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Saturday, June 03, 2006
06-02-06 - Still Some Food in the Garbage Children rummage through garbage cans for discarded food for their one meal during the day. Families wait to buy discount-priced vegetables left unsold in the evening. These are not locally exaggerated accounts of the situation in Palestinian areas, but an official account by the World Food Programme. ...."You have three categories of people in need," Campbell said. "You have the chronically poor, then you have people in institutions like the elderly, orphans and social rejects, and thirdly the new poor who have been affected by the present crisis.
06-02-06 - Israel building new West Bank settlement Israel has begun laying the foundations for a new Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank - breaking a promise to Washington while strengthening its hold on a stretch of desert it wants to keep as it draws its final borders. I reiterate once again : evidently, the only peace Israel wants is the peace with which it can continue to seize and 'settle' Palestinian land -and drive the Palestinians off of it.
06-02-06 - At season end, future dims for Gaza harvest project The problem, in essence, has been a near complete inability to export the produce from Gaza into Israel because of the frequent closure of Gaza's border by Israeli authorities......The closures, which intensified after Hamas won Palestinian elections in January, almost entirely mirror the December-to-May harvest and export season for Gaza's fruit and vegetables....Israeli fruit and vegetable producers compete in the same market the Palestinians were entering.
"I think they wanted us to fail," he said. "It's part of the economic and psychological war. They didn't want to pull out and allow the Palestinians to succeed."
06-02-06 - Army forces families to leave their village east of Tubas Troops stormed the farmers huts and houses east of the city and confiscated the resident's ID cards before ordering them to leave the area and not to come back to their land, claming that their IDs do not indicate the place of residency, eyewitnesses said.
06-02-06 - Abbas, Fatah chief patch up differences in Tunis
06-02-06 - Barakeh: Bil'in protesters didn't attack Hadash leader Mohammed Barakeh, who was present at Friday's protest, told Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter that he had a videotape on which a Border Police commander was captured instructing his forces to "break protesters' legs," Army Radio reported.
06-02-06 - Well-being of population in OPT lies with the occupying power - ICRC chief President of thee International Committee of the Red Cross Jacob Kellenberger said Thursday that in legal terms naturally the final responsibility for the well being of the population in the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territory) lies with the occupying power.
06-02-06 - Israeli troops in hospital raid
06-02-06 - Our Endangered Values - Jimmy Carter By Jeff Fleischer . We can't deal directly with the Hamas government. But I think we should have the same degree of generosity to the Palestinian people who are suffering horribly in their own land. This could be done through UNESCO, through the United Nations Human Rights Organization, through UNICEF, or even through the government of Jordan. Just to finance the payment of schoolteachers or nurses or ambulance services or food distribution to people.
06-02-06 - Web of betrayal, blackmail and sex that killed two lovers who turned informer "There was a man there - a Palestinian. This guy said he was intimate with my sister. It was a shock. I asked my sister and she said it was true. Then he showed me a photograph of her in a sexual way," said Jefal, his voice breaking. "He said either I worked with him or he would show this picture around and it would create a scandal and bring dishonour to our family."
06-02-06 - Palestinian salaries will start to be paid within two days: PM "We have a lot of money but the United States is preventing the banks from transferring it," the prime minister added
06-02-06 - Russian military denies seeking Mediterranean naval base in Syria "Moscow's stake in Damascus would definitely damage relations between Russia and Israel and could persuade the Iranian regime to be even less compliant in talks on the Iranian nuclear program," the paper said.
06-02-06 - Fatah MPs hurt as Israel breaks up barrier protest Ten demonstrators, including two Fatah MPs, were lightly injured when Israeli soldiers broke up a weekly protest against Israel's West Bank separation barrier, witnesses said.
06-02-06 - Israeli soldiers kill 2 Egyptian border policemen Egyptian security sources cast doubt on the Israeli account of the incident near Israel's Mount Saguy, opposite the Egyptian town of Bir el-Ma'in, saying the policemen were shot after wandering across the unfenced desert border by accident.
06-02-06 - Following a Haaretz expose, Nigeria may cancel arms deal with Israeli firm If the deal goes through, it will also be one of the largest in the history of Israel's relations with the African continent (with the exception of the massive military assistance that Israel extended to the apartheid regime in South Africa).
06-02-06 - Firms sell terror protection The dual nature of this expanding consulting field was clear at a seminar Thursday that combined dire warnings about future terrorist attacks in the United States with understated pleas by those same experts to hire their companies to combat the threat.
"Unfortunately, the lessons of 9/11 have largely been forgotten," said Ilana Freedman, chief executive officer of Gerard Group International LLC, one of the sponsors of Thursday's conference. Freedman's company is a counterterrorism specialist originally created in Israel and now based in Massachusetts. This is the brutal irony: why America was attacked in the first place.
06-02-06 - Four Israelis killed in NJ plane crash The four - Ronald and Rachel Ziv, and David and Keren Nimrod - were flying in a single-engine Piper plane, when it apparently exploded in mid-air.
06-02-06 - HR 4681Palestinian "Anti-Terrorism Act" -- Fighting Terrorism By Creating More Desperation HR 4681 is opposed by many leading voices for Israel and Middle East peace, including the Israel Policy Forum, Brit Tzedek, Americans for Peace Now, Churches for Middle East Peace (a broad coalition of churches) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop.
06-02-06 - Risky Gambit by Abbas Raises American Hopes, Israeli Worries "Israel may find itself under pressure by regional or European governments, who would say, 'There is progress ? let's go with it,'" said Michael Herzog, former military secretary to Israel's minister of defense. Herzog is currently a scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
06-02-06 - Canadian Philanthropist Focusing Efforts on Darfur One of its newer markets is Iraq, where the Pentagon hired SkyLink's American affiliate to rehabilitate and run the airports in Baghdad, Basra, Arbil and Mosul. (The American affiliate had bought a table at a Bush fund-raising dinner, but Arbib denied that the donation was connected to the Iraq contracts.)
06-02-06 - Liberal Professor Takes On Conservative Firebrand in Federal Lawsuit Joel Beinin, who is a Stanford University history professor and a former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, filed a federal lawsuit March 30 in San Jose against the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, founded by 1960s liberal-activist-turned-right-wing-firebrand David Horowitz. Horowitz is a former liberal-cum-'conservative' (neocon) who is engaged in witchhunts - universities will teach the Israeli POV or else.
06-02-06 - Israel envoy condemns Canadian boycott The Ontario branch represents nearly half of the 450,000 union members working nationwide in health care, education, social services, universities, transportation and other sectors.
06-02-06 - Hamas leader's three sisters live secretly in Israel as full citizens Hamas and her sisters.
06-02-06 - The fine line between hatred of Jews and political opposition to Israel Israel is clearly the biggest obstacle. Where does the line fall between hatred of Jews and political opposition to, or even hatred of, Israel? Rickman knows that in Israeli eyes, the difference is minimal. Everyone is particularly sensitive when they are the ones being criticized, Rickman said, adding that some people consider anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism to be the same thing. He will need to come up with criteria to determine what is permissible and what is forbidden, what is anti-Semitic and what is just political when it comes to Israel. Revealed: the newly created office to combat global anti-Semitism is a front for combating criticism of Israel (?) Another prediction of mine coming to fruition, perhaps. If anywhere, criticism of Israel in America is the most dangerous proposition to that country. Because if Americans learned the truth,... Indeed. When do Americans get persecuted for criticizing Israel, is the question? Methinks it has already started..
06-02-06 - Jews greet U.S. overture to Iran with ambivalence and skepticism There was greater skepticism in Congress, where bills urging Iran's isolation have garnered overwhelming support. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), whose bill isolating Iran passed overwhelmingly in April in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Rice's initiative would at least call Iran's bluff.
This woman puts forth so much legislation on behalf of AIPAC, I'm prompted to ask: DOES SHE WORK AT ALL FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Is there JUST ONE non-AIPAC-driven piece of legislation put forth by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen?
06-02-06 - Assad State of Affairs After Hariri's murder, it seemed that all the stars were aligned to lower the boom on Damascus. Not only were the appropriate U.N. resolutions in place, but the assassination spurred a rapprochement between the United States and France in opposition to Syria. Alas, to date the administration has been unable to capitalize on this multilateral moment. The final U.N. report on the Hariri murder is due this month, but absent any smoking gun Assad and company may again emerge unscathed.
The neoconservative Weekly Standard boohoos that the Bush administration isn't sanctioning Syria to their liking. America just can't do enough to make the Middle East a safer place for Israel. Or so it would appear.
06-02-06 - Hospital hope for Palestine CONSTRUCTION of a $5 million (BD1.89m) children's hospital in Palestine, which is being built with Bahraini money, has been completed.
06-02-06 - Ex-Israeli soldier condemns army practices When Shaul and his comrades joined the Israeli Defence Force, they thought of it as "the most moral army in the world". This belief, however, was shattered during their first weeks of service in the Palestinian territories.
06-02-06 - Striking Fear in Our Hearts In the 1990s, suicide bombings began in Israel. Until that time, the tactic had been limited to Iranians and Iranian-influenced Shi'ite terrorist groups, but eventually it was taken up by the Sunni Palestinian Arabs Wrong. It was being employed by the Tamil Tigers: 'Indeed, the world's leader in suicide terror was the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. This secular Marxist group "invented the famous suicide vest for their suicide assassination of Rajiv Ghandi in May 1991. The Palestinians got the idea of the vest from the Tamil Tigers." ' The NY Sun is again shilling for neocons (get Iran, ooga booga).
06-02-06 - Don't let Israel annex chunks of Palestine The US will never be an 'honestbroker' as long as the Israeli lobby wields such disproportionate influence over it.
06-02-06 - Frank Purdue School of Foreign Affairs That's because series of tough steps designed to highlight the tight corner into which the Palestinians have painted themselves resulted in, at long last, the faintest glimmer of Palestinian moderation. This jerk writing for - where else - the NY SUN gloats over the starvation of the Palestinians.
06-02-06 - Britain mulls war crimes charges against Israeli soldiers
06-02-06 - SOLIDARITY: RAVENNA, PALESTINIAN WOMEN AT SOWING SCHOOL
06-02-06 - Voice of the unpeople Pilger's interviews with Palestinians are among the most moving in the book, such as with Liana Badr, the director of the Palestinian Cultural Centre, just after it has been hideously destroyed by Israeli soldiers
06-02-06 - Our readers' views Here is a question for the brilliant writers to ponder. "When was the last time an Israeli suicide bomber blew him/herself up any where within the Israeli-Palestinian territory?"
Answer: they don't have to. That's why we give them the F16s and Apaches. And they kill Palestinian elderly, women and children all the same.
06-02-06 - Land of my father The Sabbagh family history shows the absurdity of Israel Zangwill's claim that Palestine was "a land without a people for a people without a land". Sabbagh's grandfather was a lawyer in Tulkarm. His relatives were businessmen and traders, part of an intricate web of societal links that reached across Palestine and the Levant. Palestinian Arab society was highly developed, especially in the towns and cities, with a sophisticated cultural and political life
06-02-06 - Students experience Israeli conflict ?Jewish activists standing in front of Israeli bulldozers and rallying at protests really surprised me,? Mojtahedi said. ?Soldiers are less likely to shoot if they see solidarity.?
06-02-06 - 'Smoking gun' fax proves The Lobby directed defamation of Jewish professor at York U.
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