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Friday, May 12, 2006
05-11-06 - 3 Palestinians wounded in Israeli shelling in Gaza
05-11-06 - The great catastrophe In the last week of April 1948, combined Irgun-Haganah forces launched an offensive to drive the Palestinian people out of the beautiful port city of Jaffa, forcing the remaining inhabitants to flee by sea; many drowned in the process. My aunt Rose, a teenager at that time, survived the trip to begin her life in exile on the Lebanese coast.
05-11-06 - Israeli army shells two areas in the Gaza Strip
05-11-06 - DCI/PS calls on Palestinian groups to prioritise the safety of children Defence for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS) deplores the latest round of inter-factional violence in Gaza which has resulted in the wounding of 13 people, including 10 schoolchildren.
05-11-06 - Israel Releasing Money for Palestinians Israel stopped transferring some $55 million in tax and customs revenues it collects monthly on behalf of the Palestinians shortly after Hamas won January parliamentary elections.The withholding of those funds, coupled with a cutoff in aid from the U.S. and European Union, has left the Palestinians broke and two months behind in paying salaries to government workers who provide for about a third of the people in the West Bank and Gaza
05-11-06 - Militant Signs Palestinian Border Proposal
05-11-06 - Jailed Palestinian leaders propose end to attacks in Israel Jailed leaders of the Palestinian factions have drawn up a series of proposals to ease tensions between their followers, including a pledge to end attacks inside Israel.
05-11-06 - Arab League unable to transfer funds to Palestinians "This is due to the refusal of the banks to transfer the money as a result of American and international pressure."
05-11-06 - Arrest fears prompt Israeli general to avoid Britain The Israeli army has scrapped plans to send one of its generals to a course at a British military academy over fears he could be arrested on war crimes allegations.
05-11-06 - Remembering May 15 On the fourteenth of May 1948 Israel declared independence. The following day Israeli forces moved rapidly through Palestine expelling the region?s Palestinian inhabitants from their villages. During the Nakbah an estimated 700,000 to 900,000 Palestinians vacated their homes. Most were forcibly evicted by the Israeli military while others fell victim to a paranoia that swept through Palestine as result of the forced evictions and other atrocities committed by the Israeli forces
05-11-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran
05-11-06 - Israeli Authorities level two houses in Jerusalem
05-11-06 - Gaza protests as fuel runs out
05-11-06 - Report suggests IDF document may have been forged According to the report, Zilber's home was repeatedly broken into during the years she worked on the paper. A Trojan horse was also installed on her computer allowing hackers to view her files and copy her paper
05-11-06 - Rachel Corrie's Legacy The legal papers make for sobering, eye-opening reading. The cases besides Rachel's, as described, are even more compelling. One concerns a demolition that killed a family, including a pregnant woman and children ages 4, 7, and 9. Another demolition trapped and killed a paralyzed man, despite his family's warnings to the IDF that the man was in the house. Warnings by family members during another demolition also failed to save a man in his 70s who was so sick that he could not walk or hear.
05-11-06 - Israel defence minister urges Palestinian boycott rethink New Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz is pushing for a rethink of the government's blanket boycott of the Palestinian Authority, which he fears is only strengthening Hamas, reports said.
05-11-06 - Whose human rights? Palestinians are being deprived of life-saving medicines, but the talk is all of Israeli academics being denied their privileges.
05-11-06 - Israeli rabbis awarded Japan peace prize Israel's Rabbis for Human Rights, which has built up a reputation for battling abuses by soldiers and settlers in the Palestinian territories, was honoured in Japan with a leading peace prize.
05-11-06 - Palestinian petrol crisis 'over'
05-11-06 - Israel agrees to release $95m to Palestinians
05-11-06 - Beckett to respond to Gaza death The Foreign Secretary has told the family of a British cameraman murdered in Gaza that she will ask Israel to take action following his death.
05-11-06 - Palestinian officials lobby for negotiations Three top Fatah officials lobbied congressional and administration officials to press Israel to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority president.
05-11-06 - Hebron police post to close due to harassment by Jewish settlers Judea and Samaria police commander, Major General Yisrael Yitzhak, announced Wednesday his plans to close down the community police station in Southern Hebron Hills due to violence carried out against its officers by Jewish settlers. Who is in charge here? Really.
05-11-06 - In desperation, Palestinians seek prison in Israel A growing number of desperate young Palestinian men are deliberately getting themselves arrested at Israeli checkpoints so that they will be sent to Israeli-run prisons, Israeli and Palestinian officials say.
05-11-06 - Talk radio gives Palestinians a voice
05-11-06 - Hamas: We?ll recognize Israel within '67 borders
05-11-06 - Hamas and Fatah leaders urge Abbas to lead peace talks
05-11-06 - New call by lecturers for Israeli academic boycott
05-11-06 - Palestinian PM dissatisfied with Quartet decision "The Quartet still put conditions on aid to the (Palestinian) government to force it to make concessions by recognizing legitimacy of the Israeli occupation which harms the Palestinians' rights,"
05-11-06 - Olmert kicks off the ?Negev Development Plan? by leveling Arab houses
05-11-06 - U.N. Concerned With Israel Flights He expressed the United Nations' "concern at the recent increase in violations by Israeli aircraft of Lebanese airspace" and called on Israel to stop all such flights.
05-11-06 - Israel 'one day will vanish', Iranian president says
05-11-06 - The communists who saved the Jewish state This fact will also not be mentioned in the exhibit along with the fact that among the Israelis involved in establishing contacts between the Jewish Agency and the Communist authorities in Eastern Europe there were also some of the leaders of the Israeli communist party.
05-11-06 - Group seeks funds for anti-Semitism education Efforts to combat hate crimes and anti-Semitism in Europe are in dire need of funding, experts told a Congressional committee. ...The Helsinki Commission, a bipartisan body monitoring human rights, recommends funding for such program to Congressional appropriators.
I have an idea - LET EUROPE PAY. Why is this a matter for the US Congress???
05-11-06 - What Jim Carrey Probably Doesn?t Know
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