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Wednesday, July 19, 2006


News for 07-18-06

07-18-06 - Gaza security officer's home blown up


07-18-06 - Where are the Christians? by Patrick J. Buchanan what Israel is doing is imposing deliberate suffering on civilians, collective punishment on innocent people, to force them to do something they are powerless to do: disarm the gunmen among them. Such a policy violates international law and comports neither with our values nor our interests. It is un-American and un-Christian. He said as much on MSNBC's Joe Scarborough program. Pat Buchanan is the one of the very few in America that has the guts to speak the truth. God bless him.


07-18-06 - Southern Hebron villages face emerging water crisis


07-18-06 - Lebanon condemns Israel 'madness' The 11 Lebanese soldiers were killed at a barracks east of Beirut. The Lebanese army has been ordered not to respond to the Israeli attacks. But Lebanese soldiers have now died in several strikes, including one on the port of Abdeh on Monday in which nine died.



07-18-06 - $10 million in pharmaceuticals and medicines arrive in Gaza


07-18-06 - Border opens for stranded Gazans Several people have been reported to have died from heat exhaustion during the wait for the border to re-open.


07-18-06 - Amnesty Int'l: UN Should Send Mission to Lebanon and Israel to Investigate Attacks Against Civilians


07-18-06 - 'Catastrophe' looms in Lebanon as Israel pushes offensive "The situation is both alarming and catastrophic. There are about 500,000 people displaced already. The situation is extreme" the representative of the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF) in Beirut, Roberto Laurenti, told AFP.


07-18-06 - Israeli ground troops enter Lebanon


07-18-06 - Israel Strikes Lebanon's Hapless Military


07-18-06 - US Congress readies resolutions supporting Israel Naturally. One wonders what took our AIPAC servants so long?


07-18-06 - Reserve batallions called up as Israel pushes for a new northern buffer zone


07-18-06 - ANALYSIS - Palestinians sidelined as war rages in Lebanon Israeli air raids on Lebanon have killed 230 people, while Hizbollah rockets have killed 12 Israelis.


07-18-06 - Iran's Hizbollah says ready to attack US, Israel Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.


07-18-06 - American evacuees angry at Lebanon air strikes Barbara Betlouny, a 12-year resident in Lebanon, told of "endless day and night" bombing that wrecked Beirut's airport runways and nearby power plants after Hizbollah militants kidnapped and killed Israeli soldiers last week.


07-18-06 - US orders nine warships to waters off Lebanon The United States ordered nine warships to waters off the Lebanese coast amid fears of possible terrorist attacks on ships evacuating US nationals, officials said.


07-18-06 - Blair defies backbench dissent with firm support for Olmert Tony Blair hardened his defence of Israel's actions yesterday in the face of allegations from the Liberal Democrats, and some Labour backbenchers, that Israel was involved in an unacceptable and systematic destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure.


07-18-06 - FBI eyes Hizbollah in US as tensions with Iran rise The FBI is trying to ferret out possible Hizbollah agents in the United States amid concerns that rising U.S.-Iranian tensions could trigger attacks on American soil, FBI officials said.


07-18-06 - Peace possible only after world powers 'deal with' Hezbollah: Bush


07-18-06 - Israel's Lebanon campaign goes beyond Hizbollah


07-18-06 - Bush: Syria trying to get back into Lebanon


07-18-06 - Rice will back demands for ceasefire - after a few more days of carnage


07-18-06 - United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah


07-18-06 - Syria isolated but busy with refugees For a second day, Damascus ignored President Bush's expression of disgust with its regime - overheard by accident at the G-8 summit.


07-18-06 - Israel Violates US Law With Attack on Lebanon Israel is in violation of U.S. arms-control laws for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters, and missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation of that militarily weak country.


07-18-06 - Army shells in the industrial area in Gaza


07-18-06 - Palestinian financial crisis affects hospital, schools Regarding Lutheran schools, Munib Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, said June 13: ?For the last four months we received no tuition fees because no salaries have been paid to government employees.?



07-18-06 - Widespread support for war among Israeli public


07-18-06 - Energized Neocons Say Israel's Fight Is Washington's The effort to frame the current round of violence as part of a much larger struggle ? and Israel's role as Washington's most loyal front-line ally ? recalls the neoconservatives early reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon


07-18-06 - Senate expresses support for Israel The U.S. Senate supported Israel's right to "take appropriate action to deter aggression by terrorist groups and their state sponsors."
The non-binding resolution passed unanimously Tuesday night.
Why is this 'support' for Israel via legislation necessary on CAPITOL HILL of the UNITED STATES if what Israel is doing is just and right? These resolutions are AIPAC's way of reasurring itself that OUR representatives are still beholden to it. These are the measures taken to see who gets voted in come next election, and who does not.


07-18-06 - Grieving relatives want blame placed on Israel


07-18-06 - Ayalon: Time is not right for Rice


07-18-06 - UN call for Middle East ceasefire


07-18-06 - Israel claims Iran link to crisis


07-18-06 - Israeli Soldiers Contaminate Water Tanks of Human Rights Workers


07-18-06 - Tel Aviv plans 4-tier, intensifying offensive


07-18-06 - Israeli children sign their missiles 'with love'


07-18-06 - Jews protesting Israeli actions arrested Seventeen Jews were arrested in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco after they protested Israeli military actions.


07-18-06 - Pair bridge Mideast divide in Gaza protest "My ancestors must be spinning in their graves as Israelis from many families scarred by the Holocaust now oppress another people. Britain must act to oppose the brutal offensive in Gaza ? or risk deserved condemnation from millions who stand for justice and equality."


07-18-06 - Iran, US in unlikely alliance to protect Persian artifacts from lawsuit Iran and the US Justice Department have formed an unlikely alliance to protect Persian artifacts from seizure in a lawsuit brought by victims of a terrorist attack in Israel.


07-18-06 - Pro-Israel rallies to take place worldwide The World Zionist Organization is planning pro-Israel rallies around the world over the next week. These rallies will not justify or negate the wholesale destruction of Lebanese civilian infrastructure or the killing of civilians by Israel.


07-18-06 - RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Addresses the Christians United for Israel Dinner One nation that adopts our own Declaration of Independence's vision of unalienable rights from the Almighty, one nation where the people elect their leaders, one nation where women have the same rights as men, one nation where people of all faiths-Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or any other-have full and equal rights. This guy is off his rocker. Our own State Department knows how well Israel treats its Arab citizens; with discrimination.


07-18-06 - Israel, U.N. envoy disagree


07-18-06 - The other Middle East war Mr Bush has acquiesced in Israeli unilateralism and then lost interest in Arab democracy when angry Palestinians elected the Islamist Hamas. Washington neocons used to argue that replacing Ba'athist tyranny with pluralist democracy would boost the chances for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.


07-18-06 - Lawyers: Government pressured AIPAC AIPAC should be forced to register as an agent of a foreign government.


07-18-06 - U.S. Bishops Call For Ceasefire and an End to The Cycle of Violence in The Middle East; Urge Greater Leadership from United States to Secure Peace Israel has a right to defend itself, but we cannot support its sweeping counterattacks on civilian areas, civilian infrastructure, blockades and other acts of war in Gaza and Lebanon. Punishment of an entire population for the indefensible acts of extreme armed factions is wrong and causes unjustified harm to noncombatants


07-18-06 - CAIR: U.S. Muslims To Ask That Bush Protect Relatives In Lebanon, Gaza

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