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Friday, July 07, 2006
07-06-06 - Gaza sees bloodiest day of raids Twenty-two Palestinians and an Israeli have reportedly been killed in the bloodiest day of violence since Israel pushed into the Gaza Strip
07-06-06 - Israel pushes deep into Gaza territory Witnesses and medics said six Palestinian civilians died in one of the deadliest strikes on Thursday
07-06-06 - Nine injured in an army shelling targeting Palestinian navy post in Al Sodaniah area north of Gaza
07-06-06 - Palestinian death toll rises as Israel pushes into Gaza one civilian who was killed was Mohammed al-Atta, 25. His uncle, Abdul Ahmed al-Atta, 34, a taxi driver, said he had been at home with his nephew, wife and children when a tank fired at the house. Mr Atta, his shirt caked with blood from carrying his nephew to the ambulance, said: "They targeted our house; there was shooting and then I saw my nephew on the ground. There was a tank 100 metres away. We are civilians and there was no resistance in the area at the time."
07-06-06 - Q&A with John McCain If Iran somehow had a freely elected democratic candidate (who did not say they were against the state of Israel,) I would not be nearly alarmed as I am According to McCain, Iran is OUR PROBLEM because it threatens ISRAEL.
07-06-06 - Urgent appeal from Caritas and churches in Gaza Fr Manuel Musallam is the parish priest at the Latin Convent in Gaza. He said: "The people in Gaza are suffering unbelievably. They are hungry, thirsty, have no electricity, no clean water and they are suffering constant bombardments and sonic booms from low flying aircraft.
07-06-06 - West Bank Catholic priest documents life restricted by Israeli checkpoints, fence Father Aridah said that since 2001 34 Christian families had left Aboud, whose population consists of about 1,000 Christians and 1,200 Muslims. "I fear some of my parishioners will leave the Holy Land entirely if they cannot support their families."
07-06-06 - Qatar resolution condemns Israel offensive The draft faced immediate opposition from the United States and France, which called it unbalanced in its criticism of Israel. France's ambassador said he would offer changes, but U.S. Ambassador John Bolton suggested that Washington opposed the resolution entirely. John Bolton gives the green light for Israel's war crimes in the Palestinian territories. How are AMERICA's interests being represented here?
07-06-06 - Palestinian PM slams 'collective punishment'
07-06-06 - Pro-Israel activists conduct lobbying mission Activists from the Zionist Organization of America lobbied legislators to take action against the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
07-06-06 - UN urges Israel halt 'violations' The UN Human Rights Council has passed a resolution demanding a halt to Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.
07-06-06 - Japan Donates $3.3 Million to UNICEF for Palestinian Child and Women's Health
07-06-06 - $10 Million in Pharmaceuticals, Medicines Arrive in Gaza; ANERA Provides Vital Aid to Hospitals, Clinics, People Living in Gaza Strip
07-06-06 - Biblical lamentations as Gaza descends into disaster "If you wish to really understand what is taking place in the Gaza Strip, please open your Bible and read the Lamentations of Jeremiah. This is what we are all living. People are crying, hungry, thirsty and desperate,"
07-06-06 - Israeli offensive grounds Gaza fishermen It has also stranded about 3,000 Palestinian fisherman on shore for 10 days, costing the local economy $250,000 in losses, said Tarek Saker, director general of fisheries at the Palestinian Agriculture Ministry.
07-06-06 - Gaza voices: Beit Lahiya besieged I counted 30 tanks moving in overnight, divided into two groups. They were covered by helicopters. They killed two civilians this morning
07-06-06 - Chicago museum, Iran fight U.S. court The University of Chicago and the government of Iran have come together in a rare alliance against a U.S. court ruling that aims to compensate victims of a 1997 Jerusalem bombing by auctioning off a rare collection of Persian tablets.
07-06-06 - From the eye of the storm its steadfastness inspires people, like me, to hold on and remain sane until the next unannounced breaking of F-16 hell, the humming of Apache helicopters and heavy artillery. It reminds me how difficult it must have been for people who had their orchards uprooted by the Israeli army in previous years in Gaza. Now it seems the army is back to uproot an entire population.
07-06-06 - Are Israel's actions in Gaza 'war crimes'? the US is deliberately ignoring what Israel is doing, which is especially important in light of the US Supreme Court ruling last week in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld which found that the Geneva Conventions are "indisputably part of the customary international law."
07-06-06 - UN sending rights' mission to Palestinian territories But it was not clear whether Israel -- whose forces on Thursday sharply stepped up their offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza -- would break with tradition and allow in the rights investigators
07-06-06 - Israel Fears High Price for US Strike on Iran As the Iranian nuclear standoff has taken its turns and twists, the initial Israeli calculation of either forcing an Iranian capitulation through U.S. political and economic pressure, or ? if worse came to worst ? by eliminating the program through clean and surgical military strikes, have all proven to be pipe-dreams, primarily due to the disastrous consequences of the Iraq war.
07-06-06 - Palestinians occupy Jewish settler home Three families, or around 15 people, from the village of Bilin occupied the home currently under construction in Modiin Ilit, built on their village land The operative words here are "built on their village land"
07-06-06 - Canada rejects UN council's censure of Israel Canada voted against a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution Thursday that condemns Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip and dispatches a fact-finding team to the region. Terry Cormier, Canada's representative on the 47-member council, said Canada voted against the resolution because it did not provide a balanced perspective on events in Gaza. Canada once again demonstrates that it has become the newest Israeli-occupied territory thanks to its pro-Israeli lobby.
07-06-06 - Don't blame Hamas Israel's violations of the 1993 Oslo agreement and the road map include: confiscating Palestinian land and water resources, illegally expanding settlements and building a "separation" wall, mostly on Palestinian land. These Israeli acts also violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which governs Israel's actions in the occupied territories. Israel is pushing West Bank Palestinians into the equivalent of Bantustans, or reservations.
07-06-06 - Israel uses "disproportionate" force in Gaza-Italy Israel's army is using "disproportionate" force to secure the release of a captured Israeli soldier in Gaza, Italy's foreign minister said on Thursday.
07-06-06 - Police toughening stance against ISM before planned fence protests The Israel Police is taking a tough stance against the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which is planning a series of protests against the separation fence over the next month
07-06-06 - Report doubts cops' version of shooting According to police, the officer shot Ghanem after the latter had attempted to run him over or stab him, but photographs taken during the incident seem to indicate Ghanem could not possibly have hit the officer
07-06-06 - Israel's Gaza Offensive But Israel's offensive did not start last week. The three-month-old Israeli government is responsible for the killing eighty or more Palestinians, some of whom were children, in attacks aimed at carrying out illegal extrajudicial assassinations and other punishments
07-06-06 - Report: Assad sought soldier's release
07-06-06 - West Bank loses its vineyard to Israeli wall The vineyard workers are Palestinian, from the town of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, and the Italian priests are residents of the Salesian monastery of Cremisan there. Together they have been making wine since 1885, in what is now the West Bank's only winery.
07-06-06 - Swiss satisfied with UN resolution on Israel By a vote of 29 to 11 with five abstentions, the council approved a resolution decrying Israel's actions as a breach of international humanitarian law.
07-06-06 - Middle East Regional Programmes Annual Appeal No. MAA81001 Programme Update No.1
07-06-06 - Condemnation of Israeli violation of Syrian airspace deleted from new Arab The Arab group at the UN on Thursday weakened its draft resolution on Israel's recent incursion in Gaza by dropping its condemnation of Israel for violating Syria's airspace, offering instead a milder language in order to win more positive votes.
07-06-06 - Palestinians, leftists evacuated from disputed settlement edifice Border Police forces evacuated left-wing activists and three Palestinian families from the West Bank village of Bil'in who occupied a building Thursday in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Jewish settlement of Upper Modi'in.
07-06-06 - Israel's experiment in human despair
07-06-06 - U.S. Jewish-Turkish meeting tense Representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, United Jewish Communities, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, B?nai B?rith International, Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee took part in the meeting.
07-06-06 - Official: Whoever orders attacks on IDF is target
07-06-06 - Israel forces arrest eight Palestinians in Tulkarem
07-06-06 - Soldier's father in release plea
07-06-06 - Israelis Denounce Attack on Gaza Not all Jews support the policies of the Israeli government - never forget.
07-06-06 - British Jews criticise Gaza raids Some 300 British Jews have signed a petition condemning Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip
07-06-06 - India demands end of Israeli military action India joined 28 countries at the UN Human Rights Council to demand an end to military action by Israel in Palestinian areas and agreed to send urgently a fact-finding mission to the area to assess the ground situation
07-06-06 - Annan urges Israelis, Palestinians to 'step back'
07-06-06 - U.S. Seen Backing Israeli Moves To Topple Hamas Support for Israel's policies is not in AMERICA'S BEST INTERESTS. Our officials, despite this, continue to support these policies.
07-06-06 - Watching Gaza: "The Genovese Syndrom" Israel is getting away with murder and the world is letting it happen.
07-06-06 - NPR audio link: Researchers Say U.S. Policy Influenced by Israel "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" is a controversial paper written by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, professors at the University of Chicago and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. They talk to Steve Inskeep about their view of the influence Israel exerts on Washington. It's a view disputed by many. 'It's a view disputed by many' - disputed by, not surprisingly, the pro-Israelis. This is a great interview ( ~7 minute runtime) with these two professors. They lay it out for you pretty concisely. These brave men are the good guys.
07-06-06 - Dershowitz Contradicts Himself on the Power of the Israel Lobby
07-06-06 - Electronic Intifada - Appeal for Support Support this valuable website.
07-06-06 - Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
07-06-06 - N.America, France set to lead immigration to Israel Israel's government places great significance on immigration amid concerns that without an influx of foreign Jews the country's Arab minority, which has a far higher birth rate, could eventually outnumber the Jewish population.
07-06-06 - Pro-Palestinians rally in Mtl.
07-06-06 - U.S. faces grim choices Second, it is urgent to revise our approach to the over-arching problem in the Middle East? the continuing problem of Palestine that infects everything else and most inflames the rampant frustration and anger among Muslims. This means ending our pussyfooting timidity about facing down the expansionist minority in Israel and their U.S. amen corner, both Jewish and Evangelical. Let me say it straight: This tail has wagged the dog now for decades and has had much the upper hand since Rabin's assassination...Ronald I Spiers of South Londonderry is a retired U.S. foreign service officer who served as ambassador to Turkey, Pakistan and the Bahamas.
07-06-06 - Local rally protests U.S. funding of Israel, airstrikes in Gaza Trudy Bond, 53, a Toledo psychologist who was holding up a Palestinian flag, said she was against Israel's "cutting off electricity and water to a million people, bombing bridges, and taking war machines to Palestine where people have only sandbags and barbed wire to protect themselves."
07-06-06 - We don?t all want to follow the tactics of America and Israel Second letter, by Rev. Nugent.
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