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Monday, May 15, 2006
05-14-06 - Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids In a separate raid in a nearby West Bank town, troops killed a Palestinian intelligence officer......Also killed in Qabatiyeh was a 19-year-old who was throwing rocks at the troops....In the Qabatiyeh raid, an AP Television News photographer was hit in the back by an Israeli rubber bullet
05-14-06 - Where is the global outcry at this continuing cruelty? My family was among those displaced and, though a child, I vividly remember the panic and misery of that flight from our home in Jerusalem on an April morning in 1948, with the scent of spring in the air. Palestine by then had become a raging battleground as Jews fought to seize our land in the wake of the 1947 UN partition resolution. My parents decided to evacuate us temporarily. "We will return," they insisted, "the world will not let such injustice happen!" They were wrong
05-14-06 - Swiss reporter forced to strip at Gaza border security check The security check was carried out by private security personnel but Israel Defense Forces soldiers were securing the border terminal and therefore looking on at the time.
05-14-06 - Jerusalem's Palestinians say barrier not about security "They say the wall is about security, but it's clearly gerrymandered for demographic reasons, to drastically reduce the number of Palestinians living in the city,"
05-14-06 - Boycott-squeezed Palestinians selling up
05-14-06 - Palestinians married to Israelis lose battle Israel's High Court on Sunday narrowly upheld a law that denies Israeli residency to many Palestinians who marry Israelis, rejecting appeals against a statute critics say violates human rights and is racist.
05-14-06 - Iran denies supplying weapons to Hamas
05-14-06 - Mideast spotlight on EU for Iran, Palestinian moves Washington opposes the fund paying Palestinian Authority salaries, the mainstay of the economy, and envoys said banks were reluctant to take part in anything which might breach a U.S. financial blockade of the Authority.
05-14-06 - NSW man shot in West Bank may sue army Mr Reiss is not the first Australian injured while protesting in Israel.
Perth university student Joshua Taaffe, 24, was shot through both legs by Israeli soldiers during an ISM protest in the West Bank in October 2003, and Sydney woman Kate Edwards, 26, was shot in the stomach while volunteering with ISM in April 2002.
05-14-06 - In the West Bank, an Escort for Palestinian Pupils Israeli troops protect children from radical settlers, who have attacked them. The extremists say the whole story hasn't been told.
05-14-06 - Israeli troops fire tear gas at Palestinian high school graduation ceremony, injuring two girls Two Palestinian girls, students of the Anata secondary school in East Jerusalem, were injured Thursday when Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters at schoolgirls and their parents who were gathered for the school's graduation ceremony.
05-14-06 - Too hot for Broadway Sitting in a park near London's Playhouse Theatre, where My Name is Rachel Corrie is being performed, Craig Corrie, 59, said: "The Royal Court and Katharine and Alan have treated Rachel, her writing and image with such respect, such faith. It was a real disappointment that the team in New York didn't have that same faith and respect in her."
05-14-06 - Hebron Update: 6 to 12 May 2006 Israeli settlers struck mainly on Fridays, Saturdays and Jewish Holy Days. For
example on the previous Saturday settlers had attacked a 10-year old boy,
injuring his arm. On their return from the hospital his father was relieved to
have found that his son's arm was not broken, but was told that in his absence
settlers had set fire to his car.
05-14-06 - Putin and Abbas set for key talks
05-14-06 - Teen Dies Of Injuries From Blast A Florida teenager wounded in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last month died Sunday from his injuries, a hospital spokeswoman said.
05-14-06 - IDF jeeps, soldiers escort 15 Palestinian children home from school past illegal Maon Farm outpost Last week, Dalal recounts, she was hit in the face with a rock. "Here," she touches her cheek. People coming from Maon Farm jumped on her and her friends. "It was at the foot of the black house," she says. "They put stones there, blocked the way, and then a settler came and started hitting a soldier. We clung to the soldiers' legs out of fear, but they couldn't do anything."
05-14-06 - 14 May 2006: Crisis in medical services in the territories
05-14-06 - Fuel crisis in W.Bank, Gaza ends
05-14-06 - Lebanon's new resolve on Palestinian issue Lebanon hopes to offer Palestinians greater job opportunities and better living conditions to weaken the lure of the many armed Palestinian factions operating in the camps. Though Beirut has long been under international pressure to disarm the groups, the imminent negotiations - regarded as a key step in allaying that pressure - signal a change in how the government plans to tackle the problem
05-14-06 - On eve of Olmert visit, mixed signals on Palestinian aid confuse Congress Top members of Congress, administration officials and senior diplomats are sorting through conflicting signals from Israel and its supporters as they attempt to formulate a policy on how to assist Palestinians while isolating their leaders. In other words, our Congress is taking orders from Israel.
05-14-06 - Olmert aides to Washington The prime minister is expected to push for U.S. recognition of, and financing for, Olmert's "convergence plan," under which Israel would withdraw from parts of the West Bank and annex others
05-14-06 - Islamic Jihad said planning to assassinate PA Chairman Abbas
05-14-06 - Livni endorses bills on P.A. In a Cabinet meeting Sunday, Tzipi Livni "emphasized the importance of the bipartisan efforts in both houses of Congress to increase restrictions on aid to the Hamas government while keeping the option of continued humanitarian assistance,"
05-14-06 - Haifa mayor: I agree to refugees' return Yahav added that he sympathized with the Palestinian exiles' pain. "I'll tell you frankly that I feel deeply for the refugees and their suffering and hope that their problem is solved, as my father has also tasted the bitter taste of loss and exile after he fled Germany,"
05-14-06 - Palestinians married to Israelis lose court battle for residency The majority of judges agreed with the state prosecution, which argued that it was appropriate to limit human rights in order to enhance Israel's security. This is an ongoing theme for Israel. And it has undoubtedly actually harmed Israel in the end.
05-14-06 - Olmert team lays groundwork for Bush summit The so-called convergence plan would see up to 70,000 Jews uprooted from isolated settlements in the occupied West Bank. In turn, Israel would cement control of major housing blocs where the vast majority of the quarter of a million Jewish settlers live.
05-14-06 - AIPAC case defense cites treaty the attorneys told the court last week that the Legal Cooperation Treaty signed between Israel and the US in the late 1990s, to help with criminal investigations in both countries, can be used to take depositions from the three diplomats, who are all in Israel.
05-14-06 - In West Bank outposts, Israel now almost an enemy
05-14-06 - An alliance of Palestinian, Israeli fighters It is an unusual partnership, different from other peace groups because its members took an active part in the violence they now are working to end. For more than a year they have been meeting regularly to share their experiences, forge trust and work together for a peaceful resolution
05-14-06 - Brzezinski rips U.S. policy on Iran, Hamas On cutting off aid to the Palestinians for having elected Hamas, he said: "I think the American foreign policy is mindless. "When Likud came to power in 1977, it had a position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not fundamentally different from the position of Hamas; that is to say, all of the former Palestine should be part of Israel. Some Likud officials even felt the Palestinians should be expelled physically across the Jordan River. But we did not isolate or embargo the Likud government. We kept talking to it and over a period of time, the position of Likud evolved to the point that Likud itself accepted a two-state solution. Excellent point.
05-14-06 - Help for Palestinians The international community never should have punished children, hospital patients, and elderly pensioners for the democratic election of Hamas.
05-14-06 - Irish prisoners chose death over surrender In June of 1981, a group of Palestinian prisoners in Nafha prison sent a letter to the families of the hunger strikers
05-14-06 - Don?t let the Academic Bill of Rights become law The person behind the Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) is David Horowitz, founder of the California-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Horowitz is not surprisingly an Israel-supporter.
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