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Monday, June 05, 2006
06-04-06 - Israeli troops kill elderly man in invasion of Tulkarem
06-04-06 - Five bystanders killed in Gaza In the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis gunmen killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and another family member and wounded her husband and his brother, a Hamas militant, hospital sources said.
06-04-06 - Hamas PM says referendum illegal
06-04-06 - Israel pledges to 'give talks a chance'
06-04-06 - Growing Destitution Among Palestinians "Many people are now living on only bread and the cheapest vegetables, usually those left unsold at the end of the day. We are also very concerned about the growing numbers of people, often children, rummaging through garbage cans,"
06-04-06 - Palestinian banks agree to cover some wages After threats from militants, Palestinian banks agreed on Sunday to pay out of their own funds 40,000 government workers who have gone without wages for three months.
06-04-06 - Hamas under pressure to compromise as deadline looms Ruling party Hamas came under mounting pressure to accept a national unity deal as moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas prepared to deliver on a threat to put it to a referendum.
06-04-06 - Palestinian aid mechanism may be ready in week-US Welch said Washington, which strongly opposes any direct aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, will not agree that salaries could be paid from these funds.
06-04-06 - Palestinians thank God as first salaries paid Bassel Ashur, a 22-year-old member of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas's Force 17 protection guard, invoked the heavens in delight as he held up wads of banknotes from a Gaza ATM that will nonetheless not go far.
06-04-06 - US echoes Gulf fears of pollution from Iran's nuclear program They're reaching for straws now.
06-04-06 - Israeli PM wants to strengthen ties with Egypt
06-04-06 - Boycotting Israeli Academia Anyone who has spent time in an Israeli university will know that its academic staff and the country?s huge defense industry are intimately entwined. The geography department of Haifa University, for example, was until very recently headed by Prof Arnon Sofer, who is best known in Israel for advocating ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, both occupied Palestinian non-citizens from the West Bank and the minority of Palestinian citizens from Israel.
06-04-06 - Osirak: Over the reactor The US-made single-seat F-16s had been in service for only a couple of years with the Americans, and had arrived in Israel less than a year before, though the pilots had been in training earlier in Utah.
06-04-06 - Poll: Europe easing anti-Israel sentiment Greenberg conducted the surveys for the Israel Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel, the newspaper said.
06-04-06 - Europe's opening mind the Islamist threat in Europe, the terrorist predations there, the burgeoning of what has been dubbed Eurabia - are all apparently impressing Europeans deeply enough to begin to question the perception of Israel as an intransigent imperialist aggressor and the Palestinians as progressive freedom-fighters. Cui bono..
06-04-06 - Union drawing attention to Israeli injustice, argues Linda McQuaig The tendency of North American media to render the Palestinians invisible ? except as terrorists ? helps explain why the Ontario wing of CUPE decided last week to champion the Palestinian cause by joining some churches and unions in an international boycott of Israel.
06-04-06 - Palestinian graduates feel job crunch from ailing economy One week later, Alatrash no longer has much to celebrate. Although he is newly graduated from the most prestigious university in the West Bank, his prospects for finding a job are slim.
06-04-06 - Shatner puts disabled Israelis where few have gone before -on horseback "We are extending a hand to say we want to help kids. We want to help Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, Bedouin, Druse - whose only common denominator is that they are children," Shatner said. "It's about extending a hand of peace as well as healing handicapped minds and bodies."
06-04-06 - Muslims craft their own video games The creators of the game say the story line counteracts the biases in some Western games by showing the Palestinian struggle from an Arab vantage point and creating Arab and Muslim characters who are fighting in self-defense.
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