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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
05-09-06 - Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Save for a few rightwing news sites that have lambasted him, all mainstream media in America have - much like the one a few months before - ignored this latest article by Jimmy Carter. The Israeli lobby at work.
05-09-06 - US opens the door for Europe to save Palestinians from funding disaster the EU position has not been as hardline as the US and both the EU and Russia went into yesterday's meeting urging Washington to soften its approach.
05-09-06 - Quartet agrees to channel aid to Palestinians
05-09-06 - Cuts squeeze lifeline to Gaza's sick Israel stopped paying the tens of millions of dollars a month that it owes the Palestinians from customs and other revenue collection.
05-09-06 - Patients die as doctors run out of drugs to treat them
05-09-06 - FEATURE-Shadow of Israeli barrier hangs over matriarch's tomb "You look outside the window to see a nice view and all you see right in front of your face is a wall," Noustas said pointing out of her window. "We have lost everything".
05-09-06 - Report: Israel responsible for PA collapse Scathing report issued by Phycisians for Human Rights organization says Palestinian healthcare system collapsing because of aid cuts, Israel curfews; report warns Israel will be held responsible for collapse by international community
05-09-06 - Israeli Arabs send 250 tons of food, medicine to West Bank The Monitoring Committee had also requested permission to transfer a similar aid delivery to the Gaza Strip, but the delivery has been held up due to the closure on Gaza, and is awaiting the Israeli go ahead.
05-09-06 - Two injured, including teen, as Israeli forces continue to pound northern Gaza with artillery Palestinian security sources reported that a Palestinian man and boy suffered shrapnel wounds Monday morning, after Israeli tanks occupying the northeastern Gaza Strip border fired tank shells.
05-09-06 - U.S., Allies Agree to Palestinian Aid Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the European Union would take the lead in the new effort What? Our government - as a result of goading by Israel - is the reason the Palestinians were cut off from aid in the first place. I don't believe that this matter should be in Rice's hands.
05-09-06 - Hamas and Fatah ban carrying of arms
05-09-06 - Russia may continue giving aid to Palestine - Foreign Ministry
05-09-06 - New U.K. attempt to boycott Israeli universities, professors The largest university and college lecturers union in Britain is likely to decide shortly to recommend that its 67,000 members boycott Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy in the territories.
05-09-06 - Would an attack on Iran be legal? the US would probably seek to justify an attack under the self-defence principle, and it would first of all have to outline the nature of the threat. .....The US might say that it was acting in protection of or at the request of Israel, which could argue that it was under a greater threat than the US itself.
05-09-06 - U.N. body welcomes Gaza food from top donor Japan "Ever since the new representation in the Gaza Strip, we've had difficulty in persuading some of our traditional donors to continue giving, but fortunately Japan doesn't share this reluctance," Japan doesn't put stipulations on its humanitarian aid.
05-09-06 - Israel wall to be largely done this year
05-09-06 - Unified Arab-American Lobbying Effort Urged
05-09-06 - Damu Smith, peace activist, dies at 54 Smith, who complained of stomach problems for years, fell ill last year in March while leading a delegation for Palestinian rights in the Middle East. After his return to Washington, doctors told Smith he was in the end stage of colon cancer.
05-09-06 - Jewish celebration picketed Carrying red, black, white and green Palestinian flags and
protest signs, members of three groups - the Huron Valley
Greens and Defend Palestine Ann Arbor, which sponsored the
protest, and Jewish Witnesses for Peace - loudly vocalized
anti-Israeli chants, urging the Jewish community to take a
stand on what they said is Israel's mistreatment of
Palestinians.
05-09-06 - West Bank barrier prompts Arabs to cross over
05-09-06 - Israeli officials secretly planning on convergence plan Israeli high-ranking officials from different ministries have been secretly planning the legal framework of the convergence plan for several months, the Ha'aretz newspaper report Monday, citing government sources.
05-09-06 - Hasner leads effort for Florida?s support of Israel "Now is the time to affirm our solidarity with Israel," Hasner stated during debate on the floor of the House of Representatives, "It's a critical time in the Middle East and it's important for the state of Florida to show its solidarity with the lone Democracy in that region." Lone democracy in the region? I don't think so.
05-09-06 - More than half of Israelis want gov't to help Arabs emigrate More than half of Israelis think the government should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate from Israel, according to an annual survey by the Israel Democracy Institute.
In case this story gets yanked or changed by Haaretz, here it is elsewhere on the web.
05-09-06 - Hamas signals wariness over international aid
05-09-06 - Hamas minister to visit four more European countries after Sweden
05-09-06 - Syria takes in Palestinian refugees stranded on Iraq border "Neither the Iraqis nor the Jordanians wanted us,"
05-09-06 - Lebanese PM asks for Blair's help on evicting Israel from Shebaa He asked Blair "to exert the pressure on Israel so that the Israelis can withdraw from the Shebaa Farms", and said he wanted the matter raised at the United Nations.
05-09-06 - Abbas appeals for end to foreign aid freeze Several proposals, including a French one to allow the World Bank to channel funds to pay salaries, are expected to be presented when the Quartet -- the United States, the European Union, the U.N. and Russia -- convenes.
05-09-06 - Speak out against Palestine blockade, Left tells PM Criticising the US, the European Union and Israel for the decision to stop funds to the Palestinian authority, the four-party Left Front expressed 'surprise' that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had been silent about the 'onslaught' on the Palestinian people.
05-09-06 - Palestinians losing link to U.S. care Steve Sosebee, founder and director of the children's charity, said the U.S. sanctions are so stringent that he is being forced to cancel life-saving missions by U.S. doctors.
05-09-06 - West Bank Territories Opened
05-09-06 - Fire erupts at Palestinian parliament
05-09-06 - MI chief warns that Iran will produce nuclear bomb by 2010 Iran will have acquired nuclear bombs by 2010, the head of Israel's Military Intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.
05-09-06 - Howard to visit US, Canada and Ireland On Tuesday, he will meet Mr Bush, senior members of the US cabinet and Congressional leaders. That evening, he will be presented with international Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith's presidential gold medal for steadfast friendship to the people of Israel before the White House dinner.
Canada - the newest Israeli-occupied territory.
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