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Thursday, June 01, 2006


News for 05-31-06

05-31-06 - UN calls for massive rise in Palestinian aid


05-31-06 - UN seeks 80 percent increase in aid to Palestinians The United Nations called for an 80 percent increase in emergency humanitarian aid to Palestinians on Wednesday, citing a deepening crisis that follows a freeze in Western assistance to the government...Shearer said the World Food Program had also warned the international community that more Palestinians were unable to meet their daily food needs. The US government is deliberately starving a people for voting against corruption.


05-31-06 - Palestinian gunmen clash in Gaza, 3 hurt - medics


05-31-06 - Suspected collaborators executed by Palestinian gunmen


05-31-06 - Israel backs U.S. on Iran standoff Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Rice had told her about the initiative beforehand Naturally. Since any initiative requires prior approval from Tel Aviv.


05-31-06 - IDF razes toilets of Palestinian cave dwellers in West Bank The Civil Administration on Wednesday knocked down 13 structures - most of them toilet facilities - donated by Christian groups to Palestinians living in two cave communities in the West Bank.


05-31-06 - Urgent Action Needed To Prevent Health Disaster In Palestine, British Medical Association The British Medical Association has today (30/05/06) written to Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, to protest at the rapidly worsening state of health services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, following EU and US economic sanctions


05-31-06 - Rocket rattles Israeli minister A rocket fired by Palestinian militants into Israel from the Gaza Strip has landed near the home of Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz.


05-31-06 - Israeli Extrajudicial Killing In US Courts The following day the White House Press Secretary said President Bush condemned this ?deliberate attack against a building in which civilians were known to be located.? The U.S. State Department has also declared that the attack ?put large numbers of civilian lives in jeopardy?where civilian casualties were likely??


05-31-06 - Passage of Abbas plan unlikely to ease sanctions: UN Passage of a Palestinian statehood proposal that implicitly recognizes Israel would not clear the way for lifting sanctions on the Hamas government but could be a positive step, a top U.N. diplomat said on Wednesday.


05-31-06 - Jewish group raises money for Palestinian hospitals A Jewish group raised $15,000 for Palestinian hospitals.


05-31-06 - Hamas proposes job cuts to avert financial collapse


05-31-06 - US hopeful for rapid deal on Palestinian fund Scott Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, admitted the complexity of the arrangements, and said that the money would not pay for any Palestinian civil servants' salary


05-31-06 - In the Village of Nowhere, a Fate Soon Sealed The course of the wall, drawn by Israel, is now also separating thousands of Palestinians from their property and from each other....Only a quarter of the barrier follows the pre-1967 borders. Along the rest, it cuts into land Palestinians envision as part of their future state, according to the United Nations


05-31-06 - Settlement Expansion Bolsters Isolation of Jordan Valley


05-31-06 - Shin Bet and the Israeli Academy: Partners in Human Rights Abuses? Whereas the success or failure of American goals in Iraq is still open to question, Israel's plans to steal Palestinian land have been consistently successful and are only gathering pace. In fact, as British union delegates appear to understand, hopes of salvaging any viable state for the Palestinians have almost run out of steam.


05-31-06 - Hamas confirms Arab countries ready to mediate between Hamas, Jordan


05-31-06 - Zionist Democrats The DLC is blatantly adopting the policies of the neocons populating the right-wing think tanks in Washington that produce such human anomalies as John Bolton, Richard Perle and Daniel Pipes, all rabidly Zionist neoconservatives who advocate a much more aggressive US military agenda aimed directly at Islamic nations and peoples everywhere. The neocons are what brought the Bush presidency down. It is clear - no matter which party we are dealing with in American - both parties are teeming with Israel-firsters.


05-31-06 - World Cup price for Mideast fans steep When it comes to the World Cup, Israelis and Palestinians are in full agreement: The price to watch the games on TV is too high.


05-31-06 - Protest of Israel Leads to Federal Bias Probe The U.S. Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education is currently investigating charges by the Zionist Organization of America that the Irvine administration has failed to take a stand against anti-Semitism and to prevent harassment of Jewish students on campus.
Criticism of Israel now equals 'anti-Semitism' in the eyes of those who seek to shut down debate; therein lies the problem.


05-31-06 - Prehistoric ecosystem unearthed in Israel Ramle aboriginal inhabitants were marched out by gun point in the 40s.(para. 7), audio file of this event midway down the page.


05-31-06 - Hamas to dissolve government? Snow responded, "A couple of points to make. Number one, there were many reasons for the election of Hamas; one of them was corruption in the previous regime. And Hamas, you may recall, ran on an anti-corruption platform. Also it is worth noting that the president is ? well, that there is still an ongoing debate within the Palestinian Authority, and President Abbas has said to Hamas that they need, within a very short span of time, to go ahead and recognize Israel. So rather ?"


05-31-06 - Aid worker "wasn't linked to terrorists" Foreign Office officials have dismissed claims by Israeli police that a Bradford aid worker was linked to terrorist organisations


05-31-06 - Israel Targets Palestinian Facilities


05-31-06 - Israeli Authorities Deport Al-Haq Human Rights Defender In the late afternoon of 28 May 2005, Al-Haq human rights defender and American citizen Maureen Murphy arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Israel, on her way back from the USA to Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). She was questioned, denied entry into Israel, declared persona non grata and deported on a plane at 00:55 am on 29 May.



05-31-06 - Qawawis Villagers to Protest New Mini-wall


05-31-06 - Lebanon condemns Israeli attacks in letter to UN Lebanon's Foreign Ministry has sent an official letter to the United Nations complaining about "the recent Israeli aggressions and clear breaches to Lebanon's sovereignty and the international community's resolutions."


05-31-06 - Dean to Blair: Blast Israel boycott Howard Dean urged Tony Blair to speak out against a British boycott of Israeli academics.


05-31-06 - "We still have to check" was the response of Israel Air Force chief Major General Eliezer Shkedi when asked about the IDF's extrajudicial assasination of a Palestinian militant that resulted in the killing or paralyzing of an entire family.


05-31-06 - Effort to limit aid to Palestinians exposes rifts in Congress, community AIPAC officials would not speak on the record but sources close to the group dismiss the APN claims as nonsense. "APN is virtually irrelevant on Capitol Hill, and its effort to oppose the PATA in the House proved an embarrassing failure, with the bill passing 361-37," said a pro-Israel lobbyist sympathetic with AIPAC's case. AIPAC is an agent of a foreign government and should register as such.


05-31-06 - Israelis Fear Spread Of War Crimes Cases Laws passed in wake of Nuremberg trials now being pressed in Europe against Israeli generals. I sense some more legislation coming on via the US Congress....(Iliana Ros-Lehtinen, Tom Lantos, which one will it be? Do they flip a coin to decide who will propose the next piece of pro-Israeli legislation?)....


05-31-06 - Israeli academic boycott 'anti-Semitic', says Harvard president Larry Summers attacked the decision by members of Natfhe on Monday to support a boycott of Israeli academics who fail to dissociate themselves publicly from Israel's "apartheid policies". The accusations of anti-Semitism at the criticism of Israel as a tool by the Israeli lobby is described in the study by the two American professors : the Israeli Lobby.


05-31-06 - US lobby group enters Israeli academic boycott row In a backlash following this week's vote by the lecturers' union Natfhe to boycott Israeli academia, the Anti-Defamation League urged American universities and grant-giving bodies to "cut funding, support and contact with any academic who advocates a boycott of Israel."...The Israeli parliament is said to have convened an emergency meeting to respond to the resolution


05-31-06 - Movie on Islamism popular A film on Islamic extremism sponsored by a Zionist group sold out its screening in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I bet the movie leaves this fact out.


05-31-06 - Jewish groups welcome Senate immigration bill Jewish groups welcomed a U.S. immigration bill that includes paths for undocumented immigrants to legalize their status. This fits in with yesterday's news about the Latino vote, which was foreshadowed here: paragraph 15Note the double standard here with regard to Israel's refusal to allow the Palestinian refugees back to their lands, but America is to absorb potential Israel-supporters.


05-31-06 - The Hamas government should be recognized


05-31-06 - Israel?s Navy Steps Up to Security Challenge in Wake of Gaza ... The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Whose national security does this outfit represent?

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