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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
06-05-06 - Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills Militant Hospital officials said one militant was killed and three people wounded.
06-05-06 - Gaza-Israel border post: lifeline and bottle neck One Gaza farm project that hoped to send tomatoes and peppers to Europe failed to export 90 percent of its produce in the first season because of closures, losing nearly $10 million, manager Ayed Abu Ramadan said last week.
06-05-06 - Iran, Syria added to US blacklist of human traffickers Iran and Syria were added to a US blacklist of countries trafficking in people, a State Department report said, while raising concerns over an influx of sex workers to Germany for the World Cup soccer tournament Israel is well known for its atrocious record with respect to human trafficking (and this comes from Fox News, no less, which is a pro-neocon network). But when you have a government that is snookered by the Israeli lobby, you can be sure that they will be left off any blacklist.
06-05-06 - Abbas pushes for statehood poll
06-05-06 - Gunmen storm Palestine TV office Bassam Abdullah, a Palestine TV cameraman, said that "around 100 gunmen" from Hamas's Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades military wing and a new paramilitary force formed by the Hamas-led government stormed into the broadcast centre.
06-05-06 - At-Tuwani Release: Demolitions and Orders of Demolitions Zimmerman and the
Dove visited the family later in the day to document the demolished house.
The family told them that twelve family members, nine of them children,
lived in the house that they had built from rocks, with a tarp roof. The
family also said that the military had not delivered a demolition order for
the house and that the family didn't have any warning that the demolition
was going to happen. In addition, they didn't have time to remove their
belongings from the house before the demolition started.
06-05-06 - The Persecution of the Palestinians by Patrick J. Buchanan
06-05-06 - Arab Bank stops paying Gaza salaries
06-05-06 - Palestinian hurt in settlers' attack home from hospital Saber Shtaya, a 73-year-old Palestinian farmer who was attacked in his olive orchard in April, returned from an Israeli hospital to his West Bank village of Salem over the weekend.
06-05-06 - Is America a strategic liability? According to Ram, after 9/11, and particularly after the invasion of Afghanistan, there was a "window of opportunity" for a rapprochement between the United States and Iran. Ram attributes the failure of contacts toward this end to Israeli efforts to present Iran as a dominant factor in the conflict and to internationalize the conflict in order to present it as an integral part of the "war against terror."
06-05-06 - Starving Palestinians is inhumane, stupid "I believe that we can make peace with Hamas. Actually, I believe that it is even better to make peace with Hamas than with Fatah, because if we make peace with Hamas, there will be no opposition to it."
06-05-06 - Lobbying reform slow despite scandals The lobby that needs to be addressed the most, is nowhere to be found in American political discourse.
06-05-06 - Abbas envoy meets Assad ahead of talks with Hamas chief Palestinian ex-premier Ahmed Qorei met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ahead of planned crisis talks with the exiled leader of Hamas, the militant group which heads the Palestinian government.
06-05-06 - LEAD: Koizumi eyes visiting Israel, Palestinian territory before G-8 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is considering visiting Israel and the Palestinian territory immediately before the summit of the Group of Eight nations in Russia in mid-July, government sources said Monday.
06-05-06 - EU will not abandon Palestinians: Solana The EU will not let Palestinians down, foreign policy chief Javier Solana said, expressing hope that a special aid fund that would bypass Hamas would be in place by early next month.
06-05-06 - All DeLay's Children As the only Jewish Republican in the House, Cantor provides a crucial link between pro- Israel donors and Christian conservatives. Through his seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax law and Social Security, Cantor raised more money for his colleagues than any other House Republican in the last election cycle. Like DeLay, Cantor is also tied to Abramoff, having accepted $13,000 from the disgraced lobbyist's Indian clients, written letters on behalf of tribes and held eight events at Abramoff's restaurant, Signatures. Cantor even had a sandwich named after him at Abramoff's deli, Stacks: the Eric Cantor, a "tuna-based stacker," changed by Cantor to roast beef on challah.
06-05-06 - Lieberman faces showdown over Iraq Lieberman acknowledges his support for the war runs counter to sentiment in Connecticut, where a recent poll found more than 60 percent of voters believe the war is wrong. Say, I wonder why Joe Lieberman, a DEM, would've supported the war on Iraq? Lieberman has a passionate attachment.
06-05-06 - Israel Targets Palestinian Americans, U.S. Does Nothing "Singling Palestinian Americans out under a subtitle in a US official document" proves the helplessness of the US Administration vis-à-vis its Israeli strategic ally, he added, declining to identify himself.
06-05-06 - Fatah-linked group to deploy gunmen on Gaza border An armed group linked to Fatah said it would deploy 1,250 gunmen on Gaza Strip borders to guard against Israeli raids in the latest move set to exacerbate tensions with the governing Hamas.
06-05-06 - New York parade salutes Israel Rally organizers estimated Sunday?s event attracted nearly 100,000 people, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R-N.Y.), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.).
06-05-06 - Foreign Min. urges public figures not to attend UN 'anti-Israel forum' The Foreign Ministry is trying to stop a United Nations initiative to invite Israeli politicians and public figures to the International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, scheduled to be held in Moscow On June 8 and 9.
06-05-06 - Israel shrinking its citizens' army Most of the infiltration attempts, he says, are not suicide bombers but migrant workers looking for jobs in Israel. "We have to be very cautious about opening fire," Which they never are, as evidenced by the large number of unarmed civilians shot and killed by the border areas - most were looking for work.
06-05-06 - Israeli PM fails to win Egyptian support for "realignment" plan Mubarak reiterated at the Sharm e-Sheikh summit that "there have to be direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestiniansin order to reach a peace agreement. That is the main mission."
06-05-06 - RSF Condemns Attack on Palestine TV Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the attack earlier today on Palestinian national TV installations in the south of the Gaza Strip
06-05-06 - Lutherans Preparing to Host Palestinian Youth Dancers This summer 19 youth dancers from the Al Raja Palestinian Folkloric Dance Troupe, based in Ramallah, West Bank, will travel to the United States and perform throughout the country, making appearances in congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), at key ELCA events, and at other ministry sites.
06-05-06 - Al-Raja Tour 2006 Tour schedule on the right-hand side of the page.
06-05-06 - Californian piano tuner faces deportation from Israel for supporting Palestinian freedom Larudee is traveling with the tools of his trade and has twenty piano tuning engagements scheduled around the West Bank. "This is something small I can do to make life under the occupation just a little more bearable for people, so I do it."
06-05-06 - Experts divided on how to deal with Iran Poraz said Israel took some comfort in its proximity to the Palestinian Authority territories since a nuclear weapon launched at Israel would most likely take out some Muslim Palestinians as well. The ultimate use by Israel of the Palestinians as human shields.
06-05-06 - Israeli army estimates heightened conflict with Palestinians According to the assessment, army intelligence officials believe Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ambitious plan to withdraw from large parts of the West Bank will not do anything to decrease the scope of daily violence in the region. Instead, the army is moving forward based on a working plan that it is nearing another round of bloody violence with the Palestinians.
06-05-06 - Israeli professor found guilty of slander An Israeli court found a Haifa University professor guilty of slandering a fellow Israeli academic.
Plaut, a known neocon, writes for Frontpagemag.
06-05-06 - The great divide "Quite separately from the debate around the boycott, there has been a huge mobilisation in universities against the Iraq war ... You also have a growing number of student Palestinian groups and a highly organised Jewish lobby, which portrays any criticism of Israel as anti-semitism. In campus terms, this is an extremely bloody battlefield."
06-05-06 - General Assembly backgrounder: Middle East peace and divestment
06-05-06 - Brangelina baby blessed in West Bank Residents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
D'oh!
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