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Thursday, June 15, 2006


News for 06-14-06

06-14-06 - Israeli force kills Fatah militant in Jenin The Israel undercover force entered Jenin using a Palestinian car and then opened fire at Mohammed Sobhi, 24, as he was walking on a main street close to a hospital, said the witnesses, adding Sobhi was critically wounded.


06-14-06 - Hamas man dies in Gaza shooting It is not immediately clear who was behind the attack in Khan Younis.


06-14-06 - Israel sends warning through secret channels to Hamas gov't: DM Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said that Israel had sent a message through secret channels to the Hamas-led Palestinian government warning of large-scale operations if Palestinian militants continue rocket attacks on Israel, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Wednesday.


06-14-06 - Ramallah succumbs to civil strife hundreds of Fatah supporters stormed the parliament attacking Hamas lawmakers and forcing the Hamas speaker to flee the building.


06-14-06 - Olmert says West Bank plan unstoppable "I hope it can be carried out within the framework of talks, but it will be carried out with or without talks," he said of the plan, which would see Israel take chunks of land where Palestinians want a state. Any 'chunks' of Palestinian land that Israel 'takes' is a violation of international law.


06-14-06 - Abbas and Hamas try to ease fears of civil war This internecine battling going on isn't helping the plight of the ordinary Palestinians any. They better calm it down.


06-14-06 - Palestinian minister takes $20m into Gaza


06-14-06 - Saudi Arabia donates food aid for 50,000 Palestinian families


06-14-06 - U.S.-trained expert says shell was Israeli Garlasco said he concluded the explosion was caused by a 155 mm shell of the type Israel uses. He viewed shrapnel collected from the scene by a Palestinian ordinance disposal unit, and in X-rays of Palestinians wounded in the blast.


06-14-06 - Evidence from Gaza beach points to Israeli shell


06-14-06 - We must eat, yell Palestinian civil servants in pay demonstration


06-14-06 - Israel army concedes old munition may be behind beach deaths


06-14-06 - Catholics seek to stave off Palestinian hunger


06-14-06 - Lebanon's army 'foils Israeli attack cell'


06-14-06 - Vatican denounces spiral of violence in Holy Land The Vatican appealed to both sides "to show due respect for human life, especially that of unarmed civilians and children" and urged them to find the courage to resume peace talks. The Vatican also urged the international community to rapidly approve funds for humanitarian aid to Palestinians.



06-14-06 - Free World Cup TV gives Palestinians something to cheer about "This is not a money making venture for me," Qadry says from his sparsely equipped studios housed in a converted apartment. "This is about giving Palestinians a spot of joy during bleak times."




06-14-06 - Women fly Palestinian flag on the pitch This is one half of the Palestinian women's football team, made up of players from local sides including Ram Allah, Gaza and Bethlehem, which has been playing in tournaments abroad. ...The national women's team rarely gets to train together because of the Israeli checkpoints.


06-14-06 - Top-level Israeli military now at most important US-government What is interesting is that the author, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon
was chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2002 to 2005 and
now " is a distinguished military fellow at the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy." The ignoring by the mainstream media of the
extent of the seamless integration of top-level Israeli military with
the most important US-government connected think tank is yet another
indication of how Israelized our seat of government has become.



06-14-06 - Israeli PM approves arms transfer to Abbas "We want to strengthen Abu Mazen so that he will be able to cope with Hamas," said the Israeli leader, using Abbas's nom de guerre.


06-14-06 - Israel Spinning Out of Control Israel?s Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced today that Israel is preparing a global "propaganda offensive" to counter the recent barrage of news reports and writings that condemned Israel for the recent killing of 10 civilians, including 5 children, on a Gaza beach. In political and media lingo this is called spin, to twist and turn an event so as to give an intended interpretation, and Israel excels at it


06-14-06 - Suicide bombs biggest threat to U.S. -experts I wonder , Why Are They Killing Us?



06-14-06 - Iraq conflict fuels rise in global refugees to 12 million: survey The UNHCR did not take into account Palestinian refugees, who came under the jurisdiction of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), USCRI spokeswoman Sarah Petrin said.




06-14-06 - Will the White House Moron Bring On Armageddon? To help undermine any prospect for peace in the Middle East, Israeli gunboats shelled a public beach and killed or wounded 50 Palestinians. This was done in order to provoke Hamas into abandoning the long-established cease-fire that Hamas had imposed in the interest of negotiating a Palestinian settlement. The Israeli government succeeded, and now there will a resurgence of "Hamas terrorism" that Bolton and his neocon compatriots can use to build a frightening spectacle of Muslim terrorism.



06-14-06 - Palestinian tourism minister quits The Palestinian tourism minister has announced his resignation from the Hamas-led government after increased inter-Palestinian violence.


06-14-06 - How Israel's Jewish terrorist became a victim


06-14-06 - Palestinians being pushed closer to civil war, experts say "Let's put it this way: There are internal and external conditions that make that possibility imminent,"


06-14-06 - Committee OKs anti-terrorism cooperation A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved legislation strengthening anti-terrorism cooperation between the United States, Israel and other nations....The American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied for the bill.




06-14-06 - Israel PM modifies West Bank pullout plan


06-14-06 - Adviser: Hamas prepared to offer long truce Hamas might offer a 50- to 60-year truce if Israel withdraws to its pre-1967 borders, a top Palestinian adviser said.


06-14-06 - Blair salutes 'true friend' Israel


06-14-06 - Donor may fund Georgetown Jewish center to give U.S. leaders another viewpoint The move would involve hiring three more professors, and possibly a new building. The Jewish and Israeli presence at Georgetown, a Jesuit university that sends its graduates into the heart of the American political establishment, would reach a totally different level, according to one participant in the discussions


06-14-06 - Anti-Semitism cited in immigration debate One Internet-distributed game, "Border Patrol 2," in which players gain points by shooting Mexicans, features a U.S. flag in which the stars have been replaced with Stars of David


06-14-06 - Honest Tony, peace broker Rolling out the red carpet for Olmert just four days after the massacre of Palestinian civilians picnicking on a Gaza beach is a stark example of the double standards employed by the British government towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows Blair yet again turning a blind eye to war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.


06-14-06 - Rachel Corrie: Will Americans Get to Hear The Voice of an American Anne Frank?


06-14-06 - Disputed events on Gaza beach Speaking from personal experience, after the shooting of our son, Tom, such claims following Israeli defence forces "investigations" lack credibility because of the inadequate and untruthful manner in which they are carried out, if they are carried out at all.

The author of that letter, Jocelyn Hurndall, knows all too well of the IDF's lack of cooperation with investigations of its own behavior.


06-14-06 - Demonstrators urge Caterpillar to cease sales to Israel Shouting "end the occupation now" and holding signs depicting the demolition of Palestinian homes and olive groves in the Palestinian territories, the demonstrators called on the company to end its support of Israel's "war crimes."


06-14-06 - Innovative UCC Resource Helps Churches Promote Peace in Middle East Buy olive oil direct from Jerusalem. Sponsor a school in East Jerusalem. Help a soccer association for Israeli Arabs and Jews. Contribute to the interfaith Hands of Peace, the YMCA or YWCA of Palestine. All these actions can help promote peace in the Middle East and are listed in a new United Church of Christ (UCC) resource, available online at http://www.globalministries.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=908&Itemid=36.


06-14-06 - 1967: Moscow calls for UN action against Israel


06-14-06 - House Disclosures List Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record), R-Mo., House majority whip.....Blunt took one expense-paid trip in 2005 with his wife to Israel. The $14,078.56 cost was paid by the American Israel Education Foundation. The pro-Israeli groups made sure that travel to Israel paid by lobbyists now falls under the 'educational trips' clause and is thus not a part of the lobbying reform legislation brought forth as a result of the Abramoff scandal.


06-14-06 - West Bank family upset by MySpace no-show Sana Jinzawi says she was waiting at the airport in Tel Aviv to pick up Katherine Lester, who met her 20-year-old son Abdullah on the popular MySpace.com Web site.


06-14-06 - US & Israeli Propaganda Conflict

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