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Friday, June 16, 2006
06-15-06 - Gaza Crisis Deepens Innocent families need your help to survive what the UN calls a "desperate" and deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza....Please give today. With your help, we can continue to help vulnerable families alleviate a crushing financial burden and pressure international actors to come up with a political solution that unfetters the Gaza economy.
06-15-06 - Artillery Strike Probably Killed Palestinian Family The head of the IDF's southern command, General Yoav Galant, has said that IDF forces fired six artillery shells at an area described as approximately 250 meters away from the fatal incident between 4:32 p.m. and 4:51 p.m. on Friday, June 9. Human Rights Watch investigations indicate that the evidence overwhelmingly supports the allegations that the civilians were killed by artillery shells fired by the IDF....Human Rights Watch researchers currently in Gaza interviewed victims, witnesses, Palestinian security officers and doctors who treated the wounded after the incident. They also visited the site of the explosion, where they found a large piece of unoxidized jagged shrapnel, stamped "155mm," which would be consistent with an artillery shell fired by the IDF's M-109 Self-Propelled Artillery...Eyewitnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch described between five and six explosions on the beach between 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., the time frame when the IDF fired artillery onto the beach and when the seven civilians were killed. Read this report. Five of the six IDF shells were fired during the same time period when the Palestinian family was attacked by a missile. The craters of the previous Israeli shells match the crater of the incident with the family on the beach.
06-15-06 - Russian president blasts United States after Asian security summit The Russian leader also spoke out strongly against U.S. efforts to mount a financial blockade of the Hamas-led government in the Palestinian territories.
06-15-06 - Hamas govt says it wants ceasefire with Israel Ghazi Hamad said Israel had to first stop military activity in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
06-15-06 - In Palestine, a War on Children a final solution, agreed by the United States and Israel, to the problem of the Palestinians. While the Israelis fire missiles at Palestinian picnickers and homes in Gaza and the West Bank, the two governments are to starve them. The victims will be mostly children
06-15-06 - Palestinians call for UN probe of Gaza killings Annan also told reporters such an investigation would need the consent of Israel Why? Let's face facts folks. Israel admits to shelling this area just minutes beforehand. And we are to believe that coinidentally, a 'Hamas mine' goes off in the same locality and massacres a family at the beach? BS. The former Pentagon official Garlasco believes that it was likely a 155mm IDF shell. I agree with that assessment.
06-15-06 - Lebanon accuses Israel of car bombing The government has decided to complain to the U.N. Security Council about Israeli attacks in Lebanon, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said following a Cabinet meeting where Defense Minister Elias Murr reported on the car bombing.
06-15-06 - EU mulls funding mechanism, vows to stand by Palestinians The European Union has reiterated that it "will not let the Palestinian people down," as its leaders were to consider proposals for an international funding mechanism at an EU summit.
06-15-06 - 45 olive trees damaged in W. Bank; settlers blamed The damage, which was caused in part by sawing, was discovered Saturday by a farmer working a neighboring plot. The damaged trees are located next to a road leading to the Elon Moreh settlement, near Nablus
06-15-06 - Israeli Military branches Collaborate with Settlers to Expand Settlement The Israeli military, police, and secret service are collaborating with Beit Ayn settlers to confiscate Palestinian land. That's always been the case. Since confiscating Palestinian land has been official Israeli government policy since and just before Israel's creation. There was no Israel prior to 1948. The Palestinians sure as hell didn't give their land over to those largely recent immigrants.
06-15-06 - World Bank says in talks on aid to Palestinians World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Wednesday the bank wants to help deliver aid to Palestinians and is in discussions with the Quartet of Middle East negotiators on how it can be done. A neocon at the World Bank (playing "good cop" to the US government's "bad cop": 'Well, we want to help the poor Palestinians.. but it's up to the US government').
06-15-06 - Shrapnel clue to Gaza beach shelling "It should be possible to work out whether it was a fuse from the type of shell being fired by Israel into Gaza."
Last night the Israeli army had not responded to questions about whether the fuses used in its Gaza bombardment had similar markings.....This timeline does not fit with Israel's account. The army inquiry admitted its guns were firing between 4.30pm and 4.48pm but had stopped at the time of the blast which, according to Israeli surveillance of Gaza, happened about 5pm. The hospital read-out would suggest a blast time of 4.45pm - during the period when Israel admits it was firing.
06-15-06 - Israeli Soldiers in Hebron Refuse to Prevent Attacks Against Palestinians, Internationals
06-15-06 - Iran, Syria sign defense agreement "Our cooperation is based on a strategic pact and unity against common threats. We can have a common front against Israel's threats,"
06-15-06 - Authors of Israel Lobby Paper Get Warm Reception at Military College It was evident to me during my visit that many at the Naval War College were familiar with the paper. By one report, the College came under pressure from an unnamed congressman to cancel the talk, but the College stuck by its cannonballs.
06-15-06 - Annan retracts remarks on IDF's Gaza blast probe Following a meeting Thursday with Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, he told reporters that he had responded to "media speculations." Annan gets cowed by Israeli officials.
06-15-06 - EU monitors protest Hamas cash flow across border Pistolese said the continued practice would prevent his monitors from fulfilling their duties, said Erakat, expressing concern that the letter could precipitate a withdrawal by the monitors and the border's closure.
06-15-06 - Israel, Egypt Jordan on alert for al-Qaeda attack Egypt, Jordan and Israel are on high alert for possible large-scale attacks by al-Qaeda members in response to last week's killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the global terror group's leader in Iraq, security sources said.
06-15-06 - Israel army says Gaza militant rocket firing drops
06-15-06 - Court orders Israel to tear down West Bank barrier segment Israel's supreme court has ordered the state to dismantle a section of its controversial West Bank separation barrier following an appeal from two Palestinian villages. The International Court of Justice ruled nearly 2 years ago that any part of this wall that is built on Palestinian territory is in violation of international law. Israel ignored the ruling.
06-15-06 - Israel's Olmert sees risk of West Bank, Gaza split Congested and coastal Gaza is a stronghold of Hamas Islamists, who recently swept to government, while the more moderate Fatah faction holds sway in the hilly West Bank.
06-15-06 - Militants fire rockets into south Israel The Israeli army said one person was slightly injured in the southern town of Sderot and a building was damaged.
06-15-06 - Huge rise recorded in number of houses IDF razes in arrest raids Since the IDF can no longer use Palestinian neighbors as human shields, they instead just raze the suspect's house down.
06-15-06 - Hamas minister found with 4 mln dollars at Rafah crossing
06-15-06 - From Columbus: Peace in Israel/Palestine is focus of committee hearing A five-point resolution, A012 advocates for: an end to the isolation of East Jerusalem and Bethlehem from the West Bank; removal of the Wall; assurance of human rights for Palestinians; support for the return of sovereign control of Gaza to the Palestinian people; and assurance that no U.S. tax dollars will be used to finance the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian territories
06-15-06 - Congress bans P.A. use of emergency funds The bill, now awaiting President Bush?s signature, was strongly supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
More legislation for Israel.
06-15-06 - Bipartisan effort to expose P.A. treatment of Christians The proposed resolution appears aimed at countering actions by other Congress members, notably Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), who contend that Israel?s occupation is driving Christians out of the West Bank.
This is a complete joke, and further evidence that Capitol Hill is Israeli-occupied territory.
06-15-06 - Church panelist compares Israelis to Nazis Salam al-Maryati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, said Thursday that Israel was crowding Palestinians into conditions ?like the Warsaw Ghetto,? said Ethan Felson, assistant executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, who was in attendance.
06-15-06 - Bulldozing Palestine - An Open Letter to Caterpillar, Inc. Caterpillar's failure to reconsider its relationship with the Israeli army is no mere sin of omission. Caterpillar Inc. is consciously abetting practices recognized as war crimes and crimes against humanity. That active decision prevails still, fully two years after the International Court of Justice determined the illegality of those actions of your client and committed partner.
06-15-06 - NYC: June 16, 2006 - Emergency National Action- Protest Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians
06-15-06 - Arab League 'disturbed' by Palestinian discord
06-15-06 - Jordan suspects plead not guilty to infiltrate Israel plot Five Jordanians of Palestinian origin pleaded not guilty in court to charges of plotting to infiltrate Israel to carry out attacks, judicial sources said.
06-15-06 - Cover Up on Gaza Beach - Israel Spinning Out of Control
06-15-06 - Egypt to the rescue? Egypt reportedly proposed a plan that would dissolve the Hamas-led Palestinian government in favor of one headed by a more moderate businessman.
06-15-06 - A "Quiet Triumph" for Israel Activists at UC Berkeley Jewish and pro-Israel organizations used this opportunity to call on Jewish students and professionals to do more to combat anti-Israel sentiment on campus Criticism of Israel is neither anti-Semitic nor is it going away any time soon. Better get used to it. The more people try to quash it - the louder it is going to get.
06-15-06 - War, Mideast issues face Episcopal church votes On Thursday, one panel took up a number of disparate Middle East resolutions. One urges Israel to "end the isolation of East Jerusalem and Bethlehem from the West Bank created by the continued construction of Israeli settlements, settler roads and the (security) wall" and to remove the wall.
06-15-06 - Small Jewish group with big muscle defends community against anti-Semitism Maxime, a 22-year-old waiter, admits his group is not afraid to take justice into its own hands if need be. He bragged about a 2003 incident in which a Jewish Defense League member beat up pro-Palestinian university students, injuring one.
06-15-06 - Scholar: A Nuclear Iran Spells Doom for Israel "If - just if - the American-led coalition will not come to the right decision at the right time, then the onus will fall on the shoulders of Israel. And we will know what to do."....."We believe the entire land of Israel is Jewish land by right," said Olmert.....Moreover, he added, "Israel does not meddle in America's business."
It's up to America to 'protect' Israel. And if America won't do it, THEN Israel will act on its own behalf. That last statement above by Olmert is positively hilarious.
06-15-06 - CUPE members going to court over Israeli boycott The four Toronto CUPE locals helping organize Friday's information picket represent workers at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, the Jewish Immigrant Aid Service, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the UJA Federation Toronto, the Jewish Vocational Service a non-sectarian employment agency and Jewish Family & Child Service.
06-15-06 - Palestinians willing to risk arrest, beatings and even lives to get to jobs in Israel
06-15-06 - Palestinian issue dominates Caterpillar meeting
06-15-06 - French withhold backing for Israel?s plan
06-15-06 - Israel's entry to International Red Cross teeters Olivier Durr of the International Committee of the Red Cross said that the deal, which is also slated to admit the Palestinian emergency services operation, has been ?complicated by a deteriorating situation in the Middle East,? Reuters reported.
06-15-06 - Punishing the Palestinians Commentary: Congressional legislation aimed at isolating Hamas is unnecessarily harsh and will likely backfire.
06-15-06 - ND valedictorian headed to UIC While this young Palestinian woman has still yet to decide on what she wants to major in at UIC, she says in the next five years she sees herself as a "successful business woman who can support herself financially and is hopefully married."
06-15-06 - Aim for a Better Image? Quit Talk of Being Thieves! This deluded columnist fails to account for international law which states that Gaza, the West Bank and E. Jerusalem are only OCCUPIED by Israel. Israel has no legal claim to them. To the contrary, Israel is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention by building settlements in those territories.
06-15-06 - Speaking up for Israel The speakers feel no obligation to strive for balance, as any group asking them in would understand that they are quite clearly Jews advocating for Israel. No kidding? Yet they routinely demand this 'balance' by speakers who present the Palestinian side of the story to American audiences in many different venues, including theatre. Hypocrisy.
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