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Thursday, May 11, 2006
05-10-06 - 3 Palestinian children with kidney's failure die due to medicine shortage He said that Gaza hospitals and kidney department at Shiffa Hospital suffer from a severe shortage of kidney medicines. He indicated that 150 children need frequent kidney dialysis.
05-10-06 - Interim aid agreed for Palestinians as churches call for siege to end After intense pressure from NGOs, Christian agencies, churches and Muslim organizations, Middle East mediators have agreed a plan which will channel aid to the stricken Palestinians, though not through the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
05-10-06 - IN WASHINGTON, IT FEELS LIKE EARLY 2003 ALL OVER AGAIN Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, who has extraordinary contacts across the Middle East and whose predictions are nearly always right, wrote last week that a high-level Israeli official told him at Israel's National Day reception that Israel would strike first, in the next "month or two or three."
05-10-06 - Palestinians welcome quartet peace talks call
05-10-06 - Control without Liability Physicians for Human Rights-Israel calls for the dismantlement of the enclave. The enclave was formed because the separation barrier was not built along the route of the Green Line despite the opinion of the International Court of Justice from 2004. As long as the enclave exists, passage of medical staff in general, and emergency medical staff in particular, must be allowed without condition and without delay.
05-10-06 - West Bank fuel supply dwindles after Israeli cutoff Gas stations in the West Bank are running out of fuel after their Israeli supplier cut off deliveries over the Palestinian government's failure to pay bills, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.
05-10-06 - Israel Firm Cuts Palestinian Gas Supplies Compounding Hamas' woes, Israel has cut off about $55 million in monthly transfers of tax money it collects for the Palestinians. Israel has placed the money in escrow. Israel dipped into this money last month to pay Palestinian bills to government-owned companies, such as the Israeli electric monopoly. The Palestinians rely on Israel for many key supplies, including fuel, electricity and water
Then there is no reason why Israel cannot use this money to pay the fuel bill.
05-10-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran PM set to visit Washington in two weeks for summit with President Bush; Olmert to point to link between Tehran nuclear threat, Hamas terror, demand Americans move against Iran
05-10-06 - UK aid agencies highlight urgent Palestinian suffering As the Quartet of major powers meets in New York to discuss the Middle East peace process, Save the Children UK, Christian Aid and Oxfam GB urges the European Union to reconsider the freeze on direct aid to the Palestinian Authority.
05-10-06 - Iran unlikely to give nukes to militants - Israel If Iran eventually acquires nuclear weapons, it would be unlikely to share them with the Islamic militants it backs in the Middle East, a senior Israeli security official said on Wednesday.
05-10-06 - Artists urge PM to curb settler attacks on Palestinian children However, after a short lull, settlers recently resumed attacks against these children and their armed protectors. The severity of the assaults peaked last Saturday, when the settlers threw stones at the convoy, injuring four children and two soldiers. One of the settlers set a dog on the children, and soldiers were forced to shoot in the air in order to disperse the rioters.
05-10-06 - Emergency aid may be too little, too late for Palestinians trying to survive a crisis "They wouldn't allow me to do this if they knew," she said. "I'll buy flour, the basics and give it to them. I'll tell them God sent it to me. Of course the rings are dear to me, but my children and grandchildren have to eat." ...Officials say four kidney patients have already died after their dialysis was reduced from three times to twice a day because of drug shortages.
"We have nothing to do with Fatah or Hamas," Ms Majdalawi's mother, Ataf, said. "But we are paying the price. We are always facing pressures but now they want the Palestinians to overturn their government."
05-10-06 - Embracing Palestinians but not Hamas The real message: As much as Israel and Hamas believe they can ignore each other, the plight of the Palestinians - caused in part by each government's intransigence toward talking - should not and will not be ignored by the rest of the world.
05-10-06 - Israeli plane pounds Gaza militant training camp
05-10-06 - U.S. wary of new mechanism for bankrolling PA salaries This wariness was expressed yesterday by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, during a meeting with visiting Israel Defense Forces officers from the National Security College in Israel. John Bolton is a NEOCON.
05-10-06 - Haniyeh to Jihad: End rocket attacks
05-10-06 - The Church of Scotland to discuss divestment The report maintains Israeli policy "deliberately undermines economic efforts by and on behalf of the Palestinian people, drawing particular attention to the issues of water".
05-10-06 - Jewish groups fight over congress vote Other American Jewish groups known for their dovish approach are also lobbying Congress against the proposed language of the anti-Hamas legislation Good for them!!!!!
05-10-06 - Lobbying on Iran, groups strive to play down the Jewish angle Careful to avoid giving the impression that it's primarily an issue of Jewish or Israeli concern, however, U.S. Jewish groups are taking pains to highlight the greater regional and global threats posed by a nuclear Iran and its Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...."We have to mobilize public opinion in this country and around the word to understand the serious threat that this represents," Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JTA....Jewish groups have vigorously lobbied American and international leaders, and have held meetings to educate members of the media. Well, it acts like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck....Oops, it looks like they forgot to tell Olmert.
05-10-06 - US gives ground on Iran, Palestinian aid
05-10-06 - Palestinian majority believe Hamas cabinet unable to bring new jobs: poll
05-10-06 - Israel agrees to free Palestinian tax for aid use Israel is willing to free tax revenues collected for the Palestinian Authority on condition they go toward humanitarian causes and not the new Hamas-led government, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday. It's not Israel's money nor is it Israel's decision as to how the Palestinians spend THEIR money.
05-10-06 - Peretz slams Maon settler attacks
05-10-06 - While Hamas is snubbed, kids starve The decision by the United States, the European Union and Canada to cut financial assistance to Hamas, the winner of the recent Palestinian elections, not only disrespects the results of a clean and democratic electoral process; more ominously, it will further harm Palestinian children, already punished by the effects of the Israeli occupation.
05-10-06 - Peretz recommends transfer of NIS 50m. to PA
05-10-06 - U.S. calls on president of Azerbaijan to open mission in Israel The American request follows an appeal by Israel to the Bush administration, which was made to boost a similar demand by Jewish American groups Israeli lobby? What Israeli lobby?
05-10-06 - Israeli official meets Hamas lawmakers - report The newspaper quoted a ministry official as saying Zaken had met with some of 2,200 prisoners held at two jails, among them Hamas legislators, "to assess their mood".
05-10-06 - Palestinian gas stations organizing nonviolent demonstration against fuel crisis The Bethlehem area is suffering a serious gas shortage which if continued would paralyze traffic in the district.
05-10-06 - Most Israeli Jews want Arab compatriots out - survey Asked if the government should encourage Arabs to emigrate, 62 percent of Jews polled by the Israel Democracy Institute said yes. Therein lies the problem. For this sentiment was around before the creation of the state of Israel long before there was a Hamas, a PLO, a PIJ, etc etc etc. The Zionist leaders even then knew that the Arabs either had to submit, or be kicked out.
05-10-06 - Palestinian fuel crisis looming "We appreciate every effort in order to help the Palestinian people by legal channels... and the legal channel is the Palestinian Authority, whether the presidency or the government," Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar told reporters, the Associated Press news agency said.
05-10-06 - Palestinian funding bill clears committee The committee approved the bill in a voice vote Wednesday, toughening a provision that extends a ban on Palestinian offices in the United States to the U.N. mission in New York.
05-10-06 - Why are we enabling Israel?
05-10-06 - Aid may flow again to Palestinians "That's an example of the type of thing that we want to be able to do for the Palestinians. What we don't want ... is that the international community is seen as stepping in and taking responsibility for things that should be the responsibility of the PA." He adds: "The PA, even if it's led by Hamas, needs to take responsibility for its people and for the consequences of its decisions."
In other words, according to this US official, our government IS in fact starving the Palestinians on purpose because they elected Hamas. Collective punishment, if you will.
05-10-06 - Palestinian factions pledge calm
05-10-06 - Jordan 'holds 20 Hamas plotters' "Hamas was attempting to recruit elements in the Jordanian arena and trying to recruit elements from abroad to send to Syria and Iran to get military training,"
05-10-06 - Russia against Hamas's isolation - Lavrov
05-10-06 - Israel warns Hamas over borders Israel is set to give the Palestinians until the end of 2006 to show they are ready to negotiate a final peace deal, Israel's justice minister has said.
05-10-06 - Judge rejects state request to throw out Palestinian farmers' compensation claim The Tel Aviv District Court rejected the state's request yesterday to turn down a demand by four Palestinians from Qalqilyah for compensation for their greenhouses, which were destroyed by the IDF during the early days of the Intifada in 2000.
05-10-06 - Settlers sell Palestinians fuel "The settlers are not doing us a favor. They are making good money on our account. In my opinion, the station had more customers in a week than a whole year," he said.
05-10-06 - NATO cites "growing threat" of missile attack Military experts reckon Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a range of some 2,000 km (1,200 miles), meaning Israel, U.S. bases in the Gulf and foreign troops in Iraq lie within their range.
05-10-06 - Egypt's Zamalek invites Palestinian PM to football match Egypt's Zamalek football club has invited Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya to attend the upcoming clash with city rivals Ahly and promised to donate part of the proceeds to the Palestinian people.
05-10-06 - Stanford professor of Middle East history sues over book calling him terror supporter Beinin, a Jewish professor who has been criticized for his support of Palestinian rights, is one of four pictures on the cover of Horowitz's book. Jews themselves are not and have never been immune from attacks - both verbal and physical - by Zionists.
05-10-06 - A Comforting Oasis Ever since I graduated from the Hebrew University, I have worked in one way or another with missions working to better the situation of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories
05-10-06 - Western diplomats worried by threat of Israeli unilateralism Western diplomats have become increasingly wary of Israel's intentions.
05-10-06 - One bowl serves many Israeli and Palestinian artists have joined forces to send a message of reconciliation.
05-10-06 - Australian politician slams anti-Israel media bias Connie Fierravanti-Wells said that she was made aware of the "anti-Jewish, anti-U.S. slant that some broadcasters relish in adopting" after she visited Israel last year on a trip run by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council's Rambam Israel Fellowship Program, the Australian Jewish News reported. Are those stations biased, or is SHE in fact the biased one?
05-10-06 - Israel, caught again with its hand in the cookie jar
05-10-06 - Mideast conflict hits N.Y. school The day also featured a dozen other sessions with several Jewish journalists and liberal Jewish voices....The school had canceled a previous Mideast day after parents complained that the line-up appeared biased against Israel.
05-10-06 - Israeli/Palenstinian video camera exchange project still on Spielberg told Time, "What I'm doing is buying 250 video cameras and players and dividing them up, giving 125 of them to Palestinian children, 125 to Israeli kids, so they can make movies about their own lives not dramas, just little documentaries about who they are and what they believe in, who their parents are, where they go to school, what they had to eat, what movies they watch, what CDs they listen to -- and then exchange the videos."
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