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Friday, May 05, 2006
05-04-06 - Israel troops kill Palestinian in W.Bank- medics Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian taxi driver in the West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. They said an Israeli patrol opened fire on Zakhariah Darghmeh, 38, after he drove off a major road connecting the West Bank city of Nablus and the northern part of the occupied territory.
05-04-06 - Hebron child injured in settler hit and run Abd Allah Al Ja'bari, 3 years old , from the West Bank city of Hebron was seriously injured on Tuesday evening, in a hit and run incident with an Israeli settler.
05-04-06 - Palestinian budget crisis imperils hospital patients "We've lost four patients in the last two weeks from chronic renal failure due to the lack of drugs for kidney dialysis," Mr. el Habash said. "The situation is getting worse day by day."
05-04-06 - 'Intifada Law' has barred compensation to Palestinian victims almost entirely Like a similar law passed during the first intifada, this amendment enables the state to avoid suits and payment of compensation for damage sustained by Palestinians during the armed conflict.
05-04-06 - Hamas seeks $100 million from Palestinian central bank Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya said Wednesday that his Hamas government had obtained enough aid from Arab and Muslim states to pay staff but slammed US pressure on banks for preventing the money from being transferred
05-04-06 - Abbas to put any peace deal to vote "It is my intention to bring the results of the negotiations [with Israel], if and when they end, to the Palestinian people in the form of a referendum and to give the Palestinian people the right to decide."
05-04-06 - UAE donates medical supplies worth USD 10 mil. to Palestinians
05-04-06 - Army arrest handicapped youth from Beit Awwa village near Hebron Al Masalmah is handicapped and uses a wheel chair, he went missing last night and his family searched for him all night long , in the morning the family found his wheel chair and clothes near the wall
05-04-06 - Settler blockade prevents Palestinian children from returning home After three hours of waiting for armed forces to escort them from their school in A-Twani to their homes in Umm Tuba, the children walked the 10 kilometers accompanied by international aid workers.
05-04-06 - Palestinians Feel Pain of No Pay The United Nations warned in a recent report that a continued failure to pay salaries, especially to an estimated 70,000 members of the security forces, could create an explosive climate in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
05-04-06 - Prime minister pins his colours to 'new look' Israel the government plans to move the affected settlers into the expanding larger colonies that will be formally annexed by the imposition by 2010 of a new Israeli border east of the 1967 frontier and running through the occupied territories.
05-04-06 - Abbas urges 'immediate negotiations' with Israel Abu Rudeina said Abbas would oppose any unilateral measures planned by Israel in the occupied West Bank seeking to redraw the borders of the Jewish state by leaving large parts of the territory and holding on to key settlements.
05-04-06 - House preserves travel in lobbying amendment The Jewish community, led by the United Jewish Communities federation umbrella group, lobbied hard for the amendment, fearing it could affect education about Israel, Darfur and other areas.
05-04-06 - British proposal may open rift with US on Hamas Western diplomats said on Thursday Britain had proposed creating a fund, an idea also floated by France, to stop Palestinian institutions collapsing under financial pressure.
But they said the Bush administration has moved in recent days to block the proposals.
Strange how the politics of our best ally - Britain - are so vastly different than our own. This might have something to do with it.
05-04-06 - Arab League, Palestinians seek method to deliver aid Mussa said a team of Palestinian financial experts was in Cairo, where the League is based, for a brainstorming session aimed at resolving the problem which has arisen since Hamas took control of the Palestinian government.
05-04-06 - Bush, Malaysian PM agree on diplomacy to end Iranian crisis Malaysia has said it would not establish relations with Israel until the Palestinians secure statehood.
05-04-06 - Israel Offers Outline to Divide Jerusalem Most of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods would go to the Palestinians, he said. "Those same neighborhoods will, in my assessment, be central to the makeup of the Palestinian capital ... al-Quds," Schneller said, calling Jerusalem by its Arabic name. Israel would keep Jerusalem's Old City with its shrines sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike - an unacceptable plan to Palestinians, particularly if carried out unilaterally.
05-04-06 - US cool to Israeli-Palestinian talks The United States poured cold water on Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas' call for immediate talks with Israel, saying the time was not ripe with the militant group Hamas running the Palestinian government
05-04-06 - Bush, Merkel pledge backing for Israel, denounce Iran and Hamas "America's commitment to Israel's security is strong, enduring and unshakeable," Bush said in a speech in Washington to the influential American Jewish Committee (AJC), which is marking its 100th anniversary.
05-04-06 - Cash-strapped Gaza taxi drivers turn to cooking gas Facing sky-high petrol prices and fewer passengers, Palestinian taxi driver Abdel-Hakim Yassin now powers his shabby cab with cooking gas canisters as a financial crisis deepens in the Gaza Strip.
05-04-06 - Olmert: Scattered settlements endanger us "The continuance of scattered Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria endanger us," said Olmert. He added that "if the Palestinian Authority doesn't cooperate with us, we'll work alone to shape the defensible borders of Israel."
05-04-06 - Russia sends aid to Palestinians The transfer, which had been expected, reflected Russia?s stated belief that the Palestinian government should not be isolated after Hamas leaders took office.
05-04-06 - "We All Just Want to Leave" Many Palestinians are now served with deportation papers when they show up at the residency office to renew their visas, despite the fact that neighboring countries often won't accept them
05-04-06 - Israeli settlers in Hebron steal and beat Palestinians' donkeys
05-04-06 - Palestine's Refugees Emerge from the Shadows Many Israeli Jews have never heard of the Nakba (the Catastrophe), the mirror event to Israel's Independence, when at least 80 per cent of the Palestinian population -- some 750,000 -- were forced or terrorised to leave the land that would become Israel. It is not something discussed in Israeli schools or the Hebrew media.
05-04-06 - Palestinians recall day of catastrophe
05-04-06 - Palestinian employees protest against Hamas-led govt over salary delay
05-04-06 - Brandeis pulls Palestinian art The images were painted by Palestinian teenagers at the request of a Jewish Israeli student at the Jewish-sponsored college, who wanted to bring the Palestinian viewpoint to campus. However, school officials said the paintings were too one-sided
05-04-06 - Daley Visits Israel, But Not The West Bank
05-04-06 - Lib Dem quits in row over remarks The constituent wrote to Mr Davies: "You make the same mistake as many others who call themselves liberals. "You seem to equate the situation of the Palestinian people as being exactly the same as the Jewish victims of the Holocaust." The Jewish News reported that Mr Davies responded in an email: "Sounds like racism to me. I hope you enjoying wallowing in your own filth."
05-04-06 - Quartet ponders role as Mideast peace hopes crumble Alvaro de Soto, the U.N. special envoy for the Middle East, has said Hamas's refusal to recognize Israel and Israel's pursuit of settlement expansion meant the road map should be updated to reflect the grimmer situation on the ground.
05-04-06 - UK Christian groups to rally for peace and justice in the Holy Land The demonstration has been called in response to the news that Palestinians are now on the brink of starvation and many people have already died as a result of shortages of medicines - caused by the withdrawal of aid following the election of Hamas
05-04-06 - Ex-Mossad chief: Take Iran seriously The former Mossad director noted that "now more than ever," Israel and the US share the same interests "in the face of Iran's threats on Israel and the free world." Bullshit.
05-04-06 - Rachel Corrie: a true martyr The play should be shown in Israel, because only Israelis can rein in the terror being unleased by their army.
05-04-06 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006 MR. BUCHANAN: The czar of American intelligence, Negroponte, says they're years away from this thing. They are hiding a lot of stuff and they've hid a lot of stuff. They are far, far away from this. But I'll tell you this, John. Your problem is our war party in this country, the Israelis, are pushing, pushing, pushing Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, who are all painted into a corner, and said they will n
ot be allowed to enrich at all.
05-04-06 - PM Olmert defends Arab MKs after Avigdor Lieberman's attack Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday lashed out at Israeli Arab political parties and said he hoped Arab MKs who had contact with Hamas or did not celebrate Independence Day would be executed.
05-04-06 - Glover to speak at peace walk "Anybody can come," said Caren Van Slyke, an Oak Park resident who is a member of the steering committee for the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
05-04-06 - Israel orders settlers to leave Hebron house
05-04-06 - Kadoumy lauds China's support for Palestinian, Arab causes
05-04-06 - Palestinians wary of Olmert plan
05-04-06 - State asks High Court to nix petition According to attorney Michael Sfard, who filed the petition on behalf of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights, the army last month reduced the target safety margin of artillery shells from 300 to 100 meters from the Palestinian civilian population of northern Gaza.....the order was in violation of international law because it endangered the lives and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population....Sfard maintained that the lethal fallout of an artillery shell can kill anyone within a radius of 100 meters and wound anyone within a radius of 200 meters.
05-04-06 - Hamas minister granted Sweden visa
05-04-06 - Olive Picking Program 2006
05-04-06 - Egypt, Jordan give Hamas cold shoulder This marks the second time Zahhar has been snubbed by his Egyptian counterpart
05-04-06 - Aid agencies call for trust fund to help blockaded Palestinians US opposition to the plan - which is believed to have Israeli support - will fuel speculation that Washington is bent on "regime change" in the PA.
05-04-06 - The country that wouldn't grow up It seems to me of no small significance that the recent essay on "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has aroused so much public interest and debate. Mearsheimer and Walt are prominent senior academics of impeccable conservative credentials. It is true that - by their own account - they could still not have published their damning indictment of the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy in a major U.S.-based journal (it appeared in the London Review of Books), but the point is that 10 years ago they would not - and probably could not - have published it at all.
05-04-06 - BD25,000 donated to Palestinians
05-04-06 - Kean backs stem-cell research on an ?intimate? trip to Israel Kean came with a delegation of NJ Republican pro-Israel activists, including Short Hills publisher Steven Klinghoffer;......"Starting next year in the U.S. Senate, I will be very involved with issues that relate to Israel and the Mideast in a direct fashion,"
05-04-06 - Fight Against Campus Bias Gets Boost If you?re a Jewish college student, you no longer have to tolerate anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing on your campus. It's official - you can no longer criticize Israel on campus. The cry of anti-Semitism has been (ab)used to see to that.
05-04-06 - Palestinians Demand Unity Government
05-04-06 - London Bridge A sad attempt to smear the London Review of Books. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point in their insane attempts to discredit the Mearsheimer-Walt study of the Israeli lobby.
05-04-06 - Caterpillar: Campaigners tell Church Commissioners 'Divest Now'
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