christian Leaders See Contradiction in Boycott Say World Community "Paralyzed" Over Palestinian Plight
04-13-06 - Israeli Tanks Thrust into Eastern Gaza Strip
04-13-06 - IDF chief: Step up battle vs Kassams Israel, Harel said, needed to sever all ties with the PA and to even stop transferring humanitarian goods through the Karni Crossing into the Gaza Strip.
04-13-06 - Palestinian Territories: Palestinian civilians, first victims of the escalation of violence and the withholding of direct financial aid Médecins du Monde strongly condemns the excessive use of force by Israeli armed forces targeting civilian populations as well as the decision of international donors to freeze payments and assistance, which constitutes a collective punishment.
04-13-06 - Toward Columbus: Peace in Israel/Palestine is focus of five General Convention resolutions A five-point resolution (A012) advocates for:
an end to the isolation of East Jerusalem and Bethlehem from the West Bank, created by the continued construction of Israeli settlements, settler roads and the Wall;
removal of the Wall;
assurance of human rights for Palestinians;
support for the return of sovereign control of Gaza's airspace, coastline and borders to the Palestinian people; and
assurance that no U.S. tax dollars will be used to finance the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
04-13-06 - 30ft high Jerusalem wall bars pilgrims' way "The human cost for the Palestinian people who are forced to live behind the wall is enormous."
04-13-06 - Sums don?t add up for unpaid Palestinian teachers Around 140,000 residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are dependent on government salaries and the loss of earnings is estimated to impact on around a quarter of the overall population
04-13-06 - Palestinian believed killed over apartment Elad, a non-profit organization working to find homes for Jews in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem What is the real reason for this policy? To slowly squeeze the Palestinians out - as Israel has done many times before, using similar and more extreme measures.
04-13-06 - Palestinian Territories: MSF refuses to be a 'social palliative' of EU & US policies
04-13-06 - WCC Renews Call for 'Constructive Patience' for Palestine Gov't
04-13-06 - BBC faces crunch ruling on FoI The scope of that derogation will be tested by the Information Tribunal on 14 June when it holds a hearing about whether the corporation should be compelled to publish a report on its coverage of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict written by senior editorial advisor Malcolm Balen (pictured).
04-13-06 - Wake-up call; Flap over Rachel Corrie drops golden opportunity in San Diego theater?s lap Sueko noted?but those actions, she said, are the exception that makes the rule. She recalled a 1989 incident in which a Palestinian theater group had traveled to the U.S. for a series of pro-Palestinian entries, only to be turned away unless a pro-Israeli piece was staged alongside
04-13-06 - Wicked lessons on WMD we are teaching the world Meanwhile, Israel has the bomb in defiance of international rules, yet retains the support of America despite the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians, or even western peace activists
04-13-06 - McCarthyism: Standard Operating Procedure In fact, there was no "blog," but a column I wrote on MSNBC years ago. And while it's years old, it has never been refuted. No one has been able to find anyone I listed among the pundits who has taken the Palestinian side against the Israelis on absolutely anything
04-13-06 - Justice for journalists
04-13-06 - SJP educates about occupation in West Bank This is considered 'hate speech' and 'anti-Semitism' by pro-Israelis.
04-13-06 - Paradise Now As an informative piece, the film is fascinating. Told entirely in Arabic, it has an exceedingly authentic feel to an audience that has heretofore heard the Palestinian story only through the stodgy narration of a CNN foreign correspondent
04-13-06 - Anna Baltzer talks about the reality of life in occupied territories ?Some of them still hold the keys to their homes that they kept as they fled, thinking they would be back in days or weeks. Palestinians want dignity, human rights and a state of their own.?
04-13-06 - Credits for illegal-alien rally irk some parents Mohammed Hasanian, a Vienna-based Realtor with Long and Foster, is not able to relate to the plight of illegal aliens, perhaps because he followed the immigration laws before becoming an American citizen.
"I guess I should be trying to smuggle my brothers into this country illegally," the Palestinian from Jordan said. "I am pro-immigration, but legal immigration. If you broke the law when you entered this country, you should be deported. It is that simple."
04-13-06 - Fury as Israeli minister says deadly attacks on troops are not terrorism Her comments provoked fierce criticism in Israel and a Right-wing member of parliament demanded that she should be sacked. Israeli government spokesman Dore Gold said much the same thing in the documentary by Briton John Pilger. He defined terrorism as the targetting of civilians. That documentary loads when you open the page - it requires Real Media player.
04-13-06 - 2 Muslim families work together to keep open site where Jesus was crucified, buried
04-13-06 - Rival armed factions seizing pieces of Gaza
04-13-06 - Prodi quickly caught in row over remarks about Hamas
04-13-06 - Nablus mayor barred from Pessah ritual The mayor of Nablus was refused a permit on Tuesday by the army to attend the Pessah ceremony of the Samaritans, who are under his jurisdiction.
04-13-06 - The campus fears loaded topics Why did The Ithacan fail to cover this extraordinary forum?
04-13-06 - Holy Land patriarch calls gov'ts to end death?s logic, people to Easter?s courage
04-13-06 - U.S. evangelical groups establish pro-Israel lobby About 400 Christian evangelical leaders met in Texas in February to establish the lobby. In addition to the Dallas-based Hagee, its leaders include evangelist George Morrison, Baptist minister Jerry Falwell, and former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer, president of the American Values Coalition, which claims to protect marriage, family and faith. All are well-known supporters of Israel.
04-13-06 - Peace Activists Offer Opinions He planned to join the National Guard and hoped to do counterintelligence. But he changed his mind after staying with a Palestinian family while continuing his studies at a university in the West Bank. "I got to see some of the horrible things the Israeli army was doing to people," Vanwagenen said
04-13-06 - From the China Lobby to the Israel Lobby Whether an American citizen supports close ties with Israel depends on whether he or she perceives that to be in line with U.S. interests and/or values, not on whether he or she is pro- or anti-Semitic. I do not agree with the author's conclusion. Though once in a while US interests may prevail, President Bush has in the past attempted to 'rein in Israel' but was later cowed to silence by the Israeli lobby (evangelical Christian Right).
04-13-06 - Russia's Putin welcomes 8 new ambassadors Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed a Palestinian and seven other new ambassadors to Moscow in a ceremony Thursday.
04-13-06 - The Lobby and the Bulldozer For several decades, to the present moment, Israel's treatment of Palestinian people has amounted to methodical and despicable violations of human rights. Yet criticism of those policies from anyone (including American Jews such as myself) routinely results in accusations of anti-Jewish bigotry.
04-13-06 - Religion today The Greek clerics leading the church "are foreigners who don't work for the best interests of the Palestinian Christians," said Dimitri Diliani, who leads of a coalition of Palestinians Christians that plans to bring more than 1,500 faithful to the flame ceremony. "They have been irresponsible in handling the property of Palestinian Christians and have been involved in 'Judaizing' Jerusalem."
04-13-06 - Group urges Olmert to ask U.S. for Jonathan Pollard's release A committee working for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard asked Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert and the leaders of other Kneset parties on Wednesday to submit an additional formal request asking the United States government to grant Pollard clemency.
04-13-06 - LRB Letters Re The Israel Lobby
04-13-06 - The travelling oasis of absurdity Boomchucka Circus, formerly Circus2Iraq, has been touring Israel and Palestine for two months. Originally from Britain, it is made up of six fools who answered an advertisement last November looking for performers to create a circus show for children living on both sides of the conflict.
04-13-06 - Hillel director backs off accusations against student
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