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Tuesday, May 16, 2006


News for 05-15-06

05-15-06 - EU vows to speed Palestinian aid; says Israel key "Now I think it is crucial that Israel also resume transfers of tax and customs revenues, which are essential to prevent a crisis in the Palestinian territories," ......Solana hinted U.S. Congressional resistance might make it impossible for the World Bank to run the mechanism Our government may still insist on starving an entire population.


05-15-06 - Israel's new plan: A land grab By Jimmy Carter It is inconceivable that any Palestinian, Arab leader, or any objective member of the international community could accept this illegal action as a permanent solution to the continuing altercation in the Middle East. This confiscation of land is to be carried out without resorting to peace talks with the Palestinians, and in direct contravention of the "road map for peace," which President Bush helped to initiate and has strongly supported.



05-15-06 - Report: Abbas target of assassination plot


05-15-06 - Rosemarie Said Zahlan Like her elder brother Edward Said (obituary, September 26 2003), Rosemarie's Palestinian identity was central to her life. She was stamped from an early age by the experience of cousins, aunts and friends made refugees in 1948, and she married a Palestinian academic from Haifa


05-15-06 - Peretz defends wave of attacks on Palestinians Since April the army has killed about 45 Palestinians, including five children, in scores of raids on the West Bank and by firing thousands of shells into the Gaza Strip


05-15-06 - Activists bring Jerusalem's Arab history to life for Nakba Day Rotem's activities are part of the "Nakba 60" project, a coalition of five Jewish and Palestinian organizations established a year and half ago. "The project aims to raise awareness of the Nakba


05-15-06 - Shops Demolished Again in Northern Jordan Valley


05-15-06 - Palestinians mark Israel's creation amid air strike


05-15-06 - Sweden to increase financial aid for Palestinians


05-15-06 - Hadley: We oppose paying P.A. payroll Stephen Hadley, President Bush?s national security adviser, met Monday with about 30 Jewish leaders from an array of organizations to discuss next week?s visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hadley is a neocon.


05-15-06 - Putin offers aid to Palestinians A Kremlin source says Russia intends to help create a normal life for the Palestinian people.


05-15-06 - Israeli unilateral moves will wreck two-state vision: Abbas "The Israeli side is using every excuse possible to tell the world there is no Palestinian partner to negotiate with," Abbas, who is currently in Russia, said in a pre-recorded address.


05-15-06 - The Palestinian Nakba Continues


05-15-06 - Israel's Independence: The Victims' Views


05-15-06 - Jordan demands security talks with Hamas over arms


05-15-06 - Abbas calls for renewed peace talks with Israel on 'day of mourning' "I tell our neighbours, the Israelis, that we want to make a just and lasting peace with you, and we want a better future for our children and yours,"


05-15-06 - Hamas PM vows to resist 'unholy alliance' "I say by God the Palestinian government will not make any concessions that infringe on the rights of the Palestinian people... By God we will not infringe the legitimacy of the occupier."


05-15-06 - Day by day, the damage deepens From my visit to the region with the UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, it is clear that risks to physical and mental health are multiplying.


05-15-06 - Israeli Arabs: Nakba our Holocaust Day "It is more important to us than the Holocaust is to the Jewish nation. Ninety percent of Arab population was expelled on this day; many villages no longer exist, and this is our way of remembering those events."


05-15-06 - Ex-Israeli army chief warns of long-range Iran missiles "Ahmadinejad is promising the end of history in two or three years' time and I suggest that we believe him," Ahhh.. aren't we exaggerating things just a tad bit?....


05-15-06 - Palestinian political prisoners in Israel to donate monthly allowances to cash-strapped P.A.


05-15-06 - Israeli Officials Spar Over Palestinians Olmert has rebuffed attempts by Peretz to send more humanitarian aid and to arrange a summit with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.


05-15-06 - The Palestinian tipping point


05-15-06 - Israel gets spot on U.N. committee membership would be a "good way to diversify our visibility in the United Nations."


05-15-06 - Israeli Lawyer Registers Criminal Indictment against Ahmadinejad in German Court Shahar has taken the initiative to file a case in the German Court to carry out criminal proceedings in absentia against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his brazen denial of the Holocaust and his urging Germany (and Austria) to resettle all Jews in Israel to Germany and Austria. Denying the Holocaust in Germany is an offense, punishable by law with a maximum of five years in prison and a fine.


05-15-06 - Israeli Army Fired 5000 Shells at Gaza Strip in Six Weeks


05-15-06 - U.S. working behind the scenes to bolster Abbas The U.S. administration is working behind the scenes to bolster the security forces under the control of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli sources said Monday. According to the sources, the United States is also promoting the creation of a new Palestinian administration that will manage the border crossings in the Gaza Strip.


05-15-06 - UNRWA chief urges Hamas engagement A senior U.N. official called for the West to hold talks with "moderate" members of the new Palestinian Authority government under Hamas.


05-15-06 - Most Israelis, Palestinians lack confidence on peace process: poll


05-15-06 - OPT: Council conclusions on Middle East Peace Process


05-15-06 - Palestinian Bible Society's Gaza bookshop reopened


05-15-06 - Israeli troops briefly intrude into Gaza: Palestinian sources


05-15-06 - Israeli-Palestinian couple fight to live together


05-15-06 - If Zionism conflicts with equality, so be it "If Zionism conflicts with equality, so be it" - which has been the very essence of the problem since the early Zionist leaders gave the Arabs of Palestine a choice: submit or be expelled.


05-15-06 - Professor fights portrayal as supporter of terrorism Beinin, a 58-year-old Jewish professor who supports Palestinian rights, knows he has enemies. Secure in his tenured position at an elite university, he routinely criticizes U.S. leaders for failing to understand why Americans are hated in the Arab world. He decries the humanitarian costs of the Palestinian occupation. David Horowitz is leading that smear campaign, among others.


05-15-06 - This Palestinian Crisis Can End Today, Palestinians are trapped, with no way out. Hamas won their victory not, as our polling showed, because of corruption, but because after 12 years of a "peace process" in which Palestinians became less free and poorer, "peace" had been given a bad name and the party associated with it had been discredited.


05-15-06 - Presley's pre-Graceland home sold "We intend to restore it to its old glory. We would like to bring sick children there (for tours), Palestinian children, Israeli children, American children,"


05-15-06 - Jewish Alliance appeals for negotiations The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace sent a representative to Monday?s meeting between Stephen Hadley and Jewish leaders to present a letter from supporters calling for negotiations between Israel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a relative moderate.


05-15-06 - Barenboim to be La Scala's guest


05-15-06 - APN Asks Speaker Hastert to Support Bush Position on H.R. 4681 The Bush Administration has raised a series of serious objections to the legislation. In addition, APN cautioned the House about taking steps that could potentially undercut the work of the Quartet to find a new mechanism for delivering humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.


05-15-06 - Rania builds a brighter future for Jordan


05-15-06 - Ex-spymaster vows to help Pollard Jonathan Pollard's former handler, now an Israeli Cabinet minister, vowed to work for his release from prison.

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