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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
05-08-06 - House Voting on Anti-Palestinian Legislation Tuesday the House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday, May 9 on H.R. 4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006. This bill imposes draconian economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Palestinian people for exercising their democratic rights.
05-08-06 - Aid Cuts Cripple Palestinian Health Care The West's economic boycott of the Hamas-led regime has brought the perpetually strained Palestinian health care system to the brink of disaster, international aid workers and government officials say. They warn of an epidemic of preventable deaths if money is not found soon.
05-08-06 - Aid block 'may ruin Palestinians' There are food and petrol shortages in Gaza, whose borders are entirely controlled by Israel.
05-08-06 - Hebron Update: 29 April to 5 May 2006 On school patrol in Shuhada Street Dave Corcoran and Christina Gibb encountered
a group of Israeli settler boys kicking a Palestinian boy on his way to school.
Corcoran rushed over to protect the Palestinian boy. The settler children spat
on Corcoran and kicked him. They broke into a door to attack another
Palestinian school child. Corcoran again intervened. In the melee he dropped
his mobile phone. Settler boys immediately kicked it around before stealing it Imagine what these undisciplined and violent children will grow up to do. Where are they learning such behavior in the first place, one wonders.
05-08-06 - Israel Intent on Keeping Jordan Valley Israel has given no indication what will become of the Palestinian farmers in the valley, or whether the corridor will become an impenetrable wedge dividing the West Bank. Ahh, they'll just chase those pesky Palestinian farmers out as they've done for nearly 60 years. Law, what law?
05-08-06 - Jewish majority fundamental to Israel survival: PM Imagine if the headline read "White majority fundamental to America's survival"? It's something that white supremacists would say.
05-08-06 - Palestinians See No Way Out in Standoff Many Palestinians would likely balk at returning to the polls so soon after the January vote. They have been upset with what they consider the hypocrisy of the West, which they say preached democracy to them, then refused to accept the results.
05-08-06 - Hamas PM vows to prevent civil war after three killed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya vowed not to allow a civil war to break out after clashes between his Hamas movement and the rival Fatah faction left three dead and 11 wounded.
05-08-06 - Settlers Assult Humans Rights Workers in Hebron - Soldiers Refuse to Intervene The oldest settler, approximately 40 years old, got close to their faces and whispered "I like to kill Arabs. I like to kill Arabs." Then another settler punched the male HRW, who was still sitting down, in the face. At that point, the soldier located 6 meters away approached but did and said nothing.
05-08-06 - Israel warns Iran against attack Israel's Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres says Iran should understand that it could be destroyed if it were to launch an attack on his country.
05-08-06 - Dovish groups oppose Hamas bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has lobbied strongly for the bill, and with 290 co-sponsors it is almost guaranteed to pass
05-08-06 - Restrictions on Palestinians eased Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he would soon sign an order allowing 12,000 Palestinian laborers and merchants from the West Bank to work in Israel.
05-08-06 - Punishing prospects International law bans collective punishment - a tenet the representatives of the Middle East peace "quartet" should bear in mind when they meet in New York today to consider the grave situation in the Palestinian territories
05-08-06 - Hamas, Abbas fail to agree on way out of Palestinian crisis
05-08-06 - Israel warns nationals to leave Sinai 'immediately' Israel's counter-terrorism unit advised all nationals visiting the Sinai peninsula to "immediately" leave the neighbouring Egyptian territory citing "concrete" threats to kidnap Israelis.
05-08-06 - Europe's actions threaten more chaos for Palestinians
05-08-06 - Olmert promises more West Bank settler evictions Gaza, the West Bank and E. Jerusalem are Israeli-OCCUPIED territories. All Israeli settlements built therein are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention, article 49.
05-08-06 - Iran's nuclear gambit - the basics Mr. Negroponte, testified to Congress in February that Iran "will likely have the capability" to produce a nuclear weapon within 10 years......Some of the shortest estimates, of less than two years, come from Israel No kidding?
05-08-06 - Straw Canned Over Iran? there is no rational basis for a belief that Iran's nuclear ambitions are a threat to "the world," unless all that is important to you in the world is Israel's regional dominance in the Middle East, or perhaps the continuation of the United States' free hand in the same area
05-08-06 - Indonesia Muslims urge US to end Palestine aid ban More than 10,000 supporters of a popular Muslim party marched through the streets of at least three Indonesian cities on Sunday demanding Washington and its allies work with the Palestinian Hamas-led government.
05-08-06 - UK cabinet shuffle may benefit J'lem Israel may have come out the winner following Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet shuffle on May 5. The demotion of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and appointment of Blair loyalist Margaret Beckett to his post are likely to result in a more unified Anglo-American approach to Iran, Hamas and the Middle East
Britain is ruled by neocons, by proxy. Read between the lines.
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