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Friday, June 09, 2006
06-08-06 - Hamas official killed in Israeli air strike Jamal Abu Samhadana was one of four people killed in the strike on a training camp in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, which happened shortly before midnight. Ten people were injured.
06-08-06 - A matter of Liberty - The Day Israel Attacked America "A virtually unarmed American naval ship in international waters was shot at, strafed with rockets, torpedoed, set on fire, then left to sink as crazed gunners shot up the life rafts. The foreign nation then says, ?sorry about that? and offers an explanation so outrageous that it is insulting, and the American government accepts it, sweeps the whole affair under a rug, then classifies as top secret nearly all details concerning it," he said. A total of 821 shell holes were counted in the ship?s superstructure and hull.
06-08-06 - PA: Four killed in Gaza were policemen Palestinian sources said Thursday that the three men killed the previous night by IDF troops on the border fence between Gaza and Israel were members of the Palestinian police force. A fourth man died of his wounds overnight.
06-08-06 - OPT: Gaza situation "deplorable and getting worse" says UNRWA Gaza Director
06-08-06 - Hamas warns Abbas against referendum plan "We reject and condemn the referendum which is the path to division and chaos,"
06-08-06 - Bush Overture To Iran Splits Israel, Neocons Neoconservative analysts are blasting the administration, saying that holding talks with the Islamic regime would serve only to embolden it and undermine the anti-fundamentalist opposition in Iran. They argue that America's ultimate goal should be to change Tehran's theocratic regime....The Walt-Mearsheimer paper has triggered an escalating debate on the influence of Israel and Jewish organizations that has spilled over onto the opinion pages of major publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Recently, with such scrutiny mounting, Israeli leaders asked American Jewish organizations to lower their profile on the Iran issue, the Forward has learned.....Israel's support for Rice and Olmert's request for Jewish groups to take a lower profile are being well received by many Jewish groups
Neoconservatives, as evidenced by the failures of their policies in the Middle East, have been a little too idealistic and not very REAListic about the consequences of the policies that they've pushed through via the Bush administration. Even the Israelis rue some of the (unintended) outcomes of these policies. Their vision is narrow and consists of what they'd LIKE to see happen. The outcome is most often something very different. Time to use the gray matter for a change, and leave the bellicosity, belligerence and shortsightedness at the door.
06-08-06 - Humanitarian crisis in Occupied Territories by Amnesty International Israel continues to appropriate large areas of fertile Palestinian land and to restrict the movement of Palestinians within the Occupied Territories, with disastrous consequences for the Palestinian economy.
06-08-06 - Abbas 'sets date' for referendum
06-08-06 - Fears of 'regime change' policy after US cancels Palestinian pay talks "At best it's a delaying tactic, at worst it's an attempt to scupper the entire mechanism," said the diplomat. "The Americans are into regime change. They want the Palestinian Authority to fail."
06-08-06 - Lebanon: Discrimination against Palestinians must end without delay The right to return is a right protected under international law; other human rights do not contradict it and their fulfilment does not negate it. Palestinian refugees, including those in Lebanon, should be able to enjoy their human rights to the fullest possible extent until such time when their right to return is fulfilled.
06-08-06 - King of Jordan urges Israel to scrap annexation plans (Olmert) prefers unilateral steps to negotiation as it will enable Israel to keep more territory. But he has not been able to garner much international enthusiasm for the idea.
06-08-06 - Israel wants to ease plight of Palestinian people Outright BS. They are the CAUSE of the plight of the Palestinian people.
06-08-06 - In pictures Palestinian views on a possible referendum on recognising Israel
06-08-06 - Student pioneers in the Negev, Galilee point way for resettlement Israel last summer requested a reported $2.2 billion from the United States in post-Gaza pullout aid to be invested in the Negev and Galilee. President Bush and other lawmakers initially warmed to the idea, but Israel scrapped the request after Hurricane Katrina exacerbated an already bleak U.S. deficit situation. A diplomatic source inside the Israeli government told JTA that the request remains "put to the side due to special sensitivities." Olmert told reporters he raised the issue in only the most general terms when he met with Bush last month, but it is clearly uppermost in his mind: He made Shimon Peres, deputy prime minister, responsible for developing the regions. U.S. Jewish officials say Israel is planning to eventually up the request by another $10 billion to accommodate the West Bank withdrawal.
THe United States can ill afford to keep handing over billions of American taxpayer dollars to Israel to withdraw from land that it should not have colonized in the first place (an act which we helped subsidize).
06-08-06 - Israeli Military Raid ISM Apartment in Balata Camp
06-08-06 - Ex-IDF officer: Controversial policies make Israel safer "We do profiling," she said. "It has issues within a democracy, but it is most efficient. ? For us it is very nice, but I wouldn't want to be an Arab Israeli citizen."...Eisen said no military can eliminate terrorism, but Israeli security forces have reduced terrorism to the point that "Israelis are back in our normal lives." This has more to do with the Hamas ceasefire, than anything else.
06-08-06 - Annan urges Syria, Lebanon to agree on Shebaa The Farms were seized by Israel from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The area is now claimed by Lebanon, with Syria's backing. The pro-Syrian Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant Hezbollah has vowed to end Israel's occupation of the border area.
06-08-06 - Jewish leader: Ahmadinejad '2nd Hitler' In Israel, meanwhile, Nobel peace laureate Eli Wiesel suggested in an interview published Thursday that military action might be necessary to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb
06-08-06 - US judge rules alleged Hamas operative not tortured by Israel The decision sets a "dangerous example" of allowing coerced confessions obtained by foreign governments into US courts, warned the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based progressive bar association.
06-08-06 - Palestinian fighter urges truce during World Cup
06-08-06 - Arabs say insurgency will continue after Zarqawi
06-08-06 - Hamas, Abbas rivalry spurs Palestinian arms race
06-08-06 - Swiss 'foiled hit on Israeli jet' Swiss intelligence agents have foiled a plot to attack an Israeli El Al airliner, officials report.
06-08-06 - At-Tuwani Update 21-31 May 2006 . Soon
after the Palestinians arrived at the field, five settlers approached them,
followed by the military. The soldiers who were present in the area did
nothing to stop the settlers from trespassing on Palestinian land. The
Palestinian drivers of the two tractors fled. The settlers damaged one of
the tractors and did not leave until the Israeli police arrived
06-08-06 - Olmert reaffirms backing for 'road map' Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assured Jordan's King Abdullah that Israel is committed to the road map to reach a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians. which is why Israel has BUILT SETTLEMENTS the entire time since its acceptance of the Road Map?....
06-08-06 - Trouble at the Palestinian Stock Exchange
06-08-06 - The conflict between Israel and Palestinians - Joint policy statement by Norway and Spain
06-08-06 - Olmert courts support for pullout Palestinians and the international community are also waiting to see how much of the newly fenced-off West Bank and fertile Jordan Valley Israel will seek to retain for what it calls security purposes, a policy that Palestinians dismiss as a land grab in the heartland of their future state The construction of new settlements in the Jordan Valley have already begun as well as some demolitions.
06-08-06 - Israelis demolish Palestinian buildings, say Christian peacemakers
06-08-06 - From the Crow's Nest: On tip-toes in Israel Growing numbers of American Jews are coming to recognize that and have seen their way clear to questioning and sometimes even opposing things the Israel government does, according to Norman Solomon, an American Jew himself and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington. Yet, he says, their voices are ?nearly drowned out? by ?Israel right or wrong? organizations in this country.
06-08-06 - New home comforts elderly Palestinians
06-08-06 - All-women team conquers Arabia's highest peak The adventurous team recently climbed Mount Toubkal in Morocco and in doing so raised money for a Palestinian cause.
06-08-06 - EU Says It Will Help Palestinians
06-08-06 - Iraq errors 'to last generation' Sooner or later we shall leave Iraq. But no matter when that may be, Iraq will have a poor chance of survival unless there is regional stability; unless there is a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute; unless there is an accommodation with Iran.
06-08-06 - Paying heed to Mr. Erekat
06-08-06 - Dallasites reach out to Galilee Nationwide, more than $1 billion a year in charitable contributions go to Israel from American Jews. The money is in addition to $3 billion a year in U.S. military and economic assistance, and another $1 billion in loans from the sale of Israel bonds to buyers as diverse as small-town banks and the state of Texas.
06-08-06 - BG says Israel delays study to transport gas from Gaza to Egypt Prieto said he was not surprised by the lack of response from the Israeli government, and that he was hoping for assistance from Egypt in the event of non-cooperation and difficulties.
06-08-06 - BILL FLETCHER, JR.: Israel's Wall of Death I simply call it the Wall of Death because, for all the rhetoric, Israel's wall separating itself from the Occupied Territories more than anything else is about ensuring the death of the Palestinian people
06-08-06 - Saudi prince shares views in Louisville On the Middle East conflict, Saudi Arabia supports an independent Palestinian nation along with the existence of Israel, and the United States, he said, could play a more active role in that.
06-08-06 - Frankford woman going to improve Israel's image One of 30 students worldwide charged with helping to improve Israel's image in the media, Alexandra "Alex" Marin will spend two months in Jerusalem this summer.
Good luck with it.
06-08-06 - Donor states should continue aiding Palestine Russia has warned the world community that countries not interested in middle east settlement will come up with support of Palestine if donor states cut it off from help, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov has said
06-08-06 - The Left and the Israel Lobby In reality, the Israel lobby simultaneously operates both as an external interest and as internal "special" interest, represented within a faction the U.S. ruling class and establishment that wishes to see the United States pursue an unequivocally Israelocentric foreign policy in the Middle East The left refuses to lay any blame on Israel or its lobby in the US.
06-08-06 - Peacemakers honored for work in Jerusalem, Columbus The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) will give its 2006 EPF John Nevin Sayre Award to the Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, and Madeline Trichel, director of the Interfaith Peace Center in Columbus, Ohio. This is going to anger pro-Israel groups.
06-08-06 - The Great Henry Siegman on Israel In today's Financial Times, Henry Siegman states that Israel is trying to annex large portions of the West Bank and thereby frustrate plans for a true Palestinian state
06-08-06 - Court rejects Pollard's petition for Israel to act for his release
06-08-06 - Sweden labeling Golan wine Sweden is labeling Israeli wines produced in the Golan Heights as coming from an occupied territory.
06-08-06 - Palestinian Soccer Film Screened on Apartheid Wall in Jerusalem
06-08-06 - Showdown Over Divestment Resolution Set for Upcoming Presbyterian Parley The hefty number of anti-divestment overtures follows two years of work by Jewish communal leaders and Christian activists, including Green, who have sought to educate the church laity about the issue The Presby's have since been thoroughly Ziofied, I'm sure.
06-08-06 - Israel aims to hook up to Azeri-Turkish pipelines Azeri oil and gas exports are due to flow to Turkey via the Baku-Ceyhan and Baku-Erzurum pipelines respectively. Israeli National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Israel wanted both extended to Israel.
"We and the Azeris are interested in transporting Azeri oil from Ceyhan through the Israeli Ashkelon-Eilat pipeline, and from there to big markets like India and China," he told a news conference in Baku.
From last month :U.S. calls on president of Azerbaijan to open mission in Israel
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